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Hugo Chávez’s ideas are being recycled by Latin America’s ‘new progressivism’
A spectre is haunting Latin America: the ideas of Hugo Chávez. A “new progressivism” is adopting them as their banner and claiming them as their own, thus invisibilizing Venezuela’s role in attempts at promoting regional integration and sovereignty over the last two decades.
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Bodily control and the color line
The Supreme Court’s draft abortion opinion is poised to revive some of the worst traditions of white patriarchy.
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Our COVID blunder: Some learn from experience. Some don’t
Coronaviruses have been with us for as long as conspiracies, so it’s natural to link them. But the history of epidemics provide better explanations than any conspiracy theory and useful advice to those who learn from it.
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Whose speech is the Free Speech Bill protecting?
The government’s clampdown on free speech is part of a wider campaign to erode all civil liberties. Students must resist, writes Jack Ballingham
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Ecological rift and alienation: Field notes from Goa and Sikkim
For years, the loss of land and livelihood has been upheld as the sacrifice people would have to make in order to get jobs and money later on. It does not seem to matter that any sort of prosperity has failed to trickle down to the people till date, barring those few who get to fatten their pockets.
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Everyone is forgotten and nothing is remembered: The war in Ukraine and Russia’s reawakening
After the most titanic, nightmarish war in modern history, after rivers of blood shed from Kiev to Moscow, from Stalingrad to Kursk, the workers and farmers of the Soviet Union had vanquished the most vile killing machine the world had yet seen.
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My Nelson Mandela is dead
The Zionist campaign is vicious and relentless because they know that once a crack is made in their line of defense–a line that is made of deception, falsehoods and fabrication–they will fall, never to rise again.
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U.S. political prisoner Sundiata Acoli ordered released
New Jersey’s highest court on Tuesday, May 10th, ordered the parole of 85 year old political prisoner Sundiata Acoli, a Black Liberation Army activist, imprisoned for 49 years.
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The Supreme Court’s ruling on abortion
The Supreme Court’s draft ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization not only abolishes the basic democratic right to abortion, but it is an attempt to radically transform the country’s legal superstructure by stripping the population of the democratic protections established in the American Revolution and Civil War.
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Energy reforms blocked in Mexico, sharpening ideological lines for 2024 elections
These were no minor initiatives; they jeopardized the agendas put forth by the neoliberal administrations of the past.
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Andrei Biletsky, the neo-Nazi father of Azov
The supreme heroes of the West are the mostly neo-Nazi soldiers of the Azov regiment. These heroes, who smell of sulphur and swastikas, the Western journalists do not want to hear about them, they are only heroic fighters of the free and democratic Ukraine, a fabulous country where life was good before the Russian special operation.
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State of working America 2021: Measuring wages in the pandemic labor market
Measuring wages in the pandemic labor market
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Activists defy bans on abortion pills
The right wing has passed hundreds of unjust laws to stamp out abortion, but it will not succeed. Women, others in need of abortion services and their allies will fight to stop it. This is the message of the tens of thousands taking to the streets since a media leak revealed the Supreme Court plans to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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A difficult return – race, class, and politics in Rodney’s Guyana
In 1974 Walter Rodney and his family returned to Guyana. Rodney immediately faced a country divided between the Indian and African working class, and the brutal and divisive regime of Forbes Burnham. Rodney produced an impressive body of historical work which provided a Marxist explanation for the divide of the country’s working people. Chinedu Chukwudinma continues the story of Rodney’s revolutionary life.
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Mariupol – Ukrainian soldiers surrounded in Azovstal reveal their faces as terrorists and hostage-takers
After shelling the new firing positions that Ukrainian soldiers had set up in Azovstal during the evacuation of civilians held in the factory, the Russian army organized a new ceasefire and new humanitarian corridors over three days to continue the evacuation. But instead of letting out the civilians still in the Azovstal basement, the Ukrainian soldiers revealed their true face as terrorists and hostage-takers.
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India and Pakistan’s brutal heat wave poised to resurge
2022 will likely be one of the coolest years Earth will experience in the foreseeable future; much more intense heat waves are in India and Pakistan’s future.
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Ukraine: Touring an Aidar Dungeon
Shortly after the U.S.-backed Maidan coup in the winter of 2014, in conjunction with Crimea’s secession from Ukraine and union with Russia in March of that year, protests began to break out in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in the east of the country, known together as Donbas.
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Three steps to Black liberation
If history should be any teacher, it has taught us this: the state has no interest in serving the needs of the masses of Black people in this country, who are poor and working class.
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Killed by capitalism: U.S. government shrugs shoulders as COVID death toll hits 1 million
The United States has just marked a horrific milestone as the official COVID-19 death count passes one million.
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Carrot and stick: U.S. pressure and extortion to break Latin America’s ties with Russia and China
In the last two weeks, the State Department has deployed an ambitious blackmailing persuasion program on countries located in the so-called “Western Hemisphere”, with the aim of limiting their trade and cooperation ties with Moscow and Beijing.