democracy
Abrams ends campaign for governor, launches campaign to save democracy
November 19, 2018For anyone expecting a traditional concession speech, that's not what Stacey Abrams gave. Instead, she indicted the voter suppression tactics of Georgia Republicans.
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“Enemy of the people”: Trump steps up attacks on freedom of the press
November 8, 2018Karl Marx once wrote, “The free press is the ubiquitous, vigilant eye of a people’s soul…the embodied culture that transforms material struggles into ideological struggles.”
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro promises to purge the left if elected
October 25, 2018“These red outlaws will be banished from our homeland. It will be a clean-up the likes of which has never been seen in Brazilian history,” the candidate threatened on Wednesday.
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Big business—as a class—will put dollars over democracy every time
October 19, 2018Economic policy is a challenge for the modern far right, but if overcome, big business won’t hesitate to back extremists.
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Right-wing government shuts down Communist newspaper in India
October 15, 2018India’s Communists have vowed to fight “legally and politically” to defend freedom of the press.
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