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U.S. prefers frozen Germany over one not aiding Ukraine: Seymour Hersh
American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh underlines that the United States would have rathered seen Germany frozen over than see it not supporting Ukraine in the war.
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How weapons firms influence the Ukraine debate
‘Experts’ from defense industry funded think tanks are flooding the media, pushing for more arms without disclosing their benefactors.
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LGBTQ+ Ugandans face deadly threat as “Anti-Homosexuality Act” signed into law
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has approved an anti-LGBTQ+ law that makes the “offense of homosexuality” punishable by life imprisonment and even death.
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In a historic step backwards, the U.S. limits the right to strike
The Supreme Court ruled against the Teamsters, opening the door to unions being sued for ‘damages’ to a company during–or due to–strike action, report MARK GRUENBERG and JOHN WOJCIK
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Train horror in India: Another crime of decaying capitalism
The deadliest train crash in India in more than a quarter of a century has killed nearly 300 passengers and injured more than 1,000. It is a tragedy that has horrified the world and exposed the criminal neglect of basic infrastructure by the ultra-right regime of Hindu chauvinist Narendra Modi and the capitalist governments that preceded it.
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A Public Power victory in New York State
On May 2, New York became the first U.S. state to pass a major Green New Deal policy following four years of organizing by the Public Power NY coalition and allies.
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India: Five years behind bars for five activists, neither tried nor even charged
Without bail, without charges being framed, without justice!
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Nearly one thousand Seattle Amazon workers walk off the job
On May 31, nearly one thousand Amazon workers walked off the job in Seattle to meet at the company headquarters and speak out against a range of company policies.
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Debt ceiling hypocrisy: U.S. boosts military budget while restricting food stamps for poor
U.S. politicians from both parties agree: the deficit doesn’t matter. In their bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling, Biden and Republicans are boosting military spending to $886 billion while making it harder for poor people to receive food stamps and welfare.
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Lie, cheat, and steal: The CIA’s disastrous scientific legacy
Under the leadership of noted black site torture overseer Gina Haspel, it has also adopted a tech start-up model via its new “CIA Labs,” which entices would-be innovators with lucrative patent opportunities.
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Protests in Germany after anti-fascists sent to five years in prison
Protests erupted across Germany after the Dresden regional court in Germany sentenced the anti-fascist activist Lina E. and three others for several alleged militant actions against fascists and for forming a criminal organization.
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TRANSCRIPT: The roots and consequences of African underdevelopment, Walter Rodney, 1979
In May 1979, the Center for Afro-American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles hosted a symposium titled The Political Economy of the Black World. We are publishing, for the first time, Walter Rodney’s thoughtful presentation at this symposium.
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Replying on ecology and entropy
Stuart Jordan responds to criticism of his article on ecology and entropy in Solidarity 672
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Professor Kees van der Pijl: “NATO and the EU will dissolve!”
How can we organise a global resistance to the criminal capitalist system and the devastating imperialism that has ravaged entire countries?
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Canada is burning. Capitalism stoked the flames
Wildfires are tearing through the Canadian province of Alberta, the heart of Canada’s lucrative oil and gas industry.
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Class and nation in the conflict in Ukraine
There are many common interests that can bring Russian and Ukrainian soldiers together in fighting for a more just and equal world.
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World Health Assembly: The world should be more like Cuba
The world is still suffering from the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Inflation, supply chain crises, and shortages of medicines and basic goods continue to affect most of the world’s countries, especially those less developed and besieged by the major powers, such as Cuba, but this is not news.
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Stop stock buybacks!
On December 7, 2022, Southwest Airlines announced that it would reinstate its quarterly dividend payments, which had been legislatively suspended under requirements in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act).
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Science and imperialism: Scientists as workers for peace
Imperialism and militarism have always disguised and justified themselves as the defense of freedom.
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The perfect storm that created the housing crisis
The United States is in the midst of a severe housing crisis that is of its own making. This crisis results from several generations of awful housing policies, some of which date back a half century to the Nixon Administration (1968-1973).