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Football and War

In the United States the game called either football or soccer in the rest of the world is always called soccer. American football is very different. In ...

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Imprisonment, Terror, War

Israeli Teens Refuse To Join Army

Conscientious objector Einat Gerlitz, 19, explains why she refuses to participate in the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.

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Capitalism, Economics, Marxism

But What About the Wage-Price Spiral?

Foundation of the spiral argument In nearly every media interview in recent months, Mick Lynch, general secretary of the  National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers ...

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International relations, War

Petya and the Authorities

Introductory note. This text, published in Russian here, on the website of the Russian section of the International Workers’ Association, was written by a teenage school student ...

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healthcare, Labor movement, Politics

Nursing Homes: Understaffing and Neglect

In both the United States and Canada, understaffing at nursing homes for the elderly leads to gross neglect of helpless patients. Why?

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News, Technology, Work

Humanity on a Cross of Iron

A surge is underway in military spending and arms sales, fueled by the war in Ukraine and the confrontation over Taiwan. Global demand for advanced weaponry is ...

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Socialism, Work

A Society of Universal Unemployment

In 1848 the Prussian government sent a young physician named Rudolf Carl Virchow to Upper Silesia (now in Poland) to investigate a typhus epidemic. His Report was ...

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Book Review, Economics, healthcare

What Are Hospitals For?

Source: Timothy Snyder, Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary (New York: Crown, 2020) This is a hospital. What are hospitals for? Perhaps you think that they ...

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Book Review, War

Ukraine: Nationalists at War

Radical nationalists, including fascists and Nazis, play a significant role in the war in Ukraine and an even more significant role in the propaganda war. Putin justifies his attack on Ukraine as a crusade to ‘de-Nazify’ the country, while some pro-Ukrainian propagandists describe the Putin regime as fascist.

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Book Review, Capitalism, Economics, Politics, Technology, Work

Automation: An Open Letter to Andrew Yang

Dear Andrew Yang I followed with interest your campaign as a candidate in the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential primaries. You are widely known for advocating Universal Basic ...

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