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• Fascists take deputy prime minister and other posts in Ukraine’s new government

  By Editor-in-Chief on March 5, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  By Tash Shifrin Fascists are now part of Ukraine’s government. Oleksandr Sych, of the fascist Svoboda party, has been appointed as deputy prime minister of Ukraine. He will take the post under prime minister Arseniy Yatseniuk of the neo-liberal, conservative Batkivshchyna (“Fatherland”)… Read More ›

• Euromaidan: The play with EU integration

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 22, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  by Dmitry Kolesnik A large group of aggressive young men smash windows and fiercely throw bottles and stones. Behind them there’s a huge crowd shouting ‘We want in the EU’. The picture should apparently frighten people in the EU countries. Some… Read More ›

• Michael Parenti: 85 Billionaires and the Better Half

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 20, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  The world’s 85 richest individuals possess as much wealth as the 3.5 billion souls who compose the poorer half of the world’s population, or so it was announced in a report by Oxfam International. The assertion sounds implausible to me. … Read More ›

• Michael Parenti: What’s a Slum? Urban Poverty and Marginality in America

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  When I was about thirteen-years-old I chanced upon an article in Henry Luce’s Life magazine that described East Harlem ( a Manhattan working class neighborhood) as “a slum inhabited by beggar poor Italians, Negroes, and Puerto Ricans,” words that stung… Read More ›

• Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Venezuela: 2014 – A Decisive Year for Venezuela

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 16, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  2014 – A Decisive Year for Venezuela The year that has just begun suggests a change in the conditions of struggle in Venezuela, changes that have been growing since early 2013 when the bourgeoisie intensified its economic, political and ideological campaign… Read More ›

• Red Action (Croatia): Information Concerning the Current Rebellion in Bosnia and Herzegovina for our Foreign Comrades

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 12, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  – Protest started on 4th of February in the industrial city of Tuzla. Workers of several privatized companies based in Tuzla organized a protest (without the help or support of trade-unions) demanding the cancellation of privatizations and against closing-down of… Read More ›

• New Munich agreement

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 5, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Neoliberal whitewashing of neo-Nazis in Ukraine There is no such ‘miracle’ that cannot be done with the help of just media whitewashing. As if with a wave of a magic wand, those who were first portrayed as reactionary thugs suddenly… Read More ›

• Editorial: Get off that Bandwagon

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 31, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  By George Bialek. If you’re a Facebook user chances are you’ve probably seen a popular “meme” regarding Iceland. It’s the one that supposedly quotes some Icelandic politician who was asked something like “Why has Iceland managed to do so well… Read More ›

• On this day sixty-nine years ago, the Red Army liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 27, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Red Army liberators recall shock of Auschwitz By Natalia Reiter With additional reporting by Ron Popeski Dated: 26 Jan 2005 KRAKOW, Poland, Jan 26 (Reuters) — When 60 years ago Anatoly Shapiro commanded his Red Army troops to secure a… Read More ›

• Not My War

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 23, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  By Svitlana Tsiberganova Dear activists of Maidan, I understand that you have your mobilization, resistance, and your own war. But every one of your posts and reposts calling “all real men to come out” I associate with a call, voiced from… Read More ›

• MLK Day: the Lessons of Pacifism & the Civil Rights Movement

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 20, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Today is the celebration of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the United States. While it is ostensibly celebrated to promote the Civil Rights Movement, one wonders why MLK, among all other more active and progressive civil rights… Read More ›

• The Real Legacy of Ariel Sharon

  By Victor Vaughn on January 17, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Former Israeli Prime Minister and war criminal Ariel Sharon died on Jan 11th, 2014, after having spent the last eight years in a coma. He was 85 years old. Sharon was directly involved in war crimes and massacres throughout his… Read More ›

• Review of Grover Furr’s “Khrushchev Lied”

  By Alfonso Casal on January 12, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  by Alfonso Casal There are certain assumptions one can make, with a high degree of certainty, regarding Grover Furr’s Khrushchev Lied. The first is that, had Furr written a similar book in any area of historical specialization other than Soviet-era… Read More ›

• Political Cartoons: Ariel Sharon, Butcher of Beirut, Sabra and Shatila Dead

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 11, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

• Islam, Terrorism and Hypocrisy: U.S. Imperialism in the Muslim World

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 7, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  by Douglas Hill Ever since 9/11, the U.S. government has launched the “War on Terror,” and enacted a virtual avalanche of legislation aimed at containing the threat of Islamic terrorism. Much of this legislation legitimizes the ethnic profiling of people… Read More ›

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