2019

1. Adversarial Interoperability
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   First Published: 2019
   A round-up of the EFF's writing on 'adverserial interoperabillity' which is necessary for creating a decentralized internet free from corporate monopolies.
2. All Massacres Will Become 'Alleged Massacres' If We Don't Pay Attention
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2019
   The greatest enemy of all journalists – and all politicians – is the failure of institutional, historical memory.
3. Alliance statement: Solidarity with the popular uprising in Sudan
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   First Published: 2019
   Statement of allliance by the Aliiance of Middle Eastern Socialists for the ongoing uprising in Sudan which erupted on December 19th, 2018.
4. Amazon Is Coaching Cops on How to Obtain Surveillance Footage Without a Warrant
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   First Published: 2019
   Amazon's home surveillance company Ring is coaching police on how to use their technology which simultaneously provides a source of advertising for Amazon.
5. Amazon vs. the Socialists in Seattle
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   First Published: 2019
   In what may turn out to be a preview of the U.S. presidential election, with the ruling class hellbent on stopping Bernie Sanders at all costs, big business in Seattle is carrying out an unprecedented assault of corporate PAC money against socialist and progressive candidates in this year’s elections.
6. Amazon's Ring Planned Neighborhood 'Watch Lists' Built on Facial Recognition
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   First Published: 2019
   Amazon's plan to create proactive "watch lists" based on supposed suspicious activity - including facial recognition software - seen by their Ring cameras should alarm anyone who cares about privacy.
7. American Visitors to the Gestapo Museum Draw Their Own Conclusions
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   First Published: 2019
   An exploration of the ethics of drawing comparisons from present-day injustices to Nazi atrocities.
8. Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory
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   First Published: 2019
   Conspiracy theories in general tend to be crude and simplistic, more often than not reflecting the nature of the people who indulge them. But when the conspiracy theory is mingled with antisemitism – as with the Rothschild rot – it represents a particular failure of the imagination, a particularly null and void exercise in dehumanisation.
9. Angela Davis: Relevant as Ever After Thirty Years
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   First Published: 2019
   A look at how Angela Davis's work in Women, Culture, and Politics (1989) applies today.
10. Another Empire's Boot Stomps on Ireland
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    First Published: 2019
    A civilian airport in Ireland is being used as a hub by the US military.
11. The Anti Nazi League and its lessons for today
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    First Published: 2019
    Interview with Paul Holborow, organising secretary of the Anti Nazi League in 1977-1980.
12. Anti-Muslim Bigotry and Far-Right Terror
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    First Published: 2019
    Far-right ideology is fuelled by such a large mishmash of ideas that censoring anti-Muslim rhetoric is futile for stopping attacks.
13. Antisemitism Claims have One Goal: To Stop Jeremy Corbyn Winning Power
    The Jewish community’s alienation from Labour has been years in the making
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    A supposed antisemitism crisis in Britain's Labour party since Jeremy Corbyn became leader has erupted back into the headlines.
14. Apocalypse of Our Times
    Book Review
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    First Published: 2019
    Review of Gerald Horne's "Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism," a look at the 17th century origins of the slave trade.
15. Are Israel's spies stealing your data?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Many Israeli spies go into careers in surveillance software bringing techniques that are used to violate the privacy of Palestinians into everyday commercial software.
16. Argentina's Indigenous People Fight for Land Rights
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Indigenous people in Argentina live with the constant threat of eviction on land to which they own no title. Much of their predicament is due to colonial laws and attitudes that persist even though constitutional changes now recognize Indigenous land rights as an urgent issue. Deforestation due to expanding agriculture exacerbates this conflict.
17. As Democratic Elites Reunite With Neocons, the Party's Voters Are Becoming Far More Militaristic and Pro-War Than Republicans
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    First Published: 2019
    As President Trump announces plans to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan Democrats have seemingly adopted a pro-war stance in greater numbers than Republicans.
18. As Long as Grass Grows
    The Indigenous Struggle for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2019
    A call to action on behalf of indigenous environmental justice that is deeply grounded in the histories and legacies of settler colonialism and the nonnative environmental movement. Understanding this past, the author believes, is fundamental to reshaping the future.
19. Assange revolutionized journalism, and the elite will never forgive him
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    First Published: 2019
    Julian Assange's treatment by governments and mainstream media shows how he is a threat to the former and shames the latter.
20. Assange's Indictment Treats Journalism as a Crime
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    First Published: 2019
    The charges against Assange send a message to journalists that they are in danger for doing their jobs. The UK can and should deny extradition of Assange to the US.
21. Australian investigative journalist exposes Guardian/New York Times betrayal of Assange
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    First Published: 2019
    Sources reveal new first-hand information exposing the extent of the betrayal of Julian Assange by the Guardian and the New York Times and refute lies both publications have used to smear the WikiLeaks founder.
22. Australian investigative journalist exposes Guardian/New York Times betrayal of Assange
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Australian journalist Mark Davis HAS revealed new first-hand information exposing the extent of the betrayal of Julian Assange by the Guardian and the New York Times, and refuting the lies both publications have used to smear the WikiLeaks founder.
23. Bank Report Reveals Where Ruling Class Lives
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    First Published: 2019
    The 2019 Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report provides a glimpse at the inequality that the neoliberal era has produced, who has benefitted and those who have been left behind.
24. BDS: Repression and Progress
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    First Published: 2019
    Short piece about recent BDS actions and attempts to censor pro-Palestinian protest.
25. Behind the popular revolt in Sudan
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    First Published: 2019
    Interview with journalist and former Sudanese Communist Party activist Rashid Saeed Yagoub. Amgad Fareid Eltayeb outlines the situation and background to the revolt in Sudan. Also, a solidarity statement issued by the Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists.
26. Berlin Tax Office withdraws charitable status from Nazi victims' organisation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    The Berlin Tax Office has withdrawn the charitable status of one of the largest and most long-established anti-fascist associations in Germany jeopardizing its abillity to continue its work.
27. Betraying the Kurds
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Many debates about Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria ignore the overall illegitmacy of military-political intervention.
28. Beyond Corporate Power
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    By concentrating on corporate power we can end up looking to the state for solutions. But the only way to achieve even the moderate reforms necessary is through revolutionary mass movements.
29. Black Liberation Struggle: The Key to American Socialist Revolution
    Part Two
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Everybody is familiar with Marx's famous saying, in Capital, Vol. 1 (1867), that "labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded." This was more than a moral appeal against slavery. It was a statement of fact: Marx recognized that so long as half the country was dominated by slavery, workers would never be able to fight for even basic trade-union rights. The Civil War paved the way for the growth of American capitalism and the labor movement.
30. The Boeing Way: Blaming Dead Pilots
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    First Published: 2019
    The House Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation held a hearing about the recent crashes of Boeing 737 MAXs. The Representatives (many of whom received campaign contributions from Boeing) actively tried to shift blame from the company and place it on the dead pilots.
31. Bolivia's universal healthcare is model for the world, says UN
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    First Published: 2019
    Bolivia has implemented universal healthcare to provide free care to its poorest citizens. Although controversial with the country's doctors the program is lauded by the UN.
32. Brazilian dam disaster 'is part of a pattern'
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    First Published: 2019
    A team of Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) academics is marking the international day of action for rivers by hanging out the dirty laundry of a very dirty company.
33. Breach of Ethics
    Leaked Chats Between Brazilian Judge and Prosecutor Who Imprisoned Lula Reveal Prohibited Collaboration and Doubts Over Evidence
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    First Published: 2019
    Leaked documents show that Sergio Moro, a judge at the time, collaborated heavily with investigators in Operation Car Wash, a serious breach of judicial impartiality. Even critics of Lula who consider him corrupt doubt the veracity of aspects of the investigation.
34. Breaking the Impasse
    Book Review
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    First Published: 2019
    Review of Cracks in the Wall by Ben White, a hopeful book about weakening pro-Zionism in public consensus.
35. Breaking the Left's Gay Taboo
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    First Published: 2019
    A review of Allen Young's "Left, Gay and Green: a Writer's Life" that includes much historical context and the reviewer's personal history.
36. Breaking the Silence: Inside the Israeli Right's Campaign to Silence an anti-Occupation Group
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    First Published: 2019
    Breaking the Silence, an Israeli anti-occupation group that collects testimonies of Israeli soldiers operating in Palestinian territories has been targeted by moles and other attacks.
37. Brexit Divides the British Left
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    First Published: 2019
    Short commentary on three leftist perspectives on Brexit. The articles discussed are linked in the main piece.
38. A Brief History of US Concentration Camps
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    First Published: 2019
    An overview of ethnic cleansing and civilian concentration camps in the US starting with the Trail of Tears.
39. Britain's Chief Rabbi is Helping to Stoke antisemitism
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    First Published: 2019
    Chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has not only misrepresented the known facts about Labour and its supposed antisemitism crisis. He has not only interfered in an overtly, politically partisan manner in the December 12, 2019 election campaign by suggesting that Jeremy Corbyn -- against all evidence -- is an antisemite.
40. Britain's Witchfinders are Ready to Burn Jeremy Corbyn
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    First Published: 2019
    The suspension of MP Chris Williamson for alleged anti-semitism is part of a smear campaign against Corbyn. It is also a by-product of all criticism of Israel being labelled anti-semitism.
41. British MPs won't get to see 'WitchHunt' in the House of Commons - the very place it needs to be shown
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    First Published: 2019
    A screening of a documentary - made by Jewish Labour party members - about charges of anti-semitism in the British Labour Party has been cancelled.
42. Broiler chickens: The defining species of the Anthropocene?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Broiler chickens may be distinct and ubiquitous enough as a human-modified species that their fossil record could justify calling our era the Anthropocene.
43. Building resistance to Canada's destructive mining industry
    Review of Joan Kuyek's book Unearthing Justice
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    First Published: 2019
    In her book Unearthing Justice: How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry, long-time activist Joan Kuyek brilliantly shares lessons from decades of fighting environmental and community disruption by Canada’s mining corporations.
44. The Burning of Highlander Center: a Fascist-like Attack
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    First Published: 2019
    The Highlander Research and Education Center was burned to the ground in New Market, Tennessee in an act of arson by the white power movement.
45. California Burning, PG&E Bankrupt
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    First Published: 2019
    A synopsis of PG&E's history of negligence and corruption which has caused wildfire disasters. The company tries to escape consequences but others are demanding change.
46. A Call to Action
    Book Review
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    First Published: 2019
    Positive review - with caveats - of a book about how we can transform society.
47. Calling Assange a Narcissist Misses the Point
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Personal attacks on Assange are used to discredit his work publicizing war crimes and the truth behind pro-war propaganda.
48. Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib, and the Rise of Extremism in Iraq
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    First Published: 2019
    Suffering caused through our wars including conditions inside US military camps, in Iraq, led to the extremism of Al-Baghdadi and his ISIS followers.
49. Canada Adopts America First Foreign Policy US State Dept Boasted in 2017
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    First Published: 2019
    A declassified cable from the US embassy in Ottawa titled "Canada Adopts 'America First' Foreign Policy" notes that the Canadian government would be "Prioritizing U.S. Relations, ASAP."
50. Capitalism and Disability: Selected writings by Marta Russell
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2019
    This book comprises a collection of groundbreaking writings by Marta Russell on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism.
51. Catalonia 'separatists' bad, HK 'pro-democracy protesters' good: Orwell's 1984 becomes user's manual for Western 'free media'
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    First Published: 2019
    When supporters of Catalan leaders jailed for organizing a democratic vote advance on Barcelona airport, media make a fuss over 'separatists' causing chaos. When the same tactic is used in Hong Kong, it's a 'pro-democracy' protest. In George Orwell’s 1984, The War Ministry was renamed the Ministry of Peace. Truth was Lies, Hate was Love. But author Lewis Carroll got there first.
52. Catherine Rottenberg's Neoliberal Feminism
    Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    An interview with Catherine Rottenberg, author of The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism (2018).
53. Chicago Charter Teachers Strike, Win
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    First Published: 2019
    Reporting on the unprecedented and successful strike of charter school teachers in Chicago.
54. The Chickens Come Home to Roost ... in Syria
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    First Published: 2019
    American meddling in the Middle East since 9/11 may finally be reaching a crisis as the process produces irreconcilable conflicts with allies.
55. The Christian Genocide During the Ottoman Empire Sounds a Dark Warning for the Future
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    First Published: 2019
    Review and discussion of The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities 1894-1924 by Benny Morris and Dror Zeevi.
56. Class War on New Ground
    Book Review
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    First Published: 2019
    Review of Kim Moody's New Terrain, a book looking at how capitalism has changed and how left wing organizing must adapt.
57. Climate Advocates Underestimate Power of Fossil Fueled Misinformation Campaigns, Say Top Researchers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    The "climate countermovement" direct massive resources towards denying the reality of climate change. Climate advocates need to address their opposition's tactics to be able to combat this misinformation.
58. Climate Change: A Socialist Solution
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    First Published: 2019
    A lot has been written, including by myself, on why capitalism, by its very nature, cannot tackle or stop climate change. The purpose of this article is not to repeat those arguments but to make the positive case for socialism as necessary to deal with this existential crisis for humanity.
59. A Collective Ignorance of Ecosystems
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    First Published: 2019
    Loss of genetic diversity is one consequence of the Industrial Forestry Paradigm that dominates the U.S. timber industry and all public agencies from the state forestry agencies to the federal agencies like the Forest Service.
60. Collusion in Plain Sight
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    First Published: 2019
    The media should use the same language for Trump's pandering to corporations and failure to publicly condemn white supremacist violence as they do for his supposed collaboration with Russia.
61. Colorblind Law -- NOT
    Book Review
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    First Published: 2019
    Positive review of Color of Law by Richard Rothstein. It looks at the history of how states circumvented federal desegregation laws.
62. Communist Dictatorship in Our Midst
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    First Published: 2019
    A kind of undercurrent of thought about workplace democracy has bubbled beneath the surface of public discourse of our current "crisis of democracy." Beneath the surface: one can hardly identify any serious public discourse these days on the anti-democratic nature of most work under Neo-liberal conditions.
63. Congo's Patrice Lumumba: The Winds of Reaction in Africa
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    First Published: 2019
    A brief history of Patrice Lumumba who was briefly Prime Minister of an independent Congo.
64. 'Cotton has now become a headache'
    A chemical-intensive Bt cotton monoculture is spreading through Odisha’s Rayagada district – harming health, deepening debt, irreversibly er
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    First Published: 2019
    Kunari's account reflects a dependence brought about by cotton cultivation that is taking root across the ecologically sensitive highland tracts of Odisha's Rayagada district, with deep implications for its rich store of biodiversity, farmers' distress and food security (See Sowing the seeds of climate crisis in Odisha).
65. Court Throws out Energy Transfer's 'Racketeering' Claims Against Dakota Access Pipeline Opponents
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    First Published: 2019
    An energy company that tried to bring RICO charges against Greenpeace and other people opposing their pipeline have had their case thrown out.
66. Creative + Strategic = Effective Movements for Change
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    First Published: 2019
    Some positive, creative ideas on non-violent actions to make social change.
67. Cuba's urban farming shows way to avoid hunger
    Urban farming, Cuban-style, is being hailed as an example of how to feed ourselves when climate change threatens serious food shortages.
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    First Published: 2019
    When countries run short of food, they need to find solutions fast, and one answer can be urban farming. That was the remedy Cuba seized with both hands 30 years ago when it was confronted with the dilemma of an end to its vital food imports.
68. D is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    American government is much like show business: empty entertainment with smoke and mirrors hiding the string-pullers behind the scenes.
69. Dam it all: More than half of the world's long rivers are blocked by infrastucture
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    But with the increasing demand for more water, energy generation, and flood management, the construction of dams, levees, reservoirs, and other river-obstructive infrastructures is becoming ubiquitous.
70. Dams and the Green New Deal: Why the Silence?
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    First Published: 2019
    Hydroelectric power from dams might be the thorniest question that proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) have to grapple with. Providing more energy than solar and wind combined, dams could well become the backup for energy if it proves impossible to get off of fossil fuels fast enough.
71. Dances of Disinformation: the Partisan Politics of the Integrity Initiative
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    First Published: 2019
    The Integrity Initiative - a supposedly non-partisan agency aiming at dismantling state sponsored misinformation - was exposed as funded by a UK government agency to undermine the opposition. This brings into question the plausibility of an impartial or apolitical playing field.
72. De-Dollarizing the American Financial Empire
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    First Published: 2019
    A long interview with economist Michael Hudson about Trump's plan to lower interest rates.
73. Dearest Arundhati Roy: Shahidul Alam reflects on his time in prison
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    First Published: 2019
    The Bangladeshi photographer was charged with criticising his country on Facebook and spent more than 100 days behind bars. Now freed, he replies to the Indian novelist who wrote to him in jail.
74. Death, Misery and Bloodshed in Yemen
    "Strike with Creativity" proclaims Raytheon.
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    First Published: 2019
    Writing about his visit to the world's largest weapons bazaar, held in London during October, Arron Merat describes reading this slogan emblazoned above Raytheon’s stall: "Strike with Creativity." Raytheon manufactures Paveway laser-guided bombs, fragments of which have been found in the wreckage of schools, hospitals, and markets across Yemen.
75. The Debt System: A History of Sovereign Debts and their Repudiation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2019
    A history of national debt and the international power structures it supports. Calls for the repudiation of illegitimate debt.
76. Declassified Documents Now Reveal There Were Two CIA Torture Programs
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    First Published: 2019
    Declassified documents expose new info about the CIA's detention and interrogation operations. This article looks at their history going back to MKUltra in the 1950s.
77. Deconstructed Special: The Noam Chomsky Interview
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    First Published: 2019
    On this week’s Deconstructed, Chomsky sits down with Mehdi Hasan to discuss the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, the 2020 Democratic field, and why he opposed Trump's Syria troop withdrawal.
78. Deep Fakes: Will AI Swing the 2020 Election?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    The ability of AI to create credible-looking fake videos could pose a threat to candidates at election time but gullibility was a problem before computer technology.
79. Defense for Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange
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    First Published: 2019
    Transcript of a speech in defense of Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange.
80. The Destruction of Freedom: Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange And The Corporate Media
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    First Published: 2019
    The corporate media's hostility towards Assange, Manning and WikiLeaks - obvious by lack of coverage or overt antagonism - shows it is tool of the state and big business.
81. Did John Bolton Light the Fuse of the UK-Iranian Tanker Crisis?
    Evidence suggests he pressured the Brits to seize an Iranian ship. Why? More war.
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    First Published: 2019
    The details of the UK's seizure of the Grace 1 point to involvement by John Bolton and the Trump administration to put pressure on Iran.
82. Disablement, Oppression, and Political Economy
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    First Published: 2019
    It is often claimed that disabled persons are invisible, disregarded by mainstream society, and irrelevant to the workings of society. This analysis has attempted to explain that the "unemployables" have been deliberately shut out of the labour force due to a capitalist economy that so far has dictated their exclusion by measure of economic calculations that favor the business class. It further posits that disabled persons are further oppressed in capitalist societies by having been purposely shifted onto social welfare or segregated into institutions for similar reasons – to keep workers who could not be profitably employed out of the mainstream workforce but also to exert social control over the entire labour supply.
83. Disagreeing Reasonably in a Complex World
    A review of The Case Against Free Speech
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    First Published: 2019
    Free speech is not a naturally occurring object. It's an idea, a notion, an aspiration, an approach to politics, always involving a theory about what it means to be human in a particular society at a particular time.
84. Disciplined for Acting with Integrity
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    First Published: 2019
    The smear campaign against two profs at University of Michigan participating in BDS harks back to McCarthyist attempts to silence the left at that same institution.
85. The Discovery and Rediscovery of Metabolic Rift
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    First Published: 2019
    Ian Angus discusses the scientific developments that led Marx to develop metabolic rift theory, and a new generation to rediscover it in our time.
86. Distorting 'Democracy' in Venezuela Coverage
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    First Published: 2019
    Round up of some of the many media outlets that call Guaidó's coup attempt in Venezuela a democratic movement and refer to democratically elected president Maduro as a dictator.
87. Do we fetishize indigenous people?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Although well-intentioned, Western representations of and interactions with Indigenous people can undermine their humanity.
88. Domestic violence was an issue with no name
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    First Published: 2019
    In the 1960s and ’70s, domestic violence was an issue with no name.
    
    Countless women endured violence in their own homes, but it was not acknowledged as an issue in the public realm. It was a shameful secret, quietly accepted as a part of life for women. When a woman was abused, there was nowhere to go. A woman’s place was in the home, even if home could kill her. Against this grim backdrop, different groups of women across the country worked to open Canada’s first women’s shelters.
89. Don't Believe the Hype: Paying for Medicare for All Is Simple
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    First Published: 2019
    Debunking recent arguments that Medicare for All will require reducing spending in other areas.
90. Doubling Down: The Military, Big Bankers and Big Oil Are Not In Climate Denial, They Are in Control and Plan to Keep It That Way 
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    First Published: 2019
    The two most important narratives imposed on us are climate change as a "threat to national security" and as a "business opportunity" - the twin rationales for military and corporate power. They want to focus us on how to manage the crisis, profit from it, or adapt to it, instead of opposing it.
91. Dung beetles 'reduce human pathogens risk'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Farmers remove habitats that encourage natural wildlife for food-safety reasons, however, these habitats encourage biodiversity which could reduce the risk of pathogens in food.
92. Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness. Family Farmers and the Battle for the Future of Food
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2019
    Reporting from Africa, Mexico, India, and the United States, Timothy A. Wise's Eating Tomorrow discovers how in country after country agribusiness and its well-heeled philanthropic promoters have hijacked food policies to feed corporate interests.
93. Education in the Service of Assimilation: The Founding Vision of Residential Schools in Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    A look at some scholarly histories of residiential schools that put paid to Canada's kinder, gentler reputation.
94. Eight miners die from toxic gases in Peru’s northern highlands
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    First Published: 2019
    Eight miners died after poisonous gases escaped in an informal gold mine in northern Peru. Informal mines are operated without licenses or safety standards by companies that can easily bypass regulations.
95. The Emergence of Ecosocialism
    Collected Essays by Joel Kovel
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2019
96. Empires Are a Secret until They Start Falling
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Alfred McCoy says that it is only when empires are in decline that people begin to recognize they live in an empire and start to talk about it. While discussion of empire hasn't broken into the corporate media, it is certainly happening in the independent media. A concerted effort by a popular movement could bring it to the fore, just as Occupy changed the political dialogue about wealth inequality and the power of money. People in the US need to face some stark realities when it comes to declining US global power.
97. Emulating the circle of life
    We need to rethink efficiency in our food system.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Developing food systems that simulate the processes found in nature can make food production more sustainable.
98. Engels on the importance of Hegel to Marxism
    Letter to Conrad Schmidt
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    First Published: 2019
    Neo-Kantian by persuasion, Schmidt nevertheless asked Engels what the philosophical underpinnings of Marxs thought were. Engels already had put out a book on the topic, Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of German Classical Philosophy (1885), but apparently the implications of this work were not clear enough.
99. Epifanio Camacho: a Militant Farmworker Brushed Out of History
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Biographical info on Epifanio Camacho, a labor activist who fought alongside the less militant Cesar Chavez. He has been largely forgotten by history.
100. Eric Hobsbawm: Historical cosmonaut
     David Kynaston on a 'national treasure' whose politics provoked endless bitterness
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     First Published: 2019
     Review of 'A Life In History' a biography of Eric Hobsbawm by Richard J. Evans.
101. Europe's Political Turmoil -- Part II
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Could the rise of the far right across Europe actually lead to establishing fascist regimes? Overemphasis on this fear may divert attention from where it is needed.
102. Everyone Washington Supports, by Definition, Is a Moderate Centrist
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     First Published: 2019
     Many right-wing movements and leaders are described as moderate or even left-leaning by politicians and corporate media. In these cases the terms no longer have a political definition but is a way to convey approval.
103. The Evidence We Were Never Meant to See About the Douma Gas Attack
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     First Published: 2019
     A report that conflicts with claims that two cylinders containing chemicals were dropped from an aircraft was suppressed by the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons. This erodes public trust in the institution and is distressing given the recent history of using dubious existence of deadly weapons to justify wars.
104. Exposure of Another Pro-War Lie Doesn't Make Media More Skeptical of Pro-War Claims 
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     First Published: 2019
     The story of pro-Maduro forces burning trucks bringing aid to Venezuela has now been reported as false, even by corporate media. The bigger story of how and why this lie was propogated gets left behind.
105. Face Surveillance Is a Uniquely Dangerous Technology
     CounterSpin interview with Shankar Narayan on facial recognition
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     First Published: 2019
     Lightly edited transcript of an interview regarding face recognition technology and how it will impact people who are already over-policed.
106. Facebook had human contractors 'reviewing' users' Messenger voice chats
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Facebook has given contractors access to people's private voice chats for transcription purposes.
107. Facebook Wants You to Know if You’re Getting Your News From the Wrong Government
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Media outlets owned by a company with ties to the Russian government are forced to disclose their affiliation on Facebook. Media outlets owned or funded by the US government are not held to the same standard.
108. The Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge and Approved Ideas
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The university environment should be the last place where dangerous ideas, and views, are stifled and stomped upon. In actual fact, we are seeing the reverse; from students unions to middle- and upper-managerial parasites and administrators, the contrarian idea must be boxed, the controversial speaker silenced and sent beyond the pale.
109. failing to see the deeper causes of social tragedies
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     First Published: 2019
     In both cases, the roots of the tragedies are manifold. But in both cases we seem more interested in laying instant blame than in excavating the wider causes that might help us prevent such catastrophes happening again.
110. Faith, Hope and Persistence
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     First Published: 2019
     When we look at what is happening in our world, it can be difficult to believe that there are grounds for hope, let alone faith. And yet we – we humans – continue to live and act in ways that testify to our hopes, and to our faith in the possibility of a better future.
111. Faith, Hope and Persistence - Vietnamese text
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     First Published: 2019
112. The Fake News Nazi - Corbyn, Williamson And The Anti-Semitism Scandal
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Analysis of Corbyn's press shows accusations of anti-semitism against him only started when he became a political threat.
113. Fake News Tsunami - Trump's 'Collusion' And Corbyn As 'Dangerous Hero'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Analysis of recent news coverage that paints Corbyn as an anti-semite compared to that of the Trump campaign's supposed ties with the Russian government.
114. Families "Are Scared To Death" After A Massive ICE Operation Swept Up Hundreds Of People
     About 680 suspected undocumented workers were arrested in Mississippi in one of the largest worksite operations ever conducted by ICE agents
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A massive arrest of undocumented workers in Mississippi had people scrambling to care for kids whose parents were detained and traumatized the community.
115. Far-Right Identity Politics and the Task for the Left
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     To oppose far-right ideology, the left must fight the violence and austerity they promote but also acknowledge the appeal of universal values of populist movements.
116. The Faux Generosity of the Super-Wealthy: Why Bill Gates is a Menace to Society
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     While the media may be full of stories singing Gates' praises, presenting him as a good billionaire (as opposed to the current president), the reality is that one man with that amount of power, be it political (like Trump) or economic (like Gates and Bezos) has a highly corrosive effect on democracy and society more generally.
117. The FBI in Ecuador
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Review of a book detailing the FBI's actions in Latin America throughout the 20th century.
118. The FBI's police state operation against Trump
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The allegations that Trump is a Russian agent lack credibility. The FBI's invesitigation seems more like the agency is attempting to overthrow an elected government - a threat the FBI has posed in the past.
119. Fé, Esperança e Persistência
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
120. Fearless Cities: A Guide to the Global Municipalist Movement
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2019
     Self-government, or 'municipalism', is changing politics all over the world. This is a guide to winning back our towns and cities from below with real radical policies happening now; practical organizing strategies and tools; and profiles of 50 pioneering municipalist platforms from around the world.
121. Fighting Against Racism - And For a Better Paycheck - On the Docks
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Dockworker labour solidarity. Heavily references two books: 'Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area' by Peter Cole and 'Choke Points' essays edited by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Immanuel Ness.
122. Film Charts Failed Experiment Inviting Palestinian Teens to Become Kibbutzniks
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A new documentary brings to light an episode almost completely erased from Israel’s official history - and one that reveals how Israel's apartheid character was established from its birth.
123. Fire Brigades Union study exposes decades of deregulation and cost cutting that led to Grenfell Tower inferno—Part 1
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has published a damning report demonstrating that years of austerity measures, privatisation and deregulation led to the entirely avoidable fire at Grenfell Tower in June 2017, which claimed 72 lives.
124. A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2019
     A history of West Africa from the 17th century onwards. Draws on written histories as well as archival research in nine countries, art, oral history, archaeology, and letters.
125. For Owners of Amazon’s Ring Security Cameras, Strangers May Have Been Watching Too
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Amazon's Ring security cameras have a history of lax, sloppy oversight when it comes to deciding who has access to some of the most precious, intimate data belonging to any person: a live, high-definition feed from around -and perhaps inside- their house.
126. Former UAW vice president pleads guilty to conspiracy in bribery scheme
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Norwood Jewell, former vice president of the United Auto Workers pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to violate labor laws. There could be even higher ranking officials charged, highlighting the conflicting interests of union bosses vs workers.
127. France: Yellow Jackets and labour movement at a crossroads - Social and political questions
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A brief look at the Yellow Vests in 2018. Though they may have their problems they provide a possiblity of change outside the electoral system.
128. "Free Trade" Is Today's Imperialism by the 1 Percent
     Building alternatives to free trade must become an essential component of a more progressive US foreign policy.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Principles of "free" trade allow global North corporations to continue the colonial policies that made them their wealth. Alternatives to free trade need to shift power and wealth to the global South to create fairness and progress.
129. Freedom, Valor, Love: On Snowden's Permanent Record
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Edward Snowden's life reveals it's not just "the computer guy" (or other non-male folks) at tech's helms, but the general U.S. public that bears witness to corporatized data surveillance state violations, or the data industrial complex. This secretive sprawling network is the invasive rule today; it involves regular media outlets, telecommunications, social media platforms, Internet service providers, and government agencies.
130. French Democracy Dead or Alive?
     The Gilets Jaunes in 2019
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     An overview of the Yellow Vests: their methods, demands, media coverage and summary of major events from November 2018 to January 2019.
131. Friedrich Engels and Modern Social and Political Theory
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2019
132. From Academic to Assembly Line Worker: My Life of Precarity in Middle America
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A non-tenured academic's story of trying to make ends meet in Indiana.
133. From Nazi Germany to Ottoman Turkey, Genocides Begin in the Wilderness, Far From Prying Eyes
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Recent research shows that the Armenian genocide began before its usually accepted date in 1915. This is consistent with other genocides which start away from the metropolises with only minimal instructions from higher government.
134. From Nukes to Occupy: The Rise and Fall of the Non-Violent Direct Action Movement in the United States, 1976 – 2012
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The non-violent direct action movement originated in the anti-nuclear power movement of the late 1970s / early 1980s. Inspired by the German anti-nuclear movement, activists organized occupations of construction sites for nuclear reactors, aiming to insure no new plants were built. The processes, organizational structure, and culture adopted by these activists differed sharply from the movements of the sixties and early seventies.
135. From Pre-K On, US Schools Privilege the Already Privileged
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The college bribery admissions scandal is only the extreme end of the inequality in the education system. Public policies, such as school funding based on property values, disadvantage children in low-income communities starting as early as pre-K.
136. From the Green Revolution to GMOs: Toxic Agriculture Is the Problem Not the Solution
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The pesticide industry lobbies governments to allow chemicals that have long been known to be harmful.
137. From the Middle East to Northern Ireland, Western States are All Too Happy to Avoid Culpability for War Crimes
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Forgiving war crimes when they are committed by their own side is a practice of the Nazis that many western governements seem to be taking up.
138. Further Reading on the Russian Revolution
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Several book recomendations with some comments on each.
139. Gabor Maté on the misuse of anti-Semitism and why fewer Jews identify with Israel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Talking today about antisemitism, particularly posing it as a problem on the left.
140. Miriam Garfinkle
     Connexipedia article
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Miriam Garfinkle was a Canadian physician and social justice activist.
141. Gaza Fights for Freedom
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2019
     Filmed during the height of the Great March Of Return protests, it features exclusive footage of demonstrations where 200 unarmed civilians have been killed by Israeli snipers since March 30, 2018.
142. The Global Assault on Indigenous Peoples
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Focusing on the the Ngäbe–Buglé in Panama, a look at the Indigenous people who have their way of life is destroyed by capitalism.
143. The Global Movement Against Gentrification
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Accounts of worldwide efforts to promote municipal engagement and organize locally for justice are given in the book Fearless Cities: A Guide to the Global Municipalist Movement.
144. GM Closures -- What's Next?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Plant closures by GM in the US, Canada and internationally threaten workers and communities. Can unions fight to stop this destructive practice?
145. Google Bans Press TV
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Social media companies are banning media outlets in the name of alleged 'hate speech' but the companies' contacts and their targets make them instruments of government censorship.
146. The Grand Illusion
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     As the ecological crisis deepens, nearing the infamous Tipping Point – taking us closer to planetary catastrophe – we are being led to believe that an imminent "greening" of the world economy will deliver us from a very dark future. Somehow, against all logic, we have adopted a collective faith in the willingness of ruling governments and corporations to do the right thing.
147. Grand Jury Efforts: Jailing Chelsea Manning
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The role of Grand Juries in the persecution of Chelsea Manning and a summary of their history.
148. Gray Whales Are Dying: Starving to Death Because of Climate Change
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A look at the plight of sea mammals and the state of marine science education.
149. Green construction and worker safety
     Green construction yields promising results for the future of our planet. But new technologies come with new safety risks for workers.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Eco-friendly construction exposes workers to new methods and materials which do not have the standard safety practices of those that are more established.
150. Greenwashing the Climate Catastrophe
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Many solutions to climate change such as the Green New Deal do not address the real threat to the planet: capitalism. They in fact are a smokescreen under which to conduct business as usual.
151. Nancy Gruber, 1930-2018
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Obituary of radical activist Nancy Gruber.
152. A Guided Tour of AI and the Murky Ethical Issues It Raises
     In "Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans," Melanie Mitchell explores the workings and ethics of AI.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Mitchell's goal is to give a thorough (and I mean thorough) account not only of the ethical issues artificial intelligence raises today (and tomorrow), but of how the various branches of AI that the Dartmouth group pursued actually work. She is a good writer with broad knowledge of the topic (unsurprising, since she has a Ph.D. in computer science), and a canny mindfulness of both the merits and problems of AI.
153. Guiding principles for an Ecosocialist Green New Deal 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Statement of the Ecosocialist Working Group of the DSA on their demands for a Green New Deal that combats climate change and inequality.
154. Guilt of Anti-semitism Now Needs No Evidence
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Accusations of anti-Semitism against Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party make an effective smear in a corporate-contolled media that focuses on individual personalities.
155. 'The happy days are now just nostalgia'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Along with the temperatures, the Brokpa say, the entire weather pattern has become increasingly unpredictable in the past two decades in the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh, which border the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, Bhutan and Myanmar.
156. Marta Harnecker, the Fighter
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Obituary for Marta Harnecker, sociologist, political scientist, and activist from Chile.
157. Harvesting the Blood of America's Poor: The Latest Stage of Capitalism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     In today’s wretched economy, where around 130 million Americans admit an inability to pay for basic needs like food, housing or healthcare, buying and selling blood is of the few booming industries America has left.
158. A health care algorithm affecting millions is biased against black patients
     A startling example of algorithmic bias
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A health care algorithm makes black patients substantially less likely than their white counterparts to receive important medical treatment. The major flaw, which affects millions of patients, was revealed in research published in the journal Science.
159. Hebron - the heart of the occupation
     Justice for Palestine is central to the left. The situation in Hebron is a good example why.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The history and current situation in Hebron.
160. The hijab: "preventing common impositions"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Children are not the property of their parents. They are individuals with rights and bodily integrity. And just because their parents believe in child veiling or FGM and male circumcision doesn't mean they should be automatically entitled to impose their views on their children, especially when these views are harmful.
161. Historian Victoria Bynum on the inaccuracies of the New York Times 1619 Project
     An interview with the author of The Free State of Jones
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The 1619 Project, launched by the New York Times in August 2019, presents American history in a purely racial lens and blames all "white people" for the enslavement of 4 million black people as chattel property.
162. History Is Happening: WikiLeaks, the Global Fourth Estate
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     An article based on and in discussions with Nozomi Hayase's book 'WikiLeaks, the Global Fourth Estate: History Is Happening'.
163. A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-1966
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Review of a book of the Indonesian massacres contains lengthy excerpts and summary of the history.
164. Hitting nature where it hurts: Iran feels the pernicious effects of US sanctions on biodiversity conservation
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Iran is home to a rich and complex array of biodiversity. Efforts to protect its biodiversity have been challenged by decades of economic sanctions and political isolation.
165. Hollywood's 'Captain Marvel' Blockbuster Is Blatant US Military Propaganda
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Captain Marvel is the latest in a long line of movies made with the cooperation and approval of the US military.
166. Holocaust to Resistance
     My journey
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2019
     A memoir by Suzanne Berliner Weiss, a holocaust survivor born in France, who came to North America and was active in radical causes in the United States and Canada.
167. The Homeless 8-Year-Old Chess Champion and Other Horrific 'Uplifting' Stories
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Stories in US media of people overcoming adversity are only inspiring if you ignore the unjust systems that create their oppression.
168. Hong Kong's opposition unites with Washington hardliners to 'preserve the US's own political and economic interests'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the so-called Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act on November 19, 2019, without any opposition. Despite loudly proclaiming to protect "human rights" and "democracy," a closer look at this legislation reveals the imperial agenda underlying Washington’s actions in Hong Kong.
169. How a Christian Nonprofit Helped a Controversial Minnesota Mining Company Buy Gear for Local Police
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A Christian non-profit called Shield616 that donates gear to police forces has received donations from mining companies. This sparks concerns of a conflict of interest among residents that are protesting these mines.
170. How and Why The Intercept Is Reporting on a Vast Trove of Materials About Brazil’s Operation Car Wash and Justice Minister Sergio Moro
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A summary of the Intercepts investigation into Operation Car Wash based on a trove of private communication they have received and are making available to the public.
171. How can the U.S. dare lecturing China about Rights of the Muslims?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     For some time, I have been warning the world that the West, and the United States in particular, are helping to radicalize the Uyghurs in Xinjiang Province and outside.
172. How Capitalist Globalization Forecloses on Health Systems
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Discussion of the multi-author collection "Health Care under the Knife." The book criticizes many aspects of medicine under capitalism but falls short of promoting radical alternatives.
