Celebrations erupted the night of November 28 as leftist candidate Xiomara Castro took a commanding lead over Nasry Asfura of the right-wing National Party. Fireworks were set off outside the headquarters of Castroâs Liberty and Refoundation Party (LIBRE) as supporters sang. In contrast, the ruling National Partyâs headquarters was reported to be…
By William Camacaro and Frederick Mills Caracas, VenezuelaThis slightly edited article first appeared on the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) website on Nov. 22 at tinyurl.com/2p8n6n87. The article was updated on Nov. 23. Translations into English are by the authors. Venezuelans celebrate Chavismo 2021 electoral victories. On Sunday, Nov. 21, Venezuela…
San Jose protest against the Rittenhouse verdict. (Fight Back! News/staff) San Jose, CA - Community members rallied November 20 to demand justice for Black Lives Matter protesters who were gunned down by Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse was acquitted on all counts. The community observed that this ruling sets a chilling precedent…
Get the Marines ready. Store the supplies. Marshal the allies. The United States is getting ready for war (the preferable term in Washington is policing) in the Indo-Pacific region, and is hoping to do so with a range of expanded bases across client states, or what it prefers to call friends. On November 29, the Pentagon announced that US President…
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are former French colonies, where the struggle against Franceâs presence in the Sahel region of Africa has been most intense, with mass actions marking the last two weeks of November. Resistance in these countries takes many shapes and forms.Black line shows route taken by French Army convoy â which sparked protests…
Xiomara Castro has won a landslide election 12 years after the 2009 US and Canadian backed military coup. Her win is being celebrated by leftists around the world though she will no doubt face immediate and relentless attempts to undermine her presidency by the forces of reaction and imperialism.Image via TwitterThe National Party in Honduras is conceding…
Bay Area, Calif.âThis fall, Suzanne and I decided to drive to Wisconsin to visit a friend. One thing we wanted to check was the extent of drought in North America. How far east did it extend? Depleted reservoirs extended as far east as Wyoming. The situation changed by the time we got to Minnesota. In the Mississippi valley there were hundreds of…
Editorial Perspective: âThe Mute Compulsion of Economic Relationsâ: Towards a Marxist Theory of the Abstract and Impersonal Power of Capital. SĂžren Mau Symposium Radical Historicism or Rules of Reproduction? New Debates in Political Marxism An Introduction to the Symposium on Knafo and Teschke. MaĂŻa Pal Political Marxism and the Rules of Reproduction…
Keir Starmer's latest lurch to the right has cemented Blairism at the helm of the Labour Party once again, writes Terina Hine Keir Starmer has a new front bench. It is his second reshuffle in just over six months and the second to be overshadowed by a row with his Deputy Leader, Angela Rayner. And although this time Starmer appeared to get the team…
Josephine Baker at the Civil Rights March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963 The famed entertainer and civil rights activist attended the March on Washington in August, 1963 at which Martin Luther King Jr. gave his historic "I Have a Dream" speech. Baker was in her Free French military uniform and wearing her medals. During the war she had courageously…
By Matthew J.L. Ehret / November 30th, 2021 Amidst the early days of the COP26 Summit in Glasgow, Pope Francis made several accolades to world leaders and the entire global Catholica community alike to take bold action in the face of anthropogenic climate change and drastically alter our entire system of values towards a new order. Referring to the…
The U.S. is home to the largest number of privately-operated charter schools in the world (about 7,400). While they take different forms and are called different things, charter schools also exist in much smaller numbers in New Zealand, England, United Arab Emirates, Australia, and Canada. Charter schools are privatized, marketized, corporatized school…
From the APL Labor Commission. To join our commissions, visit here. On November 29th, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ordered a new vote for the Amazon workers of Bessemer, Alabama after finding that Amazon employed illegal union-busting methods to successfully undermine the union drive. From 2016 to 2017, 41.5% of union drives collapsed under…
Back in the spring, we spoke with three graduate student workers at Columbia University who were on strike with the Student Workers of Columbia union, UAW Local 2110. After rank-and-file members rejected the tentative agreement between the university and the bargaining committee, negotiations continued. However, Columbia has still failed to meet key…
Senator Bernie Sanders has endorsed the Kshama Solidarity Campaign! âOnce again,â Bernie said in his endorsement, âthe wealthy and special interests are making a power grab for Kshama Sawantâs seat because she has the guts to stand up for working people. We need to unite together to stop this baseless recall. If you live in Seattleâs District…
On Wednesday 24 November, under the cover of darkness, dozens of refugees â in search of a more dignified life â drowned crossing the Channel. Huddled together with no lights, no radar, and certainly no plan B, 27 men, women, and children perished as their dinghy deflated and sank. This is the worst (recorded) incident of its kind since the migrant…
Xiomara Castro, candidate of the Libre party (Freedom and Refoundation Party), the main force in the opposition coalition, has won the elections in Honduras. The regime established by the 2009 coup has been overthrown. With 40% of the votes tallied, Xiomara is ahead with 53.61% against 33.87% for Nasry Afura (nickname âPapi a la ordenâââDaddy…
We present here a reading guide for Alan Woodsâs The History of Philosophy: A Marxist Perspective, which can help you digest the many key insights from this unique text. The study questions at the end of each chapter can be used to stimulate discussion in reading groups.The question may be raised: why bother studying complicated questions of science…
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Nov. 29, 2021. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. Leftist presidential candidate Xiomara Castro took a decisive lead in Hondurasâ election on Sunday, setting her up to defeat the right-wing incumbent partyâs candidateâthough progressive observers…
By C.J. Hopkins / November 30th, 2021 Triumph of the Will (1935) So, GloboCap has crossed the Rubicon. The final phase of its transformation of society into a pathologized-totalitarian dystopia, where mandatory genetic-therapy injections and digital compliance papers are commonplace, is now officially underway. On November 19, 2021, the government of…
Meritt, BC, flooding, 17 November 2021 (Photo: Stepan/CC) After a year like no other, which has seen record-breaking heatwaves and wildfires that ravaged towns and led to thousands of hectares of land being destroyed, British Columbia (BC), Canada, has faced yet another historical disaster in the form of unprecedented floods. Undoubtedly linked to global…
Warangal District, November 30, 2021:Â The CPI (Maoist) has expelled its politburo member and senior most leader Kobad Ghandy accusing him of abandoning the âdialectical and historical materialism, principles of Marxism and class struggleâ and âfor selecting the way of getting happiness through mysticism.â In a press release dated November 27…
Xiomara Castro, candidate of the Libre party (Freedom and Refoundation Party), the main force in the opposition coalition, has won the elections in Honduras. The regime established by the 2009 coup has been overthrown. With 40 percent of the votes tallied, Xiomara is ahead with 53.61 percent against 33.87 percent for Nasry Afura (nickname âPapi a…
This week, from 1-3 December, UCU members in higher education will take part in three consecutive days of strike action, alongside action short of a strike (ASOS). These actions mark the beginning of a new phase of struggle in defence of pensions and for a new settlement on pay, casualisation, equalities, and workload (the Four Fights). UCU Marxists…
The presidential elections in Chile will go to a run-off between the far-right candidate JosĂ© Antonio Kast, and Gabriel Boric from the Apruebo Dignidad coalition (âApprove Dignityâ: a conglomerate involving the leftist coalition Frente Amplio, plus the Communist Party). This comes after a first round where Kast won 28 percent and Boric obtained…
