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Inexcusable Inaction: Manipur’s horrific video exposes sexual violence, Govt failure
The police only swung to action after a video of the savage incident of two Kuki women being paraded naked on May 4 went viral and sparked political outrage.
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Biden, Jayapal, and liberal Zionists rush to prop up the Israel lobby for 2024
Liberal Zionists rushed to affirm their support for Israel and hatred of anti-Zionism in the wake of the Pramila Jayapal “racist state” comment because they are afraid the Israel lobby will abandon the Democratic party.
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Patriarchy and the origins of women’s oppression
Any vision of a world beyond capitalism involves the liberation of women from oppression, exploitation and discrimination. But just because we might have been able to win revolutionary social change, it does not mean that equal economic, social and cultural rights will be automatic for women.
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Africa’s path to socialism
200 delegates from 40 organizations are gathering in South Africa for the “Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism” conference. For the next four days, progressive movements and organizations will discuss the challenges posed by capitalism, and articulate the socialist way forward.
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Engels: How North West England shaped an internationalist
Katherine Connelly outlines how the events and context of their times shaped the partnership and ideas of Marx and Engels.
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Mourning Mutulu Shakur and the Black radical tradition that modernized America
The late Mutulu Shakur and other Black radicals were responsible for improving the lives of millions of people in the U.S. The counter revolution ended that period of progress, but the political crisis they created forced systemic change on a grand scale.
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What is metabolic rift?
The Ecosocialist idea you’ve never heard of and might need.
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Is what we have “crony capitalism”?
Under monopoly capitalism of course this relationship between monopoly capitalists and the state becomes far closer. Rudolf Hilferding in his opus Das Finanzkapital had talked of a “personal union” between banks and industrial capital and the formation on this basis of a “financial oligarchy”, and had suggested a similar “personal union” between the “financial oligarchy” and the State.
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The future is now: Rethinking public ownership
Ursula Huws reflects on the history of ‘prefigurative’ approaches and community ownership models in the UK – and how these can be used to rethink public ownership amid the current cost-of-living crisis.
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The rice bowl of the Chinese people is held firmly in their hands: The Twenty-Seventh Newsletter (2023)
In 2017, the World Bank determined that the income threshold for poverty, which had been set at $1.90 per day, was far too low. They set the new poverty line at $2.15 per day, which accounted for over 700 million people.
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The Supreme Court and political corruption
The Supreme Court has always been a political institution. Racism, political expediency, and outright corruption have always dictated its decisions.
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The Marxist theory of the state: An introduction
Our understanding of the state lies at the heart of our struggle to create a new society and fundamentally eliminate the oppression, exploitation, war, and environmental destruction characteristic of capitalism.
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Dossier no. 66: The world needs a new socialist development theory
Across the world, evidence of human misery is increasingly easy to find. The data collected and reported by international agencies is stunning. Billions of people around the planet lack access to adequate education, healthcare, food, and shelter, as well as information and culture.
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Socialism and the city
In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx highlighted that “constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones”.
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Thoughts on the Significance of the CPC for the Global Left
The sheer scale of China’s development has been a world-shaping event.
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Levy del Águila Marchena: ‘Communism, Political Power and Personal Freedom in Marx’
Marx diagnosed the oppression of the working class, the alienation of workers from their labor, as well as the alienation of all human beings living within capitalism from their own authentic selves, and proposed that it was objectively possible that emancipation, true liberation, would come one day.
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Chinese scholars discuss Engels in Eastbourne
Nearly a hundred professors, experts and scholars from more than 20 universities and research institutions in more than ten countries, including the United Kingdom, China, Germany, the United States, Ireland, Spain, Romania, Denmark, Turkey and India, hold in-depth discussions to commemorate the 175th anniversary of “The Communist Manifesto.”
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Habermas and the war in Ukraine
The prevailing rarefied ideological climate that Germany and most European countries are suffering from today makes a very cautious call for prudence and negotiation a criminal offense that deserves to be punished with ostracism.
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Learning from the barricade: Marx, Engels and the 1848 June Days uprising
175 years on from the 1848 June Days insurrection, Katherine Connelly explores what Paris’ working-class revolutionaries taught Marx and Engels.
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On the dialectics of socialism and western Marxisms’ purity fetish
Gabriel Rockhill “one of my favorite jokes that I’ve heard about the socialist project is the following: socialism looks good on paper, but in reality… you just get invaded by the United States.”