Around the world – Page 49 – Struggle

Predictions on Chile’s constitutional referendum; propaganda or reality?

September 3, 2022 Gustavo A. Maranges

Sept. 1 was the last day to campaign for the Constitutional referendum to be held on Sept. 4 in Chile. In this vote, Chileans will decide whether to approve the country’s new Constitution, closing over […]

Mikhail Gorbachev died

August 31, 2022 Gary Wilson

Mikhail Gorbachev died on August 30. His legacy? Under Gorbachev, the Soviet economy fell into recession as the government began to dismantle the planned economy. Under Gorbachev, socialist industry was dismantled. Russia’s GDP dropped by 40%. […]

Sri Lanka: The struggle continues

August 31, 2022 Rasika Ruwanpathirana

Recent news of people overrunning the presidential palace in Sri Lanka, followed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fleeing the country, took Western media by storm. What is not reported is the ongoing police repression by the […]

A year later, Washington continues torture of Afghanistan

August 29, 2022 Scott Scheffer

The U.S. occupation of Afghanistan ended a year ago. For a year leading up to the U.S. troop pullout, Afghanistan’s national army had been surrendering its weapons to the Taliban. The process was transactional – […]

How can we respond to U.S. crisis and threat of world war?

August 22, 2022 Sharon Black

Based on opening remarks given at the Socialist Unity Party national plenum on Aug. 13. A discussion on the continuing danger of imperialist war must lead our political discussion. Nancy Pelosi’s reckless and provocative actions […]

The impact of RIMPAC on Okinawa and Japan

August 2, 2022 Kozue Akibayashi and Suzuyo Takazato

In its Article 9, the Japanese constitution promulgated in 1946 under the U.S. post-war occupation renounces war as a means of resolving international disputes and proscribes maintaining land, sea and air forces. This article is […]

Biden and the U.S.-Israel-GCC axis: It’s not the oil, it’s the money

August 1, 2022 Bill Dores

Joe Biden didn’t go to Arabia in July to beg for oil. That’s not the nature of the U.S.-Saudi relationship. He didn’t go to Palestine to promote peace. The U.S.-Israeli relationship is based on endless […]

Crisis in Sri Lanka: Is U.S. imperialism involved?

July 31, 2022 Sharon Black

The scenes of massive people’s protests that have forced Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee to Singapore have filled the news media. On July 20, Ranil Wickremesinghe, the former prime minister, was appointed interim […]

Chile’s lithium provides profit to the billionaires but exhausts the land and the people

July 30, 2022 Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zúñiga Silva

The Atacama salt flat in northern Chile, which stretches 1,200 square miles, is the largest source of lithium in the world. We are standing on a bluff, looking over la gran fosa, the great pit that […]

Panama: The structural causes of the social explosion

July 29, 2022 Olmedo Beluche

In the last 20 years, Panama has shown macroeconomic figures that the neoliberals love, in particular a sustained growth of the GDP based on private accumulation as a result of the reversion of the canal […]