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Repression
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Oaxaca, Mexico, Faces Police Militarization as Governor Acts to Preempt Education Protests
Unionized teachers in Oaxaca, Mexico, are protesting national education mandates, in the face of growing police militarization.
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Fighting a Low-Intensity War, Indigenous Tupinamba Recover Their Land in Brazil
Indigenous peoples did something the Brazilian government had refused.
As Repression Escalates on US Campuses, an Account of My Ordeal With the Israel Lobby and UC
Professor William Robinson of UCSB was the target of a campaign of intimidation, silencing, and political repression that included techniques described in the
One Year After Egypt’s Rab’a Massacre, US Still Funding Repression
It's been a year since the Egyptian military committed the worst massacre in modern Egypt's history. Why does the US continue to fund it?
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Why No Sustained Protests (Yet)?
Lingering effects of the organized post-1945 destruction of the New Deal coalition helps explain continuing austerity and other anti-democratic policies pursued by US governments, says economist Richard Wolff
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Increased Instability Predicted for Egypt
International human rights groups have strongly denounced Monday's sentencing by an Egyptian court of 529 Islamists to death for a riot in which one policeman was killed.
The Economics of Immiseration, the Politics of Seduction
The economics of immiseration would be impossible without the politics of seduction.
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Capitalism and Democracy: Year-End Lessons
Increases in payroll taxes, the Detroit bankruptcy and repression against protesters indicate the widening contradiction between capitalism and democracy.