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  • Claustropolis: 1984

    “Claustropolis: 1984” is excerpted from a forthcoming novel. In Bhopal, I could lie low. In Bhopal, there would be instructions for me. Because I had been told not to take the express, I traveled on a local, in an unreserved bogie. The whiskey was Director’s Special, a parting gift from Gupta’s people. I didn’t even…

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  • How U.S. union leaders worked with the CIA to undermine democracy

    Originally published: Red Flag  on August 25, 2024 by Joe Allen (more by Red Flag)  |  (Posted Aug 30, 2024) Ideology, Inequality, Labor, MovementsAmericas, United StatesNewswire, Review“Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of U.S. Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade”, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Jeff Schuhrke, kamala harris, President Joe Biden, U.S. Trade Union, U.S.…

  • The WAR against OUR Past: inside the ideological project to undermine our history and collective memory

    Matt Goodwin Sep 04, 2024 Matt Goodwin’s Substack goes to more than 51,400 subscribers from 164 countries around the world and thousands of paying supporters who support our work. Like our stuff? Then help us expand by becoming a paid supporter and access everything —the full archive, exclusive posts, polling, leave comments, join the debate, get discounts, advance notice…

  • Sub-Imperialist India in Washington’s Anti-China “Pivot”

    by Bernard D’Mello President Biden and Prime Minister Modi of India before the 2023 G20 Summit. Twitter, Public Domain, Link. (Sep 01, 2024) Topics: History  Imperialism  Political Economy Places: Asia  India President Biden and Prime Minister Modi of India before the 2023 G20 Summit. Twitter, Public Domain, Link. Bernard D’Mello is the author of India after Naxalbari: Unfinished History (Monthly Review Press, 2018) and a journalist associated from the…

  • eptember 2024 (Volume 76, Number 4)

    by The Editors (Sep 01, 2024) Topics: Imperialism  Movements  War Places: Americas  Global  United States In July 1980, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, at the instigation of his National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, signed the secret Presidential Directive 59 (PD-59, declassified in 2012) aimed at developing the capacity for fighting a prolonged and limited nuclear war. PD-59 was a plan to decimate the command…

  • China and the purity fetish of Western Marxism

    In this essay, extracted from the book The Purity Fetish and the Crisis of Western Marxism, Carlos Garrido takes a detailed look at China’s socialist market economy and seeks to understand why so much of the Western left insistently misunderstands it. Carlos discusses the assorted tropes about China’s ‘authoritarianism’ and ‘totalitarianism’, as well as the obscene…

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