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  • Perú

    Peru at the brink of civil war? The uprising of the dispossessed

    Originally published: The Saker on June 15, 2021 by Peter Koenig (more by The Saker) (Posted Jun 22, 2021)

    This is the moment for the vast majority of Peruvians that they have been waiting for; those Peruvians that have always been considered as “non-people” by the oligarchy.

  • California’s Megadrought and the Fight for Socialism (Ben Amstutz via Flickr)

    California’s megadrought and the fight for socialism

    Originally published: Socialist Revolution on May 18, 2021 by Jake Thorp (more by Socialist Revolution)  | (Posted Jun 21, 2021)

    The history of California in the capitalist era is as mythic as the American Dream itself. From around the world, countless workers have emigrated to the “Golden State” in search of a better life.

  • Illustration: Bantonglaoatang

    ‘The Last G7’: Satirical cartoon mocking bloc’s attempt to suppress China goes viral

    Originally published: Global Times on June 13, 2021 (more by Global Times)  | (Posted Jun 21, 2021)

    A Chinese cartoonist’s political satire, which mocked the Group of Seven (G7) members that attempt to suppress China, went viral on Chinese social media on Sunday, when the G7 summit was underway in Cornwall, the UK.

  • Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners

    Book review: Roland Boer – Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners

    Originally published: Friends of Socialist China on June 18, 2021 by Tamara Prosic (more by Friends of Socialist China) (Posted Jun 21, 2021)

    Socialism with Chinese Characteristics challenges the simplistic mutually exclusive dualistic lens through which socialism in China is often viewed and judged.

  • Photo: Freddy Pérez Cabrera

    Volcano vs. volcano

    Originally published: Granma on June 14, 2021 by Michel E. Torres Corona (more by Granma)  | (Posted Jun 19, 2021)

    On the anniversary of his birth, we recall the volcanic strength Ernesto Guevara carried within, already evident in the young man who met Fidel in Mexico.

  • Protesters block the street in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 8, 2019, as the court hears arguments on whether gay and transgender people are covered by a federal law barring employment discrimination on the basis of sex. (Credit: Bill Clark/Getty Images)

    Celebrating Pride Month: Honoring the movement to end discrimination against LGBTQ people amid record-breaking year for anti-trans laws

    Originally published: Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on June 17, 2021 by Scott McCoy (more by Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC))  | (Posted Jun 19, 2021)

    June is Pride Month–a time set aside to honor the Stonewall uprising, which launched the movement to end discriminatory laws against LGBTQ people–and to remember the many important cultural and legislative victories since that pivotal summer in 1969.

  • NATO heads of state at the alliance’s summit in Brussels

    What does Biden’s summit spree tell us about the future of U.S. empire?

    Originally published: Newspaper of the Party for Socialism and Liberation on June 17, 2021 by Walter Smolarek (more by Newspaper of the Party for Socialism and Liberation)  | (Posted Jun 19, 2021)

    Joe Biden took part in several key international meetings over the last week covering a wide range of issues but with one key goal in mind: intensify the new Cold War with China and construct a global front towards this end.

  • Dora Maria Tellez (left) and Hugo Torres(right) campaigning in 2008 for US government supported right wing banker Eduardo Montealegre, candidate of ex-President Arnoldo Aleman's right wing PLC party | Photo: Tortilla con Sal

    Nicaragua’s political opposition as organized crime

    Originally published: teleSUR English translation from Tortilla con Sal on June 17, 2021 by Stephen Sefton (more by teleSUR English translation from Tortilla con Sal)  | (Posted Jun 19, 2021)

    Despite numerous reports in international media to the contrary, none of the people arrested had been selected by any of Nicaragua’s political alliances or parties as possible candidates for the upcoming general election on November 7th this year.

  • Eldridge Cleaver with members of the Black Panther Party

    Lessons from Eldridge Cleaver and the Black Panther Party

    Originally published: Hood Communist on June 10, 2021 by Ahjamu Umi (more by Hood Communist)  | (Posted Jun 19, 2021)

    “Revolutionary or Death” is the 2020 biography written about former Black Panther Party (BPP) Minister of Information Leroy “Eldridge” Cleaver.

  • Anti-NATO and anti-war protest in Brussels, on the day of the NATO summit in the city on June 14, 2021. Photo: PTB

    From G7 to NATO meetings, imperialist powers turn more aggressive towards China

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on June 15, 2021 by Anish R M (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jun 18, 2021)

    In both the crucial summits of global north nations, political leaders led by U.S. president Joe Biden, made sweeping and unsubstantiated charges against China.

  • Photo by the International Monetary Fund.

