Topic: Thinking Politically
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Those Who Die for Life – like Hugo Chávez – Cannot Be Called Dead
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On 28 October 2005, a special event was held in Caracas at the National Assembly of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. At this gathering, held on the birthday of Simón Rodríguez (Simón Bolívar’s teacher), the Venezuelan government announced that nearly 1.5 million adults had learned to read through Mission Robinson, a mass literacy programme that…
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Africans’ Message To Imperialism: ‘We Are Not Your Flunkies!’
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In a remarkable display of independence, South Africa defied NATO on February 24th when it conducted naval drills with Russia and China on the first anniversary of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine… Obbey Mabena, a veteran of the ANC’s armed wing, while not speaking for the South African government, told CNN: “By default, we…
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Undefeated Revolutions And The Peculiar Character Of Gabriel Boric
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The United States was able to actually overthrow, oust and defeat electorally, as a result of this pressure, several countries in the region, several left-wing governments, starting from the one in Honduras in 2009, then Fernando Lugo in Paraguay in 2012. Tried, nearly successfully, a coup d’etat in Ecuador in 2010 and then everybody knows…
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Who Grows Our Food
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“I think there is a connection between the way we treat animals and the way we treat people who are at the bottom of the hierarchy.” – Angela Davis
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Why And How To End The War In Ukraine
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US, the EU, and NATO are directly responsible for lighting the embers of war in Ukraine back in 2014. From late 2013 until February 2014, the Obama/Biden administration sent weapons, money, and encouragement to anti-democratic right-wing elements in Ukraine to execute “regime change” and overthrow the democratically elected president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych. The coup…
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Russia, Ukraine, and International Law
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Recent revelations from France, Germany, Israel, and Ukraine that the Minsk Accord(s) was a deception engineered by the US to buy time for Ukraine to organize a US-led, armed, and funded war against Russia, contradict American assertions regarding the conflict. Readers will recall that it was only after the failure of the Ukrainian government to…
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Meeting the urgent need for revolutionary political renewal
In the aftermath of World War II, the ruling capitalist class within the core capitalist countries countered the universal aspiration of the people for a world without war by launching the Cold War. They also responded to the economic goals of organized labor within the core capitalist countries by conceding to workers a limited right…
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The Havana Declaration on the New International Economic Order
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The Havana Congress on the New International Economic Order (NIEO), organised by the Progressive International, closed this weekend with delegates agreeing on a declaration and a commitment to advance the New International Economic Order through “securing science and technology sovereignty” for the Global South, as Cuba announces a G77 meeting on the issue later in the…
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NO WAY OUT
I first met Demetrius C. and his family when he was two-years old—incidentally the very year the City of St. Louis slated the entire Northside for “depletion,” triaging it to rot. For details, see: Walter Johnson, The Broken Heart of America, p. 379 – 381. (1) The youngest of fourteen, Demetrius came of age in…
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For a future, we must end the systemic causes of destruction and waste
A common cause has a common solution Given the present existential crises which now include both the threat of a quick end to human existence through nuclear war, and the threat from the deepening ecological crisis, our response to both needs to begin with recognition that no problem which has systemic causes is ever…
