Month: April 2024

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Around the world

Haiti: Revolution’s human costs and unintended consequences

April 12, 2024 Kim Ives
“Anyone waiting for a ‘pure’ social revolution will never live long enough to see it. He is only a revolutionary in words, who understands nothing of what a real revolution is.” – Lenin in “Review […]
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Palestine

What would Che Guevara do?

April 12, 2024 Qamar Taleb
As there is a growing trend among the Left to sway away from openly supporting Resistance groups, leftists need to pause and ask themselves what the figures they cherish would do. To say that the […]
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Palestine

Baltimore protesters denounce Biden’s visit amid Gaza genocide

April 11, 2024 Lev Koufax
A group of Baltimore activists organized by the Peoples Power Assembly gathered along Broening Highway on April 7 to protest the arrival of President “Genocide Joe” Biden. The President visited the city to tour the […]
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China

Green Berets ‘permanently’ stationed in Taiwan near China’s mainland coast

April 11, 2024 Chris Fry
On May 6, 2016, the New York Times published an obituary for Donald W. Duncan, a former Green Beret master sergeant and later an outspoken critic of the U.S. war against Vietnam. Duncan wrote articles and […]
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China

China’s unfair ‘overcapacity’

April 11, 2024 Michael Roberts
The recent nonsense issued by U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on China’s ‘overcapacity’ and ‘unfair subsidies’ to its industries is particularly pathetic.  As Renaud Bertrand put it: “The so-called threat of China’s ‘industrial overcapacity’ is […]
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In the U.S.

Fred Goldstein’s analysis of capitalism, imperialism, and China resonates today

April 11, 2024 Gary Wilson
 Fred Goldstein, a prominent Marxist thinker, revolutionary socialist, and author who contributed significantly to the international communist movement, died a year ago on April 11, 2023. His enduring legacy lies in his significant contributions […]
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Palestine

Global actions against U.S.-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza

April 10, 2024 Scott Scheffer
 The never-ending U.S. sponsorship of the Zionist entity makes it easy for many to believe that “Israel” is the superior in the relationship. Biden’s behavior during the horrible genocide in Gaza is designed to […]
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Palestine

PFLP mourns imprisoned Palestinian leader Walid Daqqah

April 10, 2024 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
April 7 — With the greatest sadness, grief, and revolutionary anger, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) mourns, in the name of its Secretary-General and his deputy, the Political Bureau, the Central […]
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Environment

Earth Day: Time to act against capitalism destroying our planet

April 9, 2024 Struggle - La Lucha
April 22 marks Earth Day, highlighting decades of environmental activism. Since 1970, this date has symbolized the ongoing battle waged by environmental advocates, notably from Indigenous communities, against the relentless pollution of our planet’s air […]
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Around the world

Latin America condemns assault on Mexican Embassy in Ecuador

April 9, 2024 Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell
On April 5, the world witnessed a historic event in Latin America. Ecuadorian police officers stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito in search of Jorge Glas, former vice president of Ecuador, during the administration of […]