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  • Jasmine Camacho-Quinn

    Sports sovereignty in Puerto Rico

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on August 8, 2021 by Berta Joubert-Ceci (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Aug 12, 2021)

    A few days ago, athlete Jasmine Camacho-Quinn won a gold medal for PR in the 100-meter hurdles at the Tokyo Olympics.

  • Venezuela’s electrical grid

    Russia and Venezuela to implement energy security joint projects

    Originally published: teleSUR English on August 5, 2021 by Andreína Chávez Alava (more by teleSUR English)  | (Posted Aug 12, 2021)

    Russia’s Rostec will provide “advanced technology” and train Venezuelan personnel to recover the country’s sanctions-hit power facilities.

  • Leaders from five Iroquois nations (Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca) assembled around Dekanawidah c. 1570, French engraving, early 18th century.

    Karl Marx and the Iroquoi (Rosemont, 1989)

    Originally published: Communists In SITU on 1989, in Arsenal: Surrealist Subversion by Franklin Rosemont, (more by Communists In SITU) (Posted Aug 12, 2021)

    There are works that come down to us with question-marks blazing like sawed-off shotguns, scattering here and there and everywhere sparks that illuminate our own restless search for answers. Ralegh’s so-called Cynthia cycle, Sade’s 120 Days, Fourier’s New Amorous World, Lautremont’s Poesies, Lenin’s notes on Hegel, Randolph Bourne’s essay on The State Jacque Vaches War letters, Duchamp’s Green Box, the Samuel Greenberg manuscripts.

  • President of the Council of Ministers Guido Bellido, Peru, 2021.

    Peruvian Congress begins offensive against President Castillo

    Originally published: teleSUR English on August 10, 2021 by TeleSURTV (more by teleSUR English)  | (Posted Aug 12, 2021)

    The opposition will not grant a vote of confidence for the cabinet if Castillo does not remove left-wing ministers such as Guido Bellido and Hector Bejar.

  • This image was first published in New Frame, ‘From the archive: Walter Rodney’s last speech‘ (25 March, 2021).

    On Walter Rodney’s Legacy: when anger and organising took over

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on July 29, 2021 by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy))  | (Posted Aug 11, 2021)

    As a founding member of the group, Braithwaite explains that though Rodney was betrayed, then assassinated, his body destroyed and concerted efforts made to tarnish his record, people around the world continue to develop and build on his immense legacy.

  • CPC centenary exhibition attracted youths to its birth place.

    Marxism resurges among young Chinese after CPC’s centenary proves a success

    Originally published: Global Times on August 8, 2021 by Hu Yuwei and Huang Lanlan (more by Global Times)  | (Posted Aug 11, 2021)

    Marxist-inspired youths.

  • Firefighters try to put out a fire as flames spread over a highway on August 5, 2021 in northern Athens, Greece.

    ‘Code Red for Humanity’: IPCC report warns window for climate action is closing fast

    Originally published: Common Dreams on August 9, 2021 by Jake Johnson (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Aug 11, 2021)

    The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.

  • Members of the Tal‘at movement protest in Haifa, 2019.

    Feminist protests in Palestine

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on August 3, 2021 by Fidaa Al Zaanin (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  | (Posted Aug 11, 2021)

    Mapping the fight for women’s liberation in Gaza and the West Bank.

  • Activision

    United States: Activision workers walk out against sexist oppression

    Originally published: Socialist Revolution on August 4, 2021 by Mark O. and J. Deters (more by Socialist Revolution)  | (Posted Aug 10, 2021)

    For years, a toxic culture of rampant sexism has permeated Activision Blizzard, the video game development company behind titles including World of Warcraft and Call of Duty.

  • R.B. Kitaj, The Autumn of Central Paris (After Walter Benjamin), 1972. Oil on canvas. (R.B. Kitaj Studio Project.)

    Walter Benjamin’s Marxist critique

    Originally published: Caesura Magazine on July 13, 2021 by Louis Sterrett (more by Caesura Magazine)  | (Posted Aug 10, 2021)

    The works of Walter Benjamin confuse the majority of his readers, but this does not need to continue.

