The revolution is feasible, but it requires sacrifices

Interview on the current media landscape

Spreading misinformation and panic drives up borrowing costs and could encourage fringe elements of the military to use it as a pretext for a coup attempt

Liberalism parades itself…

In Ferguson, Baltimore, Los Angeles, young women of color have emerged as leaders and strategists, offering a new kind of civil rights politics—one that incorporates feminism, gay and transgender rights, and an emphasis on building grassroots leadership

Australia, a nation without enemies, is now spending $28billion a year on the military and war and armaments in order to fulfill a tragic, entirely colonial and obsequious role, now as Washington’s “deputy sheriff” in the Asia-Pacific.

One group of immigrant workers, recruited as guest workers, is being pitted against another group—the migrants who have been coming to work at the company for many years

These efforts need to be brought together as part of the building of a broad united front for justice and power, a movement that in addition to protesting atrocities is guided by a sense of hope and a vision of a new day

Generating collective views about aims and methods and embodying the shared commitments in lasting organizations is what can turn riots into sustained resistance and more

The participation in Revolutionary May Day in Berlin has consistently increased in number

92 percent of marijuana possession arrests in Baltimore were of African Americans, one of the highest racial disparities in the USA

The era of protest against Vietnam – 1965-75 – was unique as the emergence of a nationwide peace movement on a scale not seen before in American history

When blacks are portrayed as a criminal race, it’s easy for those walking unmolested to the store with their white privilege to maintain that’s the way it should be

The human cost of intolerance towards African immigrants and refugees is too high

Political symbols in South Africa are here today, gone tomorrow, but oppressive political economy endures

It is precisely this glaring double standard towards Venezuela that allows Toledo and 25 other ex-presidents to accuse the Bolivarian government of human rights violations

A Review of Latin America’s Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-first Century, edited by Steve Ellner (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014), and We Created Chavez: A People’s History of the Venezuelan Revolution by George Ciccariello-Maher (Duke University Press, 2013)

Despite repeated calls throughout the summit for President Obama to repeal his Executive Order targeting Venezuela, the US administration has dug in its heels

For the victory of 99%, let’s fight together! as we already did in Pensacola, Ocumare and Amelia Island. Let America be Our America

The worst media offender in this regard is The New York Times, which explicitly celebrated the 2002 U.S.-supported coup of Hugo Chavez as a victory for democracy