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Leftists or Right-wingers in camouflage
Every day it is proven that some characters who have come to power in Latin America under the propagandistic cloak of projecting leftist positions have only been disguised, or rather infiltrated, to favor the United States in its goal of maintaining political and economic control in the region.
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How U.S. union leaders worked with the CIA to undermine democracy
Soon after Israel launched its genocidal war in Gaza with the full support of the U.S. government, opposition emerged to the Biden administration in a place that many professional political commentators found confounding: within U.S. trade unions.
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“Beauvoir and Belle: A Black Feminist Critique of The Second Sex” – Book Review
Belle and Beauvoir proves to be a much needed contribution on a neglected topic. Importantly, it comes at a time when theorists are calling for both greater conceptual clarity on how systems like capitalism and racism interact as well a return to the thought of Black women Marxists and communists.
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Declaration of the 11th Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of ALBA-TCP
Being the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela a founding member country of the ALBA-TCP, a unionist project, envisioned by the Liberator Simón Bolívar and the heroes of the independence deeds of Latin America and the Caribbean and realized by Commanders Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías and Fidel Castro Ruz; the member countries of this great Alliance acknowledge that this kind Our American nation is a sovereign and independent country, with high democratic standards, which, in compliance with its sacred Constitution, organized presidential elections, in accordance with the corresponding regulatory times.
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Popular democracy at work at El Panal Commune and across Venezuela
The second National Popular Consultation saw Venezuelans choose community projects to be funded by the state.
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New York state of mind
In the 1960s, a new ideology held that cities were best developed organically and free from central planning. In his latest book, Owen Hatherley explores how these ideas shaped New York—and what they can teach a new generation of socialists.
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Morocco pardons 4,800 jailed for cultivating cannabis–so they can farm legally
The world’s largest cannabis producer aims to encourage legal cultivation of the plant and export it for industrial or medical purposes
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Ten theses on the far right of a special type: The Thirty-Third Newsletter (2024)
Fascism is an insufficient term, as it denies the intimacy between liberal and far right forces. In this week’s newsletter, we present ten theses to understand this ‘intimate embrace’ and the rise of this far right of a special type.
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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’.