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Explaining 21st-Century Capitalism in a Way Everyone Can Understand - CounterPunch.org
Explaining 21st-Century Capitalism in a Way Everyone Can Understand - CounterPunch.org
Now that so many people have realized that the capitalist system is riddled with problems, they want a clear explanation about the functioning of the system. They are dissatisfied and impatient with how school courses, politicians’ statements, and mainstream media treat the subject. Basic economics literacy is notoriously low in the United States even as its citizens show great interest in the financial aspects of their lives. So this short article aims to present the system’s essentials.
·counterpunch.org·
Explaining 21st-Century Capitalism in a Way Everyone Can Understand - CounterPunch.org
The perils of left populism
The perils of left populism
In a recent piece for The Breach, writer and organizer Emma Jackson calls for an “expansive left populism” to defeat the far-right. While she identifies many of the fronts on which the left must fight, it remains unclear how populism as such should serve as a working program for broad left demands, given its susceptibility to the politics of reaction.
·canadiandimension.com·
The perils of left populism
The 'benevolent' policing of social work and mental health
The 'benevolent' policing of social work and mental health
Ejaz Choudry requested life support and was instead given a death sentence. He joins Rodney Levi, Chantel Moore, D’Andre Campbell, Regis Korchinski-Paquet and hundreds of other deceased victims in the archives of police brutality and neglect — more proof we shouldn’t have needed that police routinely inflict the violence they supposedly exist to counter; that they […]
·rabble.ca·
The 'benevolent' policing of social work and mental health
Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex
Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex
An Indigenous perspective & provocation. Printable version available here. (PDF | 3.3MB) Print friendly cover w/corrections here. (PDF | 3.2MB) This provocation is intended to intervene in some of the current tensions around solidarity/support work as the current trajectories are counter-liberatory from my perspective. Special thanks to DS in Phoenix for convos that lead to […]
·indigenousaction.org·
Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex
Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto
Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto
…This is a transmission from a future that will not happen. From a people who do not exist… Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto Readable PDF: rethinking the apocalypse-read Printable zine PDF: rethinking the apocalypse-PRINT “The end is near. Or has it come and gone before?” – An ancestor  Why can we imagine the […]
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Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto
Where does the Canadian left go from here? – Canadian Dimension
Where does the Canadian left go from here? – Canadian Dimension
Jack Layton was the first progressive politician who inspired me enough to go to a rally. He used to say optimism is better than despair. I think he was half right. Right now pessimism of the intellect says the Canadian left is in a bad place. But optimism of the will demands that if we have failed, we fail again, and fail better until we succeed.
·canadiandimension.com·
Where does the Canadian left go from here? – Canadian Dimension