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Apart from a minuscule minority of reporters and commentators who may provide an objective account of current Chinese affairs, it is fair to say that Western media outlets are...
Although mainstream media focuses on a figurehead, Colombia’s historical moment today is not just down to Gustavo Petro and his coalition’s efforts. Without taking from them what was an...
By Ivan Gonzalez In 1963, the CIA financed campaigns against three rectors of three universities across the Mexican states of Michoacan, Puebla, and Monterrey. As well as mobilizing right...
By Miguel Garcia On Monday, December 6, 2021, the United States government announced they would not be sending government officials to the upcoming 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in February...
Since the beginning of this month, Puerto Ricans have been fighting against the privatization of their energy grid by LUMA Energy. Images and videos of Borikéns the streets of...
By Rohan Rice In a recent study conducted by the University of Oxford and the World Health Organisation, socialist Nicaragua was placed number nine on a list of the...
By Amal Samaha I was initially inspired to write this explainer by Abdul Nasir’s reexamination of Dependency Theory. It is wonderful to see the fruitful and diverse theories of...
By Nicholas Ayala For the past week massive uprisings in Colombia have captured international attention. The scale of the unrest has been so large and vocal that long-time allies...
By Abdul Nasir The problem with mainstream international relations (IR) theories is that they are largely dominated by Western perspectives and Western school of thoughts. Global events, thereby, are...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA It’s probably fair to say that most progressives nowadays are of the view that monarchies and aristocracies, as all types of hereditary power and its...
BY STEVE LALLA AND SAHELI CHOWDHURY Víctor Dreke, legendary commander of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, called for those defending the Revolution today to recognize that the battlefield of...
BY LAURA CAPOTE – TRANSLATED BY ROHAN RICE “I feel Latin-American in every country, but without ever resigning myself to illusions of my land, Aracataca, to which I returned to one day...
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ANTICONQUISTA’s Third Worldism: Study Resources for the Latin American and Caribbean Diaspora
By Nick Ayala and Carlos Cruz Mosquera In recent weeks there have been numerous debates on social media about the legitimacy of Third Worldist communism as a political ideology....
By Nicholas Ayala On March 15, two days before the white supremacist shooting in Atlanta, which targeted Asian women, the President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress...
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Colombia’s insurgency resumes: why Segunda Marquetalia, a wing of the Farc, have returned to war
BY OLIVER DODD Inside a base in the Catatumbo mountains, OLIVER DODD speaks to Comandante Villa Vazquez in the first ever face-to-face interview with a senior figure in the...
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Recuperating Third-Worldism: How White Workers Continue to Benefit From Capitalism-Imperialism
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA From the most radical communists to the most centrist liberals, white supremacy is seen as a social construct and a mechanism with which elites pit...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA Lenin recognized that at his time, imperialism was being pursued by social democrats, reformers, and progressives. Imperialism “emerged from the domestic tract of the Western trade...
BY KAYLA POP In August 2020, following the Belarusian presidential election, opposition protests began in the Eastern European country. The protesters, backed by imperialist forces abroad, called for the...
BY DANNY SHAW In a matter of days, on February 7, Ecuador goes to the polls to elect their next president and 137 representatives for the National Assembly. There...
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An Indigenous Voice Against Neoliberalism, Imperialism & Fascism: A Review of ‘Volveremos y Seremos Millones’ By Evo Morales
BY MARTÍN DELGADO CULTELLI At the end of 2020, the new book by the historic leftist Indigenous leader and former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales Ayma, went on sale...
BY YANIS IQBAL As the United States re-designates Cuba as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism” for “repeatedly providing support for acts of international terrorism in granting safe harbor to...
As eyes around the world turn to Washington D.C. to observe the transition of the presidency from Donald Trump to Joe Biden, many are wondering what to expect from...
BY MERCEDES GÓMEZ L. In November 2020, the United States held its quadrennial presidential election, and has since been dealing with a fascist, white supremacist pushback. While Western mainstream...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA Right now, the political situation in the United States is at a decisive crossroads. The mainstream political parties are losing their legitimacy as the general population...
BY ABRAHAM MÁRQUEZ “We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it” was the tweet birthed by billionaire Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and CEO of Tesla Motors, July...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA AND NICHOLAS AYALA COVID-19 is a new disease, but many of us from immigrant families know all too well the trauma of having our livelihood...
BY STEVE LALLA Whereas the US political process has demonstrated all the solemnity of a Hollywood reality show, bona fide elections continue to take place in other nations, where...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA During the last eight months of economic crisis and the rampant spread of COVID-19, capitalist governments have continued to behave as they normally would: cutting spending...
BY STEVE LALLA Peru was rocked by protests following the dismissal of President Martín Vizcarra on November 9, 2020. Vizcarra was the fifth in a succession of Peruvian presidents...
BY DANNY SHAW & WILLIAM CAMACARO On November 25, 2020, the fighting peoples of the world lost a humble legend: Diego Armando Maradona. He was 60 years old at...
