Review of Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire

Hugo Turner Doug Valentine’s new book “Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire” takes the reader on a voyage into the dark and hidden history of the world. It forces the reader to confront the horrors unleashed by the American empire. It is a memoir that reads like a great novel, you won’t be able…

30 Years Later, Justice for Forced Sterilization Cases During Fujimori Dictatorship?

Clau O’Brien Moscoso Protest against forced sterilizations in Peru (Photo: Iván Vicente) The Fujimori regime forcibly sterilized thousands of people in Peru and the victims are still fighting for justice. National Strike, Day 147 After almost six months of a coup regime that has murdered over 80 people during continuous protests against the illegal ouster of…

The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions

Francisco R. Rodiguez Executive Summary This paper provides a comprehensive survey and assessment of the literature on the effects of economic sanctions on living standards in target countries. We identify 32 studies that apply quantitative econometric and calibration methods to cross-country and national data in order to assess the impact of economic sanctions on indicators…

Restoring the Land Rights of the Garifuna African People of Honduras

Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu The Garifuna people are being dispossessed of their lands to the extent that they do not even have enough lands to cultivate food The age-long severe oppression of descendants of West African slaves in the South American nation of Honduras has yet to receive wide attention. The Garifuna African people in Honduras are…

Abahlali baseMjondolo Continues the Struggle for True Freedom

Peoples Dispatch AbM members at the UnFreedom Day protests. Photo: AbM South Africa held its first democratic elections post apartheid on April 27, 1994. While the day is observed as ‘Freedom Day’, movements including Abahlali baseMjondolo have used it to highlight the continued repression and inequality faced by poor communities in the country April 27…

Freedom Libraries: Liberating Minds for Action against Oppression and Exploitation

John Graversgaard Mileston, MS: June 1964. Community Center Construction, Freedom summer 1964. Mileston Summer volunteer carpenter, Jim Boebel, and a local resident post a shotgun watch at the community center against a fire bomb threat by local whites. Threats were common that summer and local men took turns guarding the community every night. The civil…

Toxic Contagion: Funds, Food and Pharma

Colin Todhunter August 18, 2021. A day like no other? For, on this day seed systems, farmer-managed seed systems and farmers’ rights on the African continent came under direct attack by a body that should be their primary custodian—the African Union (AU) | Source In 2014, the organisation GRAIN revealed that small farms produce most of…

Desperation at the US Border

Natalia Marques Migrants are interviewed as they wait in the La Plaza bus terminal in Brownsville, Texas (Photo: The Party for Socialism and Liberation) Thousands of migrants, driven by economic warfare waged by the US, find themselves in conditions of despair at the southern US border There is a humanitarian crisis at the southern border…

“Independent” Ukrainian “Kill List”: Run by Nazi Junta, Backed by NATO and Washington

David Miller Late last year, my name was added to a blacklist published online by the Ukraine Center for Countering Disinformation. I joined over ninety others deemed to be “speakers who promote narratives consonant with Russian propaganda.“ These included Manuel Pineda and Clare Daly, both leftist Members of the European Parliament (MEP); Also counted are people…

The Peruvian State Carried Out Extrajudicial Killings and Other Abuses

Clau O’Brien Moscoso Relatives mourn victims during a mass after the deadliest clashes in anti-government protests against Peru’s President Dina Boluarte, in Juliaca, Peru February 9, 2023. (Photo: REUTERS/Pilar Olivares) Human Rights Watch and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights confirm what was already clear to BAR’s reporter and others on the ground in Peru. The coup…

Canadians Challenge Calls for a Foreign Influence Registry

Daniel Xie On April 14, 2023, Petition E-4395 became available for signature on the House of Commons website. This petition was drafted in response to plans for the implementation of a “Foreign Influence Transparency Registry” that is being considered by the Trudeau government; this being in response to baseless allegations being spread by CSIS and…

Project Invictus: Inside the UK’s Human Rights Busting Campaign to Spy on Refugees

Kit Klarenberg In recent months, the British government’s war on refugees has included a relentless deluge of vicious xenophobic rhetoric from ministers and human rights-busting, UN-condemned legislation in the form of the Illegal Migration Bill, and is seemingly intensifying with each passing day. Despite backlash from the public and certain sections of the media, this virulent…

Patterns of Deception and Deviance in the Post-Truth Period

Daniel Broudy “Let no man deceive you by any means …” – 2 THESSALONIANS 2:3 1. Introduction Patterns of deception are everywhere and their deeper meanings patently plain. We need only be willing to see what is present before our eyes and try to notice, too, what is absent. Such are some of the key…

IACHR Condemns Peru’s De-facto Government’s Human Rights Violations Against Protesters

Tanya Wadhwa On February 9, in Lima, delegations from the Puno region organized an act to commemorate the 19 victims of the Juliaca massacre, killed at the hands of public security forces on January 9. (Photo: Juan Zapata/Wayka) The IACHR said that the state’s response to demonstrators was characterized by the “disproportionate, indiscriminate and lethal…

Members of Youth Delegation to Cuba Detained on Return to US

Peoples Dispatch The 150-person delegation was one of the largest from the US in recent history. Photo: Zoe Alexandra 150 young leaders from the United States took part in a 10-day delegation to Cuba to exchange and learn from the Cuban people. On their return, many of them were detained at US airports and their…

A Worldwide Anti-Imperialist Left: Why It Is Needed, and What It Must Do

Alan Freeman , Radhika Desai Capital organises globally yet workers do not. As the US-led NATO powers escalate the Ukraine conflict into a new world war, this imbalance is becoming intolerable. This paper presents the case for a worldwide anti-imperialist Left, representing ordinary people committed to a just and peaceful multipolar world order. This will serve both…

More than Mercenaries: Police as the Crucible of Fascism in the US

Comrade Dremel Fascism is ascendant in the imperial core. The U.S. and its junior partners are waging an increasingly bloody war on all fronts, in an attempt to bolster the decaying husk of capital. The foot soldiers in this war are the police. Armed to the teeth and trained to kill, police are positioned as…

Demanding Reparations is Anti-Capitalist Liberation Practice

Alieu Bah Where do we situate reparations for black and African people? What canon is fitting to take on its analysis, its nuances and fullness? This is about paying back for labour that was stolen, unpaid for and exorcised out of human beings as if a set of demons or at its lowest as beasts…