Voltaire Network | 15 November 2024 Re-elected President Donald Trump is no longer the same inexperienced man he was in his first term. He has tried and tested how the United States works and has built up a team of loyalists. He intends to appoint only MAGA (Make America great again!) loyalists to his administration,…
Home » Global » West Asia/ North Africa » Hamas calls on people of the world to mobilize The following statement from Hamas, entitled “A call for global public mobilization against the Zionist aggression on Gaza and the siege in the north, denouncing the war of genocide and starvation, and supporting the resilience of our…
ATHENS – It is a tale of two realities. Later this week, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will give his annual speech to the nation – Greece’s equivalent of the State of the Union address — at the 83rd Thessaloniki Trade Fair. Fresh off of a recent reshuffle of his cabinet, the main theme of…
RIO DE JANEIRO — Since the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro was reduced to ashes by a fire that broke out Sunday night, the country has been in the grips of not only grief but a powerful collective sense of outrage over their loss of the 200-year-old museum. The anger has manifested itself in…
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO — Puerto Rico’s capital was the site of massive scenes of brutal repression as police clamped down on an International Workers Day march using overwhelming violent force, scattering thousands of protesters who gathered to resist austerity measures and anti-worker attacks on the people of the U.S colonial territory. Despite the colonial…
ATHENS, GREECE (Analysis) – Hundreds of thousands of Greeks took to the streets of Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city, on Sunday, January 21, in a mass rally opposing a compromise on the part of the Greek government regarding the Macedonia name dispute with Greece’s northern neighbor, temporarily recognized by the United Nations as the “Former Yugoslav Republic…
Under instructions from the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the Greek government pushed through the most anti-union legislation in Europe on Monday 15 January. The move was demanded, along with other draconian measures, as a condition of the latest tranche of what is called Greece’s bailout but which in…
Voltaire Network | 15 November 2024 Re-elected President Donald Trump is no longer the same inexperienced man he was in his first term. He has tried and tested how the United States works and has built up a team of loyalists. He intends to appoint only MAGA (Make America great again!) loyalists to his administration,…
Home » Global » West Asia/ North Africa » Hamas calls on people of the world to mobilize The following statement from Hamas, entitled “A call for global public mobilization against the Zionist aggression on Gaza and the siege in the north, denouncing the war of genocide and starvation, and supporting the resilience of our…
President-elect Donald Trump faces an entirely new problem confronting U.S. imperialism. It is unprecedented. A new world is emerging. It is globally recognized that U.S. economic and political power is in an unstoppable downward spiral, having failed in decades of war to turn its fortunes around. Now it is at a tipping point. Even as…
This tribute to Leslie Feinberg by her partner of 22 years, Minnie Bruce Pratt, was first published on workers.org on November 18, 2014. Feinberg died on Nov. 15, 2014, and Pratt died on July 2, 2023. Leslie Feinberg, who identified as an anti-racist white, working-class, secular Jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, revolutionary communist, died on Nov.…
