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War on Gaza: Jewish opposition to Israel is as old as Zionism itself
European and American Jews have been at the forefront of opposition to Zionism since its birth as a colonial-settler movement at the end of the 19th century.
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Galloway sweeps to victory in Rochdale in vote ‘for Gaza’
Triumphant George Galloway told Sir Keir Starmer “this is for Gaza” after sweeping to a sensational victory in the Rochdale by-election.
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Defending materialism: Lenin the philosopher
NICK MATTHEWS looks at the great Bolshevik leader’s intense three-week period of furious study in the British Library in 1908 and the timeless classic on Marxism and philosophy it produced: Materialism and Empirio-Criticism.
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Mattarella scolded the police who beat schoolchildren protesting Gaza genocide
Mattarella: ‘Batons against young people are an expression of failure.’ The president issues a sharp warning to the police and interior minister. The government: ‘Law enforcement is not to be touched.’
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Reactionary ecology
For many continental philosophers, the first two decades of the new millennium were a time of vibrant matter, hyperobjects, and a weird fixation with intestinal microbes. The late Bruno Latour saw this ‘new materialist’ doctrine–which decentred the human subject in favour of the world of ‘things’, believed to have agency of their own–as a useful resource in his career-long polemic against Marxism.
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The wealthy cause climate change; the poor suffer its consequences
The tiny but incredibly privileged 0.1% really are a breed apart, even from their not-quite-so-rich neighbours.
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According to his son, civil rights icon Paul Robeson was a victim of CIA’s MK-ULTRA
A celebrity performer who devoted his life to social justice struggles, Paul Robeson is an icon of the civil rights movement who helped set the groundwork for the political awakening of the 1960s.
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Ireland must be a voice for the Palestinian people
Israel’s war in Gaza has now entered its fifth month.
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Trident missile failure exposes folly of nuclear weapons
Britain’s nuclear arsenal has failed two tests in a row. Why must we still pay for these extortionate weapons of mass destruction?
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‘it’s the South’: Harris County sends 15 times more Black men to death row than white
Texas’ largest county remains the state’s deadliest when it comes to capital murder convictions, a new report says.
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176 years since the Communist Manifesto was published, socialists around the world celebrate “Red Books Day”
Socialists across the globe in countries such as India, Brazil, and the United States celebrate the Manifesto and all “Red Books” that shaped the world.
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In defense of historical memory against imperialism
“As Africans living in the belly of the beast of imperialism we recognize that our domestic struggle against police terrorism, super exploitation, and domestic colonization are themselves part of the larger anti-imperialist struggle of the underdeveloped world.”
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Farmers’ protest in India reignites: A struggle for the future of food and agriculture
In 2021, after a year-long protest, India’s farmers brought about the repeal of three farm laws that were intended to ‘liberalize’ the agriculture sector. Now, in 2024, farmers are again protesting. The underlying issues and the facilitation of the neoliberal corporatization of farming that sparked the previous protest remain and have not been resolved.
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Over 2/3 of Jewish Israelis oppose humanitarian aid to Palestinians starving in Gaza
A new Israeli Democracy Institute survey shows that 68% of Jewish Israelis oppose “the transfer of humanitarian aid to Gaza residents.”
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SPEECH: A Challenge to Artists, Lorraine Hansberry, 1962
At a rally against the House Un-American Activities Committee, insurgent playwright Lorrainne Hansberry called on artists to shake off the fear and incoherency of the world to defend the peoples’ rights.
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Israel lobby and its media enablers threatening academic freedom on campus
Universities must be places where criticisms of official discourses, dominant worldviews can be voiced without fear of reprisal.
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By deliberately derailing the Gaza vote, Starmer shames democracy and betrays humanity
Wednesday was a day of shame for the House of Commons. Few powers around the world are more important in supporting Israel’s genocidal attack on the Palestinians of Gaza than Britain.
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NECESSITY: A two-part documentary series on climate resistance
Grounded in people and places at the heart of the climate crisis, ‘Oil, Water and Climate Resistance’ traces the fight in Minnesota against the expansion of pipelines carrying toxic tar sands oil through North America.
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Latest CPI Report : The ‘soft landing’ plane is still circling
For months the mainstream media and Washington Pols have been pushing the metaphor that the U.S. economy is a plane on its final approach to a ‘soft landing’. Soft landing is defined as inflation steadily coming down to the Federal Reserve’s goal of a 2% price level AND does so without provoking a recession.
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Rest in power Nex Benedict
Last week we were made aware of a possible hate-motivated attack in the Owasso school district, leading to the death of the targeted student. While the information we have been able to gather leaves us with a still incomplete picture, we know that Nex Benedict, the student who died, faces being deadnamed and misgendered in […]