"Cuatro comidas de la anarquía": el aumento de los precios de los alimentos podría provocar el hambre, la guerra y la revolución en 2022

Las consecuencias políticas del hambre son profundas e impredecibles, pero podrían ser la chispa que encienda un barril de pólvora de ira y resentimiento que haría que las protestas de Black Lives Matter de 2020 parezcan mansas en comparación.

Alan Macleod
Por Alan Macleod
Food Prices Feature photo

WASHINGTON – Already dealing with the economic fallout from a protracted pandemic, the rapidly rising prices of food and other key commodities have many fearing that unprecedented political and social instability could be just around the corner next year. With the clock ticking on student loan and rent debts, the price of a standard cart of food

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Una guía popular para la revolución: cómo las revueltas sin líderes pierden la batalla incluso antes de que comience

Reflexiones sobre cómo los medios de comunicación y los movimientos sin líderes han afectado el éxito de las protestas populares desde Quebec en 2012 hasta el Líbano actual.

Laith Marouf
Por Laith Marouf
Lebanon protest Feature photo

Since the 2010 Arab Autumn, it has become clear that leaderless revolts only have two inevitable outcomes. In the first, a game of musical chairs between right-wing imperialist forces will be played and only superficial change will be achieved, like in Quebec, Egypt, Tunis, and Sudan. The second possibility, a right-wing contra war will take hold

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Arabia Saudita, Israel y Estados Unidos buscaron la expulsión de Bashir: ¿Qué tan real fue la revolución de Sudán?

Los eventos de la semana pasada en Sudán parecen ser otro ejemplo de cómo los gobiernos extranjeros manipulan la disidencia real contra un gobierno autoritario para instalar otro gobierno autoritario más amigable con sus intereses, pero en detrimento de la gente.

Whitney Webb
Por Whitney Webb
Sudan | Coup

KHARTOUM, SUDAN -- Last Thursday, the decades-long rule of Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir came to an end, as the country’s long-time leader was ousted in a military coup that followed months of protests against his rule, which began in 1989. Bashir’s overthrow was widely hailed in the U.S. as a “revolution” brought on by a people-powered

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The Real Syria: Constitutional, Non-Sectarian, Resistant

If any country, including the U.S., had armed terrorists embedded in neighborhoods, and holding civilians hostage for years, and targeting unarmed civilians constantly, it too would be using its own military and security forces to fight the terrorists in order to liberate the captive civilians.

Steven Sahiounie
Por Steven Sahiounie
syria

DAMASCUS (Op-ed) -- Juliette Harkin, Associate Lecturer on Politics and International Relations at Anglia Ruskin University, wrote an article dated May 1, 2018, titled: “‘Assadism’ is destroying Syria – here’s where it came from.” Political scientists from around the world have written on the subject of the Syrian conflict, which began in March

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The Trouble with Trotskyists: Obsessed with Stalin, They See Betrayed Revolutions Everywhere

The trouble with some Trotskyists is they’re always “supporting” other peoples’ revolutions, says Diana Johnstone. Their obsession with permanent revolution in the end provides an alibi for permanent war.

Diana Johnstone
Por Diana Johnstone
Photo, porcelain plates bearing portraits of Syrian President Bashar Assad and his father late Syrian President Hafez Assad are displayed in a souvenirs shop outside the historic 7th century Umayyad Mosque, in Damascus, Syria, April 17, 2016. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

I first encountered Trotskyists in Minnesota half a century ago during the movement against the Vietnam War. I appreciated their skill in organizing anti-war demonstrations and their courage in daring to call themselves “communists” in the United States of America – a profession of faith that did not groom them for the successful careers enjoyed by

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MLK’s Children Reveal His Undelivered Speech: “America May Go to Hell”

«The masses of people have yet to really understand Martin Luther King, Jr. and his real mission. Mainstream media promotes the vision of a dreamer … He is actually watered down.»

Chauncey Robinson
Por Chauncey Robinson
Rev. Bernice King, daughter of the late civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., speaks at the National Civil Rights Museum, April 2, 2018, in Memphis, Tenn. The museum was formerly the Lorraine Motel, where Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated April 4, 1968. (AP/Mark Humphrey)

MEMPHIS—It has been 50 years since the world lost civil rights visionary Martin Luther King, Jr. His speeches and activism resonated with so many, and ripples of his influence continue to be felt today. At the time it happened, his murder devastated Black Americans and supporters of the civil rights struggle across the country. This was especially

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