Brazil: Manuel Castells' open letter to the world's intellectuals
- TLAXCALA ΤΛΑΞΚΑΛΑ ТЛАКСКАЛА تلاكسكالا 特拉科斯卡拉
The sociologist Manuel Castells has just published the following appeal on the Brazilian presidential election
Intellectual friends committed to democracy:
Brazil is in danger. And with Brazil the world. Because after Trump's election, the seizure ...
Hiding in plain sight: Why we cannot see the system destroying us
- Jonathan Cook جونثان كوك
I rarely tell readers what to believe. Rather I try to indicate why it might be wise to distrust, at least without very good evidence, what those in power tell us we should believe.
We have well-known sayings about power: “Knowledge is power” ...
Imperialism and its accomplices: The question of dictatorship and democracy at home and abroad
- James Petras
One of the most striking world historic advances of western imperialism (in the US and the European Union) is the demise, disappearance and dissolution of large scale long-term anti-imperialist and anti-interventionist movements (AIM).
One of the major ...
In memory of Alexander Zakharchenko
- Gennady Zyuganov Геннадий Андреевич Зюганов
I receive all news from the Donetsk land with a special feeling. The fate of my family is closely connected with the Donbas, with Ukraine, with Crimea, where during his struggle against fascism my father was seriously wounded. And now, another pitiful ...
"Not Enough!"
- Uri Avnery أوري أفنيري אורי אבנרי
The State of Israel has no oil wells. It has no gold mines. What has it got? It has the ownership of the remembrance of the Holocaust.
That is worth a lot. Everyone who wants to clean himself from the stain needs a certificate from the State of Israel. ...
70 years of Nakba, 25,567 days of sumud
- TLAXCALA ΤΛΑΞΚΑΛΑ ТЛАКСКАЛА تلاكسكالا 特拉科斯卡拉
On this 15th May 2018, the Palestinians commemorate the 70th anniversary of their Nakba, the catastrophe that the proclamation of the State of Israel was for them.
Jorge Alaminos, Tlaxcala
In the 25,567 days since the sinister date, the four generations ...
D.C March for Our Lives report
- Jayla Rae
At 8:00am on March 24,, people from all over the world, flooded downtown Washington, D.C, to attend the “March for Our Lives” rally, a rally called by student activism from Parkland, Florida, to protest gun violence in schools and bash the ...
Six Eight: memories of a year in revolution (2)
21 February, 1968: the NLF is gonna win!
- Fausto Giudice Фаусто Джудиче فاوستو جيوديشي
Chapter 1
The year 1968 started with a bang: on 30 January, Vietnamese fighters launched the Tet (Vietnamese New Year) Offensive throughout South Vietnam, attacking all major US military bases and all major cities controlled by the puppet forces ...
Emma, Edna, Naomi: birth of a new nation?
- Fausto Giudice Фаусто Джудиче فاوستو جيوديشي
They are between 11 and 17 years old, so they are totally innocent in Trump's election, just as they would have been totally innocent if Hillary had been elected: they do not yet have the right to vote. They are very young, they are innocent and they ...
Six Eight: memories of a year in revolution (1)
21 October-20 December 1967: Long live the victorious people's war!
- Fausto Giudice Фаусто Джудиче فاوستو جيوديشي
No, 50 years later, I do not regret anything. I did not steal, kill, rape or lie. And I don't believe I ever betrayed, neither our ideas and dreams, nor my comrades. Not everyone my age can say the same. But before we get started, let's put some dots ...
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