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  •  | France Flag | MR Online

    Unexpected result of French election bars a neofascist victory, constituting a moral as well as a political victory for the Left

    Originally published: The International Marxist-Humanist on July 8, 2024 (more by The International Marxist-Humanist)

    As French parliamentary elections pushed the leftist New Popular Front into first place, a pleasant sort of shock greeted revolutionary and progressive-minded people in France and around the world who had feared the triumph of the neofascist National Rally party.

  •  | 15 million French workers take to the streets against Macrons pension reforms  Peoples Dispatch | MR Online

    French strikes and popular mobilizations continue, contesting not only retirement rollback, but also police brutality and authoritarian politics

    Originally published: The International Marxist-Humanist on April 4, 2023 by Kevin B. Anderson (more by The International Marxist-Humanist) (Posted Apr 06, 2023)

    Since January, more-or-less weekly mass labor mobilizations have continued against a new law that would increase the retirement age from 62 to 64, even after it was rammed through without a vote on March 16.

  •  | Anti Vax Tag | MR Online

    “When all you have is a hammer…”: why Agamben’s ideas were bound to lead to this

    Originally published: The International Marxist-Humanist on February 8, 2022 (more by The International Marxist-Humanist)

    He has founded an intellectual group opposed to the restrictions, public health measures, vaccination requirements and other actions taken by public officials to combat the spread of the virus and its lethality.

  •  | A Revolutionary Subject Pedagogy of Women of Color and Indigeneity | MR Online

    Lilia D. Monzó’s “A Revolutionary Subject: Pedagogy of Women of Color and Indigeneity”

    Originally published: The International Marxist-Humanist on March 16, 2021 by Arturo Rodriguez, Kevin Russel Magill, Ndindi Kitonga and Sheila L. Macrine (more by The International Marxist-Humanist) (Posted Mar 22, 2021)

    A Book review symposium on Lilia D. Monzó’s “A Revolutionary Subject: Pedagogy of Women of Color and Indigeneity” (2019, Peter Lang Publishing) by Kitonga, Macrine, Magill, and Rodriguez — Editors

  •  | Jacindamania and the Aotearoa New Zealand Elections of 2020 Hopes and Potentialities | MR Online

    Jacindamania and the Aotearoa New Zealand elections of 2020: Hopes and potentialities

    Originally published: The International Marxist-Humanist on October 25, 2020 by Shushanta D. Roy (more by The International Marxist-Humanist) (Posted Nov 02, 2020)

    The New Zealand elections as a gain and as a limitation for the left — Editors.

  •  | French strikes | MR Online

    Millions in France strike against austerity

    Originally published: The International Marxist-Humanist on December 11, 2019 (more by The International Marxist-Humanist)

    France’s mass strikes have mobilized millions, persisting into a sixth day, in an attempt to forestall severe cuts to the social gains of the working class.

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    Marx, socialism, and ecology

    Originally published: The International Marxist-Humanist on September 24, 2018 by Karel Ludenhoff (more by The International Marxist-Humanist) (Posted Sep 27, 2018)

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  •  | Eleanor Marx | MR Online

    Eleanor Marx: the Jewess of Jew’s walk

    Originally published: The International Marxist-Humanist on April 6, 2018 by Dana Naomi Mills and Lucy Kaufman (more by The International Marxist-Humanist) (Posted Apr 17, 2018)

    Eleanor Marx changed the world. Foremother of socialist-feminism, trade unionist, internationalist, her father’s first biographer and editor of his key works, she had left a colossal heritage in many spheres of life.

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    Our job is to make media reform part of our broader struggle for democracy, social justice, and, dare we say it, socialism.

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