By J Nastranis NEW YORK (IDN) – Nearly three months after the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in its 2017 Annual Report warned about the deteriorating state of health across the agency’s five areas of operation – Jordan, Lebanon, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Gaza, and […]
Guevara and Marx: Critical Remake of an Old Film – 9
By Roberto Massari* This is the ninth of a nine-part series. Read Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. BOLSENA, Italy (IDN) – FADE-OUT … Scene 9[ Vallegrande, October 9, 2017] The scene is composite, polychrome and multi-sound. On the large clearing for what in the past was to become the Vallegrande […]
Guevara and Marx: Critical Remake of an Old Film – 8
By Roberto Massari* This is the eighth of a nine-part series. Read Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. BOLSENA, Italy (IDN) – MARXIST STORY: Scene 8 [Prague, 1966] At this point we must devote attention to this polemic, trying first of all to imagine the scene: after the lengthy confinement in the […]
Guevara and Marx: Critical Remake of an Old Film – 7
By Roberto Massari* This is the seventh of a nine-part series. Read Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. BOLSENA, Italy (IDN) – HERESY STORY: Scene 7 [from Moscow to Havana, 1963-65] The starting scene for describing this intellectual revival of Guevara’s Marxism is set in Moscow and he described it himself in one […]
EU-U.S. Tussle Over Iran Sanctions and the Aftermath
By Kelsey Davenport The author is Director for Non-Proliferation Policy at the Arms Control Association (ACA). This analysis is being reproduced from ACA’s Special Newsletter of August 24, 2018. – The Editor. WASHINGON. D.C. (IDN-INPS) – During an August 19-22 trip to Israel, National Security Advisor John Bolton said U.S. sanctions reimposed on Iran are […]
Guevara and Marx: Critical Remake of an Old Film – 6
By Roberto Massari* This is the sixth of a nine-part series. Read Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. BOLSENA, Italy (IDN) – With regard to the “Marxism” of Marx there is not much more, because the rest of the article launches itself into a very imaginative analysis of the progress of the Cuban revolution […]
Guevara and Marx: Critical Remake of an Old Film – 5
By Roberto Massari* This is the fifth of a nine-part series. Read Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4. BOLSENA, Italy (IDN) – Second half: ORTHODOXY STORY: Scene 6 [from Havana to Moscow, 1959-63] As is well known, the revolutionary government assigned commander Guevara with tasks of great importance, but all within the economic sphere as […]
Guevara and Marx: Critical Remake of an Old Film – 4
By Roberto Massari* This is the fourth of a nine-part series. Read Parts 1, 2 and 3. BOLSENA, Italy (IDN) – Everything that happened between Guatemala and Mexico is now a known story, recounted in the main biographies; but in the late 1960s Hilda was the only direct and reliable source of Che’s Marxist training, […]
Guevara and Marx: Critical Remake of an Old Film – 3
By Roberto Massari* This is the third of a nine-part series. Read Parts 1 and 2. BOLSENA, Italy (IDN) – FLASHBACK: Scene 3 [Lima, 1952] To answer, it is necessary to step back in time to the first encounter with Marxism that the young Ernesto had personally experienced in Lima, Peru, during a period of […]
Guevara and Marx: Critical Remake of an Old Film – 2
By Roberto Massari* This is the second of a nine-part series. Click here for Part 1. BOLSENA, Italy (IDN) – Scene 2 [Dar es Salaam, 1965] Holed up in the house of the Cuban ambassador in Tanzania (Pablo Rivalta, 1925-2005), recovering from the defeat of the military expedition in Congo (“la historia de un fracaso”, […]