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  • Bokeh

    “We will protest for as long as possible”

    Originally published: Peoples Archive of Rural India on March 24, 2021 by Parth M.N. (more by Peoples Archive of Rural India)  | (Posted Apr 03, 2021)

    Farmers from Uttarakhand and northwest UP–several of whom have taken part in the farm protests–say that the state-run mandis, though flawed, are essential for their survival.

  • Brazil Abetted Overthrow of Allende in Chile

    Brazil Abetted overthrow of Allende in Chile

    Originally published: National Security Archive on April 1, 2021 (more by National Security Archive)  | (Posted Apr 03, 2021)

    The Chilean ambassador to Brazil, Raúl Rettig, sent an alarming cable in March 1971 to his foreign ministry titled “Brazilian Army possibly conducting studies on guerrillas being introduced into Chile.”

  • Ecuador in the sites of the US

    Lenin Moreno and the CIA against Andres Arauz

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on March 29, 2021 by Katu Arkonada (more by Orinoco Tribune)  | (Posted Apr 02, 2021)

    The second round of the Ecuadorian election between the candidate of the pro-Correa citizen revolution Arauz and the banker Lasso is approaching, and things are accelerating in the axis formed by Lenin Moreno and the United States, with its intelligence services at the forefront.

  • Wall Street

    If the minimum wage had increased as much as Wall Street bonuses since 1985, it would be worth $44 today

    Originally published: Inequality on March 29, 2021 by Sarah Anderson (more by Inequality)  | (Posted Apr 02, 2021)

    The 2020 bonus pool for 182,100 securities industry employees could pay for more than 1 million jobs paying $15 per hour for a year.

  • John Cameron

    Social reproduction and a just post-COVID world

    Originally published: SOAS (University of London) on March 8, 2021 by Dr Sara Stevano, Dr Alessandra Mezzadri, Lorena Lombardozzi, and Hannah Bargawi. (more by SOAS (University of London)) (Posted Mar 31, 2021)

    After over a year of suffering, death, and profound transformations of everyday life, International Women’s Day 2021 is an opportunity to take stock of the COVID-19 crisis so far and craft visions for a future centred on the value of social reproduction.

  • Danae Diaz/Ikon images/People Visual

    The complex legacy of China’s cinematic pirates

    Originally published: Sixth Tone on March 30, 2021 by Wang Yan (more by Sixth Tone)  | (Posted Mar 31, 2021)

    Film and TV piracy are under increasing pressure in China. The void they’re leaving behind will be hard to fill.

  • José Manuel Correa

    A message of love and life from Cuba to Mexico

    Originally published: Granma English on March 30, 2021 by Liz Conde Sánchez (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Mar 31, 2021)

    President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez notes the impressive work of the third group of medical professionals from the Henry Reeve Contingent returning from Mexico, after joining the COVID-19 battle there.

  • Moise Haiti

    “Poor rich Haiti” or how imperialists and local oligarchy have sought destroy agriculture in Haiti

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on March 28, 2021 by Lautaro Rivara (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Mar 30, 2021)

    From Haiti, Lautaro Rivara unpacks the tired trope of “poor rich Haiti,” highlighting the role of foreign capital and local elites in the destruction of life in the countryside.

  • Stop Asian Hate Rally to stop Asian hate, McPherson Square, D.C. 3/21/21 (Flickr: Victoria Pickering)

    Stop anti-Chinese hate, but not anti-China politics?

    Originally published: Immigrants as a Weapon on March 28, 2021 by Yasha Levine (more by Immigrants as a Weapon) (Posted Mar 30, 2021)

    Can we expect people of Asian and Chinese descent to unite in a broad front against American imperialism?

  • People Visual

    12 Arrested in Hebei for fabricating emission data

    Originally published: Sixth Tone on March 26, 2021 by Yuan Ye (more by Sixth Tone)  | (Posted Mar 30, 2021)

    Local companies were found to be collaborating with an emission monitoring company to skirt environmental standards.

