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    Struggling for ecosocialism in the time of Elon Musk

    Originally published: Green Left on January 13, 2021 by Aleks Wansbrough (more by Green Left)  | (Posted Jan 15, 2021)

    Elon Musk has been pronounced the wealthiest person on earth, slightly overtaking Jeff Bezos. Musk is known for his unhinged outbursts online and generally bizarre behaviour. In this respect, he epitomises the increasing craziness of capitalism.

  • Image by Ashley Gilbertson/VII, for the New York Times .

    “What abyss are we talking about?”

    Originally published: e-fulx conversations by Franco “Bifo” Berardi (more by e-fulx conversations) (Posted Jan 15, 2021)

    The essay published by Timothy Snyder in the New York Times Magazine on January 9 has a beautiful title, even if it is not very original.

  • International Commission of Inquiry to Open Hearings on Racist Police Violence in the US on MLK Day

    International Commission of Inquiry to open hearings on racist police violence in the U.S. on MLK Day

    Originally published: IADL (International Association of Democratic Lawyers) on January 8, 2021 (more by IADL (International Association of Democratic Lawyers))  | (Posted Jan 13, 2021)

    The National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL), the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) and the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) have assembled a commission of experts from around the world to investigate racist police violence against people of African descent in the United States.

  • The Rosenberg Orphans and the Power of Radical History

    The Rosenberg Orphans and the power of radical history

    Originally published: Current Affairs on January 11, 2021 by Annie Levin (more by Current Affairs)  | (Posted Jan 13, 2021)

    Orphaned after their parents were executed for espionage, the story of the Rosenberg boys is one all Americans should know.

  • Towards a Geopolitics of Popular Power

    Towards a geopolitics of popular power

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on December 28, 2020 by Rafael Bautista S. (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Jan 12, 2021)

    Lecture given at the event: “The Collapse of the Unlawful State and the Recovery of Democracy”, held in La Paz, on December 14, 2020, in the auditorium of the Vice Presidency of the Plurinational State of Bolivia.

  • Many have called for Juan Guaido to be prosecuted for his crimes. (Getty Images)

    The dilemma of what to do with Guaido

    Eds.

    Now that his term in the National Assembly has ended and Trump has been ousted from the White House, should Guaido face justice?

  • A Key Worker from North Shields receives the Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination hub at the Centre For Life in Newcastle

    Health professionals issue dire warning that NHS faces biggest crisis since its inception

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on January 10, 2021 by Peter Lazenby (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Jan 12, 2021)

    THE NHS is facing its biggest ever crisis, medical professionals and unions warned today, with hospitals at risk of being swamped by coronavirus admissions.

  • A victory for the movement in the streets: inside Argentina’s abortion win

    A victory for the movement in the streets: inside Argentina’s abortion win

    Originally published: Red Flag on January 7, 2021 by Jordan Humphreys (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Jan 12, 2021)

    On 30 December, Argentina’s Senate voted to legalise abortion after many years of mass protests around the issue. In the wake of this important victory, Red Flag spoke to Cele Fierro, an activist with the anti-capitalist feminist group Juntas a la Izquierda and a member of the national leadership of the Movimiento de los Trabajadores (MST) in Argentina.

  • Cedric J. Robinson

    Cedric Robinson, racial capitalism and the return of black radicalism

    Originally published: International Socialism on Issue: 169, January 6, 2021 by Ken Olende (more by International Socialism)  | (Posted Jan 11, 2021)

    The terms “black radicalism” and “racial capitalism” have become buzzwords in the revitalised international discussion about race that has arisen in parallel with the Black Lives Matter movement since 2013.

  • The UN Convention on War Crimes should be Applied to the United States

    The UN Convention on War Crimes should be applied to the United States

    Originally published: New Eastern Outlook (NEO) on January 7, 2020 by Vladimir Platov (more by New Eastern Outlook (NEO))  | (Posted Jan 11, 2021)

    Despite the measures taken by the international community to reinforce global security and protect civilians from the relentless increase in the number of armed conflicts, unjustified civilian casualties are not decreasing, and not only in the tinder box that is the Middle East, but also in Asia, Latin America, Africa, and even in Europe.

