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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 […]

Stop the racist deportations: Haitian refugee crisis made in the USA

September 22, 2021 Haiti Action Committee

The Haiti Action Committee denounces the inhumane and racist deportation of Haitian refugees from the US-Mexico border, where thousands of people are living in terrible, even deadly, conditions, and are being systematically deported by the […]

New York rally stands with Zimbabwe against imperialist sanctions

September 22, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha

Demonstrators gathered across from the United Nations on Saturday, Sept. 18, to welcome Zimbabwe’s delegates to the United Nations and demand an end to U.S. sanctions on that African country. The U.S., Britain and other […]

Peruvian communist leader dies after three decades in prison

September 17, 2021 Greg Butterfield

Peruvian authorities reported Sept. 11 the death of Dr. Abimael Guzmán Reynoso, better known by his nom de guerre Presidente Gonzalo. The leader of the Communist Party of Peru-Sendero Luminoso (PCP-SL) had been imprisoned in […]

No end in sight to U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan

September 9, 2021 Scott Scheffer

On Aug. 26, a suicide bomb was detonated at the airport in Kabul amid the chaos of the U.S. troop withdrawal. Two hundred people were killed, including 13 U.S. soldiers. Reporters paid tribute to the […]

Rwanda’s military is the French proxy on African soil

September 9, 2021 Vijay Prashad

On July 9, 2021, the government of Rwanda said that it had deployed 1,000 troops to Mozambique to battle al-Shabaab fighters, who had seized the northern province of Cabo Delgado. A month later, on August […]