C.J. Atkins
LATEST ARTICLES BY C.J. Atkins
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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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Want to stop Trump? Voting on Nov. 6 is your chance
November 5, 2018The nation at a crossroads. Most consequential election in a generation. Everything is at stake. Sound familiar?
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Welcome the new NAFTA—Same as the old NAFTA?
October 2, 2018The USMCA is a step forward, but it's still plagued by the same flawed NAFTA model that put corporate profits ahead of public interest.
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We believe Dr. Christine Blasey Ford
September 19, 2018Women shouldn’t have to go through the hoops and character assassination that Dr. Ford is now facing just to have their voices heard.
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Portuguese Communists chart a ‘patriotic politics of the left’
September 11, 2018Portugal stood up to capitalist austerity—and won.
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Communists need not apply
August 17, 2018Rooting out employees who are members of the Communist Party was unconstitutional during the Cold War. It still is.
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Democratic Party factional struggles on hold for midterm elections?
August 3, 2018At the Netroots Nation conference, left-center unity is being showcased, but tensions between the grassroots and the party “establishment” are still evident.
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Trump-Putin summit: The authoritarian nationalists meet in Helsinki
July 18, 2018There are serious class interests being pursued on an international scale and exclusively focusing on campaign collusion isn’t going to tell us what’s really going on.
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