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  • Worst states for blacks

    It’s not just the South: Anti-black racism in the Great Lakes

    Originally published: The Red Nation on October 27, 2020 by Brian Ward (more by The Red Nation)  | (Posted Oct 30, 2020)

    Since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis earier this year, we have witnessed the largest mass uprising in the United States’ recent history with millions taking to the streets day in and day out.

  • Red Army poster detail, Ukraine 1920

    ‘Ecological Leninism’: On waging war against the common cause of Corona and the climate crisis

    Originally published: Medium – Curious on September 27, 2020 by Justin Reynolds (more by Medium – Curious) (Posted Oct 30, 2020)

    A ferocious polemic by Andreas Malm, written as the worldwide lockdown took hold, summons the imagery of Soviet war communism to impress the urgency of our predicament.

  • ON THE FEDERATION OF ECONOMIC COMMUNES: ENGELS AND DÜHRING

    On the federation of economic communes: Engels and Dühring

    Originally published: Abstrakt on October 26, 2020 by Alp Altinors (more by Abstrakt)  | (Posted Oct 29, 2020)

    Those who “go beyond” Karl Marx’s programme of economic liberation based on the socialisation of the means of production and “reach” a programme based on the federation of economic communes remind me of this promise of Sartre.

  • An operation of fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil near Chicago, USA [Richard Hurd, Flickr CC BY 2.0]

    Greenwash

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on October 21, 2020 by Alethea Warrington (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Oct 29, 2020)

    Alethea Warrington describes how the fossil fuels industry hopes to change its image but not its practice.

  • Panic Over ‘Cancel Culture’ Is Another Example of Right-Wing Projection

    Panic over ‘Cancel Culture’ is another example of right-wing projection

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on October 23, 2020 by Ari Paul (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Oct 29, 2020)

    The Republican National Convention this year made fighting “cancel culture” a priority for the party. Former Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch wrote in the Wall Street Journal (7/27/20) that cancel culture was at the heart of the crisis facing academic freedom in the nation.

  • Screenshot from a DECE organizing call.

    Digital organizing isn’t as straight forward as it seems

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemberg Stuftung on October 20, 2020 by Aminah Sheikh (more by Rosa Luxemberg Stuftung)  | (Posted Oct 27, 2020)

    Over the past few years, digital organizing has become the hot new thing in unionization campaigns. Digital mobilization and engagement technologies have become essential to winning.

  • Against the Current Marx for Today: A Socialist-Feminist Reading – Against the Current

    An exemplary feminist mobilization

    Originally published: International Viewpoint on October 24, 2020 by Françoise Nyffeler (more by International Viewpoint)  | (Posted Oct 27, 2020)

    Female school students, with the support of feminist collectives, are mobilizing against sexist punishments put in place by their school management for wearing outfits deemed provocative.

  • Walter Rodney tribute. Photo: Walter Rodney Foundation

    Walter Rodney: Marxist, Pan-African, organic intellectual

    Originally published: Counterfire on October 23, 2020 by Sean Ledwith (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Oct 27, 2020)

    Sean Ledwith recounts the socialist revolutionary Walter Rodney’s many accomplishments and intellectual prowess.

  • Peter Linebaugh interview for Independent Left. Portrait by Anastasya Eliseeva for New Frame.

    Peter Linebaugh interview

    Originally published: Independent Left on October 22, 2020 by Johnny Flynn (more by Independent Left) (Posted Oct 27, 2020)

    Peter Linebaugh interviewed by Johnny Flynn of Independent Left.

  • Disability, Covid and Capitalism

    Disability, Covid and Capitalism

    Originally published: Rebel News on October 22, 2020 by Ruth Flood (more by Rebel News)  | (Posted Oct 26, 2020)

    With phrases like “protect the vulnerable” & “underlying conditions” currently all around us, disability activist Ruth Flood looks at the horrendous treatment of disabled people under capitalism.

