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Brazil’s Neoliberal U-Turn: Wishful Thinking in the Face of Class Antagonism
| January 6, 2017
Since reaching its zenith in 2010, the Brazilian economy has suffered a remarkable reversal of fortune. Despite official protestations to the contrary, however, Brazil’s afflictions turned out to be of … Keep reading »
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The Trump Way
| January 4, 2017
Leo Panitch interviewed by Arun Gupta In the runup to November’s presidential election, commentators from across the political spectrum predicted a round defeat for Donald Trump, not least because of the … Keep reading »
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Basic Income: Progressive Dreams Meet Neoliberal Realities
| January 2, 2017
Up until now, the concept of Basic Income (BI) has enjoyed a greater history of being proposed than of being implemented. We may well b approaching a period, however, when … Keep reading »
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Unions and Climate Change
| January 1, 2017
How do we build a trade union movement that promotes solutions to the climate crisis and responds to the attacks on workers’ rights and protections? The ecological and social implications … Watch video »
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Debating Syria Productively
| December 30, 2016
The debate over Syria on the Left is toxic. I pulled together 13 points about the situation in Syria I hope can be useful in framing the discussion in a … Keep reading »
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Syria and the Antiwar Movement
| December 29, 2016
The enormity, complexity and fall-out of the Syrian war calls for urgent attention. Current events in Aleppo bring to the fore the unreliability of information and dichotomous political positions that … Keep reading »
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Sheikh Bedreddin: A Greco-Turkish Communist Internationalist Avant la Lettre
| December 26, 2016
To draw the net from the water together while singing a song in unison, to forge together the iron fine like lace, to be able together to cultivate the land, … Keep reading »
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Pray For the Dead
| December 25, 2016
A Musical Tale of Morgues, Moguls and Mutiny Pray for the Dead – A Musical Tale of Morgues, Moguls and Mutiny, a new play for and about workers and unions, is … Watch video »
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Lessons from Richmond, California
| December 23, 2016
Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City by Steve Early. Beacon Press, Boston 2016. It seems that we are condemned to live in interesting … Keep reading »
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War Culture, Militarism and Racist Violence Under Trump
| December 21, 2016
When history repeats itself with a vengeance, it generally signals a crisis of memory, historical consciousness and civic literacy. The ghosts of the past disappear in a comforting somnolence and … Keep reading »
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Paris in Transit: A Few Snapshots
| December 20, 2016
In early December 2016, the Paris region suffered from the most intense bout of small particle pollution in a decade. Anticyclonic weather (cold air under a cover of hotter air … Keep reading »
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Against Liberal Nostalgia
| December 19, 2016
“Restore our democracy” has become a mantra among American progressives. Populist writers are desperately trying to shake people from their passivity amidst mounting political and ecological crisis. But in crafting … Keep reading »
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