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Capitalism Was Built on the Ruins of the Commons

Peter Linebaugh, Daniel Denvir Jacobin
The Industrial Revolution's chief product was not goods, but a new class of laborers who owned nothing and worked to survive. Historian Peter Linebaugh traces the creation of this working class through the violent enclosure of the commons they once r

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Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections. The Origins of May Day: Working Class Pride and Power. The Navy Gets a Witch-Hunter. Bait | Trailer. The First American City That Will Run Out of Water.

Palestine 36 Reclaims a Buried Anti-Colonial Revolt

Annemarie Jacir, Ed Rampell Jacobin
Annemarie Jacir’s Palestine 36 resurrects the mass anti‑colonial revolt that Britain crushed with overwhelming force — and shows how its legacy still shapes the present.

Iran Transformed

Arang Keshavarzian The New York Review of Books
To understand the regime the US now seeks to obliterate, we have to return to the political and economic convulsions that produced last January’s uprising.
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