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  • New York hosted the UN Special Committee on Decolonization session. Photo: Prensa Latina

    Puerto Rico’s inalienable right to self-determination and independence reiterated in the UN

    Originally published: Granma on June 19, 2018 by International News Staff (more by Granma)  | (Posted Jun 28, 2018)

    This Monday saw a session of the UN Special Committee on Decolonization, and the approval of a draft resolution that would call upon the U.S. to facilitate the island’s self‑determination.

  • A Salsa band playing on the street in Trinidad, Cuba. Image: Pixabay

    A Marxist theory of music: it’s all in the groove

    Originally published: rs21 on June 17, 2018 by Kate Bradley (more by rs21)  | (Posted Jun 28, 2018)

    It is a defence of popular music, but in the first place it is an attempt to explain why the music of our time sounds the way it does.

  • Epicurus

    On Marx and Epicurus

    Originally published: International Communist Current on February 17, 2018 by ICConline (more by International Communist Current) (Posted Jun 25, 2018)

    Given the fragments, literally, of the works of Epicurus available to Marx at the time, the materialist analysis that he manages to develop from them is pretty amazing.

  • Energy treaty

    What you didn’t know about the new global treaty to rule them all

    Originally published: TruePublica on June 21, 2018 (more by TruePublica)  | (Posted Jun 25, 2018)

    A new report from Corporate Europe Observatory and TNI exposes how the little-known Energy Charter Treaty gives corporations the power to obstruct the transition from climate-wrecking fossil fuels towards renewable energy.

  • Hammers, axes will help test Trump border wall prototypes | Daily Mail Online

    It’s official: The United States is a rogue state

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on June 21, 2018 by Black Alliance for Peace Coordinating Committee (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted Jun 23, 2018)

    It is clear U.S. officials have no intention of operating within the rule-based international order designed to govern relations between states and between people and governments.

  • A man takes a break near at a plastics recycling mill in Wuhan, China back in 2008. China moved to dramatically reduce foreign plastic waste imports in January. Photo: China Photos/Getty Images Plastics crisis set to intensify as more countries look to restrict foreign waste Data analysis reveals sharp rise in exports to Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Poland amid concerns of countries being ‘flooded’ by waste imports

    Plastics crisis set to intensify as more countries look to restrict foreign waste

    Originally published: Unearthed on June 14, 2018 by Joe Sandler Clarke and Emma Howard (more by Unearthed)  | (Posted Jun 22, 2018)

    Data analysis reveals sharp rise in exports to Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Poland amid concerns of countries being ‘flooded’ by waste imports.

  • Photo: Center for Border Protection (repression)

    Xenophobia in America: immigrant children detention centers promote terror and fear

    Originally published: Left Voice on June 19, 2018 by Leo Zino (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Jun 21, 2018)

    U.S. Immigration Patrol is detaining immigrant families and separating parents from their children.

  • Venezuela’s Maduro Unveils Renewed 'Young and Feminist' Cabinet

    Venezuela’s Maduro unveils renewed ‘young and feminist’ cabinet

    Eds.

    The president has expanded his team beyond the ruling PSUV with the surprise incorporation of Tupamaro’s Hipolito Abreu.

  • Watch Kshama Sawant call out councilmembers

    Watch Kshama Sawant call out councilmembers who voted to repeal the Amazon tax

    Originally published: Socialist Alternative on June 14, 2018 by Kshama Sawant (more by Socialist Alternative)  | (Posted Jun 21, 2018)

    Only days after passing a tax on Amazon and big business in Seattle, the corporate politicians in Seattle repeal the ordinance.

  • Prof. Kumar David

    ‘Corbynomics’ as fair and caring socialism

    Originally published: Colombo Telegraph on June 17, 2018 by Kumar David (more by Colombo Telegraph)  | (Posted Jun 20, 2018)

    Karl Polanyi’s reciprocal, redistributive substantive-socialism; ‘Corbynomics’ as fair and caring socialism.

