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  • Debt

    Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Incrimination Pt 2

    25 April 2018, by Éric Toussaint

    The Varoufakis-Tsipras Line was Doomed to Fail from the Word ‘Go’

    Disclaimer: This series of articles on Varoufakis’s book, Adults in The Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment is a guide for left-leaning readers who are not happy with the dominant narrative meted out by the mainstream media and the Troika-controlled governments. This is also a guide for readers who are dissatisfied with the former Finance Minister’s version. As a counterpoint to Varoufakis’s story, I have highlighted events that he is silent about and I have expressed different views on what he should have done and what he did instead. My story runs parallel, and not opposite, to his.

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  • Women

    Capitalism and the family

    22 April 2018, by Stephanie Coonz

    Issues of gender and sexuality are dominating the American public in a way that has few precedents in the recent past. From the alarmingly open misogyny of the president to the cascading revelations of sexual attacks in the workplace on one side, to the energy behind the historic women’s marches on the other, gender relations have risen to the top of the political debate. In a wide-ranging conversation, historian Stephanie Coontz places the current juncture in historical perspective, and offers her thoughts on how gender relations have been affected by the recent stagnation in working-class incomes and skyrocketing inequality. She closes with an eloquent plea to integrate gender politics into a broader progressive political vision.

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  • Our history

    The Russian Revolution, Black Bolshevichki and Social Reproduction

    10 April 2018, by Bill V. Mullen

    In his 1981 book on the February Revolution, Tsuyhoshi Hasegawa includes the story of a young girl walking towards a line of Cossack troops who had come to confront women demonstrators on International Women’s Day.

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  • Obituary

    Troglo: will, initiative and revolutionary generosity

    9 April 2018, by Manuel Garí

    José Ramón Castaños known as Troglo (1950-2018) was a long-time leader of the Fourth Internationalists in the Basque country. he died in April 2018.

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