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, January 30, 2022 This article, originally published July 12, 2017, by Workers World, remains timely in January 2022 as the U.S. threatens war at the Russian border with Ukraine and ramps up China-baiting in an attempt to break up agreements being forged between nations seeking to remain independent of U.S. imperialism. See also[…]
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By Itzamná Ollantay, published on Resumen, December 28, 2021 Leave us not forget the ‘other’ Central America. A Guatemalan co-worker told me it was like a paradise, in response to an inquiry re whether he misses his home country. He didn’t say why he had to go. [jb] In the Christmas atmosphere, and the day after the feast of[…]
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by Stewart Player and Bob Gill, published on Consortium News, December 5, 2021 Hopefully you read the previous article. We see that private insurance companies are overrunning Medicare (and Medicaid) in the U.S. At the same time, one of the biggest is buying up the NIH in the UK. This is, in essence, a corporate coup that when you add[…]
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We’ve been following the uprising against the new neoliberal farm laws in India, but perhaps we aren’t aware that it reflects a similar process here. The context is very different here because, at least since the depression in the 30s, there has been a lot less small farms and subsistence level farming. [jb] by Ted Kelly, published on Workers World,[…]
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By Manuel Raposo, published on Workers World, February 18, 2021 It has often been said that so-called “natural” disasters, including unforeseeable catastrophes, lay bare the weaknesses of the societies they strike. The health, social and economic crisis the coronavirus triggered is an example of this. An aggravating factor is that it has long been predicted that the spread of a[…]
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by Colin Todhunter, published on CounterCurrents, January 16, 2021 In a short video on the empirediaries.com YouTube channel, a protesting farmer camped near Delhi says that during lockdown and times of crisis farmers are treated like “gods”, but when they ask for their rights, they are smeared and labelled as “terrorists”. He, along with thousands of other farmers, are mobilising[…]
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by Yanis Varoufakis, published on DiEM25, 11/26/2020 This is an interesting Global Call to Action. This is a strategy I have long advocated in other campaigns so I hope they do this again. I also published a WW article describing some of the local protests against Amazon in the US. One interesting point: On Saturday, the day after this boycott,[…]
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by Glen Ford, published on Black Agenda Report, December 3, 2020 Ten chapters of the national Black Lives Matter organization are in open revolt against the individuals that have treated the mass movement as their personal vehicle for upward political, professional and financial advancement. “The BLMGNF became the principal beneficiary of millions of dollars in individual and corporate philanthropy.” In 2013 three Black[…]
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by Glen Ford, published on Black Agenda Report, September 24, 2020 The New York Times and fellow corporate media discourage Americans from organizing against the rule of the rich by pretending that People Power is a fantasy. “The ruling class is very much aware that the only force capable of countering the power of Capital is the Power of the People in[…]
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by Alan McLeod, published on MintPress News, May 4, 2020 he number of official global coronavirus mortalities surpassed a quarter of a million people today, including over 69,000 in the U.S. (although this is very likely an undercount). Polls show that the American people are extremely worried about contracting the virus. However, the government has a much bigger concern: that[…]
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