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Biden and Xi address UN, juggling differences amid calls for unity on climate and COVID-19
The leaders of the United States and China each pledged to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that they would help press the fight against virulent pandemics and global warming–even as they offered vastly different visions of the world order.
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Engels and entropy
When it comes to rejecting the Second Law of Thermodynamics, only fools would rush in where Engels feared to tread.
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Rooftop solar to roll out on China’s public buildings
The latest county-level trials could boost rooftop solar power generation over the next five years but new business models are needed to make them successful.
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A Study of Monthly Review’s Marxist Political Science in the Twenty-First Century: A View from China
Since 2000, Monthly Review has focused on the current world situation, pursuing the all-round development of Marxist studies. In this way, it has helped create a significant new trend within the U.S. left, especially in Marxist political science.
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101 years of communist struggle in Turkey
On the 101st anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Turkey, Peoples Dispatch spoke to Ekin Sönmez, a member of the party’s Central Committee, about how the party is confronting the urgent challenges facing Turkey’s working class and is deepening the struggle for socialism.
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Neo-Liberalism and Nationhood
There is a tendency in the West, including even among progressives, to treat all “nationalism” as a homogeneous and reactionary category. They treat even anti-colonial nationalism as if it is no different from European bourgeois nationalism, notwithstanding the several crucial differences between the two.
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Black Box East: The role of “the East” in the West’s radical imagination
The potential of the BLACK BOX EAST as a common space of transnational struggles is a matter of ongoing inquiry. Contributing to this cooperative process, social thinker Max Haiven and historian Vijay Prashad discuss about the role of “the East” in the Western radical imagination. An interview.
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‘The Big Scary “S” Word’ trailer
The Big Scary “S” Word trailer
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Why neoliberalism needs neofascists
It has been four decades since neoliberal globalization began to reshape the world order. During this time, its agenda has decimated labor rights, imposed rigid limits on fiscal deficits, given massive tax breaks and bailouts to big capital, sacrificed local production for multinational supply chains, and privatized public sector assets at throwaway prices.
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On Photography: Space and Place
The simple quietness in Leiva’s photography reveals his poetic contemplation while exposing the loss of visual honesty in an era of hyper imagery manipulation.
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How Amilcar Cabral shaped Paulo Freire’s pedagogy
Frantz Fanon’s influence on Paulo Freire’s thought is well known, but the Brazilian educator also drew considerably from Amílcar Cabral, the revolutionary intellectual from Guinea-Bissau.
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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.