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    Hiding the Union busters

    Originally published: The Daily Poster on June 8, 2021 by Julia Rock (more by The Daily Poster)  | (Posted Jun 11, 2021)

    The American Bar Association and corporate interests are trying to block a rule that would expose their anti-labor activities.

  • Decolonization and Communism

    Decolonization and communism

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on May 18, 2021 by Nodrada (more by Orinoco Tribune)  | (Posted Jun 10, 2021)

    While the turn towards analyzing ongoing settler-colonialism has finally reached the mainstream of North American political discussions, there is still a lack of popular understanding of the issues involved.

  • How Billion-Dollar Foundations Fund NGOs to Manipulate U.S. Foreign Policy: A Case Study from Nicaragua

    How billion-dollar foundations fund NGOs to manipulate U.S. foreign policy: A case study from Nicaragua

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on June 8, 2021 by Rick Sterling (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Jun 10, 2021)

    U.S. foreign policy is increasingly promoted by billionaire-funded foundations. The neoliberal era has created individuals with incredible wealth who, through “philanthropy,” flex their influence and feel good at the same time.

  • My friends in India dread switching on their phones in the morning for fear of seeing messages about friends who have died in the night. Beyond the selective headlines, maybe these intimate communications are the more accurate record of this terrible moment in our history.

    Inequalities are shaping how we’re fighting the Pandemic — and how we’ll remember it

    Originally published: Inequality on June 7, 2021 by Max Lawson (more by Inequality)  | (Posted Jun 10, 2021)

    COVID-19 infections in most countries have been hugely underestimated—not least because rich countries bought almost all the tests.

  • In Bogotá during Colombia’s national strike, two women hold placards that say, “We didn’t give birth to children of war” and “They got firearms, we got fire in our soul” / credit: Antonio Cascio

    After decades of oppression, Colombian women lead front lines of National Strike

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on May 28, 2021 by Natalia Torres Garzon (more by Toward Freedom)  | (Posted Jun 09, 2021)

    “Far too many women are fighting—not only for their rights, but for the rights of all,” says Yomali Torres, an Afro-Colombian activist. The 26-year-old joined throngs of women in the streets of Colombia over the past month to demand an end to patriarchal oppression at the hands of a U.S.-backed neoliberal state.

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    Sustainable Consumption: A view from the Global South

    Originally published: Social and Political Research Foundation on June 5, 2021 by Nikhil Varghese Mathew (more by Social and Political Research Foundation)  | (Posted Jun 09, 2021)

    The global discourse on sustainability has revolved around the need to transition towards “Sustainable Consumption” ever since it was introduced during the 1992 Earth Summit chaired by Maurice Strong, a Canadian businessman who made his wealth from the oil and gas industry.

  • Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism

    Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on June 3, 2021 by Christoph Hermann (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  | (Posted Jun 08, 2021)

    The book suggests a number of important modifications to the critique of global capitalism and the debates about how to solve the ecological crisis: First, it links production to consumption.

  • Ramiro Sebastián Fúnez

    Q&A: Filmmaker Ramiro Sebastián Fúnez on “Nicaragua Against Empire” & Getting the story right

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on May 24, 2021 by Julie Varughese interviewing Ramiro Sebastián Fúnez (more by Toward Freedom)  | (Posted Jun 08, 2021)

    The delegation I was on was called, “No to Sanctions in Nicaragua.” The ATC is Nicaragua’s oldest and strongest peasant workers union that played a central role in the Sandinista Revolution and was the organization that facilitated the land redistribution of over 4 million acres to peasants from the landlords, owned by the Somoza family dynasty. – Ramiro Sebastián Fúnez

  • From Post-Marxism back to Marxism?

    From post-Marxism back to Marxism?

    Originally published: Developing Economics on June 5, 2021 by Lucia Pradella (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted Jun 08, 2021)

    The catastrophe of the Great War, along with the Russian Revolution of 1917, led to a “second foundation” of Marxism. This was both political, with the birth of the Third International, and theoretical: as Lenin notably said reading Hegel’s Science of Logic in the summer 1914, since no Marxist had seriously engaged with the Logic before, none had really understood Marx’s Capital.

  • Dana Mills Rosa Luxemburg

    ‘Rosa Luxemburg’ by Dana Mills reviewed by William Smaldone

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on June 7, 2021 by William Smaldone (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Jun 08, 2021)

    More than 100 years after her murder by counterrevolutionary soldiers during the German Revolution of 1918-1919, Rosa Luxemburg continues to demand attention.

