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“Let them show the records!” has become the buzzword to refer to Venezuela and its recent electoral process.

On August 4, the Israeli army bombed a group of tents inside the compound of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, killing three people. The bombing caused a number of tents to catch on fire, resulting in the injury of dozens of displaced civilians.

CounterSpin interview with Keith McHenry on criminalizing homelessness.

What democracy would accept a member of parliament agreeing that it was permissible and acceptable for its soldiers to sexually abuse political prisoners?

By sanctioning so many countries so readily, the Empire has in effect sanctioned itself–and convinced an ever-increasing number of states to seek alternative economic and financial structures.

Vladimir Lenin made many valuable contributions to Marxist political economy.

Britain’s political establishment has spent decades demonising refugees and Muslims. Defeating the far right doesn’t stop with ending the violent riots on the streets—the politics that inspired them must be beaten too.

Few are better qualified to challenge the official orthodoxy that stifles any discussion of this topic.

In his lifetime, Karl Marx witnessed the establishment of capitalism as an all-encompassing, global system, and with it the international working class—a force capable of radical social transformation.

Attacks on the Venezuelan electoral system have reached the terrain of cyberwarfare, according to the complaints made by President Nicolás Maduro, the authorities of the National Electoral Council (CNE), and the Attorney General’s Office (MP).

An interesting new article in the prominent American journal, “Foreign Affairs”, by three academics from Georgetown University, argues that “Washington should place less emphasis on slowing down China and more on improving its own innovative prowess.”

How Palestine turned a classical musician and recovering child prodigy into a revolutionary.

CJPME urges Canada to continue to investigate and punish all connections between Canadian charities and illegal Israeli activity.

A milestone in Du Bois’ political evolution, written as he was leaving the N.A.A.C.P. and starting his career at Atlanta University Du Bois’ increasingly embraced Marx’s analytical criteria, though he remained outside the Communist movement for decades more.

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Let me tell you: No one wakes up one morning and chooses to be homeless.

A View from the Inside.

We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.
 – Elon Musk, 25 July 2020, Twitter

THE racist riot in Southport following the murderous knife attack on a children’s dance class speaks both to the unscrupulousness and mobilising reach of Britain’s fascist right.

Bourgeois economists, ever ready to proclaim the impending demise of the socialist economic model in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), find every opportunity to throw shade on China’s economic system.