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About Steve Sweeney

Steve Sweeney is a writer for Morning Star
  • Donetsk

    Kiev using banned mines, NATO munitions to bomb civilians in Donetsk

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on July 26, 2023 (more by Al Mayadeen)  |

    Ukraine has taken to using petal mines and cluster munitions in Donetsk, while also using missiles supplied by NATO to strike residential buildings.

  • Mikhail Kononovich and his brother Aleksander Photo: Twitter

    Kononovich brothers thank supporters as trial resumes in Ukraine

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on July 19, 2022 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    Jailed communist Mikhail Kononovich thanked supporters who have protested in solidarity with Ukrainian political prisoners as the trial of him and his brother Alexander resumed on Monday.

  • The British government on Friday, June 17, 2022 ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges.

    Mexico to offer Assange sanctuary as Amlo calls for charges to be dropped

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2022 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    MEXICAN President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has offered sanctuary to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and will raise the case with US President Joe Biden when they meet next month.

  • Alexander and Mikhail Kononovich with their lawyer

    Ukrainian communists pictured alive but face pressure to admit to trumped-up charges

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on June 20, 2022 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    Alexander and Mikhail Kononovich were detained on March 3 following the Russian invasion, part of a crackdown on left and opposition groups.

  • USB union with banner reading: "Lower your weapons, raise your wages."

    Italian workers strike over military spending on war in Ukraine

    Originally published: Morning Star on May 20, 2022 (more by Morning Star)  |

    Trade unions are angered over the government’s military spending on Ukraine which they say would be better spent on raising workers’ wages at a time when the economy is predicted to slide into recession.

  • A worker takes a breaks on the tracks of the Central Railway Station, in Havana, Cuba

    U.S. blockade on Cuba causes record losses during coronavirus pandemic

    Originally published: Morning Star on June 18, 2021 (more by Morning Star)  |

    CUBA’S economy lost more than $9 billion (£6.5bn) amid the coronavirus pandemic last year, due to the impact of the six decade-long U.S. blockade, government officials said on Thursday.

  • Gultan Kisanak, co-mayor of Diyarbakir

    DP details systematic oppression in Erdogan’s new Turkey as show trial reopens in Ankara

    Originally published: Morning Star on May 20, 2021 (more by Morning Star)  |

    The Kobani case is the biggest political trial in modern Turkish history with 108 leading HDP officials and parliamentarians facing multiple life sentences as a 3,350-page case file indicts them on 38 counts of homicide.

  • A supporter of Bogazici University students talks to police officers outside a courthouse in Istanbul, Thursday, Feb. 11 2021

    Bogazici resistance is about more than liberal notions of academic freedom, it is a fight against the whole system of oppression

    Originally published: Morning Star on February 17, 2021 (more by Morning Star)  |

    TURKEY’S revolutionary forces said today that protests centered on Bogazici University must remain a fight against fascism and oppression—not for “liberal ideas of academic freedom.”

  • World Health Organisation team members prepare to board a plane, marking the end of their WHO mission in Wuhan, China

    Scientists on WHO mission to Wuhan accuse media of biased reportage

    Originally published: Morning Star on February 14, 2021 (more by Morning Star)  |

    The U.S. government and many media outlets have queried WHO findings that do not corroborate theories promoted by Washington, such as the virus escaping from a Chinese laboratory.

  • Riot police officers push back supporters of Bogazici University students during a protest in Istanbul, Thursday, Feb. 4 2021

    Turkish authorities arrest 65 revolutionaries in a bid to break the backbone of the growing anti-government resistance

    Originally published: Morning Star on February 7, 2021 (more by Morning Star)  |

    Sixty-five people were detained in Istanbul last week after a press conference announcing the launch of a new opposition alliance, the United Fighting Forces (BMG).

  • Venezuela brands US-backed Citgo sale ‘an act of modern piracy’

    Venezuela brands U.S.-backed Citgo sale ‘an act of modern piracy’

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on May 25, 2020 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    Venezuelan Vice-President Delcy Rodriguez last year branded the move an “organised crime that violates international law.

