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, by ELLSBERG Daniel
Daniel Ellsberg, a giant of American history for leaking the Pentagon Papers, wrote the following email to friends on Wednesday, including Consortium News, and has today decided to make it public.
Daniel Ellsberg. (Free Getty embed, Paul J. RIchards)
Dear friends and supporters,
I have (...)
, by FEELEY Dianne
TWENTIETH-CENTURY PRE-ROE America was a scary world for women. Pregnancy and childbirth were destiny. When I was in college in the late 1950s a sociology professor remarked that a woman wasn’t fully a woman until she became a mother.
Historically, what made U.S. reproductive health care (...)
, by RAGLAND Alice
Review of Abolition. Feminism. Now. By Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie Haymarket Books, 2022, 250 pages, $16.95 paper.
N ABOLITION. FEMINISM. Now. Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie make a compelling case for a feminism that is (...)
, by DRAITSER Eric
A Critique of Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies
Several years ago, I was sitting in a Lower Manhattan café with a friend, the journalist Arun Gupta, lamenting the state of the Left and how so many ostensible leftists had become little more than cheerleaders for reactionary politics. While (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Years ago, the famous Nicaraguan poet Giaconda Belli wrote,
¿Qué sos, Nicaragua
Para dolerme tanto?
What are you, Nicaragua
To hurt me so?
The lines seem particularly poignant and appropriate now.
A few days ago, President Daniel Ortega’s Nicaraguan government declared 94 of its citizens to (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
About a week ago, on February 9, Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega released and deported 220 of his regime’s political prisoners. Taken from their prison cells, they were put on a plane, ignorant of the plane’s destination. One person speculated that they might be being sent to China. They were (...)
, by CAMPBELL Graham, CLAIBORNE Clay
This is a transcript of the presentations and final comments of Graham Campbell and Clay Claiborne on black liberation and Putin’s imperialist invasion of Ukraine. It is preceded by an introduction which describes who they are.
Graham Campbell: Okay, folks, so I think you will see that my (...)
, by BAÑA Martín
Reactions to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Argentina
The Russian invasion of Ukraine, started by the Kremlin almost a year ago, did not go unnoticed in Argentina. On the contrary, the topic was everywhere in the media, in political debates and in everyday conversations for almost a (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
President Joe Biden annual presidential state of the union address to both houses of the U.S. Congress, turned away from the neoliberal politics of his Democratic predecessors and back toward the New Deal liberalism of President Franklin Roosevelt. In a surprisingly commanding performance, (...)
, by HAWKINs Howie, REIMAN John
Oaklandsocialist interviews Green Party candidate of president in 2020 and long time activist, Howie Hawkins. Full transcript below video.
John Reiman: So we’re talking here with Howie Hawkins, who’s a prominent member of the Green Party and a former member of the Teamsters. So would you like to (...)
, by MOORE Nate
Nate Moore explains why U.S. based socialists should not be opposing arms to Ukraine despite the inter-imperialist dynamics unleashed by the Russian invasion.
What position should socialists take regarding U.S./NATO arms to Ukraine? Recently, Left Voice has engaged in a debate with other (...)
, by PASTOR Jaime
Our dear friend and comrade, Daniel Pereyra, died February 6 in Madrid and the age of 95, after a long and exemplary career as a tireless fighter, of which he gave testimony,in part, in his Memorias de un militante internacionalista [Memoirs of an internationalist militant] published in 2014 (...)
, by MONTOYA Roberto
He was born Daniel Pereyra Pérez, however, like the majority of revolutionary militants, he was known by other names.
In the Peru of the 1960s, the media called him “Che Pereyra.” He was Argentine and, like Che, had gone to another country in solidarity with other comrades to provide armed (...)
, by BONHOMME Marc
We do not live in a world without war, far from it. Intense in Ukraine, Burma, Yemen, just yesterday in Ethiopia, the “most deadly of the 21st century” with its 600,000 dead according to Amnesty International, they are latent and endless in Palestine, Syria, Kurdistan, South Sudan that only the (...)
, by CAMPBELL Duncan
Two and a half years ago, the Columbia Journalism Review refused to publish Duncan Campbell’s investigation into The Nation magazine and its apparent support for Vladimir Putin. It is published here in full
[(In 2018, Duncan Campbell was commissioned by the “voice of journalism” and “watchdog of (...)
, by RIDDELL John
The socialist movement lost a long-time organizer and master builder with the death on December 26, 2022, of George Bryant at the age of 91. George and his life partner Beatrice Bryant were influential figures in the Ontario socialist movement from the 1950s. Bea Bryant died in 2016 (see A Life (...)
, by Correspondents l’Anticapitaliste
“Listen Peru, Paris is with you! Dina Assassin. The people reject you”, “Peru I love you, that‘s why I’m demonstrating”. These slogans resounded in the streets of Paris, between Châtelet and the Place de la République. They were raised by dozens of Peruvians, Latin Americans and French people on Sunday (...)
, by MIAH Malik
ANOTHER BLACK MAN was murdered by police in a modern-day lynching in Memphis, Tennessee. The city is nearly 70 percent African American, including a Black female police chief.
What was unexpected and a surprise to many is that the police officers were all African Americans. Some asked how (...)
, by JN, LI Promise, YIWEN Huang, ZHANG Yueran, ZHOU Paula
A rank-and-file interview about race, class, and labor organizing in US higher education
[(Editor’s note: The six-week-long strike across the University of California (UC) campuses last year marked the largest industrial action in higher education in US history. This strike also saw the (...)
, by ESCALENTE Jorge, FUENTES Federico
With protests to demand early elections intensifying in Peru, a request by de facto president Dina Boluarte to bring them forward to December was rebuffed by the right-wing controlled Congress, on January 28.
Peru protest on Jan 19, 2023/ Protestors held the second ’March of the Four Nations’ (...)
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