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The Plight of Iraq’s Progressive Labor Movement
Written by Dan Read   
Abdelhussein Saddam
Abdelhussein Saddam
Like many people who lived under the Baathist dictatorship, Abdelhussein Saddam passionately yearned for change. Born in 1957 in Basra, Saddam became known as a progressive thinker, for which he was imprisoned for two years by state security forces. When the US/UK coalition invaded Iraq in 2003, he understood that the future lay within Iraq’s ability to organize itself independently – free of both the gun-toting hypocrisy of western imperialism and the machinations of political Islam.
The Third World in the 20th Century: Vijay Prashad Interview
Written by Political Affairs   
Vijay PrashadThe author talks about the origins of his book, The Darker Nations, the Third World Project, anti-imperialist movements, Hugo Chavez and lessons for the future.
Healthcare in Africa: Lesotho’s Youth Struggle to Survive
Written by Nash Riggins   

Credit: WHO/UNAIDS/P. Virot
AIDS Orphans in Lesotho
I live in a US town of around 80,000 people. Access to healthcare has never been a major issue here. We have 30 pediatricians serving the 15,000 youth in the area. On the other hand, in the small African nation of Lesotho, there are only six pediatricians to care for the country’s 800,000 children.

Reflections on the US Social Forum: 2007 and After
Written by Michael Albert   
Photo from Indymedia.usAt the US Social Forum 2007, in the city that hosts CNN and Coke, in hotel venues where debutantes ironically were on parade, the progressive community stood tall and steadfast, proud and capable. The forum’s over 900 sessions were truly diverse in those presenting and those attending. Indeed, I cannot remember - going all the way back to an also highly diverse Black Panther Party Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia in September 1970 - any other large leftist event in the U.S. as consistently multi-cultural as USSF 2007.
The U.S. 'War on Drugs' Is an Assault on South America’s Poorest
Written by Benjamin Dangl   
Photo by Benjamin Dangl
Leonilda Zurita Drying Coca
For many farmers in Bolivia, the alternative to growing coca leaves is unemployment and hunger. "We need to take care of our coca as if it were a child so that the whole family can survive," coca farmer Leonilda Zurita said. "The coca gives us food. It takes care of our education and healthcare because here education and healthcare are not free."
Burma: Love and Kindness Must Win Over Everything
Written by Rene Wadlow   
ImageThe determination of Burma's Buddhist monks to bring about change non-violently in their country has awakened a civilian population long held in fear by the governing military. The monks are marching behind large banners saying "Love and Kindness must win over everything." Demonstrations have been growing in city after city as the monks have taken the leadership of protests which began in early September against the sudden rise in fuel, food, and transportation costs.
War Crimes in Somalia, Blame the White House
Written by Sam Urquhart   
 Somalian insurgent forces
Somalian insurgent forces
Somalia is the forgotten front in the “War on Terror.” Americans are rarely told anything about what goes on there, who the actors are and, more importantly, the reasons behind conflict in the Horn of Africa. Hence it is not surprising that there has been no concerted activist challenge to U.S. support for Ethiopia’s war in Somalia, but such a challenge is urgently required.
 
Hungary: Autumn of Discontent
Written by John Horvath   
Ferenc Gyurcsány
Ferenc Gyurcsány
Tensions in Hungary still remain high as a result of last year's lies. It has been one year since audio tapes were leaked in which the prime minister of Hungary, Ferenc Gyurcsany, admitted to lying day and night in order to seize power for power's sake.
A People’s History of Congo’s Jean-Pierre Bemba
Written by keith harmon snow   

Bemba Photo from www.jornaldigital.comWho is Jean-Pierre Bemba and how did he rise to power in the heart of darkness? Did Bemba order his rebel soldiers to cannibalize pygmies? What is Bemba’s relationship to the competitors of George W. Bush and the friends of Bill Clinton? How is Bemba linked to blood diamonds in Africa and mercenary armies in Iraq? Why have troops from Uganda recently re-invaded Congo and why have the United Nations and international press been silent about it? A look at Bemba's infamous history answers these questions and more.

An Argument for Withdrawal of All Troops from Iraq
Written by Jim Miles   
ImageWith George Bush having General Petraeus tell him that success is possible in Iraq --"although doing so will be neither quick nor easy" -- it would appear that the U.S. is settling in for the long haul in Iraq.  This situation makes Anthony Arnove’s second edition of Iraq – The Logic of Withdrawal, very timely.
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