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8 January 2008, by Gregory Wilpert
The Bolivarian Revolution at a Turning Point
With the surprising loss of the constitutional reform referendum in December (by a minimal vote difference of 1.3%) Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution reached a turning point. The April 2002 coup (…) -
6 January 2008, by Dipankar Bhattacharya
Unite for a Left Resurgence in West Bengal and India!
We are gathered here at an anti-imperialist Convention preceding our 8th Party Congress. This is a theme that binds a range of struggles together; representatives of important centres of anti-war, (…) -
6 January 2008, by Firoze Manji
The people has lost the election
Kenya is entering a protracted crisis. No one really knows who actually won the presidential elections. Given the overwhelming number of parliamentary seats won by the ODM and the dismissal of (…) -
5 January 2008, by ALEXANDER COCKBURN and JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
Two Body Blows to the Political Establishment
For the party establishments—Democratic and Republican—it was a bad night, as their favored candidates went down to severe defeat. -
3 January 2008, by PERRY ANDERSON
JOTTINGS ON THE CONJUNCTURE
The contemporary period—datable at one level from the economic and political shifts in the West at the turn of the eighties; at another from the collapse of the Soviet bloc a decade (…) -
2 January 2008, by Patrick Bond
Zuma’s Victory
Congratulations are due Jacob Zuma - apparently far more Machiavellian than even his arch-opponent since 2005, Thabo Mbeki - and the tireless band of warriors from the Congress of SA Trade Unions, (…) -
31 December 2007
Prachanda speaks
In December, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) rejoined the goverment after the Parliament voted the abolition of the monarchy, one of the major demands of CPN-M. Last year, Prachanda, the (…) -
29 December 2007, by Feroz MEHDI
Governance, Ideology and Electoral Politics
The rightwing Hindutva nationalist party the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) was re-elected to power for the fourth consecutive term in the province of Gujarat on December 23, 2007. Gujarat, one (…) -
16 December 2007
TOWARDS PEOPLES ALTERNATIVES IN AFRICA AND EUROPE
We, civil society activists engaged in a wide range of peoples’ movements and organisations in Africa and Europe met in Lisbon from 7-9 December 2007 to express our opposition and resistance to (…) -
14 December 2007, by Pierre BEAUDET
Stop the privatization process of the Hungarian National Health Insurance!
We civil society organizations and trade unions, fighting for peace, democracy and social justice world-wide, wishes to express its solidarity with Protect the Future, Hungarian civil society (…) -
13 December 2007, by Brian ASHLEY
Building the New Elite
The African National Congress, South Africa’s ruling Party will hold its 52nd Conference in Polokwane, the capital of Limpopo province, one of the poorest in the country. A dramatic succession (…) -
11 December 2007, by Mondli Hlatshwayo
Challenges for the Social Movements
Report from the fifth annual meeting of the Social Movement Indaba -
9 December 2007, by Fred Halliday
The mysteries of the American empire
The debate on the future of American power – and what is increasingly (even casually) referred to as the American “empire” – is almost as old as the United States itself. It was Alexis de (…) -
8 December 2007
Lessons from the Defeat
Last Sunday, Venezuelan voters narrowly rejected 69 proposed changes to the country’s constitution. Contrary to some reports, this does not mean that Chávez has been “defeated” or that the (…) -
8 December 2007, by Mark Weisbrot
Progressive Change in Venezuela and Latin America
The defeat of the Venezuelan government’s proposed constitutional reforms last Sunday will probably not change very much in Venezuela. Most of what was in the reforms can be enacted through the (…) -
7 December 2007, by Tapan Kumar BOSE
Contradictions of the Peace Process
The peace process in Nepal which was ushered in by the Jana Andolan II (Peoples’ Movement II) after the autocratic king Gyanendra was forced to handover political power to the political parties in (…) -
5 December 2007, by BIDWAI Praful
The Left In Its Labyrinth
It’s time for the Left in India to do a serious rethink, else it will perish. The excesses of one single year have led to this situation, writes Praful Bidwai -
