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After a long defeat, Labor is rising from the ashes
Stephen Franklin on labor’s losses—and explosive resurgence.
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Israel-Palestine war: This is not about Hamas. It’s a 75-year colonial war
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine is inseparable from the racialised structures of Zionism, which receives unbridled support from Europe and the US
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Time to stop settler colonialism under cloak of ‘victimhood’
Israel has become a classic example of settler colonialism in contemporary times, as also a model picture of apartheid.
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A paradigm shift in the hundred years’ war on Palestine?
Since October 7, there have been five elements that indicate we may be seeing a paradigm shift in the hundred years’ war waged against the Palestinian people.
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A rose for Gramsci
Ninety-seven years back, via Giovanni Battista Morgagni, number 25, was a more modest lodging house, home of a quietly discreet pensionante called Antonio Gramsci.
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The largest pro-Palestinian protest in U.S. history was “a turning point.” Now it’s spreading
“Felt like this was a new wave or a turning point in the struggle for Palestine.”
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PiS off! But Tusk’s coalition is a Faustian pact for the Polish left
Lewica politicians must use their leverage for women, workers and minorities, says Ewa Pospieszyńska, or risk even greater threats from the right.
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NYT runs interference for IDF as it bombs Jabalia Refugee Camp
Israeli bombs rained down on the Jabalia Refugee Camp in northern Gaza on Halloween, leveling housing units and killing and wounding hundreds of Palestinians, mostly women and children.
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The issue is not racism but the Pan European White Supremacist colonial/capitalist patriarchy!
Racism should not be thought of as a matter of personal feeling or opinion, but of an exploitative system that is hundreds of years old.
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Germany gets a new antiwar party, this time on the left
Its appeal depends largely on whether voters agree that Berlin’s economic woes can be blamed on the country’s Ukraine war policy.
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Russo-Ukrainian War: The Reckoning
Ukraine at the limits.
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The Pogrom, Indians, and Genealogies of the Israeli Settler-Vigilante
In most major media accounts of settler terror against Palestinians, Israeli settler-vigilantes invariably escape critical categorization beyond the moniker of “extremist.” Portrayals of these perpetrators of violence invariably focus on the theme of fanaticism while presenting these figures as unsavory if misguided fringe elements in Israeli society. Such characterizations are naïve and incomplete.
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The Media’s Nord Stream lies just keep coming
Why do billionaires and governments scramble to control the media? Because the power over our minds is the greatest power there is.
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Environmental injustice in India: Jaduguda Uranium Mining Cluster
Adivasis (literally, “original inhabitants”, equivalent to “indigenous peoples”) have been and are being sacrificed in the union government’s uranium mining and processing projects in what is now the State of Jharkhand, earlier the State of Bihar, where the public enterprise, Uranium Corporation of India Ltd (UCIL) began underground uranium mining and processing plant, twenty-four km west of Jaduguda.
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How the United States underdeveloped Somalia
On September 6, 2023, the United States military reportedly assisted the Somali government in an deadly counter-terrorism operation that killed five civilians.
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IPEF: New Cold War weapon backfires
U.S. President Joe Biden’s Indo-Pacific Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) is the economic arm of his administration’s Indo-Pacific Strategy, aimed at countering China’s influence in the region.
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Workers are dying from the heat: Why is it so hard to protect them?
No federal heat standard exists and lobbyists, corporate interests and those with fiercely anti-regulatory agendas have been vocal and active in keeping it that way.
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CFA Franc System in Francophone Africa: A tool of French financial imperialism
The independence of French Indochina after the Second World War triggered a wave of independence in the French-speaking African countries, and it appeared that French colonial foundations had suffered a huge blow in the early 1960s.
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‘Free Speech’ fans call for censoring TikTok as Chinese plot to make Israel look bad
Axios (10/31/23) reported that in a two-week period, TikTok saw “nearly four times the number of views to TikTok posts using the hashtag #StandwithPalestine globally compared to posts using the hashtag #StandwithIsrael.” As a result, the conservative outrage machine kicked into high gear.
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Israeli war crimes and propaganda follow U.S. blueprint
The wars and the killing go on, day after day, year after year, out of sight and out of mind for most Americans.