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UNITED STATES

Biden Is Expediting Deportations of Migrant Families

Tatiana Cozzarelli July 29, 2021

The Biden administration added another repressive measure against migrants on top of Donald Trump’s already draconian Title 42. Now border patrol agents have the right to decide asylum cases.

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INTERNATIONAL

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CLASS STRUGGLE

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BLACK STRUGGLE

Private Cops in Uptown Minneapolis — Another Tool to Maintain the Racist-Capitalist System

Adnan Ahmed July 22, 2021

Citizen’s arrest laws—a relic of colonial times—exist in all 50 states and were created to help catch slaves when Black people were considered property. Recently, private cops hired by the Seven Points Uptown shopping mall arrested activists in Uptown, Minneapolis. Laws and legality in bourgeois society function to maintain the racist-capitalist status quo. We must kick all cops, private or not, out of our communities and unions.

“They Just Don’t Care”: Environmental Racism and Detroit

Emma Boyhtari July 14, 2021

The Boynton neighborhood, where activist Emma Lockridge resides, is located within Detroit 48217, known as Michigan’s most polluted zip code. For the past eight years, Emma and her community have been fighting to force Marathon Petroleum to buy out their homes.

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LABOR MOVEMENT

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HISTORY

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For a Workers’ Olympics!

Nathaniel Flakin July 22, 2021

The Tokyo Olympics are an opportunity for athletes to demonstrate the pinnacles of physical accomplishment and show the best and worst of sports, but the games are controlled by a shady clique of capitalists and aristocrats. What could an alternative look like? Let’s check out the old Workers’ Olympiads.

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GENDER & SEXUALITY

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Five Things We Should Fight For This Pride

Tatiana Cozzarelli June 27, 2021

This Pride weekend, we remember and celebrate the Stonewall uprising led by trans women of color. Although we have won some concessions, we have so much more to fight for. We must look past all of the trappings of rainbow capitalism — which seek to distract us from the work we still have to do — and understand that our role, like that of our elders before us, is to fight for queer liberation and the end of capitalism.

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ECONOMY

Competition, Monopoly, and Exploitation under Capitalism

Michael Roberts July 17, 2021

While signing an executive order to expand competition and crack down on monopolistic practices, Joe Biden said that “capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism. It’s exploitation.” His statement reflects a long-standing assumption among both classical and more left-leaning economists alike that increasing monopolization is the source of increasing exploitation under capitalism. What do they get wrong? Economist Michael Roberts explains.

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Inflation, Interest Rates, and Debt

Michael Roberts July 9, 2021

Accelerating inflation may be an issue right now in the U.S. and other recovering capitalist economies. But for capitalism, profitability is the real benchmark and that can be hit by wage rises on the one hand and interest rises on the other.

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ENVIRONMENT

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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

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FROM THE SOCIALIST HEALTHCARE COLLECTIVE

FROM MULTIMEDIA

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Capitalist Healthcare Killed My Grandparent … And Hurts All Elderly

Mike Pappas July 18, 2021

As a healthcare worker in New York City, I write this as a way to process and grieve, as less than 72 hours ago, another human was killed at the hands of the capitalist healthcare system. In the past, I have written about capitalism’s detrimental effects on our lives, and I have personally seen countless suffer and die at the hands of these systems in the healthcare setting. Today is different, as this death is more personal. This time the for-profit healthcare system under capitalism killed my grandfather.

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