The legal right to sexual violence is part and parcel of policing. This will not end until we eliminate police discretion over women’s bodies.
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Crunch time for the Platform Management model
In what may come to be viewed as a historic court case, a group of UK Uber drivers from London, Birmingham, Nottingham and Glasgow have launched a legal action against Uber in the Netherlands, supported by the App Drivers and Couriers Union (ADCU), the International Alliance of App-based Transport Workers (IAATW) and Worker Info Exchange.
Defunding police and challenging militarism, a necessary response to their “battle space”
The excessive use of force and killings of unarmed Black Americans by police has fueled a popular movement for slashing police budgets, reimagining policing, and directing freed funds to community-based programs that provide medical and mental health care, housing, and employment support to those in need. This is a long overdue development.
Portland: “Wall of Moms” mobilizes to protect protests from police violence
Chanting, “Feds stay clear! Moms are here!,” groups of women congregated at the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse and other locations in Central Portland. They were met with tear gas, flashbangs, and pepper round bullets, injuring many.
Influential DC-based Ukrainian think tank hosts neo-Nazi activist convicted for racist violence
The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation hosted notorious neo-Nazi militant Diana Vynohradova in a webinar this month. While legitimizing Ukrainian white supremacists, the think tank has forged close ties with foreign policy elites in Washington.
Emancipation and science: Ernest Mandel 25 years later
This year marks 25 years since Ernest Mandel died. Mandel (5 April 1923–20 July 1995) was one of the most significant Marxist economists of the second half of the twentieth century. In 1982, he was central to founding our Institute. A prolific scholar and activist until the end of his life, Mandel wrote dozens of […]
‘Fascism and Big Business’ – Review
Radical Reviewer reviews Daniel Guerin’s Fascism and Big Business.
‘No tactics… just seemed like a gang’: Navy Veteran speaks out after attack by secret police in viral video viewed nearly 10 million times
They just started whaling on me with batons, and I let them,” said Christopher David.
With U.S. support, Taiwan planted deception about warning World Health Org of COVID
Taiwan’s claim that it provided early warning to the WHO about COVID and “human-to human-transmission” has been exploited by the Trump administration to attack the multi-lateral body and turn up the heat on China. There’s just one problem: it’s totally false.
Essential—and expendable—Mexican labor
Lear Corporation—one of the world’s largest auto parts manufacturers—rose to position 148 on Fortune magazine’s famous list of the 500 largest firms in 2018. It operates with roughly 148,000 workers spread across 261 locations.
Fascism: The decay of capitalism
Talk about the decaying global capitalist system, the fascist aesthetic, the construction of “the other” and where we might be headed if we don’t do something quick.
Solidarity with the people in the streets of Portland
Against the Federal Occupation and the Police.
Call for investigations into federal operatives in Portland
“The jarring reports of federal law enforcement officers grabbing peaceful protestors off the street should alarm every single American. This is not the way a government operates in a functioning democracy.”
COVID-19: Rot exposed by pandemic augurs a future of fear
Vijay Prashad raises deep questions about the exhaustion of the global capitalist system in a time of great human suffering.
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying’s regular press conference on July 15, 2020
O’Brien should really read up on Marxist-Leninist works. The people’s position is the fundamental political position of Marxist parties. People are the creators of history and the true driving force behind historical progress.
Paralysed companies rescued by an ‘army’ of volunteer workers
The 2270-strong Productive Workers’ Army has recuperated 14 state-run firms that had been run into the ground.
1978: Ernest Mandel – Rosa Luxemburg and political economy
The Accumulation of Capital was published in 1913, and it was probably only after completing her magnum opus that Luxemburg resumed writing her Introduction to Political Economy. Interrupted once again, now by the outbreak of war, she continued to work on the Introduction during her stay in prison in Wronke, in the German province of […]
Why government mostly helps people who need it the least—even during a crisis
The system is the problem.
Each heartbeat must be our song; the redness of blood, our banner
Too little has been made of the fact that countries like Laos and Vietnam have been able to manage the coronavirus; there are no confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in either country.
The great American firewall: On the question of censorship
It should not surprise anyone that China would take protective measures against the threat of U.S. imperialism in the realm of cyber technology.
