Chicago marches for abortion rights
Well over 3,000 women and men overran downtown Federal Plaza in Chicago, spilling into the streets demanding abortion rights and castigating a U.S. Supreme Court whose legitimacy is no longer recognized by the citizens it oppresses.
Abortion bans upheld: Our task–a new human society
With the gutting of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court has taken away a human right and stripped bodily autonomy from half the population. It reveals a giant step towards fascism. What is the answer to such an outrage? It is not the Democratic Party, who couldn’t even rid us of the Hyde Amendment.
Francia Marquez Mina, Colombia’s Vice President-Elect
Colombia’s first leftist vice president, Francia Marquez Mina, has told her story and the struggles of Afro-Colombians in the pages of News & Letters.
Film review: ‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’
Review of ‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,’ states that it missed a great chance to be political in a meaningful way. Writer Katy Brand left out the hard part, creating characters who live in a safe world that doesn’t exist. You can’t comprehend prostitution, sex work and sex workers without talking about capitalism and how it alienates and destroys human relationships.
The hell of normalized domestic violence
Catholicism, “traditional family life,” silencing of women, combine to make life a “living hell” for many and reveal how the normalizing of domestic violence wars against the Universal of Freedom.
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Russian invasion and Ukrainian resistance shake up the world
May 15, 2022Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the resistance to it are shaking up the world and revealing the ideological pollution of society, including of the...
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Reactionary Supreme Court attacks freedom
May 17, 2022Having control over what happens to your own body is the difference between fascism and freedom. A woman's right to control her own body is...
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From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Hegel’s Third Attitude today
May 18, 2022Thought disjointed from objective truth is running amok today—even including self-described Marxists who oppose self-determination of Ukraine and side with Putin, the avowed enemy of...
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Alabama coal miners keep strike alive
May 14, 2022By May Day 2022 coal miners at Warrior Met in Brookwood, Ala., had been on strike for a year and a month since they walked...
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Biden complicit in border brutality
Trump's national health emergency, continued by Biden, had asylum seekers wait in Mexico for processing. This breaks U.S. law and though other pandemic emergency measures...
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World in View: Citizens’ revolt erupts across Sri Lanka
May 19, 2022A massive citizens’ revolt is taking place in Sri Lanka. It is focused against the authoritarian President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his family members, who occupy...
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Prisoner strikes and struggles through Marxist-Humanist lens
Commemorating the 10th anniversary of the historic prison hunger strikes that ended California’s permanent solitary confinement, Faruq and Urszula Wislanka give a retrospective/perspective on our...
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Review: ‘The 1619 Project’
May 14, 2022'The 1619 Project' tackles U.S. history since the first enslaved Africans were brought to Virginia—from multiple perspectives. Each essay is grounded in original sources, scholarly...
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What tyrants fear the most: revolution
May 19, 2022Like repression in Iran, the war against Ukraine is, more than anything else, understandable on the basis of fear of revolution and the overthrow of...
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The French election
May 20, 2022On April 24, Emmanuel Macron won a second five-year term as president of France. The rise of right-wing politicians posing as populists is a worldwide...
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