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Thomas Sankara: “We didn’t import our revolution”
This is the first English translation of this interview and the opening installment in a Liberation School series of previously untranslated work by Thomas Sankara. This translation series is the result of a collaboration with ThomasSankara.net, an online platform dedicated to archiving work on and by the great African revolutionary.
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“South Africa’s ‘Just’ transition climate deal with the west is a betrayal of the working class”
South Africa is set to implement an $8.5bn plan funded by western countries to transition from coal-based energy to renewables. The country’s biggest union NUMSA has warned this plan will only intensify privatization while burdening South Africans with debt and poverty.
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Popular power legislation to be revised as communards demand more protagonism
Commune spokespeople urged the Maduro government to boost grassroots efforts against “the metabolism of capital.”
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China is building a truly ecological civilisation
While the inertia of the market-led nations gives us terrifying forecasts for the planet, state socialism in the east has delivered on wind and solar energy, green infrastructure, electric vehicles, reforestation and carbon reduction, reports CARLOS MARTINEZ.
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Towards a just transition: breaking with the existing order
The action proposed by world leaders, their advisors, and corporate lobbyists at the climate talks (COP27) in Egypt are neoliberal, market-based, and focused on preserving a racist and capitalist global order. Introducing a collection of papers on the climate emergency in North Africa, Hamza Hamouchene, Ouafa Haddioui and Katie Sandwell denounce mainstream and top-down solutions for an environmental crisis engulfing the region, and continent.
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COP27: Corporate courts versus developing world
As rich countries move away from dispute-settlement mechanisms that give corporations power to block environmental protections, Manuel Pérez-Rocha says they keep imposing them on developing countries through trade pacts.
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The outflow of finance from the periphery
In the current calendar year an estimated $200 billion has already flown out of India which amounts to a third of India’s exchange reserves.
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Cop27: The dirty secret Europe is hiding at the climate summit
Grand declarations at Cop27 on tackling the climate emergency are sabotaged by a treaty from the 1990s that sees European nations held to ransom by the energy companies.
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The Communist Party is the only force capable of challenging ultra-nationalism in Israeli society
The collapse of the “Zionist Left” during Israel’s most recent elections leaves Hadash and the Communist Party as the only force able to stand against the rise of ultra-nationalism.
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Stability in a destabilized region
The electoral victories of Gustavo Petro and Inacio Lula da Silva this year in Colombia and Brazil have raised hopes for a new strong impulse towards the full emancipation of Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Attempt to try Russian leaders for war crimes is part of the West’s weaponization of the International Criminal Court
International Criminal Court (ICC) continues to serve as a “battering ram for U.S. and NATO policy,” as the former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes in the Clinton administration defined it.
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University of California workers launch largest academic strike in U.S. history
Workers in the U.S. continue to make waves in historically unorganized sectors such as academia and service.
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Imperialist powers abandon climate pledges at COP 27 summit
According to a new study by Oxfam, 125 billionaires and their investments are responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than countries such as France, Egypt or Argentina. One of these billionaires emits 393 million tonnes of CO2 a year, a million times more than any member of the lower 90 percent of society.
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Commune or nothing! Venezuela’s transition to socialism
Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez defined communes as the key blocks to building socialism from the bottom up.
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Who’s really behind Burkina Faso’s coup?
Western media fixates on coup supporters waving Russian flags in Burkina Faso’s capital while overlooking the long history of U.S. and French control over the country–and its destabilizing consequences.
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U.S. bombers in the NT increase the risk of war
The Pentagon will deploy the B-52s to the Tindal air base near Katherine.
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Nicaragua: A People as President and Their Municipal Elections
The high level of participation of young people and women highlights the profound democratization of Nicaraguan society that has taken place in the last fifteen years.
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History of Fascism in Ukraine Part II: The OUN during World War 2, 1941-1945
The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists or OUN is the most successful post-war fascist group.
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The U.S. faces increasing resistance from Europe over escalating the Ukraine conflict
THE People’s Assembly demonstration this weekend was a welcome return to the mass politics of the streets and a valuable first challenge to the austerity programme that the Tories are carefully constructing.
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Canadian Professor attacked by mainstream media for opposing NATO narrative on Ukraine
A highly regarded Russia specialist in Canada, Professor Michael Carley at the University of Montreal, has refused to support the NATO narrative on the Ukraine conflict and has since been subjected to a vicious smear campaign.