How Racism is an Essential Tool for Maintaining the Capitalist Order
Systemic racism survived in the post-Civil War United States partly because it helped capitalism make the effects of its cyclical downturns socially tolerable.
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Everything Affects and Is Affected by Every Other Thing
John Bellamy Foster [The following was published as part of roundtable in answer to the question: What is the main lesson that environmental movements should carry forward from the coronavirus pandemic? —Ed.] In his classic ecological work, The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man, Frederick Engels observed that “in nature…
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How China and India Came to Lethal Blows
Beijing saw a threat in New Delhi’s steady improvement of borderland infrastructure and renewed Indian claims on disputed territory.
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Satyajit Ray: When the Filmmaker Dons His Critic Hat
Satyajit Ray brought to his film writing the same wit and poise that mark his best films.
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In Search of God: Death by Misunderstanding
Remembering Amjad Farid Sabri, a highly revered Pakistani Sufi singer and famous qawwal.
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A Stock Market Boom amidst a Real Economy Crisis
The myth of the stock market being a barometer for the real economy has finally busted.
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Living the Panther Dream – An Interview with Black Panther Party Veteran Member Aaron Dixon
Dixon discusses the Panthers, his experiences in Seattle, and hopes and fears for the current uprisings.
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Juneteenth: A Primer
History of Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the effective end of slavery in the US; this year, the holiday took on a special, broader resonance.
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Crimes of Columbus, Leopold and Churchill: Two Articles
The new movement in the United States against police and other state violence is now calling the perpetrators of crimes against humanity to account.
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How Vietnam Managed to Keep its Coronavirus Death Toll at Zero
This country of 97 million people has not reported a single coronavirus-related death.
