In Lagos State alone, 27 public buildings were wholly or partially destroyed, including government secretariats, police stations and the High Court on the island, but some measure of normality began r

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Chris Wright details the popular campaign for the Communist authored Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, a moment in US labor history that is overshadowed by Roosevelt’s more conservative New Deal p

The neoliberal turn in global capitalism invests the hive mind of ‘the market’ itself with a kind of limit-busting, self-perfecting intelligence that brooks no opposition to any constraints human reas

Kit Adam Wainer argues that President Trump is in no position to steal an election or to lead a coup. https://www.tempestmag.org/2020/10/a-very-american-coup/

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Almost redeeming themselves after their support for Sanders. https://www.socialistalternative.org/2020/10/28/why-the-left-shouldnt-support-joe-biden/

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I can think of no other scholar who has written more about Lenin’s electoral strategy than August Nimtz, an ex-SWPer who has taught at the University of Minnesota for many years. I got in touch with h

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Louis Proyect posted an article from Eric Blanc calling for a vote for Biden. Although I opposed campaigning for Sanders, and all other Democrats, I agreed with much of what Blanc wrote. Especially ac

NY Times, Oct. 28, 2020 When a Kidnapping Ring Targeted New York’s Black Children By Parul Sehgal The Kidnapping Club Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War By Jonathan Danie

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Posted on FB by Bruce Robbins: Two weeks ago a letter was sent to Columbia University President Bollinger, mildly protesting the fact that, after 61% of Columbia College students voted in a referendum