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  • A Maasai man on tribal-managed lands. HEMIS / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO

    Western climate agenda goes against African development

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on March 6, 2024 by Aby L. Sène (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Mar 12, 2024)

    This commentary provides an overview of carbon and biodiversity offsets as an expansion of global capitalism under the western environmental agenda marshalled against development in Africa.

  • Fiercely anti-union, Amazon pays warehouse workers 26% less than the national average.

    Part-time jobs, no benefits: The real state of the working class

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on March 9, 2024 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Mar 12, 2024)

    In his March 6 State of the Union address, President Joe Biden declared, “We have the best economy in the world.” He said millions of new jobs had been created in the last three years and that unemployment was at record lows.

  • Athletes march in a parade dedicated to the sixty-third anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, 7 November 1989. The banner reads: “Let the name and exploits of the great Lenin live for centuries!” Photo: IMAGO / ITAR-TASS

    Seven reasons not to leave Lenin to our enemies

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on January 21, 2024 by Michael Brie (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  | (Posted Mar 12, 2024)

    The Left has tossed Lenin’s corpse to the victors of history—both the Stalinists and their liberal opponents.

  • (Photo credit: Reuters)

    UNRWA staffers tortured by Israeli troops to falsely admit ‘Hamas links’

    Originally published: The Cradle on March 9, 2024 by The Cradle Staff (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Mar 12, 2024)

    Israel has sought for years to dismantle the UN agency to destroy Palestinian refugees’ right of return.

  • Russian Revolution Women History

    October Revolution: The first general recognition of women’s equality in history

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on March 10, 2024 by Armağan Tulunay (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Mar 11, 2024)

    The land of the October revolution: a country of women walking on the road to emancipation

  • People from more than 160 countries participated in the People’s Climate March on September 21, 2014. It was the largest climate demonstration in history. Photo by Heather Craig/Survival Media Agency/Flickr.

    A vision for transforming education in the face of climate and ecological breakdown

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on March 6, 2024 by Heather Short (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Mar 09, 2024)

    Preparing students for their futures requires nothing short of transformative systemic change in all aspects of society.

  • Homes are illuminated after the sunset in Tasiilaq, Greenland, August 16, 2019

    Indigenous women in Greenland sue Denmark over involuntary contraception

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on March 4, 2024 by Morning Star Online Staff (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Mar 09, 2024)

    Greenland, part of Denmark, was a colony until 1953, after which it became a province of the Scandinavian country.

  • Ken Loach talks to Hilary Wainwright

    Working class films and social change: An interview with Ken Loach

    Originally published: Red Pepper on December 8, 2023 by Hilary Wainwright (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Mar 09, 2024)

    Ken Loach talks to Hilary Wainwright about his latest film, The Old Oak, and his long career dignifying the lives and struggles of ordinary people.

  • The mark of human-induced climate change on recent extreme heat in Mexico and the southern U.S. Graphic: Climate Central

    How Hearst’s ‘weather wonks’ invisibilize climate crisis

    Originally published: How Hearst's 'weather wonks' invisibilize climate crisis on March 6, 2024 by Greg Harman (more by How Hearst's 'weather wonks' invisibilize climate crisis) (Posted Mar 09, 2024)

    Hearst Newspapers’ ‘science-informed’ weather reporting initiative promised to help keep readers safe, but the ‘Texas Weather Wonks’ have entirely ignored the primary driver of recent extreme heat—human fossil-fueled industry.

  • Lenin in his own words: five key texts

    Lenin in his own words: five key texts

    Originally published: Red Flag on March 3, 2024 by Jess Lenehan (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Mar 08, 2024)

    Vladimir Lenin, leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution, is one of history’s most well-known figures, and one of its most maligned. Mainstream culture vilifies him as a despot. 

  • SCREENSHOT FROM CHANNEL 13 REPORT ON PALESTINIAN PRISONERS. (PHOTO: JONATHAN OFIR YOUTUBE CHANNEL)

    ‘We are the masters of the house’: Israeli channels air snuff videos featuring systematic torture of Palestinians

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on March 6, 2024 by Jonathan Ofir (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted Mar 08, 2024)

    Israeli TV channels aired a number of reports showing the torture and humiliation of Palestinians in Israeli prisons. The videos are consumed by the Israeli public as entertainment, revealing the sadism of Israeli society.

