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  • Filipino writer, poet, and activist Jose Maria Canlas Sison. In 1969, Sison founded both the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People’s Army.

    Review: ‘My Friend the Terrorist’

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on June 4, 2025 by Owen Toews (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Jun 06, 2025)

    The Philippines’ most famous leftist couple is the subject of a stirring new documentary.

  • Locals inspect the site of an overnight U.S. airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, March 20, 2025. Photo | AP

    Trump’s attacks on Yemen will cost U.S. taxpayers billions

    Originally published: MintPress News on March 20, 2025 by Robert Inlakesh (more by MintPress News)  | (Posted Mar 26, 2025)

    The immense cost to U.S. taxpayers of Trump’s assault on Yemen, which promises no results and primarily serves Israel’s interests, could easily reach the tens of billions at the current pace, especially considering the intensity of operations is much greater than under his predecessor.

  • Palestinian Ceasefire Agreement

    ‘Complete surrender’: How Gaza defeated Israel and what it means—analysis

    Originally published: Palestine Chronicle on January 15, 2025 by Ramzy Baroud (more by Palestine Chronicle)  | (Posted Jan 15, 2025)

    Israel assumed that by destroying Gaza, it would eradicate the resistance. However, that calculation was deeply flawed. The resistance in Gaza is directly tied to the Palestinian people. It’s not about eliminating a specific number of fighters but about the enduring bond between the people and the resistance itself.

  • Ukrainian long range missile

    Long-range missiles won’t win Ukraine war, but risk significant escalation

    Originally published: Counterfire on September 17, 2024 by Vladimir Unkovski-Korica (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Sep 19, 2024)

    We should instead be working towards a ceasefire and negotiations, argues Vladimir Unkovski-Korica.

  • Encyclopedia Brittanica Print Gallery

    On The Rewriting of History

    Originally published: Monthly Review on November 1982 by H. Bruce Franklin (more by Monthly Review)  | (Posted Jul 01, 2024)

    [Britannica’s revisionist] distortions of the history of the Vietnamese struggle are just as radical and just as misleading [as those about the Soviet Union]. Here we may draw some valuable lessons about the hidden content of form: how apparently neutral principles of organization may shape meaning.

  • Commune or Nothing! Communes Against Capitalism

    Eds.

    In this panel, Kali Akuno, John Bellamy Foster, Chris Gilbert, and M.E. O’Brien examine the commune and communal organizing as part of the project of revolutionary social transformation. The speakers address how socialist communes can be used to abolish the logic of capitalism, which is based on the exploitation of human beings, the expropriation of nature, and oppression.

  • Samir Amin

    Samir Amin on ‘Eurocentrism’

    Eds.

    In this short commentary, John Bellamy Foster describes the term after which Samir Amin’s Eurocentrism is famously named.

  • Israel’s unfolding crime of genocide of the Palestinian people & U.S. complicity in genocide (Emergency Legal Briefing Paper)

    Originally published: Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on October 18, 2023 (more by Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR))  | (Posted Oct 23, 2023)

    As President Biden visited Israel, and the Palestinian death toll in Gaza passed 3,300, the U.S.-based Center for Constitutional Rights released a legal and factual analysis of Israel’s unfolding genocide against the Palestinian people and U.S. complicity. The emergency briefing paper came on the heels of the U.S. veto of a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning both Hamas’s attack on Israel and all violence against civilians and calling for humanitarian access to Gaza.

  • Journalists at an emergency meeting about the Newsclick raid and arrests

    50 detained, over 100 homes raided in sweeping crackdown on press freedom in India

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on October 03, 2023 by Zoe Alexandra (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Oct 03, 2023)

    Indian authorities carried out mass raids and detentions under the guise of the draconian UAPA on the morning of October 3, 2023.

  • Samir Amin: Negating Eurocentrism, Creating Universal Culture

    Eds.

    Watch John Bellamy Foster speak about Samir Amin, a visionary scholar who dedicated his life to challenging dominant paradigms such as Eurocentrism.

