World

Pence exposed as part of Manafort’s right-wing trans-atlantic conspiracy

September 17, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

The employees – and clients – of uber-lobbyist Paul Manafort show the extent of right-wing ties stretching across the Atlantic Ocean.

Violence and threats of more: Brazil’s electoral drama gets more bizarre

September 13, 2018 By Emile Schepers

After a far-right candidate is stabbed, his VP running mate threatens to bring out the military. Meanwhile, with Lula in jail, the left has to bring in a substitute candidate of its own.

Portuguese Communists chart a ‘patriotic politics of the left’

September 11, 2018 By C.J. Atkins

Portugal stood up to capitalist austerity—and won.

Lessons from Chile: The other September 11th

September 11, 2018 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

This article originally appeared in People’s World on September 12, 2014. September 11 was also a day of terror—in Chile in 1973. “I’ve been through this before,” Chilean author Ariel Dorfman wrote of the 2001 U....

Cuba to UN: End the blockade!

September 10, 2018 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Cuba’s government on August 24 released a 59-page report on adverse effects of the U.S. economic blockade. Its authors maintain, “The blockade … against Cuba constitutes the principal obstacle to the development of all potentials of...