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    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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  • The Obama Line, Samantha Power, and U.S. Intervention in West Africa During the Ebola Epidemic
    Jean-Philippe Stone | © UN PhotoMartine Perret | CC BYNCND 20 | MR Online

    December 2013 marked the beginning of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Ebola, a severe hemorrhagic virus which causes muscle and joint pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding, spread from Guinean forests to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone by the summer of 2014.

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  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin | State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv Ukraine | MR Online

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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