  • US Vice-President Mike Pence said the 10,000 refugees fleeing violence and poverty in Honduras were sponsored by 'leftist groups' and the Venezuelan government

    Maduro slams ‘crazy extremist’ Mike Pence over claims Venezuela is funding migrant caravan

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on October 26, 2018 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    NICOLAS MADURO branded U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence a “crazy extremist” today after Washington accused the Venezuelan president of funding the migrant caravan which has been blocked from entering the U.S.a

  • A sticker calling presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro as an ‘Enemy of the worker’ covers a street column in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Photo Credit: Morning Star)

    Bolsonaro’s son threatens violence if his father is blocked from Brazil’s presidential race

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on October 22, 2018 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    FAR-RIGHT Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro’s son has threatened violence against the country’s Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) if it blocks his father from running in Sunday’s second-round poll.

  • Bolsanaro supporters carve swastika into woman

    Bolsanaro supporters carve swastika into woman

    Originally published: Morning Star on October 12, 2018 (more by Morning Star)  |

    GROUP of men claiming to be supporters of far-right Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro carried out a sickening physical attack on an opposition supporter this week, carving a swastika into her stomach with a knife.

  • Aggression- Puerto Rico governor Ricardo Rossello is hosting Venezuelan counterrevolutionaries for a regime change summit

    Puerto Rico governor calls for ‘elimination’ of Venezuela’s government

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on October 4, 2018 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    GOVERNOR of Puerto Rico Ricardo Rossello has called for the “elimination” of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and announced that a summit of opposition leaders will be held on the occupied U.S. island later this month.

  • People attend an event celebrating Revolution Day in Santiago, Cuba, today

    Cuba celebrates 65th anniversary of the revolution

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on July 26, 2018 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    CUBA celebrated the 65th anniversary of the revolution today as First Secretary of the Communist Party Raul Castro vowed that Cubans would remain loyal to the ideas of Fidel despite “Yankee imperialism” and economic blockades.

  • Right-wing militias committing ‘acts of terrorism’ in an effort to destabilise Nicaragua, police say

    Originally published: Morning Star on June 11, 2018 (more by Morning Star)  |

    ORGANISED armed right-wing militias are committing “acts of terrorism” across Nicaragua, according to police, with violent attacks aimed at destabilising the country.

  • Ezza al-Din Tamimi's father and brother mourning

    Israel kills another Tamimi in ‘cold-blooded execution’

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on June 8, 2018 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    ISRAEL has been accused of a “cold-blooded execution” after soldiers killed another member of the Tamimi family in the occupied Palestinian territories.

  • A Palestinian woman waves the national flag on Nakba day, a day after Israeli troops massacred 60 unarmed civilians

    Palestinians bury their dead 70 years on from the Nakba

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on May 16, 2018 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    PALESTINIANS buried their dead yesterday as thousands of people took part in protests to mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba which accompanied the foundation of Israel.

Monthly Review Essays

  • US Imperialism in Crisis: Opportunities and Challenges to a Global Community with a Shared Future
    Sam-Kee Cheng A late 1940s Soviet poster showing a US military service member lounging on top of a German factory, smoking a cigar. The text beneath reads DER DOLLARIMPERIALISMUS [dollar imperialism].

    1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]

Lost & Found

  • Journalism, democracy, … and class struggle
    Robert W. McChesney Bob McChesney on Saving Journalism

    Our job is to make media reform part of our broader struggle for democracy, social justice, and, dare we say it, socialism.

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    Staging for a strike? U.S. quietly moves bombers as Israel prepares to hit Iran
  • Tianjin Qiaoyuan Park in Tianjin, one of the earliest sponge city projects in China. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
    Don’t believe the New Cold War lies, China is leading the world in climate solutions
  • An Israeli officer wears Microsoft’s HoloLens headset during military testing in Ramat Gan, Israel. Stefanie J’rkel | AP
    Microsoft’s role in Gaza goes way beyond the ICC email lockout
  • Boat house on Cameron Island on Lake Joseph in Muskoka
    The supply and demand myth of housing
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  • say
    The Havoc caused by Say’s Law
  • Secretary Marco Rubio departs Instanbul, Türkiye May 16, 2025. (Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett)
    Under Trump, NED to continue weaponizing “democracy” in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba
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    The Empire never died
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