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  • Environmental activists wearing a mask of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and protective suits perform to denounce the Japanese government's decision on Fukushima water, near the Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea

    Grave concerns raised as Japan announces release of radioactive water into the sea

    Originally published: Morning Star on April 2021 (more by Morning Star)  | (Posted Apr 15, 2021)

    JAPAN has come under fire after its government announced today that it would release more than a million metric tonnes of radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean.

  • From 5 percent annual emissions growth to 2013, to a dead stop thereafter, is nothing short of remarkable.

    What about China?

    Originally published: Carbon Tax Center on April 2021 (more by Carbon Tax Center) (Posted Apr 14, 2021)

    China surged past the United States to become the #1 carbon emitter in 2006. Currently (2019 data from BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy), its CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel burning are over 9,800 million metric tons (“tonnes”) a year.

  • U.S. trial judge Loretta Preska (Twitter: Steven Donziger)

    Judge Preska terminates all Zoom access to Donziger trial in effort to limit public access, say lawyers

    Originally published: Make Chevron Clean Up on April 7, 2021 by Frente de Defensa de la Amazonía (more by Make Chevron Clean Up) (Posted Apr 14, 2021)

    U.S. trial judge Loretta Preska has denied all Zoom access to the upcoming contempt trial of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger in a widely condemned move that his lawyers say is designed to limit public access to an unprecedented one-sided trial run by a private Chevron prosecutor. 

  • Samir Amin

    Samir Amin – a Marxist with blood in his veins

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on March 18, 2021 by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Francisco Pérez, Ndongo Samba Sylla, Francesco Macheda, Roberto Nadalini, Fathimath Musthaq, Max Ajl (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy))  | (Posted Apr 13, 2021)

    Following the publication of the special issue on Samir Amin, we post short interviews by the authors on the influence of Amin on their lives and research.

  • COVID-19 - A Socialist Response

    COVID-19 – A socialist response

    Originally published: The Left Berlin along with Gizem Fesli and Vitor Guimarães on April 8, 2021 (more by The Left Berlin along with Gizem Fesli and Vitor Guimarães)  | (Posted Apr 13, 2021)

    COVID-19 – A socialist response

  • Eric Hobsbawm. Credit- Twitter

    Eric Hobsbawm: The Consolations of History

    Originally published: LRB (London Review of Books) on April 2021 (more by LRB (London Review of Books))  | (Posted Apr 13, 2021)

    In this feature-length documentary, Anthony Wilks traces the connections between the events of Hobsbawm’s life and the history he told.

  • Chinese Woman Fights Back Against Sexual Harassment — With a Mop

    Chinese woman fights back against sexual harassment—with a mop

    Originally published: Sixth Tone on April 12, 2021 by Zhang Wanqing (more by Sixth Tone)  | (Posted Apr 13, 2021)

    A video clip has emerged showing a female office worker beating her over-eager boss with a cleaning instrument, to the delight of women viewers.

  • China and climate change: an exchange

    Richard Smith and Simon Pirani and Eds.

    In the Notes from the Editors to the March 2021 issue of Monthly Review, the MR editors questioned some of the arguments in Richard Smith’s book, China’s Engine of Environmental Collapse, as well as replied to Simon Pirani’s related criticisms (writing under his pseudonym of Gabriel Levy) of MR editor John Bellamy Foster on China and the environment. Both Smith and Pirani have written replies to our March editorial, which we are publishing here, along with our own rejoinder.

  • Rosa

    Rosa Luxemburg and postcolonial criticism

    Originally published: Spectre Journal on April 5, 2021 by Helen Scott (more by Spectre Journal)  | (Posted Apr 12, 2021)

    Her understanding of oppression was bolstered by personal circumstances: female in an overwhelmingly male public sphere, Jewish in a climate of vicious antisemitism, Polish at a time when Poles suffered national oppression, and an individual who lived with a disability.

  • Heterodox Economics and Crypto-Marxism Search

    Heterodox economics and crypto-Marxism

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology on April 7, 2021 by Cian McMahon & Terrence McDonough (more by Marxist Sociology)  | (Posted Apr 12, 2021)

    A series of notable recent anniversaries in the heterodox (non-mainstream/non-orthodox) economics calendar have prompted a reconsideration of Karl Marx’s lasting influence within the field.

