honduras: mass movement to defeat “pinocheletti”
by Roberto Ramírez The coup d’état against president Manuel “Mel” Zelaya is first of all a sign of how the global crisis has opened up a new political situation across the world. Last year, at the...
View Articlelatin america’s future is being played out in honduras
Roberto Sáenz writes of a new situation of crisis, reactionary offensives, polarisation and growing popular resistance in the region, as exemplified by the recent military coup against Honduras’s...
View Articleyes, chris ann, obama is punking us
Ernie Haberkern writes on the row over healthcare reform in the USA In a sense, the right wing tub-thumpers organized by the pharmaceutical and insurance companies through media hysterics like Russ...
View Articlehonduras: zelaya and coup régime make peace deal
On 28th June the centre-left president of Honduras Manuel ‘Mel’ Zelaya was overthrown by the military and forced into exile. This was followed by months of civil disobedience which raised wider...
View Articlehonduras: democracy has not been restored
An article by Socialismo o Barbarie‘s Honduran section on the peace accord signed by centre-left president Manuel “Mel” Zelaya with the régime established by Roberto Micheletti after a military coup...
View Articlefacing hopeless climate macropolitics, it’s time for direct action
a guest article for The Commune by Patrick Bond In the run-up to the Copenhagen Summit from 7-18 December, the October-November Bangkok and Barcelona negotiations of Kyoto Protocol Conference of...
View Articlehonduras elections after the coup: for an active boycott
on the elections in Honduras, taking place six months after a military coup against centre-left president Manuel “Mel” Zelaya – by José Luis Rojo What was bound to happen all along has now...
View Articlemore fuel on the fire: the ‘war on terror’ in afghanistan
An interview with a member of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, in the wake of Barack Obama’s plan to send 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan. The discussion looks at the role...
View Articlebarack obama’s first year in charge
by Ernie Haberkern from Berkeley, California The enormous enthusiasm that the election of the bright, well-spoken, African American woke in the liberal left is fading fast. Of course, much of that...
View Articleanger over obama healthcare bill creates uncertain future
Jane Slaughter looks at the US healthcare debate and the Democrats’ defeat in this week’s Massachusetts senate vote (from Labor Notes) A Massachusetts local union president called it before the January...
View Articlesolidarity with the people of haiti – US troops out!
by Claudio Testa Socialismo o Barbarie Much of the media has portrayed Haitians "looting" - the US has intervened to "restore order" Although UN troops have been occupying the country for six years,...
View Articlewhat the TV doesn’t tell us about haiti
by Claudio Testa Socialismo o Barbarie The world’s TV is showing, as we might expect, a false picture of reality. In the case of Haiti, this is all the more outrageous given the circumstances. With...
View Articlecrisis ploughs on in united states
by Dennis Marcucci from Philadelphia Worst than expected economic reports and job cut announcements show that the prospects for working people in the USA and around the world are going to worsen. After...
View Articleobamacare: the nuns strike back
by Ernie Haberkern Berkeley, California The Health Care Reform bill has finally made it through the archaic legislative labyrinth our slave-owning founding fathers left us. Our modern corporate...
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