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Chavez wins poll, days after largest-ever march By Rachael Boothroyd
More than 3 million people marched in support of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his socialist platform in Caracas on October 4, three days before Chavez was re-elected with 54% of the vote. Continue reading
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Hegemony and Propaganda: The Importance of Trivialisation in Cementing Social Control By Colin Todhunter
Knowledge in modern societies has expanded to the point whereby specialisms and sub-specialisms are the norm. It is just not possible for one person to have in-depth knowledge of every discipline. We must rely on others to convey such knowledge, usually in relatively simplistic terms. Most of us have to take at face value many… Continue reading
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Parliament: the mother of all deceptions By William Bowles
30 June 2012 “There — it sickens one to have to wade through this grimy sea of opportunism. What a spectacle of shuffling, lies, vacillation and imbecility does this Game Political offer to us? I cannot conclude without an earnest appeal to those Socialists, of whatever section, who may be drawn towards the vortex of Continue reading
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Umzebenzi Online: Why Socialism?
Never before in history has the need for a different, a humane world based on the socialist value of putting social needs before private profits been more desperately required. For thousands of years people have worked collectively to build homes and communities, to gather food, herd animals, to harvest crops, to manufacture, to paint, to… Continue reading
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«Arab Spring» is Arab Socialism’s Fall By Wayne Madsen
The fall of autocratic regimes in the Arab Middle East and North Africa, which had more to do with skyrocketing unemployment and inflation than in a desire to «democratize,» gave the circling vultures of Western «pro-democracy» think tanks and foundations the opportunity to put stakes in the hearts of governing pan-Arab socialist political parties long… Continue reading
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W.W.I: The War That Begat Another By Eve Ottenberg
Who gets to write a war’s history determines how it is viewed for generations. But in the case of World War I, one of the best accounts of the milieu that triggered the conflict was a novel — or three, to be exact: John Dos Passos’ trilogy, U.S.A., published in the 1930s. Any attempt to… Continue reading
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Syria: Feeding off the carcase By William Bowles
An uncle of mine, a quite extraordinary individual, used to say that he was privileged to have a ‘ringside seat’ when viewing the rampages of capitalism. To which I must add that the ticket to gain admission has been extremely costly, for the planet, but not for my uncle in spite of his lefty leanings.… Continue reading
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Marx, Keynes and China Today
China’s economic structure, because it allowed ‘a socially controlled rate of investment’ and a ‘somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment’, could utilise policy tools developed by Keynes but the US and European economies could not. Although Keynes explicitly wished to save capitalism it turned out that Western capitalism could not use his tools, but China’s ‘socialism… Continue reading
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Occupy and the Tasks of Socialists By Pham Binh
Occupy is a once in a lifetime opportunity to re-merge the socialist and working class movements and create a viable broad-based party of radicals, two prospects that have not been on the cards in the United States since the late 1960s and early 1970s. Continue reading
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Morocco gets Muslim Brotherhood PM By Eric Walberg
Morocco, with its 35 million people, where 1 in 3 are unemployed and poverty is widespread, has had multi-party elections since independence in 1956 without anyone taking much notice. Even Western Saharans get a taste of democracy from Rabat, however bitter. Continue reading
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Portugal: The General Strike By Boaventura de Sousa Santos
General strikes were common in Europe and in the U.S. towards the end of the nineteenth century and in the first decades of the twentieth century. They provoked great debates within the labor movement and within the revolutionary parties and movements (anarchist, communist, socialist). Continue reading
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Video: David Harvey addresses #OccupyLSX: The best system money can buy
November 12, 2011 — Professor David Harvey addresses Occupy London Stock Exchange (#OccupyLSX) Tent City University about the global capitalist crisis and the Occupy movement. Continue reading
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Book Review: Cooperatives and Socialism in Cuba
This book arises from the urgent need for us to make a modest contribution to the healthy “birth” of the new Cuban cooperativism and its subsequent spread. Continue reading
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A Civil Society Strategy for Revitalizing the Left By Steve D'Arcy
What happened to the North American Left? Why is it that, even now, when capitalism seems so obviously unappealing, unsustainable and unfair, the Left cannot mount a more serious challenge to the Right or its grim austerity agenda? Continue reading
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The Left’s Crisis By Leo Panitch
It was indicative of the left’s sorry lack of ambition in the crisis that its calls for salary limits on Wall Street executives and transaction taxes on the financial sector were far more common than demands for turning the banks into public utilities. Continue reading
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New China Will Be Red and Expert By Dan Siegel
China may be returning to the days when its ideal communist was both ‘Red and expert,’ and The Wall Street Journal is worried. In a recent article, the newspaper profiled one of China’s rising new leaders, Bo Xilai, Communist Party chief of Chongqing and a likely candidate next year for a position on the party’s… Continue reading
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A People's History of the Egyptian Revolution By Rami El-Amine and Mostafa Henaway
No matter how it unfolds, the Egyptian revolution will go down in the history books as a defining moment in the 21st century. Millions of Egyptians brought down one of the world’s most repressive regimes, that of the U.S.-backed Hosni Mubarak, in just 18 days. Continue reading
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Video: The Return of Socialism
On June 23, John Nichols, author of The “S” Word: : A Short History of an American Tradition … Socialism, joined Phil Gasper, author of The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History’s Most Important Political Document in Madison, WI for an event to discuss the history of socialism in America and its increasing popularity… Continue reading
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Greece: From austerity to action
The center of the fight against austerity today is Greece–where strikes and mass protests are shaking the country while parliament is set to vote on even deeper cuts. Continue reading
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Video: Debtocracy by Katerina Kitidi and Aris Hatzistefanou
In March 2011, a group of people from different political backgrounds took the initiative to demand the formation of an Audit Committee in Greece. Academics, writers, artists, union representatives all over the world supported this initiative. The Audit Committee will find which parts of the debt are odious or illegitimate and will prove that, as… Continue reading
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