  • Walter Rodney

    Potency of Walter Rodney’s ideas 38 years after assassination

    Originally published: Pambazuka News on June 15, 2018 by Wazir Mohamed (more by Pambazuka News)  | (Posted Jun 20, 2018)

    Thirty-eight years have passed since Walter Rodney was assassinated in Guyana on 13 June 1980 in Georgetown, Guyana’s capital city, but his legacy lives on beyond his home-country.

  • New battlegrounds in the class war

    New battlegrounds in the class war

    Originally published: Red Pepper on June 8, 2018 by Joe Hayns (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Jun 19, 2018)

    Joe Hayns talks to Kim Moody about how global capital is reshaping the terrain of class struggle-and how workers are adapting.

  • On the 90th anniversary of his birth, Che Guevara remains an icon

    Originally published: Granma on June 14, 2018 by Juvenal Balán (more by Granma)  | (Posted Jun 19, 2018)

    Offers a series of photographs to show that 90 years after his birth, the image of Che Guevara can be found even in the most unlikely places. His image continues to form part of Cuban daily life, as vivid and intense as during those first years of the Revolution.

  • 7 Ways White Corporate America Killed Black Radio Atlanta Blackstar (Photo: atlantablackstar.com)

    Upholding black radical internationalism

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on June 8, 2018 by Coordinating Committee of Black Alliance for Peace (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted Jun 18, 2018)

    A wise person said being attacked by one’s enemies means you have become effective. Events over the last weekend at the Left Forum in New York City prove the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) is now seen as a threat, making our 1-year-old organization a target.

  • Tribute to Paul Sweezy: A rapid comment on the article « A Marxist Correspondence »

    Tribute to Paul Sweezy: A rapid comment on the article A Marxist Correspondence

    Originally published: Blog Di Rivincita Sociale on June 1, 2018 by Paul De Marco (more by Blog Di Rivincita Sociale) (Posted Jun 18, 2018)

    All those who like me have learned much from Paul Sweezy’s down-to-hearth, pragmatic but scientifically loyal Marxist approach will be delighted by Tom Mayer’s review of the book written by Nicholas Baran and John Bellamy Foster, editors, The Age of Monopoly Capital: Selected Correspondence of Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy, 1949–1964

  • Camilo Mejia

    Open letter to Amnesty International by a former Amnesty International prisoner of conscience

    Originally published: Alai on June 13, 2018 by Camilo E. Mejia (more by Alai)  | (Posted Jun 15, 2018)

    Through this letter I express my unequivocal condemnation of Amnesty International with regards to the destabilizing role it has played in Nicaragua, my country of birth.

  • US-led sanctions against Venezuela have been condemned by human rights experts and are overwhelmingly unpopular among the Venezuelan population. (AVN)

    The Blockade: what happens if it continues?

    Eds.

    Venezuelan economist Luis Salas looks at the nature and makeup of the U.S.-inspired blockade against Venezuela.

  • Anthropocene Marxism

    Originally published: Mediations: Journal of the Marxist Literary Group on Volume 31, No. 2: Special Issue: Materialism and the Critique of Energy by Thomas Laughlin (more by Mediations: Journal of the Marxist Literary Group) (Posted Jun 14, 2018)

    Thomas A. Laughlin reviews Marx and the Earth by John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett.

  • Police watch supporters of Tommy Robinson during their protest in Trafalgar Square, London yesterday calling for his release from prison

    Fascists rampage through London demanding Tommy Robinson’s release

    Originally published: Morning Star on June 10, 2018 by Peter Lazenby (more by Morning Star)  | (Posted Jun 13, 2018)

    FASCISTS rampaged through central London yesterday demanding the release of far-right activist Tommy Robinson, who has been jailed for contempt of court.

  • The global pivot away from America

    Originally published: True Publica on June 6, 2018 by Graham Vanbergen (more by True Publica)  | (Posted Jun 13, 2018)

    There was a day when the world realised they’d had enough of America. It wasn’t when America turned it back on the Herculean effort to sign the world up to the Paris Climate Agreement or TTIP or America’s continuous support for Israel’s murderous actions in Gaza or various other deals that took years to iron out and negotiate that have since been trashed. It was a moment we knew was going to happen but least expected to prove so important.

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