[S10 E22] Socialism vs. COVID 19: A Very Different Story

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by Maximillian Alvarez. “Someday, perhaps, it will be a joy to remember even these things.” Aeneas offers these words to his weary shipmates when things seem to be at their lowest. It’s not a promise. Nothing is guaranteed. Someday, perhaps.

Minneapolis is creating a police-free future in real time.

Ayn Rand imagines a world in which capitalists got tired of their jobs and left for good. If only they would!

Four people in Cookeville, Tennessee were questioned about antifa after posting about Black Lives Matter rallies on social media.

The Intercept’s security director shows how to safeguard a secondary Android phone for an anti-police protest.

If you’re taking to the streets to demand justice for the victims of police brutality and homicide, you may want to leave your phone at home. No matter how peaceful your behavior, you are at risk of getting arrested or assaulted by police. Cops might confiscate…

The barricades have been cleared and there is a veneer that the crisis is over, but over 200 Nicaraguans involved in protests face trial for terrorism.

Conservatives are spreading lies about Karl Marx. Not only was Marx a consistent campaigner against slavery, he supported the efforts of all those who organized to fight it.

Hungarian premier Viktor Orbán has used the COVID-19 pandemic as a pretext to silence his critics, even as he endorses street mobilizations by the organized far right. But these aren’t just the pathologies of a country with weak democratic traditions — they’re…

The G20’s plans to postpone 76 emerging countries’ debt repayments are a band-aid on fundamental injustices in the global economy. Rebuilding the Global South after the pandemic will require a complete upending of the international order — and the defending…

Following a long tradition of left revolutionary praxis, protesters in Seattle have declared a cop-free autonomous zone in the heart of the city.

Facebook let the Trump campaign run 88 ads with inverted red triangle — an infamous Nazi symbol https://t.co/7eG1V9gNS8

In a recent World Economic Forum (WEF) virtual meeting, the ageing heir to the British monarchy, Prince Charles spoke with IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva. Charles’s speech was part of a launch even…

I was a police officer for nearly ten years and I was a bastard. We all were.

In this week's episode of System Update, host Glenn Greenwald explores the looming prospect of permanent annexation of significant parts of the West Bank by Israel. We speak to guest Omar Barghouti, a Palestinian human rights activist and co-founder of the…