Overcoming Inequalities: A Conversation with Otro Beta
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Overcoming Inequalities: A Conversation with Otro Beta

ByCira Pascual Marquina

Otro Beta is a cultural project that seeks to bring the Venezuelan barrio youth away from the dead-ends that capitalism imposes on them. It aims to incorporate them into the new horizons of personal and collective development that the Bolivarian Revolution has opened up.

Robbing the Soil – Part 2: Systematic Theft of Communal Property
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Robbing the Soil – Part 2: Systematic Theft of Communal Property

ByIan Angus

The second part of this series discusses how in two great waves of social change, landlords and capitalist farmers conquered the field for capitalist agriculture, incorporated the soil into capital, and created for the urban industries the necessary supplies of free and rightless proletarians.

Remembering Paulo Freire as a Freedom Fighter
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Remembering Paulo Freire as a Freedom Fighter

ByHenry Giroux

September 19th was Paulo Freire’s birthday. He was a revolutionary whose passion for justice and resistance was matched by his hatred of neoliberal capitalism and loathing for authoritarians of all political stripes. Put simply, he was not merely a public intellectual but also a freedom fighter.

Around 50 Million Years Ago, Africa was an Island. So How Did Primates Get There?
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Around 50 Million Years Ago, Africa was an Island. So How Did Primates Get There?

ByNicholas R. Longrich

Humans evolved in Africa. But primates themselves appear to have evolved elsewhere – likely in Asia – before colonising Africa. At the time, around 50 million years ago, Africa was an island isolated from the rest of the world by the ocean – so how did primates get there?

“The Moment I Set Foot Outside My House, Caste Chases After Me Like a Dog”
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“The Moment I Set Foot Outside My House, Caste Chases After Me Like a Dog”

BySukirtharani interviewed by K Srilata and Swarnalatha Rangarajan

Sukirtharani (b. 1973) is a poet and social activist known for her sharp critique of the caste system and the oppression of women. Last month, the Oversight Committee of the Delhi University removed two of Sukirtharani’s poems from the English Honours syllabus.

I Write What I Like: Steve Biko’s Legacy of Black Consciousness and Anti-Capitalism Revisited
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I Write What I Like: Steve Biko’s Legacy of Black Consciousness and Anti-Capitalism Revisited

ByHeike Becker

In the new student movements taking place in South Africa, the legacy of Steve Biko, who was murdered by the apartheid regime on 12 September 1977, have become important again. A look at the life of Steve Biko.

Assata Shakur: The Making of a Revolutionary Woman
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Assata Shakur: The Making of a Revolutionary Woman

ByRachel Domond

In commemorating Black August, we commemorate the struggle of those who have fought before us and faced violent repercussions from the state. When I think of political prisoners, and when I think of those who have committed themselves to Black Liberation, I always think of Assata Shakur.