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First city-wide rent reduction in the history of New York State, ordered by the Rent Guidelines Board of Kingston, New York, is upheld by Appellate Court
New York State’s Emergency Tenant Protection Act of 1974 permits the regulation of residential rents (“rent stabilization”) on the declaration of a housing emergency in New York City when the vacancy rate falls below 5%, or by similar declarations in municipalities in the suburban New York City counties of Nassau, Westchester and Rockland.
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Trade unionists shut down UK arms factories demanding halt of arms exports to Israel
Hundreds of trade unionists have blockaded major arms factories in England and Scotland today (March 21, 2024) demanding the UK Government halt arms supplies to Israel.
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Against climate fascism
Alex Roberts examines the multiple ways that the far right has responded to the climate crisis.
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Theater for Revolution: A conversation with Armando Carías
A playwright committed to social change talks about cultural production under the Bolivarian Process.
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Lessons from history for women’s liberation
RON JACOBS points out that it wasn’t until anti-imperialist and anti-racist movements formed women’s liberation groups that the fundamental roots of oppression could be addressed.
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What Julian Assange taught us about empire
The truth, it turns out, won’t set you free: under capitalism it can get you locked up. That’s what Julian Assange discovered when he spoke truth to power.
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Russia and China veto U.S. resolution on Gaza over failure to explicitly demand ceasefire
As Israel prepares for a ground invasion of Rafah, the U.S.-authored resolution presented to the UN Security Council merely noted an “imperative” for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Algeria, Russia, and China rejected the resolution, stating that it had failed to deliver on the core demand for a ceasefire.
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Flour massacre called ‘aid-related deaths’—rather than part of Israel’s engineered famine
Over 100 Palestinians were killed and hundreds more wounded on February 29, when Israeli snipers opened fire on people approaching a convoy of trucks carrying desperately needed supplies of flour. The attack was quickly dubbed the flour massacre.
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Taurus and the bullfighters: Berlin Bulletin No. 221, March 23, 2024
Weapons, weapons, weapons—the more the better! With ever louder talk about “the foe” and “protective measures”, as if Putin were amassing troops or maneuvering warships along German borders—instead of just the opposite taking place in the Baltic and Lithuania…The blitzkrieg-laden spirit of 1941 Germany is all over the media.
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Jewish activist told to remove Palestine flag responds
Last week, police in south London knocked on the door of a Jewish resident, Tamar, and asked her to remove a pro-Palestine sign and flag from the window of her home. She refused and delivered this speech at a rally this weekend in response .
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Top geology body denies appeal, rejects Anthropocene proposal
Ruling ends formal discussion in official geological organization.
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How the western media helped build the case for genocide in Gaza
From obscuring the West’s role in starving Gaza to sensationalised accounts of mass rape by Hamas, journalists are playing the role of propagandists, not reporters.
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Assange in plea deal talks
The report in The Wall Street Journal makes public what Consortium News had learned off the record, namely that the U.S. is engaging Julian Assange’s lawyers about a deal that could set the imprisoned publisher free.
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El Panal Commune breaches gap between City and Countryside
Caracas communards and campesino organizations are building ties through fair-price food distribution.
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New York Times readers are the least informed ones
One presumes that readers of a media institution which calls itself the ‘paper of record’ would be informed about an important issue which in other media has for month led the headlines of the day.
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Capitalism’s permanent horror
Government officials said that they were interested in killing only “terrorists”. But the “terrorists” were supported by most of the population, whom the authorities in fact considered collaborators and fair game.
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Washington’s New Cold War: U.S. Special Forces train Taiwan troops in drone warfare
The Green Berets are training Taiwanese forces on the use of military drones including the Black Hornet Nano, like those being used by U.S.-advised forces in Ukraine.
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‘We call for the respect of Haitian popular sovereignty and an end to Western imperialist intervention’
After months of the U.S., Core Group, and other imperialist collaborators working to execute an armed intervention into Haiti that they are now calling a “Multinational Security Service,” ex-de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry has resigned from his illegitimately-held position.
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The man in whose shadow Netanyahu walks
Israel is unlikely to stop its assault on Gaza without massive pressure, and the reasons are rooted in the history of Zionism, argues Chris Bambery.
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Dossier no. 74: Interrupted emancipation: Women and work in East Germany
This dossier looks at the history and unfinished work of women’s liberation in the German Democratic Republic, such as its achievements, legacy, and the challenges it faced.