The proxy war in Ukraine is heading to a denouement with the US and Russia dividing the spoils while the European powers stand bewildered by events they have been wilfully blind to, says KEVIN OVENDEN
To understand Caribbean ‘decolonisation’ look up Richard Hart
ROGER McKENZIE recommends the work of the 20th-century Marxist activist, a founding member of Jamaica’s People’s National Party and a historian whose books showed the primacy of slave revolts in ending slavery itself
One can only imagine what would happen if 2.2 million Palestinian refugees were pushed into Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries, per Trump’s proposal, writes RAMZY BAROUD
This is the most anti-migrant government in decades, argues RAVISHAAN RAHEL MUTHIAH
VICTOR GROSSMAN reports, with a little chuckle, on how US readiness to work with Russia, not just on peace for Ukraine, has thrown a spanner into the German electoral machine
SOLOMON HUGHES probes the finances of a phoney ‘charity’ pushing the free schools and academies agenda
Freedom now for former PM Mir-Hossein Mousavi and other political prisoners
VIJAY PRASHAD examines why in 2018 Washington started to take an increasingly belligerent stance towards ‘near peer rivals’ – Russa and China – with far-reaching geopolitical effects
MARXIST thought in the Caribbean extends beyond the obvious trailblazers of the Cuban revolution.
The likes of Cuban revolutionaries Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Trinidad’s CLR James, Guyana’s Walter Rodney and Grenada’s Maurice Bishop have all made a huge contribution towards the theory and practice of Marxism in the region.
The problem is that after these names most people, even seasoned activists, will begin to struggle to add many other names, especially women, from the region to this list of great thinkers and activists.
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