173. "How Could They?" Why Some Americans Were Drawn to the Communist Party in the 1940s
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     We did not become Communists because of any adoration of Stalin. We wanted a better world, one in peace, and we admired the giant achievements of the Soviet people in overcoming illiteracy and building a giant industrial base which proved so vital in defeating the Nazis. We also admired an economy which suffered no joblessness while nearly the entire world groaned under the Great Depression.
174. 'How Dare You!' The Climate Crisis And The Public Demand For Real Action
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Reality clashed with the BBC version of false consensus in a remarkable edition of HardTalk last month. Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, was starkly honest about humanity’s extreme predicament in the face of climate breakdown and refused to buckle under host Stephen Sackur’s incredulous questioning.
175. How Evil Wins: the Hypocritical Double Standards of Political Outrage
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The injustices carried out under Trump are not new and people who believe they are or that partisan politics will fix things are being fooled.
176. How Much Do Humans Pollute? A Breakdown of Industrial, Vehicular and Household C02 Emissions
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Modified excerpt from author's new book, Privatized Planet: "Free Trade" as a Weapon Against Democracy, Healthcare and the Environment.
177. How the Murders of Journalists in the Middle East Are Brushed Aside
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Though higher-profile than most, Jamal Khashoggi was far from the first Arab journalist to be murdered in the Middle East. In his case, just like most others, cover-ups disguised as investigations may placate public outcry.
178. How protesters are 'deanonymising' Russia's riot police
     Online tools identify policemen who violently dispersed protesters in Moscow
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Tools such as reverse-image search are being used to identify police who violently broke up a protest in Moscow. The legality of releasing this information and the threats some people are making with it is discussed.
179. How SDS Imploded: an Inside Account
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A look at how Students for a Democratic Society imploded 50 years ago and how it is similar to the behaviour of political parties in the US today.
180. How Slick Consulting Firms Get Us on Drugs
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A look at some of the techniques drug companies use to get doctors to prescribe their products.
181. How the Hand of Israeli Spy Tech Reaches Deep into our Lives
     Israeli software used on Palestinians is producing new cyber weapons that are rapidly being incorporated into global digital platforms
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Digital age weapons developed by Israel to oppress Palestinians are rapidly being repurposed for much wider applications – against Western populations who have long taken their freedoms for granted.
182. How the U.S. Military Feeds at the Terror Trough
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A meandering take on the US's perpetual wars around the world.
183. How the World Works
     The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2019
     In How the World Works, Cockshott connects scientific, economic, and societal strands to produce a sweeping and detailed work of historical analysis.
184. How Urban Planners Promote Gentrification
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A review of Samuel Stein's book "Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State" which looks at how private interests and government promote gentrification.
185. How would a revolutionary government protect the environment?
     There is an enormous unused human potential waiting to be drawn into the job of saving the ecosphere. How can it be mobilized?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A look at how a revolutionary government would combat climate change. Includes a lengthy excerpt from the pamphlet The Green Tax Fraud by Dick Nichols.
186. The Hydroponic Threat to Organic Food
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The US Department of Agriculture is approving methods as "Certified Organic" which are contrary to the principles of organic, sustainable agriculture. This is done mostly to comply with the demands of large agribusiness companies.
187. I Accuse!
     Herewith a proof beyond reasonable doubt that ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda whitewashed Israel
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2019
     This finely-honed indictment by a writer widely acknowledged for his forensic skills is directed at Fatou Bensouda, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. It sets out how she defiled her office by refusing to investigate credible allegations of Israeli criminality.
188. "I have been there before" - For Sri Lankan Christians like me, the Easter attacks revived old
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A personal narrative about the complicated politics of language, ethnicity, and religion in Sri Lanka in the wake of the Easter bombings.
189. 'I lost four sons': In Kashmir, women suffer brunt of conflict
     Women's Day is a grim reminder of atrocities and hardships faced by the women of the region in decades-long conflict.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Women in Kashmir suffer the loss of their sons, husbands, and fathers in ongoing conflict.
190. Noel Ignatiev, 1940-2019
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Yesterday I learned that my friend and comrade Noel Ignatiev passed away. He’d been in poor health for some time, diagnosed with a rare form of gastrointestinal cancer that made it difficult for him to swallow properly or digest, but it still caught me off guard.
191. Illusion or Advance? Ecosocialists debate the 'Green New Deal'
     Activists from System Change Not Climate Change discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Green New Deal proposal.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Activists from 'System Change Not Climate Change' discuss the strengths and weaknesses of 'Green New Deal' proposals, and how the left should respond.
192. Imagination and Nuclear Weapons
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Imagining the horror of nuclear war is not enough to prevent it. Governments with nuclear weapons must be forced to disarm.
193. Impeachment, Brought to You by the CIA
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Despite occasional warm gas passed in a leftish direction, establishment Democrats never had any intention of allowing a left political program to move forward. After four decades of asserting that they 'believe' climate science, the moment has arrived when the only political path forward is to take on their donors.
194. In Brazil, thousands of people are still living under the threat of bursting mining dams
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The Brazilian state of Minas Gerais is home to several large dams many of which have burst causing death and environment damage. There is evidence that some of these disasters were predictable.
195. In Defense of Julian Assange
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2019
     A wide range of distinguished contributors, many of them in original pieces, here set out the story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, the importance of their work, and the dangers for us all in the persecution they face. In Defense of Julian Assange is a vivid, vital intervention into one of the most important political issues of our day.
196. In defense of To Kill a Mockingbird: The 1962 film about racism in theaters this week
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Attempts to remove To Kill a Mockingbird from curricula are misguided and ignore the artistic and courageous ambitions of the book and film.
197. In Praise of Direct Action (and More)
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The speed with which air traffic controllers' work stoppage put an end to the government shutdown shows the power of direct action especially when it threatens capitalist profit.
198. In Protest Against Police Raping Spree, Women Burn Their Station in Mexico City.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A first person account of protests in Mexico City in response to reports of rape by police officers which have been dismissed by the administration.
199. In The Eye of the Beholder: USA History of Imprisoning Women Politicals
     Part One of review and discussion of Linda G. Ford's Women Politicals in America: Jailed Dissenters from Mother Jones to Lynne Stewart
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     An in-depth review of Linda Ford's "Women Politicals in America: Jailed Dissenters from Mother Jones to Lynne Stewart" (2018). The author draws on his personal experience as a journalist and organizer.
200. Indigenous People, the First Victims of Brazil's New Far-Right Government
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Anti-Indigenous sentiment in Brazil is emboldened by Bolsonaro's regime. This is leading to greater efforts by the government and agribusiness to seize Indigenous Lands.
201. Indo-Pak Nuclear Confrontation: First Use Policy and the Race Towards Armageddon
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     There are several indications that India's ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ideological mentor the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) are obsessed with the perverse urge to wipe out Pakistan with nuclear weapons by unleashing a first or a second strike.
202. Indonesia: 41 dead, 546 assaulted, 51 shot in agrarian conflicts under Jokowi’s watch
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     An explosion of agrarian conflicts between 2014 and 2018 has resulted in many casualties including 41 people killed, 546 people assaulted and 51 people shot since President Joko Widodo came to office.
203. Inside the Organized Crime Syndicate known as the CIA: an Interview with Douglas Valentine
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
204. The Intercept Shuts Down Access to Snowden Trove
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     First Look Media, owner of The Intercept, is shutting down access to Snowden’s leaked NSA documents. Their reporters still have copies of all the documents and are looking to find a new outlet for them.
205. An interview with historian Gordon Wood on the New York Times' 1619 Project
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     I was surprised, as many other people were, by the scope of this thing, especially since it's going to become the basis for high school education and has the authority of the New York Times behind it, and yet it is so wrong in so many ways.
206. The Irish Language and Marxist Materialism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A review of Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin's book "Language From Below: the Irish language, ideology and power in 20th century Ireland" which looks at the role language and nationalism has played in Irish liberation movements.
207. The "Irrepressible Conflict:" Slavery, the Civil War and America's Second Revolution
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The purpose of this lecture series, hosted by the Socialist Equality Party, is to address the falsifications of the New York Times' "1619 Project" and undertake a historical materialist analysis of American history, and in this lecture, the Civil War.
208. Is the Pentagon Behind the Rise in Lyme Disease?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A conversation with Kris Newby author of Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons.
209. Israel Again Bombs Gaza - But Is It "In Response"?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     In this case it is undoubtedly the Palestinian side that is responding to Israeli violence. But even if Palestinians would fire missiles without an immediate cause it would be within the full rights of the Palestinian people. In its 1982 Resolution 37/43 the General Assembly of the United Nations reaffirmed:
     "the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial and foreign domination and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle;"
     The UN GA resolution is standing international law. The Palestinian people have the right to resist against the occupation force. In practice as well as legally Israel is a colonial entity that occupies Palestinian land, especially in Gaza and the West Bank. Any armed struggle by Palestinians against the occupation, provoked or not, is thus morally and legally justified.
     But do not expect that any 'western' mainstream media will ever point that out.
210. Israel: Are democracy and despotic racism compatible?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A criticism of Zionism as a "melding of an elitist pseudo-democracy with racist despotism."
211. Israeli intervention in US elections overwhelms anything Russia has done, claims Chomsky
     The 89-year-old said the media was largely ignoring vital issues such as climate change
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Chomsky on the brazen interference of Israel in US politics to which supposed Russian meddling in the US election pales in comparison.
212. Israel's latest attempt to erase Palestine
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Efforts by teams from the Israeli defense ministry to remove sensitive documents from Israeli archives must be understood in a new political climate and are not simply an attempt to spare Israeli governments embarrassment, as some have suggested.
213. Israel's relentless violence on Gaza met by global silence
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A ceasefire has been reached in Gaza after Israel launched a wave of airstrikes that killed 34 Palestinians, including eight members of one family. Ali Abunimah of The Electronic Intifada discusses Israel's latest bombings, which come after more than one year of weekly, deadly Israeli attacks on non-violent Palestinian demonstrators.
214. It Is True That Corruption Caused The 737 MAX Accidents. But It Was Not Foreign.
     The New York Times blamed the foreign pilots for the crashes of two 737 MAX airplanes. It now takes a shot at the foreign airlines
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     So someone from Indonesia's air safety agency took another job in the industry. Three years later he changed back into a government role. That shows that Indonesia is a corrupt country and that Lion Air is the most corrupt, says a former pilot with an ax to grind.
215. ‘It Was a Remarkably Successful Grassroots Campaign to Target Amazon’s Credibility’
     CounterSpin interview with Neil deMause on Amazon's retreat from New York
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Transcript of interview with Neil deMause about NY's bid for Amazon HQ. Included downloadable MP3 of interview.
216. It's No Wonder the Military likes Violent Video Games, They Can Help Train Civilians to Become Warriors
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Most studies show no correlation between video games and violence but the adoption of computer simulations by the military and their similarity to video games should give us pause about their ethical impact on society.
217. It's Raining Sand in Rayalaseema
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     In the Rayalaseema region in India, changing agriculture has reduced biodiversity, depleting the soil and leading to aridity and sandstorms.
218. The Journalists Do The Shouting
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Today’s meaningful art is samizdat stickers on wireline poles and spray-canned corporate advertising. Corporate media is no longer considered a sure source of credible reporting.
219. Journalists Speak Up for Julian Assange
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Journalists and journalistic organizations around the globe, express their grave concern for Julian Assange's wellbeing, for his continued detention and for the draconian espionage charges.
220. Juan Guaidó: The Man Who Would Be President of Venezuela Doesn't Have a Constitutional Leg to Stand On
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The US coup in Venezuela uses constitutional arguments to give legitimacy to Guaido's presidency. This article details how this argument is false.
221. Judge: Providing Water to Dying Immigrants in Desert is a Crime
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Activists who leave water near the US-Mexico border have been found guilty of various charges. Others in similar situations are still awaiting trial.
222. Judicial Secrecy: Where Justice Goes to Die 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The trend of courts imposing gag orders and press bans on judicial proceedings is a hallmark of police states and a threat to freedom and justice.
223. Karl Kautsky as Architect of the October Revolution
     Part 1: Before the War: The Bolsheviks Applaud Kautsky's Tactics
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Lenin remained true to the tactical ideas of Karl Kautsky after the latter had abandoned them.
224. Karl Kautsky as Architect of the October Revolution
     Part 2: 1917: The Bolsheviks Apply Kautsky’s Tactics
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The Bolsheviks came into 1917 with two pieces of Kautsky advice firmly under their belts: enlist the peasantry as a revolutionary ally, and do not deviate from militant anti-agreementism.
225. Kashmiris launch calendar to remember disappeared loves ones
     At least 8,000 people have disappeared since 1989 according to human rights groups, leaving relatives in no-man's land
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Women whose husbands were disappeared have spent decades wondering what happened to them and fighting for justice. They and a group representing families of disappeared persons have published a calendar commemerating 12 victims.
226. Kautsky, Lenin, and the transition to socialism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Counterposing Karl Kautsky's perspective of a "democratic road to socialism" as against a supposed Leninist "insurrectionary strategy" presents a false framework for the debate.
227. Killing for Credibility: A Look Back at the 1999 NATO Air War on Serbia
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A detailed look back at NATO's 1999 war on Yugoslavia.
228. Komiks from the Underground: the Radicalism of Gilbert Shelton
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A review and history of "Radical America Komiks," a reprint collection of underground comics from 1969.
229. Lawless Trump-Canada Connections
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Canada recently seized and sold $30 million worth of Iranian properties in Ottawa and Toronto, a gross hypocrisy explains Yves Engler in light of oversights of more flagrant US and Israel terror victims. But the behaviour of Canada Foreign Affairs in joining the lawless US war of sanctions, embargos and military threats against Iran goes deeper than hypocrisy.
230. Leaked: USA's Feb 2018 Plan for Coup in Venezuela
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Publication of a military document outlining the military, diplomatic, and propaganda policies to overthrow the Maduro governnment.
231. A Left for Itself
     Left-Wing Hobbyists and Performative Radicalism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2019
     David Swift argues that the left is dominated by what he terms hobbyists and performative radicals.
232. Legal Weed Is Great, But Black and Brown Communities Can't Be Left Behind
     Marijuana legalization must bring both equity and justice for those most impacted by the War on Drugs.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Marginalized populations that were hardest hit by the War on Drugs should be at the forefront of legalization legislation as well as recipients of the tax revenue from legalized marijuana.
233. Lessons from Canada: On Women's Libraries and Liberation
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A report on a talk Bec Wonders gave at the For Women Scotland event held on May 14, 2019, detailing her experiences as co-founder of Vancouver Women's Library and the value of knowledge produced by second wave feminists.
234. Lessons of Nashville: The working class and the defense of immigrants
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A recent story about residents of a Nashville neighborhood rallying to protect their neighbors from ICE agents shows the power of class solidarity in the face of attempts at racial division.
235. A Lethal Industrial Farm Fungus is Spreading Among Us
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Agricultural fungicides are creating strains of drug-resistant fungi.
236. Let's Make Sure the Nazis Killed in Vain
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     I don't know how many times I've heard that if we don't stand by Israel, the victims of the Nazi Judeocide will have died in vain. I knew something was wrong with that claim, but for the longest time I couldn't put my finger on it. Now I think I can.
237. A Liberal Elite Still Luring Us Towards the Abyss 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A recent manifesto decrying "populism and nationalism" see today's problems as coming from the abandonment of liberal ideals when they are in fact caused by extreme adherence to them.
238. Liberals' 'humanitarian' open arms is not a solution to migrant crisis; radical economic changes are needed
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Calls by Liberals to 'open our hearts' to immigrants from poor countries are about maintaining the status quo in the capitalist world. The solution is a radical change in the global economic system which encourages migration.
239. The Lies About Assange Must Stop Now
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Newspapers and other media in the United States and Britain have recently declared a passion for freedom of speech, especially their right to publish freely. They are worried by the "Assange effect".
240. Life Itself is an Art
     The life and work of Erich Fromm
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
241. Like Israeli settlers, white mass shooters are a manifestation of their society
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A caution against calls from the left to label white mass shooters as terrorists. Calling them terrorists does not address the fact that they carry out the objectives of their settler-colonial states.
242. Local fishermen: caught between the pros and cons of traceability
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Consumers concerned about the environmental impact of fishing are demanding more transparency and accountablity from the industry. Ironically, the resulting regulations are prohibitive to the small scale fishermen that are the most sustainable part of the industry.
243. Localism's Contradictions in Hong Kong
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Localism, as a recent political phenomenon in the Hong Kong political landscape, stresses Hong Kong’s political and cultural autonomy as distinct from that of China, while older pan-democratic organizations tend to stress this continuity between democratic struggles in Hong Kong and China. Localism has politicized the younger generations in many ways – but is localism a coherent political ideology, and how does it square with an anti-capitalist, mass-led political practice?
244. The London Climate Protests - Raising The Alarm
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Analysis of media coverage of the climate crisis looks at how many outlets try to discredit 'alarmist' activists. However a sense of panics is rational and needed to avoid catastrophe.
245. The Long Goodbye of Antiwar Protest
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     There is a lack of real opposition - both by other governments and the public - to US-led regime changes.
246. Lots of Scurrying But No Revolution in Sight
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Disappointed review of a collecton of essays of women and climate change, mostly in support of reforming the status quo.
247. Lyme Disease and Biowarfare
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Historical look at the connection between Lyme disease and US government-produced bioweapons by a journalist who has been researching it for decades.
248. Magnificent FIght: the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2019
     In Magnificent Fight, Dennis Lewycky lays out the history of this iconic event, which remains the biggest and longest strike in Canadian history. He analyzes the social, political and economic conditions leading up to the strike.
249. Mainstream Media Bias on 2020 Democratic Race Already in High Gear
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Mainstream media pundits undermine the chances of progressive candidates like Bernie Sanders despite the defeat of centrist politicians by the right.
250. Making Money Off of Green Debt: Cory Morningstar Finds Corporate Wolves Behind Environmental Sheep
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Building through the privatization-friendly Reagan-Bush era of the 1980s, ramping up significantly with Bill Clinton's signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the 1990s, and solidified through the de facto repeal of the post-Great Depression separation between investment and commercial banks at the end of Clinton’s scandal-plagued final term in office at the turn of the millenium, the United States went through a very noticeable shift in how its economy functioned.
251. The Making of Juan Guaidó: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela's Coup Leader
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A detailed account of US-backed groups that positioned Juan Guaidó to declare himself president of Venezuela.
252. Manufacturing the Enemy: The Media War Against Cuba
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2019
     Mainstream media in the United States for the past 60 years has converged with the neo-colonial foreign policy objectives of the state to create a misinformed, biased narrative against the Cuban revolution. Using extensive examples, including pre-revolutionary historic coverage, journalist Keith Bolender reveals how the national press has established an anti-Cuba chronicle in adherence to Washington's unrelenting regime change policies.
253. Marx for Today: A Socialist-Feminist Reading
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     In-depth look at the relationship between feminism and Marxism.
254. Marx on Children (and on Forgiving Christianity)
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     An exploration of Marx's and Christianity's views on children.
255. Masterless Men: Poor whites and slavery in the Antebellum south by Keri Leigh Merritt - Book review
     "1619" and the myth of white unity under slavery
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A critique of the New York Times' "1619" initiative, marking the 400th anniversary of the disembarkation of the first African slaves in what was to become the United States.
256. David McReynolds, 1928-2018
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Obituary and memoir of leftist activist David McReynolds.
257. Media Rally Around 'Forever War' in Afghanistan
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A round up of some of the alarmist reporting on supposed withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.
258. Meet Europe's Left Nationalists -'A momentous turn against free movement in Europe'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The rise of leaders like Sahra Wagenknecht and Jean-Luc Mélenchon marks a momentous turn against free movement in Europe-at the expense of immigrants.
259. Memory, History, and a Pillar of Salt
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A personal memoir about art and history in the early days of AIDS and ACT UP.
260. The Menace of Right "Populism"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Editorial about Trump and right-wing regimes world-wide and the opportunities for left-wing organizing.
261. The Militarization of Empathy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Surprise reunions between returning soldiers and their families are a major spectacle in US media. But these heartwarming scenes serve as a distraction from the activities of the soldiers while they are overseas.
262. A million species 'threatened with extinction'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A summary of a dire climate report on the decline in global biodiversity.
263. MLK in Memphis, 1968
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A look at MLK's actions and speeches in Memphis and their relevance today.
264. Money, Power and Turf: Winning the Middle East Media War at Any Cost
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     It is hardly surprising to see Middle Eastern countries at the bottom of the World Press Freedom Index, as the worst violators of freedom of the press. But equally alarming is the complete polarization of public opinion as a result of self-serving media and, bankrolled by rich Arab countries, whose only goal is to serve their specific, often sinister, agendas.
265. Money Talks, Bullshit Walks on Cable News
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     None of the big companies buying advertising time on CNN and MSNBC have any interest in the progressive taxation and restored union organizing and collective bargaining rights that Sanders advocates.
266. The Most Enduring Media Cover Up
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Clearing the FOG hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese interviewed Alison Weir, journalist and founder of If Americans Knew, a website that provides factual information about the Israeli State and Palestine.
267. Moving past climate denial
     Deniers feel that the impacts of climate breakdown don't matter, but the solutions pose an imminent threat, new research shows.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Katharine Hayhoe, a climate researcher and political science professor argues that it's more productive to show climate change skeptics that solutions are beneficial to them rather than trying to make them believe in the science of climate change.
268. Murder on the Mekong: why exiled Thai dissidents are abducted and killed
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     In Thailand, people who violate lèse-majesté law - which prevents any criticism of the monarchy - can find themselves with a bounty on them and end up living in exile. Some dissidents have been murdered or disappeared.
269. My Friend Was Murdered for Trying to Save the Amazon
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Paulino paid with his life for trying save his tribe's forest, the Arariboia Indigenous Territory, in the north-east Amazon.
270. My Response to the PBS Series: Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A criticism of the PBS series on Reconstruction which presents slavery as a 'southern problem,' ignoring its ties to capital and class.
271. Myanmar's Other Reporters
     The world cheered when two Reuters journalists were freed from prison. But who’s watching out for the rest?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Detailed analysis of the state of freedom of speech and the press in Burma/Myanmar.
272. Nationalism, Patriotism, Hate Crimes
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A look at the (mis)use of the word "nationalism" to describe Trump and white supremacists.
273. NATO's Crises
     The 2% goal as defence illiteracy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     NATO's London Summit on December 3 and 4, 2019 displays the deep political crisis of the 70-year-old alliance: Only a dinner and a short meeting, no statement to be issued, quarrels among the leading military members, accusations, substantial differences on Syria and many other issues, the deepest-ever Transatlantic conflict and the usual issues of burden-sharing.
274. The Need for a Compelling Anti-Capitalist Narrative
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     To inspire people with possibility socialists need to create a vision of the world they want to create instead of just showing how bad capitalism is.
275. Neoliberalism: Free Market Fundamentalism or Corporate Power?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The idea of "free market fundamentalism (FMF)" omits the fact that neoliberalism requires state intervention to run, so criticism of neoliberalsm based on FMF is ahistorical and self-defeating.
276. Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match In China
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Unless China starts playing by neoliberal rules Trump's economic war with them will lead the US to a race to the bottom or isolation from international markets.
277. The Never-Ending Curse of Coal
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Last week Murray Energy, one of the largest coal mining corporations in the nation, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. That makes it the fifth coal company to do so in the last year.
278. The new Jewish left
     In Canada, young Jews are fighting antisemitism while opposing the Israeli occupation
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Young Jewish people in North America are fighting antisemitism while opposing Israel's occupation of Palestine.
279. The New Politics of Disablement: The Contribution of Mike Oliver
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Obituary for Mike Oliver, one of the founders of the social model of disability. Includes historical information, his legacy, and suggested reading.
280. New York Times Admits it Sent Story to Government for Approval
     The American paper of record just provided a major example of the symbiotic relationship between U.S. corporate media and the government
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The NY Times' seeking approval for a recent story is part of a history of the mainstream media's collaboration with the US government.
281. New Zealand - Open letter: Betraying women and free thought in the name of Christchurch massacres
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     An open letter questioning shows of solidarity with Muslims after the Christchurch massacre, specifically non-Muslim women wearing head coverings and a Canadian university that disinvited an ex-Muslim atheist speaker.
282. The New Zealand Shootings, a Microcosm of Imperialism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The New Zealand Shootings and other mass murders use the same justification as governments that carry out campaigns against the same targets on a larger scale.
283. Newly Released FOIA Documents Shed Light on Border Patrol’s Seemingly Limitless Authority
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     More than 1,000 pages of previously unseen Customs and Border Protection training documents, shed light on the details of the Amercian Border Patrol’s seemingly limitless authority.
284. Nicaragua: The Other Revolution Betrayed
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A look at the current neoliberal regime in Nicaragua and how the Sandinista government failed to deliver on the promise of the 1979 Revolution.
285. The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     They now warn us that we have to drastically reduce global emissions – by at least 45 percent – over the next decade. Otherwise, we'll pass the point of no return – defined as reaching 450 ppm or more of CO2 in the atmosphere sometime between 2030 and 2050 – when our climate crisis will morph into a climate catastrophe.
286. The Nine Worst Lawfare Injustices in the US and What They Tell Us About Ourselves
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     "Lawfare" is when the law is weoponized and directed against a group of people declared to be an enemy. This is a brief history with nine examples.
287. 1919: The Year the World Was on Fire
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A sprawling take on international revolutionary events of 1919 using Emma Goldman, Bill Haywood, and John Reed as focal points.
288. Nitrogen Crisis: A neglected threat to Earth's life support systems
     Part One of a discussion of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic system that values profits more than life itself.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The rift in the nitrogen cycle is a major threat to the stability of the Earth System. This and subsequent articles will discuss how the natural cycle works and how it has been disrupted in the Anthropocene.
289. No Surrender: The Land Remains Indigenous
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2019
     Between 1869 and 1877 the government of Canada negotiated Treaties One through Seven with the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains. Many historians argue that the negotiations suffered from cultural misunderstandings between the treaty commissioners and Indigenous chiefs, but newly uncovered eyewitness accounts show that the Canadian government had a strategic plan to deceive over the "surrender clause" and land sharing. According to Sheldon Krasowski's research, Canada understood that the Cree, Anishnabeg, Saulteaux, Assiniboine, Siksika, Piikani, Kainaa, Stoney and Tsuu T’ina nations wanted to share the land with newcomers -- with conditions -- but were misled over governance, reserved lands, and resource sharing. Exposing the government chicanery at the heart of the negotiations, No Surrender demonstrates that the land remains Indigenous.
290. A Nonviolent Strategy to Defeat the US Coup Attempt in Venezuela 
     To the People of Venezuela
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     An open letter to the people of Venezuela regarding the US coup and with support for how they can resist.
291. 'Not a Good Answer': Privacy Advocates Reject Democratic Proposal for 'Technological Wall' With Expanded Border Surveillance
     'More surveillance' has become the default answer to far too many difficult policy questions
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Digital rights advocates called on Democratic lawmakers to expand their fight against the wall into a fight for all human and constitutional rights-instead of suggesting alternative "border security" proposals that would infringe on civil liberties.
292. Nothing Kept Me Up At Night the Way Gorgon Stare Did
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     An interview with an expert on drones about a new camera technology that drastically improves wide-area sureillance capabilities.
293. Notorious Portuguese political prison becomes museum of resistance
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A historical fortress Peniche used to hold dissidents under Portugal's dictatorship is being turned into a museum to remind people of the life under fascism.
294. Nuclear Lies and Broken Promises
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told an economic meeting in the city of Sivas this September that Turkey was considering building nuclear weapons, he was responding to a broken promise. When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the government of Iran of lying about its nuclear program, he was concealing one of the greatest subterfuges in the history of nuclear weapons.
295. Numsa strike against sexual harassment is a 'powerful moment in labour history'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A union of metal workers in South Africa staged a strike underground in harsh conditions to support a coworker whose sexual harassment complaint had been dismissed by management.
296. Offering Choice But Delivering Tyranny: the Corporate Capture of Agriculture
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Proponents of genetically modified seeds say they are opening up 'choice' to farmers and consumers but end up giving monopolies to powerful corporations with proprietary agricultural tools and methods. This lessens environmental and dietary health and diversity.
297. Old Mother Forest
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A poignant look at the ecosystem of a rainforest from a conservationist in India.
298. On Equating BDS With Anti-Semitism: a Letter to the Members of the German Government
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     An open letter to the German government by a Jew arguing against a motion equating BDS with anti-Semitism.
299. On the Coast of Oaxaca, Afro and Indigenous Tribes Fight for Water Autonomy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     In southern Mexico, a multi-ethnic network of towns has halted the construction of a mega-dam. Now they are organizing to manage their own natural resources and revitalize their culture as native water protectors.
300. On the degradation of political debate
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Today, political debates have become vacuous and insipid because politicians have become contemptuous of the electorate. Voters, many believe, are ignorant, swayed more by emotion than by reason, happy to accept lies and drawn to politicians with easy answers.
301. On the Democratic Character of Socialist Revolution
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Great social movements redefine legality and human rights, setting in motion a process of change that becomes irresistible. Socialists utilize electoral opportunities while recognizing that they are far from the whole story. A workers’ government committed to socialism will probably be achieved as the democratic ratification of a program that has already gained majority support through discussion and mobilization among the population at large.
302. On the Front Lines of the Climate Change Movement: Mike Roselle Draws a Line
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     An excerpt from the book The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink by Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank. An account of environmental activists fighting massive industries to save the environment.
303. An Open Letter to Chelsea Manning: A Free Woman in An American Prison
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A message of courage and strength addressed to Chelsea Manning.
304. Operation Condor 2.0: After Bolivia coup, Trump dubs Nicaragua 'national security threat' and targets Mexico
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     One successful coup against a democratically elected socialist president is not enough, it seems. Immediately after overseeing a far-right military coup in Bolivia on November 10, the Trump administration set its sights once again on Nicaragua, whose democratically elected Sandinista government defeated a violent right-wing coup attempt in 2018.
305. Orbán: Strong Man, Authoritarian Ideology
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Review of a book about Viktor Orbán's political career.
306. The Orwell quotes right-wingers never mention
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A brief look at George Orwell's revolutionary, left-wing views to counter the superficial references to "thought police" or "big brother" used in right-wing circles.
307. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 27, 2019
     What Next?
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2019
     Millions of us, in many different countries, came out in late September to demand action on the climate crisis. Around the world, in diverse ways, we are working to keep up the pressure. Time is short, and the tasks are huge. In the midst of our activism and organizing, we need to keep asking ourselves some important questions: What are our goals? And what should we do to reach our goals?
308. Our Movement, Our Lives
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Review of a history of the Black Lives Matter movement, both nationally and locally.
309. Our Veggie Gardens Won't Feed us in a Real Crisis
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Small scale farming that can actually provide for people requires more knowledge and resources than people think.
310. Our Veggie Gardens Won't Feed us in a Real Crisis
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Prudence would dictate that we heed this year's events as a warning and get serious about making preparations for worse years. Literal cycles of "feast or famine" have marked agriculture since its birth and sooner or later we will experience significant shortages here in the US, if not from the weather, than from war or lack of resources.
311. 'Palestinian Rights Has Become an Incredibly Mainstream Issue'
     CounterSpin interview with Josh Ruebner on BDS bans
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Interview with Josh Ruebner about anti-BDS legislation. With downloadable MP3 of interview.
312. Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2019
     Although Soave may not personally agree with their motivations and goals, he takes their ideas seriously, approaching his interviews with a mixture of respect and healthy skepticism. The result is a faithful cross-section of today's radical youth, which will appeal to libertarians, conservatives, centrist liberals, and anyone who is alarmed by the trampling of free speech and due process in the name of social justice.
313. Paris police use pepper spray against seated climate change protesters
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Police in Paris have been filmed pepper-spraying peaceful protestors. This is part of Macron's crackdown on the "yellow vest" movement in which several protestors have been seriously injured.
314. Party for the Revolution
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Review of Crowds and Party by Jodi Dean, a philosophical look at the crowd and the individual in revolutionary action.
315. Pathological Deceit: The NYT Inverts Reality on Venezuela's Cuban Doctors
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Claims that the Maduro government is using Cuban doctors to coerce voters by refusing care to the opposition are based on very dubious evidence.
316. The Peking University Marxist Society and Student Activists
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Their report on the living and working conditions of university staff approaches Mao's suggestion that 'knowledge of any kind is inseparable from direct experience' when it states that 'it is only through practice that you can produce genuine knowledge.'
317. The People Emerge: The Storming of the Bastille
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A history of the storming of the Bastille emphasizing the revolutionary history that is glossed over in patriotic celebrations.
318. The Perils of Embedded Journalism: 'Afghan Papers' Wouldn't Be Needed If We Had a Real Independent News Media
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     If the Post and other major news media outlets had been pursuing the truth over the years about these all the wars, and the so-called "War" on Terror, instead of leaving the hard work of exposing all the lies to the likes of whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden and journalist/whistleblower publisher Julian Assange, we'd already know about the venality and culpability of our government.
319. Permanent Record
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2019
320. The Persecuted
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Fundamentalist Christians maintaining that they are persecuted may not make sense given the prevalence of sympathetic and Christian-owned media and businesses. Listening to a sermon reveals they see the inability to impose their views in society as persecution.
321. Perspectives for the coming revolution in America: Race, class and the fight for socialism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The title for this meeting is "Perspectives for the Coming Revolution in America." It begins with the understanding, broadly felt by a growing section of workers and youth throughout the world, that we live in a revolutionary period.
322. Pete Seeger Was A Movement Musician
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A memorial to Pete Seeger on what would have been his 100th birthday.
323. Peter Graham and Ian McKay, Radical Ambition: The New Left in Toronto.
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Works on the Canadian New Left are now sprouting plentifully and certainly a work on the country's major city is welcome. This one is encyclopedic, and Graham and McKay deserve thanks for their inclusive rendition of the youthful radical movements in Toronto from 1958 to 1985. The book is generous in its treatment of most of them, though it offers, as it should, analysis of why some groups achieved more in the short term than others while still others left a lasting legacy, for example, in preserving natural areas or working-class neighbourhoods that corporate interests wanted to bulldoze.
324. Peterloo (film review)
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Review of a movie about the massacre at a popular revolt in St Peter's Field in Manchester, U.K in 1819.
325. The Peterloo massacre and Shelley (1)
     Part 1: The aftermath of the massacre and the responses
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The escalation of repression by the ruling class that followed, resulting in a greater suppression of civil liberties, was met with meetings of thousands and the widespread circulation of accounts of the massacre. There was a determination to learn from the massacre and not allow it to be forgotten or misrepresented.
326. The Peterloo Massacre and Shelley (2)
     Part 2: Shelley's politics and his Peterloo poems
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The Peterloo poems adopt various popular forms and styles. Addressing a popular audience with his attempt at a revolutionary understanding suggests a sympathetic response to the emergence of the working class as a political force, and the poems are acute on economic relations.
327. A Plague of Rats: How Years of Austerity Prompted Many Britons to Vote for Brexit
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Many Britons in poor areas voted for Brexit even though they benefited financially from the EU. Though often blamed on fear of immigration it is also a result of discontent brought on by severe austerity and privatization.
328. The Plastic Industry's Fight to Keep Polluting the World
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     An in-depth look at the failure of recycling intiatives and the plastics industry's PR efforts that put the onus on small scale efforts to reduce waste while they fight any initiatives that curb production at the industry level.
329. A Play with No End
     What the Gilets Jaunes really want
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     When I caught up with the Gilets Jaunes on March 2, near the Jardin du Ranelagh, they were moving in such a mass through the streets that all traffic had come to a halt. The residents of Passy, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Paris, stood agape and apart and afraid.
330. "Please Step Away from the Socialism": The Red Scare Dems at MSNBC
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The anti-socialist scaremongering at MSNBC should put paid to the idea that they have any leftist bias.
331. Politics in the Pub Mark Davis
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2019
     The current attempt to use the UK courts to drag Assange into the clutches of a foreign intelligence agency for his revelations is not just an abuse of the extradition process but a fundamental threat to journalism.
332. The politics of identity, left and right
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     One of the consequences of the bifurcated debate is historical amnesia about the origins of identity politics. Most people imagine that its roots are on the left. In fact, they lie on the reactionary right, in the counter-Enlightenment of the late 18th century. It wasn’t then called the politics of identity. It was called racism. It is, however, in the concept of race -- the insistence that humans are divided into a number of essential groups, and that one’s group identity determines one’s moral and social place in the world -- that we find the original politics of identity, out of which ideas of white superiority emerged.
333. The PR Campaign to Hide the Real Cause of those Sky-High Surprise Medical Bills
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Since 2010, an increasing number of hospitals have outsourced their emergency rooms, radiology, anesthesiology, and other specialized services to physician staffing firms. Patients who need these critical services may inadvertently receive care from a doctor outside of their insurance network and find that they owe thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars in surprise medical bills.
334. Press Freedom is Under Threat in the Land of its Birth
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The US was not among the conulates protesting controversial new extradition bill in Hong Kong. They can't with a straight face object to Hong Kong passing an act that endorses extradition for political crimes while Washington is pursuing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
335. Press Freedom is Under Threat in the Land of its Birth
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The author draws parallels between the US and Hong Kong's treatment of freedom and individual rights.
336. The Prisoner Says No to Big Brother 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A tribute to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Includes details of some of the corruption they have exposed.
337. Progressive Ideas Matter to Voters. So Why Do Democrats Fixate on the Identity of the Messenger?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     There is a larger rhetorical trend toward divorcing voter preferences from ideology to focusing on identity. Wittingly or not, the effect is to undermine the obvious power of progressive ideas.
338. Protesting the "slave law" in Hungary: The erosion of illiberal hegemony?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Popular protests have arisen in Hungary to oppose exploitive changes to the labor code. The government opposition has supported the protests but this could result in weakening the protests' legitimacy as a movement.
339. The Public Library: Antidote to Everyday American Banality
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A celebration of the local library that includes conversations with librarians and patrons.
340. Publicised Cruelty: Scott Morrison Visits Christmas Island
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Australia is reopening the immigration detention centre on Christmas Island. The prime minister made a public tour of the facilities.
341. Quo Vadis, Lebanon?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Some Lebanese call what is happening on the streets of Beirut, Tripoli and other cities, an "October Revolution", but in reality, this uprising has very little to do with the iconic Russian Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
342. Race, Class, and the Left with Adolph Reed Jr.
     Resource Type: Audio
     First Published: 2019
     Audio interview with Adolph Reed Jr.
343. Race, Identity and the Political Economy of Hate
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A look at statistics casts doubt on the supposed rise of white nationalist groups and violence.
344. Radical Ambition
     The New Left in Toronto
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2019
     The story of Toronto's New Left from its initial stirrings in the late 1950s to its 'long, ambiguous goodbye in the early 1980s.
345. The Radical Roots of Free Speech
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Interview with Laura Weinrib author of "The Taming of Free Speech: America's Civil Liberties Compromise."
