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  • A Palestinian farmer fills water tanks in the West Bank village of Khirbet al-Makhoul, Jordan Valley, October 9, 2013. (Activestills.org)

    The brutality of denying water to Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills

    Editor

    For the past 15 years, I have witnessed how the Israeli army cuts Palestinian communities from accessing water in order to expel them and take their land.

  • The Struggle for Development

    The Struggle for Development

    Editor

    Collective struggles by labouring class communities–in and beyond the workplace–have the capacity to generate real human developmental gains for these communities. Consequently, these struggles and the labouring classes that pursue them, should be considered as developmental.

  • Flooding in Tilff, Belgium, July 2021 (Photo: Regine Fabri; licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0)

    The Global North isn’t ready for climate breakdown

    Originally published: Red Pepper on September 23, 2021 by Aranyo Aarjan (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Oct 01, 2021)

    European responses to extreme weather demonstrate post-industrial nations have much to learn from people in the Global South, writes Aranyo Aarjan.

  • Judith Butler

    Censorship is ok when transphobes do it

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on September 24, 2021 by Ari Paul (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Oct 01, 2021)

    An interview in the Guardian (9/7/21) made waves—not because of something it said, but because of something it didn’t say.

  • Is China an Imperialist Power?

    China and the Left

    Originally published: Knowledge, ideology, and real socialism in our times on September 24, 2021 by Charles McKelvey (more by Knowledge, ideology, and real socialism in our times) (Posted Oct 01, 2021)

    A socialist forum on China and the Left, sponsored by the Qiao Collective, was held in New York City on September 18, 2021.

  • For Our Nations to Live, Capitalism Must Die

    For our Nations to live, capitalism must die

    Originally published: Unsettling America on November 5, 2013 by Glen Coulthard (more by Unsettling America) (Posted Sep 30, 2021)

    What the recent actions of the Mi’kmaq land and water defenders at Elsipogtog demonstrate is that direct actions in the form of Indigenous blockades are both a negation and an affirmation.

  • AUKUS

    AUKUS makes workers pay for war with China

    Originally published: Red Flag on September 23, 2021 by Mick Armstrong (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Sep 30, 2021)

    We are witnessing an aggressive build-up by the U.S. and its allies for a confrontation with China. The Biden administration is making massive upgrades to the US’s military capacity, and sharply reorienting it to focus on China.

  • Krupskaya and Lenin

    Out of the shadows: female Leninists and Russian socialism

    Originally published: International Socialism on July 20, 2021 - Issue: 171 by Judy Cox (more by International Socialism) (Posted Sep 30, 2021)

    In 1922, the great radical journalist Louise Bryant observed that Lenin drew great strength from the women close to him. Her observation contrasts sharply with the exploitative Lenin who has come to dominate historical studies and biographies.

  • Photo by berenice melis on Unsplash

    Dismantling and transcending colonialism’s legacy

    Originally published: Africa is a Country on October 29, 2020 by Jimi O. Adesina (more by Africa is a Country)  | (Posted Sep 29, 2021)

    Nkrumah, Nyerere and Senghor were acutely aware of the need to displace the epistemic conditions of colonization in order to transcend it.

  • China is the biggest coal producer and the largest public financier of overseas coal-fired power plants. Photo: Shutterstock Images

    China halts new coal-fired power plants abroad in boost for climate action

    Originally published: South China Morning Star on September 22, 2021 by Echo Xie (more by South China Morning Star) (Posted Sep 29, 2021)

    Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China would stop building new coal-fired power plants abroad, marking a historic shift away from the fossil fuel before the United Nations climate summit in November.

  • Wang Zhenhao for Sixth Tone

    Taking to the streets to teach China’s gay migrants about safe sex

    Originally published: Sixth Tone on September 24, 2021 by Billy Gong (more by Sixth Tone)  | (Posted Sep 29, 2021)

    Grassroots organizations, many of them started and staffed by gay men, are doing the oft-neglected work of outreach in migrant communities.

