The earthquake in Haiti and similar misfortunes are presented as unavoidable natural disasters. To some extent, this is true. But it ignores the consequences of the deliberate pursuit of profit at the expense of environmental protection. It is not a coincidence that the number of victims of recent disasters such as the Asian tsunami...
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Haiti – An Un-natural Disaster
Cuba’s wage system
Earlier this year, when in June the Cuban government, now under Fidel Castro’s brother Raul, announced a new system of wage payments, the Guardian (13 June) wrote that Cuba had “abandoned its egalitarian wages system”. This brought a response (20 June) from Helen Yaffe, author of Ermesto Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution:
“In reality,...
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Invasion of Dominica (1965)
On this day in 1965 the United States sent more than 22,000 troops to the Dominican Republic in order to prevent the establishment of what President Lyndon Johnson described as a ‘communist dictatorship’. Utter nonsense of course.
The Socialist Standard of June that year explains why:
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“In yet another flare-up in the endless round of minor...
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America’s Role in Haiti’s Hunger Riots
This article was recommended to us by a Haitian friend of the WSP. We reprint it for the information contained – the on the ground conditions as our contact in haiti confirms them. It doesn’t reflect the WSP policies.
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America’s Role in Haiti’s Hunger Riots
By Bill Quigley
Monday 21 April 2008
Riots in Haiti over explosive rises...
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