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Review: Jean-Luc Godard’s “La Chinoise” (The Chinese)
Film Synopsis La Chinoise follows five young people in late 1960’s France who form a revolutionary Maoist organization and live together in a loft. They name their organization “Aden Arabie” (English: Aden, Arabia), named after a novel by French writer and communist Paul Nizan. Simultaneously a documentary film crew is filming and interviewing them, documenting…
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Israel Threatens “Unilateral Steps” if UN Recognizes Palestinian State
Israel informed the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council last week, as well as several other prominent European Union countries, that if the Palestinian Authority persists in its efforts to gain recognition in September as a state within the 1967 borders, Israel would respond with a series of unilateral steps of its own.…
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Report on the Anti-War Protest in Atlanta
On the afternoon of the 19th of March, 2011, determined people from all walks of life gathered together at the Midtown Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia to protest the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and now Libya. Represented were many groups from the workers movement such the UAW, SWP, International Action Center, Architects and Engineers Union and…
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The Deindustrialization of Detroit
Detroit lost 25% of its population in the last decade Detroit, which reached a population peak of 1.85 million residents in 1950, was once the fourth-largest city in the U.S. Detroit registered the largest population decrease among all United States cities over a 10-year period. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s report released Tuesday, Detroit’s…
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Murderer of the Miners: Don Blankenship & Massey Energy
There are those who think of the trade union struggle as the workers’ fight for better wages and benefits, but there are times when this struggle is a matter of life and death. The mining industry is a perfect example of this axiom. Mining, in both underground and open pit mines, is one of the…
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Photos show US soldiers in Afghanistan posing with dead civilians
The face of Jeremy Morlock, a young US soldier, grins at the camera, his hand holding up the head of the dead and bloodied youth he and his colleagues have just killed in an act military prosecutors say was premeditated murder. Moments before the picture was taken in January last year, the unsuspecting victim had…
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Report: Hundreds of British SAS Soldiers Were Operating in Libya for Weeks
The Sunday Mirror reported that British operatives had been active in Libya for weeks before the current air war: Hundreds of British SAS soldiers have been operating with rebel groups inside Libya for three weeks, the Sunday Mirror can reveal today. Two special forces units, nicknamed “Smash” teams for their destructive ability, are hunting Colonel…
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Operation Odyssey Dawn: Libya to get the “Kosovo Treatment”
Another “Humanitarian Bombing” – First Yugoslavia, Now Libya President Barack Obama has now made the exact same speech Bill Clinton made on network news back in 1999 – promising “no ground forces” in the next American-led war of aggression. U.N. and U.S. actions against Moammar Gaddafi’s Libya are signs of imperialist designs for Libya, including…
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Stop the U.S. War Against Libya and Bahrain!
The International Action Center calls on all anti-war and social justice activists to call Emergency Response STOP THE U.S. WAR AGAINST LIBYA AND BAHRAIN actions in their areas on Friday, March 18 or Saturday, March 19, or to mobilize support for any already existing anti-war demonstrations called to mark the anniversary of the Iraq War,…
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Imperialists Seek War With Libya
From The Nation: The UN Security Council on Thursday authorised the use of “all necessary measures” to protect civilians in Libya, paving the way for air and naval attacks against the forces of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as he vowed to overrun the rebel-controlled city of Benghazi. However, according to AFP, Libya announced an immediate ceasefire…
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