346. Raging Against the Algorithm: Google and Persuasive Technology
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Fears of Google's algorithms detrimental effect on society may be well-founded but the proposed solutions are problematic.
347. Reading Manifestos: Restricting Brenton Tarrant's The Great Replacement
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Attempts to censor the Christchurch shooter's manifesto hinders attempts to understand and counteract their motives. Arguments for censorship, such as enabling copycats, are based on controversial evidence.
348. Recalling the Hundreds of Thousands of Civilian Victims of America's Endless 'War on Terror'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     According to very conservative estimates, as reported by the "Costs of War" project of Brown University’s Watson Institute on International and Public Affairs, nearly 250,000 civilians have been killed during the 8 years since September 2001 in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan in wars or attacks that were instigated by the United States.
349. Reclaiming control of Indonesia's oceans
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Indonesian activists are building a global movement to resist the financialisation and privatisation of the world's oceans.
350. Recording Reveals Oil Industry Execs Laughing at Trump Access
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A 2017 recording of Independent Petroleum Association of America executives reveals them revelling in their access to high levels of government. Since then many environmental protections have been rescinded.
351. Red-Green Alliance: A Green Earth With Peace And Room For Us All
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The Red-Green Alliance advocates a strong international labour organization with muscles to raise global demands for workers. It means a labour organization where it is possible to remain organized, even when traveling across borders, and where people working in the same company, or in the same sector across borders, can be organized together, and raise common demands.
352. Red Round Globe Hot Burning
     A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2019
353. Reflections on coherence and comradeship
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A lengthy personal meditation on strategic challenges facing left organizing.
354. Reform or revolution? A response to three intriguing questions
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The article by Steve Downs Three questions of political strategy poses three intriguing questions: Does "democratic road to socialism" = "parliamentary road to socialism"? Does "insurrection" = "revolution"? Does "rupture" = "revolution"? Steve found these questions helpful in understanding the contending views in Solidarity and DSA over reform or revolution.
355. Refugees Are in the Channel Thanks to the Actions of the West
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The outcome of Western military and economic interventions in the Middle East and North Africa have caused the outflow of refugees from zones of conflict.
356. Remembering America's First (and Longest) Forgotten War on Tribal Islamists
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Here are the relevant points when it comes to the Moro War (which will sound grimly familiar in a twenty-first-century forever-war context): the United States military shouldn’t have been there in the first place; the war was ultimately an operational and strategic failure, made more so by American hubris; and it should be seen, in retrospect, as (using a term General David Petraeus applied to our present Afghan War) the nation's first "generational struggle."
357. Remembering Mitch Podolak
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
358. ‘Renouncing Violence’ Is a Demand Made Almost Exclusively of Muslims
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Media analysis shows that calls to renounce violence are directed at Muslims or other victims of Western occupation.
359. Repeat after me, protests in Venezuela good, protests in France bad!
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Anti-government protests in Venezuela and France are treated differently because of the interests the respective presidents - and their opposition - represent.
360. Republican Estate Tax Repeal: An Effort to Avoid Ever Being Taxed
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     While Sen. Bernie Sanders proposes an important increase in the estate tax, Republicans are gearing for its complete repeal. Morris Pearl of the group Patriotic Millionaires, talks about how the Republicans’ plan would help the rich from ever being taxed.
361. Resignations rock US civil rights institute after it strips Angela Davis of award over pro-BDS views
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Three members quit the board of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute after its controversial decision to first grant, then to rescind an award for iconic activist Angela Davis, following objections to her anti-Israel statements.
362. Resistance Matters
     The Radical Vision of an Antipsychiatry Activist
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2019
     Don Weitz writes "Antipsychiatry organizing saved my life once, and has always given it meaning. This book is an invitation to join me and other psychiatric survivors (and our allies) in exposing psychiatry’s coercive, life-destroying practices and utter lack of scientific validity; and creating and promoting life-affirming alternatives."
363. Rethinking Dominant Approaches to Climate change
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Market-based attempts to curb climate change are inadequate since they further enable its root cause, capitalism.
364. Review: Jonathan Metzl, Dying of Whiteness (2019)
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A detailed review, focusing mainly on gun violence, of Jonathan Metzl's book Dying of Whiteness.
365. A Revolutionary Detroit Memoir
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Review of autobiographical memoir of a white, working-class, Catholic woman who became involved in Black activisim.
366. Revolutionary reels: Soviet propaganda film and the Russian Revolution
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     However, the Bolsheviks would revolutionize Russian cinema as leaders recognized the potential of film propaganda as a way to influence the political and social attitudes of the people. Vladimir Lenin clearly understood the power of film, as he stated, "Of all the arts, for us, cinema is most important."
367. Revolutionary theory, academia and Marxist political parties
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     According to Lenin, revolutionary work has four parts: theoretical work, propaganda, agitation and organization.
368. A rich diversity: Underground channels and stream of US Trotskyism, 1928-1965
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
369. Rich Getting Richer Via Tax Policies
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Marginal income tax rates plunged starting in the 1980s, hitting their modern-day lows under President George W. Bush. After rising modestly during the Obama Administration, they fell again under President Trump. Rate cuts generate only part of the current bonanza. Tax breaks passed by various Congresses account for the rest, hugely increasing the billions that flow to the haves.
370. Rigging the Science of GMO Ecotoxicity
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Scientific article about dangers of GMO plants and techniques used by developers to disguise harms to get GMOs through testing.
371. The Rigors of Organizing: On the Road with the German Climate Resistance 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Ende Gelände, is a broad coalition of German climate resistance organizers. Members are touring the US sharing info about their tactics.
372. Rivers in crisis: water theft and corruption in the Darling River system
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A water crisis in New South Wales has resulted in millions of fish dying and a shortage of water in communities. Politicians blame drought while other blame corruption and the actions of big irrigators.
373. Rivers of Dust: The Future of Water and the Middle East
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Syria and Iraq are at odds with Turkey over the Tigris-Euphrates. Egypt's relations with Sudan and Ethiopia over the Nile are tense. Jordan and the Palestinians accuse Israel of plundering river water to irrigate the Negev Desert and hogging most of the three aquifers that underlie the occupied West Bank. According to satellites that monitor climate, the Tigris-Euphrates basin, embracing Turkey, Syria, Iraq and western Iran, is losing water faster than any other area in the world, with the exception of Northern India.
374. Robot Trolls on Amazon: How Fake Reviews Could Undermine Progressive Politics
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     In the pursuit of profit, corporations appear to be using bots to undermine competitors on Amazon, as they do on Twitter and Facebook. This could have detrimental effects on progressive authors and filmmakers who, in the absence of major corporate backing, need the support of reviewers -- at least on Amazon -- in order to boost their marketability.
375. A Robust Doctrine: Break the Taboo on Odious Debts and their Repudiation
     The Challenges for the European Left regarding Debt and the Banks
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     An interview with Éric Toussaint, the author of The Debt System. A History of Sovereign Debts and their Repudiation. He discusses debt, illegetimate debt and the instances in history when debts were repudiated.
376. Rooting rebellion in nature
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Reflections on the legacy of philosopher and ‘geologian’ Thomas Berry, ten years after his death.
377. Rosa Luxemburg and the actuality of revolution 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     She was brilliant, insightful, with considerable knowledge and practical experience. She said and wrote things that are worth comprehending, actively considering, and testing out as we try to understand and change the world around us.
378. RT's ban from media freedom conference shows British irony is alive and well
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     RT has been banned from a conference on media freedom for reportedly 'spreading disinformation.' They find this accusation and its source an ironic juxtoposition.
379. Russia and the Democrats
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The Democratic Party's insistence of Russian meddling in the election show how out of touch and unfit their leadership is.
380. Russiagate and the Dry Rot in American Journalism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The idea that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election is used by both liberals and the right to maintain the status quo. Comparisons to Hunter S. Thompson show how staid mainstream news has become.
381. Russiagate is Dead! Long Live Russiagate!
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Looking at the fiasco of Russiagate, it's instigators, who profits from it and the issues that it distracts from.
382. Russiagate media smears against Corbyn brought to you by US and UK military-intelligence apparatus
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The popular socialist leader of Britain's Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, could be on the verge of becoming prime minister of the United Kingdom. And the mere possibility is terrifying British intelligence services and the US government.
383. The Same Media That Opposed Democracy in South Africa Now Warn Against It in Israel/Palestine
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Coverage of South African apartheid in US news in the 1980s compared with coverage of Israel/Palestine today reveals similar racist bias.
384. Sard's Permanent War Economy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A long biographical essay on Edward Sard who founded the theory of "permanent war economy."
385. The secrets of Nineteen Eighty-Four
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Close analysis of 1984, including biographical details of Orwell, defending it as a work of leftist literature.
386. The Seizure of an Iranian Tanker and the Lethal Toll of Sanctions
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Sanctions against Syria are having a disastrous effect on the population. Comparisons to Iraq during the 1990s by someone who was there show the historic failure and potential further consequences of sanctions.
387. 'Sexy tricks': How journalists demonize Venezuela's socialist government, in their own words
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The United States has labeled Venezuela's government a "dictatorship" and part of a "troika of tyranny," and has sponsored multiple coup attempts there, including one in November. The corporate media has dutifully ignored the US role in the country's economic woes, laying the blame squarely at the feet of Maduro, omitting crucial political context on Venezuela's economic crisis while keeping up a constant flow of content presenting the country as a socialist hellhole.
388. The Shaving Kit - Manufacturing The Julian Assange Witch-Hunt
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A survey of mainstream media coverage of Assange's arrest that makes him an object of ridicule. Much attention is given to the beard he had at the time.
389. Shedding Light on Forced Child Pregnancy and Motherhood in Latin America
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019   Published: 2018
     Research and campaigns by women's rights advocates are beginning to focus on the problem of Latin American girls who are forced to bear the children of their rapists, with the lifelong implications that entails and without the protection of public policies guaranteeing their human rights.
390. Shots All Around: How Four Roses Bourbon Workers Won Their Strike
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Four Roses Bourbon Worked successfully striked over a two-tier contract proposal that would have given worse benefits to new hires.
391. Slavery and the American Revolution: A Response to the New York Times 1619 Project
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     In its insistence that race -- which has no basis in science -- is the determinative category of both the present and past, the 1619 Project shares the most basic premise of the white supremacists and fascists that are being set into motion by the Trump administration.
392. 'Slaves of the sea'
     The long-forgotten Jaladas community and their need for policy inclusion
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Due to socio-econimical, political, and geographical reasons, the Jaladas community has been negelected and they are vulnerable. Relevant sectoral policies enacted by the government of Bangladesh would address these issues.
393. Social Media Regulation: Speak of the Devil and in Walks Zuck
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Social media giants such as Facebook support government regulation as a means to secure their monopolies.
394. Socially Polarised, Politically Paralysed
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     An essay on the peculiar character of contemporary social polarisation illstrated through the discussion of Brexit.
395. Solidarity, Survival and Sabotage: Reconstructing the History of the Blackouts Tormenting Venezuela
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A detailed timeline of events during the recent blackout in Venezuela.
396. The Solution to the Country's Debt and Deficit Problem
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     For most people, the country's national debt and annual deficit are not major concerns. However, for a substantial portion of the policy types who make, write, and talk about economic and budget policy, debt and deficits are really big deals. And, the fact that our budget deficit and debt are both large by historic standards, and growing rapidly, is an especially big deal.
397. Sowing the seeds of climate crisis in Odisha
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     In Rayagada, Bt cotton acreage has risen by 5,200 per cent in 16 years. The result: this biodiversity hotspot, rich in indigenous millets, rice varieties and forest foods, is seeing an alarming ecological shift.
398. Spokane vs. the Border Patrol: How Immigration Agents Stake Out a City Bus Station
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Amid the Trump administration's immigration enforcement crackdown, the Border Patrol has stepped up raids on Greyhound buses nationwide, combatting what the agency claims is a "growing threat" of "alien smuggling and drug trafficking organizations to move people, narcotics, and contraband to interior destinations."
399. Sri Lanka Easter Sunday Massacre: Reflection Of Long Time Silence
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A personal story about extreme ideologies that infiltrated Islamic societies.
400. Stanford Study Says Renewable Power Eliminates Argument for Using Carbon Capture with Fossil Fuels
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A study in the peer-reviewed journal Energy and Environmental Science, concludes that carbon capture technologies are inefficient at pulling out carbon, from a climate perspective, and often increase local air pollution from the power required to run them, which exacerbates public health issues. Replacing a coal plant with wind turbines, on the other hand, always decreases local air pollution and doesn't come with the associated cost of running a carbon capture system, says Jacobson.
401. Statement Condemning US Removal of Democratically-Elected Evo Morales
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Following months of destabilization, on November 10, 2019, the legitimate, constitutional, democratically-elected President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, was driven at gunpoint out of office and the country by the US and its allies, among them Bolivian fascists and several members of the Organization of American States (OAS), including Canada. This latest aggression follows centuries of colonial, imperialist, and neo-colonial conquest and plunder of the Indigenous-majority population of Bolivia.
402. Still Lonely on the Right
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A review of 3 books about Black Republicans.
403. The Strange Career of the Second Amendment -- Part I
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Detailed analysis of the Second Amendment and different perceptions of gun rights in US history.
404. The Strange Career of the Second Amendment, Part II
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A further look at the history of the Second Amendment. Focuses on late 19th and 20th c and disparity of the laws in regard to race.
405. The Strange Workings of Identity and Adolph Reed Jr.'s Thought
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     One of the cornerstones of the socialist approach to identity is the insistence that identities are not naturally occurring but are, rather, the products of history. The controversy surrounding Reed’s work offers an opportunity to try to clarify our understanding of identity.
406. "Strategic Extremism": How Republicans and Establishment Democrats Use Identity Politics to Divide and Rule
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Since morality is easy to use as a tool to manipulate voters, Republican's wooing of the alt-right is an effective strategy in a close election. To counter this the left must focus on real issues that challenge corporate power.
407. Study Reveals How UK Intelligence Works with Media to Smear Jeremy Corbyn
     New research from Matt Kennard has shown how the British intelligence establishment works with the UK media to smear Jeremy Corbyn.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Academic studies of the Corbyn coverage have also shown that corporate media have shown a profound hostility to him and his project. One report from the London School of Economics included an entire section called "Delegitimization through Ridicule, Scorn, and Personal Attacks."
408. The Stupidity of Smart Devices and Smart Cities
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Smart phones, smart bombs, and, it follows, Smart Cities (capitalising such terms implies false authority), do not exist in that sense, whatever their cheer squad emissaries in High Tech land claim. They are merely a masterfully daft celebration of tactically deployed cults: there is a fad, a trend, and therefore, it must be smart, a model option to pursue.
409. Suicide Watch on Planet Earth
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The burning of Notre Dame cathedral, while tragic, is nothing compared to the damage to our planet brought by climate change.
410. Sundarbans: 'Not a blade of grass grew...'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     People in the Sundarbans of West Bengal, for long living on the edge, are now facing climate change – recurring cyclones, erratic rain, growing salinity, rising heat, depleting mangroves and more.
411. Swedish Sex Pistol Aimed at Assange
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     By asserting the extraterritorial jurisdiction of American law to demand the extradition of another country’s (Australia) citizen from a third country (Great Britain) for activities that took place entirely outside the US, the present indictment is, as Joel Simon of the Committee to Protect Journalists, points out: “a direct threat to journalists everywhere in the world….Under this rubric, anyone anywhere in the world who publishes information that the U.S. government deems to be classified could be prosecuted for espionage.”
412. A Tale of Two Citations: Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" and Michael Harrington's "The Other America"
     Contrasting Lessons for Activists
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Looking at the forgotten, more radical aspects of Carson's "Silent Spring." Compares it with other, less radical works that were more easily co-opted by governments looking to appease new social and environmental movements.
413. A Tale of Two Toilets: Profiting from Necessity?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     As indoor plumbing arrived in the U.S. in the 1840s and Dr. John Snow’s treatise on sewage-contaminated water causing cholera came out in 1855, the current global toilet situation cannot be attributed to lack of knowledge, technology, or resources.
414. Talking Trash: Unfortunate Truths About Recycling
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A deep dive into the mechanics of recycling and why it isn't a panacea for our environmental problems.
415. Tamil Nadu's seaweed harvesters in rough seas
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     An unusual activity of the fisherwomen of Bharathinagar in Tamil Nadu keeps them more in the water than on boats. But climate change and overexploitation of marine resources are eroding their livelihoods.
416. Taxed, throttled or thrown in jail: Africa's new internet paradigm
     The costs of speaking out online are rising rapidly
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Many governments in Africa, threatened by the democracy of internet communication, are stifling it by imposing taxes and fees, throttling internet service itself and even arresting bloggers.
417. Taxing Financial Transactions Is More Strategic Than Taxing High Wealth
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
418. Technocracy now: The US is working to turn Lebanons anti-corruption protests against Hezbollah
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The movement was spurred by the levying of regressive taxes and the persistence of a corrupt neoliberal order that has mismanaged the economy and hollowed out the public sector while enriching a handful of elites amid a looming economic collapse. Though the protests remain focused on class issues and corruption, the US is increasingly determined to co-opt the movement for its own goals.
419. 10 Ways that the Climate Crisis and Militarism are Intertwined
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The environmental justice movement that is surging globally is intentionally intersectional, showing how global warming is connected to issues such as race, poverty, migration and public health. One area intimately linked to the climate crisis that gets little attention, however, is militarism.
420. Thank Russia for Winning World War II
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Our Soviet allies barely held on alone for three years against Hitler, yet conventional wisdom is that we won the war because we equipped Soviets to die for us. This is propaganda – the USSR bore more than 90% of its own wartime industrial burden.
421. Thank Russia for Winning World War II
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
422. That Couldn't Be True: Restorying and Reconciliation
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     To achieve reconciliation with Indigenous people Canada must let go of the myth of itself as a benevolent force in the world.
423. 'They Had Already Decided They Wanted to Invade Iraq'
     CounterSpin interviews with Robert Dreyfuss and Diana Duarte on media and the Iraq War
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     MP3s and transcripts of two interviews about justifications for the Iraq war. One focused on intelligence on WMDs and the other on women's rights.
424. This London Firm Helps the Wealthy Hide Assets - or Steal Them. Luckily We Have 15 Years of Their Client Communications
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A London firm that helps the rich hide or steal money has had 15 years' worth of communications leaked. These are being made available to hopefully help return stolen money.
425. This School District Threatened To Take Kids Away From Parents Over Lunch Debt. Then It Refused a Businessman's Offer to Pay Those Debts
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A Pennsylvania school district sent letters to parents who owed lunch money informing them that they could lose custody of their children due to their lunch money debt.
426. Thousands of Goldminers Invade Yanomami Territory
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Goldminers have invaded Yanomami lands in northern Brazil, probably emboldened by Bolsonaro's war against Indigenous rights. They have brought disease to uncontacted peoples and are poisoning the environment.
427. Three Lessons for the Left from the Mueller Inquiry 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Important lessons for the progressive left to consider now that it is clear the inquiry by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russiagate is never going to uncover collusion between Donald Trump's camp and the Kremlin in the 2016 presidential election.
428. Three Questions of Political Strategy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     As I read contributions to The Call and Jacobin, and from Solidarity members, I wonder if that doesn't explain some of the disagreements about "reform or revolution" that have come up between some Solidarity members and some members of DSA’s Bread and Roses caucus. Framing these disagreements as a set of questions has helped me better understand the contending views.
429. To Adapt to the Escalating Climate Crisis, Mere Reform Will Not Be Enough
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     As I've watched young people around the world take part in the climate actions of the last month, I've gotten the sense that I'm watching a spectacle which has been orchestrated to create the illusion that we're still in an earlier, more stable time for the planet's climate. Legitimate as the passion and commitment of this generation of teen climate activists is, their efforts are being packaged by the political and media establishment in a way that encourages denial about our true situation.
430. To Be or Not to Be a Jewish State, That is the Question
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Israel's champions owe us an explanation. First, they insist that Israel is and always must be a Jewish state, by which most of them mean not religiously Jewish but of the "Jewish People" everywhere, including Jews who are citizens of other states and not looking for a new country.
431. To Readers, $X Billion Just Means 'a Whole Lot of Money'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A call for media to put numbers in context, e.g., food stamps cost of $70 billion a year is just 0.4 percent of the budget.
432. To Silence a Poet, and a Nation: What Stella Nyanzi's Conviction Means for Uganda
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Dr. Stella Nyanzi has been convicted under internet obscenity laws for criticizing Uganda's president. The style of her writing may be as much an issue as the criticism itself.
433. Tom Paine, Christianity, and Modern Psychiatry
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Much of modern psychiatry is based on unscientific theories even many practitioners of its find problematic. Since Thomas Paine knew Dr. Benjamin Rush (1746-1813), considered the "father of American psychiatry," this article draws parallels between Paine's criticisms of religion with those of psychiatry today.
434. Top Bolivian coup plotters trained by US military's School of the Americas, served as attachés in FBI police programs
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The United States played a key role in the military coup in Bolivia, and in a direct way that has scarcely been acknowledged in accounts of the events that forced the country's elected president, Evo Morales, to resign on November 10, 2019.
435. Trade Deals Are About Increasing Protectionist Barriers
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Past trade deals were about making it easier to trade manufactured goods, making it as easy as possible for corporations to take advantage of low-cost labor in the developing world. This has the predicted and actual effect of putting downward pressure on the wages of less-educated workers.
436. The Transnational Network That Nobody is Talking About
     IntelBrief
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The Azov Battalion is emerging as a critical node in the transnational right-wing violent extremist (RWE) movement. Recruits from the U.S., Norway, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Sweden, and Australia, among others, have reportedly traveled to train with the Azov Battalion. The global nature of these groups is just one of several similarities between RWEs and Salafi-jihadists.
437. Trudeau government gives dangerous new powers to Canada's political cops
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association has published a massive collection of documents that reveal that CSIS is gathering information on peaceful protest groups. This coincides with new legislation from the Trudeau government that gives CSIS increased powers to conduct surveillance.
438. Trump's Brilliant Strategy to Dismember U.S. Dollar Hegemony
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The US's ability to use finance as international leverage is weakening as American nationalism becomes more blatant and alienates allies.
439. Trump's Trade Threats are Really Cold War 2.0
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Trump's attempts to bully China economically may backfire and alienate the US from trade partners.
440. The TSA's Role as Journalist Harasser and Media 'Watchdog'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     An American journalist whose work opposes the US government is openly marked for extra screening and inspections when travelling.
441. Turkey in 2019: An Assessment
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A look at the current state of the Erdogan regime in Turkey as well as the hopes and challenges of what the left can accomplish.
442. The 2019 UN Vote Against the US Blockade of Cuba
     Trump's Washington Remains Cornered
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     On November 7, 2019, for the 28th year in a row, the entire United Nations General Assembly, gathered in one room, voted overwhelmingly against "the Economic, Commercial, and Financial Embargo Imposed on Cuba by the United States." The final tally was 187 in favor, 3 opposed (Brazil, Israel, US), 2 abstentions (Colombia, Ukraine), 1 not voting (Moldova).
443. Uber Has Always Been a Criminal Organization
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Uber's whole business model was premised on criminality -- the willful, systematic flouting of local taxi regulations, based on a wager that the company could retroactively absolve itself by getting the laws changed via big-money lobbying. With that kind of mission, it's not surprising its executives had blood on their hands long before they started taking Saudi blood money.
444. Ukraine, the New Cold War and the Politics of Impeachment
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The question not being asked is why it was politically, legally or morally justified for the U.S.-- the Obama administration, to 1) use NGOs and the CIA 2) to join with real and virulent Ukrainian Nazis to 3) oust the Democratically elected president of Ukraine 4) in order to install a puppet regime that answers to the national security state? Passionate assertions that Donald Trump is corrupt face the question back: what part of this entire operation isn't corrupt?
445. Ukraine on Fire: The Real Story
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2019
446. Ukraine's Nazis: Who are they, why are they so influential — and why have media ignored them?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A recent festival in Kiev proudly displayed Nazi symbols and even advertised 'White Pride' – yet received almost no attention from Western media, who still steadfastly pretend there are no Nazis in Ukraine, neo- or otherwise.
447. Ukrainian neo-Nazis flock to the Hong Kong protest movement
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Neo-Nazis from Ukraine have flown to Hong Kong to participate in the anti-Chinese insurgency, which has been widely praised by Western corporate media and portrayed as a peaceful pro-democracy movement. Since March 2019, Hong Kong has been the site of often-violent protests and riots that have run the city’s economy into the ground.
448. UN aviation body blocks critics online
     The UN’s aviation body is blocking climate critics on Twitter, accusing them of 'fake news' and 'spam'.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The International Civil Aviation Organization is blocking people who interact with them on Twitter. They claim their critics' arguments are not 'fact-based.'
449. Uncle Sam was Born Lethal
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The white European "settlers" of North America wiped out millions of the continent's original inhabitants. They populated their southern colonies and states with Black slaves they mercilessly tortured, raped, maimed, and murdered in forced labour camps that provided the critical raw material for the rise of American capitalism long before Mussolini, Franco, and Hitler rose to power.
450. Unconditional support for Israel is unconditional support for injustice
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Like tens of thousands of Jews worldwide, we oppose Israel's ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and its regime of violence, intimidation and incarceration aimed at the Palestinian population of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. We challenge those who offer unconditional support for Israel to ask themselves if they would support the same violations of human rights and international law anywhere else in the world. We affirm that our criticism of Israel comes from an embrace of both Jewish and universal humanitarian values and has no relation whatsoever to antisemitism.
451. Unconditional support for Israel is unconditional support for injustice
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Like tens of thousands of Jews worldwide, we oppose Israel's ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and its regime of violence, intimidation and incarceration aimed at the Palestinian population of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. We challenge those who offer unconditional support for Israel to ask themselves if they would support the same violations of human rights and international law anywhere else in the world. We affirm that our criticism of Israel comes from an embrace of both Jewish and universal humanitarian values and has no relation whatsoever to antisemitism.
452. Undermining the watercycle
     A critical appraisal of the mining industry's contributions to the global water crisis.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The mining industry is often overlooked as a cause of the global water crisis. This article examines recent history of mining disasters and how the industry PR greenwashes its image.
453. Unearthing Justice
     How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2019
     Brimming with case studies, anecdotes, resources, and illustrations, Unearthing Justice exposes the mining process and its externalized impacts on the environment, Indigenous Peoples, communities, workers, and governments. But, most importantly, the book shows how people are fighting back.
454. Unfree Media – State Stenography And Shameful Silence
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A recent viral clip of Jeremy Corbyn featured vital truths about the corporate media that ought to be at the forefront of public consciousness in the approach to the UK General Election on December 12, 2020.
455. United States - DSA Two Years Later: Where Are We At? Where Are We Headed?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) had had a massive surge in membership in the last two years. Here is a look at the history of socialism in the US and the DSA's current prospects for enacting real change.
456. US Media Ignore -- and Applaud -- Economic War on Venezuela
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     US reporting on Venezuela fails to mention the effect economic sanctions have in Venezuela defying the work of experts in the area.
457. U.S. Newspapers Are More Than Twice As Likely to Cite Israeli Sources in Headlines Than Palestinian Ones
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A study of 50 years of news headlines on the Israel-Palestine conflict from five major American publications shows that they are biased towards the Israeli side.
458. U.S. Senate's First Bill, in the Midst of the Shutdown, Is a Bipartisan Defense of the Israeli Government From Boycotts
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     This Senate's first bill of 2019 considers giving state and local governments the power to punish companies that boycott Israel. These laws have been found to be unconstitutional but still have bipartisan support.
459. The 'Unpeople' of South Korea
     Idiocy and Violence of Immigration
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Who are the ‘unpeople’ of South Korea? They are an majority of illegal migrants who lack basic rights and security and believed to deserve it according to the laws and principles under which Korean society operates.
460. Updating Some U.S. Political Prisoners January 2019
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     An update on political prisoners in the United States.
461. US Capitalism Was Born in the Destruction of the Commons
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Interview with Silvia Federici and Peter Linebaugh about Federici's book Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons.
462. The US coup in Venezuela: New attempt to eradicate the Chavista Revolution 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The coup in Venezuela is the latest in a long history of US attempts to undermine and overthrow progressive governments in Latin America. American progressives must do more to stop this aggression.
463. US Cyber Attack on Russia's Power Grid is an 'Act of War' (According to the US)
     What about Venezuela's hacked power grid?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The New York Times reports that the US has hacked Russia's power grid. Reporting on the issue has failed to mention any call for consequences or the fact that the US has already been accused of doing the same to Venezuela.
464. US Democrats Cultivated the Barbarism of Isis
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     There is something profoundly deceitful in the Democratic Party and corporate media's framing of Donald Trump's decision to pull troops out of Syria. One does not need to like Trump or ignore the dangers posed to the Kurds, at least in the short term, by the sudden departure of US forces from northern Syria to understand that the coverage is being crafted in such a way as to entirely overlook the bigger picture.
465. US Foists 'Humanitarian Aid' on Venezuela, Helps Create a Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The US-backed Saudi Arabia war on Yemen is causing the worst humanitarian crisis of the modern era. The lack of concern from politicians should belie this justification for U.S. intervention in other countries.
466. US Foreign Policy Exposed
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Some recent events and information leaks have forced even the mainstream media to break the usual veneer over US foreign policy.
467. US Government Knew Climate Risks in 1970s, National Petroleum Council Documents Show
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Newly discovered documents show that the fossil fuel industry has know since the 1970s the effect that CO2 emissions would have on the environment.
468. US Media Keep Saying Iran is "In Violation" of a Nuclear Agreement the US Withdrew From
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     US Media portray Iran as having violated the US-Iran nuclear agreement. That's because the Trump administration, acting on its own, foolishlypulled out unilaterally from that agreement, and has been imposing sanctions on Iran, all of which has been in violation of the agreement, and which, by violating its terms, effectively terminates the agreement.
469. US Negotiations: Masters of Defeats
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A summary of several US attempts at diplomacy that have failed due to their unwillingness to make any concessions to the other party.
470. US and Puppet Guaido Implicated in Terrorism Plot Against Venezuela PLOT
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     New evidence has been uncovered regarding terror campaign planned by the US and the Venezuelan opposition.
471. US Regime Change Blueprint Proposed Venezuelan Electricity Blackouts as 'Watershed Event' for 'Galvanizing Public Unrest'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A 2010 memo from Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) seems to be playing out as planned in 2019.
472. US State Department Publishes, then deletes sadistic Venezuela hit list boasting of economic ruin
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A fact sheet put out by the US State Department listing its "accomplishments" in Venezuela reads more like a confession of atrocities. The document was later withdrawn.
473. US Trotskyism 1928-1965 Part I: Emergence
     Left Opposition in the United States
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2019
     The first in a documentary trilogy of U.S. Trotskyism, this volume spans 1928 to 1940, surveying labour struggles, contributions to the study of history and Marxist theory, and confrontations and convergences among left currents.
474. US Trotskyism 1928–1965 Part II: Endurance
     The Coming American Revolution. Dissident Marxism in the United States: Volume 3
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2019
     The second in a documentary trilogy of U.S. Trotskyism, this volume spans 1941 to 1956, surveying the Second World War, the post-war strike wave, ongoing struggles against racism, and more.
475. US Trotskyism 1928–1965 Part III: Resurgence
     Uneven and Combined Development.
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2019
     The third in a documentary trilogy of U.S. Trotskyism, this volume spans 1954 to 1965, surveying the Cold War era, the Black liberation struggle, the "third wave" of feminism, and more.
476. U.S.: We Will Break Your Legs
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The US has threatened to deny visas to any ICC personnel investigating possible war crimes by U.S. forces. This should make clear the hypocrisy when the the US cites human rights violations as an excuse to invade other countries.
477. U.S.A : How Federal Workers Could Fight the Shutdown
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Federal workers have dealt with low pay, degraded working conditions, and repeated employer lockouts. If they want to improve their conditions, they'll have to organize.
478. The UTLA Victory in Context
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A look at the bigger picture surrounding the LA teacher's strike as part of the national upsurge that began with the 2012 strike of the Chicago Teachers Union.
479. Venezuela Blitz - Part 1: Tyrants Don’t Have Free Elections
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Thorough summary of support for the Venezuela coup in US and UK media with many excerpts.
480. Venezuela Blitz - Part 2: Press Freedom, Sanctions And Oil
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Analysis of corporate coverage of Venezuela reveals: reporting on the supposed lack of free press, and rarely mentioning the US's interest in their oil and effect of sanctions on the country.
481. Venezuela Coup Leader's Oil Plans Revealed: Guaidó Hopes to Privatize State-Controlled Industry
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Juan Guaidó and his economic advisers have a plan to privatize the country's petroleum industry. This privatization scheme will be difficult to implement, however, since he is not in power.
482. Venezuela Coverage Takes Us Back to Golden Age of Lying About Latin America
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Corporate media has many stories about food and medicine shortages in Venezuela. These lies and others are debunked by someone who lives there.
483. Venezuela: The U.S.'s 68th Regime Change Disaster
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The US's sanctions and political interference in Venezuela are part of a long history of foreign meddling that brings strife to the affected country.
484. Venezuela: Is President Maduro 'illegitimate'? 10 facts to counter the lies 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Concise rebuttal of talking points used by those trying to bring about a coup in Venezuela.
485. Venezuelan economist: 'Hyperinflation is a powerful imperialist weapon'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Interview with Venezuelan an economist about how hyperinflation is being used as a weapon against the country.
486. A Very Incomplete List of Sinister Things Vladimir Putin/Russia/'the Russians' Have Been Accused of Doing
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A list as the title describes (with links).
487. The Violent History of the Venezuelan Opposition
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Mainstream media paint Venezuelan opposition as peaceful heroes and President Maduro as a villain. Details about opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez show this to be blatant propaganda.
488. The War in Eastern Ukraine May be Coming to an End but Do Any Americans Care?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The Ukraine War remains largely unknown to the American public even though the United States has had a great stake in it.
489. The War on Venezuela is Built on Lies 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Maduro, like Chavez before him, is a fairly elected leader with support from the people. Talk of his 'illegitmacy' is propaganda in service of the coup.
490. The War That Never Ends
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     North Korean denuclearization is unlikely without concessions (such as sanctions relief) from the US side. How likely is the Trump administration to make such a deal?
491. Washington's Dr. Strangeloves: Is plunging Russia into darkness really a good idea
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     US cyber attacks on Russia's power grid, reportedly done without the president's knowledge, are part of a historic pattern of US/Russian relations being sabotaged US defense and intelligence agencies.
492. Washington's Biggest Fairy Tale: 'Truth Will Out'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The idea that the truth will eventually be exposed may be comforting to people that think we live in a transparent democracy. But this investigative journalist discusses how hard it is to get information from the government.
493. Water as a Form of Social Control
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Whether in Palestine or Detroit, restricting access to water is a tactic used to deprive populations of personal and social agency with dire consequences to health.
494. Water resources - 'The river is dying': the vast ecological cost of Brazil's mining disasters
     Water resources are tapped with often reckless abandon and poor regulation. And it looks set to go on under new president.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Brazil's worst mining disaster in decades has prompted calls to create stronger regulations and enforce them with real consequences rather than small fines that often go unpaid.
495. ‘We Don’t Do Propaganda’
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Dutch historian Rutger Bregman's (un-aired) appearance on Tucker Carlson sparked outrage in Carlson and an opportunity to highlight how money controls the narrative in mainstream news.
496. We hacked tube ads to call out the Home Office's hostile environment
     Our Future Now on how they helped the Home Office be a little more honest about its policies
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Today our activist group, Our Future Now, have installed subverted adverts on London Underground trains calling out the Home Office's 'hostile environment' and its brutal and racist policies.
497. 'We Need to Ban Fracking': New Analysis of 1,500 Scientific Studies Details Threat to Health and Climate
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The latest analysis of studies on the effects of fracking confirms that it poses an extreme threat to the environment and local people's healt.
498. We The Workers: A limited documentary about labour rights groups in China
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A review of a documentary on labour conditions in China. The docementary was filmed at great risk but the motiviations and the end product are questionable.
499. Wealth and the Invisibility of Human Life
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Review of the book "Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism" by Quinn Slobodian.
500. Weaponized Social Media Is Driving the Explosion of Fascism
     Social media platforms give governments, extremists, haters and propagandists the ability to excite and incite hate amplified by algorithms.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Describing how social media wages war on reality by spreading propaganda. With examples from ISIS to Alex Jones.
501. Weaponizing human rights: UN chief Bachelet's Venezuela report follows US regime change script
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A report from the UN High Commissioner on the situation in Venezuela has been condemned by many sources as a political tool to justify the US's attempted regime change in that country.
502. West Africa's Fine Line Between Cultural Norms and Child Trafficking
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Human traficking in West Africa is difficult to deal with as it has become entrenched in the culture of people living in extreme poverty.
503. The West Failed to Learn the Most Important Lessons From the Rise and Fall of ISIS
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The attempted coup in Venezuela today is an example of imperial overreach western governments displayed in the Middle East.
504. The Western Media is Key to Syria Deceptions
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     An analysis of why western media has failed to practice any scepticism regarding claims that the Syrian government is using chemical weapons.
505. What Black Life Actually Looks Like
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     In the age of Black Lives Matter protests, many activists and academics seem unable to see the complexity of black life beyond the barricades, or outside the frame of the latest viral video killing of a black civilian.
506. What George Carlin Taught Us about Media Propaganda by Omission
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     In the old George Carlin joke, the TV sportscaster announces: "Here's a partial score from the West Coast – Los Angeles 6." For a brilliant comedian like Carlin -- who skewered corporate power, class structure and political/media propaganda – that's one of his more innocuous jokes. But it's sharply relevant today as corporate TV news outlets serve up a series of partial scores. Call it 'propaganda by omission.'
507. What is Happening in Spain?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Spain spends much less on public social expenditures that what it should spend according to its level of economic development. It is one of the countries of the European Union 15 (the more advanced economies of the European Union) that spends the least on public services such as health care, education, public housing and child care, and on transfers, such as pensions.
508. What kind of rebellion will save humanity from extinction?
     The real power of mass civil disobedience is not its ability to shock the powerful into listening, but rather its potential to draw masses o
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Despite overwhelming evidence that the world has already passed certain tipping points, setting off large and unpredictable changes in the climate, why are governments still refusing to act on the scale and pace required?
509. What Los Angeles Teachers Won
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A Los Angeles teacher's take on the successful strike.
510. What Religion is Your Nationalism?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     On November 9, 2019, 27 years after mobs destroyed the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, the Supreme Court of India, despite stating that the demolition of the mosque was against the rule of law, pronounced the lawbreakers as victors. Those who had indulged in a bloodbath to build a temple where they claim Lord Ram was born have become the owners.
