Left Review Online May 24, 2021
Recently some Western countries have been insisting that the “north Korean human rights issue” should be treated by the United Nations Security Council. In retrospect, the UNSC discussed the DPRK’s “human rights issue” and passed “human rights resolutions” against it every year from 2014. However, since 2018 it...more
Turning a blind eye to its nature as terrorist group and attempting to whitewash its ties with al-Qaeda, the US' double standards on anti-terrorism will backfire, analysts warned in referring to CNN's latest report on exonerating the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) terrorist group. By citing some former...more
The grave epidemic situation in India, the world's largest vaccine producer, the WHO's approval of Chinese vaccines for emergency use, lingering questions on whether the US can really deliver its promise to provide vaccines to the world, all these have led to a widely acknowledged situation that China...more
The UN Security Council (UNSC), with China as the president for May, held an open debate on Sunday to discuss the Palestine-Israel conflict in the Gaza Strip, which has caused more than 180 deaths and more than 1,000 wounded on both sides so far. Chinese State Councilor and...more
When the US says it will bring democracy to other countries, what those countries eventually get are explosions and civil wars - many Chinese people think and say so following the latest bombing in Afghanistan. The bomb attacks outside a school in the Afghan capital Kabul Saturday evening...more
The Copenhagen Democracy Summit 2021 is scheduled for Monday and Tuesday. The summit comes as US President Joe Biden "prepares a global summit for democracy later this year," reads the official website of the Alliance of Democracies Foundation, a Denmark-based nonprofit organization, which is the organizer of the...more
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pointed his finger at Hong Kong affairs again on Friday. He raised a very ridiculous request on Twitter demanding "all those imprisoned for nonviolent exercise of guaranteed freedoms should be freed immediately." We cannot help but want to ask Mr Blinken: Do...more
Kathmandu. The International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) along with its member organizations, country chapters, and allied networks have called for urgent international solidarity with the people of Colombia who are currently suffering from massacres, violent police brutality, arrests and disappearances over mass demonstrations against the government’s tax,...more
Cheer of excitement and joy erupted from the crowds gathered outside the Government Center in downtown Minneapolis, when the judge read out the verdict from the jury, finding that Derek Chauvin, the police officer who killed George Floyd with his knees, was guilty of murder and manslaughter. Celebration...more
The majority of Americans say they approve of US President Joe Biden's job performance near his first 100 days in office, according to US media, and Chinese experts also weighed in on Biden's performance from China's perspective, saying that Biden's efforts on fixing ties with not only China,...more
Under tremendous pressure, the US, which has remained silent in face of the unprecedented humanitarian crisis in India, an important partner to Washington's Indo-Pacific strategy, over the weekend, finally responded positively, pledging medical aid such as raw materials for vaccines and oxygen concentrators. Such a U-turn in attitude...more
Kathmandu. Fernando Gonzalez, the president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), appealed to the people of goodwill around the world to condemn the US blockade against Cuba on Friday. Speaking at a virtual forum on International Workers' Day, Gonzalez recalled that the US blockade...more
Kathmandu. The World Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba, hosted by the Cuban Workers Federation (CTC by its Spanish acronym) and the Cuban Friendship Institute (ICAP by its Spanish acronym), began today with the virtual participation of friends and trade unionists from all over the world. In his opening...more
Kathmandu. Communist Party of USA (CPUSA) has issued an official statement on the occasion of International Workers' Day (May Day) 2021. The Full text of the CPUSA statement reads as: We struggle for the right to be human. To the ruling class, we are units of labor-power endowed...more
Cuba is a country with a long history of struggle against colonialism and imperialism. Cuba is a land of Carlos Manual de Cespedes, who fought to liberate the Cuban Soil. Cuba is also the land of great hero Jose Marti, who envisioned the Cuban independence and sacrificed his...more