Scrambling to contain the Arab Spring, the same Western powers who armed Libyan dictator Gaddafi are now pretending to help the Libyan people. But foreign intervention is undermining the revolution.more
After the Cold War, NATO has become Western imperialism's way of competing for resources with emerging rivals, to the detriment of the nations they pretend to help.more
the picture is not entirely bleak. A number of important victories in the fight to defend civil liberties have helped improve the terrain for future struggles. The importance of these victories should not be underestimated, especially in light of the difficult conditions in which they were won.more
Ten years after the launch of the - war on terror," James Clark examines the failure of US imperialism to achieve its aims in Central Asia and the Middle East, and the prospects for resistance in the Arab Spring.more
The movement on both sides of the Canada/US border to stop the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline can measure its strength by the massive, multi-million dollar corporate ad campaign designed to sell the public on the project.more
Indigenous resistance defending Oka and defeating Meech Lake gave rise to sweeping changes recommended by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoplesmore
For decades the West has maintained control of the oil-rich Middle East by arming Israeli apartheid and Arab dictatorships; it has denounced Palestinian resistance while preaching - peace process" negotiations with an increasingly complicit Palestinian Authority. But the Arab Spring is throwing this imperial structure into crisis.more
It is not, as the judges perceived, the politics of the elite, but the politics of mass struggle among workers in common cause in Quebec and English Canada that will be decisive.more