Iran elections: disqualifying candidates, arresting unionists
Though a coalition of moderate conservatives and reformists allied with President Hassan Rouhani is on track to prevail in the parliamentary election held February 26, progressive Iranians and trade...
View ArticleJamaica government ousted in election; Austerity policies blamed
On Thursday, February 26, Jamaican voters turned the government of Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller, of the People's National Party (PNP), out of office. She will be replaced as PM by Andrew...
View ArticleIranian union leader talks sanctions, war, and struggle
Maziyar Gilaninejhad is a leader of the Union of Metalworkers and Mechanics of Iran (UMMI). In this interview, he talks about the challenges and struggles of Iranian workers and the likely effects of...
View ArticleIrish voters reject austerity, realign political system
If there is one thing clear after Ireland's recent election, it is that people no longer buy the myth that austerity is the path to economic salvation. It is the same message that Greeks, Portuguese,...
View ArticleBerta Cáceres, Indigenous environmental leader, murdered in Honduras
Early Thursday morning, March 3rd, at least two men in ski masks broke into the home in La Esperanza, in the Department of Intibucá in Western Honduras, where the internationally-known Indigenous and...
View ArticleSpain’s election stalemate continues; social democrats refuse compromise
The effort by Pedro Sánchez, leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party, to form a government on March 2 brings to mind the story of the hunter who goes into the forest with one bullet in his rifle....
View ArticleInuit, Indigenous women face Third World conditions in Quebec jails
In April 2015, Quebec's Protecteur du Citoyen, or Ombudsperson, took a tour of detention cells in northern Quebec. Among other things, what Raymonde Saint-Germain found was seven Inuit women locked up...
View ArticleU. S. intervention in Venezuela: Cuba responds
Heads of state gathered in Caracas March 5 for the "Chávez Forum: 21st Century leader of Latin American and Caribbean Unity." They were honoring former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who died on...
View ArticleEuropean Union, Cuba reach “landmark” agreement
Federica Mogherini, Vice President of the European Commission and the EU's High Representative for External Affairs and Security Policy, recently brought a delegation from the European Union (EU) to...
View ArticleCelebrating St. Patrick’s Day, remembering Kevin Barry
On St. Patrick's Day, devoted to honoring the Irish heritage and its worldwide influence, we pause to remember Kevin Gerard Barry (Jan. 20, 1902 - Nov. 1, 1920), the first Irish republican to be...
View ArticleIranian regime keeps progressive women off the ballot
Media coverage of the parliamentary elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran over the last few weeks has been remarkable for the absence of criticism of the theocratic regime, its human rights record,...
View ArticleSanders to Israeli lobby: Peace means security for Palestinians
WASHINGTON - In a speech for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders said Monday that "peace [between Israel and Palestine] will mean...
View ArticleHilarity and tragedy: The Jewish holiday of Purim 5776/2016
Purim is celebrated as one of the most joyous and fun holidays on the Jewish calendar, the closest Jewish equivalent to Halloween. It commemorates a time in the year 357 BCE when the Jewish people...
View ArticleMurder epidemic halts Colombia’s peace process
Paramilitaries and armed thugs have long sullied politics in Latin America, most notably in Colombia and recently in Honduras. A recent increase in politically motivated killings in Colombia coincided...
View ArticleAction demanded as another environmental activist murdered in Honduras
The AFL-CIO, members of the United States Congress and many other organizations and individuals are raising their voices to demand an end to the murders of indigenous, working class and environmental...
View ArticleA terrible beauty: Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising
"Poblacht na héireann."The speaker of these words, standing on the front steps of Dublin's General Post Office and reading from a proclamation (the ink barely dry) of the "provisional government of the...
View ArticleCubans look to U.S. example to fix racism? Not so fast
In his March 24 report on racial discrimination in Cuba, New York Times reporter Damien Cave suggests the visit of an African-descended U.S. president to the island could help end silence on an issue...
View ArticleChina’s new five-year plan could leave workers behind
At the debt-laden Longmay coal company in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province, thousands of workers hit the streets last week demanding back pay and to protest against wage cuts and the...
View ArticleAmid political storm, will Brazil drift into oligarchy?
On March 18, supporters of the center-left government of President Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party (PT, or Partido dos Trabalhadores) marched in a score of Brazilian cities to oppose a coup which...
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