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The end of lean production… and what’s ahead
Lean production, introduced in the 1980s from Japanese automakers, caught on in many U.S. industries.
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Humboldt and Gaza: Berlin Bulletin No. 222, May 4, 2024
It was May 10th in Germany’s terrible year 1933, Hitler had been in power for hardly three months, when students and staff emptied the university libraries of forbidden books and threw them, an estimated 20,000 books by over a hundred authors, into the flames of a giant bonfire.… No books were burned this time in early May. But there were ironic parallels, some all too alarming!
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UNESCO awards World Press Freedom prize to Palestinian journalists
The Palestinian journalists covering the Israeli onslaught on Gaza and the suffering of the Palestinian people are rewarded with the Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom prize.
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Students’ Gaza protests spread across Britain
Wave of campus occupations launched at six unis.
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Israeli forces tortured a surgeon to death, the latest in Israel’s targeting of Gaza’s health workers
The killing of another surgeon in Israeli custody highlights the ongoing targeting of health workers amid the war on Gaza.
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Ultra-processed food: The profitable filth capitalism feeds us
In general, the discussion around diet today is a monotonous sermon.
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The students will not tolerate hypocrisy: The Eighteenth Newsletter (2024)
From universities to grassroots movements worldwide, young people are fighting back against the complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestians, setting up encampments and facing repression with resilience. This resistance is rooted in a long tradition to impose clarity upon a world encrusted by compromise, from the movement against apartheid in South Africa to China’s May Fourth Movement.
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Behind southern governors’ anti-union agenda
Southern politicians who sold their souls to the corporations and banks are a bit rattled right now, and who can blame them? Volkswagen workers won big in Chattanooga, Tennessee, when 73% of plant workers voted to join the United Auto Workers Union.
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Pro-Israel groups vs. student democracy at McGill
Liberal MP Anthony Housefather is clamoring for the violent suppression of McGill students protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It is an odious escalation in the Israel lobby’s bid to suppress democracy at the prestigious university.
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U.S. to send largest weapons shipment yet to Ukraine
“This is the largest security assistance package that we’ve committed to date,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said at a Pentagon news conference.
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‘This weaponization is meant to shift focus away from Gaza’
CounterSpin interview with Sam on Students for Justice in Palestine.
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‘What kind of American are you?’
The film Civil War addresses the paradox that the only way to stop polarisation is to take a side.
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Asian ‘NATO’ encircles China
The U.S.-steered Aukus military alliance is cranking up hostilities by inviting Japan into the anti-China pact, writes FIONA EDWARDS of the No Cold War campaign
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How the New York Times fights America’s wars
The New York Times is not an unbiased fount of information, but a sophisticated ideological weapon. Our goal is to unmask the Times and expose the paper for what it is: a tool of empire encased in a liberal veneer.
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Israel is holding more hostages than Hamas
Hamas is holding 132 hostages: 130 of them were taken captive on October 7 and two were taken hostage before then (one in 2014, the other in 2015).
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Barnard AAUP chapter unanimously issues vote of ‘no confidence’ in Rosenbury
Barnard AAUP Chapter President Frederick Neuhouser said the vote calls for a change in course such as “implicitly a call for resignation.”
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Two, three, many Gaza encampments: Veteran of 1968 Columbia strike speaks out
To rebel is justified. Palestine must be free! Palestine will be free!
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Rural labour in the Modi years
The two phenomena, a reduction in real wages and a reduction in employment opportunities, in fact go together.
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How Africa’s national liberation struggles brought democracy to Europe: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2024)
African liberation struggles not only won independence in their own countries; they also defeated Estado Novo colonialism, which spurred the Carnation Revolution 50 years ago.
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Portugal’s forgotten revolution
The ‘carnation revolution’ saw soldiers, workers and communities join forces to overthrow fascism and challenge capitalist power. Peter Robinson traces events from April 1974.