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  • Rescue operation underway in Shaft 11. (Photo: GIWUSA)

    78 miners found starved and dehydrated to death in South African police operation against unlicensed mining

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on January 22, 2025 by Pavan Kulkarni (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jan 24, 2025)

    The bodies of 78 dead miners have been retrieved from a shaft in Buffelsfontein mine’s Shaft 11 after being trapped underground since last August by the South African police who cut-off food and water supply in its attempt to crackdown on unlicensed mining.

  • Refregier's controversial pro-labor mural shows men begging for jobs from a corrupt hiring boss. The figure at center could be union organizer Harry Bridges and the figures at right mourn two strikers killed on "Bloody Thursday," July 5, 1934, the day the police fired at strikers on Rincon Hill. Courtesy, Wikimedia Commons.

    Art on trial

    Originally published: Living New Deal on January 17, 2025 by Gray Brechin (more by Living New Deal)  | (Posted Jan 24, 2025)

    The New Deal federal art projects never received the popular support Roosevelt himself enjoyed as president.

  • Trump Reverses Sanctions on Israeli Settlers in Occupied West Bank in First Act as President

    Trump reverses sanctions on Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank in first act as president

    Originally published: Countercurrents on January 21, 2025 by Quds News Network (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Jan 23, 2025)

    The new White House website said Trump rescinded Executive Order 14115 issued on Feb. 1, 2024, which authorized the imposition of certain sanctions “on Persons Undermining Peace, Security, and Stability in the West Bank.”

  • Photo by stockcake, discarded shoes and clothing, overproduction

    Overproduction: The absurdity of suffering amidst surpluses

    Originally published: Liberation School on December 23, 2024 by Curry Malott (more by Liberation School)  | (Posted Jan 23, 2025)

    A popular coal-miner’s riddle from the 1930s summarizes one of capitalism’s most visible and absurd contradictions. After a daughter asks her father why their home is so cold, he tells her they don’t have any money to purchase coal.

  • USA

    For optimists: On the impossibility of global peace under capitalism

    Originally published: Medium on January 21, 2025 by Murat K.Girgin (more by Medium)  | (Posted Jan 23, 2025)

    Alternative Title: “For Beginners and the Forgetful: Capitalism, Imperialism, and Their Historical Cycles, and the Inevitability of a Global Redistribution War Led by the U.S.”

  • Photo: Jackie. CC2.0

    Must dance and have a moustache

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on January 20, 2025 (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted Jan 23, 2025)

    Thoughts on gay male culture as the Village People perform at the Trump inauguration.

  • Greenland

    Why Greenland? How Trump learned to love the bomb

    Originally published: theAnalysis.news on January 17, 2025 by Paul Jay (more by theAnalysis.news) (Posted Jan 22, 2025)

    As Donald Trump takes office, he has revived one of his most audacious ideas: acquiring Greenland.

  • TikTok ban

    TikTok ban paves way for suppressing speech in anti-China crusade

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on January 20, 2025 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jan 22, 2025)

    On Jan. 17, the Supreme Court launched a sweeping, unanimous assault on the First Amendment.

  • Images upon Khalida Jarrar's release showed her hair had turned white during her confinement since 26 December, 2023 (Zain Jaafar/AFP)

    ‘Beaten before release’: Israeli treatment of Palestinian prisoners casts shadow on celebrations

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on January 20, 2025 by Fayha Shalash and Mera Aladam (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Jan 22, 2025)

    Former detainees recounted abuse, violence and humiliation, even up to a few hours before they were released.

  • Climate Change is a Class Issue

    Sarah Glynn & John Clarke – “Climate Change is a Class Issue”

    Originally published: Resolute Reader Blog on November 2024 by Resolute Reader (more by Resolute Reader Blog)  | (Posted Jan 20, 2025)

    In January 2024, the World Economic Forum predicted that by 2050 climate change will cause 14.5 million deaths and $12.5 trillion in damage.

  • Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis.

    BAR Book Forum: Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis’s Book, “Abolish Rent”

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on January 15, 2025 by Roberto Sirvent (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Jan 20, 2025)

    In this series, we (BAR Book Forum) ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured authors are Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis.

  • Kemal Okuyan

    Jihadism, capitalism and neo-Ottomanism

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on January 17, 2025 by Marinella Correggia (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Jan 20, 2025)

    — “About this sudden change in Syria. Turkish Foreign Minister, said he had convinced Russia and Iran in Doha not to intervene on the side of the Syrian government, otherwise it would have been a bloodbath. It means that militarily the Russian and Iranian forces would have to face huge weaponry and mercenaries supplied by forces outside the country. Which ones?”

  • Then-president Donald Trump meets with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2019. Meta has donated $1 million to Trump’s inaugural committee. Credit: Flickr/whitehouse45 (public domain)

    Corporations and billionaires are bankrolling Trump’s inauguration

    Originally published: Liberation News on January 15, 2025 by Morgan Artyukhina (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Jan 18, 2025)

    Their message is clear: When Trump takes the presidential oath of office on Jan. 20, his job is to work for them.

  • ROOTS: Eleanor Marx

    ‘I am a Gazan’: Writing on Eleanor Marx in times of genocide on her 170th birthday

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on January 16, 2025 by Dana Mills (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Jan 18, 2025)

    The youngest daughter of Karl Marx and her unwavering humanity in the face of injustice remain relevant for our times, writes DANA MILLS.

  • interim ceasefire

    The day after the ceasefire: Boycotts, sanctions and divestments must intensify

    Originally published: Pearls and Irritations on January 17, 2025 by Cathy Peters (more by Pearls and Irritations) (Posted Jan 18, 2025)

    After 15 months of the most horrific live-streamed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Israel has been forced into an interim ceasefire. How long it will last is anyone’s guess but Israel’s contempt for any restraining agreements doesn’t offer much hope.

  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, left, meets with Canadian Governor General Mary Simon in Ottawa on September 22, 2023. [Source: ctvnews.ca]

    Canada and Ukraine: The suppression of a shameful history

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on January 16, 2025 by Robin Philpot (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Jan 18, 2025)

    A few days before Remembrance Day, November 11, 2024, the Government of Canada announced that it will not release that portion of a report produced by the Commission of Inquiry into War Criminals in Canada (Deschênes Commission) that names 900 Canadians accused of war crimes committed on behalf of the Nazis.

  • Statement by the Communist Party of Israel on the ceasefire agreement in Gaza

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on January 16, 2025 by Communist Party of Israel & Hadash (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Jan 17, 2025)

    Communist Party of Israel & Hadash: The agreement and ceasefire are important and welcomed, but it cannot be sufficient.

  • universities

    America preying on our universities

    Originally published: Pearls and Irritations on January 15, 2025 by Mike Gilligan (more by Pearls and Irritations) (Posted Jan 16, 2025)

    We should talk about a malignant influence on Australia’s security which has long been harboured unquestioned–so-called independent think tanks.

  • (ILLUSTRATION/VICTOR JUHASZ)

    Trump’s Texas tycoons

    Originally published: Texas Observer on January 13, 2025 by Justin Miller (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Jan 16, 2025)

    Meet the Lone Star megadonors, think tankers, and politicians poised to play big roles in Trump’s comeback tour.

  • Chickens in a factory farm. Credit: Rawpixel

    Bird flu: Another capitalist crisis

    Originally published: Liberation News on January 12, 2025 by Cecilia Paz (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Jan 16, 2025)

    Since 2022, the largest bird flu outbreak in history has raged across the United States.

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