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From definitions to solutions: Can local food systems sustainably deliver fair rewards for farmers and access to quality food for all?
Rich Kipling, the SFT’s Senior Research Advisor, takes an in-depth look at how we can work towards flourishing local food systems that build communities, increase food security for all, and provide a fair return to farmers and growers.
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Defining socialism
The CJI refrained from giving “socialism” an institutional character. All over the world the term “socialism” has been taken to mean social ownership of the means of production, at least of the key means of production; but the CJI, defining “socialism” in terms of outcome rather than the institution of ownership suggested that private enterprise was not incompatible with “socialism”; what really mattered was the creation of a welfare state ensuring equality of opportunity for all citizens.
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Anti-Zionist Israeli MP: ‘I will never surrender’
Ofer Cassif—currently suspended from the Knesset for opposing genocide in Gaza—discusses Israel’s descent into fascism, building the movement that can defeat Netanyahu, and why he will never give up the fight for Palestinian freedom.
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Socialist politics and revolutionary compromise
In this article, I will discuss types of compromises and why they are necessary and possible.
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For Black Americans, post-election spam messages signal mounting threat
In Denton County, Texas, and across the U.S., a string of racist incidents raises fears white supremacists have been emboldened by Trump’s victory.
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“Marx’s Ethical Vision” – Book Review
There is much to say on behalf of Vanessa Christina Wills’ Marx’s Ethical Vision, which not only advances Marxist scholarship but takes a strong, well-founded position regarding some of the most vexing and significant questions confronting anyone who would grasp his philosophical thought.
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Imperialism and Culturalism Complement Each Other
In this republished essay from 1996, Samir Amin gives his view of Samuel Huntington’s theory of “clash of civilizations.” His demonstration of why culturalism and imperialism reinforce each other, and how victims can be led to accept “difference” in place of equality and liberation, is today of potential utility everywhere.
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Communist Party Marxist Kenya charts a new way forward for a “for a truly independent socialist Kenya”
In the second congress of the CPM-K, delegates called for the continuation of the National Democratic Revolution and asserted that socialism is the only path forward.
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Trump and Milei, or Government by chain saw
The scariest question that pops up when thinking about a second Donald Trump presidency is, “How bad can it get?”
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The dictatorial threat of Trump’s recess appointment plan
Donald Trump’s threat to force through his slate of far-right cabinet nominees as “recess appointments” without Senate confirmation votes marks a significant step in the de jure breakdown of constitutional forms of government.
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Three women, three perspectives on the division in MAS
In “the street”, in friends’ meetings, in the press… everywhere the population wonders about the veracity, depth and state of the division within the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS).
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Trump proclaims Argentina’s fascist President Milei a model for incoming US administration
In his first meeting with a foreign head of state, President-elect Donald Trump hosted fascist Argentine President Javier Milei at a gala dinner on Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
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Capitalism is perpetual crisis
Crisis is endemnic to capitalism, writes Alex Snowdon in his monthly Marxism 101 column.
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Implications of a second Trump term for working class and oppressed peoples
Irrespective of the rhetoric that characterized the campaign, the world’s majority will continue to be compelled to struggle against imperialist exploitation and oppression.
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Why all hurricanes should be named “Jim”
Hurricanes Helene and Milton are the result of a long legacy of segregation, environmental racism, and extraction. This white supremacist capitalist system has brought us to this point in our climate crisis and puts marginalized people directly in the path of the destruction it causes.
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Floridians voted to restore abortion rights. Why did the amendment fail?
On election night, despite receiving 57% of the vote, a ballot measure which would have restored abortion rights for Floridians failed.
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No woman is free: Stopping gender based violence
Deirbhle Sheppard highlights the shocking and persistent extent of sexual violence in our society. She unscrambles the false myths put out by the far right and argues that in fighting these, we need to join together to fight all forms of gender oppression.
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Rising from the Ashes of the Blockade: The Río Cataniapo Commune (Part III)
How an Indigenous commune in the Venezuelan Amazon has resisted the U.S. blockade.
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Abortion rights landslide at the polls
On Nov. 5, voters in 10 states were presented with ballot initiatives on abortion with seven states passing pro-abortion rights measures, including in states with currently restrictive abortion laws as well as in states carried by Donald Trump.
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Bernie’s statement about the election
It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.