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Conquest, war, famine, and death hit you straight in the heart: The Eleventh Newsletter (2024)
In the face of looming famine, Biden’s promise to build a ‘temporary pier’ to allow aid into Gaza is hollow, undermined by his country’s complicity in Israel’s genocide against Palestine.
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There will be reading and singing and dancing even in the darkest times: The Tenth Newsletter (2024)
Amidst the genocide against Palestinians and the war in Congo, human beings cling to hope. Saleem, in Rafah, dreams beyond the present, of Red Books Day and a brighter future.
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The nobodies are worth more than the bullet that kills them: The Ninth Newsletter (2024)
On 20 February, United States Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Linda Thomas-Greenfield had the terrible job of vetoing Algeria’s resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza. Amar Bendjama, the Algerian Ambassador to the UN, said that the resolution he tabled had been shaped by conversations amongst the 15 members of the UN Security Council.
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If I understand the world, I can march to change it: The Eighth Newsletter (2024)
In December 2023, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a stunning report showing that, since 2018, literacy in reading and mathematics has declined amongst the world’s students.
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A word like peace is faster than the bullet of war: The Seventh Newsletter (2024)
On 26 January, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) announced the start of a massive military exercise called Steadfast Defender 2024 that will continue until the end of May.
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Dawn is breaking out all over, and the World is waking up: The Sixth Newsletter (2024)
On 2 February 2024, the people of Venezuela celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Bolivarian Revolution.
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The only right that Palestinians have not been denied is the right to dream: The Fifth Newsletter (2024)
On 26 January, the judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found that it is ‘plausible’ that Israel is committing a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
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The entry of a new German Left Party shakes up the Country
The new formation is led by Sahra Wagenknecht (born 1969), one of the most dynamic politicians of her generation in Germany and a former star in Die Linke, and Amira Mohamed Ali. It is called the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance for Reason and Justice (Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht, BSW) and it launched in early January 2024.
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A hundred years since we lost Comrade Lenin
What does Lenin say to us in today’s post-Soviet world and what is his legacy, asks VIJAY PRASHAD. VLADIMIR ILYICH ULANOV
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The Global South takes Israel to court: The Third Newsletter (2024)
On 11 January, Adila Hassim, an advocate of the High Court of South Africa, stood before the judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and said: ‘Genocides are never declared in advance. But this court has the benefit of the past 13 weeks of evidence that shows incontrovertibly a pattern of conduct and related intention that justifies a plausible claim of genocidal acts’.
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Why I believe what I believe about the Chinese Revolution: The Second Newsletter (2024)
I have tried not only to provide some facts to guide our discussion but also to thread them into the theory of socialism that I believe is most attractive.
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We need to reverse the culture of decay and march on the street for a culture of humanity
The final months of 2023 pierced our sense of hope and threw us into a kind of mortal sadness.
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The World’s Economic Centre of Gravity is returning to Asia: The Fifty-Second Newsletter (2023)
In October 2023, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) published its annual Trade and Development Report. Nothing in the report came as a major surprise. The growth of the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) continues to decline with no sign of a rebound.
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Transnational corporations provoke a single scream of horror that runs through the vertebrae of the world: The Fifty-First Newsletter (2023)
Within the United Nations, there is a little-known debate about the status of global tax regulation.
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The suffocation of democracy in India
Attacks on the progressive Indian news outlet NewsClick coincided with the suspension of 141 opposition members of Indian parliament, both constituting serious attacks on Indian democracy.
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We fight with our eyes. We plant seeds with our hands. We will watch the wheat fill the valley: The Fiftieth Newsletter (2023)
Culture is a vital centre of struggle. It is where people see who they are, learn what they are capable of, and dare to imagine what they would like to build in this world. Art itself does not change the world, but without bringing imagination to life through art, we would resign ourselves to the present.
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Your enemies destroyed one Palestine; my wounds populated many Palestines: The Forty-Ninth Newsletter (2023)
The indecency of the phrase ‘humanitarian pause’ is obvious. There is nothing humanitarian about a brief interlude between bouts of horrendous violence. There is no true ‘pause’, merely the calm before the storm continues.
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ExxonMobil wants to start a war in Latin America
It is clear that the Venezuelans who came to cast their vote on December 3 in a referendum on the Essequibo region saw this less as a conflict between Venezuela and Guyana and more as a conflict between ExxonMobil and the people of these two Latin American countries
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The dangerously appealing style of the Far Right: The Forty-Eighth Newsletter (2023)
Before he won Argentina’s presidential election on 19 November, Javier Milei circulated a video of himself in front of a series of white boards.
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A new mood in the world will put an end to the Global Monroe Doctrine: The Forty-Seventh Newsletter (2023)
No war in recent years–not even the ‘shock and awe’ campaign used by the United States against Iraq in 2003–has been as ruthless in its use of force.