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The roots of neo-fascism in East Germany
The fall of the Berlin Wall enabled neo-fascist activity to spill over into East Germany, laying the groundwork for the strengthening of right-wing forces today.
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Resisting the right-wing vibe shift
The hard right is making serious ground globally. But, while increasingly powerful, their ideas are not hegemonic. Now is not the time to despair, but to fight for a better world.
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Disappearing climate science
It was clear during the U.S. presidential election campaign that if re-elected Donald Trump would be no friend to the environment. The assault on climate science and action began immediately.
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Peter Thiel reveals how scared Oligarchs are of the people
Billionaire Peter Thiel had a fascinating televised moment the other day when asked by Piers Morgan what he thought about the public making a hero of the man suspected of murdering health insurance CEO Brian Thompson.
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The inhumanity engendered by capitalism
While it is certainly true that Trumpism is not identical with capitalism per se, it would be a mistake to see Trumpism as a completely separate and alien phenomenon.
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Laughter and fears: Berlin Bulletin No. 231, February 18, 2025
For good people these are times to weep, rage and, above all, to fight back!
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Why Washington’s global dominance is hanging by a thread
Trump’s aggression does not reflect strength. He is desperately trying to slow the decline of U.S. empire.
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Curtis Yarvin is among the crazed pseudo-Fascist thinkers influencing J.D. Vance
Meet Curtis Yarvin: whose seemingly crazed ideas have found fertile ground among technocrats and oligarchs who have never quite shaken entitled Ayn Rand’s “greed is good” sensibility.
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Walter Rodney: “Marxism and African liberation”
One finds that in looking at Marxist theory, at its relevance to race, looking at the relevance of Marxist theory to national emancipation, we come up with a very important paradox.
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Community drives out Nazis in Ohio
On Feb. 7, a hundred residents of Lincoln Heights, Ohio, drove out a dozen armed neo-Nazis waving swastika flags.
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The Woman’s Story: Examining Pregnancy Narratives, Bodily Autonomy, and the Invisible Woman through Kalki Koechlin’s The Elephant in the Womb
Kalki Koechlin’s memoir presents a real and uncensored picture of pregnancy that explores how pregnant women’s bodies are positioned between the public and personal threshold.
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“The Mechanic and The Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism” – book review
Sadowski’s book based on the This Machine Kills podcast is an incisive and important demolition of illusions around technology and AI, argues Kevin Crane.
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Trump to Gaza: “We will replace you”
The U.S. president is reviving old-style colonialism.
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Trump and his distant forerunner
By glorifying the figure of William McKinley, president of the United States between March 4, 1897 and September 14, 1901, Donald Trump is trying to find a universally acclaimed precedent for his controversial policies in the political history of the United States.
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‘One of Them Days’ marks the triumphant return of the working class comedy
While most recent class satires have focused on the perspective of the wealthy, Lawrence Lamont and Syreeta Singleton’s film debut brings class-conscious comedy back to its roots.
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Far-right leaders gather in Madrid to “make Europe great again”
Far-right Patriots for Europe group meets in Madrid to lament loss of Europe’s supposed greatness.
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Dossier no. 85: The joy of reading
Reading and popular literacy programmes have played an important role in revolutionary processes, from the Mexican, Chinese, and Russian revolutions in the early twentieth century to today.
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Did a Trump executive order just cripple the global US regime change network?
With federal funding paused to USAID, pro-Western media outlets from Ukraine to Nicaragua are panhandling for donations, and a multi-billion dollar regime change apparatus is in panic mode.
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In Venezuela, the commune is not just a utopia: A conversation with Cira Pascual Marquina
The commune as both means and end in Venezuela’s socialist project.
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Sociology world mourns after hit-and-run driver on Grand Avenue kills legendary labor scholar
Michael Burawoy was struck while walking inside the crosswalk near Children’s Fairyland.