World

Under siege: Socialist Venezuela pushes back against U.S. and its allies

November 22, 2017 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

The Maduro government is holding on, despite fearsome economic challenges and an opposition fortified by a combative business class and U.S. support.

Chile elections: Left-center forces face uphill battle in runoff

November 21, 2017 By Emile Schepers

If the left can unite behind one candidate, win over centrist voters, and increase turnout, they can still win. But they have less than a month to do it.

Lessons from Zimbabwe

November 20, 2017 By Special to People’s World

If and when Mugabe departs, the fundamental challenges facing the Zimbabwean revolution and its people will remain: overcoming the colonial legacy and transforming the economy.

Invasion outsourcing? U.S. uses disaster pretext for S. America military intrusion

November 17, 2017 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Analyst: "The object of the U.S. Army and that too of Brazil, Peru, and Colombia is to create a prepared position and to leave a base available at any time for an intervention...in Venezuela and Bolivia.”

Seeing socialist Cuba with a critical eye

November 16, 2017 By W. Scott Poole

I sought to experience Cuba in a way that would absolve me of the charge of red romanticism. What I found instead was a people bound together by a Cuban identity forged by the revolution.