The young people protesting in Wall Street and beyond reject this vain economic order. They have come to reclaim the future Why are people occupying Wall Street? Why has the occupation – despite the latest police crackdown – sent out sparks across America, within days, inspiring hundreds of people to send pizzas, money, equipment [...]
Not because it was brutal or clumsy or anticipated was there any less indignation about the Yankee judge from the South Florida District denying René González, the Cuban anti-terrorist hero, the right to return to the heart of his family in Cuba after having served the unfair sentence imposed on him. After a cruel [...]
If our Nobel laureate is deluding himself, something that is still to be proven, perhaps that explains the incredible contradictions in his thinking and the confusion sown among his listeners. There is not one shred of ethics, and not even of politics, in his attempt to justify his announced decision to veto any resolution [...]
I take a break from the tasks that are occupying all of my time these days to dedicate a few words to the unique opportunity presented by the political science of the sixtieth session of the United Nations General Assembly. The yearly event demands singular effort from those taking on the greatest of political responsibilities [...]
A handful of billionaires have shoved a spanner into the legislative process. Through the candidates they have bought and the movement that supports them, they are now breaking and reshaping the system to serve their interests… The debt deal will hurt the poorest Americans, convinced by Fox and the Tea Party to act against [...]
Republicans claim, in Orwellian fashion, that Obama’s millionaire tax is ‘class war’. The reality is that the super-rich won the war Republicans and conservatives always fight back against proposals to raise taxes on corporations and rich individuals by making two basic claims. First, such proposals amount to un-American “class warfare”, pitting the working class [...]
An Interview with Félix Martínez “The Social movements should keep constructing a Unified Front in the streets, in order to fight for a revolutionary programme that channels the policies of our Bolivarian government towards socialism” After the unified march, staged by peasants, workers and the revolutionary bases, calling for the defence of the revolution and [...]
This portmanteau article consists of two contributions on the anti-corruption issue: 1. Where are the popular classes? 2. How the Anti-Corruption Movement can be Radicalized ? ********* Where are the popular classes? In Venezuela, when the right-wing upper middle classes attack the progressive government, the popular classes come out in militant defence. Why is [...]
The 2008 recession was not a temporary phenomenon, but the ushering in of a new period in which the corporate elite attempt to restructure social relations, meaning that past assumptions regarding wages and social programs must be destroyed, as a new, more profitable equilibrium is sought between the corporate elite and working people (Photo: [...]
The economic warfare waged by the advanced nations is also the other face of of the globalized militarism that reserves to itself the right to unilateral military invasion and intervention A bankers’ crisis has been turned successfully into a crisis of the working masses generally. SERGIO PEREZ/REUTERS A protest in central Madrid on August [...]