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The background to such horrific incidents is the enormous brutalization of society and the promotion of war and violence.
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Death row in Trump’s America: 4 executions in 4 days
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New Zealand Rich List exceeds $100 billion amid cost-of-living crisis
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Leonard Johns•
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Steve James•
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May Day 2022: Finance capital and the deepening crisis of global capitalism
This is the report delivered by Nick Beams to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Beams is a longstanding leader of the International Committee of the Fourth International and an expert on Marxist economics.
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Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee: The end of the “New Elizabethan Age”
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The Uvalde massacre and the pathological violence of American life
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The US baby formula crisis and capitalism’s indifference to the lives of children
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