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Being a revolutionary is not a crime: Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

Left Review Online August 25, 2020

Being a revolutionary is not a crime: Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

On Tuesday, 28 July, 10 Turkish communists were convicted in a German court as large crowds of over 500 people demonstrated outside to express strong solidarity with the activists, accused of supporting the TKP/ML (Turkish Communist Party – Marxist-Leninist) While the TKP/ML is labeled a “terrorist” organization by...More

Justice for Zara Alvarez and Ka Randy Echanis!

Left Review Online August 25, 2020

Justice for Zara Alvarez and Ka Randy Echanis!

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network joins the people’s movement of the Philippines and international voices of solidarity in demanding justice for the murder of Zara Alvarez, a human rights activist, paralegal and a member of the Negros Integrated Health Program. She was shot down in the street in...More

Kim Jong Un and his proactive leadership during the recent flood in DPRK – KAWU

Left Review Online August 25, 2020

Kim Jong Un and his proactive leadership during the recent flood in DPRK – KAWU

Recently in our country, several areas including Kangwon Province, North and South Hwanghae Provinces and Kaesong City suffered severe damage due to disastrous heavy rains and floods. More than 730 single-floored houses and 600-odd hectares of rice field were inundated and 179 blocks of dwelling houses were destroyed...More

The UAE-Israel accord and betrayal of Palestine

Balram Banskota August 24, 2020

The UAE-Israel accord and betrayal of Palestine

The Israel–United Arab Emirates peace agreement, or the Abraham Accord, was agreed by Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on August 13, 2020. The UAE last week became the first Gulf state to normalize relations with Israel, in a US - as a broker in the accord...More

Meng’s lawyers request Canadian court to release secretly-kept information

GT staff reporters August 24, 2020

Meng’s lawyers request Canadian court to release secretly-kept information

Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, is asking the B.C. Supreme Court to order the release of more secretly-kept information related to her arrest at Vancouver airport in 2018 - which observers said that would be key for Meng's extradition case and decisive whether...More

Japan makes perilous gamble by coordinating with US strategy

Song Zhongping August 24, 2020

Japan makes perilous gamble by coordinating with US strategy

Seventy-five years ago, Japan was defeated in World War II and was hence "completely disarmed and demilitarized." Since then, the US has been using Japan's pacifist constitution to control the island nation. The pacifist constitution was originally intended to allow other countries to keep track of Japan and...More

Kim Jong Un: Beloved Leader of the Korean People

Left Review Online August 24, 2020

Kim Jong Un: Beloved Leader of the Korean People

Kim Jong Un: Attractive Leader Many people around the world are unstinting in their praise of Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, calling him a man to whom everyone cannot but be attracted. Beloved Leader of the People...More

China and the prospects for Latin American recovery

Jorge Heine August 23, 2020

China and the prospects for Latin American recovery

The 3rd China-LAC Foreign Ministers Forum is not due until January of 2021. But in July, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi co-hosted with Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, the pro tempore chair of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), a teleconference with...More

Tibetan livelihood better off relocated from barren land with help of the government

Xie Wenting August 23, 2020

Tibetan livelihood better off relocated from barren land with help of the government

Jiaqu could barely speak any Putonghua, the standard Chinese national language, but he was eager to share with the Global Times reporter his excitement and gratitude for moving to his current home. "I never dreamed that I would one day live in such a nice home," Jiaqu said...More

ANPFa strongly condemns the brutal assassination of “Ka Randy”

Left Review Online August 22, 2020

ANPFa strongly condemns the brutal assassination of “Ka Randy”

Kathmandu. All Nepal Peasants' Federation (ANPFa), the largest peasants' federation of Nepal, has strongly condemned the brutal assassination of the Filipino peasant leader and peace activist Randall "Ka Randy" Echanis. Issuing a statement, All Nepal Peasants' Federation (ANPFa) has said that, "All Nepal Peasants' Federation (ANPFa) strongly condemns the...More

Party members play leading role in building new homes on the plateau

Xie Wenting in Nagqu August 21, 2020

Party members play leading role in building new homes on the plateau

"If you meet any problems, go find Party members." This is a common saying in Duoerge village in Nagqu, Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. In the arduous fight against poverty, Party members in the village are mobilized to play the leading role and they showed the spirits of...More

New US rules against Huawei draw backlash

GT staff reporters August 21, 2020

New US rules against Huawei draw backlash

The US government's latest crackdown on chip supplies for Huawei Technologies Co sparked widespread backlash from Chinese officials and industry leaders on Tuesday, underscoring the force of mounting opposition against an increasingly erratic US administration whose reckless words and deeds could cause deep disruptions and losses for global...More

Trump’s radical China policy irritates ordinary Americans – Xin Qiang

Yu Jincui August 20, 2020

Trump’s radical China policy irritates ordinary Americans – Xin Qiang

The latest figures from a July 30-August 12 Gallup survey of 1,031 US adults show that 41 percent of the polled approve of US President Donald Trump's handling of foreign affairs, which is down from 48 percent in early February. Roughly 57 percent disapprove of the president's handling...More

China’s food supply gap shouldn’t be misread

Li Guoxiang August 20, 2020

China’s food supply gap shouldn’t be misread

After China's leading government think tank the China Academy of Social Sciences published its Rural Development Report (2020) on Monday, a number of media outlets have misread the "food supply gap" it mentions. In actual fact, an appropriate domestic supply gap can be made up by imports and...More

WFTU campaigns for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for the Cuban doctors

Left Review Online August 20, 2020

WFTU campaigns for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for the Cuban doctors

Kathmandu. The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) campaigns for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade, which mobilizes the Cuban Doctors in the service of poor and needy people in other countries without any self-interest. The global network of the Trade Unions all over...More