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  • | Youth Climate Protest | MR Online

    Capitalism vs. the Planet

    Originally published: Socialist Alternative on September 1, 2021 by Hazel Grinberg (more by Socialist Alternative)  | (Posted Sep 09, 2021)

    The latest IPCC report paints a picture of five potential futures for humanity. In the worst one, if corporations keep calling the shots, we could see catastrophic warming of up to 5.7˚C.

  • | The End of Growth The Capitalist Economy Ecological Crisis | MR Online

    The end of growth? The capitalist economy & ecological crisis

    Originally published: Socialist Alternative on August 11, 2021 by Conor Payne and Chris Stewart (more by Socialist Alternative)  | (Posted Aug 16, 2021)

    The question of economic growth and its relation to the climate crisis is a subject of increasing discussion. Here we offer a Marxist view on this critical issue for the environmental movement.

  • | Black Lives Matter Amazon | MR Online

    Amazon plays dirty in Bessemer Union Drive: Mass solidarity needed

    Originally published: Socialist Alternative on March 25, 2021 by Rebecca Green (more by Socialist Alternative)  | (Posted Mar 27, 2021)

    Everyone knew that Amazon would fight the union drive in one of its fulfillment centers in Bessemer, Alabama. But the company’s union-busting tactics are drawing more scrutiny as the final days for workers to mail in ballots draw near.

  • | Little Women | MR Online

    Why does Little Women still matter? Review of Little Women (2019) – Directed by Greta Gerwig

    Originally published: Socialist Alternative on February 14, 2020 by Ginger Jentzen (more by Socialist Alternative)  | (Posted Feb 20, 2020)

    Greta Gerwig’s new adaptation of Little Women has struck a resounding chord with audiences, particularly young women. Why does this book continue to resonate with us one hundred and fifty years later, and what did this latest version bring us? 

  • | Canada Police Assault on Wetsuweten People | MR Online

    Police assault on Wet’suwet’en people

    Originally published: Socialist Alternative on February 15, 2020 by Leslie Kemp (more by Socialist Alternative)  | (Posted Feb 20, 2020)

    Attack shows Hypocrisy towards Indigenous Peoples.

  • | Seattle and the Socialist Surge in the US | MR Online

    Seattle and the socialist surge in the U.S.

    Originally published: Socialist Alternative on July 28, 2019 (more by Socialist Alternative)  |

    Seattle’s Socialist City Councilmember, Kshama Sawant, is in the midst of a major fight for re-election. U.S. elections are long and expensive compared to most of the world. Seattle city elections are in two parts: a primary that runs through August 6 and then a run-off between the top two candidates decided on November 5.

  • | The Squad vs Trump and Pelosi | MR Online

    The Squad vs. Trump and Pelosi

    Originally published: Socialist Alternative on August 2, 2019 by Tom Crean (more by Socialist Alternative)  | (Posted Aug 08, 2019)

    In the past couple weeks, President Trump has gone on a racist, red-baiting rampage against four congresswomen elected in 2018. The four women of color–Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley–are now collectively known in the media as the “squad.”

  • | Marxism and the Philosophy of Science | MR Online

    Marxism and the philosophy of science

    Originally published: Socialist Alternative on August 1, 2019 by George Martin Fell Brown (more by Socialist Alternative)  | (Posted Aug 07, 2019)

    Marxists are primarily known for their concern with the development of human society and political struggle. As materialists, however, Marxists necessarily look to developments in science and new ways of understanding the material world.

  • | Watch Kshama Sawant call out councilmembers | MR Online

    Watch Kshama Sawant call out councilmembers who voted to repeal the Amazon tax

    Originally published: Socialist Alternative on June 14, 2018 by Kshama Sawant (more by Socialist Alternative)  | (Posted Jun 21, 2018)

    Only days after passing a tax on Amazon and big business in Seattle, the corporate politicians in Seattle repeal the ordinance.

  • | Homosexual desire in revolutionary Russia | MR Online

    100 years ago, a forgotten soviet revolution in LGBTQ rights

    Originally published: Socialist Alternative on May 21, 2017 by Edmund Schluessel, Sosialistinen Vaihtoehto (CWI in Finland) (more by Socialist Alternative)  | (Posted Nov 07, 2017)

    The socialist October Revolution in 1917 brought about fundamental, thoroughgoing changes in Russian society. Millions of people in the largest country on Earth quickly found themselves far freer than they had ever been under the despotic, anti-Semitic Tsar, the strictures of the church, and the brutality of Russian capitalism and landlordism.

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    The concept of labor constituted a pivotal problematic in Georg Lukács’s theoretical development throughout his Marxist years.

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    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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