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The Courage of the Present
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- Published on Sunday, 21 February 2010 18:14
By Alain Badiou
We reproduce this recent essay by the French radical philosopher Alain Badiou because of its thoughts about the times in which we’re living and about the “communist hypothesis,” which are not just relevant to people in France. As always, signed articles on this site do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors or publisher (in particular, New Socialist does not share Badiou’s belief that the USSR, Mao’s China and similar societies were socialist) -NS
Where is the Union Movement in the Olympic Resistance?
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- Published on Saturday, 20 February 2010 16:47
By Gene McGuckin
It’s time for someone to mention the elephant that’s not in the room.
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What Good is Charity?
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- Published on Saturday, 13 February 2010 20:02
By Greg Sharzer
The earthquake in Haiti has prompted a deluge of public support. As of the beginning of February, US charities have raised $644m (£413) from dozens of organisations. That shows people care about each other – particularly in the face of racist apathy from some right-wing commentators.
Review of Direct Action: An Ethnography
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- Published on Thursday, 11 February 2010 23:48
By Jackie Esmonde
A review of David Graeber, Direct Action: An Ethnography (AK Press, 2009).
Vilified by the media, romanticized by scores of young people, viewed by some as the bane of the global justice movement – like it or not, the Black Bloc anarchists who first entered public consciousness at the Seattle demonstrations against the World Trade Organization in 1999 came to symbolize the resistance to global inequality of the late 1990s and early 2000s in North America.
Hope is in the Streets, Not Parliament!
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- Published on Friday, 29 January 2010 19:58
That was the message of a Winnipeg New Socialist Group leaflet distributed at the demonstration against the prorogation of Parliament on Jan. 23rd.
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