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Zimbabwe sets elections to end coalition rule

The Southern African nation of Zimbabwe will hold “harmonized elections” on July 31. Registered voters will select local and national…

July 25, 2013

Cuba, si! U.S. racism, no!

As the Black community and others reel still from the unjust and racist verdict allowing a killer to walk free,…

July 24, 2013

U.S. and British postal workers fight privatization

A British parliamentary spokesperson announced on May 13 that the world's oldest postal service would be privatized this fall.  Royal…

July 23, 2013

Tributes to South African hero, Nelson Mandela, at 95

Former Republic of South African President Nelson Mandela turned 95 while being treated at a hospital near Pretoria. Mandela, who…

July 23, 2013

Quebec train disaster was waiting to happen

In North America’s worst rail disaster since 1989, a train carrying fracked oil from North Dakota exploded in the small…

July 21, 2013

U.S. and Cuba open postal talks

Cuban diplomats met with U.S. State Department and Postal Service officials on June 18-19 to discuss the normalization of mail…

July 21, 2013

Free the Korean freighter and crew!

When poor Somalis seize ships off the coast of their country, they are called pirates. But when Panama does the…

July 20, 2013

Behind Xi Jinping’s call for a return to Marxism

The president of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, has been issuing statements that seek to curb the corrosion…

July 20, 2013

Henri Alleg, 1921-2013, revolutionary and exemplary communist

By Miguel Urbano Rodrigues Henri Alleg (July 20, 1921 - July 17, 2013), born Harry Salem to Polish-Jewish parents in…

July 20, 2013

DPRK-U.S. relations: Armistice agreement versus peace treaty

The following press release from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Permanent Mission to the United Nations reveals the history…

July 18, 2013