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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • Photo credit: FARC

    Leader of the former FARC guerrillas to run for President of Colombia

    Originally published: The Dawn News sourced from Resumen Latinoamericano on January 29, 2018 (more by The Dawn News sourced from Resumen Latinoamericano)

    Last Sunday, January 27, the Alternative Revolutionary Force of the Common (FARC), which is the political party formed by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People’s Army (FARC-EP) guerrillas, launched the presidential candidacy of Rodrigo Londoño, alias Timochenko, setting a new cornerstone in the political history of Colombia.

  • Protests in Honduras intensify leading up to inauguration day

    Originally published: The Dawn News on January 23, 2018 (more by The Dawn News)  |

    Juan Orlando Hernández, who was “elected” president in Honduras as a result of fraud and corruption, will hold his swearing in ceremony on January 27 in what may be the first closed-door inauguration (although his government has purposely not shared details about the ceremony).

  • Ahed Tamimi

    Sympathy for Ahed Tamimi is not enough

    Originally published: The Dawn News / The New Arab on January 15, 2018 by Malia Bouattia (more by The Dawn News / The New Arab)

    Unless you have been living under a rock for the past few weeks, it is unlikely that Ahed Tamimi’s story, will come as news to you, despite the mainstream media’s best efforts.

  • Some are calling it the Coup’s endgame, others the “final battle” for Brasil’s next decade.

    Lula’s witch trial: who are the TRF4?

    Originally published: The Dawn News sourced on January 8, 2018 by Brasil Wire (more by The Dawn News sourced)

    Some are calling it the Coup’s endgame, others the “final battle” for Brasil’s next decade.

  • NUMSA

    NUMSA New Year Statement: A clarion call to build a Revolutionary Workers Party!

    Originally published: The Dawn News by NUMSA (more by The Dawn News)  |

    Comrades 2017 was a year where the global crisis of capitalism deepened. Just like the 2008 global financial crisis, capitalism demonstrated once more that it has failed humanity and has no solutions for problems that are confronting society.

  • Social leaders of the Bajo Atrato Choacano and Urabá of Antioquia denounced the persecutions, threats and selective murders they are exposed to in a press conference in Bogotá last December 14.

    “Social leaders are murdered because of fights over women”, said Colombia’s Defense Minister

    Originally published: The Dawn News on December 19, 2017 by Jorge Zalapata (more by The Dawn News)  |

    Just a week ago, Colombian social leaders denouncing the murder of another one showed up to the press conference with masks covering their faces in order to avoid risking to lose their own lives—such is the danger of defending human rights in Colombia.

  • Girl in protest. Photo Credit: Deutsche Welle

    16 days, at least 14 dead, hundreds detained and still no official election results

    Originally published: The Dawn News on December 12, 2017 (more by The Dawn News)  |

    On November 26, the Honduran people went to the polls to elect their president for the next four years. Whilst in all the other elections in Honduras where the results were released the same day or the next morning, it has been 16 days and the Supreme Electoral Tribunal has yet to release the official results.

  • Fidel Castro Ruz

    One year without Fidel – the foundations of our patriotism

    Originally published: The Dawn News on November 23, 2017 by Enrique Ubieta Gómez (more by The Dawn News)  |

    No other Latin American Marxist was such a preacher of Marti’s ideas than Fidel Castro.

  • Apolonio

    Killings, evacuations, rights violations on weekend after talks termination

    Originally published: The Dawn News on November 27, 2017 by Kodao.org (more by The Dawn News)  |

    The ink has yet to dry on President Rodrigo Duterte’s Proclamation No. 360 signed last Thursday but killings and harassments of activists, indigenous peoples and human rights defenders have already increased over the weekend.

  • Net neutrality (Source: Blue Fletch)

    U.S. government commission’s plan to repeal net neutrality will hit marginalized communities hardest

    Originally published: The Dawn News on November 23, 2017 (more by The Dawn News)  |

    The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of the United States—an independent government agency that regulates interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable—emitted a preliminary proposal on Tuesday that seeks to repeal “net neutrality”.

  • Members of the Bolivarian Militia read Ciudad Caracas newspaper, while waiting for the Constituent Assembly installation

    We are all Venezuela – João Pedro Stedile

    Originally published: The Dawn News on September 5, 2017 by João Pedro Stedile (more by The Dawn News)  |

    Deep down, the dispute is not over Maduro’s government. The dispute is over the oil rent, which was illegally appropriated by US companies throughout the XXth century, and by a minority of Venezuelan oligarchs who lived like maharajas! And that is over.

  • Supporters of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro participate in a rally in support of the National Constituent Assembly in Caracas

    What do Venezuelans think?

    Originally published: The Dawn News on June 23, 2017 by Joe Emersberger (more by The Dawn News)  |

    Venezuelan public opinion is not what you’d expect if you rely on the disinformation loop in which corporate media and Washington-friendly NGOs like HRW participate.

  • Oscar Lopez

    Interview with Oscar López Rivera: “Fighting is not a Futile Exercise”

    Originally published: Red Dawn News on May 17, 2017 by Mari Narváez (Source: Claridad – Translation: Resumen Latinoamericano, North American Bureau) (more by Red Dawn News)

    While many of us could hardly concentrate on everyday matters as we thought obsessively about the fragile and unfortunate fate of Oscar López Rivera, the former political prisoner painted peacefully in the prison in Terre Haute Indiana. Then on January 17, at 3:30 pm a guard called him to let him know that he had […]

  • Minister of Education and leader of the Presidential Commission of the Constituent National Assembly, Elías José Jaua Milano

    “To preserve peace in Venezuela, there’s no choice but to convene nationwide dialogue to reform the Constitution”

    Originally published: The Dawn on May 2, 2017 (more by The Dawn)

    From El Salvador, where the meeting of Chancellors of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) is being held, the Minister of Education and leader of the Presidential Commission of the Constituent National Assembly affirmed that one of his goals is to restore the principle of cooperation of the powers, because that’s the only way to preserve peace in the country given the opposition’s lack of will to dialogue.

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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