Subjects Archives: Strategy

The Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST), Brazil’s largest social organization and a major force for land reform, is under attack from the country’s conservative forces in the parliament and the mass media.

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”.

Over the past few years, we have become increasingly alarmed by the serious tensions that have been imposed on the world.

Today’s revival of union “salting” could not be more welcome or more urgently needed.

Black New Yorkers should have a semblance of confidence that their lives can’t be snuffed out without a killer being punished.

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.

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.

U.S. sanctions aimed against China tech drive Chinese firms to increase research aimed at developing alternatives to leading U.S. cutting-edge technology necessary for AI.

Although it was widely believed that the U.S. continued to secretly deploy nuclear weapons in Korea, this move by the Biden administration is a blatant violation of the denuclearization treaty.

Students and education unions slammed Labour’s “betrayal of millions of young people in desperate need of hope” today after the party’s increasingly right-wing leadership dropped a pledge to abolish cripplingly high university tuition fees.

Following Wednesday’s drone attack on the official residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the U.S. media sprang into action to promote the ridiculous claim that Russia staged the attacks.

Iraqi Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Ahmad Al-Sahhaf announces Syria has been offically granted a return to the Arab League.

The presence of U.S. troops in Somalia helps the Islamist insurgency Al Shabaab recruit, exacerbating the very violence they claim to be fighting. But the House has voted down a resolution to withdraw.

Joe Burns’ “Class Struggle Unionism” advocates militant, worker self-organising from a U.S. context, but its lessons are useful here too, finds Kevin Crane.

The characterization of landlords as struggling families is central to the prevailing depoliticized view of housing.

Despite what happened, the military parade on Red Square will go ahead as planned, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said.

Declassified documents of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have revealed that former president of Mexico, José López Portillo, who led the country during 1976-1982, was a CIA asset.

Liberia’s history should be understood as that of a colony, the first U.S. overseas colony.

Francisco Dominguez on the history and development of the ‘doctrine’ that has been used as a justification for U.S. intervention in Latin America for two centuries.

The president of China, Xi Jinping, and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, held their first contact since the beginning of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia in February 2022, as reported by the Chinese Foreign Ministry.