5 December 2007, by NIKOLAS KOZLOFF
As Chávez Falters
In the wake of President Hugo Chávez’s stinging defeat in Sunday’s constitutional referendum, it’s incumbent on the South American left to take stock of events in Venezuela and learn from the (…) -
4 December 2007
London Conference Launches Campaign
Over 1,200 delegates from the anti war movement accross the globe came to London for the World Against War International Peace Conference in London. Delegates from 26 countries addressed the (…) -
3 December 2007, by Tariq Ali
Why Chavez Lost
Chavez’ narrow defeat in the referendum was the result of large-scale abstentions by his supporters. 44 percent of the electorate stayed at home. Why? First, because they did not either understand (…) -
2 December 2007, by ROGER BURBACH
Evo Morales versus the Oligarchy
While international attention is focusing on President Hugo Chavez and the Sunday referendum on the Venezuelan constitution, a conflict that is just as profound is shaking Bolivia. Evo Morales, (…) -
1 December 2007, by Daya R. Varma
Crisis in the Communist Movement
Fortunately, and somewhat uniquely, the Indian communist movement did not the face the same crisis that befell most other communist parties in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. (…) -
24 November 2007, by World March of Women
Declaration for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
In our Women’s Global Charter for Humanity we, activists of the World March of Women, affirm the world that we are building. A world where, “all human beings live free of all forms of violence. No (…) -
23 November 2007, by SUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY
Women Call for action
THE eighth national conference of the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), held in Kolkata from November 1 to 4, proved once again that the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. (…) -
20 November 2007, by Laura Carlsen
Coming to Terms with Diversity
As head of Congress and the major political operator for President Evo Morales, Bolivia’s Vice President Álvaro García Linera stands in the eye of a political hurricane. The changes proposed by (…) -
20 November 2007, by RPM-M
Crisis Time
The worsening crisis experienced by the Arroyo regime at present is part of the intensifying contradictions between the working class and the ruling class. This contradiction produces splits in (…) -
18 November 2007, by P. SAINATH
A Farmer is Committing Suicide Every 32 Minutes
For the past few years we have been running P. Sainath’s reports on the Indian farm crisis. Now the full toll—surely among the largest sustained waves of suicides in human history—is becoming (…) -
16 November 2007, by ADOLFO GILLY
The Spirit of Revolt
In Bolivia in mid-October 2003, a popular insurrection had been going on for days in El Alto, a city of 800,000 workers, peasants, migrants, and petty merchants, most of them indigenous. 400 (…) -
11 November 2007, by Naomi Klein - The Nation
Latin America’s Shock Resistance
In less than two years, the lease on the largest and most important US military base in Latin America will run out. The base is in Manta, Ecuador, and Rafael Correa, the country’s leftist (…) -
9 November 2007
Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum condemn Martial Law
We are very much gratefull to all friends from all over the world for contacting Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum and ask on PFF strategy after Musharaft’s Martial Law in evening on Saturday 3/11/7. (…) -
8 November 2007, by George Ciccariello-Maher - Monthly Review
Dual Power in the Bolivarian Revolution
Too often, the Bolivarian Revolution currently underway in Venezuela is dismissed by its critics—on the right and left—as a fundamentally statist enterprise. We are told it is, at best, a (…) -
2 November 2007, by Walden Bello
Environmental Movement in the Global South: The Pivotal Agent in the Fight against Global Warming
The developing world’s stance towards the question of the environment has often been equated with the pugnacious comments of former Malaysian Prime Minister Mohamad Mahathir, such as his famous (…) -
31 October 2007, by Tarik Ali
Bush’s Cuba Detour
Bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan, obsessed with Iran’s rise as a regional power (a direct result of the wars in the aforementioned countries) the State Department has woken up to the fact that (…) -