511. What the 'White Irish Slaves' Meme Tells Us About Identity Politics
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     In setting out to rebut narratives of 'Irish Slaves' the left has often downplayed the history of Irish oppression.
512. What the Media Won't Tell You About the Venezuelan Coup
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Calling Venezuela's election illegitimate is false and is also a familiar tactic for US interference in a country's government.
513. What's the alternative to factory farms?
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Mixed review of a collection of essays about industrial agriculture. Most of the papers point out the destructiveness of animal agriculture but neglect the wider issue of capitialism.
514. What's the True Unemployment Rate in the US?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The real unemployment rate is probably somewhere between 10%-12%. The 3.7% is the U-3 rate, per the labor dept. But that’s the rate only for full time employed. What the labour depatment calls the U-6 includes what it calls discouraged workers (those who haven’t looked for work in the past 4 weeks). Then there's what's called the 'missing labour force' - i.e. those who have'’t looked in the past year. They're not calculated in the 3.7% U-3 unemployment rate number either. Why? Because you have to be 'out of work and actively looking for work' to be counted as unemployed and therefore part of the 3.7% rate.
515. When the IWW Took on the Copper Kings
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Review of the movie "Bisbee ‘17" about a strike and subsequent deportation of the workers of an Arizona mining town.
516. When Welfare Checks Turn Deadly
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The disabled and mental ill encur growing risks and dangers when interacting with police as their actions are often interrupted as hostile or dangerous. Such misinterruption often result in a fatal encounter with law enforcement.
517. When Your Boss Locks You Out for Nearly 6 Months and Cuts Off Your Healthcare
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     When energy company National Grid locked out its workers during contract negotiations, workers workers had to struggle with loss of income and health insurance. Workers as well as legislators see this as an unfair bargaining tactic.
518. Where Have You Gone Abbie Hoffman?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A collection of excerpts of people writing about Abbie Hoffman on the 30th anniversary of his death.
519. 'Where was the Lord?': On Jefferson Davis' birthday, 9 slave testimonies
     The voices of five men and four women, once held in human bondage, interviewed in Alabama in 1937.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Testimonies of several victims of slavery collected in the 1930s tell of separation from family, overwork, and abuse.
520. While the World Watches Trump, It’s Missing What’s Really Going On
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The superficial antics of Trump and other world leaders are making front page news while investigative reporting on real issues is pushed to the margins.
521. White Women and White Power
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Review of two books about white supremacy. Especially focused on the role of white women in white power movements.
522. Who Inflicts the Most Gun Violence in America? The U.S. Government and Its Police Force
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Statistical analyses of gun violence in America consistently fail to account for the number of victimes of police killings. The militization of policiing has led to a greater number of victims, particularly among young black men and the mentally ill.
523. Who Is Responsible?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A short update on attempts to gain justice for Indigenous genocide in Guatemala in the 1980s.
524. Who Would Believe It? Annals of the New Left Era
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A review of "You Say You Want a Revolution" a collection of memoirs of the Progressive Labor Party.
525. Whose history? Why the People's History Museum is vital
     In recent months, high-profile figures have claimed museums should be ‘neutral’ spaces. Thank goodness, then, for the People’s History Museu
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Peoples History Museum also acts as a space for learning and offers a site for new debates to emerge, regularly allocating space for community exhibitions and contemporary political discussion. It also exhibits documents from recent events and contemporary unions, as it continues to build its collections.
526. Whose "Security" -- and for What?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Editorial about how accepted "security" discourse obscures the real structural and systemic crises today.
527. Why Activists Fail
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Describes why activists have historically failed to make a real difference - they don't know how the world works. Describes how the world works and explains some components of nonviolent strategy for change.
528. Why Ann Coulter Has Power: U.S. Politics are Authoritarian by Design
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A description of undemocratic processes in the US government - the Electoral College, gerrymandering, etc. - and how these allow a small minority to decide the leadership of the country.
529. Why Are These Facts So Stubbornly Forbidden?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The author gives several examples of people refusing to change their beliefs even when confronted with facts.
530. Why Aren't the Democrats Talking About Ending Patent Financed Drug Research?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Presenting a case for replacing government-granted patent monopoly financing of pharmaceutical research to make drugs available at free market prices.
531. Why climate action is the antithesis of white supremacy
     Behind the urgency of climate action is the understanding that everything is connected; behind white supremacy is an ideology of separation
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Climate action and climate change denial are antithetical to each other as the former is based on interconnectivity and collective action while the latter seeks exclusion and separation.
532. Why Left Wing Populism Is Not Enough
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Mainly a critique of Chantal Mouffe's book 'For a Left Populism,' discusses the shortcomings of a poplulism that downplays the role of class.
533. Why the 1953 cancellation of German debt won’t be reproduced for Greece and Developing Countries
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Detailed look at the differences between cancellation of Germany's debt and that of developing countries today.
534. Why the Anthropocene is not 'climate change' - and why that matters
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Reducing our current predicament to combatting climate change, or even narrower, reducing CO2 emissions fails to show the big picture of how humans have changed the planet. To contend with the Anthropocene we need to get rid of one-dimensional thinking of climate change.
535. Why The 'Ok Boomer' phenomenon is short-sighted
     Millennials and Generation Zers have more in common with struggling boomers than wealthy elites our own age
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The "Ok Boomer" meme, which many young people are using online as a rebuttal against supposedly out-of-touch baby boomers, taps into frustrations disproportionately experienced by millennials and Generation Zers -- particularly in Canada's most unaffordable cities. Unfortunately, however, the meme also represents a discourse that ignores the many older people experiencing poverty, discrimination and hardship.
536. Why the US is Persecuting Assange
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Governments don't like it when reporters disclose secrets that impede their preferred narrative. This article draws parallels between Assange and the work of Yemeni reporter Maad al-Zikry.
537. Why the US Puppet President of Venezuela is Toast
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     In the alternative universe of corporate media, which ignores the economic war being waged against Venezuela, Reuters bemoans that the “crackdown” on Guaidó’s agents has failed to receive “significant retaliation from the international community.” In reality, Venezuela has massively suffered from the US-orchestrated punishments for resisting reverting to the status of a client state.
538. Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
     And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2019
     Unregulated capitalism is bad for women. Socialism, if done properly, leads to economic independence, better labour conditions, better work/family balance and, yes, even better sex.
539. Wiara, Nadzieja i Wytrwalosc
     Faith, Hope and Persistence - Polish translation
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
540. Wildly Underestimated Oilsands Emissions Latest Blow to Alberta's Dubious Climate Claims
     As disaster looms, petro province lets industry call the shots.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The oilsand industry's own measurements of their carbon output fall far short of that reported by Environment Canada's and others' research. This could deal a blow to the industry's PR efforts.
541. With the right-wing coup in Bolivia nearly complete, the junta is hunting down the last remaining dissidents
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A brutal military junta that seized power from Bolivia's democratically elected President Evo Morales is violently repressing a working-class indigenous-led uprising, and the country is rapidly falling under its control. Soldiers in military fatigues prowl the streets, enforcing a series of choke points around the seat of power.
542. Women and the far right
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Many of the past gains of human and civil rights with women are at risk of being rolled back as the far right assumes power in numerous countries. Such attacks on women's reproductive rights and their places and roles in society have historical precedents in fascist movements in the past.
543. Women's Oppression and Liberation
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     On the role of Marxism in the feminist movement in India.
544. Women's stories from the frontline of Sudan's revolution must be told
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Women are leading Sudan's revolt against religious fundamentalism. As in Egypt and Saudi Arabia they face a violent backlash.
545. A World in Revolt
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     We are pleased to include in this issue of Insurgent Notes a series of very detailed accounts and analyses of the gilets jaunes or yellow vests movement in France prepared by activists associated with Temps critiques. The texts are informed by a distinctive theoretical perspective (regarding capitalist reproduction and the possibility of revolution) and their sustained involvement in the yellow vests movement from its inception.
546. The World Needs a Water Treaty
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Climate change is making water into as valuable a commodity as oil with similar national tensions resulting.
547. The World Needs a Water Treaty
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     During the face-off earlier this year between India and Pakistan over a terrorist attack that killed more than 40 Indian paramilitaries in Kashmir, New Delhi made an existential threat to Islamabad. The weapon was not India’s considerable nuclear arsenal, but one still capable of inflicting ruinous destruction: water.
548. Yellow fever
     Populist pangs in France
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The 'gilets jaunes' are a complex movement that has grown from a distrust of France's elites towards demands for citizen-led democracy. Their invocation of the French Revolution has provided the movement with a powerful sense of popular legitimacy but, as Gabriel Bristow argues, contains contradictions of its own.
549. The Yellow Vests of France: Six Months of Struggle
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A look at the Yellow Vest movement in France after six months. Although they avoid structures of formal organizations they are converging with several other groups.
550. Yelp and the Myth of Consumer Power
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Online reviews on Yelp have had a massive effect on the service industry but this should not be perceived as giving power to consumers. In the end it is only the platfrom that profits.
551. Yet Another U.S. Coup Attempt to Eradicate the Bolivarian Revolution
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     History of the attempted coup in Venezuela as of January 2019.
552. "Zone Defense:" a New Way To Stop ATV’s in Wilderness Areas
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     In 2002, a new method of organizing was used by 20 organizations in a rural area of southwest Oregon to successfully confront an ATV threat in an area where no national, regional or local group had enough members to do much by itself. The nature of the campaign required numbers of people to turn out on short notice to meetings in sparsely populated areas for which little advance notice could be expected.

2018

1. Academics Who Serve as Israel's Useful Idiots
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2018
   How derisively would we have treated an academic - an expert in human rights, no less - who argued back in the 1980s that those who supported a boycott of apartheid South Africa must have been secretly anti-white or anti-Christian because they did not equally prioritise a boycott of Israel?
2. ACLU sues US over separation of mother, child seeking asylum
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2018
   American Civil Liberties Union accused the U.S. government of unlawfully separating a Congolese woman and her 7-year-old daughter by holding them in different immigration facilities 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) appart.
3. Afghanistan is Collapsing. Get Out: Now!
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2018
   A look at the disastrous results of US and NATO intervention in Afghanistan, a conflict which has little to do with eliminating international terrorism.
4. Africa: New evidence of ongoing corporate looting
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2018
   A World Bank report indicates a massive depletion of Africa's natural wealth by transnational corporations (TNC). There are two ways to address TNC capture of African wealth: bottom-up through direct action that blocks extraction, or top-down through significant reform.
5. Africa's whistleblowers
   'All I did was tell the truth'
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2018
   In Africa, those who denounce corruption face hardship and physical danger even when there’s a legal framework that should protect and guarantee them a fair hearing.
6. African Americans and Immigrant Workers
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2018
   Malik discusses job competition and tensions between Afrcian Americans and Hispanic workers, more specifically between African Amercians and undocumented workers. He illustrates this through the example of a conflict in a Chicago bakery.
7. Africa's Pioneering Marxist Political Economist, Samir Amin (1931-2018)
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2018
   A look at the pioneering work of Egyptian-French Marxian economist Samir Amin, who died on August 12, 2018.
8. After Alleged Election Fraud and Protests, Honduran Congress Moves to Regulate Hate Speech Online
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2018
   The Honduran Congress is debating a law that seeks to regulate hate speech and "fake news" on the Internet. Honduran activists and opposition political parties say the proposal would function as a gag law aimed at silencing government critics.
9. After 10 years, Hassan Diab is finally free
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2018
   Hassan Diab is freed by French authorities after what was deemed a bungled case and rush to judgment, one which zeroed in on Diab with unjust finger-pointing from B'nai Brith.
10. After the Grenfell Tower Fire
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the grave injustice surrounding the Grenfell Tower fire, from the way residents were treated before and after the disaster and the austerity measures that exacerbated it - such as cuts to fire departments.
11. After Visiting Brazil's Lula in Prison, Noam Chomsky Warns Against "Disaster" Under Jair Bolsonaro
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    An interview with Noam Chomsky about newly elected President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil. Politically the election marks a dramatic shift to the right for the country which Chomsky describes as a disaster for Brazil. The article includes a link to the interview on video.
12. Ahed Tamimi Offers Israelis a Lesson Worthy of Gandhi
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Sixteen-year-old Ahed Tamimi may not be what Israelis had in mind when, over many years, they criticised Palestinians for not producing a Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela.
    Eventually, colonised peoples bring to the fore a figure best suited to challenge the rotten values at the core of the society oppressing them. Ahed is well qualified for the task.
13. Air pollution now 'largest health crisis'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The WHO estimates that seven million premature deaths are linked to air pollution every year, of which nearly 600,000 are children who are uniquely vulnerable.
14. "Al Qaeda's MASH Unit": How the Syrian American Medical Society Is Selling Regime Change and Driving the US to War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) is not merely a group of Syrian doctors tending to the wounded in war torn areas, nor is it an objective and relaibale source on chemical attacks and other atrocities. This article explains that SAMS is actually a politically enaged organization that has for years been actively seeking to overthrow the Syrian government.
15. Alberta has only itself to blame for bitumen problems
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The article explains why Alberta has primarily itself to blame for the low price of its bitumen, a situation built on years of mismanagement in government and poor industry advice.
16. Alberta's Problem Isn't Pipelines; It's Bad Policy Decisions
    Bitumen prices are low because the province has ignored at least a decade of warnings.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A 2007 Alberta government report indicates that the provincial government has been aware for more than a decade that its oilsands policies were setting the stage for today's price crisis.
17. "Alexa, Drop a Bomb": Amazon Wants in on US Warfare
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at US comapany Amazon and its involvement with the US military in creating an artificial 'brain' called JEDI. It demonstrates a new level of US determination for global domination, and would represent the creation of a weapon that would dramatically up the level of global military rivalry and ensure more human conflict.
18. The Algiers Accords: Decades of Violations and Silence
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    This week marks the 37th anniversary of a pledge made by the United States in 1981:
    The United States pledges that it is and from now on will be the policy of the United States not to intervene, directly or indirectly, politically or militarily, in Iran’s internal affairs.
    This week also marks 37 continuous years of the United States failing to uphold its pledge: the 1981 Algiers Accords.
19. Alice Walker's Conspiracy Theories Aren't Just Anti-Semitic - They're Anti-Black
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    White supremacy relies on different stereotypes of Black and Jewish people. Alice Walker's adoption of anti-semitic conspiracy theories points to the need for solidarity between the Black and Jewish communities - which are not mutually exclusive.
20. All Fire and Fury in Ukraine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Using Oliver Stone's 'portentious' documentary film 'Ukraine on Fire' as a basis for discussion, the article looks beyond the mainstream media and public discourse on the events and developments in the country which ultimately framed the public's view of the situation.
21. All You Fascists Bound to Lose
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at Shane Burley's new book "Fascism Today: What It is and How to End It", which examines the current fascist movement and the opposition to it in the United States.
22. Am I a bad feminist?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    My fundamental position is that women are human beings, with the full range of saintly and demonic behaviours this entails, including criminal ones. They're not angels, incapable of wrongdoing. Nor do I believe that women are children, incapable of agency or of making moral decisions.
23. Amazon HQ2 Will Cost Taxpayers at Least $4.6 Billion, More Than Twice What the Company Claimed, New Study Shows
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    In addition to the billions in local government subsidies Amazon stands to gain from Federal Opportunity Zones. Researchers who have studied opportunity zones find that these tax schemes rarely ever help cities, and often financially cripple them.
24. Amazon's Initiative: Digital Assistants, Home Surveillance and Data
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at technological developments such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, which are less innovations than intrusive tools utilized by big data companies to mine personal information and condition human approaches to the way information is shared.
25. American Exceptionalism: The Naked Truth
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A large number of Americans hold a deeply-held conviction that no matter what the US does abroad, no matter how bad it may look, no matter what horror may result, the government of the United States means well. American leaders may make mistakes, they may blunder, they may lie, they may even on many occasions cause more harm than good, but they do mean well. Their intentions are always honorable, even noble. Of that the great majority of Americans are certain.And Americans genuinely wonder why the rest of the world can’t see how benevolent and self-sacrificing America has been. Even many people who take part in the anti-war movement have a hard time shaking off some of this mindset; they march to spur America -- the America they love and worship and trust -- they march to spur this noble America back onto its path of goodness.
26. American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2018
    In this provocative collection of essays, Henry Giroux warns of the consequences of doing too little as Trump and the so-called alt-right relentlessly attack critics, journalists, and target the hard-earned civil rights of women, people of color, immigrants, the working class, and low-income Americans.
27. America's Troll Farm Media
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the American mainstream media, which is in a constant search of sensation, scandal, gossip, and above all -- profit.
28. Amnesty International: Trumpeting for War… Again
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    One would expect a human rights organisation to be intrinsically opposed to war, but AI is a cheerleader of so-called humanitarian intervention, and even "humanitarian bombing".
29. Anarchism and Kavanaugh
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Richman argues that without the current State, but rather with an Anarchistic one, the U.S. public would have been spared the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination episode.
30. Animating the Great Migration and After
    Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Brian Dolinar reviews Pioneering Cartoonists of Color by Tim Jackson.
31. Anti-BDS bills expected to feature prominently at AIPAC
    Annual meeting to push for measures that counter boycott Israel campaign as rights groups call bills 'unconstitutional'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    At the annual meeting of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), the lobbying group's agenda is set to propose measures to counter the growing campaign to boycott Israel and its West Bank settlements. At the centre of discussion are anti-bocott bills, described by critics as laws designed to curb the not-for-profit Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement- a human rights movement that supports Palestinian rights.
32. The anti-semitism paradox damaging Labour
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the damaging effect of anti-semitism for the political left, which is being exploited in a tactic to stifle class solidarity and subvert a genuinely progressive Labour leadership.
33. Apple and the Guardian: Partners in a Death Spiral
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    This report on Apple CEO Tim Cook's visit to a UK school to promote the company's new coding curriculum for schoolchildren could hardly be a better illustration of the way the Guardian newspaper serves as a key propagandist for aggressive global corporate capitalism, helping to create for it a façade of humanitarianism.
34. Approaching Development: GMO Propaganda and Neoliberalism vs Localisation and Agroecology
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the pro GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) lobby and the reasons why they are pushing GMO technology. The article looks towards agroecology as a better means of achieving genuine food sovereignty.
35. Architects of Mass Slaughter
    Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Detailed review of two books about the Indonesian Genocide.
36. Archive That, Comrade!
    Left Legacies and the Counter Culture of Remembrance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2018
    Archive That, Comrade! explores issues of archival theory and practice that arise for any project aspiring to provide an open-access platform for political dialogue and democratic debate.
37. Argentine Newspapers Recuperated by Workers' Cooperatives
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    An economic recession in Argentina that culminated in intense protests and the resignation of then-president Fernando de la Rua, also fostered the phenomenon of companies being recuperated by its workers as a cooperatives. In the last two years the majority of companies recuperated have been media outlets, which opens up new possibilities for journalism in the country.
38. As lies on Syrian gas attack unravel, US and UK shift to claims of Russian "cyber war"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    An examination of the alleged gas attack in Syria as pretext for yet another war against a Middle Eastern nation, the suppression of anti-war sentiment, and the legitimization and crackdown on democratic rights and censorship of the Internet under the banner of combating Russian cyber warfare.
39. As the Obama DOJ Concluded, Prosecution of Julian Assange for Publishing Documents Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Democrats and Republicans both seem willing to curtail freedom of the press when an outlet publishes work against their interests, however, prosecuting Julian Assange/Wikileaks would create a precedent that would criminalize the core function of investigative journalism.
40. Assange's internet blackout & Skripal case part of propaganda war that risks real one
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    John Pilger condemns the mainstream media for its role in acting as an uncritiical conduit for government propaganda.
41. The Atomized and Siloed U.S. Left
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    We're increasingly siloed as organizers and protesters. The environment literally decays as we watch, and the Trump administration is hard at work dismantling what environmental regulations there are.
42. The Attack on Wilderness From Environmentalists
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Wildlands are being lost across the globe, and some conservation groups are assisting in that loss by proposing lesser protective status.
43. Australia: Worst drought ever, but don't mention climate change!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Despite record drought conditions in Australia and the numerous climate related disasters around the globe, the Australian goverment still refuses to acknowledge human-induced climate change.
44. The Authoritarians Who Silence Syria Questions
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the unchallenged western media narrative on Syria and notably recent commentary by Brian Whitaker, the Guardian's former Middle East editor, who is opposed to experts in the study of propaganda setting up a panel - the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media - which aims to "provide a source of reliable, informed and timely analysis for journalists, publics and policymakers" on Syria.
45. Bangladesh: Challenge of the Students Uprising - Its historical background
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The students’ movement that erupted on 29 July following the death of two students in a tragic road accident in Dhaka spread to almost all the major cities of the country. Thousands of outraged school and college students laid siege to the streets of the capital Dhaka for a week demanding road safety across the country.
46. Banned in Pakistan
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Pakistan's decision to censor 'blasphemous' websites provides a new perspective on the attitudes of many Western liberals towards Charlie Hebdo.
47. Baran & Sweezy versus Marx
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    In response to the editors' question 'Where was Marx in 1968?," Daum chooses to comment briefly on one topic: the anti-Marxist influence of Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy’s book Monopoly Capital.
48. Barbara Ehrenreich Isn't Afraid to Die
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, The Certainty of Dying, and Our Illusion of Control", where she questions current cultural practices, our sense of 'self', and advocates for a broader acceptance of death's inevitability.
49. Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903, by Aidan Forth - Review
    Internment in the colonies served a darker purpose beyond aid efforts
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A book review of Aidan Forth's "Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903", which provides new insights and ulterior motives behind Britain's aid efforts in southern Africa.
50. Barcelona's Experiment in Radical Democracy 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Issues that Barcelona en Comu is tackling come up against limitations set by Catalan and Spanish law. The city lacks authority to regulate housing, although the city has created new affordable housing, and has successfully limited the reach of Airbnb.
51. The BBC Has Legal Protection to Spread Fake News: the Curious Case of ISIS, Andrew Neil and Jeremy Corbyn
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the reporting of 'fake news' by the BBC, which has no legal obligation to give its audience any information about its sources and seemingly has legal protection from scrutiny.
52. BDS Versus Settler-Colonialism
    Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Review of two books about pro-Palestinian political activism known as BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions.) Contains detailed discussion of history and current events covered in the books.
53. "Before all else a revolutionist": Marx and the Question of Strategy 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    If we begin listening to the voices of those he conversed with, we can stop seeing Marx as the source of infinite quotes and begin to view him instead as a comrade on a common path – a path that he walked before us, always in conversation, and often in dispute, with many of his contemporaries.
54. Behind the epidemic of police killings in America: Class, poverty and race
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Article examines root causes and socioeconomics dimension of police violence, with particular stress on the importance of class.
55. Behind the Money Curtain: A Left Take on Taxes, Spending and Modern Monetary Theory 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Taxes do not fund government spending.That's a core insight of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) whose radical implications have not been understood very well by the left. Indeed, it's not well understood at all, and most people who have heard or read it somewhere breeze right past it, and fall back to the taxes-for-spending paradigm that is the sticky common wisdom of the left and right.
56. 'Being treated like slaves': Why migrant exploitation exists
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the labour market in modern capitalist society, and how it leads to the exploitation of migrant workers who are sometimes treated as slaves.
57. The Belem Ecosocialist Declaration: An historic document
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    In 2008 more than 400 activists from 37 countries endorsed this statement of ecosocialist principles and goals. Today the Belem Ecosocialist Declaration remains an important consensus statement of ecosocialist principles and goals.
58. The birth of the Cuban polyclinic
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    During the 1960s, Cuban medicine experienced changes as tumultuous as the civil rights and antiwar protests in the United States. While activists, workers, and students in western Europe and the United States confronted existing institutions of capitalism and imperialism, Cuba faced the even greater challenge of building a new society.
59. Black History and the Class Struggle
    #26
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 2018
60. Black Nationalism, Black Solidarity
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Malik explains examines Black Nationalism and its relationship to a Marxist analysis of nationalism of oppressed peoples.
61. Black Politics After 2016
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A article on the significance of race in American politics, particularly since the 2016 election, and the symbiotic relation between antiracist politics and Democratic neoliberalism.
62. Blacking Out the Yellow Vests on Cable News: Corporate Media Doing its Job
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    France is experiencing a left-leaning popular and working-class uprising consistent with the French revolutionary tradition of "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity", yet the majorty of Western media have given very little investigation or serious attention to the momentous events.
63. Blanket Silence: Corporate Media Ignore New Report Exposing Distorted And Misleading Coverage of Corbyn
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A Media Reform Coalition report reveals that the corporate media in Britain have been producing an alarming amount of 'fake news' items, which includes a narrative that Jeremy Corbyn and Labour party are mired in an 'antisemitism crisis'. The corporate media have largely ignored the report, or any other reasoned criticism of their biased reporting.
64. Blasphermy, Religious and Secular
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    An essay on a European Court of Human Rights ruling and on changing forms of blasphemy law.
65. Bolsonaro: a Monster Engineered by Our Media
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Jonathan Cook explains why the mainstream Western media prefer an extreme right-wing leader over one from the Left.
66. Bolsonaro: a Monster Engineered by Our Media
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Jonathan Cook explains why the plutocrats and the mainstream media spokespeople much prefer a far-right populist like Jair Bolsonaro, or Donald Trump, to a populist leader of the genuine left.
67. The Boomerang Effect: How Netanyahu Made Israel an American Issue, and Lost
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Trends in US opinion polls indicate that Israel is not just losing support and overall appeal among large sections of American society but also among the newer generation of American Jews, a worrying change in US public opinion for the Israeli government.
68. Brazil's Largest Newspaper Quits Facebook, Accuses it of Harboring 'Fake News'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The Brazilian media conglomerate Folha de S. Paulo, made the decision to rebel against Facebook by ceasing to publish content, saying the decision stems primarily from Facebook's recent change on users' news feed which aims to reduce the amount of content and favour posts by friends and family. The paper says Facebook is effectively banning professional journalism from its pages in favour of personal content and 'Fake News'.
69. Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court, and the End of Legal Neutrality
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings destroyed any surviving myth of legal neutrality. Shultz explains why this may be a good thing, because it is time to recognize that the Supreme Court and its Justices are not politically neutral and that neither should they be.
70. A Brief History of American Torture
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The recent appointment of Gina Haspel as Head of the CIA reopens a dark chapter in US history -- the "enhanced interrogation", or torture of men, women and children. It also emphasizes the fact that no American officials who sanctioned, devised, supervised or implemented torture have ever been brought to justice for these crimes against humanity.
71. Bring on Solutionary Rail!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at Solutionary Rail, a people-powered campaign to electrify America's railroads and open corridors to clean and renewable energy.
72. "Brutal and Sadistic": Noam Chomsky on Family Separation & the U.S. Roots of Today's Refugee Crisis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    An interview with Noam Chomsky on the refugee crisis and the Trump administration's family separation policy. The article includes a link to the video interview.
73. The Business of Bullshit 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Bullshit business is about the meaningless language conjured up in schools, in banks, in consultancy firms, in politics, in the media and, of course, in thousands of business schools releasing MBA-certificated managers who are then spreading the meaningless managerial buzz-word language of bullshit business around the world. Bullshit business can indeed take over organizations crowding out their core purpose – profit-maximization.
74. The Button, the Wall and the Myth of Nations
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    North Korean sanctions, the border wall with Mexico, and the "toxic" role of nationalism with regards to international relations and domestically in the US are discussed.
75. Buy Banned Books
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The article takes a look at 'banned books' in the social media era, where the 'imagination police' dominate and a form of 'fictional aparteid' is taking place, and moreover why we have a duty to buy them.
76. Bypassing Dystopia
    Hope-Filled Challenges to Corporate Rule
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Joyce Nelson explores global examples of active and creative resistance to the iron grip of corporatism on our economies and imaginations.
77. Call-Out Culture Is a Toxic Garbage Dumpster Fire of Trash
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the "Call-out" culture where individuals who express opinions are quickly reprimanded online with derogatory labels; a mass media social comdemnation often without any sort of due process, which ultimately spreads a fear to engage in controversy or voice opinions that are even slightly outside the tide of contemporary thinking.
78. Can a Minority Overthrow the Majority?
    Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Feeley reviews Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean.
79. Can a minority rule a majority in perpetuity?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A review of "Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State?" by Josh Ruebner. Subjects include the question of one or two states, and whether Israel should be considered democratic or an apartheid state are among numerous topics addressed in the book.
80. Can the Working Class Change the World?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2018
    A look at how the working class and its allies can oppose capitalism to bring radical change.
81. Canada's Deadly Diplomacy and the Plight of Political Prisoners in Honduras
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the political crisis in Honduras since the Nov. 26 election, which has led to brutal and deadly government crack-downs by military police and other state forces of Honduras. Described as state-led terrorism, it is being tacitly supported by funding from Canadian taxpayers.
82. Canada's Military shapes Coverage of Deployments
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the Canadian military's influence over news coverage. The article outlines the great lengths the military goes to shape information covering its missions, including the recent deployment to Mali.
83. Capitalism: A Crime Story
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2018
    Harry Glasbeek explains how liberal law strives to reconcile capitalism with liberalism, while giving corporate capitalism privileged treatment under the law.
84. Carrying capacity, technology, and ecomodernist confusion
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Biologist Michael Frieman responds to an article titled "The Earth's Carrying Capacity for Human Life Is Not Fixed" by Ted Nordhaus, an executive director of the Breakthrough Institute and strong proponent of ecomodernism. Friedman counters the idea that capitalist technology is capable of solving virtually any of the environmental problems generated by humankind while still making eternal capitalist growth possible- a viewpoint based on assumptions that are fraught with problems.
85. The Case that Dare Not Speak Its Name: the Conviction of Cardinal Pell
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Cardinal Pell, a high-ranking official of the Catholic Church and financial grand wizard of the Vatican, was found guilty on December 11, 2018 of historical child sexual abuses pertaining to two choir boys from the 1990s. But details remain sketchy.
86. Catalunya: 'Only the People Save the People'
    Against the Current vol. 192
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
87. Caught In The Cross Hairs - Media Lens And The Mystery Of The Wikipedia Editor
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Media Lens investigates the case of "Philip Cross", a person who has made hundreds of thousands of edits to Wikipedia pages in a campain against anti-war activists, critics of British and Western foreign policy as well as Media Lens itself.
88. CEMB march at Pride 2018 in London: A Victory against Islamism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain marched in Pride in London on 7 July for LGBT rights in countries under Islamic rule; in 15 states or territories, homosexuality is punishable by death. The march was a victory against Islamist forces in Britain like Mend and East London Mosque that tried and failed to stop CEMB from marching with accusations of 'Islamophobia' aimed at imposing de facto blasphemy and apostasy laws.
89. Central Europe and Central America: Will there be a historical convergence?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
90. Cesspools, Sewage, and Social Murder
    Environmental Crisis and Metabolic Rift in Nineteenth-Century London
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Karl Marx's analysis of changes in British agriculture in the nineteenth-century provides the theoretical starting point for what is now known as 'metabolic rift theory'. This article considers an aspect of the theory that has not been much discussed in modern ecosocialist analysis- the environmental crisis that the accumulation of human excrement caused in urban areas, notably in London.
91. Challenging Capitalism through Workers’ Control
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    From the upheavals of the early 20th century to the neo-liberal re-structurings of the late 20th century emerges the common feature of 'worker's control' -- a movement to protect jobs and communities.
92. Champions Of Democracy - From Fake News To Imposed Insanity
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    While social media is largely blamed for the proliferation of 'fake news', it is through social media where the corporate media commentariat are exposed. Readers are now at last able to see some rational dissent, this is the up-side to social media that the 'mainstream' cannot even discuss.
93. Charges 'Without Merit' - Jeremy Corbyn, Antisemitism, Norman Finkelstein and Noam Chomsky
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A commentary on the anit-semitism claims by the British media regarding Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party.
94. Chasing Shadows: Socialism Won't Go Away Because It is Capitalism's Antithesis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The abstract forces of capitalism's dynamism create the conditions for ever more creative and novel ways to profit, which is why the Golden Age of postwar capitalism-which had a mix of capitalist and socialist economic features-evolved into the neoliberal period after the external oil shocks of 1973 and 1979. Those conditions created a transitional context to shift out of a regulated state-interventionist capitalism into the aggressive, free-market neoliberal variety lasting more than 30 years, leading us to the precipice of the present.
95. Checkpoint Nation
    Border agents are expanding their reach into the country's interior
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Even if you never leave the United States, you can encounter Border Patrol at the thirty-five fixed checkpoints and dozens of temporary checkpoints they operate deep in the interior. The locations of these checkpoints are not made public, but the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, has developed a project to track them.
96. 'City of Surveillance': Google-backed smart city sounds like a dystopian nightmare
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A Google-backed project to build the interconnected, data-driven ‘city of the future’ sounds like all George Orwell’s nightmares come true, and is now in the spotlight after a privacy expert resigned from the project in protest. Toronto’s Waterfront district used to be an industrial wasteland, but Sidewalk Labs – a sister company of Google – wants to turn that wasteland into a prototype ‘city of the future,’ where data helps planners micromanage every aspect of urban life.
97. Clarion Alley Confronts a Lack of Concern
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Clarion Alley's thought-provoking, provocative, clever and often political art was created by those determined to leave a record of their existence and experience and to give voice to marginalized and disenfranchised communities.
98. Claude McKay's Lost Novel
    Review of Amiable with Big Teeth; Against the Current vol. 192
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Review of Amiable with Big Teeth, a novel by the African-American revolutionary activist and writer Claude McKay.
99. Climate Change Drives Up Rural Poverty in Latin America
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    In Latin America and the Caribbean region's first meeting of Week of Agriculture and Food, held in November 2018, more than 1,000 officials and experts agreed that the fall in agricultural yields and increasing migration from the countryside are consequences of global warming.
100. Climate Jobs for All 
     Building Block for the Green New Deal
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     This article discusses the federal jobs guarantee (JG) concept which is also known as "jobs for all." The advocates of JG generally include climate protection as one of many types of work beneficial to the public that might be included in a jobs guarantee program.
101. Climate Jobs for All
     Building Block for the Green New Deal
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A federal climate jobs guarantee (CJG) is a proposed program similar to the New Deal's WPA that would prioritize jobs that protect and improve the environment. Polls show that the program has popular support and could be a major political force in 2020.
102. Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2018
     Stories of the impact of and resistance to climate change from grassroots activists around the world.
103. Climate justice and migration in the media
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A climate justice narrative is needed to communicate and enhance public understanding of migration induced by climate change. Key components must include human rights protection, greater equity in burdens sharing, and participation in decision-making processes.
104. Climate litigation looms
     Interview
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Nick Breeze interviews Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), who explains why we must stay below 1.5C, and why loss and damage compensation, and litigation, are the next big agenda items at COP24.
105. Climate-Driven 'Bugpocalypse'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     An alarming report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that in addition to annihilating hundreds of mammal species, the climate crisis has also sparked a global "bugpocalypse" that will only continue to accelerate in the absence of action to stop planetary warming.
106. CLR James rejected the posturing of identity politics
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     C.L.R. James railed against the superficial nonsense that masquerades as 'anti-racism.'
107. Cold as Ice
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     An excerpt from a letter written in 1897 to the editor of the British newspaper the 'Daily Chronicle'. The letter is included in "The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde", published by Harvard University Press. The letter is an appeal and commentary on the harsh and cruel treatment of children being held in English prisons.
108. The Collaboration Trap
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Most of environmental/conservation groups in the West are participants in various public land collaboratives.Most participating collaborative members are made up of people who generally believe in exploiting natural landscapes for human benefit. As a generalization, there is overwhelming representation in such collaboratives by people who speak for the resource extraction industry or their sympathizers like rural county commissioners, ORV enthusiasts, and so forth.
109. Communism and Self-Management
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at workers' self-management in past regimes and their relevance to current debates.
110. Community forest management against illegal timber logging
     Indigenous communities comply with strict rules to ensure the regeneration of the forest and protect water sources.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Guatemala is hit hard by mudslides caused by deforestation. Government-led initiatives created in consultation with Indigenous communities have been successful in preserving forests and promotiing sustainability.
111. Comrade Bernard
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A review of Bernard Goldstein's "Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund: A Memoir of Interwar Poland", a firsthand account of the struggles of the Jewish working class in Poland between the two World Wars.
112. Confronting Germany's New Fascists in Berlin
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the rise of facism in Germany with the recent winning of seats, now with 92 representatives in the national Bundestag, by the five-year-old Alternative for Germany (AfD). This new found platform provides the party with a voice in every debate and the first speakers after those of the government.
113. Confronting the Right: An Introduction
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     An overview of issues related to confronting the right, including questions surrounding the labelling of free speech as hate speech.
114. The Constitutional Root of Racism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at how the US Constitution enables racism by affording power to the states.
115. A conversation with film historian Max Alvarez
     How the #MeToo campaign echoes the McCarthyite witch hunt of the 1940s and 1950s
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Clearly, this is not as organized a political campaign as the one that took place in the 1940s and 1950s, but the climate is chillingly similar in terms of the massive capitulation and conformity in the entertainment industry.
116. Cooperative farming is the only solution to the present agriculture crisis
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the agricultural crisis in India and the economic realities the country faces in a market tilted in favour of America and Europe. Solutions include government policy based on science in the use of land and water, less reliance on pesticides and fertilizers, and a move towards cooperative farming.
117. Corbyn's Labour Party is Being Made to Fail - By Design
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The embattled Labour party is reportedly soon to adopt the four additional working "examples" of anti-semitism drafted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). The full adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-semitism will be a victory for Israel and its apologists in Britain, who who have been seeking to curb all meaningful criticism of Israel.
118. Corporate Coercion and the Drive to Eliminate Buying with Cash
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Consumer freedom and privacy are examined as coercive commercialism quickly moves toward a cashless economy, when all consumers are forced into corporate payment systems from credit/debit cards, mobile phones and perhaps even through facial recognition technology.
119. Corporate Media: the Enemy of the People
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     We on the Left don't need to reflexively and absurdly jump to the defense of imperial criminals at the instigation of that (well, yes) "enemy of the people" the U.S. corporate and so-called mainstream war, news, and entertainment media.
120. The corporate media's world of illusions
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In fact, the Great Western Narrative has been developed and refined over centuries to preserve a tiny elite’s privileges and expand its power. The role of journalists like me was to keep feeding these illusions to readers so they would remain fearful, passive and deferential to this elite. It is not that journalists lie – or at least, not most of them – it is that they are as deeply wedded to the Great Western Narrative as everyone else.
121. The Counterinsurgency Paradigm: How U.S. Politics Have Become Paramilitarized
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Bernard Harcourt argues in his recent book "The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens" that the same counterinsurgency paradigm of warfare used against post-9/11 enemies has now come to the US as the effective governing strategy.
122. Courrieres Mine Disaster 1906
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The devastating mine disaster in 1906 that killed over 1,000 workers in Courrieres, France, is remembered.
