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It’s time for the Left to embrace the Critical Race Theory debate
Pretending CRT isn’t real robs us of the chance to mount a strong defense.
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The gains of Nicaraguan women during the second Sandinista Government
Women in the Third World (and increasingly in the imperial First World) face problems of violence at home and in public, problems of food and water for the family, of proper shelter, and lack of health care for the family, and their own lack of access to education and thus work opportunities.
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Folk economics
Mainstream economists have, it seems, discovered the existence of economic ideas outside the official discipline of economics.
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Colombia is bleeding to death
Human rights movements recorded an increase of attacks against police stations, military bases, and civilians and reported assassinations and intimidation against social leaders in several departments. In February, the panorama has been no different.
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Biden dials back belligerence toward Russia
The White House readout on Biden’s call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky is a marked departure from the U.S. pronouncements lately.
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Good news? The jobs reports for January, 2022
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) job report offered some surprises, especially in light of dire predictions about the Omicron crisis. At first glance the impact seemed slight.
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U.S. kidnapped and imprisoned Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab for buying food
Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab was essentially kidnapped by the United States because he was buying food for the government’s CLAP food program, to feed the people of Venezuela.
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The best offense is more clinic defense
An abortion provider discusses the tactic of clinic defense, and why it’s necessary to defend abortion rights.
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The Nazis among us: Heidegger and the Hideous
Martin Heidegger isn’t a philosopher that progressives are likely to consider worthwhile reading. After all, he was an anti-Semite, a follower of Hitler, and most hideous of all, someone who likened the mass extermination of human beings to the excesses of factory farming.
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U.S. needs Ukraine crisis to harm European economy, and legitimize its military presence
The Chinese embassy in Ukraine released a notice on its WeChat public account Friday to urge Chinese nationals in Ukraine to “pay close attention to” changes in the local situation, as the U.S. and several other Western countries asked their nationals “to evacuate immediately” amid so-called warnings of an imminent invasion by Russia.
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ASEAN nations using Laos-China Railway for ‘green’, low-carbon freight
In early December 2021, Laos inaugurated the Boten-Vientiane railway, a 414-kilometer (km) electrified high-speed railway that runs between the capital Vientiane and the town of Boten on the Laos-China border.
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Malaysian officials dampen prospects for giant, secret carbon deal in Sabah
An agreement for the rights to the natural capital covering 2 million hectares (4.9 million acres) in Malaysian Borneo for the next 100 years “in its present form is legally impotent,” according to Nor Asiah Mohd Yusof, the attorney general for the state of Sabah.
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When cruelty is the point – U.S. decides to kill more Afghan people
Last summer, after decades of killing Afghans in Afghanistan, the U.S. government decides to move its occupation forces out of that country.
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Large protest of teachers hit the streets of San Juan
The discontent comes just weeks after a federal judge in the U.S. approved a restructuring plan to repay creditors at a discounted rate. Even at that the creditors are first in line to be paid over public workers.c
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Teachers in Puerto Rico strike for wages, benefits
On Wednesday, February 9, teachers across Puerto Rico called for a national strike to protest the government and the Fiscal Control Board’s (FCB) cutting of wages and pensions.
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The Black Alliance for Peace condemns the “America COMPETES Act” passed in House of Representatives
On Friday evening, February 4th, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the America COMPETES Act of 2022 (H.R. 4521). The stated intent of the legislation is to strengthen “America’s national and economic security and the financial security of families, and advance our leadership in the world.”
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US vs. China in Laos: Two Nations, two approaches, one obvious difference
The United States has elected to lock itself in a zero-sum conflict with China, attempting to stop China’s inevitable rise as the world’s largest, most powerful economy and thus nation.
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Why capitalist governments worry more about inflation than unemployment?
Capitalist governments invariably seek to control inflation by enlarging unemployment.
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Capitalism: great for the rich, shit for the poor
Capitalism has generated the highest level of economic inequality in human history.
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The Left has culture, but the World still belongs to the banks: The Sixth Newsletter (2022)
Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. ‘[T]here is great intellectual poverty on the part of the right wing’, Héctor Béjar says in our latest dossier, A Map of Latin America’s Present: An Interview with Héctor Béjar (February 2022). ‘There is a lack of right-wing intellectuals everywhere’. Béjar speaks […]