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Recent Black Lives Matter protests have sparked conversations about how to act in better solidarity with the Black struggle. How to move beyond rhetorical statements? How to address anti-Blackness among non-Black Arab communities?
While many companies have trumpeted their support for the Black Lives Matter movement, others are beginning to face consumer pressure for not appearing to do enough.
To me, there’s never been a more clear-cut case for reparations than that of Haiti.
The struggle to work with the people to protect everyone from the coronavirus cannot be done without linking it to the political struggle to get rid of the government and to work to change the country,
Parties and movement groups, Cuba and Vietnam, and African scholar activists face the Corona crisis
On this 50th anniversary of the assassination of proletarian internationalist Fred Hampton, a new radical student movement in Pakistan takes inspiration. News and analysis in the spirit of Chairman Fred: "I am a revolutionary."
The world is shaken by mass rejection of neoliberalism and corruption, and the "pink tide" returns in Latin America.
Furious mass protests in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe, election news with left parties in play, and more!
Protests against government corruption and austerity programs in Haiti and Iraq, are directed at corrupt neoliberal governments imposed on them by the use of U.S. military force.
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