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December 17 marks the anniversary of a year of uprisings, strikes, government resignations and regime change on the African continent. A resource-rich and strategically located geopolitical region, Africa has experienced numerous mass demonstrations, general strikes, rebellions and full-scale military assaults as part of a heightening global class struggle for control of the continent’s economic and political future....
Posted Dec 18, 2011
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Leaders of working-class movements in Latin America and the United States met here Dec. 2-4 on the theme of “Working Class Unity and Continental Integration.” Delegates came from Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, Puerto Rico and the U.S.
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Posted Dec 18, 2011
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The primary development at the Brussels summit meeting of European leaders was that the German capitalist government, headed by Angela Merkel, punched more holes in the sinking ship of European capitalism while attempting to throw away the life preserver.
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Posted Dec 18, 2011
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As of Dec. 12, the U.S. and/or NATO forces have not bombed or invaded Syria, as they have done to Afghanistan, Iraq and most recently Libya....
Posted Dec 18, 2011
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U.S. imperialism has been dealt a serious blow by the downing of a supersecret spy drone in Iran.
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Posted Dec 18, 2011
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A very important conference on climate change took place in Durban, South Africa, during early December. ...
Posted Dec 15, 2011
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As militant protests and occupation movements have continued to grow across Europe, the Middle East and North America, a wave of student protests, backed by organized labor and community groups, has been sweeping across Latin America.
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Posted Dec 12, 2011
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The eighth U.S./Cuba/Mexico/Latin America Labor Conference concluded Dec. 4 in Tijuana, Mexico. ...
Posted Dec 12, 2011
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Washington and its NATO allies have intensified their military operations on the African continent. ...
Posted Dec 12, 2011
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A general strike in Greece brought hundreds of thousands of workers into the streets and shut the country down for the seventh time this year....
Posted Dec 12, 2011
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Egypt’s first significant election in 50 years showed a sweep for the Islamists. Why is this?...
Posted Dec 10, 2011
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More than 2 million workers walked out for 24 hours on Nov. 30 in England, Scotland and Wales in an action the union leadership called the largest in at least 30 years....
Posted Dec 7, 2011
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The U.S.-NATO forces, using the United Nations and the Arab League as a cover, are positioning themselves for a military intervention in Syria. At the same time, they have upped their economic war on the government led by Bashir al-Assad.
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Posted Dec 7, 2011
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Andy Stern, former head of the giant Service Employees union in the United States, recently visited China as part of a delegation organized by the China-United States Exchange Foundation and the Center for American Progress. Stern, knowing very well that U.S. workers are in the midst of a long-term crisis of unemployment that shows no letup, was highly impressed with the goals of China’s 12th five-year plan, which were explained to the visiting group by high-ranking Chinese officials.
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Posted Dec 6, 2011
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Dec. 17 marks the anniversary of a year of uprisings, strikes, government resignations and regime change on the African continent....
Posted Dec 1, 2011
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More than 3 million workers in Portugal walked off the job on Nov. 24 to protest austerity measures and the takeover of their country’s economy by the “Troika” — the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
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Posted Dec 1, 2011
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The 7th International Colloquium for the freedom of the Cuban Five concluded Nov. 19....
Posted Dec 1, 2011
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Record numbers of Egyptian voters of all ages and classes, women and men, cast ballots for a new parliament Nov. 28 and 29. Some waited in line for hours to vote in the first election of its kind in 50 years.
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Posted Nov 30, 2011
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Egyptians living in the New York City area and their supporters held demonstrations on Nov. 25 and 26....
Posted Nov 30, 2011
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Eyewitness Tahrir...
Posted Nov 30, 2011
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In a coordinated military and diplomatic offensive, the U.S. government moved this week to challenge China and bolster its hegemony over Asia and the western Pacific....
Posted Nov 27, 2011
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The Western-orchestrated military effort to defeat the Islamic resistance group Al-Shabaab in Somalia is bogged down, despite the deployment of the most modern weapons against this people’s movement.
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Posted Nov 27, 2011
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A social movement strong enough to force change....
Posted Nov 27, 2011
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The International Atomic Energy Agency made public the names of Iranian nuclear scientists in a new report released this week. Publishing their names makes these scientists targets for assassination.
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Posted Nov 23, 2011
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The masses have opened a new chapter in the Egyptian revolution. They have stood strong in Tahrir Square for nearly four days against bullets and gas demanding that the military regime, which succeeded President Hosni Mubarak last Feb. 12, step down.
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Posted Nov 22, 2011
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United States and French military involvement in Africa is taking a deadly toll in the country of Somalia. Despite Washington’s denials, the people of this nation are suffering under the impact of yet another imperialist-driven war.
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Posted Nov 20, 2011
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The U.S./NATO war against the North African oil-producing state of Libya has destroyed the continent’s most prosperous country. The extensive dismantling of the infrastructure and theft of the people’s wealth are becoming clearer as Libyans seek redress for imperialism’s crimes.
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Posted Nov 19, 2011
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Under the cover of a bogus report by a United Nations agency, the U.S. and its allies are laying the groundwork for an armed attack on Iran.
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Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Thousands booed rightist billionaire and media magnate Silvio Berlusconi following his resignation as Italy’s prime minister on Nov. 11. A week earlier, Prime Minister George Papandreou, whose popular support plummeted after he agreed to austerity measures, was forced to resign from the leadership of Greece, ending a political dynasty that had lasted for three generations.
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Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Warming up for a general strike on Nov. 24, workers held two great and combative demonstrations in Lisbon, Portugal, on Nov. 12....
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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As the U.S.-NATO war against Libya enters another phase, the neocolonial designs on the state with the largest oil reserves in Africa become more and more obvious....
Posted Nov 14, 2011
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On Nov. 4, the Israeli Defense Forces forcibly boarded a Canadian vessel and an Irish boat which were carrying humanitarian supplies to desperate Palestinians who are suffering from an illegal Israeli blockade.
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Posted Nov 12, 2011
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New York City welcomed students and staff of the Jenin Freedom Theatre on Oct. 27....
Posted Nov 12, 2011
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Conditions in Haiti are growing ever more desperate....
Posted Nov 11, 2011
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While the Greek workers continued their heroic resistance in the streets, imperialist leaders and bankers have made it clear that they prefer complete control of the Greek political process rather than allow even a sham democracy in Athens.
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Posted Nov 9, 2011
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Thousands of protesters converged on the sixth summit of the Group of Twenty (G-20) Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, which met in Cannes, France, from Nov. 3 to Nov. 4. As with previous G-20 meetings, local demonstrators were joined by others from Spain, Belgium, Britain, Japan, Mexico, France and other countries. (Prensa Latina, Nov. 4)
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Posted Nov 9, 2011
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Alfonso Cano, leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) was killed in combat on Nov. 4 by the Colombian Army in that country’s southwest region of Cauca. For several hours that day, dozens of helicopters and planes surrounded this rural area, the home of peasant families, and then they started bombing, hitting the place where the FARC leader was.
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Posted Nov 9, 2011
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Where is the electrifying Occupy Wall Street movement headed?...
Posted Nov 5, 2011
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Excerpts from a talk at the Oct. 8-9 Workers World Party National Conference in New York City given by Philadelphia WWP organizer Berta Joubert-Ceci.
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Posted Nov 5, 2011
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After Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi was brutally assassinated and his hometown of Sirte destroyed, the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to end its so-called “No Fly Zone” over this North African state. Its March vote imposing an arms embargo and “No Fly Zone” resulted in a massive naval blockade and aerial bombardment that killed thousands and caused tens of billions of dollars in damages.
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Posted Nov 3, 2011
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“West Sees Libya as Ripe at Last for Businesses."...
Posted Nov 3, 2011
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Cuba’s National Children’s Theater, La Colmenita, or “The Little Beehive,” concluded its U.S. tour in San Francisco on Oct. 29. ...
Posted Nov 3, 2011
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As a financial crisis rages through Europe, the G20, which officially describes itself as a meeting of world leaders “to provide world growth with more stable, sustainable foundations,” is scheduled to meet on Nov. 3-4 in Cannes, a small coastal city on the French Riviera best known for its annual film festival....
Posted Nov 3, 2011
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An all-out offensive against the Al-Shabaab Islamic resistance movement based in Somalia is currently underway in the southern region of this Horn of Africa nation. A combined force of U.S. Predator drones and French naval vessels is targeting four towns in the southern region so that Kenyan military forces on the ground can seize Kismayo, a port city under the control of Al-Shabaab. The city is a major source of trade and serves as the economic lifeline for the resistance movement, which has been labeled by the U.S. as a terrorist organization allied with al-Qaida....
