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“Voices for African Liberation”
In 1974, 50 years ago, the newly launched Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) journal boldly announced its intentions in the first editorial, “Appropriate analysis and the devising of a strategy for Africa’s revolution must be encouraged and we hope that the provision of this platform for discussion will assist that process”.
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AI and the digital scramble for Africa
We are told that Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to be a powerful tool for advancing democratic concerns and human rights across Africa. Yet, there are also early indicators that AI could undermine democratic institutions and processes, especially if these technologies prioritise colonial-capitalist development trajectories. Scott Timcke looks at some of the issues at stake.
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The Shift: Columbia suspends deans for ‘antisemitic’ text messages
News items often seem to slip through the cracks at this point in the summer, and the media’s current focus on the Democratic Ticket has understandably dominated domestic headlines.
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A failure for ‘Divisive Concepts’ legislation is a victory for education
Laws like this have a chilling effect on teachers’ free speech. It remains to be seen whether New Hampshire’s win in federal court will become a bellwether for democracy throughout the country.
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Born to win with Chávez: A women-led commune in the Venezuelan Llanos
Located on the outskirts of Biruaca, in Apure state, Nacidos para Vencer con Chávez [Born to Triumph with Chávez] is a women-led commune in a rural context that has a long history of patriarchal oppression. This fledgling commune seized upon Chávez’s idea as a way forward in difficult times, attempting to build community and increase production, while connecting with other communes through the Communard Union.
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Cities must be adapted for climate change
In the past few years, whole towns have been wiped out by fire and flood, suburbs have been inundated by floodwaters or storm surges in Sydney and Melbourne, and extreme heat is putting more people in hospitals.
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India-Russia ties take a quantum leap in the fog of Ukraine war
The lodestar of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on July 8-9, it must be the disclosure by the Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration in the Kremlin Maxim Oreshkin that the two leaders discussed the topic of cash payments with the use of cards of national payment systems as an important element of trade support infrastructure and interaction in general.
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Building a planet of peace is the only realistic thing to do: The Twenty-Eighth Newsletter (2024)
On Isla Grande, Afro-Colombian residents discuss the urgent need for a sustainable electricity plant. Their efforts echo President Petro’s push for solar energy, with the aim of addressing broader regional goals of sustainable development. Yet, development and climate adaption require funding–funding that is instead going to war, with global military spending nearing $3 trillion annually.
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Unexpected result of French election bars a neofascist victory, constituting a moral as well as a political victory for the Left
As French parliamentary elections pushed the leftist New Popular Front into first place, a pleasant sort of shock greeted revolutionary and progressive-minded people in France and around the world who had feared the triumph of the neofascist National Rally party.
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Squaring circles for peace and war: Berlin Bulletin No. 224, July 11, 2024
One can hate or admire any of the gentlemen now involved [in the push for peace in Ukraine]; I would endorse Satan himself if he could help end this God-awful war and move towards the urgently-needed peace in the area—and elsewhere.
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What is the ‘social wage?’
The fight to defend public services is as important as the struggle over wages, but presents different challenges to workplace organising — especially with regards to bourgeois propaganda and conditioning, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY.
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Kerala, India’s Communist-led state, provides a model for digital literacy
“Little Kites” program introduced in public schools in 2018 has prepared over 1.2 million students for the future with a sense of community and sharing.
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Righteous student activism and evolving anti-Palestinian reprisal in Canada
Specious claims of antisemitism and incivility merely distract from the genocide before our eyes.
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The Summit of the Future
The core idea of the Summit of the Future is that humanity is facing a set of unprecedented challenges that can only be solved through global cooperation.
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The Xinjiang I saw was a hub of diversity, not oppression
From China, ROGER McKENZIE witnesses a place where Islamic culture thrives and economic development powers China’s westward expansion—a reality obscured by Western propaganda.
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‘It’s time to take Medicare Advantage off the market’
CounterSpin interview with David Himmelstein on privatized Medicare.
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Activists to protest NATO Summit in Washington
NATO Summit to take place in U.S. capital as the United States provides unconditional support for Israeli genocide.
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NYT unleashes the Lab Leak theory on the public debate once again
The lab leak theory of Covid-19’s origins has been something of a zombie idea in public discourse, popping up again and again in corporate media despite numerous proclamations that it’s finally been debunked.
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Tobacco companies are at it again
Canadian tobacco companies are actively trying to capture a new generation of life-long, nicotine-addicted customers.
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Ansar Allah are not working with Al-Shabaab – Abdiwahab Sheikh Abdisamad
U.S. and EU forces have been unable to defeat Ansar Allah and now the U.S. is floating a story that they’re working with Al Shabaab.