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• Election Aftermath Underlines Need for Real, Working Class Democracy

  By E. Nesbitt on November 22, 2020

  

  On Nov. 3rd and in the following days, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris of the Democratic Party emerged as the victors of the 2020 presidential election, but despite the record turnout, in the midst of a historic pandemic no less,… Read More ›

• 9/11/1973: The Day Neo-Liberalism Showed Its Fascist Face

  By E. Nesbitt on September 11, 2020

  

  On this day, September 11th, 1973, the democratically-elected government of Chile, headed by President and leader of the Socialist Party, Salvador Allende, was violently ousted in a coup led by a US-backed, military junta. The Presidential Palace, La Moneda, was… Read More ›

• Austerity, Imperialism at the Heart of Beirut Disaster

  By E. Nesbitt on August 6, 2020

  

  On Tuesday, August 4th, a massive explosion comparable in its explosive power to a low yield nuclear gravity bomb, erupted in the Port of Beirut, Lebanon, killing at least 137 people and wounding more than 5,000. The explosion is sourced… Read More ›