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Maduro appoints El Maizal’s Ángel Prado Minister of Communes
The seasoned communard takes over the Ministry of Communes as the Maduro government bets on funding local projects chosen by communities.
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The beginning of the end of the ANC
For the first time in South Africa’s 30 years of democracy, the African National Congress (ANC) failed to obtain a majority of votes making a coalition with other parties imminent. Luke Sinwell considers the consequences, and discusses the emergence of a new party, MK, led by Jacob Zuma. Sinwell looks at what has happened to the left, and its repeated failure to make any serious inroads into South Africa’s political scene.
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SACP Political Bureau statement
The votes received by the ANC maintain it as the largest party by electoral support in our country and reaffirm its outright majority in five provinces: Limpopo with 73.3 per cent, Eastern Cape with 62.16 per cent, North West with 57.73 per cent, Free State with 51.87 per cent and Mpumalanga 51.15 per cent. This is the will of the people.
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“Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept”: Meet the Palestinian lawyer censored by Columbia and Harvard
The website of the Columbia Law Review was taken down by its board of directors on Monday after student editors refused a request from the board to halt the publication of an academic article written by Palestinian human rights lawyer Rabea Eghbariah titled “Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept.”
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Organizing ranchers in the Venezuelan Llanos: The Pancha Vásquez Commune (Part I)
How communards in the Venezuelan plains region produce, organize, and resist the impact of the U.S. blockade.
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Cisgender activists speak: Why is supporting trans rights important?
A mere decade after the Stonewall Rebellion, as the LGBTQIA+ community was winning some victories, the right wing began mobilizing to take them away. It began in Dade County, Florida, as former Miss America Anita Bryant led a campaign called “Save Our Children.”
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A cautionary tale for open science: AlphaFold3
A NEW AI (Artificial Intelligence) model, AlphaFold3, has excited the scientific community.
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“The Wild Men: The Remarkable Story of Britain’s First Labour Government” – Book Review
An establishment friendly history of the first Labour government, in 1924, shows how willingly a Labour leadership can be captured by the ruling class, finds John Westmoreland.
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The U.S. empire isn’t a government that runs nonstop wars, it’s a nonstop war that runs a government
It clears up a lot of confusion when you understand that the U.S. empire is not a national government which happens to run nonstop military operations, it’s a nonstop military operation that happens to run a national government.
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Open letter by Gaza academics and university administrators to the world
We call on our supporters to help us resist the Israeli campaign of scholasticide and rebuild our universities
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How tens of thousands of grad workers are organizing themselves
It’s the biggest organizing wave the U.S. labor movement has seen in decades.
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‘We’re seeing Universities following a corporate agenda to get favor with donors’
CounterSpin interview with Ellen Schrecker on the attack on academic freedom
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The unheard voices: How society silences women
In our country and across the world, the voices of women often go unheard. Whether it is a gasping plea of ‘I can’t breathe’ or a harrowing confession of ‘He raped me,’ the voices of women are frequently dismissed, disbelieved, or outright ignored. This tragic reality stems from a deeply ingrained societal bias that views women as manipulative, deceitful, and cunning. Through this gendered lens, society perpetuates a culture of scepticism and distrust toward women, effectively demonising them and invalidating their experiences.
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The resistible rise of the far right in Europe
In France, the far right is likely to be the leading political force in the European elections of 9 June 2024, and probably the second (or third) force in the European Union. A relatively large number of far right parties are now on the winning side in national elections, and are even taking part in national governments.
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Digitalisation in India: The class agenda [Part IV]
Indian propagandists talk of India’s “emerging status as a technological powerhouse”, and the heads of the world’s largest technology corporations have started to refer to India as a global technology/software “superpower”, at least in their interactions with Indian media outlets.
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Punched, choked, kicked: German police crack down on student protests
Germany’s students, labelled ‘terrorist sympathisers’ for protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza, say their right to free speech is under attack.
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Follow the money: How Israel-linked billionaires silenced U.S. campus protests
America’s universities are on fire.
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Neo-liberalism has increased mass poverty
It is not a difficult proposition to substantially reduce poverty through redistributive measures. About one tenth of India’s GDP would need to be devoted to providing adequate food for the population, basic and comprehensive healthcare, compulsory free education, employment guarantee and old age pension; for which additional taxation of 7 per cent of GDP that the rich and super-rich can easily bear, would be needed. Combined with vigorous implementation of the existing National Food Security Act 2013 and the MG National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, genuine large-scale reduction of poverty would result
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New Caledonia: Kanak revolt against French colonialism
To understand the current uprisings in New Caledonia, one must look back at the history of colonization and violent repression of the islands by France.
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Assange victorious in High Court
The threat of immediate extradition has been lifted in today’s ruling against the U.S. government, reports John Rees from the court.