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In Kenya, political elites across the spectrum are trying to sell off the country for themselves—capitulation is inevitable.

Italy needs a coalition — not a coalition of anti-fascist forces, but rather a coalition for anti-fascism.

Housing is increasingly treated as both a speculative or an investment commodity for the rich and satisfied, and a charitable donation for the poor and precarious, in a system of corporate capitalist rule obfuscated by the language of human rights.

Neoliberalism has caused the widespread and institutional violation of human rights.

Victory requires the long view: the values and ideas that must animate our new fight for racial justice.

Working people never stopped fighting as neoliberalism was imposed. Bouts of resistance kept resurfacing, but remained localized and politically narrow. In the absence of structures that could give workers confidence in collective struggles, workers were left with survival tactics that came at great cost and unintentionally reproduced neoliberalism’s individualist ethos.

There is no dividing line between the Russian “quasi-liberals” of the 90s and the ideology of Russian imperialism today. They are aligned politically and economically, the first easily spilling over over into the second.

A great transition in our hemisphere, and a labor action news roundup

There are two lessons one can learn from the Sri Lankan experience. The first is that a welfare state is totally incompatible with a neo-liberal regime. The second is that every country is vulnerable to a “contingency crisis” under neo-liberalism.