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Fighting on all fronts: Women’s resistance in Syria | Leila's blog
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A blog on popular struggles, human rights and social justice from an anti-authoritarian perspective. Fighting on all fronts: Women’s resistance in Syria. December 29, 2016. By Leila Al Shami. This was originally published in Al-Jumhuriya. As eastern Aleppo falls, pounded by regime and Russian airstrikes, and stormed by Iranian sponsored militia on the ground, one young woman risks everything to communicate to the outside world the horror of the last days in the liberated part of the city. You are comment...
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Different Wavelength – Page 2
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February 2, 2016. February 2, 2016. As a radical loon, I will need to have something whacky to propose when the world economy collapses sometime in the not too distant future. The only thing I have heard that gets me at all excited is the idea that we should run around calling for a 100 per cent wealth tax on the… Continue reading 100% Wealth Tax. Peasants are a vanishing breed. January 16, 2016. January 16, 2016. Let’s not get too excited about Islam. January 11, 2016. December 31, 2015. I think if I we...
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February 2016 – Different Wavelength
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February 2, 2016. February 2, 2016. As a radical loon, I will need to have something whacky to propose when the world economy collapses sometime in the not too distant future. The only thing I have heard that gets me at all excited is the idea that we should run around calling for a 100 per cent wealth tax on the… Continue reading 100% Wealth Tax. The Common Goal of Team Trump and Daesh (ISIS). In Defence of Vulgar Materialism. The case for high immigration. Is capitalism the best system on offer?
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Organic Food Con – Different Wavelength
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October 17, 2016. Bjorn Lomborg has a great piece in. Tearing organic food to shreds. It is not healthier. It is not better for animal welfare. And it is not better for the environment. Here is a copy outside the paywall. Is capitalism the best system on offer? The case for high immigration. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out.
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November 2016 – Different Wavelength
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In Defence of Vulgar Materialism. November 23, 2016. November 23, 2016. Paper to be presented at Historical Materialism Sydney Conference 2016, November 25 I don’t think anyone would contradict me if I said that the subjective conditions for communist revolution are totally absent at the moment. In other words, there is no support for any sort of move in the direction of a classless society where… Continue reading In Defence of Vulgar Materialism. The Common Goal of Team Trump and Daesh (ISIS).
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Jeffrey Sachs awful as usual – Different Wavelength
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Middot; Middle East. Jeffrey Sachs awful as usual. December 29, 2015. December 29, 2015. I left this comment at Project Syndicate in response to some more. Of Jeffrey Sachs’ usual silliness:. Arabs want and need a democratic revolution. They have had enough of the stagnant and oppressive swamp. The rest of the world, particularly the US and its allies should do what they can to assist. In some cases this means military involvement, as in Syria. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. In Defe...
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In Defence of Vulgar Materialism – Different Wavelength
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In Defence of Vulgar Materialism. November 23, 2016. November 23, 2016. Paper to be presented at Historical Materialism Sydney Conference 2016, November 25. I don’t think anyone would contradict me if I said that the. Conditions for communist revolution are totally absent at the moment. In other words, there is no support for any sort of move in the direction of a classless society where the means of production are socially owned. However, what about the. In place of the old bourgeois society, with its c...
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January 2016 – Different Wavelength
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Peasants are a vanishing breed. January 16, 2016. January 16, 2016. In the last 50 years or so, agriculture’s share of the labor force in developing countries has shrunk from 76 per cent to 37 per cent. This is where the USA was in 1900 and France in 1940. It varies a lot from one country to then next. China has gone from 83 to 37… Continue reading Peasants are a vanishing breed. Let’s not get too excited about Islam. January 11, 2016. The Common Goal of Team Trump and Daesh (ISIS). Follow Blog via Email.
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Peasants are a vanishing breed – Different Wavelength
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Peasants are a vanishing breed. January 16, 2016. January 16, 2016. This massive decline in the importance of self employed peasants is a clear sign of economic development and of the uprooting of the old social and economic conditions. Many ex-peasants are swelling the ranks of the proletariat, and that can only be good. Let’s not get too excited about Islam. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public).
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