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Communists face rare crackdown in Russia, upending old balance
Boris Kagarlitsky, a veteran left-wing dissident, holds the distinction of having been a political prisoner under the regimes of Leonid Brezhnev and Boris Yeltsin. Now he can add President Vladimir Putin to that list.
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Degrowth and revolutionary organizing
Degrowth is a corrective prescription for the Global North, not the Global South. Degrowth targets the “externally conceived and managed growth-driven projects of private and government entities, from national to international levels.”
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The New Dangerous Class? The PMC and Virtue Hoarding
In a review of a new book about the ‘Professional Managerial Class’, James Foley says middle-class activists dress up conformity as a war on cultural backwardness.
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Is a multipolar world the answer to U.S. imperialism?
Is there a growing resistance to the unipolar imperial order? Is the U.S. an empire in decline? Will the future be a multipolar one? If so, what does that mean ans how should the left in the imperialist core respond?
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Who owns our data?
We need a model of ownership that recognizes the collective interest we have in how personal data is used, avoids the costs of private exploitation by individual firms, and does not slip into authoritarian forms of state control.
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Trudeau speech latest example of weaponizing antisemitism to defend Israel
Charges of antisemitism are being used as a weapon to weaken Palestinian solidarity. It is time for this tactic to be called out and confronted head-on.
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The coral atoll and the iPhone
I think Matt Cooper takes a too narrow definition of “metabolism” as a rather dull process of material exchange that occurs within a cell. From my reading, as a non-specialist, Marx was using the term in a broader sense as the material and ultimately purposeless means by which complex order emerges from disordered matter.
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Women’s work in the first civilisations
The work performed by women, particularly work in the household and in the health sector, has received much attention in feminist and left-wing debate in recent years.
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Systemic crisis further exposes inequalities: poor women’s Global struggle against hunger and pandemic
Without a doubt, the global pandemic of COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on the economy and, consequently, on the population.
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Multimillionaire counterrevolutionary: Mark R. Levin’s new book ‘American Marxism’
Every thuggish movement needs its cover of respectability and even scholarly, theoretical pillars.
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Chile is at the dawn of a new political era
The search for the new era in Chile has two important avenues: the writing of the new constitution, which is what the 155 members of the Constitutional Convention are doing, and the presidential election to be held on November 21, 2021.
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New World Coming: ‘Racial Capitalism’ with Robin D. G. Kelley
James Counts Early is joined by historian and activist Robin D.G. Kelley to discuss Robin’s career work on racial capitalism, multiculturalism and identity, and the history of the struggle for socialism.
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The ‘Democratic Majority for Israel’ is a hate organization
I argued in my last article that the hatred coming from the Jewish community is not confronted because it comes in the guise of fighting antisemitism. Ten days ago we saw another example of this hatred that has no name.
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Eyewitness report: Cuba’s scientists, medical workers advance fight vs. COVID
After a serious rise in Cuba of illnesses and deaths from COVID-19 during the summer, there are encouraging developments with a steady recovery and downward curve in illnesses and deaths.
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Bagels, grapes and marijuana: a day in the country
The bagels at Homegrown are some of the best in northern California, in part because the owner, Stuart Teitelbaum, who was born and raised in Manhattan on the Lower East Side, and grew up eating bagels and bialys.
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‘Marx in Soho’: An Epilogue
In 1999, Howard Zinn published the sensation ‘Marx in Soho: A Play on History’. The story began with Karl Marx petitioning Heaven to come back to Earth for a short while so that he could “clear his name.”
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The imprint of an insurrectional past: a conversation with Iraida Vargas and Mario Sanoja
Two eminent anthropologists talk about Venezuela’s history and its relation to the present.
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Mike Healy: ‘Marx and Digital Machines: Alienation, Technology, Capitalism’
Healy’s exquisite book applies several recent frameworks of alienation to two groups of workers–IT workers and academics.
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Women hold up more than half the sky: The Forty-First Newsletter (2021)
Indian peasants and agricultural workers remain in the midst of a country-wide agitation sparked by the proposal of three farm bills that were then signed into law by the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party government in September 2020.
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The Italian government confronts a new test: fascism in the streets
Here is the “eternal fascism” that Umberto Eco warned us against, when he explicated the symptoms of the virus that made Italy the incubator, and then the European model, of an anti-parliamentary regime, violent, anti-freedom, anti-Semitic and warmongering.