30 October 2007, by SATGAR Vishwas
The Left under the Post Apartheid Regime
This reflection on the Left project and post-national liberation politics is an expression of dilemmas about post-apartheid South Africa; it is about imminent possibilities, alternative paths not (…) -
26 October 2007
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
We are once again mobilising on 17th October in order to denounce and demand an end to the oppression of women and to the domination, exploitation, egotism and unbridled quest for profit breeding (…) -
16 October 2007, by CPI (ML) Liberation
Repression in West Bengal
We all know how caste panchayats try to stop inter-caste marriages in the interiors of North-Western India. They hold kangaroo courts and deliver instant and exemplary ‘justice’ hoping such brutal (…) -
15 October 2007, by ROY Arundhati and SRIVASTAVA Mihir
’We suffer from a pathological incuriosity’: A conversation with Arundhati Roy
Writer Arundhati Roy closely followed the Parliament attack trial. A shoddy probe is just another tool of repression, she told MIHIR SRIVASTAVA -
13 October 2007, by Walden Bello
Environment Struggles in the Global South
The developing world’s stance towards the question of the environment has often been equated with the pugnacious comments of former Malaysian Prime Minister Mohamad Mahathir, such as his famous (…) -
10 October 2007, by Siddharth Varadarajan and Karthik Ramanathan
US Imperialism, South Asia and lessons from Latin America
Karthik Ramanathan: At the Bandung Summit in 1955 in Indonesia, our first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, asked of some of the SEATO (South East Asian Treaty Organisation – a security pact in (…) -
10 October 2007, by Donald Cuccioletta
Crisis and Confusion in Foreign Policy?
Iraq is quickly ebbing itself towards a fifth year of perpetual war and chaos, with no end in sight, despite a new White House discourse of a possible withdrall of 30,000 troops by the summer of (…) -
8 October 2007, by I. A. REHMAN
The people again done in?
During its brief history Pakistan has been used as a stage for many a charade, sometimes in the name of religion, sometimes in the name of democracy but always in national interest and for the (…) -
8 October 2007, by Sushovan DHAR
The Struggle against Water Privatization
The mountainous terrains of Nepal are sandwiched between its two mega-neighbours China and India. It is home to a little more than 27 million people with an area of 147,181 km — of which 2.8% is (…) -
5 October 2007
No to US Imperialism!
The political emission triggered by the Indo-US nuke deal can now be felt quite clearly. The battle-lines have become sharper and it is time for every communist and every sincere democrat and (…) -
4 October 2007, by VIJAY PRASHAD
Gang of Four
In 1954, India’s Jawaharlal Nehru told the Parliament that his government opposed military pacts because they converted areas of peace "into an arena of potential war." The South East Asian Treaty (…) -
3 October 2007, by ROGER BURBACH
Historical Victory for the Left
"We have won an historic victory," proclaimed President Rafael Correa of Ecuador. On Sunday the political coalition he heads won an overwhelming majority of the seats in the Constituent Assembly (…) -
1 October 2007, by Praful BIDWAI
Losing the fight against extremism
Is India losing the fight against extremism, specifically Naxalism, which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently described as "the greatest internal security threat"? Despite spending a huge Rs (…) -
27 September 2007
World Bank Under Trial
New Delhi: The four day Independent Peoples Tribunal (IPT) on the World Bank in India concluded here today hearing numerous depositions indicting the Bank’s policy and project interventions in (…) -
22 September 2007, by JOHN CHERIAN (FrontLine, Delhi)
Reaching Out
Venezuela’s new Constitution seems to be on course for approval even as Chavez attempts to build a new America free of U.S. influence. -
12 September 2007, by Ben Fine
Looking for a Developmental State
Over the past few years, from the president’s office down, South Africa’s position as a developmental state has been firmly on the agenda. -
9 September 2007, by Hein Marais
The Communist Party under the shadow
What is the biggest weakness in current SACP strategy? The biggest weakness is the fact that neither strategy nor tactics address the hard reality that the Party has suffered a series of (…) -
