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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Afghanistan follies
The end of the 20-year US-Afghanistan adventure is another one of imperialism’s overreaching, supremely arrogant, regime change projects ending in fiasco, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Ronald Reagan talks to mojahedin forces at the White House during the cold war
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.
FOR most of the post-war era, the US and Israel — the anointed police agent of the eastern Mediterranean and central Asia — promoted Islamism as a bulwark against secularists and socialists.
Both governments offered arms and aid, while enthusiastically tolerating cultural and political backwardness in the service of imperialist interests.
From Gamal Abdel Nasser to Bashar al-Assad, the US counterposed Islamist “freedom fighters,” with their feudal values and intolerance, against imperfect but secular, anti-monarchical, independent and nationalist regimes.
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