Profits, Coercion, and Resistance: Canadian Imperialism in Latin America

An Introduction to the symposium on Blood of Extraction: Canadian Imperialism in Latin America Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber An article published in Third World Quarterly in 2008 was our initiation into collaborative work on Canadian mining imperialism and the popular forms of resistance it systematically engenders in Latin America. The first seed. After…

Deep Politics: Iran-Contra, WACL and World War III

The following is an interview with Hugo Turner, a researcher with a passion for studying the covert operations of the 70’s and 80’s. We discussed his four part series on the history of the Iran-contra scandal. They can be found at his blog here: part I, part II, part III, part IV. Our Hidden History…

All White Women Owe Reparations to African People

By Penny Hess, Chair of the African People’s Solidarity Committee An estimated 2.6 million mostly white women participated in the January 21 Women’s March on Washington and in cities across the country following the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th U.S. president. The rallies were not considered “protests;” although they had a mission statement, the…

The Deep State, Operation Gladio and the Crimes of the US Empire

Gary Weglarz The key institutions of Western societies have lost their credibility.  They fail to merit either the respect or loyalty of the domestic populations they purport to serve.  Testing the validity of this assertion requires examination of Western institutions from a holistic rather than fragmentary perspective. This is easier said than done.  There exists…

Drought in Africa 2017: Millions of Lives at Risk

Obi Anyadike Editor-at-Large and Africa Editor Farmers, traders and consumers across East and Southern Africa are feeling the impact of consecutive seasons of drought that have scorched harvests and ruined livelihoods. The El Niño-driven crisis has increased the malnutrition rates of rural children, and driven up food prices for urban residents. Livestock deaths and fire…

Communism and Black Liberation: All Reactionaries are Paper Tigers

Metaphysics, Materialism and the Struggle for Black Liberation Comrade Mond I remember my first introduction to “pro black” literature. I was young, couldn’t have been older than 7 or 8 years old, when my father showed me the Willie Lynch letters and excerpts from the “Issys Papers”. I thought these were the answers. I was…

Surveillance State: Algorithmic Control and the Revolution of Desire

Editorial Comment: It is impossible to entirely escape the all-pervasive global surveillance apparatus, but we can take measures to secure a certain degree of privacy. Technology is designed to appeal to our false “corporate-imposed” notions of what it is that we think we desire or need. These notions have absolutely no foundation in reality. They…

Cuban Minister of Culture, Abel Prieto Jiménez: “The battle of revolutionary consciousness and ideas must be won.”

A conversation with Cuban Minister of Culture, Abel Prieto Jiménez, reminds us, “The battle of consciousness and ideas must be won,” in a world in which some insist that revolutionary thinking belongs in a museum. Alina Perera Robbio | perera@juventudrebelde.cu Caracas. The great battle underway today on a global level is taking place in the…

Rwanda, Paul Kagame’s Economic Mirage: An Interview with David Himbara

By Ann Garrison The tiny East African nation of Rwanda has played a unique and prominent role in U.S. political ideation since the 1994 massacres known as the Rwanda Genocide. The West’s so-called “failure to intervene in Rwanda” – and the Holocaust – became arguments for violating the national sovereignty of nations in the Global…

Xenophobia: South Africa is Disgracing Itself and Its Friends

Cameron Duodu Attacks against resident non-South African Blacks are particularly disturbing, given the great assistance poor Black nations gave to South Africans during their struggle against white rule. One wonders if African “outsiders” are being “used by politicians who have become unpopular due to their lack of performance, to distract attention from problems such as…

Confronting Black Jacobins : How the Haitian Revolution Smashed Slavery Worldwide

Hugo Turner The Haitian revolution (1791-1804) was one of the most important events in modern history. It was the first successful anti-slavery revolution. Not only did Haiti’s slaves manage to liberate themselves, they also inflicted crushing defeats on three empires. Spain, France and Britain suffered catastrophic losses trying to take back the island from its…

Facebook Zero and the “People’s Receiver”

Tony Cartalucci “All of Germany hears the Führer with the People’s Receiver,” reads a World War II propaganda poster. It was advertising the Volksempfänger – or, the People’s Receiver – described by the US Holocaust Museum which contains one of the radios in its collection in Washington D.C. as: Goebbels’s ministry recognized the tremendous promise of…

A Call to Support the Libyan National Army as Martyrs are Laid to Rest Today

APPROXIMATE UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION The Libyan army has been fighting extremist groups backed by Italy in the oil Crescent area. The soldiers and officers generously offer themselves, their life blood, to defend the livelihood of the Libyan people, to prevent the Libyan oil from landing in the hands of terrorists who will use it as a…

Women Workers Opened the Way for the 1917 Russian Revolution

John Catalinotto One hundred years ago the women workers of St. Petersburg, Russia, began a strike on International Women’s Day which opened the struggle that soon ended the 370-year rule of the czars and led in eight months to the first socialist state. A key factor was the change in consciousness of the soldiers in…

Women of the Black Panther Party Reflect on Today’s Struggle

Women of the Black Panther Party Reflect on Today’s Struggle, Staying Engaged and Why Trump’s Win Might be a Good Thing By Kiilu Nyash The Black Panther Party just closed out its 50th anniversary year. On this occasion, the Intersectional Black Panther Party History Project spoke with Panther women about leadership, electoral politics and what…

