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    ‘1 Million Members, 100 Million Trees: How Brazil’s Socialist Farmers Are Fighting Big Ag’

    Originally published: BreakThrough News on April 21, 2023 by BreakThrough News Staff (more by BreakThrough News)  | (Posted Nov 15, 2023)

    The one-million strong Landless Workers Movement (MST) is a backbone of the Brazilian left, famous for its mass actions and radical land occupations all across the Brazilian countryside.

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    Red Star Over the Third World w/ Vijay Prashad: Lessons of Soviet History, Part 2

    Originally published: BreakThrough News on December 15, 2021 by BreakThrough News (more by BreakThrough News)  |

    Russia’s October Revolution in 1917 and the rise of Soviet power reverberated across the world, from Latin America to Africa to Asia, and Middle East – that part of the world that lived under the ravages of colonialism and under-development.

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    ‘U.S. Capitalism Born in Blood: From the First Thanksgiving to Today’ w/ Dr. Gerald Horne

    Originally published: BreakThrough News on November 23, 2021 by Breakthrough News with Dr. Gerald Horne (more by BreakThrough News)  | (Posted Nov 27, 2021)

    The Thanksgiving holiday is built around an insidious and false creation myth–that the so-called “settling” of North America was a peaceful and amicable process.

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    Originally published: BreakThrough News on November 12, 2021 by Eugene Puryear (more by BreakThrough News)  | (Posted Nov 17, 2021)

    The issue has become one of the key fronts in the development of law and order rhetoric. It is part of the backlash from pro-police elements of society to prevent any changes at all to the country’s hyper militarized, mainly ineffective, racist, and brutal system of policing and the accompanying system of mass incarceration.

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    Originally published: BreakThrough News on October 26, 2021 (more by BreakThrough News)  |

    Is there a growing resistance to the unipolar imperial order? Is the U.S. an empire in decline? Will the future be a multipolar one? If so, what does that mean ans how should the left in the imperialist core respond?

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