Thai Democracy Activists Defy Escalating Repression
The Thai government has been escalating its attacks on democracy activists over the past weeks; but the student led movement is showing no sign of being cowed by the repression.
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The Most Lethal Virus Is Not COVID. It Is War
In the midst of the greatest health emergency in modern times, with millions of surgical procedures delayed due to underfunding of the National Health Service, the British Prime Minister has announced a record increase in defence spending.
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Hunger in America: Covid-19 and the Nightmare of Food Insecurity
Behind all the pandemic stories now filling the media lie any number of nightmarish tales, that were already common in a country of raging inequality before the coronavirus landed on US shores.
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Rafael Correa on Venezuela, Assange, and Saving Ecuador
The former president of Ecuador discusses issues ranging from the repression in his country under its neoliberal president, Lenin Moreno, to the persecution of Julian Assange, as well as the prospect of a left-wing victory in Ecuador’s upcoming national elections.
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The Commune Is a Historical Imperative
An interview with a key militant of the Chavista collective La Minka, which is part of the continent-wide multi-disciplinary organization Communities in Charge / Latin America Initiative.
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Mayak: Russia’s Forgotten Nuclear Disaster
The Mayak disaster of 1957 was covered up by both the Soviets and the US government as it would have meant having to confront the reality that nuclear sites were putting local populations and environment in serious peril.
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Miliband’s Masterpiece
Fifty years after it was published, Miliband’s ‘The State in Capitalist Society’ remains indispensable for any socialist movement with ambitions of government.
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John Lennon and the Politics of the New Left
Forty years after his murder in New York City, we remember John Lennon’s record of political engagement as a champion of the anti-war movement and a self-styled “instinctive socialist”—which brought him into conflict with Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover.
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Bolivia: New Gov’t Sets to Work Undoing Damage Left by US-Backed Añez Regime
Only weeks after their landslide victory, the Movement to Socialism (MAS) party is already enacting widespread changes to Bolivia in an attempt to undo the damage of one year of military rule.
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Ecuador’s Neoliberal Nightmare
Ecuador is currently in a period characterised by immense class tensions—the ruling class’ brutal project of neoliberalism is making life unbearable for the people. This has significantly increased the electoral appeal of the socialist presidential candidate Andrés Arauz.
