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An analysis of the 2019 Oakland teachers strike
The recent seven-day strike by the Oakland Education Association (OEA) was eerily similar in key ways to its 26-day strike in 1996. What happened in both cases was that union members and community allies won on the picket lines and in the streets but got a draw, at best, at the bargaining table.
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Watching ‘When They See Us’, as a white woman
In order to really see these boys and their families white people have to see themselves as participatory in racism. So to see their innocence “we” must see our own part, our guilt, our responsibility in the newest forms of slavery, no longer chattel, but carceral.
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Does Iran’s economic fate depend on a lifeline from China?
China has increased its oil purchases from Saudi Arabia by 43 percent in April. There is every indication that China will continue to increase its buys from the kingdom during the course of this year—to substitute for Iranian oil and, perhaps, for U.S. oil.
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India, ideology and the New York Times
Liberals of all stripes ought to, in the years to come, pay careful attention to the way language is deployed in public discourse, to recognize shibboleths and call them out. Neoliberal reforms were smuggled in via this route, and if the exit-polls are to be believed, fascism will be next.
- Heineken In Africa: A Multinational Unleashed – book review June 6, 2019
- Nine ways scientists can support a people’s Green New Deal June 6, 2019
- An analysis of the 2019 Oakland teachers strike June 6, 2019
- Watching ‘When They See Us’, as a white woman June 5, 2019
- Washington Office on Latin America gets behind U.S. regime change agenda in Venezuela June 5, 2019
- Engels on the importance of Hegel to Marxism June 5, 2019
- Black Agenda Report is a proud recipient of the Serena Shim Award for uncompromising integrity in journalism June 4, 2019
- Revealed: the far right networks of deception June 4, 2019
- Constitution – Title I: Fundamental Principles (Art. 1-9) June 4, 2019
- The global shift to the right June 4, 2019
- Building socialism from below June 3, 2019
- Interview with Michael Heinrich June 3, 2019
- 98.3 percent of Ghana’s gold remains in the hands of multinational corporations June 3, 2019
- The world divided by a line is a dead body cut in two May 31, 2019
- Regime change through social media May 31, 2019
- Strike before the planet gets hot May 31, 2019
- The people are with Evo: a glimpse at a new Bolivia May 30, 2019
- Anti-capitalist chronicles: Accumulation by Dispossession May 30, 2019
- Finance and growth under neo-liberalism May 30, 2019
- Michael Harrington and his afterlives May 29, 2019
- Why stagnation? May 29, 2019
- Revolutions and imperialist aggression May 29, 2019
- Does Iran’s economic fate depend on a lifeline from China? May 28, 2019
- India, ideology and the New York Times May 28, 2019