  • Two posters with messages for DC Council members Pinto and McDuffie behind supply tables at the rally. Eleanor Goldfield | ArtKillingApathy.com

    Moth-eaten eviction moratorium leaves hundreds of thousands without a roof

    Originally published: MintPress News on April 7, 2021 by Eleanor Goldfield (more by MintPress News)  | (Posted Apr 10, 2021)

    During the pandemic, landlords have filed for 284,490 evictions–and that’s just in five states and 27 cities. But how could this be? After all, a moratorium shouldn’t allow for hundreds of thousands of households to fall through the cracks.

  • Aftermath of Ukrainian rocket-launcher attack in Donetsk, March 4. Photo: Donetsk International

    Ukraine, U.S. drum up war threats against Donbass and Russia

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on April 2, 2021 by Greg Butterfield (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Apr 08, 2021)

    The USA has the unique condition of being a flagrant violator of human rights within its own borders and in practically every region of the world. No other nation has such a systematic record. Its massive control of media and communications hides this truth from its own people.

  • Assimilation and Empire

    Assimilation and empire

    Originally published: Qiao Collective on April 1, 2021 by Xin (more by Qiao Collective)  | (Posted Apr 08, 2021)

    During the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an exponential increase in violence against Asian Americans: in New York alone, it’s been reported that violence rose by 1900%, fueled by anti-Asian sentiment.

  • NDP Which Way

    Grassroots Resolutions and Party Democracy: The 2021 NDP Convention

    Originally published: Socialist Project on April 7, 2021 by Bruce Kecskes (more by Socialist Project)  | (Posted Apr 08, 2021)

    In so far as participating in bourgeois democracy remains a component of socialist strategy in Canada, voters on the Left are largely limited electorally to the New Democratic Party (NDP).

  • BAR Book Forum: Catie Coe’s Book, “The New American Servitude”

    BAR Book Forum: Catie Coe’s Book, “The New American Servitude”

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on March 31, 2021 by Roberto Sirvent and Catie Coe (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Apr 07, 2021)

    Senior care puts care workers into racialized, gendered, and age hierarchies, making it difficult for them to achieve social and economic mobility. 

  • President Daniel Ortega

    With Nicaragua, scary Covid projections are more newsworthy than hopeful results

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 2, 2021 by John Perry (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Apr 07, 2021)

    One year ago, as both the Trump administration in the U.S. and the Johnson government in the UK responded fitfully to the growing pandemic, the international media were looking for whipping boys: other countries whose response to the virus was even worse.

  • Still from Koyaanisqatsi

    Dialectical ecology

    Originally published: Daniel Saunders Blog on October 25, 2020 (more by Daniel Saunders Blog) (Posted Apr 06, 2021)

    “If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster.” Thus reads one of the Hopi prophecies which echo throughout Philip Glass’s haunting soundtrack for Koyaanisqatsi (1982).

  • Silencing Black Voters, Again

    Silencing Black voters, again

    Originally published: BillMoyers.com on March 29, 2021 by Heather Cox Richardson (more by BillMoyers.com)  | (Posted Apr 06, 2021)

    Since the Civil War, voter suppression in America has had a unique cast.

  • Asian Americans and New Yorkers at a peace vigil for the victims of the Atlanta spa shootings, March 19, 2021. Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency/People Visual

    The real lives of America’s Chinese masseuses

    Originally published: Sixth Tone on April 2, 2021 by Zhou Shuxuan (more by Sixth Tone)  | (Posted Apr 06, 2021)

    The recent mass shooting in Atlanta has highlighted the vulnerability of Asian women who work in American massage parlors. But they face systematic oppression as well as individual hate.

  • Conflict Beef

    Progressive media promoted a false story of ‘conflict beef’ from Nicaragua

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on December 4, 2020 by John Perry (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Apr 05, 2021)

    Reports by Reveal (10/21/20) and PBS NewsHour (10/20/21) called for a boycott of “conflict beef” from Nicaragua. The Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal claims to be “fair and comprehensive” and PBS to be “trusted,” but their misleading and inaccurate reports could have drastic consequences for Nicaragua, at a time when the country is already struggling […]

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