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Llaneros resist the blockade: The Pancha Vásquez Commune (Part II)
When production dropped, Venezuelans from the plains region turned to the commune to find solutions.
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Organizing ranchers in the Venezuelan Llanos: The Pancha Vásquez Commune (Part I)
How communards in the Venezuelan plains region produce, organize, and resist the impact of the U.S. blockade.
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The three great myths of NATO
The self-proclaimed defence alliance sees itself as the guardian of law and democracy. In reality, it is leaving a blood trail of devastation across the world.
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The military-industrial complex is killing us all
Freeing ourselves from the monster destroying our planet and our futures.
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Palestine, too, shall be free–the liberation of all oppressed people in the whole of Africa and the world
Israel, as a settler colony, perceives Palestine as ‘empty land’, empty of people, culture, history and a future. Busani Ngcaweni argues that Palestinians are denied an identity and have become dis-membered, without a home, state or nation. There are striking similarities, Ngcaweni explains, between Israel’s ideology of racial subjugation by a ‘God-chosen people’ and apartheid South Africa’s belief in racial and religious superiority over an inferior black race.
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I witnessed an alternative to the U.S. homelessness crisis in socialist Cuba
Within the United States, homelessness has become a permanent feature of the capitalist system, and around 650,000 U.S. residents sleep on the streets on any given night.
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A lone Dayak community’s last stand against palm oil
The Dayak peoples of Borneo have been fiercely resisting the encroachment of palm oil plantations on their ancestral lands for many decades.
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The U.S. empire isn’t a government that runs nonstop wars, it’s a nonstop war that runs a government
It clears up a lot of confusion when you understand that the U.S. empire is not a national government which happens to run nonstop military operations, it’s a nonstop military operation that happens to run a national government.
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How BJP masked its class agenda with false religious narrative
In attacking the wealth tax proposal, the PM whipped up hatred against Muslims, trashed Congress, thereby protecting his super-rich patrons.
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NATO’s spiralling commitments to Ukraine risk catastrophe
We are on the possible verge of a major escalation in the war in the Ukraine, one which risks war between NATO and Russia, and one involving nuclear weapons, argues Chris Bambery.
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Will the Cocos Islands become like Diego Garcia, highjacked by the U.S.?
The 2000 residents of Diego Garcia were forcibly removed to make way for a giant U.S. military base.
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Open letter by Gaza academics and university administrators to the world
We call on our supporters to help us resist the Israeli campaign of scholasticide and rebuild our universities
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Britain’s century long Opium trafficking and China’s ‘Century of Humiliation’ (1839-1949)
In 1500, India and China were the world’s most advanced civilizations.
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‘We’re seeing Universities following a corporate agenda to get favor with donors’
CounterSpin interview with Ellen Schrecker on the attack on academic freedom
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How Israeli prison doctors assist in the torture of Palestinian detainees
Israeli doctors share prisoners’ medical information with interrogators to “greenlight” torture, teach interrogators how to inflict pain without leaving physical marks, and even actively engage in acts of torture themselves.
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Western arms supplies to Ukraine prevent peaceful solutions
Margaret Kimberley, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, was invited to brief the United Nations Security Council on May 20, 2024, as a civil society representative. The subject of the meeting was weapons supplies to Ukraine as a threat to peace and security.
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The resistible rise of the far right in Europe
In France, the far right is likely to be the leading political force in the European elections of 9 June 2024, and probably the second (or third) force in the European Union. A relatively large number of far right parties are now on the winning side in national elections, and are even taking part in national governments.
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Ontario Federation of Labour rallies with students at UofT encampment
As attacks kill yet more civilians in Rafah, students at their allies at UofT say they will not stop pressuring the university to divest from Israel.
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Digitalisation in India: The class agenda [Part IV]
Indian propagandists talk of India’s “emerging status as a technological powerhouse”, and the heads of the world’s largest technology corporations have started to refer to India as a global technology/software “superpower”, at least in their interactions with Indian media outlets.
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Hybrid wars in Latin America
Between June 13 and 15, the G7 Leaders Summit, the organization responsible for the neocolonial and financialist policies implemented at a global level, will be held in the Apulia region, in Italy.