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Starmer branded an ‘absolute disgrace’ at Durham Miners’ Gala
Durham Miners’ Association general secretary Alan Mardghum said it was an absolute disgrace that the Labour leader had punished MPs for standing on picket lines in support of striking workers.
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The Marxist theory of the state: An introduction
Our understanding of the state lies at the heart of our struggle to create a new society and fundamentally eliminate the oppression, exploitation, war, and environmental destruction characteristic of capitalism.
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How U.S. Department of Homeland Security became global ‘thought police’
CISA’s “disinformation” busting activities served to systematically malign independent journalists and alternative media platforms, while reinforcing established news outlets as monopolies of truth.
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Dossier no. 66: The world needs a new socialist development theory
Across the world, evidence of human misery is increasingly easy to find. The data collected and reported by international agencies is stunning. Billions of people around the planet lack access to adequate education, healthcare, food, and shelter, as well as information and culture.
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Supreme Court strikes down Biden’s partial student loan forgiveness plan, 43 million borrowers denied debt relief
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday with a stroke of the pen blocked a measure that would have provided limited relief for 43 million Americans suffering under a crushing debt burden of $1.7 trillion in outstanding federal student loans.
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Charter Schools fail and close every week
Free-market Accountability Equals Failed Bankrupt Project
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Levy del Águila Marchena: ‘Communism, Political Power and Personal Freedom in Marx’
Marx diagnosed the oppression of the working class, the alienation of workers from their labor, as well as the alienation of all human beings living within capitalism from their own authentic selves, and proposed that it was objectively possible that emancipation, true liberation, would come one day.
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Several senior U.S. officials descend from slave owner families: Reuters
Reuters’ report highlights that 100 living American politicians and senior officials belong to slave-owning families.
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Chinese scholars discuss Engels in Eastbourne
Nearly a hundred professors, experts and scholars from more than 20 universities and research institutions in more than ten countries, including the United Kingdom, China, Germany, the United States, Ireland, Spain, Romania, Denmark, Turkey and India, hold in-depth discussions to commemorate the 175th anniversary of “The Communist Manifesto.”
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Learning from the barricade: Marx, Engels and the 1848 June Days uprising
175 years on from the 1848 June Days insurrection, Katherine Connelly explores what Paris’ working-class revolutionaries taught Marx and Engels.
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Glastonbury’s cancelling of a powerful film about Jeremy Corbyn
When Truth Becomes Silence
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Argentina: Repression against indigenous people in Jujuy (+human rights in Venezuela)
Police repression of mass protests regarding provincial constitution reforms—threatening the right to protest and land workers’ rights—have led to at least 68 people being arrested and 170 injured this Tuesday, June 20.
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On the fundamental rights of the sex workers and others in India
It is for about one and a half decades now that our Sex Workers are raising the issues related to their lack of professional, legal and social rights before the members of the Other Sections of our society.
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Two episodes at sea: The submersible Titan and hundreds of refugees drowned in the Mediterranean
It is inevitable that such an event, in which there is a race against time and the elements, should attract the interest and concern of tens of millions.
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On the dialectics of socialism and western Marxisms’ purity fetish
Gabriel Rockhill “one of my favorite jokes that I’ve heard about the socialist project is the following: socialism looks good on paper, but in reality… you just get invaded by the United States.”
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Daniel Ellsberg is lauded in death by the same media that lets Assange rot in jail
The stark difference in treatment of the two truth-tellers is a measure of how state criminality is now completely unchecked.
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Legendary whistleblower and anti-war activist Daniel Ellsberg passes at 92
The U.S. anti-war movement fondly remembers the former government employee who contributed to the end of the U.S. invasion of Vietnam
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Assange: An unholy masquerade of tyranny disguised as justice
Julian’s persecution has nothing to do with the law. It is a simple demonstration of the crushing power of the state.
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Russia-Ukraine war: Another act of terror met by western media silence
Coverage of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam and Nord Stream pipelines shows a western media willing to prioritise anti-Russian propaganda over facts.
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Writer Elizabeth Gilbert faces backlash over book with plot in Russia
Elizabeth Gilbert decides to postpone book publication after “The Snow Forest” receives backlash for being set in Russia, a decision which brings forth a different kind of backlash.