Conflict




Shaking Hands with Fidel Castro

By Nick Estes The State Department’s recent report alleging Cuba’s support for left-wing “terrorism” in the United States signals a chilling escalation, as the Trump administration draws up enemy lists for a revived Red Scare….



The Persian Gulf Oil Crisis

Is a Food Crisis Commentary by Raj Patel When the Strait of Hormuz closes, here’s what happens: Energy prices spike immediately. Fertilizer prices follow. Reduced harvests come a season later. Food price inflation—at the gas…



Bolivia’s General Strike

Against Right-Wing Regime By Olivia Arigho-Stiles “For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land,” Frantz Fanon wrote in The Wretched of the Earth: “the land…



Yaoundé Declaration

The WTO and Free Trade Cause Hunger, Poverty and Inequality By La Via Campesina A new trade framework based on food sovereignty is urgent and necessary! For nearly thirty years the establishment of the World…