CPC denounces US destabilization campaign, calls for end to blockade In response to the July 11 protests in Cuba, the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) has denounced this latest US-backed destabilization attempt and is calling for increased [...]
On June 23, the United Nations General Assembly will vote on a motion to again condemn the US blockade of Cuba. The UN has repeatedly voted in favour of similar motions, by very wide margins, but this year’s vote is particularly important because of [...]
Interview with Cuban Ambassador Josefina Vidal The importance of the Cuban Revolution cannot be overestimated. For over 60 years, it has stood as a beacon for workers and oppressed people all over the world, and particularly in Latin America. It [...]
Peace and progressive movements in Canada have called on the Trudeau government to pressure on the right-wing Colombian government of Iván Duque to end its 'reign of terror' against the people. The statement was signed by the Colombia Working Group, [...]
Starting in January 2021, Cuba began to implement broad economic reforms designed to increase production and exports, in an effort to mitigate the effects of the US blockade and the coronavirus pandemic. The following article, republished from the [...]
Around the world, as the contradictions of capitalism sharpen, people are becoming more critical of a system that doesn’t provide their needs and which shifts more and more wealth and power into the coffers and board rooms of a tiny few. But [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]