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Review: ‘I Know Who Caused COVID-19’: Pandemics and Xenophobia
A critical review of a Lacanian individualist approach by a fan of Rob Wallace, and chief of infectious disease at Mount Sinai in NY.
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An Interview with Michael A. Lebowitz on ‘Capital’, “Real Socialism,” and Venezuela
“While socialists need to begin with the existing concepts of fairness as reflected in the moral economy of the working class, to the extent that those concepts of fairness are contrary to the principle advanced in the Communist Manifesto that ‘the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all,’ they must be rejected.” —Michael Lebowitz
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Indictment of African People’s Socialist Party is a racist assault on the Black Liberation Movement
The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally condemns and opposes the recent indictment of four members of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), alongside three Russian nationals.
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Global military spending reaches record $2,240 billion: SIPRI
According to SIPRI, global military spending will reach a new record high of $2,240 billion in 2022.
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U.S. pregnancy-related deaths skyrocket, capitalism is to blame
A new report out from the National Center for Health Statistics finds that U.S. maternal deaths have increased by an alarming 40% since 2020.
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These Queers Bash Back: Pittsburgh anarchists organize in response to transphobic hate
Report on recent demonstrations in Pittsburgh against anti-trans grifter Michael Knowles.
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Patriarchy subsidises capitalism
While discussing about primary accumulation of capital, Marx did refer to a process of alienating direct producers from the means of production and this has been done by the use of coercion.
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ChatGPT and human intelligence: Noam Chomsky responds to critics
‘The threat to privacy and data security posed by language models like ChatGPT is real enough. I frankly doubt that there’s any practical way to contain them. The most effective means that I can think of…to counter the spread of malicious doctrines and ideology are education in critical thinking, organization to encourage deliberation, and modes of intellectual self-defense.’ —Noam Chomsky
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Here comes everyone: climate, class and the movement we need
As thousands prepare to surround parliament to demand climate action, Feyzi Ismail explains the scale of the crisis and the strategy the movement needs.
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The Culture War doesn’t exist
Call it what it is: class war.
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Anti-NATO protests in Sweden as the country hosts large int’l exercise
Protesters across 17 cities in Sweden, including Stockholm, voice opposition to the international military exercise hosted by their country.
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A brutal system replaced socialist health care in Europe
Matthew Read, researcher at the IF DDR, talks to the People’s Health Dispatch about similarities between East Germany’s and Yugoslavia’s socialist health systems and the lessons to be learned from these systems.
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We STILL don’t get it: It is an Empire, Folks!
In mid-March 2023, David Swanson published a very interesting article: “Iraq and 15 Lessons We Never Learned.” There were some things in there I agreed with, some I disagreed with, others I might want to debate. Still, I appreciated his effort to pull together ideas from these experiences. However, there’s one thing that he did […]
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A critical look at Afrocentrism
Garveyism and Afrocentrism, while different, are grounded in their shared nature of being expressions of a call for National conscience.
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Three massive ways the government wastes your tax dollars
Here are three examples of criminal misuse of enormous sums of money that could meet human needs, but instead are spent underwriting terrible violence and bolstering corporate profits.
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McCarthyism resurges: Radical U.S.-based organizations condemn U.S. indictments of African People’s Socialist Party members
Activists on the left, as well as radical U.S.-based organizations, came out yesterday against the indictments of three members of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), one former party member, and three Russian nationals for allegedly attempting to sow discord in the United States by working with Russia.
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Why the Saudis have called off their Israeli wedding
After leading Israel’s extreme far-right to victory in last November’s elections, a buoyant Benjamin Netanyahu hoped to quickly resume Tel Aviv’s march towards full normalization with Arab regimes.
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The current state of India’s economy
GOVERNMENT officials never tire of repeating that India is currently the fastest growing major economy in the world.
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The U.S. could use some separation of media and State
The U.S. State Department’s spokesperson Ned Price is being replaced by a man named Matthew Miller.
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While Biden unleashes climate bomb in Alaska, Cyclone Freddy ravages eastern Africa
The U.S. corporate-controlled media are concealing the climate crisis’s severity and breadth.