Book Review: The Imperialist War on Libya

http://mltoday.com/article/1735-book-review-the-imperialist-war-on-libya/29 In Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya, (Monthly Review Press, 2013. 320 pages) Horace Campbell exposes the role of the NATO countries in the attack, occupation and destruction of Libya. This book provides useful material, given that a segment of the peace movement that opposed to the war on Iraq supported US … Continue reading Book Review: The Imperialist War on Libya

North Korea’s Justifiable Anger

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/04/10/north-koreas-justifiable-anger/ http://www.4thmedia.org/2013/04/north-koreas-justifiable-anger-does-obama-want-more-war/ North Korea's Justifiable Anger The corporate media reduces the DPRK (North Korea) to the Kim family and prefaces their names with the terms “madman”, “evil” and “brutal”. Such vilifications of foreign leaders are used here not only to signify they are target for US overthrow. They are meant to intimidate and isolate anti-war activists as … Continue reading North Korea’s Justifiable Anger

Why Does the U.S. Have a Military Base in Cuba?

Latin America Solidarity Coalition Calls for Closing Guantanamo and Returning it to Cuba The Latin America Solidarity Coalition (LASC) demands that occupied Guantanamo, including its prison torture center, be shut down. Guantanamo is occupied against the will of the Cuban people, is used as a military base against Cuba and other Caribbean countries. LASC calls for shutting … Continue reading Why Does the U.S. Have a Military Base in Cuba?

Presentation at First National Conference of Committee to Stop FBI Repression

Conference introductory remarks by Sarah Smith, Chicago Committee to Free the Cuban Five, Committee to Stop FBI Repression, one of the 23 subpoenaed. I would like to welcome everyone here today to our very first national conference hosted by the Committee to Stop FBI Repression. Some of you have come from very far away, even driving from … Continue reading Presentation at First National Conference of Committee to Stop FBI Repression

Cities Pay Millions for First Amendment Violations and Police Violence: Will Chicago Be Next?

https://mronline.org/2011/08/14/cities-pay-millions-for-first-amendment-violations-and-police-violence-will-chicago-be-next/ https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/cities-pay-millions-for-first-amendment-violations-and-police-violence-will-chicago-be-next-by-stansfield-smith/ The US court system has found criminal police conduct (beatings, false arrests, other violence and felonies) at anti-war/anti-G8/FTAA/WTO protests to be so flagrant that payouts to the victims of police illegality and violence have cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars.The payouts for unprovoked police violence and illegality, below, do not include what … Continue reading Cities Pay Millions for First Amendment Violations and Police Violence: Will Chicago Be Next?

Reply to Greek CP about the Opportunism of “21st Century Socialism”

https://marxistleninist.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/a-reply-to-greek-cp-on-21st-century-socialism/ http://mltoday.com/article/934-reply-to-greek-cp-about-the-opportunism-of-q21st-century-socialismq-theory/68 Editors' Note: The article by Dimitris Karagiannis, "On the Opportunist Nature of the '21st Century Socialism' Theory" prompted this contribution from Stan Smith. Several other contributions to the discussion will be posted soon. A new world is possible and that new world is being built in Latin America. The Bolivarian process in Venezuela … Continue reading Reply to Greek CP about the Opportunism of “21st Century Socialism”

The Rebellion Against NeoLiberalism is Growing in Latin America

The rebellion against neoliberalism is growing in Latin America. This struggle is pushed forward by the struggle in Venezuela. Neoliberalism means: one, privatizing industry and government services, two, removing protective tariffs, and three, cutting government spending. After years of neoliberalism being imposed on Latin America by the US, Latin America has the most unequal distribution … Continue reading The Rebellion Against NeoLiberalism is Growing in Latin America

Forty Years of the Cuban Revolution

I What is the Significance of the Cuban Revolution? The historic significance of the Cuban revolution still has not registered among Marxist and revolutionary-minded people. One day the revolution will go down as one of the most important events in the history of humanity's struggle for freedom. That Cuba's significance is not fully appreciated testifies … Continue reading Forty Years of the Cuban Revolution