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Sustainable food systems are possible outside corporate agriculture
The United Nations Food Systems Summit has become one of the most controversial events of this year due to corporate take over. Civil society activists came together during the pre-summit to register their protest.
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Beyond the Socialist Impasse: Remembering Leo Panitch
Remembering Leo Panitch
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They all scream over Ben & Jerry’s not selling ice cream on the West Bank
Ben & Jerry’s decision to halt its operations in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and in Jerusalem has pro-Israel editors working overtime.
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Andreas Malm: ‘Because Nothing Else Has Worked’
Property violence kills no one. And yet, to say it again, I’m not today advocating property violence. I am, on the other hand, advocating a discussion of it. – Thomas Neuburger
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Beware UN Food Systems Summit trojan horse
In the last dozen years after the 2008 world food price spike, the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) has become an inclusive forum for civil society and corporate interests to debate how best to advance food security. Unsurprisingly, CFS has long addressed food systems.
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The demonisation of Mariátegui
During the campaign for the presidency of Peru, the rural teacher and candidate Pedro Castillo, emphasized his identity with the thought of José Carlos Mariátegui.
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Here is why we are boycotting the UN Food Systems Summit
Social movements and scientists are staying out of the UN summit because it represents big agribusiness interests.
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The two big lies of WSJ’s attack on critical race theory
The Wall Street Journal editorial board (7/7/21) recently condemned teachers’ support for anti-racist curricula and professional development.
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China takes tough approach to tame tutoring schools
The new set of rules aim to better monitor the education market, which has been blamed for increasingly unfair competition among students.
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Cuba defies U.S. to deny pressuring OAS members
The disturbances in Cuba were marked by unprecedented violence and vandalism, jeopardizing the lives of hundreds of Cubans, including peaceful demonstrators and revolutionaries who took to the streets in response.
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Michael Ratner’s inspiring activist life culminated with dramatic change on Israel
Michael Ratner personally changed human rights law, and in doing so he let go childhood views of Israel. “I thought of [Israel] as the home of my people. I had my bedroom ceiling painted with the seven wonders of the world and a huge map of Israel. I had no idea how my view of Israel would change later in life.”
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DOCUMENT: James Weldon Johnson, Self-determining Haiti, 1920
Plan follows precedent of 1970s state-sponsored assassination campaign targeting leftists.
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How labor can win at the bargaining table
A new report from Berkeley is a rare piece of good news for American labor—and a bracing reminder of what real organizing looks like.
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Strange: challenging pandemic logics
In 2020, the U.S. government perpetually wavered in acknowledging COVID-19 as a real danger. We lived through screens, bombarded by commercial messages professing how corporations were here for us, how we were in this together, that we should be optimistic. This is strange, indeed, but to be more specific about a pandemic’s root causes would not sell products and would not reassure people to go back to normal.
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A third coronavirus wave is washing over the world
In countries where public health restrictions were in place, they were half-baked or have been lifted too soon. Where they are imposing them now, it’s too late; the Delta variant of the coronavirus is surging around the world.
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How not to unite a class: a response to DSA’s Class Unity caucus
Felipe Bascuñán responds to a debate on the Left about the relationship between oppression and class and why getting the answer right is essential to forging a united class struggle.
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Arreaza calls cyberattack on Cuban Foreign Ministry imperial clumsiness
In his Twitter account @jaarreaza, Minister Arreaza wrote, “Another characteristic of the international incitement of aggression against #Cuba. Imperialism is clumsy enough to leave traces of its misdeeds.”
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Pretending not to see brazen lies: the rule of law and nuclear madness
The latest brazen lie is the “rule of law” upheld by U.S. President Joe Biden at the G7 and NATO summits, especially lies about lawlessness surrounding nuclear weapons.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted only eight strikes in 2020, Payday Report counted 1,200
In the era of COVID and digital movements, strikes look radically different from traditional labor strikes.
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Vygotsky’s revolutionary educational psychology
Vygotsky’s revolutionary theory of development is one that recognizes the many forms of capacity, intelligence, and potential in all beings.