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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.
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Listen To Venezuela
This film was shot in Venezuela in 2008. It provides an essential background to understanding what has been happening in Venezuela in recent times.
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Wholesale fertilizer prices expected to continue rising on lower production, higher prices
September proved to be a month of unprecedented firmness in fertilizer prices, bringing strong trends of the previous year to another level entirely.
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The condition of the working class
Everything changes and yet everything stays the same.
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‘To change course of history,’ U.S. climate movement takes aim at Biden White House
Five days of direct action and civil disobedience are planned this week to denounce “broken promises” and demand ambitious action against the planetary threat.
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Walter Rodney’s Lost Book: One Hundred Years of Development in Africa
One of the most astonishing books that Walter Rodney–the Guyanese revolutionary and historian–ever wrote was published several years after he was assassinated on 13 June 1980.
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A call to look beyond prescription opioid supply-side restrictions and include health equity when predicting opioid policy effectiveness
We read with interest the study by Rao and colleagues on opioid policy effectiveness, which extends their previous modeling efforts to predict opioid-related overdose, life-years, and QALYs. This work presents a useful framework from which to investigate policy effectiveness.