These days, the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly opens up. So does a new international “political season”.
Subjects Archives: Imperialism
Imperialism, Globalization, and War
European Parliament’s anti-communist resolution draws widespread criticism
Communists and other progressives have accused the EU leadership of targeting the Soviet Union while concealing the role of countries such as Spain and Italy in the spread of Nazism and fascism.
Sanders rips ‘casual cruelty that motivates Trump and his billionaire friends’ as White House moves to strip free school lunches from 500,000 kids
Trump is depriving 500,000 kids of their school lunches for no damn reason—even after 139 members of Congress warned him not to.
Trump delivers fascist tirade at United Nations
Since taking office in 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump has used his annual speech at the UN General Assembly to denounce socialism, promote nationalism and xenophobia, and bully and threaten the whole world.
Notebook #2: The Rate of Exploitation
The rate of exploitation in the production of Apple’s iPhone X, which stands at 2458%, is 25 times the rate of exploitation that is gleaned from Marx’s examples in Capital, published in 1867.
Justin Trudeau’s ‘blackface’ is far from the worst of his offenses (Video)
In a scandal that threatens to lose Justin Trudeau the next election, several pictures of Canadian prime minister doing blackface have emerged. Margaret Kimberley of Black Agenda Report explains why the recent scandal highlights the trouble with the idea that Canada is somehow a more benign version of the U.S.
The far right: a global phenomenon
In recent years, the reactionary, authoritarian and/or fascist extreme right wing has been in the ascendant all over the world: it already governs half of the world’s countries. Among the best-known examples are: Trump (United States), Modi (India), Orbán (Hungary), Erdoğan (Turkey), Daesh (Islamic State), Salvini (Italy), Duterte (Philippines), and now Bolsonaro (Brazil).
The Venceremos Brigade at 50
As the U.S. ramps up its global efforts to protect genocidal racial capitalism, it is a crucial time for a new generation to study and learn from Cuba’s 60-year effort to build an alternative socio-economic system.
Reuters can’t find U.S. critics to question Amazon’s anti-Venezuela propaganda
A line from the trailer for Jack Ryan, an Amazon TV drama whose second season streams on November 1, is: A nuclear Venezuela…. You will not hear about it on the news, ’cause we’ll already be dead.
Millions march against climate change, capitalism and war
Four million people participated in the global climate strike across every continent on Friday, many of them students who skipped school on that day. Demonstrations at more than 5,800 locations in 161 countries began in Australia and the Pacific, moved to Asia, Antarctica, Africa and Europe, and then to North and South America. This is […]
Trump administration just can’t stop lying about vehicle standards
Today, Secretary Elaine Chao (Department of Transportation) and Administrator Andrew Wheeler (EPA) officially released their attack on California’s Advanced Clean Car standards, which reduce global warming emissions and tailpipe pollution from new cars and require manufacturers to sell a minimum number of electric vehicles in the state.
My voice is the gallows for all tyrants
More than seven million Kashmiris remain suffocated by the Indian government. The curfew that went into effect on 5 August is still in place. The media is not able to get into the state and offer a report of the situation. Telephone and internet services have been shut down.
Venezuela oil production continues decline as China cancels more shipments
Russian oil giant Rosneft blasted threats of U.S. sanctions as “unfair competition.”
‘Value and Crisis’ by Alfredo Saad-Filho reviewed
It is very common for leftist commentators to use the term ‘neoliberalism’ in their analysis of a political situation or social struggle. The term is frequently used in socialist political economy, cultural studies, and even mainstream liberal newspapers.
Declaration of the Network in Defense of Humanity: Save the Amazon! Save the Planet!
The Network in Defense of Humanity joins the worldwide mobilization in protest against the ecological disaster caused by the fires in the Amazon and against the transnational corporations and politicians directly responsible for the catastrophe.
Why Argentina’s elites are waging war against Milagro Sala
The leader of the Tupac Amaru Neighborhood Association is a symbol of the fight against the old order.
Venezuela: Despite U.S. sanctions Maduro delivers house number 2.8 million
As a part of Great Housing Mission Venezuela, the national program guarantees citizens’ access to adequate housing.
Russia has ‘oligarchs,’ the U.S. has ‘businessmen’
In 150 NYT, CNN and Fox articles, ‘oligarch’ seems reserved for Slavic billionaires
The dogs in the street know
There are some very obvious facts in British politics which nobody seems to be saying.
Money Politics before the New Deal with Jakob Feinig
Jakob Feinig, assistant professor of human development at Binghamton University, joins Money on the Left to discuss the history of political organizing and activism around money in the United States, from the pre-Revolutionary period to the New Deal era. Characterized alternately by periods of widespread “silencing” and mass mobilization, the history of money politics that […]
