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  • Women have borne the brunt of hunger and inequality during the pandemic

    Systemic crisis further exposes inequalities: poor women’s Global struggle against hunger and pandemic

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on October 22, 2021 by Mision Verdad (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Oct 26, 2021)

    Without a doubt, the global pandemic of COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on the economy and, consequently, on the population.

  • “Rampant Issues”: Black Farmers are Still Left Out at USDA

    “Rampant Issues”: Black farmers are still left out at USDA

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on July 15, 2021 by Ximena Bustillo (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Oct 25, 2021)

    Farmers of color received less than one percent of the payments even though they are five percent of all U.S. farmers.

  • Jeremy Corbyn Bristol rally

    A radical #greennewdeal is the only way to stop climate catastrophe – Jeremy Corbyn exclusive on #Cop26

    Originally published: Labour Outlook on October 22, 2021 by Jeremy Corbyn (more by Labour Outlook)  | (Posted Oct 25, 2021)

    When COP26 is held in Glasgow, the world will be watching to see if an international agreement is reached on the scale and speed of co-ordinated action that is needed to tackle the deepening climate catastrophe.

  • Every thuggish movement needs its cover of respectability and even scholarly, theoretical pillars. This is the role played by Mark R. Levin, whose newest tome 'American Marxism' provides squawking points for the radically neo-fascist, lumpen Republican Party.

    Multimillionaire counterrevolutionary: Mark R. Levin’s new book ‘American Marxism’

    Originally published: People's World on October 20, 2021 by Matthew F. Bokovoy (more by People's World)  | (Posted Oct 23, 2021)

    Every thuggish movement needs its cover of respectability and even scholarly, theoretical pillars.

  • Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez leave after a news conference at Diaoyutai state guesthouse on May 29, 2019 in Beijing, China.

    Cuba now part of China’s ‘Belt and Road Energy’ alliance

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on October 21, 2021 by Misión Verdad (more by Orinoco Tribune)  | (Posted Oct 23, 2021)

    Cuba joined the Alliance for Energy of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a project to build an international mega-platform for cooperation and exchange under the principle of shared profit.

  • Mumia Abu-Jamal

    Mumia Abu-Jamal: Militant journalism from behind enemy lines

    Originally published: Liberation School on October 20, 2021 by Curry Malott, Elgin Bailey, and Randall Scott (more by Liberation School)  | (Posted Oct 23, 2021)

    Mumia Abu-Jamal has spent nearly 40 years unjustly imprisoned after he was framed and convicted of killing a white police officer in Philadelphia.

  • SPEECH: Frederick Douglass on John Brown, 1860

    SPEECH: Frederick Douglass on John Brown, 1860

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on October 20, 2021 by Black Agenda Report Editors (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Oct 22, 2021)

    On December 3rd, 1860, Frederick Douglass was set to address an anti-slavery rally at Boston’s Tremont Temple Baptist Church, held to commemorate the death of the radical abolitionist John Brown and to mark the one-year anniversary of his ill-fated raid on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry Virgina.

  • James Counts Early is joined by historian and activist Robin D.G. Kelley

    New World Coming: ‘Racial Capitalism’ with Robin D. G. Kelley

    Originally published: The People's Forum NYC on October 16, 2021 by James Counts Early (more by The People's Forum NYC) (Posted Oct 22, 2021)

    James Counts Early is joined by historian and activist Robin D.G. Kelley to discuss Robin’s career work on racial capitalism, multiculturalism and identity, and the history of the struggle for socialism.

  • REP. RASHIDA TLAIB, FROM HER FACEBOOK PAGE.

    The ‘Democratic Majority for Israel’ is a hate organization

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on October 19, 2021 by Yakov Hirsch (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted Oct 22, 2021)

    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.

  • Camel market in Nouakchott, Mauritania, 2008.

    A different sort of truth

    Originally published: Consortium News on October 6, 2021 by Alexander Hartwiger (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Oct 22, 2021)

    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.

  • COVID Vaccines Coordinator Dr. Miladys Limonta Fernández speaks with Gloria La Riva

    Eyewitness report: Cuba’s scientists, medical workers advance fight vs. COVID

    Originally published: Liberation News on October 15, 2021 by Gloria La Riva (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Oct 21, 2021)

    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.

  • Māori protesters on Waitangi Day, 6th February 2006.

    The driver of dispossession

    Originally published: Red Pepper on October 8, 2021 by Tina Ngata (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Oct 21, 2021)

    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.

  • Luis Arce Catacora: President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia Speech

    Luis Arce: An anti-imperialist climate agenda

    Originally published: The Red Nation on October 13, 2021 by Red Nation Editorial Council (more by The Red Nation)  | (Posted Oct 21, 2021)

    Luis Arce Catacora: President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia Speech

  • Workers shovel raw blue asbestos tailings into drums at an asbestos shovelling competition at Wittenoom in 1962.

    Why do bosses keep trying to kill us?

    Originally published: Red Flag on September 30, 2021 by Meg Hill (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Oct 20, 2021)

    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.

  • Build Back Better Legislation: New Keynesianism or Neoliberal Public Relations Stunt?

    Build back better Legislation: new Keynesianism or neoliberal Public Relations stunt?

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on October 13, 2021 by Ajamu Baraka (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Oct 19, 2021)

    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.

  • Despite IATSE leadership reaching a tentative agreement, many members are urging a no vote on the contract. (Mega)

    Division over IATSE deal as members organize Wildcat walkouts

    Originally published: Payday Report on October 17, 2021 by Mike Elk (more by Payday Report)  | (Posted Oct 19, 2021)

    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.

  • Alex Saab - COHA

    The U.S. flies Alex Saab out from Cabo Verde without court order or extradition treaty

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on October 18, 2021 by Dan Kovalik (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted Oct 19, 2021)

    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.

  • Art by Jordan Collver

    ‘Marx in Soho’: An Epilogue

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 24, Number 2, Don’t Be Evil by Calvin Wu (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Oct 18, 2021)

    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.”

  • A City Hall Whodunit: What Economic and Political Forces are Responsible for Climate Change?

    A City Hall whodunit: what economic and political forces are responsible for climate change?

    Originally published: CityWatch Los Angeles on October 13, 2021 by Dick Platkin (more by CityWatch Los Angeles)  | (Posted Oct 18, 2021)

    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.

  • Supporters of the BLF green bans march in Sydney in the early 1970s

    Why the climate movement needs the working class

    Originally published: Red Flag on October 12, 2021 by Emma Black (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Oct 16, 2021)

    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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