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A Mis Amigos (To My Friends)
By Jose Marti When one diesIn the arms of a grateful homeland,Death ends, prison is shattered;Life, at last, with dying, begins! Oh, more than a world, more! When glorySnatches us from this narrow dwelling,The spirit grows,Heaven opens, the world expandsAnd among worlds we dawn. Despot, look here how your blindAnxious yearning conspires against you:Look upon…
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Women’s Liberation is a Class Issue.
International Working Women’s Day (IWWD) did not begin as a marketing opportunity or a celebration of individual female ‘empowerment’. It was a working-class, communist initiative, born out of the struggle of women workers for political power, economic independence and liberation from exploitation. Its origins lie in socialist organising and in the understanding that women’s oppression…
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CPB calls on its supporters to ‘Vote Green in Gorton and Denton’
Reposted with thanks from CPGB-ML On 17 February, the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) penned a Morning Star editorial column entitled ‘Vote Green in Gorton and Denton’. It deserves our attention for what it reveals about the true nature of this organisation whose leaders continue to assert that they are the true inheritors of Britain’s…
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Workers of the World, Unite!
Across the world we are witnessing unspeakable events and actions that despite being miles away, have a fundamental impact on us all. Aggressive wars, threats of military action, the kidnapping of presidents of sovereign nations and interference in their affairs, and illegal economic sanctions that impoverish and kill millions. Thes aren’t some other peoples’ problems,…
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Curiosity and War
Wake up and smell the rot Most people who begin questioning the world do not start with books or political theory. They start with a moment. Something shifts for them. It may be their specific experience or circumstances, an injustice they have witnessed or a piece of information appears that cannot be unseen. For many…
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United Fruit Company
By Pablo Neruda When the trumpet blared everythingon earth was preparedand Jehova distributed the worldto Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda,Ford Motors and other entities:United Fruit Inc.reserved for itself the juiciest,the central seaboard of my land,America’s sweet waist.It rebabtized its landsthe “Banana Republics,”and upon the slumbering corpses,upon the restless heroeswho conquered renown,freedom and flags,it established the comic opera:it…
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Dating Applications and the Commodification of Intimacy
The romantic connection between men and women is the basis for our continuation as a species. It is such a fundamental part of the human condition that it is something that we all need and strive to find. In the modern era though capitalism has transformed meaningful human relationships and romantic connections into transactional exchanges…
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It’s Only a Game
I recently heard of a new board game in development called “The Troubles: Shadow War” a strategy game where players take on the role of the IRA, the British Army or the RUC. I haven’t played it, and neither has Kenny Donaldson MBE, as the game hasn’t actually been released yet. He has claimed that…
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Andy Burnham: The Soft Left Answer?
The British left has a habit of recycling the same type of figure whenever Labour enters crisis. A career politician with the soft left label where hope is invested where none exists. Andy Burnham is the latest of these creations. Frequently described as part of the labour left, Burnham would be more accurately described as…
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Standard Oil Co.
By Pablo Neruda When the drill bored down toward the stony fissuresand plunged its implacable intestineinto the subterranean estates,and dead years, eyes of the ages,imprisoned plants’ rootsand scaly systemsbecame strata of water,fire shot up through the tubestransformed into cold liquid,in the customs house of the heights,issuing from its world of sinister depth,it encountered a pale…
“ A class cannot exist in society without in some degree manifesting a consciousness of itself as a group with common problems, interests and prospects”
– Harry Braverman
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