Socialism

‘We Will Bury Neoliberalism’: Global Celebration Follows Leftist Victory in Chile

December 22, 2021 UNAC Editor Chili, New Pink Tide

by Jake Johnson, published on Common Dreams, December 20, 2021 “At last. The specter of Pinochet is removed from Chile,” declared former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. Socialist Gabriel Boric’s victory in Chile’s high-stakes presidential election Sunday was hailed by progressives worldwide as an inspiring example of how a democratic groundswell can overcome deeply entrenched forces of reaction and chart[…]

Class Warfare and Socialist Resistance: Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela as Existential Threats to the US

November 12, 2021 UNAC Editor Cuba, Nicaragua, Paths to Emancipation, Political Analysis, Regional Solutions, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socialism, Venezuela

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, November 10, 2021 Why do Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela pose such an existential threat to the U.S.? The promise of socialism and their resistance to US class warfare. One of the extreme ironies of the latest attack by the settler-colonial regime of the United States against the national democratic project of Nicaragua[…]

Black Alliance for Peace Condemns RENACER ACT on Nicaragua as Bipartisan Criminality

November 6, 2021 UNAC Editor Nicaragua, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

Black Alliance for Peace Statement, November 4, 2021 The Black Alliance for Peace condemns the efforts of Congress to manipulate the electoral process in Nicaragua through illegal sanctions, subversion and the coordination of a deliberate misinformation campaign meant to delegitimize the country’s elections even before they take place. As part of that effort the U.S. House of Representatives passed the[…]

Propaganda War Against China Aims to Expand U.S. Hegemony and Eradicate Socialism

October 15, 2021 UNAC Editor China, Propaganda, Socialism

by Danny Haiphong, published on Black Agenda Report, October 13, 2021 Anti-China propaganda is intended to indoctrinate Americans with fear and hatred and gain support for war against that country and against socialism itself. This is an edited version of remarks given by the author at the Friends of Socialist China’s webinar entitled, Propaganda War Against China, held on October[…]

Liberalism And Fascism: Partners In Crime

October 24, 2020 UNAC Editor Fascism, Socialism

by Gabriel Rockhill, published on Popular Resistance, October 15, 2020 This subject is very pertinent to the current political mess in the United States. There are more articles I want to publish on this theme over the next month or so. They are not originally a series but I think each one further deepens and elaborates the previous so stay[…]

US Failure to Recognize Cuba’s Medical Efforts

October 11, 2020 UNAC Editor Cuba, Socialism

by Dan Kovalik, published on MLT, September 29, 2020 As clamor grows for Cuban doctors to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their international work during the pandemic, the US continues to oppose their efforts. It cannot be seen to endorse the idea that the socialist system works. In his book, In Cuba, the late Liberation Catholic priest Father Ernesto Cardinal[…]

A Manifesto for our times… The Challenge to abolish SYSTEMIC RACISM

October 2, 2020 UNAC Editor Racism

Statement from Socialist Action Massive opposition to SYSTEMIC RACISM… a racism and the inseparable generalized social inequality that permeate every institution in U.S. society, are the only serious explanations for the magnificent, unprecedented, defiant daily multi-racial mass mobilizations in 2000+ U.S. cities and towns. In the face of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic and police repression courageous millions have taken to[…]

Examining the Wreckage White Supremacy and Imperialism Have Wrought

August 14, 2020 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Native American Genocide

by Nick Estes and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, published on Black Agenda Report, August 5, 2019 Indigenous and African resistance and intellectual traditions provide key insights to the very nature of capitalism and how it has unfolded throughout space and time. “The young people in the streets are true revolutionary theoreticians, moving history along, sometimes at speeds that feel daunting.” The United[…]

Weapons of Mass Incompetence

June 5, 2020 UNAC Editor Political Prisoners, Public Health

These slightly edited remarks were given April 24 at the “U.S. Empire vs. Political Prisoners” webinar teach-in sponsored by Mobilization4Mumia and held in honor of the 66th birthday of political prisoner and revolutionary Mumia Abu-Jamal. by Vijay Prashad, published on Workers World, May 19, 2020 We are in Corona shock. The bourgeois order has become a prison. We are in[…]

The Social and Cultural Accomplishments of the Sandinista Model in Nicaragua

June 4, 2020 UNAC Editor Democracy, Nicaragua

by the Nicaraguan Government, published on TeleSUR English, May 29, 2020 In the entire history of Nicaragua, it is only with the two governments of the Sandinista Front, that the popular interests of the great majority, that are poor, have been prioritized. The strength of the Sandinista Model is based on characteristics and results. The characteristics are that the FSLN[…]