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  • Revolutionary Organization in Venezuela

    Revolutionary organization in Venezuela

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on September 27, 2020 by Tatuy TV (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  | (Posted Oct 06, 2020)

    Venezuelan grassroots organizations continue fighting for the socialist project despite very tough conditions. Here is a look at five examples.

  • Why We Focus on Africa

    Why we focus on Africa

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on September 30, 2020 by Black Alliance for Peace (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Oct 06, 2020)

    Africa can’t demonstrate independence and power because the entire continent has a giant U.S. military boot on its neck.

  • The Increasingly Impossible Middle Class

    The increasingly impossible middle class

    Originally published: Against the Current on October 1, 2020 by David Roediger (more by Against the Current) (Posted Oct 05, 2020)

    IN 2010 THE Commerce Department prepared data for the Obama administration’s Middle Class Task Force, headed by Vice President Joe Biden. Sidestepping knotty problems–see below–of just who was middle class, part of their study proposed a host of expectations that a middle class family would hold.

  • Bullet hole - protest

    Whose crisis is it anyway? The problem with the shock doctrine

    Originally published: Counterfire on October 2, 2020 by Chris Nineham (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Oct 05, 2020)

    The ruling class is ruthless in trying to exploit crises, but we shouldn’t underestimate the turmoil it’s in and the opportunities to advance the struggle, argues Chris Nineham

  • Darius Simpson & Scout Bostley - "Lost Voices"

    Darius Simpson & Scout Bostley – “Lost Voices”

    Originally published: Button Poetry Youtube Channel on June 17, 2015 by Brenda Mundo Jardon (more by Button Poetry Youtube Channel) (Posted Oct 04, 2020)

    Darius Simpson & Scout Bostley – “Lost Voices” (CUPSI 2015)

  • The Truth about “The Truth about Today’s Anarchists”

    The Truth about “The Truth about Today’s Anarchists”

    Originally published: CrimethInc. on October 1, 2020 (more by CrimethInc.)  | (Posted Oct 03, 2020)

    Then comes the strangest part of the article. In a rare moment of honesty, Stockman soberly assesses the impact of the riots, and concludes, “Anarchy got results.”

  • Capital and COVID: Why the Left Needs Disability Liberation

    Capital and COVID: Why the Left needs disability liberation

    Originally published: Protean Magazine on September 28, 2020 by M.K. Anderson (more by Protean Magazine)  | (Posted Oct 03, 2020)

    This all could’ve gone differently. Bob Woodward revealed that Donald Trump knew in February that COVID was airborne, information both men declined to share with the rest of the us until just now.

  • Images of more than 100 doctors who have died during the pandemic are displayed outside the Medical College of Peru PHOTO: AFP

    Peru’s COVID-19 crisis

    Originally published: Red Flag on September 21, 2020 by Robert Narai (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Oct 01, 2020)

    Strikes and demonstrations are on the rise across Peru, as the government’s COVID-19 response has resulted in the country bearing the highest per capita infection rate and death toll in the world.

  • Wikimedia Commons File: Vietnamese registered for rapid testing (COVID-19) (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

    The key to Viet Nam’s successful COVID-19 response

    Originally published: ReliefWeb on September 1, 2020 by Kamal Malhotra (more by ReliefWeb)  | (Posted Oct 01, 2020)

    There were less than 400 cases of infection across the country during that period, most of them imported, and zero deaths, a remarkable accomplishment considering the country’s population of 96 million people and the fact that it shares a 1,450 km land border with China.

  • An anti-colonialist turn in Marx?: Questions for Thierry Drapeau

    An anti-colonialist turn in Marx?: Questions for Thierry Drapeau

    Originally published: Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal on September 24, 2020 by Seiya Morita (more by Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal)  | (Posted Sep 30, 2020)

    Drapeau writes that the Communist Manifesto “considered Western imperialism as a progressive and beneficial force drawing underdeveloped societies into bourgeois civilization”.

