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  •  | Floyd | MR Online

    People get ready: Protest on the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder

    Originally published: Fight Back News on May 14, 2025 by African-American Commission of FRSO (more by Fight Back News) (Posted May 17, 2025)

    To defeat Trump’s agenda, we need a movement that unites all who can be united, and is ready to stand up and fight back. If the pardon rumors become reality, meet us in the streets.

  •  | Wall Street | MR Online

    Specter of stagflation spooks Wall Street

    Originally published: Fight Back News on February 24, 2025 by Masao Suzuki (more by Fight Back News) (Posted Feb 26, 2025)

    On Friday, February 21, all the major U.S. stock indices fell.

  •  | Study in for Palestine at the Tulane University Library | Fight Back NewsDylan Boling | MR Online

    Students ‘study-in’ for Palestine at Tulane University Library

    Originally published: Fight Back News on October 31, 2024 by Siena Vincent (more by Fight Back News) (Posted Nov 05, 2024)

    Starting at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, October 23, pro-Palestine students at Tulane University quietly entered the library and took up space at nearly every table on the first floor.

  •  | Tampa administration cops stop rally from taking place on campus | StaffFight Back News | MR Online

    Tampa students fight for freedom of speech on campus, face further repression

    Originally published: Fight Back News on October 2, 2024 by Victoria Hinckley (more by Fight Back News) (Posted Oct 11, 2024)

    Students gathered to begin the rally when Dean of Students Danielle McDonald stopped the students and prevented the rally from happening.

  •  |  | MR Online

    Red Reviews: “Wages, Price, and Profit”

    Originally published: Fight Back News on April 18, 2024 by J. Sykes (more by Fight Back News) (Posted Jun 21, 2024)

    Karl Marx is best known in the realm of political economy for his great work, Capital. Marx is the original theorist, together with his associate Friedrich Engels, of scientific socialism. Marx wrote Capital in order to expose the inner workings of capitalism, so that workers could understand the system behind their exploitation, how this system […]

  •  | Karl Marx | MR Online

    Red Theory: Marxism and the Law of Value

    Originally published: Fight Back News on August 7, 2022 by J. Sykes (more by Fight Back News) (Posted Aug 10, 2022)

    In our previous article we looked at what a commodity is and examined use-value and exchange-value. This discussion of value is a cornerstone of Marx’s critique of political economy. The value of any commodity is equal to the socially necessary labor time required to produce that commodity.

  •  | Progressive Charlestown Unhappy workers = unhappy meal | MR Online

    Purchasing power of workers’ wages take biggest tumble in 40 years

    Originally published: Fight Back News on July 15, 2022 by Masao Suzuki (more by Fight Back News) (Posted Jul 18, 2022)

    Over the last year, real average weekly earnings fell 3.9% as inflation outpaced pay raises and average weekly hours fell by almost an hour.

  •  | Jin Xing | MR Online

    Transgender rights: China advances while U.S. backslides

    Originally published: Fight Back News on March 2, 2022 by Serena Sojic-Borne (more by Fight Back News) (Posted Mar 08, 2022)

    The Republican evangelical right scapegoats trans people as their latest “culture war” to mobilize far-right support and secure corporate interests.

  •  | Socialist Kellogg factory workers and a delegation of workers from the US Canada Colombia Mexico and Tunisia visiting the factory Fight Back Newsstaff | MR Online

    Workers take over a Kellogg factory, now known as ‘Socialist Kellogg’

    Originally published: Fight Back News on August 8, 2021 by Fight Back Staff (more by Fight Back News) (Posted Aug 18, 2021)

    In the worker-controlled Venezuelan Kellogg factory, you see the workers working diligently to make corn flake and sugary cereals in a new package displaying the Venezuelan flag and the words “Together for Venezuela.”

  •  | The City Hall Dutch Stadhuis of Antwerp Belgium stands on the western side of Antwerps Grote Markt Great Market Square Erected between 1561 and 1565 after designs made by Cornelis Floris de Vriendt and several other architects and artists this Renaissance building incorporates both Flemish and Italian influences The City Hall is inscribed on UNESCOs World Heritage List along with the belfries of Belgium and France Margaret of Parma hands over the keys to the city by Henri Leys In the 16th century Antwerp became one of the busiest trading ports and most prosperous cities in Northern Europe The municipal authorities wished to replace Antwerps small medieval town hall with a more imposing structure befitting the prosperity of the great port city Antwerp architect Domien de Waghemakere drafted a plan c 1540 for a new building in a style typical of the monumental Gothic town halls of Flanders and Brabant But the threat of war prevented any progress on the project The building materiasl intended for the city hall were instead used to shore up the city defenses Not until about 1560 new plans were developed In the meantime Gothic architecture had gone out of fashion The new designs for the city hall were in the new Renaissance style Completed in 1565 the building lasted hardly a decade before being burnt to a shell in the Spanish Fury of 1576 It was restored three years later The low arcaded ground story is of rusticated stone and at one time housed little shops Above are two stories with Doric and Ionic columns separating large mullioned windows and a fourth story forming an open gallery The richly ornamented central section which rises above the eaves in diminishing stages holds female statues representing Justice Prudence and the Virgin Mary and bears the coats of arms of the Duchy of Brabant the Spanish Habsburgs and the Margraviate of Antwerp Renovations during the late 19th century by architects Pierre Bruno Bourla Joseph | MR Online

    Belgium Worker’s Party obtains excellent results in federal, regional and European elections

    Originally published: Fight Back News on May 27, 2019 (more by Fight Back News) (Posted Jun 13, 2019)

    After a phenomenal and social campaign, the Belgian Workers’ Party (PTB-PVDA) has confirmed its progress throughout the country, with results ranging from 6.6% in Flanders to over 12% in Brussels and 13.5% in Wallonia. The genuine left thus sends 12 members to the federal parliament, 1 member to the European Parliament, 11 members to the Brussels Parliament, 4 members to the Flemish Parliament and 10 members to the Walloon Parliament.

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    Iker Suarez  | A banner at a memorial rally for victims of the 2014 massacre of migrants at Tarajal 2021 | MR Online

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