Robyn C. Spencer Fascism has been thrust into the mainstream political vocabulary of the United States since the election of President Donald Trump on a platform grounded in xenophobia, corporate dominance and right wing white nationalism. After the election, search engines and online dictionaries reported a dramatic increase in users seeking to define the term. News…
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NATO’s Disrespect of Libyan Sovereignty Continues
Alexandra Valiente Jens Stoltenberg met with Fayez al-Sarraj at NATO Headquarters today where Stoltenberg offered support to the reprobate UN-US-NATO imposed “government of accord” (OS). The proposed intervention included building military institutions and an intelligence apparatus, with the unstated objective of completing Libya’s destruction as a sovereign nation. (See the official NATO propaganda statement at…
Eritrea: End the Unjust US-Engineered UN Sanctions on Eritrea Based on No Evidence
By Elias Amare @eliasamare On December 23, 2009 (Resolution 1907) and later on December 5, 2011 (Resolution 2023), the US engineered and imposed unjust and illegitimate sanctions on Eritrea at the UN Security Council. At that time, there was no evidence presented to justify these sanctions. Seven years later, despite the lack of evidence and…
EU Resolution on Palestine Follows a Conveniently Altered Narrative
By Ramona Wadi Earlier this week, the EU Parliamentary Assembly voted on a report titled “The Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza” and adopted Resolution 2142, which consisted of a rehashing of various recommendations seeking to condemn Israel while throwing in a measure of normalisation by propagating the two-state paradigm and the discourse of conflict. The report,…
The New Merchants of Death
Social movements ought to place private military contractors at the center of a broader critique of authoritarian neoliberalism and America’s permanent war economy. By Jeremy Kuzmarov In August 2016, the Pentagon announced that Six3 Intelligence Solutions, a private intelligence company recently acquired by California Analysis Center Incorporated (CACI), which was implicated in the Abu Ghraib scandal,…
The ZAD: An Autonomous Zone in the Heart of France
In a heroic struggle of solidarity and resistance, locals and activists of the ZAD have been fighting against the construction of an airport for many years. Martin Legall It all started decades ago with the local resistance against the construction of a second airport near the city of Nantes in western France. Eight years ago,…
Israel’s Shadowy Role in Guatemala’s Dirty War
Gabriel Schivone Last year was a busy one for Guatemala’s criminal justice system. January 2016 saw the arrests of 18 former military officers for their alleged part in the country’s dirty war of the 1980s. In February last year, two ex-soldiers were convicted in an unprecedented wartime sexual slavery case from the same era. Such…
CELAC Political Declaration of Punta Cana
CELAC Approves the Political Declaration of Punta Cana Havana, Cuba, Jan 26 ACN The heads of Government and State of the 33 member countries of the Community of Latin American and the Caribbean States (CELAC) approved the Political Declaration of Punta Cana. The document states that CELAC is a space for the promotion of common…
Raul Castro´s Speech at the Fifth CELAC Summit
Never has it been more necessary to effectively advance along the path of unity Havana, Cuba, Jan 26 Cuban News Agency now reproduces the full text of the speech delivered by the Cuban President Raul Castro during the Fifth Summit of the Community of Latin American and the Caribbean States (CELAC) held in the Dominican…
Behind African Migration
A report by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) indicated that the total number of migrants arriving in Europe by two main sea routes (Eastern Mediterranean route, and across the Western Balkans) in 2016 fell by nearly two-thirds compared to 2015 Author: Darcy Borrero Batista | informacion@granma.cu Despite high migratory rates toward the…
Hojas Sueltas: Heartrending Stories of Latin America’s Revolutionary Women
Author: Nuria Barbosa León | internet@granma.cu Swiss architect, journalist and filmmaker explains that his documentary Hojas Sueltas is a tribute to the courage of Latin American women. The desire to vindicate women active in the emancipatory struggles of Latin America motivated Swiss architect, journalist, and filmmaker René Lechleiter to produce the documentary Hojas Sueltas. The film,…
Extraordinary Developments in the Struggle for the Liberation of Libya
Editorial Comment: Rarely am I able to provide translations for important communiques. The following declarations were translated by the Libyan Resistance and published in stages over the past week. These are official translations, legal and historic documents. They are important in that they reveal the true situation in Libya, the strength of the Resistance, the…
Global Trends Report: US Intelligence Recognizes the End of Unipolarity
By Miguel Ángel Barrios Source alainet Translated By Cuba-Network in Defense of Humanity The last few years were marked by the debate on the characteristics of world politics after the end of the cold war. The majority of major analysts of the Anglo-American political-academic realm left no doubt that we were moving towards the formation of…
Fifty-five Years After Lumumba’s Assassination, Congolese See No Relief
An interview with Friends of the Congo Executive Director Maurice Carney By Ann Garrison Ann Garrison: Maurice Carney, could you summarize what has happened in the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the last two months, while most of our attention was fixed on Trump, Russia and Syria? Maurice Carney: Certainly. On Dec. 19, President…
Gustavo Castro Soto Wins Visionary Justice Award
