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Scientists choose site to mark the start of the Anthropocene
Tiny Crawford Lake, near Toronto, holds a detailed record of radical global change.
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Black liberation organizers across the U.S. reflect on the passing of Dr. Mutulu Shakur
Shakur was a prisoner-of-war of a decades-long Black liberation struggle for 37 years. He was only released when he was months away from death.
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Starmer branded an ‘absolute disgrace’ at Durham Miners’ Gala
Durham Miners’ Association general secretary Alan Mardghum said it was an absolute disgrace that the Labour leader had punished MPs for standing on picket lines in support of striking workers.
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The Marxist theory of the state: An introduction
Our understanding of the state lies at the heart of our struggle to create a new society and fundamentally eliminate the oppression, exploitation, war, and environmental destruction characteristic of capitalism.
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Dossier no. 66: The world needs a new socialist development theory
Across the world, evidence of human misery is increasingly easy to find. The data collected and reported by international agencies is stunning. Billions of people around the planet lack access to adequate education, healthcare, food, and shelter, as well as information and culture.
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Levy del Águila Marchena: ‘Communism, Political Power and Personal Freedom in Marx’
Marx diagnosed the oppression of the working class, the alienation of workers from their labor, as well as the alienation of all human beings living within capitalism from their own authentic selves, and proposed that it was objectively possible that emancipation, true liberation, would come one day.
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Several senior U.S. officials descend from slave owner families: Reuters
Reuters’ report highlights that 100 living American politicians and senior officials belong to slave-owning families.
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Learning from the barricade: Marx, Engels and the 1848 June Days uprising
175 years on from the 1848 June Days insurrection, Katherine Connelly explores what Paris’ working-class revolutionaries taught Marx and Engels.
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Glastonbury’s cancelling of a powerful film about Jeremy Corbyn
When Truth Becomes Silence
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Argentina: Repression against indigenous people in Jujuy (+human rights in Venezuela)
Police repression of mass protests regarding provincial constitution reforms—threatening the right to protest and land workers’ rights—have led to at least 68 people being arrested and 170 injured this Tuesday, June 20.
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On the fundamental rights of the sex workers and others in India
It is for about one and a half decades now that our Sex Workers are raising the issues related to their lack of professional, legal and social rights before the members of the Other Sections of our society.
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Two episodes at sea: The submersible Titan and hundreds of refugees drowned in the Mediterranean
It is inevitable that such an event, in which there is a race against time and the elements, should attract the interest and concern of tens of millions.
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Legendary whistleblower and anti-war activist Daniel Ellsberg passes at 92
The U.S. anti-war movement fondly remembers the former government employee who contributed to the end of the U.S. invasion of Vietnam
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Writer Elizabeth Gilbert faces backlash over book with plot in Russia
Elizabeth Gilbert decides to postpone book publication after “The Snow Forest” receives backlash for being set in Russia, a decision which brings forth a different kind of backlash.
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Jewish identity beyond Israel
Abba A. Solomon’s new book, “Miasma of Unity: Jews and Israel,” chronicles the search for a Jewish identity not inextricably tied to Israeli Apartheid.
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How Ukraine has become a magnet for Western neo-Nazis
The war-torn east European country is a mecca for some of the most odious people on earth. What sort of threat does this pose to their home countries?
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Labour’s new bankroller is Israel lobbyist, South African apartheid profiteer
The UK Labour Party’s latest corporate mega-donor is a pro-Israel businessperson whose firm profiteered from South African apartheid.
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First there were Neo-Nazis, then there were no Nazis, then there were
A New York Times’ reporter’s job this week is to persuade us that all those Ukrainian soldiers wearing Nazi insignia and marching through Kiev in Klan-like torch parades are not what you think.
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From simp to soldier: How the military is using e-girls to recruit Gen Z into service
Amid a crisis in recruitment, the U.S. military has found a new way of convincing a war-weary Generation Z to enlist: thirst traps.
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LGBTQ+ Ugandans face deadly threat as “Anti-Homosexuality Act” signed into law
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has approved an anti-LGBTQ+ law that makes the “offense of homosexuality” punishable by life imprisonment and even death.