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Brazil warns of neo-fascism upsurge and holds Elon Musk responsible
Disinformation on social networks takes advantage of the vulnerable, while extremists advocate a “neo-fascism, a primitive, conservative, and authoritarian nationalism”.
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‘Come out, you animals’: How the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital happened
During the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital, the Israeli army shot patients in their beds and doctors who refused to abandon the sick, separated people into groups with differently-colored bracelets, and executed hundreds of civil government employees.
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Stand up to the Israel Lobby: An open letter to the B.C. NDP
In February, former BC cabinet minister Selina Robinson was forced to resign because of her bigoted comments about Palestinians.
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NATO 75th Anniversary: A guarantor of war
The 75th anniversary of Nato’s founding is no cause for celebration, argues Chris Bambery, amid the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Ukraine quagmire and U.S. efforts to re-assert its global dominance.
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Activist Ola Bini sentenced to one year in prison after Ecuadorian court overturns acquittal
Arrested on the same day as his friend Julian Assange in 2019, software developer and activist Ola Bini has faced years of persecution in Ecuador. Despite being declared innocent in 2023, an appeals court has now convicted him for “Attempted Non-Consensual Access to a Computer System”.
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Germany is becoming a police state when it comes to Palestine activism
The German state is taking extraordinary measures to clamp down on pro-Palestinian activism, including arresting activists in their homes in the middle of the night.
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‘Left pan-Africanist’ Bassirou Diomaye Faye confirmed as Senegal’s new president-elect: What’s next?
On March 29, the Constitutional Court of Senegal confirmed Bassirou Diomaye Faye as the next president-elect of the West African country, assuaging fears of a constitutional crisis after the political outsider won the election the previous week.
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A mirror of our immediate future
On Green Imperialism and Palestine.
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How Britain made Paul Robeson a socialist
Pioneering black singer Paul Robeson was born on this day in 1898. One of America’s great radical figures, it was his encounters with Britain’s labour movement which inspired his socialist and anti-imperialist politics.
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44% of all Palestinians killed by Israel since October 7 are children
Over 14,000 children have been killed and nearly 17,000 others have lost at least one or both of their parents in the Israeli bombings or ground offensives in the last six months in Gaza.
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U.S. ramps up regime change efforts in Solomon Islands in advance of upcoming election
U.S. Seeking to Dominate Chain of Pacific Islands in Preparation for Potential War with China.
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Dual-use dilemma: AI and the future of protein design
In October 2023, David Baker of the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington, USA, organised an AI safety summit to assess the risks associated with the malicious utilisation of designer proteins. The focus was on determining the necessity and scope of regulation for protein design and identifying potential hazards.
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‘The closest we’ve been since partition’:Irish reunification on the horizon
Declassified visits Belfast as Ireland appears on the edge of something truly historic, with most agreeing that Brexit was the game-changer.
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Preconditions for disaster: “A People’s History of Covid” – extract
In this first of two extracts from Terina Hine’s new book, “A People’s History of Covid”, the impact of inequality and neoliberalism in the UK on the spread of Covid is outlined
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Ukrainian mercenaries are expanding their activity in Africa
Every day, there is more and more new evidence of the presence of military special forces of the Ukrainian Main Directorate of Intelligence in Sudan.
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Corporations bring ‘slow violence’ to millions
The ruthless pursuit of profit lies behind the tragedy of Palestine as much as the global warming crisis. We should resist it resolutely, writes climate activist MAIR BAIN.
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Latin America responds with unanimous condemnation to Ecuador’s storming of the Mexican Embassy in Quito
Latin American and Caribbean leaders and governments from across the political spectrum have condemned the incursion into Mexico’s embassy as a grave violation of international law.
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Labor breakthrough: Workers winning victories once thought impossible
Zoomers and millennials want to turn low-wage retail and service sector jobs into stable, good-paying union jobs.
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Marxist theory in Japan: A critical overview
I. To summarise the reception history of Marx in Japan is no small task.1 In fact, it is essentially impossible to give an adequate overview of one of the deepest, most prolific, and most variegated linguistic repositories of the Marxist tradition. Although it remains remarkably little-known in contemporary European or North American intellectual circles, Marxism […]
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“The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888” – book review
The Reckoning is a magnificent conclusion to a quartet of books on New World slavery, explaining the role of slavery and its abolition in the rise of American power, finds Chris Bambery.