New Mexican Ambassador will Continue the Country’s Subordination to the U.S.

On September 3, Miguel Basáñez Ebergenyi was confirmed as Mexico’s new ambassador in the US, with the blessing of US president Barack Obama. His appointment was proposed by Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto after the position had been vacant for 6 months.

Socialism and LGBT Liberation

The Left Voice presents an interview with Sherry Wolf, an activist, public speaker, and writer from Brooklyn, NY. She is an associate editor for the International Socialist Review and author of Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics and Theory of LGBT Liberation.

The Left and the Working Class: is it possible to reconstruct the strategic dialogue?

The organizing taking place among precarious sectors of the U.S. working class is generating accommodations on the part of a discredited union bureaucracy. For the first time in decades, left groups are part of the debate.

Keys of the nuclear agreement between the United States and Iran

The re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and Iran, interrupted since the 1979 revolution, is making the geopolitical structure that dominated the Middle East for almost four decades, creak.

From the Podemos hypothesis to the test of power

Podemos was born one and a half years ago. It presented itself as something new, a participatory movement “open to all citizens”. Referring to the movement of the Spanish “indignados” (the ‘indignant’ or ‘outraged’) that emerged on May 15, 2011, Pablo Iglesias at the time announced that, “We said in the plazas that it can be done and we are saying today that we can do it”.

In the 2016 U.S. Elections, money reigns

Enormous contributions in the millions feed the electoral campaigns of of top U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush. Yet both are losing popularity among voters.

The US removes Cuba from the list of countries that sponsor terrorism

The US President, Barack Obama, had announced on April 14 that he would take Cuba off the list of countries sponsoring terrorism. A 45-day process of review, that ended this Friday, with a formal announcement from the State Department.

New US aggression against Venezuela

Down with the interference of imperialism New US aggression against Venezuela The statement of the US President, Barack Obama, that Venezuela is a “threat to the safety of the United States,” is a leap in the aggressive actions by imperialism against the Latin American country. New United States aggression against Venezuela The US statements and […]

Greece: Campaign for the cancellation of debt and opposition to austerity plans

Campaign for the cancellation of debt and opposition to austerity plans The “troika” of the European Commission, European Central Bank and the IMF are putting pressure on the government of Greece, threatening to switch off their funding so that the Greek government submits to the “troika’s” programs of debt repayment and structural adjustment. These programs, […]

The US intervention in Syria and Iraq

Islamic State The US intervention in Syria and Iraq The events of the Kurdish city of Kobani constitute an episode of the war launched by Obama against the Islamic State (IS); he intends to advance on that city located in northern Syria, near the border with Turkey. The Turkish government, an historic enemy of the […]