Category: Social Policy

With this announcement, Ortega has put the last nail in the coffin of the revolution, the final hammer blow in a long process.

There seems to be nothing at present to stop Trump from terminating the Cuban Communist government.

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Since I have lived in Ecuador, I receive prayer chains. In my circle, there are mothers of friends, elderly ladies whose contacts I have by chance, who send me “God bless you” stickers every morning. In those ladies

Millions of people in 2,600 cities in all 50 of the United States participated in the second round of “No Kings” protests against President Donald Trump’s increasingly authoritarian and inhumane government. 

How ICE has been created specifically as a tool of repression beyond any immigration purpose.

Children are in danger around the world — in Ukraine, Palestine, Sudan, and elsewhere. On International Children’s day, the Ukraine Solidarity Network calls for their protection.

Dan La Botz critically examines the authoritarian and militarist legacy of López Obrador, and prospects for Claudia Sheinbaum’s presidency.

Gender issues are crucial in Iran’s presidential election, scheduled for June 28.

The verticality of the 1959 revolutionary process took us by its own logic and dynamism to the extreme authoritarianism and total absence of democracy in today’s Cuba.

Andrew talks through the organizing reality of confronting housing as both a commodity and a human necessity.

If Xi’s Chinese-style modernization has shattered the myth that modern-is-Western, then why is his economy still so dependent on Western science and technology?

How the right as defeated in Poland

An alternative policy for Haiti in crisis

Frances Fox Piven reviews and praises Stephen Steinberg’s book Counterrevolution, on the rise of the racist right in the US, attacking the gains made by the Civil Rights Movement.

Guy Miller reviews Gordon K. Mantler’s “The Multiracial Promise,” an account and analysis of Harold Washington’s mayoralty in Chicago in the 1980s.

The NPA calls on people to mobilize alongside angry young people, to gather in front of town halls, every evening if necessary, to express our rage and our demands.

Akuno’s advice on how to build social movements consistent with our ecosocialist values

What are the likely consequences of Cuba’s exiting from its current economic crisis?

What can we learn from the experience of other countries that can help us think about possible futures for Cuba?

Tess Sheldon reviews a memoir of disability activism

Recent developments in the political economy of Cuba