Native History: AIM Occupation of Wounded Knee Begins

Robert Onco with his AK47 during the occupation of Wounded Knee, 1973. In this March 3, 1973 file photo, a U.S. flag flies upside down outside a church occupied by members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), background, on the site of the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, S.D. AIM’s occupation of Wounded Knee triggered…

El Che en la Revolución Cubana

Fiery Prophet of the Dawn – Poem by Che Guevara ENGLISH | FRANÇAIS Fernando Martínez Heredia Palabras de Fernando Martínez Heredia en la presentación del tomo 7 de la obrar El Che en la revolución cubana, durante la Feria del Libro de La Habana. La publicación de este séptimo tomo de El Che en la…

Canada Is Not a Welcoming Country for Refugees

By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours Wearing a fur-trim hat and winter gloves, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer smiled widely at the young child in his arms, dressed in a grey toque, pink hoodie, and snow-covered boots. A second officer stood behind them, reaching out to help two more, bundled-up youngsters and a woman across the snowy embankment….

Anti-Cuban Provocation Fails: Declaration by Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Relations

Over the last few weeks, international media have reported the intention of OAS General Secretary Luis Almagro Lemes to travel to Havana, in order to receive a “prize” invented by an illegal grouplet, which operates in concert with the ultra-right wing Foundation for Pan American Democracy, created in the days of the 7th Summit of…

Fidel, Political Power and the New Culture of Communication

By  Arnold August Among his many other achievements, Fidel Castro’s accomplishments as the constructor of the new Cuban society include: overthrowing capitalism in favour of socialism and its related principles of equality and solidarity; defeating U.S. neo-colonialist domination to attain sovereignty, independence and dignity; upholding human rights in the areas of health, education, culture and…

52 Years Ago Today, Malcolm X was Murdered

Malcolm X was murdered on February 21, 1965. Born Malcolm Little and later was also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz “They think they are living in a police state, and they become hostile toward the policemen. They think that the policeman is there to be against them rather than to protect them. And these thoughts,…

José Martí and Fidel Castro: Two Lifetimes Connected by the Same Revolution

The people can only deposit its energy and trust on those who have the strength to carry it. This relationship between the individual and the masses, between leader and people, explains why Martí remained alive in the memory of Cubans and why Fidel will remain there as well. Source: Bohemia Translated by Cuba-Network in Defense…

Morocco’s Controversial Return to the African Union

SADR’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Salem Uld Salek, expressed his government’s willingness to negotiate an end to Rabat’s occupation of Sahrawi territory, based on his people’s right to self-determination. Darcy Borrero Batista | informacion@granma.cu Morocco is, for many, reminiscent of the love of a bygone era, epitomized by Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart in…

Back in Black

Salar Mohandesi On Friday, May 3, 1968, several hundred radical students stared down a contingent of fascists outside the Sorbonne, in Paris. The day before, the neo-fascist group Occident torched the offices of a leftist student organization, leaving behind their call sign, the Celtic Cross. In response, radical students called for a demonstration against “fascism…

The Global Dimensions of the Life and Legacy of Malcolm X

Revolutionary leader developed amid monumental changes around the world By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 3 Note: This is the text of a lecture delivered at Henry Ford College in Dearborn, Michigan in honor of African American History Month on February 8, 2017. The program was sponsored by the campus African American…

Queen Mother Moore (1898-1997): A Legacy of Revolutionary Resistance

Audley Moore blazed a trail from Garveyism and Communism to Pan-Africanism and Reparations By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 2 One leading figure in the 20th century movement for African liberation in the United States and around the world is Audley Eloise Moore, widely known as Queen Mother Moore. Her efforts spanned…

Trump’s Gifts to Wall Street and the Pentagon

New United States president intensifies war drive and the supremacy of finance capital By Abayomi Azikiwe Since the Great Recession of 2007-2010, cited as the worst capitalist economic downturn since the Depression in the 1930s, the United States financial system has been “stabilized” by the massive intervention of the Government and the Federal Reserve Bank….

Are Guatemalan Kaibiles Hired Guns for Canadian Mining?

During the country’s 36-year civil war and genocide, the U.S.-trained Kaibil special forces committed some of the very worst atrocities and war crimes. By Grahame Russell A new criminal investigation in Guatemala is investigating whether the country’s army and Kaibil special forces worked with Hudbay Minerals and CGN (Guatemalan Nickel Company, then owned by Hudbay)…

Marta Harnecker: “A New Revolutionary Subject has Been Created in Venezuela”

Chilean scholar Marta Harnecker talks Marxism, Venezuela and the Latin American left with Greek journalist Tassos Tsakiroglou during her recent visit to Athens. You are coming to Greece for a Conference on the actuality of Marx’s theoretical system. In the midst of a severe international financial crisis, what lessons can we draw from Marx’s critique of…

The Deteriorating Health of Hannibal Qaddafi Requires His Immediate, Unconditional Release

Alexandra Valiente Viva Libya! According to reports from Beirut, Lebanon,  Hannibal Qaddafi’s health is deteriorating at an alarming rate. Hannibal was abducted in Damascus by members of the Amal Movement on December 11, 2015, while under the protection of the Syrian government. I stated at that time, “Hannibal Gaddafi was abducted in Damascus earlier today…