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Mijaín Lopez: The Cuban hero of the Paris Olympics who loves Fidel Castro
The hero of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games isn’t Tom Cruise, Armand Duplantis or Novak Djokovic. The hero is Cuban and his name is Mijaín Lopez.
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Why Americans should be worried by the rise in British fascism
The racist pogroms on the streets of Britain are the result of British support for genocide in Palestine and the construction of a “migrant threat”.
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Lenin’s contributions to political economy
Vladimir Lenin made many valuable contributions to Marxist political economy.
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Jeremy Corbyn’s Independent campaign in Britain’s 2024 General Election
A View from the Inside.
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Even in Palestine, the birds shall return: The Thirty-First Newsletter (2024)
As the situation in Gaza worsens, Netanyahu was applauded for demanding more arms in Congress. In contrast, Beijing hosted Palestinian factions, pushing for unity and peace.
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Lost in translation: Outcry over the ‘Last Supper’
A series of serious misunderstandings has led to an uninformed outcry in the Christian West over a short scene in the Opening Ceremony at the Paris Olympics, writes Cathy Vogan.
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The dialectic and why it matters to Marxists
Eric Ruder examines the dialectical method developed and deployed by Karl Marx.
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Civil war in Donbass 10 years on
July 1st marked the 10th anniversary of a brutal resumption of hostilities in the Donbass civil war.
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Hegel on the Kant-Laplace hypothesis and the moral postulates
Hegel frequently practices self-censorship in his published texts, sometimes quite deliberately, sometimes unconsciously.
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American inquisition part 1: The origins of the Cold War and McCarthyism
The ghost of “Tail-Gunner Joe” McCarthy is haunting the U.S. Congress.
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Between goals and the cups
The Copa America and the Euro Cup are coming to an end and deserve a reflection, even if this is just a grain of sand in a wave that has moved multitudes on Planet Soccer.
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Unprecedented inequality in the ‘billionaire raj’
The ‘billionaire raj’ of the reform period has emerged to be far more unequal than the ‘British Raj’.
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Science and Freedom: Toward a new revolutionary epistemology
Paul Robeson, speaking of the scientific achievements of the West which have formed the bedrock of its claim to supremacy, posed a question for the 20th century: “having found the key, has Western man—Western bourgeois man—sufficient strength left to turn it in the lock?”
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The Commune, a living tradition for Pumé people in Venezuela
Coporo Indigena is an Indigenous community in Apure state that has resisted settler violence, displacement from their land… and now the U.S. blockade.
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The Summit of the Future
The core idea of the Summit of the Future is that humanity is facing a set of unprecedented challenges that can only be solved through global cooperation.
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Oklahoma’s Bible requirement is a part of a broader Rightwing assault
The mandate to place Bibles in classrooms reflects a larger effort to undermine the rule of law.
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‘Principles and Methods of a Marxist Kunstwissenschaft—Attempt at an Outline’
It is not easy to explain in such a limited space which philosophical, methodological, and practical features characterize the study of Kunstwissenschaft that arose from the insights won by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and were enriched by Vladimir Lenin, as well as many other scholars and revolutionaries.
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On The Rewriting of History
[Britannica’s revisionist] distortions of the history of the Vietnamese struggle are just as radical and just as misleading [as those about the Soviet Union]. Here we may draw some valuable lessons about the hidden content of form: how apparently neutral principles of organization may shape meaning.
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How Karl Marx influenced Abraham Lincoln and his position on slavery & labor
If resistance to the Slave Power was the reserved watchword of your first election, the triumphant war cry of your re-election is Death to Slavery.
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The revolutionary dialectic of Balzac’s ‘Human Comedy’
Honoré de Balzac is renowned as a prolific literary genius and was one of Marx and Engels’ favourite authors.