CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK ‘Judas’ Is the Latest Political Movie to Punt on Politics Both “Judas and the Black Messiah” and “BlacKkKlansman” are rooted in issues of radicalism vs. the system, but the dramas re

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Snehal Shingavi dissects the most common explanations for the Great Texas Freeze of 2021 and finds they fail to address the systemic causes which are not at all unique to Texas. https://www.tempestmag

Memories and critical reflections from one of the most important confrontations with the far right in the U.S. during the Trump years, less than a month after the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottse

Ashley Smith analyses Biden’s immigration proposals and executive orders, and finds small steps forwards lost to the rapid return to a reactionary status quo ante. https://www.tempestmag.org/2021/03/b

This week will mark the one year anniversary since the first cases of the coronavirus were reported in Palestine, and a state of emergency was declared in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, whe

An ICC investigation of Israel's actions against the Palestinians is an instance of long, long overdue justice, of leveling the playing field to some degree. Why? Because while Israel is by no means t

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[Academics and students at Boğaziçi University responded with protest when President Erdoğan appointed Melih Bulu as the new rectorate. The protests of students were repressed violently and eleven stu

Toward an Understanding of China’s Historical Political Economy and Its Relationship to Contemporary China https://mronline.org/2021/03/03/beyond-the-sprouts-of-capitalism/

The virus suddenly and radically changed our world – several times by now. If during the “first wave” of the pandemic we teachers learned to be adaptive, to use software we had never heard of before,

from Veterans for Peace E-News Feb. 26 F.T.A. is being Re-Released! The upcoming re-release of the 1972 documentary F.T.A will open nationwide next Friday, March 5 in virtual cinema supporting indepen

A massive story just went down in Atlanta, if we take the time to acknowledge it. by Dave Zirin, Nation, March 3, 2021 https://www.thenation.com/article/society/kelly-loeffler-wnba-montgomery/ By any

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/what-caste-leaves-out Best regards, Andrew Stewart

The US left is at a critical juncture where the structure and focus of our organizations will soon be decided. On the one hand, we positively have ongoing processes of cohesion in play with DSA chapte

(George worked closely with Joe Hansen putting out Intercontinental Press. A lot of the pro-Russian dissident material was translated by George, who did it professionally in his day job. I didn't know

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“Nearly 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama are voting whether to unionize. This is the backstory.” https://www.vox.com/recode/22311708/amazon-union-alabama-vote-explained Brian Gibbons

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