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Chile: in memory of Carlos and Pinochet’s caravan of death
Every dawn, during my daily walk to the foothills of the Andes, I pass by the Tobalaba Aerodrome, a facility that caters to a wide variety of private aircraft. In a year marking the 50th anniversary of the coup against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende, that airport arouses less affable feelings.
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Gerardo Hernández on the resilience and continuity of the Cuban revolution
Cuba today is facing one of its toughest tests. It has been under a U.S. financial and trade embargo for over six decades, and in the past year has suffered catastrophic environmental disasters with Hurricane Ian and the fire at the Matanzas fuel facility. In spite of this, the Cuban people continue to resist and defend their revolution.
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Resistance is continual in Nicaragua
Roger McKenzie talks to U.S. writer Dan Kovalik about why the people of Nicaragua need our support in their battle to determine their own future
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We are the Citizen Revolution again: Ecuador’s Rafael Correa
On Sunday, the Ecuadorian right-wing parties suffered a resounding defeat both in the subnational elections and in the referendum.
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“The Conformist Rebellion: Marxist Critiques of the Contemporary Left”
Already a century ago, political thinkers and philosophers were confronted with an apparent paradox: the failure of revolution.
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A Review of Derek R. Ford’s ‘Teaching the Actuality of Revolution: Aesthetics, Unlearning, and the Sensations of Struggle’
History doesn’t happen because a small group of people share a complete political identity; it happens because masses of people shed their timidity, risk their reputations, livings, freedom, and lives, and let the actuality of revolution guide their every move.
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Shelley’s revolutionary poetry
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets—and arguably the greatest.
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Thomas Sankara: “We didn’t import our revolution”
This is the first English translation of this interview and the opening installment in a Liberation School series of previously untranslated work by Thomas Sankara. This translation series is the result of a collaboration with ThomasSankara.net, an online platform dedicated to archiving work on and by the great African revolutionary.
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What worries the U.S. most about Lula
Steve Ellner says opposition to NATO’s stance on Ukraine has created fertile ground for the expansion of a bloc of non-aligned nations, now with a progressive possibly at the helm.
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Songs about Che
Commodification of the iconic image of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara has failed to dim the revolutionary light that burned on after his CIA assassination on 9 October 1967.
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The main losers of 1979, the creators of the new revolution in Iran
Recently in Iran’s largest city, Tehran, Mahsa Amini, a twenty-two-year-old Kurdish woman, was arrested by Iran’s “morality police” for allegedly wearing her government-mandated hijab inappropriately. She was beaten, and three days later, she died.
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Media spin Lula victory as defeat
Workers Party Candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva beat incumbent Jair Bolsonaro by 6.2 million votes.
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My revolutionary inspiration, Barbara Ehrenreich
Remembrances of the late author have focused on her best-selling Nickel and Dimed with only rare acknowledgement of the major roles she played in women’s liberation and U.S. socialism.
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Ecosocialism in a radicalizing Climate Justice Movement
In this debate we had an introductory conversation about ecosocialism, the climate justice movement, what role they can play together and what programs and alliances they can create for this historical moment.
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Assata Shakur, Black Liberation Struggles and the Cuban Revolution
Former political prisoners have found refuge in the Caribbean-Island socialist state.
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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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Cuban culture is a militant of life, not at the side of the people but within them
We come to this National Council three years after the Congress and two of them in pandemic, without pause in the follow-up to the agreements of that long, deep and critical meeting that opened the way to some solutions and a thousand more challenges.
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Be moderate…we only want THE EARTH!
We have to recognize that there is a pathway forward for humanity, but that the capitalist world system, and today’s governments that are largely subservient to corporations and the wealthy, are blocking that pathway, simply because it requires revolutionary-scale socioecological change.
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Nicaragua celebrates 43 years of revolution: a clash between reality and media misrepresentation
July 19th is a day of celebration in Nicaragua: the anniversary of the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship. But the international media will have it penciled in their diaries for another reason: it’s yet another opportunity to pour scorn on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government.
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Replacing constitutions in a revolutionary struggle
Can the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka be replaced without recourse to article 82 of the existing Constitution? In other words, can it be replaced extra-legally and extra constitutionally? Yes, it is possible in certain circumstances.