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Could California End Up With a Trump-Like Governor?
If Democratic voters fail to turn out for California’s upcoming recall election, the nation’s most populous, and arguably most liberal, state could end up with a right-wing extremist at its helm. Keep reading »
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All Must Change Utterly: We Need a People’s Green New Deal
Max Ajl has written an exceedingly important and powerful book, a uniquely comprehensive report about climate change, its politics and injustices. The book, A People’s Green New Deal, (Pluto Press, … Keep reading »
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In the Fight of Our Lives: Working for Change, Changing Work
Workers are on the frontlines of the pandemic, in their homes and workplaces, for climate justice and against the daily precariousness of life under capitalist oppression and exploitation. Keep reading »
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Cuba: The Single Party System Confronts the Crisis
A critical perspective from a Cuban historian None of the ostensibly post-capitalist regimes established since 1917 has managed to find a way to sustain mass democratic forms of governance and to … Keep reading »
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Living with the Virus? Personal Responsibility Is Not Enough.
In a much discussed editorial in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), Kamran Abbasi focused on the need to make governments accountable for failing to protect citizens from the COVID-19 pandemic, … Keep reading »
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Latin America’s Dilemmas Reflected on the Streets of Colombia
In one of the regions contributing most to the global increase in the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths, amid health chaos, unemployment, hunger and escalating inequality, workers, students and … Keep reading »
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Climate Disaster: On the brink – the Scenario that the IPCC is not Modelling
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group I has presented its Climate Change 2021: Physical Science Basis report as a contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report on climate … Keep reading »
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Nuclear Arms Race in the Asia-Pacific Region: Denuclearize as Solidarity with the People of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
I am honored to bring heartfelt greetings of solidarity to the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to the participants of this World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, from … Keep reading »
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Cuban Dilemmas, Socialist Debates
The situation created in Cuba following the events of July 11th raises questions on a number of levels for those of us fighting for a society free from class exploitation … Keep reading »
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Ontario Government: Hospital Workers Should Work Harder
With as much fanfare as it could muster, the Progressive Conservative government of Doug Ford re-announced its Budget plan of $300-million for hospitals to deal with the backlog of surgeries … Keep reading »
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Education Under Neoliberal Capitalism
Neoliberalism has radically restructured the sphere of education. Under the present-day social structure of accumulation, education has been reduced to intellectual labour-power. Intellectual labour – on the most general level … Keep reading »
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Science for the People: Remembering A Great Scientific Crusader – Richard Lewontin
Lewontin fought a lifelong battle against racism, imperialism and capitalist oppression. Keep reading »