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Mattarella scolded the police who beat schoolchildren protesting Gaza genocide
Mattarella: ‘Batons against young people are an expression of failure.’ The president issues a sharp warning to the police and interior minister. The government: ‘Law enforcement is not to be touched.’
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Julian Assange’s grand inquisitor
The prosecution lawyers in the High Court seeking to ensure Julian’s extradition to the U.S. rely almost exclusively on the judicial opinions of Gordon Kromberg, a highly controversial U.S. attorney.
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Nature’s heartbeat, visualized
A stunning animation displays the pulse of the Earth System’s metabolism.
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Reactionary ecology
For many continental philosophers, the first two decades of the new millennium were a time of vibrant matter, hyperobjects, and a weird fixation with intestinal microbes. The late Bruno Latour saw this ‘new materialist’ doctrine–which decentred the human subject in favour of the world of ‘things’, believed to have agency of their own–as a useful resource in his career-long polemic against Marxism.
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Self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell an “indicator… of the profound change in consciousness in the United States”
People across the world have highlighted the bravery and sacrifice of the U.S. active duty soldier who was protesting the genocide in Gaza.
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The wealthy cause climate change; the poor suffer its consequences
The tiny but incredibly privileged 0.1% really are a breed apart, even from their not-quite-so-rich neighbours.
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According to his son, civil rights icon Paul Robeson was a victim of CIA’s MK-ULTRA
A celebrity performer who devoted his life to social justice struggles, Paul Robeson is an icon of the civil rights movement who helped set the groundwork for the political awakening of the 1960s.
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The tragic death of a traitor (Part One: Origins)
Alexei Navalny, a Russian political opposition figure whose popularity in the West far exceeded his support in Russia, died while incarcerated in a Russian prison. He was serving a combined 30-and-a-half-year sentence for fraud and political extremism, charges that Navalny and his supporters claim were little more than trumped up accusations designed to silence a […]
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Ireland must be a voice for the Palestinian people
Israel’s war in Gaza has now entered its fifth month.
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Trident missile failure exposes folly of nuclear weapons
Britain’s nuclear arsenal has failed two tests in a row. Why must we still pay for these extortionate weapons of mass destruction?
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‘it’s the South’: Harris County sends 15 times more Black men to death row than white
Texas’ largest county remains the state’s deadliest when it comes to capital murder convictions, a new report says.
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176 years since the Communist Manifesto was published, socialists around the world celebrate “Red Books Day”
Socialists across the globe in countries such as India, Brazil, and the United States celebrate the Manifesto and all “Red Books” that shaped the world.
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In defense of historical memory against imperialism
“As Africans living in the belly of the beast of imperialism we recognize that our domestic struggle against police terrorism, super exploitation, and domestic colonization are themselves part of the larger anti-imperialist struggle of the underdeveloped world.”
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Farmers’ protest in India reignites: A struggle for the future of food and agriculture
In 2021, after a year-long protest, India’s farmers brought about the repeal of three farm laws that were intended to ‘liberalize’ the agriculture sector. Now, in 2024, farmers are again protesting. The underlying issues and the facilitation of the neoliberal corporatization of farming that sparked the previous protest remain and have not been resolved.
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Over 2/3 of Jewish Israelis oppose humanitarian aid to Palestinians starving in Gaza
A new Israeli Democracy Institute survey shows that 68% of Jewish Israelis oppose “the transfer of humanitarian aid to Gaza residents.”
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SPEECH: A Challenge to Artists, Lorraine Hansberry, 1962
At a rally against the House Un-American Activities Committee, insurgent playwright Lorrainne Hansberry called on artists to shake off the fear and incoherency of the world to defend the peoples’ rights.
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Israel lobby and its media enablers threatening academic freedom on campus
Universities must be places where criticisms of official discourses, dominant worldviews can be voiced without fear of reprisal.
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Malcolm X assassination: Former security guards reveal new details pointing to FBI, NYPD conspiracy
On the 59th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, two former security guards are speaking out for the first time about how they were falsely arrested by the New York Police Department as part of a conspiracy to remove his protection before he was killed.
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Zionism and the annihilation of Gaza: The problem in Palestine is not political, but ideological
All of this–the language of genocide, the genocide itself and the threats of committing a greater genocide–is rooted, not in a rational political theory, but in Zionism.
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By deliberately derailing the Gaza vote, Starmer shames democracy and betrays humanity
Wednesday was a day of shame for the House of Commons. Few powers around the world are more important in supporting Israel’s genocidal attack on the Palestinians of Gaza than Britain.