Turkey sent tanks and missile batteries to the border next to Syria’s Kurdish region Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he will not tolerate a Kurdish safe-haven in Syria following reports that Kurdish rebels and a Syrian Kurdish political party had taken… Read More ›
International
Translations, Party Statements, and News from Around the World.
Hundreds of Palestinians face eviction from land
RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Israeli Defense Ministry wants to evict hundreds of Palestinians from eight hamlets in a West Bank area the military has designated as a firing zone, rights activists said Tuesday, portraying the decision as a new… Read More ›
Al-Qaeda Taking Deadly New Role in Syria’s Conflict
By ROD NORDLAND CAIRO — It is the sort of image that has become a staple of the Syrian revolution, a video of masked men calling themselves the Free Syrian Army and brandishing AK-47s — with one unsettling difference. In… Read More ›
Iraqis Evicted from Damascus by “Free Syrian Army”
By Rami Ruhayem BBC News, Baghdad In the late evening, a busload of Iraqis arrived in Baghdad after a 12-hour journey across the desert. With a mixture of anger and resignation, they said that they had been forced to leave… Read More ›
Assad hands control of Syria’s Kurdish areas to PKK, sparking outrage in Turkey
By Roy Gutman ISTANBUL — President Bashar Assad, facing a growing rebel presence in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and its commercial hub, has turned control of parts of northern Syria over to militant Kurds who Turkey has long branded as… Read More ›
Review of “Animal Farm” (1954 & 1999 Films)
Introduction Hailed by capitalist literary critics, Trotskyites and anarchists as a masterpiece, the mediocre book Animal Farm has served a very important role in distorting the history of socialism in the Soviet Union. Modern editions of the book hail author… Read More ›
Under Israeli blockade of Gaza, books are a rare, cherished commodity
Israel does not explicitly ban importing books to Gaza, but the blockade makes it extraordinarily difficult to do so. The shortage amounts to a kind of censorship, Gazans say. By Ruqaya Izzidien, Contributor Gaza City, Gaza The Israeli blockade of… Read More ›
Alexander Cockburn, Acerbic Writer and Critic, Dies at 71
By COLIN MOYNIHAN Alexander Cockburn, the mordant left-wing journalist and author who though born in Scotland thrived in the political and cultural battlegrounds of the United States, died on Saturday in Bad Salzhausen, Germany, where he had been receiving medical… Read More ›
US drops biggest-ever human trafficking case amid evidence doubts
The Justice Department spent millions of dollars on what is considered to be the largest human trafficking case in the US, only to dismiss it on the grounds that the government would be unable to prove the charges beyond a… Read More ›
Blackwater illegally paid millions in taxpayer money
For half a decade, American taxpayers unknowingly spent millions of dollars a year to fund the so-called “democracy building” missions in Iraq carried out by Blackwater, the private security firm which regularly changes it name to hide its sins. A… Read More ›
Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) Interview with Jacob Jugashvili
[Translated by PC (AP)] INTERVIEW JACOB JUGASHVILI, THE GREAT GRANDSON OF THE MAN OF STEEL Vladimir Ilich Lenin Cell Chilean Comunista Party (Proletarian Action) PC (AP) La Serena – Chile Jacob Jugashvili is a graduate professional artist, his native country… Read More ›
Partido Comunista Chileno (Acción Proletaria) Entrevista con Jacob Jugashvili
ENTREVISTA JACOB JUGASHVILI, EL BISNIETO DEL HOMBRE DE ACERO Por Celula Vladimir Ilich Lenin Partido Comunista Chileno PC (AP) La Serena-Chile Jacob Jugashvili es un artista (pintor) profesional graduado en su país natal Georgia e Inglaterra. Hoy en día su… Read More ›
The Houla Massacre
By Stephen Gowans Syrian government forces may or may not have been responsible for the killing of 108 civilians at Houla. Witness accounts point to militias that may have been acting independently of the Syrian government. One account describes the… Read More ›