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  • | A Second Manifesto for the World Social Forum From an Open Space to a Space for Action | MR Online

    A second Manifesto for the World Social Forum? From an Open Space to a Space for Action

    Originally published: Critical Legal Thinking on August 11, 2020 by Signatories of the Declaration of Porto Alegre (more by Critical Legal Thinking)  | (Posted Aug 13, 2020)

    Is the World Social Forum (WSF), which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2021, just an open space or can it (should it) also be a space for action? This question has been discussed for years in the WSF International Council, and so far, it has not been possible to reach a conclusion.

  • | Francis Bacon Study after Velázquezs Portrait of Pope Innocent X 1953 | MR Online

    Trump, or capital in the Oval Office

    Originally published: Critical Legal Thinking on October 25, 2018 by Benedict Thorn (more by Critical Legal Thinking)  | (Posted Oct 30, 2018)

    The moment was of course metaphysically necessary—that capital incarnate itself as man and come among us. The question we must ask rather is how this descent occurs, for that determines all that follows.

  • | Missile over city | MR Online

    On Rosa Parks’ tomahawk, or, the U.S. strikes in Syria

    Originally published: Critical Legal Thinking on April 21, 2018 by Martin Clark and Ntina Tzouvala (more by Critical Legal Thinking)  | (Posted Apr 24, 2018)

    In the wake of the most recent USA airstrike in Syria, Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former president of the American Society of International Law and U.S. State Department Director of Policy Planning between 2009 and 2011, took to Twitter to think through some of the legal and moral arguments justifying the use of force.

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    Safe spaces for colonial apologists

    Originally published: Critical Legal Thinking on January 8, 2018 by Jonathan Saha (more by Critical Legal Thinking)  | (Posted Jan 10, 2018)

    The recent controversies about Oxford Professor Nigel Biggar’s “Ethics and Empire” project and UK Universities Minister Jo Johnson’s attack on “safe space culture” have both been defended on freedom of speech grounds. However, they are better understood as retrenching colonial thinking in universities.

  • | Evgeny Pashukanis | MR Online

    Evgeny Pashukanis: Commodity-form theory of law

    Originally published: Critical Legal Thinking on December 13, 2017 by William M. A. Chandler (more by Critical Legal Thinking)  | (Posted Dec 18, 2017)

    Whether one believes that law is provided by God (Natural Law), is created by human intellect (Positivism), a gendered institution perpetuating patriarchy (Feminism) or the maintainer of the status quo against marginalised groups (Critical Legal Studies), undergirding those beliefs is the assumption that law is autonomous.

  • | Artwork by Marisa Malik | MR Online

    Britain: The empire that never was

    Originally published: Critical Legal Thinking on October 31, 2017 by Kojo Koram and Kerem Nisancioglu (more by Critical Legal Thinking)  | (Posted Nov 03, 2017)

    Brexit sold the country a dream; ostensibly a project built on anti-migrant sentiment, it also invoked delusions of grandeur, rooted in reanimating the glorious days of imperial rule and global British hegemony. Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit speech announced a vision for a ‘Global Britain’ – ‘a great, global trading nation that is respected around the world and strong.’

  • | Sustainable development and inequality | MR Online

    Sustaining neoliberal capital through socio-economic rights

    Originally published: Critical Legal Thinking on October 18, 2017 by Margot E Salomon (more by Critical Legal Thinking)  | (Posted Oct 25, 2017)

    In a 2013 contribution aimed at influencing the post-2015 development agenda, seventeen UN Special Rapporteurs recommended that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) should include a goal on the provision of social protection floors.

  • | Burqas and nuns | MR Online

    Radicalizing women’s rights internationally

    Originally published: Critical Legal Thinking on October 19, 2017 by Tanya Monforte (more by Critical Legal Thinking)  | (Posted Oct 20, 2017)

    The recent “burqa bans” in Austria and Quebec appear to be troubling legal manifestations of the rising tide of Islamaphobia in Europe and North America.

  • | Karl Marx | MR Online

    On Marx’s philosophical methodology in the Grundrisse

    Originally published: Critical Legal Thinking on September 26, 2017 by Matthew McManus (more by Critical Legal Thinking)  | (Posted Sep 29, 2017)

    A quick and dirty presentation of Marx’s philosophical method as presented in the Grundrisse.

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    In this reprint of the February 1994 “Notes from the Editors,” former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: “The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. Why, then, does it continue to act as though the Cold War is still on?”

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