  • Michael Mark Cohen

    “I felt an urgency the publishing industry did not share”: Michael Mark Cohen and cartooning capitalism

    Originally published: The Comics Journal on March 22, 2021 by Ian Thomas (more by The Comics Journal) (Posted Mar 29, 2021)

    I spent a tremendous amount of time digging around in old socialist and union newspapers, journals, magazines and pamphlets where I expected to read the work of earnest revolutionaries discussing socialist strategy and news from the latest strikes around the world. Of course, I found all that and more. – Michael Mark Cohen

  • ExxonMobil Versus Chevron: Fight for Second-to-Last Place Among Fossil Fuel Companies Has Begun

    ExxonMobil versus Chevron: Fight for second-to-last place among fossil fuel companies has begun

    Originally published: Union of Concerned Scientists on March 19, 2021 by Nicole Pinko (more by Union of Concerned Scientists)  | (Posted Mar 29, 2021)

    As the weather grows warmer, bears, birds, and corporate America begin to emerge from their respective hibernations. Bears will awaken hungry with thoughts of berries; birds will fly north, reversing their southern migration; corporate America will prepare their proxies and ballots. Soon it will be annual general meeting (AGM) season.

  • A Chinese paramilitary police officer stands guard outside the British Embassy in Beijing

    Britain and China: Trading sanctions and the new cold war

    Originally published: Morning Star on March 2021 (more by Morning Star)  | (Posted Mar 29, 2021)

    IAIN DUNCAN SMITH sees the Chinese sanctions applied to him and other politicians yesterday as a “badge of honour.”

  • Black Lives Matter - Amazon

    Amazon plays dirty in Bessemer Union Drive: Mass solidarity needed

    Originally published: Socialist Alternative on March 25, 2021 by Rebecca Green (more by Socialist Alternative)  | (Posted Mar 27, 2021)

    Everyone knew that Amazon would fight the union drive in one of its fulfillment centers in Bessemer, Alabama. But the company’s union-busting tactics are drawing more scrutiny as the final days for workers to mail in ballots draw near.

  • NETANYAHU POINTS TO A DRAWING OF A BOMB IN WARNING OF IRAN’S THREAT, IN AN ADDRESS TO THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 IN NEW YORK. (PHOTO BY MARIO TAMA/GETTY IMAGES)

    If Israel accuses Iran of doing something, Israel is likely already doing it

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on March 22, 2021 by Ted Snider (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted Mar 27, 2021)

    Israel has accused Iran of doing many nefarious things. But the historical record shows that whatever Israel accuses Iran of, it is likely that Israel is already doing it.

  • Follow the Ford Government’s Disaster Capitalism Playbook

    Capitalizing on the COVID Crisis: the Ford Government’s move to privatize Public Education for EdTech

    Originally published: Socialist Project on March 26, 2021 by Natalie Coulter (more by Socialist Project)  | (Posted Mar 27, 2021)

    Recently, Klein coined the term “disaster capitalism” to describe how corporations profit from crises with help from the right-wing governments that pick up and implement the ideas that serve them.

  • Chevron, ExxonMobil and BlackRock Want To Teach The Left About “Extractivism” In Latin America

    Chevron, ExxonMobil and BlackRock want to teach the Left about “extractivism” in Latin America

    Originally published: Brasil Wire on March 17, 2021 (more by Brasil Wire)  | (Posted Mar 26, 2021)

    Americas Quarterly and AS/COA’s media arm ran a de-facto PR campaign for discredited Operation Lava Jato, which helped impeach Dilma Rousseff, jail Lula, and bring a neofascist (who it called an “arch-conservative”) Jair Bolsonaro to power.

  • Celebrating the Paris Commune of 1871

    Celebrating the Paris Commune of 1871

    Originally published: Red Flag on March 18, 2021 by Sandra Bloodworth (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Mar 25, 2021)

    It all began as the sun rose over the districts of Montmartre and Belleville on 18 March 1871. Army soldiers began seizing nearly 250 cannon that had been placed in these radical, working-class areas by the National Guard, a popular Parisian militia. The soldiers had been sent by the head of the new republican government, Adolphe Thiers.

  • (IMAGE: PALESTINIAN FEMINIST COLLECTIVE)

    Whose feminism? Palestine’s feminism

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on March 19, 2021 by Nada Elia (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted Mar 24, 2021)

    Palestinians affirm, yet again, that one cannot be a feminist while supporting gendered violence, settler-colonialism, indigenous dispossession, and apartheid.

  • Bank Job directors Hilary Powell and Daniel Edelstyn

    Review – ‘Bank Job’

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on March 20, 2021 by Jake Woodier (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Mar 24, 2021)

    Jake Woodier reviews a new documentary film that brings heist aesthetics to a story of debt activism

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