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The Plutocrats are Overplaying Their Hand: How About Doing Something About It?
When will big money’s corruption of democracy become so obnoxious people will find it intolerable? Perhaps a couple of troubling “hypothetical” examples will do the trick. Let’s pretend, as absurd as...
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Humanity Has Two Choices: Political Unification or Mass-Suicide
The intensifying cascade of global crises including intractable wars, massive human rights atrocities, nuclear proliferation, climate change and environmental degradation, the growing inequality...
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With Project 2025 and Agenda 47, the USA’s Coups Come Home to Roost
Since the rise of the United States into a global power, U.S. policymakers have been keen on halting the spread of popular government abroad by undermining democratic institutions; overthrowing or...
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Explaining Communal Income and Why it is Essential to Socialism
Introduction A Participatory Economy1 is usually summarised by a list of five canonical features, namely: However, hidden within item 4 (“equitable remuneration for work”) is another feature of the...
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Project 2025
Roman poet Juvenal coined the phrase “bread and circuses” nearly 2,000 years ago for the extravagant entertainment the Roman Empire used to distract attention from imperial policies that caused...
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India’s Dalits and Muslims Can Work Together Against Modi
The results of India’s national elections, announced at the beginning of June, cast doubt on the accuracy of forecasts which had unanimously predicted that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) — the...
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Collective Bargaining in Europe – Recent Developments
In terms of recent collective bargaining successes, the situation of workers in Europe can be summed up as: real wages still need to catch up after the severe income losses during the recent “crises of...
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Cuba, the Island of Olympic Champions
Before 1959, Cuba had a modest record of five Olympic medals, four of them gold, won in Paris in 1900, Saint-Louis in 1904 and London in 1948. At the time, sport was far from being a government...
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Josh Shapiro Would Be a Dangerous Choice for Harris Running Mate
Kamala Harris has gained strong support as the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate. Putting Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on the ticket would likely fracture that support. The most divisive...
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Give Them the World
When I was a little girl, I was nourished with healthy food, clean drinking water, safe housing, access to education, adequate medical care, and the loving support of family and friends. As a result, I...
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What It’s Like for Palestinian Women Living Through the Gaza Genocide
While the world often focuses on the political and military aspects of Gaza, the daily realities encountered by women are frequently overlooked. Women in Gaza bear heavy burdens, demonstrating...
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The Pussy Riot Trial Was a Warning for US Universities
Three women sit before their country’s highest deliberative body, on trial for incitement of hatred against a religious group. Their statements, which rigorously distinguish political speech from...
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Canada Owes First Nations Billions After Making ‘Mockery’ of Treaty Deal, Top...
An “egregious” refusal by successive Canadian governments to honor a key treaty signed with Indigenous nations made a “mockery” of the deal and deprived generations of fair compensation for their...
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Liberal Democracy’s Had A Good Run
One thing that all past human societies and civilizations have in common is that they all eventually collapsed. While each of us may be aware of this in the abstract, we don’t necessarily follow the...
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The Beijing Declaration and Chinese Diplomacy in the Israeli-Palestinian...
Signed on July 25, 2024, the Beijing Declaration marks a historic moment for Palestinian reconciliation. For the first time, a broad spectrum of Palestinian factions, including Fatah and Hamas, have...
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Druze Mourn 12 Children Killed by Rocket in Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights
On Sunday, members of the Arab Druze community in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights mourned 12 children who were killed when a rocket hit a soccer field in the village of Majdal Shams a day earlier....
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Election 2024: as ‘Neofascist’ Trump Targets Immigrants, How Will the Left...
The debate about immigration and the humanitarian crisis at the US-Mexico border has taken center stage in the 2024 elections. But the terms of that “debate” have been set by Donald Trump and the MAGA...
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Live from Venezuela: Election Results and Analysis
BT’s Rania Khalek & People’s Dispatch’s Zoe Alexandra are joined by special guests to break down the Venezuelan presidential elections the morning after the results come in.
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The Wisdom of Anger, the Battle For Our Lives
How to handle scarcity It’s the end of May, and a storm is brewing. The sky is grumbling in preparation, but it may not release the rain. Sometimes, the sky seems to get worked up like this, provoke...
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Next American Revolution #11: Tactics
In which Robin Kuntsler, Celia Curie, Ali Carmichael, Lydia Luxemburg, Andre Goldman, Peter Cabral, and Alexandra Voline address differences over tactics in RPS development and activism. [Author’s...
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