6 September 2007
EcoSocialism, the Way to Go
1. Introduction: Savage capitalism – wrecking lives, wrecking the planet Hardly anyone now doubts that humanity is facing an enormous environmental crisis. The recent report by the (…) -
23 August 2007, by Siddharth Varadarajan
The Controversy about the Nuclear Deal with the USA
By setting boundary conditions for the Government, the Communist Party of India (M), which is supporting the government, has opened a door for addressing India’s concerns over the nuclear (…) -
7 July 2007, by Marta Harnecker
Blows and Counterblows
1. The failure of the military coup in April 2002 (more than 80% of the generals in operational positions remained faithful to Chavez and the constitution) constituted the first great defeat (…) -
25 June 2007, by Pierre Rousset
La libération de Farooq Tariq et des autres détenus : un succès de la solidarité
Quinze jours après avoir été incarcéré, Farooq Tariq, secrétaire général du Labour Party Pakistan (LPP, Parti du travail du Pakistan) est sorti de prison le 19 juin 2007. Plus de six cents autres (…) -
23 June 2007, by Devinder Sharma
Displacing farmers: 400 million Agricultural Refugees
It was on the cards. With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announcing the formation of a new rehabilitation policy for farmers displaced from land acquisitions, it is now official — farmers have to (…) -
20 June 2007, by Bhagwan Mukati, Alok Agarwal and Chittaroopa Pali
Appeal for Narmada
Today is the 13th day of the indefinite dharna at Khandwa of the people of the Indira Sagar and Omkareshwar dams on the Narmada river. It is also the 11th day of the indefinite fast of five (…) -
17 June 2007, by Kiyoko McCrae and Leonora Tisdale and Jordan Flaherty
The Social Forum is Coming
A breathtaking and unprecedented array of leaders and activists from grassroots movements across the US have been building for this year’s US Social Forum (USSF), June 27-July 1 in Atlanta, (…) -
15 June 2007, by Stephen Lewis
The G8 betrayal of Africa
The problem with the G8, it seems to me, is its congenital divorce from reality. We’re part of an era where human life is devalued. Just look at Iraq, just look at Darfur, just look at HIV/AIDS. -
14 June 2007, by Eva Olaer
Exporting domestic labour - the Philippines’ participation in globalization: development or devastation?
Introduction: The present administration of President Gloria Arroyo has basically opted for the institutionalization of labour migration as a central measure to counter the economic crisis in (…) -
12 June 2007, by Siddharth Varadarajan
Summit ignores disarmament
There’s loads of advice and fatwas for others but the Heiligendamm statement is silent on the nuclear weapons states’ obligation to get rid of their arsenals and the new ’Cold War’ that is (…) -
7 June 2007, by Patrick McElwee
Is Free Speech Really at Stake?
President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela has been the subject of many controversies. His critics often accuse him of laying the groundwork for dictatorship, despite the democratic credentials of his (…) -
7 June 2007, by Siddharth Varadarajan
Forget the G8, it’s time for a Brics summit
Instead of waiting like supplicants outside the portals of the G8, Brazil, India, China, and South Africa should realise a summit of their own would transform the world order more effectively than (…) -
6 June 2007, by Walden Bello
Small Farmers Resisting in Asia
The growing resistance of small farmers has succeeded in stalling the WTO negotiations. -
6 June 2007
Call for day of action / mobilisation January 26th 2008
We are millions of women and men, organisations, networks, movements, trade unions from all parts of the world; we come from villages, regions, rural zones, urban centres; we are of all ages, (…) -
6 June 2007, by Via Campesina
Farmers Mobilize
Via Campesina farmers and farm workers, women and men, have come from Germany, France, the Basque Country, Belgium, Quebec, Austria, Norway, Nicaragua and Nepal to take part in the massive anti-G8 (…) -
4 June 2007, by Phyllis Bennis
THE U.S. MOVEMENT AND THE REST OF THE WORLD
These are tough times for the anti-war activists in the United States. At a moment when the momentum of our global movement is on the rise, many here at the center of the empire are filled with (…) -
2 June 2007, by Prabhat Patnaik
What is Globalization?
