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1,300 African, Asian migrants drown in Mediterranean

An accident on a substandard boat resulted in the deaths of over 900 refugees from Africa, the Middle East and…

April 28, 2015

Refugee crisis in Mediterranean

A ship with 700 refugees on board capsized south of the Italian island of Lampedusa in Libyan waters on April…

April 27, 2015

Day of solidarity with Venezuela

[youtube=https://youtu.be/pjIS_hTMU8g&rel=0] Video report on the April 19 International Days of Solidarity with Venezuela. Below is the announcement of the event:…

April 25, 2015

Vietnam 40 years after liberation: Visitors flock to the tunnels of Cu Chi

By Paul Wilcox and Joyce Chediac Cu Chi District, Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City, known as Saigon before its liberation,…

April 24, 2015

Lugansk: Left forces unite, call international solidarity conference

The unity of leftist forces in the embattled Donbass region, formerly part of southeastern Ukraine, took a big step forward…

April 24, 2015

The power of people’s war and global anti-imperialist solidarity

It took 30 years of hard fighting, but the last weeks were like a blur. First a lightning assault in…

April 23, 2015

Slowdown, unemployment plague world capitalism

The finance ministers of the largest capitalist economies exuded gloom and pessimism at the recent Washington meeting of the G-20.…

April 23, 2015

‘Colombian peace process must go forward’

Below is a statement issued on April 20 by a fact-finding delegation that traveled to Cuba to assess the peace…

April 23, 2015

Why Washington fosters fascism in Ukraine

From Odessa massacre to communist ban Greg Butterfield, coordinator, Solidarity with Ukraine Antifascists Committee; WW Contributing Editor [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5-8y6wJcwk&list=TLrdB_U3TLCp8&rel=0]

April 23, 2015

How NBC lied to promote regime change

When artist Frederic Remington cabled back to his publisher from Cuba in 1897 that “There will be no war,” media…

April 22, 2015