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Everyone’s talking about socialism, but what is it?
January 4, 2016Bernie Sanders may or may not win the Democratic presidential nomination, but he has already put socialism into the mainstream political debate in the U.S.
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South America: The Bolivarians strike back
January 4, 2016As 2015 wound down, the left wing Bolivarian "pink tide" in Latin America suffered two serious setbacks, both of which are sobering results that have it reassessing political tactics.
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The “skills gap” myth: What’s really driving down wages?
December 31, 2015There is an illusion that American workers' economic woes are attributable to their own lack of appropriate skills rather than to concerted efforts on the part of capital to disempower workers.
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Genocide, dispossession, and creating a human and sustainable community
December 31, 2015"An Indigenous People's History of the United States," is an unforgiving accounting of the nation-building practices of the European settlers and the heroic resistance of indigenous peoples.
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Revisiting Baltimore and changing the “racial conversation”
December 31, 2015Does "Black lives matter" ask for something from the dominant culture that would require economic loss or will it mean gains and not losses, morally and economically, for most Americans?
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