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Center-Left convergence in Venezuela: A blow to U.S. interventionism
Steve Ellner argues that average Venezuelans understand that U.S. sanctions hurt them—and should be resisted.
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American exceptionalism won’t save the U.S. Empire from itself, or stop China’s rise
China’s rise reflects a bourgeoning global movement away from U.S. imperialism and toward self-determination.
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U.S. is doing its best to lock out China from Latin America and the Caribbean
Regional governments from both right and left see the BRI as lucrative and free of political interference.
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Crossing red lines: why the establishment wants to destroy Corbyn
Corbyn’s anti-war principles and their popular appeal are the biggest threat to the establishment, says Chris Nineham.
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The knives come out as Greenwald splits from the Intercept citing censorship
Funded by a billionaire oligarch and increasingly seen as a mouthpiece for the neoliberal establishment, The Intercept suffered its biggest blow yet with the very public departure of Greenwald.
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The best response is to communicate the Revolution
The new U.S. financed counter-revolution hopes to manipulate sensitive issues and create the conditions for a social confrontation, for conflict and destabilization of the country.
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The United States is not a democracy
The country’s constitution is an eighteenth-century relic penned by merchants and slave owners, amendments to which can be blocked by as few as 13 states representing less than 4 percent of the population.
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The Past as Prologue: Caliban & the Witch – a Review
Alexandra Day reviews Silvia Federici’s seminal work, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation.
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How India’s Modi is changing laws to help imperialists dominate the country’s agriculture
The fact that the Center made unilateral and fundamental changes in agricultural marketing arrangements that fall within the State List of the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution was a blow against federalism.
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In defense of Jeremy Corbyn
Yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn was suspended as a member of the British Labour Party.
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Jeremy Corbyn is the victim of a monstrous campaign of slander
After years of being slandered, Jeremy Corbyn has been suspended from the British Labour Party. It’s a shocking development.
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Ecosocialism: an alternative to global capitalism
Over the past four decades or so, various leftists have become more sensitive to the environmental degradation in developed and developing capitalist societies and post-revolutionary societies, particularly in the former Soviet Union and, in recent times, China.
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Jacindamania and the Aotearoa New Zealand elections of 2020: Hopes and potentialities
The New Zealand elections as a gain and as a limitation for the left — Editors.
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Beyond Plague Urbanism
Over the centuries, humans have survived tragedy through the incredible stoicism of not moving, of standing one’s ground, of resisting, of engaging in tremendous creativity. Perhaps we can use the time alone to think collectively, to reflect together on how we might reconstruct the public realm of our cities.
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‘Symbolic Violence: Conversations with Bourdieu’ by Michael Burawoy reviewed by Paul Leduc Browne
Michael Burawoy’s Symbolic Violence is a Marxist critique of the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. This fascinating book explores some of Bourdieu’s contradictions by staging a series of ‘conversations’ between the French sociologist and a range of important, mostly Marxist, thinkers whose writings Bourdieu ignored or dismissed in footnotes, even though he ought to have engaged explicitly with their ideas.
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From a wealthy socialite to an Israeli Govt censor, Facebook’s new “Free Speech Court” is anything but independent
Freedom of speech on the Internet is all but extinct, and on the eve of the 2020 U.S. elections, a de facto “free speech court” is going to make sure it never comes back. On Facebook at least.
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What is at stake in the study of settler colonialism?
Settler colonialism, those colonial processes based on the aim of permanently settling metropolitan populations on indigenous lands, and–crucially–the struggle against it, have been at the centre of many of the key political developments of the last three decades.
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We Are That History That Is Discredited, but Which Reappears When You Least Expect It
The coup followed an election that would have resulted in Morales’ fourth term as president, the results of which were questioned by the Organisation of American States or OAS (60% of whose funding comes from the U.S. government).
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How Venezuela has held back COVID-19 in spite of the U.S. sanctions stranglehold on its economy
A seam of cruelty runs through U.S. policy, which by its sanctions regime prevents Venezuela from open trade of its oil to import key medical equipment to help break the chain of the virus and heal those infected by it.
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Policing the poor and minorities as counter-insurgency
Here are seven counterinsurgency features of policing and the inequities in the criminal justice system.