By Beverly Bell For extraordinary courage despite persistent danger to his life, for tireless work on behalf of Mother Earth and indigenous and campesino communities, for decades of dreaming and advancing systemic alternatives, Other Worlds staff names Gustavo Castro Soto the winner of the 2017 Visionary Justice Award. Gustavo Castro Soto is an extraordinarily effective…
El Salvador: Reflections from a Peace Negotiator
By Nidia Díaz Source alainet Translated by Cuba-Network in Defense of Humanity Nidia Díaz, FMLN legislative deputy and member of team that negotiated the 1992 Peace Accords, ending El Salvador’s 12-year civil war. 25 years ago, on January 16, 1992, we experienced the culmination of a transcendental stage of the Salvadoran people’s struggle to construct a…
The Legacy of Fidel in the Coming Period
Talk given by Alicia Jrapko, U.S. co ordinator of the International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity at event in Berkeley California commemorating the life and impact of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution. The International Committee In thinking about our work in the progressive movement there can be no denying the influence that…
Fascist America: The Issue is Not Trump, It’s Us
John Pilger Under Obama, the U.S. extended secret “special forces” operations to 138 countries, or 70 percent of the world’s population. On the day President Trump is inaugurated, thousands of writers in the United States will express their indignation. “In order for us to heal and move forward,” say Writers Resist, “we wish to bypass…
Franz Fanon: The Psychopathology of Colonization
“When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.” “The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.” “Colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native’s brain of all form and content. By a kind…
Left-wing Populism and the Feminization of Politics
Populism is not only incompatible with feminizing politics — it actually reinforces patriarchy. We need to transform the way left-wing politics is done. Laura Roth and Kate Shea Baird Two of the liveliest debates among activists on the European left these days relate to the strategy of left-wing populism on the one hand and the…
Building Political Power in the Caribbean Youth
We need to encourage young political leaders to fight hegemonic, ageist powers within the state while not marginalizing non-political youth groups. “Partisanship when we are united in our powerlessness is not a starting point for justice and social change,” says Amílcar Sanatan (front, center). | Photo: Amílcar Sanatan By Amílcar Sanatan Youth membership in nongovernmental…
Declaration of the Revolutionary Government of Cuba
Granma Cuba and the United States have signed an agreement intended to guarantee regular, safe, and ordered migration, eliminating the “wet foot-dry foot” policy and the parole program for Cuban medical professionals. An important step forward in improving bilateral relations occurred this January 12 with the signing of an agreement between the governments of Cuba…
Libya: LPMN Condemns Foreign Military Intervention and the Recolonization Agenda
العربية | فارسی | ENGLISH | FRANÇAIS | ESPAÑOL | TÜRKÇE | ITALIANO | DEUTSCH | PORTUGUÊS TRANSLATION Jamahiriya News Agency The Libyan People’s National Movement is following the tragic situation in the homeland, the violation and loss of sovereignty, the recent statements by Italian Minister of Defense regarding moving to the second phase of…
Founding Declaration of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya
In the name of Allah, the Merciful and Compassionate “And hold fast by the covenant of Allah all together and be not disunited” Feeling our historical and national responsibility to maintain the homeland and the dignity of its people and to work on passing it to the future generations free, dignified and prestigious as we…
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
By Zig Zag It’s time to liberate activists from the nonprofit industrial complex Excerpts from the book The Revolution Will Not Be Funded The nonprofit system has tamed a generation of activists. They’ve traded in grand visions of social change for salaries and stationery; given up recruiting people to the cause in favor of writing…
Cuban Youth Choose to Live in Our Free Cuba
Remarks by Jennifer Bello Martínez, a member of the Council of State and President of the Federation of University Students in José Martí Plaza de la Revolución, January 2, 2017, “Year 59 of the Revolution” Jennifer Bello Martínez | internet@granma.cu Compatriots, Friends from around the world accompanying us today, People of Cuba: Called together by…
In Latin America Indigenous Women Lead the Environmental Struggle
Here are some of Latin America’s most important Indigenous women in 2016.
The Fidel I Knew
Few people have known the glory of entering into the realm of legend and history during their lifetime. Fidel is one of these people Author: Ignacio Ramonet | internet@granma.cu december 28, 2016 Fidel Castro Ruz at the UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) held in Istanbul, Turkey. Photo:Estudio Revolución Fidel is dead, but he…
Will Prayers and Ceremonies Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline?
By Zig Zag “Hope Springs Eternal–The Ghost Dance,” by Howard Terpning Over the last few months there’s been a lot of noise made about the power of peaceful prayers and ceremonies in resisting the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota. According to many participants, it was this emphasis on prayer that stopped the pipeline dead in…
Water Song: Indigenous Women and Water
Volume 7 | Issue 6 | Page 64-73 By Kate Cave, Shianne McKay Katherine Morrisseau-Sinclair, an Indigenous woman who, inspired by Grandmother Josephine Mandamin, started the Lake Winnipeg Water Walk. In Brief Water is life and needs to be respected. For the Indigenous people in Canada, there is a reciprocal and unique relationship with water….
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