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Ten theses on the far right of a special type: The Thirty-Third Newsletter (2024)
Fascism is an insufficient term, as it denies the intimacy between liberal and far right forces. In this week’s newsletter, we present ten theses to understand this ‘intimate embrace’ and the rise of this far right of a special type.
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Students left out of discussions about student Gaza protests
Recent student-led campus encampments in solidarity with Palestine prompted considerable media conversation.
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From growth fetish to post-growth
Gus Speth – “My family and I spent 25 years in Washington DC. They were good years, and every morning I began with coffee and The Washington Post. The newspaper was a wonderful companion—and reliably progressive. But there is something going on there now on the editorial board that I find, well, weird.”
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The invention of the “true transsexual”
The following text navigates through the trans health articles and books published between 1886 and 1966 which appear to have had the greatest influence on the writing of “The Transsexual Phenomenon”, ultimately posing the question: how did we get here?
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The ICJ finds that BDS is not merely a right, but an obligation
The ICJ’s authoritative ruling on the Israeli occupation makes clear that boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against Israeli occupation, colonization, and apartheid are not only a moral imperative but also a legal obligation.
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Venezuela today: Revolution and elections
In light of recent imperialist aggressions, Chris Gilbert reflects on the challenges and complexities of using elections as a tool for socialist construction.
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Death by incarceration: The U.S. prison system is slowly killing its political prisoners
By denying parole and medical treatment, the U.S. prison system is sentencing its longest-held political prisoners to a slow death.
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Blood remembers
Throughout history, young protesters have stood up against the status quo to bring about change. Generation Z has arisen, offering a priceless sacrifice to free Kenya from a malevolent system of governance.
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Behind India’s Iron Curtain
In this week in 2019, India enforced a communications blackout in Jammu and Kashmir. A new writing project chronicles the crackdown which followed and how its techniques of oppression were borrowed from Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
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“Where California goes, there goes the Nation”
Gavin Newsom’s ‘War on Rooftop Solar’ is a bad omen for the Country.
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He had two babies
There’s a video of him screaming, screaming the way any of us would scream. The screams of a man who suddenly lost everything a man could possibly lose. Screaming Gaza’s screams.
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Over 30 million cyber attacks per minute since July 28
“All state platforms have been attacked in multiple ways,” said Minister Jiménez when presenting the report. She highlighted that among the affected systems, the National Placement System (SNI) received four million attacks per hour. The SNI is the placement platform for new students in Venezuelan universities.
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Mijaín Lopez: The Cuban hero of the Paris Olympics who loves Fidel Castro
The hero of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games isn’t Tom Cruise, Armand Duplantis or Novak Djokovic. The hero is Cuban and his name is Mijaín Lopez.
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Thailand aborts the colour revolution
The curtain has come down on the abortive colour revolution in Thailand with the country’s Constitutional Court ordering the dissolution on Wednesday of the anti-establishment opposition party Move Forward, widely regarded as a U.S. proxy.
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“Queers for Palestine” is not self-hatred
Queer people fight for a liberated and just world. Their solidarity with Palestine is therefore simply consistent.
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U.S. to keep funding Israeli military unit that killed elderly Palestinian American
Earlier reports said the U.S. was going to sanction the unit, Netzah Yehuda, but Israeli officials lobbied against the plan.
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Defending national sovereignty and delinking. A question of class struggle and rights
Global capital through the international finance system has obtained near hegemony and capitalism is projected as the best and most superior system in history.
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As Texas antifascist found “not guilty,” billionaire GOP mega-donor reportedly bankrolling lawsuit for fascist, anti-semitic group
Members of the New Columbia Movement routinely rally alongside neo-Nazi groups which openly flaunt Nazi imagery.
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What’s behind regime change in Bangladesh
Violent regime change in the South Asian country of Bangladesh unfolded rapidly and mostly by stealth as the rest of the world focused on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, growing tensions in the Middle East and a simmering confrontation between the U.S. and China in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Washington further escalates its war on dissent
The last few days have seen the U.S. ramping up its war on domestic political dissent in multiple ways, with U.S. lawmakers petitioning the Biden administration to crack down on anti-genocide protesters it suspects of foreign influence, and a journalist critical of U.S. foreign policy coming under the crosshairs of Washington’s increasingly weaponized Foreign Agents…