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The US 2020 rebellion was always about more than the politics of race
As it now spreads across the globe, we must recognise that this vast uprising has all the makings of a class war, writes MICHAEL QUINN, Scottish Organiser of the Young Communist League
A vandalised car rests in a Mercedes-Benz showroom in Oakland, Saturday May 30, as symbols of both racial and economic alike inequality are targetted by protesters
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
CONSIDER the situation of the US at the start of 2020. President Trump has comprehensively failed to deliver on his election promise to bring back US jobs for US workers and reverse the outsourcing of manufacturing abroad as he promised to do in his 2016 election campaign. He has not “made America great again.”
China, the emerging global superpower, now owns $1.08 trillion in US debt, partly created by the latter’s failed wars — wars that were in turn started to maintain US global dominance militarily, having liquidated their technology and manufacturing lead over the rest of the world.
Not only has this cost the US $5.9 trillion since 2001, but they have started to lose (Afghanistan and Iraq) or struggled to initiate wars that dislodge their stated targets (Syria, Venezuela and Iran.)
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