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Reseña: “El confinamiento en Estados Unidos: la policía y las prisiones en tiempos de crisis”
In any society, police forces and other agents of organized repression do their work on behalf of that society’s ruling class. In capitalism, the police are the reserve army of capital, protecting bourgeois property and society from working people and others who must be confined to a submissive role to their economic dominance. Over recent…
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Primero de Mayo de 2011 en Chicago
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: On May Day, as millions of people around the world celebrate workers’ rights, a coalition of grassroots immigrant rights activists, anti-war organizations, rank and file workers and community members are calling on Chicago to march! We march in solidarity with all working people – documented and undocumented, waged and unwaged, those who…
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Supuesto anuncio de Subaru en Israel muestra atropellando a niños palestinos.
This story is still developing. The Red Phoenix reprints this article for informational purposes, although some of its claims are disputed. We will provide updates as they become available. … A new advertisement in Israel, meant to show the “power and durability” of the Japanese Subaru car, caused outrage after showing a Subaru driven by…
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Feudalismo amistoso: El mito del Tíbet
by Michael Parenti I. For Lords and Lamas Along with the blood drenched landscape of religious conflict there is the experience of inner peace and solace that every religion promises, none more so than Buddhism. Standing in marked contrast to the intolerant savagery of other religions, Buddhism is neither fanatical nor dogmatic–so say its adherents.…
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El gobernador autoritario de Michigan y el administrador de emergencias toman el poder de forma dictatorial; despiden a más de 5.000 maestros.
The Emergency Financial Manager for the city of Benton Harbor has stripped power from all elected officials of the city in a move sure to make citizens believe they voted to shatter any illusions of democracy. The Governor of Michigan, Rick Snyder, signed the “Local Government & School District Fiscal Accountability Act” into law on…
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Las prisiones de las plantaciones estadounidenses
by Maya Schenwar On an expanse of 18,000 acres of farmland, 59 miles northwest of Baton Rouge, long rows of men, mostly African-American, till the fields under the hot Louisiana sun. The men pick cotton, wheat, soybeans and corn. They work for pennies, literally. Armed guards, mostly white, ride up and down the rows on…
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Reseña: “La teoría de la clase ociosa”
“The history of all hitherto society is a history of class struggle.” These words, from Marx’s Manifesto of the Communist Party, assert an essential truth about the organization of human civilization through exploitative modes of production. From slave economies to feudalist economies and today in capitalism, there have generally been two principle classes: the owning…
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Libia: ¿Levantamiento popular, guerra civil o ataque militar?
Interview: Grégoire Lalieu & Michel Collon After Tunisia and Egypt, has the Arab revolution reached Libya ? What is happening at the moment in Libya is different. In Tunisia and Egypt, the lack of freedom was flagrant. However, it was the appalling social conditions which really drove young people to rebel. The Tunisians and Egyptians…
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Qué significa un cierre del gobierno para los trabajadores.
Barring a last minute agreement, the federal government will shutdown all services it deems “non-essential” on April 9th, making this the first time such a shutdown has occurred since 1995. While the Republican legislators, in particular the Tea Party faction, threaten to freeze federal services if they are unable to push through the full gamut…
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Las conversaciones entre Serbia y Kosovo no deben olvidar a los romaníes.
Officials from Serbia and Kosovo met in Brussels last week for a second round of negotiations aimed at establishing a formal relationship. Because of the potential for the talks to be politically fraught, negotiators have agreed to limit themselves to three seemingly less controversial topics: the rule of law, regional cooperation, and freedom of movement.…
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