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A world where our grandchildren have to go to a museum to see what a gun looked like: The Forty-Fourth Newsletter (2024)
The world yearns for ‘active’ peace, tired of the attitude of superiority that defines the North’s relations with the South. This means that wealth, which is produced by society, must not deepen the pockets of the rich and fuel the engines of war, but fill the bellies of the many.
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“Soundtracks to the Struggle 3” drops amid censorship attempts: Lowkey talks to Mintcast
A tireless fighter for justice, Lowkey’s tracks have become anthems in the anti-war movement, particularly in the struggle for Palestine liberation. “Soundtrack to the Struggle 3” is no different and provides a political snapshot in time, taking on issues such as the genocide in Gaza, the persecution of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, and the pervasive surveillance power of our smartphones.
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Amazonian Huo̧ttö̧ja̧ People and the Bolivarian process: Río Cataniapo Commune (Part II)
A Huo̧ttö̧ja̧ community in the Venezuelan Amazon discusses their culture and organization as well as the Indigenous peoples’ rights established in the 1999 constitution.
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Gustavo Gutiérrez’s revolutionary mission
On 22 October, at the age of 96, one of the key figures of liberation theology passed away.
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To think with, across and through Marx
My engagement with Marx in this book is ultimately an act of critical dialogue–of thinking with as well as across and through his texts toward multiple unforeseen destinations.
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Celebrating the 70th anniversary of ‘Salt of the Earth’
The Film was one of the most pro-union movies in American history.
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Book review of ‘The Political Writings of Bhagat Singh’
On the 23rd of March 1931, Bhagat Singh was hanged to death for waging revolution against the British colonial government in Lahore, Pakistan at the young age of 23.
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John Bellamy Foster Book Launch: “The Dialectics of Ecology”
Book Launch: “The Dialectics of Ecology”
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Our revolutions are for the survival and development of human civilization: The Forty-Third Newsletter (2024)
As a renewed Bandung Spirit emerges in the world, we must understand the Global South from its own dynamics and not merely in relation to the West.
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AI is pushing gas demand to ‘record highs,’ pipeline builder TC Energy says
Tech firms like Amazon and Google ‘have enormous responsibility’ for driving fossil fuel expansions, climate expert argues.
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“Why do you fear my way so much?”
Professor Saibaba’s life, or rather, Sai’s life, for that is what his friends called him, cannot be adequately understood without situating him in an authentic history and “present as history” of the Indian society of which he was a part.
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Free speech, journalism and democracy in a time of genocide
Last month in New York at separate forums, two senior Democrat figures–John Kerry and Hillary Clinton–pointed to what they saw as major problems: the First Amendment was ‘an obstacle to building consensus’, and the ‘narrative’ in the press needs to be (even more) ‘consistent’.
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U.S. is spending $28 billion on Sinophobic propaganda to colonise your brain
Whoever owns the narrative owns the world–and things just got a lot tougher for those of us opposed to the metastasising brain cancer known as U.S. influence campaigns–or “perception management”.
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Inside Argentina’s university occupations
Students are occupying more than 70 different faculties of 30 public universities across Argentina.
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The struggle for University divestment in the age of finance capital
The boundaries that separate higher education from “the rest” of the capitalist economy have eroded, imperfectly and unevenly but to a sufficient extent that the systemic force of financial markets dictates investment decisions and makes universities hard to distinguish from banks.
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‘The Commune is nothing new here’: The Rio Cataniapo Commune (Part I)
A socialist commune in the Venezuelan Amazon draws inspiration from the collective practices of its Indigenous members.
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The post-election challenge in France
An interview with John Mullen of La France Insoumise.
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Why Nations succeed or fail: a Nobel cause
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A Robinson have been awarded the Nobel (really the Riksbank prize) in economics “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”
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How to do a conjunctural analysis: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2024)
Unlike mainstream media, which all too often distorts the truth and lies by omission–as we see with reporting on Palestine, where the death toll has reached 114,000–conjunctural analyses help us understand the deeper forces at play and provide political and social movements with the materials to intervene to shape the future.
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Revealed: The Israeli spies writing America’s news
One year after Oct. 7 attacks, Netanyahu is on a winning streak.” So reads the title of a recent Axios article describing the Israeli prime minister riding on an unbeatable wave of triumphs.