Under the guise of âefficiencyâ and the need âto build homes fasterâ, Doug Ford has introduced a bill that would significantly transform the role of Toronto and Ottawaâs Mayors. Â In reality, it is designed to strengthen a Mayorâs control over council, and at the same time to greatly weaken the Mayor and Councilâs ability to pursue the…
La Internacional Socialista se expresĂł sobre la dictadura de NicaraguaNueos Papeles, 13 August 2022La Internacional Socialista expresĂł su "profunda preocupaciĂłn ante los amedrentamientos y ataques a la Iglesia CatĂłlica, sus autoridades y lugares de culto conocidos durante las Ășltimas semanas" en Nicaragua. AsĂ comienza el comunicado que la organizaciĂłn…
The World Peace Council salutes the people of Vietnam who have suffered like only few peoples in the world the aggressions and attacks of powerful imperialist forces, namely the USA, with millions of victims during the dirty Vietnam War. The WPC is underlining 61 years from the start of the war of the USA against the Vietnamese people the need for comprehensive…
In August 1945 â World War II had formally ended in Europe just three months before â the world was confronted with an inhuman and unexpected act. Without prior notice, on the 6 th ., the United States of America (USA) dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, and three days later, another on the city of Nagasaki. At the time, these…
In the course of the revolutionary movement in Hungary the Social-Democrats had very noticeably split into a left-wing and a right-wing. Reactionaries had suffered many defeats and as a result the Social-Democrat Left was much stronger than the Right. The Social-Democrat Left-Wing supported collaboration with the Communists and had become closer and…
As every year, we must take the occasion of the 6th and 9th of August to honor the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States in 1945, and to reinforce our determined struggle against nuclear weapons, weapons of mass destruction whose use was then inaugurated by the imperialist power.In those days of August in Japan…
The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC), one of the member organisations of the Platform for Peace and Disarmament, was present at the Camp for Peace, which took place in the Municipal Swimming Pools of Ăvora, between July 29 and 31. With the participation of hundreds of young people from all over the country, the three days of the…
There are a number of reasons I have chosen not to participate in this yearâs election as a voter. It does not seem to me that anything changes with my vote. Iâm not fooled by the narrative of a two-horse race, where on one side a hustler pretends to empathize with the working class ripping the rhetoric of liberation and running with it for personal…
I am a child of the neocolonial client state, and coming from the dregs of its social ladder, I was never destined to survive its many malaria and falling houses when the rains came by â somehow, I and my kind survived; whether we thrived or not is a question for the times. Whereas the rain was a gift to the small agrarian community I came from, it…
Electoral seasons in Kenya are usually characterised by palpable tension, economic uncertainty, violence, electoral fraud, political conman ship and hoodwinking, the rise of youth gangs and ethnic mobilization. The period also provides an enabling environment for money laundering; this money is acquired from proceeds of corruption and illicit trade…
Image: Martha Karua Twitter (Royalty free)Â Kenyaâs former Prime Minister Raila Odinga and a frontrunner in the upcoming August 9th presidential election announced that Martha Karua, a former Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister (and an erstwhile fierce opponent), would be his running mate. This historic nomination made her the first woman…
The World Peace Council (WPC) expresses strongly its condemnation to the recent escalation of the US provocations with the visit of the US official delegation to Taiwan. This action undermines peace and stability in the region and fuels the tensions on all levels. These policies and actions are in line with the general foreign policy of US-imperialism…