  • JUST CAUSE: A Palestine Solidarity Campaign rally outside the Houses of Parliament, London on February 21, 2024

    Rochdale has shown what can be done

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on March 5, 2024 by Andrew Murray (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Mar 08, 2024)

    Sunak’s quivering, late-night address, expressing dire concerns over George Galloway’s win in Rochdale, unveils a profound unease within the elite—good. Now let’s build from here, writes ANDREW MURRAY.

  • Growth is not good: the great GDP myth

    Growth is not good: the great GDP myth

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on March 5, 2024 by Bert Schouwenburg (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Mar 07, 2024)

    It’s not some question of being realistic yet effective over being compassionate but economically incompetent: there is absolutely no material basis to continue to measure societies by their GDP, explains BERT SCHOUWENBURG

  • Picture of the “Northeast China Group of the Commission for Investigating the Crime of Bacteriological Warfare Committed by the American Imperialists,” taken at Shenyang, April 1, 1952. From 1952 pamphlet, “Exhibition on Bacteriological War Crimes Committed by the Government of the United States,” pg. 13, published by The Chinese People’s Committee for World Peace (author’s private collection)

    [UPDATED] Another lost Cold War document: Zhou Enlai’s March 8, 1952 denunciation of U.S. germ warfare

    Originally published: Hidden Histories on February 13, 2024 by Jeffrey S. Kaye (more by Hidden Histories) (Posted Mar 07, 2024)

    When the U.S. began its aerial germ war bombing campaign over No. Korea & China in Winter 1952, China’s Foreign Affairs Minister publicly accused the U.S. of dropping infected insects in Northeast China.

  • Drainage system with dirt cone on the surface of the ice sheet. The brown sediment on the ice is created by the rapid melting of the ice. Landscape of the Greenland ice sheet near Kangerlussuaq. (Martin Zwick/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

    Climate crisis and nuclear waste in the U.S.

    Originally published: Countercurrents on March 2, 2024 by Contributor (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Mar 07, 2024)

    Climate crisis could disturb Cold War-era nuclear waste buried by the U.S. decades ago, according to a U.S. federal report.

  • Illegal settlements in the West Bank around the caged Palestinians. (People's Dispatch/Creative Commons license)

    Illegal Israeli settlements land for sale in Canada

    Originally published: The Canada Files on March 2, 2024 by Marthad Umucyaba (more by The Canada Files)  | (Posted Mar 06, 2024)

    The Canada Files became aware of planned Canadian illegal settlement events for selling land in the West Bank and Gaza through a Twitter post from Ghada Sasa, a Palestinian PhD Candidate at McMaster University.

  • Intellectual and political lessons of ‘The Communist Manifesto’ for our time

    Intellectual and political lessons of ‘The Communist Manifesto’ for our time

    Originally published: Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal on March 1, 2024 by Raju J Das (more by Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal)  | (Posted Mar 06, 2024)

    Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ Communist Manifesto was published in February, 1848. It is truly a part of what Marx called world literature that capitalism has given rise to. The Manifesto is a call to revolutionary action. It is important to return to the text now when a large number of people around the world […]

  • ifnotnow

    When Einstein called “fascists” those who rule Israel for the last 44 years…

    Originally published: CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitamet Debt) on October 31, 2023 by Yorgos Mitralias (more by CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitamet Debt)) (Posted Mar 06, 2024)

    What would you say if the notorious racist and anti-semite prime minister of Hungary Victor Orban accused Einstein of … anti-semitism? And Hanna Arendt as well? Together with the most iconic author of Holocaust literature Primo Levi?

  • Saibaba

    Bombay HC acquits ex-DU Prof G N Saibaba, 5 others, in alleged Maoist Link case

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on March 5, 2023 by NewsClick.in Staff (more by NewsClick.in)  | (Posted Mar 06, 2024)

    The verdict by the Nagpur Bench of Bombay HC was delivered by Justices Vinay Joshi and Valmiki SA Menezes, who reheard Saibaba’s appeal after the SC set aside an earlier HC acquittal order.

  • US Marines wait to be extracted by helicopter during a military exercise in Cap Draa, Morocco, April 16, 2012. Photo courtesy Defense Imagery/Wikimedia Commons.

    Igniting conflict in the heart of Africa

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on March 2, 2024 by Judi Rever (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Mar 05, 2024)

    The perils of U.S. empire have driven a spiral of violence in the Sahel.

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