Venezuela Under Siege: What Should Progressives Do?
Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. Ever since Hugo Chávez became Venezuela’s president in 1999 and initiated the Bolivarian Revolution, the country has been under siege by the US. The aggression…
Venezuela: Don’t Blame The Victim
Roger D. Harris, Francisco Dominguez, and María Paez Victor, Popular Resistance. “Nothing is easier than to be idealistic on behalf of others.” Karl Marx, 1858 Under cover of night, the…
After The US Bombing, A Venezuelan Community Under Siege Speaks
Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance Above photo: Welcome to the socialist city of Tiuna. All photos by Roger D. Harris. The large-scale US airstrike on Venezuela was unprecedented in modern…
Why Cuba Hasn’t Adjusted to US Sanctions After Six Decades
The ever-tightening US blockade is designed to ensure that socialism does not succeed; to strangle in the cradle all possible alternatives to the established imperial order.
Latin America and the Caribbean Stand With Palestine: Israel Viewed as a US Proxy
By Roger D Harris / Pressenza The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, with a few notable exceptions, have been critical of Israel’s ongoing campaign of genocide in Gaza.…
Nostalgia for the Cuban Missile Crisis
By Roger Harris / CounterPunch Sixty years ago, a crowd of us young people anxiously massed around a black-and-white TV in my college student union building. The US and the…