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Russia-DPRK alliance marks a turning point for the anti-imperialist camp

26Jul

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North Korea, Russia

Russia-DPRK alliance marks a turning point for the anti-imperialist camp

Posted by: John Phoenix But why should the imperialists be so concerned about a pact for trade and mutual defence? Proletarian writers By effectively ending the genocidal sanctions regime that US imperialism successfully pushed through the UN for decades, the agreement between Russia and north Korea opens up new possibilities for the development of Korean socialism. By committing to mutual defence in the case of invasion, it has put the imperialists on notice that they will have no success in isolating the targets of their criminal war drive and trying to pick them off one by one. The recent visit by President Vladimir Putin to Pyongyang and the signing of a mutual defence pact between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the Russian Federation provok...

The Dream of a Thing: Refounding the Economy of a Venezuelan Commune

26Jul

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Venezuela

The Dream of a Thing: Refounding the Economy of a Venezuelan Commune

Chris Gilbert tells the story of El Maizal's communards as they think about how to reactivate the commune's economy. Chris Gilbert Angel Prado and other communards debate the new "alternative communal economy." The world has long had the dream of a thing of which it only needs to become conscious for it to possess in reality. —Karl Marx to Arnold Ruge, 1843 Probably the most famous saying of José Carlos Mariátegui, often seen as the founder of Latin American Marxism, is that, on our continent, socialism should be “not a copy or imitation but rather a heroic creation.”1 Hugo Chávez liked to quote this phrase, using it in relation to the communal project that he was promoting in Venezuela, which he said was also a heroic creation. At least on one occasion, the late...

Venezuela Is Prepared to Defend Itself Against Fraud Allegations and Right-wing Attacks Ahead of July Elections, Says Foreign Minister

26Jul

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ZIO-NAZI

Venezuela Is Prepared to Defend Itself Against Fraud Allegations and Right-wing Attacks Ahead of July Elections, Says Foreign Minister

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil Pinto speaks about how people’s power continues to triumph against US imperialist meddling in the country. People's Dispatch Venezuelan FM Yván Gil Pinto with Carlos Ron and Manolo De Los Santos. (Photo: Wyatt Souers) Venezuela is just over one month away from its presidential elections. The country which has held over 30 electoral processes in the 25 years of its Bolivarian Revolution is accused by officials of the US government as well as by mainstream media of being anti-democratic and authoritarian. With this justification, the United States has, for the last 10 years, levied one of the most restrictive and aggressive regimes of unilateral coercive measures against Venezuela’s oil sector and financial sector. The impact of these measur...

María Corina Machado: What the Mainstream Media Isn’t Saying About Her

25Jul

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Venezuela

María Corina Machado: What the Mainstream Media Isn’t Saying About Her

Steve Ellner draws a portrait of a key opposition leader and her surrogate. Steve Ellner María Corina Machado and presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia (AP/Ariana Cubillos) With all the hype over María Corina Machado being the only real hope for Venezuela to overcome 25 years of autocratic rule, the mainstream media loses sight of several key factors surrounding the nation’s presidential elections slated for July 28. First, the U.S. has played a central role in favor of Machado’s candidacy and, once it was clear that the government of Nicolas Maduro would not allow her to run, Washington backed the notion that she had the right to choose who would represent the so-called united democratic opposition at the polls. Second, it was never clear on what basis Mac...

Venezuelans to Vote on Continuing the Bolivarian Revolution

25Jul

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Venezuela

Venezuelans to Vote on Continuing the Bolivarian Revolution

Solidarity activist Roger Harris examines the background and high stakes ahead of Venezuela's July 28 presidential election. Roger D. Harris Venezuela will hold presidential elections on July 28. (AFP) The future of Venezuela’s 25-year-old socialist movement will be decided in the upcoming July 28 election. Venezuelans will go to the polls knowing that a vote for incumbent President Nicolás Maduro means no relief from US unilateral coercive measures. These so-called “sanctions” have been central to Washington’s regime-change campaign explicitly designed to asphyxiate the Venezuelan economy and turn the people against their government; what Venezuelanalysis calls “a war without bombs.” Venezuela, with some 930 unilateral coercive measures imposed...

