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Warning sign to Anti-War Movement: Behind Assassination of Donetsk Leader

September 5, 2018 UNAC Editor Ukraine

Image: Alexander Zakharchenko (center) during the battle of Debaltsevo in Feb. 2015. By Greg Butterfield, published on Workers World, September 3, 2018 Alexander Zakharchenko, prime minister of the anti-fascist Donetsk People’s Republic, was assassinated on Aug. 31 when an explosion ripped through the Separ restaurant in the capital city of Donetsk. Zakharchenko’s bodyguard, Vyacheslav Dotsenko, was also killed. Twelve other[…]

Stop Bombing of Yemen!

September 5, 2018 UNAC Editor Featured, Middle East Wars, Yemen

A Yemeni man walks amid the rubble of a food storage warehouse after it was targeted by Saudi airstrikes in the capital, Sana’a, on October 26, 2015. (AFP photo) 1,200+ Days of War & Bloodshed in Yemen Imperialists and Saudi Arabia Hands Off Yemen! by Azza Rojbi, originally published on Fire This Time After a Saudi airstrike hit a water[…]

Inside Trump’s Trade Bluster

September 4, 2018 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Featured, Labor

by Jeff Mackler, originally published on Socialist Action Analyzing President Donald Trump’s excoriating traditional U.S. trading partners at the Group of Seven’s (G7) May meeting in Quebec, Marxist economist Michael Roberts commented: “What all these Trumpist antics revealed is that the period of the Great Moderation and globalization, from the 1980s to 2007, when all major capitalist states worked together[…]

Demanding an End to Modern Day Slavery

September 4, 2018 UNAC Editor Prisons and Prisoners, Protest, Racism

At root, striking prisoners demand they be treated as human beings; the rest of their demands flow logically from recognition of their humanity. Demanding an End to Modern Day Slavery, Prisoners Launch Multi-Day Nationwide Strike by Jessica Corbett, originally published on Common Dreams “For some of us it’s as if we are already dead.” In what could become the largest[…]

The Military Occupation of US Black Communities & The Age of AFRICOM

September 4, 2018 UNAC Editor Militarism, Racism

Local and National Activists Gather to Address Problem of Police Militarization and Violence in Baltimore “Impunity is defined as “exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action,” and is precisely what defines the war on poor black and brown people being waged by the frontline troops in that war – the police forces – from Baltimore[…]

The Hour When Children Die: What is Going On in Yemen?

September 3, 2018 UNAC Editor Middle East Wars, Saudi Arabia, Yemen

“Any war crime committed in Yemen by the Saudis and the Emiratis is a war crime committed by the governments in London and Washington, which continue to supply these monarchies with billions of dollars of deadly weaponry used to kill children on a school trip.” (Photo: CNN/Screengrab) by Vijay Prashad, originally published on Common Dreams, August 15, 2018 A busload[…]

Samir Amin: A Vital Challenge to Dispossession

September 3, 2018 UNAC Editor Africa, Marxism

Samir Amin (1931-2018) was one of the world’s greatest radical thinkers – a “creative Marxist” who went from Communist activism in Nasser’s Egypt, to advising African socialist leaders like Julius Nyerere to being a leading figure in the World Social Forum. by Nick Dearden, A segment of a Retrospective on Samir Amin Published on Pambazuka News, August 23, 2018 Samir[…]

If There Are No Refugees . . .

September 3, 2018 UNAC Editor Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Refugees

Image: Palestinian employees of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) take part in a protest against a U.S. decision to cut aid, outside its offices, in Gaza City, on Aug. 02 2018. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajour/ APA Images) If there Are No Refugees, There Will Be No One to Return: Understanding Trump’s War on UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees by Marilyn[…]

Canadian Indians Reject Oil Pipeline Project

September 1, 2018 UNAC Editor Indigenous peoples

Image: First chiefs conference, 1969. Image courtesy of UBCIC. Union of BC Indian Chiefs Condemns Canada’s “Ill-fated” Buy-out of Kinder Morgan Project from Fire This Time, August 2018 Today, as Canada takes possession of the controversial and ill-fated Kinder Morgan pipeline and tanker project, Indigenous leaders renew vows to enact their rights as proper title holders by protecting their territories[…]

National Prison Strike Enters Week Two

September 1, 2018 UNAC Editor Prisons and Prisoners, Protest

by Terri Kay, originally published on Workers World, August 28, 2018 Prisoners across the country are striking in response to an April 15 prison-guard-incited riot at Lee Correctional Institution, a maximum-security prison in Bishopville, S.C. Seven prisoners were killed in what was the deadliest prison riot in 25 years. A network of self-taught legal scholars called Jailhouse Lawyers Speak issued[…]