The internet is shit, and everyone is losing their jobs to AI used by companies racing to make it even more shit. Is it time for us to 'seize the means of production'!?
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Right-wing revisionism strikes again. The first thing the Nazis did was ban all leftist parties, outlawed labor strikes, protect private property, and used forced labor to generate corporate profits. They also allied with German conservatives because both had a mutual hatred for leftists.
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After a poor election result last year Canada’s progressive third party the NDP is back up to 17% in a new poll under new more explicitly democratic socialist leadership!
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US-supervised globalisation, China’s rise and the imperialisms of our time: An interview with Benjamin Bürbaumer
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Postliberal Conservatism Can’t Build a Real Community
Patrick Deneen’s new book American Odyssey offers a compelling diagnosis of American dislocation. But its prescription mistakes nostalgia for the shared material commitments that make real community possible.
How Palestinians have resisted weaponized ‘development’ from the British Mandate to the Gaza Board of Peace
The Gaza Board of Peace is the latest attempt by colonial powers to use “development” plans to manage, fragment, and dispossess Palestinians. Palestinians have resisted these plans in the past and continue to do so today.
Don’t Just Tax the Rich — Attack Inequality at the Root
To address the US’s severe inequality, we can and should raise taxes on the rich. But we can also restructure markets so that they don’t produce such unequal incomes in the first place, by reining in corporate power and our predatory financial sector.
12. “Dissecting the Revolution” from the perspective of which social class?
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Meyby Ugueto-Ponce: ‘Afro-Venezuelan Ancestral Knowledge Embodies Memory and Resistance’
Activist and researcher Meyby Ugueto-Ponce discusses Venezuela's structural racism, restorative justice, and the present challenges for Afro-Venezuelan communities.
BLM Protester Transferred Thousands of Miles Away After They Organized Against Their Solitary Confinement
A misconduct report before the transfer noted that Malik Muhammad, a Black Lives Matter protester, was critical of Israel in communications from prison.