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Exposing the Global Statist Empire Together
Statism isn’t working. Here is the evidence, conveniently collected in one place for all the world to see.
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140 communes formed in Cizre as part of building of self-rule - Kurdish Info
In Cizre district of Şırnak, which was sort of devastated by Turkish state forces during the nine-day curfew between 4-12 September, which left 21 civilian
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Luxury Car Maker Mercedes-Daimler: Plant Workers to Work Extra Hours, 8 Without Pay
One of the wealthiest corporations in the world expects its workers to donate their time for free.
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Doctors Without Borders VS The United States’ Monopoly on Terror
There is no precaution that can be taken to shield against a violent, destructive force that exists only to create chaos; to destabilize resource-rich regions and then allow American corporations to march in and plunder the battered population’s wealth.
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The looting class and its hoarded gold
Every time layoffs are announced or vital government benefits are slashed, we're told that there is no alternative because the money isn't there. But this is a bald-faced lie, explains Danny Katch, author of Socialism...Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation.
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Searching for Worker Voices at the White House
A recent labor summit highlighted the administration's uneven record on workers' rights.
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Rand Paul: Bernie Sanders May Kill Ten Million People
Rand Paul is launching a new attack against Bernie Sanders or any who are advocating for new Democratic Socialist policies to be adopted in America. But his ideas of what would be the consequences of those policies seems a little over the top. Ana Kasparian (The Point), John Iadarola (Think Tank), and Margaret Howell (Lip TV), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down.
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Something Not Rotten in Denmark
**Submitter's note: to avoid paywall restrictions, always browse this site in privacy/incognito mode.** How great are the Danes, really? The answer is that the Danes get a lot of things right, and in so doing refute just about everything U.S. conservatives say about economics. And we can also learn a lot from the things Denmark has gotten wrong.
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Bring Back Antitrust
Even where you don’t discern market concentration, it lurks behind the scenes. “Underneath GM and Chrysler are the suppliers,” says the New America Foundation’s Barry Lynn, author of the book Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction. “There are different brands, but everyone’s using the same windshield wipers and the same alternator. With cat food there are like 100 different brands, but they’re all coming out of the same plant.”
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The Melting Away of North Atlantic Social Democracy
Piketty believes that the rising inequality trends we have seen over the past generation and see now are simply returning us to what is the pattern of unequal income distribution and dominant plutocracy that is normal for an industrialized market economy in which productivity growth is not unusually fast.
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The Argument for Universal Basic Income - Evonomics
What stands in its way?
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The Evolution of Dr. King
By the end of his life, Martin Luther King Jr was an avowed socialist.
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Bernie Sanders calls back to America’s socialist roots
Before the Soviet Union and then the Cold War confused and conflated the issues and the terms used to describe them, democratic socialism was the largest political movement in the United States outside the Republican and Democratic parties. Dozens of socialist mayors and several socialist congressmen were elected to office.
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Please Stop Saying You Want to Go to Cuba Before It’s Ruined
An Op-Ed By Natalie Morales. (Mar. 1)
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Green Party Moves Towards Declaring Itself Eco-Socialist
In a major development, the Green Party took a key step towards declaring itself Eco-socialist. The party’s National Committee voted Sunday night to approve a proposed amendment to the party’s platform entitled “Ecological Economics.” The proposed platform position declares that the Green Party is anti-capitalist and in favor of a decentralized vision socialism.
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The Socialist Origins of Big Data
Evgeny Morozov on how the ideas behind Project Cybersyn, a futuristic experiment in cybernetics from nineteen-seventies Chile, still shapes technology.
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Intimate Pictures Show Cuba Through the Eyes of Its Youth
Days before Fidel Castro’s death, National Geographic Photo Camp asked students in Havana what it means to be Cuban. This was their response. By Kirsten Elstner.
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'The S-word': how young Americans fell in love with socialism
Young Americans blame capitalism for crises in housing, healthcare and falling wages. Once demonised, the word ‘socialism’ is back as a new political movement takes root.
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W. E. B. Du Bois’s “Black Reconstruction” and the New (Marxist) Historiography
A white lawyer in South Carolina summed up the situation nicely: “We have gone through one of the most remarkable changes in our relations to each other, that has been known, perhaps in the history of the world.” By Andrew Hartman.
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Believe in socialism not sorcery, China tells party members
One of China’s top leaders has chastised Communist party cadres for putting “ghosts and gods” before Marx and Lenin. Writing in the party’s official mouthpiece, the People’s Daily, Chen Xi accused some officials of becoming politically and morally “degraded” and of looking to religion, superstition and – perhaps even worse – western-style multi-party democracy as their faith in socialism faded.
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