US national debt tops $35 trillion for the first time in history

25Jul

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USA

US national debt tops $35 trillion for the first time in history

By:: Ahmed Adel VT Condemns the ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS by USA/Israel $ 280 BILLION US TAXPAYER DOLLARS INVESTED since 1948 in US/Israeli Ethnic Cleansing and Occupation Operation; $ 150B direct "aid" and $ 130B in "Offense" contractsSource: Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. and US Department of State. The US has achieved another “milestone” after its national debt surpassed the $35 trillion mark, the US House of Representatives Budget Committee announced on July 29. Yet, despite debt increasing and the economy struggling, the US is still not deterred from achieving its military ambitions. Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Ky., called the development a “dubious milestone” and urged for more fiscal and spending responsibility to address the growin...

25Jul

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USA, Venezuela

US Sanctions Are Killing Venezuelans

US sanctions against Venezuela have led to severe episodes of food insecurity, which have taken years of grassroots efforts to overcome. Andreína Chávez Alava Sanctions are political, not legal instruments. Their goal is to cause pain and suffering in order to force populations to overthrow their own governments and surrender their sovereignty. After Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez’s death on March 5, 2013, Washington began an economic siege to impede the continuation of the Bolivarian Process and the newly elected Nicolás Maduro government. The first war-like measure was Executive Order 13692, signed by President Barack Obama on March 8, 2015, which declared Venezuela an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States”. ...

Venezuela’s Presidential Elections: Maduro Plays Hardball but There Are Drawbacks

25Jul

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Venezuela

Venezuela’s Presidential Elections: Maduro Plays Hardball but There Are Drawbacks

Historian and political analyst Steve Ellner lays down the political stakes and US meddling ahead of Venezuela's electoral race. Steve Ellner The upcoming elections are unlikely to ease political tensions, as Ellner explains. (Prensa Presidencial) It is no secret that the Washington establishment is as enamored with Venezuela’s presidential candidate María Corina Machado as she is with the United States. In one example, the day after the Biden administration partially lifted sanctions against Venezuela last October 17, Antony Blinken warned that the measure would be revoked if by November 30 President Maduro did not lift a government ruling prohibiting Machado from running for president. The threat was averted by an eleventh-hour announcement that Machado could appeal the pro...

Venezuela’s Election in the Crosshairs of New US Regime Change Scheme

25Jul

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Venezuela

Venezuela’s Election in the Crosshairs of New US Regime Change Scheme

As Venezuela prepares to head to the polls in July, the US has already started drumming up suspicion and doubt around the electoral process. Walter Smolarek, Zoe Alexandra Nicolás Maduro received by thousands in the city of Maturín. (Photo: X / Nicolás Maduro) Twenty-five years after Hugo Chávez took office and began the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, US officials have still not tired of dreaming up new plots to overthrow the country’s government. Five years ago, following the last presidential election, they attempted to install Juan Guaidó—a politician most Venezuelans had never even heard of—as the country’s head of state. And now, with the date for the next presidential election officially set for July 28, the Biden administration is gearing up for the bigg...

The Biggest Obstacle to Free and Fair Elections in Venezuela Is the US

25Jul

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Venezuela

The Biggest Obstacle to Free and Fair Elections in Venezuela Is the US

Solidarity activist Roger Harris breaks down the US' regime-change efforts against Venezuela ahead of the upcoming elections. Roger D. Harris Venezuela will hold presidential elections on July 28. (Archive) 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 that the people will acquiesce to Washington’s plan for regime change. As Foreign Policy puts it, “Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro values his political survival above his country’s economic well-being.” Translated from Washington-speak, the US government is blackmailing the Venezuelan electorate with, in the words...