123. The Crisis in Corbyn's Labour Party is Over Israel, Not Anti-Semitism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     If there is indeed an anti-semitism problem in the UK's Labour party, it is not in the places where the British corporate media have been directing our attention. What can be said with even more certainty is that there is rampant hatred expressed towards Jews in the same British media that is currently decrying the supposed anti-semitism of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
124. The Crisis of Social Democracy: From Norway to Europe
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     With social democratic parties in Europe suffering poor election results and significant setbacks, this article puts the current crisis in historical context, and how resolution and success will depend on more radical solutions.
125. Crisis of the State, Crisis of the Left
     Articulating Socialism After the Anarchist Moment
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     'Augmenting the left' -- that is, finding ways to build new organizational alliances, expand practices of resistance, and culturally envision and collectively build toward a better world -- is not just a worthwhile project, but also an essential one. Human survival may depend upon it. In this regard, it must be recognized that there is also a crisis of the various post-Marxisms, especially to the extent that they tried to replace class as the central structural pivot around which different forms of oppression and counter-hegemonic emancipatory struggles condense.
126. Crucifying Julian Assange
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Juilien Assange, who exposed the dark machinations and crimes of the US government, is now under threat of being expelled from the Equadorian Embassy. The article looks at what is happening to Assange and why the the silence over his plight is a betrayal by the press.
127. Cucks, Cuckolding and Campaign Management
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Talk about a bunch of sad sacks that really stink in the sack. The Trumpocalypse is ruining sex for the rest of us.
128. Current Developments in Iran
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     An update on the new wave of demonstrations that started December 28, 2017 in Mashhad, the second-largest city in Iran, and why dissent is different from that of 2009.
129. The Curse of Energy Efficiency
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The more 'efficient' our technology, the more resources we consume in a downward spiral of catastrophe.
130. Cursed Fields
     What the tundra has in store for Russia's reindeer herders
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Noah Sneider visits the Yamal Peninsula in Russia where an outbreak of anthrax is killing herds of reindeer and engdangering the lives of the local people. Rising temperatures and a particularly hot summer have led scientists to conclude that climate change is the most credible explanation for its deadly return.
131. The Dangerous Junk Science of Vocal Risk Assessment
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Various companies and government agencies aim to use technology that measures biological features such as facial expressions or tone of voice to assess individuals, such as refugee claimants or potential employees, for 'risk'. Many critics say the science behind this is dubious and can hide cultural bias under a blanket of objectivity.
132. The dawn of our liberation: The early days of the International Communist Women's Movement
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     An examination of the early days of the international Communist Women's Movement (CWM). The article focuses on three points in particular: the CWM's ideas on women's emancipation, the relationship with non-communist women's movements and the problematic relationship with male comrades.
133. The deadly flood in Kerala may be only a gentle warning
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Arundhati Roy comments on the disasterous flooding in the Indian state of Kerala. While acknowleding various forces lead to the disaster, Roy also places blame on government mismanagement and ignoring the needs of the state's most disadvanted people.
134. The Death of a Once Great City
     The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Kevin Baker takes a close look at the changes to his home city of New York over the past forty years. He notes that while some of the more undesirable aspects of New York in the 1970's have improved, such as crime, dirt, garbage- the new and more gentrified city masks significant problems, the most notable being a growing housing crisis.
135. De-Briefing Academics: Unpaid Intelligence Informants
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Many academics frequently engage in what government officials dub 'de-briefing'! Academics meet and discuss their field-work, data collection, research finding, observations and personal contacts over lunch at the Embassy with US government officials or in Washington with State Department officials.
136. Debunking A Century of War Lies
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In the modern age of democracy and volunteer armies, a pretense for war is required to rally the nation around the flag and motivate the public to fight. That is why every major conflict is now accompanied by its own particular bodyguard of lies. From false flag attacks to dehumanization of the "enemy," here are all the examples you’ll need to help debunk a century of war lies.
137. Defending Afrin means defending the women's revolution
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Since January 20, 2018 the Turkish army has been attacking the Kurdish region of Afrin in the Democratic Federation of North Syria; among the casualties are women, children and many refugees. In this message to the world a confederation of women's organisatons in Afrin call upon all women worldwide to join their struggle.
138. Defending 'Our Democracy'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Despite the onsought of attacks on American democracy, groups like the teachers in West Virginia, Oklahoma and Kentucky and the Parkland surviors through their activism are defending America's democracy.
139. The Defiance that Launched Gaza's Flaming Kites Cannot be Extinguished
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Now Israel is facing a new and apparently even tougher challenge: how to stop Palestinian resistance from Gaza using flaming kites, which have set fire to lands close by in Israel. F-16 fighter jets are equipped to take on many foes but not the humble kite.
140. Defining Israel as a "Jewish State"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The definition of what is a "Jewish State" and "what is a Jew" is a fundamental part of this debate. The "Jewish State" is like no other. It uses a concept of Jewish nationality which is like no other definition of nationality. It is the Jewish character of the State that is given preference to all other considerations and gives superior rights to Jews over the non-Jewish population in Israel.
141. Demand for atheism rises in countries under Islamic rule
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The rise of atheism in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia is something we have been speaking about for some time now. The Iranian Baztab Now website warned of a tsunami of atheism amongst Iranian youth. The #ExMuslimBecause hashtag initiated by the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain became viral overnight with over 120,000 Tweets from 65 countries.
142. Democracy and Ecological Crisis
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In view of the global ecological problems which have arisen from aggressive market driven economies, the author examines what democracy and socialism really mean, and what a more environmentally responsible Post-Capitalism society might look like.
143. Despite Gaza Massacre, Israel Remains Immune From Criticism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Imagine for a moment that it was not the two million Palestinian in Gaza, who are mostly refugees from 1948, but the six million Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan who had staged a march to return to the homes that they have lost in Syria since 2011. Suppose that, as they approach the Syrian border, they were fired on by the Syrian army and hundreds of them were killed or injured. The international outcry against the murderous Syrian regime in Washington, London, Paris and Berlin would have echoed around the world.
144. Dialectics of Revolutionary Learning
     Book review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Review of the book Revolutionary Learning: Marxism, Feminism and Knowledge by Sara Carpenter and Shahrzad Mojab.
145. Dinner with Marx in the House of the Swan
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     When Jacques Pauwels enters a bistro in Brussels' Grand-Place, he finds himself under the watchful eye of an illustrious former patron - Karl Marx. As he dines, a great number of stories cross his mind. The historian, author of 'The Great Class War 1914-1918', tells us how this tourist hotspot was once a hotbed of revolutionaries, and how Marx's stay in Brussels played a role in his writings.
146. Disabled People in UK Lead Fight Against Austerity
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In July 20,2018, John Clarke represented the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) at the International Deaf and Disabled People’s Solidarity Summit, in Stratford, east London that had been convened by one of our key allies in the UK, Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC). This powerful gathering was an important moment in the building of a resistance by disabled people as part of a broader international struggle against the forces of neoliberal austerity.
147. Disabling Barriers
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Review of a collection on disability rights.
148. Disagreement is not hatred
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     An essay on the transgender debate which argues that debate ends when we label views we simply disagree with as 'hatred''.
149. Disinformation: In the Philippines, political trolling is an industry - this is how it works
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In the Philippines, influential personalities and online 'trolls' are credited with winning Rodrigo Duterte the presidency in 2016. This article examines the chief architects of disinformation who continue to vociferously share 'fake news' and silence dissenters.
150. Diverting Class War Into Generational War, Again
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Dean Baker provieds a counter argument to a New York Times article titled "65 or Older? Here's What We Owe Our Kids" by Glenn Kramon, which directs blame at Social Security and Medicare for the current struggles of the younger generation.
151. Does the Bitcoin frenzy make any sense at all?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The author explains how the strange story of a "crypto-currency" reveals the underlying irrationality of a system that is designed to work for the rich only.
152. Don't Fall for the Chemical Weapons Convention Justification
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the interventionalist arguments in support of Western air and missile attacks in Syria, and the false claim that the attack was justified under international law because it was a response to the use of banned chemical weapons.
153. The Doomsday Machine and Nuclear Winter 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The portion of an interview with Daniel Ellsberg, an American activist and former United States military analyst, who comments on thermonuclear war and its outcome.
154. Doubts about 'Novichoks'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Briefing notes developed from ongoing research and investigation into the use of chemical and biological weapons during the 2011-present war in Syria conducted by members of the "Working Group on Syria, Media and Propaganda".
155. Drinking Poblems
     A Kansas town confronts a tap-water crisis
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the health crisis in Pretty Prairie, Kansas, where Nitrate from farms has polluted the water supply for three decades. Elizabeth Royte takes a look at the town's history and social climate in order to understand why the problem was left for so long.
156. Dunlop Factory (South Africa): The workers who won't snitch 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Metalworker union Numsa files legal arguments in the Constitutional Court on on behalf of Dunlop factory workers from Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, after workers were dismissed because they did not snitch on fellow workers during a protected strike.
157. Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of "Green" Capitalism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2018
     Analysis of the 1930s Dust Bowl as the result of capitalism and US imperialism. Also looks at what we can learn from it for today's climate crisis.
158. Ecological Sustainability, Inequality and Social Class
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Raju Das connect sustainability to metabolism, reproduction, and value of labour power.
159. The Economics Behind the Skripal Poisoning
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The question is why are they doing this with Russia? Why are they imposing sanctions and mounting a great publicity campaign?
160. Ecuadorean Villagers May Still Triumph Over Chevron
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Michael Krauss, a lawyer who teaches "ethics" at a law school named after the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, recently posted a blog on the Forbes website entitled "The Ecuador Saga Continues: Steven Donziger now owes Chevron more than $800,000" (Forbes 3/14/2018). Kraus says that Chevron has basically triumphed over evil...
161. Editorial Statement: Introducing Insurgent Notes on Marx in 1968
     Insurgent Notes vol. 17
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The editors introduce the focus of this issue: How present or absent was the thought of Karl Marx in 1968?
162. Eight reasons why the latest Syria chemical weapons attack allegations are almost certainly complete nonsense
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A discussion on the chemical attack in Douma, Syria, and why the allegations are likely false.
163. Eight Things I learned About Palestine While Touring Eight Western Nations
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The main theme of all my talks in various cultural, academic and media platforms was the pressing need to refocus the discussion on Palestine on the struggle, aspirations and history of the Palestinian people. But, interacting with hundreds of people and being exposed to multiple media environments in both mainstream and alternative media, I also learned much about the changing political mood on Palestine in the western world.
164. "Embodied Materialism" and Ecosocialism
     Book review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Detailed chapter-by-chapter review of Ariel Salleh's Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx, and the Postmodern.
165. Empty Suits
     Defamation law and the price of dissent
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at lawsuits filed by companies that are intended to censor, intimidate, and silence dissenters by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense- known as SLAPP or strategic lawsuits against public participation.
166. The End of "The Great War"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A thorough look at the ending of World War I, focusing especially on class conflict.
167. The End of Policing & Police: A Field Guide
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2018
     A Field Guide to the Police is a study of the indirect and taken-for granted language of policing, a language we're all forced to speak when we talk about law enforcement. The book refuses to see the world as police do, instead it contends that when we talk about police and police reform, we speak the language of police legitimation through the art of euphemism. State sexual assault becomes "body-cavity search," and ruthless beatings become "plain compliance." Like any other field guide, it reveals a world that is hidden in plain view. In entries like "Police dog," "Stop and frisk," "Rough ride," and scores more, the authors show how "copspeak" obscures the true meaning and history of policing. This book will arm activists on the streets--as well as anyone with an open mind--on one of the key issues of our time: police violence. The book argues that a redefined language of policing might help us chart a future free of police and police violence.
168. Endless War, Swirling Chaos
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The editors of Against the Current comment on current American global affairs, including the Singapore Summit, Iran and Palestine as well as the need for a new Anti-War movement.
169. Engineering the climate could cost us the earth
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Political scientist Gareth Dale takes a look at Geoengineering as a "political technology" and institutional apparatus that is preventing effective climate action, and actually serves to reduce the sense of urgency needed for genuine and more effective structural change.
170. Eric Hobsbawm’s histories
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Eric Hobsbawm was the author of, among many other works, a classic quartet on modern world history, The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, The Age of Empire and Age of Extremes. Hobsbawm was widely respected as one of the greatest historians of the left and one of the greatest historians of the 20th century more generally.
171. Estar Baur (1920-2017)
     Against the Current vol. 192
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     With the passing of Estar Baur, Dianne Feeley discusses Baur's life as a lifelong socialist activist.
172. Eternity, nature, society and the absurd fantasies of the rich
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The wealthier they are, the more they fear that others will try to take their wealth. No wonder the super-rich are building bunkers to escape the apocalypse.
173. Ethics and Whistleblowing for Engineers Affects Us All
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Some engineering professors worry that their students' busy course schedules prevents them from adequately exploring the liberal arts. Without exposure to the liberal arts, engineering students will lack the broad context that will help them approach their work as a profession, not just a trade.
174. Europe's Political Turmoil (Part I)
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Far-right parties are gaining ground all over Europe scapegoating immigrants and people of colour. The radical left has not come up with a competitive strategy for winning people over.
175. European Communist Parties and '68
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     One effect of the May 1968 uprisings was to highlight and/or hasten the split between communist parties and social movements in Europe.
176. Europe's Political Turmoil and the Rise of the Far Right
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the recent rise of far-right governments all over Europe and the failure of the left to effectively counter this.
177. Even the FBI Agrees: When Undercover Agents Pose as Journalists, It Hurts Real Journalists' Work
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The FBI doesn't want the public to know more about how its agents pose as journalists during undercover investigations.The government acknowledged in a court filing that FBI agents who pretend to be journalists create a chilling effect, making it harder for real journalists to gain trust and cooperation from sources.
178. Ex-Muslims: A community in protest 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     I see ex-Muslims as a community in protest: insisting on freedom from religion, and freedom of conscience. For the right to apostasy and blasphemy, without fear. Like the LGBT, anti-slavery, anti-colonialist, anti-apartheid, suffragette or civil rights movements, it’s a movement which insists upon our common humanity and equality – not upon difference or superiority. It’s a movement of people who refuse to live in fear and in the shadows, and who are speaking out for social change in unprecedented ways.
179. Expansion of monocultures expels peasants from their lands 
     Repression intensifies against peasant leaders opposed to land grabs, evictions and the pollution of water sources.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In Guatemala a wave of violence at the hands of large agriculture corporations has been driving Indigenous people and peasants off their land.
180. Exploitation, Alienation and Oppression
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Bakan discusses the varations of Marxism and proports that the best of the Marxist tradition resists orthodoxy. She considers the complexity and variation in the core concepts in Marx's work regarding inequality.
181. Exposing Canary Mission
     A Resource for College and University Leaders
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A report on Canary Mission, a secretive and non-academic political organization that uses their website to engage in defamatory attacks against college students, academics and others who report on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and advocate for Palestinian rights.
182. Extinction Rebellion: From the UK to Ghana and the US, Climate Activists Take Civil Disobedience World-Wide
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the Extinction Rebellion, an international movement that calls for peaceful mass economic disruption around the world in order to bring awareness to the growing environmental crisis.
183. The Face Off: Law Enforcement Use of Face Recognition Technology
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Face recognition is poised to become one of the most pervasive surveillance technologies, and law enforcement's use of it is increasing rapidly. However, the adoption of face recognition technologies like these is occurring without meaningful oversight, without proper accuracy testing of the systems as they are actually used in the field, and without the enactment of legal protections to prevent internal and external misuse.
184. Facebook announces latest step in censorship campaign, prioritizing "local news"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media giant will prioritize news from 'local sources' in the News Feed displayed to users. This is the third move this year in a roll-out of updates by Facebook aimed at censoring online information.
185. Facebook: A Cooperative Transformation
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Facebook represents a standard for a global model of concentration of wealth and power in the 21st century, joined by companies like Google, Amazon, and Uber. Entrepreneurs with computer skills and good or lucky timing have privatized and enclosed the global information commons and have enriched themselves by providing services for free or for reduced prices to the billions.
186. Facebook and the Rise of Anti-Social Media
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     For those who haven't thought about it, the internet is insidious because of the very capacity that Cambridge Analytica claims to be able to exploit: customization. Users have limited ability to confirm the authenticity of anything they see, read or hear on it. Print editions can be compared and contrasted-- technology limits print media to large-scale deceptions. With the capacity to create entire realms of deception -- identities, content, web pages and entire online publications, trust is made a function of gullibility.
187. Facing the left-wing challenge in the European Union - Ten proposals
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The left could bring radical change if they could prove themselves capable to people in the Eurozone dissatisfied with austerity measures. Here are ten proposals for social mobilization and actions to be taken by any government that is truly operating in the interests of the people.
188. Fact-Checking the Establishment's 'Fact-Checkers': How the 'Fake News' Story is Fake News
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the introduction of "Fake News" in the US and how is was used by both political parties in the lead-up to the 2016 US election, and moreover how it was propogated by the mainstream media and fact-checked by dubious verification sources.
189. Fake News and the Gatekeepers of Truth
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at misinformation or 'fake news' and how it has changed from the past; while only governments and prominent figures could once manipulate public opinion, today it is anyone with online access.
190. The fallacy of Israel's human shields claims in Gaza
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Desperately trying to justify the killing of unarmed protesters, Israel once again uses its 'human shields' mantra.
191. Fascist Attack in Chile
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     An open letter calling for international solidarity in the aftermath of an attack on the March for the Right to Free, Legal Abortion on Demand in Santiago, Chile where three women were stabbed.
192. Fathi Harb burnt himself to death in Gaza: Will the world notice?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Self-immolation is more than suicide. That can be done quietly, out of sight, less gruesomely. In fact, figures suggest that suicide rates in Gaza have rocketed in recent years. But public self-immolation is associated with protest.
193. A Faustian Bargain with the Climate Crisis
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Take as our inspiration the temptations of capitalist individualism set before us, we make the exact same bargain. The difference in this case however is that we know the disaster is coming; we don't even need to worry about what our spidey senses say, 97% of all climate scientists agree that the capitalist mentality that sees the world as an infinite resource and infinite garbage dump is warming the atmosphere. We have even less excuse.
194. The FBI's Maoist Faction
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The following is based on research by Aaron J. Leonard and Conor A. Gallagher for their book, A Threat of the First Magnitude: FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration from the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union - 1962-1974, (London: Repeater Books, 2018).
195. FC St. Pauli: Antifascist, Antiracist
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Haasen describes the political activism of FC St. Pauli footbal team and its supporters in Hamburg, Germany. Having once supported the Nazi Regime, this club has radiically changed it stance to become a vocal supporter of antiracism, antifascism and humanitarian efforts.
196. The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2018
     The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life.
197. 15 Actions That Can Shut Down Trump's Assault on Immigrant Families
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A list of recommended actions that can be taken against the Trump Administration's policy toward immigrant families, some of which include: Expose for-profit detention corporations; Target mayor's offices, state capitals, and governor's mansions; Practice non-violence, as well as using the media to your advantage.
198. The Fight for Housing, 1967-68 & Milwaukee NAACP Commandos
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A history of The Commandos, an offshoot of the NAACP Youth Council formed in Milwaukee in the 1960s. Their main fight was against segregated housing.
199. Finding the truth amid Israel's lies
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The famous – and by now overused – expression that history is written by the victors can be countered in many ways. One way is by unpacking the victors’ publications in order to expose the lies, fabrications and misrepresentations, as well as their less conscious actions. A rereading of these open sources about the Nakba, mostly written by Israelis themselves, unlocks fresh historiographical perspectives on the big picture of that period – while declassified documents allow us to see that picture in a higher resolution. This reprise could have been done at any moment between 1948 and today – as long as historians were willing to employ the critical lens needed for such an examination. Rereading these open sources, especially in tandem with the numerous oral histories of the Nakba, reveals the barbarism and dehumanization that accompanied the catastrophe. The barbarism is common to settler communities in the formative years of their colonization projects and can sometimes be obscured by the dry and evasive language of military and political documents.
200. First they came for Alex Jones. Now Facebook bans Venezuela news site
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Days after the purge of Alex Jones from social media, Big Tech seems to have found another suitable target for apparent censorship. Facebook suspended the page of a prominent leftist news site writing about Venezuela.
201. Fishers under siege
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A review of Penny McCall Howard, Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea: "Working the Ground" in Scotland.
202. Fisk Puts to Test the Free-Press Myth in Douma
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Veteran Middle East corrrespondent Robert Fisk was the first western correspondent to arrive in Douma following the US, UK and French attacks on Syria. Based on first hand interviews Fisk's account is clearly honest about what he reported and certainly plausible, yet respected British newspapers like the Guardian gave his reports a cursory if not hostile treatment.
203. A Flag for Trump's America
     The power of strength
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the Blue Lives Matter slogan and flag, which became a symbol for the U.S. police counter-movement advocating that those who are prosecuted and convicted of killing law enforcement officers should be sentenced under hate crime statutes. It was started in response to Black Lives Matter.
204. Florida Students Confront Spencer
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Aliya recounts her experience protesting the Richard Spencer event at the University of Florida.
205. 'Follow Your Bliss' - The Tweet That Brought Corporate Journalism To The Brink Of A Nervous Breakthrough
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Don't write for the "mainstream". Don't write for money. Don't write for prestige. Just "follow your bliss" by writing what you absolutely love to write to inspire and enlighten other people. Write what seems interesting, important and true, and give it away for free.'
206. Following the Levellers, Volume Two
     English Political and Religious Radicals from the Commonwealth to the Glorious Revolution, 1649–1688
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2018
     The Levellers sought to restructure the state in 1647-9 around popular consent and liberty for conscience, especially in their Agreement of the People. Following the Levellers, Volume Two examines the later political efforts of Leveller spokesmen like John Lilburne, John Wildman, and Richard Overton, and their followers.
207. For an international coalition to fight Internet censorship
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In this open letter from the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, the threat and consequences of internet censorship and reduction in access to information is highlighted.
208. For Campus Free Speech
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Bose describes the right-wing incursion on universities and his troubled feelings about the climate of intellectual fear among some on the campus left. He elaborates on this by discussing the demands for speaking engagements for right-wing pundits to be cancelled.
209. For International Women's Day: Honoring the Fighters
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Brief descriptions of Ahed Tamimi, Asma Jahangir, Heather Heyer, Berta Cáceres, Erica Garner, and Tarana Burke in honour of International Women's Day.
210. Force of Evil: Abraham Polonsky and Anti-Capitalist Noir
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Policy lies at the heart of Abraham Polonsky’s Force of Evil, arguably the most anti-capitalist film ever to emerge from Hollywood. Released 70 years ago to puzzled critics and an indifferent public, over time it would achieve cult status among devotees of film noir while offering a tantalizing glimpse of what might have been accomplished by Polonsky and other members of the Hollywood Left had the blacklist not intervened.
211. 'The Forced Displacement of Palestinians Never Truly Ended
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     As Israel celebrates its 70th anniversary, a child and grandchild of exiled Palestinian reflects on the Nakba, where 750,000 were driven from their homes or fled in terror following massacres of Palestinian civilians by Jewish militias.
212. Foreign Interventions in Revolutionary Russia
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     All over Europe, the First World War had brought about a potentially revolutionary situation as early as 1917. In countries where the authorities continued to represent the traditional elite, exactly as had been the case in 1914, they aimed to prevent the realization of this potential by means of repression, concessions, or both.
213. Foreign Policy for Sale: Greece's Dangerous Alliance with Israel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     For a brief historical moment, Alexis Tsipras and his political party, Syriza, ignited hope that Greece could resurrect a long-dormant Leftist tide in Europe. A new Greece was being born out of the pangs of pain of economic austerity, imposed by the European Union and its overpowering economic institutions – a troika so ruthless, it cared little while the Greek economy collapsed and millions of people experienced the bitterness of poverty, unemployment and despair.
214. The Forgotten Socialist History of Martin Luther King Jr.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     King believed that a multiracial working-class movement was required to overcome the failings of capitalism.
215. A 14-Year-Old Girl Forced Alone and at Night Into the Gaza Cage. Another Routine Mishap for Israel's Occupation
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     How did a 14-year-old Palestinian girl who has never set foot in the open-air prison of Gaza find herself being dumped there by Israeli officials – alone, at night and without her parents being informed?The terrifying ordeal – a child realising she had not been taken home but discarded in a place where she knew no one – is hard to contemplate for any parent.And yet for Israel's gargantuan bureaucratic structure that has ruled over Palestinians for five decades, this was just another routine error. One mishap among many that day.
216. Foxconn: The Myth and Reality of the Welfare Queen
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Social scientists who have studied the welfare system before and after the Clinton era welfare "reforms" have exposed the notion that women on public assistance were "welfare queens" as a myth.
217. Fragmented Power: Portugal in Revolution, 1974-1975
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In Portugal the underground Armed Forces Movement's long-planned coup d'etat to bring down the Estado Novo regime was a success; however it was relatively short-lived despite the modest intentions of its organizers. This article takes a look at the popular initiatives that brought Portugal to the brink of a socialist revolution and why it failed.
218. Free and Accessible Transit Now
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Transit is a critical issue for many people in Toronto, as in all major urban areas. More is at stake than reducing traffic congestion and gridlock. Free transit opens the door to a broader transformation of urban life and the current social system. Our 'Red-Green' vision is socialist, based on the working class, environmentally just, internationalist, and transformative.
219. Free Public Transit: And Why We Don't Pay to Ride Elevators 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2018
     In an age of increasing inequalities and ecological crisis, movements for free public transit are proposing a profound rethinking of urban transit as a fundamental human right and public good. Research shows that, if the bus were free, people would ride it as much as 50% more in the first year, dramatically reducing car use, traffic, and pollution, while redistributing wealth and increasing social inclusion for poor and working people. But free public transit alone is not enough; it must also be combined with much better service and reserve bus lanes to be effective. In its twenty chapters, this book explores the winning strategies and pitfalls of case studies ranging across fourteen countries: the United States, Canada, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Sweden, Brazil, Mexico, Poland, China, France, Belgium, Germany, and Australia.
220. #FreeSiwatu!
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Siwatu-Salama Ra, an activist, was arrested in Detriot for felonious assault despite the fact that Siwatu-Salama was acting to defend herself and her family.
221. From Catholicism and the working class to communism and Marx
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Garvey describes his childhood growing up in a Catholic community in New York and explains how Marx and Marxism were episodically present in the later periods of his life but first engagement with them was not nearly as deep as it needed to be. He asserts that in the 1960s Marx and Marxism that were on offer in the world of political practice were, more often than not, caricatures. What was needed in 1968 and beyond was not simply more Marx but a different Marx. At the end, he sketchs out some ideas of what a different Marx might have been and what difference it might have made.
222. From Moral Outrage to Moral Panic: the Limits of Public Rage
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     There has been forceful break from the culture of silence that has long protected men from being held accountable for their misdeeds. While rage emerges against male sexual abuse, some progressive feminists have raised concerns that this movement may slip into 'moral panic' and a possible conservative, neo-puritan anti-sex campaign.
223. Fruits and perils of the 'bloc within': The Comintern and Asia 1919-25 (Part 3)
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The most advanced experience of Communist alliance with national revolutionists occurred in Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) prior to the Baku Congress. However, it was not mentioned at the congress, even though one of its architects – the Dutch Communist Maring (Henk Sneevliet) – was present in the hall. Maring had been a leader for many years of revolutionary socialist Dutch settlers in Indonesia, who had achieved the remarkable feat of transforming their group into one predominantly indigenous in leadership, membership, and programmatic orientation. The key to success had been a close alliance with a mass national-revolutionary organization of the type described by the Second Congress, called Sarekat Islam.
224. The future of the Nakba
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     If the Nakba’s most salient features are the theft of Palestinian land and the expulsion of the Palestinians from their land, and subjecting the lands that could not be stolen and the people who could not be expelled to systematic control and oppression, then, it would be most inaccurate to consider the Nakba as a discrete event that refers to the war of 1948 and its immediate aftermath. Rather, it should be historicized as a process which spanned the last 140 years, beginning with the arrival of the first Zionist conquerors to colonize the land in the early 1880s. In addition, Israeli leaders continue to regale their own people and the world with assurances that the Nakba is not just a past and present process of dispossessing the Palestinian people of their lands and expelling them, but rather one that must continue to preserve the future survival of Israel. The Nakba then turns out to be not just a past event and an ongoing process in the present, but a calamity that has a decidedly planned future ahead of it. If so, what might that future be?
225. Miriam Garfinkle 1954 - 2018
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Obituary for Miriam Garfinkle, who died on September 15, 2018.
226. Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2018
     The Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its inhabitants are refugees, and more than half are under eighteen years of age. Since 2004, Israel has launched eight devastating “operations” against Gaza’s largely defenseless population. Thousands have perished, and tens of thousands have been left homeless. In the meantime, Israel has subjected Gaza to a merciless illegal blockade.
     What has befallen Gaza is a man-made humanitarian disaster.
     Based on scores of human rights reports, Norman G. Finkelstein's new book presents a meticulously researched inquest into Gaza’s martyrdom. He shows that although Israel has justified its assaults in the name of self-defense, in fact these actions constituted flagrant violations of international law.
227. Gaza medic killed by Israel as she rescued injured
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Israeli occupation forces shot dead a volunteer medic and injured dozens of people as they continued their indiscriminate attacks on Palestinians taking part in Great March of Return protests in Gaza for the 10th consecutive Friday. Razan Ashraf Abdul Qadir al-Najjar, 21, was helping treat and evacuate wounded protesters east of Khan Younis when she was fatally shot on Friday evening. She was about 100 meters away from the boundary fence with Israel at the moment she was shot and was wearing clothing clearly identifying her as a medic.
228. Gaza: Who or What Has a Right to Exist?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at Norman Finkelstein's book "Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom", which investigates the Israeli attacks on Gaza such as Operation Cast Lead (2008-09), the Mavi Marmara (2010), and Operation Protective Edge (2014).
229. Gazan Gandhis: Gaza Bleeds Alone as 'Liberals' and 'Progressives' Go Mute 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Tens of thousands of protesters, raising Palestinian flags continue to hold their massive rallies across the Gaza border. Despite the high death toll and the thousands maimed, they return everyday with the same commitment to popular resistance that is predicated on collective unity, beyond factionalism and politics.But why are they still being largely ignored? It is politically convenient to criticize Palestinians as a matter of course, and utterly inconvenient to credit them, even when they display such courage, prowess and commitment to peaceful change.
230. Gender, Race and Marx's Whiskers
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Roediger juxtaposes James and Marx quotations and discusses the iimplications for how Marx’s limits and his forward motion regarding race and gender might be understood together.
231. Gentrification and Class Struggles in Barcelona, Spain: Interview with Etcétera Collective
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In an interview with the Barcelona-based collective Etcetera, the processes of urban development in one of the fastest gentrifying cities in Spain and their implications for potential movements and struggles are examined.
232. The Geography of Marxism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     David Harvey is a geographer and a Marxist. A collection of his works titled The Ways of the World was recently published in paperback. A collection pulled from his writing and lectures, the works are insightful, both in their approach to the world and the manner in which he combines geography and Marxism.
233. Getting to Marxism in Wisconsin and Iowa
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Dave Ranney recounts his experiences during the 1960s which led him to accepting Marxism. He emphasizes his experinces in Southeast Asia during the 1960s which exposed covert Americian military action in the region. Other formative experiences include those as an university professor in Wisconsin and Iowa where he witnessed and joined campus movements.
234. GI Coffeehouses Recalled: a Compliment From General Westmoreland 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The New York Times has published an op-ed piece by historian David Parsons about the coffeehouses started near US bases during the War in Vietnam.
235. Gideon Levy: A Voice of Sanity from Israel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In spite of a systemic policy of demonization, Israeli journalist and human rights activist Gideon Levy continues denouncing the Israeli government and the crimes against Palestinians.
236. The "Gilets Jaunes" Seen From My Workplace
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Due to the insular and ambiguous nature of social media, the Yellow Vests movement may spark political unrest but probably won't lead to real social revolution.
237. Gina Haspel's CIA nomination demands the United States account for its history of torture
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     President Trump's nomination of Gina Haspel to head the CIA has stirred objections from many quarters. Dorfman recounts the impact of state sanctioned torture in Chile.
238. Girls Reduced to Being Repositories of Communal and Religious Identities in Kashmir
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The rape and ruthless murder of an eight-year old girl in Jammu province underscores the brutal gender violence that is a consistent feature of the political thuggery that grips the subcontinent.
239. GMOs, Global Agribusiness and the Destruction of Choice
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     One of the myths perpetuated by the pro-GMO (genetically modified organisms) lobby is that critics of GMOs in agriculture are denying choice to farmers and have an ideological agenda. The narrative is that farmers should have access to a range of tools and technologies, including GM crops. But GM agriculture is not 'feeding the world', nor has it been designed to do so. The choice for farmers between a technology based on broken promises and conventional non-GMO agriculture is no choice at all.
240. Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Google has partnered with the United States Department of Defense to help the agency develop artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage, a move that set off a firestorm among employees of the technology giant when they learned of Google's involvement.
241. Google keeps tracking you even when you specifically tell it not to: Maps, Search won't take no for an answer
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Google has admitted that its option to "pause" the gathering of your location data doesn't apply to its Maps and Search apps – which will continue to track you even when you specifically choose to halt such monitoring.
242. Google's 'Smart City of Surveillance' Faces New Resistance in Toronto
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A plan to develop 12 acres of the valuable waterfront just southeast of downtown Toronto
     by the government agency Waterfront Toronto and Sidewalk Labs, owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. has sparked concerns about privacy and lack of public consultation. A recent slew of resignations from its board has made these concerns increasingly urgent and public.
243. Government Mass Murder
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     "This is not an assault." Twenty-five years ago, that was the lie blaring over government loudspeakers as the FBI and the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) carried out its plan to obliterate the Branch Davidians, an integrated group that formed as a breakaway from the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Orchestrated and overseen at the highest levels of the Clinton administration, the 19 April 1993 assault outside Waco, Texas, engulfed the Branch Davidians’ Mount Carmel commune in an inferno that killed over 80 people, including some two dozen children.
244. The Great British Empire Debate
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Malik discusses the complex issues of British colonialism, its many painful legacies and how it should be dealt with in such fields as academia and politics.
245. Grieve the Beloved Children: Israel and the War on Children
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A discussion of Israel's tactics in its campaign against Palestinians, which includes the use of deliberate provocation to incite retaliation, and the disturbing reality that results in large numbers of children's deaths.
246. Gun Control in Old East Germany
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In Communist-run East Germany weapons and ammunition were strictly controlled. Rifles, though privately-owned, were locked up at the hunting clubs, usually connected with the forest rangers' home and station.
247. Haiti: An Example of Fake News by Omission
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The main problem with the mainstream media today, as in the past, is not 'fake news' but what is left out of articles dealing with controversial issues.
248. Harvey's Toxic Aftermath in Houston
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Wingard exposes the enviromental devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey. The hurricane caused chemical spills and explosions which Wingard says forecast a pending enviromental crisis.
249. Helping drought-stricken farmers requires recognising global warming and planning 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     All of NSW has now officially been declared to be in drought, and 57% of Queensland has officially entered its sixth year of the current drought (though there has been little real change from when 88% was declared to be in drought in March 2017).Droughts keep getting worse, and the changing climate means they will continue to do so.The Coalition's "solutions" start with denying that climate change is real.
250. Herbicides undermine antibiotics, threaten medical care
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A New Zealand study adds to the body of evidence that industrial herbicides, not intended to be antibiotics, can have profound effects on bacteria, with potentially negative implications for medicine's ability to treat infectious diseases.
251. Here's how we stopped a brutal, inhumane and barely legal charter flight
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Helen Brewer describes how she, and 14 other activists, broke into Stansted Airport on the 28th of March 2017, and blocked a mass deportation charter flight due to send 60 people to Nigeria and Ghana -- a forced removal which threatened to place migrants in extreme danger.
252. Here's what war with North Korea would look like
     A full-blown war with North Korea wouldn't be as bad as you think. It would be much, much worse
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the chilling logistics and devastating loss of life a full-blown war between the USA and North Korea would cause.
253. Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Fictions and Facts
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The New York Times reported that year, “Many historians believe the bombings [of] Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, which together took the lives of more than 200,000 people, saved lives on balance, since an invasion of the islands would have led to far greater bloodshed.” Many historians, perhaps; but not that many.
254. Historical Subjects Lost and Found
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Looking at the legacy of Marx in the West Indies.
255. A History of International Women's Day in words and images
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     An online history of International Women's Day, which includes visual materials and numerous photographs from each decade.
256. Honduras: U.S. Support for Repression & Fraud
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The US has supported the illegitimate election in Honduras. The people continue to resist despite deaths, disappearances and incarcerations by the military.
257. How a backwards shirt led to a lesson in kindness for P.E.I. kindergarten class
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Students show their support for one of their own.
258. How Apple is Paving the Way to a 'Cloud Dictatorship' in China
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Apple Inc. is set to hand over the operation of its iCloud data center in mainland China to a local corporation, but Apple has not explained the real issue. With the move a state-owned big data company controlled by the Chinese government will have access to all the data of its service users in China; this will allow the state apparatus to jump into the cloud and look into the data of Apple's Chinese users.
259. How Big Pharma Infiltrated the Boston Museum of Science
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Mental illness is a highly stigmatized, life-long condition, that millions do not even realize they have and only a pharmaceutical drug can fix says Pharma and its operatives.
260. How can environmental activists use social media? Part 1
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Environmental activists and NGOs spend a considerable amount of time Facebook posting and Tweeting. But the best use of social networks is about what you want to achieve. Alessio Perrone spoke to some experts in the field and gives some tips about how to use platforms successfully to promote social change
261. How can environmental activists use social media? Part 2
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Environmentalist activists and major NGOs all spend a considerable amount of time on social media - as an immediate and direct connection to the public. But to what effect?
262. How can environmental activists use social media? Part 3
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Has Twitter jumped the shark? Is Facebook now MySpace? Should environmental activists bother with social media - and does the Cambridge Analytica scandal mean we should boycott?
263. How Canada could use the Saudi quarrel to help the Middle East - and itself
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Saudi Arabia's overreaction to Canadian criticism on human rights provides an opportunity for Canada to rethink Middle East policy. Such a policy, based on universal human rights, would greatly benefit not just Saudi Arabians but those in the broader Middle East, and also Canada.
264. How the 'free' media dupe us on climate change
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Commentary on a segment of Al Jazeera's programme The Listening Post on why climate scepticism persists only in what it terms the "Anglosphere media", that is, those in the United States, UK, Australia and Canada.
265. How Labour's Campaigns Attempted to Make the Political Personal 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The basic techniques of convincing people on the doorstep are not different to those of convincing friends or workmates. However, election canvassers have typically gone door-to-door telling voters what the party's policies are. The British Labour Party's new approach, developed by Momentum, emphasized listening to people and identifying their key issues.
