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Statement by PCR Brazil on events in that country
Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians, mostly young people, are in the streets to demand the reduction of the absurd buses fares and a free pass. Public transport in our country is of poor quality, though it is one of the most expensive in the world. So 37 million Brazilians are forced to walk because they…
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Manitoba First Nations serve eviction notices to mining companies
Two Manitoba First Nations are serving eviction notices to mining companies they say are operating illegally on their land. A delegation from Red Sucker Lake First Nation descended on the work camp of Mega Precious Metals Inc., a mineral exploration company, to stop working and vacate the land immediately. Mathias Colomb First Nation (MCCN) issued a similar…
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Illicit financial flows have made Africa ‘a net creditor to the world’
by Mark Tran Report challenges traditional thinking that the west is pouring money into Africa through aid without receiving much in return Africa lost up to $1.4tn in illicit financial flows in 1980-2009, far exceeding money coming in over the same period and seriously undermining the continent’s development, a report said on Wednesday. Illicit financial flows…
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The Wonderful American World of Informers and Agents Provocateurs
by Todd Gitlin and Tom Engelhardt Back in the early 1970s, I worked for Pacific News Service (PNS), a small antiwar media outfit that operated out of the Bay Area Institute (BAI), a progressive think tank in San Francisco. The first story I ever wrote for PNS came about because an upset U.S. Air Force…
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Chinese Investors Pursue U.S. Property Deals
By JULIE CRESWELL First, it was the Japanese. Moneymen from Tokyo blew into the United States to buy famous pieces of the American landscape, from Rockefeller Center in New York to the Pebble Beach Golf Links in California. Now, about a quarter-century later, another set of deep-pocketed foreign buyers is pushing ever deeper into United States…
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The mass protests in Brazil and the crisis of revolutionary leadership
Over the past week, Brazil has witnessed its largest protests since the end of the military dictatorship in 1985. This eruption of mass struggles has exposed, above all, the crisis of revolutionary leadership in the working class. The initial trigger for the escalating protests was an increase in bus fares, which was subsequently rolled back…
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U.S. right to arm Syrian rebels, says Israeli president
By Crispian Balmer JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli President Shimon Peres has thrown his weight behind U.S. plans to arm Syrian rebels, shrugging off fears the weapons could be turned on Israel and exacerbate the conflict. In a wide-ranging interview with Reuters before his 90th birthday, Peres dismissed the idea that Israel could launch a unilateral…
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Philadelphia Closes 23 Schools, New $400 Million Prison Being Built
By Michael Allen Philadelphia officials are closing almost two dozen schools and decimating the budgets of the remaining schools under a so-called “doomsday” education plan. However, amid all these cuts for education, the state of Pennsylvania is building a new $400 million prison for Philadelphia. Pennsylvania’s School Reform Commission voted on March 7 to close 23…
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Statement of Eduardo Artes, First Secretary of the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) on the demonstrations in Brazil
DISCONTENT IN BRAZIL Eduardo Artes First Secretary of the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) PC (AP) June 21, 2013 General Aspects The media shows us large demonstrations, bonfires and confrontations in Brazil. These are caused by the popular discontent; rejecting announced increases in public transport fares — the effects of capitalist politics in its neoliberal…
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Nearly 300 Nike Clothing Makers Fired After Strikes in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, June 11 (Reuters) – Nearly 300 Cambodian garment workers who produce clothing for U.S sportswear company Nike have been dismissed for taking part in strikes seeking higher pay that turned violent, according to their union and dismissal notices. Low-cost labour has attracted Western brands to the Southeast Asian country and garments now account…
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