NY Times Sunday Book Review, Nov. 9, 2020 The Man Who Made Us Feel for the Animals By Victoria Johnson A TRAITOR TO HIS SPECIES Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement By Ernest Freebe

Media pundits and others have been deeply perplexed as to why so many Americans in this election–70 million in fact– nonetheless voted for Trump. But it’s not all that difficult to understand. There a

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The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly heightened our awareness of our food supply — and the grocery stores we visit to stock up. Grocery workers became even more essential in March and April, as many of t

Rudy and Annie join the two co-chairs of Philly Socialists, Mara and Janaya, for what starts as a conversation on the issues women and non-men comrades face when organizing, and ends up being a discus

Austria: Scandalous Bann of a Rally against Islamophobe Racism! Minister for Interior suppresses freedom of speech … in the name of freedom of speech Statement of Michael Pröbsting, Spokesperson of th

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I am looking for somewhere to ask *basic* questions about Marxism where I can get nuanced, non-dogmatic responses and debate. Is marxmail a good forum for that, or would such beginner questions be too

(posted to FB by Cedric Bedaitsch.) This is a long post and probably should have been in a blog, but here it is. Read it or not; it's your choice! In my view, Trump represented a fraction of American

(Posted to FB by Anthony DiMaggio.) Today is the day I get to be the unceremonial wet towel for all my liberal friends who are breathing (understandably) a sigh of relief now that the malignant narcis

LRB, Vol. 42 No. 22 · 19 November 2020 SHORT CUTS Rio Grande Valley Republicans Mike Davis Share on TwitterShare on FacebookEmailPrint 1367 words Expecting​ 2008, Democrats got 2016 again, an unnervin

I count one. She seems to be the only person standing up to the Biden-Harris-Emanuel Red Scare now being launched with apparently no other opposition. Sanders is apparently lying in a fetal position w

Year of the Plague: Danger of Fascism By Chris Kinder http://www.socialistviewpoint.org/novdec_20/novdec_20_05.html October 11, 2020–As you read this, the 2020 election day in the U.S. will have alrea

Imperialist Attacks on Africa And the genocide you never heard of By Chris Kinder The Holocaust was born at the meeting point of two traditions that marked modern Western Civilization: the anti-Semiti

Cruelty of Capitalism By Bonnie Weinstein http://www.socialistviewpoint.org The human condition Friedrich Engels (November 28, 1820-August 5, 1895), a German philosopher, historian and political scien

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The goal of moving the Democratic Party to the left is a mirage conjured up from the fevered mind of those dying of thirst. There’s absolutely no incentive for the Democrats to embrace a progressive a

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https://newrepublic.com/article/160126/donald-trump-lost-2020-election-losing-republican-party-too Donald Trump Lost the Election. He’s Losing His Party, Too. The Republicans’ retreat from the preside