266. How Many Millions Have Been Killed in America's Post-9/11 Wars? Part 3
     Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Davies investigates the death toll of U.S. covert and proxy wars in Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen and underscores the importance of comprehensive war mortality studies.
267. How Neoliberal Fundamentalism Helped Make Trump President
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A common, headache-inducing media narrative has surfaced since the election in 'mainstream' liberal U.S. publications they can no longer trust, such as The Washington Post or New York Times: that the true decline of U.S. democracy, the true dominance of U.S. corporate power in public life, and the true deterioration of the 'American Dream' has at last begun to arrive with the victory of Donald Trump.
268. How Not To Skip Class: Social Reproduction of Labor and the Global Working Class
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     This essay refutes conceptions of what working class really means by reactivating fundamental Marxist insights about class formation that have been obscured by decades of neoliberalism. The author argues that the key to developing a sufficient understanding of the working class is the framework of social reproduction.
269. How Palestinian women led successful non-violent resistance
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Two women share their stories of how they peacefully protested during both Intifadas and challenged Israel's occupation.
270. How the EU's principled pragmatism sows strife in the Middle East
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at how the European Union is creating greater instability, distrust, and casualties like Jamal Khashoggi, by trading fundamental values such as human rights for more practical avenues coined as "principled pragmatism".
271. How the Guardian aided the anti-semites
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Who do you help when you censor a cartoon depicting Israel's well-documented war crimes against Palestinians – and do so on the grounds that the criticism of Israel is anti-semitic?
     The answer is: you help anti-semites.
272. How the Guardian became the West's Pravda
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Cook says that the British newspaper The Guardian has become a mouthpiece for the establishment.
273. How the internet 'punishes' Palestinians
     Tech giants Google, Airbnb and PayPal accused of shaping false narratives with policies in Palestinian territories.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Multinational tech companies, including Google, Facebook and PayPal are being accused of complicity in rights violations and in shaping false narratives with regard to policies in Palestinian territories.
274. How the System Got Trumped: Cambridge Analytica's Electoral Psyops Campaign
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Available from Cinema Libre Studios, "Trumping Democracy" provides the key to understanding how we have ended up with the most unpopular president in history.
275. How the UAW Can Make It Right
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Aswar discusses how the UAW lost the vote at the Nissan plant in Mississippi and proposes that Organized laboUr adapt Opertaion Dixie to move forward.
276. How They Sold the Iraq War
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The war on Iraq won't be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold: it was a propaganda war, a war of perception management.
277. How To Be A Reliable 'Mainstream' Journalist
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A commentary on what is required to be a 'good' and 'reliable' journalist for the mainstream Western media.
278. How to create an ecological society
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A review of the book "Creating an Ecological Society: Towards A Revolutionary Transformation" by Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, which addresses different aspects of the debate on the politics of the environment.
279. How to Start a Nuclear War
     The increasingly direct road to ruin
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A chilling look at the security measures and processes behind the U.S. nuclear weapons system. The article examines how safeguards and procedures have evolved, including more recent efforts to curb the President's absolute authority to push the button.
280. How to Use Critical Thinking to Spot False Climate Claims
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     This article outlines ways to address common climate-contrarian arguments, all of which contain errors in reasoning that are independent of the science itself.
281. Huawei executive's arrest provokes anti-US protests in China
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The arrest of a Huawei executive in Canada has led to a wave of anger in China, in a move perceived to undermine China's increasingly dominant position in advanced technology. On Chinese social media comments denounce the arrest and call for the executive's immediate release as well as a boycott of Canadian brands.
282. Hue Back When: the Bloodbath in Vietnam Was Us
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at Mark Bowden's book "Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam", which provides a two-sided perspective on a particularly tragic moment in the Vietnam War.
283. "I Really Don't Care, Do U?" the Mendacity of Evil
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     While Americans consider themselves well above the authoritarianism and atrocities of such regimes as Nazi Germany, the author takes a look at some disturbing connections and similarites with the United States.
284. ICE: The making of an American Gestapo
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Justin Akers Chacón, author of Radicals in the Barrio and co-author with Mike Davis of No One Is Illegal, takes an in-depth look at the troubling history and practices of a government agency that more and more people are calling to be abolished.
285. The Ideal of a Free Media Died Long Ago
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Most of us instantly recoil from any blurring between editorial and advertising in the media. How would we know if what was reported was factual, truthful and newsworthy or there simply as public relations spin? How could we trust anything we read? But here's a seditious idea. Would that be such a bad thing? Maybe it would better if we were far more wary of the corporate media and began to think of it chiefly as a sales platform – selling us an ideology harmful to our individual welfare and that of our societies.
286. The Ideal of a Free Media Died Long Ago
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Should the media include positive editorial content secretly paid for by major corporations, as London's Evening Standard newspaper has begun doing, according to new revelations?
     Most of us instantly recoil from any blurring between editorial and advertising in the media. How would we know if what was reported was factual, truthful and newsworthy or there simply as public relations spin? How could we trust anything we read?
287. 'If I don't come back, call my lawyer': Practical solidarity for people
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A recommendation of practical steps to help people facing the threat of detention, and the importance of standing in solidarity with others who are dealing with a hostile environment.
288. If John Bolton Is Right, Pearl Harbor Was Perfectly Legal
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Michigan attorney Kary Love explores the legal basis for a pre-emptive attack on North Korea by the USA.
289. If only we could revive the fruitful tension between Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
     Reflections on Dr King’s death have overlooked how his liberal universalism and Malcolm X’s separatism gave each other strength
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Kenan argues that conflict averse approach to activism blunts the edge of contemporary social movements for change.
290. If We're on the Left, How Come We're Still Here?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Andrew Levine looks at why the Left is largely ignored by Trump's more radical followers and pundits.
291. The ignorant, repressive attack on Frank Loesser's "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at Frank Loesser's 1944 song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" and the social forces which have aggressively pushed the new 'Puritanism' that seeks to have the song banned.
292. Illegal logging: An organized crime that is destroying Latin American forests
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A recent report indicates that Illegal wood trafficking is the most profitable crime against natural resources, and allows other crimes to flourish, including deforestation, labor exploitation, land invasions, tax evasion, document forgery and state corruption.
293. Illegal logging: An organized crime that is destroying Latin American forests
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Illegal timber trafficking is a complex type or ogranized crime that involves other crimes such as tax evasion, labor exploitation, and land invasion. Countries in Latin America need to work together to fight this crime.
294. Immigration and Cultural Loss
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     While immigration has brought major changes in the physical character of British cities and in the rhythm of social life, it is not alone in driving social changes nor is it even the most important driver of social change.
295. In Middle East Wars It Pays to be Skeptical
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In the context of Western air strikes on alleged Syrian biological weapons sites on 14 April, 2018, the history of the bombing of the Abu Ghraib baby milk factory in 1991 underscores the need for permanent scepticism towards claims by U.S. and Western governments that they know exactly what is happening on the ground in Syria.
296. In Run-Up to Vote to End Yemen War, MSNBC Remains Totally Silent
     MSNBC outflanked from the left by Breitbart
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Johnson expresses concern about the lack of MSNBC coverage of the role of the USA in the conflict in Yemen since 2015.
297. Indian Country: The Situation is Bleak, But Not Hopeless
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Discusses how even though issues such as the Dakota Access Pipeline have received lots of public attention people are unaware of how Indigenous dispossession is deeply ingrained in the fabric of the US.
298. Indian Country: The Situation is Bleak, But Not Hopeless
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A discussion of Stephanie Woodard's book "American Apartheid: The Native Struggle for Self-Determination and Inclusion" and looking at how present-day colonial practices impact Native people in the US.
299. India's Freedom Struggle Influenced by Marxism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In India Marxism has influenced revolutionary figures to varying degrees. As inequality rises a renewed interest in Marx that engages local philosophies could invigorate a proletarian movement.
300. Indigenous Sovereignty & Socialism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2018
301. Industrial accident claims three lives in Leduc, Alberta
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the troubling indifference to the alarming statistics on worker fatalities, and the lax occupational health and safety regulations that are designed to protect employers and permit the further expansion of company profits.
302. Inside Google's Effort to Develop a Censored Search Engine in China
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Google analyzed search terms entered into a Beijing-based website to help develop blacklists for a censored search engine it has been planning to launch in China, according to confidential documents seen by The Intercept. Engineers working on the censorship sampled search queries from 265.com, a Chinese-language web directory service owned by Google.
303. Institutionalizing Intolerance: Bullies Win, Freedom Suffers When We Can't Agree to Disagree
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     As America has become ever more polarized, and those polarized factions have become more militant and less inclined to listen to -- or even allow for the existence of -- other viewpoints, we are fast becoming a nation of people who just can't get along. Here's the thing: if Americans don't learn how to get along--at the very least, agreeing to disagree and respecting each other's right to subscribe to beliefs and opinions that may be offensive, hateful, intolerant or merely different--then we're going to soon find that we have no rights whatsoever (to speak, assemble, agree, disagree, protest, opt in, opt out, or forge our own paths as individuals). In such an environment, when we can't agree to disagree, the bullies (on both sides) win and freedom suffers.
304. Intellectual Property Regime Undermines Equity, Progress
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Developing countries must reject the intellectual property rights regime imposed on them by powerful foreign monopolies in recent decades.
305. International Women's Day
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The annual day for recognition of and struggle for women's economic, social and political rights.
306. Intersectionality is a Hole. Afro-Pessimism is a Shovel. We Need to Stop Digging, Part 1 of 2
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Dixon argues that intersectionality - or, rather, its interpretation by the so-called "US left" - decenters class struggle in its effort to equalize oppressions.
307. An interview with Mike Leigh
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Working on the film, there were people of various generations, from their twenties to people of my age, from the area, who said, 'I didn’t know about this.' And yet the massacre was widely reported and is a famous and significant, seminal event in the history of democracy in Britain, the labour movement, etc., etc.
308. An Interview with Norman Finkelstein: "I'm Not Betraying the Legacy of My Parents in Order to Make Myself Palatable."
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Norman Finkelstein is among the leading scholars on the Israel-Palestine conflict in the United States. His work primarily focuses on the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict and the Nazi Holocaust. For decades, he has advocated for a two state solution on the June 1967 borders, a "just solution to the refugee question," an end to the Israeli settlements in Palestine, the deconstruction of the border wall, the right to clean water, and an end to the occupation, the Gaza blockade, and the use of force against the Palestinians.
309. Iran: Compulsory veiling is abusive, discriminatory and humiliating; end the persecution of women for peacefully protesting against it
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Amnesty International criticizes Iran's compulsory veiling laws, arguing that they are not only harmful to women, but fundamentally unconstitutional.
310. Iranian police arrest 29 women over protests against compulsory hijab
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Iranian police have arrested 29 women in the capital, Tehran, after they protested against a law that makes wearing the hijab compulsory.
311. The Irishmen Who Fought in the Last Great Battle Against Spanish Fascism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     An account of the numerous Irishmen who were killed, injured, captured and who simply disappeared while volunteering to fight against the rising fascist tide during the Spanish Civil War.
312. Is There a Gig Economy?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A data-heavy analysis questioning whether 'gig-economy' precarious jobs are indeed growing rapidly as reported.
313. Islamic State in Ukraine: A Christmas present from the West
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The report in British newspaper the Times, that Chechen Islamists, many reeling from defeat in Syria and Iraq amongst the alphabet soup of fanaticism, had indeed arrived at the war front in eastern Ukraine, woke me up from any Christmas torpor.
314. Israel Commemorates Nakba with Mass Murder at the Gaza Fence
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     On the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the "catastrophe" that resulted in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, and the theft of their lands, homes, and even their household possessions, the message today was clear: the Israeli state is prepared to maintain its apartheid state by any means necessary. The catastrophe for the Palestinians was the birth of Israel and was celebrated by the Israeli state with tear gas, bullets and the blood of Palestinians.
315. Israel deliberately provoked the latest violence in Gaza, but you won't learn that in the NY Times
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The Times breathlessly and at length recounts Israeli anxiety over the limited attacks from Gaza: "Sirens blared again;" "cellphones were buzzing with alerts of incoming rockets."
316. Israel deliberately provoked the latest violence in Gaza, but you won't learn that in the NY Times
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The Times breathlessly and at length recounts Israeli anxiety over the limited attacks from Gaza: "Sirens blared again;" "cellphones were buzzing with alerts of incoming rockets." The Times has a reporter in Gaza, Iyad Abuheweila, but the paper had nothing to say whatsoever about how Gazans were reacting to being under assault. Maybe their cellphones were also buzzing, and their children were also afraid?
317. Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State?
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2018
     Josh Ruebner draws on personal anecdotes and reflections, historical documents, and legal analyses to answer one of the most pressing issues in international affairs today: is Israel a democracy or does its separate and unequal treatment of the Palestinian people render it an apartheid state?
318. Israel is arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A report on Israeli weapons and training being provided to anti-Semitic or neo-Nazi soldiers in the Ukraine.
319. Israel Is The Real Problem 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Elite power cannot abide a serious challenge to its established position. And that is what Labour under Jeremy Corbyn represents to the Tory government, the corporate, financial and banking sectors, and the 'mainstream' media. The manufactured 'antisemitism crisis' is the last throw of the dice for those desperate to prevent a progressive politician taking power in the UK: someone who supports Palestinians and genuine peace in the Middle East, a strong National Health Service and a secure Welfare State, a properly-funded education system, and an economy in which people matter; someone who rejects endless war and complicity with oppressive, war criminal 'allies' such as the United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
320. Israel rolls out the welcome mat for Europe's neo-fascists
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The recent visit to Israel of a dominant figure in Italy's right-wing coalition government, is the latest in an increasingly open alliance between the Israeli state and resurgent forces of the far-right and neo-fascism in Europe.
321. Israel steps up its war on mixed marriages
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The Israeli government has long funded various efforts to try to prevent romantic relationships between Jews and non-Jews, both inside territories it controls and around the world. But a new program confirmed this month by the tourism ministry takes Israel's war on families of mixed religion or ethnicity to a new level.
322. Israeli army razes home of prominent Palestinian activist
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The Israeli army has demolished a residential building owned by a prominent Palestinian activist, whose six sons have been imprisoned by Israel. The building, owned by Latifa Abu Hmeid, is located in the Amari refugee camp near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.
323. Israeli forces 'deliberately killed' Palestinian paramedic Razan
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Probe by Israeli rights group B'Tselem concludes that intentional fatal shot was fired at the Palestinian paramedic.
324. Israeli Government Fears Palestinian Cameras
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A report on a Bill by the Israeli Knessett that would criminalize the filming of Israeli soldiers in Palestine, with a proposed five year jail sentence for offenders.
325. Israeli minister threatens to destroy Gaza "once and for all"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     As Israel bombed it dozens of times in the past day, a senior Israeli minister has incited the total destruction of Gaza.
326. Israeli spyware being used to monitor Indonesian LGBT community, religious minorities
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the company and spyware product that is used by various institutions to monitor the activities of the LGBT community and religious minority groups in Indonesia.
327. Israelis Just Keep Killing People, Stealing Land
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The recent killing of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by Israeli sharpshooters following the "The Great March of Return" is outlined, as well as the ongoing futility of Israel's policy and actions against the self-governing Palestinian territory whose population are forced to live under dire conditions.
328. Israel's 'nation-state law' parallels the Nazi Nuremberg Laws
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Israel's new 'nation-state' law follows in the footsteps of Jim Crow, the Indian Removal Act and the Nuremberg Laws.
329. The Italian Long ’68
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Taddeo describes how the charateristics of 1968 continued in Italy passed 1968 and his subsequent participation in various movements. He explains that with the struggles of 1977 and the repression that followed, one can say that the social ferment begun in Italy in 1968 had exhausted itself.
330. "It's Killing the Student Movement": Canary Mission's Blacklist of Pro-Palestine Activists Is Taking a Toll
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Canary Mission, a website that compiles dossiers on Palestinian rights advocates and labels them racists, anti-Semites, and supporters of terrorism has taken a toll on activists' mental health and their ability to engage in free speech and public advocacy on Palestine.
331. It's Time for America to Reckon With the Staggering Death Toll of the Post-9/11 Wars
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Researchers strive to count the casualties of American wars but are faced by a lack of political and military accountability and a seemingly apathetic public.
332. It's Time to Call Economic Sanctions What They Are: War Crimes
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Cockburn argues that economic sanctions impose collective punishment on the general population rather than targetting the people in power.
333. Jackson Rising: At Last, a Real Strategic Plan
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Moser reviews Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi.
334. Jan and Carrol Cox, Political Activists
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Obituary for Jan and Carrol Cox, long-time activists from Illinois.
335. Janus and My Ode to Capital
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Looking at Marx and how to make him relevant to people through 40 years of teaching Capital.
336. Jeff Bezos' Quest to Find America's Dumbest Mayor
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Baker questions the wisdom of cities offering online-retailer Amazon tax and infrastructure incentives to host the company's second head quarters.
337. Joel Kovel (1936-2018)
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Obituary for psychiatrist, teacher and author Joel Kovel.
338. John Pilger's speech at Sydney rally to free Julian Assange
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2018
     Video by Cathy Vogan & Liam Kesteven (https://www.facebook.com/liam.kesteven), for Politics in the Pub. http://politicsinthepub.org.au
339. Joyless in Zion
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Israel is held in contempt by much of the western world, and Israelis know it even as they get down to the hard business of shooting border-crossers. The New York Times did a piece suggesting that Israelis have a conscience about the violence they poured forth at the Gaza border, and they hope that it was the right thing to do. But Gideon Levy says they have lost their conscience; and that was my impression too from interviewing Israeli Jews in West Jerusalem. I talked to 20 people. Every one expressed support for the killings. There was simply no dissent.
340. Just Transition: Let Detroit Breathe!
     A talk by William Copeland
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     William Copeland presents the campaign, Let Detroit Breathe. The campaign's prinicipal aim is to help Detroiters win their right to breathe clean air.
341. Just When You Thought 'Russiagate' Couldn't Get Any Sillier
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The lawsuit against the Trump campaign, the Russian government and WikiLeaks is simply the latest version of what the DNC has been doing since 2016, which is trying to fob blame for its loss of an election it should have won.
342. Justice for Hassan Diab and the Unbearable Banality of Evil
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Deutsch examines the case of Dr. Hassan Diab - a sociology professor and Canadian citizen who was accused of bombing the Rue Copernic Synagogue - and uses it to critique international and domestic justice systems.
343. Justice Kennedy and the Myth of the Legal Neutrality
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The enduring myth in America that law and politics are separate is put into question at the end of 2017 with 5-4 decisions upholding President Trump's travel ban, the striking down mandatory public sector union fees, and the resignation of Justice Kennedy.
344. Karl Kautsky: From Pope to Renegade
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Once recognized as "The Pope of Marxism" for his popularization and systematization of Marxist ideas, Kautsky fell into obscurity following the Russian Revolution. In recent revival of interest in his politics, in both academia and on the political left, raises questions about the meaning of Kautsky's orthodox Marxism and about what a renewed revolutionary left should adopt from it as their own.
345. Karl Marx in the 21st Century
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Looking at how Marx's theories can explain today's global crisis.
346. Karl Marx: Revolutionary Heretic
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A celebration of Marx as a thinker who constantly adapted his ideas and thinking.
347. Kenya's 'Erin Brockovich' defies harassment to bring anti-pollution case to courts
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Phyllis Omido is leading a landmark class action demanding a clean-up and compensation from a lead-smelting factory accused of poisoning local residents - including her own son.
348. Kidnapper Trump as Symptom
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The current plight of asylum seekers in the United States and the traumatic separation of children from parents at the southern U.S. border, is the most recent American policy that is racially motivated.
349. A Killer Dies, a Teacher Lives: George H.W. Bush v. Noam Chomsky
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The obsequious praise of the life and legacy of the now deceased mad-dog killer George H. W. Bush (1924-2018) contradict the reality of his actions during his life and presidency.
350. Killing Children: From Ireland to Palestine
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The most tragic casualty in a conflict is that of a child, the most disturbing casualty in a conflict is that of a child killed purposely. In Palestine there is a disturbingly tragic high rate of children killed by those sporting the uniform of Israeli armed forces.
351. Killing Gaza
     A documentary film about life under siege
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2018
     Independent journalists Max Blumenthal and Dan Cohen documented Israel’s 2014 assault on Gaza during the war, and chronicled its horrific aftermath. As they waded through the rubble of Gaza’s destroyed border regions, they turned a camera onto the survivors of the slaughter and let them speak for themselves. Dan returned, week after week, to capture on film the daily struggles of the people of Gaza as they suffered through one of the worst winters in recorded history, and then weathered the sweltering summer heat without electricity and -- in many cases -- without homes. While giving voice to the pain of a people under siege, Cohen and Blumenthal also highlighted Gazans’ inspiring acts of creative resistance, from painting to break-dancing to literature, that allow them maintain their humanity in the face of deprivation and war. Yet this film is much more than a documentary about Palestinian resilience and suffering. It is a chilling visual document of war crimes committed by the Israeli military, featuring direct testimony and evidence from the survivors.
352. "Killing Gaza" captures culture of resistance
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Watch Killing Gaza, absorb the atmosphere of siege and listen to the testimonies of the trapped. You might then understand why so many chose to rush the gates.
353. Killing Mosquitoes: The Latest Gaza Massacres, Pro-Israel Media Bias And The Weapon Of 'Antisemitism'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The most recent brutality against Palestinians, and brazenness with which the killings were carried out, is yet another demonstration of the Israeli contempt for the people it tried to ethnically cleanse in 1948.
354. The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66,
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2018
355. Korea: What the Generals Aren't Telling You
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Hamilton points out that the 24 nuclear power stations in South Korea represent high risk targets in a retaliatory attack from North Korea.
356. The Kurdish Crisis in Iraq and Syria
     Against the Current vol. 192
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In discussion of right of self-determination for the between 28 and 35 million Kurdish people in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran, the author considers the current polticial landscape.
357. Labor's Last Stand
     Unions must either demand a place at the table or be part of the meal
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The slow degradation of workers' rights through the use of the courts has led to a weakening of negotiated power of unions and the retreat of organized labour.
358. Language for Resisting Oppression
     Review of Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Review of the Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left by Ian Parker.
359. The language of the unheard
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A book review of "A People's History of Riots, Protest and the Law: The Sound of the Crowd" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) by author Matt Clement.
360. Latin America Crises and Contradictions
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Detailed review of a collection of essays on Latin America.
361. A Lavish Bollywood Musical Is Fueling A Culture War In India
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Review of the controversial 2018 Bollywood film "Padmaavat". Qureshi summarises the politically charged campaign of misinformation and resulting sectarian violence that has dogged its release.
362. Lawsuit accuses DC police of collusion with far right
     An advocacy group has filed a lawsuit alleging that police broke protocol by working with a far-right organisation.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Federal prosecutors and the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in Washington, DC, colluded with far-right groups in cases against anti-Trump protesters, a recently filed lawsuit alleges.
363. James Laxer - Canadian iconoclast 1941-2018
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Obituary for the prominent campaigner, author and academic James Laxer, who passed away February 23rd 2018.
364. The League of Assad-Loving Conspiracy Theorists
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     So the global capitalist ruling classes' War on Dissent is now in full swing. With their new and improved official narrative, "Democracy versus the Putin-Nazis," successfully implanted in the public consciousness, the corporatocracy have been focusing their efforts on delegitimizing any and all forms of deviation from their utterly absurd and increasingly paranoid version of reality.
365. The Left Has Better Things to Do Than Watch Liberals Scratch Their Heads
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Drawing from author David Harvey's work "The Ways of the World", Munson examines how Liberal-democracy has changed when the nucleus of capitalism shifted in the 1970's from the production of goods to the production of 'signs'. He further examines how 'neo-liberalism' is now grappling and adjusting in the era of Trump.
366. Left-Wing Disaster Relief Efforts Spread Goodwill for Socialism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at some of the disaster relief initiatives by left-wing groups in the United States, as well as the disconnect that seems to underscore a number of issues with the state's disaster relief efforts.
367. Lenin and the Bolshevik Party: A revolutionary collective
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The Russian Revolution of 1917 clearly reveals the complexities of Bolshevism – Lenin's party – as a revolutionary collective.
368. Lenin and the Tsarist Duma
     A review of August H Nimtz, Lenin’s Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels through the Revolution of 1905: The Ballot, the Streets—or Both
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Donnelly reviews Nimtz's two volume account of Lenin's pre-revolution electoral strategy and summarises the thesis that Lenin's critique of reformism in parliamentary democracy was rooted in the conclusions of Marx and Engels.
369. Leon Rosselson on Gaza
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In Gaza the slaughter was premeditated and calculated. The snipers were primed to kill. They had their orders. They used the protesters, men women, children, for target practice. According to the latest reports, 109 Palestinians?—?including children, one an 8 month old baby -- have been killed and over 6,000 wounded, including nearly 1000 children. The wounds were particularly debilitating because Israeli soldiers used dumdum bullets which expand when they enter the body. The bullets used are causing injuries local medics say they have not seen since 2014. The entrance wound is small.The exit wound is devastating, causing gross comminution of bone and destruction of soft tissue.
370. Less Than Fundamental: the Myth of Voting Rights in America
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The story of voting rights in America is one of exceptionalism. In 1787 when the US Constitution was drafted the right to vote was absent from the text.
371. Lessons from James Baldwin
     Review of James Baldwin: The FBI File; Against the Current vol. 192
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A review of James Baldwin: The FBI File, a novel edited by William J. Maxwell which sets out an interpretive frame,through which readers may study his excerpts his file from the FBI.
372. The Lessons of the World Cup for our Victim Culture
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     That we are living in an age of victim culture is well-exemplified by an article recently published by the CBC suggesting that minorities "feel apprehensive about heading into the wild because they don't see themselves reflected in the outdoor industry and media." The underlying premise is that a paucity of representations of members of these groups constructs the outdoors as a kind of "unsafe space" of which people from these communities ask, according to the African-American author of a book called The Adventure Gap, James Mills, "'Do I belong here? And if somebody believes that I don’t belong here, will they do something to harm me?'"
373. Let Us Now Praise Infamous Animals
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In medieval Europe (and even colonial America) thousands of animals were summoned to court and put on trial for a variety of offenses, ranging from trespassing, thievery and vandalism to rape, assault and murder. The defendants included cats, dogs, cows, sheep, goats, slugs, swallows, oxen, horses, mules, donkeys, pigs, wolves, bears, bees, weevils, and termites. These tribunals were not show trials or strange festivals like Fools Day. The tribunals were taken seriously by both the courts and the community.
374. Letter to the Editors
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Georgakas responds to the book review of Finally Got the News in a previous issue of the journal. He was disheartened that pertinent political and artistic seeds that directly fed that period have been neglected.
375. A Liberal Pillar Of The Establishment - 'New Look' Guardian, Old-Style Orthodoxy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Respected liberal media like the New York Times and Guardian are key battlegrounds in the relentless elite efforts to control public opinion.
376. Liberal Totalitarianism and the Trump Diversion
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Baraka warns against enthusiastic embrace of the FBI as a "neutral political force populated by people of unreproachable character" in light of their well documented history of politically motivated targetting of civil rights activists.
377. Liberation of Dalits: Key to Indian Workers Revolution
     Review of Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Ants Among Elephants is both a family memoir and a political history.
378. License to Kill
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Halimi places alleged Russian involvement in the attempted assasination of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in the context of routine extrajudicial killings by the wider inernational security services.
379. Life without Limits: The Delusions of Technological Fundamentalism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In a routinely delusional world, what is the most dangerous delusion? This delusion is not limited to one country, one group, or one political party, but rather is the unstated assumption of everyday life in the high-energy/high-technology industrial world. This is the delusion that we are -- to borrow from the title of a particularly delusional recent book -- the god species.
380. Linking class and gender theory
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A detailed review of "Social Reproduction Theory" an essay collection edited by Tithi Bhattacharya. Contributors include Nancy Fraser, Salar Mohandesi and Emma Teitelman, Susan Ferguson, Carman Teeple Hopkins, Serap Saritas Oran and Alan Sears.
381. Lissa Lucas Dragged Out of West Virginia House Judiciary Hearing For Listing Oil and Gas Contributions
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Mokhiber's article summarizes the case of political candidate Lissa Lucas, whose testimony against a bill "that would allow companies to drill on minority mineral owners' land without their consent" was censored by the court.
382. 'A Load Of Tosh'– The BBC, 'Showbiz News' And State Propaganda
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     BBC News reporting on international relations, with particular reference to 2017-2018 tensions with Russia, relies heavily on state propaganda.
383. Local Autonomy: A Key to Protection of the Ecosystem
     Apo Island's Protected Landscape and Seascape
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In his book, The Plundered Seas, Michael Berrill called the Grand Banks and Georges Bank maybe the saddest story of overfishing.Berrill’s solution was the management of Large Marine Ecosystems.
384. Lockheed Martin receives bloody images instead of cool weapons photos in failed Twitter campaign
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The world's largest defense contractor fails miserably in a social media campaign asking Twitter users to send them an "amazing photo" of a Lockheed Martin product.
385. The Logic of Human Survival
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Review of a Marxist look at the concept of the Anthropocene.
386. London Pub Crawl with Karl Marx
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     An account by Wilhelm Liebknecht of an incident which occured during a 'beer trip' -pub crawl- between Karl Marx, other Germans, and some Englishmen.
387. Lopez Obrador in Mexico: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The newly elected President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has been described by some in the U.S. as a radical socialist, however this article explains that he has already back-peddled on important pre-election promises.
388. Made-in-China fake news overwhelms Taiwan
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Since 2016, when Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was elected as Taiwan's president relations between Taiwan and China have been increasingly strained. In parallel, a series of fake news campaigns have captured Taiwanese media, with experts tracing several of these stories back to China.
389. The Making of C.L.R. James
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A short, positive review of a graphic novel about CLR James.
390. The Making of Corporate Empire
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Review of a book covering Henry Ford's "ethos of the assembly line" and how his racist views shaped it in different places.
391. The Malevolent Hypocrisy of Selective Sanctions
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at why the US government is steadfast in its support of the Saudi dictatorship no matter what criminal excesses may be perpetrated by the Riyadh regime, while on the other hand it is determined to punish other countries like Cuba and Venezuela with severe economic sanctions.
392. Manifesto of Indian Farmers
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Adopted by an assembly representing the farmers of India, the manifesto outlines Indian farmers convictions, principals, concerns, rights and calls on the parliament of India to hold a Special Session to address the agrarian crisis by passing and enacting the two Kisan Mukti Bills and address additional demands.
393. Marc Lamont Hill's Detractors are the True Anti-Semites
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Temple University's administration announced the unsurprising news that it has found no grounds to punish or investigate Professor Marc Lamont Hill for his speech on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Yet, the university's Board of Trustees felt compelled, nonetheless, to issue a statement further maligning Dr Hill, albeit indirectly this time.
394. Martha (Marty) Quinn, 1939-2018
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Obituary for Martha Quinn, a founding member of Solidarity.
395. Marx at 200; Capital at 150
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Holmstrom discusses the relevance of Marx's Das Capital in understanding modern and historical economic systems. Specifically, she looks at the themes of exploitation, gender, race and capital.
396. Marx, Engels and the National Question
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A historical look at the role of class and nation-states in socialism.
397. Marx in 1968 in France
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In a personal essay, Coleman describes his personal experiences in France from 1966-1968.
     He highlights significant number of Marxists teaching in both high schools and secondary settings. Furthermore, he discusses how the working class perceived in the Marxist far left, Trotskyist and Maoist press before May 1968.
398. Marx in 1968: Report on a Journey
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Harvey Goldman discusses his intellectual jounrey during the 1960s in relationship to Marism. As a member of SDS, Goldman was engaged actively in student activism.
399. Marx and the "International"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A rebuttal of the idea of Marx as Eurocentric and a white supremacist.
400. Marx is dead, long live Marx!
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Duran describes 1968 as an an "ideological revolution which unquestionably affected the dominant revolutionary ideology, Marxism, and here begins my contribution, which I will divide into two large sections: an account of the situation in Spain, and then the rebirth of
     Marxism, and why we can say: 'Long live Marx!'"
401. Marx and Marxism in Berkeley in 1968
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Setting context by describing the early twentieth century political landscape in Berkeley, Goldner continues to describe his experince as a student at UC Berkeley by discussing local, national and international contexts for my encounter with Marx in Berkeley, 1968.
402. Marx and Organization
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Lause examines Marx's involvement in different organizations and argues that he seems never to have had a problem not being in an organization -- not because he accorded organization no importance, but rather that the importance he accorded it depended entirely on the demands of the class struggle around him.
403. Marx Turns 200: A Mixed Gift
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A mixed but detailed review of a biography of Karl Marx. The author likes the Life material but has problems with the treament of the Works.
404. Marxism, class and revolution in Africa: the legacy of the 1917 Russian Revolution
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     This article assesses the influence of 1917 on African liberation movements and explains how it influenced struggles against and beyond colonialism.
405. The Marxist and the Gamers: Reading, Fortnite, and My Students' Identities
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A school teacher reflects on the differences he sees in his students from past generations, notably the many young people who are avid online gamers.
406. A Marxist History of Capitalism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2018
     A short history of capitalism by a history professor at University of Manitoba
407. A Marxist History of Capitalism (Book Review)
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A book review of Henry Heller's "A Marxist History of Capitalism" which restores class struggle to a central place in explaining how capitalism arose and grew, and can eventually be overcome.
408. Marx's Capital as Organizing Tool
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A guide to how the left could use Marx's Capital as a text for organizing.
409. Marx's Ecology: Recovered Legacy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Löwy says that while mainstream ecologicail theory has been dismissive of Karl Marx, serious research in recent decades has recovered some of his very important insights on ecological issues.
410. Mass Incarceration
     New Jim Crow, Class War, or Both?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, Lewis analyzes racial and class disparities in incarceration.
411. Massacres and Morality
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     What can one say about the morality of Israeli soldiers who shoot unarmed protestors, and then are caught on camera cheering their kills? And how do we judge the civilian population of Israel, many of whom openly support and cheer their soldiers as they go about their work of killing Palestinians? And what can we say about the political leaders of other countries, Canada say, who sit down and smile and make deals with officials of the Israeli government at the very moment that the killing is going on?
412. The May '68 Events and Revolution in the West
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The political explosion fifty years ago in May 1968 in France has become a key historical marker for the Left. In an outburst of political revolt, workers seized factories and students occupied universities bringing France to a halt in a series of massive general strikes.
413. Me Too's Misguided Pursuit of Equality: Drop the Spirit of Vengeance and Defend Dignity Instead
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     With Me Too’s focus where it is, on man’s injury to woman, the capitalist for-profit system can wash its hands. Eyes glued to salacious details are off the oppressive economic order that has over time erased our cultures, communities and is set to destroy all life on the planet.
414. The Meaning of Heritage in an Age of Identity
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A discussion of the meaning of heritage in the current age of identity politics, and why there is a need to reject the nativist, or clash of civilizations, and the multicultural approaches to heritage.
415. Media Panic Over the Stock Market Plunge
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The media continue to be in a panic over the drop in the stock market over the last few weeks. Fortunately for political pundits, there is no expectation that they have any clue about the subjects on which they opine. For those more interested in economics than hysterics, the drop in the market is not a big deal.
416. Memoir From the Underground
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A review of the film "Memoir of War", directed by Emmanuel Finkiel, a semi-fictional memoire of writer Marguerite Duras who lived under a facist regime in Vichy France.
417. #MeToo for All Women
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The #MeToo movement exposed systems that abuse and silence of women. It's important to note that these systems are not just individual professions or university administrations but they are enabled by the larger system of capitalism.
418. The #MeToo Revolution Edtorial
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The editors ask whether the #MeToo Movement will be different than other moments in which sexual abuse was revealed, and propose that organized labour can play a role in ensuring harassment-free work enviroments.
419. Microfinance or Debt Trap? What the Poor Don't Know
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Qazi's article outlines how poorly designed microfinance initiatives harm rather than help low income borrowers.
420. Midian Farm
     Resource Type: Film
     First Published: 2018
     From 1971 - 1977, Midian Farm was a back-to-the-land social experiment created by a community of urban baby boomers from Toronto. Part of the youth counterculture movement during a period of social and political re-imagining, its utopian vision eventually collapsed. More than four decades later, filmmaker Liz Marshall unearths a transformative piece of family and Canadian history.
421. A Mighty Voice for Peace Has Gone Silent: Uri Avnery, 1923-2018
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A brief article in commemoration of Israeli human rights activist Uri Avnery, who died in Tel Aviv at the age of 94.
422. Military 'Service' Serves the Ruling Class
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Military veteran and peace activist Will Griffin comments on the military campaigns in which he participated, and why he believes that military service ultimately serves noboby but a minority ruling class.
423. Mining History Written in Blood
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Domestic coal mining history above and below ground lives on the pages of Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction edited by Wess Harris (PM Press, 2017). The anthology unpacks the industry, people and communities of a coal-rich region, amplifying relevant class and gender issues over a century.
424. Missing Children: The Pottery Barn Rule Revisited
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     If one in five American parents couldn't figure out where their kids were, most people would rightly see the phenomenon as a crisis and a national scandal. Grandstanding prosecutors with visions of gubernatorial campaigns dancing in their heads would conduct mass parental perp walks. Legislators would boost their presidential aspirations by co-sponsoring legislation requiring universal implantation of GPS trackers at birth.
425. "Mr. Boston": Meet the Man Who Secretly Helped Daniel Ellsberg Leak Pentagon Papers to the Press
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Interview with historian Gar Alperovitz. Alperovitz has revealed for the first time the key role he and a handful of other activists played in helping whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg leak to journalists the Pentagon Papers -- a 7,000-page classified history outlining the true extent of the U.S. invasion of Vietnam.
426. MLK: To the Promised Land
     Charles Williams interviewing Michael Honey
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Interview with Michael Honey author of the study, To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice.
427. Modernity and Negations
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Finkel reviews The End of Jewish Modernity and What is Modern Israel? He says they offer complementary perspectives on some of the tragedies confronting today’s world, and their historical backgrounds.
428. The Moral Economy of the Iranian Protests
     Beset by inequality and corruption, Iran's provincial working classes are revolting against the revolution's broken promises
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the root causes of the widespread protests that have been taking place, primarily in provincial towns, throughout Iran. Persistent unemployment and inflation, overdue wages and pensions, environmental degradation, and ponzi schemes are a far cry from the social justice vision that animated and united the revolutionary forces of 1979.
429. Moroccan Catastrophic Convergence
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The convergance of injustices in Morocco - climate change, neoliberalism, political suppression - make for a completely untenable situation. This could make people hopeful since it makes radical change the only possibility.
