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  • | The Afghanistan Papers A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock and the Washington Post Simon Schuster New York 2021 | MR Online

    ‘The Afghanistan Papers’ leaves a critical question unanswered

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on May 13, 2022 by Patterson Deppen (more by Toward Freedom) (Posted May 16, 2022)

    While Afghanistan may finally be free of outside military occupation, Afghans are still suffering the deadly consequences of 40 years of U.S.-led subversion and war.

  • | Protesters on February 10 holding signs that read No war with Russia | MR Online

    Ukrainian Refuseniks on why many won’t fight for Ukraine

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on April 12, 2022 by Fergie Chambers (more by Toward Freedom) (Posted Apr 18, 2022)

    Aside from reports of civilians volunteering in a variety of non-military support roles, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky and other state officials have urged civilians to take up arms. Then, on March 9, Zelensky approved a law that allows Ukrainians to use weapons during wartime and negates legal responsibility for any attack on people perceived to be acting in aggression against Ukraine. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense even posted a graphic online with instructions on how to launch Molotov cocktails at tanks.

  • | In Bogotá during Colombias national strike two women hold placards that say We didnt give birth to children of war and They got firearms we got fire in our soul credit Antonio Cascio | MR Online

    After decades of oppression, Colombian women lead front lines of National Strike

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on May 28, 2021 by Natalia Torres Garzon (more by Toward Freedom) (Posted Jun 09, 2021)

    “Far too many women are fighting—not only for their rights, but for the rights of all,” says Yomali Torres, an Afro-Colombian activist. The 26-year-old joined throngs of women in the streets of Colombia over the past month to demand an end to patriarchal oppression at the hands of a U.S.-backed neoliberal state.

  • | Ramiro Sebastián Fúnez | MR Online

    Q&A: Filmmaker Ramiro Sebastián Fúnez on “Nicaragua Against Empire” & Getting the story right

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on May 24, 2021 by Julie Varughese interviewing Ramiro Sebastián Fúnez (more by Toward Freedom) (Posted Jun 08, 2021)

    The delegation I was on was called, “No to Sanctions in Nicaragua.” The ATC is Nicaragua’s oldest and strongest peasant workers union that played a central role in the Sandinista Revolution and was the organization that facilitated the land redistribution of over 4 million acres to peasants from the landlords, owned by the Somoza family dynasty. – Ramiro Sebastián Fúnez

  • | Black Spartacus The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture | MR Online

    Book Review: ‘Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture’

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on May 21, 2021 by Danny Shaw (more by Toward Freedom) (Posted Jun 07, 2021)

    Surrounded by assasination plots and having been deceived from all sides, Louverture “was extremely reluctant to communicate his intentions even to his leading military officers, or to share power with them in any meaningful way.”

  • | A shantytown in São Paulo Brazil borders the much more affluent Morumbi district Credit Tuca Vieira Oxfam | MR Online

    The Billionaire boom: 82% of global wealth produced last year went to richest 1%

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on January 22, 2018 (more by Toward Freedom)

    Forida is a 22-year-old sewing machine operator in a clothing factory in Dahka, Bangladesh. She often works 12-hour days producing clothes for brands such as H&M and Target. Sometimes, during busy production cycles, the hours are even longer.

  • | Protesters march at the G20 Summit in London 2009 | MR Online

    Dilemmas of the radical left in a dying capitalist system

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on August 15, 2017 (more by Toward Freedom)

    In what I call the pan-European world (North America; western, northern, and southern Europe; and Australasia), the basic electoral choice for the last century or so has been between two centrist parties, center-right versus center-left. There have been other parties further left and further right but they were essentially marginal.

  • | Fascist torch march in Charlottesville 8112017 | MR Online

    Mobilizing against the fascist creep

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on August 17, 2017 by E.Z. Kay (more by Toward Freedom) (Posted Aug 18, 2017)

    When economic crisis grips a nation, when contradictions within the ruling class and the state create instability and social upheaval, fascists act as the foot soldiers of capitalism. Their function is to disrupt and destroy efforts on the part of the working-class and oppressed masses to organize against their miserable conditions.

Monthly Review Essays

  • The Obama Line, Samantha Power, and U.S. Intervention in West Africa During the Ebola Epidemic
    Jean-Philippe Stone | © UN PhotoMartine Perret | CC BYNCND 20 | MR Online

    December 2013 marked the beginning of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Ebola, a severe hemorrhagic virus which causes muscle and joint pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding, spread from Guinean forests to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone by the summer of 2014.

Lost & Found

  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin | State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv Ukraine | MR Online

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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