    The Techfare state: The ‘new’ face of neoliberal state regulation

    Originally published: Developing Economics on June 15, 2021 by Ali Bhagat and Rachel Phillips (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted Jun 18, 2021)

    recent article in the New York Times takes aim at ‘How Big Tech Won the Pandemic’, highlighting how in the last year alone, Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook posted a combined revenue of more than $1.2 trillion.

  • Walter Rodney Quote

    Walter Rodney’s death records to be amended and children’s books placed in schools

    Originally published: Demerara Waves on June 10, 2021 by Denis Chabrol (more by Demerara Waves)  | (Posted Jun 18, 2021)

    The martyred revolutionary’s assassination has finally been acknowledged by the Guyana state, and his works will become part of the educational curriculum.

  • French Citizens Convention on Climate Change

    For an ecosocialist transition that breaks from capitalism: Arguments and proposals

    Originally published: Global EcoSocialist Network Claude Calame on April 13, 2021 (more by Global EcoSocialist Network Claude Calame)  | (Posted Jun 17, 2021)

    The 149 proposals issued by the French Citizens’ Convention on Climate last June, with the goal of achieving at least a 40% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2030 compared to 1990, manifestly belong to a thoroughly reformist approach.

  • View Stock/People Visual

    China fantasizes about a ‘low-desire’ life

    Originally published: Sixth Tone on June 15, 2021 by Cai Zongcheng (more by Sixth Tone)  | (Posted Jun 17, 2021)

    Tired of the urban grind, young Chinese are rejecting consumerism and decamping to the countryside. That’s not the same thing as fighting back.

  • Hallie Flanagan, Director of the FTP Flanagan on CBS Radio for the Federal Theatre of the Air, 1936. Courtesy, Wikipedia Commons.

    The WPA’s Federal Theatre: Creating jobs and creative achievement

    Originally published: National Jobs for all Network on June 10, 2021 by Sheila Collins and Trudy Goldberg (more by National Jobs for all Network) (Posted Jun 17, 2021)

    A brief but spectacular achievement, the New Deal’s Federal Theatre Project (FTP) (1936-1939) provided jobs for some 13,000 destitute people at its height and created and produced 63,600 performances of 1,200 major theatrical works.

  • Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

    Remembering Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara on his 93rd birth anniversary

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on June 14, 2021 by Shubham Sharma and Rishav Sharma (more by NewsClick.in)  | (Posted Jun 16, 2021)

    ‘A man who acted as he thought best and who has been absolutely faithful to his convictions.’

  • Venezuelans queue to get vaccinated against Covid-19 in central Caracas. (Carolina Alcalde / VOA)

    Outrage as COVAX reports blocked vaccine payments, U.S. sanctions blamed

    Eds.

    Venezuela’s efforts at the Copa America football tournament have also been derailed after 15 players and staffers caught the virus, prompting calls for an investigation.

  • A mural of Salvador Allende in a street in Santiago de Chile, on the occasion of his birth centenary.

    Latin America: in a permanent state of coup

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on May 31, 2021 by Zósimo Camacho (more by Orinoco Tribune)  | (Posted Jun 15, 2021)

    In Latin America, coups d’état are always underway. When a government goes beyond being merely procedurally democratic and advances towards social justice, the always latent coup mechanisms are accelerated.

  • A photograph of Alamo Plaza from approximately 1910, showing the Hugo & Schmeltzer building attached to the Alamo church. ADINA EMILIA DE ZAVALA PAPERS, DI_10567, THE DOLPH BRISCOE CENTER FOR AMERICAN HISTORY, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

    ‘Forget the Alamo’ unravels a Texas history made of myths, or rather, lies

    Originally published: Texas Observer on June 10, 2021 by Nic Yeager (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Jun 15, 2021)

    Three Texan authors build on a long tradition of dissent from patriotic accounts of Texas history in a new book on the racism baked into our story of the Alamo.

  • An intern at work in Beijing, 2017. Duan Jingkun/People Visual)

    In workplace rights debate, who’s looking out for China’s interns?

    Originally published: Sixth Tone on June 10, 2021 by Xu Miao (more by Sixth Tone)  | (Posted Jun 15, 2021)

    Fueled by pandemic restrictions and a glut of qualified applicants, competition for internship slots is growing fiercer all the time.

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    Maja Solar Graffiti in Mexico City, 2011. It reads: No Mas Feminicidios (No more murder of women).

    The gendered forms of violence in capitalist-patriarchal societies are, obviously, related to what is habitually recognized as violence against women.

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    In this reprint of the February 1994 “Notes from the Editors,” former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: “The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. Why, then, does it continue to act as though the Cold War is still on?”

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