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Colombia: Towards a progressive government?

May 28, 2022 Angel Guerra
The probable victory of the progressive candidate Gustavo Petro in the Colombian presidential elections, taking place this Sunday, arouses great hopes there, in our region and in other corners of the planet. Polls show him […]
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How socialist countries fight disease

May 28, 2022 Stephen Millies
Around 7.5 million people live in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic as compared to 8.8 million people residing in New York City. While 756 people in Laos have died from COVID-19, 40,365 New Yorkers died […]
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On African Liberation Day Biden’s troop deployment to Somalia confirms Africa is not free

May 28, 2022 Black Alliance for Peace
For Immediate Release Media Contact: press@blackallianceforpeace.com (202) 643-1136 May 25, 2022 – The Biden Administration’s recent decision to return U.S. troops to Somalia represents another effort on the part of the U.S. to deny agency and […]
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Biden escalates ‘forever war’ in Somalia

May 21, 2022 Uriel Araujo
Biden has authorized the redeployment of hundreds of troops in Somalia, thus reversing Trump’s December 2020 decision. The U.S. plans to establish a “persistent military presence” there. This new development is not very surprising, and […]
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Is this the end of the French project in Africa’s Sahel?

May 20, 2022 Vijay Prashad
On May 15, 2022, the military junta in Mali announced that it would no longer be part of the G5 Sahel platform. The G5 Sahel was created in Nouakchott, Mauritania, in 2014, and brought together the governments […]
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Why ‘Bolivia is the center of the world’ for people’s movements

May 14, 2022 Rogelio Mayta
Humanity finds itself at a crucial moment. It’s not only war and climate change that threaten life on our planet. Ideologies and some people do too. We know that money and the production of wealth […]
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Mali’s military ejects France but faces serious challenges

May 13, 2022 Vijay Prashad
On May 2, 2022, a statement was made by Mali’s military spokesperson Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga on the country’s national television, where he said that Mali was ending the defense accords it had with France, effectively making the […]
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Why Latin America needs a new world order

May 10, 2022 Marco Fernandes
The world wants to see an end to the conflict in Ukraine. The NATO countries, however, want to prolong the conflict by increasing arms shipments to Ukraine and by declaring that they want to “weaken […]
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Elon Musk, super pig

May 6, 2022 Stephen Millies
The U.S. Supreme Court wants to abolish reproductive rights and return to the days of coat hangers. Elon Musk―the world’s richest man―wants to turn back the clock for all poor and working people. The 12,000 […]
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Victory to the South Korean workers’ struggle!

May 6, 2022 John Parker
Statement from the John Parker for U.S. Senate Campaign The history of labor in the U.S. is similar to the history of labor in South Korea in terms of how the capitalist ruling class always […]