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3Mar

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The life and times of Sylvia Pankhurst

Posted by: John Phoenix In honour of International Women’s Day 1925, LALKAR continues with its series on important women of the revolutionary movement, this year Sylvia Pankhurst Sylvia Pankhurst was born in 1882 into a very progressive Manchester family. One great grandfather had been at Peterloo and nearly got himself killed. One grandfather was active in the Chartist movement. Her father, Richard, was a strong advocate of Irish Home Rule, Indian independence, the abolition of the House of Lords, the disestablishment of the Church of England and other progressive causes. Her mother was a leading campaigner for women’s suffrage, Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst née Goulden, who with her husband set up the Women’s Franchise League, in 1889. At the same time, Mr Pankh...

Nazi Holocaust on Gaza, West Bank, US college campuses: Gaza in limbo Day 7

3Mar

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Gaza, Holocaust, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, USA, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Nazi Holocaust on Gaza, West Bank, US college campuses: Gaza in limbo Day 7

Posted by: John Phoenix Youths walk past a destroyed secondary school in the north of Gaza City, on February 10, 2025. (Bashar Taleb / AFP via Getty Images) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff At least two Palestinians were killed on Friday in an Israeli drone strike targeting a gathering of civilians in eastern Gaza City. Gaza ceasefire violations: Legal experts say Israel committing war crimes and more Israel’s systematic attacks on Palestinians would qualify as a crime against humanity under Article 7(1)(k) of the Rome Statute, says Saeed Bagheri, international law lecturer at University of Reading. Israel’s curbs on aid could constitute both the war crime of starvation and the war crime of intentionally depriving Gaza’s civilian population ...

Roaming Charges: Political Personality Crisis in America

3Mar

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USA

Roaming Charges: Political Personality Crisis in America

Posted by: John Phoenix “Bless America,” Centralia, Washington. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. “When even the dictators of today appeal to reason, they mean that they possess the most tanks. They were rational enough to build them; others should be rational enough to yield to them.” – Max Horkheimer, The End of Reason Trump has been gifted more power than he has taken. But now that he has accumulated so much authority through the weakness and political negligence of his opponents, he is in a position to seize and consolidate an unprecedented amount of power by himself, leaving the country almost defenseless against his vindictive whims and authoritarian aspirations. We’re entering a time when the internal checks on unbridled executive power have either been unplu...

3Mar

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USA, World

The Nuclear Ban is Back

Posted by: John Phoenix From 3–7 March 2025, members of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) have gathered for their third meeting since the agreement became law in 2021. About half the world’s countries have joined the treaty so far, pledging to never acquire nuclear weapons and to work for their abolition globally. During the first few days of the meeting, rich discussions transpired about both the geopolitical obstacles and hopeful opportunities for nuclear disarmament. Rising military spending and threats of “rearmament” create a grim context for this meeting, but TPNW states parties are well poised to articulate a collective alternative based on the logic of disarmament instead of the illogic of deterrence. As many speakers conveyed, cour...

3Mar

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USA, ZIO-NAZI

American Death Throes

Posted by: John Phoenix UNC Gaza Protests, September 2024 If the situation was hopeless, their propaganda would be unnecessary. -Anonymous They say the most dangerous animal you can encounter in the wild is one that is dying and cornered. A trapped coyote will lash out and attack you with every fiber of its being, even if it’s mortally wounded. Especially if it’s mortally wounded. The American Empire and the so-called state of Israel are a pair of conjoined coyotes whose paws are clamped in the jaws of a bear trap, hanging on by a few threads of tendon. In their last gasps of life before they enter the great beyond, in one final adrenaline fueled frenzy, these dogs are lashing out and doing everything in their power to destroy financially, legally, and socially anyone...

South Africa’s Expropriation Act: Between Legal Reform and Historical Justice

3Mar

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Africa, South Africa

South Africa’s Expropriation Act: Between Legal Reform and Historical Justice

Posted by: John Phoenix Houses of Parliament (Cape Town, South Africa). Photograph Source: I, PhilippN – CC BY-SA 3.0 There is no discourse in South Africa more ancient, more unresolved, and more weaponised than that of land. The passage of the Expropriation Act in South Africa has set the air thick with tension, a moment that peels open the past to reveal its jagged edges. A history that never ended, only submerged beneath the language of legality and market transactions, is once again clawing at the present. The land is not just dirt and fences—it is memory, survival, identity and belonging, resistance, dispossession of labour, the looting of minerals, and the establishment of racial capital. It is the primordial question—older than the Republic of itself. On 23 Jan...

What Are the Origins of the Money We Use Today?

3Mar

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USA

What Are the Origins of the Money We Use Today?

Posted by: John Phoenix Photo by Jason Leung The late 19th century saw economists, mainly German and Austrian, create a mythology of money’s origins that is still repeated in today’s textbooks. Money is said to have originated as just another commodity being bartered, with metal preferred because it is nonperishable (and hence amenable to being saved), supposedly standardized (despite fraud if not minted in temples), and thought to be easily divisible—as if silver could have been used for small marketplace exchanges, which was unrealistic given the rough character of ancient scales for weights of a few grams.[1] This mythology does not recognize government as having played any role as a monetary innovator, sponsor, or regulator, or as giving money its value by accepting ...

JD Vance Against Democracy: Munich Security Conference, or Munich Beer Hall?

15Jan

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Human Rights, USA

JD Vance Against Democracy: Munich Security Conference, or Munich Beer Hall?

Jeffrey Sommers Photograph Source: U.S. Department of State – Public Domain America’s Vice-President, JD Vance’s comments this week on democracy ring nicely to the ear of some, but are off key on the musical score of facts. February 14th’s Munich Security Pact saw Vance inveigh against European states for not adhering to democracy. And recent actions in Europe on democracy do raise eyebrows. Vance, for example, referenced Romania canceling its December 8, 2024 final round of presidential elections. Upstart “populist” candidate Calin Georgescu won the plurality of votes on November 24, 2024’s first round. Romania’s government, with support from the United States Embassy, expressed concerns that a TikTok campaign by Russia was a headwind pushing Georgescu to victory. And polling p...

15Jan

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USA

Trump’s Reign of Cruelty

Henry Giroux Photo by Stephen Mayes Neoliberalism’s Embrace of Cruelty and Its Assault on Social Bonds Neoliberalism has always been more than an economic project; it is a political and educational weapon designed to erode social solidarity and dismantle the foundations of democracy. It does not merely defund public institutions like healthcare, education, and welfare—it delegitimizes them, recasting them as burdens rather than essential public goods. As a pedagogical and ideological assault, neoliberalism has championed unfettered greed, unchecked self-interest, and a notion of government devoid of any sense of social responsibility. It has conditioned people to see mutual care as weakness and competition as the only natural order of society. When individuals are ...

The Demise of USAID: Few Regrets in Latin America

14Jan

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Human Rights, USA

The Demise of USAID: Few Regrets in Latin America

Roger D. Harris - John Perry Photograph Source: U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate Airman Jordon R. Beesley – Public Domain “Take your money with you,” said Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, when told about Trump’s plans to cut aid to Latin America, “it’s poison.” USAID (US Agency for International Development) spends around $2 billion annually in Latin America, which is only 5% of its global budget. The temporarily closed-down agency’s future looks bleak, while reactions to its money being cut have been wide-ranging. Only a few were as strong as Petro’s and many condemned the move. For example, WOLA (the Washington Office on Latin America), a leading “liberal” think tank which routinely runs cover for Washington’s regime-change efforts, called it Tr...