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Why we’re blind to the system destroying us

I rarely use this blog to tell readers what they should believe. Rather I try to indicate why it might be wise to distrust, at least without very good evidence, […]

Stedile: Brazilian election is about class struggle

Electing a president and state and federal representatives who have a commitment to workers is how the people will be able to overturn the impacts of measures that affected basic rights […]

Ten years on, the crisis of global capitalism never really ended

With inequality on the rise, global debt higher than ever and international tensions intensifying, the political backlash to the crash of 2008 has only just begun.   This weekend marks […]

Indonesia ‘Proudly’ Joins US-led Exercises to Antagonize China

Indonesia (RI), the 4th most populous nation on Earth and the country with the largest Muslim population is, and since the 1965 US-orchestrated anti-Communist coup has been, the most radically […]

Ecuador’s Great Betrayal

Ecuador’s president Lenin Moreno was elected to continue Correa’s Citizens’ Revolution — but has set about dismantling it instead.   In a little over a year, the political landscape in […]

Corbyn’s leadership in danger

The defeat for the Palestinian cause at the hands of the Labour Party’s NEC should not be underestimated.   Who thought they would see the day when a left-led Labour […]

Production and Conflict in El Maizal Commune

In this article we examine the productive activities of El Maizal Commune, based on our visit in May. We also look at the relation between the commune and state companies, […]

Bizarre Israeli Analyses of Syrian Curriculum Circulate in the Middle East

My friend, a senior UN official based in Amman, Jordan, recently received a newsletter from an Israeli institution – “IMPACT-se”. Their report was called, ‘modestly’, “Reformulating School Textbooks During the […]

Dinner with Marx in the House of the Swan

When Jacques Pauwels enters a bistro in Brussels’ Grand-Place, he finds himself under the watchful eye of an illustrious former patron – Karl Marx. As he dines, a great number […]

Freedom Rider: Prison Strike 2018

Inmates in states across the nation are on strike against the world’s largest and most racist prison system. Hopefully, they won’t be betrayed by quisling civil rights misleaders, as in […]

Cuba’s ‘Sonic Attacks’ vs Edinburgh University: The 40% Mystery

On August 15, 2018, the U.S. State Department announced yet another measure toward reducing its Havana embassy staff and its effectiveness by limiting the diplomats’ stays to one year. This […]

No More Media and Judicial Persecution of our Leaders and Grassroots Projects

 They can cut a thousand flowers, but they can’t stop the spring….   The Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity calls attention to the strategic […]

Emory Douglas’s Language of Revolution

Douglas’s historical and new works, shown alongside pieces by younger artists, draw a line of influence between the two generations and establish a community of shared concerns.   At a […]

V Ernesto Che Guevara Medical-Cultural Brigade: In Santos Lugares… looking for Haiti

The fifth Ernesto Che Guevara Medical-Cultural Brigade took place on August 18 and 19, in the village of Santos Lugares, in the province of Santiago del Estero, Argentina. Having been […]

A Specter of Peace Is Haunting Nicaragua

The US has imposed sanctions against top Nicaraguan officials

Terrorism

Understanding the Muslim World