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George Kerevan – Venceremos: The lessons of Chile 50 years on

September 18, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The test of a workers’ government, like the one of Salvador Allende in Chile 50 years ago, is whether it propels the movement of workers’ and peasants forwards or backwards. George Kerevan is a Scottish […]

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Branko Marcetic: Salvador Allende was in Washington’s crosshairs

September 11, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Fifty years on, more details on the US role in overthrowing Salvador Allende’s socialist government are being uncovered. Among the latest revelations: Richard Nixon knew that the 1973 coup was going to happen days before […]

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George Kerevan – How the SNP was seduced by the EU’s fake internationalism

September 4, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The history of the Scottish National Party’s trajectory from arch-critics of the EU in the 1970s to arch-sycophants today. George Kerevan is a Scottish journalist and economist, and a former SNP MP. Cross-posted from Conter […]

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Ramzy Baroud – ‘Bread and Circuses’: Musk, Zuckerberg and the Art of Distraction

September 4, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The use of entertainment as a population control mechanism. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of five books. His latest is “These Chains Will Be […]

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Binoy Kampmark – Looting the looters: Theft at the British Museum

August 28, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The pilfering of the British Museum, which contains objects stolen from all over the world in the times of colonial plunder, is a curious tale. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He […]

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Prabir Purkayastha – Oppenheimer Paradox: Power of Science and the Weakness of Scientists

August 9, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Oppenheimer’s rise and fall shows how the scientists who were hailed for their role in the Manhatten Project were ultimately subordinates to the US’ military industrial complex Prabir Purkayastha is the founding editor of Newsclick. […]

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Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea, by Darrin M. McMahon

July 10, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Book review by Branko Milanović, cross-posted from his blog. The ideological history of the idea of equality (“Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea”) is an ambitious, erudite and well-written book by Darrin M. McMahon. […]

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Ronan Burtenshaw: How the NHS was won

July 5, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Interesting piece on the struggle which was required to establish the UK’s National Health Service, on its 75th anniversary. Read the article HERE.

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Jeffrey Sommers: Russia, the Wagner Insurrection and the Perils of Overwrought Punditry

June 28, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Comparisons are being drawn between Russia’s internal conflict in WW1 and the present situation – the crisis was far more severe then than now Jeffrey Sommers is Professor of Political Economy & Public Policy in […]

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John P. Ruehl – Conflict, Migration, and Demography in Russia and Its Border Regions

June 5, 2023 Ben Wray 0

For centuries, Russian authorities have modified their approach to managing the country’s large, diverse population, held together by an ethnic Russian core. The war in Ukraine has again altered the Kremlin’s strategy of managing its […]

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Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project by Hans Kundnani

September 23, 2023 0

Book Review by Peter Ramsay Liberals and leftists were quick to denounce the vote to leave the EU as an expression of racist nationalism. It was a lazy slander for which there was little evidence […]

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J. Malcolm Garcia – Most Dangerous, Most Unmerciful: Afghan Stories

August 28, 2023 0

Book Review by Ron Jacobs Cross-posted from Counterpunch. J. Malcolm Garcia is a journalist. Then again, he is so much more. He travels to lands besieged by war and imperial economic policies and exposes the […]

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