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Capitalists want your blood and maybe your kidney and liver, too
Malcolm X famously said, “show me a capitalist and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.” That’s literally true for U.S. capitalism.
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From 11 September to 7 October: The fake ‘War on Terror’ collapses
For years, the U.S. executed Israel’s regional destabilization program using phantom terrorists as justification for the ‘War on Terror.’ But 7 October 2023 killed Washington’s never-ending war project–with a flip of the switch, U.S. adversaries have now turned the ‘Long War’ on Israel.
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Arghiri Emmanuel, the Free Republic of Congo, and socialism–not capitalism–first
Lumumba had seen hope in the African diaspora to invest what capital and skills it had in building the Congo. Arghiri Emmanuel made similar recommendations to Antoine Gizenga, Lumumba’s former deputy prime minister who led the rebel socialist Free Republic of Congo from December 12th 1960 to January 1962.
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Arghiri Emmanuel, the law of unequal exchange, and the failures of liberation in the DR Congo
Writing about Arghiri Emmanuel’s Unequal Exchange, Jairus Banaji noted that it is “the closest Marxist counterpart I can think of to Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth”.
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Are you a Russian agent? Take the test
Election season in the U.S. is witch hunt season, and the White House is determined to burn some ‘witches’–anyone arbitrarily deemed a ‘Russian agent’. Might you be one?
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Culture, bread and revolution: A conversation with Natalia Molina
For the Caracas-based La Minka collective, culture and bread-baking go hand in hand with the project of making a socialist commune.
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Chilean police repress march to pay respect to those disappeared and/or assassinated during Pinochet dictatorship
Thousands of Chileans were beaten and sprayed with high-pressure water guns while marching to pay tribute to the victims of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship.
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The courage of Gisèle Pelicot
The calculated and cruel violence suffered by Gisèle Pelicot has shaken the world to its core, yet her demand to make the trial public and shift the shame to the perpetrators of these acts, has inspired many.
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The bizarre state of Western democracy
The policies favoured by the ruling class in other words are being pursued despite public opinion being palpably and systematically opposed to them.
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East German election trimmings: Berlin Bulletin No. 225, September 5, 2024
Is the AfD a fascist party? Björn Höcke, its boss in Thuringia, one of its three best-known national leaders and its main rabble-rouser, has never concealed his admiration for Germany’s days of swastika glory.
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Another war diary entry
Critical cultural historical perspective is not easy to obtain.
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When will we stop falling for fabricated antisemitism scandals?
Reginald D Hunter is the latest target of pro-Israel provocateurs feigning victimhood. Time to bring down the curtain on this pantomime, says Rivkah Brown.
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Leftists or Right-wingers in camouflage
Every day it is proven that some characters who have come to power in Latin America under the propagandistic cloak of projecting leftist positions have only been disguised, or rather infiltrated, to favor the United States in its goal of maintaining political and economic control in the region.
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She was brutally killed before she could write her story for the World: The Thirty-Fifth Newsletter (2024)
Following the the murder of a young female doctor in Kolkata, health workers, medical unions, and women’s movements have mobilised across the country to decry rampant gender-based violence and dangerous working conditions.
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How U.S. union leaders worked with the CIA to undermine democracy
Soon after Israel launched its genocidal war in Gaza with the full support of the U.S. government, opposition emerged to the Biden administration in a place that many professional political commentators found confounding: within U.S. trade unions.
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“Beauvoir and Belle: A Black Feminist Critique of The Second Sex” – Book Review
Belle and Beauvoir proves to be a much needed contribution on a neglected topic. Importantly, it comes at a time when theorists are calling for both greater conceptual clarity on how systems like capitalism and racism interact as well a return to the thought of Black women Marxists and communists.
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Declaration of the 11th Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of ALBA-TCP
Being the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela a founding member country of the ALBA-TCP, a unionist project, envisioned by the Liberator Simón Bolívar and the heroes of the independence deeds of Latin America and the Caribbean and realized by Commanders Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías and Fidel Castro Ruz; the member countries of this great Alliance acknowledge that this kind Our American nation is a sovereign and independent country, with high democratic standards, which, in compliance with its sacred Constitution, organized presidential elections, in accordance with the corresponding regulatory times.
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Popular democracy at work at El Panal Commune and across Venezuela
The second National Popular Consultation saw Venezuelans choose community projects to be funded by the state.
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New York state of mind
In the 1960s, a new ideology held that cities were best developed organically and free from central planning. In his latest book, Owen Hatherley explores how these ideas shaped New York—and what they can teach a new generation of socialists.
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From Pan Africanism to Afropessimism: Palestine and the degeneration of Black politics
For decades, most Black political commentary has expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people, but recently, a new phenomenon has appeared, particularly on social media platforms, which accuses all Palestinians of being anti-Black racists, and asserts that aligning with them is either of no use to Black people or even that it is detrimental to our own cause.