BY STEVE LALLA While the healthcare policy of the United States has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people, their tiny nemesis Cuba finds their...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA When the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, finally signed a peace deal with the Colombian government in 2016, the U.S. foreign office already had...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA In April of 2020, sirens blared carrying those ill with COVID-19 to hospitals in New Jersey and New York as they were just hitting their peak...
BY RAMIRO SEBASTIÁN FÚNEZ On February 14, 1896, one of the most consequential pamphlets in modern history was published. It is a pamphlet that is not well known across...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA Recently, the Western world was horrified by the brutal killing of French teacher, Samuel Paty. The teacher was targeted because he previously showed images of the...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA Historically, marches and rallies have been the most common form of protest. For the Latin American and Caribbean diaspora in particular, they have played an...
BY AWQA COLQUE It’s 11.39am in London. I’ve woken up to videos of Bolivia’s capital streets being overrun with the military just hours before our election begins. It is...
BY STEVE LALLA It’s been almost a year since Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced to leave office by the Bolivian military following the release of election results. Jeanine...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA The recent systematic massacres of Colombian people by government forces have not received major coverage in Western newspapers despite irrevocable documentary evidence. There are videos,...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA A major leak from a Facebook whistleblower came out a few days ago, but has been overshadowed by other explosive news. A former data scientist at...
BY RAMIRO SEBASTIÁN FÚNEZ Across Latin America, uprisings are taking place in countries governed by U.S. puppet regimes. In Honduras, thousands are protesting Juan Orlando Hernández and his National...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA The Irwin County Detention Facility in Ocilla, Georgia, is under scrutiny for malpractice, endangering immigrant lives in the middle of a pandemic and performing mass hysterectomies...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA As communists, we understand that class struggle and the unequal global economy is the primary contradiction one should focus on resolving. However, it is still...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA There have been at least six massacres in just one week in Colombia, and the culprits are getting away with it. More details about the...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA In September 2017, Hurricane Maria ravaged through the Caribbean Sea, wreaking havoc on many of its islands. It was recorded as the deadliest Atlantic hurricane in...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA The United Kingdom’s High Court recently ruled that the Bank of England is acting lawfully in refusing to hand over $1 billion worth of gold...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA YouTuber and mitú contributor Kat Lazo recently published a video where she seeks to explain white privilege within the Latinx community. Quite frankly, despite there...
BY RAMIRO SEBASTIÁN FÚNEZ I’m from New York. I was born in Manhattan and I grew up in Queens. As a young student living in New York, I regularly...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA Part 1: Capitalism and Imperialism Many analyses of the contemporary international political economy highlight the inequality between the haves and the have nots. Inequality is discussed...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA These last two weeks of uprisings have exposed the evil of the state, but they have also shown there are many among us who are using...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA Those of us familiar with Western socialist perspectives have heard phrases such as “the capitalist elites use race to divide the working class.” The premise...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA The Red Condor Collective was founded on May 2, 2020, by around a dozen Colombian activists, and some allies, based in the United States and...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA On April 30, hundreds of armed protestors stormed the Michigan state capitol building in the United States. The protesters were aggressive, loud, boisterous and angry. Some...
BY MARTÍN DELGADO CULTELLI This year marked 150 years since the birth of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. It is within this framework that we want to rescue the...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army, FARC-EP, guerrilla negotiated a peace deal with the Colombian government in 2016. Many were skeptical but...
BY CARLOS AZNÁREZ, RESUMEN LATINOAMERICANO In Havana, Cuba, a few days ago, we were able to interview the commander and chief peace negotiator of Colombia’s National Liberation Army, ELN,...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA The coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated the superiority of socialism over capitalism in handling crises. Socialist nations are doing far more in combating this pandemic compared to...
BY BRUNO FUENTES In Chile, we use the word luma to describe what most people around the world know as a police baton. They are wielded by tens of...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA Everywhere we turn today, we are constantly reminded of the coronavirus and its lethal effects. From travel restrictions to food insecurity, the Western world is...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA Many in the Latin American diaspora view Marxism as an irrelevant Eurocentric theory and therefore an ineffective ideological tool for social change. Many diasporic Latin...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA The brutal character of political and social conflicts across Latin America has sometimes led to the view that the region possesses a kind of inherent...
BY DANNY SHAW In January 2020, Donald Trump’s puppet in Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, met with reactionary British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and right-wing Colombian President Iván Duque. After losing...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA The unlawful assassination of Iranian military general Qassem Soleimani by the U.S. military has heightened an awareness of an impending world war in the collective...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA On Jan. 3, 2020, the U.S. committed a major act of terrorism and evil by killing Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani. Soleimani was instrumental in defeating...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA In recent decades, Latin American and Caribbean states have started a process of formal inclusion of marginalized groups, such as Indigenous and African-descent communities, women,...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA There are countless historical narratives about the conquest of Latin America and the Caribbean. The dominant narrative claims that it was a spectacular victory by...
