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  • Siege and resistance in Gaza: an interview with Toufic Haddad

    Siege and resistance in Gaza: an interview with Toufic Haddad

    Originally published: Red Flag on June 4, 2018 by Omar Hassan (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Jun 12, 2018)

    For more than 10 weeks, Palestinians have gathered in protest every Friday at the Israeli-Gaza Strip buffer zone, located in the perimeter of the 1949 armistice lines.

  • In search of a development model that doesn’t leave out people and the environment

    Originally published: The Daily Star on June 8, 2018 by Anu Muhammad (more by The Daily Star)  | (Posted Jun 12, 2018)

    Is it possible to have a development model that can work in harmony with people and nature?

  • Image Coutesy: New York Magazine

    Can someone inform Donald Trump that Muhammad Ali doesn’t need his pardon?

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on June 9, 2018 by News Click Reports (more by NewsClick.in)  | (Posted Jun 11, 2018)

    “The power to pardon is a beautiful thing,” said Trump.

  • White farms and black farms: will South African land finally shed apartheid’s proportions?

    Originally published: Mint Press News on June 8, 2018 by Jon Jeter (more by Mint Press News)  | (Posted Jun 09, 2018)

    Many here say that South Africa’s constitution has never been an impediment to land redistribution; the problem was always the political will of the ANC, which abandoned Marxist ideology for a neoliberal approach.

  • Bike couriers and rideshare drivers often cannot earn the minimum wage, face risks from accidents and have no leave or other entitlements.

    Taming the gig economy

    Originally published: Green Left on June 1, 2018 by Richard McEncroe (more by Green Left)  | (Posted Jun 08, 2018)

    On May 21 Australian Greens deputy leader Adam Bandt introduced a small but potentially significant private member’s bill into the House of Representatives.

  • Immigration Temporary Status

    UN calls on U.S. to “immediately halt” policy of detaining migrant children

    Originally published: Mint Press News on June 6, 2018 by Jessica Corbett (more by Mint Press News)  | (Posted Jun 07, 2018)

    The United Nations human rights office says the practice “amounts to arbitrary and unlawful interference in family life, and is a serious violation of the rights of the child.”

  • Zillah Eisenstein

    Zillah Eisenstein and Damayan: race, gender and socialism

    Originally published: Antoinette George Youtube Channel on September 3, 2017 by Antoinette George (more by Antoinette George Youtube Channel) (Posted Jun 07, 2018)

    Zillah Eisenstein is one of the foremost political theorists and activists of our time.

  • Its a pipeline (Cartoon by Ingrid Rice.)

    Canada’s dirty $20-Billion pipeline bailout

    Originally published: The Tyee on May 29, 2018 by Andrew Nikiforuk (more by The Tyee)  | (Posted Jun 06, 2018)

    Finance Minister Bill Morneau has proposed sacrificing Canadian taxpayers to bail out an uneconomic U.S. pipeline owned by former Enron executives.An opportunity for new journalists to examine BC’s historic referendum on electoral reform.

  • Marx and nature

    Marx and nature

    Originally published: International Socialist Review (ISR) on Issue #109, 2018 by Elizabeth Terzakis (more by International Socialist Review (ISR))  | (Posted Jun 06, 2018)

    At the end of January 2018, the rollercoaster ride that is the Trump presidency took another unexpected turn: the leader of the free world claimed that the United States could reenter the 2015 Paris climate agreement—if the U.S. were given a “completely different deal.”

  • Mental illness

    Mental illness and the psychological trap – a political problem

    Originally published: Alternative Information & Development Centre on May 17, 2018 by Kea Seipato (more by Alternative Information & Development Centre)  | (Posted Jun 06, 2018)

    Mental illness is a serious problem, reaching epidemic status, and the problem is increasing rapidly amongst young people not only in South Africa but globally. There is a tendency in society to either: (1) disregard mental illness as a serious problem, or (2) to recognise mental illness as a problem but fail to treat the underlying causes that result in mental illness.

