Paddy Colligan

Remembering Vietnamese hero Nguyễn Phú Trọng

Nguyễn Phú Trọng, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Secretary of the Central Military Commission of the Communist…

August 2, 2024

The New York Times exaggerates

New York City We were shocked when we read a full-page article in the July 10 New York Times with…

July 18, 2024

Strike promises victory at the New School

Friday, March 8, was day three of the latest strike at the New School University, and the picket line looked…

March 13, 2024

Merle Ratner ¡presente!

On Feb. 5, 2024, the U.S. movement lost longtime anti-war, community activist Merle Ratner. She was killed instantly when a…

February 19, 2024

New School adjunct faculty strike enters third week

New York City Dec. 5 — Raucous twin picketlines at the New School University Center and at neighboring Parsons School…

December 6, 2022

Typhoon rips through Western Alaska exposing high cost of climate change

A New York Times weekly news quiz Sept. 9 asked which of these climate disasters happened this summer: floods in…

October 6, 2022

Vietnam advances LGBTQ+ rights

The Vietnam Ministry of Health ensured on Aug. 3 that members of the LGBTQ+ community will receive appropriate and respectful…

September 2, 2022

Sierra Leone: Fight for reproductive rights closes in on major victory

The 10th African Conference on Sexual Health and Rights was held in Freetown, Sierra Leone, June 27-July 1. Almost 1,000…

August 24, 2022

Global warming causing worldwide heat-wave crises

Fiddling while the Northern Hemisphere burns, roasts, melts and drowns. That’s what is going on in Washington, D.C., now. (In…

August 9, 2022

Fire and ice, yet politicians still sleep

No imagining is needed to picture what global warming/climate change might look and feel like. Millions of people in the…

July 27, 2022