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South Africa prepares for elections

A nationwide election for local offices in 278 municipalities across South Africa will take place Aug. 3. South African officials…

June 14, 2016

Lessons of the 1976 Soweto Rebellion

On June 16, 1976, students in the Southwest Townships (Soweto) outside of Johannesburg, South Africa, stayed home from school to…

June 12, 2016

Zika: Crisis of the poor

As the thermometer soars past 90 degrees and Zika arrives in the Southern states, summer won’t be fun and games,…

June 12, 2016

Support for Venezuela as Latin American unity pushes back OAS

A campaign against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela by Secretary General Luis Almagro of the Organization of American States was…

June 10, 2016

Cuomo tries to quash BDS movement

Before marching in the annual “Celebrate Israel” parade in Manhattan on June 5, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an…

June 8, 2016

Workers say French anti-labor law must go

Hundreds of thousands of French workers, youth and students have come out into the streets of France nine times since…

June 7, 2016

African liberation struggles drove Portugal’s April 1974 revolution

It was April of 1974. A popular folk song serving as a secret signal to the captains in Portugal’s Armed…

June 3, 2016

Interview with the GDR’s Margot Honecker — ‘The past was brought back’

Margot Honecker, born in 1927, former minister of education of the German Democratic Republic and widow of longtime Socialist Unity…

June 3, 2016

Oakland, Calif., City Council says: ‘End Cuba embargo’

On May 27, the International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity announced that Oakland, Calif., is the latest U.S. city…

June 2, 2016

French workers rise up against anti-labor law

Throughout France, 300,000 people poured into the streets on May 26 demanding withdrawal of a reactionary labor law recently rammed…

May 30, 2016