Sovereignty and the rule of law are under threat from Trump’s attacks on Lula’s administration just as they have been across Latin America, argue CARLOS MARTINEZ and SARA VIVACQUA
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The early US often had a far better understanding of the injustices of imperialism than their modern liberal descendants with their selective application of ‘human rights,’ writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Glasgow will remember the martyrs of the 1787 strike this weekend in speech and song, their spirit is sorely needed today, writes JIM LISTER
ALEX BROWN explains how medieval Europe was plunged into sunless years, with widespread crop failures and devastating famines
Police crackdowns on Israeli peace demonstrators combined with court rulings and settler organisations are designed to strip Palestinian families of their homes and land. The Israeli state has tried to silence both Israelis and Palestinians who resist, according to Zo HaDerekh (This Is The Way) the Communist Party of Israel’s Hebrew-language weekly
Remembering a legendary trade unionist and inspirational leader
Communists in Australia, Britain and the US outlined a joint state agreement against their governments’ militarist provocations.
BEFORE Hobson (1902) and Lenin (1917) elaborated theories of imperialism, there was an American Anti-Imperialist League (1898).
The league’s members constituted a diverse group, ranging from left to right, radical to conservative, social worker to politician, writer to lawyer, trade union leader to monopoly capitalist.
Notables included Jane Addams, Grover Cleveland, Andrew Carnegie, John Dewey, Samuel Gompers, Henry and William James, Edgar Lee Masters and Mark Twain.
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