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About W. T. Whitney, Jr.

W. T. Whitney Jr. is a political journalist whose focus is on Latin America, health care, and anti-racism. A Cuba solidarity activist, he formerly worked as a pediatrician.
  • Climate protest / strike

    Climate research strike? Linking up environmental science with the ‘science of society’

    Originally published: Peoples World on March 16, 2022 (more by Peoples World)  |

    Hundreds of IPCC scientists provide the United Nations periodically with reports on adverse impacts of climate change. The most recent report, issued in February, details rising seas, terrible droughts, atypical weather events, thawing permafrost, dying forests, and massive displacement of populations.

  • Viral propaganda: In the social media age, the U.S.' anti-Cuba efforts have to keep up with the way people get their information (and disinformation). Here, protesters in Key West, Fla., use their phones to photograph and video a flag reading 'SOS Cuba' from atop the Southernmost Point buoy, July 13, 2021. | Rob O'Neal/The Key West Citizen via AP

    U.S. government pays big money for bad news about Cuba

    Originally published: Peoples World on January 25, 2022 (more by Peoples World)  |

    The cruder U.S. methods for destroying Cuba’s revolutionary government—military attacks, bombings of hotels and a fully-loaded airplane, violent attacks on officials, biological warfare—did not work. Nor has economic blockade, which of course continues. A more subtle approach also exists. Like the blockade, its purpose is to cause despair and then dissent.

  • Jesús Santrich

    Bolivarianism & Marxism: Commitment to the Impossible in Defense of Utopia

    Jesús Santrich and W. T. Whitney, Jr.

    Socialist revolution throughout the world, looking to the horizon of the communist utopia, will have to collide with worldwide capitalism for that phenomenon to be overcome definitively. Socialist revolution surely will be breaking the imperialists’ chain at its weakest link, as Lenin would have said.

  • A nurse shows a dose of the Soberana-02 COVID-19 vaccine to be used in a volunteer as part of Phase III trials of the experimental Cuban vaccine candidate in Havana, Cuba, March 31, 2021

    U.S. imperialists deprive Cuba of syringes that are needed now

    W. T. Whitney, Jr.

    Cuba, the first Latin America country to develop its own COVID-19 vaccines, presently is short of syringes for immunizing its population against the virus. It’s not feasible for Cuba to make its own syringes. The U.S. blockade prevents Cuba from importing them from abroad.

  • Flickr - U.S Military Forces in Haiti - Historical Image Archive333

    Recurring political crisis in Haiti connects with U.S. racism

    W. T. Whitney, Jr.

    Haiti faces serious political crisis. The country has experienced great political difficulties ever since gaining independent nationhood in 1804. Impaired governance stems in large measure from U.S. meddling over many years. We examine the current crisis and the basis for U.S. zeal to curtail Haiti’s future.

  • Arya Rajendran

    Kerala communists serve the people, look to youth and women

    W. T. Whitney, Jr.

    At 21 years of age, Arya Rajendran is barely eligible to vote. Nevertheless, she is now the mayor of Kerala’s capital city Thiruvananthapuram, population 2,585,000. She is a second-year student at All Saints College. She concentrates in math.

  • VENEZUELA-OPPOSITION-DEMO A demonstrator holds a Venezuelan flag in front of riot policemen during an opposition demo against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas on February 12, 2014. Unidentified assailants on a motorcycle fired into a crowd of anti-government protesters, wounding at least two people. AFP PHOTO / JUAN BARRETO

    Colombia/U.S. Axis: Hitting at Venezuela

    W. T. Whitney, Jr.

    Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and Colombian President Ivan Duque, meeting in Bogota on September 20, talked about “managing the COVID-19 response … narcotraffickers … and [President] Maduro’s illegitimate regime,” according to the State Department.

  • 'End systematic racism' (Photo: Pikist)

    Under capitalism Black Lives are adrift and vulnerable

    W. T. Whitney, Jr.

    Post-Civil War arrangements by which the victorious North settled with the defeated slavocracy ensured that many Black people would not matter much and that some would die. A thousand or so were murdered in the South in 1866, reports W.E. B Du Bois.

  • We Charge Genocide

    “We Charge Genocide”—forerunner at UN of Black Lives Matter

    W. T. Whitney, Jr.

    “Once the classic method of lynching was the rope. Now it is the policeman’s bullet.”

