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  • | 15 March 2022 Protesters gather outside Parliament in Cape Town in support of Ukraine and against Russias invasion calling for the government to condemn Vladimir Putins actions Photograph by Rodger Bosch AFP | MR Online

    International law and ‘European civilisation’

    Originally published: New Frame on April 8, 2022 by Christopher Grever (more by New Frame)  | (Posted Apr 15, 2022)

    Despite its promises of universalism, international law has clearly not yet shaken its foundation as a racial order.

  • | 2 December 2021 Protesters including Fawu Giwusa and Inqubelaphambili Trade Union members at Clovers head office in Constantia Kloof Roodekop | MR Online

    South Africa: Clover workers call for nationalisation

    Originally published: New Frame on January 5, 2022 by Anna Majavu (more by New Frame)  | (Posted Jan 07, 2022)

    Striking workers fear that corporate changes at the dairy giant will lead to reduced local production and increased imports of Israeli products.

  • | Circa 1986 Archie Singham with Namibian Independence Photographs supplied | MR Online

    Archie and I: a Third World story

    Originally published: New Frame on December 21, 2021 (more by New Frame)  |

    Vijay Prashad recalls his early encounters with the struggle for national liberation, and the work of Archie Singham, an important intellectual in the latter part of that sequence of struggle.

  • | Circa 1915 American naval officers and marines from the USS Washington come ashore for the capture of Port au Prince in Haiti Photograph by Getty Images | MR Online

    Imperialism and its discontents

    Originally published: New Frame on August 23, 2021 by New Frame (more by New Frame)  | (Posted Aug 23, 2021)

    On the night of 14 August 1791, enslaved Africans gathered in the Bois Caïman forest and planned the revolt that would begin the Haitian Revolution. Last week, on the 230th anniversary of this meeting, Haiti was hit by an earthquake that has upturned the lives of more than a million people.

  • | Woman carries looted goods Gold Spot Shopping Centre Vosloorus | MR Online

    Food riots show the need for a basic income grant

    Originally published: New Frame on July 13, 2021 by Anna Majavu (more by New Frame)  | (Posted Jul 15, 2021)

    As rioters target supermarkets, activists call on the government to help those who cannot survive amid rising prices and mass unemployment.

  • | Fanons renewal of the Marxist formula | MR Online

    Fanon’s renewal of the Marxist formula

    Originally published: New Frame on November 19, 2018 by Nigel C. Gibson (more by New Frame)  | (Posted May 11, 2021)

    In the vortex of the Algerian revolution Fanon’s return to ‘the Marxist formula’ was rooted in the concrete situation of a living struggle.

  • | Marx Illustrator Anastasya Eliseeva | MR Online

    The commons as the fulcrum for social regeneration

    Originally published: New Frame on November 12, 2020 by Peter Linebaugh (more by New Frame)  | (Posted Nov 20, 2020)

    Karl Marx’s 1875 critique of the German Social Democratic Party provides a withering examination of capitalism’s ‘wicked ways’ and a guide to what the commons is and how to bring it about.

  • | Walter Rodney In 1980 Walter Rodney was assassinated by a car bomb in Georgetown Guyana He gave this speech at Queens College New York in 1975 The transcript is taken from Yes to Marxism Peoples Progressive Party Georgetown Guyana 1986 | MR Online

    From the Archive | Part two: Marxism and African liberation

    Originally published: New Frame on August 13, 2020 by Walter Rodney (more by New Frame)  | (Posted Aug 17, 2020)

    In this second of a two-part series, Guyanese historian and activist Walter Rodney argues that the theory of scientific socialism can and should be used in the African context.

  • | Frantz Fanon | MR Online

    Fanon and the ‘rationality of revolt’

    Originally published: New Frame on August 9, 2020 by Nigel Gibson (more by New Frame)  | (Posted Aug 10, 2020)

    Fanon’s idea that the measure of time not be that of the moment but that of the rest of the world takes on urgent significance as climate extinction meets global pandemic.

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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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