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Trump exits, Biden enters, Cold War continues

By Greg Godels Biden’s first week or so in office proved eventful. He began to aggressively undo much of what Trump undid of the Obama presidency. In essence, he is returning US politics to 2016. For those who longed only for the exit of Trump [...]

UK-EU trade deal maintains domination of big business

By Robert Griffiths and John Foster The UK-EU trade agreement is a compromise between the interests of British state-monopoly capitalism on the one side and those of German and French monopoly capital – represented by their states and the EU – [...]

An exploration of Maoism and its continuing allure

Maoism: A Global History 2019 Author: Julia Lovell Publisher: Penguin Random House Reviewed by Brian W. Major Julia Lovell’s book is a detailed study of the history, impact, appeal and legacy of Mao Zedong and Maoism globally. [...]

Against Modi terror tactics, Indian farmers stand firm

By B Prasant, Kolkata The farmers’ sit-in has now passed two months. In the rainy winter cold of northern India, 171 of the demonstrators have succumbed to the extreme weather, mostly the elderly and the ill. None of the central or state [...]

Canadian Network on Cuba launches campaign for emergency medical supplies

There is a bitter irony in the fact that Cuba, a country which sent emergency medical brigades around the world to help fight the coronavirus pandemic, is forced by the US blockade to confront shortages of medical supplies in its own borders. But [...]

Philippines’ Duterte poised to export anti-communist campaign worldwide

PV Staff Progressive Filipino organizations in North America and Europe are being warning that the government of Rodrigo Duterte is preparing to export its deadly campaign against left-wing activists to those regions. The National Task Force [...]

Farmers dig in for long haul against Modi’s neoliberalism

By B Prasant As I move away from the massive kisan (farmers and peasants) assemblage at the Singhu border between the province of Haryana and Delhi, a heavy drizzle starts to add to my misery in the bone-chilling cold of late Indian winter. I [...]

Argentinian women: “We will never go back underground!”

Legal, safe and free abortion is law in Argentina, after the Senate assented to a pivotal struggle for the country’s feminist movement. Now the fight will continue for its effective implementation. The Senate approved the Voluntary Termination of [...]

US blockade caused Cuba $5.5 billion economic loss last year

By T. Whitney Jr. Cuba’s Foreign Ministry every year prepares a report on Cuba’s experience with the US economic blockade of the island, in force since 1962. On October 22, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez presented this year’s report at a press [...]

Indian farmers’ fight is a struggle for survival

Farmers in India are fighting a historic struggle for their very survival as farmers. Under cover of the COVID crisis, the far-right government of Narendra Modi passed three pro-corporate agriculture bills which hand control of the sector to [...]