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Britain’s Plutocracy, and How We Can Fight Against It

Call it what you want: a bourgeois democracy (in which the parties in the service of exploitative economic elites are the most powerful); a kleptocracy (in which “a small group [gets] rich by robbing [citizens] blind”[1] with the compliance of … Continue reading

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UK: Chartism and a Sense of Working Class History

We are probably all aware of the horrific conditions which our ancestors worked under, and of the way in which they were exploited and oppressed so that the wealth of the ruling class of our country could grow. But the … Continue reading

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ECUADOR: City of Knowledge – Yachay

Rafael Correa’s government in Ecuador is ambitiously planning to build a world-class ‘City of Knowledge’ to help it move away from a mining economy and lift millions of people out of poverty. It has been investing hundreds of millions of … Continue reading

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Bishop Says EZLN is Strong, and Indigenous Have Dignity and Rights

The bishop of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel said, approaching the twentieth anniversary of the Zapatista uprising of 1994: “Many people wonder if the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) still exists, and I tell them that … Continue reading

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