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  • | Dancers perform during the presidential inauguration ceremony at Heroes Square on November 29 2021 in Bridgetown Barbados | MR Online

    It’s all in the flag: Bussa’s Rebellion and the 200-year fight to end British rule in Barbados

    Originally published: The Conversation on December 6, 2021 by Lewis Eliot (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Dec 18, 2021)

    Prince Charles, as a representative of Queen Elizabeth II, was in attendance, providing a royal seal of approval. Barbados gained its independence in 1966, though the new nation kept ties to its former overlords by keeping Elizabeth II as a symbolic head of state.

  • | Transitioning is possible after going through puberty but its much more difficult for trans people to look the way they want to look Elena MedvedevaGetty Images | MR Online

    Two classes of trans kids are emerging–those who have access to puberty blockers, and those who don’t

    Originally published: The Conversation on May 4, 2021 by Travers (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted May 07, 2021)

    For decades, kids who didn’t conform to the gender expected of them were forced to endure treatments designed to “cure” their gender nonconformity. This form of therapy, called “reparative” or “corrective,” typically involved instructing parents–and sometimes teachers–to subject children to constant surveillance and correction.

  • | Thijs StoopUnsplash FAL | MR Online

    Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap

    Originally published: The Conversation on April 22, 2021 by James Dyke, Robert Watson and Wolfgang Knorr (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Apr 27, 2021)

    Sometimes realization comes in a blinding flash. Blurred outlines snap into shape and suddenly it all makes sense. Underneath such revelations is typically a much slower-dawning process. Doubts at the back of the mind grow.

  • | The Office of Military Commissions building in Guantanamo Bay Cuba was where much legal activity about the detainees cases was handled AP PhotoAlex Brandon | MR Online

    ‘The Mauritanian’ rekindles debate over Gitmo detainees’ torture–with 40 still held there

    Originally published: The Conversation on February 12, 2021 (more by The Conversation)  |

    “The Mauritanian,” directed by Kevin Macdonald, is the first feature film to dramatize how the war on terror became a war in court.

  • | John ONolanUnsplash FAL | MR Online

    Nobel prize-winning economics of climate change is misleading and dangerous – here’s why

    Originally published: The Conversation on September 9, 2020 by Steve Keen (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Sep 10, 2020)

    While climate scientists warn that climate change could be catastrophic, economists such as 2018 Nobel prize winner William Nordhaus assert that it will be nowhere near as damaging.

  • | The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle Stephen BrashearEPA | MR Online

    Revolutionary ideals of the Paris Commune live on in Black Lives Matter autonomous zone in Seattle

    Originally published: The Conversation on June 15, 2020 by Oli Mould (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Jun 18, 2020)

    The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle–or Chaz as it has come to be known–was set up on June 8 in the Capitol Hill area of Seattle. It came about as a result of BLM protesters moving in after the Seattle police abandoned the precinct due to clashes with protesters.

  • | Californians wait in line to vote on Super Tuesday March 3 2020 AP PhotoRingo HW Chiu | MR Online

    Closing polling places is the 21st century’s version of a poll tax

    Originally published: The Conversation on March 16, 2020 by Joshua F.J. Inwood and Derek H. Alderman (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Mar 19, 2020)

    Delays and long lines at polling places during recent presidential primary elections – such as voters in Texas experienced – represent the latest version of decades-long policies that have sought to reduce the political power of African Americans in the U.S.

  • | How getting rid of shit jobs and the metric of productivity can combat climate change | MR Online

    How getting rid of ‘shit jobs’ and the metric of productivity can combat climate change

    Originally published: The Conversation on September 18, 2019 by Simon Mair (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Jan 14, 2020)

    Yes, we’ll be less efficient. But we’ll be happier, more useful and better able to tackle climate change.

  • | Gazi Islam Author provided | MR Online

    Oxford-style debate: Ethno-nationalism and systemic crisis are symptoms of the present

    Originally published: The Conversation on October 18, 2018 by Gazi Islam (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Nov 12, 2018)

    In his 1999 book The Bridge over the Racial Divide, William Julius Wilson wrote that economic insecurity creates conditions that hollow out the civic values of liberal democracy, and constitutes the “breeding grounds for racial and ethnic tensions”.

  • | Green Marx Montecruz FotoFlickr CC BYSA | MR Online

    What Karl Marx has to say about today’s environmental problems

    Originally published: The Conversation on June 5, 2018 (more by The Conversation)  |

    Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and an economic shift in China it seemed that capitalism had become the only game in town. Karl Marx’s ideas could safely be relegated to the dustbin of history. However the global financial crash of 2008 and its aftermath sent many rushing back to the bin.

  • | K Marx | MR Online

    Karl Marx at 200: why the workers’ way of knowing still matters

    Originally published: The Conversation on May 4, 2018 by Nigel Gibson (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted May 05, 2018)

    Thinking of the relevance of Karl Marx on the 200th anniversary of his birth on 5 May 1818, takes me back to a wonderful picture of him in Algeria. It was taken in his final year in 1882. Underneath the full white beard is that familiar glint in his eye. He is up to something.

Monthly Review Essays

  • The Struggle between the Future and the Past: Where Is Cuba Going?
    Editor | Cuban Flag Museum of the Revolution Havana Cuba 2012 | MR Online

    I have 2 favourite sayings. One draws upon the dialogue in Shakespeare’s Henry the VI part 2 when Jack Cade envisions that the effect of his plot will be that “all the realm shall be in common.” To this, comrade Dick responds, “the first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”

Lost & Found

  • 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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