430. Mozambique won't be Mato Grosso
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A popular movement centred on a small farming village in northern Mozambique has, for the moment, halted an attempt to move to cash-crop monocultures mainly for export.
431. Mozambique's farmers battle to keep land in Nakarari
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Parenti and Liberti examine the Nakarari community's ongoing resistance to commercial agricultural planning.
432. Mueller Indictment - The "Russian Influence" Is A Commercial Marketing Scheme
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     An explanation of why the U.S. Justice Department's indictment is based on a misunderstanding of the commercial activities of a Russian marketing company in U.S. social networks.
433. My Experiences in 1968 in Working-Class Turin
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Lepore recounts his experiences growing up in 1968 in working class Turin. He highlight the influence of the newspaper, Lotta Comunista, its developed Marxist approach and his subsequent involvement with, and then commitment to, that group.
434. My Longest Day: How World War II Ended for My Family
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     An essay excerpted from Hans-Armin Ohlmann's memoirs, which recounts his experiences growing up in Germany during the Second World War.
435. Myron Perlman, Z"L: Working-Class Jewish Radical
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Memorial for Myron Perlman, union carpenter and social justice activist.
436. Nanking Massacre
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A summary of the massacre at Nanking (Nanjing) , which occurred over a period of six weeks starting on December 13, 1937. During this period soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army perpetrated horrific atrocities, and murdered Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants who numbered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000.
437. The NED's Useful Idiots 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     On Friday, June 8, 2018, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow augmented her nightly Russiagate fetish by extolling the merits of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), telling her huge audience that the NED, created in the 1980s by the Ronald Reagan administration, still does the "non-partisan hard work around the world, of promoting small D democracy and promoting the institutions of civil society that any culture needs in order to have a functioning democracy."
438. A New COINTELPRO?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Malik discusses the revelations that the FBI is targeting Black Lives Matters and what Justice Department head Jeff Sessions calls “Black identity” extremists as well as the response to open racism and how to move forward.
439. New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2018
440. A New Economic Model for the South: Ditch Corporate Welfare and Fund Agricultural Co-ops
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A report from the Institute for Policy Studies, titled "Agricultural Cooperatives: Opportunities and Challenges for African-American Women in the South," makes the case that redirecting governmental support from corporate welfare to agricultural co-ops could provide an alternative vision for economic development in the Southern United States.
441. New maps of land destruction show why caravans flee Central America
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A new map developed at the University of Cincinnati illustrates the extent of worldwide land degradation, including the deforestation that is now forcing migrants to leave Guatemala and Honduras.
442. A New Native-Led Strategy for Fighting Keystone XL
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Sacred crops planted by the Poca represent another legal barrier for the construction of the Keystone pipeline, as its intended path must now cross sacred historic sites owned by a sovereign tribal nation.
443. New Orleans' History of Struggle
     Review of Development Drowned and Reborn; Against the Current vol. 192
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A review of Development Drowned and Reborn which is a novel by Clyde Woods.
444. A New Politics? Movements, Power and Transformation
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Hilary Wainwright’s latest book, A New Politics from the Left (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press), represents a timely appeal for a democratic, participatory, and bottom-up political transformation.
445. The New Poor People's Campaign
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Though there has been progress in electoral politics since the days of MLK this success leaves many people behind. The New Poor People's Campaign seeks to create a grassroots movement to counter that.
446. The New York Times' Second Assassination of Razan at-Najjar
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     On 1 June 2018, an Israeli assassin poised along "the largest concentration camp ever to exist" killed 20-year-old paramedic Razan al-Najjar. On 7 June 2018, the New York Times assassinated her a second time. It surely does not surprise that the Times provides yeoman’s service for Israeli hasbara.
447. Nicolas Calas: The Trotskyist Time Forgot
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A lengthy, detailed look at modern Trotskyist poet Nicolas Calas (1907-88).
448. The Nightmare of Neoliberal Fascism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Henry A. Geroux gives his analysis on such subjects as fascism and white nationalism in the age of Trump, and the state of higher education in a time of Neo-liberalism.
449. 1917 and the Colonial Revolution
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Solenberger discuss the 1917 Russian Revolution and the subsequent spead of the communist movement internationally. He focuses on the conditions which led to the rapid spread of its ideas and how in 1920 the movement went from being on the offense to defence.
450. The 1970s: Finally Got the News!
     Charles Williams interviews Brad Duncan
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Interview with Brad Duncan, editor of Finally Got the News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979.
451. The niqab represents a pernicious ideology and its spread should worry us all
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the controversial niqab and similar veils, and why they are so concerning.
452. No Exit
     The ongoing abuses of Australia's refugee policy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A first person account of the refugee crisis in Australian detention centres. At great expense the Australian government holds detainees offshore in crowded camps, many of whom are stranded and living under deplorable conditions.
453. No Fare Is Fair: A Campaign for Free Public Transit in Toronto
     Why Do We Need Free Transit?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Public transit should be a right for everyone in Toronto. Using subways, buses, and streetcars shouldn't require paying fares, or user fees, that penalize riders with lower incomes.
454. No matter how it appears, Trump isn't getting out of Syria and Afghanistan
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Trump's plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Syria don't reflect a large change in US foreign policy. US troops are only a small part of the forces currently deployed there and they will probably be replaced with mercenaries paid for by oil monarchies.
455. No Remorse: Reflections on Radical "Purism"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Street justifies his critical commentary on the disappointing presidency of Barrack Obama and the standard neoliberal manipulation of campaign populism and identity politics in service to big-money. He also takes a cynical look at the DMC, another party of corporations, as well as Bernie Sanders and what a Sanders Presidency might have looked like.
456. No Spirit Of Liberty - The Salisbury Case, Corbyn And The Need For Dissent
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at recent 'Mainstream' media coverage, notably the Guardian and BBC, which has been instrumental in presenting a misleading image of Prime Minsiter May as a stable leader, and yet presents Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in a much less flattering light.
457. No such thing as socialist Zionism
     The historic contradictions of the Zionist left are being played out in the death throes of Meretz, writes Tony Greenstein
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Greenstein discusses the historic contraditions associated with Labour Zionism and explains why the term 'Socialist Zionist' just cannot exist.
458. No Trump, No Clinton, No NATO
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Murray explains why the notion that those who do not want Clinton in power are therefore supporters of Trump is intellectually risible and politically dishonest.
459. Noam Chomsky: Moral Depravity Defines US Politics
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     An interview with Noam Chomsky where he discusses the political parties' lack of focus on crucial issues. Though made hopeful by young progessive candidates winning in the midterms, electoral politics should not be the focus for radical political change.
460. Noam Chomsky Turns 90: How a U.S. Anarchist Has More Than Survived
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A brief look back at the life and work of world reknowned linguist, philospher and social activist Noam Chomsky, who turns 90 on December 7, 2018.
461. Norman Finkelstein and Dr. Mads Gilbert
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2018
     A discussion with professor and author Norman Finkelstein about his book "Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom".
462. Not My Revolution
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The Women's March is not immune to the same forces that have confronted the political left in the U.S. for decades. The larger women's movement itself, that sprang from the antiwar movement and civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, carried flaws along with its development that are not new to left political movements in the U.S.
463. Not Saving Private Ryan
     The Murderous Finale of the Great War. November 11, 1918, One Hundred Years Ago
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
464. Notes on Terminology
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at common and popular terminology and 'labeling', especially in the media, which at times is not only inaccurate and misleading, but also diminishes or softens the severity of an event.
465. NPR Runs IDF Playbook, Spinning Killing of 17 Palestinians
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The article looks at the NPR reporting on the killing of 17 palestinians, which follows a pro-Israel bias that dates back for years.
466. NYT op-ed describing Israel as a place of refuge is missing the word, Palestinians
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A rebuke by author Levine to the New York Times op-ed written by Susan Silverman titled "How Did Israel Become A Place of No Refuge?".
467. The October Revolution: Its Necessity & Meaning
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Mandal examines the necessity and meaning of the October Revolution.
468. 'October Song' - A challenging portrayal of the Russian Revolution
     Review of Paul Le Blanc, October Song: Bolshevik Triumph, Communist Tragedy, 1917-1924
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A review 'October Song,' Paul Le Blanc's book about the Russian revolution. Detailed with excerpts and criticism.
469. Of a Type Developed by Liars
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Porton Down scientists are not able to identify the nerve gas as being of Russian manufacture, and have been resentful of the pressure being placed on them to do so. Porton Down would only sign up to the formulation "of a type developed by Russia" after a rather difficult meeting where this was agreed as a compromise formulation.
470. Off the Map: Disabilities and Just Mobility
     People with disabilities who rely on local public transit are getting squeezed between gentrification and austerity.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     An examination of the tensions between investment driven public transit improvements and displacement of less affluent residents; with particular reference to people with mobility issues or disabilities.
471. The Official Fake News
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Emmanuel Macron, who was comfortably elected to the presidency, has instructed his parliamentary majority to provide him with a law against 'fake news' during election campaigns. The law would be a selective halt to the the dissemination of information with dangerous consequences.
472. Oil Industry Cleanup Costs Vastly Exceed Alberta Government’s Estimates
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Transcript of interview with Regan Boychuk of Reclaim Alberta on the cost to clean up after Alberta's tar sand industry.
473. Oliver Law, the Lincoln Brigade's Black Commander
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     General Colin Powell was three months old when at 33 tall, broad-shouldered Texas African American Oliver Law, became the first Black Commander of an American Army.The date was June 12, 1937.Law was selected by a committee of three white officers to lead this integrated army.Heard of Colin Powell but never heard of Oliver Law? Hardly surprising. Law’s not mentioned in school books or social studies classes, and has yet to find a place in most college texts or history courses. But Law made his mark on world history in June 1937and for very good reasons.
474. The Omega Principle: A vicious circle of fish, cattle and capitalism (Book review)
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A review of Paul Greenberg's book "The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet", which examines how the fishing industry that plunders the seas for tiny fish is supporting unsustainable industrial agriculture.
475. On 'Bullshit Jobs'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A review of the book "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory" by anthropologist David Graeber, which provides a classification for the many forms of employment, some which he deems not only meaningless and unfullfilling, but ultimately harmful to society.
476. On the 'Duty to Protect'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     On April 14, 2018, U.S.-British-French forces launched a missile strike on alleged Syrian chemical weapons facilities, citing as justification the 'duty to protect'. Finkel make it clear that this attack was illegal under international law.
477. On Economic Madness
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A mostly positive, informative review of "Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason" by David Harvey.
478. On Justice And Vengeance
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
479. On Militancy, Self-reflection, and the Role of the Researcher
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Researcher Jared Sacks examines and questions methodologies of social movement researchers through a self-reflective investigation into his own experience and work.
480. On Nakba Day Palestinians in Gaza explain why they joined the 'Great March of Return'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Palestinian refugees in their own words, on the 70th anniversary of the creation of Israel. In the context of the 2018 opening of the USA embassy in Jerusalem.
481. On our way to the moon? A snapshot of feminist marches which shook the world.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The authors tell the story of the Midsummer's day 1908 'Votes for women' Suffragist rally and the March 1971 Women's Liberation Movement Demonstration in Hyde ParK, London.
482. On Purpose, In Kabul
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Amid years of fighting and war profiteering the Afghan Peace Volunteers (APV) forge ahead with impressive work that demonstrates what needs to be done to rebuild the war-torn and economically devastated country.
483. On Resistance: BDS and Israel's Declining Support Among Diaspora Jews
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Like its predecessor movement decades ago in South Africa, assessing the success of BDS against Israel today necessarily rubs up against the tension between Israeli Hasbara (propaganda) and its reality as an effective organizing tool against it throughout the world.
484. On the "Transformation Problem"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Further discussion of Marx's "transformation problem." References a previous column reviewing Fred Moseley's "Money and Totality."
485. On the nature of change
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The first in a series of articles exploring how dialectical systems thinking can direct change making. The 'On the Nature of Change' series will have three clear sections: 'The Philosophers' will examine a philosophical theory of change, and how this has developed and evolved over time. The second, 'Interpreting the World', and will apply this theory to three fundamental areas: the self, the team, society. Lastyly, 'Changing the World', will present clear ways in which this theory of change can be practically applied.
486. The 'One Democratic State Campaign' program for a multicultural democratic state in Palestine/Israel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     As the Leonard Cohen song goes, ":everybody knows" the two-state solution is dead and gone. Zionism’s 120-year quest to Judaize Palestine – to transform Palestine into the Land of Israel – has been completed. Every Israeli government since 1967 has refused to seriously entertain the notion of a genuinely independent and viable Palestinian state alongside the state of Israel.
487. One Hundred Years, "We" Past and Present
     Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A review of Steve Bloom's epic poem about the Russian Revolution.
488. 100th Anniversary of 1918 Australian & New Zealand Surafend Massacre Of Palestinians
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look back at the premeditated massacre of male Palestinian villagers by Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the village of Surafend and a nearby Bedouin camp, which took place on December 10, 1918. The massacre has been largely ignored but serves as an allegory of settler colonialism.
489. Open and Hidden Horrors
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Before Trump's December 6, 2017 recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, American aggression and its results were apparent in the Middle East and Africa.
490. Organizing Workers Strikes Against War and Repression
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A Brief History of Labour Strikes Against Imperialist Wars and Reaction
491. The other side of Gaza: Swimming, canoeing and 'trying' to be a child
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Here in Gaza, I want to tell this story. To show our audience a piece of a normal life, away from Hamas, or Israel's "terror" rhetoric, away from the diplomatic efforts, the political bargaining, away from the weekly Friday protests. Just show you something normal.
492. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
     What are we eating?
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2018
     What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else.
     For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
     How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
     A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
493. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 17, 2018
     Hearts and Minds: How do People Change?
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2018
     How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? How can we accomplish the essential task of persuading a majority of the population that a fundamental social and economic transformation is necessary? Even more importantly, what will it take for people to come together and act collectively to bring about that transformation? What can we do to help make this happen?
494. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
     Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2018
     This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
495. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 21, 2018
     Their Interent or Ours?
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2018
     The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
496. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 10, 2018
     Massacres and Morality
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2018
     In the wake of Israel's brutal massacres of Palestinian protestors in Gaza in May and June 2018, Other Voices looks at the ways in which state terrorism is used to keep subjugated populations in line, at home or abroad. The issue also questions the morality of those who either support, or keep silent about, the violence of the oppressor.
497. The Other Whisper Network
     How Twitter feminism is bad for women
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Katie Roiphe takes a closer look at the #MeToo movement, particularly the use of Twitter and social media which can dangerously be used to rouse extremes in a similar way that Trump has energized his supporters.
498. 'Our Rivers are Black with Coal' - living with Siberia's mines
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the aggressive coal mining industry in Siberia where local opposition and human rights are ignored, and indigenous communities and ecosystems are being destroyed.
499. Over 90% of the world's children breathe toxic air every day
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the WHO report on "Air pollution and child health: Prescribing clean air", a study of the heavy toll of both outdoor and household air pollution on the health of the world's children, particularly those living in low and middle-income nations.
500. Painting a false picture
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A review of the book "The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the Media" by Greg Shupak.
501. Pakistan / Gilgit-Baltistan: Advocate Ehsan Ali, a symbol of political sanity
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In Gilgit-Baltistan, one of the most politically sensitive regions of Pakistan, the author explains why it is important to recognize and support people like Ehsan Ali, who is a vocal human rights activist and a symbol of interfaith harmony.
502. Pakistan, hostage of the religious - The radical left in resistance
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Radical leftists strive amid fundamentalist hostility in Pakistan where blasphemy is a serious charge with its roots in colonial religious divisions.
503. Pakistan: Teachers and Farmers Protests Brutally Crushed in Sindh
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     On December 25, 2017, primary, secondary and high school teachers in Karachi held a defiant protest against the Sindh government due to its refusal to provide them with permanent jobs despite having agreed to do so in 2014. The provincial government is refusing to honor its agreement even after forcing teachers to pass a rigorous examination conducted by the National Testing Service and the University of Sindh.
504. Pakistan's blasphemy laws – The Supreme Court, Asia Bibi and the laws' historical background
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A description of a blasphemy case in Pakistan. Also includes a history of blasphemy laws going back to British India.
505. Parkdale tenants' campaign blames real estate agent for loss of rooming houses
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at 'displacement realty' in the Parkdale area of Toronto, where the selling affordable homes at inflated prices pushes new landlords into forcing out old tenants in order to increase rents.
506. The Patriarchal Stranglehold
     Book review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A review of the book Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne.
507. PayPal censors journalists who criticize Israel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Under apparent influence from Benjamin Weinthal, PayPal chose to close down the account of the French online publication Agence Media Palestine. Such a move constitutes censorship as it denies journalists the means to raise money for their work and freedom to express ideas.
508. The PCP in the Portuguese Revolution 1974-5: crisis, state and revolution
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     How did the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), loyal to the Soviet Union deep into the second half of the 20th century, react to a social revolution in 1974-5? The moments are rare when we can study workers' revolutions in a European country where the Communist Party had a decisive influence. I argue here that the revolution happened despite the party, not because of it. The USSR wanted above all to maintain the equilibrium of the Cold War, and Portugal was, in the division made at Yalta and Potsdam in 1945, in the NATO sphere. The PCP was faithful to that policy.
509. William A. Pelz
     Obituary
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Obituary for labour history scholar and activist William A Pelz.
510. A People's History of the German Revolution 
     1918-19
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2018
     The story of the revolutionary moment which overthrew the German monarchy in 1918, but was then defeated by the forces of reaction.
511. Peterson unmasks stitch-up of TV interviews
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Jonathan Cook on Jordan Peterson’s recent interview with Channel 4’s Cathy Newman.
512. Plastic plague intensifies on remote southern islands
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at a report titled " Marine plastics threaten giant Atlantic Marine Protected Areas", which examines the alarmingly high concentrations of plastic on southern Atlantic islands and throughout the food chain.
513. The Plot to Attack Iran
     How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Iran
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2018
     A summary to the US war against Iranian democracy and the complex situation in the Middle East.
514. Police Broke Into Chelsea Manning's Home with Guns Drawn - in a 'Wellness Check'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A video recording of a 'wellness check' by police in Maryland, USA, shows police officers arriving with weapons drawn. The incident sheds light on a very disturbing police procedure and whether law enforcement should be called at all as first responders in matters of mental health.
515. A Political Education and Militant Intervention Before, During and After May ’68
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In the context of the Algerian War for independence, Charroussart discusses his political education and activism before, during after 1968 in relation to Marixsm.
516. Popular Front Counter-Memories
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Ehlers reviews Anti-Imperialist Modernism: Race and Transnational Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War by Benjamin Balthaser.
517. Portrait of an Icon
     Review of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A review of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical by Judith E. Smith.
518. The Power of Story, the Evidence of Experience
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Review of a book of oral histories of migrant farmworkers.
519. The Power Struggle in Catalonia, or the Staging of a Tragicomedy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     One, a consolidated power, is the Spanish state. The other, an emerging power, drives the project to create a state of its own, a project promoted by nationalists and pro-independence currents. These include a fraction of the divided system (PdeCat, erc and cup) and some social organizations (the Catalan National Assembly, Omnium Cultural and some trade unions) -- with the support of an important part of society.
520. Preservation Acts
     Toward an ethical archive of the web
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     But they began to wonder what it meant to take an ephemeral object -- destined, after days and weeks, to sink to the bottom of an ever-shifting pile -- and render it permanent. It wasn't hard to see how an archive of civil disobedience could become a tool of government surveillance.
521. President Trump's War Crime is Worse than the One He Accuses Assad of
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The single most important thing that happened Friday night when the US military on President Trump's orders launched a wave of over 100 cruise missiles against Syria was that once again the US violated the most profound international law of war: initiating a war of aggression against a nation that posed no threat, imminent or otherwise, to the US or its allies.
522. Pret-A-Patriarchy – on "modest" fashion
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     "Modest" fashion is a fast growing industry with companies like Dolce & Gabbana, H&M, Marks and Spencer, DKNY, Zara and others all rushing to cash in. But while more choice is undoubtedly good, I have a problem with the labelling.
523. Privatization is Killing Us: Dispatches from the Capitalist War on Society
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at various sectors of society that are suffering under privatization in the United States- including education, the prison system, healthcare, and the environment.
524. Privatizing the IRS
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The headline in the New York Times on January 10, 2018, a few short days before Congress decided it was easier to shut down the government than to legislate, announced that the I.R.S. "paid $20 million to collect $6.7 million in Tax Debts." At first blush the reader assumed this was a story that had somehow crept into the newspaper by mistake and escaped the attention of the articles editor. The reader who thought that could be forgiven for being surprised at seeing the story. That is because that story had appeared in the New York Times and other publications on two earlier occasions.
525. The Progress of This Storm
     Nature and Society in a Warming World
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2018
     An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each other.
526. Propaganda Blitz: How the Corporate Media Distort Reality
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2018
     A look at how corporate media distort the news. Uses recent examples such as the Scottish Independence referendum.
527. Public Spaces, Private Control
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the commercialization of public spaces in Britain and elsewhere in the industrialized world, where gentrification and increasingly troubling privatization of public spaces goes largely unnoticed by a populace caught up in the day-to-day grind of living.
528. Punching the Clock
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     An excerpt from David Graeber's book "Bullshit Jobs" published by Simon and Schuster. Graeber, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, looks at the existence of meaningless work and the psychological and societal harm that results.
529. Quiet, Please! The Latest Threat to the Big Wild
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the growing problem of noise pollution in Glacier National Park in Montana, where each summer helicopters carrying tourists fly low over the landscape.
530. Québec solidaire reviews the election and maps campaign on climate crisis
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Meeting in Montréal December 7-9, 2018, Québec Solidaire reviewed elections results, adopted a proposal to prioritize the issue of climate crisis, and held a discussion on how to prepare an internal debate on "secularism and religious signs."
531. Race and the Logic of Capital
     Review of Class, Race, and Marxism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A review of Review of Class, Race, and Marxism by David Roediger.
532. Racial Terror & Totalitarianism - Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A review of Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination
     by Vaughn Rasberry.
533. The radical Robert Burns
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     For many people the only association they have with the work of Robert Burns is singing Auld Lang Syne at New Year celebrations or at annual Burns Supper events. The real Burns, the radical, revolutionary Burns, is rarely even hinted at in these events. Instead what we have is a sentimentalised, romanticised portrayal of Burns as what Henry Mackenzie called "that heav'n taught ploughman". MacKenzie was a lawyer, novelist and editor of The Lounger magazine in which he reviewed Burns's work. Burns admired some of Mackenzie's work; indeed one of his favourite novels was his Man of Feeling (1771). Mackenzie, however, was scornful of Burns's use of vernacular Scots "which greatly damps the pleasure of the reader".
534. Rage Against the Machine: A War vs. Consensus
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     As it stands now, even if the unlikely liberal wet dream of a Trump impeachment actually comes to pass, the theocratic Mike Pence will simply assume office. No doubt cities like New York and Boston will initially erupt in celebration. But should it really be that long before the realization dawns that the real work remained ongoing?
535. Raising Consciousness About The Color of Law
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at "The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America" by auther Richard Rothstein, and how racial segregation is the underlying cause of much of the country's social and economic problems.
536. Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia - Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Review of Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia by Steven Stoll. Review discusses history of Appalachia as well as previous literature on the subject.
537. Readings: Intersectional Black Activists
     Domestic Worker Organizers, 1960s-1970s
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A brief history and suggestions for further reading on 1) Black women fighting for labor rights for domestic workers, 2) Callie Houses's struggle for reparations 3) Sojourner Truth and her fight for emancipation and suffrage for Black women.
538. Reality check: Croatian uniform virtually identical to...
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Some media reports are ga-ga that the Croatian team will be wearing its red and white checkered uniform in the 2018 World Cup final on Sunday against France. Far from being innocent or fashionable, this is ominous. By allowing this uniform to be worn, FIFA is emboldening the Croatian fascists and their European allies such those in Ukraine.
539. Rebel Without a Clue: Autonomy and Authority in the American Public School
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The high school dropout is a revolutionary without having recovered the sense of dignity of failure, in a system of authoritarian control. Blaming the dropout is to blame the victim of institutional abuse of power exercised within youth indoctrination centers carrying the misnomer, school. Is it possible that the problem is mainly systemic and not due to the personal faults of the dropout? Is it possible that the education system itself contributes to young people dropping out of high school? Is it possible that capitalism is the root cause?
540. Red Fawn Fallis and the Felony of Being Attacked by Cops
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The tackling, arrest and imprisonment of female protester Red Fawn Fallis near a Dakota Pipeline construction site is another example of corporate and government abuse of power. When it comes to women dissenters, particularly of black or indigenous dissent, US authorities have a significant history of intimidation and punishment.
541. Reflections on Chomsky's Voting Strategy: Why The Democratic Party Can't Be Saved
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Nick Pemberton explains why his opinion is different from that of Noam Chomsky on the matter of third party voting during US elections.
542. Remembering Ireland's Great Famine
     A review of Black '47 a soon to be released film about the famine in Ireland
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The Irish film, Black 47 (Director Lance Daly) is about the worst year of the catastrophic Irish famine and is set in the west of Ireland in 1847. The story centers around an Irish soldier, Feeney (James Frecheville), returning from serving the British Army in Afghanistan only to find most of his family have perished in the Famine or An Gorta Mor (the Great Hunger) as it is known in Gaelic.
543. Remembering Italy's Cervi brothers amid far-right surge
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The Cervi brothers in Italy are famous for leading the local peasant resistance against Benito Mussolini's rule. Today, Adelmo Cervi is still a leading voice against the rise of far-right populist parties in Italy.
544. Remembering the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look back at the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of April 13, 1919, where British colonial forces opened fire on peaceful Indian protesters. The massacre stands as a pivotal moment in Indian history that laid bare the true face of British Imperialism.
545. Remembering Joanne Landy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Farber recalls the life and work of Joanne Landy. She is remembered as a supporter and organizer for a radical democratic politics opposed to oppression and exploitation throughout the world.
546. Reply
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A reply by the author of "Money and Totality: A Macro-Monetary Interpretation of Marx’s Logic in Capital and the End of the Transformation Problem" to two previous responses to his book.
547. Report From Southeast Asia
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A general commentary on work and economic conditions in parts of Southeast Asia, and possible comparisons with the ferment in Eastern Europe prior to 1917.
548. Reproductive Justice in an Age of Austerity
     Book review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Reviews of two books about reproductive rights.
549. Resistance is life: Mehmet Aksoy's last letter to his family
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A tribute authored by family and friends to Mehmet Aksoy, a hero of Kurdistan and the internationalist struggles against capitalism, colonialism and fascism.
550. Rethinking community organising
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Building a just, sustainable future will require transcending traditional community organising models. Working through existing institutions within the current system is not good enough.
551. Rev. Edward Pinkey Freed after 30 Months
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Michigan's Supreme Court has ruled that Berrien County Prosecutor improperly charged activist Rev. Edward Pinkney with five felony counts of election forgery.
552. Revealed: The Saudi death squad MBS uses to silence dissent
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The MEE reveals information from a Saudi source with intimate knowledge of the Saudi intelligence services, about a death squad that operates under the guidance and supervision of Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
553. Revised NAFTA Shows Every Sign of Being Another Trump Scam
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement between the US and Mexico, a deal intended to force Canada, which has the strongest regulations, into signing on disadvantageous terms. Dolack explains why any new NAFTA will undoubtedly be a windfall for multi-national corporations at public expense.
554. Revising Class: Lumpen in Literature
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Review of Ragged Revolutionaries by Nathaniel Mills. Marxist analysis of depression-era African-American literaature by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Margaret Walker.
555. Revolutionary Optimism: Journeys in Radical Politics Past and Present
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2018
     On the "Reality Asserts Itself" program of The RealNews network, Prof. Leo Panitch is interviewed by host Paul Jay. Discussion topics include his political leanings, the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, the UK Labour Party, and whether radical change is indeed possible.
556. Revolutionary Rojava: An polyethnic, feminist and anti-capitalist experiment
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A history of the Democratic Federation of North Syria as a beacon of hope in Syria's 8-year-long civil war.
557. The Rewilding of Humanity?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     John Davis looks back at the exploitation of the wilderness, where urban dwellers are now alienated from the natural world that once surrounded them, and wonders whether we can ever return and live in a more natural and balanced state.
558. "Right to Try" Is a Cruel Farce
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Drug companies want you to think they're providing glimmers of hope to terminally ill patients. Don't believe them.
559. Right-wing coup or popular revolt? The April 2018 Nicaraguan uprising examined
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Description of a report on the causes of the April 2018 conflict in Nicaragua.
560. The Rise of the Intellectual Pornstar
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Once only found in society's margins, the pornography industry has developed into a multi-billion dollar business that is branching into the mainstream. The article explains that the industry, while still controversial, increasingly comments on the social problems of today and pushes for reforms in areas that other large industries are scared to.
561. Russia and the War Party
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A critical look at the book "Russian Roulette", by Michael Isikoff and David Corn, which examines alleged Russian interference in the 2017 U.S. election.
562. "Ruthless Criticism of All That Exists"; Against the Current vol. 194
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In October 1864, Marx drafted the inaugural rules for the International Working Men's Association (First International). Its opening lines were a hymn to freedom and self-activity: "the emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves."
563. Sacrificing Gaza: The Great March of Zionist Hypocrisy 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The Great March of Return is a startling, powerful expression of Palestinian identity and resistance. Thousands of Palestinians have come out, bravely and unapologetically, to say: “We refuse to remain invisible. We reject any attempt to assign us to the discard pile of history. We will exercise our fundamental right to go home.” They have done this unarmed, in the face of Israel’s use of deadly armed force against targets (children, press, medics) deliberately chosen to demonstrate the Jewish state’s unapologetic determination to force them back into submissive exile by any means necessary. By doing this repeatedly over the last few weeks, these incredibly brave men, women, and children have done more than decades of essays and books to strip the aura of virtue from Zionism that’s befogged Western liberals’ eyes for 70 years.
564. The Saga of a City Rising
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Positive review of a collection of essays about Black organizing in Mississippi. The review focuses on two of the essays with two "key takeaways."
565. Sanitized Radicals: Whitewashing 20th Century Socialists
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at some of the 20th century's most inspiring leaders, whose socialist views have been conveniently ignored by the Right and the mainstream American media.
566. Say 'I Love You'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A commentary on the issue of gun violence in schools in the United States, and the current lack of leadership which narrowly places blame on the shooter rather than tackle the more complex issues and policies which could make a difference.
567. Say No to 'Hardening' the Schools with Zero Tolerance Policies and Gun-Toting Cops
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The last thing the school system needs is harsher penalties and armed guards which turn students into 'inmates'. Schools in the Unites States are already heavily policed, with School Resource Officers (SRO) funded by the Deptartment of Justice, and harsh penalties for kids as young as 4-5 years old.
568. School Shootings: Who to Listen to Instead of Mainstream Shrinks
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Clinical psychologist Bruce Levine discusses the prevailing cynicism and hopelessnes among young people in the United States -- about their country and their future. In particular the article focuses on troubled young people who have lost any connection with adults and view the world as an uncaring place, and are commonly prescribed medication such as anti-depressants.
569. A search for roots and connections
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The post-third-way Labour Party is trying to encourage its many new activist members, especially among the young, to turn the party into a social movement.
570. Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2018
     Food production in the age of climate change and corporate control.
571. Separating Migrant Families Is Barbaric. It's Also What the U.S. Has Been Doing to People of Color for Hundreds of Years.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the root of the current human rights crisis at the southern border, a crisis based primarily on racism and bigotry which has driven many American policies throughout the nation's history.
572. Seven Forbidden Words: On the Uses of Censorship
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In December 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) moved to take ideological control of the agency's budget-writing process. A Trump appointed official presented a directive to the agency's departments listing seven words that were not to be used in budget preparation.
573. Sex and the Russian Revolution
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The philosophy of the October Revolution contained radical ideas around sexual politics which have been forgotten today. Drawing parallels to today's issues on gender and sexuality could help a new generation get into radical labour politics.
574. Sex, Scandals and Power
     #MeToo Mania and the Democrats' "Resistance"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A wide range of behavior -- including flirtation and innuendo, a vulgar text or a crude joke, not to mention unpleasant sex -- is being lumped together with real crimes of coercion and assault. Those called out for sexual impropriety, no matter how trivial, how unproven or how long ago, run the media gantlet, are declared guilty and their careers ruined.
575. She's Planting the Seeds of Indigenous Food Sovereignty
     How Jessie Housty feeds the growth of her Heiltsuk culture and community
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the efforts of Jessie Housty, an Indigenous woman from British Columbia, who is helping to change the diet of her community that is overwhelmingly dominated by industrial food products.
576. Should Communists ally with revolutionary nationalism? The Comintern and Asia 1919-25 (Part 2)
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     But how would the proposed alliance of workers' and national uprisings be effected? This strategic issue was addressed in the Comintern’s Second Congress, held in Moscow 9 July-7 August 1920.
577. "Show Me Your Papers!" Roundups, Checkpoints and National ID Card
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     With the government empowered to carry out transportation checks to question people about their immigration status within a 100-mile border zone that wraps around the country, you're going to see a rise in these "show your papers" incidents. That's a problem.
578. Siege and resistance in Gaza – For more than 10 weeks...
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Toufic Haddad, an activist, academic and author of Palestine Ltd: Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Occupied Territory, spoke to Omar Hassan about the meaning of the protests – and what next in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine.
579. Siloed Thinking, Climate, and Disposable People
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Judith Deutch takes a look at the human side of the climate disaster and the constricted way of thinking about it, as even those who do recognize anthropogenic climate change still do not examine a range of critical interactions.
580. The Simulation of Democracy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The global capitalist ruling classes have been stuck with "democracy" ever since, or, more accurately, with the simulation of democracy.
581. Single Payer: What Will It Take to Pass It?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Single payer healthcare needs to be implemented in a universal, sweeping move. Incremental changes will only impede progress.
582. The Skripal Poisonings and the Ongoing Vilification of Putin
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Pinning the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter by a nerve agent on the Russian state makes little sense, and is an attempt by the West to futher villify Putin who actually had little to gain by ordering such an action.
583. Slavery and Capitalism
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A review of a collection of essays about the economics of American slavery.
584. Socialist Register 2019
     Volume 55: A World Turned Upside Down?
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2018
     Since the Great Financial Crisis swept across the world in 2008, there have been few certainties regarding the trajectory of global capitalism, let alone the politics taking hold in individual states. This has now given way to palpable confusion regarding what sense to make of this world in a political conjuncture marked by Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ presidency of the United States, on the one hand, and, on the other, Xi Jinping’s ambitious agenda in consolidating his position as ‘core leader’ at the top of the Chinese state.
585. The Socialists of the Prairies
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Proyect talks about the arrival of the Prairie Trilogy at the Metrograph Theater on Friday, July 27th. The trilogy consists of three documentaries made in 1978 by John Hanson and Rob Nilsson about the radical movement in North Dakota during the heyday of the IWW, the Socialist Party, and the Nonpartisan League (NPL).
586. Soros & the £400k Question: What constitutes 'foreign interference' in democracy?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The news that US billionaire Soros donated £400k to an anti-Brexit group came on the day that YouTube said they found no evidence of Russian interference in Brexit.
587. South Sudan archivists fear loss of historical texts
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     South Sudan doesn't have a museum, so thousands of archival documents are sitting in a small building in the capital, Juba, waiting for a national archives to be built. The project will also need the help of international donors to get off the ground, and the ongoing conflict has made it difficult to secure funding.
588. The Soviets and Tsarist Debt
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A history of the Soviet's refusal to honor Tsarist debt afterthe 1971 revolution. Looks at the effect on Russia up to and after the end of the USSR.
589. Speaking of Indigenous Politics
     Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2018
     On her radio program Indigenous Politics, J. Kehaulani Kauanui talked candidly and in an engaging way about how settler colonialism depends on erasing Native peoples and about how Native peoples can and do resist, bringing Indigenous activism to the mainstream. Collected here, these conversations speak with clear and compelling voices about a range of Indigenous politics that shape everyday life.
590. Stansted 15: British Activists Who Stopped Deportation Charter Flight Convicted of Terrorism Charge
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at a group of fifteen activists who prevented a deportation charter flight from leaving Stansted airport in the UK by securing themselves around the aeroplane, and were subsequently found guilty of a terrorist offence.
591. Starving and Bombed Children of Yemen Seek Entrapment in Flooded Thai Cave
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     While the world was gripped by media coverage of trapped Thai boys in a flooded cave, hundreds of thousands of children were killed and suffering in other parts of the world -- yet received little or no attention. This article examines what this tells us about ourselves and geopolitics.
592. State of the UAW
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Since the 1979-1981 economic crisis, when the UAW convinced its members to make concessions to the Big-Three, auto-workers have been losing benefits, wages and programs. Feeley discusses the current state of UAW focusing on its leadership.
593. Stop Whining and Start Organizing
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A commentary on the state of the labour movment in the United States, which has been in a marked decline since the 1950's. Lindorff discusses why unions are vanishing, loss of membership, disassociation with the Democratic party, and the changes needed to reorganize and enforce workers' rights.
594. Struggle for equal rights for Palestinians is 'right choice,' and will lead to 'significant exodus of Jews' - Henry Siegman 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Everyone should read Henry Siegman's long piece in the National Interest on the "Implications of President Trump's Jerusalem Ploy." Siegman is a great leader because he has bucked the American and Jewish establishment, of which he is a member, to declare that the two-state solution is dead and buried. He is also a prophet inasmuch as he is counseling American Jewry to give up its attachment to Zionism as a dead letter, no different from a Christian state here, and so prepare itself for a future in which Israel is isolated as a pariah state and there is a "significant exodus of Israel’s Jews." His words are astounding because Siegman, a Holocaust survivor now in his late 80s, was himself a Zionist, and head of the World Jewish Congress. His bravery in renouncing the animating political faiths of his life-- it's inspiring.
595. Struggling for Justice
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Mainly postive review Keith Gilyard’s biography of organizer, educator, cultural worker and Black Left feminist Louise Thompson Patterson.
596. Studying Marx
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Buhle discusses how often participants in "The Movement" were not formally educated in Marxism but rather held self-studies conducted individually and in groups.
597. The suffering of surrogacy: A veteran feminist spells it out
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation Dr Renate Klein takes on the surrogacy industry with plenty of sass and hard evidence. A dogged feminist academic and publisher for over thirty years, her critique of neoliberal capitalism is always underpinned by an authentic concern for women’s wellbeing and a focus on patriarchal structures. She never fails to point out the power differentials. She completely rejects surrogacy in all its forms.
598. Superunknown: Scientific Integrity Within the Academic and Media Industrial Complexes
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Mattis provides an analysis of the competing priorities of scientists, funders and the media that together, create a perfect storm of "unscientific science".
