Portside

Kissinger Does His Best to Do His Worst (1970), Rubin “Hurricane” Carter Exonerated (1985), Four Months of Broad-Daylight Treason (1860), CIA Outlaws in Charge (2005), United Fruit Plays for Keeps (1950), 500 Years Too Many for Angola (1975)

A better world’s in birth

The future of resistance to Israel

The historical record documents the darker side of Kissinger’s controversial tenure in power: his role in the overthrow of democracy and the rise of dictatorship in Chile; disdain for human rights; support for dirty, and even genocidal, wars abroad..

Rage in Peru and Iran, and new takes on socialism

What happened to Angola, and other reports from a burning world

I have lived it and I have suffered through it and I know that when people say “get in line,” there is no line. I am here to try to change the system so that people have a pathway and if they choose to become a citizen, they can.

Remembering Patrice Lumumba, Marielle Franco and Chico Mendes, and news of new year struggles in four continents

An exhibition of Cuban propaganda posters and magazines in London shows the support Fidel Castro gave to African liberation movements during the Cold War. The works were produced by 33 designers, many of them women.

Albert Woodfox’s conviction for the 1972 murder of a prison guard, Brent Miller, has been overturned several times, yet he has remained in prison. The state had planned to mount a third trial against him, even though all of the witnesses to the murder have since died. Wallace will now go free Friday because of a plea deal with the state.