"Globalisation" is the term under which imperialism presents itself in its current phase. The term however is a misnomer, since its implicit suggestion, that the degree of freedom of commodity and (…) -
29 May 2007, by Roger Howard
Where anti-Arab prejudice and oil make the difference
In a remote corner of Africa, millions of civilians have been slaughtered in a conflict fueled by an almost genocidal ferocity that has no end in sight. Victims have been targeted because of their (…) -
25 May 2007, by Judy Rebick
Building power — from the bottom up
Building Power through participatory democracy was the major theme of an extraordinary conference held recently at Ryerson University. Eight speakers from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico (…) -
25 May 2007, by Nicola Bullard
NOT THE ONLY SHOW IN TOWN
Given the centrality of oil not only to current geo-politics but also to the politics of global warming, it is interesting to recall that the G7 is a by-product of the 1973 oil crisis. Almost 35 (…) -
23 May 2007, by SUDHANVA DESHPANDE and VIJAY PRASHAD
The crisis of Communism in West Bengal
Banerjee, who was once an activist in the Congress Party, floated her own front in 1997 (the Trinamul Congress Party — TMC), formed an alliance with the far right BJP two years later, and has (…) -
2 May 2007, by Mouvements (independant journal of the left)
Beating Sarko
After the first round of balloting in the French presidential election, how can we evaluate the political dynamics now at work? Why are we convinced that – whatever our reservations – we must do (…) -
20 April 2007, by Patrick Bond
Unfolding Crisis
Repression against Zimbabwe’s political and civil society opposition has intensified in recent weeks, apparently at the behest of president Robert Mugabe, to the point that Southern African (…) -
20 April 2007, by Héctor Lucena
LE MOUVEMENT OUVRIER DANS LA RÉVOLUTION BOLIVARIENNE
L’action déterminée du gouvernement de Hugo Chavez a ébranlé la bureaucratie syndicale traditionnelle et permis au mouvement ouvrier de se redéployer. Mais la centralisation du pouvoir bolivarien (…) -
11 April 2007, by Federico Fuentes
Subcomandante Marcos: Capitalism’s ‘new war of conquest’
Launching the second phase of La Otra Campana (The Other Campaign) on March 25, Subcomandante Marcos, the best-known spokesperson for the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), denounced “the (…) -
7 April 2007, by AIJAZ AHMAD
Imperial sunset?
For the first time since its rise as a superpower the United States is facing a serious threat to its hegemony across the globe. -
2 April 2007, by Eva CHENG
Massacre in West Bengal
On March 23, hundreds of thousands of people from all over India converged in Delhi to express their anger at the killing of peasant protesters on March 14 by police and thugs aligned with the (…) -
29 March 2007
‘It’s Outright War and Both Sides are Choosing Their Weapons’
There is an atmosphere of growing violence across the country. How do you read the signs? In what context should it be read? You don’t have to be a genius to read the signs. We have a growing (…) -
24 February 2007, by Walden Bello
The environment crisis
Dale Wen’s short book "China Copes with Globalization: a Mixed Review", published by the International Forum on Globalization, is probably the best comprehensive introduction to the environmental (…) -
19 February 2007
Massacre in Bas-Congo
On February 3, most towns and cities in Bas-Congo were shut down in strike to protest the overt fraud that occurred during the elections of Senators and Governors. The Presidential Guards, the (…) -
3 February 2007, by Raúl Zibechi
Evo Morales’ First Year
If the first year government is enough time to assess the course of an administration, the one-year anniversary of Evo Morales (who took office on Jan. 22, 2006) finds him in the midst of a path (…) -
31 December 2006, by Walden Bello
GLOBALIZATION ON THE EDGE
When it first became part of the English vocabulary in the early 1990s, globalization was supposed to be the wave of the future. Fifteen years ago, the writings of globalist thinkers such as (…) -
15 December 2006, by Niko Kyriakou with Martin Markovits
Chavez’s Way Forward
Hugo Chavez’s resounding victory in well-monitored elections earlier this month shows that the self-styled socialist’s controversial leadership and big social spending have genuinely won over (…) -
25 November 2006, by Greg Albo
Empire’s Ally: Canadian Foreign Policy
Since the coming into power of the Stephen Harper Conservative government in January of this year, there has been much gnashing of teeth over the foreign policy stance of Canada. -
22 November 2006, by Donald Cucioletta
The Neoconservative Debacle
The George W. Bush presidencies of 2000 and 2004 were the beneficiaries of the conservative coalition, which came into existence under the Reagan administration of 8 years in the Whitehouse. -
22 November 2006, by Donald Cucioletta
After the Election
The results of the November 7th elections are in and the Democrats have wrested the majority in Congress from the Republicans. The Democrats will now preside in the House of Representatives and (…) -
20 November 2006
If we were Venezuelan we would vote for Chavez!
