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

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.

Wendell Berry on Capitalism, Advertising, Greed, and the Good Life
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Wendell Berry on Capitalism, Advertising, Greed, and the Good Life

“We live in a time when technologies and ideas are adopted in response not to need but to advertising, salesmanship, and fashion. The first duty of writers who wish to be of any use even to themselves is to resist the language and the ideas of sales talk, no matter from whose mouth it issues.”

Robbing the Soil – Part 1: Commons and Classes Before Capitalism
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Robbing the Soil – Part 1: Commons and Classes Before Capitalism

The rise of industrial capitalism was accompanied by a complex transformation of rural society wherein most people were separated from the land, and land was concentrated in the hands of a tiny minority. It happened in different ways and at different times in different parts of the world, and is still going on today.

End Vaccine Apartheid; Also – Cuba Vaccinates Children
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End Vaccine Apartheid; Also – Cuba Vaccinates Children

Vaccine costs have pushed many developing countries to the end of the Covid-19 vaccination queue. Worse, less vaccinated poor nations cannot afford fiscal efforts to provide relief or stimulate recovery. Plus: Cuba: The First Country in the World to Vaccinate Children Under 12.

Elisa Loncon, President of the Constitutional Convention: “Chile Will Never Go Back to the Way it Was”
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Elisa Loncon, President of the Constitutional Convention: “Chile Will Never Go Back to the Way it Was”

For the last two months, the Mapuche Elisa Loncon has presided over the constituent assembly in charge of writing the new Chilean constitution that will replace the Pinochet era constitution. In this interview, Loncon talks about the threats and challenges faced by the Constitutional Convention.