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“The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies” – book review
Andy Beckett’s The Searchers provides a thoughtful consideration of five leaders of the Labour left, their relation to mass movements, and political impact, finds Kevin Crane.
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Imperialism comes to Haiti with a Black face
The first wave of UN-backed Kenyan police officers has arrived in Haiti with around 400 landing in Port-au-Prince.
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ANC’s crushing electoral defeat
South Africa is in the throes of a deepening political and social crisis.
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SACP statement following bimonthly Political Bureau meeting
The SACP Political Bureau emphasised the importance of meaningful Alliance consultation and building and maintaining national stability and certainty. This requires decisiveness against any section that has resorted to trickery, brinkmanship and untenable demands to steal power and thus undermine the will of the people.
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There is no such thing as a small nuclear war: The Twenty-Sixth Newsletter (2024)
Recent announcements by the U.S. and NATO threaten to escalate the conflict in Ukraine and create the most dangerous threat to world peace since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Land back at Barnhart
Contextualizing the Re-occupation of Barnhart Island in Shared Legacies of Struggle.
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The mainstream media is setting the stage for an Israeli war on Lebanon
An unsourced article in the British Telegraph claiming Hezbollah is storing weapons in Beirut’s airport is the latest example of the mainstream media setting the groundwork for an Israeli war on Lebanon.
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Canada’s militarization of the Arctic threatens Indigenous communities and the climate
New defence policy promises to expand NORAD, NATO amid vulnerable oceanic ecosystem.
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The world is farming more seafood than it catches. Is that a good thing?
Both aquaculture and fisheries have environmental and climate impacts—and they overlap more than you’d think.
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Cuba tells the United States there is only one Cuba
Far from being a sign of the U.S. government softening its economic and financial siege on Cuba and contributing to help Cuba’s private sector, this new policy attempts to destroy the core of the ideological makeup of Cuban socialism.
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Why academic scholarship on Israel and Palestine threatens western elites
No institution in the liberal West is safe from pro-Israel repression, especially universities whose knowledge production has dismantled the official consensus
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An American flag, a pencil sharpener−and the 10 Commandments: Louisiana’s law to mandate biblical displays in classrooms is the latest to push limits of religion in public schools
Louisiana is not a stranger to controversy over religion in schools.
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Three lessons I learned on my visit to Cuba
The U.S. blockade on Cuba, in place since the 1960s, is an act of economic warfare.
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Current and former U.S. military personnel build a movement for Palestine within their ranks
On February 25, U.S. Air Force member Aaron Bushnell became the first active duty U.S. soldier to earn the title of “martyr” among oppressed people worldwide.
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Dockworkers in Greece refused to load arms shipment destined for Israel, forced cargo ship to change route
The militant mobilization of dockworkers at Greece’s major port, Piraeus, on Saturday 15 June led to the cancellation of the arrival of “MSC ALTAIR”, a container ship transporting weaponry and ammunition to Israel.
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Biden torpedoes access to asylum at the U.S. Southern Border
The new Executive Order comes during a period of rising migration across the hemisphere.
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The U.S. power structure is blindly dedicated to Israel
When the board of the Columbia Law Review clumsily censored a pro-Palestinian article it revealed the degree to which pro-Israel ideology is enmeshed in the U.S. power structure. Luckily, a generational shift is changing this before our eyes.
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Beverley Best – “The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital”
Capitalist crises cannot only be measured by its catastrophic effects on society, but also by the reception of their most staunchest critique: Karl Marx’s Capital.
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Shifting power: New Zealand on U.S. decline
After meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken last April, New Zealand’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Winston Peters, said that the two countries had pledged “to work ever more closely together in support of shared values and interests.” In recent moves exemplifying this support, New Zealand has deployed a targeting team to a United States-led coalition conducting strikes against Yemen, extended its military participation in the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine, and is considering membership of AUKUS, the anti-China military agreement between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Global diffusion of production and the concept of imperialism
THERE has been a significant diffusion of production occurring in the world economy. Many call this phenomenon a shift from a U.S.-led world economy to a “multipolar world economy”, but no matter what one thinks of this description, the fact of diffusion is indubitable.