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  • In 1898, upwardly mobile Blacks in Wilmington, NC were terrorized and slaughtered in a violent insurrection that set the stage for Jim Crow – and the next 123 years. Hardly anyone really knows about it.

    America hasn’t reckoned with the coup that blasted the Black middle class

    Originally published: Institute for New Economic Thinking on April 29, 2021 by Lynn Parramore (more by Institute for New Economic Thinking)  | (Posted May 07, 2021)

    In 1898, upwardly mobile Blacks in Wilmington, NC were terrorized and slaughtered in a violent insurrection that set the stage for Jim Crow–and the next 123 years. Hardly anyone really knows about it.

  • Is Michael Burnham a Mary Sue?

    Star Trek: Progressivism and corporatism don’t mix (part 1)

    Originally published: Axis of Logic on April 30, 2021 by Kim Petersen (more by Axis of Logic) (Posted May 06, 2021)

    The television series Star Trek has appeared in several iterations with a few handfuls of movies thrown in that have fired the imaginations of viewers of all ages for nigh 55 years.

  • wo recent books, including bestseller "Capitalism in the Anthropocene" (R), released by Kohei Saito are pictured on April 14, 2021. (Kyodo)

    More young Japanese look to Marx amid pandemic, climate crisis

    Originally published: Kyodo News on May 5 2021 (more by Kyodo News) (Posted May 06, 2021)

    As the global challenge of climate change mounts and the coronavirus pandemic magnifies economic inequalities, Karl Marx, who pointed to the contradictions and limitations of capitalism, is gaining new admirers in Japan, particularly among the young.

  • Community Infrastructure and the Care Crises: An Evaluation of China’s COVID-19 Experience

    Community Infrastructure and the Care Crises: An evaluation of China’s COVID-19 experience

    Originally published: India China Institute on March 18, 2021 by Ying Chen (more by India China Institute)  | (Posted May 06, 2021)

    COVID-19 has exacerbated the gendered impact of care work globally, but lessons can be learned from countries like China that have relied on community organizations for solutions.

  • CONAIE leader Leonidas Iza — ‘The Correismo/anti-Correismo polarisation only benefits the right’

    CONAIE leader Leonidas Iza — ‘The Correismo/anti-Correismo polarisation only benefits the right’

    Originally published: Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal on April 23, 2021 (more by Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal)  | (Posted May 05, 2021)

    Nodal spoke with Leonidas Iza, president of the Indigenous and Campesino Movement of Cotopaxi (MICC), in between two elections.

  • Biden uses first major address to lay out his program for the working class

    Biden uses first major address to lay out his program for the working class

    Originally published: Liberation on April 30, 2021 by Walter Smolarek (more by Liberation)  | (Posted May 05, 2021)

    In his first speech to a joint session of Congress on April 28, Joe Biden made the calculation that he needed to directly address the needs of the working class.

  • Shocking Omissions: ‘Capitalism’s Conscience – 200 Years Of The Guardian’ – John Pilger and Jonathan Cook Respond

    Shocking omissions: ‘Capitalism’s Conscience – 200 Years Of The Guardian’ – John Pilger and Jonathan Cook respond

    Originally published: Media Lens on April 19, 2021 by DE (more by Media Lens)  | (Posted May 05, 2021)

    Freedman notes that Guardian editor, Kath Viner, promised that her newspaper would ‘challenge the economic assumptions of the last three decades’, ‘challenge the powerful’ and ‘use clarity and imagination to build hope’.

  • A man carrying wood walks past the funeral pyres of those who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during a mass cremation, at a crematorium in New Delhi, India April 26, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Adnan Abidi

    Behind the lives lost during the pandemic lie India’s failing public institutions

    Originally published: The Wire on May 4, 2021 by A.R. Vasavi (more by The Wire)  | (Posted May 05, 2021)

    The privatisation model pursued by successive governments, in health to education, has led to the perpetuation of class and caste divides, with the poor often left to suffer.

  • Intellectual monopoly capitalism and its effects on development

    Intellectual monopoly capitalism and its effects on development

    Originally published: Developing Economics on April 7, 2021 by Cecilia Rikap (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted May 04, 2021)

    What is new with contemporary (global) leading corporations? If gigantic monopolies are a repeated phenomenon in capitalism’s history, why all the fuss we see every day regarding high concentration?

