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  • Future Look 2025 - The Privatisation Of The NHS – Welcome To Little America

    Future look 2025: the privatisation of the NHS–welcome to Little America

    Originally published: TruePublica on September 24, 2018 (more by TruePublica)  | (Posted Sep 26, 2018)

    Back in 2019, the US/UK trade deal called the Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (ATIP) was signed by Washington and the new Prime Minister of Gt Britain after the failure of the previous administration to secure a deal with the European Union.

  • Helen Keller (Photo from Shutterstock.)

    The radical dissent of Helen Keller

    Originally published: YES! Magazine on September 22, 2018 by Peter Dreier (more by YES! Magazine)  | (Posted Sep 25, 2018)

    Here’s what they don’t teach: When the blind-deaf visionary learned that poor people were more likely to be blind than others, she set off down a pacifist, socialist path that broke the boundaries of her time—and continues to challenge ours today.

  • Venezuela’s Maduro Secures $5bn Chinese Loan & Joins Beijing’s New Silk Road Initiative

    Venezuela’s Maduro secures $5bn Chinese loan & joins Beijing’s new Silk Road initiative

    Eds.

    Maduro’s trip concluded with 28 bilateral agreements, including plans to import vital medical supplies and begin work on Venezuela’s fourth satellite.

  • Nicaragua's Success Threatens US Stranglehold on Latin America

    Nicaragua’s success threatens U.S. stranglehold on Latin America

    Originally published: teleSUR English on September 14, 2018 by Lauren Smith (more by teleSUR English)  | (Posted Sep 24, 2018)

    It’s imperative that President Ortega and Nicaragua be defended from covert imperialist aggression by the United States under its brand of fake ‘democracy,’ writes Lauren Smith.

  • Washington Walkouts Win Teachers Big Raises

    Washington walkouts win teachers big raises

    Originally published: Labor Notes on September 20, 2018 by Barbara Madeloni (more by Labor Notes)  | (Posted Sep 24, 2018)

    Fifteen districts started the school year on strike in Washington state—the latest to ride the West Virginia wave.

  • Hurricane thermal image.

    The politics of hurricanes

    Originally published: Socialist Project on September 18, 2018 by Phil Hearse (more by Socialist Project)  | (Posted Sep 22, 2018)

    Climate change catastrophe is, as this article is written, facing hundreds of thousands on the eastern seaboard of the United States and on the Philippines island of Luzon, as Hurricane Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut make landfall simultaneously. Mangkhut also threatens Hong Kong, South China and maybe Vietnam.

  • The Sahara Desert (Source | The Mind Unleashed)

    Trump wants Spain to build a wall across the Sahara Desert

    Originally published: MintPress News on September 20, 2018 by John Vibes (more by MintPress News)  | (Posted Sep 22, 2018)

    Since Spain only occupies a small part of the border, the wall would need to be built through many different countries.

  • Kevin “Rashid” Johnson- Thrown in Solitary for Publicizing Abuses – Redspark

    Mumia Abu-Jamal: locking down

    Originally published: Prison Radio on September 10, 2018 by Mumia Abu-Jamal (more by Prison Radio)  | (Posted Sep 21, 2018)

    September 10, 2018 Prison Radio broadcast from Mumia Abu-Jamal on the significance of a “lock down” that has been instituted for the entire state of Pennsylvania.

  • Juan Grabois

    Popular economy workers and social Argentinian leaders, imprisoned

    Eds.

    A group of union leaders, popular economy advocates, Senegalese street vendors, and militants from the Excluded Workers Movement and CTEP (MTE-CTEP) were taken into jail by Argentine police, in a situation marked by a high dose of violence and violation of their human rights Buenos Aires City.

  • Ukraine’s Right Sector rally in Kiev in 2015

    NATO’s fascist wedge in Ukraine

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on September 18, 2018 by Alex Gordon (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Sep 20, 2018)

    THE latest advert for Ukraine’s armed forces depicts chiselled military hunks over a caption: “THEY WILL PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENTS — Ukrainian Army: protecting the borders of civilisation.”

  • Social class is a social ranking. Your social class is often determined by how much money make, but it can also be determined by how you dress, ...

