Scant attention has been placed on the context of anti-Asian racism and its roots in the history of U.S. imperialism.
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100 days of revolt, & still raring to go
As the farmers’ protest against farm laws enters the summer season, they brave high temperatures and the paucity of basic necessities
Report: U.S. preparing cyberattack against Russia over SolarWinds hack
Sources told The New York Times that the first major actions are expected sometime in the next three weeks.
Prioritise pandemic relief, recovery: No time for debt buybacks
Developing country governments are being wrongly advised to use their modest fiscal resources to pay down accumulated debt instead of strengthening pandemic relief and recovery. Thus, debt phobia risks deepening and extending COVID-19 recessions by prioritizing buybacks.
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Newfoundland = New found fish
While treasure fleets carried silver to Spain, far more ships were carrying men, fish and whale oil across the North Atlantic.
Notes on revolutionary hope
Humanity stands at a dangerous crossroads: a conflict between making profits and saving human life is clearly emerging, with the latter being sacrificed by the ruling class for the former.
Tutors replacing teachers: A failed privatization plot returns
The pandemic showed that for students to get quality instruction, especially poor children of color, America must invest in real teachers, smaller class sizes, and better working conditions, including improved school facilities.
Discourses of Distrust: Conspiracy Theories and the Critique of Ideology
Here the main question is not what is said but why it is said. And this question of why is not related to the personal situation, interests, or discursive strategies of the speakers. Men cannot know what is good for them; they very often profess ideologies that are directly detrimental to their interests.
The political economy of COVID-19 vaccines
Vaccine grabs, the refusal to relax patents to enable mass production, and the use of vaccines for diplomacy run the risk that poorer nations may not be protected against Covid-19 quickly enough. This will prolong the pandemic, even for the richer nations.
Why Cornel West’s tenure fight matters
I wrote letters for West’s hire and renewal at Harvard. The school’s administrators completely miss the point of tenure. – ROBIN D. G. KELLEY
The birth of Marxism in France: Remembering the Paris Commune and Jules Guesde
Guesde (1845-1922) introduced Marxism to France and contributed to building the Socialist Party in the north of the country, where the left, socialism, and then later communism became very strong.
Digital colonialism: the evolution of American empire
American “Big Tech” corporations are gaining massive profits through their control over business, labor, social media and entertainment in the Global South.
International Women’s Day: A militant celebration
Women’s Day or Working Women’s Day is a day of international solidarity, and a day for reviewing the strength and organization of proletarian women.
COVID-19: Social murder, they wrote—elected, unaccountable, and unrepentant
Murder is an emotive word. In law, it requires premeditation. Death must be deemed to be unlawful. How could “murder” apply to failures of a pandemic response? Perhaps it can’t, and never will, but it is worth considering.
Who signed the pro-testing appeals?
Education Trust, led by former Secretary of Education John King, sent two letters to the Biden administration, urging the administration not to allow states to receive waivers from the mandated federal testing.
Rosa Luxemburg at 150: a revolutionary legacy
Rosa Luxemburg, one of the great leaders in the history of the socialist movement, was born in Poland (then a province of the Russian empire) 150 years ago this month, on 5 March 1871.
U.S. to continue using Guaido to rob Venezuelan assets abroad
The continuation of the Trump administration’s aggressive policies toward Venezuela by the Biden administration is reflected in the recent meeting between the new U.S. Secretary of State and Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó.
The right to live in peace
On a warm late February day in Santiago, I went to the grave of Victor Jara to pay homage to the man who was brutally killed on 16 September 1973.
On May Day: Karl Marx on India, colonialism and religion
Marx, argues the author, is often misunderstood and even more often, misrepresented even as the world observes his bicentenary.
Humanitarian imperialism
How corporate media sell regime change, Intervention and war to progressive audiences.
