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  • Revolutions

    Why don’t systemic crises always lead to revolutions?

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on September 9, 2026 (more by Internationalist 360°)

    For a long time, it was believed that a structural economic crisis, like the one the world is experiencing today, would be followed by a general political crisis and then social unrest and revolutions. However, these are exceptional cases.

  • Celebration of the 47th anniversary of the triumph of the Sandinista Popular Revolution in Managua. (July 19, 2026) Photo: César Pérez

    Meddling through mistranslation: U.S. interferes in Nicaragua’s elections

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on July 23, 2026 by Becca Renk Foster (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Jul 29, 2026)

    Using deliberate distortion of a speech by co-president Daniel Ortega, the U.S. has kicked off a campaign to meddle in Nicaragua’s elections by erroneously announcing that Nicaragua will no longer hold elections. In a novel turn, the U.S. has kicked off a campaign to meddle in Nicaragua’s elections by erroneously announcing that Nicaragua will no longer […]

  • Tel Aviv’s pageant of kidney-donor virtue cannot wash away the Palestinian bodies, forensic warnings, and trafficking scandals that still demand a reckoning.

    Israel’s organ theft scandal exposes a culture of desecration

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on May 13, 2026 by Robert Inlakesh (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted May 15, 2026)

    Tel Aviv’s pageant of kidney-donor virtue cannot wash away the Palestinian bodies, forensic warnings, and trafficking scandals that still demand a reckoning.

  • The Grim Arithmetic of 377, 000 Missing Palestinians

    The grim arithmetic of 377, 000 missing Palestinians

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on June 26, 2025 by Maximilian (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Jun 28, 2025)

    A recent report by Yaakov Garb of Ben-Gurion University presents an data-driven analysis of the new “aid distribution” compounds in Gaza.

  • New Pan-African Path

    Forging a new Pan-African path: Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré, and the Land of the Upright People

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on June 7, 2025 by Pan Africanism Today Secretariat (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Jun 10, 2025)

    As coup attempts against the anti-imperialist government of Burkina Faso increase, Pan Africanism Today calls on progressive forces to demonstrate solidarity with the revolutions across the Sahel.

  • Lord of the Flies – by Mr. Fish

    The last chapter of the genocide

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on March 22, 2025 (more by Internationalist 360°)

    Israel has begun the final stage of its genocide. The Palestinians will be forced to choose between death or deportation. There are no other options.

  • Dahlia Kurtz

    Canadian political prisoner, Yves Engler

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on February 18, 2025 by Yves Engler (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Feb 24, 2025)

    On dozens of occasions I’ve responded to Kurtz’ racist, violent anti-Palestinian posts on X. Six weeks ago I wrote an article..

  • January 11, 2002 shows the first 20 prisoners to Guantanamo Bay

    122 years of U.S. imperialism in Guantánamo: From torture to migrant detention

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on February 11, 2025 by Abraham Marquez (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Feb 15, 2025)

    Donald Trump’s expansion of migrant detention in Guantánamo Bay follows years of torture. Meanwhile, the people of Cuba have always fought for their land to be freed from U.S. imperialism.

  • An M23 soldier stands guard overlooking Bunagana, a small town in North Kivu Province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo by Al Jazeera/Flickr.

    Canadian hands in Congo drip with the blood of millions

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on January 30, 2025 (more by Internationalist 360°)

    Ottawa has stayed silent on Rwandan aggression while continuing to back Africa’s most ruthless regime led by Paul Kagame.

  • A defaced portrait of Bashar al-Assad on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria. [Photo: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images]

    Syria’s fall and anti-imperialist lessons

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on December 19, 2024 by Essam Elkorghli (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Dec 24, 2024)

    The fall of Syria was a serious strike against the Axis of Resistance, but all is not lost.

  • Illustration of a geostrategic idea – Nicholas John Spykman: “Who controls the Rimland rules Eurasia, who rules Eurasia controls the destinies of the world.”