  • Richard Wright

    Notes from the underground

    Originally published: Inside Higher Ed on April 23, 2021 by Scott McLemee (more by Inside Higher Ed)  | (Posted May 04, 2021)

    Scott McLemee reviews The Man Who Lived Underground: A Novel by Richard Wright.

  • Protesters wearing masks and holding up signs at a racial justice protest in Foley Square in New York City on June 2, 2020, USA. (Photo: Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images)

    International rights experts condemn U.S. police killings as ‘Crimes Against Humanity’

    Originally published: Common Dreams on April 27, 2021 by Julia Conley (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted May 04, 2021)

    “The world is not only watching, it’s judging.”

  • Julian Casablancas Interviews Noam Chomsky | SOS Earth is a Mess

    Julian Casablancas interviews Noam Chomsky | SOS Earth is a mess

    Originally published: Rolling Stones Youtube Channel on April 26, 2021 (more by Rolling Stones Youtube Channel) (Posted May 01, 2021)

    Julian Casablancas has released a new interview with famed philosopher, linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky on the latest episode of his Rolling Stone interview series, S.O.S. — Earth Is a Mess.

  • Sexed Semen—Why the Technology of Producing Only Female Calves Should be Opposed Firmly

    Sexed semen—Why the technology of producing only female calves should be opposed firmly

    Originally published: Countercurrents on April 29, 2021 by Bharat Dogra (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted May 01, 2021)

    There is a fast increasing trend in cattle breeding towards sex semen technology which will result in birth of only female calves. 90 per cent success in ensuring success (in terms of having only female calves) is claimed by promoters of this technology.

  • Military Spending

    Amidst pandemic and economic sufferings, 2020’s global military spending reached highest level in decades

    Originally published: Countercurrents on April 27, 2021 by CounterCurrents Collective (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted May 01, 2021)

    In 2020, nations were struggling to support their economies through the times of hardships and lockdowns caused by the pandemic. Those efforts apparently did not prevent governments from spending more money on their militaries than ever before in more than three decades, the report said.

  • Anti-coup protesters flash the three-finger salute, holding banner read " Yangon Strike will defeat all enemies" during a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, on Monday, April 26, 2021

    The Myanmar coup and Aung San Suu Kyi

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on April 2021 by Kenny Coyle (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Apr 30, 2021)

    In this second part of the Morning Star’s exclusive interview with a spokesman from the Communist Party of Burma, KENNY COYLE asks how they analyse the roots of the conflict between the military elite and the National League for Democracy

  • Emma Dowling takes on in her new book, The Care Crisis: what caused it and how can we end it?

    Review – The Care Manifesto, The Care Crisis

    Originally published: Red Pepper on April 27, 2021 by Emily Kenway (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Apr 29, 2021)

    Reviewing two recent books on care in the 21st century, Emily Kenway suggests the only solution to the current crisis lies in a full-scale reorganization of our political economy.

  • Anti-protest Police

    Reporting demonstrates multiple links between white supremacists and police

    Originally published: Project Censored on April 14, 2021 (more by Project Censored)  | (Posted Apr 29, 2021)

    Sworn police officers take an oath to protect and serve. Recent independent news reports have drawn attention to the growing number of white supremacists and white nationalists infiltrating local law enforcement agencies, calling into question police officers’ commitment and ability to uphold this oath when encountering people and communities of color.

  • Protesters against the February coup have faced brutal and often deadly state violence

    Myanmar’s communists speak out on the coup

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on April 26, 2021 by Kenny Coyle (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Apr 29, 2021)

    In the first of a two-part series KENNY COYLE interviews the Communist Party of Burma about the social and economic mismanagement of the military regime.

  • Víctor Dreke

    Today, defense of the revolution rests with the media

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on April 25, 2021 by Steve Lalla and Saheli Chowdhury (more by Orinoco Tribune)  | (Posted Apr 28, 2021)

    Víctor Dreke, legendary commander of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, called for those defending the Revolution today to recognize that the battlefield of the 21st century is the media.

  • A 4-year-old boy holds a sign at a rally to raise awareness of anti-Asian violence, in Los Angeles, March 13, 2021. Ringo Chiu/AFP/People Visual

    Parenting in a time of anti-Asian hate

    Originally published: Sixth Tone on April 27, 2021 by Xu Jing (more by Sixth Tone)  | (Posted Apr 28, 2021)

    The author, an expert in early childhood development, shares her struggles in talking to her own child about racism.

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