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Out of Africa: Rich continent, poor people
KUALA LUMPUR: Capital flight from the global South is immense, with widespread adverse effects. A new book proposes measures to curb, even reverse capital flight from Africa. It also offers pragmatic lessons for many developing countries.
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Indonesia, not the EU, needs to make its palm oil sustainable
Importers must step up support for sustainable palm oil, and producers be bold in revoking the licences of illegal palm estates, writes Andre Barahamin.
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This is the real face of the Ukraine war – weekly briefing
Lindsey German on imperialism, democracy and porn in parliament.
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Ukrainian strike on Donetsk Market was a terrorist act
When artillery hit a busy public space in Donetsk, it brought flashbacks of attacks in Gaza and Syria.
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No to a new Monroe Doctrine in the Pacific
The Anglo ruling classes have gone into a state of frenzy over a recently-signed security agreement between the People’s Republic of China and the Solomon Islands.
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Cost of the Ukraine War felt in Africa, Global South
While international news headlines remain largely focused on the war in Ukraine, little attention is given to the horrific consequences of the war which are felt in many regions around the world. Even when these repercussions are discussed, disproportionate coverage is allocated to European countries, like Germany and Austria, due to their heavy reliance on Russian energy sources.
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Kathy Boudin: a great life and a great loss
Celebrating the life and mourning the loss of our co-founder and co-director Kathy Boudin.
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Rosa Luxemburg and the German revolution
The carnage of World War I was ended by revolution in Germany. It began in November 1918 with a mutiny of sailors in Kiel.
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Why China stands firm on dynamic zero-COVID policy
In a country of some 1.4 billion people, any public health issue is of significant concern, and the coronavirus outbreak is no exception.
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Labor organizing in the U.S. in 2022: the anti-worker, anti-union corporate agenda
Late capitalism has exposed the drastic inequalities inherent to our neoliberal economy.
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Marxist Ecology in the light of Contemporary Ecological Thought: reflections on the Ontological questions in dark, deep and Marxist ecology
There has been an extensive debate within Marxism concerning the question of nature and its concomitant questions about the interaction of nature and culture or nature and society.
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Here’s what I found at the reported ‘mass grave’ near Mariupol
According to recent Western media, Russian forces have buried up to 9,000 Mariupol civilians in “mass graves” in a town just west of the Ukrainian city.
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It’s past time for a $15 federal minimum wage
President Biden’s 2022 State of the Union Address included a call for a $15 federal minimum wage. According to an Economic Policy Institute study, a phased increase to a $15 federal minimum wage by 2025 would raise the earnings of 32 million workers—21% of the workforce, no small thing.
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Posting May Day – The Story of International Workers’ Day Through Trade Union Posters
May Day is known throughout the world as International Workers’ Day. It is celebrated in over one hundred countries to highlight workers’ struggles and triumphs.
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I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2022)
On April 19, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its annual World Economic Outlook, which forecasted a severe slowdown in global growth along with soaring prices. ‘For 2022, inflation is projected at 5.7 percent in advanced economies and 8.7 percent in emerging market and developing economies–1.8 and 2.8 percentage points higher than projected in… January.’
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Peace Movement needs to demand dismantling of NATO
NATO went from fighting socialism to enforcing global empire.
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Janez Jansa’s right-wing govt loses to newly formed Freedom Movement in Slovenia
The outgoing right-wing coalition government led by Janez Jansa had faced widespread protests from civil society for its unpopular anti-worker and authoritarian policies.
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Abdala, with three doses, demonstrates 92.28% efficacy
Communist Party First Secretary and President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, on behalf of Cuba, congratulates researchers who in 13 months achieved a global milestone.
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Eva Bartlett reports from Mariupol: “Ukraine forces used scorched earth tactics”
Yes, there is destruction, that’s what happens when Ukrainian forces, and Nazis, embed in residential areas & occupy apartment buildings. It isn’t Raqqa, and if you aren’t aware of the U.S. illegal coalition in Syria’s full destruction of Raqqa, look that up.
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Race and the great American death divide
It is not surprising that a settler colonial state would practice racism for centuries or that race would be the major factor determining who lives and who dies.