(2021-10-25). Historian Enrique Rivera says the history of capitalism needs a fresh narrative. peoplesworld.org 
International Publishers in New York has recently issued The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution by the young scholar Enrique S. Rivera. As a fellow student of Latin American history (a long time ago!) I read his book with awe at his scholarship and at the daring conclusions he draws. I …
(2021-10-24). China and the British Empire's Opium Wars: The Role of Synthetic Cults and the Haunting of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. globalresearch.ca
(2021-10-24). On the Fascist Stench That Hangs Over this Still-Trumped Land. counterpunch.org 
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(2021-10-24). China's Winding Road Toward Capitalism. counterpunch.org 
Image by There is perhaps no bigger controversy among partisans of the Left than the nature of China and its economy. Is it socialist? Capitalist? State capitalist? A hybrid? That so much debate swirls around this issue is its own proof that the question doesn't have a definitive answer, at least not yet. | What can be agreed upon is that China has experienced decades of extraordinary economic growth. But the nature of that growth, and the base upon which it has been created, are also subject to intense debate, arguments that necessarily rest on how a…
(2021-10-24). The Great Recoil Of Neoliberal Globalization. popularresistance.org The current political era is best understood as a "great recoil" of economic globalization. It is a moment when the coordinates of historical development seem to be inverting, upsetting many of the assumptions that dominated politics and economics over the last decades. This moment corresponds to the "second movement" socialist economic historian Karl Polanyi described in his book The Great Transformation, when phases of capitalist expansion recede and are met by "societal responses." | According to Polanyi, in phases of profound crisis like that opened by the 1929 Wall Street Crash, society tends to act defensiv…
(2021-10-24). The 1.5 target calls for an eco-socialist revolution. indybay.org The only responsible way forward is the IPCC's P1 scenario, which envisages rapid and radical interventions in existing production, transport and consumption structures, i.e. a massive industrial transformation and deconstruction in the main capitalist countries (15ff.). In the social struggle, the politically and culturally highly fragmented class of wage earners comes to class consciousness.
(2021-10-24). Texas official tells "terrified" educators to teach "opposing views" on the Holocaust. indybay.org In an expression of the far-right atmosphere coursing through Texas schools, the director of curriculum in one district indicates that educators must teach "both sides" of the Holocaust or risk their jobs.
(2021-10-24). In the clutches of Pfizer and Big Pharma. indybay.org The Revolving Door Of The FDA And Big Pharma:…