The composition of the National Assembly presages a continuation and amplification of the situation of political instability, with a minority “presidential majority” unable to govern alone.
Analysis
Russian students against the war: Part two
We present the second part of the discussion dedicated to student initiatives. Protest decentralizing and the changing role of universities in Russia are at the heart of this debate.
Russian students against the war: Part one
Student protest is one of the most visible forms of opposition to Russian aggression in Ukraine. Now when public protests are banned, activists are forced to create new modes of resistance and organization.
Medicare for All could have prevented more than 338,000 US Covid deaths: Study
With Medicare for All, the U.S. also could have avoided $105.6 billion in healthcare expenses associated with Covid-19 hospitalizations over the course of the pandemic, the study says.
Will ICC help Israel get away with Shireen Abu Akleh’s murder?
Despite the claims by Israel’s top military and political figures that its army doesn’t target journalists, an independent UN commission of inquiry found that soldiers did just that during Gaza’s Great March of Return protests.
Food, famine and war
This is a global crisis and requires global action in the same way that the pandemic should have been dealt with and the climate crisis needs.
Right-wing Supreme Court poised to make US gun carnage even worse
The court’s reactionary justices, most of whom were appointed by Republican presidents who lost the popular vote, are “potentially poised to take down one of the nation’s oldest and most restrictive gun-control laws this summer.”
Colombia: The end of the Uribista cycle
Beyond the speculation and the last-minute shifts, there is a climate of tension in the streets of Colombia. Petro himself has been warning of an eventual coup d’état and a fraud that would seek to prevent a triumph that his followers take for granted.
21 Fallacies feeding ‘Cancel Culture’ and holding back the contemporary U.S. Left
Does the US Left have a “cancel culture” problem? Or is ‘cancel culture’ just a cynical right-wing bogeyman aimed at disparaging leftists, Millennials, and academia?
Australia: Good riddance to Morrison, time to fight Labor!
The union leaders have stood by for years while the bosses and governments have got away with whittling away jobs and workplace rights. That has to end.
Revisiting U.S. war crimes IV: Vietnam (Part III)
This is the final installment of a three-part series by Joe Allen, “Vietnam: The war that the U.S. lost,” which first appeared as “From quagmire to defeat” in the International Socialist Review.
Revisiting U.S. war crimes IV: Vietnam (Part II)
Here, we feature the second of a three-part series by Joe Allen, “Vietnam: The war that the U.S. lost,” which first appeared as “From the overthrow of Diem to the Tet Offensive” in the International Socialist Review. The final installment will follow.
Revisiting U.S. war crimes IV: Vietnam (Part I)
Here, we feature the first of a three-part series by Joe Allen, “Vietnam: The war that the U.S. lost,” which first appeared in the International Socialist Review. The other installments will follow.
Israel promises more ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
Despite Israel’s ongoing repression, Palestinians inside the Zionist state and in the occupied Palestinian territories have continued to resist Zionist settler-colonialism, occupation and oppression.
US groups demand full probe after Israeli forces kill journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known 51-year-old Palestinian-American correspondent, was wearing a helmet and press jacket that clearly identified her as a journalist when Israeli forces shot her in the face as she covered an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the illegally occupied West Bank of Palestine.
