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“Dealin with the Devil”: musicians confront Joe Manchin at Kennedy Center concert
Senator Joe Manchin has emerged in recent weeks as the leading opponent of vital social programs to provide relief to working people in the areas of education, healthcare, the environment and much more.
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Miami’s ultra-right and its coercion against Cuban artists
Havana, Nov. 4 (Prensa Latina) The Communist Party of Cuba highlighted today the methods of pressure that the extreme right of Miami, U.S., exerts on Cuban artists to take sides against the government of the island.
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Tripura Police books 102 people under UAPA for social media posts against communal violence
Opposition leaders have lashed out at the police’s ‘highhanded’ behaviour.
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Food Sovereignty, a manifesto for the future of our Planet | La Via Campesina
Official statement from La Via Campesina, as we mark 25 years of our collective struggles for food sovereignty.
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Manufacturing ignorance: keeping the public away from power
Significant public activism and opposition to state-corporate power need to be rooted in widespread shared public knowledge.
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Facebook does the U.S. government’s censorship work in Nicaraguan elections
A few days before the Nicaraguan presidential elections on November 7, Facebook and other social media companies began closing down many of the pages used by Sandinista supporters in their campaign to re-elect President Daniel Ortega.
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Israel’s secret ‘evidence’ against rights groups is based on torture and lies, and Europeans rejected it—Palestinian leaders tell a DC audience
Leaders of the six Palestinian human rights organizations that Israel has declared to be “terrorist” spoke to a global audience last Friday on a webinar convened by mainstream Washington thinktanks and they repudiated the secret dossiers that Israel has circulated in seeking to ban the organizations.
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Abahlali baseMjondolo Responds to ‘We Carry a New World in Our Riots’ by Siddiq Khan
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over […]
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Should one stand up for Western values?
What are western values? One often hears a representative of a western country praising its western values. In a 2017 statement Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau adumbrated Canadian values as “openness, compassion, equality, and inclusion.”
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Fighting for Oak Flat/Chi Chil Bildagoteel
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do little.” —Edmund Burke
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The homogenisation of education
Education in post-independence India was supposed not just to provide knowledge and skills to students, but also to facilitate the process of “nation-building” (to use a clumsy word).
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Dossier No. 46: Big Tech and the current challenges facing the class struggle
We cannot give ourselves the luxury of being technophobic, of negating the importance of technologies and their potential in the struggle. At the same time, we cannot believe in the idea that technology in itself will result in advances for the organised working class.
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Being a child in Yemen is the stuff of nightmares: The Forty-Third Newsletter (2021)
Since February 2021, the military forces of Ansar Allah have made a push to capture the central town of Marib, which is not only at the epicentre of Yemen’s modest oil refining project but is also one of the few parts of the country still controlled by President Hadi.
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Neoliberalism and the crisis of higher education
Neoliberalism is the dominant ideology of this historical moment. It includes a belief in the following: the efficiency of the free market and the deregulation and privatization of the public sector that markets require; tax reduction; abandoning the welfare state; and replacing the notion of the public good with a personal responsibility for one’s own welfare.
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It is time for a community approach to mental health
Abolitionists and mental health advocates in the U.S. are working to replace both police and psychiatry by reimagining how we respond to mental health crisis.
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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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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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Of course they would: on Kim Stanley Robinson’s ‘The Ministry for the Future’
Everything is always different, yes, fine–but everything is really different now.
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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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Netflix launches a new collection of Palestinian movies
Pro-Israel groups have attacked the move because many of the directors support BDS.