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The ‘Democratic Majority for Israel’ is a hate organization
I argued in my last article that the hatred coming from the Jewish community is not confronted because it comes in the guise of fighting antisemitism. Ten days ago we saw another example of this hatred that has no name.
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A different sort of truth
In the novel released this year, Mohamedou Ould Slahi offers a glimpse of the world he created to escape Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, writes Alexander Hartwiger.
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Eyewitness report: Cuba’s scientists, medical workers advance fight vs. COVID
After a serious rise in Cuba of illnesses and deaths from COVID-19 during the summer, there are encouraging developments with a steady recovery and downward curve in illnesses and deaths.
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The driver of dispossession
Tina Ngata explains the social and legal legacies of a 15th-century Christian principle that paved the way for imperial violence in, and far beyond, New Zealand.
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Luis Arce: An anti-imperialist climate agenda
Luis Arce Catacora: President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia Speech
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Why do bosses keep trying to kill us?
Wittenoom is an abandoned town in the desert north of Perth. Once, it had a population of almost 1,000, making it the biggest town in the Pilbara. Now, it’s been removed from maps and cut off from all essential services, to stop people from visiting.
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Build back better Legislation: new Keynesianism or neoliberal Public Relations stunt?
It is imperative that the left, particularly left forces representing Black and nationally oppressed peoples, employ a materialist, class analysis as the lens and framework to inform their critique of the BBB legislation.
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Division over IATSE deal as members organize Wildcat walkouts
Yesterday the leadership of IATSE announced that they had reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) that will avert a potential strike set to begin at midnight tonight.
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The U.S. flies Alex Saab out from Cabo Verde without court order or extradition treaty
On October 16, Colombian businessman and Venezuelan Special Envoy Alex Saab was in practical terms kidnapped for the second time, first by Cabo Verde under pressure from Washington, and now by the U.S., in flagrant violation of international law.
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‘Marx in Soho’: An Epilogue
In 1999, Howard Zinn published the sensation ‘Marx in Soho: A Play on History’. The story began with Karl Marx petitioning Heaven to come back to Earth for a short while so that he could “clear his name.”
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A City Hall whodunit: what economic and political forces are responsible for climate change?
After a summer of record heat waves, droughts and forest fires, dangerous hurricanes and floods, and melting glaciers and permafrost, the scientific explanations for the climate crisis have gained wider support.
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Why the climate movement needs the working class
The scale of the climate crisis has driven a new generation of radical young activists to demand “system change, not climate change”.
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Mike Healy: ‘Marx and Digital Machines: Alienation, Technology, Capitalism’
Healy’s exquisite book applies several recent frameworks of alienation to two groups of workers–IT workers and academics.
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Protest works! Turkish political prisoner is freed on bail but still faces trial with over 100 other leaders and activists of the left-wing HDP
PETER TATCHELL and ERIC LEE shine a light on the case of Cihan Erdal, a trade union, peace and LGBTI+ campaigner, who faces trumped-up charges in one of Turkey’s biggest mass trials.
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How capitalism shackles the fight against climate change
Journalists from the U.S. and Europe have warned that the summer of 2021 should be a wakeup call on climate catastrophe. Rightfully so.
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The Italian government confronts a new test: fascism in the streets
Here is the “eternal fascism” that Umberto Eco warned us against, when he explicated the symptoms of the virus that made Italy the incubator, and then the European model, of an anti-parliamentary regime, violent, anti-freedom, anti-Semitic and warmongering.
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Optimism of the will‑a few reflections on the impossible rebellion
Rob Marsden reviews the impact of the recent Extinction Rebellion mobilisation in London.
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Where did the dependency approach go?
Many commentators and academics interested in African development have in recent decades shown a disinclination or disdain towards incorporating ‘global capitalism’ into their analyses of countries of the continent.
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Cryptocurrency: a new and dangerous climate disruptor
The get-rich-quick scheme, banned in China and elsewhere, is invading U.S. communities unchecked, posing as an “equalizing, democratizing” currency. It’s not.
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How the “debt ceiling” has been turned into a weapon against workers
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned that the country is now just weeks away from hitting the debt ceiling.