United States: Where any white police officer can kill any Black man at any time…
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… And the police officer will not go to jail. By Don Fitz September 23, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — This is what has sparked protests by thousands of people in St. Louis since September 15. In 2011, St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley fired five to seven shots at Anthony Lamar Smith, killing him. Stockley claimed that Smith was selling drugs, chased him at high speed and shot him to defend himself. The story was briefly reported as another drug deal gone bad and that it was just incidental that the police officer was white and the victim was black.
John Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’, eighty years on
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Reviewed by Barry Healy Of Mice and Men
By John Steinbeck
Penguin, 1993 (first published 1937), $8.95 September 23, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — This year marks the 80th anniversary of Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men. At less than 200 pages it carries enormous force as a mythic account of alienation under US capitalism.
Catalonia referendum: resisting the Spanish government siege
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United States: Trump’s war on immigrants

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Gracchus Babeuf revisited
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The Catalan national struggle and the left in the Spanish state—a dossier

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The Green Revolution: Effects in Asia and implications for Africa
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'People are radicalizing Venezuela's Revolution': An interview with Christina Schiavoni
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By Farooque Chowdhury and Fred Magdoff September 7, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from MR Online — Amidst imperialist interference, the people in Venezuela are carrying on the task of reorganizing their society. Real-life picture in Venezuela is far different from new-reports the mainstream media continuously circulates. The following interview of Christina Schiavoni, a researcher and food sovereignty activist, provides a different view of the life of the Venezuelan people than we normally get from the media. The interview covers food and health situations as well as on-going politics and people’s participation in the politics. The interview was conducted by Farooque Chowdhury and Fred Magdoff, in August 2017.
Why is Canada supporting Africa’s most ruthless dictator?
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July 19 Revolution: a start towards a federal, democratic Syria
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By Noursham Ibrahim

Catalonia terror attacks: 500,000 march for tolerance as Spanish establishment blames independence movement
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By Dick Nichols September 4, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — After the August 17-18 terror attacks on Barcelona’s Rambla and in the seaside town of Cambrils, the half-million-strong march in the Catalan capital on August 26 expressed the profound desire in Catalan society to stay tolerant, open and un-militarised in the face of the terrorist threat. But it expressed more than that.
‘A basic question’: Lenin glosses the April Theses
 
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