Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the father of Bolshevism, never stepped foot in Africa, but his influence upon the continent has been tremendous. Alongside the ideas of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Lenin’s revolutionary theories provided the framework for an entire...
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Radical Land Reform in Venezuela: A Conversation with Juan Carlos Loyo (Part I)
Chávez’s agriculture minister talks about the revolutionary changes in land tenure that took place under the former president.
Replacing imports to guarantee greater biotechnological sovereignty in the production of medicine
Interview with president of Cuba’s leading pharmaceutical enterprise group, BioCubaFarma, working to strengthen the country’s technological sovereignty and contribute to the population’s quality of life.
Wikileaks’ invaluable contributions to journalism and people’s movements
The information shared by Wikileaks has strengthened the resistance against repressive governments by exposing the gaps between their actions and their carefully crafted narratives.
U.S. reminds India it’s showtime
The Biden-Harris Administration is sensing that Modi Govt, a perceived ally, is not to be seen as its war machine revs up in anticipation of a horrific war. Typically, if a country is not with the U.S., then, it must be against it. But India falls in a category by...
Nonsense and panic: Berlin Bulletin no. 198, January 30, 2022
Why do foolhardy spoilers insist on causing embarrassment? Why must out-of-step fools upset well-steered apple-carts? Why did German vice-admiral Kay-Achim Schönbach open his big mouth on Saturday in far-off Mumbai—and spill so many beans? Many or most U.S. media...
Ecocide or Socialism?
Ecocide–the destruction of the entire ecosystem–is a real prospect. Its possibility has been well known to scientists since the 1980s, if not earlier. Every projection of its pace has under estimated the actual rate of breakdown.
The Obama Line, Samantha Power, and U.S. Intervention in West Africa During the Ebola Epidemic
December 2013 marked the beginning of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Ebola, a severe hemorrhagic virus which causes muscle and joint pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding, spread from Guinean forests to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone by the summer of...
On the significance of the polemical in Marxism
A polemic for revolutionaries is a militant dialogic practice to reveal the contradictions of a position, hammering it down to break open its hardened crust in order to rescue life from the stifle of the canon.
Havana Syndrome, the U.S.’s Monumental Hoax
Last week, the United States decided to recognize for the first time in five years that the phenomenon baptized as “Havana Syndrome” is nothing more than a big farce. On Thursday, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) admitted that its allegations against Cuba...
Brazil Elections 2022: Greenwald debates Mier
On January 24, Brasil Wire editor Brian Mier appeared on Eoin Higgins podcast, Flashpoint, to present his analysis of Brazilian Congressman David Miranda and his husband Glenn Greenwald’s abandonment of the PSOL (Socialism and Liberty Party) for the moderate PDT.
Censorship by algorithm does far more damage than conventional censorship
Journalist Jonathan Cook has a new blog post out on his experience with being throttled into invisibility by Silicon Valley algorithmic suppression that will ring all too familiar for any online content creators who've been sufficiently critical of official western...











