At a time when protests against violence and racism increase around the world, a horrendous crime motivated by discrimination has taken place in Guatemala, also combined with the fanaticism and profound ignorance that have remained in that society for centuries.... More
The sustained protests in the United States against police violence toward the black population has impacted the entire world, and there have been many expressions of solidarity with the black community. In Cuba, the government, the press, and research centers have been for years careful observers of the United States, with a perspective of solidarity with the black movement and with popular movements of the Left. In accordance with this historic tendency, in the context of the protests in the United States, Cuban television rebroadcast on Friday the film, Malcolm X.... More
With a fictional democracy, weakened by an authoritarian government led by Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil is the third country of the world with a highest number of deaths as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and still has not flattened the curve of infections.... More
The protests over the killing of George Floyd and against police violence have been sustained for days, and they have been increasingly non-violent, for the most part; and they have included confrontations, initiated by the police against non-violent protesters... More
In April 1920, two and one-half years after the taking of power by the Bolshevik Party, V.I. Lenin wrote a pamphlet entitled the “infantile disorder” of “‘Left-Wing’ Communism,” with “Left-Wing” in quotes, implying so-called Left Wing. Lenin wrote: “The surest way of discrediting a new political (and not only political) idea, and to cause it harm, is, under pretext of defending it, to reduce it to an absurdity.... More
Demands for Trump Removal Grow as 'Fascist' Speech Condemned as Declaration of War Against US Public
President Donald Trump's pledge Monday evening to deploy the full force of the U.S. military against demonstrators protesting the killing of George Floyd—and the president's authorization of police violence against peaceful protesters to clear the way for a photo-op—amounted in the eyes of lawmakers, rights groups, and commentators to "declaration of war" against the U.S. public that must result in Trump's removal from office.... More
El Salvador and Guatemala, two Central American countries, characterized by huge inequalities and great poverty, were hit hard over the past several days by Tropical Storm Amanda. It was a terrible tragedy in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and will only add more suffering to an already devastated population.... More
The motto of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was “To redeem the soul of America.” Indeed, the mission of that organization of Southern black ministers, established in 1957 with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as president, was nothing less that the spiritual transformation of the nation, bringing it to the fulfillment of the promise of democracy proclaimed at its birth.... More
The humanitarian emergency taking place in Yemen, considered the most serious crisis in the world today, could deepen even more due to the COVID-19 pandemic that’s capable of ravaging a country, if it lacks the sanitary infrastructure.... More
On April 30, Alexander Alazo Baró, a Cuban native who now lives in the United States, fired thirty-two shots with a semi-automatic rifle at the Cuban embassy building in Washington, DC.... More
Max Horkheimer was a prominent critical Marxist theorist, of the so-called Frankfurt School, who was compelled by the Nazi rise to power to leave Germany in 1933. He and his colleagues of the Institute for Social Research were relocated to Columbia University in New York City in 1934, returning to Frankfurt in 1949.... More
The brewing New Cold War against China draws upon a long-standing lack of understanding in the West with respect to the Asian giant. We ought to understand the fundamental historic facts.... More
When intellectuals, activists, and politicians of the North do not see the Third World, they do not see the logic of China. When I say “do not see,” I mean paying little attention. To what extent have intellectuals and activists of the North immersed themselves in the Third World revolutions, allowing new understandings to challenge their assumptions?... More
The confusing and bloody war that has plagued Libya since the overthrow and assassination of leader Muammar al Gaddafi nine years ago by the U.S. and NATO, continues to unfold in the region, now with the arrival of mercenary troops from every corner of the globe.... More
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