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  • More than McCarthyism: The Attack on Activism Students Don’t Learn About from Their Textbooks

    More than McCarthyism: the attack on activism students don’t learn about from their textbooks

    Originally published: Zinn Education Project on May 28, 2021 by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca (more by Zinn Education Project)  | (Posted Jun 03, 2021)

    In legislatures across the country, Republican lawmakers are introducing bills to curtail what educators–in public schools and universities–can say and teach about racism and sexism.

  • THE HUMAN RIGHTS AND ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS ROOM IN THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE IN GENEVA, SWITZERLAND WHERE THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL FREQUENTLY MEETS. (PHOTO: UN PHOTO/JEAN-MARC FERRÉ)

    This time may be different: on the UN commission of inquiry investigating violations in the occupied Palestinian territory

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on June 1, 2021 by Lori Allen (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted Jun 03, 2021)

    Thanks to a rapidly changing political context the new UN Human Rights Council commission announced on May 27th may be different from those in the past–this one may actually help hold Israel accountable.

  • Narendra Modi at the BJP Public Meeting Public Meeting in Pune on 14th July 2013 (Photo: Wikimedia Commons - Narendra Modi)

    Two agonizing years of devastation

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on May 30, 2021 by Sitaram Yechury (more by Peoples Democracy)  | (Posted Jun 03, 2021)

    Ever since the outbreak of the pandemic, first recorded in India end January 2020, this Modi government’s preoccupation had never been on combating the pandemic in right earnest and saving people’s lives but on continuing to relentlessly pursue the unfolding of the RSS project.

  • Marcel Stoetzler

    Was Marx a climate warrior?

    Originally published: Marcel Stoetzler Youtube Channel on May 27, 2021 (more by Marcel Stoetzler Youtube Channel) (Posted Jun 01, 2021)

    This is a talk given online at the ESRC Festival of Social Science on November 11, 2020: ‘Was Marx a climate warrior?’ for a panel organized by Bangor University.

  • A group photo of “Youth With You 3” contestants, 2021. From @爱奇艺青春有你 on Weibo

    ‘Respect Money’: How a Chinese talent show put its fans up for sale

    Originally published: Sixth Tone on January 15, 2021 by Zheng Jiawen (more by Sixth Tone)  | (Posted Jun 01, 2021)

    Success on “Youth With You 3” had less to do with talent and more to do with who could buy the most votes. So why don’t fans care?

  • WESTERN MEDIA, EVEN BELLINGCAT, FAILED TO SAVE THE REPUTATION OF NEO-NAZI SOLDIER PROTASEVICH

    Western media, even Bellingcat, failed to save the reputation of neo-Nazi soldier Protasevich

    Originally published: Donbass Insider on May 28, 2021 by Christelle Néant (more by Donbass Insider)  | (Posted Jun 01, 2021)

    Since the arrest of Roman Protasevich in Minsk after the emergency landing of the Ryanair flight he was on, a real battle for his reputation has been launched between Belarus and the West.

  • Exterminate All The Brutes

    Facts are stubborn things: ‘Exterminate All The Brutes’ review

    Originally published: Counterfire on May 18, 2021 by John Westmoreland (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted May 29, 2021)

    Raoul Peck’s four-part documentary film about colonialism, slavery and genocide is a powerful and thorough exposition of the crimes of colonialism

  • © AP Photo / Patrick Semansky

    Chinese paper calls for probe of U.S.’ Fort Detrick biolab amid Wuhan Lab COVID-19 origins fracas

    Originally published: Sputnik News on May 26, 2021 by Morgan Artyukhina (more by Sputnik News)  | (Posted May 29, 2021)

    Chinese scientists sequenced the genome of SARS-CoV-2 in early January 2020 and by March of that year had “irrefutably” concluded the virus was not of human design. Since then, the goalposts have shifted repeatedly in an attempt to keep laboratory escape a viable theory, despite no evidence to support the continued supposition.

  • The Western’s Long Glorification of Oppression

    The Western’s long glorification of oppression

    Originally published: Texas Observer on May 26, 2021 by Nic Yeager (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted May 29, 2021)

    A quintessentially American, and Texan, film genre, the Western has mistold Texas history since its beginnings.

