We shall overcome...

Irina Malenko in Havana

Soon Russia will be as wide open to U.S. first strike as Ivanov's bald spot.

Mohammed Abu Arrar, 14, is caressed by a relative prior to burial. The boy was shot to death in the Gaza ghetto by Israeli soldiers, August 19, 2001.

Israel Shamir

Poster produced and distributed by OPOR, a comprador student organization financed and trained by Western imperialism

"We are going in an hungerstrike till death"

Mikhail Shmakov, the first strikebreaker of Russia.

Putin's Ten Blows. By Vyacheslav Tetyokin.It becomes clear that the intention to join NATO expressed by Mr. Putin in an offhand manner last year reflected a long-matured idea of a far deeper (than in Mr. Gorbachev's or Mr. Yeltsin's case) "integration into the world community". It fact the intention is to squeeze Russia into the Western economic, political and military system. Even as a junior partner. Even at the price of sacrificing independent foreign policy.

The State of Mind. By Israel Shamir. The train rode through Haifa, and I thought of hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of Americans, Jews and Christian Zionists, who lobby, pray, support and pay – no, not for the Jewish state built on the ruins of Palestine. It would be bad enough; but reality is worse. I thought of millions of Palestinians, rotting in refugee camps and jails, dispossessed, expelled – not by the monster of evil occupation and land grabbing, but by something worse – by a ghost.

12/07/01A Message to Troops, Would Be Troops, and Other Youth. By Jeff Paterson I might be like the youth who are going down to the recruiters now, if I hadn't spent those four years in the Marine Corps. Most of the time, my unit trained to fight a war against peasants struggling against "American interests" in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala. I saw dire poverty in the Philippines; U.S. government-sanctioned prostitution rings to service the U.S. armed forces in South Korea; and unbridled racism towards the peoples of Okinawa and Japan-where the standard response to a
child flashing us the two-finger "peace sign" was "yeaa, ha ha, two bombs little gook."

11/25/01 A New Russian Anecdote:

What is the difference between U.S.A. and Afganistan?

One -- is a savage terrorist state, governed by the illegitimate government--a group of gangsters who stay in power by violence--and populated by the blodthirsty fanatics who are ready to kill men, women, old people and children in any part of the world only because their views on life are slightly different from those held by these savages at a given moment.

Another -- is a small country in Central Asia.

Bravo, Alina!

Britain's Prince Charles is slapped on the face with a flower by an anti-war protester Alina Lebedeva, in Riga, Latvia Thursday Nov. 8, 2001. The incident happened at the Freedom Monument after the prince had laid a wreath to commemorate the Baltic state's independence. Alina, was led away by police saying that she was protesting against Latvia joining NATO and Britain's role in the bombing in Afghanistan. She faces up to 15 years in prison.

