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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....
The Left Chapter
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...
The Left Chapter
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...
The Left Chapter
May 125 min read
United Steelworkers Lead Mobilization Drive as American Unions Face Growing Vulnerability
The USW must navigate factionalism while championing labor rights amid rising anti-union pressures and global trade fragmentation. By...
The Left Chapter
May 97 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...
The Left Chapter
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
The 18th Brumaire of Javier Milei
Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Jorge Coulon ‘History repeats itself:...
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May 67 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...
The Left Chapter
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...
The Left Chapter
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
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
Serbia’s Political Deadlock: Do Students Have a Plan?
Protestors in Belgrade, March 14 -- image via video screenshot By Biljana Vankovska For nearly five months, Serbia has lived in a state...
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Mar 315 min read
We Will Not Move One Solitary Inch Towards Your Armageddon
Image from a Roger Waters concert, Portugal, 2023 -- Fronteira, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Roger Waters The following is a...
The Left Chapter
Mar 2812 min read
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