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The Left’s Crisis Is Not a Vocabulary Problem

Akshay Anand Newsclick
The crisis of the Indian Left is undeniable. The problem, however, is not the Left's failure to invent a new vocabulary, but rather of liberalisation that transformed the very conditions under which politics and aspiration sare now experienced.

Tidbits-Apr 2-Reader Comments: More War, Cuts to Social Safety Net; on the “Left” Criticism of No Kings 3; More States Taxing Ultra-Rich; Happy Farm-Workers Day; Community As Strategy: 10 Ways To Create Belonging, Power; Teaching Antifascist History

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Reader Comments: More War, More Cuts to Social Safety Net; On the "Left" Criticism of No Kings 3; More States Taxing the Ultra-Rich; Happy Farm-Workers Day; Community as Strategy: 10 Ways to create belonging and power; Teaching Antifascist History...

What Made the Irish Famine So Deadly

intan O’Toole The New Yorker
The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the market must be obeyed at all costs.

The Momentous Class Struggle of the German Peasants’ War

Daniel Colligan Jacobin
This year marks the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War, the largest European uprising before the French Revolution, in which peasants seized upon the radical implications of Martin Luther’s theology to challenge a hierarchical social order

Letters From an American - January 25, 2025

Heather Cox Richardson Letters from an American
Since the very earliest days of the United States, class was a central lens through which Americans interpreted politics . . . in the 1960s politicians began to focus on race and gender . . . Now, with Trump . . . class appears to be back . . .
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