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INTERNATIONAL

Polarization and Crisis in Peru

Cecilia Quiroz June 17, 2021

Considering his calls for support from big business and his promises to respect the validity of the 1993 constitution, private property, and thus the prevailing economic order, it cannot be ruled out that Castillo will seek a government of national unity with the bourgeoisie.

Working Class Tunisians Rise Up against Police Violence

La Izquierda Diario Argentina June 16, 2021

Protests began in the working-class districts of Sidi Hassine and Séjoumi in Tunis, Tunisia, after a young man died in police custody and videos of police beating a minor went viral on social media. Police violence is endemic in Tunisia, and the masses suffer unemployment, poverty, and misery a decade after the fall of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali’s regime and the beginning of the Arab Spring.

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CLASS STRUGGLE

CUNY Students Turn Out in Support of Palestine

Olivia Wood May 30, 2021

On Friday, May 28, students and allies demonstrated at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in solidarity with Palestine. This is just the latest manifestation of growing support for the Palestinian cause that has seen many rallies in NYC throughout the month.

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BLACK STRUGGLE

No, Germany Is Not Actually Recognizing the Genocide in Namibia

Nathaniel Flakin June 11, 2021

The German government has made international headlines with its public “gestures of reconciliation” for the genocide of tens of thousands of West Africans in the early 1900s. Representatives of the Herero and Nama peoples are rejecting the deal, saying it comes nowhere close to addressing the effects of Germany’s long history of colonial exploitation in the region.

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LABOR MOVEMENT

3,000 Volvo Workers Are on Strike Again

James Dennis Hoff June 16, 2021

After rejecting a second contract offer, Volvo workers at the Mack and Volvo Truck of North America manufacturing plant in Dublin, Virginia are on strike again. They say that this time they are not going back until a new contract is ratified.

Why We Are Voting Yes on the PSC CUNY’s “Resolution in Support of the Palestinian People”

James Dennis Hoff June 8, 2021

On Thursday, the PSC CUNY Delegate Assembly will consider a resolution introduced by rank-and-file members of several PSC committees, that condemns the Israeli massacres in Palestine and calls for CUNY divestment from firms that support the occupation. As elected delegates of the union, we support this resolution and call on our union to go further to end U.S. aid to Israel and the occupation of Palestine.

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HISTORY

The National Guard Is No Friend of Workers and the Oppressed: A Lesson from Ludlow

Scott Cooper April 20, 2021

On this day in 1914, the National Guard slaughtered striking miners and their wives and children in Ludlow, Colorado. The National Guard has never been a friend of the working class, even if its members come from that class. No wonder unionists expelled the National Guard recently from the St. Paul Labor Center, which it was using to launch its forays into Brooklyn Center, Minnesota after the police killing of Daunte Wright.

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GENDER & SEXUALITY

Texas Bans Abortion

M.K. Kumar June 7, 2021

On May 19, Texas governor Greg Abbott signed a bill that makes abortion after six weeks of pregnancy illegal in the state of Texas, making Texas the state with the most restrictive abortion ban in the nation.

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ECONOMY

The Productivity Crisis

Michael Roberts June 2, 2021

In his latest piece, Michael Roberts takes a look at the crisis in productivity and the failures of Keynesian economics over nearly a hundred years.

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ENVIRONMENT

On the left, a picture of John Bellamy Foster's book Return of Nature. On the right, a photo of him wearing a sweater and glasses.

Marxism and the Origins of the Ecological Critique

Esteban Mercatante June 1, 2021

John Bellamy Foster’s The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2020) shows the role played by biologists and other scientists with a nonmechanistic, materialist outlook, alongside various Marxists, in laying the foundations of ecology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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TROTSKYIST FRACTION

May 1: For an International of Socialist Revolution

Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International May 3, 2021

On May 1, the Trotskyist Fraction — Fourth International held an online rally to present a new manifesto. Comrades from 14 countries in Europe and the Americas took part. You can watch the video here.

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GUEST POSTS

Profits Call the Tune

Michael Roberts June 17, 2021

Profit is not a “gift of capital,” and does not rely on investment. Profits can be generated out of the exploitation of labor power without further investment, and indeed, that is what we can see now in the expansion of ‘fictitious capital’ at the expense of productive investment.

Jeff Bezos Is Going into Space. Fingers Crossed He Won’t Come Back

James Plested June 9, 2021

If Bezos, Musk and Co. want to go “off Earth,” then let them. Our task is to ensure that at some point, when they come back, they’ll find the completely irrational, exploitative system of capitalism on which their obscene wealth was based has been dismantled and replaced with a socialist society.

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