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  • Michael Ratner Palestine Legal site

    Michael Ratner’s inspiring activist life culminated with dramatic change on Israel

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on July 8, 2021 by Philip Weis (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted Jul 24, 2021)

    Michael Ratner personally changed human rights law, and in doing so he let go childhood views of Israel. “I thought of [Israel] as the home of my people. I had my bedroom ceiling painted with the seven wonders of the world and a huge map of Israel. I had no idea how my view of Israel would change later in life.”

  • Self-Determining Hait

    DOCUMENT: James Weldon Johnson, Self-determining Haiti, 1920

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on July 15, 2021 by The Black Agenda Review (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Jul 23, 2021)

    Plan follows precedent of 1970s state-sponsored assassination campaign targeting leftists.

  • Mending the metabolic rift: Marxism, nature and society.

    Mending the metabolic rift: Marxism, nature and society

    Originally published: Red Flag on July 20, 2021 by James Plested (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Jul 22, 2021)

    Karl Marx’s analysis of capitalism provides the key to understanding the environmental catastrophe we’re witnessing, and to gaining a clearer picture of what’s needed to repair our damaged relationship with the Earth.

  • Chicago Teachers on strike for fully-funded schools and racial justice

    How not to unite a class: a response to DSA’s Class Unity caucus

    Originally published: Tempest on July 16, 2021 by Felipe Bascuñán (more by Tempest)  | (Posted Jul 21, 2021)

    Felipe Bascuñán responds to a debate on the Left about the relationship between oppression and class and why getting the answer right is essential to forging a united class struggle.

  • KGO report (6/15/21)

    Shoplifting is big news; stealing millions from workers is not

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on July 19, 2021 by Steven Keehner (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Jul 21, 2021)

    Urban crime is the golden child of local media, as recent FAIR coverage (6/21/21) has shown. But as FAIR’s Julie Hollar recently noted, the amount of attention given to a topic does not always reflect the seriousness of the situation.

  • Betita Martinez (left) and staffers of El Grito del Norte in Las Vegas, New Mexico, 1972

    #BetitaTaughtUs: Chicanisma and El Movimiento

    Originally published: Organizing Upgrade on July 14, 2021 by Margo Okazawa-Rey, Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC) and Adelita Michelle Medina and others (more by Organizing Upgrade) (Posted Jul 21, 2021)

    With deep sadness and respect, Organizing Upgrade is sharing a few more tributes to movement elder Betita Martinez, who died June 29. In her 95 years she lived many lifetimes, and brought her commitment, wit and political clarity to several of the most significant social movements of our day.

  • Pedro Castillo

    Peru to officially declare Pedro Castillo as the new President

    Originally published: teleSUR English on July 18, 2021 (more by teleSUR English)  | (Posted Jul 20, 2021)

    Electoral authorities concluded an electoral review in which the leftist.

  • Saltwater inundation in the west New Britain province of Papua New Guinea

    Climate change and the Pacific Islands: ‘When the land disappears, we will all disappear’

    Originally published: Green Left on July 13, 2021 by Susan Price (more by Green Left)  | (Posted Jul 20, 2021)

    Climate change is already leading to rising sea levels, threatening island and coastal communities and devastating food security and access to fresh water. Long-term drought and changes in weather patterns are causing hunger and destroying farming land.

  • Amílcar Cabral painting in Bafatá

    Amílcar Cabral: Liberator, theorist, and educator

    Originally published: Liberation School on January 20, 2021 by Curry Marlott (more by Liberation School)  | (Posted Jul 20, 2021)

    Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral was born September 12, 1924 in Bafatá, Guinea-Bissau, one of Portugal’s African colonies. On January 20, 1973–48 years ago today–Cabral was murdered by fascist Portuguese assassins just months before the national liberation movement in which he played a central role won the independence of Guinea-Bissau.

  • the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) pictured outside the headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands

    Former British Ambassador to Damascus says OPCW mere ‘puppet’ of West against Syria

    Originally published: Former British Ambassador to Damascus says OPCW mere ‘puppet’ of West against Syria on July 10, 2021 by PressTV (more by Former British Ambassador to Damascus says OPCW mere ‘puppet’ of West against Syria) (Posted Jul 20, 2021)

    Comments by the former British ambassador to Syria came hours after the chairwoman of the Syrian mission to the OPCW said the U.S. and its allies had lowered the status of the international watchdog, and turned it into a political tool to level baseless accusations against Damascus and exert pressure on it.

