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21 April 2008, by Amélie Gauthier
Empty stomachs, stormy politics
The violent protests in Haiti against rising food prices have exposed key problems in the already impoverished country’s political condition. -
21 April 2008, by BILL QUIGLEY
30 Years Ago Haiti Grew All the Rice It Needed.
Riots in Haiti over explosive rises in food costs have claimed the lives of six people. There have also been food riots world-wide in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivorie, Egypt, Guinea, (…) -
17 April 2008
International Campaign against Zionist and US Occupation
The success of the 6th Cairo Conference and the Cairo Forum for Liberation 2008, despite all the challenges and difficulties, is, by all measures, an important achievement. The objective of the (…) -
16 April 2008, by Vibhuti PATEL
Women’s Right to Land and Housing
Women’s Right to Land and Housing has been major concern of the women’s movement in India for over two decades. Globally, women’s land rights are becoming an area of increasing urgency. In most (…) -
9 April 2008, by Heidi Fritschel
The price of food: ingredients of a global crisis
A worldwide increase in the price of basic foods is provoking anger and despair in many of the world’s poor countries. Both analysts and policymakers are attempting to rise to the challenge of (…) -
7 April 2008, by Hillary Wainright
The Left and the Political Crisis
The creation of a Europe-wide left has proved to be a much stickier process than I imagined in 2002 when I stood in Florence and watched the 60,000-strong demonstration of the first European (…) -
5 April 2008, by Patrick Bond
Where to Now?
As the world waits to see what will happen in Zimbabwe, Patrick Bond argues that lessons should be taught and retaught about the dangers of elite transition between a voracious, corrupt, violent (…) -
3 April 2008, by Daniel Denvir and Thea Riofrancos
How Green is the Latin American Left?
Across Latin America, resurgent indigenous, labor and campesino movements have contributed to the rise of new governments that declare their independence from the neoliberal economic model, (…) -
1 April 2008, by Siddharth Varadarajan
A vote for change, a vote for peace
On April 10, the Nepal peace process which formally began in 2005 with a 12-point understanding between seven parliamentary parties and the Maoists will enter a decisive stage with the holding of (…) -
27 March 2008, by Nick Buxton
Constituting change in a divided country
Bolivia’s proposed new constitution is an innovative and progressive document constructed out of the struggles by social movements in recent years, however securing national consensus will be an (…) -
20 March 2008, by Horace Cambell
Obama at the crossroads of a revolution?
In a nuanced article that borrows from various disciplines such as philosophy and physics, Horace Campbell argues that Barrack Obama would only be trapped by a conservative and anti-people social (…) -
17 March 2008, by Federico Fuentes
Latin America Rejects Bush Doctrine
Reeling from the blow that it received in the aftermath of the Colombian military’s illegal incursion on March 1 into Ecuador — which resulted in the brutal massacre of a number of civilians (…) -
12 March 2008, by Patrick Bond and Grace Kwinjeh
Political roller-coaster
With presidential elections in Zimbabwe just around the corner, Patrick Bond and Grace Kwinjeh look at who the national, regional and international players are, and consider various (…) -
11 March 2008, by Hugo Blanco
New Wave of Repression
Hugo Blanco, one of Peru’s most outstanding indigenous and campesino leaders, issued the following international appeal to supporters of democratic and human rights. -
3 March 2008, by Patrick Bond
FROM FALSE TO REAL SOLUTIONS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
Amidst her welcome critique of the biofuel mania, Vandana Shiva’s ZNet commentary (December 13, 2007) also made this point: "The Kyoto Protocol totally avoided the material challenge of stopping (…) -
3 March 2008
CMP Trying to Reconcile ‘Anti-imperialist’ Rhetoric with ‘Neo-liberal Constraints’
The draft political resolution released by the CPI (M) for its ensuing 19th Congress provides quite a revealing commentary on the opportunist political trajectory of the party. The resolution is (…) -
28 February 2008, by Raul Zibechi
Historical Mapuche Hunger Strike Ends in Success
After a 109-day hunger strike, Patricia Troncoso forced Michelle Bachelet’s insensitive government to yield and allow her weekend passes and completion of her sentence at a work-study center. Two (…) -
28 February 2008, by Walden BELLO
Capitalism in Apocalyptic Mood
Skyrocketing oil prices, a falling dollar, and collapsing financial markets are the key ingredients in an economic brew that could end up in more than just an ordinary recession. The falling (…) -
27 February 2008, by Blade Nzimande
Tribute to Fidel Castro
Blade Nzimande gives a comradely appraisal of Fidel Castro the revolutionary theorist, practitioner and internationalist. -
26 February 2008, by Patrick BOND
In the dark about global warming
It is tragic but understandable that South African society ranks — with the United States and China — at the bottom of a recent worldwide climate-consciousness survey by polling firm Global Scan: (…) -
24 February 2008, by João Alfredo Telles Melo
The Brazilian government’s (un)sustainable policy for climate change and the response of civil society
This paper intends to make an analysis, even if brief and not conclusive, of the environmental policy — addressing its interfaces with the development policy and, particularly, its relation to (…) -
23 February 2008, by Irfan Husain
Judgment day
Pakistan’s election was a major defeat for the Islamists, the president’s allies, and most of all for Pervez Musharraf himself. But what happens next? Irfan Husain assesses a big moment and the (…) -
22 February 2008, by SAUL LANDAU
Cuba Changed History
Fidel decided not run for President this week. I saw him last in April 2001. "The worst is over," he told the person next to me in the hallway. "The issue is developing socialism." Poking his (…) -
21 February 2008, by Richard Gott
Fidel remembered: a view of the Cuban revolution
Fidel Castro announced his retirement on 19 February 2008. Both the fifty-year experience of the Cuba revolution and current trends in Latin America confirm the "maximo líder" as one of the great (…) -
20 February 2008, by FASE
For a Sustainable and Democratic Amazon
1.1. The historical legitimacy of FASE and their partners One of FASE’s most established presences, of four decades, is in the state of Pará. During all these years, FASE grew and matured (…) -
20 February 2008, by Adam Novak
A country without an economy?
