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‘They shot them down like animals’: massacre in Peru’s Ayacucho

January 5, 2023 Zoe Alexandra

On December 15, 2022, while helicopters flew overhead, members of Peru’s national army shot down civilians with live bullets in the outskirts of the city of Ayacucho. This action was in response to a national strike and […]

Japan rearms at U.S. urging: Targets China, North Korea, Russia

January 3, 2023 Gary Wilson

The radical new defense strategy announced on Dec. 16 by Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida doubles military spending — a five-year, $320-billion military buildup to secure offensive strike capacity, which is forbidden in Japan’s 1947 […]

Peru’s dictatorship shows true colors: Alderpeople dismissed, national strike called for January 4

January 3, 2023 Orinoco Tribune

Caracas, December 28, 2022 (OrinocoTribune.com) — On Monday, December 26, the de facto government of Peru, led by Dina Boluarte, annulled the appointment of 312 district sub-alderpeople across 23 regions of the country, in a […]

Peru: The coup plot

January 3, 2023 Carlos Fazio

Since last December 7, a military-parliamentary dictatorship has been consolidating in Peru, using as its “institutional” façade the former Vice-President Dina Boluarte, who betrayed the ousted President Pedro Castillo and became a hostage of the […]

Declassified intelligence files expose inconvenient truths of Bosnian war

January 3, 2023 Kit Klarenberg and Tom Secker

Declassified intelligence files expose inconvenient truths of Bosnian war A trove of intelligence files sent by Canadian peacekeepers expose CIA black ops, illegal weapon shipments, imported jihadist fighters, potential false flags, and stage-managed atrocities. The established mythos […]

USSR at 100: Lessons of the Soviet of Nationalities

December 30, 2022 Sam Marcy

Dec. 30 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922, the first attempt in history to build a multinational socialist society. Although the USSR was destroyed by […]

Anti-war activist faces repression in Germany

December 29, 2022 Phil Wilayto

June 22, 2022, was the 81st anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, and a prominent German antiwar activist took the occasion to publicly question why the German government is now supporting neo-Nazi […]

Overthrow of President Castillo exposes the race and class divide in Peru

December 27, 2022 Francesca Emanuele

Unfulfilled campaign promises, accusations of corruption, and even an attempted self-coup cannot turn the many supporters of Peruvian President Pedro Castillo against him. The president has probably ceased to represent hopes for change, but he […]

U.S. judge rules Alex Saab not entitled to diplomatic immunity

December 27, 2022 Resumen

Robert Scola, a federal judge in Miami, ruled that the Colombian-Venezuelan businessman Álex Saab, described in most corporate media as a frontman for the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, is not entitled to diplomatic immunity, so […]

Socialist Unity Party salutes revolutionary legacy of Jose Maria Sison

December 22, 2022 Socialist Unity Party

The Socialist Unity Party and Struggle-La Lucha newspaper join revolutionaries and partisans of labor in the Philippines and around the world in mourning the passing of Comrade Prof. Jose Maria Sison. We send our deepest […]