Month: October 2022

In the U.S.

Elon Musk is not a renegade outsider – he’s a massive Pentagon contractor

October 29, 2022 Alan MacLeod
First published May 31, 2022 AUSTIN, TEXAS – Elon Musk’s proposed takeover of Twitter has ruffled many feathers among professional commentators. “Musk is the wrong leader for Twitter’s vital mission,” read one Bloomberg headline. The network also insisted, “Nothing in […]
U.S. / NATO war

Alexis Castillo (Alfonso), internationalist fighter in Donbass

October 29, 2022 Communist Party of the Donetsk People’s Republic
An internationalist warrior from Colombia, a member of the Communist Party of the Donetsk People’s Republic (KPDPR), a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth of the DPR, Alexis Castillo (callsign Alfonso), died […]
Around the world

U.S. tries to bend UN Charter to bless illegal, unwanted invasion

October 28, 2022 Kim Ives
The gloves came off at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Mon., Oct. 17, 202,2 in one of the best bare-knuckle diplomatic throw-downs since the dawn of the new multipolar world on Feb. 24, 2022. […]
U.S. / NATO war

NATO was rehearsing for an amphibious assault on Eastern Ukraine

October 28, 2022 Arnaud Develay
From November 18 to December 3, 2021, a NATO maritime exercise was organized by the French Navy (Marine National) off the Mediterranean coast and along France’s Atlantic seafront. Code-named POLARIS 21, the large-scale simulation aimed […]
China

Why Biden is unleashing a full scale chip war against China

October 28, 2022 Friends of Socialist China
The following article, by Marc Vandepitte and Jan Jonckheere, was originally published in Dutch on De Wereld Morgen. It explains the crucial significance of semiconductor chips to advances in modern technology, and goes on to describe […]
Around the world

Charting the rise of anti-French sentiment across Northern Africa

October 28, 2022 Vijay Prashad
In November 2021, a French military convoy was making its way to Mali while passing through Burkina Faso and Niger. It did not get very far. It was stopped in Téra, Niger, and before that at […]
La Lucha por el Socialismo

Trazado del aumento del sentimiento antifrancés en el norte de África

October 28, 2022 Vijay Prashad
En noviembre de 2021, un convoy militar francés se dirigía a Mali pasando por Burkina Faso y Níger. No llegó muy lejos. Fue detenido en Téra, Níger, y antes de eso, en varios puntos de […]
Palestine

Palestinians in West Bank declare general strike after six killed by Israel

October 27, 2022 Palestine Chronicle
A general strike was called for by Palestinian political movements across the occupied West Bank, The New Arab reported. Businesses and institutions were closed in response to the call to strike in all major West […]
Political Prisoners

Alabama prison strike on hold after 3 weeks

October 24, 2022 Ryan Fatica
Alabama – Prisoners in Alabama announced on Oct. 14 that they had paused their historic three-week work stoppage. The strike, which started Sept. 26, involved thousands of prisoners throughout the state, causing the breakdown of normal […]
China

China and Cuba: A relationship of solidarity, friendship and cooperation

October 24, 2022 Friends of Socialist China
We are very pleased to publish below an interview with Carlos Miguel Pereira Hernández, Cuba’s ambassador to China, conducted by People’s Daily and published in Chinese on 13 October. The unabridged English translation has been provided to […]