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Marc Garneau CI students say “NO” to silence
Let’s give credit to the roughly 200 brave students who walked out of Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute last month. They were protesting how the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has handled what it considers to be antisemitism within its schools.
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China-Africa friendship continues to flourish on vaccine, trade, renewable energy
China-Africa friendship is expected to continue to flourish as cooperation is further deepened in various areas after the ongoing 8th Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) held in Dakar, Senegal.
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Whales will save the world’s climate—unless the military destroys them first
Pentagon documents estimate that 13,744 whales and dolphins are legally allowed to be killed as “incidental takes” during any given year due to military exercises in the Gulf of Alaska.
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Details of 1948 Massacres against Palestinians revealed in classified Israeli documents
Israeli government discussions on the massacres perpetrated by Israeli soldiers in 1948 were declassified for the first time this week in an investigative report published by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz and the Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research.
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Chávez the Radical XXVI: ‘What are Privatizations?’
The Bolivarian Revolution represented a break from neoliberal governments. Is the tide turning? Tatuy TV examine that in this episode of “Chávez the Radical.”
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Tibet railway in focus as China vows change for landlocked Nepal
In May 2017, Nepal joined the BRI with a hope of obtaining long-term benefits through a myriad of projects. The line has already reached Xigaze (or Shigatse) in Tibet. In July 2020 the next secton of line in Tibet from Xigaze to was still in the planning stage, although China had reportedly commenced surveying work.
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Teachers across Iran take strike action demanding jailed trade unionist is freed
Thousands of protesting teachers assembled in front of the Majlis, or Iranian parliament building, in central Tehran today demanding justice and the release from prison of a leading teacher trade unionist.
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Revisiting Marx on Alienation and Communism
A review of Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation, edited and introduced by Marcello Musto.
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The right is surging in the U.S., but there’s cause for hope
Emma Norton speaks to Sherry Wolf and Joel Geier, two long-time revolutionary socialists in the United States, about the turmoil, contradictions and possibilities of the U.S. political situation.
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ACT-UP and Win: a riveting account of NYC activism during the AIDS crisis
Sarah Schulman’s recently released political history shines light on AIDS activism that often goes unrecognized.
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The construction of Israel’s Gaza concentration camp is complete
Israel announced the completion of an underground wall and maritime barrier surrounding the besieged Gaza Strip. Not a single mainstream media outlet used the term “concentration camp” to report on it but they should have.
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Stories of resistance
Fighting back against extractivism, false solutions, and social and climate abuse around the world.
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Opaque algorithms are creating an invisible cage for platform workers
We live in a world run by algorithms. Nowhere is this more apparent than with platform companies, such as Facebook, Uber, Google, Amazon, and Twitter.
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From grassroots to lawmaker: a glimpse of China’s ‘whole-process democracy’
The notion of Chinese democracy is not the same as that in the West. The political system in China is more about consensus building within a greater voice rather than the protracted bargaining to arrive at decisions common in the West.
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The Maidan massacre in Ukraine: revelations from trials and investigations
The Maidan massacre trial and investigation produced overwhelming evidence that Maidan protesters were massacred by snipers at Maidan-controlled buildings, rather than by government snipers or Berkut policemen—who were nevertheless charged with the crime.
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Systems thinking in COVID-19 recovery is urgently needed to deliver sustainable development for women and girls
Policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the gendered aspect of pandemics; however, addressing the gendered implications of the COVID-19 pandemic comprehensively and effectively requires a planetary health perspective that embraces systems thinking to inequalities.
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U.S. shouldn’t be invited to Summit for Democracy, let alone be its host
In every one of the countries the United States has intervened in over the past decades, anti-democratic means are almost always used towards anti-democratic ends, all in the name of promoting democracy.
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COVID Omicron: The case for vaccine justice
Britain is one of the main countries to have blocked the global dropping of patents for coronavirus vaccines. If there is a major outbreak of the new Omicron variant in Britain, it will be directly due to the racist and profiteering policy of the Tory government, writes rs21 member Graham Checkley.
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GM ‘designer babies’: breakthrough or nightmare?
Only a global ban on human genetic engineering can prevent a new era of eugenics from emerging, writes Dave King.
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‘Why are you acting the Marxist?’ Frédéric Lordon on Thomas Piketty’s ‘Capital and Ideology’
On 31 January, at the Bourse du travail in Paris, Frédéric Lordon debated with Thomas Piketty on his book ‘Capital and Ideology’, at the invitation of Les Amis de L’Humanité. The following text is Frédéric Lordon’s opening speech, with minimal revisions.