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Systems thinking in COVID-19 recovery is urgently needed to deliver sustainable development for women and girls
Policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the gendered aspect of pandemics; however, addressing the gendered implications of the COVID-19 pandemic comprehensively and effectively requires a planetary health perspective that embraces systems thinking to inequalities.
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GM ‘designer babies’: breakthrough or nightmare?
Only a global ban on human genetic engineering can prevent a new era of eugenics from emerging, writes Dave King.
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Cornel West on Frantz Fanon, one of the great revolutionary intellectuals of the 20th century
“Decolonization implies the urgent need to thoroughly challenge the colonial situation.”
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‘Any bystander is a coward or a traitor’ – Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary challenge
From the end of May until a few days before Remembrance Day (November 11) flags at Canadian public buildings were flown at half-mast. This unusual occurrence was in recognition of the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves containing the remains of Indigenous children on the sites of former Indian Residential Schools.
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Sandinistas won a landslide victory not through fraud but because they uplifted Nicaragua’s poor
Do not believe them when they tell you the left is divided. There is no division. The (anti-imperialist) Left is standing with the Sandinista victory in Nicaragua. The rest are either confused or advocating an imperialist political project.
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‘They want us dead’: another year of devastating overdoses in Baltimore
Little legislative movement in Maryland over the past two years has left people who use drugs more vulnerable and even less safe.
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We have to stand on our ground, the best ground from which to reach the stars: The Forty-Eighth Newsletter (2021)
During the pandemic, socialist projects–such as those of LDF government in Kerala, the Cuban educational programmes, and the MST literacy campaign–are flourishing, while other governments cut their educational funding. ‘It’s always time to learn’, says the MST literacy programme, but this adage is not in use everywhere.
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Anti-neoliberal candidate Xiomara Castro dominates Honduras’ presidential election
With a significant advantage over the closest contender, Xiomara Castro has emerged as the likely next president of Honduras.
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Algorithms of injustice: Artificial intelligence in policing and surveillance
If anything, the use of computer algorithms to guide police appears only to entrench and exacerbate existing biased policing practices.
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In Kerala, a street food festival takes on communal forces
The DYFI took on the Sangh Parivar’s attempts to polarise people with misinformation on halal by serving beef, pork, chicken and mutton in most towns of the state.
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Impending planetary disaster should unite us, yet we remain more divided than ever
Charles Bukowski has a quote: “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
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‘From what present are we historicizing the left?’ Arab Lefts: Histories and Silences — Alina Sajed
There has been renewed interest in the long 1960s over the last few years, not least spurred by the anniversary, in 2018, of the 1968 global uprisings.
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Out of Afghanistan
This long bloody madness has ended.
Can we learn to love peace at last?
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On the road from Detroit to South Africa: Black radical internationalist traditions
Roy Singham reminisces about his work with the late General Gordon Baker, Jr. and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW) in Detroit and its connections with South African workers.
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Elections in Honduras: the challenge of ending twelve years of neoliberalism
Honduras is at the most important crossroads of its recent history.
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Thanksgiving glorifies the abhorrent colonization of Indigenous Peoples
From Columbus Day to Independence Day to Thanksgiving, the U.S. pretty much specializes in taking dates that celebrate genocide and discrimination, and repackaging them as family-friendly holidays.
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Totalitarian cyber-creep: Mark Zuckerberg in the Metaverse
Never leave matters of maturity to the Peter Panners of Silicon Valley. At their most benign, they are easily dismissed as potty and keyboard mad.
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Dominant PSUV sweeps Venezuela’s ‘mega-elections’
The ruling party won at least 19 governorships with a highly divided opposition landing three.
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Anti-communism, anti-Blackness, and imperialism
In this talk prepared for the Albuquerque Anti-War Coalition‘s Anti-Communism & Imperialism panel discussion, Dr. Charisse Burden Stelly discusses how anti-communism and anti-Blackness are intrinsically intertwined structures of white supremacist and capitalist control.
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African Feminisms–a decolonial history: an interview with Rama Salla Dieng
In her new book ‘African Feminisms – a decolonial history’, the Senegalese scholar-activist Rama Salla Dieng interviews feminist activists about their work, struggles and lives. Interviewed by Coumba Kane, Dieng speaks about what it means to be a feminist in Africa today.