Posted Oct 31, 2011
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Chile’s mass student organizations, with support from the organized working class, held a two-day general strike and demonstration demanding free university education on Oct. 18-19. Tens of thousands of students and workers participated, with the main demand being for free and universal higher education....
Posted Oct 31, 2011
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From a talk given by Joyce Chediac at the Workers World Party National Conference held in New York City on Oct. 8-9....
Posted Oct 30, 2011
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The working class in Greece is taking up the challenge the European capitalist class has thrown against them. The unions held their sixth general strike to combat the government’s austerity program, this one for the 48 hours of Oct. 19-20 and with even more massive participation than earlier actions manifested.
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Posted Oct 27, 2011
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President Barack Obama has said that all U.S. forces will be out of Iraq by Dec. 31, but this does not mean that the war is over, or that aggression against the Iraqi people has ended....
Posted Oct 27, 2011
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Workers World contributor Dante Strobino interviewed Meghna Sukumar, a young organizer with the Women’s Workers Union, Garment and Fashion Workers section, on Sept. 24, the opening day of the United Electrical Workers union 72nd National Convention in Pittsburgh....
Posted Oct 27, 2011
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Col. Moammar Gadhafi, leader of the Libyan people for 42 years, was brutally targeted, tortured and executed in a series of events on Oct. 20 in the coastal city of Sirte. The city is a bastion of resistance to the U.S.-NATO war in Libya....
Posted Oct 26, 2011
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Two hundred seventy people were killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988. For 20 years Libya and its lynched leader, Col. Moammar Gadhafi, have been blamed for this great crime....
Posted Oct 26, 2011
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News spread around the world on Oct. 20-21 that NATO planes had struck a car caravan leaving Sirte in Libya, wounding Moammar Gadhafi, and that the Libyan leader was captured alive and subsequently killed. ...
Posted Oct 21, 2011
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In a desperate attempt to cover up its absolute inability to solve the economic and political crisis that has engulfed the world, the U.S. ruling class and the U.S. government have resorted to a tried-and-true method of diverting mass sentiment: war frenzy....
Posted Oct 20, 2011
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Oct. 15 was the Global Day of Action against Wall Street greed....
Posted Oct 19, 2011
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Another U.S. military intervention is underway, this time in Central Africa....
Posted Oct 19, 2011
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Another barrage of corporate media reports surfaced Oct. 17 that the NATO-led National Transitional Council rebels had taken “most” of the city of Bani Walid. The battle for this area has been raging for over a month. Troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi had forced the retreat of opposition units on several occasions....
Posted Oct 18, 2011
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, formerly director of the CIA, said at a news conference at NATO headquarters on Oct. 6 that the nearly nine-month-old war against the North African state of Libya would continue until all vestiges of resistance on the part of the people were eliminated....
Posted Oct 17, 2011
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It isn’t often that you get an education in political science from a prominent journal dedicated to the natural sciences....
Posted Oct 17, 2011
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Chilean police used water cannons and tear gas to attack a student march for free public education on Oct. 6....
Posted Oct 17, 2011
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Most news published in the corporate media here about the problems in the “eurozone” involve the threat of Greece declaring bankruptcy and this spreading to Portugal and maybe even Spain and Italy....
Posted Oct 17, 2011
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The U.S. government claims it supports the huge social explosion rocking the Arab world and northern Africa....
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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As a gesture of “reconciliation,” the German imperialist government sent 20 skulls back to Namibia in early October....
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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Come to Tijuana, Mexico, Dec. 2-4 for the 8th U.S./Cuba/Mexico/Latin America labor conference....
Posted Oct 10, 2011
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The uprooted Palestinians are at the heart of the conflict in the Middle East....
Posted Oct 10, 2011
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On Sept. 30 Pentagon/Central Intelligence Agency drones assassinated Anwar Al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, two U.S. Muslim citizens....
Posted Oct 10, 2011
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Fred Goldstein, author of “Low Wage Capitalism” and a contributing editor to Workers World newspaper, opened a conference of 579 social scientists, social workers and social work students with a penetrating Marxist analysis of the current crisis of world capitalism....
Posted Oct 10, 2011
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This year represents the 44th anniversary of the martyrdom of Ernesto Che Guevera....
Posted Oct 5, 2011
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Pakistani merchants can hardly keep up with the demand for U.S. flags, wrote The Telegraph of London on Sept. 29. However, the U.S. State Department won’t be cheering about this. It seems the purpose for which people want the flags is “to be stamped, trampled or burned.”...
Posted Oct 5, 2011
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This year’s 66th General Assembly of the United Nations took place within the context of the worsening security and economic situation internationally. The Western industrialized capitalist states have escalated their military aggression amid deteriorating social conditions for billions throughout the world. ...
Posted Oct 2, 2011
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Manik Mukherjee, co-chairperson of the International Anti-Imperialist and People’s Solidarity Coordinating Committee and a leader of the Socialist Unity Center of India, spoke to a gathering of political activists in New York City at the Solidarity Center on Sept. 19....
Posted Oct 1, 2011
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President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned to Yemen from Saudi Arabia on Sept. 23....
Posted Oct 1, 2011
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While international finance ministers, treasury officials and bankers were scurrying around Washington at the fall meeting of the International Monetary Fund/World Bank, Greek workers were drawing the lessons of a 24-hour strike that shut down transportation in the country and preparing for general strikes....
Posted Sep 29, 2011
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Despite the Sept. 15 visit to Libya of British Prime Minister David Cameron
and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the struggle for control of the oil-
producing North African state of Libya is far from complete. ...
Posted Sep 26, 2011
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Auat al-Qurmezi, age 20, knows all too well what it’s like to live under a repressive monarchy backed by the United States....
Posted Sep 26, 2011
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This year marks the 10th anniversary of the 2001 U.N. Durban (South Africa) World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance....
Posted Sep 22, 2011
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Resistance by the loyalist forces in Libya has escalated with major clashes
between supporters of the Gadhafi government and the U.S.-NATO financed rebel
National Transitional Council....
Posted Sep 18, 2011
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In an important political event condemning the NATO war on Libya and the
role of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who initiated the bombing of Libya
last March, some 300 people, including many youths, met at Republic Square in
Paris on Sept. 3....
Posted Sep 18, 2011
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Unions mounted a general strike in Italy in 100 cities and organized mass
protests in Spain on Sept. 6 as they battled government efforts to solve
Europe’s debt crisis on the backs of the workers....
Posted Sep 18, 2011
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On Aug. 25, while attending ESNA IV (Encuentro Sindical Nuestra
América Union Meeting of Our America) in Managua, Nicaragua, Martha
Grevatt and Ignacio Meneses of the U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange interviewed
Humberto Montes de Oca, secretary of external affairs of the Mexican Union of
Electrical Workers/Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas, which for several years
has been fighting privatization and the loss of their jobs....
Posted Sep 15, 2011
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U.S. imperialism is once again maneuvering to counter growing world support for
the Palestinian struggle. Its primary motive is to protect the interests of
U.S. capital in the Middle East, which center around, but are not restricted
to, exploitation of the fabulous oil wealth in the area....
Posted Sep 14, 2011
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This May, three U.S. soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War — Steven
House, Robert Travis and Richard Cramer — publicly admitted that in 1978
they participated in dumping hundreds of barrels of toxic chemicals, including
Agent Orange, at Camp Carroll, a U.S. military base in south Korea....
Posted Sep 11, 2011
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When Nicaraguan workers flash the “V” for victory, it has a double
meaning....
Posted Sep 11, 2011
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After nearly seven months of war against the North African state of Libya, the
combined forces of NATO and its National Transitional Council
“rebel” units are tightening their noose around the areas of the
country where armed resistance has prevented the counterrevolution from taking
over....
Posted Sep 8, 2011
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Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators across Chile supported the second day of
a general strike on Aug. 25 as protests against the privatization of education
escalated into demands for sweeping governmental and social change....
Posted Sep 2, 2011
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More than 300 delegates, representing 134 working-class organizations in 27
countries of the Americas, met August 25-27 in Managua, Nicaragua....
Posted Sep 2, 2011
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General Vo Nguyen Giap, a hero and leader in the Vietnamese people’s
struggles against Japanese, French and U.S. imperialism, celebrated his 100th
birthday on Aug. 25....
Posted Sep 2, 2011
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While the United States and the other NATO countries express their satisfaction
over the destruction of the North African state of Libya that they are
engineering, thousands of people have reportedly been killed in the assault on
Tripoli and other parts of the country since Aug. 20....
Posted Aug 31, 2011
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By directing their enormous joint military and economic power against a poorly
armed, nonindustrialized country of 6 million people, the imperialist states of
North America and Western Europe have imposed a criminal regime on the Libyan
people....
