British elites made a killing off Afghanistan’s destruction
As Afghanistan’s proud people now struggle to emerge from the crater that NATO allies bombed them into, glazed and jaded eyes in Britain gaze past them. The invasion and occupation…
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Understanding the crypto crash
When it peaked in November, the cryptocurrency, or crypto, market was valued at approximately $3.1 trillion USD. As of this week the valuation of the crypto market has more than…
How Marxists View the Middle Ages
Class societies didn’t begin with capitalism: the ancient and medieval worlds had their own systems of exploitation. Marxist historians have set out to explain how those systems worked — and…
Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference
Olúfémi O. Táíwò I flinched inwardly. It was an innocent and properly motivated offer: Helen, a freelance journalist, was offering to give up something for me, stemming from her concern…
Hitchhiking imperialism: The case of Scandinavia shows how Europe shared the spoils of colonialism
For many of the most successful imperialist countries, empire was just not worth the trouble. from Pocket https://ift.tt/3kaPu9S via IFTTT
Stop Hustling Black Death
In her memoir, Coming of Age in Mississippi, Anne Moody describes her experience at the 1963 March on Washington. It is not the glorious image to which we have become…
A Revolutionary Journey: The 1971 PAL Hijacking to Mao’s China
These days, it would be hard to believe that Fructuoso Chua, Jr. ever led an exciting life. A first glance shows nothing more than an old man living a quiet…
Bukharin on State Capitalism and Imperialism
The latest in our series of translations from the journal Kommunist of 1918 goes under the unpromisingly dry title of “Some Fundamental Concepts of Modern Economics”. This though belies its…
Peter Thiel Met With The Racist Fringe As He Went All In On Trump (repost)
The venture capitalist and Facebook board member staked his reputation on a Trump presidency. Now what does he have to show for it? Four years ago, billionaire venture capitalist and…
HAS COVID-19 STRENGTHENED XI JINPING? (repost)
On June 15, the National Bureau of Statistics cancelled its press conference in Beijing. It was due to present May’s economic data, showing that China’s economy continues to “gain momentum”…
The Nova Scotia shooter case has hallmarks of an undercover operation (repost)
The withdrawal of $475,000 in cash by the man who killed 22 Nova Scotians in April matches the method the RCMP uses to send money to confidential informants and agents,…
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We are the Russian Maoist Party, the Party of Rednecks, Dirty Migrants, Chicks and Faggots (repost)
We are the Russian Maoist Party, the party of rednecks, dirty migrants, chicks and faggots. That is what the bourgeoisie named us. If only it were not half-blind and could…
The Bigger Plague is Capitalism (repost)
Experiencing a pandemic in real time is surreal. The culture industry machine has pre-transcribed such events in multiple movies, books, and comics. Read the rest of this post on the…
Noel Ignatiev’s Conflicted Antifascism (repost)
Noel Ignatiev1 left a conflicted antifascist legacy. As a member of the Sojourner Truth Organization (sto), Ignatiev made important contributions to understanding fascism, above all its autonomous political character and…
Staying Above Water-Global Migration in the Face of the Climate Crisis (repost)
More than 30 years ago leading scientists from NASA began warning policymakers that global temperatures were warming as a result of the emissions of carbon and other greenhouse gasses. Read…
Manhattan DA Made Google Give Up Information on Everyone in Area as They Hunted for Antifa (repost)
When Gavin McInnes—founder of the violent, far-right group The Proud Boys—spoke to a Manhattan Republican club last October, the neighborhood response was less than welcoming. Protesters took to the normally…
Philippines ships 69 containers of dumped rubbish back to Canada (repost)
A cargo ship carrying tonnes of rubbish dumped in the Philippines by Canada more than five years ago, causing a festering diplomatic row, has left the Southeast Asian country, as…
Court Reporters May Be Writing Down Black People’s Testimonies Wrong (repost)
In 2013, Rachel Jeantel, a close friend of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, testified during the trial of George Zimmerman. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Court…
How “Pick-Up Artists” Morphed Into The Alt-Right (repost)
Support our comics! Become a Nib member and get our print magazine full of amazing artists. Read the rest of this post on the original site at How “Pick-Up Artists”…