Left debates Libya: Juan Cole's open letter to the left on intervention;...
March 29, 2011 -- Democracy Now! -- Juan Cole defends the use of military force to prevent a massacre in Benghazi and to aid the Libyan rebel movement.Vijay Prashad warns the United States has involved...
View ArticleImmanuel Wallerstein: The great Libyan distraction
By Immanuel WallersteinApril 1, 2011 -- ZSpace -- The entire Libyan conflict of the last month -- the civil war in Libya, the US-led military action against Gaddafi -- is neither about humanitarian...
View ArticleBahrain: Adam Hanieh on the US, the Gulf states and Libya
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View ArticleMiddle East: Can democracy activists undo US and IMF/World Bank damage?
By Patrick Bond, Palestine May 23, 2011 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Here in Palestine, disgust expressed by civil society reformers about US President Barack Obama’s May 19...
View ArticleEnd the United States' sanctions against Venezuela
The government of Hugo Chavez has used Venezuela's oil wealth to radically improve the wellbeing of the people.A statement by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network May 28, 2011-- AVSN -- On May...
View ArticlePhilippines socialists call for negotiated settlement to Spratly Islands dispute
For more background to the Spratly Islands issue, see "China, Vietnam and the islands dispute: What is behind the rise of Chinese nationalism?"* * * June 10, 2011 -- The Partido Lakas ng Masa (Party of...
View ArticleThe truth behind Chevron's greenwashing: 'The true cost of Chevron'
June 22, 2011 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Television viewers in Australia are being bombarded by an expensive series of PR advertisements extolling how much the giant...
View ArticleStop signs: Cars and capitalism on the road to economic, social and...
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View ArticleReview: `The Muslim revolt: A journey through political Islam'
By Rupen SavoulianJune 25, 2011 -- http://rupensavoulian.wordpress.com, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission -- Since the September 11, 2001, twin tower attacks,...
View ArticleLeaving oil in the soil, from Durban's coast to Ecuador's Amazon
The decrepit 40-year-old tanker, MT Phoenix, lost its anchor mooring on July 26, 2011, and was pushed to the rocky shoreline in Christmas Bay, 25 kilometres north of Durban. By Patrick Bond,...
View ArticleSudan/South Sudan: Communist Party sees dangers, but also possibilities for...
South Sudan's independence celebrations. Rashid El Sheikh, Sudanese Communist Party, interviewed by John Foster October 19, 2011 -- Morning Star -- Africa's newest state, the Republic of South Sudan,...
View ArticleWho’s causing the environmental crisis: 7 billion or the 1%?
October 26, 2011 -- Grist via Climate and Capitalism, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission -- Ironically, while populationist groups focus attention on the 7...
View ArticleIndian communists on challenges for the Arab Spring and the American Autumn;...
Placard at a Occupy Washington DC protest. For more on the Occupy movement, click HERE. By the Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist) LiberationNovember 7, 2011 -- ML Update -- It was Iraq in...
View ArticleColombia: The mass movement re-emerges
By Anthony Boynton, Bogotá, ColombiaNovember 10, 2011 -– Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- At times masked beneath decades of paramilitary repression and hidden behind headlines about...
View ArticleInterview with Adam Hanieh: Class and capitalism in the Gulf
December 5, 2011 -- New Left Project's Ed Lewis interviewed Adam Hanieh about the international political economy of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Hanieh is a lecturer in development studies at...
View ArticleNigeria: The state versus the people -- 10 million join general strike,...
By Baba Aye January 13, 2012 -- Socialist Workers Bulletin -- Nigeria's federal government declared war on Nigerians on new year's day, with its 120% hike in the petrol price. With heads held high, the...
View ArticleBehind capitalism's destructive car mania
Stop Signs: Cars & Capitalism ― On the Road to Economic, Social & Ecological Decay By Bianca Mugenyi & Yves Engler RED Publishing & Fernwood Publishing 2011, 259 pages For more on cars,...
View ArticleUganda: Why 'Kony 2012' will bring more misery to Africa
US Navy special forces. The US government has has deployed roughly 100 special operations troops to Uganda.Kony 2012, a 30-minute documentary about the murderous cult leader Joseph Kony, has gone viral...
View ArticleIndonesia explodes into protests over fuel price rise plan
One of the 1063 fuel price protests held in Indonesia in March 2012. Photo by Sari Putri.April 4, 2012 --Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/Green Left Weekly -- The following interview...
View ArticleThe Arab uprisings, democratic demands and the Saudi payroll
Hillary Clinton (centre) meets King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (right) in Riyadh to discuss Syria. Photograph: AP. By Rupen Savoulian May 21, 2012 -- Antipodean Athiest, submitted to Links International...
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