• 10/23/01 Help Russian Cops Defend Their Labor Rights! The unions of the MIA in their struggle against the exploiting class have established official fraternal links with the Federation of Workers Unions of Russia, “Defense of Labor”. The ruling bourgeoisie is terribly afraid of the alliance of the workers unions and the rank-and-file troops of the MIA, and it’s doing its best to disrupt it.
• 10/23/01 A Non-Western Voice. By Irina Malenko. What I feel after the 11th of September here in Ireland, is exclusion and discrimination. No, I am not a Muslim and I do not look much different from the Irish people. And yet, there is an invisible division line, sadly, created by the majority of the Irish people, perhaps, even not realizing it. It is their division between "us" and "them", "non-Westerners", on behalf of the "civilized" West.
• 10/18/01 OFFICIAL NOTE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA. There is something that should be clearly understood by everyone, and on which no one should entertain false illusions: in Cuba there is not and there never will be either panic or fear. This is the perfect atmosphere for serenity, cool-headed wisdom, integrity, dignity, and unlimited courage. 
• 10/17/01 Gallup Poll - World Opposes Military Action. A full 32 out of 35 countries (the US, Israel and India in opposition) favored a criminal justice response, rather than military action, in response to the terrorist attack on America.
• 10/9/01 Support the Hunger Strike of the Russian Airlines traffic Controllers! On the 10th of October Russian trade unions, including Siberian Labour Confederation, will begin their protest action against the new Russian labour code that is neglecting the rights of workers. The Russian government has been initiator of introduction of this new code.
• 10/7/01 On the Move. By Israel Shamir. Would Europe be an incidental victim of American fury, like an innocent bystander in a Western shoot-out? It appears to me that Europe is rather one of the real targets of the forthcoming offensive. It is not what the ordinary people of the United States wish, but they are not being asked.
• 10/6/01 Salute to Barbara! By Editorial Board.The daughter of a retired lieutenant colonel in the US Army, Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress on September 14th to vote against the bill to
  give Bush carte blanche powers to go to war however he saw fit. 420 House representatives and 98 senators voted YES and only one brave woman -- while denouncing the terrorist act and demanding justice for its victims -- refused to run with the lemmings as they headed off to war. Russian Left salutes you, Barbara.
• 10/6/01 Declassified Documents Confirm: U.S. Deliberately Poisoned Iraq's Water, Leading to Massive Deaths. By Tony Moran.
• 09/25/01 How U.S. destroyed progressive secular forces in Afghanistan. By Deirdre Griswold. Capitalism in this rotten age of U.S. imperialist conquest of the globe has degenerated so far from its revolutionary roots that it is now, to borrow a phrase from Henry Kissinger, to the right of the czar.
• 09/24/01 Remember Belgrad!
• 09/22/01 U.S. IMPERIALIST POLICIES: THE ROOTS OF TERRORISM WORLDWIDE. By Dave Silver. The immediate danger is that of the justification of a protracted war perhaps with tactical nuclear weapons against the masses of impoverished Afghanis which can only encourage more terrorist acts as well as the return of a McCarthyite and fascist-like police state in the U.S. where people with the "wrong" ethnic names and dress will be the main targets.
• 09/15/01 Why is NATO Decimating the Balkans and Trying to Force Milosevic to Surrender? By Jared Israel and Nico Varkevisser. If the Russians and other people of the former Soviet Union can regroup, achieve unity and create popular movements with a Milosevic-type policy of national unity based on social justice - a policy that defends the nation by mobilizing the overwhelming majority of people for social justice - if the Russian and other Soviet people can do this, they will not only be protecting themselves, they will once again be protecting the world, including the people of the U.S.
• 09/15/01 Letters to a Friend. By Irina Malenko ...They were not human beings, but just faceless numbers for the Westerners, including the majority of the Irish people - thanks to so-called "free" media who would never dare to publish on its pages or to show on its screens what Western "fight for democracy" (read: thick wallets!) is doing to the rest of the world.
• 09/15/01 FOUNDATION OF THE "SOLIDARITY- LUKASHENKO INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE" CISL-SLIC)   The American strategy in Europe of the East aims to isolate Russia, as Zbigniew Brezenzski exposes himself in his " Big chessboard ".  After Yugoslavia of Milosevic, the Belarus of President Lukashenko is the next objective of the State Department.  