Posted Aug 31, 2011
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Thousands join the protest demonstration organized by the All India Anti-Imperialist
Forum in front of the U.S. Consulate in Kolkata Aug. 29 to condemn the attack by the
U.S.-NATO forces on Libya....
Posted Aug 31, 2011
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President Barack Obama on Aug. 18 demanded that Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad step down, saying that his days are numbered. The governments of
Britain, France and Germany joined in this demand.
This threat is blatant imperialist interference in Syria’s internal
affairs....
Posted Aug 25, 2011
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Ahmed el-Shahat became an instant hero, known on Twitter as #Flagman, when in
the early hours of Aug. 21 he scaled the walls of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo,
removed its flag and replaced it with an Egyptian flag....
Posted Aug 25, 2011
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A six-month-long war against the government of Moammar Gadhafi has reached a
new stage as NATO escalates its intervention with air power, naval power,
strategy and intelligence to push armed units of the so-called Transitional
National Council into Tripoli, Libya’s capital....
Posted Aug 24, 2011
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A six-month-old war against the government of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya has reached a new stage as NATO escalated its intervention with air power, naval power, strategy and intelligence to push the Transitional National Council’s armed units into the capital, Tripoli....
Posted Aug 22, 2011
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The world’s agribusinesses have raised the prices of basic foods so
precipitously in the last few years that vast numbers of poor people are
threatened with death by starvation....
Posted Aug 21, 2011
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Almost daily for many years, Israeli soldiers have clashed with Palestinian
protesters somewhere in the land claimed by the Israeli state. Now the tempo of
struggle is rising once again....
Posted Aug 21, 2011
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The U.S./NATO forces now waging war against the North African oil-producing
state of Libya committed one of their worst atrocities on Aug. 8, killing 85
people while bombing Majar in Libya’s west. Located near Zlitan, Majar
was shown on Libyan state television after the attacks killed children, women
and men....
Posted Aug 19, 2011
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By Aug. 15, some 2,800 people in Britain had been detained in connection with
an Aug. 6 through Aug. 9 rebellion there. Police used photographs and news
reports to target people in coordinated home invasions and arrests. Courts were
kept in operation through the night in several cities so that people could be
charged and imprisoned for various alleged crimes....
Posted Aug 17, 2011
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Demonstrators gathered outside the British
Consulate-General in Manhattan on Aug. 15 to protest Prime Minister David
Cameron’s mass arrests of youths....
Posted Aug 17, 2011
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Although the corporate-controlled media in the U.S. has been full of propaganda
against the Libyan people and their government, international solidarity with
that North African state grows daily....
Posted Aug 14, 2011
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The situation of people with disabilities in Cuba was not on the agenda, but
when a panelist rolled in using a wheelchair, we had to ask her. In the U.S.,
capitalist austerity is hitting people with disabilities hard, dismantling or
cutting special transit, health care and schools for people with special
needs...
Posted Aug 14, 2011
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From a talk by Monica Moorehead at Workers World Forum, “Eyewitness: Building Solidarity in the Philippines,” held Aug. 6 in New York City....
Posted Aug 14, 2011
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Haitians demonstrated in front of the United Nations building in New York
on Aug. 5 as the toll from the cholera epidemic in their home country continues
to rise....
Posted Aug 14, 2011
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Thirty members of the U.S. Special Forces were killed in Afghanistan in the
deadliest day of the 10-year war for U.S. military personnel when insurgents
shot down a Chinook helicopter on Aug. 6....
Posted Aug 12, 2011
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In the past year the British government has announced and implemented huge cuts
in education and social service programs in the face of growing unemployment
and poverty. Now Black and working-class youth are responding with direct
action and mass rebellion....
Posted Aug 10, 2011
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Muslim countries and communities internationally began the celebration of the
holy month of Ramadan on Aug. 1. Inside the North African state of Libya where
the majority of the population is Islamic, the month began in the immediate
aftermath of a series of NATO bombing raids on the capital of Tripoli....
Posted Aug 8, 2011
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Narciso Isa Conde is a Marxist political analyst, writer and veteran of the
struggles against the Trujillo dictatorship and the U.S. invasion of the
Dominican Republic in 1965. During the 1965 April Revolution, he represented
the Communist Party in the political command of that revolution led by Coronal
Francisco Caamaño....
Posted Aug 8, 2011
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A terrible train wreck occurred July 23 in China’s Zhejiang province near
Wenzhou, about 220 miles south of Shanghai. Thirty-nine people were killed and
200 injured as a moving train crashed into a stalled train. Passenger cars were
thrown off a viaduct....
Posted Aug 8, 2011
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The desperate situation of the Haitian people has given rise to political
tensions in the country’s Parliament and anger among the people against
the U.S.-backed regime. The only effective aid for combating the cholera
epidemic has come from socialist Cuba....
Posted Aug 6, 2011
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The impact of the world economic crisis of capitalist overproduction on the
African continent has been revealed through protest actions and social
instability....
Posted Aug 3, 2011
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The U.S. government has carried out so many wars and invasions since World War
II that just listing them all would take a whole page. Most people living in
the U.S. have only a vague idea of the terrible damage this imperialist
government has inflicted on the world — always in the name of peace and
democracy....
Posted Jul 31, 2011
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The transparency-advocacy group WikiLeaks has released secret cables dating
from 2003 to 2010 that reveal details of Washington’s intervention in
Haiti....
Posted Jul 31, 2011
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In addition to the mass protests in Egypt, another arena for demanding rights
and fighting corruption has been Egypt’s independent trade union
movement...
Posted Jul 31, 2011
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More than 85 percent of Egypt’s poor live in rural areas. Like all
Egyptians, they are participating in the protests held throughout the country,
and are expecting that a new Egyptian government will meet their urgent
needs...
Posted Jul 31, 2011
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For almost five months, the combined military forces of the United States and
NATO have pounded Libyan cities, towns, villages and ports in an effort to
overthrow the government of Moammar Gadhafi.
These bombing operations, now numbering more than 16,000 sorties and 6,100
strikes, have been combined with a naval blockade that includes 17 warships.
NATO warships in the Mediterranean have hailed 1,907 vessels, boarded 183 and
diverted nine....
Posted Jul 30, 2011
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The scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World won’t make the
giant media monopolies any less mouthpieces for the billionaire ruling
class....
Posted Jul 30, 2011
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“Food is a right” is not just a slogan. In 1999 the United Nations
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights determined that food is
actually a human right. But the price of food has doubled worldwide since 2000....
Posted Jul 30, 2011
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Journalism Professor Rune Ottosen, cited in a Norwegian workers’ daily,
Klassekampen (Class Struggle), said that the New York Times took “an
unreasonably long time” to change its tune even after it was clear that a
Christian Norwegian was the mass murderer. Then the media avoided calling the
Norwegian a terrorist, let alone a Christian terrorist; he was instead labeled
a “psychopath,” which removes political responsibility....
Posted Jul 27, 2011
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The International Women’s Assembly successfully held its First General
Assembly on July 5 and 6 in Quezon City, Philippines, under the theme
“Advance the Global Anti-imperialist Women’s Movement! Strengthen
the International Women’s Alliance!”...
Posted Jul 27, 2011
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We live in a global economy dominated today by U.S. and West European banks and
corporations. ...
Posted Jul 24, 2011
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Lucy Pagoada, a Honduran who lives in New York and who has been elected to the
Popular National Resistance Front in her homeland, was a delegate to
conferences called by the International Migrant Alliance and the International
League of Peoples’ Struggle held in the Philippines this July....
Posted Jul 24, 2011
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A 24-hour work stoppage paralyzed commerce and traffic in the Dominican
Republic on July 11....
Posted Jul 24, 2011
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If you went anywhere in the U.S. today and asked who lives in Libya, there
is only one name that a large part of the population could tell you: Gadhafi.
Many people, even if they do not know that Libya is in Africa, might tell you
that Gadhafi is an evil man who “must go.” The corporate media can demonize the leader of a country targeted by the
Pentagon to the point that the consequences of using the most deadly weapons
against a totally defenseless population are hidden and dismissed....
Posted Jul 21, 2011
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NATO planes bombed Libya’s capital city of Tripoli on July 17 for more
than two hours. ...
Posted Jul 21, 2011
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One of the four buses in the Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan that arrived
in Houston on July 16 had an image of caravan founder Rev. Lucius Walker that
caught everyone’s eye....
Posted Jul 21, 2011
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More than 80 people, most from the Black community in Durham, N.C.,
attended a July 12 community educational event, potluck and fundraiser for the
Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan at the Shepherd’s House United Methodist
Church...
