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The descent into barbarism
IN The Junius Pamphlet written from jail in 1915, Rosa Luxemburg had said that the choice before mankind was between barbarism and socialism.
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Arctic Sea ice loss: A world of trouble
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), over the past three decades the oldest, thickest ice (13-20 feet thick) has declined by a stunning 95 percent and 70 percent of Arctic sea ice is now thin “seasonal ice” that quickly melts in the Arctic summer.
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Michael D. Yates on Labor: Organization, Negotiation, and Education (interview parts 3 & 4)
Parts 3 and 4 of an interview with Michael D. Yates by Farooque Chowdhury.
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A word like peace is faster than the bullet of war: The Seventh Newsletter (2024)
On 26 January, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) announced the start of a massive military exercise called Steadfast Defender 2024 that will continue until the end of May.
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The Organism as a Subject: Hegel on Nature, Subjectivity, and Interconnectedness
In his thesis entitled Agency and Organisation, Rasmus Haukedal highlights the remarkable mutual relevance of recent theoretical trends in biology and the dialectical approach to (living) nature as developed by Hegel, Engels, and others (Haukedal 2022).
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Preventative medicine needed: Israel’s roles in genocides, dictatorships, and repression around the world
My first encounter with Israel’s role in genocide happened while caring for patients, not in Palestine but in California.
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Dialectics, Science and Naturalism: An Outline
“Should one claim that, unless they have studied the Science of Logic, these scientists don’t know what they are doing? Doubtless, they know what they are doing but, philosophically speaking, they often do not know what they know and beyond a certain point this limitation cannot but have a regrettable influence on their work.” (Sève 2008: 91)
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The climate crisis: Corporations are gambling with our lives
The World Meteorological Organization has declared 2023 “the warmest year on record, by a huge margin.”
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Dossier no. 73: How the People’s Science Movement is bringing joy and equality to education in Karnataka, India
The People’s Science Movement in India has few parallels in the world in concept, scale, and scope.
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Unravelling human history: the rise of class society and women’s oppression
Anthropology, since its inception, has been an ideologically contested–discipline, and the same is true of both primatology and zoology when they have been used to explain human evolution.
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Michael D. Yates on Labor: Organization, Negotiation, and Education (interview parts 1 & 2)
Parts 1 and 2 of an interview with Michael D. Yates by Farooque Chowdhury. The emancipation of labor is one of the foremost questions in all exploitative societies and societies in transition.
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Ernest Mandel – “Hope and Marxism: Historical and Theoretical Essays”
Some of Ernest Mandel’s finest work on Marxist theory and revolutionary politics appeared in the form of short articles. “Hope and Marxism” collects eleven of Mandel’s most significant articles and provides an excellent introduction to his thought.
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Banks continue to prop up the fossil fuel industry
The hypocrisy of the world’s biggest banks on climate change keeps mounting.
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Dawn is breaking out all over, and the World is waking up: The Sixth Newsletter (2024)
On 2 February 2024, the people of Venezuela celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Bolivarian Revolution.
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Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of China’s economic growth in 2023
Clean energy contributed a record 11.4tn yuan ($1.6tn) to China’s economy in 2023, accounting for all of the growth in investment and a larger share of economic growth than any other sector.
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The importance of a mass movement
Mass protests change people. The act of collectively standing together pushes aside the powerlessness we experience in everyday life, builds confidence and generates a sense of strength.
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After Dubai
Towards a “just, orderly, and equitable” fossil fuel phase out.
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After 25 years the revolution is still standing
If history is not reduced to a museum, dates and anniversaries remind of the struggle of the oppressed classes, which have built or suffered its courses and resources. If history is not reduced to parody, it celebrates moments and figures who interpreted its meaning by anticipating leaps and ruptures and adds new pages to the book of the future. And new flags are raised.
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What the GDP hides
There are well-known problems associated with the concept of gross domestic product as well as with its measurement.
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“What Is Anti-Racism?” – review
Arun Kudnani traces its roots to the campaigns of 1930s’ cultural thinkers such as anthropologist Ruth Benedict and gay rights activist Magnus Hirschfield, who were theorising the rise of Nazism in Germany and urged the U.S. political elite to educate the working class, believing that without this, economic hardship would make racism more likely.