Subjects Archives: Movements

Donald Trump’s threat to force through his slate of far-right cabinet nominees as “recess appointments” without Senate confirmation votes marks a significant step in the de jure breakdown of constitutional forms of government.

Māori MP Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke captured global attention with a powerful haka performed to protest the controversial Treaty Principles Bill.

Despite 14 member states voting in favor, the U.S., as a permanent member, exercised its veto for the fifth time since October 2023.

In “the street”, in friends’ meetings, in the press… everywhere the population wonders about the veracity, depth and state of the division within the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS).

In a new study, led by the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics and published today (18 November) in Nature, an international group of authors who developed the science behind net zero demonstrate that relying on ‘natural carbon sinks’ like forests and oceans to offset ongoing CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use will not actually stop global warming.

Presentation at the International Symposium “Decolonization and Cooperation in the Global South”

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor documented dozens of deliberate killings and new field executions carried out by Israeli occupation forces against numerous civilians in northern Gaza.

President Maduro called to “shake the foundations of the Venezuelan bourgeois state […] and build a communal, democratic state of the people.”

They embody a party that crossed over to the dark side years ago.

With spotlight on politicians and their pledges in Baku, fossil fuel lobbyists are racking up private meetings with Trudeau’s government.

Yulia Skripal communicated from her bedside at Salisbury District Hospital on March 8, 2018, four days after she and her father Sergei Skripal collapsed from a poison attack, that the attacker used a spray; and that the attack took place when she and her father were eating at a restaurant just minutes before their collapse on a bench outside.

Donald Trump’s cabinet picks are a declaration of war against the entire working class. These choices are a domestic version of the Pentagon’s “shock and awe” invasion tactics and are meant to smash any opposition.

With the parliamentary victory, the leftist president Anura Kumara Dissanayake is better placed to implement his agenda of economic and political reforms in the crisis-hit country.

A new report from Britain’s Sky News provides details of Adnan al-Bursh’s death by torture in Israel’s Ofer Prison.

Billions were spent both on aid to the Zelensky government…as an urgent defense necessity to counter “the Russian threat.” This threat has appeared and reappeared in Germany in 1914, the 1930s, after 1945 and now again, louder than ever, with similar barked Prussian commands: “Achtung! Die Russen kommen!” as dangerously false as ever, and often followed by eastward expansion, invasion and, far too often, catastrophe, with atomic annihilation an added danger this time around.

The infamous Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda many see as a blueprint for the second Trump term, calls for the end to public broadcasting, because it is viewed as liberal propaganda.

On election night, despite receiving 57% of the vote, a ballot measure which would have restored abortion rights for Floridians failed. 

The streaming giant’s move has sparked criticism from entertainment workers and activists.

Instead of solving the problems of the majority, the ‘far right of a special type’–a right that is intimately tied to liberalism–cultivates a politics of anger.

Ms. Albanese has been under relentless attack from politically motivated organizations like ‘UN Watch’, which have been waging toxic smear campaigns to silence her and to harm her human rights mandate.