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https://libcom.org/blog/state-control-not-socialism-12052020
libcom.org
State Control is not Socialism
According to Tom Harris in The Daily Telegraph on 17 March, “we are all socialists now”.
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https://truthout.org/articles/imagine-a-world-where-all-workers-are-essential-but-not-all-leaders-are/
Truthout
Imagine a World Where All Workers Are “Essential,” But Not All Leaders Are
Given their greed, ineptitude and callousness, we should reconsider how essential CEOs and our “leaders” really are.
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http://www.socialisteconomist.com/2020/05/in-light-of-global-pandemic-focus.html
Socialisteconomist
In Light of the Global Pandemic, Focus Attention on the Needs of the People
✑ Tricontinental Institute. Why was it that countries with more robust states and with a tradition of public action have been able to more effectively curtail the virus?
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Happy Birthday to Malcolm X, born on this day in 1925. While known for his devotion to Islam and his activism towards Black Liberation, Malcolm also began to fight for the liberation of all workers, black and white, shortly before he was assassinated.

(Image courtesy of Washington University Libraries, Henry Hampton Collection.)
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https://jacobinmag.com/2020/05/real-estate-crash-pandemic-coronavirus/
Jacobinmag
Another Real Estate Crash Is Coming
The COVID-19 crisis, like the subprime mortgage crisis a decade ago, has sparked major public interventions to stabilize the financial markets. But the Fed isn’t stepping in to bail out the real estate sector — and the big losers are set to be ordinary households.
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democracyjournal.org/magazine/the-post-neoliberal-world-is-already-here/
Democracy Journal
The Post-Neoliberal World Is Already Here
One way or another, we will come out the other side of the COVID-19 pandemic into a new world. The question is which one.
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https://twitter.com/nick_kapur/status/1260645957651185665?s=20
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Nick Kapur
Watch how the ultra-wealthy in America gradually raised the taxes of the poor and eventually bent the curve downward until they paid the lowest tax rate of all
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www.currentaffairs.org/2020/05/a-private-city-the-rise-of-eko-atlantic/
Current Affairs
A Private City: The Rise of Eko Atlantic
In an exclusive sneak peek at our most recent issue, Katie Jane Fernelius walks us through the rise of private cities such as Eko Atlantic, and their implications for all of us.
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Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots
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MIT Technology Review
Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots
There has been a huge upswell of Twitter bot activity since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, amplifying medical disinformation and the push to reopen America.
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https://jacobinmag.com/2020/05/capitalism-socialism-cooperatives-market-nhs-democracy/
Jacobin
Capitalism Isn’t Working. But What Would a Viable Socialist System Look Like?
Criticisms of capitalism’s failures have more power if we can actually imagine an alternative. Here’s what a viable socialist society could look like.
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thebaffler.com/latest/slicker-cities-ramakrishna
The Baffler
Slicker Cities | Saritha Ramakrishna
What a competitive city requires is the same thing that we’re told we all require in the errant twenty-first century: a personal brand.
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Some useful sources for organizing ✊

https://side-blog-for-politics.tumblr.com/post/614558541138771968/poblacht-na-n-oibrithe-how-to-get-active-and
Wake up samurai, we've got papers to sell
How To Get Active And Get Organized! Five tips for forming an affinity group Crimethinc: How To Start An Affinity Group Sprout Distro: How To Start An Affinity Group Rebel Steps: Community support and...
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https://jacobinmag.com/2020/05/lebanon-sovereign-debt-default-borrowing-crisis/
Jacobinmag
Lebanon’s Spectacular Economic Collapse
After 2008, Lebanon’s oligarchic elites engineered a financialized boom that fueled inequality and lined the pockets of bankers. Now its economy has imploded, leaving the country’s working class to foot the bill.
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https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/limit-growth-liberate-degrowth/
openDemocracy
Limit growth: liberate degrowth
Degrowth stands for quality of life within planetary limits. This is the real opposite of capitalist growth.
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TIL that Medieval Peasants had significantly more days off than Modern Americans with Americans working 244 days a year and Peasants working only 150.
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Submitted May 23, 2020 at 09:45AM by RobertMurz
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Inc.com
Even Medieval Peasants Got More Vacation Time Than You
Of course, their teeth fell out and they died young, but, hey, vacation!
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https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/05/the-problem-of-private-schools/
Current Affairs
The Problem of Private Schools
It’s a well-known fact that private schools perpetuate inequality. But is abolishing them the answer?
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https://roarmag.org/essays/emancipatory-mutual-aid-from-education-to-liberation/
ROAR Magazine
Emancipatory mutual aid: from education to liberation
A New Orleans radical mutual aid group organizes with and within communities to help transform the conditions that created the crisis in the first place.
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https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/constitutions-build-citizen-power-and-joy/
openDemocracy
Constitutions that build citizen power and joy
As we rebuild from the wreckage, let's consider how the structures of the state have fatally limited what feels possible. Constitutional experiments in Latin America suggest a way to organise the state which can liberate society’s potential.  
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