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Labor defense committee: Release Palestinian researcher Salah Hamouri
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.––The Committee for International Labor Defense (CILD) announced this Thursday morning that it would join the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, the French...
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Venezuelan left fights back against Trump’s threats and sanctions
On Friday, August 25, President Trump announced the imposition of tough new sanctions on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, as punishment for the establishment of a new National Constituent Assembly...
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This week in history: A half-century since the death of Che Guevara
On October 9, 1967, socialist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara, age 39, was killed by the Bolivian army. The U.S. military-backed Bolivian forces captured Guevara on October 8th while...
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Venezuela: Pro government candidates win in state elections
Candidates allied with the left-wing government of President Nicolas Maduro won in 17 of Venezuela’s 23 states in regional elections on Sunday, October 15. Results in one state (Bolivar) have not been...
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Palestine in Toronto: Cinematic representation at a prestigious film festival
TORONTO—A record-breaking 92 countries have submitted films to the Oscar Award category for Best Foreign Language Film. Certainly the Oscar Awards carry their degree of authority in craftsmanship, as...
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“Jamaica” coalition in Germany experiencing birth pains
BERLIN — It didn’t affect many people directly, but even small victories are welcome these days. Germany’s Constitutional Court just ruled that people cannot be forced to declare themselves officially...
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“Naila and the Uprising”: Holding up half the Palestinian sky
Naila and the Uprising is a thoughtful, moving, immensely valuable retelling of the First Palestinian Intifada. Peabody Award winner Julia Bacha’s new film combines stirring archival footage, revealing...
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Washington march for Puerto Rico demands stepped-up rebuilding effort
WASHINGTON—In a tremendous show of unity, under a sea of Puerto Rican flags being waved high, thousands of Puerto Ricans and their supporters joined in the Unity March for Puerto Rico in the nation’s...
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Blood flows in aftermath of fraudulent Honduran election
As many feared, the aftermath of the fraudulent Honduran election of Nov. 26 has now degenerated into harsh repression and violent death. Opposition to the corrupt right-wing regime of President Juan...
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This week in history: A century of Finnish independence
December 6, 2017, marks the one hundredth anniversary of Finland’s declaration of independence. It is a national public holiday and flag day, celebrating the Finnish nation’s break from Russia. From...
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Berlin honors anti-fascists; we should honor fighters for equality
Hans and Traudel Horn promised it would be a tour of Berlin’s socialist history, and so it was. Twice I spent a long day with them on the U-Bahn and S-Bahn, trying to hear what they explained over the...
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Five months after elections, Germany may finally have a government
BERLIN – “Thanks be to God! – Gottseidank!” That, last Wednesday, was surely the reaction of millions of even nonbelieving Germans! After four and a half months of haggling and recrimination and, four...
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U.S. and allies look to military intervention in Venezuela
The Bolivarian social and political movement first led by former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and holding state power since 1999 has long faced U.S. assaults. They’ve ranged from U.S. support for...
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South Africa: Workers and poor the biggest losers in Zuma’s state capture
PRETORIA, South Africa—It’s been a surreal time in South Africa, where during February events went into overdrive after a period of political torpor heading for seemingly permanent logjam. The recall...
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My Lai massacre exhibit puts Vietnam War in broad perspective
SAN FRANCISCO—A deeply moving, thought-provoking, action-inspiring My Lai Memorial Exhibit commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March 16, 1968, massacre of civilians in My Lai, Vietnam, opened in...
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‘Occupation of the American Mind’: Documentary on Israel’s effective...
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War in the United States. This recent documentary film has a long title, but its terse 84 minutes are packed with riveting images and...
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Trump: Another president trampling on international and U.S. law
The U.S. missile attack on Syria in response to unproven chemical weapons use by the Assad regime once again puts America in violation of the international laws that we claim to support. The UN charter...
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“There will be no more war”: Time for U.S. troops to leave Korea
“A new era of peace has begun.” That’s the declaration out of Panmunjom today, where the leaders of North and South Korea—Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in—met in a historic summit at the Demilitarized Zone...
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FARC Leader Santrich faces extradition; Colombian peace process in peril
On April 9 prospects for peace in Colombia took a hit. That day agents of the Colombian state agents arrested FARC leader Jesús Santrich. He faces extradition to the United States. Santrich began a...
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Max Berrú, founder of the Chilean group Inti Illimani, dies
Max Berrú Carrión was born in Cariamanga, Ecuador, June 5, 1942. He died May 1 at the age of 74 in Santiago de Chile of bone marrow cancer diagnosed last year. Despite not being born in Chile, Berrú...
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