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  • Monthly Review Essays
  •  | The Columbia Gates at Broadway and 116th St a public street that runs through campus have been closed to through traffic since April when Gaza solidarity encampments took place at the university Uptown Radio | MR Online

    ‘People are speaking in whispers’

    Originally published: The Indypendent on February 4, 2025 by Amba Guerguerian (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Feb 11, 2025)

    Student suspensions, faculty purges and an all-encompassing surveillance state have become the norm as Columbia falls silent after last spring’s anti-genocide protests.

  •  | Jordan Neely 1992 2023 was a Michael Jackson impersonator who performed at Times Square Columbus Circle amongst other locations | MR Online

    Make White People accountable again

    Originally published: The Indypendent on December 14, 2024 by John Tueffel (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Dec 16, 2024)

    (As if they ever were.)

  •  | Labor Breakthrough | MR Online

    Labor breakthrough: Workers winning victories once thought impossible

    Originally published: The Indypendent on March 27, 2024 by Amba Guerguerian (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Apr 06, 2024)

    Zoomers and millennials want to turn low-wage retail and service sector jobs into stable, good-paying union jobs.

  •  | The NYPD arrests demonstrators en masse at Times Square during the George Floyd protests of 2020 Photo Ken Lopez | MR Online

    NYC’s $13 million settlement with BLM protesters “not a victory, but something to hold onto’

    Originally published: The Indypendent on July 25, 2023 by John Tarleton (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Jul 28, 2023)

    An interview with longtime activist Savitri Durkee who was a plaintiff in the record-setting class-action lawsuit.

  •  | Michael and Debby Smith with their pet parrot Charlie ParkerBrian Geltner | MR Online

    Why I wrote a book about my pet parrot

    Originally published: The Indypendent on February 7, 2023 by Michael Smith (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Feb 10, 2023)

    Michael & Debby Smith write about 30 years of living with a parrot whose intelligence and emotional awareness challenges our human-centric world view.

  •  | Amazon Labor Union members including Christian Smalls Derrick Palmer and Tristian Martinez march from Jeff Bezos penthouse to Times Square in a Labor Day 2022 protestPhoto by Nina Berman | MR Online

    Amazon Labor Union’s small army of volunteer law students

    Originally published: The Indypendent on November 21, 2022 by Katie Pruden and Amba Guerguerian (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Nov 26, 2022)

    Around 100 are helping in the battle against the country’s second-largest employer.

  •  | Kingston Tenants Win Historic 15 Rent Reduction | MR Online

    Kingston tenants win historic 15% rent reduction

    Originally published: The Indypendent on November 10, 2022 by For the Many (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Nov 12, 2022)

    A grassroots tenant-organizing victory comes after Orlando and several cities across CA adopted rent control on Tuesday.

  •  | Kristen Richardson JordanPhoto rojas4mayornyc | MR Online

    “Culture Shock”: Harlem’s Socialist City Council member Kristin Richardson Jordan reflects on her first three months in office

    Originally published: The Indypendent on April 11, 2022 by John Teufel (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Apr 13, 2022)

    Outsider-turned-insider looks for more allies as she fights budget cuts and a turn toward more intense policing.

  •  | Its Time for the Left to Embrace the Critical Race Theory Debate | MR Online

    It’s time for the Left to embrace the Critical Race Theory debate

    Originally published: The Indypendent on February 14, 2022 by Linda Martín Alcoff (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Feb 17, 2022)

    Pretending CRT isn’t real robs us of the chance to mount a strong defense.

  •  | The Student Workers of Columbia shut down classes on Columbias two Upper West Side campuses on Dec 8 | MR Online

    Solidarity wins in Columbia strike victory

    Originally published: The Indypendent on January 11, 2022 by John Tarleton (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Jan 20, 2022)

    Columbia’s student workers delivered an invaluable lesson—one day longer, one day stronger—that you don’t have to have to go to graduate school to understand.

  •  | Demonstrators at the intersection of Trinity Place and Rector Street on March 24 1988 | MR Online

    ACT-UP and Win: a riveting account of NYC activism during the AIDS crisis

    Originally published: The Indypendent on December 6, 2021 by Jessica Max Stein (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Dec 14, 2021)

    Sarah Schulman’s recently released political history shines light on AIDS activism that often goes unrecognized.

  •  | This is what Police State looks likeThe NYPD kettles OWS protesters as they cross the bridge in the March to Brooklyn | MR Online

    10th Anniversary Occupy Wall Street: The Rise of Occupy Wall Street–The Movement Moment That Revived The U.S. Left

    Originally published: The Indypendent on September 15, 2021 by John Tarleton (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Sep 20, 2021)

    The idea—that 20,000 people would set up a round-the-clock protest encampment at the foot of Wall Street—had been proposed by Micah White of the Canadian magazine Adbusters without consulting anyone in New York.

  •  | 6 days ago The Indypendent Americas Unfinished Revolution Where Do the George Floyd Protests Go From Here | MR Online

    America’s unfinished revolution: Where do the George Floyd protests go from here?

    Originally published: The Indypendent on June 5, 2020 by Tosh Anderson, Josephine Lee and Zishun Ning (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Jun 12, 2020)

    It takes but a few minutes for the ruling elite to recast collective calls for an end to state violence against black people into images of the criminality of black protesters and to call for an end to looting.

Monthly Review Essays

  • US Imperialism in Crisis: Opportunities and Challenges to a Global Community with a Shared Future
    Sam-Kee Cheng  | A late 1940s Soviet poster showing a US military service member lounging on top of a German factory smoking a cigar The text beneath reads DER DOLLARIMPERIALISMUS dollar imperialism | MR Online

    1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]

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  • Journalism, democracy, … and class struggle
    Robert W. McChesney  | Bob McChesney on Saving Journalism | MR Online

    Our job is to make media reform part of our broader struggle for democracy, social justice, and, dare we say it, socialism.

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