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VA writer Andreína Chávez takes stock of worrying attacks against the LGBTQI+ community and argues that the Bolivarian Process should not let them fester.

Liberté. Egalité. Fraternité. That was the slogan with which the French masses overthrew the hated monarchy in 1789.

To achieve universal health coverage, all people need access to public healthcare. This should be an entitlement for all, regardless of means, requiring adequate long term sustainable financing.

During their trips to China, the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reassured Beijing that Washington did not want to contain it economically and that there was “ample room” for engagement with China in trade, investment, and other critical issues, urging closer communication to address disagreements through dialogue.

COUNCILLOR in Kent has been suspended from the Labour whip after attending a screening of the film exposing the conspiracy behind the removal of Jeremy Corbyn as the party’s leader.

ON April 3 this year, the minister of state for planning, Rao Inderjeet Singh, said in the Rajya Sabha that the government had no data after 2011-12 for estimating poverty, and therefore had no idea how many people had been lifted out of poverty since then.

If a date might be found when Australian sovereignty was extinguished by the emissaries of the U.S. imperium, July 29, 2023 will be as good as any.

Since the earliest days of the industrial revolution, workers have fought company owners over their use of automated machinery to step up the pace of exploitation.

The Australian Government made an ad about its bid to host the 2026 UN Climate Summit (COP31) with the Pacific, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

The coup in Niger follows coups in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Guinea. Each of these was led by military officers angered by the presence of French and U.S. troops and by economic crises inflicted on their countries.

Liedman portrays Engels’ alternative picture of science as a ‘non-reductive materialism’ characterised by a deep confidence in the unity of knowledge and by an equally deep resistance to treating any level of reality as totally determined by another. Engels’ account of scientificity—of what shape a legitimate theory can take—was modelled both on Marx’s theory of capitalism and on Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Interview with antiwar writer John Walsh.

Last year, an EU study estimated that more than 60,000 people across Europe died due to heat. This year is likely to be even worse.

While the wholesale theft of Syria’s natural resources continues under the watch of illegal U.S. troops, the Russian project of resurrecting ISIS-destroyed Palmyra stands as a stark reminder that ruins can rise again-if Syria’s friends help pave the way.

This accumulation of tragic evidence, against all the denialist narratives, makes it undeniable that the climate crisis is already here, among us.

“Real relief won’t come until Biden confronts the culprit of deadly oil and gas,” said one campaigner.

The people of the West need to come to grips with–that the government of Ukraine has done great violence against its own people in the Donbass and that the people of the Donbass had every right to choose to leave Ukraine and join Russia.

A main question for Ukraine since it became an independent state was who or what could potentially guarantee its security.

If Wednesday’s House Oversight subcommittee hearing on UFOs had happened ten years ago instead of today, it would have shaken the world.

The Supreme Court division bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Sudhanshu Dhulia observed that the material evidence available against Gonsalves and Ferreira “does not justify their continuous detention”.