  • A protester flies a Palestinian flag at Israeli troops during a demonstration in support of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, at the entrance of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, Monday, September 13, 2021

    Labour members overwhelmingly back motion in solidarity with Palestine

    Originally published: Morning Star on September 27, 2021 by Matt Trinder (more by Morning Star)  | (Posted Sep 29, 2021)

    The move comes as another grassroots rebuke to the party leadership and marks the first time a major British political party has aligned itself with the UN definition of Israel as an apartheid state.

  • (Darwin Vegher/Unsplash)

    Learning what to want

    Originally published: Commonweal Magazine on September 8, 2021 by Nate Klug (more by Commonweal Magazine)  | (Posted Sep 28, 2021)

    ‘A Defense of Judgement’

  • Julie Mehretu, Retopistics: A Renegade Excavation, 2001

    The kaleidoscope of catastrophe – on the clarities and blind spots of Andreas Malm

    Originally published: Viewpoint Magazine on April 14, 2021 by Bue Rübner Hansen (more by Viewpoint Magazine) (Posted Sep 28, 2021)

    The frustration with Malm’s lack of clarity and the praise for his ability to bring together Marxism and environmentalism are of a piece: they both attest to the enormous expectations generated by his work, and his willingness to place himself in a position of intellectual leadership.

  • The general theme of the Montréal demonstration – “Justice sociale, Climate justice, même combat.”

    In the wake of the pandemic: the rebirth of climate mobilizations

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on September 27, 2021 by Marc Bonhomme (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  | (Posted Sep 28, 2021)

    One-hundred-thousand students strike. Fifteen-to-twenty thousand demonstrate in Quebec.

  • The referendum vote came after Germany's constitutional court overturned an attempt by left-leaning parties to impose a rent cap in the German capital

    Berlin locals vote to expropriate real estate giants

    Originally published: Deutsche Welle (DW) on September 26, 2021 by Alex Berry (more by Deutsche Welle (DW)) (Posted Sep 28, 2021)

    Berliners cast their referendum votes on whether to nationalize thousands of housing units owned by real estate giants. After counting all votes, over 56% voted in favor of the measure.

  • President Joe Biden

    Biden and Xi address UN, juggling differences amid calls for unity on climate and COVID-19

    Originally published: Biden and Xi address UN, juggling differences amid calls for unity on climate and COVID-19 on September 21, 2021 by Mark Magnier and Shi Jiangtao (more by Biden and Xi address UN, juggling differences amid calls for unity on climate and COVID-19) (Posted Sep 27, 2021)

    The leaders of the United States and China each pledged to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that they would help press the fight against virulent pandemics and global warming–even as they offered vastly different visions of the world order.

  • metabolic rift

    What do we mean by metabolic rift?

    Originally published: rs21 (Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century) on September 24, 2021 by Greg Peakin (more by rs21 (Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century))  | (Posted Sep 27, 2021)

    rs21 member Greg Peakin explains the concept of metabolic rift, and why it is an important tool for climate organising today.

  • How big corporations and Bill Gates took over the UN food Summit

    How big corporations and Bill Gates took over the UN food Summit

    Originally published: How big corporations and Bill Gates took over the UN food Summit on September 23, 2021 by Nils McCune and Camila Escalante (more by How big corporations and Bill Gates took over the UN food Summit) (Posted Sep 27, 2021)

    Large corporations and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation took over the United Nations Food Systems Summit, abandoning small farmers on behalf of Big Ag companies, endangering food sovereignty.

  • Wind turbines in Oregon.

    Rapid shift to clean energy could save ‘trillions.’ But corporate-backed groups are fighting the transition in U.S. Budget Bill

    Originally published: DeSmog on September 23, 2021 by Nick Cunningham (more by DeSmog)  | (Posted Sep 27, 2021)

    Wind, solar, and batteries are already the cheapest source of electricity and an aggressive shift to clean energy makes more economic sense than a slow one, according to a new study. However, an enormous lobbying effort is underway to block climate policy in the $3.5 trillion budget bill under consideration.

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