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Update on Los Angeles Rallies Supporting the Palestinian People
Summary: The October 21 rally and march drew thousands in downtown Los Angeles — Editors
The Middle East and the World After October 7, and Israel’s War on Palestine
Summary: A global turning point has been reached, showing systemic fragility, but with genocidal repression looming over Gaza — Editors
Los Angeles Demonstration for Palestine Amidst Rising Fears of Israeli Invasion
Summary: The demonstration of several thousand galvanized support for Palestine — Editors
Ongoing Strikes Show Increasing U.S. Labor Militancy
Summary: Increasing militancy of unions at the leadership and grassroots levels illustrates an increased resolve to resist capital — Editors
Front Commun: The Herculean Leap of the Working Class Quebecois
Quebec general strike has become a real possibility. Photo credit to frontcommun.org — Editors
Record breaking temperatures spell trouble for future of the planet
Summary: Accelerating climate change is a product of the relentless drive for capital accumulation—Editors
How the Far Right Uses Free Speech to Express Hatred
Summary: Comments on a current debate on free speech in Sweden, following burnings of the Qur’an – Editors
Review of Raya Dunayevskaya’s Intersectional Marxism: Race, Class, Gender, and the Dialectics of Liberation
Summary: Review of “Raya Dunayevskaya’s Intersectional Marxism: Race, Class, Gender, and the Dialectics of Liberation,” Kevin B. Anderson, Kieran Durkin, Heather A. Brown (eds.), Palgrave 2021. Originally appeared in Science & Society, 2023, 87:3 — Editors
To lose or not to win… On the Turkish election
Summary: Critique of the opposition coalition’s right-opportunism and failure to mobilize the voters – Editors
Guatemala’s “Managed Election” 2023: Voters Rebel in Round One. On To Round Two.
Summary: Discusses recent political developments in Guatemala – Editors
Rosa Luxemburg Anticipated the Destructive Impact of Capitalist Globalization
Summary: Rosa Luxemburg’s work The Accumulation of Capital described the havoc that capitalism wreaked upon what we now call the Global South. Today’s socialist and environmental activists can draw valuable insights from Luxemburg’s understanding of the world system – Editors
Portuguese translation here.
Marx’s Concept of Revolutionary Organization and Its Relevance for Today
Summary: Based on a presentation given at a Los Angeles IMHO meeting on June 25th, 2023 –Editors
The trial of Reyhaneh Ansari Nejad will be held on July 17, 2023
Summary: Support statement for Iranian woman labor activist who was later sentenced to two years in prison, trans. by Hamid Vahed — Editors
Learning from the ‘COVID War’
Critique of the liberal establishment COVID Crisis Group—on need for labor and community activism and on how capitalism fuels pandemics; first appeared in Harvard Law School blog Bill of Health, July 5, 2023, here: https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2023/07/05/learning-from-the-covid-war/ — Editors
