Co-lending: Another Bonanza for Private Capital
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Co-lending: Another Bonanza for Private Capital

The State Bank of India recently announced that it had entered into a partnership with Adani Capital. Like with all public-private partnerships under capitalism, the public sector will bear the risk while the private sector will share the rewards generated largely by the investment of public capital.

The Blockade as a Double-Edged Sword
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The Blockade as a Double-Edged Sword

Not a day has gone by that the United States has not tried to overturn the Cuban Revolution, through the assassination of its leaders, invasions by proxy forces, preventing it from normal commercial and diplomatic relations, and encouraging social distress in the island to become a counterrevolutionary force.

I Want to Get Our Rights from the Americans Who Harmed Us
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I Want to Get Our Rights from the Americans Who Harmed Us

Julian Assange and his organisation WikiLeaks published vital information received from whistle-blowers that chronicled U.S. war crimes and atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan. This includes the horrifying video that showed U.S. military personnel killing Iraqi civilians.

bell hooks, Black Feminist Scholar and Intellectual Giant, has Died
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bell hooks, Black Feminist Scholar and Intellectual Giant, has Died

bell hooks, a colossus of Black feminist thought, died on December 15 in her home in Berea, Kentucky. She was 69. Her writings are foundational to contemporary movements for justice and have opened countless doors in radical thought on race, class, gender and other forms of oppression.

People Centered Human Rights and the Black Radical Tradition
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People Centered Human Rights and the Black Radical Tradition

The realization of authentic freedom and human dignity can only come about through victory over Pan European white supremacist colonial/capitalist patriarchy. With people centred human rights, we have an ideological weapon for advancing this struggle.

The U.S. Military Budget as a Mushroom Cloud: Why It’s Time to Make Deep Cuts at the Pentagon
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The U.S. Military Budget as a Mushroom Cloud: Why It’s Time to Make Deep Cuts at the Pentagon

A retired Air Force lieutenant colonel considers a military in which the losses are all on the battlefield, and the gains are all in the Congress as well as in the military-industrial complex that continues to soar like a missile in a moment when so many other parts of this society are sinking fast.