Revolutionary Third World Leaders Praise China’s World Role

China is a modern superpower, as is the US, but a qualitatively different superpower. The US uses military aggression, coups, and sanctions to impose US corporate interests worldwide. China is a peaceful power that respects national sovereignty, mutual development, and non-interference. Despite opposing imperialism, a tendency in the Western left is to recycle Western anti-China … Continue reading Revolutionary Third World Leaders Praise China’s World Role

Trump Fascism? – A Reality Check

Stansfield Smith With the second coming of Trump, many who profess left credentials again proclaim fascism is back, after we voted out fascism (!) in 2020. Every four years we hear the story repeated: “this election is the most important in our lifetime.” Republicans are the new fascism, Democrats are the lesser evil. No matter … Continue reading Trump Fascism? – A Reality Check

US Economic Warfare Drives Venezuelans and Cubans to come to the US

This was a flyer handed out at Chicago's May Day rally. Immigrants from Latin America come here as a direct result of US coups, invasions, and economic warfare against their countries. Colombians came because the US armed death squad governments. So did Salvadorans and Guatemalans in the 1980s. Haitians come because the US repeatedly overthrows … Continue reading US Economic Warfare Drives Venezuelans and Cubans to come to the US

Compatible Left Joins Imperialism in Celebrating Defeat of Syria

It may be no surprise that the “mainstream” corporate news media have turned into advertising agencies for US government policy. But it still surprises that what the CIA called a compatible left - those on the left it deemed compatible with maintaining imperialist rule - celebrates another US successful “regime change,” this time, Syria. Portside … Continue reading Compatible Left Joins Imperialism in Celebrating Defeat of Syria

The Function of the Compatible Left Seen in Its Attacks on the Venezuelan Revolution

“Compatible left” was a term used by the CIA to describe those on the left it has deemed compatible with maintaining imperialist world rule. This left has dominated the US left since the end of World War II, in large part a result of government operations repressing the communist or anti-imperialist left. Historically, this compatible … Continue reading The Function of the Compatible Left Seen in Its Attacks on the Venezuelan Revolution

The US Attempted Coup in Venezuela Uses New Cyber Tools, but Cannot Break the Chavista Wall

By Stansfield Smith – Sep 8, 2024 The peoples around the world have looked to Venezuela as a vanguard leading Nuestra América in its second independence struggle, against the US. The US rulers operate as the inheritors of the European colonial empires, assuming the right to interfere in other countries’ elections, and dictate who are the … Continue reading The US Attempted Coup in Venezuela Uses New Cyber Tools, but Cannot Break the Chavista Wall

Another Respected Figure on the Left Discredits Himself for Kamala

The final stretch of the presidential election season never fails to bring out leftists waving the white flag to the Democrats. Jim Lafferty, former national Director of the National Lawyers Guild, recently crumbled with his Why Socialists and Anti-Capitalists Must Back Kamala Harris. This type of leftist assures us that the two capitalist parties are … Continue reading Another Respected Figure on the Left Discredits Himself for Kamala

A month traveling in China

My Chinese-speaking wife and I recently traveled to nine different cities and towns in China over the course of a month, our fourth trip since 2005. We were also to go in 2020, but the covid lockdown canceled it. That year we could have booked a train ticket to Xinjiang and traveled around that province … Continue reading A month traveling in China

The US Blockades What Countries?

CUBA: The US blockade is like a medieval siege and cost the Cuban economy $154 billion over 60 years. Trump and Biden put Cuba on the US State Sponsors of Terrorism list (along with Iran, Syria, North Korea), making it even more difficult for Cuba to acquire goods on the international market as fuel, food, … Continue reading The US Blockades What Countries?

Britain’s Century Long Opium Trafficking and China’s Century of Humiliation (1839-1949)

Stansfield Smith For the Chinese, the trauma of the Century of Humiliation continues as a blunt reminder of their past defeat and neo-colonial servitude, as well as a reminder of the West’s self-righteous hypocrisy and arrogance. In 1500, India and China were the world’s most advanced civilizations. Then came the Europeans. They eventually looted and … Continue reading Britain’s Century Long Opium Trafficking and China’s Century of Humiliation (1839-1949)