Day: August 23, 2020

Alexandra Kollontai: The Struggle for Proletarian Feminism and for Women in the Party

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16 August 2020 — Internationalist 360°

Jodi Dean

Editor’s note: The following is the first of a two-part article based on a talk the author gave at the People’s Forum in July 2020. This first part focuses on Kollontai’s struggle for proletarian feminism against bourgeois feminism as well as her struggle to center gender equality within the party’s platform. Part two, which we will release next week, focuses on her work articulating intimacy, solidarity, and love as crucial components of the communist movement.

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The Scene and the Crime: The Salisbury Poisonings

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23 August 2020 — American Herald Tribune

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Nine months after Sergei and Yulia Skripal were poisoned in March 2018, the BBC’s ‘Panorama’ screened a documentary about it, Salisbury Nerve Agent Attack: the Inside Story. The show backed the Tory government’s conviction that Russian GRU officers attacked the former Russian double agent and his daughter. But British experts pointed to its factual errors, and some ordinary punters – including the BBC’s own correspondent in Salisbury – were dubious.

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Black Agenda Report 19 August 2020

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19 August 2020 — Black Agenda Report

Free All Political Prisoners – and Say Their Names!

Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
It is righteous and correct to say the names of victims of police violence, but we must also “Say the names!” of our living political prisoners.

Freedom Rider: “Feet to the Fire” and Other Lies

Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
When the Democratic Party ends its charade of a primary process and spits out the person most closely aligned with neo-liberal policies, the gas lighting begins.
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Watch: How does China plan to counter US sanctions?

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23 August 2020 — Peoples Dispatch

Charles Xu from Qiao Collective talks about the short and medium-term strategy of Huawei and China in general to deal with the US sanctions.

In the second part of the conversation on the US tech war on China, Charles Xu from Qiao Collective talks about the short and medium-term strategy of Huawei and China in general to deal with the US sanctions.

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PPE: Why are they refusing to publish the contracts?

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23 August 2020 — Good Law Project

We know from Treasury documents that Government has approved a staggering and unprecedented £15 billion for PPE procurement to protect frontline staff. But what we see is implausible counterparties, staggering sums of money, political connections, vast waste on duff product – and most of all a lack of transparency.

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On Facebook Banning Pages Associated with Anarchism

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21 August 2020 — crimethinc.

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And the Digital Censorship to Come

Facebook has taken down multiple Facebook pages they believe to be connected with crimethinc.com and itsgoingdown.org, among other anarchist and anti-fascist publishing projects,1 officially on the pretext that they “support violence.” This has nothing to do with stopping violence and everything to do with suppressing social movements and the publishers that cover them.