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“Tell no lies, claim no easy victories”: The Cuban Revolution, social vulnerability, and revolutionary ethics.
In one of the most enduring axioms of revolutionary integrity, Amílcar Cabral—African liberation theorist, freedom fighter, and martyr—urged those engaged in the struggle for liberation and justice to “Tell no lies, claim no easy victories.”
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Hard Truths About the US Labor Movement: An Interview with Chris Townsend
Chris Townsend has been organizing workers, conducting political work for labor unions, and teaching young workers to organize for almost all his adult life. He is, as we say, “the real deal.” While most of us opine and pontificate about labor, Chris does the dirty work. He organizes. His contributions over several decades have played […]
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Trump escalates Ukraine war-Putin acknowledges reality is turning out to be Marxist
By Russian as well as Anglo-American neurological and psychiatric standards, this man is a certifiable maniac.
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Uber drivers have unionized for the first time in Canada
UFCW Local 1518 in British Columbia has announced that 500 drivers in Greater Victoria unionized.
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CUNY suspends student activist leader, fires four faculty members in escalation of repression against Palestine activism
Activists say the City University of New York is escalating its repression against Palestine activism by suspending a student leader and terminating the positions of four faculty members who have been active in protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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Who says a chicken feather can’t fly up to Heaven?: The Twenty-Eighth Newsletter (2025)
China showcases a number of promising developments in the construction of socialism–though not without challenges and contradictions.
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Vilifying the Nehru-Mahalanobis strategy
It is very important to distinguish between the Left criticism and the neoliberal criticism of the dirigiste strategy.
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China strikes Diabetes
Diabetes is a silent epidemic, causing death and suffering on an unimaginable scale.
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Israeli Defense Minister orders plan to build concentration camp for Gaza’s civilian population
Israel Katz says the so-called ‘humanitarian city’ will be built on the ruins of Rafah.
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What is the Trump Doctrine? John Bellamy Foster on U.S. Foreign Policy & the “New MAGA Imperialism”
What is MAGA imperialism? Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster says that, despite its feints toward anti-imperialist isolationism, President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has coalesced into a “hyper-nationalist” form of populism that rejects the U.S.’s post-WWII adherence to liberal internationalism and promotes dominance over other countries via military power rather than through economic globalization.
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The Abraham Shield: Israel’s new blueprint for regional control after Gaza
From Gaza to Tehran, a multi-front strategy of surveillance, subcontracted occupation, and permanent containment.
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The Empire has accidentally caused the rebirth of real counterculture in the West
A real, politically meaningful counterculture has been born in the western world, and our rulers are already showing us that they’re afraid of it.
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How to New York Times-Proof Mamdani’s Playbook: Turning Coalition Specifics into Fiscal Possibilities
In a recent video recapping his primary victory in Queens, Zohran Mamdani did something almost radical for today’s political landscape: he cut through the usual Beltway euphemisms and mapped out the varied, living elements of the coalition that won. Most postmortems stay tangled in polite code. We get anxious talk of “electability,” “swing voters,” whether […]
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Can carbon dioxide removal save the climate?
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the world’s atmosphere is now very close to 429 parts per million.
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The New Silk Road and the threat to American domination
The little-reported opening of a major rail link between China and Iran may upend the strategic calculations behind U.S. imperial policy in the Middle East, argues Kevin Crane.
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Switzerland draws lines and does not collaborate in the persecution of journalists
The Swiss rule of law is awakening. After accepting all EU sanctions against Russia up to now, Switzerland is drawing a line for the first time and refuses to prosecute journalists – bravo!
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The day a nuclear Iran was born
The U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear program marks a point of no return. Trump has permanently altered the foundations upon which the non-proliferation architecture regarding Iran was built.
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Harvard. Renewal of Faculty Instructorship. Case of Paul Sweezy, 1940
The following records come from the President’s Office at Harvard University involving the terms of the reappointment of Paul Sweezy at the rank of Faculty Instructor in the Harvard economics department.
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The grim arithmetic of 377, 000 missing Palestinians
A recent report by Yaakov Garb of Ben-Gurion University presents an data-driven analysis of the new “aid distribution” compounds in Gaza.
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Kerala: Setting a quiet counter-narrative to growth orthodoxy
The southern state spends nearly 60% of its revenue budget on education, health, pensions, food subsidies and rural development.