Posted Jul 21, 2011
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Thousands of Egyptians, intent on defending the gains of their revolution and
vowing to achieve still more, rallied on July 15 in the nation’s two
largest cities — Cairo and Alexandria....
Posted Jul 21, 2011
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Tens of thousands of protesters were in the streets across Egypt July 8 showing
their revolution is continuing. Demonstrators packed city centers, demanding
faster reforms and voicing frustration at what they see as foot dragging by
military rulers and government officials....
Posted Jul 18, 2011
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For 18 days the people of Egypt gathered in the streets in the millions and
brought down the 30-year reign of U.S. client Hosni Mubarak. This January 25
Revolution, named for its first day of protest, was led by youth and
students....
Posted Jul 18, 2011
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This July 26 marks 58 years since the attack on the Moncada Garrison in
Santiago de Cuba by heroic Cuban revolutionaries....
Posted Jul 17, 2011
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After four months of heavy bombing, the U.S./NATO forces have failed to
dislodge the Libyan government in Tripoli....
Posted Jul 17, 2011
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As the world capitalist economic crisis accelerates, growing food deficits,
poverty and imperialist militarism have prompted dislocation and unrest
throughout the African continent....
Posted Jul 14, 2011
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Facundo Cabral, the well-known Argentinean songwriter, died July 9, the victim
of a horrendous shooting in Guatemala on his way to the airport....
Posted Jul 13, 2011
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Today the U.S. and Japan are strategic partners. So why
are tens of thousands of U.S. troops still in Okinawa?...
Posted Jul 13, 2011
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Thousands of angry Egyptians took to the streets of Cairo and Alexandria at the
end of June, battling the Central Security forces for hours before successfully
pushing the riot police back. These were the most intense clashes in five
months, since Egypt’s 18-day revolution in January that ousted
U.S.-client Hosni Mubarak....
Posted Jul 11, 2011
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The Egyptian people’s determination to hold their government accountable
for promised social, economic and political change could be seen during
the weekly Friday demonstration at Cairo’s Tahrir Square....
Posted Jul 11, 2011
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Dr. Luther Castillo, who was among the first to apply for free medical
education in Cuba, was in the first graduating class of the Latin American
School of Medicine in 2005. While he was in New York for the June 30 memorial
for the Rev. Lucius Walker, a man he called “the symbol of
solidarity,” Castillo told Workers World about his life and his work
setting up health care for the poor throughout the Caribbean....
Posted Jul 11, 2011
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Some 750,000 public workers in Britain held the strongest one-day labor action
in that country since the 1980s. A vicious attack upon the working class, as is
going on in much of Europe and the United States, left the workers no choice
but to take action June 30. In Britain, the government plans to cut public
workers’ pensions and increase the retirement age....
Posted Jul 6, 2011
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This year’s 17th African Union Summit attempted once again to broker a
cease-fire in the nearly five-month-old imperialist war against Libya. The
meeting of the 53-member organization was held in Malabo, capital of the former
Spanish colony of Equatorial Guinea, from June 30 to July 2....
Posted Jul 6, 2011
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Greece is now in the eye of the storm in the struggle to break the siege of
Gaza....
Posted Jul 6, 2011
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As the U.S./NATO war against the North African state of Libya entered its
fourth month, the House of Representatives voted on June 24 to withhold
authorization for the bombing campaign. In a resolution to support the war,
members of Congress turned down the Obama administration’s military
strategy by a vote of 295 against and 123 in favor...
Posted Jul 4, 2011
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Anti-war activists held protest rallies against the U.S./NATO war on Libya
on June 27 in several cities....
Posted Jul 4, 2011
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The Egyptian Socialist Party was founded June 18 before a
packed auditorium of more than 400 Egyptians and international guests. What
made such an assembly possible was the enormous mass revolution of last Jan. 25
that removed the U.S.-backed dictator Hosni Mubarak and made the name
“Tahrir Square” an inspiration for popular revolt worldwide....
Posted Jul 4, 2011
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A Workers World Party solidarity statement given
by Joyce Chediac in Cairo on June 18 to the founding conference of the Egyptian
Socialist Party....
Posted Jul 4, 2011
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Last April, the U.S. House of Representatives approved HR 2499 RFS,
ironically known as the “Puerto Rico Democracy Act of 2010.” This
allows for a plebiscite on the island, which, in Congress’ own words,
will “provide for a federally sanctioned self-determination process for
the people of Puerto Rico.”...
Posted Jul 4, 2011
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At first glance it would seem that Athens, Ohio, and Athens, Greece, are worlds
apart. Not only does language separate them, but more than 5,100 miles of land
and ocean stand between them. The only thing they seem to have in common is a
name. But the workers in Ohio and throughout the U.S. have an amazing amount in
common with the workers in Greece....
Posted Jun 29, 2011
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If you live in the United States and depend on the supposedly
“free” and “open” commercial media for information, you
would without a doubt believe that the Chinese government massacred
“hundreds, perhaps thousands” of students in Tiananmen Square on
June 4, 1989. That phrase has been repeated tens of thousands of times by the
media of this country.
But it’s a myth. Furthermore, the U.S. government knows it’s a
myth. And all the major media know it too....
Posted Jun 29, 2011
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Two NATO airstrikes on June 19 and 20 exposed even further the criminal nature
of the imperialist war against the North African state of Libya....
Posted Jun 26, 2011
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A report alleging that a Pakistani army major was among five CIA informers
arrested for gathering intelligence on Osama bin Laden’s compound has
raised a hue and cry in Pakistan, and has further strained already tenuous
relations between the U.S. and Pakistani governments....
Posted Jun 26, 2011
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Despite its recent failures in imposing stable colonial rule in
Afghanistan or subduing the legitimate government of Libya, NATO went ahead
with a high-level meeting in Belgrade, Serbia, in mid-June. This slap in the
face to the people of the Balkans drew angry opposition....
Posted Jun 26, 2011
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Italy, the West European country with the largest debt burden, is showing signs
of a change in political mood....
Posted Jun 26, 2011
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Workers and young people in Greece held a general strike and mass
demonstrations June 15 to put up the strongest resistance so far to the
relentless offensive by European bankers and billionaires against the working
class on that continent. In Spain, too, more than a half million took to the
streets on June 19....
Posted Jun 22, 2011
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At least 23 people died in Port-au-Prince June 6 after a night of heavy rain....
Posted Jun 18, 2011
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After nearly three months of U.S./NATO bombing operations over Libya, the North
African state has remained defiant in the face of one of the most intense
military operations in recent months by the imperialist countries of North
America and Western Europe. Official NATO sources say that more than 10,000
sorties have been flown over the oil-rich nation resulting in large-scale
destruction of the country’s infrastructure and the reported deaths of
10,000 to 15,000 people....
Posted Jun 15, 2011
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Without presenting a shred of reliable evidence, NATO and International
Criminal Court conspirators are charging the Libyan government with conspiracy
to rape — not only rape as the “collateral damage” of war,
but rape as a political weapon....
Posted Jun 15, 2011
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One of the stalwarts of the African National Congress, the ruling party that
led the struggle for a nonracial, democratic South Africa, passed away on June
2 at the age of 92. Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu, whose spouse was the late
Walter Sisulu, was one of the remaining legendary figures from the 1940s who
played a pivotal role in the national liberation movement against settler
colonialism and apartheid....
Posted Jun 13, 2011
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Before dawn broke June 5, as the news spread that Yemen’s President Ali
Abdullah Saleh had left for medical treatment in Saudi Arabia, fireworks filled
the sky....
Posted Jun 11, 2011
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More than 1 million Hondurans welcomed “Mel” Zelaya back to the
land from which he was kidnapped during a U.S.-sanctioned military coup on June
28, 2009. He arrived at Tegucigalpa’s Toncontin airport on May 28....
Posted Jun 9, 2011
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Some 80,000 people marched down the streets to Syntagma Square in Athens,
Greece, on June 5 on the 12th straight day of protests emulating the uprising
of youth in Spain. In Greece organized struggles over the past 18 months have
also included general strikes led by the PAME labor confederation....
Posted Jun 8, 2011
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A historic vote on the application of the 1973 War Powers Resolution has upheld
the Obama administration’s continuation of large-scale bombings aimed at
overthrowing the government of Libya....
Posted Jun 8, 2011
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South African President Jacob Zuma paid a state visit to Libya on May 30 that
proved to be a fruitless effort to bring about a ceasefire in the war launched
by Western-backed rebels and NATO forces, which have intensified their bombing
of the capital of Tripoli and other areas of the country. Zuma was acting on
behalf of the African Union, which held an extraordinary meeting on May 25
aimed at bringing an end to the war against Libya....
