Breaking the Map with the Machete’s Edge: The Internationalism of the Landless

João Pedro Stedile Landless, but with a lot of history, the peasants of Brazil’s MST have been practicing internationalism as a principle since 1984. As in their own flag, the machete overflows the borders and traces the itinerary of new possible maps. For the Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil (MST), the dialectic between nationalism…

UNSC Session on Biological Laboratories in Ukraine: Statement by Vassily Nebenzia

Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at the UNSC briefing on biological laboratories in Ukraine Mme.President, Colleagues, COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated how vulnerable humanity is in the face of biological threats. It has exacted a huge toll on us, and it continues to claim people’s lives. When the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) entered into…

Made in the USA: Military Biolabs in Ukraine and the Spread of Disaster

Mission Verdad Contracts, high health risk and bioterrorist impunity also expand with NATO The Chief of the Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, reported the existence of a chain of more than 30 biological laboratories divided in countries of the post-Soviet area, including…

What Kind of “Left” Attacks the Working Class as Fascist?

Editorial Comment: I concur with the author’s comments, but would emphasize that I am not against vaccines, but oppose mandates, threats and coercion, as they are a violation of our basic human rights enshrined in both international and national laws. Regarding Latin America, other matters must be considered. Cuba’s vaccines have never served “big pharma”…

Shotgun Science and Bio-Colonialism

Michel Luc Bellemare Introduction As an Ottawa resident and an anarchist, it seems to me that an ultra-leftist analysis at ground zero of this thing is fundamentally necessary, specifically concerning the Canadian Government’s draconian get vaxxed or get fired policy. Having walked the congested downtown of Ottawa, it’s clear that this is an issue that…

Manifeste Conspirationniste: Our Insurrection Will Be Impure!

Paul Cudenec A powerful and inspiring book calling for resistance to the Great Reset and its world is making waves in France. What is perhaps surprising is that it has been published by Seuil, one of the big Parisian publishing houses. What is less surprising is that Manifeste conspirationniste has come under attack from all the usual…

Mass Formation Deflation

Elena Lange Photo by Dan Gaken (CC BY 2.0). The debate over “Mass Formation Psychosis” depoliticizes what should be understood as a confrontation between competing social models. In an expression of irony lost on no one, on January 3rd Google went out of its way to limit search results for the term “Mass Formation Psychosis”…

Food Sovereignty Voices: “In Nature Everything is Connected to One Other”

Joe Parkin DanielsA rally of the Papaye Peasant Movement (MPP). Photograph: Grassroots International Haiti, the western hemisphere’s poorest country, has often been a byword for deforestation and environmental calamity. It is often said that its border with the Dominican Republic can be seen from space, so marked is the difference between the lush forests to…

“Behind the Extractivist Criticism of Progressive Governments Lies the Shadow of Conservative Restoration”

Alvaro García Linera In the face of the naive leftism that thinks that a society can escape world domination by itself, Lenin and Marx remind us that capitalism is planetary, and that the only way to overcome it is also planetary. Therefore the struggles and efforts for the socialization of production in a single country…

Cuba’s Life Task: Combatting Climate Change

Click CC for subtitles in English and Spanish (Arabic and Turkish and more to follow). Cuba’s Life Task: Combatting Climate Change Dani Films Climate change is among the world’s greatest challenges. As a small Caribbean island, Cuba is disproportionately affected by climate change through extreme weather events. Up to 10% of Cuban territory could be…

Beyond the Capitalist Paradigm of Destruction: Generative Chaos

Leonardo Boff I believe that this leap, with our participation, especially the victims of the exploitation of capitalism, can occur and would be within the possibilities of the history of the universe and the Earth: from the current destructive chaos, we can move on to generative chaos of a new way of being and inhabiting…

Leonardo Boff: “Lula Knows that the Ecological Question is Strategic and Fundamental”

Brasil de Fato In an interview, Leonardo Boff talks about Lula, Bolsonaro, Pope Francis and the direction of society. Photo: Brasil de Fato The Brazilian theologian discusses the direction of society, the need to save the people and the planet, and Pope Francis Debates about the climate will be on the agenda of governments all…