Socialist politics, a displaced feature of the international scene
La Via Campesina’s manifesto, political education in Africa, and mass action in Italy, South Korea and Puerto Rico
On August 6 and 9, people will commemorate the hundreds of thousands of Japanese people who died — crushed, vaporized, burned beyond recognition, poisoned by radiation — from the atomic bombs the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945
The Tokyo Games should be a warning to potential Olympic hosts everywhere. The 2020 Olympics are unfolding like the nightmare scenario so many medical officials predicted.
Afghan women arm, a new pink tide in Latin America, Canadians demand a reckoning, and more
Portside typically aims at reviewing books offering a radical, cogent POV. This is not the case for the book here, a political slapdash whose trade-promoted author justifies if not glorifies mass slaughter in promoting war aims and imperial ventures.
Violence and defiance in Palestine, the return of Austro-Marxism, and more reports and analysis from five continents
India, Malaysia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam — Reports on the left and working people across Asia
A Hong Kong union organizer speaks, shaky times for Nepal Communists, the political plot thickens in India, and more reports from Asia and hot spots worldwide
Taken together, or alone, the reasons offered in defense of the bomb do not justify the massacre of civilians. We debase ourselves, and the history of civilization, if we accept that Japanese atrocities warranted an American atrocity in reply.
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