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What to expect from COP26: climate action, climate justice or greenwashing?
If Karl Marx and Frederick Engels were writing the Communist Manifesto today, it is not inconceivable that they would begin with the sentence: “A spectre is haunting humanity—the spectre of extinction.”
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Cuban Leader: The U.S. Government is the true organizer and promoter of the provocation planned for November in Cuba (+video)
Polanco Fuentes drew attention to how as soon as the march was announced, it received public support from U.S. legislators, political operators and the media that encourage actions against the Cuban people, try to destabilize the country and urge military intervention.
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Right-wing Democrats gut social program budget after Biden refuses to fight
After spending weeks conducting backroom negotiations with Sen. Joe Manchin, Sen. Krysten Sinema and other right-wing Democrats in Congress over the social program budget, the Biden administration announced yesterday a “framework” that abandons some of the most important elements of the original proposal.
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World gathering of peoples for our Mother Earth and against the climate crisis – conclusions document
We are children of our Mother Earth, and as such we must take care of her and protect her, respecting her rights and fulfilling our duties and obligations to protect Mother Earth as a living and sacred being.
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Cuba-Vietnam: on the road to vaccine self-reliance
Unlike the agreements entered into by Western multinational corporations such as Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, the Cuba-Vietnam agreement sets a precedent of solidarity and prioritizes people’s health over business profits.
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Mexico’s AMLO blasts IMF for causing global crisis, after Fund takes aim at his energy policy
The IMF caused social and economic decadence in the world; they and other international financial organisations are responsible for the global crisis.
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Review: ‘The Great Climate Cop Out’
The 25 page pamphlet lays out concisely and effectively why we cannot look to heads of government under a capitalist system to come to an agreement on phasing out fossils fuels, cutting emissions and creating a more sustainable economy.
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An unrealized political possibility: remembering the Grenada Revolution
The United States overthrow of the Grenada Revolution in 1983 initiated a vicious and unrelenting regime of neoliberalism that has gutted the Caribbean nation. But revolutionary Grenada showed the world a radical alternative to capitalism and neocolonialism is possible.
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Israel’s ‘terrorist’ designation of Palestinian rights groups credits ‘apartheid’ label U.S. political establishment denies
For much of this year, Israel’s defenders have waged a successful battle to keep the word “apartheid” from entering the mainstream discourse. Israel just set that process back by smearing Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist organizations.
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75 years & counting: a history of Western regime change in Syria – Part I
Washington and London’s latest war against Syria was incubated in CIA and MI6 offices long before the manufactured “uprising” erupted in 2011.
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Neoliberalism and the crisis of higher education
Neoliberalism is the dominant ideology of this historical moment. It includes a belief in the following: the efficiency of the free market and the deregulation and privatization of the public sector that markets require; tax reduction; abandoning the welfare state; and replacing the notion of the public good with a personal responsibility for one’s own welfare.
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Review: The Alienation of Love
More than just bear it, capitalists today demand we love our exploitation. Sara Bennett reviews a new book on the new emotional demands on workers, arguing it aid us in our understanding of modern class relations.
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Communists face rare crackdown in Russia, upending old balance
Boris Kagarlitsky, a veteran left-wing dissident, holds the distinction of having been a political prisoner under the regimes of Leonid Brezhnev and Boris Yeltsin. Now he can add President Vladimir Putin to that list.
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It is time for a community approach to mental health
Abolitionists and mental health advocates in the U.S. are working to replace both police and psychiatry by reimagining how we respond to mental health crisis.
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The Holy Land Foundation Five: How U.S.-Israeli geopolitics cruelly warped the U.S. judicial process
While Bush rushed to designate the Holy Land Foundation a terrorist organization and declare that closing them down was somehow a great achievement in the fight against terrorism, the fact of the matter was that he had no proof.
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Degrowth and revolutionary organizing
Degrowth is a corrective prescription for the Global North, not the Global South. Degrowth targets the “externally conceived and managed growth-driven projects of private and government entities, from national to international levels.”
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The New Dangerous Class? The PMC and Virtue Hoarding
In a review of a new book about the ‘Professional Managerial Class’, James Foley says middle-class activists dress up conformity as a war on cultural backwardness.
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Advocates applaud Parole Board’s decision to release 76 year-old David Gilbert
After nearly 40 years in prison, Gilbert transformed his life and the lives of countless others behind bars.
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Who owns our data?
We need a model of ownership that recognizes the collective interest we have in how personal data is used, avoids the costs of private exploitation by individual firms, and does not slip into authoritarian forms of state control.
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Book Review: ‘A People’s Green New Deal’
In this book Ajl covers most of the big questions facing rational, ecosocialist design: nationalization vs localism, modernization vs degrowth, techno-scientific solutions vs indigenous knowledge.