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Book Review: ‘Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture’
Surrounded by assasination plots and having been deceived from all sides, Louverture “was extremely reluctant to communicate his intentions even to his leading military officers, or to share power with them in any meaningful way.”
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India’s COVID-19 crisis: A call for people’s unity
At the height of India’s COVID-19 crisis, some Chinese netizens saw retribution for the Modi government’s aggressive posture towards China. In this essay, Chinese blogger 红色卫士 (Red Defender) instead insists on internationalist solidarity and a distinction between the right-wing Modi government and the working class and low-caste peoples who suffer the most under his regime.
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Americans must recognize economic classes
There appears to be a reluctance in the United States to wear the mantle of “working class.” Its connotation appears to be a relic from the economic revolutions of Europe in the late nineteenth century. However, they remain the economic class that built the nation’s now failing economy.
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‘Respect Money’: How a Chinese talent show put its fans up for sale
Success on “Youth With You 3” had less to do with talent and more to do with who could buy the most votes. So why don’t fans care?
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The Western’s long glorification of oppression
A quintessentially American, and Texan, film genre, the Western has mistold Texas history since its beginnings.
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Lenin went to dance in the snow to celebrate the Paris Commune and the Soviet Republic
The workers of Paris created the Commune on 18 March, building on the wave of revolutionary optimism that first lapped on the shores of France in 1789 and then again in 1830 and 1848.
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Social reproduction feminism or socialist feminism?
On Susan Ferguson’s book “Women and Work: Feminism, Labour and Social Reproduction.“
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The communal cooking pot
In Chile, community food networks and mutual aid tell us that the revolution starts close to home writes Jumanah Younis
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A mainstream outlet accepted my pitch on what media refuses to say about U.S. empire–then refused to let me say it
A mainstream academic outlet called The Conversation green-lighted my article on foreign policy issues Western media refuses to discuss. With the piece ready to go live, everything went horribly wrong.
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Why the Overton window has suddenly shifted on Israel-Palestine
There is little doubt that the Overton window on Israel-Palestine is rapidly shifting. To understand why, MintPress spoke to academics, experts, and rights groups familiar with the subject.
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Nicaragua’s inspiring response to COVID-19
Little attention has been paid internationally to how the Central American country has managed to keep COVID-19 cases and fatalities low even under a devastating campaign of U.S. sanctions
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Media ‘Border crisis’ threatens immigration reform
What’s striking is how badly the situation has been represented in the more centrist and prestigious parts of the corporate media.
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It’s all protest music: Bob Dylan at 80
Wherever the forces of destruction attempt to cut down trees, pollute our air and water, and rip away the earth for minerals, women have been leading the resistance. In the cities and communities, women have fought for clean water, air, and land for their families to flourish.
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Viral video of posh High School sparks heated debate on privilege
After an alumnus of an elite Beijing high school made a video showing off its pristine facilities and supposedly laid-back pace, many online demanded that she and her ilk stop rubbing their privilege in others’ faces.
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Israel/Palestine coverage presents false equivalency between occupied and occupier
Media coverage of heightened violence in Israel/Palestine has misrepresented events in the Israeli government’s favor by suggesting that Israel is acting defensively, presenting a false equivalency between occupier and occupied, and burying information necessary to understand the scale of Israeli brutality.
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BAR Book Forum: Stefanie K. Dunning’s “Black to Nature”
The author explores various social, political, and cultural sites that explore and highlight the Black pastoral experience.
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Soviet Jews “stand with Israel forever”
This is what happens when a whole group of people gets converted to ethno-nationalism, which has become a kind of secular religion for them—a belief system predicated on messianic ethnic cleansing and blood-and-soil thinking. Most of my old Soviet immigrant friends aren’t religious, but Zionism fills in that gap for them.
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‘Everywhere is war’: paying tribute to Bob Marley
Forty years after his death, Robert Nesta Marley retains a unique position as possibly the only Third World musical superstar, widely known by millions of people around the globe.
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In media framing, trans kids are problems to be solved—not people with rights
As states continue to pass laws that dehumanize and endanger transgender kids, the country’s most influential newspapers have not met the challenge of covering the issue.
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In the era of fake news, we must celebrate the journalist in Karl Marx
His stance on free press stands in sharp contrast to the status of the press–being totally subservient to the state–in the communist countries of the 20th century.