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Xi’s leftward shift to a socialist China is for real
Purge of ally in power base Zhejiang Province sends shudders across country.
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Under the influence of Lewontin: Volume Two
Friends and colleagues of Dick Lewontin are sharing their stories and reflections.
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Venezuela’s gangs have been turned into armed capitalist enterprises (Part II)
Criminologist Andrés Antillano examines a high-profile security operation to neutralize criminal activity in the Cota 905 district in July.
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We leaked the upcoming IPCC report!
The report explicitly states that incremental change is not a viable option. It states that individual behavioural changes alone are insignificant. It states that justice, equity and redistribution are essential to climate policy.
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AJC is panicked by United Church of Christ’s solidarity with Palestinians under settler-colonialism
The United Church of Christ resolution calling Israel’s continued “oppression” of Palestinians a “sin” has alarmed the American Jewish Committee and for good reason: Other Protestant churches are sure to follow, with measures that pose a real threat to apartheid.
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You won’t believe the clickbaity chaos of Chinese apps
For China’s tech companies, user growth is increasingly all about having the pushiest push notifications.
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‘Inflamed’ shows how an unjust world is making us sick
A new book from UT Austin research professor Raj Patel and UC San Francisco physician Rupa Marya argues that our bodies, our society, and our planet are inflamed.
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Venezuela’s gangs have been turned into armed capitalist enterprises (Part I)
Criminologist Andrés Antillano looks at the causes of the transformation of Venezuela’s gangs.
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The Laura Flanders Show: An Indigenous roadmap for a just transition
Weekly in-depth interviews with forward-thinking people in the worlds of arts, entrepreneurship and politics with Laura Flanders.
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The World must pay attention to the violence against Muslims in India
From Ajmer to Indore, recent incidents show that the continuing hate-mongering by right-wing forces is having a direct impact.
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The case of the vanishing boss
This article summarizes the manuscript, “The Two-Employer Problem: Strategic Dilemmas at the Heart of the Tipped Wage Debate,” a co-winner of the 2021 Albert Szymanski-T.R. Young/Critical Sociology Marxist Sociology Graduate Student Paper Award.
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Revolutionary socialism is the primary political ideology of The Red Nation
This position paper of the Third General Assembly formally adopts revolutionary socialism and liberation as the primary political ideology of The Red Nation.
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The blood never dries
While our government wants us to step back and forget what we know about the violence of Britain’s imperial state, Richard Gott says it’s time for a much deeper reckoning.
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Worst air in the world? Salt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake City has ranked first for worst air quality in the world twice in the past two weeks. While poor air quality is not a new problem for Utah, the climate crisis is exacerbating the problem due to the devastating increase in wildfires caused in large part by climate change-fueled severe droughts throughout the region in the warmer months.
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Prioritising profits reversed health progress
Instead of a health system striving to provide universal healthcare, a fragmented, profit-driven market ‘non-system’ has emerged. The 1980s’ neo-liberal counter-revolution against the historic 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration is responsible.
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Richard Lewontin: Race science for the people
We can now say with great confidence that our species, anatomically modern humans, does not have biological races. We know this in large part due to the contributions of Richard C. Lewontin.
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As Kabul is retaken, papers look back in Erasure
Corporate media coverage of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the collapse of the country’s U.S.-backed government has offered audiences more mystification than illumination.
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Streamers versus socialism
Dennis Broe reports on how the streaming services are attempting to subvert government-financed and often more progressive film and television production
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Assassins of South African trade unionist at large as labor dispute continues
Malibongwe Mdazo, an organizer of National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, who had led a 7,000-worker strike last month, was publicly gunned down at the doorstep of Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, amidst a labor dispute on August 19.
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‘The Blockade Against Venezuela: Measures and Consequences’
In recent years, the United States and its allies have unleashed a devastating blockade against Venezuela in hopes of triggering regime change.