In May 2022, Colombia elected its first progressive center-left government with the ticket of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez, of the Historic Pact Party. This ended a long period of right-wing [...] Continue Reading
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Nuclear-Powered Submarines in Cuba
Is it the Cuban missile crisis all over again, when you thought they were calling that school assembly to announce the end of the world? Or is it just another manifestation of U.S. exceptionalism, [...] Continue Reading
What Did They Say About Palestine?
Nelson Mandela I have come to join you today to add our own voice to the universal call for Palestinian self-determination and statehood. We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without [...] Continue Reading
Cuba: Saving the Culture
Fidel Castro said, “Lo primero que hay que salvar es la cultura (The first thing to save is culture).” He was speaking at the beginning of the Special Period, the time when Cuba lost more than 80% of [...] Continue Reading
Cuba: Salvando la Cultura
POR LENI VILLAGOMEZ REEVES “Lo primero que hay que salvar es la cultura”, dijo Fidel, al comienzo del Período Especial, cuando, con la caída del bloque soviético, Cuba perdió más de 80% de sus [...] Continue Reading
What Happened in Santiago and Why
On March 17, in Santiago de Cuba, the nation’s second largest city, many people took to the streets and held a demonstration because of the long hours of electrical outages due to fuel shortages and [...] Continue Reading
Major New Attack on Workers’ Right to Organize
Two of the most obscenely rich men in the world, together with the German corporation Aldi, which owns more than 12,000 stores in 18 countries, have directly attacked the only agency charged with [...] Continue Reading
Peace Is Possible, Ethical Behavior Is Possible
During more than 52 years, various right-wing governments of Colombia and revolutionary forces, including the FARC and the ELN, maintained a state of war. In 2012, formal negotiations for a peace [...] Continue Reading
Reclaiming the Revolutionary MLK
Was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Chaplain to the Empire or Prophet of the Resistance? His own actions and words make clear his revolutionary prophetic vision, and resist all attempts to make him safe, [...] Continue Reading
Khalida Jarrar
Statistics are important. We can know the official count of the dead and realize that this represents only those who have been identified and that many more bodies remain, killed but unidentified and [...] Continue Reading
Supervisors’ Political Appointees to Censor Books
On Nov. 28, the Fresno County Board of Supervisors (BOS) voted to establish a censorship panel for the Fresno County Library system. An 11-member panel, with two members appointed by each supervisor [...] Continue Reading
Justice in Honduras?
Berta Cáceres was killed on March 3, 2016, one day before what would have been her 45th birthday. Cáceres was an Indigenous Lenca woman in Honduras who co-founded the COPINH—Consejo Cívico de [...] Continue Reading