Year: 2023

Around the world

Capitalist climate crisis: Fossil fuel industries seizes helm of COP28

December 2, 2023 Scott Scheffer
 Delegates from around the world are gathered in Dubai preparing for the opening of the 28th annual Conference Of the Parties (COP28), to be held from Nov. 30 to Dec. 12. The leadership is […]
Indigenous peoples

‘Palestine must be free’: Mahtowin Munro on settler colonialism

December 2, 2023 Mahtowin Munro
Talk by Mahtowin Munro, co-leader of United American Indians of New England (UAINE), at the National Day of Mourning in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Nov. 21. In addition to warm greetings to our Indigenous relatives from […]
Palestine

‘This is our struggle’: Palestinian activist at National Day of Mourning

December 2, 2023 Salma Abu Ayyash
Talk by Palestinian activist Salma Abu Ayyash at the National Day of Mourning in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Nov. 21. I call on my ancestors to envelope us here today with their protection and guidance. I […]
Labor and strikes

United Auto Workers call for ceasefire in Gaza

December 2, 2023 Peoples Dispatch
The United Auto Workers, one of the largest unions in North America, added its voice to the global call for a ceasefire in Gaza. The announcement was made hours after Israel resumed its attacks on […]
Palestine

John Parker, other Gaza solidarity activists detained in Cairo, Egypt

November 30, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
Nov. 30 — John Parker, a candidate for California’s 37th congressional district, is being detained by the Egyptian National Security Agency, along with other participants in the Global Conscience Convoy in Cairo, initiated by the […]
Palestine

Global Conscience Convoy confronts heartless U.S. Embassy officials in Cairo

November 30, 2023 John Parker
Cairo, Nov. 29 — On Monday, U.S. participants who are part of the Global Conscience Convoy went to a scheduled meeting with the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, to encourage the embassy to do its […]
La Lucha por el Socialismo

Saludo a los periodistas de Al Mayadeen

November 30, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
Todas y todos los integrantes del periódico La Lucha por el Socialismo-Struggle for Socialism basado en los Estados Unidos, nos unimos hoy al mundo que conmemora la vida de los mártires Farah Omar, Rabih Al-Maamari […]
Cuba

Why Cuba leads the world in confronting climate crisis

November 30, 2023 Scott Scheffer
COP28, the next annual international conference where countries plan and set goals to limit the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), will take place in Dubai from Nov. 30 through Dec. 12. Increasingly, the conferences have […]
In the U.S.

War criminal Kissinger didn’t deserve to be 100 years old

November 30, 2023 Stephen Millies
It’s fitting that Henry Kissinger finally croaked on Nov. 29, the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Every child murdered in Gaza by U.S.-made bombs dropped by U.S.-made planes was worth infinitely more […]
China

Trilateral missile defense system a step toward Asian NATO

November 30, 2023 Jeffrey Wagner and Dae-Han Song
The United States, Japan, and South Korea will fully operationalize a missile warning system “by the end of December.” While justified as a means to counter North Korea’s missile launches, more worrisome, it escalates tensions […]