Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by Collective
In a few weeks [article dated 20 September 2022], Brazil will hold its ninth presidential election since the end of the military dictatorship. For the first time since 1988, there is a great risk that the results of the elections will not be heard and respected.
For several years, President (...)
, by PENG Zhong-Ren
Dozens of homes near Daytona Beach collapsed or were left unstable when Hurricane Nicole struck. Here’s what can be done to reduce that kind of risk.
Back-to-back hurricanes left an unnerving scene on the Florida coast in November 2022: Several houses, and even swimming pools, were left (...)
, par NNU
As advocates for patients and a just, healthy society, the registered nurses of National Nurses United mourn in solidarity with our LGBTQ+ siblings targeted in Saturday’s deadly Colorado Springs shooting and condemn the rightwing groups, elected officials, and social media accounts and media (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Some 48,000 academic workers on ten campuses of the University of California walked out on strike on November 14 demanding higher pay and increased benefits in what is the largest strike in the United States so far this year.
It is also the largest strike in the history of higher education in (...)
, by FISCHER Rebecca S.B., REGAN Annette
Respiratory viruses are hitting young children and infants particularly hard this fall and winter season, and experts don’t yet know exactly why.
Every fall and winter, viral respiratory illnesses like the common cold and seasonal flu keep kids out of school and social activities. But this (...)
, by REBOUCHE Rachel
Abortion referendums in such states as California and Kentucky provide a way to protect abortion rights at the state level – but voting limitations could undermine the power of the ballot box.
The abortion landscape in the U.S. has been upended over the past five months, as many clinics (...)
, by FLETCHER Bill Jr., LEARY Elly
“Sovereignty and self-determination are important concepts to keep at the heart of Left analysis”—and can help orient us in the confusion and misinformation surrounding Russia’s war on Ukraine.
1. Why is the principle of self-determination so important to understanding the conflict in Ukraine? (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
The Democratic Party did better than expected in the U.S. mid-term elections, preventing what Republicans claimed would be a “red Tsunami” (red being the Republican color). “It was a good day for democracy, and I think a good day for America,” said President Joe Biden, who also announced that he (...)
, by SHEPPARD Barry
There was no Republican massive “sweep” in the Nov. 8 midterm elections, as many had predicted. What prevented this “sweep” was something the media talking heads got wrong and the posters missed because they didn’t ask the right questions, was that the right to abortion became a deciding factor (...)
, by SCULLY Mary
Jill Stein has form. Mary Scully, an Irish-American activist and blogger, explains below.
The Green Party (USA) is split down the middle on this issue.
This party’s 2020 Presidential candidate, Howie Hawkins, endorses the policy of the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine (ENSU) and (...)
, by MITRALIAS Yorgos
The headlines of the international press on the outcome of the US midterm elections are not wrong: Yes, the long-awaited Republican tsunami did not materialise. And the Democrats held up much better than they had hoped. The reason for all these big surprises is beginning to emerge: Young (...)
, by PURDY Sean
Lula da Silva narrowly won the Brazilian presidential elections against Jair Bolsonaro on October 30 (51-49%). Yet, Bolsonarismo—the far-right ideology punctuated by fascist traits and enthusiastically supported by the higher ranks of the Armed Forces—continues as strong as ever. The left won (...)
, by FEELEY Dianne
PATRIARCHAL POLITICIANS AND rulers pass judgment on women and those who defy sexual stereotypes, imposing laws to empower “morality police” the world over — Iran, Afghanistan, India and Saudi Arabia; Poland, El Salvador and the USA.
Women’s struggles for bodily autonomy, reproductive freedom and (...)
, by ROBINSON William I.
In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx referred to the Napoleonic return to power in the French coup of 1851 as “first as tragedy, then as farce.” There could be no more fitting a characterization of the saga of Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega’s conversion — in about as many (...)
, by SHALOM Stephen R.
The Congressional Progressive Caucus sent a letter on Ukraine to President Biden signed by 30 of its members on October 24. Within 24 hours the letter had been formally retracted. What are we to make of all this?
1. Did the Progressive Caucus mess up?
The letter was not formally sent on (...)
Dave Kellaway gives a first reaction to Lula’s defeat of far right Bolsonaro.
Love defeats hatred! Democracy defeats Fascism! Viva – let’s celebrate
A TWEET FROM PSOL (PARTY OF SOCIALISM AND LIBERTY) MEMBERS. PSOL IS A RADICAL-LEFT PARTY THAT BACKED LULA’S CANDIDACY.
When an indigenous child is (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
On October 28, a man named David DePape, 42, broke into the San Francisco home of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat who holds the third most powerful position in the U.S. government. The intruder shouted, “Where’s Nancy?” and then attacked her husband Paul Pelosi, 82, with a hammer. (...)
, by N. Carlos
A new lease of life for the Brazilian left, which will have to make up for lost time, because there will be no second chance.
On 30 October 2022, at the 45th minute of the second half, Luís Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) was once again elected President of the Republic of Brazil, after weeks of (...)
, by SMITH Ashley
Tempest member Ashley Smith writes on why the Left must oppose the latest threat of U.S. military intervention in Haiti.
Once again, the U.S. and other imperialist powers are threatening military intervention to impose “order” on Haiti’s spiraling economic, social, and political crises. They (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
What divides the U.S. left on the war in Ukraine? Union activist and New Politics editor Dan La Botz traces the positions of the leftist scene in the United States
I. American Politics and Foreign Policy
The American people by and large support Ukraine in its battle for its sovereignty (...)
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