• 09/13/01 Orient Express. By Israel Shamir. Like the Four Riders of the Apocalypse, the unknown kamikaze rode their giant crafts into the two visible symbols of American world domination, Wall Street and the Pentagon. They vanished in flames and smoke, and we do not yet know who they were. They could be practically anybody: American Nationalists, American Communists, American Fundamentalist Christians, American Anarchists, anybody who rejects the twin gods of the dollar and the M-16, who hates the stock market and interventions overseas, who dreams of America for Americans, who does not want to support the drive for world domination. They could be Native Americans returning to Manhattan, or Afro-Americans who still have not received compensation for slavery.
• 09/05/01 US TERRORISM IN BELARUS Amazing revelations have been made by the British daily “The Times”, which claims in an article on 2001.09.03 that the USA is following a policy in Belarus along the same lines as the support given to the “Contras” in Nicaragua in the 1980s.
• 08/29/01 Why is NATO Decimating the Balkans and Trying to Force Milosevic to Surrender? By Jared Israel. If the Russians and other people of the former Soviet Union can regroup, achieve unity and create popular movements with a Milosevic-type policy of national unity based on social justice - a policy that defends the nation by mobilizing the overwhelming majority of people for social justice - if the Russian and other Soviet people can do this, they will not only be protecting themselves, they will once again be protecting the world, including the people of the U.S.
• 08/24/01 Czechoslovakia, U.S. Imperialism and Socialist Cuba. By Dave Silver. The successful counterrevolution in the present day Czech Republic has come full circle.  Czechoslovakia, a recent dependent capitalist state is now in full collaboration with the imperialist super power to destabilize the socialist Republic of Cuba which provides an alternative model to oppressed, dominated and exploited peoples world wide.  
• 08/16/01 The Covert War Against Yugoslavia. By Gregory Elich.
• 08/15/01 Stem Sell Research and Development; Who Will Benefit? By Dave Silver.
• 08/14/01 Cornerstone of Violence. By Israel Shamir.
• 08/12/01Why "Human Rights Watch" Is Gunning for Macedonia. By Jared Israel
• 08/10/01 U.S. Jews, Israel and the Holocaust Industry. By Dave Silver.
• 08/09/01 Bigshots Bully Ukraine to Desert Macedonia.
• 08/09/01 Hindutva and Zionism: Comprador States of Pentagon, Inc. By Vijay Prashad.
• 08/01/01 Carlo's Way. By Mumia Abu-Jamal.
• 07/28/01Fascism in Genoa. By Starhawk.
• War Criminals: Real and Imagined. By Gregory Elich.
• 01/24/01 Fiesta of St Fermin. By Israel Shamir.
• Future Is Now. By Israel Shamir.
• 07/21/01 Crises in Ukraine and Belarus are masterminded in one place.
• 07/21/01Western foundations in Ukraine. By Kirill Frolov.
• 07/20/01 A POGROM IN BELGRADE by Jared Israel.
• 07/04/01 Reichstag Fire Trial, the Sequel. By Jared Israel.
• 06/ 29/01 URGENT APPEAL: PROTEST THE ILLEGAL ABDUCTION OF FORMER PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC AND REMIND THE WORLD OF THE REAL CRIMES COMMITTED BY NATO
• 06/22/01 Almost Last News from Yugoslavia.
• 06/18/01 Fr. Des Wilson: “Racism is just a manifestation of a much deeper problem: desperate humans need to hurt other people in order to feel good… ” by Irina Malenko.
• 06/08/01The Government of Russia is preparing to eliminate labor rights of citizens.  The critical moment in the struggle for the workers’ Labor Code has arrived.  Your support is urgently needed! 
• Ode to Farris, or Return of the Knight by Israel Shamir.
• From Soviet Dissident to Zionism and Imperialism by Dave Silver.
• 06/07/01 The Left in Europe and the Revolutionaries in Turkey Who Are Trying to Be Like The European Left.
• Economic Terrorism by Michel Chossudovsky.
• 06/06/01 Doubt and certainty by Israel Shamir
• 05/31/01 Serb Socialists Say 'Aid Promises' Are Sucker Bait.
• 05/31/01 Boris Kagarlitsky. The Continuing Class Struggle.
• 05/31/01 Vera Vratusa. Bitter Polish Experience.
• 05/25/01 Irina Malenko. Peacemakers, Warmongers…
• 05/7/01 Awake! Boycott Israeli Goods!
• 04/22/01 Irina Malenko.Russian Woman's Pride
• 04/20/01 Dave Silver. Neither Scholarly Nor Socialist: Reflections on the Socialist Scholars Conference April 2001.
• Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky. Serbian class structure, war for the minds, and imperialist penetration. (Russian trans. LR 9/01)
• 3/30/01 Will Mir Rise Again?
• 3/26/01The Case of the “New Revolutionary Alternative” (NRA)
• Letter of a Factory Intellectual.
• The Rulers and the Ruled. By Andrei Likhovod

• Class struggle is possible in human society, but not in the realm of shadows
  (From the editorial correspondence of Left.ru)

• Between Crisis and Reform.
  By Boris Karaglitsky translated by Mark Harris, 09 February, 2001