  • Fascism, Fascisation, Antifascism

    Fascism, fascisation, antifascism

    Originally published: Historical Materialism on January 7, 2021 by Ugo Palheta (more by Historical Materialism)  | (Posted Jan 09, 2021)

    Fascism can be classically defined as an ideology, a movement and a regime.

  • The True Significance of the Historic Farmers Struggle

    The true significance of the historic farmers struggle

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on January 10, 2021 by Ashok Dhawale (more by Peoples Democracy)  | (Posted Jan 09, 2021)

    First, it is led by over 500 farmers’ organisations in the country, who have united under the platform of Samyukta Kisan Morcha(SKM). All sections of the peasantry have joined together. 

  • Ontario COVID-19 cases

    COVID-19 crisis situation in Ontario: Deadliest day of the pandemic

    Originally published: Socialist Project-The Bullet on January 8, 2021 by Ontario Health Coalition (more by Socialist Project-The Bullet)  | (Posted Jan 09, 2021)

    January 7th is the deadliest day of the pandemic so far, 89 people died in the last 24-hour period. By every measure the situation is critical, and there can be no question remaining that stronger measures are needed to control the devastation the virus is wreaking.

  • Jomo Kwame Sundaram (Photo: WIkipedia)

    2021: Year of living dangerously?

    Originally published: Inter Press Service on January 5, 2021 by Jomo Kwame Sundaram (more by Inter Press Service)  | (Posted Jan 08, 2021)

    Goodbye 2020, but unfortunately, not good riddance, as we all have to live with its legacy. It has been a disastrous year for much of the world for various reasons, Elizabeth II’s annus horribilis. The crisis has exposed previously unacknowledged realities, including frailties and vulnerabilities.

  • Daniel Tanuro

    “Too late to be pessimist! Ecosocialism or collapse”

    Originally published: International Viewpoint on January 1, 2021 by Daniel Tanuro, Mats Lucia Bayer (more by International Viewpoint)  | (Posted Jan 07, 2021)

    From the analysis of the struggle between the great powers for a lesser dependence on fossil fuels (which can shape their rivalries or push towards convergence between them), to the reminder of the need for every subject of oppression to develop its own ecological reflection. Daniel Tanuro gives us illuminating and pedagogical tools to confront the present social struggles and those that are to come.

  • Credit: simonguymon/Flickr

    Capitalism and catastrophe

    Originally published: Socialist Review on January 2021, Issue 464 by Alex Callinicos (more by Socialist Review)  | (Posted Jan 07, 2021)

    The 2020 crisis we’ve endured isn’t an aberration of the system but, as Alex Callinicos argues, an aspect of its permanent crisis.

  • Shipment

    The Geo-politics of EU-China Investment deal

    Originally published: NEO (New Eastern Outlook) Salman Rafi Sheikh on January 4, 2021 (more by NEO (New Eastern Outlook) Salman Rafi Sheikh) (Posted Jan 07, 2021)

    The recently announced EU-China principally agreed investment deal is a watershed moment, marking a first EU-China investment deal of its kind that would open the doors for the EU to make direct investment in China.

  • Stateville prison reopens decrepit 'F-House' to hold inmates with Covid (Injustice Watch)

    Incarcerated people and corrections staff should be prioritized in COVID-19 vaccination plans

    Originally published: Prison Policy Initiative on December 8, 2020 by Katie Rose Quandt (more by Prison Policy Initiative)  | (Posted Jan 07, 2021)

    Some states are including correctional facilities in their rollout plans. All states and the BOP should do so-and put incarcerated people near the top of the list.

  • Arya Rajendran

    21-year-old college student elected Mayor of Kerala Capital

    Originally published: NDTV on December 30, 2020 by Sneha Mary Koshy (more by NDTV)  | (Posted Jan 06, 2021)

    Ms Rajendran had won from the Mudavanmughal ward of the city corporation, bagging 2,872 votes, 549 more than the rival Congress candidate.

  • Xi Jinping

    The war on China

    Originally published: Qiao Collective on January 2, 2020 by Izak Novak - Izak Novak Blog (more by Qiao Collective)  | (Posted Jan 06, 2021)

    The propaganda surrounding COVID-19 and China’s response is only the latest escalation in a long term geopolitical strategy by U.S. imperialism to destroy it. Few people on the left or the socialist movement in the imperial core have been paying attention to the historic breakup of the U.S.-China relationship.

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