Latest Postings

Commentary
Theater of the Absurd – Zoltan Zigedy
The Genius of Chavez – Fidel Castro
2012 -  A Year of Tough Times Ahead – Jack A. Smith

Imperialism and War

No War, No Sanctions on Iran! – US Peace Council
For the Independence of Puerto Rico - ALBA
Syria’s Uprising in Context -- Stephen Gowans

Remarks at ALBA Summit – Raul Castro

The Blockade of Cuba, Fifty Years On – Fernando Ravsberg

Where Next for Cuba? – Kate Clarke

Revolutionary Marxism versus Reformism

Stiglitz, An Ideologist of Capitalism – Portuguese CP

Labor Movement

Colombia, Coal, and Murder – Daniel Kovalik

An Exchange on the Solidarity Center – Ben Field; Fred Hirsch

Houston Activists Support Steelworkers in Greece – James Thompson  

Health Care, USA

Free Market Medicine, a Personal Account – Michael Parenti

People’s Culture

The Last Lincoln Veteran – David Rovics (video)

Book Notes

Joseph Ball’s “The Need for Planning”   –  Roger Keeran

Recent Postings

Iran War Danger
World Peace Hanging by a Thread – Fidel Castro
No War on Iran! – United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)

Book Review
Post-Modern Imperialism – Zoltan Zigedy

Marxist Theory
Carlos Lozano Explains Anti-Communism (Eng. & Esp.) – W. T. Whitney, Jr.
Democracy and the Pathology of Wealth – Michael Parenti (video)

Elections 2012
How to Waste Your Vote – Bruce A. Dixon

Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration
MLK and Today's Struggle – Dr. Anthony Monteiro (video)

Democratic People's Republic of Korea
How to Think About Socialism in Korea – Communist Party of Ireland

Syria
Why the US Media Turned on the Arab League – Eleanor Ommani

Cuba
U.S. Trade Union Research Delegation to Cuba : April 25-May 2, 2012 – US Labor for Friendship with Cuba

Labor
A Tale of Two Struggles – Kay Tillow

Mexico
The Struggle in Mexico – Mexican Communist Youth Leaders

Culture
Song and the Working Class Movement (video) – Dick Gaughan

Opportunism
AFL-CIO and Colombia: Wikileaks Revelations – Alberto C. Ruiz
Interest in Communism Surges, But Where is the CPUSA? – James Thompson 

Commentary
 2011-2012: Summing Up, Taking Stock – Zoltan Zigedy

World Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties
Support for WFTU “A Basic Criterion” – George Mavrikos

Crisis in Europe
“Euro-Germanic” Chauvinism – Rui Paz 

Cuban Economic Reform
“Certain Basic Questions“: Summary Remarks to the National Assembly –  Raul Castro
What “Unviability” Are We Talking About? – Jose Luis Rodriguez

20th Century Socialism
”We Lived Better Then” – Stephen Gowans

Racism and Electoral Politics
The Wasteland of Democratic Party Politics – Glen Ford

Environment
Climate Change and Class – W.T. Whitney, Jr.

Imperialism
Washington’s False Accusations against Venezuela – Eva Golinger
Korean Leader’s Death Endangers North Korea, Not Its Neighbors – Stephen Gowans

Conditions of US Working People
Census Bureau: One Half in US Are “Poor” or “Low-income” –  Hope Yen

International Communist Review
The Crisis of Capitalism and the Revolutionary Perspective in Hungary – Gyula Thurmer

Film Review
“J. Edgar” –  Jared Ball

Passings,  2011
In Memoriam Hans Heinz Holz (1927-2011) – Neues Deutschland
Must We Adore Vaclav Havel? – Michael Parenti