Andrew Lee Ilias Kasidiaris posing in the center alongside other GD members with a Nazi Wehrmacht flag during the Winter Solstice in Greece. (December 21, 2012.) [Source: efsyn.gr] Greeks for the Fatherland:” Ilias Kasidiaris and Greece’s New Far-Right Party A new neo-Nazi party, “Greeks for the Fatherland,” has formed in Greece under the leadership of…
Allende’s Chile: 50 Years On – Mourning and Celebrating
Francisco Dominguez Francisco Domínguez writes: This 4th September marks 50 years since the electoral victory of Salvador Allende in Chile, an event that sent shock waves through the regionally dominated system of US hegemony – bringing panic to the White House. Five decades on, the reverberations of its appeal still resonate very strongly, both in…
Salvador Allende and Algeria: Self-Determination and Economic Sovereignty
Esteban Silva Cuadra Salvador Allende and Algerian president Houari Boumediene Alba Granada North Africa Editor’s Note: We are pleased to publish this article written by comrade Esteban Silva, which is of great importance to us, in view of the attempts by the Pinochet government of Piñera to close the Chilean Embassy in Algeria. Algeria was…
Bolivia: The CIA is Managing the Electoral Campaign of the De Facto Government
Marka Abya Yala The Áñez government hired the same lobbyist as the government that overthrew Zelaya in Honduras. As many critics have pointed out, the Bolivian cycle bears a striking similarity to the coup d’etat that overthrew Honduran President Manuel “Mel” Zelaya a decade ago. The leftist leader was removed from office by the military,…
Reformism & Colonial Chauvinism are Enemies of Socialism
Rainer Shea In Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat, J. Sakai writes that “While there were many exploited and poverty-stricken immigrant proletarians, these new Euro-American workers as a whole were a privileged labor stratum. As a labor aristocracy it had, instead of a pro- letarian, revolutionary consciousness, a petit-bourgeois consciousness that was unable to…
Atlas Network: Right-Wing Internationalism and its Influence on Latin America
Miguel Ruiz Costa In the context of the electoral process in Ecuador that will culminate on February 7, 2021, the influence of the international organization of the right wing in Latin America has come to light through the Atlas Network, of which the notorious Ecuadorian banker, Guillermo Lasso Mendoza, is a member. The Latin American…
Salvador Allende, Fifty Years After His Victory
Atilio Borón There are dates that mark indelible milestones in the history of Our America. Today, September 4th, is one of those days. Like January 1, 1959, the triumph of the Cuban Revolution; or April 13, 2002, when the Venezuelan people took to the streets and reinstalled Hugo Chávez, a prisoner of the coup plotters,…
Police Kill. We March. Why?
Mark P. Fancher We must instead think creatively about how to either take total community control of law enforcement as an institution or to bring about an independent, nation-building, self-governing reality. “We are able to develop new approaches to community security adapted to the current material conditions of our community.” In 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt…
You Cannot “Vote Out” Fascism: The Liberal Disingenuosness of ‘Trump’s America’
Erica Caines After weeks of a panic-driven insistence that we can vote out fascism by self-proclaimed leftists, mainstream media has taken it up a notch with terminology like “Trump’s America.” In using that term, what both leftists and liberals are engaging in, besides fear-mongering, is a misguided and ahistorical approach to electoral politics and US…
America is Indefensible
Onyesonwu Chatoyer Note: This article was first published in 2016, when Americans were deciding between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the US presidential election. A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization. A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a…
Allende, the Greatness of Our America
Angel Guerra Cabrera Fifty years after the historic electoral victory of Salvador Allende, the standard-bearer of the Unidad Popular(UP) for the presidency of Chile, it is necessary to reflect on that first attempt, on a universal scale, to advance towards socialism through elections. The UP government lasted barely four years but was able to accumulate…
Haiti Government Accused of Collusion with Gangs to Manipulate Election
Haiti Rebel (Former Police officer, Jimmy Cherisier, better known as “Barbecue” accused of many massacre in the Capital of Haiti seen in this picture holding a rifle.) The executive secretary of the organization Together Against Corruption (Ensemble Contre La Corruption), Édouard Paultre, accuses the Haitian Government of colluding with armed gangs in the country, in…
