Editor’s note: Workers World reprints below an official statement from the Korean People’s Army on the dangerous situation created by U.S. military moves close to the boundaries of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea — north Korea. We think it’s important that people in the U.S. hear directly from the Koreans themselves, especially since the [...]
French troops in Central African Republic during coup
A military coup on March 24 in the capital city of Bangui changed the government of the Central African Republic. Michel Djotodia is the leader of the Seleka Coalition, which seized power and established a new government largely composed of political figures who had been in opposition to the former regime. Francois Bozize, who was [...]
U.S. secretly fuels Syria’s flames
While the Obama administration continues to claim that it is providing only “nonlethal” aid to the Syrian opposition, its role in fueling the bloody war there is increasingly coming to light. After two years of conflict, more than 70,000 people have been killed and over a million displaced in what is being described in the [...]
Not another war! Pentagon out of Korea
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Deirdre Griswold April 2, 2013 » Add the second comment.
For a second month, tens of thousands of U.S. and south Korean troops are carrying out simulated assaults on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea — north Korea. For the first time during these annual “exercises,” designated as Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, nuclear-capable B-2 bombers flew from Missouri to south Korea and back in [...]
Bankers provoked Cyprus crisis
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David Sole April 1, 2013 » Add the first comment.
The European economic crisis has crashed down upon the small nation of Cyprus. A second “bailout” was announced on March 25 after mass protests shook Cyprus over the terms of a first proposal only eight days earlier. The revised austerity terms, however, are bound to result in further protests as unemployment, service cuts and recession [...]
What the Troika did to Cyprus: Robbing depositors & calling it a ‘rescue’
Cyprus is a small island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea with an economy valued at less than 1 percent of Europe’s total. Yet what has just happened to Cyprus has dire implications for people wherever bankers rule the roost — which is the entire capitalist world. The big imperialist banks of Europe have forced [...]
Newly-elected Kenyan President forced to stand trial by the ICC
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Abayomi Azikiwe March 31, 2013 » Add the second comment.
Known on the continent as the “African Criminal Court” due to its exclusive indictments, prosecution and persecution of African leaders, the International Criminal Court has refused to drop charges against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. Kenyatta was elected by over 50 percent of the people during internationally supervised polls in early March. The U.S. State Department’s [...]
Anti-imperialist seminar honors Chávez
Mexico City — The recent death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frias became a central focus for the hundreds of progressives and revolutionaries from all over Latin America, about half from Mexico, and from every continent who gathered in Mexico City in mid-March for the 17th annual Seminar on “Parties and the New Society.” The [...]
Detroit and Colombia: Auto workers fight back
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Martha Grevatt March 30, 2013 » Add the first comment.
March 23 marked the 600th day of occupation outside the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia, by a group of fired auto workers. The members of Asotrecol — Association of Workers and Ex-workers of GM Colmotores — set up the encampment Aug. 1, 2011, to draw attention to the cases of more than 200 workers who [...]
Obama targets Palestinian goals & Syria’s sovereignty
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David Sole March 28, 2013 » Add the first comment.
President Barack Obama’s four-day visit to Israel, the first since his first election in 2008, began March 20. Worldwide media attention was focused on what the powerful U.S. leader would tell its client regime and settler state. Overall, reports indicated worse news for the beleaguered Palestinian people and for sovereign Syria. Obama took the gravest [...]
