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A year on from the Black March: The Spanish miners' struggle
On the night of July 10, 2012 columns from various mining regions of the country arrived on foot in Madrid in a courageous and united industrial action: It was the Black March. The workers and the...
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Detroit through the lens of class and race
Labor in the white skin cannot emancipate itself when in the black skin it is branded." - Capital, Vol. 1, Karl MarxMuch has been written about the trauma that Detroit is going through. And much of...
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The Price of Imperialism
When the Second World War ended, U.S. prestige among progressive and revolutionary forces through-out the world was never greater. Under the New Deal government of Franklin Roosevelt, the U.S. had...
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An experiment in living socialism: Bulgaria then and now
"The Communist Manifesto now reads as if it was written just a few weeks ago. ... the experience of Eastern Europe and of the Third World shows the vital need for a universalist left as the only real...
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Are Black teachers becoming extinct nationally?
When a group of education researchers, practitioners and activists gathered at Howard University in April to address the lack of diversity in the nation's teacher workforce, Dr. Leslie T. Fenwick...
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Rejecting the G2
Is China a world power second only to the United States? On September 12, when delivering a speech at the Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen, former Chinese Foreign Minister Li...
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The budget crisis and the real world
IntroductionNarratives of the recent, and temporarily suspended budget crisis have tended to emphasize government dysfunction, partisan intransigence and political maneuvering. By placing the blame on...
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On the Czech communist comeback
Early parliamentary elections were held in the Czech Republic this weekend, three months after the resignation of the government mired in wide scale corruption. Despite the presence of populist...
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Uzbek Girl
Uzbek GirlNo! We will not continueOur fathers' war.Tamerlane* has died centuries agoAnd the bard of Shiraz* tooWho gave Samarkand and BukharaFor the sake of a beauty mark.This Uzbek girl in...
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What militarists don't want you to know about the labor movement
I was brought up by a mom who was the secretary of her union local and a factory-worker dad whose lifelong regret was that he never got to be a union member. My parents knew that a strong labor...
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Uzbek Girl
No! We will not continue Our fathers' war. Tamerlane* has died centuries ago And the bard of Shiraz* too Who gave Samarkand and Bukhara For the sake of a beauty mark. This Uzbek girl in California Has...
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The Transnational Black Feminist Voice as assessed by a new generation of...
Black Left feminists, during the 1900s, boldly declared an international social justice agenda of black liberation, women's rights, decolonization, economic justice, peace, and international working...
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Libya near implosion; status quo unsustainable
More than two years on since the "revolution" of Feb. 2011, the security crisis is exacerbating by the day. It threatens Libya with an implosion charged with risks to the geopolitical unity of this...
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Book Review Radical Jesus: A Graphic History of Faith
RADICAL JESUS: A Graphic History of FaithPaul Buhle, Editor; Art by Sabrina Jones, Gary Dumm and Nick Thorkelson (2013, Herald Press, Virginia) Although noted Left-wing historians such as Paul Buhle...
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South Africa then and now: thoughts on the passing of Nelson Mandela
In all the commentary on the passing of Nelson Mandela, one thread questions whether anything significant was accomplished with the end of apartheid. The fact that there is still poverty, inequality...
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Travel at holidays
We wait as worldwideThe global patient peasant waitsSquatting on our heelsStanding, sitting if we canSome of us still smoking cigarettesTho more and more smoking is disallowedWe wait patiently,...
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The Cuban Revolution at 55 years: our solidarity tasks
In late 1958, things were not going well for Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Cuba's economy was on the ropes, with thousands of rural and urban poor people idled and destitute through much of the...
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How dialectical materialism contributes to the understanding of the natural...
In his unfinished work, Dialectics of Nature, Frederick Engels wrote that Hegel, in his laws of dialectics, formulated for the first time in its universally valid form a general law of development of...
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Book Review: Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Economic Justice
Thomas F. Jackson. From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin LutherKing, Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice. Philadelphia:University of Pennsylvania Press: 2007. 459pp. Illustrations,...
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New book highlights Cuban contribution to the fall of apartheid
Piero Gleijeses, 2013, Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hillby Emile SchepersOn January 1, the world...
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