Around the world – Page 53 – Struggle

Afghanistan tackles the Islamic State

October 13, 2021 Vijay Prashad

On October 8, a terrible blast struck the worshippers attending Friday noon prayers at the Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Mosque in the Khan Abad district of Bandar, the capital of Kunduz, one of Afghanistan’s largest cities in its northern […]

Haitian activists: ‘Joe Biden, shame on you!’

October 11, 2021 Stephen Millies

Oct. 8 ― Haitian activists and their supporters demonstrated today in New York City against the deportations of Haitian people. One sign said, “U.S. border patrols = slave catchers.” This referred to the immigration cops […]

U.S. defeat in Afghanistan provokes war in Washington

October 10, 2021 Bill Dores

Twenty years have passed since the George W. Bush regime launched its so-called “war on terror.” U.S. troops have left Afghanistan in defeat. The Taliban are back in Kabul. The knives are out in Washington. […]

AFRICOM: An extension of U.S.-European colonialism and genocide

October 8, 2021 Gloria Verdieu and John Parker

In 2007, the George W. Bush administration inaugurated the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) to further the influence of the U.S. and extend its military reach directly into Africa. AFRICOM, however, wasn’t officially established in […]

Russian communists face repression after Duma elections

October 8, 2021 Greg Butterfield

Oct. 6 — Since late September, a wave of arrests and detentions has hit communists, socialists and other progressive forces across Russia. The repression has primarily targeted the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), […]

Moldovan political prisoners exonerated after six-year battle

October 7, 2021 Greg Butterfield

An important people’s victory has been won in the small but strategic eastern European country of Moldova. After six long years, a group of socialist and anti-fascist activists known as the Petrenko Group have […]

Haiti and the visible pain of racism

October 2, 2021 Alejandra Garcia

I have fresh in my mind those images of those guards on horseback chasing Haitians with whips at the southern border of the United States just like in the days of slavery. The pictures taken on […]

Afghanistan’s impoverished people live amid enormous riches

September 30, 2021 Vijay Prashad

On September 25, 2021, Afghanistan’s Economy Minister Qari Din Mohammad Hanif said that his government does not want “help and cooperation from the world like the previous government. The old system was supported by the […]

The U.S. ‘cold war’ drive and the Australia nuclear deal

September 26, 2021 Scott Scheffer

On Sep. 15, Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison, U.S. President Joe Biden, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain announced their new trilateral security agreement, AUKUS, and its first initiative — the delivery of a […]

Clear away the hype: The U.S. and Australia signed a nuclear arms deal, simple as that

September 23, 2021 Vijay Prashad

On September 15, 2021, the heads of government of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States announced the formation of AUKUS, “a new enhanced trilateral security partnership” between these three countries. Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison […]