Bolivia’s state-owned services are being dismantled and sold off to the private sector, exiled former president Evo Morales warned on Saturday, accusing the coup administration of destroying the country. Morales reminded Bolivians of the need to [...]
COVID-19 has reminded us, brutally, that not only do capital, goods, ideas (useful and nasty) and people flow like wind and water in this world; our mutating viruses do too. Less obviously, the pandemic has put communism back on the table. I use [...]
Early in the morning on May 3, Venezuela witnessed an attempted raid on the central coast, by armed mercenary forces in speedboats, just a few kilometres from the capital city of Caracas. Just a couple of hours later, while the defensive [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
"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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
