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    Britain: The empire that never was

    Originally published: Critical Legal Thinking on October 31, 2017 by Kojo Koram and Kerem Nisancioglu (more by Critical Legal Thinking)  | (Posted Nov 03, 2017)

    Brexit sold the country a dream; ostensibly a project built on anti-migrant sentiment, it also invoked delusions of grandeur, rooted in reanimating the glorious days of imperial rule and global British hegemony. Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit speech announced a vision for a ‘Global Britain’ – ‘a great, global trading nation that is respected around the world and strong.’

  • Benjamin Netanyahu reads the Balfour Declaration at the British Library. (Photo: Israel Government Press Office)

    ‘It being clearly understood…’: What the Balfour Declaration tells us about Israel

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on October 30, 2017 by Nada Ella (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted Nov 03, 2017)

    Few documents as brief as the Balfour Declaration have had as devastating an impact as this historical document. I do not want to minimize the European colonization of the Americas, an utterly ravaging catastrophe for the Indigenous peoples of these continents.

  • writers congress

    The Popular Front Novel

    Originally published: Historical Materialism by Selim Nadi (more by Historical Materialism) (Posted Nov 03, 2017)

    I became interested in literary relationships with communism and anti-fascism when I was an undergraduate student. I was curious about how modernist writing, often thought to have peaked by the mid-1920s, was transformed by the rise of fascism and the coming of the Second World War.

  • Two men waving at police car. Photo Credit: Juan Pablo Rueda Bustamante / El Tiempo

    100,000 indigenous people join national strike and the repression continues

    Originally published: The Dawn News on October 30, 2017 by Consejo Regional Indigena del Cauca -CRIC (more by The Dawn News)  | (Posted Nov 03, 2017)

    Colombia is in an environment of almost permanent mobilization of social and political movements due to the government’s failure to follow through on the agreements it has made in different spaces of negotiation, its continued campaign of violence against members of  social movements, and its silence in the face of renewed paramilitary violence in the territories of Colombia.

  • Stuart Hall’s deconstruction of fate

    Originally published: NewBlackMan (in Exile) on October 31, 2017 by Amanda Bennett (more by NewBlackMan (in Exile)) (Posted Nov 03, 2017)

    The island of Barbuda is currently devoid of human life, a bleak reality that is both unfathomable in its scope and seemingly inevitable under the conditions of racialized capitalism. The severity of Hurricane Irma’s impact was undoubtedly worsened by the gross consumption of natural resources, particularly by nations that historically benefitted from colonialism and the construction of empire.

  • Amazon box (Photo by Mike Seyfang)

    Radical municipalism

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on October 23, 2017 by James Wilt (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Nov 01, 2017)

    Last week saw a flurry of humiliating pitches by North American cities for Amazon to pick them as the location of the corporation’s second headquarters.

  • Neil Martinson, A portrait of Annie Spike at work (1978)

    Women and work

    Originally published: Fotomuseum’s blog Still Searching…, on October 24, 2017 by Steve Edwards (more by Fotomuseum’s blog Still Searching…,) (Posted Nov 01, 2017)

    It has often been claimed that the radical documentary practice of the 1970s attended to class politics to the exclusion of gender. This was one of the core arguments for a staged practice of photography.

  • Why Everything Costs Money

    Originally published: Left Voice interviewing Olúfémi Táíwò on October 25, 2017 (more by Left Voice interviewing Olúfémi Táíwò) (Posted Nov 01, 2017)

    This year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Marx’s Capital. In the midst of a near-decade long world economic crisis, there has been a major resurgence in interest in the book.

  • Photo Credit: Jorge Gonzales (flickr)

    The imposition of class

    Originally published: Luxemburg by Alex Demirović translation on October 2017 Issue by Loren Balhorn (more by Luxemburg by Alex Demirović translation) (Posted Oct 30, 2017)

    The recent success of authoritarian-populist politicians and the critique of globalisation, unemployment and social insecurity they advocate has prompted renewed attention to the question of class. In Germany, this debate has been accompanied by discussions surrounding the publication of Didier Eribon’s recent book, Returning to Reims.

  • Frantz Fanon

    Fanon: freedom for the wretched or servitude to Marxist orthodoxy?

    Originally published: Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa on October 25, 2017 by Cilas Kemedjio (more by Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa) (Posted Oct 30, 2017)

    Frantz Fanon attended the All-Africa Conference convened by Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah in 1958. He met with anticolonial leaders, including Congolese Patrice Lumumba and Cameroonian Felix Moumié. During the Second Congress of Black Writers (Rome 1959), he expanded his network with activists from the Portuguese colonies, including Amical Cabral.