  • “I approve it for my class,” reads the banner supporting the vote for a new constitution in Chile. Photo: Frente Fotográfico

    What are Chileans voting for in Sunday’s historic constitutional plebiscite

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on October 24, 2020 by Tanya Wadhwa (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Oct 26, 2020)

    Ahead of the Chilean national plebiscite, scheduled for October 25, we answer some of the key questions regarding the upcoming popular referendum.

  • Poet Suzen Baraka Tells the Truth about Voting

    Poet Suzen Baraka Tells the Truth about Voting

    Originally published: imajrefilms Youtube Channel on October 13, 2020 (more by imajrefilms Youtube Channel) (Posted Oct 25, 2020)

    Set in our nation’s capital, VOTE is a visual call to arms, highlighting the devastating contradictions that so many in America are experiencing right now, and paying homage to the countless individuals that have sacrificed and are sacrificing so that we may have the right to vote, and have our vote count.

  • Silence Is Violence

    Silence is violence

    Originally published: Jay Shetty Youtube Channel on June 18, 2020 (more by Jay Shetty Youtube Channel) (Posted Oct 25, 2020)

    If I’m not a part of the solution, then I’m a part of the problem.

  • Karl Marx Highgate Cemetary, North London, England (circa 1979).

    Karl Marx’s debt to people of African descent

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on October 21, 2020 by Biko Agozino (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy))  | (Posted Oct 23, 2020)

    You do not need to be a Marxist to agree that the methodology of historical materialism is relevant to struggles on the ground in Africa and globally, not only to the European working-class.

  • An Indonesian trade unionist with a sign reading "Labor is not a slave, cancel the omnibus bill of job creation" in Jakarta

    Indonesia’s return to an authoritarian developmental state

    Originally published: IPS Journal (International Politics and Society) on October 21, 2020 by Fahmi Panimbang (more by IPS Journal (International Politics and Society))  | (Posted Oct 22, 2020)

    With the passing of the anti-worker Omnibus Law, President Jokowi’s administration follows the path of Indonesia’s dark past.

  • The Prime Minister of Mauritius said the UK and US are "hypocrites" over the Chagos Islands dispute -- Photo Credit: Wiki CC

    Mauritian PM labels UK and U.S. ‘hypocrites’ over Chagos Islands dispute

    Originally published: Face2Face Africa on October 20, 2020 by Francis Akhalbey (more by Face2Face Africa)  | (Posted Oct 22, 2020)

    The Prime Minister of Mauritius, Pravind Jugnauth, has labeled the United Kingdom and the United States “hypocrites” and “champions of double talk” over their former colonial master’s refusal to hand over the Chagos Islands.

  • (MAS) duo, led by Luis Arce and David Choquehuanca

    The Bolivian right: Divided, without leadership

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on October 20, 2020 by Marco Teruggi (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Oct 22, 2020)

    here are still days of uncertainty until the new government is in office. What happened in Bolivia can be described as a counter-coup, in the face of a coup with strong international support that had not arrived to remain only one year in political power.

  • Zero Covid: Our Way Out

    Zero Covid: Our way out

    Originally published: Rebel News on October 19, 2020 by Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin (more by Rebel News)  | (Posted Oct 21, 2020)

    As cases continue to rise, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin argues that the only way to avoid a winter crisis and future rolling lockdowns is an All-Ireland Zero Covid strategy which protects workers and puts public health first.

  • Photo: Pixabay / Public Domain

    ‘Exhausted, angry and worried sick!’: French health workers protest

    Originally published: Counterfire on October 18, 2020 by Susan Ram (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Oct 21, 2020)

    French health and social care workers stage mass protests for better staffing, pay and conditions as a second wave of COVID-19 engulfs the country, writes Susan Ram

  • Capitalism, Slavery, and Economic White Supremacy

    Capitalism, slavery, and economic white supremacy

    Originally published: The Economic Historian on October 19, 2020 by Calvin Schermerhorn (more by The Economic Historian)  | (Posted Oct 21, 2020)

    What is at stake when we talk about the economics of North American slavery? Over the last 75+ years it has been whether capitalism superseded slavery or whether capitalism and slavery were co-constituted, capitalism to some extent relying on slavery.

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