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What’s behind the attack against Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement?
The Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST), Brazil’s largest social organization and a major force for land reform, is under attack from the country’s conservative forces in the parliament and the mass media.
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May 8 and the rehabilitation of Nazism in Germany
On 8 and 9 May, Berlin traditionally hosts numerous commemorative events to mark the end of the Second World War in Europe.
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The rollback of child labor protections is well underway
The hunt for profits is driving ever more despicable labor laws and practices.
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“Israel is built on the ruins of hundreds of Palestinian villages”
The International People’s Assembly (IPA) organized an online event to mark 75 years of the Nakba and the Palestinians’ continued resistance against the Zionist colonial apartheid occupation of Israel
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The murder of Jordan Neely Abetted by Eric Adams, worst Black Mayor in the Country
Black New Yorkers should have a semblance of confidence that their lives can’t be snuffed out without a killer being punished.
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Africans in the U.S. are a colonized people: A comment on the indictment of the African People’s Socialist Party
Red Scares, McCarthyism, COINTELPRO, “Black Identity Extremists” are all indicative of how the colonized are treated by the state.
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Labour ‘betrays millions of young people’ after dropping pledge to abolish university tuition fees
Students and education unions slammed Labour’s “betrayal of millions of young people in desperate need of hope” today after the party’s increasingly right-wing leadership dropped a pledge to abolish cripplingly high university tuition fees.
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Stop the war on LGBTQ teachers
It’s hard enough being a teacher at all, but cruel new laws are putting dedicated LGBTQ teachers in particular danger. When will the madness end?
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A kingly proposal: Letter from Julian Assange to King Charles III
On the coronation of my liege, I thought it only fitting to extend a heartfelt invitation to you to commemorate this momentous occasion by visiting your very own kingdom within a kingdom: His Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh.
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Force-marching the Europeans
Am I the only American to travel overseas and feel embarrassed by the conduct of the diplomats Washington sends abroad to speak for our republic?
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#LetHerSpeak: Rep. Zooey Zephyr and supporters defy anti-trans bigots
On April 26, the far-right-dominated Montana state legislature in Helena censured the state’s first elected trans representative, Zooey Zephyr, after silencing her for several days and threatening her with expulsion.
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Proletariat of the proletariat: Women’s unpaid labor
The pandemic brought the spotlight on many of the wrongs of capitalism, among them the issue of unpaid labor.
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Hypocritical outrage: What’s wrong with burning flag of an Apartheid State?
On Wednesday a Montréal teenager filmed himself taking five Israeli flags attached to the outside fence of Hebrew Foundation School in the borough of Dollard-des-Ormeaux (DDO). With Arabic music playing in the background, he subsequently burned them.
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DeSantis role in Guantanamo Bay killings exposed with a holed report
The height of inhumane treatment and systemic torture in the camp was during DeSantis’ term serving as a JAG officer, whose main task was to identify the weaknesses of the detainees and to “tighten the screws” on them.
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Liberia and the challenges of U.S. imperialism
Liberia’s history should be understood as that of a colony, the first U.S. overseas colony.
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The Monroe Doctrine: Two hundred years too long
Francisco Dominguez on the history and development of the ‘doctrine’ that has been used as a justification for U.S. intervention in Latin America for two centuries.
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You’re not deficient, you’re just ruled by assholes
Times are hard, and they’re getting harder, but we can turn this thing around. Please be kind with yourself in the meantime.
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Taiwan—A Pawn for U.S. War on China
While the U.S.-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine continues unabated, the U.S. is preparing at breakneck speed for war with China, using Taiwan as the excuse. Taiwan, like Ukraine, is a pawn. The military and economic threats on both China and Russia are a desperate bid to quash the emergence of a multipolar world.
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Cuba and the children of Chernobyl
Several countries contributed resources, personnel and assistance to the recovery; the overwhelming majority went to contain and seal the reactor. In 1990, when the horror of the tragedy had ceased to be news, Cuba sent a medical team to evaluate the health consequences of the radiation.
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Chinese “police stations” and war propaganda
The U.S. can shoot down balloons, call names, and claim that China has “police stations” in New York City. It cannot stop the decline of its own making as it engages in war propaganda theater.