Duke Nukem’s Dystopian Fantasies
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/duke-nukems-dystopian-fantasies
It’s hard to think of a piece of media that understands itself less than Duke Nukem 3D.
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Between Vichy and the Republic
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/national-front-marine-le-pen-holocaust-vichy-republic-secularismThe National Front hasn’t changed. It just learned how to articulate its longstanding racism and xenophobia with mainstream French republican discourse.
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The Dangers of Detoxification
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/national-front-detoxification-marine-le-pen-fascism-france-electionsThe FN’s new image doesn’t mean the far-right party had a change of heart — it means the mainstream has accepted its program.
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Iran’s Past and Present
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/iran-left-tudeh-khomeini-nationalization-orientalism-oil-imperialismWhy has the history of Iran’s left been erased?
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The Jobless Economy
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/unemployment-rate-growth-trumpThe US economy is creating a historically low level of jobs. But robots aren’t the culprit.
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Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/warsaw-ghetto-uprising-anniversary-socialists-radicalsOn this day in 1943, a band of Jewish resistance fighters launched an armed insurrection against the Nazis. They were proud socialists and internationalists.
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The Left Must Save Labour
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/jeremy-corbyn-labour-party-theresa-may-snap-electionThe British left’s task isn’t to win the next general election — it’s to fight for the survival of the Labour Party itself.
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Living for the City
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/marshall-berman-living-urban-city-modernism-dissentMarshall Berman’s Modernism in the Streets is a final testament to his delicately intimate, thoroughly urban Marxism.
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For a Free Guiana
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/guiana-protests-colonization-france-racismFrench Guiana has taken to the streets to protest decades of underinvestment and neglect.
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Is Socialism Eurocentric?
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/socialism-marxism-racist-eurocentric-west-intersectionalBoth capitalist exploitation and workers’ resistance look fundamentally similar all over the world. Within the West and outside of it, socialism speaks to those experiences.
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The Mélenchon Factor
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/jean-luc-melenchon-france-insoumise-elections-socialist-party-fn-le-penThe establishment’s panicked reaction to Mélenchon should convince us that he stands a real chance of winning.
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Winning Power, Not Just Government
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/left-parties-government-elections-socialist-politicsFor twenty-five years, left parties have joined broad coalition governments and come out with nothing to show for it.
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Ten Thoughts on the Turkish Referendum
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/constitutional-amendments-hdp-akp-dictatorEven after his victory yesterday in Turkey’s referendum, President Erdoğan is much weaker than he appears.
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Overhauling French Politics
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/france-insoumise-elections-melenchon-le-pen-national-front-macron-socialAt stake in Sunday’s French election is the specter of the far right, the neoliberalism of the extreme center, and Mélenchon’s challenge to the system itself.
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Asian Poverty and the “Model Minority”
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/sullivan-new-york-magazine-model-minority-racismTreating Asians in the US as a wealthy monolith papers over their wildly divergent economic situations.
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Fights We Can Win
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/netherlands-socialist-party-health-care-privatizationWant Medicare For All? Look to the Dutch Socialist Party for inspiration.
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Time for an Alternative
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/serbia-aleksandar-vucic-elections-protests-fraudThe spontaneous protests in Serbia show how little mainstream politics has to offer voters.
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The Serbian Left’s Next Move
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/serbia-vucic-progressive-party-protestsAfter Aleksandar Vučić’s questionable election victory, Serbian radicals have a rare opening.
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From the Finland Station
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/april-days-lenin-russia-world-war-oneLenin arrived at Finland Station 100 years ago today, reshaping Bolshevik strategy and the course of the Russian Revolution.
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Sartre and the Communists
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/sartre-france-communist-party-world-war-twoOn the anniversary of Sartre’s death, his memory of his sometimes fraught relationship with the French Communist Party.
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The Unforgotten
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/saturday-mothers-turkey-referendum-erdogan-disappearedFor 600 Saturdays, friends and relatives of the Turkish state’s victims have been telling tales of torture and unlawful detention.
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Just the Beginning
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/turkey-referendum-erdogan-coup-akp-hdpWhatever happens tomorrow, the Left is in a better position than ever to challenge Erdoğan’s fragmented regime.
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Voting on Dictatorship
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/erdogan-constitutional-amendments-coup-akpTomorrow’s referendum in Turkey is about one thing: Erdoğan’s brazen bid for dictatorial power. But popular resistance still hasn’t died out.
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Democratizing Ujamaa
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/zitto-kabwe-chadema-act-julius-nyerereTanzania’s leftist ACT party wants to establish a model for democratic socialism on the African continent.
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When Labor Fought Rock-and-Roll
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/music-rock-and-roll-musicians-union-the-beatlesThe American Federation of Musicians once tried to protect its members — by fighting rock-and-roll.
