By Luis Feliz Leon April 1, 2022 Labor Notes Itâs the magical stuff of Disney movies. But yesterday, the improbable became the most probable when the scrappy band of workers who make up the Amazon Labor Union took the lead in a union election at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York, putting within reach a historic labor win at the corporate…
By Eric Gordon, C.J. Atkins March 18, 2022 Peopleâs World Ballad of an American: The Autobiography of Earl Robinson, co-written with Peopleâs World staff writer Eric A. Gordon has been out of print for almost twenty years. International Publishers has just reissued it in a new paperback edition now that Gordon, the surviving co-author, has secured…
By Roger Stoll March 24, 2022 On March 2 of this year the UN General Assembly met in an Emergency Session to pass a non-binding resolution condemning Russiaâs February 24 intervention in Ukraine.1 141 countries voted for the resolution, 5 voted against, 35 abstained, and 12 did not vote. (Reported: Guardian, Al Jazeera, iNews.) In the absence of any…
By W. T. Whitney Jr. March 24, 2022 War in Ukraine turns peopleâs lives and affairs upside down. Dirty laundry, previously hidden, is on display. A Russian communication March 6 mentions âevidence of an emergency clean-up performed by the Kiev regime was found â aimed at eradicating traces of the military-biological program in Ukraine, financed…
By Nick Dearden March 16, 2022Â Orinoco Tribune According to companyâs own accounts, Moderna brought in $13bn in pre-tax profits in 2021. Last month, COVID-19 vaccine maker Moderna announced its financial results for 2021. They confirmed that Modernaâs vaccine is one of the most lucrative medicines of all time, bringing in nearly $18bn in revenue…
By Daniel Kovalik March 24, 2022Â Covert Action Magazine Russia had drawn a line in the sand and, once violated, defied Washington by acting to defend its interests. A lot of countries support Russia, and Washington is powerless to stop it. If you are like me, you have been glued to the news about the Russian military operation in Ukraine and its implications…
Reviewed by W. T. Whitney Jr. The Cancer of Colonialism â âW. Alphaeus Hunton, Black Liberation, and the Daily Worker 1944-1946â; Edited by and Introduction by Tony Pecinovsky.(International Publishers, New York, 2021. ISBN- 9780717808816, 355 pages, $19.99) Political movements and activists seeking to serve the people move toward unity of purpose…
By Denise Lynn February 15, 2022 Washington Postâs âMade By Historyâ perspective section A hundred different organized groups have urged the Biden administration to reject war with Russia, despite mounting tensions caused by Russia moving closer to invading Ukraine. Polling shows little public support for a U.S. military response, nor has…
By Vijay Prashad April 3, 2022Â Peopleâs Democracy THE war in Ukraine is not a simple war. This is not a war merely between two neighbours about a border dispute, for instance. It is a complex war, a war not only between Russia and Ukraine but also a war that involves the United States and NATO (the Trojan Horse of the United States). The battlefield…
By David U. Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler, Adam Gaffney, Don McCanne and John Geyman March 31, 2022 The Nation Communities, not corporations, should own our most vital health care assets. We have long advocated for single-payer national health insurance. By eliminating private insurers and simplifying how providers are paid, single-payer…
By Greg Godels March 21, 2022 V. I. Leninâs pamphlet, Imperialism, remains the leading elaboration of the concept of imperialism for Marxists. It is the starting point for any discussion of the global dynamics of capitalism from the late- nineteenth century until today. While capitalism has taken twists, turns, and even detours since Leninâs time…
Reviewed by Roger Keeran Red Roulette: An Insiderâs Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Todayâs China by Desmond Shum. London and New York et al.: Simon & Schuster, 2021. $14.99. Pp. 310. Red Roulette recounts the life of Desmond Shum, the story of his birth in Shanghai in 1968, his upbringing in Hong Kong, his education at…
Reviewed by Roger D. Harris Wild Green Oranges, by Bob Baldock. (Clapton Press, London, 2021, 238 pages) Wild Green Oranges describes how author Bob Baldock dropped out of college and was at loose ends in 1958. Then he became inspired after a chance viewing of a newsreel. It was about a band of rebels in the remote eastern mountains of Cuba fighting…
By Greg Godels April 3, 2022 While debates rage unproductively over which side to support in the Ukraine war, the larger questions of who will ultimately gain and who will lose are becoming clearer. Making matters most difficult is the fog of tricked-out misinformation flowing from all sides, reminding us of how capitalism has corrupted, vulgarized…
The Defeat of Oneâs Own Government in the Imperialist War In July 1915, when this article was written the war on its Western Front had settled into trench warfare that would claim the lives of millions. The Second International had collapsed, as its parties voted to support the war policies of their own capitalist ruling class. -THE EDITORS During…
The election of Donald Trump and the siege of the US Capitol on Jan. 6 made clear the rising political power of the right in America, but this is not an isolated phenomenonâright-wing power is surging across the globe. From India, Brazil, and the Philippines, to Hungary and the US, we find right-wing political movements that are challenging the established…
The Russian militaryâs invasion of Ukraine has provoked nationalist drum beats around the world. Socialists face huge pressure to side with the capitalist classes of the nations in which they reside, rather than with the global working class. Elsewhere Socialist Alternative has challenged the pressures for socialists to line up behind the U.S. and…
From warming water to shifting growing seasons, Ontario is already seeing the effects of climate change. But for the most part, Doug Ford and his government say, the provinceâs natural resources are doing just fine. In a report the government had declined to make public until The Narwhal requested it through freedom of information legislation, the…
Graphic from The Economist Opposition to the Russian invasion to the exclusion of all other causes of the war rests upon the view that there has been an aggressive invasion of Ukraine and its people have the right to defend themselves. This cardinal fact supersedes consideration of all issues before the invasion occurred. In doing so, while thinking…
JK Rowling, the now-infamous author of the Harry Potter series, has been rightfully condemned for her stances on trans people and gender identity. But what are we supposed to do with her still-popular and influential books and the deep attachments we have to them? It would be easy to condemn Harry Potter and all its fans as neoliberal trash, but, as…
Doug Valentine is the author of The CIA As Organised Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World. ***** Amongst the many Nazis recycled by the west in the wake of the second world war was one Reinhard Gehlen, the former Wehrmacht intelligence chief turned CIA asset. His personal spy network â the Gehlen Organisation â infiltrated…
"The war of fakes is being escalated. Regarding the alleged atrocities in Bucha, Kiev region. The Russians left Bucha on March 30. On March 31 the Buchaâs mayor reported that the town is free. On April 2 Ukrainian police and nationalist detachments entered Bucha and there were no dead bodies on streets. On April 3 there appear pictures of dead bodies…
By Luke Gitar, Minneapolis Federation of Teachers Steward & 5th Grade Teacher For three weeks in March, Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and Education Support Professionals Local 59 faced sub-zero temperatures, ice, snow, wind, and rain as they picketed and rallied in a strike against the Minneapolis Public School district administration (MPS). It…
The Socialist International unreservedly condemns the massacre of civilians by Russian forces in Ukraine, the true scale of which was devastatingly laid bare over the last two days in the commuter town of Bucha, northwest of Kyiv. Since the Russian retreat from areas around Kyiv, concrete evidence has emerged of war crimes committed by invading forces…
Photo: Nov. 21 demonstration in Seattle against U.S. intervention against Ethiopia and Eritrea The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has overwhelmingly approved a new measure designed to impose sanctions on Ethiopia. Known as the Ethiopia Peace and Stabilization Act of 2022, the bill authorizes the U.S. government to suspend financial and security…