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  • The politics of reading

    Black Panthers in a reading circle, (Photo: Pirkle Jones) The politics of reading Originally published: Simplifying Socialism  on June 12, 2026 by A. J. Horn (more by Simplifying Socialism) (Posted Jun 15, 2026) Culture, Human Rights, Ideology, LiteratureGlobalNewswire The act of reading is so much more than following text with your eyes or—if you prefer audiobooks—with your ears. Done properly, reading…

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  • 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…


  • 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…


  • 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…


  • 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…


  • The panel members submitted the report to Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan on December 31, 2019. (File pic)Courtesy- The Hindu The Mooknayak English New Delhi- The Hema Committee report has recently sparked widespread discussion, with numerous actors commenting on it. However, few are truly aware of what this report entails. The report reveals the terrifying truth…


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