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A Lenin for the 21st century
“The Meaning of Lenin for the 21st Century: Comments to German Comrades” is Paul Le Blanc’s individual contribution to MarxIs’Muss Kongress 2025, to be held in Berlin from 29 May to 1 June 2025.
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MAGA and the pope
Inside the Catholic Church’s misguided plan to fix American Catholicism.
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‘We’re building a new way of life’: A conversation with National Assembly candidate Albanys Montilla
The Venezuelan youth has faced special hardships under the U.S. blockade. The new parliament could help.
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The Havoc caused by Say’s Law
JEAN-BAPTISTE Say, a French economist who wrote in the late eighteenth century, had formulated a law to the effect that ‘supply creates its own demand’, which meant that there could never be an inadequate demand for the aggregate of goods produced in any economy.
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The role of Israeli Universities in the killing and torture of Palestinians
Amidst the uproar of news pouring in about the genocide in Gaza, the news of the martyrdom of Shaima and her family in the Nuseirat area of the Gaza Strip passes as if nothing happened, as if she were just a number added to a list of numbers.
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Malcolm X: A legacy of struggle at 100
One hundred years after his birth, 60 years after his assassination, Malcolm X is synonymous globally with revolutions and all forms of militant struggle by exploited and oppressed people.
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Anti-apartheid activism and the discipline of geography
Geographers working in South African universities in the 1980s were part of a segregated system in which institutions were designated for each of the so-called ‘racial groups’: Black African (also divided further by language group), Coloured, Indian, and White.
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AI chatbot Grok can’t stop talking about ‘white genocide’, admits it’s by design
Social media users asked Grok a series of questions about ‘white genocide’, revealing that the bot was trained to keep mentioning it.
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Life and death of José Mujica, the guerrilla fighter who became president
A deeper look at the life of one of the most emblematic Latin American presidents of recent years, who went from armed struggle to a prison that lasted more than a decade, to the country’s presidency.
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Obliterating the truth about Nazi defeat
NAZI Germany was basically defeated by the Soviet Union. The sacrifice made by the Soviet people in defence of their country in that war was utterly unimaginable.
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Trump’s executive order promises to ‘unleash’ law enforcement and expand police impunity
In April, Trump unveiled an executive order titled “Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens” that hands sweeping new powers to police, guts hard-won reforms and punishes cities that refuse to fall in line.
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150 years since the Critique of the Gotha Programme
The Critique was in a short letter written by Marx 150 years ago. In 2025, it remains just as clear and relevant to understanding communism as the alternative to capitalism.
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Having sold out on every working-class promise, Starmer finally stoops to migrant-bashing
The most productive approach would be to stand up for what most Reform UK voters want and which they share with most people in our country—public ownership, higher taxes on the rich and an end to the privileges of the plutocracy.
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Activists warn of the growing militarisation of the Indonesian government under General Prawobo
Interview with Activist M. on the growing military influences on civil life threatening Indonesia’s dearly earned peace.
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Honoring Mumia Abu-Jamal on his 71st birthday
“Know this: throughout it all. I have never felt alone. To the eye, I was alone in solitary confinement, on death row, but the eye cannot really see all that is, for behind brick and steel, I felt our love, sometimes like a wave, sometimes like a whisper, but always there, ever present.” – Mumia Abu-Jamal, Prison Radio.
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Police storm Columbia University library, arrest pro-Palestinian student protesters
Footage showed a heavy police presence as students clashed with security and barricaded themselves inside the library.
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This election was a disaster for the NDP and unions
The voice of millions of union members was shamefully missing this election.
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‘The fact that she had that miscarriage was enough to justify arresting her’: CounterSpin interview with Karen Thompson on criminalizing pregnancy
Janine Jackson interviewed Pregnancy Justice’s Karen Thompson about criminalizing pregnancy for the April 25, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
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Marx’s ontology: A clarification
Marx’s theory of being is fundamental to his wider approach to history and politics, explains John Rees.
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New report shows working-class Americans live 7 years fewer than rich
“The massive income and wealth inequality that exists in America today is not just an economic issue, it is literally a matter of life and death,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.