President Petro is not alone: Colombia marches against coup attempt
Colombians took to the streets to protest against the coup d’état that the Colombian right wing is attempting to carry out against President Gustavo Petro.
View ArticleFinnish capitalism at a tipping point: Resisting racism, austerity, and...
The Finns Party leader and current finance minister and deputy prime minister, Riikka Purra, has previously made a litany of racist and violent statements against immigrants (e.g., using the Finnish...
View ArticleWest Coast climate activists battle the false ‘solution’ of forest biomass
A growing grassroots movement against forest biomass is fighting to keep the West’s trees from being burned for energy during the transition away from fossil fuels.
View ArticleHealth and safety: Amazon fails to deliver
“We are going to be Earth’s best employer and Earth’s safest place to work.” (Jeff Bezos, April 2021)
View ArticleIsrael is turning northern Gaza into a killing cage
With international media coverage shifting to potential war with Iran, Israel is intensifying its campaign to obliterate the Palestinians of Gaza.
View ArticleCould the Sahel Alliance divide Africa?
Africa continues to rise up and delivers surprises. In recent days, several African leaders have made diplomatic trips that are reshaping the geometries of the international chessboard. The SAHEL...
View ArticleAs U.S. puppets the Australian political class rejects international...
The Australian Labor-Coalition political class has ignored, and by its actions rejected, UN decisions that Australia is legally obliged to stop its support for the Israeli settler-colonial project, to...
View ArticleHan Kang’s Nobel Prize Award is a cry for Palestine
A brilliant, powerful writer, but clearly the literary dark horse in the race, Han Kang's unexpected award is the closest the Nobel committee could get to acknowledging the Palestinian genocide.
View ArticleWhat is the ‘Generals’ plan’? Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of northern...
The ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza as part of the so-called "Generals' Plan" isn't new, but the only thing standing in its way is the will of 200,000 Palestinians to stay in the north and refuse...
View ArticleContesting the idea of progress: Labor’s AI challenge
The material changes ushered in under the aegis of artificial intelligence (AI) are not leading to the abolition of human labor but rather its degradation. This is typical of the history of...
View ArticleExtinction Rebellion tells insurance firms to cut ties with fossil fuels or...
EXTINCTION REBELLION (XR) issued an ultimatum to insurance bosses today as the climate group gears up for a week of protests across the country.
View ArticleThe Fortieth Anniversary of the Vaal Uprising
Forty years later, Lehlohonolo Kennedy Mahlatsi looks back on the Vaal Uprising in South Africa, which marked a turning point in the growth of mass-based organizations throughout the country and the...
View ArticleU.S. Pacific Fleet commander visits Sri Lanka to cement ties with new president
Admiral Steve Koehler, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, visited Sri Lanka on October 10 in the wake of the election of Anura Dissanayake, leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and its...
View ArticleRevealed: The Israeli spies writing America’s news
One year after Oct. 7 attacks, Netanyahu is on a winning streak.” So reads the title of a recent Axios article describing the Israeli prime minister riding on an unbeatable wave of triumphs.
View ArticleBayer’s “backward” claim: A bid to reap control of Indian agriculture
Bayer’s vision for agriculture in India includes prioritising and fast-tracking approvals for its new products, introducing genetically modified (GM) food crops, addressing labour shortages (for...
View ArticleU.S. boots on the ground in Israel demolishes international law
The U.S. decision to send troops to Israel has upended the focus of attention for all those, globally, who have attempted to stop both the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and the determination of the current...
View ArticleImperialism and Africa
ROAPE’s Ray Bush introduces Volume 51 Issue 181 of the journal, a special 50th anniversary issue on imperialism and Africa.
View ArticleHow to do a conjunctural analysis: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2024)
Unlike mainstream media, which all too often distorts the truth and lies by omission–as we see with reporting on Palestine, where the death toll has reached 114,000–conjunctural analyses help us...
View ArticleIsraeli attacks on Palestinian healthcare amount to crime against humanity,...
A new UN report confirms that Israel’s targeting of Gaza’s healthcare amounts to crime of extermination, as hospitals in Palestine and Lebanon continue to face relentless attacks.
View ArticleHow not to measure poverty
Several international organisations are now engaged in the business of measuring what they call “poverty”.
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