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    Defending Marx and Braverman: taking back the labour process in theory and practice

    Originally published: International Socialism on July 26, 2021 Issue 171 by Bob Carter (more by International Socialism) (Posted Jul 31, 2021)

    Writing his 1974 book Labour and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century, U.S. Marxist and political economist Harry Braverman noted that Karl Marx had demonstrated that processes of production are constantly transformed by the driving force of capital accumulation.

  • La Via Campesina and other organizations are boycotting the United Nations Food Systems Summit over corporate capture of the space.

    Sustainable food systems are possible outside corporate agriculture

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on July 28, 2021 by Jyotsna Singh (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jul 31, 2021)

    The United Nations Food Systems Summit has become one of the most controversial events of this year due to corporate take over. Civil society activists came together during the pre-summit to register their protest.

  • Glen Ford

    Glen Ford, veteran journalist and founder of Black Agenda Report, dies at 71

    Originally published: NewsOne on July 28, 2021 by Bruce C.T. Wright (more by NewsOne)  | (Posted Jul 31, 2021)

    Glen Ford spent more than four decades delivering the news from a Black perspective on a national scale.

  • Beyond the Socialist Impasse - Remembering Leo Panitch pt. 1

    Beyond the Socialist Impasse: Remembering Leo Panitch

    Originally published: Socialist Project - LeftStreamed on July 25, 2021 by Left Forum (more by Socialist Project - LeftStreamed)  | (Posted Jul 30, 2021)

    Remembering Leo Panitch

  • A soldier patrols the streets of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, October 2018.

    Canadian imperialism and the underdevelopment of Burkina Faso

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on July 28, 2021 by Owen Schalk (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Jul 30, 2021)

    Canadian mining companies own $2.5 billion of Burkina Faso’s gold, and the country is one of the most poverty-stricken in Africa.

  • Kohei Saito, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism

    ‘Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy’ (2017)

    Editor

    This guide is designed to help understand the central ideas in Kohei Saito, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy. New York: Monthly Review, (2017)

  • Ben & Jerry

    They all scream over Ben & Jerry’s not selling ice cream on the West Bank

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on July 27, 2021 by Ari Paul (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Jul 29, 2021)

    Ben & Jerry’s decision to halt its operations in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and in Jerusalem has pro-Israel editors working overtime.

  • How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm

    Andreas Malm: ‘Because Nothing Else Has Worked’

    Originally published: Andreas Malm: 'Because Nothing Else Has Worked' on July 26, 2021 by Thomas Neuburger (more by Andreas Malm: 'Because Nothing Else Has Worked') (Posted Jul 29, 2021)

    Property violence kills no one. And yet, to say it again, I’m not today advocating property violence. I am, on the other hand, advocating a discussion of it. – Thomas Neuburger

  • Hands behind bars

    Transatlantic slave trade: Legacy of entangled affair between imperialism, racism, slavery

    Originally published: Yeni Şafak on July 23, 2021 by Ahmet Gencturk (more by Yeni Şafak) (Posted Jul 28, 2021)

    To legitimize slavery and its atrocities, western imperialism birthed racism, idea of superiority of whites over Black people.

  • Turtle Island

    Genocide and Colonialism: Challenging the Canadian State

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on July 26, 2021 by Nouveaux Cahiers du socialisme (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  | (Posted Jul 28, 2021)

    Public opinion has been shaken by the ‘discovery’ of unmarked graves of children who died in residential schools. The word ‘discovery’ has to be placed in quotation marks because Indigenous communities have been saying for many years that terrible things happened at these places. The time has come to call this what it is–a genocide.

  • José Carlos Mariátegui

    The demonisation of Mariátegui

    Originally published: Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies on July 7, 2021 by Juan J. Paz y Miño (more by Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies) (Posted Jul 28, 2021)

    During the campaign for the presidency of Peru, the rural teacher and candidate Pedro Castillo, emphasized his identity with the thought of José Carlos Mariátegui.

  • The Global Food Systems Summit NYC

    Here is why we are boycotting the UN Food Systems Summit

    Originally published: Aljazeera on July 25, 2021 by Elizabeth Mpofu and Edgardo Garcia (more by Aljazeera) (Posted Jul 27, 2021)

    Social movements and scientists are staying out of the UN summit because it represents big agribusiness interests.

  • People Working A Minimum Wage Job Can’t Afford Rent Anywhere In The U.S.

    People working a minimum wage job can’t afford rent anywhere in the U.S.

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on July 22, 2021 by Sarah Ruiz-Grossman (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Jul 27, 2021)

    Over 40% of Black and Latinx households pay more than 30% of their income on rent, compared with 25% of white households.

  • A child student cries at a tutoring school in Hefei, Anhui province, 2018

    China takes tough approach to tame tutoring schools

    Originally published: Sixth Tone on July 25, 2021 by Ni Dandan (more by Sixth Tone)  | (Posted Jul 27, 2021)

    The new set of rules aim to better monitor the education market, which has been blamed for increasingly unfair competition among students.

  • A Q&A on capitalism, media, and climate.

    Climate Change: Why we can’t trust mainstream media

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on July 20, 2021 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  | (Posted Jul 26, 2021)

    A Q&A on capitalism, media, and climate.

  • Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow - Industry Baby

    Lil Nas X launched a Bail Fund project with ‘Industry Baby’ but sure, stay mad at him for being naked in a music video

    Originally published: The Root on July 23, 2021 by Tonja Renée Stidhum (more by The Root)  | (Posted Jul 26, 2021)

    In addition to implementing mutual aid to fight mass incarceration, Lil Nas X’s ‘controversial’ visuals are inspiring young queer Black boys to be free.

  • Association of Women Sex Workers of Argentina (AMMAR)

    Sex workers and COVID-19: Resisting the pandemic and criminalization

    Editor

    Georgina Orellano, secretary-general of the Association of Women Sex Workers of Argentina (AMMAR), says that “the pandemic has highlighted the inequality” in society and deepened the problems faced by sex workers. Sex work, which is not recognized in Argentina, has become more precarious, she says.

  • Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of “Green” Capitalism

    The Colonial Rift

    Originally published: Science for the People on July 2021 by Brandon Burkey & Lydia Patton (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Jul 24, 2021)

    A Review of Hannah Holleman’s ‘Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of “Green” Capitalism’.

  • OAS secretary general Luis Almagro

    Cuba defies U.S. to deny pressuring OAS members

    Originally published: teleSUR English on July 21, 2021 (more by teleSUR English)  | (Posted Jul 24, 2021)

    The disturbances in Cuba were marked by unprecedented violence and vandalism, jeopardizing the lives of hundreds of Cubans, including peaceful demonstrators and revolutionaries who took to the streets in response.

  • Karl Marx

    The importance of Marxist materialism in an age of opinions

    Originally published: The importance of Marxist materialism in an age of opinions on July 17, 2021 by Nik V. (more by The importance of Marxist materialism in an age of opinions) (Posted Jul 24, 2021)

    “The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” — Karl Marx, ‘Theses on Feuerbach’

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