The Poor at the Crossroads
More than half a century after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death, his message remains tragically relevant in our seemingly never-ending pandemic-ridden moment, still rife with racism, economic exploitation, and militarism.
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Lula Launches Presidential Pre-candidacy
On May 7, Lula announced his candidacy for the presidential elections to take place in Brazil in October this year. A transcript of this speech before a jubilant crowd of thousands of union workers and social movement activists, at the launch of the ‘Let’s go together for Brazil’ movement.
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On Risks of 5G Technology; High Risks of Wireless Devices and Non-Ionizing Radiation – 2 Articles
New Hampshire Report Raises Concerns on Evolving 5G Technology; and: New Studies on High Risks of Wireless Devices and Non-Ionizing Radiation.
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Capitalism | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA
Razors, Razors, Razors
Review of Vincent Bevins’ book, ‘The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World’. The CIA called the massacre “one of the ghastliest and most concentrated bloodlettings of current times.”
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Replug: Karl Marx – March Ye Workers, and the World Shall be Free!
May 5 marks the birth anniversary of Marx, whose life traversed through Trier, Berlin, Paris and London, chiselling his ideas that exposed capitalism’s ‘cunning transaction’ that defrauds the working class till today.
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Guernica
Despite it being one of the few paintings that may be said to be almost universally known, or perhaps because of it, it is interesting to take a closer look at this iconic painting and discover more about what it says, exactly, and why it has the effect it has on the viewer.
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The Brief Origins of May Day
On 1st May 1886, radical pamphlets appeared in America. One of the pamphlets famously declared, “Arouse ye toilers of America! Lay down your tools…one day of revolt, not of rest… a day on which to enjoy eight hours of work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will”. This struggle gave rise to the International Workers Day or May Day.
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LIC’s IPO: A Scam of Gigantic Proportions
The headlong rush to list LIC shows shocking disregard for public interest while pandering to the whims of speculative “investors”. The IPO’s pricing indicates that it is perhaps India’s biggest-ever privatisation scandal.
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Appeal to End Brutal Police Repression in Dhinkia
Press Release, 28/04/2022: We would like to invite your attention to the untold miseries and sufferings of people in Dhinkia which has been targeted for an integrated steel plant by Sajan Jindal’s JSW a few years after POSCO was driven out of the same soil.
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Coal Shortages and Power Cuts: Mismanaged Electricity Supplies
None of the Centre’s explanations for the coal and power shortages hit the mark. The government took no preventive steps though the severity of this crisis was long foretold. The real culprits are its notion of what constitutes power sector ‘reforms’ and lack of inter-ministerial coordination.
