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Eighty-one years ago this week, on August 6 and August 9, United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, the first on Hiroshima and the second on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 200,000 human beings and poisoning and sickening many others.
The people of Pakistan-administered Jammu Kashmir are facing one of the bloodiest episodes of state repression in recent history.
I have written this essay because I have been irked by the media’s discussion of whether or not our country has fulfilled the ideals of its founding fathers. So, I wished to clarify just what their ideals were.
Below are excerpts from Frieda Afary’s presentation to a webinar entitled “How to Be Anti-War in a Multipolar World” sponsored by the Northeast Los Angeles Alliance for
Protests in support of a hunger and labor strike by immigrant inmates at Delaney Hall, a detention center in Newark, New Jersey have been militant. There have been conflicts between protestors and various police agencies. Dozens have been arrested. Activists
Below is the revised text of a presentation by Frieda Afary to the South African organization, Zabalaza for Socialism on March 15, 2026. You can also listen to the article by clicking on this audio file
On the morning of March 2, 2026, as Yanar Mohammed was leaving her home in Baghdad’s Al-Bunouk district, she was targeted in an armed attack. Two assailants on a motorcycle fired several shots at close range. Although she was immediately transferred
In this conversation with Alternative Viewpoint, Pakistani left activist, academic and journalist Farooq Sulehria examines the
President Donald Trump promised to be the “president of peace” and to avoid foreign wars of regime change such as America’s “endless wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan.
As Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine enters its fifth year on February 24, the UKRAINE SOLIDARITY NETWORK (US) calls on progressive and peace-minded people to renew their moral, political, and material support for the people of Ukraine in their resistance
It is time for Iranian and Ukrainian progressives to come together in solidarity and find ways to help each other on the basis of allegiance to human rights and democratic
Almost all Shi’a mosques host Basij centers. Basij is the popular arm of the IRGC, directly controlled by “the Supreme Leader.” These Basij centers are the primary reason Iranian protesters have been targeting mosques …Iranian protesters do not need Israeli instigation
The events in Minneapolis confirm that we now live in the grip, the death grip, of an authoritarian government, but also that there is a powerful, popular resistance. We are in a struggle for justice, for democracy, and for our lives. And that struggle goes on, most intensely in Minneapolis, but also everywhere else in the country. And the end is not in sight.
Regarding the current catastrophic repression of the mass uprising in Iran, an urgent task is to stand collectively against further mass killings by the Islamic Republic, whether on the streets or in prisons. This must be aligned with a collective
Millions of Americans are deeply saddened and increasingly angry about the murder of a mother of three by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and thousands are protesting in hundreds of cities and towns around the country.
The unrest is growing and now includes a Kurdish general strike and participation by the Baluch and Azeri ethnic
We are in the 102nd week of the ‘No to Execution Tuesdays’ campaign, while the execution government of Iran, over the past year (2025), has hanged more than 2,200 of our fellow citizens on the
In the final agreement of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30 / in Blem, Brazil), no mention was made of fossil fuels as the main cause of the climate
The Cuban government is preventing Alexander Hall, young Afro-Cuban scholar and social movement specialist from leaving the country to continue his education in Ecuador. Sign this petition to demand that he be allowed to
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