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• “A People’s Guide to Capitalism,” a timely introduction to Marxist economics
  20 May 2021, by siawi3

  Jacobin’s Hadas Thier has written a lively, accessible, and timely introduction to Marxist economics for those who want to understand (and overcome) capitalism.

• Fifteen Years Since Assange Established WikiLeaks
  18 October 2021, by siawi3

  Today marks fifteen years since WikiLeaks was founded by Australian publisher Julian Assange on October 4, 2006. In the years since, the small media organisation, founded on a shoestring, has become synonymous with the courageous exposure of government and corporate crimes, as well as the ever-more ferocious attempts of state agencies and the ruling elites to censor the internet and suppress independent journalism.
  “Authoritarian regimes create forces which oppose them by pushing against a people’s will to truth, love and self-realization. Plans which assist authoritarian rule, once discovered, induce further resistance. Hence such schemes are concealed by successful authoritarian powers until resistance is futile or outweighed by the efficiencies of naked power.”Julian Assange 2007.
  For my staff and me, WikiLeaks will always strive to be an intelligence agency of the people. And we will always—as long as whistle-blowers are willing to act as heroes—act like merely decent human beings.” Julian Assange, 2011.

• USA: The Teacher Who Taught Her Class How Racism Feels
  5 December 2021, by siawi3

  “You are not born racist. You are born into a racist society. And like anything else, if you can learn it, you can unlearn it. Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned.”

• Africa: What comes after national liberation movements?
  18 January, by siawi3

  History shows us that the decline of national liberation movements is inevitable. It also shows us that without undertaking the political work to build progressive alternatives, moving from one political epoch to another can be a movement from the frying pan into the fire.

• Challenges for the Russian anti war movement
  20 March, by siawi3

  Budraitskis covers the recent protests in Russia, the Kremlin’s propaganda and censorship efforts, and the geopolitical pressures that might have shaped Putin’s strategy thus far.

• UK-India: How I Endured British Racists and Survived to Tell the Tale
  5 December 2021, by siawi3

  For an Indian growing up in the UK in the 1960s, racism was an everyday experience ranging from schoolyard taunts at best to threats of violence and persecution at the worst.

• Israeli anti-Apartheid activist Neta Golan: “In solidarity with the Palestinian detainees, I refuse to show up in court!” - The judge issues an arrest warrant against her.
  24 February, by siawi3

  "The court that allows me rights as a Jew by virtue of my ethnic origin, and does not offer the same rights to indigenous people of another origin, is part of a discriminatory system that aims to encourage the preservation of a Jewish majority between the river and the sea. The same system commits criminal acts for the purpose of maintaining a regime of control by one racial group over another racial group and their systematic oppression. This is the definition of the crime of apartheid. And I’m not willing to cooperate with this crime.”

• France: � Let�s wake up �, by Omar Sy
  7 June 2020, by siawi3

  Would these men have died if they had not crossed the path of the police?

• Toppling statues as an act of historical redemption
  14 July 2020, by siawi3

  The attack against such figures is far from misguided vandalism, but part of an ongoing reckoning with historically ingrained patterns discrimination and racism. These acts stand for a rejection of historical closure, and hold open possibilities of a genuine reconciliation with the past.

• Singapore: “A National Coming Out”: 10 Years Since Repeal 377A
  10 August 2021, by siawi3

  10 years after an attempt to repeal an anti-gay law, Singapore’s LGBTQ activists are still seeking equality.

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