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Housing Is a Social Good

Gianpaolo Baiocchi, H. Jacob Carlson Boston Review
The American Jobs Plan mirrors past efforts at affordable housing that contributed to our problems and failed Black Americans. We need to take housing out of the private market.

Exterminate All the Brutes: a critique

Mara Ahmed Mondoweiss
Raoul Peck’s “Exterminate All the Brutes” is an awe-inspiring cultural, literary, historical, political and geographic smorgasbord. But to what end?

Remembering Mark Levitan: Comrade and Dear Friend

Michael Hirsch New Politics
What could a labor radical with a doctorate in Marxian economics accomplish in the neoliberal “stop and frisk,” Bloomberg administration? The answer: reform policies he advocated, recalibrating poverty to the benefit of the poor, remain policy today.

Vietnam's Path Toward Socialism

Dr Nguyen Phu Trong Vietnam Plus
This in-depth look by Vietnamese Communist Party's General Secretary on how he understands the process of building socialism provides insights too often ignored. Portside ran an excerpted version on May 24.

Friday Nite Videos | June 4, 2021

Portside
Why the US Government Murdered Fred Hampton. Valedictorian Goes Off Script to Blast Texas Abortion Law. Hasan Minhaj Explains Hindus and Muslims. ROADRUNNER: A Film About Anthony Bourdain. What’s Really Fueling the U.S. Labor Shortage.