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Socialism Has a PR Problem—One That Can Be Solved

By Sonali Kolhatkar * –   Independent Media Institute Even as openly socialist candidates are winning political power, the right is working hard to equate socialist governance with repressive regimes New York’s second-largest city, Buffalo, has essentially elected a…

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What do I want my life to be used for? How about saving Democracy?

By Sam Daley-Harris* The dire warnings of democracy’s demise can be heard in the U.S. and around the world.  Headlines taunt us with their warnings.  While many people believe democracies are in trouble, I’m not interested in bemoaning a collapse, but in pointing…

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A People’s Vaccine Against a Mutating Virus and Neoliberal Rule

Davies* A recent Yahoo News/YouGov poll found that worries about the COVID pandemic in the United States are at their lowest level since it began. Only half of Americans are either “very worried” (15%) or “somewhat worried” (35%) about the virus, while the other half are “not…

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Does the U.S. Really Need Another Oil Pipeline?

By Sonali Kolhatkar* –  Independent Media Institute Native American communities living alongside the route of the Line 3 pipeline project in northern Minnesota are asking all activists to join them in solidarity this June A decades-old pipeline called Line 3, run by the…

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G2O-THE ROME DECLARATION ON HEALTH

By Riccardo Petrella, Roberto Morea and Roberto Musacchio(*) A mixture of hypocrisy, cynicism and indecency We did not expect innovative proposals, but we did expect a little more breath of change. Well…. there was no breath.