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  • | Photo EPSU | MR Online

    Investors in long-term care profit as aged and disabled residents and workers bear brunt of COVID-19

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on June 23, 2022 by Leigh Kamore Haynes and Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jun 24, 2022)

    Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, long-term care facilities were hit particularly hard as both residents and workers suffered high infection and mortality rates. A number of reports indicate that such an outcome is linked to widespread privatization.

  • | Flag for victims of COVID19 | MR Online

    U.S. COVID response: War and profiteering remains the priority

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on June 5, 2022 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The death toll in the U.S. due to COVID-19 has crossed 1 million. The richest country in the world has stumbled in controlling the pandemic and the poorest have suffered the most.

  • | Protestors in the Bronx NY Photo via the Party for Socialism and Liberation | MR Online

    Two years since George Floyd’s death, has anything changed in the U.S.?

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on May 25, 2022 by Natalia Marques (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted May 27, 2022)

    The gains and setbacks in the movement for Black lives prove how racism is woven deeply into the fabric of capitalism and US society.

  • | France Mali part of the G5 Sahel | MR Online

    Is this the end of the French project in Africa’s Sahel?

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on May 19, 2022 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    Mali recently announced that it would no longer be part of the G5 Sahel. From the beginning, it was clear that the formation of the G5 Sahel was encouraged by France, and that the real focus was to be security.

  • | Hundreds of people met near Freedom Bridge on the northern bank of the Sava river in Zagreb on May 7 to mark the 77th anniversary of the citys liberation from the Naziallied Ustaša regime | MR Online

    Bonfires mark 77th anniversary of Zagreb’s liberation from fascism

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on May 9, 2022 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    As official EU marks Europe Day, anti-fascist networks in Croatia remember the liberation of Zagreb from Nazi-allied Ustaša rule.

  • | Robert Golob leader of the Freedom Movement GS Photo via Facebook | MR Online

    Janez Jansa’s right-wing govt loses to newly formed Freedom Movement in Slovenia

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on April 28, 2022 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The outgoing right-wing coalition government led by Janez Jansa had faced widespread protests from civil society for its unpopular anti-worker and authoritarian policies.

  • | Labor organizers and trade unions hold a protest outside a Starbucks outlet in Raleigh North Carolina for firing a prounion worker Photo ThriveNCTwitter | MR Online

    Unionization spreads across Starbucks outlets in U.S. despite efforts to intimidate workers

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on April 12, 2022 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    According to Starbucks Workers United, which is organizing workers to form unions, workers from over 200 outlets have already approached the National Labor Relations Board for a union vote.

  • | Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskys L speech and the Azov soldiers testimony in the Greek parliament | MR Online

    Progressives in Greece reject Zelensky’s address to parliament with neo-Nazis

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on April 8, 2022 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The testimony of the neo-Nazi Azov soldier in Greek parliament following the address of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been widely condemned.

  • | Lee Camp | MR Online

    Lee Camp on censoring anti-war voices

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on April 5, 2022 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    As the world moves dangerously close to global violent conflict, anti-war journalists have been banned and censored in Europe and the U.S. One of these banned voices, Lee Camp, discusses the development and why it is so dangerous.

  • | On March 24 hundreds of thousands of Argentines flooded the Plaza de Mayo and surrounding streets in capital Buenos Aires to commemorate the victims of the last dictatorship and demand justice for them PhotoLeandro Mastronicola Emergentes | MR Online

    Argentina remembers 46th anniversary of the U.S.-backed civic-military coup

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on March 28, 2022 by Tanya Wadhwa (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Mar 29, 2022)

    This March 24, on the Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice, after a pause of two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of thousands of Argentines took to the streets across the country to pay homage to the victims of the last military dictatorship.

  • | The Ukrainian parliament Verkhovna Rada PhotoSputnik | MR Online

    Opposition political parties banned in Ukraine and ‘unified information policy’ imposed

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on March 21, 2022 by Abdul Rahman (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Mar 24, 2022)

    Zelensky justified the ban on mostly left and anti-NATO parties in the country by claiming that they had alleged links with Russia, despite the fact that most of these parties have publicly opposed Russian intervention.

