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Strategic Partnerships or Strategic Surrenders?
Keir Starmer and Hristijan Mickoski, May 16, 2025 -- Number 10, OGL 3, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska Macedonia’s state...

The Left Chapter
May 275 min read


Israel’s Final Solution for Gaza
Image of Gaza on May 19 via the UNRWA on X By Vijay Prashad In early May, the security cabinet of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin...

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May 194 min read


José ‘Pepe’ Mujica: The Revolutionary Who Never Surrendered His Ideals
José ‘Pepe’ Mujica in 2023 -- Pablo Valadares/Câmara dos Deputados, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Ali Abutalebi In his condolence...

The Left Chapter
May 153 min read


Why the US Right Really Hates the Postal Service
It’s not about USPS’s efficiency or viability. It’s about equity and collective good, values that are anathema to predatory capitalism....

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May 145 min read


Marshal Zelenskyy’s High Noon
May 10 in Ukraine -- Number 10, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska The past few days have felt like a decisive chapter...

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May 134 min read


Vietnam Celebrates Fifty Years of the End of Its Colonial Period
Image from the victory celebrations April 30 cropped via X By Vijay Prashad Fifty years ago, on 30 April 1975, the revolutionary forces...

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May 125 min read


Eighty Years On: Remembering the Defeat of Fascism – or Witnessing Its Return?
Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park, Berlin -- JoachimKohlerBremen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska As we...

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May 85 min read


Sanctions as Civilizational Warfare: The Human Cost of U.S. Economic Pressure
By Peiman Salehi Economic sanctions are often described as ‘peaceful’ alternatives to war. Yet for millions in countries like Iran and...

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May 83 min read


Workers in India Are on the March
ASHA workers convention, April 2025 -- image via CITU on Facebook By Vijay Prashad Ninety percent of Indian workers are in the...

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May 64 min read


Russian Communists Rally Progressive Forces at Second International Anti-Fascist Forum in Moscow
Gennady Zyuganov speaking at the forum -- image via the CPRF By Shiran Illanperuma On 22 April, the 155th birthday of Vladimir Lenin, 164...

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Apr 306 min read


To Stop Coups in South Korea, Expand Democracy
Mass protest calling for the impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol, December 2024 -- image via X By Dae-Han Song On 4 April, 122 days after...

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Apr 295 min read


The Turbulence in the Global Economy
Image via X By Vijay Prashad On 22 April 2025, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its annual World Economic Outlook report,...

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Apr 245 min read


The European Union on the Crossroads: Tariffs from Friends, Trade from Competitors
Derek Bennett, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska The ninety-day customs truce ‘graciously’ granted by Trump is...

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Apr 245 min read


China’s Response to Bullying: The Historical Lessons Learned
At the Hong Kong Museum of History, Yuet Man Lee (李月文), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska A friend from another...

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Apr 224 min read


A Time of Living Dangerously – For Telling the Truth
Public domain image By Biljana Vankovska The West has long cherished political correctness as though it were a core democratic value ....

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Apr 165 min read


The New Bandung Spirit Is About Industrial Development
Indonesia's Foreign Minister Sugiono at the BRICS Summit in Russia, 2024 -- image via X By Vijay Prashad In January 2025, Indonesia – the...

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Apr 145 min read


China’s Response to Trump’s Escalating Trade War
Image via X By Tings Chak Since US President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February to impose a 10% tariff on all imports,...

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Apr 115 min read


The Geoeconomic Dilemma: Globalisation à la Xi or Isolationism à la Trump?
Xi Jinping in the Great Hall of the People, October 2022 - China News Service, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska As...

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Apr 85 min read


Trump’s Tariffs Could Intensify Sri Lanka’s Debt Crisis
Trump with his tariff chart -- public domain image By Shiran Illanperuma On Thursday, 3 April, Sri Lankans woke up to the alarming news...

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Apr 74 min read


What Will Tech Moguls Do With Their Wealth?
Tech billionaires are embedding themselves in U.S. economic systems while experimenting with new ways to manage their fortunes. Lacking...

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Apr 27 min read
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