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First as Tragedy, Second as Farce: Marcos, Duterte and the Communist Parties of the Philippines — Joseph Scalice | World Socialist Web Site

October 21, 2020

Source: World Socialist Web Site Edited transcript of Joseph Scalice’s lecture on CPP First as Tragedy, Second as Farce: Marcos, …

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Capital Offenses: Hillbilly Elegy and anti-worker mythologies — Matthew E. Stanley |Interantional Socialist Review

June 10, 2020

Source: International Socialist Review Capital Offenses: Hillbilly Elegy and anti-worker mythologies By Matthew E. Stanley Issue #108: Features I’m an educator. And one …

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NIETZSCHE ET L’HISTOIRE, NIETZSCHE DANS L’HISTOIRE | LA GRANDE H, DORIAN ASTOR

January 1, 2020

Le Média L’histoire est indispensable pour comprendre le présent : assurément… et voilà un lieu commun somme toute rassurant. Mais …

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Historian Victoria Bynum on the inaccuracies of the New York Times 1619 Project — Eric London | World Socialist Web Site

December 28, 2019

[Source: World Socialist Web Site] [Norm’s note: and if I may also recommend related readings, both by Cedric G. Johnson: …

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500 Years of Nakbas — Glen Ford, BAR executive editor | Black Agenda Report

May 20, 2018

Source: Black Agenda Report “The Palestinians face the last bastion of legalized racial rule on the planet.” The great nakba, or “catastrophe,”began …

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Speech from the Dock — John Maclean | Marxists Internet Archive

May 17, 2018

Source: Marxists Internet Archive Hat tip to Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century, who about the piece write: “I am here as …

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The Anti-Empire Report #156 — William Blum (March 15th, 2018)

March 17, 2018

Source: William Blum (<===== really old man with a white beard. Scruffy looking. Karl Baby maybe? And probably Russian.) Shakespeare said it …

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Confronting the Stalinist legacy — Corey Oakley (Autumn 2011) | Marxist Left Review

November 25, 2017

[Norm’s note: there is widespread and extensive confusion, and hence a great deal of distortion and unthinking dismissal, even and especially …

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A short history of ‘statism’ in post-colonial Syria: “The origins of the criminal Assad dynasty” — Omar Hassan (Summer 2017)| Marxist Left Review

November 24, 2017

[En passant: Omar Hassan mentions Leila Al-Shami’s and Robin Yassin-Kassab’s, Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War. The full text of …

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The peasantry and the Soviet State (1917-1932): From class alliance to split | Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line

November 19, 2017

Source: Marxists Internet Archive [**Related: The 1917 Peasant Revolutions by Sarah Badcock, associate professor of history at University of Nottingham, specializing in imperial and …

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Was the Russian Revolution a Bourgeois Revolution? A short analysis by Karl Radek exemplifying Marxism as a method of analysis . . .

November 18, 2017

Is the Russian Revolution a Bourgeois Revolution? by Karl Radekc (1921) Source: Marxists Internet Archive [For alternative Marxist readings of the …

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Ooops! And what would ‘Remembrance Day’ be without a bit of remembering: WAR STORIES — David Swanson | World Beyond War

November 11, 2017

Source: HUNTER OF STORIES by David Swanson, World Beyond War HUNTER OF STORIES The late Eduardo Galeano’s forthcoming book, Hunter of Stories, has …

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Political Islam, class and capital. Part 2: Manifestation of centre-periphery crisis — Ardeshir Mehrdad | Middle East 4 Change

October 30, 2017

Ardeshir Mehrdad Illustration by Ardeshir Mohassess Source: Middle East 4 Change [Norm’s note: to read Part 1 of this series, follow …

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Political Islam, class and capital Part 1: what are its common features? — By Ardeshir Mehrdad | Middle East 4 Change

October 30, 2017

Ardeshir Mehrdad Illustration by Ardeshir Mohassess Source: Middle East 4 Change [Norm’s note: to read Part 2 of this series, follow …

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What are we to do with Islam? The case of Turkey — Ron Margulies | International Socialism

October 27, 2017

What are we to do with Islam? The case of Turkey Issue: 151 Posted on 22nd June 2016 Ron Margulies The …

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How We Know The So-Called “Civil War” Was Not Over Slavery — Paul Craig Roberts | Information Clearing House

August 25, 2017

How We Know The So-Called “Civil War” Was Not Over Slavery By Paul Craig Roberts When I read Professor Thomas DiLorenzo’s …

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The Lincoln Myth: Ideological Cornerstone of the America Empire — Thomas DiLorenzo | Paul Craig Roberts

August 21, 2017

Source:Paul Craig Roberts The Lincoln Myth: Ideological Cornerstone of the America Empire By Thomas DiLorenzo “Lincoln is theology, not historiology. He …

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The world remembers 64th anniversary of the west-sponsored coup in Iran

August 20, 2017

Originally posted on OffGuardian:
by Andre Vltchek Above: Iranians carry signs of Mohammad Mosaddeq, the elected Prime Minister of Iran…

Crimes on Congo, Part 1: From Destruction to Destroyed Independence

August 9, 2017

Originally posted on WiPoKuLi:
There is a big tragedy going on in Africa! Almost all of Africa is affected but…

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The Dangerous Tone of US Media and Revisionist History Towards Korea — Lionel Nation interviews Caleb Maupin

July 8, 2017

YouTube summary: Published on Feb 25, 2017 Caleb Maupin is, among his many and varied talents, a political analyst and …

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