The Biggest Obstacle to Free and Fair Elections in Venezuela is the US: Prospects for the Presidential Contest under Conditions of Blackmail

Roger D. Harris The United Socialist Party (PSUV) held a rally on Saturday in Guanare, Portuguesa state. (@partidoPSUV) For all the hullabaloo about “free and fair elections” in Venezuela by the US government, its sycophantic corporate press deliberately ignores the elephant in the room – namely, the so-called sanctions designed to make life so miserable…

Black Liberation and People’s China: Rediscovering a History of Transcontinental Solidarity

Friends of Socialist China This year marks the 65th anniversary of the historic visit to China by Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, where, together with his wife Shirley Graham Du Bois, the great scholar and revolutionary celebrated his 91st birthday on February 23rd, 1959. This anniversary provides a fitting opportunity to reflect on a remarkable and…

Hamas Statement on the 76th Anniversary of the Nakba

Al-Aqsa Flood is a natural extension of our people’s resistance and their legitimate right to defend their land and sanctities. It’s a strategic milestone that has restored the global presence of our cause, reinforced our national unity behind the resistance, shattered the enemy’s arrogance, and solidified our ongoing struggle for liberation and return, and the…

The Global South in the Arctic North: Indigenous Nations Struggle for Sovereignty

Renate Bridenthal Inuit protest Nunavut Canada free Palestine Indigenous nations fight for sovereignty in the Arctic regions of North America and Europe. Connecting their struggle to Palestine, they are resisting NATO militarization — as the US Army pledges to “regain Arctic dominance”. In January, three months into Israel’s attack on Gaza, a group people in…

ALBA: Future Proposal for Latin America and the Caribbean

Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein Two weeks ago, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA -TCP) held its XXIII summit in Caracas, Venezuela. Two readers wrote to me separately, asking if I wasn’t going to write about that event. Coincidentally, a few days later the General Secretariat of ALBA, which has its…

‘The Fourth Generation Remembers’: Nakba Commemorated in Shadow of Gaza War

Baker Zoubi and Ghousoon BisharatProtesters wave Palestinian flags during the 27th annual March of Return in the depopulated villages of Hawsha and Al-Kasair, northern Israel, May 14, 2024. (Ahmad Al-Bazz) Thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel joined the annual March of Return, with many making connections to the violent displacement in Gaza. In the shadow of what…

BRICS+: The Priority is Dedollarization

F.M. Shakil China, the second-largest global economy, is rapidly reducing its ownership of US Treasury bonds while simultaneously boosting its gold reserves. The upcoming BRICS meeting in Russia will give top priority to the dedollarization agenda and take steps to further decrease the dependence on the US currency in cross-border trade between the nations. BRICS…

The Coming of BRICS+ Decentralized Monetary Ecosystem

Pepe Escobar UNIT ecosystem offers people around the world apolitical money that can be freely bought and sold or used as currency for payments via any open payment and clearing system. The process of de-dollarization is progressing steadily within BRICS countries and the global economy, but further efforts are necessary to speed up the transition,…

On Fascism and Other Maladies: A Conversation with Luis Britto García

Cira Pascual Marquina Experimental writer and columnist Luis Britto Garcia is one of Venezuela’s best-known and most respected intellectuals. An avid supporter of the Bolivarian Process from the beginning, Britto Garcia is nevertheless an independent thinker who offers criticism the government when necessary. In this interview, he talks about fascism and corruption, as well as…

At the Crossroads: Brazil in the Face of BRICS Expansion

Fabiano Mielniczuk The option for disengagement from BRICS is gaining adherents among Brazilian diplomats and is being actively promoted by sectors of Brazilian organized civil society, especially those NGOs and think tanks that receive financial support from European and American institutions. The engagement of these sectors in the G20 events during Brazil’s Presidency of 2024…

The Principle of Landless Solidarity and the Rains in Rio Grande do Sul

Brasil de Fato MST has launched a solidarity campaign with victims of the floods in Rio Grande do Sul. Photo: MST With five settlements facing major flooding, the MST has launched a campaign to support those affected by the floods in Rio Grande do Sul. The Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) this past week launched…

MST Brazil: “The Crisis is Not Just about Food or Climate. It’s a Civilizational Crisis”

Fernanda Alcântara and Larissa Packer Part I It’s no secret that the environmental crisis of this century is directly linked to the agribusiness model, based on large estates and commodity monoculture. The intensive and predatory production that is advancing in the countryside is practically anchored in the deforestation of the Amazon and the Brazilian Cerrado,…

Cooperatives in China: Current Status and Prospects for Significant Growth

The following article by Ali Al-Assam explores the issue of cooperatives in China, drawing on insights from the recent Friends of Socialist China delegation. Ali – who is Managing Director of the NewsSocial Cooperative, as well as being a lifelong activist in the communist, anti-imperialist and progressive movements in both Britain and Iraq – describes the…

President Putin’s Inauguration and its Implications for the Potential Decline of the West

Mohamed Lamine KABA During his inauguration on May 7, 2024, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin addressed his people and the world with the rhetoric of the most experienced statesman in the modern world. His speech, the key points of which we have deciphered, reassures the majority of the planet with the exception of…

Dear U.S. Left: Stop Asking Me to Vote!

Editorial Comment: I encourage people to read Mark E Smith – Consent To Tyranny. Mike Flugennock “Democracy” is an impediment to change. “Democracy” is a prison, and we need to jump the guards and bust out. At this point, it should be abundantly clear that “revolution is the ONLY solution” isn’t just a tight, clever…

Tunnels, Weapons and Guerrilla Tactics: How Palestine’s Armed Forces Survived

Rania Khalek was joined by Jon Elmer, a contributing editor at The Electronic Intifada, to discuss the battles, tactics and weapons of the Palestinian resistance groups.

Rise of China, Russia and Their Allies, Gradual Decline of the United States

Yoselina Guevara López Since 1991, with the fall of the Soviet Union, Washington had been able to exercise a strong and unique hegemony over the entire globe for at least two decades. However, since around the year 2000, the global balance began to change and it is no secret that the economic and political rise…

PFLP: Any Non-Palestinian Presence in Rafah is an Occupation Force and Legitimate Target

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) warned against any non-Palestinian presence in the management of the Rafah crossing, emphasizing that it will be treated as a foreign body, an occupation force and a legitimate target of resistance. The PFLP stressed that the Rafah crossing is a purely Palestinian-Egyptian crossing according to international…