BY DANNY SHAW Since 1998, the year anti-imperialist military leader Hugo Chávez was popularly elected, when have we heard one positive word in U.S. media about Venezuela? Washington —...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA More than two thousand years ago, Jesus of Nazareth is said to have performed his first miracle at a wedding celebration in a town named...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA The Global Climate Strike that took place on Sept. 20, was organized by a conglomerate of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and charities that are all headquartered...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA AND NICHOLAS AYALA Zak Cope’s latest book, “The Wealth of Some Nations: Imperialism and the Mechanics of Value Transfer,” can be viewed as a continuation...
BY RAMIRO SEBASTIÁN FÚNEZ Exactly ten years ago, the Honduran people were thrust into one of the darkest eras of our country’s history. On June 28, 2009, the progressive...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA Across the Global North, there has been a rise of progressive, anti-establishment candidates who position themselves as anti-imperialists. These candidates win support from the anti-war camp...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA With the recent celebration of International Quds Day — a day of support for Palestine and opposition to the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, Gaza and...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA Recently, a leaked internal memo from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, OPCW, proved the chemical weapons attack the West claimed was carried out...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA Recently, Latino Rebels published an article titled, “I’m Venezuelan, I’m a Progressive and I Want to See Maduro Go” by Pilar Marrero. In her article, Marrero...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA Western powers are intensifying their continued attempts at invading Venezuela, ramping up their propaganda campaign against the sovereign nation. Here in the United States — part...
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Against Social Democratic Imperialism: True Solidarity With Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution
BY NICHOLAS AYALA In the face of imperialist aggression against Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution, there is a responsibility to resist this violence. The United States, under Donald Trump,...
BY ELN TRUTH PROJECT Colombia’s new right-wing government has announced that it is ending peace talks with Colombia’s National Liberation Army, ELN. It has called on Cuba’s government to...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA Those of us who are fortunate enough to have been exposed to liberation ideologies sometimes go through an initial holier-than-thou phase. We go on to...
BY ANTICONQUISTA Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, once said: “There are decades when nothing happens and there are weeks when decades happen.” In 2018, the...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA Blind nationalism is a problem everywhere under globalized capitalism. Capitalist elites use state apparatuses such as the education system, national media and culture to instill...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA Understanding international revolutionary history is necessary in being able to analyze modern politics. But it is also important for recognizing and honoring the ways in which...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA In 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, came into effect, opening up the Mexican economy to the imperialist bourgeoisie of the United States and...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA José Carlos Mariátegui is considered to be the father of Latin American communism for his pioneering role in applying Marxism to the region’s local conditions....
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA Following West London’s Grenfell Tower fire, the remains of Jessica Urbano Ramírez were found on the 23rd floor. Jessica, however, the 12-year-old daughter of Colombian...
BY HAXI YERYEBAN “Left-wing political parties distance themselves from periphery communities.” – Geysson Santos, Black Brazilian activist, member of the Bocado Forte hip-hop collective and social science university student....
BY ALEJANDRO TORRES RIVERA Recent moves by the Puerto Rican government headed by Governor Ricardo Rosselló are shameful. They transform our country into a platform for imperialist intervention amid...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA For months, mainstream media in Britain have stepped up their coverage of Jewish anger at Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters in the Labour Party for...
BY MERRI CATHERINE Dominica, also known as Nature Island, used to be called Wai’tu kubuli by the Indigenous Kalinago people pre-colonization and chattel slavery. It means “Tall is Her...
BY RAMIRO SEBASTIÁN FÚNEZ Students? Check. Road blocks? Yep. Twitter hashtags? Definitely. At first glance, anti-government protests in Nicaragua appear to possess all of the traits of a popular...
BY MARTÍN DELGADO CULTELLI Recently, I was watching a video about my country – Uruguay -created by a Spanish YouTube page focusing on geopolitics. I was surprised to see...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA In 1959, the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista was overthrown in an armed struggle led by a few hundred guerrillas with the support of millions of...
BY VRIDDHI VINAY Across the world, fascism has reared its ugly head in different institutions. From oil pipelines to school-to-prison pipelines, from native informants to Western-backed counter-revolutionaries in the...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA Owen Jones, the face of liberalism in the United Kingdom, has become the unappointed leader of the actions that will take place on July 13-14,...
BY TANIA APAZA This is my third attempt at writing about Grenfell Tower. I’ve tried to write it the “typical” way. The way a so-called “objective” journalist would. But...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA The FIFA World Cup, and football (soccer) in general, is hands down the most popular sporting event in the world. No other individual sport comes...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA Important elections in Latin America’s major economies are on the horizon and the future of hundreds of millions of our people hangs in the balance....
BY ALBA MOVIMIENTOS 1. “There is no democracy.” In Venezuela, 23 elections have been held since 1998, the year in which Hugo Chávez was elected President and began democratizing...
BY LOLA CAMPOS Cuba has elected a new president: Miguel Díaz-Canel. It only took minutes before every gusano in Miami-Dade County hopped on their phones and spouted their bogus...
BY RAMIRO SEBASTIÁN FÚNEZ Throughout the 20th Century, guerrilla warfare played an important role in the liberation of Asian, African, Latin American and Caribbean people from First World imperialism....