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President Raúl Castro: ‘ Mandela is an unsurpassable example for Latin America and the Caribbean’

Taken from a speech given by Army Gen. Raúl Castro Ruz, president of the Councils of State and Ministers, at…

December 21, 2013

Demonstrators demand freedom for Nestora Salgado

Demonstrators demanded freedom for Nestora Salgado, an Indigenous Mexican leader, at a protest at the Mexican Consulate in Seattle on…

December 20, 2013

Haiti: Battle for $11 – a day – minimum wage

By the hundreds and thousands, Haitian workers marched and protested from Dec. 9 to Dec. 12, demanding that the Supreme…

December 19, 2013

Meeting outlines Vietnam’s fight for a socialist future

Quito, Ecuador -- During the 18th World Festival of Youth and Students in Quito, Ecuador, the Ho Chi Minh Communist…

December 19, 2013

Imperialism escalated intervention in Africa throughout 2013

A section of the South Sudanese army, backed by politicians angry with the policies of President Silva Kiir, attempted to…

December 18, 2013

Mexico’s capitalist parties capitulate to U.S., agree to sell off energy resources

While 3,500 heavily armed police surrounded the building housing the Mexican Senate, a majority of that body approved an “energy…

December 18, 2013

U.S., EU back pro-imperialist coup attempt in Ukraine

Dec. 15 — With strong, almost universal support from the corporate media, the United States government along with the European…

December 17, 2013

Obama, U.S. media lied about Syrian nerve gas

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour M. Hersh has written a detailed and devastating exposure of the U.S. government’s manipulation of military…

December 17, 2013

Pentagon abets French incursion in Africa

After a Dec. 8 meeting between U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and French Defense Minister Yves Le Drian while…

December 12, 2013

Venezuela Enabling Law provides new hope for Bolivarian revolution

By depleting the stocks of basic goods and unleashing speculation, the oligarchy opposing the government has imposed great difficulties on…

December 12, 2013