599. Supreme Toxicity -- Confirmed
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Editorial about Brett Kavanaugh, the U.S. Supreme Court and the hopefulness of grassroots movements like #metoo and BLM spur people to take action.
600. Surveillance Self-Defense 
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2018
     Modern technology has given those in power new abilities to eavesdrop and collect data on innocent people. Surveillance Self-Defense is EFF's guide to defending yourself and your friends from surveillance by using secure technology and developing careful practices.
601. Surveillance Self-Defense
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A guide on how online surveillance works and the various tools and techniques the public can use to help protect themselves from spying.
602. Suspect in Lahore blasphemy case fighting for his life
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A Christian resident of Lahore says he attempted suicide as interrogators forced him to perform oral sex on cousin.
603. Suspect in Lahore blasphemy case fighting for his life
     A Christian resident of Lahore says he attempted suicide as interrogators forced him to perform oral sex on cousin.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Christians and other minorities, who make up about two percent of Pakistan's 207 million population, are disproportionately targeted by blasphemy laws, which prescribe a mandatory death penalty for anyone found guilty of "defiling the sacred name of the Holy Prophet Muhammad". There is increasing violence associated with the laws, with at least 74 people killed in attacks motivated by blasphemy accusations since 1990.
604. Syria: The Assad regime - a response to Marcel Cartier
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A response to Marcel Cartier's article "Vanguards of Humanity: Why I support Afrin & the Rojava Revolution", which denounces the Turkish invasion of Afrin and calls for solidarity with Rojava. While author Slee agrees with the call for solidarity, there is disagreement with some fundamental points in Cartier's article.
605. The Syrian Observatory: Funded By The Foreign Office
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The UK funded a project worth £194,769.60 to provide the 'Syrian Observatory for Human Rights' with communications equipment and cameras.
606. Syria's Disaster, and What's Next
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Detailed description of Syrian crisis as of July 2018.
607. System change means dismantling patriarchy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at patriarchy and the sexual division of labour, and why gender justice is fundamental for meaningful environmental justice, and moreover how grassroots, anti-capitalist feminism is key to system change.
608. Ta-Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Coates represents the neoliberal wing of the black freedom struggle that sounds militant about white supremacy but renders black fightback invisible. This wing reaps the benefits of the neoliberal establishment that rewards silences on issues such as Wall Street greed or Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands and people. The disagreement between Coates and me is clear: any analysis or vision of our world that omits the centrality of Wall Street power, US military policies, and the complex dynamics of class, gender, and sexuality in black America is too narrow and dangerously misleading. So it is with Ta-Nehisi Coates’ worldview.
609. Taking on the Far-Right Menace
     An Interview with Mark Bray
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Diana Feeley and David Finkel interview Mark Bray, author of The Anti-Fascist Handbook and professor at Darmouth College. Bray answers questions about his book, facism, tracking the racist right and tactical issues.
610. Taking the World to the Brink of Annihilation
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Western neoconservatives and hawks are driving the international situation to increasing tension and danger. Not content with the destruction of Iraq and Libya based on false claims, they are now pressing for a direct US attack on Syria.
611. A Tale of Two Atrocities: Douma and Gaza
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Compare the intense media coverage of an alleged Syrian chemical attack to the near silence accorded the horrific civilian massacre perpetrated by Israeli soldiers in Gaza, at the very same time.
612. Tax Havens and the Other Paris Agreement
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Paradise & Panama papers, Canada & red herrings, and the international agreement on tax havens with "enough loopholes to drive a fleet of Ferraris through"
613. Thailand: Junta orders pro-democracy leaders charged with inciting rebellion
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The junta has ordered seven of the most prominent pro-democracy activists charged with crimes including sedition after they launched a protest campaign calling for general elections to be held in November.
614. Thankstaking in the Trumpfederacy: Terminate the Tribe That Aided the Pilgrims
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the hostile climate that exists under the Trump Administration for America's first peoples. The article looks at the further erosion treaties and protective laws, and the belief among indigenous communities that the administration's policy is a return to 'termination'.
615. Their Internet or Ours? - Chinese text
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
616. Their Internet or Ours?
     Introduction to the April 21, 2018 issue of Other Voices
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     What happened to the Internet? The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
617. Theorizing the Soviet Bureaucracy
     Review of Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A review of the book: Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy by Thomas M. Twiss.
618. There Is a Coordinated Campaign to Suppress Criticism of Israel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Israel's human rights violations are accompanied by U.S. efforts to stifle dissent.
619. These Activists Blocked Migrant Deportations. Now They Face Life Imprisonment in the U.K.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Fifteen activists who blocked a plane deporting migrants are being charged with laws intended for terrorists. The use of charter flights for deportations is one of the issues they raise.
620. 'They stole the beach' - the major mafia that almost nobody wants to talk about
     The building boom in China and worldwide demand for consumer goods containing ilmenite has enriched criminals who specialise in stealing san
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Increasing demand for sand has led to targeting of sandy beaches by organised crime. Community members who speak out or protest the destruction of beaches are often victims of intimidation, harrassment and violence.
621. 13 protesters against copper plant in India killed after police open fire
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Public protests at the copper smelter plant of Sterlite Industries in the town of Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu, India, were met with police fire during the last two days, with 13 protesters killed and and hundreds injured.
622. 'This is murder': French islanders want Paris to own up to poisoning their land with pesticide
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The French islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean want France to take responsibility for polluting their land with a toxic pesticide. This article looks at the effects of Kepone, also called chlordecone, on the people of the islands, who now suffer from alarmingly high cancer rates and fertility problems.
623. This Is Why Carrots Cost More Than Twinkies
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     An examination of the role of Government-subsidized crop insurance, farm loans, tax credits, agricultural research and education, as well as environmental and public-health exemptions for farming, on the cost of food production and how that transfers to the consumer.
624. Though Invisible to Us, Our Dead Are Not Absent
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A reminder that the world is a beautiful place, and we must save it by listening to the voices of those who have passed, who instilled us with life, love and the spirit of resistance.
625. Thousands march in Ukraine to mark Nazi collaborator Bandera's birthday
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Some 6,500 people across Ukraine took part in marches on the first day of the year to mark the birthday of Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist leader considered a hero in the country despite his violent past and history of collaboration with the Nazis.
626. Thousands of Palestinians and Israelis Chant: 'No to the nation-state law, yes to equality'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Palestinian flags were seen held high during a demonstration in which tens of thousands of Arab Palestinians and Israeli Jews marched on Saturday, in Tel Aviv, to protest against the controversial Jewish Nation-State Law.
627. A Threat of the First Magnitude: FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration from the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union - 1962-1974
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2018
     A Threat of the First Magnitude reveals the untold story of the FBI informants who penetrated the upper reaches of organizations such as the Communist Party, USA, the Black Panther Party, the Revolutionary Union and other groups labeled threats to the internal security of the United States.
628. 'Time is Running Out,' American Petroleum Institute Chief Said in 1965 Speech on Climate Change
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In 1965 the president of the American Petroleum Institute discussed the effect of CO2 in the changing the atmosphere and the role specifically of the petroleum industry in causing climate change. More than 50 years later the science on this has become stronger but messaging from the industry has softened.
629. Time magazine honors journalists facing repression - but snubs Julian Assange
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year' award for 2018, which did not list any journalist who exposed state secrets or government misconduct in the United States, nor whistleblowers from Israel, Egypt, India or any of the NATO countries.
630. The Tip of the Iceberg: My Lai Fifty Years On
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
631. To overcome climate paralysis, unite for system change
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at how to break through the climate paralysis that has led to the environmental crisis that mankind is currently facing. Wallis indicates that by having identified who the enemy is, we know who our potential allies are- the other 99%.
632. To stop migration, stop the abuse of Africa's resources
     Europe should tackle migration not by deploying troops, but by curbing economic abuse and destablisation.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     On January 17, Italy's parliament approved the deployment of up to 470 troops in Niger to combat "irregular migrant flows" and the trafficking of people towards Libya, and, from there, to Europe. A number of other European countries are pursuing similar policies, including France, Germany, and Spain.
633. 'Today is one of the most tragic days in the history of the Jewish people: one American Jews response to the Gaza massacre
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In this open letter to the Westchester Israel Action Committee by congregant Howard Horovitz, Horovitz asks "When will we stand up, as human beings, as a committee and as a Temple, to condemn the massacre of Palestinians on the Gaza border?"
634. A Tool to Combat Washington's Middle East Wars
     Book review: "The Plot to Attack Iran: How the CIA and the Deep State have Conspired to Vilify Iran"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A Review of Dan Kovalik's book "The Plot to Attack Iran: How the CIA and the Deep State have Conspired to Vilify Iran", which provides a concise overview of US imperial conduct since WWII and the disturbing hypocrisy and deceit of the US Government and media.
635. Top 10 Civil-Rights Songs
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Upon the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., some of the more popular civil-rights songs are remembered. The article includes online links to music videos.
636. Toronto does not need to hire more police officers
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     As you contemplate the push by the Toronto Police Association to have more police officers hired, remember that the issue is not the need for more officers, but featherbedding.
637. Toronto's film industry grows, but at what cost?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     While high profile film productions are increasing in Toronto, the article questions whether taxpayers are getting good value for the billions of dollars of public money being invested into the film industry's expansion in the city.
638. Toward a global strategic framework: The Comintern and Asia 1919-25 (Part 1)
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The revolutionary activists who founded the Communist International (Comintern) in 1919 had little contact with movements for national and colonial liberation outside Russia. Nonetheless, only a year later, in July 1920, the Comintern adopted a far-reaching strategy for national and social revolution in dependent countries, later termed the anti-imperialist united front.
639. Transformation Problem Unraveled
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Review of "Money and Totality: A Macro-Monetary Interpretation of Marx’s Logic in Capital
     and the End of the 'Transformation Problem'" by Fred Moseley. Burkett provides a summary of the details of Moseley's theory.
640. The Trials of Africa and the Real Dr. King They Want Us to Forget
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at some of Martin Luther King Jr.'s views beyond those emphasized by the mainstream media, where he pushed beyond 'liberal' America and his strong anti-war and global solidarity values were unapologetically linked to the fight against racism and poverty.
641. Triumph and Tragedy
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Le Blanc's sympathies with the Bolshevik project are clear, but this is no apologia. On the contrary, grounded in material and intellectual evidence, it is a work that helps us better understand the factors that shaped the choices the revolutionary leaders made and the alternatives paths that might have been open to them.
642. The Trouble With Uplift 
     How black politics succumbed to the siren song of the racial voice
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     I've long suspected that, to a certain strain of race-conscious or antiracist discourse, historical exploration in popular culture was less important than the propagation of tales of inspiration and uplift. These fables typically feature singular black heroes who have overcome crushing racist adversity against all odds. In recent years, a steady stream of films and other narratives have openly embraced that preference.
643. The Troubling Link Between Attacks on Immigrants and Repression of Labor
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the targeting of immigrants and its connection to attacks on labour movements, and how it leads to disturbing increases in violations of civil liberties.
644. Truckers Spend the Holidays Driving Too Much for Too Little Pay
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the diminishing compensation provided to truck drivers, and why the trucking corporations get away with paying so little.
645. Trump & the Fed: US Shadow Bankers About to Deepen Control of US Economy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     What's sometime referred to as 'shadow bankers' have been running the economy and drafting US domestic economic policy since Trump took office. 'Shadow' banks include such financial institutions as investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, insurance companies, finance companies, asset management companies, etc. They are outside the traditional commercial banking system (e.g. Chase, Bank of America, Wells, etc.) and virtually unregulated. Shadow banks globally now also control more investible liquid assets than do the world's commercial banks.
646. Trump, the NYPD and the People We Call 'Animals'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the reckless use and dissemination of de-humanizing pejorative language, notably by President Donald Trump and some police agencies in the United States, which has consequences for the public who interact with police and for society as a whole.
647. Trump and Science
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Although Trump is called anti-science he simply continues a trend that started with Reagan. Calling him anti-science can mask how his policies and tactics are rational ideologies in the service of neoliberalism.
648. Trump threat to cut Palestine aid could 'unravel Oslo'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     US President Donald Trump's threat to withdraw aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) would deprive Washington of its influence on the body, and could cause the Oslo accords to unravel, analysts say.
649. Trump's Amoral Saudi Statement Is a Pure Expression of Decades-Old 'U.S. Values' and Foreign Policy Orthodoxies
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Donald Trump's statement that the US would continue business and diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi may be blunter than people are used to but it is standard operating procedure of American policy.
650. Trump's Protectionism: A Great Leap Backward
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     US Presidents, European leaders and their academic spokespeople have attributed China's growing market shares, trade surpluses and technological power to its "theft" of western technology, "unfair" or non-reciprocal trade and restrictive investment practices. President Trump has launched a 'trade war' – raising stiff tariffs, especially targeting Chinese exports – designed to pursue a protectionist economic regime.
651. Trump's War on Children is an act of State Terrorism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     State terrorism comes in many forms, but one of its most cruel and revolting expressions is when it is aimed at children. The Trump administration has detained more than 2,000 children, and the numbers are expected to grow exponentially in light of Trump's refusal to change the cruel policy.
652. The Truth About "Trailer Trash"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     "Trailer trash" remains one of the last unquestioned relics of political incorrectness in our nation. As a toxic slur, the "trailer trash" brand works to stigmatize an entire category of people marginalizing them from mainstream society.
653. 'A Turtle is Worth More Alive Than Dead'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Various participants at the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference in Kenya discuss ways they can sustainably economically benefit from the local environment.
654. Twitter closes down my account for 'hateful conduct'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Several Twitter accounts with pro-Palestinian content have been suspended. At the same time those making explicit threats against them have been found not to violate Twitter's terms of service.
655. Two Powerful Films on Indonesian Mass Terror
     Film Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Short review of two films about Indonesian genocide.
656. 2018: When Orwell's 1984 Stopped Being Fiction
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A commentary on The Guardian's news story "Revealed: UK's push to strengthen anti-Russia alliance". Cook questions facts and the terminology used in the Guardian article, a form of 'journalistic fraud', which promotes the UK government's policy towards Russia.
657. Typewriters Still Smoking? An Interview with Underground Press Maven John McMillan
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     An Interview with Underground Press Maven John McMillan, who is an associate professor of history at Georgia State University in Atlanta, with degrees from Michigan State and Columbia, and the author of the best book about the underground press. Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America (Oxford University Press)
658. Uber? Taxis? Or Plan C? How to Get Ride Hailing Right
     BC could show the world a non-profit model that beats oligopolies
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at 'ride-hailing' and why it should be run on a non-profit basis as a co-op or other non-profit model.
659. Uber Used Clandestine Technology Tool To Thwart Police Raids
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Uber uses a number of technological tools for tax evasion, undermining competition and monitoring customers and drivers.
660. UN Security Council Rejects Proposal for Investigation Into Syria Chemical Allegations
     Russian envoy urges US, allies to refrain from attacking Syria
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A UN Security Council resolution proposed by Russia has been voted down, with Western nations fighting against it. The resolution would've called for a formal investigation into the alleged Syrian chemical weapons attack on Saturday.
661. Unions Should Go Big on a Green New Deal for Canada
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Canada's unions need to play a much larger leadership role on climate change, not just because it deals with economic policies directly affecting members but also because it will be difficult to get where we need to go without them.
662. Unit 731: How Leaders of Japan's WWII Germ Warfare Unit Ended Up Working for the US
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the post-war collaboration between the United States and members of Unit 731, a germ warfare branch of the Imperial Japanese Army that conducted horrific and lethal experiments on Chinese civilians and Allied prisoners.
663. The Unjust Prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation Five
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Miko Peled, in "Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five," his exhaustive study of the U.S. government's case against five defendants from a friendless minority, demonstrates how American justice has deviated so far from Blackstone that the courts can convict a hundred innocents for one who is guilty.
664. Unprecedented Cruelty Against Immigrants and Their Children
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Recently White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly backed up the policy when he explained that, "the children will be put in foster care or whatever." This comes at the same time as a new report revealed that there are some 1,500 undocumented children, who have been placed by federal authorities in homes of "sponsors," and are now missing in the system.
     No other country has a policy of separating families who intend to seek asylum.
665. An Unrepentant '68er's Life
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Review of an autobiographical book by May 1968 figure Daniel Bensaïd.
666. UNRWA Does not Perpetuate the Conflict, the Conflict Perpetuates UNRWA
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In January, without warning, Donald Trump refsued to pay $305 million of his country's $365 million commitment to UNRWA. UNRWA, the UN agency serving Palestinian refugees, remains $200 million short of the funds it needs to provide humanitarian services for five million people, including 2/3 of the population of the Gaza Strip.This is not really a story about under-funding UNRWA. This is about the people who strenuously seek to eliminate it.
667. Up Against the Ivy Wall: the Columbia Insurrection at 50
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     "My plan was to major in English and become a professor," she writes in an essay titled "Stopping the Machine" that's collected in A Time to Stir: Columbia '68, a new 438-page book (Columbia, $35) which is edited by filmmaker Paul Cronin. Rosahn explains that at the start of the protests, she was a "leftish Democrat" and that in the course of the rebellion she became "a devoted student radical."
668. An Updated and Improved Marxism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     An article that criticizes the stubborn immersion in the past by current Marxists and left wing intellectuals, and to comprehend activism and set goals in the twenty-first century requires a revision of the Marxian conception of revolution.
669. An Urban Teacher Union Epic
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Swerdlow reviews A Fight for the Soul of Public Education: The Story of the Chicago Teachers Strike. She suggests that the 2012 Chicago teachers strike can be used as a model to persuade the public that public employees and their labour organizations benefit society and lead to effetive change.
670. Ursula K. Le Guin - Rest in Power
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Obituary celebrating Le Guin's contributions as a community activist, a fighter for feminism, peace, freedom of speech, access to knowledge for everyone, and radical democracy in addition to her literary acclaim.
671. US bombs continue to kill in Laos 50 years after Vietnam War
     US dropped two million tonnes of bombs on Laos at height of Vietnam War. Why are cluster munitions still killing?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the problem of unexploded US bombs in Laos which have killed tens of thousands of people since the end of the war, and continue to kill and maim dozens annually.
672. US Isn't Leaving Syria -- but Media Lost It When Possibility Was Raised
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The US military exists to fight wars. It is the most heavily armed, most violent organization in the world. Saying that it should continue to occupy Syria, and most of the mainstream media do, is a way of saying that the war in that country should continue. In fact, it’s a call for escalation of that war.
673. US J20 defendants: 'Waiting is part of the punishment'
     The first six people have been acquitted, but the 188 remaining Inauguration Day defendants have yet to go to trial.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Alleged anti-fascist protestors, controversially arrested at the 2017 US presidential inauguration, await trial and or sentencing in 2018.
674. US 'Outrage' Over Slaying of US Residents Depends on the Nation Responsible
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     This article takes a look at the reasons why the US media managed to be outraged at the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi Arabia's government, yet there was no such reaction when Israel killed Furkan Dogan, a 19-year-old American citizen.
675. US plastic waste is causing global environmental crisis
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A recent ban in China, which normally takes in the largest proportion of US plastic waste, has left the US dumping plastic in other over-burdened countries, while waste still continues to pile up in the States. US plastic scrap exports dropped by almost a third in the first six months of 2018, as waste firms struggled to find a home for their plastic scrap.
676. US, UK and France 'Inflicted Worst Destruction in Decades on Raqqa'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Amnesty International reports that air and artillery strikes by the US and allies inflicted devastating loss of life on civilians in the Isis-held city of Raqqa. It is a report that contradicts claims by the US, Britain and France, that they precisely targeted Isis fighters and positions during the four month siege.
677. Venezuela: Maduro survives assassination attempt -- but journalism doesn't
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Venezuela was rocked on August 5, 2018 by an attempt to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro during a public event, using drones armed with explosives.But as more details of the attack became available, mainstream media coverage sought to sow doubt on the events, using words such as "apparent" or "alleged". It focused on the government using this "alleged" event to step up repression.
678. Venezuela: US Imperialism Is Based On Lies And Threats
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     First-hand report of a delegation to Venezuela from the US. They say the coup is weak and the Venezuelan people are strong and Maduro has their support.
679. A very British coup: The spies who went out to the cold
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Former British MP George Galloway comments on the revelation that subcontracted work from MI5 and MI6 targeted not only Russia but also smeared British politicians whom they perceived to be "pro-Russian"; those smeared include not only himself but Jeremy Corbyn and others in his party.
680. Video: IJV and CJPME tell Israeli trade Minister Eli Cohen and the Canadian Trade Minister to #EndApartheidTrade and divest from the Israeli-Canadian arms trade
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2018
681. Viktor Orban, Trump and the Populist Battle Over Public Space
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The Hungarian legislation and the turmoil caused by Trump's moral equivalencies reveal how politicized space is not a distracting side effect of populist politics; rather, public space treated as a symbol of national identity is a defining characteristic of populism.
682. Violet McNaughton: the Mighty Mite Reformer From Saskatchewan
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Violet McNaughton deserves recognition as one of Canada's greatest and most formidable adult educators and co-operator of the twentieth century bar none
683. The voice of Hobsbawm
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at how the work and ideas of influential British Historian Eric Hobsbawm made an entry into the Indian intellectual scene, as well as his involvement in two crucial political and intellectual debates in Brazil that cemented his reputation there.
684. Want to Fix Foster Care? Ask Kids Who Have Been Through the System
     Innovative report co-researched by youth from care focuses on importance of relationships
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A report called Relationships Matter for Youth "Aging Out" of Care, co-researched by youth from care, focuses on what truly matters to the young people who are in the system and notably on the importance of building relationships.
685. The War Against "Fake News" is a War on Us 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Barely a day passes without a new development in the war on social media -- that is, the war on us. Today, it is a report that Twitter has emailed hundreds of thousands of its users, warning them that they shared "Russian propaganda".
686. War is just f**king wrong
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Jacobs explains the underlying capitalist imperative of waging war.
687. War, lies and censorship
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Damon cautions news consumers that there is precedent for dissemination of government propaganda in the Anglo-American mainstream media when leaders are preparing to take part in military action.
688. The Wars of Rich Resources
     Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Review of Bolivia's mid-20th century conflicts over resource extraction.
689. Washington using legal cover to conceal economic banditry
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The arrest of a Chinese telecom executive in Canada on behalf of the US is an abuse of the legal process and international law to pursue American economic interests. China's anger resonates with similar grievances against the US felt by Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and even American allies in Europe.
690. Water Wars: El Salvador Social Movements Resist Water Privatization
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at the efforts of Salvadoran social movements which have unified in an urgent effort to counter the right-wing's most recent push to privatize El Salvador's scarce water resources.
691. The Weaponization of Social Media
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     How the online environment and social media is being used as a political weapon, notably through the use of 'Bots'.
692. Welcome to Arivaca: Where residents want anti-migrant militia out'
     Many in this Arizona border town want armed vigilantes, who've vowed to round up undocumented migrants, to leave.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Many in this Arizona border town want armed vigilantes, who've vowed to round up undocumented migrants, to leave.
693. West's failure to act will be cause of the next Gaza massacre 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Jewish Israelis celebrate, and governments around the world stand by passively, as Israel massacres Palestinians in Gaza. Inaction by Western governments ensures that Israel will feel embolded to commit further massacres in the future.
694. What are we eating?
     Introduction to Other Voices, January 21, 2018
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else. For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished. How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
695. What are we eating? - Arabic text
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
696. What Brett Kavanaugh Really Learned in High School: Make the Rules, Break the Rules and Prosper
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The accusations against Kavanaugh may be an open question but his behaviour in handling them proves he is unfit for the Supreme Court. This is reinforced by his previous evasiveness about his role in the Bush administrations torture policy which called his integrity into question long before Christine Blasey Ford made her accusations.
697. What Fascism is, and Isn't
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     By examining historicial fascist movements, Oppenheimer delineates what is and isn't fascism and also explores the common themes between the alt-right and its fascist predecessors.
698. "What followed horrified us beyond our wildest imaginations": an eyewitness account of the Bangladesh student protests
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Like other high school students, Abdul Karim Rajib, 18, and Dia Khanam Mim, 17 had many hopes and dreams for their lives. One had hoped to become an army officer, the other, a banker. On July 29, 2018, around noon, the two teenagers were killed in the streets of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, by three buses speeding against each other for no reason other than to arrive first and cram as many passengers into their already overcrowded interiors, for maximum profit.
699. What if Ida B. Wells Depended on Facebook?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The work of Ida B. Wells, the crusading journalist who forced Americans to pay attention to lynchings and human rights abuses, is a reminder why we need a tax-dollars-funded, and journalism focused, commitment to public media.
700. What is Organizing?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Morgan reviews the history of Organizing in the USA and provides advice to activists on how to organize in an inclusive, constructive, way.
701. What 'News' Media in U.S. And Allied Countries Never Report
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Newsmedia effectively ban reporting corruptness of newsmedia -- even of media that stand on the opposite side of the political divide.
702. What the Attack on Marc Lamont Hill Tells Us
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Destruction is the Zionists' strategic goal and the attack on Marc Lamont Hill and others like him is dictated by the tactics they have chosen to use toward that end.
703. What would you do if soldiers dragged your son out of bed in the middle of the night?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     After more than half a century of occupation, most Israelis can no longer imagine themselves in the place of the Palestinians. But if we cannot imagine what it is like to live under occupation, we must at least confront its brutal reality.
704. What You Don't Know About Abolitionism: An Interview with Manisha Sinha on Her Groundbreaking Study
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Manisha Sinha draws attention to the role of Black abolitionists in ending slavery in the USA in her book: The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition.
705. What's it like for a social movement to take control of a city?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Ada Colau surprised many when she won the election to become mayor of Barcelona. The housing rights activist was part of a deep social movement aiming for participatory democracy. But this latest article from the Symbiosis Research Collective examines how winning the election was just the first step
706. What's Kinder Morgan's Real End Game?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     An ultimatum has been imposed by Texas based Energy Infrastructure company, Kinder Morgan,that they will cancel the Trans Mountain Pipeline Extension at the end of May 2018 unless clarity is provided by the government. Klein argues that Kinder Morgan knows that the pipeline is already doomed, due to external economic factors and Indigenous opposition.
707. When America Downed an Iranian Airliner and Celebrated It!
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Every 3rd of July Iranians commemorate the killing of 299 innocent people, including 66 children, by the US Navy. Adding to the tragedy is the American attitude towards this catastrophic event.
708. When Covering Up a Crime Takes Precedence Over Human Health: BP's Toxic Gulf Coast Legacy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     On April 20, 2010, BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded. Over the next 87 days, it gushed at least 200 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, creating the worst human-made environmental disaster in US history and afflicting the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.
709. When Worse is the Enemy of Bad
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The claim that all that is wrong with America is due to the malignant machinations of Putin is the most blatantly false, potentially disastrous bucket of bullshit ever inflicted by the matrix on this ignorant, credulous, propagandized people.
710. Where Have All the Nazis Gone?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Thousands of "anti-fascist" protestors converged on the streets of the nation's capitol to deny a platform to (or just beat the snot out of) twenty or thirty racist idiots who were trying to assemble in Lafayette Square and stand around shouting racist slogans at each other.
711. Where It All Began: The Dawn of 'Fake News'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     While today's political smear campaigns and propaganda have gotten more sophisticated and subtle, the underlying ethics remain as maggoty as ever.
712. Where to Begin?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The rise of socialist-identified candidates like Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez are a hopeful resistance against the politics that resulted in President Trump. But people must organize outside of electoral politics to bring real change.
713. Where's the Beef Stroganoff? Eight Sacrilegious Reflections on Russiagate
     Street, Paul
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Street expresses his frustration with the US political establishment in light of the 2017-2018 FBI investigation into alleged foreign intervention in the 2016 US presidential election.
714. The White World and Black Reality
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     White people on the left must deal with racism to create true solidarity and resist Trump's politics.
715. Who is Afraid of Venezuelan Democracy?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     We are witnessing before our eyes a scenario of subversion and disqualification of Venezuela’s democracy.
716. Who Killed Marielle?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Marielle Franco, a Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman, whose murder is still unsolved, was a thorn in the side of the right-wing, repressive government. The fight she fought continues through with people people she represented.
717. Who profits from keeping Gaza on the brink of humanitarian catastrophe?
     Keeping Gaza on the verge of collapse keeps international humanitarian aid money flowing to exactly where it benefits Israeli interests.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Economic researcher and journalist, Shir Hever shows that Israel benefits economically from its siege and oppression of Gaza.
718. Who's Funding the White Helmets?
     Reality Check
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2018
     You've no doubt heard of the White Helmets, aka the Syria Civil Defense. They claim to be a neutral entity in Syria. They say they are just helping people caught in the middle of a civil war. But are they? Follow the money and you will find numerous ties to government funding from not only the U.S., but the U.K., Netherlands, Denmark and Germany. We untangle these ties to the White Helmets in a Reality Check you won't get anywhere else.
719. Why "Coercive Diplomacy" is a Dangerous Farce
     Offering to talk while threatening military force hasn't worked in 30 years.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In the context of rising tensions between the USA and North Korea 2017-2018, historian and journalist Gareth Porter, details the history of failure of "Coercive Diplomacy" as a tool in US foreign policy.
720. Why Do Students Kill Their Class-Mates
     Detachment, Isolation, Dehumanization, and Emotional Estrangement from Human Relationships
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A recently released phone video shot by 19-year-old Parkland, Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz, reveals a cold, callus young man who claims to "hate everyone and everything."
721. Why does the language of journalism fail indigenous people?
     A journalist with indigenous roots reflects on the making of We Are Still Here: A Story from Native Alaska.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A journalist with Indigenous roots reflects on the difficulty of doing justice to the community she is filming a documentary about. Historical misrepresentation due to lack of cross-cultural understanding has led to a distrust of the media.
722. Why Is Allergan Partnering with the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe?
     Inside the bizarre world of patent law.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe has invested in a portfolio of patents, their status as a sovereign-entity allows the holder to circumvent the "inter partes review" if a patent dispute is raised, increasing the value of their holdings.
723. Why is Inclusive Mosque so Afraid of Secularism?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Secularism is merely a framework that separates religion from the state to ensure that religion cannot influence the state and public policy and impose itself on private lives. After all, not everyone in a given society is a believer and even if they are, they don’t usually want the state to tell them how to believe. Only a secular framework can ensure the equal rights of all citizens before the law and not different rights for different categories of communalised groups. It is only a secular framework that can ensure one law for all via changeable laws made by people versus unchangeable ‘divine’ laws imposed by clerics. It is a secular framework which can allow for multi-ethnic, multi-religious and plural societies and is a minimum precondition for the rights of women and minorities. It is a secular framework that can ensure freedom of conscience, including freedom of and from religion.
724. Why It Just Makes Sense for the U.S. to Withdraw from the UNHRC
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Having withdrawn from the Paris Accord, and the Iran deal; having broken with the world to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital; having provoked allies and rivals with trade war-triggering tariffs and personal insults; having shocked the world with talk of a Great Wall to keep out Mexicans (paid for by Mexico).
725. Why (Mostly) Men Trophy Hunt: a Biocultural Explanation
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A review of several studies offering insights into the biological basis of human behavior, specifically trophy hunting, and the biologically responsive strategies for changing it.
726. Why Ocasio-Cortez's Platform is So Great
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     By labeling her foreign policy platform "A Peace Economy," Ocasio-Cortez, using a phrase popular with the peace movement, makes the financial connection without shying away from the immoral and criminal and counter-productive character of war. The fact is that war endangers rather than protecting, erodes rights, militarizes police and society, destroys the natural environment, directly kills and injures and traumatizes and harms millions, and - on top of that - does the most damage through the diversion of resources from where they could do good.
727. Why the food movement needs to understand capitalism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     To fully appreciate the challenges we face in transforming our food system we need to explore the economic and political context in which food is grown, sold and consumed in the world today.
728. Why There are Few Christians Left in the Holy Town of Bethlehem
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     This is the time of year when they have a chance to break out of an isolation enforced in concrete since Israel enclosed the town with a "separation wall" more than a decade ago.
729. Why the "Two State Solution" is Apartheid
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
730. Why white supremacists and Hindu nationalists are so alike
     White supremacy and Hindu nationalism have common roots going back to the 19th-century idea of the 'Aryan race'.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Many members of the so-called "alt-right" - a loosely knit coalition of populists, white supremacists, white nationalists and neo-Nazis - turned to India to find historic and current justifications for their racist, xenophobic and divisive views.
731. Will The Conspiracy Against Trump and American Democracy Go Unpunished?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The American people do not realize the seriousness of the Russiagate conspiracy against them and President Trump. Polls indicate that a large majority of the public do not believe that Trump conspired with Putin to steal the presidential election, and are tired of hearing the media prostitutes repeat the absurd story day after day. On its face the story makes no sense whatsoever.
732. Will We Ever See Al Jazeera's Investigation Into the Israel Lobby?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     So when am I going to be able to watch Al Jazeera's hard-hitting investigation into Israel’s powerful lobby in the United States? Remember Al Jazeera? The tough, no-holds-barred Middle East satellite channel that transformed Qatar into a media empire whose reports frightened dictators and infuriated potentates and presidents alike? Why, George W Bush once wanted to bomb its headquarters in Doha – so it must have been doing something right. It even has an office in Jerusalem.
733. William ('Bill') Pelz:
     Againist the Current vol. 192
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In memoriam, Patrick M. Quinn and Eric Schuster discuss the life and contributions of William ('Bill') Pelz, a well-known socialist activist and prolific scholar in the field of European and comparative Labour History.
734. William Blum: Anti-Imperial Advocate
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The late William Blum, former computer programmer in the US State Department and initial enthusiast for US moral crusades, who died December 2018, gave us various exemplars of this counter-insurgent scholarship. His compilation of foreign policy ills in Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, was written with the US as sole surveyor of the land, all powerful and dangerously uncontained.
735. William Blum, Renowned U.S. Foreign Policy Critic, Dead at 85
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Obituary for William Blum with biographical information and links to his work.
736. A Window on Inhuman Detention
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A first-hand account of the inhumane conditions of immigration detention by a Korean woman seeking asylum in the US.
737. Without a Popular Movement We Don't Stand a Chance: Andreas Malm on Climate Change
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     An interview with the author of "Fossil Capital and The Progress of This Storm", who says there are reasons to be hopeful but significant progress will require a global movement of unprecedented scale.
738. Women in the Black Panther Party
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     While much that has been written about the Black Panther Party (BPP) is focused on the role of certain prominent male leaders, lesser known is that during peak membership women made up nearly two-thirds of the party. Leela Yellessety spoke to three authors of recent books that highlight the contribution of women in the Black Panther Party.
739. Women-Led Radio Station Amplifies Voices of Indigenous Communities in Argentina
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In the late 1990s several Indigenous women founded a radio station which continues to broadcast. It resists cultural subjugation and provides a voice to Indigenous people.
740. Working Class Movement Must Be Independent
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A new chapter in the history of the South African working class was opened in Soweto on 21-22 July 2018, when representatives from over 147 South African working-class formations represented by 1000 delegates assembled to unite workplace and community struggles.
741. The World Google Controls and Surveillance Capitalism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Google's encroaching powers over our lives, to include the freedom of expression protected by most national laws, not to mention EU and UN Charters, around the planet today.
742. World War I: Crime and Punishment
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Jacques Pauwels' The Great Class War is a contribution to the ideological front in the struggle for a world without wars, for in resetting the story of that war in the Marxist frame, he loosens our ties to idealist interpretations that obscure the class nature of wars, naturalize war as an inevitable part of life, and force us to assume and share a guilt that largely rests on the shoulders of a profiteering and exploitative class, which holds the power of decision making through its control of political, economic, military, police, and media powers and grants us a vote that is largely cosmetic.
743. Worldwide "Moment of Madness"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at 1968 a legendary year in history. Analysis of how student- and worker-led revolts played out in different parts of Europe.
744. Worldwide Wobblies Remembered
     Book review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A review of the essay collection Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW.
745. Worse than Obsolete: NATO Creates Enemies
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Twenty years' worth of "unintended" or "collateral" damage hasn't created friends in the war zones.
746. The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the Media
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2018
     The Wrong Story lays bare the flaws in the way large media organizations present the Palestine–Israel issue. It points out major fallacies in the fundamental conceptions that underpin their coverage, namely that Palestinians and Israelis are both victims to comparable extents and are equally responsible for the failure to find a solution; that the problem is "extremists," often religiously-motivated ones, who need to be sidelined in favour of “moderates”; and that Israel’s uses of force are typically justifiable acts of self-defense.
     Weaving together the existing literature with new insights, Shupak offers an up-to-date and tightly focused guide that exposes the distorted way these issues are presented and why each is misguided.
747. Yanis Varoufakis's Self-Incriminating Account of the Greek Crisis - Parts 3 and 4
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Yanis Varoufakis traces his collaboration with Alexis Tsípras and his alter ego, Nikos Pappas, back to 2011. That collaboration gradually broadened, starting with 2013, to include Yanis Dragasakis (who became vice-Prime Minister in 2015). There is a constant in the relations between Varoufakis and Tsípras: Yanis Varoufakis constantly argues for changes in the political programme that Syriza had adopted. Varoufakis tells us that Tsípras-Pappas-Dragasakis themselves clearly wanted to move toward an orientation that was different from, and significantly more moderate than, the one their party had adopted.
748. Yemen's Turn
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The Arab Spring, numerically strong but politically weak, failed to break this destructive dynamic. With the corpse of Arab nationalism in a state of advanced decay and the principal opposition, the Muslim Brotherhood, desperate for a deal with Washington, the 2011 uprisings were easily confiscated by the US to further its own aims in the region. Despite its many national peculiarities, the ruinous war in Yemen has to be viewed in this context.
749. YIMBYs Exposed: The Techies Hawking Free Market "Solutions" to the Nation's Housing Crisis
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Anti-displacement activists hate them. Tech firms and big developers love them -- and shower them with cash.
750. You Can't Commit Genocide Without the Help of Local People
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     How do you organise a successful genocide – in Turkish Armenia a century ago, in Nazi-occupied Europe in the 1940s, or in the Middle East today? A remarkable investigation by a young Harvard scholar – focusing on the slaughter of Armenians in a single Turkish Ottoman city 103 years ago – suggests the answer is simple: a genocidal government must have the local support of every branch of respectable society: tax officials, judges, magistrates, junior police officers, clergymen, lawyers, bankers and, most painfully, the neighbours of the victims.
751. You Say You Want a Revolution: SDS, PL, and Adventures in Building a Worker-Student Alliance
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2018
     A collection of memoirs from people who were part of Progressive Labor Party in the United States in the 1960s.
752. Young protesters are defying Israel's blockade with scraps of paper and plastic
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Five years ago, the film Flying Paper documented the successful efforts of Gaza’s children to set a new world record for mass kite-flying. The children defied Israel’s blockade, which prevents entry of most goods, by making kites from sticks, newspapers and scraps of plastic.