    The geopolitical evolution of Pentalasia

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on December 26, 2024 by Lorenzo Maria Pacini (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Dec 18, 2024)

    The evolution of the Pentalasia has been and continues to be central in defining the Middle East and the entire geopolitical Rimland. To whom the control of Pentalasia will go, will probably go the control of the entire Rimland.

  • Evo Morales [Source: declassifieduk.org]

    Three women, three perspectives on the division in MAS

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on November 16, 2024 by Javier Larraín (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Nov 22, 2024)

    In “the street”, in friends’ meetings, in the press… everywhere the population wonders about the veracity, depth and state of the division within the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS).

  • Palestinian photojournalist Bilal Mohamed Rajab was killed in an Israeli airstrike. – Mada Masr

    A massacre within a massacre: How journalists reporting on Gaza deaths are being targeted

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on November 3, 2024 (more by Internationalist 360°)

    Over 160 media workers have been killed and 60 detained as the methodical destruction of the brutalized Strip continues.

  • The Brazilian government’s advisor for international affairs, former Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Photo: Reuters).

    Why Brazil opposes Venezuela’s BRICS membership

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on October 24, 2024 (more by Internationalist 360°)

    The 16th Summit of the BRICS organization is taking place this week in the Russian city of Kazan. President Nicolás Maduro was invited by the Russian president himself, Vladimir Putin, at the beginning of August, and is attending with a Venezuelan delegation.

  • SAHEL Alliance

    Could the Sahel Alliance divide Africa?

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on October 14, 2024 by Lorenzo Maria Pacini (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Oct 16, 2024)

    Africa continues to rise up and delivers surprises. In recent days, several African leaders have made diplomatic trips that are reshaping the geometries of the international chessboard. The SAHEL Alliance states are charting a watershed that could divide Africa in two and determine a new historical course for the entire continent.

  • US Still Control Every Penny of Iraqi Oil Revenues

    Why does the U.S. still control every penny of Iraqi oil revenues?

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on September 25, 2024 by Hussein Askary (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Sep 27, 2024)

    Washington has maintained control over Iraq’s oil revenues since its illegal 2003 invasion–a financial and economic subjugation that undermines Iraqi sovereignty and denies it access to its own national treasure.

  • The head of the U.S. Southern Command, General Laura Richardson, announced a Marshall Plan for Latin America focused on counteracting the influence of China and Russia in the region (Photo: U.S. Southern Command).

    Southern Command launches an attack on China and Russia in Latin America

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on September 23, 2024 (more by Internationalist 360°)

    Laura Richardson, leader of the U.S. military’s Southern Command, recently called for the development of a new “Marshall Plan”, aimed at Latin America to counter the growing influence of Russia and China in the region.

  • Latin America Under Siege

    The return of the Condor: Signs of a Latin America under siege

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on September 7, 2024 by Carmen Parejo Rendón (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Sep 11, 2024)

    Argentina woke up on September 2 with the University of the Mothers (UNMA) fenced off and surrounded by members of the national police, who prevented workers from accessing the center.

  • ALBA-TCP

    Declaration of the 11th Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of ALBA-TCP

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on August 26, 2024 by el19digital (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Aug 29, 2024)

    Being the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela a founding member country of the ALBA-TCP, a unionist project, envisioned by the Liberator Simón Bolívar and the heroes of the independence deeds of Latin America and the Caribbean and realized by Commanders Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías and Fidel Castro Ruz; the member countries of this great Alliance acknowledge that this kind Our American nation is a sovereign and independent country, with high democratic standards, which, in compliance with its sacred Constitution, organized presidential elections, in accordance with the corresponding regulatory times.

  • NATO Summit

    Planning crimes: 2024 NATO Summit’s agenda

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on July 17, 2024 by Essam Elkorghli, Matteo Capasso (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Jul 19, 2024)

    This year’s NATO Summit was a show of the West’s commitment to warmongering and its plans to wreak havoc around the world to maintain its dominance.

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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