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Public letter to the U.S. Department of the Treasury from Venezuelan vice president

The Bolivarian government of Venezuela is fighting back against the outrageous allegations and sanctions levied against Vice President Tareck El…

February 28, 2017

U.S. women plan for international women’s strike

Women who took to the streets Jan. 21 in the U.S. and around the world in a massive show of…

February 26, 2017

War, lies and NGOs: Amnesty International’s Report on Syria

Amnesty International released a 48-page report on Feb. 6 to wide publicity and commentary from U.N. officials and U.S. politicians.…

February 26, 2017

Hundreds across U.S. protest Trump-Netanyahu meeting

Hundreds of Palestinians and their supporters across the U.S. demonstrated on Feb. 15 to protest a meeting and press conference…

February 26, 2017

Nine days in Northern Ireland

On July 6, 2013, while on vacation in Belfast, in the northern six counties of British-occupied Ireland, I visited a…

February 25, 2017

Mundo Obrero editor disrupts Puerto Rico fiscal board meeting

The Fiscal Control Board of Puerto Rico learned a valuable lesson in Philadelphia at a forum organized by the University…

February 21, 2017

Protest in Indonesia hits U.S. attack on immigrants

The following edited excerpt is from a Feb. 6 press release by the Indonesian Front of People’s Struggle (Front Perjuangan…

February 21, 2017

Can Romanians turn protests against corruption into a struggle against imperialism?

Beginning on Feb. 1, almost half-a-million protesters gathered in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, to protest a decriminalization decree that…

February 18, 2017

Oscar López’s bittersweet freedom

In a surprise action on Feb. 9, Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar López Rivera returned to his homeland, Puerto Rico,…

February 14, 2017

Eyewitness: The ‘indomitable strength’ of Cuba’s Revolution

On Jan. 1, 1959, the Cuban people, with the leadership of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and others, overthrew the U.S.-backed…

February 14, 2017