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Heat stress exposes dangerous trends in India’s biggest cities
A CSE study of 6 mega cities flags concerns over rising concretization and loss of green cover among other things.
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Digitalisation in India: The class agenda [Part IV]
Indian propagandists talk of India’s “emerging status as a technological powerhouse”, and the heads of the world’s largest technology corporations have started to refer to India as a global technology/software “superpower”, at least in their interactions with Indian media outlets.
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Hybrid wars in Latin America
Between June 13 and 15, the G7 Leaders Summit, the organization responsible for the neocolonial and financialist policies implemented at a global level, will be held in the Apulia region, in Italy.
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The slow-motion execution of Assange
The ruling by the High Court in London permitting the WikiLeaks publisher to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point.
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Fulfilling orders: Automation, control and resistance at Amazon
After his brief space journey in July 2021, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos said, with disarming frankness, “I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer, because you guys paid for all of this.”
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Punched, choked, kicked: German police crack down on student protests
Germany’s students, labelled ‘terrorist sympathisers’ for protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza, say their right to free speech is under attack.
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The liberation of Kanaky: Resisting France’s brutal colonial overlordships in the Pacific
We Palestinians know what it is for people to choose to ignore the context that leads to our struggle. Indigenous and native people have always been right to challenge colonisation. We are fighting for a world free from the racism and the theft of resources and land that have hurt and harmed too many indigenous peoples and our planet.
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Follow the money: How Israel-linked billionaires silenced U.S. campus protests
America’s universities are on fire.
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League of imperialist criminals denounces the International Criminal Court
Prosecuting the war criminals, halting the genocide, and preventing the further escalation of a third world war are tasks inseparably connected with the fight for the revolutionary transformation of society under the leadership of the working class, which will replace capitalist barbarism with socialism.
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Keep on rockin’ in the free world: The Twenty-First Newsletter (2024)
On the evening of 14 May, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken climbed onstage at Barman Dictat in Kyiv, Ukraine, to pick up an electric guitar and join the Ukrainian punk band 19.99.
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New Caledonia: Kanak revolt against French colonialism
To understand the current uprisings in New Caledonia, one must look back at the history of colonization and violent repression of the islands by France.
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If you can’t even elect a candidate who’ll end a genocide, how real is your “democracy”?
If the people were actually in charge, there would be some option available to them to end the worst thing happening in the world right now. But the people are not in charge. When it comes to matters of the most importance, they never get a vote.
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National Endowment For Democracy continues to weaponize human rights
The latest example is its pressing for release of John McCain pallbearer from Siberian jail while it ignores a socialist arrested by the Ukrainian intelligence services and another socialist who was murdered.
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The billionaires and establishment officials unleashing violence against the student movement
Behind the efforts of the powerful to unleash chaos against students protesting for Palestine.
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Overcoming our Sisyphus fate
As the great W. E. B. Dubois had long ago noted, “the government of the United States and the forces in control of government regard peace as dangerous.”
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Ian Angus’s “The War Against the Commons”: A vital new history of the bloody rise of capitalism
Primitive accumulation is the historical process through which capitalists stole their wealth or took it by force. Canadian ecosocialist Ian Angus has contributed an excellent new book on this history, covering the violent transition from feudalism to capitalism in depth while demonstrating its continuing relevance to the modern world..
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The inexorable rise of the Belgian Workers’ Party
European Parliament elections in Belgium are once again taking place in the shadow of national parliamentary and regional elections. One could, therefore, expect similar results in both sets of polls.
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A generational challenge: Taming Amazon, renewing labour
As the Occupy protests of 2011 exhausted themselves, a dramatic turn from protests to politics surfaced.
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Israeli forces kill Palestinian students, teacher and doctor in Jenin assault
Troops open fire indiscriminately at Palestinians amid large-scale incursion in West Bank city.
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Capitalism’s new age of plagues (Part 5): The pandemic machines
In March, Cal-Maine Foods, the largest U.S. egg producer, reported that chickens in one of its Texas egg factories had contracted Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Type A–better known as Bird Flu. To stop the disease from spreading, the corporation slaughtered 1.6 million birds.