Posted Jun 6, 2011
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Speaking on Libyan TV May 21, former U.S. Congressperson Cynthia McKinney
condemned the brutal war against the government and the people of that country....
Posted Jun 6, 2011
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Last night’s NATO rocket attack on Tripoli is
inexplicable. A civilian metropolitan area of around 2 million people, Tripoli
sustained 22 to 25 bombings last night, rattling and breaking windows and
glass, and shaking the foundation of my hotel....
Posted Jun 6, 2011
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Hundreds gathered in New York City on May 25 for a special New York harbor
boat ride to raise funds to send the ship “The Audacity of Hope” to
Gaza as part of Freedom Flotilla II, set to sail in June. ...
Posted Jun 6, 2011
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Demonstrations and occupations against the capitalist crisis,
austerity and mass unemployment continued into their third week across Spain,
sending ripples across the rest of the continent as other young people and
workers organized protests and encampments in solidarity with the revolt that
ignited on May 15. It’s now called 15-M....
Posted Jun 5, 2011
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Hundreds of thousands of people, predominantly youth, took to the streets
throughout Yemen on May 28 to demand President Ali Abdullah Saleh leave.
Earlier, there had been heavy fighting between government forces and tribally
based militias, joined by dissident factions of the army....
Posted Jun 4, 2011
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President Barack Obama delivered a foreign policy address related to
developments in the Middle East on May 19. The speech — which avoided
addressing the uprisings throughout North Africa, the Palestinian question and
the U.S./NATO war against Libya — created even more hostility toward his
administration domestically and internationally....
Posted May 31, 2011
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As the Japanese economy reels from the combined effects of the recent tsunami
and human-made nuclear disaster, Japanese workers are facing increased
repression as they attempt to fight back against the economic effects of the
calamity and expose the nuclear industry for the danger it poses....
Posted May 31, 2011
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Manuel Zelaya is going home. After nearly two years in forced exile, after two
years of protests and marches, after strikes in the streets of Honduras, after
the martyrdom of hundreds of members of a huge nationwide resistance, Hondurans
have won the right to bring back “Mel,” their “Máximo
Líder,” the elected General Coordinator of the Front for the
National Popular Resistance of Honduras (FNRP)....
Posted May 31, 2011
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Drawing inspiration from the fighting spirit and determination of Tahrir Square
and the peoples of Egypt, Tunisia and the Middle East, the peoples of Spain
took the struggle against capitalist austerity, mass unemployment and the
conditions of the economic crisis to a new level this past week....
Posted May 25, 2011
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In his May 19 speech, President
Barack Obama said that the starting
point for Palestinian-Israeli peace talks
should be Israel’s 1967 boundaries.
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s
hostile reaction gave the impression
that Obama had significantly
changed U.S. policy. Excerpts from a talk by Joyce Chediac
at a Workers World Party forum in
New York City on May 20 that analyzes
Obama’s statements....
Posted May 25, 2011
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While mass demonstrations and uprisings are challenging puppet regimes that
carry out imperialism’s neoliberal, privatizing and anti-people policies,
the leading imperialist power, the United States, is on a witch-hunting
rampage....
Posted May 25, 2011
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On May 25, people all over the world will recognize the 48th anniversary of
Africa Day — also known as Africa Liberation Day. On that date in 1963
the Organization of African Unity was formed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with
more than 30 member states. In 2002, the OAU was transformed into the African
Union, with a commitment to establish stronger institutions aimed at fostering
economic development, political unity and full equality for women....
Posted May 21, 2011
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Michel Martelly was sworn in as Haiti’s president May 14....
Posted May 19, 2011
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Thousands of Palestinian refugees from Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and Gaza
surged across fenced off borders and into Israel on May 15, asserting their
right to return home. The unarmed protesters were fired upon by Israeli
soldiers, killing 16 and wounding hundreds....
Posted May 18, 2011
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The life of a beloved freedom fighter, Juliano Mer Khamis, was ended by five
bullets on April 4. He was assassinated as he was leaving the Jenin Freedom
Theatre, which he co-founded with his mother, Arna Mer Khamis....
Posted May 18, 2011
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The International Action Center has prepared a petition to demand that
the U.S. Congress use the War Powers Act to force the administration to stop
the Pentagon’s participation in NATO’s war of aggression against
Libya....
Posted May 18, 2011
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Nearly 5,000 Haitians have died from cholera since October 22, with another
300,000 made ill by the disease...
Posted May 15, 2011
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From Manila to Milwaukee, from Kolkata to Cairo and Cape Town, from Seoul to
Santiago de Chile and from Lisbon to London, millions of workers marched and
rallied for May Day 2011, to demand an end to austerity and the bosses’
attack on workers’ rights, and in some cases, for an end to a repressive
regime. In Havana and other Cuban cities the massive marches supported the
embattled government that has been withstanding U.S. imperialist pressure for
more than 50 years...
Posted May 15, 2011
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While the United States-Colombia Free Trade Agreement is being pushed by
President Barack Obama’s administration, the Colombian government
continues to violate the human rights of unionists and social activists.
However, this time it’s not by paramilitary president, Álvaro Uribe,
but by the new “democratic” president, Juan Manuel Santos,
Uribe’s former minister of defense....
Posted May 15, 2011
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Unlike others, this uprising and the merciless repression which has followed it have been virtually ignored by the mainstream media. It took place in Iraq, a country which is still occupied by tens of thousands of U.S. troops, and whose puppet government is completely under the thumb of the United States....
Posted May 15, 2011
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President Barack Obama has praised the targeted assassination of Osama bin
Laden as a turning point and “one of the greatest military and
intelligence operations in U.S. history.” However, events in the week running up to the execution exposed the limits of U.S. imperialist power and showed why the imperialists are so desperate to project an all-powerful image....
Posted May 12, 2011
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People in the U.S. and around the world have broad sympathy for the popular
demonstrations taking place in the Middle East. All the uprisings, however, are
not necessarily the same....
Posted May 11, 2011
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The various governments and economic interests that are attempting to overthrow
the Libyan government convened a meeting of the so-called “International
Contact Group” in Rome on May 5....
Posted May 11, 2011
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“Here is the story of the most heroic resistance since 1948 to unrelenting Israeli oppression and violence designed to drive Palestinians from their homeland.” Ramsey Clark...
Posted May 9, 2011
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NATO airstrikes carried out April 30 against the home of the son of Libyan
leader Moammar Gadhafi killed three of Gadhafi’s grandchildren as well as
his youngest son, Saif al-Arab Gadhafi. ...
Posted May 9, 2011
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Thousands of Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank cheered the news that
the occupied Palestinian territories had taken a major step toward
reconciliation....
Posted May 9, 2011
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In the United States, big media, like all other powerful institutions in the
economy, are owned by and operated for the capitalists....
Posted May 9, 2011
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The U.S. and its collaborators are also trying to divide and undermine the two wings of the resistance — the Islamic forces and the secular nationalist forces — which together overthrew the U.S.-backed dictatorships in Egypt and Tunisia. There is now a concerted U.S. effort to turn these same political forces against two regimes in the region that have opposed U.S. domination in the past — Libya and Syria....
Posted May 5, 2011
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Red flags waved across Tahrir Square as thousands of Egyptian workers
celebrated May Day in Cairo....
Posted May 4, 2011
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Although Obama hailed this as a “turning point in the war on
terror,” it is clear that he was not proposing any plans to bring U.S.
troops home. Instead, the resulting jingoistic media barrage is being used to
celebrate the three unpopular wars that have devastated Afghanistan, Iraq and
Pakistan, at the cost of more than 1 million lives and $1 trillion over the
past 10 years. The orchestrated celebration of this military operation will justify further expansion of the military budget, weapons systems and tactics like targeted assassinations, secret rendition and new drone attacks....
Posted May 3, 2011
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If there was a May 1 demonstration in your city, please send a short description and a photo, if you have one, to jcat@workers.org...
Posted May 3, 2011
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Egyptian workers are taking Tahrir Square to the shop floor. Since 2004 more
than 1.7 million of them have held more than 3,000 strikes, job actions and
other forms of protest....
Posted May 1, 2011
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Actions by the U.S. government and NATO during late April indicate clearly that
the ultimate objective of the war against Libya is regime change, leading to a
full-scale military occupation of the North African state...
Posted Apr 27, 2011
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Along with the oil and gas beckoning the imperialists in Libya are that
country’s sovereign wealth funds — capital invested abroad. ...
Posted Apr 27, 2011
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The U.S. is threatening to send troops to Pakistan if that country interferes
with the CIA’s use of pilotless drones to launch missiles against
villages in the north, says a retired Pakistani lieutenant general, Talat
Masood....