  • The Plan for Financial Sovereignty

    African financial independence is a threat to imperialism

    Originally published: Hood Communist on May 27, 2021 by Otobong Inieke (more by Hood Communist)  | (Posted Jun 07, 2021)

    African leaders had come to recognize the various factors that hinder the continent’s development and seriously jeopardize the future of its peoples. The Abuja Treaty was put in place to increase economic self-reliance, promote self-sustained development, and raise the living standard of African peoples.

  • Nicaragua's green revolution has not only seen investment in renewable sources of energy but it has also brought electrical power to areas that did not have access before. Photo: ENATREL

    Nicaragua’s green revolution

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch by Rohan Rice (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jun 07, 2021)

    While large polluting countries have refused to take necessary measures to slow the climate crisis, Nicaragua, one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, has taken impressive steps to shift to more sustainable energy.

  • ‘Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture’

    Book Review: ‘Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture’

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on May 21, 2021 by Danny Shaw (more by Toward Freedom)  | (Posted Jun 07, 2021)

    Surrounded by assasination plots and having been deceived from all sides, Louverture “was extremely reluctant to communicate his intentions even to his leading military officers, or to share power with them in any meaningful way.”

  • A women’s volunteer brigade organizes mutual aid in Kerala, India.

    India’s COVID-19 crisis: A call for people’s unity

    Originally published: Red Defender translated on May 26, 2021 by Qiao Collective - D. Liao (more by Red Defender translated)  | (Posted Jun 05, 2021)

    At the height of India’s COVID-19 crisis, some Chinese netizens saw retribution for the Modi government’s aggressive posture towards China. In this essay, Chinese blogger 红色卫士 (Red Defender) instead insists on internationalist solidarity and a distinction between the right-wing Modi government and the working class and low-caste peoples who suffer the most under his regime.

  • The Chinese Dreamers vs. the U.S. Hegemon

    The Chinese dreamers vs. the U.S. Hegemon

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on May 29, 2021 by John V. Walsh (more by Dissident Voice)  | (Posted Jun 05, 2021)

    Do China and the U.S. have fundamental goals that constitute a contradiction, that is, goals so profoundly at odds with one another that the goals cannot coexist? Unfortunately, the answer is yes.

  • Did Marx ignore race in his critique of political economy?

    Did Marx ignore race in his critique of political economy?

    Originally published: Africa Is a Country TV Youtube Channel on June 1, 2021 (more by Africa Is a Country TV Youtube Channel) (Posted Jun 05, 2021)

    Joining us on AIAC Talk to debate if the third world still needs Marx are Annie Olaloku-Teriba and Zeyad el Nabolsy.

  • Tunisian navy personnels aboard USS Hershel “Woody” Williams (ESB 4) on May 23 when the Phoenix Express 2021 was underway. Photo : AFRICOM

    AFRICOM military’s exercise: The art of creating new pretexts for propagating U.S. interests

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on June 1, 2021 by Pavan Kulkarni (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jun 05, 2021)

    Phoenix Express 2021, the AFRICOM-sponsored military exercise involving 13 countries in the Mediterranean Sea region, concluded last week. While its stated aim was to combat “irregular migration” and trafficking, the U.S. record in the region indicates more nefarious interests.

  • ‘Why Won’t She Just Leave Him?’ Domestic Violence and Lone Parents

    ‘Why won’t she just leave him?’ domestic violence and lone parents

    Originally published: Rebel News on May 19, 2021 by Leah Speight (more by Rebel News)  | (Posted Jun 04, 2021)

    Why won’t she just leave him? The answer is she can’t.

  • Pedro Castillo will participate in the second round run off elections on June 6, facing off against far-right candidate Keiko Fujimori. Photo: Daniela Ramos/ ARG Medios

    Understanding Peru’s elections from the Peasant Patrols to Fujimorism

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on June 2, 2021 by Lautaro Rivara (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jun 04, 2021)

    500 years of colonial history, 200 years of life as a republic, and 40 years of experience of the rural and urban peasant patrols movement, to understand a subject and a process that come from afar.

  • Dee Dee Watters took over as publisher of TransGriot last fall and has been searching for an editor to carry on her friend Monica Roberts legacy. (Photo: Fajar Hassan)

    The next trans griot

    Originally published: Texas Observer on May 31, 2021 by Irene Vázquez (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Jun 04, 2021)

    Few publications covered Black trans communities. After the death of Monica Roberts, TransGriot’s founder, the people she empowered grieve and begin to chart a new era.

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