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Under the influence of Lewontin: Volume Two
Friends and colleagues of Dick Lewontin are sharing their stories and reflections.
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Venezuela’s gangs have been turned into armed capitalist enterprises (Part II)
Criminologist Andrés Antillano examines a high-profile security operation to neutralize criminal activity in the Cota 905 district in July.
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AJC is panicked by United Church of Christ’s solidarity with Palestinians under settler-colonialism
The United Church of Christ resolution calling Israel’s continued “oppression” of Palestinians a “sin” has alarmed the American Jewish Committee and for good reason: Other Protestant churches are sure to follow, with measures that pose a real threat to apartheid.
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Richard Lewontin: Race science for the people
We can now say with great confidence that our species, anatomically modern humans, does not have biological races. We know this in large part due to the contributions of Richard C. Lewontin.
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Assassins of South African trade unionist at large as labor dispute continues
Malibongwe Mdazo, an organizer of National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, who had led a 7,000-worker strike last month, was publicly gunned down at the doorstep of Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, amidst a labor dispute on August 19.
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Playing the capitalist game: heads they win, tails you lose
According to an Economic Policy Institute report, between 28 and 47 percent of U.S. private sector workers are subject to noncompete agreements.
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The documentary ‘Her Socialist Smile’ explores a different side of Helen Keller
Helen Keller (1880-1968) was one of the most inspirational figures of the 20th century. But most people know the writer and activist for her determination to overcome the barriers facing people with physical disabilities in her lifetime, not for her equally fierce determination to replace American capitalism with a system in which the workers control the means of production.
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The arts, trade unions, and working-class identity
Anthony D. Padgett reflects on the arts, trade unions, and working-class identity.
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Show the children the green fields and let the sunshine into their minds: The Thirty-Second Newsletter (2021)
The turn to digital education has emboldened mega-corporations to enclose the commons of public education, making it harder and harder for the masses of children to have access to any education at all. Big business sees the opportunity clearly.
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Marxism resurges among young Chinese after CPC’s centenary proves a success
Marxist-inspired youths.
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Biden Admin offers hand of friendship to Bolsonaro
Latest U.S. government visit is further evidence that the Biden administration has no qualms about supporting Brazil’s far-right military-dominated regime.
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The far Right’s manufactured meaning of Critical Race Theory
Right-wing commentators claim to know what CRT is, while showing no interest in engaging with its ideas, and only very rarely quote the words of its proponents.
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China eradicates absolute poverty while billionaires go for a joyride to space: The Thirty-First Newsletter (2021)
During this bleak period, in late February 2021, China’s president Xi Jinping announced that–counter to this general global downturn–China had eradicated extreme poverty. What does this announcement mean?
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International Red Aid 1922–1937: Uniting to defend class war prisoners
The initiative came from Polish Communists seeking to aid compatriots jailed or forced into exile in the Soviet republic.
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Prashad to Harvey: “You live on the other side of imperialism”
Taken together, these form a devastating critique of world renowned Marxist David Harvey’s insistence that the concept and theory of imperialism is not relevant to understand today’s world.
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Prisoners use drugs. Stop trying to stop them
In 1985, Canada began drug testing the urine of federal prisoners. Prison officials had tried to stop people from smuggling drugs into prisons by banning Christmas presents and even deploying teams of gerbils to sniff out anxious visitors.
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Fascism come in all shapes and sizes but the ‘family resemblances’ can no longer be denied
Umberto Eco’s inventory of proto-fascist characteristics comprised 14 elements. It will not be difficult for us to recognise the variant of many of these in Narendra Modi’s New India.
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Glen Ford, veteran journalist and founder of Black Agenda Report, dies at 71
Glen Ford spent more than four decades delivering the news from a Black perspective on a national scale.
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Beyond the Socialist Impasse: Remembering Leo Panitch
Remembering Leo Panitch
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Canadian imperialism and the underdevelopment of Burkina Faso
Canadian mining companies own $2.5 billion of Burkina Faso’s gold, and the country is one of the most poverty-stricken in Africa.