  • "Simón Trinidad" and Piedad Cordoba

    U.S. must return its political prisoner Simón Trinidad to Colombia

    W. T. Whitney, Jr.

    Simón Trinidad matters; his time has come. This leader of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) faced bizarre and unfounded criminal charges in a U.S. court. He’s being held under the cruelest of conditions in a federal prison in Florence, Colorado. He will die there unless he is released. Simón Trinidad will be 70 years old on July 30.

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    Economic collapse and unemployment councils—then and now

    W. T. Whitney, Jr.

    Hunger, homelessness, and evictions were features of the Great Depression in the United States. Jobs disappeared and working conditions deteriorated. Some “250,000 teenagers were on the road.” And how many others? By 1933 one third of farm families had lost their farms. Unemployment that year was 25 percent. The lives of working people were devastated.

  • China supply deliveries

    Pandemic story: failures, forebodings, signs of solidarity

    W. T. Whitney, Jr.

    A great hazard looms. Under duress and as chaos mounts, capital may find it useful to revert to the extremist, even brutal, measures figuring in its past.

  • Cuba has equipped all ports of entry with advanced technology to monitor individuals arriving and detect any sign of Covid-19

    Fighting COVID-19 in Cuba, China and the United States

    W. T. Whitney, Jr.

    The pandemic has effectively provided a laboratory-like demonstration that people do better when states can plan ahead, apply national resources unequivocally to the public good, put science in the service of the people, and practice international solidarity. These are characteristics of socialist societies.

  • The U.S. blockade of Cuba is like the sun; neither will disappear soon. But different: the U.S. politicians and people are aware of the sun, but may have forgotten about the Cuba blockade. It’s persisted for almost 60 years, basically unchanged. The following is about change.

    Looking at change: U.S. and Cuba, blockade and revolution

    W. T. Whitney, Jr.

    The U.S. blockade of Cuba is like the sun; neither will disappear soon. But different: the U.S. politicians and people are aware of the sun, but may have forgotten about the Cuba blockade. It’s persisted for almost 60 years, basically unchanged. The following is about change.

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    For the climate: protecting the Commons and fixing Democracy

    W. T. Whitney, Jr.

    Climate change, unchecked, promises planetary disaster. All forms of life are threatened. Scientific evidence strongly suggests capitalistforms of production and consumption gave rise to climate change in the first place and have allowed the process to advance.

  • Chile Woke Up

    Rebellion in Chile recalls painful history

    W. T. Whitney, Jr.

    The U.S. government facilitated the military coup in 1973 and is surely paying attention to Chile now. U.S. officials may be confident in the staying power of current regime but undoubtedly have concerns about the future of investments and trade.

  • Cuban doctors

    U.S. and allies target Cuba’s overseas medical missions

    W. T. Whitney, Jr.

    Three rightwing Latin American governments have forced out Cuban doctors at work in their countries. What they and the US government object to is the revolutionary vision and revolutionary praxis that they represent.

  • United States invasion of Bolivia

    Evidence talks: U.S. government propelled coup in Bolivia

    W. T. Whitney, Jr.

    A coup on November 10 removed the socialist government of Bolivian President Evo Morales. The trail of evidence—from money flows to U.S. influence within the Bolivian military, and U.S. control of the Organization of American States (OAS)—leaves little doubt that the U.S. government made preparations and orchestrated the final stages of the coup.

  • Demonstrators sit on the ground in front of the White House, April 29, 2017, during a demonstration and march. Thousands gathered across the country to march in protest of President Trump's environmental policies, which have included rolling back restrictions on mining, oil drilling, and greenhouse gas emissions at coal-fired power plants.| Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP

    Green Strategy: To beat climate change, humanity needs socialism

    Originally published: Peoples World on November 14, 2019 (more by Peoples World)  |

    It’s bad enough to imagine blame and scenarios of dread, as if from science fiction, but add in the presently feeble response to dire threats and we’re in a funk. If tools were available, we’d get a lift. Marc Brodine’s book Green Strategy, reviewed here, is about tools.

  • Colombian Prisons and Prisoners Mirror Class Struggle

    W. T. Whitney, Jr.

    Prisoners in Colombia have recently gained new visibility.  Prisoner protest actions are one factor.  Another is discussion at the Havana peace talks of prisoners as victims of armed conflict.  November 2014 marks the two-year anniversary of talks between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Colombian government. Beginning on October 20, hunger strikes […]

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