Farewell to Eric Levy
Eric Levy, a veteran of the anti-imperialist movement, died on 20 July 2022 at the age of 94. Some of us had known him since the 1960s. Born in 1928 in Manchester, spending his childhood […]
Category: Politics
Zionist Truss: How could the prime minister be replaced?
Liz Truss: How could the prime minister be replaced? By Tom Edgington BBC News Having sacked her chancellor and U-turned on a series of key measures in her government’s mini-budget, a number of Conservative MPs […]
Comrade Josef Skala speaks in Britain
Comrade Josef Skala from the Prague branch of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) gave two insightful talks this weekend (15-16 June 2019), the first in Birmingham on Saturday evening, and the second […]
Globalization, Greed and Reality
BY GEORGE OCHENSKI Photo by Jon Tyson It wasn’t long ago that economists in our capitalist system were absolutely giddy over what they dubbed “globalization.” In this reality-denying construct, nations all over the planet would work together, […]
The Urgency of Nuclear Abolition
BY RAY ACHESON B-29 over Osaka on 1 June 1945. (U.S. Air Force photo) After a year and a half’s delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tenth Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is […]
Biden, Pelosi and the Futility of Dual Containment
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain First, there was containment—and then there was dual containment. George F. Kennan is credited with the design of containment to limit the geopolitical reach of […]
Donation Politics: Biden’s Global Hypocrisy Starts at Home
BY RICHARD FALK Photograph Source: Palácio do Planalto – CC BY 2.0 A few days ago among the many solicitations for funds to support Democratic candidates around the country in the 2022 elections came one that caught […]
The Pope, the War Bonnet and the Real Meaning of the Doctrine of Discovery
BY JODE GOUDY The Pope in Edmonton, Alberta. Image: CTV. Sigh … well number one I disagree with Willie Littlechild’s determination to give Pope Francis a Headress/Warbonnet … but I have to forgive him because I […]
Nuclear Power is Racist, Sexist and Ageist: So Why Do Some Progressives Support It?
BY LINDA PENTZ GUNTER Navajo children are especially vulnerable to uranium exposure and among the least protected. (Photo: Phil Darnell/Wikimedia Commons) I am sure that certain Democratic senators such as Cory Booker and Sheldon Whitehouse, who […]
Beyond Crisis: The Possibilities and Growing Challenges in Building a Left Asian American Politics
BY SUDIP BHATTACHARYA Image by Jason Leung. This June marked the fortieth anniversary of the murder of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American man beaten to death by two white men in Detroit. The two white men who attacked […]