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  • OPCW investigator testifies at UN that no chemical attack took place in Douma, Syria

    Statement of Concern: The OPCW investigation of alleged chemical weapons use in Douma, Syria

    Originally published: Courage on March 11, 2021 (more by Courage)  | (Posted Mar 15, 2021)

    The OPCW investigation of alleged chemical weapons use in Douma, Syria.

  • The Lasalin Massacre and the Human Rights Crisis in Haiti

    Human rights report on the Lasalin massacre

    Originally published: Haiti Action Committee on March 2021 (more by Haiti Action Committee)  | (Posted Mar 13, 2021)

    Haiti Action Committee together with the National Lawyers Guild [NLG] is releasing a new report, The Lasalin Massacre and the Human Rights Crisis in Haiti, about the November 2018 massacre in the neighborhood of Lasalin, Port-au-Prince.

  • Lula’s supporters, including PSL members, at a demonstration demanding his freedom outside the Brazilian consulate in Los Angeles. Credit: Ben Huff

    Lula’s right to run for president of Brazil restored in major victory for people’s movemen

    Originally published: Liberation on March 10, 2021 by Chris Banks and S. Rodrigues (more by Liberation)  | (Posted Mar 13, 2021)

    In a major victory for the left and progressive forces, all of the criminal convictions against Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have been struck down by the Supreme Federal Tribunal, Brazil’s highest court.

  • Leonidas Iza, leader of the Indigenous Peasant Movement of Cotopaxi © Sputnik / Marco Teruggi

    Ecuadorian Indigenous Leader: “We must get out of the Correaism-Anticorreism polarization”

    Originally published: Sputnik by Marco Teruggi translation on March 10, 2021 by International 360 (more by Sputnik by Marco Teruggi translation) (Posted Mar 12, 2021)

    Leonidas Iza Salazar is one of the main leaders of the indigenous movement in Ecuador. His name gained national prominence in the October 2019 uprising against the attempted economic adjustment sought by the government of Lenin Moreno.

  • PROTEST BANNER IN LONDON, 2018. (PHOTO: JEWISH VOICE FOR LABOUR (UK) VIA THE PALESTINE POSTER PROJECT ARCHIVES)

    We need to decolonize our understanding of antisemitism

    Originally published: Patheos on March 6, 2021 by Robert A. H. Cohen (more by Patheos)  | (Posted Mar 12, 2021)

    We need to decolonize our understanding of antisemitism as a matter of urgency. And that means ditching the IHRA definition of antisemitism.

  • COVID-19 Vaccine in Cuba

    Cuba’s contributions in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic

    Originally published: Socialist Project on March 11, 2021 by Franklin Frederick (more by Socialist Project)  | (Posted Mar 12, 2021)

    In the West, Cuba has set an example of efficiency and shown that another way is possible in the fight against the pandemic. The numbers speak for themselves; we only need to compare Cuba with other countries or even big cities with similar populations to get a very clear picture of the difference in results.

  • Red line denoting the Pentagon’s “first island chain” (Wikimedia Commons)

    Top Pentagon commander requests astronomical sum of money to prepare for war with China

    Originally published: Liberation News on March 5, 2021 by Richard Becker (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Mar 11, 2021)

    A new U.S. war with China would threaten the world with unthinkable destruction. The danger of such a war cannot be ignored, it must be resisted.

  • As the farmers’ protest against farm laws enters the summer season, they brave high temperatures and the paucity of basic necessities

    100 days of revolt, & still raring to go

    Originally published: The Pioneer on March 9, 2021 by Indra Shekhar Singh (more by The Pioneer)  | (Posted Mar 10, 2021)

    As the farmers’ protest against farm laws enters the summer season, they brave high temperatures and the paucity of basic necessities

  • Agroecology establishes a sustainable relationship of crops to the environment.

    On Covid and the plague of Capital

    Originally published: Against the Current on March 6, 2021 by Suzi Weissman interviewing Rob Wallace, Meleiza Figueroa and Graham Christensen (more by Against the Current) (Posted Mar 10, 2021)

    Industrial agriculture, habitat destruction, global commodity chains and the travel network have set up this perfect storm of conditions, not just for COVID, but also for future pandemics.

  • Increasing Cyber Attacks - Free Image ( PixaHive.com by Hardik Pandey)

    Report: U.S. preparing cyberattack against Russia over SolarWinds hack

    Originally published: Antiwar.com on March 8, 2021 by Dave DeCamp (more by Antiwar.com) (Posted Mar 10, 2021)

    Sources told The New York Times that the first major actions are expected sometime in the next three weeks.

