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U.S. Election Shows Deep Divisions, with Multiple Dangers Ahead Even If Trump Can Be Made to Leave Office
Summary: Deep contradictions following U.S. election — Editors
To understand Marxism, we need to know Marx! Preliminary notes on Marx and Marxism
Summary: This reflection by a worker in Nagpur, India consists of his effort to come to grips with the basic principles of Marx’s thought and its relevance to the current period – Editors
From Black Lives Matter to Gezi and Rojava
Summary: Questions for the Black Lives Matter uprising in light of the Turkish and Kurdish mass movements and uprisings — and repression — since 2013 — Editors
Thoughts on the U.S. Elections: Threat of the Far Right
Summary: English version of interview with the leftwing Greek weekly Epohi. Greek version first appeared here http://www.epohi.gr/article/37389/kevin-anterson-stoys-repoymplikanoys-ehei-epikrathsei-h-akrodexia-politikh
Jacindamania and the Aotearoa New Zealand Elections of 2020: Hopes and Potentialities
Summary: The New Zealand elections as a gain and as a limitation for the left — Editors.
In Memoriam: James Obst, Friend, Comrade, Revolutionary
Summary: James Obst (1953-2020) was a founding member of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization who gave 45 years of his life to the cause of human self-emancipation.
[Discussion Article] Against War in Արցախ | Qarabağ (Nagorno-Karabakh)
Summary: This “Decolonial, antifascist and ecofeminist statement from Armenia”
first appeared on the website of Sev Bibar on October 12, 2020, here https://medium.com/sev-bibar/against-war-in-%D5%A1%D6%80%D6%81%D5%A1%D5%AD-qaraba%C4%9F-2baaecfbad5e — Editors
Poem for Black Lives
Summary: This poem was written by Achieng-Evensen after scholar-activist Tajuan spoke out on need to remember the many Black lives lost at a #ScholarsStrike teach-in organized by Chapman University students and the Paulo Freire Democratic Project via zoom – Editors.
A Prisoner’s View of Defunding Police and Prison Abolition
Summary: These two related pieces are by a U.S. political prisoner who relates the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin to the need not to separate demands for defunding police from ending capital punishment and abolishing the prison system. You reach him at: Khalfani Khaldun, 874304, PO Box 1111 G-215, Carlisle, IN 47838
Indonesia: Mass Strikes Show Intersection of Class, Gender, and Ecology
Summary: Indonesians strike against neoliberal law that would roll back labor and women’s rights as well as environmental protections — Editors
[Discussion Article] Social Movements and the Pandemic
This article develops on the changing landscape for social movements after the Covid-19 pandemic. It first appeared in New Horizon, May 2020 – Editors.
The Raids Against the Opposition in Turkey Show Erdogan’s Weakness
Summary: Amid economic and political crisis, Turkish police crack down on pro-Kurdish HDP and the non-Kurdish opposition. First appeared on website of Emergency Committee for Rojava on September 26, 2020 https://www.defendrojava.org/news/the-raids-against-the-opposition-in-turkey-show-erdoans-weakness — Editors
US Unemployment Catastrophe
Summary: Increasingly dire situation of unemployed in the US — Editors
Demonstrating to Abolish School Police in Los Angeles
Summary: Los Angeles youth demonstration to abolish school police faces counterdemonstrators — Editors
