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Covid-19 and global working conditions

Thomas Klikauer - Catherine Link
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By June 2021, the world of work had changed because of the Coronavirus pandemic. We have seen about 180 million Coronavirus cases and almost four million deaths. The Coronavirus pandemic has not only caused death and misery...

The global COVID-19 inequality virus

Thomas Klikauer - Nadine Campbell
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By early June 2021, the world was about one and a half years into the coronavirus pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic had not only a tragic human cost when millions of lives were lost, but it...

What is democratic public ownership, and how do we get there?

Boyan Stanislavski
Commons
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This is the fifth episode of our podcast series "Divided We Fall," in which Boyan Stanislavski, the Barricade's senior editor, and Pat Byrne, a historian and longtime socialist activist, discuss the plight of the contemporary...

Socialist realism! Let’s be serious about it w/ Jérôme Bazin

Frank Myonk - Maria Cernat
Art
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More than 30 years have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Anti-communism became a religion, and we were strongly discouraged from discussing anything related to the period prior to 1989, including the art...

Why Democracies in G7 & NATO Should Reject U.S. Leadership

Medea Benjamin - Nicolas J.S. Davies
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The U.S. corporate media have portrayed these summits as chances for President Biden to rally the leaders of the world’s democratic nations in a coordinated response to the most serious problems facing the world, from...

The good-doing elite

Thomas Klikauer - Catherine Link
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As the new elite tells us, it is benevolent, wants to do good, wants to save the plant, assist the poor, do something for the environment, etc. However, the underlying facts that make the elite the elite...

An ordinary german neo-nazi death squad man

Thomas Klikauer - Catherine Link
Germamy
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The biography of German Neo-Nazi death-squad leader Franco Albrecht – known in the German press only as Franco A – begins in the city of Offenbach in 1989. Franco Albrecht’s mother, a local woman, had married an...

“You don’t own a business; you own a bike or a Suzuki”

Soma Ábrahám Kiss
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When we talk about the situation of the workforce in the first half of the 21st century, we cannot ignore the phenomenon of Internet-based job placement, the gig economy. This system exploits the potential of...

How Bellingcat launders national security state talking points into the press

Alan Macleod
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AMSTERDAM — Investigative site Bellingcat is the toast of the popular press. In the past month alone, it has been described as “an intelligence agency for the people” (ABC Australia), a “transparent” and “innovative” (New Yorker) “independent news...

‘The Future Arrives On Its Own – Progress Does Not’

The Barricade
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The banker’s son, born on 13 April 1885, studied law and national economy, as befitted his social status; but he felt much more strongly drawn to literature. He dedicate himself to modern theatre and published...

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