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‛Venezuela’s Window of Opportunity for Economic Recovery: Buying Time to Rebuild While Under Siege’: Although progressives are rightly concerned about US-coerced compromises and concessions, it is equally important to understand the resilience of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. Also: ‛What Cannot Be Unlearned: The Defense of the Bolivarian Revolution’.
‛Rabindrasangeet in Revolt: Tagore’s Songs and the Politics of Famine’; ‛Bengal Between Tagore and Majoritarianism: The Battle Between Universal Humanism and Communal Nationalism’; ‛Living with Freedom: Rabindranath Tagore and the Courage to Keep the Mind Fearless’.
This newsletter is a primer on some of the key concepts needed to understand the global financial system in the context of the illegal war waged by the United States and Israel against Iran.
Trump is not the problem—the system that produced him is.
The Trump administration profoundly misunderstands power as being synonymous with violence. But we can learn a lesson about real power from a humble source — flowers.
Do this, or we will kill you is capitalism’s default position. This will be so no matter what temporary changes might come to be. We ignore this truth at our peril.
‛Africa Was Not Given Democracy. It Was Given a System Designed to Fail’: Africa’s democratic decline is not a failure of culture or capacity — it is the logical outcome of a system designed from the beginning to extract, not liberate. Also: ‛Ibrahim Traoré: We Do Not Want a Democracy That Kills’.
The struggle for reparative justice is a legitimate struggle that unites the peoples of the Global South with a shared history of colonization and that unites the racialized and discriminated peoples of the world.
The Together Alliance march against the far right on Saturday, 28 March, was probably the biggest anti-fascist protest in British history. It was comparable to some of the early Palestine solidarity demonstrations.
Throughout the world, but especially in Latin America, populations have responded with demonstrations for Cuba’s right to self-determination, humanitarian aid drives, petitions and delegations to the island.
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