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‘A crucial part of colonization is taking our children’
CounterSpin interview with Jen Deerinwater on Indian Child Welfare Act.
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The Nakba Day triumph: How the UN is correcting a historical wrong
The next Nakba Day will be officially commemorated by the United Nations General Assembly on May 15, 2023. The decision by the world’s largest democratic institution is significant, if not a game changer.
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EXCERPT: Brussels Conference Act of 1890
The 1890 Brussels Act provided Europeans with the legal and humanitarian justification for the colonization of Africa. Why have so few heard of it?
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‘Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons from Five Revolutionary Women’ by Kristen Ghodsee – Review
In exploring the lives of the revolutionary socialist feminists of the past, Red Valkyries demonstrates the value and importance of feminism in the 21st century, argues Rachel Collett
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An interpretation of the CPC’s 20th congress report: the western media’s omertà on the China model of modernization and its disingenuous response to the CPC’s self-revolution
The Western media, due to their own bias, have either ignored or maliciously misinterpreted General Secretary Xi Jinping’s recently published report on the just concluded 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC). All peace-loving and progressive people who are concerned about the world should cross these barriers of bias and carefully interpret this important report.
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Devils and the Ukraine: Berlin Bulletin 204, September 21, 2022
Am I mistaken in hearing echoes of grating radio voices from my childhood, in 1938, frightening even without translation, and omens of the giant tragedy which descended upon the world just one year later? Today’s tones are smoother, the words more circumspect, but I see election results in Spain, Italy, France, even Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands, the wrecking of the Labour Party in England and news from many regions of the USA—and I grow fearful.
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Poland says Ukraine must recognise Bandera’s genocide during WWII
Ukraine must acknowledge the genocide of Poles by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in World War II, a Polish official says.
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Why the Great Migration did little to bridge the Great Racial Divide
Real and lasting economic opportunities for Black families will come only through a serious national reckoning on race.
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From junk economics to a false view of history: where Western Civilization took a wrong turn
It may seem strange to invite an economist to give a keynote speech to a conference of the social sciences. Economists have been characterized as autistic and anti-social in the popular press for good reason.
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China Miéville: “If you don’t feel despair, you’re not opening your eyes”
The fantasy novelist and left activist on why Marx’s ‘Communist Manifesto’ speaks to the crisis-ridden politics of the present.
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The Struggle between the Future and the Past: Where Is Cuba Going?
I have two favorite sayings. One draws on the dialogue in Shakespeare’s Henry the VI part 2 when Jack Cade envisions that the effect of his plot will be that “all the realm shall be in common.” To this, comrade Dick responds, “the first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”
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The Second International’s Conflicted Legacy
Virtually all socialists today are descendants of the Second International of 1889 to 1914. Yet its legacy remains sharply disputed. Some associate this International with its betrayal of socialist principles at the start of World War I, and think there is little reason to study it any further. Others see the prewar Second International as a model to be re-created. Both assessments are mistaken.
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“We are not done”: Policy, protections, and the people’s struggle for Pride
June is Pride Month. It is a time to celebrate. It’s also a time to remember the struggle for equal rights, a history we are continually encouraged to forsake, fragment, and forget.
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A history of Naked Imperialism continues as Biden approves Somalia redeployment
Almost as soon as the administration of President Joseph Biden announced a redeployment of U.S. Special Operations Forces to Somalia on May 16, the Western media began to spin the intervention.
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War and peace: Berlin Bulletin No. 201, May 2, 2022
I’ve been toiling on this Berlin Bulletin for weeks, altering it, agonizing, starting anew. Events are simply too complicated and bitter–in the world and in Germany, too. Most dreadfully in Ukraine.
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Everyone is forgotten and nothing is remembered: The war in Ukraine and Russia’s reawakening
After the most titanic, nightmarish war in modern history, after rivers of blood shed from Kiev to Moscow, from Stalingrad to Kursk, the workers and farmers of the Soviet Union had vanquished the most vile killing machine the world had yet seen.
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My Nelson Mandela is dead
The Zionist campaign is vicious and relentless because they know that once a crack is made in their line of defense–a line that is made of deception, falsehoods and fabrication–they will fall, never to rise again.
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Kathy Boudin: a great life and a great loss
Celebrating the life and mourning the loss of our co-founder and co-director Kathy Boudin.
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What is propelling the U.S. into increasing international military aggression?
This article by John Ross (Luo Siyin) was also published in slightly edited form in Guancha as “It’s pointless to count on American ‘kindness’.” Introduction The international escalation of U.S. military aggression over a period of more than two decades is clear. However, even within that framework, the events leading to the Ukraine war represent […]
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The military situation in the Ukraine
The problem is not so much to know who is right in this conflict, but to question the way our leaders make their decisions.