    The new class-blindness

    Originally published: Law & Political Economy on August 2, 2018 by Cary Franklin (more by Law & Political Economy)  | (Posted Sep 20, 2018)

    Legal advocates have scored some major class-related victories in 2018. In January, an appellate court held that the administration of California’s money bail system violated the Fourteenth Amendment rights of indigent defendants.

  • Europe Climate Migrants

    What happens when the ‘alt-right’ starts believing in climate change?

    Originally published: Jewish Currents on September 14, 2018 by Casey Williams (more by Jewish Currents)  | (Posted Sep 20, 2018)

    What does it mean for whites if climate change is real?

  • Samir Amín Foto- wikidata.org

    Boldness in the Marxist thinking of Samir Amín

    Originally published: Alai on September 13, 2018 by Marco A. Gandásegui, Jr (more by Alai)  | (Posted Sep 19, 2018)

    The great social thinker, Samir Amin, has died. The social sciences have lost three unique figures in this year. First, the Brazilian Theotonio dos Santos, who inspired many to study the world system from a radical perspective. He was followed by the Peruvian Aníbal Quijano, who posed the concept of “cultural revolution” to give the peoples of Latin America their own identity.

  • Amazon.com- The Domestication of Critical Theory (9781783484317)- Michael J. Thompson- Books

    The Domestication of Critical Theory – Michael J Thompson

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on September 13, 2018 by Neal Harris (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Sep 19, 2018)

    What passes for Critical Theory today is nugatory; it is philosophically weak, and politically compromised. In Thompson’s words, the project has ‘abandoned the search for the real mechanisms and sources of social power’.

  • Labour unveils plan for a financial transactions tax on 10th anniversary of Lehman Brothers collapse

    Labour unveils plan for a financial transactions tax on 10th anniversary of Lehman Brothers collapse

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on September 15, 2018 by Lamiant Sabin (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Sep 18, 2018)

    SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell has outlined Labour’s plans to reform the City today that include a financial transactions tax (FTT) expected to raise around £5 billion a year for public services.

  • 5 reasons not to vaccinate your child

    5 reasons not to vaccinate your child

    Originally published: El Diario on September 11, 2018 by Jose A. Pérez Ledo (more by El Diario) (Posted Sep 17, 2018)

    Ignorance is not a crime. And neither is non-vaccination, for now.

  • Trump addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2015. Greg Skidmore:Creative Commons

    Stop blaming workers for Trump’s right-wing authoritarianism

    Originally published: Communist Party USA on September 13, 2018 by Anita Waters (more by Communist Party USA)  | (Posted Sep 17, 2018)

    The search for explanations of our current political climate, especially the rise of nationalists like Marine LePen in France, Narendra Modi in India, and our own president in the United States, has led pundits to return to the concept of “authoritarian” tendencies as a psychological phenomenon.

  • Simon Hannah, A Party with Socialists in It- A History of the Labour Left, foreword by John McDonnell (Pluto 2018), xv, 262pp.

    A Party with Socialists in It

    Originally published: Counterfire on September 13, 2018 by Chris Nineham (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Sep 17, 2018)

    A history of the left in the Labour Party highlights the need for a strong extra-parliamentary movement, argues Chris Nineham.

  • For Greenhouse Gases, Half is Not Good Enough

    For greenhouse gases, half is not good enough

    Originally published: Science for the People on Special Issue, Summer 2018 by John Vandermeer (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Sep 14, 2018)

    Although a truth of science is not equivalent to the consensus of scientists, neither historically nor now, there are times when scientific facts (or truths) are of such compelling importance that a near consensus of scientific practitioners ought to be regarded as fact. Yes, when I began smoking cigarettes at age fifteen there was something […]

  • Sagar Abraham-Gonsalves takes a selfie with his parents Vernon Gonsalves and Susan Abraham as the police finished a raid on their home in Mumbai on Tuesday. Minutes later, Vernon Gonsalves was arrested. | Sagar Abraham-Gonsalves

    ‘Don’t worry, said father. Mother served the constables tea’

    Originally published: Scroll.in on August 30, 2018 by Sagar Abraham-Gonsalves (more by Scroll.in)  | (Posted Sep 13, 2018)

    Sagar Abraham-Gonsalves writes about his clawing helplessness as his father, Vernon Gonsalves, was arrested on Tuesday in the Bhima-Koregaon case.

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