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Woody Guthrie prize given to punk rock group that supports escalation of Ukraine war and overthrow of Russian government
As a proponent of peaceful relations with the Soviet Union, Woody Guthrie would likely be rolling over in his grave if he knew how his heirs betrayed his name.
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Ian Angus – “The War Against the Commons: Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism”
In his latest book, Ian Angus answers a question that apologists for the capitalist system would like to pretend does not exist.
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Why 90% of foreign military bases are American
You can’t talk about how many bases the United States has without talking about what those bases actually represent — U.S. imperialism. With about 750 bases overseas, in 80 countries and colonies, the U.S. has more foreign military bases than any empire, people or country in world history. #Military #War #UnitedStates
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Fighting fascism in feminism
I was first introduced to the power of far-right ideologies within feminism through the work of so-called feminists who were dead set on criminalizing sex work, even if it cost women their lives. Back in 2004, I was new to sex work organizing, spurred by the massacre of street-based sex workers on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
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Sowing seeds of plunder
A Lose-Lose Situation in Ukraine
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Charles III coronation reminds of Britain’s bloody history of genocide, slavery, and loot
The coronation ceremony and centuries of plunder by the British Empire cannot be seen in isolation.
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Biden breaks all-time record for most weapons sold during fiscal year
The U.S. President, who has constantly held up the banner of human rights in his policies with non-friendly states, has sold weapons to the majority of ‘autocratic’ states in 2022.
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European ‘strategic autonomy’ and the perception of reality
French President Emmanuel Macron’s statement in China about developing “strategic autonomy” from the United States is empty posturing intended for the domestic French market.
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Public opinion and imperialism
A New York Times News Service report reproduced in The Telegraph of Kolkata (May 7), discusses the findings of a global public opinion survey carried out by the Bennett Institute of Public Policy of Cambridge University. These show that the Ukraine conflict had shifted public sentiment “in developed democracies in East Asia and Europe as well as the United States of America, uniting their citizens against both Russia and China and shifting mass opinion in a more pro-American direction”.
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The work that Tricontinental does: The Nineteenth Newsletter (2023)
Over the past few years, we have become increasingly alarmed by the serious tensions that have been imposed on the world.
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The rollback of child labor protections is well underway
The hunt for profits is driving ever more despicable labor laws and practices.
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Clarence Thomas reversed position after gifts and family payments
The Supreme Court justice switched sides on a landmark legal doctrine, satisfying his benefactors’ conservative advocacy machine.
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UN nuclear watchdog chief says intensified fighting around Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant ‘unpredictable and dangerous’
UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi says intensified fighting around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine render the situation “unpredictable and potentially dangerous.”
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The murder of Jordan Neely Abetted by Eric Adams, worst Black Mayor in the Country
Black New Yorkers should have a semblance of confidence that their lives can’t be snuffed out without a killer being punished.
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Ukraine’s big mistake
Renfrey Clarke is an Australian journalist. Throughout the 1990s he reported from Moscow for Green Left Weekly of Sydney. This past year, he published The Catastrophe of Ukrainian Capitalism: How Privatisation Dispossessed & Impoverished the Ukrainian People with Resistance Books.
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The Pentagon has been recolonizing University campuses—why aren’t more students protesting?
Once upon a time getting a college degree meant reading classic literature and philosophy, learning about history and politics, studying mathematics and science, learning new languages, and debating the great issues of the day in student forums.
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New report unveils how CIA schemes color revolutions around the world
For a long time, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) plotted “peaceful evolution” and “color revolutions” as well as spying activities around the world.
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India: The grim unemployment scenario
THE data on unemployment brough out by the Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy (CMIE) present a grim picture. Not only has the unemployment rate increased sharply for some years now, starting from even before the pandemic, but the figure which had shot up during the pandemic has not come down much despite the recovery that has occurred in the level of GDP from its trough.
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Defiant Cuba Celebrates May Day
Mainstream reports on this past May Day celebration in Cuba leave out a key element: the imperialist economic and financial blockade.
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Africans in the U.S. are a colonized people: A comment on the indictment of the African People’s Socialist Party
Red Scares, McCarthyism, COINTELPRO, “Black Identity Extremists” are all indicative of how the colonized are treated by the state.