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  • Eight Contradictions of the Imperialist “Rules-Based Order”

    Eight Contradictions of the Imperialist “Rules-Based Order”

    Boris Mikhailov (Ukraine SSR), Red, 1968–1975. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has now moved the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has been to the symbolic time of the annihilation of humanity and the Earth since 1947. This is alarming, which is why leaders in the Global South have been […]

  • Hugo Chávez: Ten Years Presente!

    Hugo Chávez: Ten Years Presente!

    Ten years ago on March 5, 2013, Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, died. A piece I wrote 10 years ago called “Ten Things I Learned from Hugo Chávez” is below. Presente! is a word used in Latin America to affirm that those who have passed are still a part of the living, and remain in […]

  • Palestinian Children’s Art Exposes Israel’s Cultural Genocide

    Palestinian Children’s Art Exposes Israel’s Cultural Genocide

    The following text tells the whole story of what pro-Palestinian communities around the world are fighting for, and what pro-Israelis are fighting against: “We are delighted to report that Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has removed a display of artwork designed by children from Gaza.” That was the summary of a news report published on the […]

  • Halifax School’s Anti-Palestinian Racism

    Halifax School’s Anti-Palestinian Racism

    During a cross-cultural activity, a Park West School in Halifax forced Palestinian-Canadian students to remove the Kufiyahs they had worn as part of the activity. The principle justified banning the kufiyah (Palestinian scarf) saying it represented “war colors.” Students who did not comply were sent to the principal’s office. Such anti-Palestinian racism must be rejected: […]

  • Class and Diversity in the Left

    A recent expose in the New York Times documenting how U.S. corporations exploit migrant children sheds light on a crucial issue facing the American Left. Nowadays, many left activists rightly focus on identity politics. To them, diversity is the order of the day. No argument here. Years ago, Richard Penniman, aka Little Richard, put it clearly: diversity is […]

  • Zionists Attack Palestinian Writers and Australian Free Speech

    The acclaimed Palestinian writers Susan Abulhawa and Mohammed El-Kurd were invited to the Adelaide Writers’ Festival, South Australia, but have encountered a storm of false defamation from Zionists, pro-Zionist Mainstream media  and pro-Zionist politicians. Susan Abulhawa has also been falsely defamed for her humane, pro-peace views on the appalling Ukraine War. The eminent anti-racist Jewish […]

  • Behind the Self-Defeating Approach toward the National Protest against the US War on Russia in Ukraine

    Behind the Self-Defeating Approach toward the National Protest against the US War on Russia in Ukraine

    The Rage Against the War Machine, which stood up against the US war on Russia in Ukraine, was the first national anti-war demonstration in the capital in years. This was a groundbreaking event, showing that the anti-war movement has revived on a national scale after years of relative quiescence. Yet this success was not welcomed […]

  • DeSantis as Gradgrind

    DeSantis as Gradgrind

    Florida’s Governor DeSantis educational scheme that students need to learn the facts and nothing but the facts is likely to make teaching and learning in Florida more challenging than ever before. DeSantis’ “fact only” pedagogy mirrors that of Thomas Gradgrind, a character in Dickens’ Hard Times who sustained the Victorian status quo by teaching students […]

  • Bravo Lidia Thorpe for Having the Courage to Unshackle Her Struggle for Aboriginal People’s Rights

    Bravo Lidia Thorpe for Having the Courage to Unshackle Her Struggle for Aboriginal People’s Rights

    DjabWurrung Gunnai Gunditjmara woman and prominent voice for Aboriginal rights, Lidia Thorpe today quit the Greens. The federal senator, who had been the Greens First Nations spokesperson, will now sit as an independent. Announcing her resignation from the Greens, Lidia Thorpe stated that: “This country has a strong grassroots blak sovereign movement, full of staunch […]

  • How to Rebuild the Left

    One might as well state the matter clearly: given the realities of global warming, rampant environmental destruction, escalating imperialistic clashes, and a crisis-prone global economy, there is no hope for the world unless an international left can be resurrected. A left at least as powerful as the one that created social democracy in the wake […]

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