  • U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaking at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo: Gage Skidmore)

    Online Charter schools are not a solution to education in a pandemic

    Originally published: Citizen Truth on September 25, 2020 by Florina Rodov (more by Citizen Truth)  | (Posted Sep 30, 2020)

    Nicholas Trombetta, the founder of Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, which is unaffiliated with K12, received just 20 months in prison in 2018 for tax conspiracy after he moved $8 million from the school to a network of businesses he created and failed to pay $437,632 in taxes.

  • Picpedia Unemployment - Chalkboard image

    A missing pledge in the 2020 Democratic Party platform

    Originally published: National Jobs for All Coalition on September 2020 Issue #3 by Trudy Goldberg and Phil Harvey (more by National Jobs for All Coalition) (Posted Sep 30, 2020)

    For 52 years—from 1936 to 1988—the Democratic Party pledged support for the achievement of full or maximum employment.

  • Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons

    Charlie Chaplin and Karl Marx in conversation

    Originally published: Public Seminar on September 21, 2020 by Steven Stoll (more by Public Seminar)  | (Posted Sep 29, 2020)

    Modern Times, directed by Charlie Chaplin, was released in 1936, in the depths of the Great Depression. It opens with a clock marking the beginning of the working day and a sentence: “A story of industry, of individual enterprise—humanity crusading in the pursuit of happiness.”

  • Officers who murdered Breonna Taylor not held accountable

    Officers who murdered Breonna Taylor not held accountable

    Originally published: Liberation on September 23, 2020 by Rachel Domond (more by Liberation)  | (Posted Sep 29, 2020)

    Breonna Taylor was murdered by Louisville, KY, police while asleep in her home in March of this year. Today, the three officers responsible for her death–Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove–were not held responsible for her death.

  • RUTH BADER GINSBURG ACCEPTS ISRAELI PRIZE IN JULY 2018 IN TEL AVIV. SCREENSHOT.

    Accepting Israeli prize in 2018, RBG never mentioned Palestinians

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on September 27, 2020 by Jonathan Ofer (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted Sep 28, 2020)

    The recent death of U.S. Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg (known popularly as ‘RBG’) has brought accolades from all over the world, especially from progressives who hailed her positions.

  • Progressive sections across Europe hit the streets demanding immediate evacuation of Moria and other migrant hotspots, and immediately granting asylum to refugees. (Photo: via WFDY).

    Moria tragedy: Chronicle of an imperialist crime

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on September 25, 2020 by Muhammed Shabeer (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Sep 28, 2020)

    Progressive political sections and human rights groups across Europe had issued repeated warnings to the authorities of an imminent human tragedy at the overcrowded Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.

  • Signing ceremony of The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany

    The Sino-Russian alliance comes of age—Part 2

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on September 17, 2020 (more by Indian Punchline)  | (Posted Sep 26, 2020)

    The Russian diplomacy, which has a glorious tradition in modern history, does not make its moves accidentally or impulsively. The historical consciousness is intense.

  • This disastrous and very dangerous hatred is exacerbated now by the failed attempts to remove Maduro and Chavismo. (Archive)

    Hate: A key strategy of the Venezuelan opposition

    Eds.

    Psychologist Fernando Giuliani analyses the retaliatory feelings of those who wish to annihilate the Bolivarian Revolution, which have been overheating during the pandemic.

  • ASPI

    Sinophobia Inc: Understanding the anti-China Industrial complex

    Originally published: Qiao Collective on September 13, 2020 (more by Qiao Collective)  | (Posted Sep 26, 2020)

    Take a deep dive into the inner workings of Sinophobia Inc. to learn how to see through the media machine.

  • Photo of Sam Wallman by Elwyn Murray. All images courtesy samwallman.com

    Sam Wallman: A people’s comic artist

    Originally published: Green Left on September 15, 2020 by Andrew Chuter (more by Green Left)  | (Posted Sep 25, 2020)

    Sam Wallman is a talented political comic artist with a strong worker and union focus in his work. Based in Melbourne, he has produced pieces for SBS, The Nib, Overland, the Workers Art Collective, and a growing number of trade unions.

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