  • Halloween candy.

    This year’s real Halloween horror

    Originally published: Inequality on October 25, 2017 by Bob Lord (more by Inequality)  | (Posted Oct 30, 2017)

    The Mars family has made billions selling us M&Ms, Snickers, and countless other Halloween treats for a century now.  But when it comes to paying tax, the Mars family seems to be all tricks and no treats.

  • US Special Forces soldier trains Niger troops. (photo Credit: Reuters)

    Why is the U.S. at war in West Africa?

    Originally published: Pambazuka News on October 19, 2017 by Eddie Haywood (more by Pambazuka News) (Posted Oct 30, 2017)

    Between 2006 and 2010 the deployment of U.S. special forces troops in Africa increased by 300 percent. From 2010 to 2017 the numbers of deployed troops exploded by nearly 2000 percent, occupying more than 60 outposts tasked with carrying out over 100 missions at any given moment across the continent.

  • An oral history of the next American revolution

    Originally published: Towards Freedom on October 18, 2017 by Michael Albert and Andrej Grubacic (more by Towards Freedom) (Posted Oct 28, 2017)

    In this interview, author and activist Michael Albert discusses his new book, RPS/2044: An Oral History of the Next American Revolution.

  • Shredded Grants. Union of Concerned Scientists.

    Trashing science in Government grants isn’t normal

    Originally published: Union of Concerned Scientists on October 24, 2017 by Jacob Carter (more by Union of Concerned Scientists)  | (Posted Oct 28, 2017)

    There is now a political appointee of the Trump administration at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), John Konkus, reviewing grant solicitations and proposals in the public affairs office.

  • Cold, angry, and surrounded by chicken

    Originally published: Political Critique & European Alternatives on October 21, 2017 by Saša Uhlová (more by Political Critique & European Alternatives) (Posted Oct 28, 2017)

    For six months, reporter Saša Uhlová worked in the lowest-paid manual jobs in the Czech Republic, having a go at work in a hospital laundry room, a chicken processing plant, as a cashier in a supermarket, in a razorblade factory, and in a waste-sorting plant. All these jobs are indispensable, yet they are severely underpaid. How do people make ends meet on just a few hundred pounds a month?

  • Diane Ravitch

    ‘Public education is in a fight for survival’: Diane Ravitch

    Originally published: Capital & Main on October 19, 2017 by Bill Raden (more by Capital & Main) (Posted Oct 28, 2017)

    The 25-year national gamble on charter schools has been a losing bet, resulting in a series of missed opportunities and creating a tragic distraction from what most education researchers agree are the real inequities underlying the so-called achievement gap, former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch said this week.

  • Photo credit: New Socialist

    3 ways you can build Corbynism from below

    Originally published: The Dawn News on October 19, 2017 by Dave Brand, Paul Williams and Callum Cant (more by The Dawn News)  | (Posted Oct 25, 2017)

    Winning the next election is the start of the fight for Corbynism from below. A left wing government will face attempts to bring it in line through bribery, obstruction and, if those options fail, force. The establishment and the capitalist class will do anything to stop a socialist program from going the distance.

  • Sustainable development and inequality

    Sustaining neoliberal capital through socio-economic rights

    Originally published: Critical Legal Thinking on October 18, 2017 by Margot E Salomon (more by Critical Legal Thinking)  | (Posted Oct 25, 2017)

    In a 2013 contribution aimed at influencing the post-2015 development agenda, seventeen UN Special Rapporteurs recommended that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) should include a goal on the provision of social protection floors.

  • In considering why “the public is quiet” about the United States’ unending wars, the New York Times (10/23/17) fails to examine the failure of leading media outlets to actually oppose these wars.

    NYT laments ‘Forever Wars’ its editorials helped create

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on October 23, 2017 by Adam Johnson (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Oct 24, 2017)

    Corporate media have a long history of lamenting wars they themselves helped sell the American public, but it’s rare so many wars and so much hypocrisy are distilled into one editorial.

  • Port in the city of Maracaibo, Venezuela

    Economic warfare in Venezuela

    Steve Ellner and Eds.

    Given the thick haze of disinformation surrounding the economic situation in Venezuela, we thought it would be useful to publish the first chapter of The Visible Hand of the Market: Economic Warfare in Venezuela.

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