A Distraction (an important one)

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Published on Wednesday, 22 April 2020 09:00

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Earth Day: A Time for Compassion, Alliance, and Action

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When Oil Markets Go Viral

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Published on Wednesday, 22 April 2020 02:02

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2067 ... April 22, 2020
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When Oil Markets Go Viral

Adam Hanieh

The ecological dimensions of COVID-19 have become increasingly prominent in much recent discussion, with several important contributions exploring the pandemic in relation to capitalist agribusiness, widespread loss of biodiversity, and the destruction of natural ecosystems. There is, however, a further element to COVID-19’s ‘ecology’ that deserves much greater attention: the ways the escalating pandemic intersects with, and is simultaneously acting to accelerate, a profound shock to the fossil fuel industry. Global oil markets are undergoing an unprecedented transformation as a result of this shock, and while longer-term trajectories remain open, this moment will undoubtedly shape the politics of oil -- and the prospects of mitigating climate change -- for decades to come.

With states representing over 90 per cent of global GDP stuck under some form of lockdown, and the simultaneous shuttering of large swathes of global manufacturing, transport, industry, and retail -- the demand for oil and oil products has dropped to historic lows. Indeed, it has been estimated that the reduction in US automobile use...

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Podcast Episode 5 with John Borrows and Jeremy Dutcher

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Published on Tuesday, 21 April 2020 15:02

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Published on Tuesday, 21 April 2020 12:44

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A Decade on the Left

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Published on Tuesday, 21 April 2020 00:02

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2066 ... April 21, 2020
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A Decade on the Left

The 2010s were the end of ‘the end of history.’ Beginning in the shadow of the largest financial crash since the Great Depression, it was a decade in which the injustice of austerity tore away at the social fabric and consigned third-way politics to the rearview mirror.

In Britain, the decade began with the iconic student protest movement, the rise of UK Uncut and the TUC’s "March for the Alternative." Soon, these protests against the political and economic order reached global significance with the rise of Occupy Wall Street in New York alongside the movements of the squares in Spain and Greece.

Before long, those countries would be at the forefront of attempts to elect left-wing governments in opposition to the European Union’s austerity measures, attempts which themselves prefigured the rise of Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders.

It has been a tumultuous period for the Left, one in which it suffered seismic defeats but also gained audiences far in excess of any it had seen since the early...

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8 Hours, 100+ Acts, Almost $128 Million USD Raised

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Published on Monday, 20 April 2020 12:08

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Finance Versus the People in the Era of the Pandemic

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Published on Monday, 20 April 2020 09:40

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2065 ... April 20, 2020
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Finance Versus the People in the Era of the Pandemic

Prabhat Patnaik

The current pandemic has brought to the fore, and with exceptional clarity, the fundamental contradiction underlying contemporary globalization, namely, the contradiction between the interests of finance and those of the people. Indeed this contradiction, which characterizes the era of globalization as a whole, has now come to a head.

It is becoming clearly visible in country after country. Take the case of India. Millions have been suddenly rendered jobless, and hundreds of thousands of migrant workers trekking home from far away places, where they had been employed but no longer are, find themselves quarantined with little or no money. The paramount need of the hour is for the government to provide succor to these working people; and the government can do so immediately by enlarging the fiscal deficit.

But it refrains from doing so because a large fiscal deficit is not to the liking of globally mobile finance capital. The finance minister comes up therefore with a package of measures that...

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Colombia, the Oligarchs and Washington

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Published on Monday, 20 April 2020 01:52

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2064 ... April 20, 2020
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Colombia, the Oligarchs and Washington

Vijay Prashad, Paola Estrada, Ana Maldonado and Zoe PC

Last year, on November 21, the Colombian people took to the streets in massive numbers to reject the policies of the government led by President Iván Duque. In particular, the people called on the government to withdraw two policies.

First, the people wanted the right-wing government of Duque to advance the 2016 peace accords between the government and the left-wing FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia). These accords, negotiated in good faith, would have ended a war that has lasted for six decades; 70 per cent of Colombian society has been born during this war.

Second, the people wanted to end the harsh austerity policies driven by Duque’s government, which includes cuts to public universities, cuts to the pension system, and cuts against broad social spending. The main trade union federation -- Central Trade Union of Workers in Colombia (CUT) -- called for that protest, which then broadened into a mass uprising against Duque and the system of Colombian...

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"Between the rock of the occupation, and the hammer of coronavirus"

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Published on Sunday, 19 April 2020 12:44

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2063 ... April 19, 2020
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"Between the rock of the occupation, and the hammer of coronavirus":
The Coronavirus and the Conditions of Palestinian Workers

G.N. Nithya

"Colonialism is not a thinking machine,
nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties.
It is violence in its natural state..." -- Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1963).

This past month Israeli soldiers dumped a Palestinian worker at a checkpoint on the border of the West Bank, shivering from fever and barely able to breathe. According to Middle East Eye, he "had been showing signs of the coronavirus over the past four days, and was recently tested for the virus. But before the man, allegedly a resident of Nablus, could receive his test results, his Israeli employer reportedly called the authorities, who picked him up and dropped him on the other side of the Beit Sira checkpoint, which connects central Israel and the occupied West Bank." "It’s like we are slaves to them," says a local Palestinian, "They use us when they need us, and when they are finished, they throw us...

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Amazon's a super-spreader?

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Published on Sunday, 19 April 2020 04:20

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While billions of us are in lockdown, the world’s richest man is forcing scared employees to work in warehouses -- where coronavirus outbreaks are rife.

Amazon workers are begging their CEO Jeff Bezos to close the warehouses for deep cleaning and give proper sick pay.

Bezos’ response? If you stay at home, you risk your paycheck.

That’s an impossible choice for low-paid workers. And that’s how Amazon’s boss is making this pandemic worse -- Bezos is a super-spreader.

Right now Bezos can enjoy a luxury quarantine in his D.C mansion. If you chip in today we’ll...

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Re-tool Oshawa GM Complex to Combat Covid-19

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Published on Sunday, 19 April 2020 00:58

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Re-tool Oshawa GM Complex to Combat Covid-19

Manufacturing worker and healthcare worker representatives call for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford to immediately order the production of essential medical equipment and supplies at the Oshawa GM complex and related parts supplier facilities. This should be the first step toward establishing a publicly owned manufacturing centre that could supply strategically necessary goods in times of crisis.

On April 6, Ontario’s Premier told healthcare staff fighting COVID-19 that following next week, they will be left exposed, without the personal protections needed to keep them from getting infected.

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• Patty Coates, President, Ontario Federation of Labour
• Michael Hurley, President of the Hospital Division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)
• James Hutt, The Leap
• Tony Leah and Rebecca Keetch, Green Jobs Oshawa

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Your Points Summary

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Published on Saturday, 18 April 2020 23:56

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Human rights, peace & the pandemic

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Published on Wednesday, 18 November 2020 13:22

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