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Rich countries drain ‘shocking’ amount of labor from the Global South
Workers in the Global South—from farm workers to scientists—power the world economy but face a yawning wage gap.
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Venezuela is a marvelous country in motion: The Thirty-Second Newsletter (2024)
Venezuela’s opposition yet again cries fraud in the 28 July presidential but fails to provide evidence. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of Chavistas, their frustrations grounded in the understanding that the US-hybrid war is the root of the crisis, take to the streets and chant no volverán: they [the oligarchy] will not return.
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The conundrums of Bangladeshi politics
Vijay Prashad reflects on the last several weeks in Bangladesh of protests and convulsions, which culminated in the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
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James Baldwin
James Baldwin was born one hundred years ago in Harlem, New York, 2 August 1924.
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Israeli MP condones sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners
What democracy would accept a member of parliament agreeing that it was permissible and acceptable for its soldiers to sexually abuse political prisoners?
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Revoking charitable status of Jewish National Fund is long overdue
CJPME urges Canada to continue to investigate and punish all connections between Canadian charities and illegal Israeli activity.
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Jeremy Corbyn’s Independent campaign in Britain’s 2024 General Election
A View from the Inside.
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An attempted coup by any other name…
We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.
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U.S. economists ‘expose’ China’s economy
Bourgeois economists, ever ready to proclaim the impending demise of the socialist economic model in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), find every opportunity to throw shade on China’s economic system.
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French workers seize the torch
French workers are taking advantage of the spotlight due to the Olympics, and the left victory in the elections, to strike and gain important demands, reports Jamal Elaheebocus.
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Delusions and paranoia in NATOland
It remains difficult to portray Canada’s increasingly assertive global deployments as a matter of national defence.
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China’s Third Plenum
The Third Plenum is a meeting of China’s Communist Party Central Committee composed of 364 members which discusses China’s economic policy for the next several years.
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Decolonisation, dependency and disengagement—the challenge of Ireland’s degrowth transition
Advancing degrowth in Ireland requires an understanding of, and a reckoning with, the economic legacy of its colonised past, CUSP researcher Seán Fearon writes. A post-colonial economy within planetary boundaries must break with relationships of dependency and structures of unsustainability.
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National Lawyers Guild electoral observers praise Venezuelan election process
National Lawyers Guild electoral observers praise fairness, transparency of Venezuelan election process; condemn the U.S. backed opposition’s refusal to accept the outcome of democratic election.
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Nicolás Maduro wins the presidential elections in Venezuela
As predicted, the right-wing opposition has refused to recognize the results and affirms that they won “with 70% of the vote”, the U.S. government meanwhile has called for a recount.
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Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 8): Deadly heat
‘Climate change has already caused mass death on a pandemic-like scale’
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Majdal Shams residents mourn martyrs, reject any Israeli presence
The Israeli news website Walla says Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich was met with rejection and protests upon his arrival in the town.
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The spy who kept notes
Pulling back the Cold War curtain on Canada’s ignominious history of anti-communism.
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This is the Haitian people’s chance to break their chains again
After connivance in the brutal assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse three years ago and then imposing its first feckless de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry and now his equally subservient successor, Garry Conille, U.S. imperialism in cahoots with the Haitian oligarchy is presently working to set in place a Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) with the same actors and sectors from Haiti’s political landscape that it has been using for decades.
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Democratic involution
Javier Milei’s government is sliding Argentina towards a crisis of unprecedented proportions.