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 [...]
Cheddi Jagan “Marxism-Leninism is outdated; it is a foreign ideology, it has no relevance to present day realities…” This is the theme song of the puppets and defenders of imperialism, and unfortunately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 [...]
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 [...]
Helen Yaffe COVID-19 emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late December 2019, and by January 2020 it had hit Hubei province like a tidal wave, swirling over China and rippling out overseas. The Chinese state rolled into action to combat its [...]
On March 15, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro filed a formal request to the IMF for $5 billion of emergency funding to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. He wrote, “Only under the spirit of solidarity, brotherhood, and social discipline, we will be [...]
By Peter Miller in Chongqing I’m in China during the pandemic and it’s pained me to see anti-Chinese propaganda gaining ground in the West, including in Canada. Instead of blaming China for a virus that knows no borders, we should be looking [...]
In response to the COVID-19 health crisis, communist and workers' parties around the world have issued a joint statement, demanding emergency measures to protect health and human rights. The parties recognize that, in the context of capitalism, [...]
One would expect that the most serious impact of Donald Trump’s tightening of sanctions against Cuba would be on the Cuban people themselves. However, on a recent trip to Havana, our delegation heard that the US blockade is now threatening the [...]
Following the refusal of the country’s king, Mswati III, to approve the registration of an organization advocating for LGBTIQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer+) rights, the Communist Party of Swaziland issued a statement of [...]
For the first time since Juan Guaidó’s auto-proclamation as so-called interim president of Venezuela in January 2019, a meeting of the Lima Group (with its numerous political statements) has failed to even mention his name. All previous meetings of [...]