Posted Apr 24, 2011
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The Portuguese government has accepted orders from the European Central Bank
and the International Monetary Fund to impose austerity on that country’s
workers....
Posted Apr 24, 2011
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On April 18, reports of student unrest in the central city of Koudougou,
Burkina Faso, told of youth burning down the headquarters of President Blaise
Compaore’s ruling party and the prime minister’s house. This is the
latest in a series of mass protests, which have struck this West African state
for more than two months....
Posted Apr 21, 2011
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Seven-hundred thousand Haitians are still living in come-by-chance camps, under
tents or tarps, because their homes were destroyed in an earthquake 15 months
ago....
Posted Apr 21, 2011
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Iceland’s voters on April 9 rejected a demand by the British and Dutch
governments that Iceland taxpayers pay what their citizens lost in the collapse
of Icesave, a private Icelandic bank....
Posted Apr 21, 2011
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The U.S./NATO war against Libya’s people and government reveals every day
that there is no such thing as a humanitarian war carried out by imperialist
states against post-colonial countries...
Posted Apr 20, 2011
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Fifty years ago, on April 16, 1961, Cuban Commander in Chief Fidel Castro
declared the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution....
Posted Apr 20, 2011
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While NATO and the Pentagon continue to wage war on the government of Libya in
the name of protecting civilians and promoting democracy, elsewhere throughout
North Africa and the Middle East the entrenched ruling classes that have long
served these imperialists are continuing to attack protesters with impunity in
the name of order and stability....
Posted Apr 20, 2011
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The U.S. government’s façade that it is a champion of democracy and
respectful of other countries’ sovereignty has once again been torn away
by Washington’s recent treatment of two distinct governments in two Latin
American countries: Colombia and Ecuador....
Posted Apr 17, 2011
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Already bogged down in a bitter war of occupation, the U.S. has found itself
facing renewed outrage by Afghans who are protesting both the U.S. and its NATO
allies. Otherwise “pacified” cities have joined with guerrilla
forces operating mainly in the countryside to demand that U.S. and NATO forces
leave immediately....
Posted Apr 17, 2011
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Israel has been rewarded by the U.S. imperialist government for its latest
assault on the besieged Palestinian territory of Gaza, which began on April 7
at the same time as the federal budget showdown in Washington....
Posted Apr 17, 2011
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U.S., U.N. and NATO military forces have intensified the implementation of
policies aimed at total economic domination and regime change for states that
resist interference in their internal affairs. As Africa becomes more of a
major source for exploiting oil, strategic minerals and agricultural
commodities, the continent will be under increasing pressure from Western
capitalist countries...
Posted Apr 14, 2011
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One fact is very clear. The U.S. government is fully aware — and has
ample evidence — that Luis Posada is responsible for the first mid-air bombing
of a commercial airliner, Cubana 455, in which all 73 people aboard were killed
in 1976; and for the bombing of several Havana hotels, in which Italian tourist
Fabio Di Celmo was killed and others injured....
Posted Apr 14, 2011
|
On April 9, the streets of Baghdad
were filled with students, youth, workers and others from all across Iraq....
Posted Apr 13, 2011
|
Two Haitian public transportation unions called a one-day
general strike March 28 to protest the government significantly raising fuel
prices....
Posted Apr 11, 2011
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Backed by U.S. imperialism, the ruling classes of Italy, France and Britain,
all former colonial masters in Libya, are seeking to recolonize the country.
They want to do to Libya what they did to Iraq and what they are itching to do
to Iran. They want to take back the oil, which was nationalized by these
country’s revolutions. They want to re-establish military bases that were
shut down by the revolutions and to install client regimes that will
subordinate the country’s wealth and labor to imperialist corporate
interests. All else is lies and deception....
Posted Apr 8, 2011
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And like that — blink — a new war....
Posted Apr 8, 2011
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Now is a good time to watch, either again or for the first time, the powerful
1981 film “Lion of the Desert.” It tells the story of Omar Mukhtar,
a legendary leader of the armed resistance to Italy’s colonial conquest
of Libya....
Posted Apr 8, 2011
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The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has drawn an important conclusion from the unprovoked bombing of Libya by U.S. and NATO forces: Developing countries should never let down their guard and believe promises made by the imperialists....
Posted Apr 8, 2011
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A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA Tuesday as regards the U.S. military attack on Libya:...
Posted Apr 8, 2011
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The New York Times, the Washington Post and other corporate news sources are
now openly admitting that the opposition forces fighting the Libyan government
are supported and coordinated by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and
Britain’s MI6 with in-country special forces....
Posted Apr 7, 2011
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All sectors of Honduran society are in resistance. Since the late February
National Assembly of the Honduran National Front for Popular Resistance (FNRP)
held in Tegucigalpa, a month-long teachers strike, a mass demonstration of the
Garifuna (Black) community, a one-day general strike, and peasant and
Indigenous mobilizations have shown that Honduras is at a crossroads....
Posted Apr 7, 2011
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For the second time in two weeks, French President Nicolas
Sarkozy has launched military operations aimed at overthrowing an African
government. This latest was a military assault against President Laurent
Gbagbo’s government in the Ivory Coast. Gbagbo has rejected the results
of a disputed run-off election held last November as well as calls from the
West and the regional organization ECOWAS for him to step down....
Posted Apr 6, 2011
|
The historical tsunami that continues to shake the Middle East and Southwest
Asia has the apologists and strategists of imperialism scrambling to catch up
with events....
Posted Apr 6, 2011
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The imperialist powers at first appeared surprised and without a coherent
response to the mass uprisings in January against their existing client regimes
in the mainly Arab states in Western Asia and North Africa. By the end of March
the European imperialist powers — with some dissidence — have
regrouped under U.S. leadership to increase their intrusion into the region
with diplomacy and bombs....
Posted Apr 5, 2011
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As quickly as the imperialists have launched a war against Libya, anti-war
demonstrations have sprung up everywhere. Many signs and slogans mention oil:
“No blood for oil” or “Not another war for oil.”...
Posted Apr 5, 2011
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After more than a week of intensive bombing of the North African state of
Libya, U.S. President Barack Obama on March 28 went on television to provide a
rationale for beginning yet another war against a developing country with a
majority Muslim population....
Posted Mar 31, 2011
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COSATU has reiterated its position in support of the legitimate and
genuine struggles of the people and workers of the Middle East and North Africa
for democracy, human dignity and social justice. In doing so, however, we seek
to exercise caution [at] the manner Western powers claim to be advancing the
struggle for democracy in that region....
Posted Mar 31, 2011
|
Hundreds of thousands of workers and students demonstrated in London on March
26 under the unifying slogan of “All together against the cuts!”...
Posted Mar 31, 2011
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President Barack Obama’s speech of March 28 was largely devoted to
justifying U.S. military intervention in Libya on humanitarian grounds, as
being necessary to prevent a “massacre.” It was meant to obscure
the fundamental fact that Washington is leading an effort, joined by the
British and French imperialists, to destroy a sovereign government and
recolonize Libya...
Posted Mar 30, 2011
|
Women — mostly teenaged or very young — have been kidnapped,
tortured, raped, mutilated and killed by the hundreds in Ciudad Juárez,
Mexico, sister city to El Paso, Texas....
Posted Mar 25, 2011
|
German socialist Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) is known as the 1910 founder of
International Women’s Day...
Posted Mar 25, 2011
|
The bombing of Libya, which began on March 19, has aroused world opposition to
this new aggression by the U.S. and European imperialist powers....
Posted Mar 24, 2011
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However the rebellion in Libya began, it was both inevitable and entirely
predictable that it would quickly become an opening for imperialist
intervention and counterrevolution in the oil-rich North African country....
Posted Mar 24, 2011
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Even as the U.S., France and Britain rain down bombs and missiles on Libya,
resistance is growing against torture and repression by U.S. clients in other
parts of the Middle East and Southwest Asia....
Posted Mar 24, 2011
|
The hearts of workers and the oppressed of the world go out to the Japanese
people who have been hit by an earthquake and tsunami and are now threatened
with nuclear disaster....
Posted Mar 23, 2011
|
Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s return to Haiti released a tidal wave of
celebration....
Posted Mar 23, 2011
|
The ferocious storm of uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East continues
to stymie the efforts of the U.S. and other Western powers to suppress or
contain them....
Posted Mar 21, 2011
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The Resistance movement marched daily all over Honduras to protest the coup
against President Manuel Zelaya, from June 28, 2009, the day of the coup, until
Jan. 27, 2010. On that last day, 300,000 people accompanied their beloved
president to Toncontín Airport, from where he flew into forced exile in
the Dominican Republic...
Posted Mar 21, 2011
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“FOB” is military jargon for Forward Operating Base. It is a
secure, forward military position that supports tactical operations and reduces
the reaction time of the military forces that use it....
