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Iran-Venezuela cooperation: another blow to imperialist economic warfare
Iran, Venezuela

Iran-Venezuela cooperation: another blow to imperialist economic warfare

With one third of the world’s countries now subject to some kind of sanction, this favoured tool of coercion is fast losing its power. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our  channel Increasingly, the favoured economic weapon of US imperialism – economic sanctions – is having precisely the opposite effect of the one intended. Instead of cowering before the might of the all-powerful USA, sanctioned countries are becoming ever more determined to retain their independence and sovereignty, and are working together to ensure this outcome – thus fatally undermining the global hegemony of the USA. Twenty-five years ago, the list of countries denounced as official ‘enemies’ and targeted with asphyxiating economic sanctions by US imperialism was relatively s...
Zelensky sidelined, Canada’s Nazi gaffe and Biden struggling to change tack
Canada, Ukraine

Zelensky sidelined, Canada’s Nazi gaffe and Biden struggling to change tack

As a third Ukrainian army perishes to no avail, now even the west is looking thin of donors when Zelensky rattles the collecting tin. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our  channel Volodymyr Zelensky and Justin Trudeau join the jubilant and unanimous standing ovation for Ukrainian Nazi war criminal Yaroslav Hunka in the Canadian House of Commons. But of course, nobody had any idea that Mr Hunka was a Nazi. He only ‘fought Russians in WW2’ after all. What could be more noble than that? Imperialism planned to use Ukraine as a battering ram against Russia, engineering a proxy war by which it might advance one crucial step towards the balkanization of Russia – a vast territory just waiting to be looted by monopoly capital. But things have not g...
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger at the forefront of the African revolution
Africa

Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger at the forefront of the African revolution

‘When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.’ – Thomas Sankara Gerald A Perreira Subscribe to our  channel The people make history. Coup supporters in the streets of Niger raise placards reading: ‘Down with France, Long Live Putin’. Meanwhile, thousands of young people have registered to volunteer to defend their country. General Abdourahmane Tchiani has repeatedly warned Ecowas and unnamed western nations against stepping in: ‘We once again reiterate to Ecowas or any other adventurer our firm determination to defend our fatherland.’ The following article was sent to us by the author, and since we consider it brings some very useful knowledge and perspective, we are publishing it as received. One or two of the author’s formulations we felt need some clarification...
How the KKE uses Marxist terminology to cover its retreat from Marxism
France

How the KKE uses Marxist terminology to cover its retreat from Marxism

What is the impact of the anti-Marxian theory of the ‘imperialist pyramid’? Joti Brar Subscribe to our  channel This article was originally written for Platform, the organ of the World Anti-imperialist Platform. ***** On the basis of a Marxist analysis of the rapidly escalating imperialist war drive, anti-imperialists of the communist movement came together last year to form the World Anti-imperialist Platform. This was done in order to apply our energies to what has been identified as the most pressing priority facing our movement at this moment: to rally the widest possible forces in support of the struggle against the US-led imperialist bloc – a struggle which has the potential to unleash the next, decisive wave of socialist revolutions ...
What Is Happening In Syria?
Syria

What Is Happening In Syria?

Washington’s interventionism and its disregard for its own highly promoted “rules based international order” is outrageous PHILIP GIRALDI  Which are the governments generally regarded as “rogue” by an overwhelming majority of the world’s nations? If you answered either Russia or China you would be wrong, even though many countries have condemned Russia’s attack on Ukraine on grounds that no government has an intrinsic right to invade another unless there is an imminent serious threat that would excuse such an intervention. I would however expect that most readers of this review would have made the right choice, which is that the United States is probably number one based on its ability to destabilize whole regions with a military reach that spans the globe. And indeed, it is imp...
AI Goes to War: Will the Pentagon’s Techno-Fantasies Pave the Way for War with China?
USA

AI Goes to War: Will the Pentagon’s Techno-Fantasies Pave the Way for War with China?

BY WILLIAM D. HARTUNG Drone Swarm. Image: JSC and AI Art Generator. On August 28th, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks chose the occasion of a three-day conference organized by the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), the arms industry’s biggest trade group, to announce the “Replicator Initiative.” Among other things, it would involve producing “swarms of drones” that could hit thousands of targets in China on short notice. Call it the full-scale launching of techno-war. Her speech to the assembled arms makers was yet another sign that the military-industrial complex (MIC) President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us about more than 60 years ago is still alive, all too well, and taking a new turn. Call it the MIC for the digital age. Hicks des...
Nuclear Power Has Long Stifled Renewables, Now It’s Time for It to Go Extinct
USA

Nuclear Power Has Long Stifled Renewables, Now It’s Time for It to Go Extinct

BY LINDA PENTZ GUNTER The green atom. Image: JSC and AI Art Generator. We needn’t have had Fukushima at all, now 12 years old and still emitting radiation, still not “cleaned up”, still responsible for forbidden zones where no one can live, play, work, grow crops. We needn’t have had Chornobyl either, or Three Mile Island, or Church Rock. We needn’t have almost lost Detroit. We could have avoided climate change as well. Not just by responding promptly to the early recognition of the damage fossil fuels were doing. But also by heeding one sensible plan that, if it had been acted upon, would have removed the nuclear power elephant from the energy solutions room and possibly also saved us from plunging into the climate catastrophe abyss in which we now find ourselves. Right f...
As RFK Jr. Shifts His 2024 Strategy, He’s Bad News for Progressives
USA, ZIO-NAZI

As RFK Jr. Shifts His 2024 Strategy, He’s Bad News for Progressives

BY JEFF COHEN - NORMAN SOLOMON Photograph Source: Artaxerxes – CC BY-SA 4.0 If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. follows through on his apparent plans to run for president in the fall 2024 general election, that will make it all the more important for progressives to have a clear understanding of who Kennedy is and what he really stands for. In advance of announcing that he’ll run as an independent, according to Mediaite, the Kennedy campaign will deploy “attack ads” against the Democratic National Committee for preventing an open primary process. The DNC’s shenanigans deserve to be condemned, and we’ve repeatedly done so, including here, here and here. Kennedy can be forceful in denouncing aspects of U.S. militarism – making valid points about hawkish fo...
New Foreign Intervention Would be Disastrous for Haiti’s People
Haiti

New Foreign Intervention Would be Disastrous for Haiti’s People

BY W. T. WHITNEY U.S. Marines in Bel Air, Haiti, 2004. Photograph Source: LCPL KEVIN MCCALL, USMC – Public Domain The United Nations Security Council on October 2 voted to approve a resolution prepared by the United States and Ecuador that authorized a multi-national force to be deployed to Haiti for a year “to combat armed bands and reestablish security.” The vote was 13 nations approving, Russia and China abstaining, and none opposing. In mid-September at the United Nations General Assembly, U.S. President Joe Biden and Ariel Henry, Haiti’s acting president, called for a multi-national militarized occupation of Haiti. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres had done so earlier. U.S. spokespersons say that $100 million is being sought fr...
How About a General Strike Against Dollar General?
USA

How About a General Strike Against Dollar General?

BY SAM PIZZIGATI Photograph Source: Random Retail – CC BY 2.0 A president of the United States this past week walked a picket line in solidarity with striking auto workers at a major American corporation. An amazing sight. What could President Biden do for an encore? He could stand before an outlet of a major American retailer — Dollar General — with a simple two-word placard. The placard’s message? For Shame. Americans — thanks to the solidarity of UAW members and the media and political attention that this solidarity has captured — now know a good bit about the pressures auto workers face. As a nation, unfortunately, we know next to nothing about the much heavier pressures on Dollar General workers. Dollar General may well be, as a Bloomberg report...