(2022-02-11). How Nicaragua Fights Poverty & Empowers Women Through the Ministry of Family Economy (Interview). orinocotribune.com In Managua, Nicaragua, we interviewed Minister Justa Pérez of the Ministry of Family, Community, Cooperative and Associative Economy, known as MEFCCA. | Could you start us off with a summary of what MEFCCA does to stimulate, develop and promote the popular economy? | With pleasure, greetings. I would like to tell you that the Ministry of Family Economy arose as part of the strategy of the Sandinista government in the fight against poverty. When Comandante Daniel took office in 2007, he decided to launch a National Plan for Human Development in which a number of public policies and a number of programs and projec…
(2022-02-10). The Left Has Culture, but the World Still Belongs to the Banks. dissidentvoice.org 
Greta Acosta Reyes (Cuba), Women Who Fight, 2020. '[T]here is great intellectual poverty on the part of the right wing', Héctor Béjar says in our latest dossier, A Map of Latin America's Present: An Interview with Héctor Béjar (February 2022). 'There is a lack of right-wing intellectuals everywhere'. Béjar speaks with a great deal of authority on …
(2022-02-10). San José protests against U.S. war on Russia. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – On Saturday, February 5, anti-war protesters gathered in front of San José's City Hall to demand an end to imperial saber rattling in eastern Europe. Speakers from CODEPINK, Freedom Road Socialism (FRSO), National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, Party for Socialism and Liberation, and the El Barrio Defense Committee gathered a crowd of 30 onlookers while calling for end to the war drive against Russia. | Mike Paradela of FRSO said "We called the protest because what the U.S. government is doing is not good for working people. NATO does not benefit working people, it began as an al…
(2022-02-10). French administrative court refuses to order expulsion of Georges Abdallah: Continue the struggle for freedom! samidoun.net 
We republish the following statement of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra in response to the ruling of a French administrative court, which rejected a legal request to order the expulsion of Georges Abdallah from France to Lebanon. Abdallah, a Lebanese Arab Communist struggler for Palestine, has been imprisoned in France for over 37 years. The struggle …