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Ayotzinapa one year later

On Sept. 26, the first anniversary of the forced disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa, thousands marched in the streets…

September 29, 2015

Behind the media praise for Pope Francis

At a time when the U.S. capitalist political establishment is in crisis, how comforting it must have been for virtually…

September 28, 2015

Deception at Volkswagen

When the news broke Sept. 18 that Volkswagen was cheating on its diesel emission controls, the economic reaction was fairly…

September 28, 2015

Houston solidarity with Syrian refugees

Hundreds of people in Houston came out on Sept. 12 to welcome Syrian refugees arriving in the city. The large,…

September 27, 2015

Ukraine junta in crisis: Behind the fascist riots in Kiev

At the end of August, long-simmering tensions within the motley coalition of wealthy oligarchs, pro-Western neoliberal politicians and outright fascists…

September 26, 2015

Haitian elections under U.S. control

Haitian President Michelle Martelly liked running the country without a parliament. He could do whatever tickled his fancy. But when…

September 25, 2015

Ukraine’s Poroshenko: War criminal!

When Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko arrives in New York for the 70th United Nations General Assembly in late September, activists…

September 25, 2015

Vigil for Lumad hits U.S. role in Philippines

The New York Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines held a vigil in New York’s Union Square on Sept.…

September 25, 2015

Pickets demand — ‘Free Petrenko and Moldovan protesters!’

Protesters demanding freedom for Grigory Petrenko and imprisoned Red Bloc activists picketed outside the Republic of Moldova’s Permanent Mission to…

September 25, 2015

Phoney charges — A tool of repression in Colombia

By Húbert Ballesteros Húbert “Huber” Ballesteros is a peasant leader from Fensuagro (National Unitarian Agricultural Trade Union Federation) and the…

September 23, 2015