  • | Thousands of people in Chicago calling for a nofly zone over Ukraine Photo via Jenna Barnes on Twitter | MR Online

    Anti-Russian hysteria in the U.S.: Who does it serve?

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on March 11, 2022 by Natalia Marques (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Mar 15, 2022)

    The United States has a long history of amplifying existing prejudices under the cover of war hysteria to manufacture consent for its actions.

  • | Dr JR Green educator and member of the South Carolina ProTruth Coalition testifies against critical race theory bans in South Carolina Photo NAACP Legal Defense Fund via Twitter | MR Online

    Critical race theory: U.S. right-wing wages a culture war, the people fight back

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on March 6, 2022 by Natalia Marques (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Mar 12, 2022)

    Conservatives are going after a new boogeyman, “critical race theory”, or any attempt at teaching youth about the history of U.S. racism.

  • | Russian President Vladimir Putin | MR Online

    What are the Minsk agreements and what are their role in the Russia-Ukraine crisis?

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on February 22, 2022 by Abdul Rahman (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Feb 25, 2022)

    Under pressure from ultra-nationalists and Russophobes, successive governments in Ukraine have failed to address the grievances of the Russian speaking majority in the Donbass region. Ukraine has also not implemented the provisions of the Minsk agreement signed in 2015 to end the conflict in the region.

  • | Puerto Ricos teachers have risen up against austerity policies Photo Twitter Luis de Jesús | MR Online

    Teachers in Puerto Rico strike for wages, benefits

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on February 10. 2022 by Claridad Puerto Rico (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Feb 13, 2022)

    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.

  • | Human rights organizations decry apartheid conditions in Israel Photo Ingmar Zahorsky | MR Online

    Can Israel stop the world from saying ‘apartheid’? Concealing the suffering in Palestine

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on February 2, 2022 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    Israel attempts to improve its public image to counter efforts by human rights organizations that reveal the nature of Israeli apartheid.

  • | Photo Morning Star | MR Online

    Wikileaks’ invaluable contributions to journalism and people’s movements

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on January 2, 2022 by Abdul Rahman (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jan 31, 2022)

    The information shared by Wikileaks has strengthened the resistance against repressive governments by exposing the gaps between their actions and their carefully crafted narratives.

  • | Workers from several organizations and unions held a mass meeting at Cathedral Hall in Johannesburg to discuss a strategy for the ongoing Clover Strike and the way forward | MR Online

    Unions allege petrol bombs, intimidation as strike intensifies at South African Dairy giant

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on January 13, 2022 by Pavan Kulkarni (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jan 16, 2022)

    Amid threats and intimidation, the workers’ action at Clover has been strengthened by worker solidarity as well as the increasing support of civil society for its boycott campaign.

  • | Cuba shows an alternative to Big Pharma hegemony through global solidarity | MR Online

    Cuba shows an alternative to Big Pharma hegemony through global solidarity

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on January 10, 2022 by Richa Chintan (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jan 11, 2022)

    Cuba puts people before profits – showing the world an alternative to the monopolistic practices of Big Pharma. It promotes a public health system, state-funded research and shows global solidarity through tech transfer and vaccine delivery to developing countries.

  • | Sunday December 26 thousands of people from various sectors of the arts and entertainment industry gathered at the Mont des Arts in Brussels demanding the government to reverse its decision targeting the cultural sector while Christmas markets and other businesses are allowed to continue | MR Online

    Succumbing to artists’ protest, Belgium suspends restrictions on cultural activity

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on December 31, 2021 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The artist community and workers in the cultural sector have claimed that the Belgian government’s COVID-19 regulations targeting the cultural sector were not advised by experts.

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    This article deals with U.S. imperialism since World War 2. It is critical to acknowledge that U.S. imperialism emanates both ideologically and materially from the crime of colonialism on this continent which has killed over 100 million indigenous people and approximately 150 million African people over the past 500 years.

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