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Steve Sweeney is a writer for Morning Star
  • 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

  • The Obama Line, Samantha Power, and U.S. Intervention in West Africa During the Ebola Epidemic
    Jean-Philippe Stone © UN Photo/Martine Perret | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

    December 2013 marked the beginning of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Ebola, a severe hemorrhagic virus which causes muscle and joint pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding, spread from Guinean forests to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone by the summer of 2014.

Lost & Found

  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv, Ukraine

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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