Posted Mar 21, 2011
|
Once Gov. Scott Walker signed anti-union Act 10 on March 10, the media treated
the battle in Wisconsin as over....
Posted Mar 21, 2011
|
|
Boston’s Action Center kicked off a week of activities in New
England planned to bolster solidarity with the courageous students’
strike at the University of Puerto Rico....
Posted Mar 19, 2011
|
Struggle has been at the heart of International Women’s Day since 1
million women demanding equal rights first marked it in Europe in 1911....
Posted Mar 19, 2011
|
The United States has decided that what Haiti needs is what the U.S. calls "a good election." ...
Posted Mar 19, 2011
|
Events continue to unfold rapidly in North Africa and the Gulf
states. On March 14 Saudi Arabia sent tanks and 2,000 troops into the kingdom of
Bahrain to protect the Al Khalifa royal family there from mass protests
demanding an end to the monopoly of political power in the hands of the
king....
Posted Mar 17, 2011
|
In early March the judge presiding over the case of Victor Toro denied
Toro’s request for political asylum. Toro faces possible deportation
anytime in the next 30 days....
Posted Mar 16, 2011
|
Libyan government forces have taken several towns both east
and west of Tripoli, the capital, driving out rebel groups that have been
calling for military intervention by the imperialist states....
Posted Mar 16, 2011
|
On March 1 in the village of Nanglam in Afghanistan, the people heard gunfire
in the nearby mountains. They became worried when some of their children did
not return home. The boys had been out collecting firewood since morning, and
the villagers went to look for them....
Posted Mar 12, 2011
|
The National Front for Popular Resistance (FNRP) in Honduras held a national
assembly in capital city Tegucigalpa on Feb. 26 and 27....
Posted Mar 12, 2011
|
President Barack Obama and Mexico’s illegitimate President Felipe
Calderón met March 3 at the White House and announced plans to work
further together....
Posted Mar 12, 2011
|
As of March 7, Libyan military forces have stepped up their counteroffensive
against rebel units backed by the U.S. and European Union countries. Government
soldiers have retaken the town of Bin Jawad and are mounting assaults on rebels
near the oil port of Ras Lanuf as well as Az Zawiyah, Tobruk and Misurata....
Posted Mar 9, 2011
|
The U.S. imperialist ruling class is on the horns of a dilemma over what to do
about Libya. In modern terms, it finds itself in what could be called a
lose-lose situation...
Posted Mar 9, 2011
|
With the corporate media’s attention concentrated on Libya, its oil
reserves and the real danger of U.S. and NATO’s military intervention,
one could almost forget that enormous popular revolts are percolating
throughout North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula....
Posted Mar 9, 2011
|
Statement of Cuba's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, to the U.N. Human Rights Council, Geneva, March 1: ‘Most certainly the Libyan people oppose any foreign military intervention, which would delay an agreement even further and cause thousands of deaths, displacement and enormous injury to the population.’...
Posted Mar 8, 2011
|
Egypt’s democratic movement is not only confronting the country’s
military, but is also up against U.S. and other imperialist states’
efforts to control and misdirect the struggle for a genuine transformation of
the state and society....
Posted Mar 6, 2011
|
To justify intervention, the U.S. government went all out to characterize
Mexico in terms similar to those used in its war on Iraq. U.S. propaganda has gone from referring to Mexico as a “close ally” to it being a “failed state,” “narco-haven” and “threat to national security.” Mexican workers forced to come to the U.S. as a result of NAFTA, the “free trade” agreement with the U.S. that bankrupted local producers, are lumped together as “potential terrorists.”...
Posted Mar 6, 2011
|
Defying threats from the puppet government and several party militias,
thousands of Iraqis from Basra in the south to Suleimaniya in the Kurdish north
took to the streets Feb. 25 in a “Great Day of Anger” inspired by
the uprisings across the Arab world....
Posted Mar 6, 2011
|
The worst thing that could happen to the people of Libya is U.S.
intervention.
The worst thing that could happen to the revolutionary upsurge shaking the Arab
world is U.S. intervention in Libya....
Posted Mar 2, 2011
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A great deal has been written about the role of the Egyptian military with
regard to the momentous mass struggle to topple the U.S.-backed president,
Hosni Mubarak. During the 18 days after Jan. 25, the big question was, would
the high command defend Mubarak? If so, would they then order the soldiers to
attack the masses?...
Posted Feb 28, 2011
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The Egyptian people were promised that aligning their country with the U.S.
would raise their standard of living...
Posted Feb 28, 2011
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Sharon Black is an organizer with the National Bail Out the People Movement who has been at the State Capitol in Madison since day two of the occupation. She submitted the following report on the morning of Saturday, Feb. 26, prior to the huge demonstration of 100,000 workers that took place that afternoon in Wisconsin’s capital. ...
Posted Feb 27, 2011
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The NATO countries -- particularly Britain, Germany, Spain and Italy -- have sent warships and warplanes to Libya, ostensibly to rescue a few hundred of their nationals. The U.S., also a NATO member, has not ruled out military force against Libya. ...
Posted Feb 27, 2011
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Protests continued throughout the country of Yemen on Feb. 21 to demand the
ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The demonstrations, which began during
the time of the uprising in Tunisia and gained traction with recent events in
Egypt, have increased in scope and intensity in the past 12 days....
Posted Feb 26, 2011
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Anti-government protesters in Bahrain swarmed back into a symbolic square on
Feb. 19, putting riot police to flight in a striking victory for their
cause....
Posted Feb 26, 2011
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As popular revolts spread across the Arab world, now breaking out in Morocco
and Algeria, Jordan, Yemen and Bahrain, even in Kuwait, it is important to
remember one of the nations in this region that faces a special situation: It
is forcibly occupied by 50,000 U.S. troops....
Posted Feb 26, 2011
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British Colonel Ian Henderson spent 30 years as head of Bahrain’s secret
police until he was forced to retire in February 1998....
Posted Feb 26, 2011
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Anti-government demonstrations have spread to the Horn of Africa nation of
Djibouti, where 30,000 people marched on Feb. 18 demanding the resignation of
President Ismael Omar Guelleh. Two people were killed when police attacked
protesters in this country’s capital, which is also called Djibouti....
Posted Feb 24, 2011
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Of all the struggles going on in North Africa and the Middle East right now, the
most difficult to unravel is the one in Libya.
What is the character of the opposition to the Gadhafi regime, which reportedly
now controls the eastern city of Benghazi?
Is it just coincidence that the rebellion started in Benghazi, which is north
of Libya’s richest oil fields as well as close to most of its oil and gas
pipelines, refineries and its LNG port? Is there a plan to partition the
country?...
Posted Feb 23, 2011
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What is at stake in Egypt for Washington, and what is at stake for the people
of Egypt?...
Posted Feb 21, 2011
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President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s lawyer said on Feb. 13 that necessary
paperwork has begun in Port-au-Prince and that the Haitian leader is expected
back shortly....
Posted Feb 17, 2011
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Òganizasyon Fanmi Lavalas de Boston and their supporters picketed in
front of Boston’s JFK Federal Building on Feb. 11, demanding the
immediate return of democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to
Haiti...
Posted Feb 17, 2011
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The Egyptian military would like to put the genie of the
Egyptian Revolution back in the bottle. But it won’t go back. The
so-called “orderly transition” — backed by the Obama
administration, NATO and the Egyptian ruling class — has the immediate
tactical goal of pushing the masses of people off the streets and off the stage
of history....
Posted Feb 16, 2011
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The overwhelming majority of U.S. media coverage of Mexico is on the brutal
drug violence there. That violence is real.
The struggle on both sides of the border over booty from the enormously
lucrative drug industry has without a doubt resulted in horrific violence....
Posted Feb 16, 2011
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Some 15,000 people defied the administration’s ruling Feb. 12
and marched into the Rio Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico to
demand that the police be removed from campus and to reject the imposition of
the $800 tuition hike that excludes more than 10,000 students from university
education. This led to one more victory. On Feb. 14 Gov. Luis Fortuño
ordered police out of the campus....
Posted Feb 16, 2011
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The newly formed Nunosur (Nuestro Norte Es el Sur), an organization of Latin
American revolutionaries and activists, held a historic opening dialogue with
U.S. revolutionary groups and individuals on Jan. 21 in the auditorium of
Centro del Pueblo in San Francisco’s Mission District....
Posted Feb 13, 2011
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Hosni Mubarak’s military-police regime and its creators in
Washington are waging a war of attrition to wear down the newly emerging
Egyptian revolution. But the people show no signs of backing down. More than a
million anti-government demonstrators today once again filled Liberation
Square....