  • Border

    The fight for migrant rights in the U.S.: an interview with Justin Akers Chacón

    Originally published: Red Flag on May 25, 2023 by Brendan Stanton (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted May 27, 2023)

    Justin Akers Chacón, a socialist based in San Diego, California, campaigns for worker and migrant rights in the US-Mexico border region and is the author of The border crossed us: the case for opening the US-Mexico border. He caught up with Red Flag to discuss immigrant rights in the US under Democratic President Joe Biden.

  • Oil and gas infrastructure

    Sabotage in the time of the Anthropocene

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on May 24, 2023 by Scott Stoneman (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted May 27, 2023)

    A review of Daniel Goldhaber’s film adaptation of Swedish author Andreas Malm’s polarizing book ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’.

  • War is Hell Cartoon

    European parliament to join the militarisation path

    Originally published: The Bullet on May 26, 2023 by Herman Michiel (more by The Bullet) (Posted May 27, 2023)

    Whoever wants to wage war must have ammunition, bullets, shells, and missiles. Ukraine would use some 7,000 every day, while for Russia it would be about 50,000. So European ‘solidarity’ means ammunition for Ukraine.

  • TikTok Mic

    Montana TikTok ban a sign of intensified cold war with China

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 25, 2023 by Ari Paul (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted May 27, 2023)

    It’s worth remembering that fear of an Asian menace in the United States led to the nation’s first major immigration restrictions and mass imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. It continues to lead to racist murder and other anti-Asian crimes.

  • Augusto Pinochet Ugarte

    Chile: in memory of Carlos and Pinochet’s caravan of death

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on February 22, 2023 by Ariel Dorfman (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World) (Posted Feb 27, 2023)

    Every dawn, during my daily walk to the foothills of the Andes, I pass by the Tobalaba Aerodrome, a facility that caters to a wide variety of private aircraft. In a year marking the 50th anniversary of the coup against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende, that airport arouses less affable feelings.

  • Fountain in Gastown

    Nearly half of Canadians aged 18 to 34 support socialism

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on February 26, 2023 (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Feb 27, 2023)

    Fewer (32%) said income taxes should be raised on all citizens except those with low income to finance socialism, and the fewest (20%) said a purchase tax on goods and services should be imposed to fund socialism.

  • Snail

    How degrowth can help reduce global conflict

    Originally published: Science for the People on February 21, 2023 by Andrew Ahern (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Feb 27, 2023)

    Defined as an equitable and democratic reduction of energy and material throughput targeted at rich nations and the globally wealthy, degrowth has grown in popularity over the last few years with growing political support.

  • TREES GIVE LIFE. POLICE TAKE IT.

    The forest in the city: two years of forest defense in Atlanta, Georgia

    Originally published: CrimethInc. on February 22, 2023 (more by CrimethInc.)  | (Posted Feb 27, 2023)

    The campaign to defend the forest in Atlanta, Georgia has become one of the most vibrant movements of the post-Trump era, interweaving environmentalism, abolitionism, and the fight against gentrification. Yet as police shift to employing lethal violence and indiscriminate terrorism charges, it has reached a critical juncture.

  • Daniel Tutt of Study Groups on Psychoanalysis and Politics interviews John Bellamy Foster

    The New Irrationalism: a conversation with John Bellamy Foster

    John Bellamy Foster and Eds.

    Daniel Tutt of Study Groups on Psychoanalysis and Politics interviews John Bellamy Foster on his new article, “The New Irrationalism,” from the February 2023 (Volume 74, Number 9) issue of Monthly Review.

  • May Day 2008 Anti-War Poster

    Stop the Ukraine War—refuse to handle military cargo

    Eds.

    The ILWU must call for an end to the war. Most importantly we must appeal for port actions to the International Dockworkers Council (IDC) and the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) to refuse to handle military cargo by dockworkers around the world.

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