The Real Guerrillas
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/guerrilla-black-power-uk-michael-x-egbuna-mangrove-nine
A new show offers an alternative history of Black Power in Britain, reminding audiences of a neglected era of radicalism.
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Not Another Betrayal
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/colombia-peace-process-uribe-santos-corruption-farc-elnColombian elites have already resumed their efforts to undermine any progress towards peace.
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Welfare for Everyone
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/trump-health-obamacare-welfare-medicaid-racism-republicans-democratsLiberal talking points on race and the welfare state reflect deeply conservative ideas. The Left should demand welfare for all.
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Being Brave Because It Is Right
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/henk-sneevliet-marx-lenin-luxemburg-front-indonesia-communists-internatiSeventy-five years ago today, Dutch socialist revolutionary Henk Sneevliet was killed by the Nazis.
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After Tragedy and Farce: Martin Schulz
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/after-tragedy-and-farce-martin-schulzSPD leader Martin Schulz offers German voters more of the Third Way politics they hate in a shiny new package.
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The Ends of Lava Jato
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/brazil-lava-jato-corruption-dilma-rousseff-lula-temer-mani-pulite-italyBrazil’s massive corruption scandals have turned the country’s politics into a spectator sport.
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Why Socialists Should Believe in Human Nature
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/human-nature-socialism-capitalism-greed-morality-needsIt’s tempting to argue that “human nature” doesn’t exist, but that’s wrong. All people want freedom from abuse and exploitation and the ability to lead decent lives.
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France Rebels
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/france-insoumise-melenchon-elections-sixth-republic-national-frontJean-Luc Mélenchon isn’t seeking leadership of a marginalized left. He’s aiming to transform the whole of French politics.
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Capitalism Is Violence
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/united-airlines-video-passenger-private-propertyUnited Airlines’ forcible removal of a passenger exposed the everyday violence that keeps capitalism running.
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Another Day, Another Charter Scandal
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/charter-schools-nashville-neoliberalism-education-reform-teachers-unionsThe people who have insisted on the profound moral need to save struggling children have been remarkably silent about the decades of failure in charter schools.
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Jacksonian Slavocracy
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/trump-jackson-bannon-indian-removal-actAndrew Jackson was a murderous racist who used democratic rhetoric to enhance his own power. We should scorn his legacy.
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The Return of the Left
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/elections-france-hamon-melenchon-valls-socialist-partyMélenchon’s election campaign has galvanized the Left by doing what Hamon couldn’t — making a clean break with the political center.
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Assessing the Pink Tide
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/lula-correa-rousseff-left-pink-tidePink Tide governments delivered much-needed reforms. But they also defanged the movements that brought them to power.
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Fighting for Special Education
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/betsy-devos-special-education-austerity-neoliberalismAs the privatization of public education continues, students with disabilities suffer. Under Trump and Betsy DeVos, it will only get worse.
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“The Political Left in Ecuador No Longer Exists”
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/ecuador-presidential-election-second-round-correa-leninEven with Lenín Moreno’s presidential victory, the Ecuadorian left is in dire need of reconstruction.
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Remembering Harry Hay
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/harry-hay-communist-mattachine-society-lgbtqHarry Hay would have been 115 this month. His life and work as a gay man and a Communist helped lay the foundations of the modern LGBTQ movement.
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India’s New Consensus
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/indias-new-consensusRecent regional elections in India handed Modi’s BJP important new majorities. How can it be stopped?
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Why Being Against Assad Matters Too
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/syria-assad-russia-united-states-humanitarian-imperialism-militarism-gouRally against US imperial intervention, but remember Assad’s crimes and be in solidarity with his victims.
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Who Killed Denis Voronenkov ?
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/voronenkov-assassination-putin-moscow-ukraine-poroshenkoIn the heated propaganda war between Russia and the “West,” rationality is in short supply.
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Resisting the Bombing
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/syria-airstrikes-us-imperialism-saudi-yemen-houthi-afghanistan-libya-gadThere are no “humanitarian” wars. There are only wars.
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Zuma Is Not the Problem
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/jacob-zuma-anc-south-africa-guptas-corruption-protestsFrom Donald Trump to Jacob Zuma, we can’t reduce politics to “getting rid of the bad guys” and expect to win.
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True Finns, False Hopes
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/true-finns-finland-timo-soini-nationalists-far-right-xenophobia-electionThe Finns rose to become one of Europe’s most prominent right-populist parties. Then they joined government.
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The Elite Consensus on Syria
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/syria-airstrikes-trump-assad-gas-attack-chemical-weapons-hillary-clintonAs long as liberals cheerlead Trump’s military action in Syria, right-wing hawks barely have to lift a finger.
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Making Sense of Syria
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/syria-trump-imperial-presidency-humanitarian-interventionismThe bombing of Syria lays bare the impulsive violence of Trump’s foreign policy and the rot of American democracy.
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Sisi Smiles
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/sisi-trump-military-egyptian-revolution-mubarakA photo essay on Sisi’s Egypt, where ordinary citizens endure daily injustices and deepening repression.
