Global Left Midweek - Russia, Ukraine and the West
Portside
Assessments of a worldwide mine field
Assessments of a worldwide mine field
Assessments of a worldwide mine field
Global Left Midweek - February 23, 2022
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Tariq Ali on the Ukraine mess and the UK peace movement, and labor news from all over
Defeating the Right: ‘The Blood-Dimmed Tide Is Loosed’
Organizing Upgrade
Democracy defenders need to unify, strategize, and pull from deep wells of conviction to turn back the MAGA tide.
Tidbits - Jan. 20, 2022 - Reader Comments: Supreme Court Spreads COVID, Children, Schools, Omicron; Capitol Armed Coup Plotters; Voting Rights; Real Martin Luther King; Harry Belafonte; Don’t Look Up; Student Activist Scholarships; more....
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Reader Comments: Supreme Court Spreads COVID, Children, Schools, Omicron; Progressives and Democrats; Capitol Armed Coup Plotters; Voting Rights; Real Martin Luther King; Housing and Profits; Don’t Look Up; Student Activist Scholarships; more....
books
Paul Tillich's Socialist Decision
Bias Magazine
This too-little-knows treatise by Martin Luther King Jr.'s favorite teacher was written in Germany, notes reviewer McManus, as the Nazis were transitioning "from a threatening political movement to a lethal political dictatorship."
Friday Nite Videos | December 24, 2021
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Chile 2021: Leftwing Millennial to Be New President. Chile 1973: Manifiesto | Victor Jara. ‘Surprising Is An Understatement’: Kim Potter Verdict. Why New York’s Billionaires’ Row Is Half Empty. Fauci Holiday Message Cold Open | SNL.
Chile 1973: Manifiesto | Victor Jara (With English Subtitles)
One of the last songs Victor Jara wrote, and a poem composed in his final days, while imprisoned in a Santiago stadium.
Tidbits - Dec. 23, 2021 - Reader Comments: Build Back Better - What Next?; Manchin Faces Blowback; Kellogg Workers Win; Omicron; Chile - Gabriel Boric Victory!; Käthe Kollwitz; In Memoriam: Michael Hirsch, Portside Cultural Moderator
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Reader Comments: Build Back Better - What Next?; Manchin Faces Blowback; Kellogg Workers Win; Omicron; Chile - Gabriel Boric Victory!; Käthe Kollwitz; In Memoriam: Michael Hirsch, Portside Cultural Moderator
Gabriel Boric Vows to ‘Fight Privileges of the Few’ as Chile’s Premier
The Guardian
Leftwing former student pledges to unite country and tackle poverty and inequality. The triumph of Boric, who belongs to a generation deeply opposed to the extreme economic model bequeathed to Chile by the Pinochet dictatorship
Not in Our Town: Ephrata, PA Says No to Extremists
Organizing Upgrade
The struggle to protect children from covid by obeying mask mandates comes to a small town in Pennsylvania. How to build a coalition broad enough to beat back right-wing extremists.
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