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Celebrate the victory over fascism…and defend it!

It’s one of the most famous images from World War II – perhaps of the entire 20th century. Yevgeny Khaldei’s photograph of soldiers from the Soviet Red Army, raising the red banner over the fallen Nazi Reichstag on May 9, 1945, is the unquestioned [...]

Pandemic brings out far-right responses

When is science not actually scientific? One answer is that research which cherry-picks and manipulates facts to support a preconceived hypothesis is not truly scientific. Long after Galileo and Copernicus demolished the Ptolemaic theory, some [...]

Discussion with elected French communist Diana Kdouh

"Our victory stems from our daily activism" France has a long tradition of electing communists locally. As Georges Marchais noted in his 1980 book L’espoir au present (Hope in the Present), “The French Communist Party has 28,000 elected [...]

Open letter to PM, demanding end to economic sanctions

The following letter was issued on April 13 by the Hamilton Coalition To Stop The War and the Mouvement Québécois pour la paix/Quebec Movement for Peace. The letter's 100 signatories ask the Prime Minister to suspend Canada’s economic sanctions [...]

Socialism vs capitalism in the battle against coronavirus

Jianhong Li The capitalist West is terrified by coronavirus, which has already taken a toll on its seemingly forever-declining economy. On the other hand, China has successfully managed to put the virus under control and emerged stronger than [...]

Mike Pompeo and the politics of illegal sanctions

Virus-stricken Iran stares into the face of pure evil Séamus Kenny Since the victory of the Iranian Revolution, which saw the overthrow of tyrannical US installed monarch Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1979 and the establishment of the Islamic [...]

NATO: a virus as deadly as COVID-19

As of the time of writing, the death toll from COVID-19 has exceeded 40,000 and the number of people infected by this pandemic is approaching one million. Given the scale of this health crisis, there is no doubt that emergency measures, in [...]

The US-Taliban peace agreement promises to be anything but

A dark cloud of vengeance over Kabul Special to PV, by Lawang Diyar On February 29, a historic event took place in the Qatari capital of Doha, when formerly blocklisted Taliban representatives signed a historic peace deal with top US diplomat [...]

Lenin at 150: Relevant and revolutionary

Cheddi Jagan “Marxism-Leninism is outdated; it is a foreign ideology, it has no relevance to present day realities…” This is the theme song of the puppets and defenders of imperialism, and unfortunately of quite a few who call themselves [...]

US sends warships to Caribbean Sea, targeting Venezuela

In one of the largest military operations the region has seen since the US invasion of Panama in 1989, Donald Trump has ordered a massive buildup of warships in the Caribbean Sea as part of the escalating US aggression against Venezuela. The [...]

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