Month: July 2022

Around the world

Crisis in Sri Lanka: Is U.S. imperialism involved?

July 31, 2022 Sharon Black
The scenes of massive people’s protests that have forced Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee to Singapore have filled the news media. On July 20, Ranil Wickremesinghe, the former prime minister, was appointed interim […]
Cuba

The Cuban people will not be defeated

July 31, 2022 Peoples Dispatch
A gathering was held at the People’s Forum in New York City on July 26, the anniversary of the attack on the Moncada Barracks in Cuba in 1953, also known as National Rebellion Day. This […]
La Lucha por el Socialismo

Bad Bunny

July 31, 2022 Berta Joubert-Ceci
Esta semana tuvo lugar la serie de tres conciertos de Bad Bunny en Puerto Rico. El primer día que se presentó en el Coliseo Agrelot, lo llenó a capacidad y se transmitió simultáneamente en 13 […]
Around the world

Chile’s lithium provides profit to the billionaires but exhausts the land and the people

July 30, 2022 Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zúñiga Silva
The Atacama salt flat in northern Chile, which stretches 1,200 square miles, is the largest source of lithium in the world. We are standing on a bluff, looking over la gran fosa, the great pit that […]
Political Prisoners

Guilty until proven innocent

July 29, 2022 Stephen Millies
The so-called U.S. criminal justice system is just plain criminal. Two of its biggest atrocities are cash bail and solitary confinement. Black Lives Matter activist Sandra Bland was held in a Waller County, Texas, jail […]
Around the world

Panama: The structural causes of the social explosion

July 29, 2022 Olmedo Beluche
In the last 20 years, Panama has shown macroeconomic figures that the neoliberals love, in particular a sustained growth of the GDP based on private accumulation as a result of the reversion of the canal […]
La Lucha por el Socialismo

Panamá: Las causas estructurales del estallido social

July 29, 2022 Olmedo Beluche
Panamá ha exhibido en los últimos 20 años cifras macroeconómicas que son un encanto para los neoliberales, en particular un crecimiento sostenido del PIB basado en la acumulación privada producto de la reversión del canal […]
Cuba

The legacy of Pastors for Peace support for Cuba continues

July 26, 2022 Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell
For the 32nd time in 30 years a Pastors for Peace caravan is in Cuba bringing close to 100 people including many young people who are experiencing the reality of Cuba for the first time; seeing […]
In the U.S.

Don’t trust the Secret Service

July 26, 2022 Stephen Millies
Despite the bloodshed in the U.S. capitol, Trump’s attempted coup on Jan. 6, 2021, is often portrayed as a clown show. The capitalist media showed countless pictures of the bare-chested Jacob Chansley wearing a fur […]
Around the world

Philippines: Never again to martial law!

July 26, 2022 Stephen Millies
New York ― A terrible heat wave didn’t stop a hundred people from demonstrating in front of the Philippines mission to the U.N. on July 24. Filipinos, Filipino-Americans and their supporters were protesting the newly […]