1) ZunZuneo Ever since the people’s victory in 1959, U.S. imperialism has made it a top priority to overthrow the Cuban Revolution and bring back the old elite. The recently-exposed ZunZuneo scandal, the so-called Cuban Twitter, is just the latest chapter in this...
The real agenda of the Gates Foundation
Originally posted in Issue 57 of Aspects of India's Economy, published by the Research Unit for Political Economy. Author Jacob Levich, [email protected], has written on imperialist military strategy for Aspects No. 42. He lives in New York City and tweets as...
What or who will #BringBackOurGirls?
#BringBackOurGirls has gone massively viral in the social media world, as people around the globe clamor for action to save hundreds of school-age girls abducted from their school in Nigeria. The girls were abducted by the group Boko Haram, a self-described Muslim...
The Legacy of the Grenadian Revolution Lives On
The following article is republished from Invent the Future with the permission of the author. “The Grenada Revolution was a grasp of joy … that life unfulfilled could and would change, be transformed for a people who had known 400 years of transportation, slavery,...
Imperialism, the Islamic State and the Policy of Endless War
Why we are marching in Washington, D.C., on Saturday March 21, 2015, to say NO to authorization for new war in Iraq and Syria On Saturday, March 21 the ANSWER Coalition is taking a lead role, as part of a broader coalition, in organizing a National March in...
Nelson Mandela: Armed struggle and communism in the fight for freedom
Nelson Mandela, longtime leader of the African National Congress, and first Black president of South Africa, died quietly in his home December 5, after a long battle with illness. Mandela became the world’s best-known political prisoner in the 1980s, and following his...
Remembering Gen. Giap
Vietnamese Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, who helped defeat Japan, then France, then the United States in a 35-year war for national independence, died in Hanoi on Oct. 4 at the age of 102. He had been ailing and living in a military hospital for the last four years. Giap’s...
It was the CIA that helped jail Nelson Mandela
Today is Nelson Mandela's 95th birthday, but forget the crocodile tears from the U.S. government about Mandela's poor health. Imperialist diplomacy with all of its sugar-coated phrases is nothing more than a form of historical perjury. Nelson Mandela’s arrest in 1962,...
Why North Korea is developing nuclear weapons
This article was first published on the "what's left" blog on Feb. 16, 2013. It is re-published here with the author's permission. It has been slightly edited for style. Is North Korea’s recent nuclear test, its third, to be welcomed, lamented or condemned? It depends...