Protests that are part of an Indigenous-led national shutdown in Guatemala
A War Preparation Habit
By: Steve EarlyOctober 20, 2023
A review of Breaking the War Habit: The Debate Over Militarism in American Education, by Seth Kershner, Scott Harding, and Charles Howlett.
Socialists should see the Palestinian struggle as inextricably tied to the revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) against all the region’s states, most importantly Israel.
Statement by the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
Black Candidates for President
Black Presidential Candidates
By: Dan La BotzSeptember 14, 2023
The first Black candidate for president was Clifton DeBerry, the nominee of the Socialist Workers Party in 1964, running against right-wing Republican Barry Goldwater and liberal Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson. Harassed by the FBI, DeBerry would have a tough row to hoe.
While the coup plotters in no way represent an alternative for Niger, the economic sanctions and threats of military intervention by ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States), backed by Macron, are a real danger for the population.
The story of the construction of the Poletown plant is illustrative of the collaboration between big business and government, the failures of business unionism, and the shortcomings of liberals and the Communist Party
By: CETRISeptember 5, 2023
Academics, teachers and university workers express deep concern at the Ortega-Murillo regime’s offensive against Nicaraguan universities.
Black Candidates for President
By: Dan La BotzAugust 30, 2023
Davis’ loyalty to the CP led her in 1980 and 1984 to accept the party’s assignment that she be the running mate of diehard Stalinist party leader Gus Hall.
The left-wing Russian theorist, who has gone from pro-war hawk to anti-war political prisoner, deserves solidarity
By: Andriy MovchanAugust 5, 2023
An assessment of Kargalitsky’s political evolution
We express our solidarity with Boris Kagarlitsky and demand his immediate release, as well as that of all those detained on political grounds.
Black Candidates for President – Part 3
By: Dan La BotzJuly 14, 2023
Here we turn to look at the experience of four Black presidential candidates in 1968.
Blanco, the Peruvian revolutionary is dead. I met him once back in 1996. It was an experience of magical realism.
Elections are superimposed on social struggles through a process that obscures and disorganizes them, and that recodifies grassroots demands, altering and distorting their language and content.
US Subsecretary of State Wendy Sherman’s April visit to Santo Domingo served to ratify the strategic character of the Dominican regime’s subordination to the US and to iron out the differences that arose during the year
The Maidan in Ukraine through the eyes of participants.
Ukraine has long been a victim of Russian imperialism, pre-capitalist, capitalist, Soviet, and then state-capitalist.
In order to understand Putin’s war against Ukraine and its people, one must take a close look at the place that Ukraine, its state, language, and culture occupy in the imperial and national imagination of Russians.
In addition, Lula will be, like Dilma Rousseff, under the permanent threat of a “parliamentary coup.”
There is no question that “cancel culture” is a legitimate tool of a vibrant democratic culture, especially as it allows the powerless to redress the abuses and the offensive behavior directed at them by powerful public figures.
Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement
A review of Power despite Precarity by Joe Berry and Helena Worthen
By: Joseph G. RamseySeptember 3, 2022
A review of Power Despite Precarity: Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education by Joe Berry and Helena Worthen. Pluto Press, 2021