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Beyond the binary of race and class: A Marxist Humanist perspective
The emergence of a new generation of antiracist activists and theorists seeking to advance an anticapitalist agenda creates a new vantage point of reexamining how racism relates to the logic of capital. This essay explores sources in the work of Marx, twentieth century Marxists, and Frantz Fanon that can provide direction for overcoming the binary of class and race.
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TikTok ban: How American civil liberties are under attack
Prohibition on the popular video-sharing app would suppress narratives from marginalised communities, including pro-Palestine voices.
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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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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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Netanyahu calls for crackdown on pro-Palestine protesters in the U.S.
Echoing President Biden, Netanyahu labeled the demonstrations ‘antisemitic’.
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Israel is turning hospitals into mass graves while the West fixates on ‘antisemitism’
The IDF are just attacking hospitals and mowing down civilians and trying to bury the evidence of their crimes, so naturally we’re seeing the western political-media class focus very hard on the problem of antisemitism allegations on college campuses. Reading by Tim Foley.
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Opinion: England’s anti-trans Cass review is politics disguised as science
The recent report borrows from DeSantis bans on transgender care in Florida and appears designed to provide political justification for further attacks on transgender care.
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Capitalism is the single greatest source of violence
What the present moment reveals, once again, is that Western aggression during the “Cold War” was never about destroying socialism, as such. It was about destroying movements and governments in the periphery that sought economic sovereignty. Why? Because economic sovereignty in the periphery threatens capital accumulation in the core.
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Elites in the global north are scared to talk about Palestine
While people across the world have been taking bold action in support of Palestine, the global north ruling class has used all tools at its disposal to support Israel’s genocide and criminalize solidarity.
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Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 4)
Agribusiness assaults on tropical forests are driving the emergence of new diseases and epidemics.
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UN report: Israel lacks evidence for allegations against UNRWA employees
Israel has not yet provided sufficient evidence to support its claims that employees of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, were affiliated with the Palestinian Resistance movement Hamas, The Guardian reported, citing an independent review led by former French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna.
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A Declaration by the American Association of University Professors of Barnard and Columbia
We condemn in the strongest possible terms the Administration’s suspension of students engaged in peaceful protest and their arrest by the New York City Police Department.
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So-Called “Peak China” Is Simply a Western Campaign for China to Commit Economic Suicide
Despite the fact that China’s economy continues to far outgrow all major Western economies the Western media is energetically promoting a myth that China’s economy either has or is about to drastically slow down.
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U.S. moves previously banned missiles closer to China and Russia
The U.S. military openly describes the “Typhon” as a “strategic weapon system that would be used against higher-value targets like air defense assets and command and control nodes.”
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Israel subjects UN workers to torture
Israel is abusing UNRWA employees detained in Gaza in order to extract forced confessions against the agency, with detainees describing being subjected to acts of torture.
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The scam behind ‘free elections’
Andreína Chávez tackles the disingenuous propaganda behind ‘free elections’ as Venezuela’s presidential contest approaches.
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‘Interventions laid the groundwork for the crisis in Haiti today’
CounterSpin interview with Chris Bernadel on Haiti
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Prison notorious for rape is slated for closure but not releasing survivors
The Bureau of Prisons initially planned to empty FCI Dublin by April 19. Those inside fear being sent far from family.
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Pope Francis has abandoned transgender Catholics
In a recent official Declaration on Human Dignity, Dignitas Infinita, the Pope has endorsed a document that effectively outlaws sex change for transgender Catholics. The Declaration is both harsh and unrelenting in its tone, dismissive of new science and judgemental of those Catholics who in good faith make life choices contrary to the edicts of the Church. Nothing new here, but just another slap in the face for people who seek to live their God given lives as authentically and honestly as possible.
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Remembering the ‘year of the Irish’
There is a chilling parallel between what happened during the peak of the Irish famine and the current global refugee crisis.