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‘Journalism is not a crime’: Outrage as Judge approves Assange extradition to U.S.
“Extraditing Julian Assange to face allegations of espionage for publishing classified information would set a dangerous precedent and leave journalists everywhere looking over their shoulders.”
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U.S. suddenly pretends to care about rights abuses in India
While it is true that India’s right-wing government is guilty of human rights abuses and has been for years, it is also true that the US State Department does not actually care about human rights abuses.
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“Culture Shock”: Harlem’s Socialist City Council member Kristin Richardson Jordan reflects on her first three months in office
Outsider-turned-insider looks for more allies as she fights budget cuts and a turn toward more intense policing.
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Voices from Donbass speak to U.S. anti-war movement
On March 27, the Socialist Unity Party and Struggle-La Lucha newspaper hosted a webinar called “Stop the War Lies: Voices from Donbass.” This was a unique opportunity for the U.S. anti-war movement to hear directly from people in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), whose voices are silenced by the Western mass media’s pro-Ukraine war propaganda.
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Hands off trans youth!
Trans people, and especially youth, are under attack in state capitols across the U.S. And the most egregious attack so far has come in a state that is a stronghold of the neofascist takeover of the Republican Party – Texas.
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The deception of Crisis Pregnancy Centers
CPCs are often strategically located in working class and oppressed communities as close to real abortion clinics as possible in order to cause confusion and to mislead many women who seek their services.
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What race is and isn’t – excerpts from ‘Racism, Not Race’
Most people who are fighting against racism are doing so with their metaphorical hands tied behind their backs because they are not clear about what race is and what it is not.
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Why there’s more labor media coverage
It seems like workers and their unions are in the news more than ever lately. Starbucks baristas, Amazon warehouse workers, John Deere strikers, and even New York Times tech workers, who just unionized, have all starred in the recent swell of labor coverage.
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In the World, there are many traps, and it is necessary to shatter them: The Twelfth Newsletter (2022)
On 31 March 1964, the Brazilian military initiated a coup d’état against the democratically-elected progressive government of President João Goulart.
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Peoples movements take to the streets against evictions throughout Brazil on Thursday March 17
The Campaign for Zero Evictions is calling for demonstrations in the main capitals of the country during the National Housing for Life Action.
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War and the challenge of human rights in the United States and beyond
The U.S. justifies wars of aggression in the name of human rights. The term has no meaning domestically either, as the people’s needs are subordinated to those of the ruling class.
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Lula: “Family farming has the capacity to feed our country”
Agrarian reform and agroecology were topics discussed during Lula’s visit yesterday to the Eli Vive settlement, belonging to the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), in Londrina (PR), the largest agrarian reform area in a metropolitan region of Brazil.
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Was bombing of Mariupol theater staged by Ukrainian Azov extremists to trigger NATO intervention?
Testimony by evacuated Mariupol residents and warnings of a false flag attack undermine the Ukrainian government’s claims about a Russian bombing of a local theater sheltering civilians.
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The pending task of securing transgender rights: A conversation with Rummie Quintero Verdú
A trans activist talks about LGBTIQ+ rights in Venezuela.
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Max Ajl in conversation with Habib Ayeb on food sovereignty and the environment
Max Ajl interviews radical geographer and activist Habib Ayeb. Habib Ayeb is a founder member of the NGO Observatory of Food Sovereignty and Environment (OSAE) and Max Ajl is a Postdoc at Wageningen University’s Rural Sociology Group, associate editor at Agrarian South and the author of A People’s Green New Deal.
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Assange Extradition: On to the next hurdle
With Julian still, for no rational reason, held in maximum security, the legal process around his extradition continues to meander its way through the overgrown bridlepaths of the UK’s legal system.
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The enduring importance of Eric Williams’ “Capitalism and Slavery”
First published in 1944, ‘Capitalism and Slavery’ is an investigation of the notorious relationship between the Atlantic slave trade and the emergence of European industrial capitalism from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries.
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Transgender rights: China advances while U.S. backslides
The Republican evangelical right scapegoats trans people as their latest “culture war” to mobilize far-right support and secure corporate interests.
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Those who violated the Geneva Conventions at Guantánamo are free, while the man who helped expose their crimes languishes in prison: The Eighth Newsletter (2022)
Twenty years ago, on 11 January 2002, the United States government brought its first ‘detainees’ abducted during the so-called War on Terror to its military prison in Guantánamo Bay.
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Studs Terkel’s ‘Working’ 50 Years On
First published in January 1972, Working is a baggy collection of over seven-hundred and sixty pages, most devoted to the reflections of ordinary Americans about their economic lives. From the Terkel archive, it’s clear that his interest in work was long standing and went well beyond the USA.