Posted Feb 9, 2011
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Feb. 9 reports from Cairo say there are growing numbers of
Egyptian workers who have gone out on strike all over the country....
Posted Feb 9, 2011
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The Egyptian revolt against the U.S.-backed Hosni Mubarak regime has inspired
many workers and oppressed people throughout the world. Mass solidarity
demonstrations have taken place to show support for Egypt’s popular
uprising....
Posted Feb 9, 2011
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In the midst of the gravest foreign policy crisis since assuming her job
— the mass uprising in Egypt — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton went to Haiti on Jan. 30....
Posted Feb 9, 2011
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For us it is a revolution. It meets all the conditions of a revolution. It is the beginning of a new era. Since Jan. 25 Egypt has joined the free nations of the world. The special feature is that the people are demanding that Mubarak leave. He is finished. It is not his decision to resign. The people have decided that he must go....
Posted Feb 6, 2011
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Sometime in the first half of this year Congress will be voting on KORUS, the
south Korea-U.S. “free trade” agreement....
Posted Feb 6, 2011
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Supporters of Palestine jammed the Solidarity Center’s meeting hall
in New York City on Jan. 19 to hear human rights leader Ramsey Clark and
International Action Center Co-Director Sara Flounders report on their recent
trip to the embattled and blockaded city of Gaza....
Posted Feb 5, 2011
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The battle in Cairo’s massive central square to oust the
dictator and U.S. stooge Hosni Mubarak will go down in history as a pivotal
moment, whatever its outcome....
Posted Feb 4, 2011
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A Feb. 1 rally in solidarity with the courageous Egyptian people was held in
front of the Buffalo, N.Y., City Hall in near-zero wind-chill conditions....
Posted Feb 3, 2011
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Worker’s World has informed readers of the
ongoing political and social instability in Puerto Rico resulting from the
neoliberal policies of Republican Gov. Luis Fortuño, who courts major Tea Party big-money
donors at Heritage Foundation events....
Posted Feb 3, 2011
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The outpouring of Egyptians on Tuesday, Feb. 1, is one of the
greatest manifestations of mass protest in history. More than 1 million people
overflowed Tahrir Square in Cairo; hundreds of thousands came out in
Alexandria, Suez, Mansoura and other cities throughout the country. It is truly
world-historic in proportion. Nothing will be the same after this....
Posted Feb 2, 2011
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Filipino-Americans under the banner of BAYAN USA are joining rallies
across the United States in support of the Egyptian people’s courageous
resistance and calling for an end to the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Hosni
Mubarak....
Posted Feb 2, 2011
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the political assassination of
Congo’s first prime minister under independence, Patrice
Lumumba....
Posted Feb 2, 2011
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The ‘march of millions’ is the answer to decades of oppression in
Egypt....
Posted Feb 1, 2011
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Massive protests continue throughout Egypt to demand an end to
the regime of President Hosni Mubarak, a 30-year dictatorship that has served
as an anchor for U.S. imperialism in the Middle East. I...
Posted Jan 31, 2011
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The revolutionary upheaval in Egypt has brought millions of workers, youth and
professionals into the streets to demand the removal of the U.S.-backed regime
of Hosni Mubarak. The potential looms for a total collapse of
Washington’s foreign policy in the region....
Posted Jan 31, 2011
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Activists and progressives around the world took to the streets
in many cities to show their support for the protests currently underway in
Egypt and to join the call for President Hosni Mubarak to step down....
Posted Jan 31, 2011
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Tunisia’s people have shaken North Africa. Yemen’s people have
shaken the Arabian Peninsula. Egypt’s people are shaking the world....
Posted Jan 29, 2011
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Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in cities across Egypt
demanding the ouster of U.S. ally President Hosni Mubarak. These are the
largest anti-regime protests in Mubarak’s 30-year rule of this North
African country of 85 million people. Though the White House has declared the
Mubarak regime “stable,” even greater protests are expected on Jan.
28 following Friday services at mosques throughout the country....
Posted Jan 27, 2011
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Cuba Five admission at trial of anti-Cuba terrorist | U.S. eases travel restrictions | Detroit meeting promotes Latin American School of
Medicine...
Posted Jan 27, 2011
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A meeting on the struggles throughout the
Americas was held at the Solidarity Center in New York Jan. 22. The Latin America-Caribbean Solidarity Committee of the International
Action Center hosted the event, which featured
live video and phone presentations from Honduras and Puerto Rico....
Posted Jan 27, 2011
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Tunisia’s workers and youth have continued mass
demonstrations and strikes aimed at removing the neocolonial regime and
replacing it with a representative government of national unity....
Posted Jan 26, 2011
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A leading U.S. scientist who deals with global warming and climate change is
calling the People’s Republic of China “the best hope” for
turning around a looming disaster for the world and “stopping rule by
fossil fuel interests.”...
Posted Jan 26, 2011
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The International Metalworkers Federation states that in south Korea “labor repression is among the worst in the world.” (www.imfmetal.org) Around 200 union activists are in prison; they include leaders of the Korean Metal Workers Union, jailed for over a year for a 2009 sitdown strike at Ssangyong Motors, and of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions that protested KORUS in 2007....
Posted Jan 20, 2011
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A popular uprising in the North African state of Tunisia since
mid-December has driven President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who had ruled the
Western-allied government for 23 years, into exile. Protesters said that they wanted more than just Ben Ali’s
departure. The demands of the youth and workers have been centered on the need
for full employment and the control of inflation stemming from the impact of
the global economic crisis...
Posted Jan 19, 2011
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Tunisian residents living in the New York City area gathered at the United
Nations to rejoice at the fall of the regime of President Zine El Abidine Ben
Ali. ...
Posted Jan 19, 2011
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Haiti has endured a year of unimaginable and profound suffering, under a
government dedicated to greed and serving the interests of the imperialists....
Posted Jan 19, 2011
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The U.S. capitalist establishment, whose military is spread across the globe
and is armed with the most destructive weapons in the history of the world, has
created the myth that People’s Korea is a threat to the U.S. and much of
Asia....
Posted Jan 19, 2011
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A visit to besieged Gaza in early January of this year, along with
former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, was a new opportunity to meet with
Palestinians there and to see conditions on the ground....
Posted Jan 19, 2011
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Unrest over the impact of the global economic crisis has struck North
Africa....
Posted Jan 13, 2011
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“Cuba has the lowest [infant] mortality rate in the Americas, in spite of
the economic blockade imposed against it by the U.S. for more than five
decades,” announced Granma newspaper on Jan. 3....
Posted Jan 13, 2011
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On Jan. 6 Defense Secretary Robert Gates approved sending an
additional 1,400 Marines to the Afghan front. Now there are more than 98,000
U.S. troops in the country, not to mention NATO troops and thousands more
mercenaries and contractors performing both logistical and combat tasks....
Posted Jan 13, 2011
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A referendum on the future of southern Sudan is scheduled for Jan. 11. This
referendum is a key component of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005, in
which the ruling National Congress Party in Khartoum and the Sudan
People’s Liberation Movement of the South ended hostilities after 20
years of civil war....
Posted Jan 9, 2011
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Birth defect rates in Fallujah, Iraq, have become increasingly alarming over the past
two years....
Posted Jan 9, 2011
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Workers World interviewed Che Lopez, organizer with the Southwest
Workers Union in San Antonio, Texas, at the Dec. 9-12 Southern Human Rights
Organizers Conference in Birmingham, Ala. Lopez had just returned from La Via
Campesina caravan and protests at the U.N. Forum on Climate Change...
Posted Jan 9, 2011
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Capitalists actually profit off disasters....
Posted Jan 8, 2011
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Called a “British Norma Rae,” the recently released “Made in
Dagenham” tells the story of how 187 women workers stopped
production with their 1968 strike and won huge raises....
Posted Jan 8, 2011
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A series of demonstrations struck Tunisia beginning Dec. 17. A 26-year-old
university graduate, Mohamed Bouazizi of Sidi Bouzid in the southern province,
who reportedly set himself on fire to protest the dire economic circumstances
in the country, served as a catalyst for the recent outbreak of protests that
have hit the capital and several other cities throughout the country...
Posted Jan 6, 2011
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International human rights activist
and former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark is leading a delegation that crossed into Gaza on Jan. 4. Among those with Clark are co-director
of the International Action Center Sara Flounders. Egyptian and U.S.
authorities stopped the delegation for more than 12 hours on the border before
allowing it to proceed....
Posted Jan 5, 2011
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A dispute over a recent election in the West African state of Ivory Coast has
prompted calls by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for President Laurent
Gbagbo to step down. This echoes the position of the U.S. State Department....
Posted Jan 5, 2011
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