  • Paul jay

    Haitian ruling families create and kill monsters

    Originally published: theAnalysis.news on July 16, 2021 by Paul Jay (more by theAnalysis.news) (Posted Jul 20, 2021)

    In March, hundreds of thousands of Haitians took to the streets of Port au Prince to demand an end to corruption and the departure of President Jovenel Moïse, whose term of office had expired.

  • Lo And Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

    Behold: the fallacy of “techo-inevitabilism”

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on July 16, 2021 by William Manson (more by Dissident Voice)  | (Posted Jul 19, 2021)

    Director Werner Herzog’s documentary ‘Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World’ (2016) begins with “Internet pioneer” Leonard Kleinrock, who welcomes us into the, yes, actual laboratory where it was “born”! To Wagnerian strains in the soundtrack, Kleinrock complacently calls the place “a holy shrine”–quite a revealing phrase for this acolyte of possibly the last of the false religions.

  • Foreign Affairs Minister of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza

    Arreaza calls cyberattack on Cuban Foreign Ministry imperial clumsiness

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on July 17, 2021 by (Últimas Noticias) by Olys Guárate (more by Orinoco Tribune)  | (Posted Jul 19, 2021)

    In his Twitter account @jaarreaza, Minister Arreaza wrote, “Another characteristic of the international incitement of aggression against #Cuba. Imperialism is clumsy enough to leave traces of its misdeeds.”

  • Nuclear madness

    Pretending not to see brazen lies: the rule of law and nuclear madness

    Originally published: The Bullet – Socialist Project on July 17, 2021 by Judith Deutsch (more by The Bullet – Socialist Project)  | (Posted Jul 19, 2021)

    The latest brazen lie is the “rule of law” upheld by U.S. President Joe Biden at the G7 and NATO summits, especially lies about lawlessness surrounding nuclear weapons.

  • Man with an American flag

    Maintenance of denial

    Originally published: Hood Communist on July 15, 2021 by Ray Davis (more by Hood Communist)  | (Posted Jul 17, 2021)

    We are witnessing today the final days of a militaristic empire, the rapid descent of an obsolete failed United States. There is nothing unique about America. Empires rise and empires fall throughout time memorial. It is empirically calculated that the average civilization only lasts 340 years. 

  • Man in shirt with covid-19 George Floyd racism writing

    The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted only eight strikes in 2020, Payday Report counted 1,200

    Originally published: Institute for New Economic Thinking on July 13, 2021 by Clarissa A. Leon and Mike Elk (more by Institute for New Economic Thinking)  | (Posted Jul 17, 2021)

    In the era of COVID and digital movements, strikes look radically different from traditional labor strikes.

  • Demonstrators marched in Port-au-Prince on February 14, 2021

    Why Human Rights in China and Tigray, But Not in Haiti, Palestine or Colombia?

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on July 12, 2021 (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted Jul 16, 2021)

    Over eight days, from June 25-30, Haiti had been subjected to increasing state-sponsored, imperial and gang violence. Massacres killed almost 60 people in Port au Prince, including in Cité Soleil, Delmas and Pétionville, as well as on on Rue Magloire Ambroise.

  • Vygotsky Book

    Vygotsky’s revolutionary educational psychology

    Originally published: Liberation School on March 9, 2021 by Curry Malott (more by Liberation School)  | (Posted Jul 16, 2021)

    Vygotsky’s revolutionary theory of development is one that recognizes the many forms of capacity, intelligence, and potential in all beings.

  • The Durban warehouse of food bank FoodForwardSA was ransacked

    Food supply to 675,000 people cut off after Durban food bank ransacked

    Originally published: GroundUp on July 14, 2021 by Marecia Damons (more by GroundUp)  | (Posted Jul 16, 2021)

    FoodForward SA closes branches nationwide because of insecurity.

  • No climate future without system change.

    No climate future without system change

    Originally published: Socialist Party on July 8, 2021 by Socialist Party (more by Socialist Party)  | (Posted Jul 15, 2021)

    Warnings about how the capitalist mode of production is putting pressure on the earth’s ability to handle all forms of stress have continued to come at an increasing pace.

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