Media coverage of Kosovo’s recent Unilateral Declaration of Independence has focused on the risk of conflict with Serbia, and the broader geopolitical risks for unresolved separatist struggles in (…) -
19 February 2008, by FIDEL CASTRO
«The Time has come»
The moment has come to nominate and elect the State Council, its President, its Vice-Presidents and Secretary. For many years I have occupied the honorable position of President. On February (…) -
12 February 2008, by Subcomandante Marcos
The Fire and the Word
The following text is a transcript of an audio message by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos for a book launch event in Mexico City celebrating the publication of the original Mexican edition, EZLN: (…) -
9 February 2008, by Maina Kiai
The political crisis: A call for justice & peaceful resolution
Maina Kiai makes an impassioned plea for seriousness and commitment from all actors in the pursuit for a resolution to Kenya’s political crisis -
2 February 2008, by Medea Benjamin
ALBA, an Economic Alternative for Latin America
"With ALBA the Unity of our America is Reborn" (AFP) The sixth conference of the Latin American alternative trade alliance known as ALBA-which stands for the Bolivarian Alternative for the (…) -
31 January 2008, by Brian ASHLEY
Call from the Left
An earthquake has hit the ANC. A new leadership has wiped out the Mbeki regime in the ANC leadership race. This is comparable to a landslide victory for an opposition party in a general election. (…) -
30 January 2008, by Naomi Klein
Why the right loves a disaster
Ideologues use times of crisis as an opportunity to foist their economic policies on desperate societies. -
29 January 2008, by SRINIVASAN Sandhya
Mumbai: WSF supporters bring adverse effects of globalisation to the fore
Mumbai: There was grim determination on the faces of the 500-strong crowd that marched through the streets of this western port city for the World Social Forum’s Global Day of Action on Saturday. -
26 January 2008, by ARUNDHATI ROY
Listening To Grasshoppers
It’s an old human habit, genocide is. It’s a search for lebensraum, project of Union and Progress. -
24 January 2008, by Bob BRENNER
US/World Economy : Devastating Crisis Unfolds
THE CURRENT CRISIS could well turn out to be the most devastating since the Great Depression. It manifests profound, unresolved problems in the real economy that have been — literally — papered (…) -
15 January 2008, by John Riddell
People’s Power
"If we want to talk of socialism," says Argenis Loreto, "we must first resolve the people’s most urgent needs: water in their homes, accessible health care, easy access to housing." -
13 January 2008, by Jim Miles
Subnation Status?
Canadians have always prided themselves on the “goodness” if not the “greatness” of their country. Sitting north of the United States, Canadians struggle with an ideal that rejects many American (…) -
13 January 2008, by OLOO Onyango
No Justice No Peace
During my 18 year sojourn in Ontario and Quebec, I became quite immersed in a wide array of social justice struggles-from Indigenous People’s rights, anti-globalization, working class struggles, (…) -
13 January 2008, by Victoria BRITTAIN
Kibaki must back down
Desmond Tutu was absolutely right to fly into Kenya and throw his moral authority behind efforts to resolve the dramatic crisis that other outsiders are misjudging so badly. British foreign (…) -
12 January 2008, by ANDY WORTHINGTON
6 years of Guantanamo
The Bush administration has maintained a low profile over the last month, as waves of indignation over the destruction of CIA videotapes showing the torture of two "high value" detainees have (…) -
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 (…)