Notes from inside New Orleans
…Jordan Flaherty is a union organizer and an editor of Left Turn Magazine (www.leftturn.org). He is not planning on moving out of New Orleans. He can be reached at:anticapitalist@hotmail.com Below…
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Blankfort takes on Chomsky
Jeffrey Blankfort, relentless critic of the Israel lobby and what he sees as the failure of the left to properly engage the question, has written a long-awaited critique of Noam…
TROTSKYGRAD ON THE ALTIPLANO
…(POR), rejecting the official timidity of the Bolivian Communist Party and its predecessor, the Revolutionary Left Party (PIR). John documents the POR’s rise and period of sway over the Bolivian…
CAN IRAQ AVOID CIVIL WAR?
…disastrous 70%. SECULAR LEFT REPUDIATES “TWO POLES OF TERRORISM” Despite the growing violence and polarization, a secular left continues to exist in Iraq, caught between the occupation and collaborationist forces…
TWO YEARS LATER: NYC Anti-War Protests Smaller—and Tilting to the Hard Left
…by the International Action Center, the same group of hard-left anti-imperialists–widely perceived as a front for the neo-Stalinist Workers World Party–that helped spawn the International ANSWER coalition, and who have…
Joint anti-war rally called for Sept. 24; Iraq’s secular left betrayed
…to have been about anything substantive, but the tactical question of whether to support WWP’s presidential ticket last year or acquiesce to the left’s “anybody but Bush” (=pro-Kerry) position. Behind…
Cuba: leftists, US firms praise new policy
…on both the left and the right. “For us, social fighters, today is an historic day,” center-left Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff said at conference of South American countries in Argentina….
Italy: armed left re-emerges?
…of alliances between anti-imperialist and revolutionary forces in the regions of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East.” We have also noted signs of an armed left resurgence in Japan,…
Ron Paul and the shame of the “left”
It is a sad day indeed. The most prominent website on what is popularly (if not quite accurately) perceived as the political “left,” Counterpunch, on Dec. 27 runs a piece…
Bigger than AIPAC
…with them. And by the way, I take offense at the “supposed lefties”. I am a leftist, i.e. I analyse society based on class conflict. When I see splits in…
CENTRAL AMERICA: TICOS PROTEST CAFTA
…robbed again two weeks later, apparently on June 6. This time the intruders destroyed furniture and left a piece of glass covered with blood, apparently to intimidate the staffers. Sandra…
EL SALVADOR’S WATER: NOT FOR SALE
…about the need to develop a national plan aimed at protecting El Salvador’s river systems and aquifers. He says that deforestation, which has left only 2% of El Salvador’s original…