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Family Planning
Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Careby M.E. O’BrienPluto Press, 2023, 304 pp. Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Bold Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Lifeby Kristen R....
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What The US Can Learn From Gambia About Defeating Petty Tyrants
A Gambian organizer who helped bring an end to Jammeh’s 22-year rule explains the importance of agreeing on a common purpose and demystifying despots. Yahya Jammeh rose to power in Gambia through a...
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The Case for BDS
The Case for BDS by Mehdi Hasan Mehdi and Naomi debunk the myths used to attack the boycott movement against Israel. Read on Substack In the newest episode of ‘Unshocked,’ Mehdi and Naomi debunk the...
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Jeremy Corbyn Goes Back to the Grassroots
At the launch of Islington North’s first ‘People’s Forum’, Jeremy Corbyn speaks to Tribune about organising community campaigns outside the Labour Party — and responds to the latest international...
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Nationalize the Banks
As a lonely critic who dared to challenge Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan during the stock market mania of the late 1990s, then congressman Bernie Sanders received recognition from the...
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Will Young Voters’ Initial Excitement for Harris Build Enough Momentum to Get...
Last night, the youth-led activist group Climate Defiance—which had loudly called for Joe Biden to withdraw his bid for reelection earlier this year—endorsed Kamala Harris for president. But, despite...
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The Political Economy of Saving the Planet 2/2 – Bob Pollin
Given voters’ concerns over rising food and housing costs, Kamala Harris has pledged to combat price gouging if elected president, though she has yet to clearly lay out the hallmarks of the rest of her...
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Bangladesh: From Despot To Neoliberal Leader
On August 5, Sheikh Hasina Wajed, the prime minister of Bangladesh for the last 15 years, had to resign and run from the country after being driven out by student protesters. The student movement began...
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This Is Why We Need to Abolish the Death Penalty
No more state-sanctioned barbarity. No more killing of innocent people like Marcellus Williams. Abolish the death penalty. Last night, Missouri state authorities executed Marcellus Williams after the...
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Asylum Seekers Enlisted to Kill Palestinians in Gaza – African Union Must...
If one is to visit the Mahal website, a pop-up reminder, reading ‘Apply online’, keeps appearing. It is as if the repeated beep is a reminder of the state of emergency, if not outright panic, in the...
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Powerlessness
Let us begin with some facts of the cold, hard kind concerning conditions in Gaza and the West Bank after nearly a year of terrorist Israel’s daily assaults on the Palestinian populations in both...
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Damning Report Reveals How Antony Blinken Lied to Congress on Israel
Earlier this year, two U.S. government authorities determined that Israel was deliberately blocking food and medicine deliveries into Gaza during its brutal massacre in the territory. But even after...
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Crises in France
On 9 June, Emmanuelle Macron unexpectedly decided to dissolve the National Assembly, just as the Rassemblement Nationale (far-right National Rally party of Marine Le Pen) was gaining momentum. Three...
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After The Encampments
On April 24th, I entered Harvard Yard for a rally. In my eight years as a PhD student and graduate labor organizer at the university, I had joined gatherings under the John Harvard statue too many...
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Thirty Years Ago, Jean-Bertrand Aristide Returned To Haiti
Thirty years ago, President Aristide, victim of a military putsch, returned to power following the intervention of the United Nations. On December 16, 1990, at the end of an electoral campaign...
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Gilbert Achcar: ‘We Are Witnessing The First Genocide In History To Be...
Israel’s escalating war, the genocide in Gaza and the opening up of new fronts of Zionist-led violence have once again focused the world’s attention on the Middle East region. To better understand the...
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Public Radio, Public Media and Local News Deserts
The late sixties was a heady time for the civic pioneers who persuaded Congressional lawmakers to provide the American people with radio and television programs with real news – local and national –...
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How to Advance a Just Energy Transition in Oil-Dominated New Brunswick
There are many places today that depend heavily on a single industry. This creates vulnerability should the industry in question start to fail. One industry that often leads to economic dependency is...
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Whither White Poverty
I joined the Poor People’s Campaign (PPC) in 2018 on the fiftieth anniversary of Dr King’s assassination. Rev. Dr. William Barber II, who Cornell West has described as “the closest thing we have to Dr....
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Block, Squander, Disorganize?
This article is a response to Profiles in Political Cowardice: Tempest and the National Leadership of DSA by Max Elbaum, published by ZNetwork on September 10th. Max Elbaum departed from the norms of...
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