Left Politics

By Ali Kazimi | (The Conversation) | – – Anjula Gogia, the activist bookseller from Another Story Bookshop in Toronto, had patiently nudged me over a few weeks to introduce and host Arundhati Roy on stage when she read from her new book, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. Roy would, in turn, acknowledge and thank […]

Donald Trump

Resistance is Fertile

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Frida Berrigan | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – In the wake of Donald Trump’s inauguration, George Orwell’s 1984 soared onto bestseller lists, as did Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, which also hit TV screens in a storm of publicity. Zombies, fascists, and predators of every sort are now […]

Civil Rights

What can today’s Activists learn from the Summer of Love and the New Left?

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Ira Chernus | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – It’s the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. What better place to celebrate than that fabled era’s epicenter, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, where the DeYoung Museum has mounted a dazzling exhibition, chock full of rock music, light shows, posters, and fashions from the mind-bending […]

Kurds

Have Syria’s Kurds invented a Democratic Neo-Socialism?

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Dmitry Petrov | (OpenDemocracy.net) | – – In an effort to get through to the Syrian Kurdish autonomous region, I met kindred spirits and found out more about the political and cultural landscape of Iraqi Kurdistan. Sulaymaniyah’s Market Square. Image courtesy of the author.Tossing about on a broken bed in a cheap hostel in the […]

Left Politics

End of Blair Era in UK: Corbyn’s Left-Wing Policies win at Ballot Box

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TeleSur | – – Labour leader’s former foes give credit to his campaign platform. His years of being considered an outsider who didn’t understand the British electorate now appear to be behind him. Supporters of the U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn say his steadfast approach to left-wing policies has been vindicated by his success […]

Donald Trump

The Jeremy Corbyn response to Trump, May and Terror you won’t see on Corporate News

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Jeremy Corbyn | (Video Clip) | – – Jeremy Corbyn | Terrorist Attack in London | criticism of May and Trump

Iraq

Revival of Iraqi Communism among Youth alarms Shiite Militias

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Mustafa Habib | (Niqash.org) | – – Last week’s kidnapping of seven activists in Baghdad could be another sign of increasing tensions between secular parties in Iraq and the country’s ruling religious groups. Is history repeating? Last week, an unidentified armed group kidnapped a number of younger civil society activists from their small apartment in […]

Far Right

Uh, oh: French Left can’t bring itself to Vote for Macron

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TeleSur | – – TeleSUR spoke with two French voters to discuss Sunday’s second-round presidential election in France and lesser evil voting. French voters are confronted with a difficult choice on Sunday’s runoff presidential election: Emmanuel Macron, a neoliberal former investment banker who served as an economy minister in the current — and historically unpopular — government, and […]

Donald Trump

Can Progressives Mobilize to Save the Middle Class?

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By James A. Haught | (Charleston Gazette-Mail) | – – The progressive vision for America — to make life better for all families, not just the privileged elite at the top — has suffered setbacks. After the 2016 election, Republicans control the White House, both chambers of Congress and more than half of state governments. […]