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  • Ten Days That Shook The World

    Saulo Colon

    In celebration of the 98th anniversary of the Russian Revolution we are publishing this short extract from John Reed’s brilliant eyewitness account, Ten Days That Shook The World. Reed was a socialist journalist from the USA, who described the revolution as: “Adventure it was, and one of the most marvelous mankind ever embarked upon.”  This…

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  • Comment on Recent Elections in Argentina

    The Frente de Izquierda y los Trabajadores (the Left and Workers Front) or FIT went into last week's election with confidence. The new electoral alliance, comprised of the older and more doctrinaire trotskist formation Partido Obrero (Workers Party) or PO, the newer PTS (Socialist Workers Party), and the smaller IS (Socialist Left), hoped to build…

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  • Katrina: 10 years after

    I was sitting in a small town Greyhound bus station when I first saw images from Katrina. Happenstance, in retrospect, was so apropos. Bus terminal stations throughout America (so often) being lachrymose warehouses for the poor, the vulnerable, the mentally ill, the psychologically worn down and the just plain penniless –hostels of the many with…

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  • The Portuguese election: quicksand in the center, an emboldened left and a desperate president

    Saulo Colon

    The Portuguese center-right ultraliberal government, which went “far beyond the troika” won a relative majority in the 4th of October general election. With 36.8% of the vote and 1.994 million votes, the previous governmental coalition (PSD and CDS) was the winner. In second place came the Socialist Party, with 32.4% and 1.746 million votes.

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  • New Colonialisms and the Crises of Left Values

    Saulo Colon

    When visibility is minimal because powerful storms cloud the perception of reality, it may be appropriate to enlarge one’s view, to climb slopes to look for broader observation points, in order to discern the context in which we move. In these times, when the world is crossing through multiple contradictions and interests, it’s urgent to…

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  • Beyond the Broad Left Party

    Saulo Colon

    The radical left strategy of working within broad left parties has suffered a major setback after SYRIZA´s capitulation. The answer to this crisis lies neither in continuing “business as usual,” nor in ignoring the question of political power. SYRIZA´s capitulation to the austerity diktat, the ensuing emergence of Popular Unity and the fresh elections looming…

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  • Statement from new Climate Space initiative about COP21

    Saulo Colon

    Why we need to build alternatives and dismantle a process that will lock us into another decade of burning the planet.

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  • Grace Lee Boggs: the life of an American r/evolutionary

    Saulo Colon

    New Politics shares this post, written in June 2015 to celebrate the 100th birthday of Grace Lee Boggs, who passed away Monday Oct 5, 2015. See a film about her: http://americanrevolutionaryfilm.com

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  • Neoliberalism as the Agent of Capitalist Self-Destruction

    Saulo Colon

    1 The neoliberal era can be retrospectively identified as beginning with the economic crisis of 1973, or, more precisely, with the strategic response of state managers and employers to that crisis. Previous eras in the history of capitalism have tended to close with the onset of further period of systemic crisis; 1973, for example, saw…

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  • Upcoming Discussion on Greek Elections and Socialist Strategy

    Saulo Colon

    The Greek Drama of 2015: What Next? a talk by Nicholas Levis (Nikos Evangelos) The preliminary report of the parliamentary Truth Committee on Public Debt declared the entire Greek debt to be odious, unethical, unsustainable and illegal. Do they have a case? Sunday, September 13, 2015 2:00 – 3:00pm International Affairs Building, Room 409 Columbia…

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  • May First/PeopleLink Under Attack!

    Saulo Colon

    May First/People Link is being attacked in a Denial of Service attack that is unprecedented in its length and viciousness. We have been fighting off this attack for over three weeks now. We are convinced that the attack is political. We know how the attackers are targeting us, we know they are targeting the entire…

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  • Ecuador’s New Indigenous Uprising

    Saulo Colon

    Ecuador’s Indigenous movements have launched an uprising to challenge the government’s opposition to bilingual education and its support for an extractive-based economy. On August 2, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) began a march from the southeastern Amazonian province of Zamora Chinchipe that will arrive in the capital city of Quito on August…

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  • Why We Commemorate August 9th and the Ferguson Uprising

    As those committed to social justice in St. Louis prepare to mark the August 9th killing of unarmed teen Michael Brown Jr. by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, we know that many in the region would like us to just go away. Enough already, they say. Why commemorate something so sad and wrong, anyway? Let’s…

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  • A Report on the Crises in Greece

    While in Athens, I have gotten into the habit of ending the day by enjoying an iced coffee with cream in an outdoor cafe in a park about one mile from my hotel. It is there that I have been writing these dispatches. As I remarked in my first report, the park the cafe is…

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  • July 25,1898: INVASION OF PUERTO RICO & THE EMERGENCE OF U.S. IMPERIALISM

    For the many people who have engaged in the struggle for Puerto Rico’s independence, July 25 has a special significance. On that date in 1898, U.S. troops invaded Puerto Rico, beginning a period of U.S. colonial domination on the island that continues to this day. The United States invaded Puerto Rico, along with the Philippines,…

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  • Defying Apocalypse

      Image by Ricardo Levins Morales   Today it often feels as though we are hopelessly mired in apocalyptic thinking, both in our social movements and in popular culture.

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