Category: National Liberation

September 15, 2014 Red Futures: Debates in Indian Communismby Vijay Prashad Ever since the Indian Left faced a historical drubbing at the polling booths earlier this year, commentators have made their mark with obituaries or...

With Ecuador hosting the World Festival of Youth and Students, participants heard about movements fighting against imperialism and for social transformation. One movement highlighted was Ecuador’s battle against the oil...

The divide in Colombia between poverty-stricken rural masses and landed ruling elements is famous for leading to serious conflict. Farmers, agricultural workers, truckers, and traditional miners revived that pattern on August 19...

“We are optimists: It’s time now to search for peace.” Hernando Calvo Ospina, Rebelion, July 30, 2013 They haven’t given up their morning routine, even in Havana. “We rise at 4:30 AM to wake up the roosters so they’ll...

I would like first of all to extend my greetings to the Tudeh Party of Iran and wish it success in its struggle. I would also like to salute ” Nameh Mardom” newspaper for the opportunity to clarify the big historical...

Statement of the Revolutionary Government: It was with profound and searing grief that our people and the Revolutionary Government learned about the decease of President Hugo Chávez Frías and are therefore preparing to pay a...

1. Scenes from the Mass Rally for Hugo Chavez on the Eve of the...

For half of the last century, Arab nationalists, socialists, communists and others were locked in a battle with the Muslim Brothers for hegemony in the Arab world.—Tariq Ali [1] The Jihadists who toppled the secular nationalist...

Presentation to the United Nations Decolonization Committee’s Hearings on Puerto Rico The National Lawyers Guild was founded in 1937 as an alternative to the American Bar Association, which did not admit people of color....

Colombian police arrested David Ravelo on September 10, 2010. He remains in Modelo Prison in Bucaramanga. Nineteen months have passed, yet this high-profile human rights activist, Colombian Communist Party Central Committee...

Speech delivered by the President of the Argentine nation, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, on April 16, 2012 to announce the presentation of a bill to Argentine Congress to re-nationalize the oil company YPF (Yacimientos...

In the face of seemingly endless suffering, impetus for peace in Colombia gathers momentum. Terror, political persecution, arbitrary detentions, and militarization dominate. State-mediated killings now run into the tens of...

Vladimir Lenin used to say that there’s no all-inclusive democracy that serves all people and all classes equally. Democracy is a class affair, serving whichever class has state power. Talking of democracy in the abstract, of...

Guillermo León Sáenz Vargas, who was known as Alfonso Cano and who headed the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), died November 4 in a Colombian military attack in southeastern Cauca department. Colombian...

The recent jailing in Colombia of Swedish journalist Joaquin Perez Becerra stands as a heavy indictment of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and of a Colombian regime already notorious for terrible class-based repression, a Red...

Tegucigalpa, April 18, 2011. In a proclamation directed to the Honduran people and the peoples of the world, the Communist Party of Honduras (PCH) announced its organic reactivation. This took place as the culmination of a...