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Fidel’s guidance in all of Cuba’s struggles
These days Cuba is recovering from an unprecedented fire, which has kept Matanzas, the whole island, and especially rescuers, firefighters, and authorities on full alert since the night of August 5.
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U.S. troops loot 84 oil tankers from Syria, smuggle them into Iraq
The United States is still plundering Syrian oil, stealing the country’s resources via illegal border crossings and siphoning them out to further line its pockets.
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The invasion of capital
Last week, Ukraine’s foreign private creditors agreed to the country’s request for a two-year freeze on payments on about $20bn of foreign debt.
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Climate crisis poses stark choice: Socialism or Extinction
In his latest book, Socialism or Extinction: The Meaning of Revolution in a Time of Ecological Disaster, Martin Empson neatly lays out his argument as to why the climate crisis cannot be solved under capitalism.
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Over 70 economists call for Biden Administration to return Afghanistan’s Central Bank reserves
“The people of Afghanistan have been made to suffer doubly for a government they did not choose.”
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The Nobodies take Office in Colombia: an in-depth analysis
People are crying, embracing, yelling, as the streets fill with joy. Horns honk and people dance in the middle of avenues. They can’t believe that the news traveling by word of mouth, tweet to tweet, news show to news show, is really true. As the minutes and hours pass, they confirm that it is true: This June 19th they—the Nobodies—have won.
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Can we please have an adult conversation about China?
As the U.S. legislative leader Nancy Pelosi swept into Taipei, people around the world held their breath.
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Israel heads further right: 30-40 percent of young support fascistic Jewish party
The Gaza attack has heightened Israel’s right-wing political tilt as it approaches its next election.
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Blue borders, dark bodies: The Mediterranean as a site of racist murder
Borders barely exist for these white bodies; rather, borders are lived as a hot summer inconvenience of queues at airport security. But for the dark bodies carrying their Global South passports, the Mediterranean is a humiliating border.
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Palestinian workers forced off Israeli bus to make way for Jewish passengers
A man pretending to be a transport ministry official manipulated the driver into removing around 50 Palestinian workers from the bus.
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U.S. gov’t is world’s worst violator of freedom of press, not its protector
From the persecution and torture of journalist Julian Assange to mass censorship of independent media outlets by U.S. government contractors in Silicon Valley, Washington’s attacks on freedom of the press hurt every country and person on Earth.
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Walter Rodney: A people’s professor
Rodney’s most recent, posthumously-published text, The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World, offers an important perspective on the time period in which it was written and the internal position of the author. Rodney’s family worked with Robin Kelley in taking Walter’s extensive lecture notes on the Russian revolutionary era and forming them into a complete manuscript.
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The UK economy is crushed – Analysts
According to the head of macro analysis at Saxo Bank, the only thing holding back the UK economy from turning into an emerging economy country, given the inflation and political instability, is the lack of a currency crisis.
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South Africa is on a knife edge as xenophobia escalates
With no national force with the vision and power to offer an emancipatory alternative to politics that turns neighbors against each other, the country is on a knife edge.
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Nancy Pelosi, White Supremacy, and China
White supremacist arrogance was the order of the day when Nancy Pelosi ignored a red line set by the Chinese government and visited Taiwan. The Speaker of the House showed stereotypical and racist attitudes towards that country and began a chain of events that won’t go well for the U.S.
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The United States has many political prisoners. Here’s a list
The U.S. government has many political prisoners, including journalists; national security state whistleblowers; Black, Indigenous, and Latino revolutionaries; foreign diplomats; Muslims detained without trial; women who defended themselves from attacks; and environmental activists.
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U.S. Senate targets Social Security and Medicare
Last week, Republican Senator Ron Johnson called for ending Social Security and Medicare as entitlement programs, instead transferring them into the discretionary budget where they would be gutted.
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King’s forces attack Communist Party of Swaziland members as protests continue
“I was held face down at gunpoint with my arms and legs bound behind for half an hour, while they fired shots and chased down my comrades,” CPS central committee member Vuyiswa Maseko told Peoples Dispatch.
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How private corporations stole the sea from the Commons
For most of human history, the oceans have been seen as a global commons, the benefits and resources of which belong to us all in equal measure. But our seas–and the marine environment as a whole–are being ravaged by exploitation for corporate profit. The result is a social, economic and ecological crisis that threatens the very life support system of the Earth.
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The new imperialism’s strange bedfellows
Africa’s political liberation and economic emancipation can’t be one-country affairs, but pan-African combined with international solidarity.