Summary: In this interview, a leading AIDS researcher discusses why both AIDS and COVID have disproportionately hit poor people of color, and why people who rightfully mistrust pharmaceutical executives should still believe in the effectiveness of their vaccines. Copyright, Truthout and reprinted with permission. Originally appeared here https://truthout.org/articles/activism-made-aids-treatment-more-accessible-thats-what-itll-take-for-covid/ on June 13, 2021 — Editors

A strike that started amongst one section of oil workers in southern Iran has spread to all oil exploration, refinery and petrochemical plants in the country, and is gaining widespread support from other workers too. Here, we publish the striking workers’ statement – Editors.

The Russian-born thinker Raya Dunayevskaya was an important and influential figure on the US radical left. At an early stage, she recognized the need to combine struggles against racism and capitalism — two oppressive structures that were intimately linked. Originally appeared in Jacobin Magazine, here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/06/raya-dunayevskaya-marxist-humanism-anti-racism-capitalism-alienation

Summary: Recordings of the three panels discussing various aspects of Raya Dunayevskaya’s intersectional Marxism. Presentations by Lewis Gordon, Barbara Epstein, Paul Mason, Kevin B. Anderson, and many more – Editors.

Summary: Musings on the history of Pride, police brutality, and the anti-capitalist turn in Pride in the time of COVID-19 – Editors.

Summary: In a land of staggering inequality, mass protests by grassroots organisations stay strong in the face of violent repression.

Summary: Discusses the consequences of racism in Brazil and how racism is deeply intertwined in capitalism – Editors.

Summary: The manufactured “crisis” of immigration being touted by the press in light of tens of thousands of Central American refugees seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border makes this an important moment to review the roots of the present situation and the Biden Administration’s response to it – Editors.

Summary: Israel’s brutal war against Palestinians, including the pogroms in Israeli cities, in the context of US imperial machinations – Editors

Summary: The response by the Philippine state to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to ever-greater militarization and repression by President Duterte. Its impact is detailed in this article by two leftwing scholars and activists – Editors

The writings of Engels on the state exhibit ambiguities, some of which have curiously escaped notice, but Marxist thought can ill afford to ignore them – Editors

Summary: We should not forget the achievements or the global impact of the Arab revolutions of 2011 — Editors

Call to support the Russian journal DOXA, whose editors were arrested by Russian authorities — Editors

Summary: A reflection on Chapter 8 of Dunayevskaya’s Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution and the lessons it holds for today’s revolutionaries – Editors

Some on the left deny the existence of any forms of imperialism besides those of the U.S. and its allies, and thus fail to support or even oppose valid liberatory or democratic movements.
First appeared in The Nation, April 6, 2021, here https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/anti-imperialism-syria-progressive/ — Editors