  • How ‘Justice for George Floyd!’ shook the ruling class to the core

    How ‘Justice for George Floyd!’ shook the ruling class to the core

    Originally published: Party for Socialism and Liberation - PSL on May 25, 2021 by Nino Brown (more by Party for Socialism and Liberation - PSL)  | (Posted May 28, 2021)

    On May 25, 2020, 44-year-old white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on 46-year-old unarmed Black man George Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds, sadistically murdering him.

  • Social Reproduction Feminism or Socialist Feminism?

    Social reproduction feminism or socialist feminism?

    Originally published: Left Voice on May 2021 by Josefina L. Martínez (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted May 28, 2021)

    On Susan Ferguson’s book “Women and Work: Feminism, Labour and Social Reproduction.“

  • (PHOTO: TRUTHREVOLT)

    How American support for Israel erases Palestinian identity

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on May 25, 2021 by Dorgham Abusalim (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted May 27, 2021)

    We must not lose sight of what lies behind Israel’s unbridled use of force: American support.

  • This new mural featuring Pam and Ramona Africa alongside other Black community activists was unveiled on May 11, 2021 directly across the street from Philadelphia City Hall, on the very same block where the infamous statue of Frank Rizzo once stood.–Photo: Jamal Journal staff photographer Joe Piette

    Mumia Abu-Jamal’s spiritual advisor confronts DA Krasner and the FOP

    Originally published: San Francisco Bay View on May 21, 2021 by Jamal Journal interviewing Mark Lewis Taylor (more by San Francisco Bay View)  | (Posted May 27, 2021)

    An interview with Mark Lewis Taylor, founder of Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal.

  • Xi Jinping

    All the questions socialists have about China but were too afraid to ask

    Originally published: Challenge by Alexander Norton and Keith Lamb (more by Challenge)  | (Posted May 27, 2021)

    2018, when president Xi Jinping lauded Marx as the greatest thinker of modern times at the closing speech of a 2-week celebration of his 200th anniversary and reaffirmed China’s commitment to his vision of communism, many on the left–and the right–were willing to take him seriously.

  • Richard Corcoran (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

    State Commissioner fires teacher for supporting BLM

    Originally published: Diane Ravitch's blog on May 24, 2021 (more by Diane Ravitch's blog) (Posted May 26, 2021)

    Richard Corcoran, state commissioner of education in Florida, announced that he fired Amy Donofrio, a teacher in Duval County, because she supported #BlackLivesMatter.

  • Demonstrators eating communal food at the Plaza Baquedano in 2019 (Credit José Venegas, CC BY-SA 4.0)

    The communal cooking pot

    Originally published: Red Pepper on May 24, 2021 by Jumanah Younis (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted May 26, 2021)

    In Chile, community food networks and mutual aid tell us that the revolution starts close to home writes Jumanah Younis

  • A mainstream outlet accepted my pitch on what media refuses to say about US empire – then refused to let me say it

    A mainstream outlet accepted my pitch on what media refuses to say about U.S. empire–then refused to let me say it

    Originally published: The Grayzone on May 13, 2021 by Matthew Alford (more by The Grayzone)  | (Posted May 26, 2021)

    A mainstream academic outlet called The Conversation green-lighted my article on foreign policy issues Western media refuses to discuss. With the piece ready to go live, everything went horribly wrong.

  • In May it was hotter on the coast of the Arctic Circle than in the Mediterranean. Russia is heating up three times faster than the rest of the world.

    bneGREEN: Russia’s weather goes crazy

    Originally published: bne IntelliNews on May 24, 2021 (more by bne IntelliNews)  | (Posted May 26, 2021)

    Russia’s weather has gone crazy. There is currently a heatwave inside the Arctic Circle where the coast is hotter than Mediterranean beaches.

  • Edward Snowden (Photo: Antonio Marín Segovia)

    Time for a new Toolbox

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on May 24, 2021 by John Hawkins (more by Dissident Voice)  | (Posted May 25, 2021)

    Review of Snowden’s ToolBox: Trust in the Age of Surveillance

  • Caste, Class and India’s Covid Catastrophe

    Caste, class and India’s Covid catastrophe

    Originally published: Counter Currents on May 21, 2021 by Satya Sagar (more by Counter Currents)  | (Posted May 25, 2021)

    COVID-19 patients dying on the streets gasping for oxygen. Hundreds of wailing, desperate folks searching for hospital beds to access treatment. Even the dead denied dignified funerals, their bodies dumped unceremoniously in the rivers of India.

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