  • Why Time’s Up for China’s ‘Shadow Education’ Industry

    Why time’s up for China’s ‘shadow education’ industry

    Originally published: Sixth Tone on August 6, 2021 by Xue Haiping (more by Sixth Tone)  | (Posted Aug 10, 2021)

    Last month, China announced strict new regulations on academic tutoring and training classes for young children. How did the industry get so big, so fast?

  • Artist Steve Powers' installation "Waterboard Thrill Ride" at the Coney Island arcade, August 14, 2008.

    The CIA’s outsourced torture is lost to history

    Originally published: Forever Wars on August 6, 2021 by Spencer Ackerman (more by Forever Wars) (Posted Aug 10, 2021)

    The CIA’s notorious practice of kidnapping and displacement gave birth to the post-9/11 torture program. We know nearly nothing about it.

  • FLAG BEARERS HANNA MINENKO AND YAKOV TOUMARKIN OF TEAM ISRAEL DURING THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE TOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES, JULY 23, 2021

    Sports apartheid: Israel’s Olympic team did not include a single Palestinian citizen of Israel

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on August 8, 2021 by James North (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted Aug 09, 2021)

    Palestinian citizens of Israel are 20 percent of the population. But not a single one was on Israel’s 90-member Olympic team.

  • Biden Admin Offers Hand Of Friendship To Bolsonaro (Brasil Wire)

    Biden Admin offers hand of friendship to Bolsonaro

    Originally published: Brasil Wire on August 6, 2021 by Nathália Urban (more by Brasil Wire)  | (Posted Aug 09, 2021)

    Latest U.S. government visit is further evidence that the Biden administration has no qualms about supporting Brazil’s far-right military-dominated regime.

  • Nuclear Weapons Research Base Exhibition Hall in Xihai, Qinghai Province, China.

    Security U.S. fears of China nuclear expansion… déjà vu of Soviet missile gap hype

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on August 5, 2021 by Finian Cunningham (more by Dissident Voice)  | (Posted Aug 07, 2021)

    Media reports from the U.S. this week–regurgitated by the European press–highlighted concerns that China is embarking on a massive scale-up of underground silos for launching nuclear weapons.

  • Tucker Carlson (Fox News, 6/24/21)

    The far Right’s manufactured meaning of Critical Race Theory

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on August 4, 2021 by Olivia Riggio (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Aug 07, 2021)

    Right-wing commentators claim to know what CRT is, while showing no interest in engaging with its ideas, and only very rarely quote the words of its proponents.

  • World Health Organization (WHO) director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

    With COVID-19, World Health Organisation’s fall from grace is complete

    Originally published: The Wire on August 6, 2021 by David Bell and Toby Green (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Aug 07, 2021)

    In complete contrast to its founding ideals, the WHO is now captured by wealthy countries and corporations at the cost of millions of poor globally.

  • Practicing the Good: Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism

    Review of Keti Chukhrov – ‘Practicing the Good: Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism’

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on August 5, 2021 by Isabel Jacobs (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Aug 07, 2021)

    As the title reveals, Chukhrov is particularly interested in two aspects of Soviet socialism: desire and boredom. For a libidinally conditioned capitalist subject, socialism as a non-libidinal economy appears boring and unsexy.

  • Cori Bush demonstration

    Mobilizations force Biden to enact new eviction ban

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on August 5, 2021 by Peoples Dispatch (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Aug 06, 2021)

    The new eviction moratorium was put in place amid protests at the federal capital led by progressive legislator Cori Bush, along with various social movements in the U.S.

  • Welcome sign along eastbound Interstate 40 entering Deaf Smith County, Texas from Quay County, New Mexico.

    Opinion: From ‘friendly’ state to enmity state

    Originally published: Texas Observer on August 5, 2021 by Andrea Grimes (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Aug 06, 2021)

    As Texas Republicans pit neighbor against neighbor, we must respond by rebuking bigotry and embracing progress.

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