  • Tutors Replacing Teachers: A Failed Privatization Plot Returns

    Tutors replacing teachers: A failed privatization plot returns

    Originally published: Nancy Bailey's Education Website on March 7, 2021 (more by Nancy Bailey's Education Website)  | (Posted Mar 09, 2021)

    The pandemic showed that for students to get quality instruction, especially poor children of color, America must invest in real teachers, smaller class sizes, and better working conditions, including improved school facilities.

  • March for Our Lives 24 March 2018 in NYC, People Over Profits sign, Central Park West, AMNH, Manhattan

    Discourses of Distrust: Conspiracy Theories and the Critique of Ideology

    Originally published: e-flux on Journal #116 - March 2021 by Boris Groys (more by e-flux)  | (Posted Mar 09, 2021)

    Here the main question is not what is said but why it is said. And this question of why is not related to the personal situation, interests, or discursive strategies of the speakers. Men cannot know what is good for them; they very often profess ideologies that are directly detrimental to their interests.

  • Image: Wikimedia

    Why Cornel West’s tenure fight matters

    Originally published: Boston Review on March 3, 2021 by Robin D. G. Kelley, PhD (more by Boston Review)  | (Posted Mar 08, 2021)

    I wrote letters for West’s hire and renewal at Harvard. The school’s administrators completely miss the point of tenure. – ROBIN D. G. KELLEY

  • Jules Guesde unknown photographer Source: Store Norske Leksikon under Creative Commons Licence; own modification

    The birth of Marxism in France: Remembering the Paris Commune and Jules Guesde

    Originally published: Transform Europe on March 2, 2021 by Jean-Numa Ducange (more by Transform Europe)  | (Posted Mar 08, 2021)

    Guesde (1845-1922) introduced Marxism to France and contributed to building the Socialist Party in the north of the country, where the left, socialism, and then later communism became very strong.

  • Illustration by Zoran Svilar

    Digital colonialism: the evolution of American empire

    Originally published: ROAR magazine on March 3, 2021 by Michael Kwet (more by ROAR magazine)  | (Posted Mar 08, 2021)

    American “Big Tech” corporations are gaining massive profits through their control over business, labor, social media and entertainment in the Global South.

  • International Women’s Day: A militant celebration

    Originally published: Socialist Project – The Bullet on March 7, 2021 by Alexandra Kollontai (more by Socialist Project – The Bullet)  | (Posted Mar 08, 2021)

    Women’s Day or Working Women’s Day is a day of international solidarity, and a day for reviewing the strength and organization of proletarian women.

  • Trump Death Clock by Director Eugene Jarecki

    COVID-19: Social murder, they wrote—elected, unaccountable, and unrepentant

    Originally published: The BMJ on February 4, 2021 by Kamran Abbasi (more by The BMJ)  | (Posted Mar 07, 2021)

    Murder is an emotive word. In law, it requires premeditation. Death must be deemed to be unlawful. How could “murder” apply to failures of a pandemic response? Perhaps it can’t, and never will, but it is worth considering.

  • Emma Kash, a teacher at Yung Wing School P.S. 124 wears a mask and teaches remotely from her classroom on Sept. 24, 2020 in New York City. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

    Who signed the pro-testing appeals?

    Originally published: Diane Ravitch's blog on March 5, 2021 by Leonie Haimson (more by Diane Ravitch's blog) (Posted Mar 06, 2021)

    Education Trust, led by former Secretary of Education John King, sent two letters to the Biden administration, urging the administration not to allow states to receive waivers from the mandated federal testing.

  • Rosa Luxemburg at 150: a revolutionary legacy

    Rosa Luxemburg at 150: a revolutionary legacy

    Originally published: Red Flag on March 5, 2021 by James Plested (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Mar 06, 2021)

    Rosa Luxemburg, one of the great leaders in the history of the socialist movement, was born in Poland (then a province of the Russian empire) 150 years ago this month, on 5 March 1871.

  • Photo by Masrat Zahra/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

    On May Day: Karl Marx on India, colonialism and religion

    Originally published: National Herald India on May 1, 2018 by Dipankar Bhattacharya (more by National Herald India)  | (Posted Mar 05, 2021)

    Marx, argues the author, is often misunderstood and even more often, misrepresented even as the world observes his bicentenary.

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