Venezuela is going to the polls again on December 3. For the twelfth time in a row, the Venezuelan people face the challenge of defeating their country’s right wing, which acts as the electoral (…) -
13 November 2006, by Mavis Anderson
No to US Interference
Fidel Castro’s recent announcement that he would temporarily transfer power to his brother Raul and others in the Cuban Government has led to much speculation about the course of events in both (…) -
6 November 2006, by Walden Bello
Chain-Gang Economics
"The world [is] investing too little," according to one prominent economist. "The current situation has its roots in a series of crises over the last decade that were caused by excessive (…) -
31 October 2006, by VANAIK Achin
Full speed ahead towards confrontations
Shinzo Abe’s accession to premiership in Japan accurately expresses and symbolizes the new Japan that has been in the making over the last few years under the tutelage of his predecessor, (…) -
23 October 2006
The Presidential Swindle
When balloting stopped on the evening of July 2nd at the end of Mexico’s 2006 presidential election, the eyes of the nation turned to the two main tv networks to await the result of exit polls. (…) -
12 October 2006, by Fred Halliday
The Left and the Jihad
The approaching fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States highlights an issue much in evidence in the world today, but one that receives too little historically-informed and (…) -
3 October 2006, by Walden Bello
The Collapse of Democracy
Even before Thaksin, Thai democracy was already in severe crisis owing to a succession of elected but do-nothing or exceedingly corrupt regimes since 1992. Its legitimacy was eroded even further (…) -
29 September 2006, by Raúl Zibechi |
Landless Workers Movement: The Difficult Construction of a New World
“Breaking down the fences of the large estates was not as difficult as fighting the technological packages of the transnationals,” Huli recounts as he sits in his kitchen and pours hot water into (…) -
25 September 2006, by
SAMY L. A.
Tsunami Relief and Rehabilitation Work: Weakening Civil Society?
The relief and rehabilitation work that was supposed to have been commenced in the wake of the December 2004 catastrophic tsunami that claimed thousands of life-both human and animal and left many (…) -
23 September 2006, by Siddharth VARADARAJAN
Time to check the dangerous drift
The road map for the formation of an interim government with Maoist participation is more or less in place. But powerful forces are intervening to derail the process. -
21 September 2006
Hugo Chavez speaks ou at the UN
Representatives of the governments of the world, good morning to all of you. First of all, I would like to invite you, very respectfully, to those who have not read this book, to read it. Noam (…) -
17 September 2006, by Greg Palast
Will the real Hugo Chavez Stand-Up?
You’d think George Bush would get down on his knees and kiss Hugo Chávez’s behind. Not only has Chávez delivered cheap oil to the Bronx and other poor communities in the United States. And not (…) -
11 September 2006, by Siddharth VARADARAJAN
The quest for world order
The Manmohan Singh Government’s foreign policy may or may not be independent. What is certain is that it is not effective or imaginative. -
31 July 2006, by Walden Bello
Collapse Best for Developping Countires
THE COLLAPSE on Monday 24 July of the Doha Round of World Trade Organization negotiations in Geneva is one of the best things to happen to the developing world in a long while.