Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

A Case for Unfreezing Afghanistan’s Assets

by Kate Alexander, published on Inkstick Media, April 30, 2022 It seems unlikely that the US government is going to amend it’s policies on behalf of Afghan women or Afghan people.   If the awareness that Afghan children are starving has not moved them then concerns about a woman’s ability manage her assets to free herself from oppression seems unlikely to[…]

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May Day: Worker’s Struggle Celebration is Well-Deserved After a Momentous Year

by People’s Dispatch, April 30, 2022 May 1 is Global Labor Day.  Only in the US was this important celebration of workers moved to a different day. Working people across the globe are gearing up celebrate International Worker’s Day this May 1. Workers have been participating in monumental struggles since the previous year’s May Day, making this year’s celebration well-deserved.[…]

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Why Nonalignment Is an Urgent Imperative for the Global South

by Nontobeko Hlela, distributed by Globetrotter, May 2, 2022 South Africa and other countries that have abstained from voting against Russia at the United Nations General Assembly in response to the war in Ukraine face intense international criticism. In South Africa, the domestic criticism has been extraordinarily shrill, and often clearly racialized. It is frequently assumed that abstention means that[…]

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A Monetary Reset Where the Rich Don’t Own Everything

by Ellen Brown,  published on Scheerpost, May 4, 2022 In ancient Mesopotamia, it was called a Jubilee. When debts at interest grew too high to be repaid, the slate was wiped clean. Debts were forgiven, the debtors’ prisons were opened, and the serfs returned to work their plots of land. This could be done because the king was the representative[…]

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The War in Ukraine and its Effects on Latin America and the Caribbean

by Carlos Mauricio Ferolla and Marcelo Depieri , published on Resumen,  March 23, 2022 On February 24, war broke out in Ukraine after the invasion of the Russian army. The war has a global impact on a multipolar international system, hyperconnected and in a critical state, undergoing a process of hegemonic transition from the West to the East. The military[…]

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Where We Stand

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, April 11, 2022 Ukraine: No to the U.S.-orchestrated fascist coup! Editor: The statement below was approved by the April 9, 2022 meeting of Socialist Action’s National Committee. Serious political analysis on the left always begins with the facts. Substituting abstract theory not based on facts is always a dead end for the socialist[…]

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Ukraine and the Global Economic War: Is This Barbarism or Civilization?

by Prabir Purkayastha, produced by  Globetrotter, April 1, 2022 Do the Ukraine war and the action of the United States, the EU and the UK spell the end of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency? Even with the peace talks recently held in Turkey or the proposed 15-point peace plan, as the Financial Times had reported earlier, the fallout[…]

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Ukraine Update: Immediate Russian Oil, Gas Embargo Impossible, Says German Finance Minister

by Countercurrents Collective, published on Countercurrents, April 9, 2022 A broad survey of economic details from perspective of western press.  Not clarified is what it means to workers around the world, but seems like high prices, expensive credit, wage growth not able to keep up with these factors along with shortages of food and other material goods.  A major global[…]

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Zelensky Rubbishes Biden’s war on Russia

by M. K. Bhadrakumar, published on Indian Punchline, March 11, 2022 While we are debating our own concerns in the antiwar movement about how to frame the US proxy war with Russia in Ukraine, the rest of the world is not staying silent.  They have strong opinions, most of which are not flattering.  [jb] What was the need for all[…]

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