Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, July 21, 2023 What is the material basis of the growing hostility on every level of the U.S. ruling class toward China? No great struggle is based on the personalities or aspirations of individuals. At the root is a very concrete, material basis that drives the conflict. Otherwise, meetings, discussions and diplomacy would[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, June 28, 2023 A mass attack of derision occurred when the facts about the Titan submersible were revealed. Laughter at the expense of an incompetent rich man is understandable but skirts the issue. The rich get many people killed and they do it by design. “The days of government funding are gone. It really[…]
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by Natylie Baldwin, published on CovertAction Magazine, May 5, 2023 Renfrey Clarke is an Australian journalist. Throughout the 1990s he reported from Moscow for Green Left Weekly of Sydney. This past year, he published The Catastrophe of Ukrainian Capitalism: How Privatisation Dispossessed & Impoverished the Ukrainian People with Resistance Books. In April, I had an email exchange with Clarke. Below is[…]
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by Marty Goodman, published on Socialist Action, May 6, 2023 U.S. imperialism and its U.N. proxies have not yet decided who would take part in the third imperialist occupation of Haiti but the answer may come soon. An intervention will surely be pitched as a “humanitarian” multi-national mission to curb Haiti’s rampant gang violence, mass hunger and a re-emerging cholera[…]
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by Vijay Prashad, produced by Globetrotter, April 7, 2023 In late February 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden announced that the United States had placed the nomination of Ajay Banga to be the next head of the World Bank, established in 1944. There will be no other official candidates for this job since—by convention—the U.S. nominee is automatically selected for the[…]
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by Roger McKenzie, produced by Globetrotter, March 31, 2023 Imagine the uproar if China or Russia—or any other country for that matter—said it aimed to exercise military control over land, sea, air, and space to protect its interests and investments. This amazingly has been the stated United States policy since 1997. Full spectrum dominance, as the doctrine is known, is[…]
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How Methane Exports Reverse Climate Progress, Harm Consumers and Endanger Communities The problem analysis here is very informative. The policy recommendations, however, are framed as “President Biden should” do this; “President Biden should” do that. Of course, President Biden will not do any of these things, and if he appeared to do so, it would be a “feint” because President[…]
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International PAME, Rail Issues, Solidarity, published on Labor Today, March 13, 2023 The victims of capitalism raise their voices in Greece. They are our victims and also a reflection of where we are headed unless we embrace major changes. It is time for the people to stand up and demand a change of direction. [jb] New Huge Demonstrations yesterday– Escalation[…]
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Workers World Editorial, March 13, 2023 It is often the case that, when the capitalist system is on the verge of a crisis, the period leading up to it is marked by buoyant explosions of optimism. On Oct. 25, 1929, President Herbert Hoover proclaimed that the U.S. economy was “on a sound and prosperous basis.” Four days later the stock[…]
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by Otis Grotwohl, published on Workers World, February 22, 2023 Weeks after the disaster, more terrifying information is coming out about the toxic train derailment Feb. 3 in East Palestine, Ohio. The two-mile-long, 150-car train, owned by Norfolk Southern, weighed 18,000 tons and was carrying hazardous material when it jackknifed as a result of a broken axle. Following the “controlled[…]
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