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France’s Colonial Grip on Africa is Weakening
The July 26th coup in Niger is only the latest in a series of attacks against France’s imperial domination of West African nations.
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Macron, Leader of French Neocolonial Empire, Hypocritically Denounces “New Imperialism” in Pacific Ocean
The French president isn’t serious about countering imperialism; he is its agent. Rather, his statements should be taken for what they are: dancing to the tune of the U.S.
No to the Imperialist Ukraine War!
Whichever side they fight for, the U.S. ruling class and their pet politicians seem to keep eagerly lining up with various fascists.
France and the Second Revolution
On Tuesday, June 27, 2023, French police in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, murdered Naël Merzouk, a 17-year-old boy of Algerian-Moroccan descent, in cold blood.
Revolutionary History: The Commune is Dead — Long Live the Commune!
152 years ago, the city of Paris threw off the shackles of the reactionary government of France and repudiated the conservative political order.
Against the NATO–Russian War
The war in Ukraine,” the imperialists say, “is a war of Russian aggression. It began in February of 2022, when the Russian Federation invaded the Donbass.” But beware! The imperialist media has no reason to tell “objective” truths. Whether the people reporting on the war know it or not, they’re being used as tools to sell a story to the workers in the West. That story is one the imperialists want you to hear.
Send in the Clown
On 21 December 2022 Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the comedian-president of Ukraine, was flown on a U.S. Air Force jet out of his war-devastated country to beg for alms from his American masters in front of the U.S. Congress. Zelenskyy is the representative of the fascist-infiltrated government in Kiev and serves at the pleasure of a loose coalition of Banderite leaders — men who profess loyalty to the vision of the ultranationalist, antisemite, and murderer Stepan Bandera who organized mass executions during World War II.
All Support to Castillo!
José Pedro Castillo Terrones, the democratically elected, legitimate president of Peru, has been ousted by the right-reactionary wing of Peru’s ruling class. President Castillo, a former union leader and school teacher who stood as the candidate of Free Peru, a Marxist party, ran on the most progressive platform in the country’s history, and beat Keiko Fujimori, leader of the right-fascist and neoliberal Popular Force party, in the 2021 elections. Since those elections, every reform put forward by President Castillo’s progressive government has been obstructed by a reactionary-right opposition bloc in the country’s Congress. This obstructionism has earned the opposition-dominated Congress a staggering 10% approval rating from an increasingly disgusted public. Initially, Castillo attempted to reach conciliation with the moderate wing of the opposition; he governed as a moderate left-wing social democrat for 18 months, despite his radically progressive election platform and the clear mandate he received from his political base in Peru’s working classes and peasantry. From the start of his presidency, Castillo lacked the necessary revolutionary infrastructure to see through his ambitious plan. The Castillo government was unable to dislodge Peru’s entrenched political establishment, characterized by right-wing neoliberalism and anti-Indigenismo racism.
Zero-COVID and Mass Discontent: What’s Happening in China?
Why has the capitalist media gone to such lengths to demonize China’s zero-COVID approach?
Revolutionary History: Babeuf and the Conspiracy of Equals, 1796
A radical faction attempted to carry the French Revolution into an egalitarian utopia. Although they failed, their conspiracy would inspire revolutionaries for centuries to come, including Marx and Lenin.