  • Marx’s Birthday and the Dismal Science: A Few Observations

    Marx’s birthday and the dismal science

    Originally published: Developing Economics on May 29, 2018 by Carolina Alves and Ingrid H. Kvangraven (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted Jun 05, 2018)

    With 2017 marking the 150th anniversary of Capital and 2018 marking the bicentennial of the birth of Karl Marx, it is not a surprise that the number of events and exhibitions celebrating Marx’s work and exploring the significance of Marxism in the world today have gone through the roof.

  • Philadelphia Poet Laureate Raquel Salas Rivera's new book, "Lo terciario / The Tertiary," revisits Karl Marx's "Capital" to critique Puerto Rico's debt crisis from a queer decolonial lens. Photo: Raquel Salas Rivera

    Understanding Puerto Rico’s debt crisis through Marx, monsters and a queer decolonial lens

    Originally published: ColorLines on May 31, 2018 by Catherine Lizette Gonzalez (more by ColorLines)  | (Posted Jun 05, 2018)

    Colorlines talks to Philadelphia poet laureate Raquel Salas Rivera about their new book, “lo terciario/the tertiary,” which revisits Karl Marx’s “Capital” to examine Puerto Rico’s debt crisis from a queer decolonial lens.

  • Danny Glover

    Imperialism has had a tough week

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on June 1, 2018 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  | (Posted Jun 04, 2018)

    Just when you think things are far too bleak, the human spirit rises to surprise you. In Brazil, the truckers went on an extended strike. They are angry about the fuel prices. It has made it impossible for them to make a living.

  • People walking through flooded waters (Photo: Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images.)

    Hurricane Maria death count over 5,000–not 64, new study finds

    Originally published: Left Voice on May 30, 2018 by Juan Cruz Ferre (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Jun 02, 2018)

    A recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine estimates the number of deaths caused directly or indirectly by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico at over five thousand.

  • 1. U.S. household debt non-housing v disposable income 1991 -2017

    Where the debt slaves are the most vulnerable

    Originally published: Wolf Street on May 22, 2018 by Wolf Richter (more by Wolf Street) (Posted Jun 02, 2018)

    This type of chart is trotted out constantly these days to show that American households are in fabulous shape when it comes to their ability to service their blistering record debts.

  • Bill Morneau

    Canadian government to buy disastrous oil pipeline to ensure it gets built

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on May 30, 2018 by Morning Star (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Jun 01, 2018)

    CANADA’S federal government said today it is buying a controversial pipeline from the Alberta oil sands to the Pacific coast to ensure it gets built.

  • North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches parade.

    North Korea has good reason to be wary of a Trump deal

    Originally published: Mint Press News on May 31, 2018 by James Carey (more by Mint Press News)  | (Posted Jun 01, 2018)

    Though Trump’s threats against North Korea have lacked some of the grace with which his predecessors operated, to Pyongyang, U.S diplomacy has been marked by 65 years of broken promises and outright aggression.

  • Photo: WHO/Laurent Cipriani

    Temperature rose at World Health Assembly over Palestine discussion

    Originally published: The Dawn News on May 28, 2018 by WHO Team (more by The Dawn News)  | (Posted May 31, 2018)

    The draft decesion asking the WHO to continue with health-related technical support in Palestine, was adopted by 90 votes in favour and 6 against, namely Australia, Canada, Guatemala, Israel, UK and USA.

  • All The Best: The Leo Panitch Show

    All the best: the Leo Panitch show

    Originally published: Novara Media on May 24, 2018 by Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin (more by Novara Media)  | (Posted May 31, 2018)

    Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin sit in starstruck awe as Professor Leo Panitch explains how the world works in a dulcet Canadian accent.

  • Nicolás Maduro has always remained close to his people, both in moments of celebration and in more difficult times. Photo: AVN

    How can the resistance of the Venezuelan people and Nicolás Maduro’s government be explained?

    Originally published: Granma on May 28, 2018 by Dayron Rodríguez Rosales (more by Granma)  | (Posted May 30, 2018)

    Despite economic war, sabotage, low oil prices, international sanctions, and political violence, the Venezuelan people are still standing and supporting the leaders of the Bolivarian Revolution.

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