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Bodily Autonomy is Impossible Under Capitalism — Hampton Institute
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By Petra Glenn Bodily autonomy is the right to make decisions about one’s own body. United States capitalism has turned bodies into commodities, thus preventing the obtainment of the human right of bodily autonomy. Capitalism requires the utilization of bodies as capital to generate we
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"Power Anywhere Where There's People": A Speech by Fred Hampton (1969) — Hampton Institute
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The following is the full transcript of a speech given by Chairman Fred Hampton Sr. at Olivet Baptist Church in Chicago in 1969. Power anywhere where there's people. Power anywhere where there's people. Let me give you an example of teaching people. Basically, the way they learn is observation a
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The Social Economy of Rojava: A Primer on the Co-op Model — Hampton Institute
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By Thomas Sullivan Since the 2011 liberation of the northern Syrian region commonly known as Rojava, the de facto leadership of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria has begun a program of ground-up direct democracy, women's liberation, and socially-owned means of production (Knapp 2016, 5
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Voting Doesn't Beat the Far Right — Hampton Institute
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Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta By Ezra Brain Republished from Left Voice . The Far Right, emboldened and egged on by Donald Trump, stormed the U.S. Capitol Building yesterday with little resistance from the police. Their occupation of the Capitol — which came while Congress was in sess
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Fascism, and How to Fight It — Hampton Institute
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[PHOTO CREDIT: John Minchillo/AP] By Peter Fousek Both the name and the ideology of fascism originated in Italy in the early 20th century, where it arose as a spontaneous mass movement. It relied on a combination of large-scale, militant mobilization of working-class and middle-class people,
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U.S. Imperialism Creates Refugees, then Criminalizes Them at the Border — Hampton Institute
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By Gregory E. Williams Republished from Struggle La Lucha . With Nikki Haley out of the race, Trump and Biden are officially facing off in a presidential rematch. Both of these deeply unpopular politicians are attempting to get ahead by scapegoating migrants and refugees at the U.S.-Mexico b
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Why Do We Oppress Women? — Hampton Institute
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By Wonder Louis Since the dawn of civilization, women have been treated as second-class citizens. This condition pervades every stage of history and virtually every culture and region. Under capitalism, the phenomenon of gender inequality is observable through tangible acts of oppres
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By Jackson Mann “The laboring of American culture” is how historian Michael Denning described the aesthetic effects that Popular Front cultural organizing had on mainstream U.S. performing, visual, and media arts in his sweeping 1997 history of U.S. left-wing culture in the 1930s and 40s. Accord
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Colonialism and Capitalism as Determinants of Modern Health — Hampton Institute
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By Cory Bhowmik “The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth” is an ideal we try to espouse, but the field of medicine can be rightly accused of not telling “the whole truth” on many occasions throughout history. The Tuskegee syphilis study [1] and the involuntary sterilizati
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How Israel Copied the USA — Hampton Institute
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By Youhanna Haddad Though Zionism has found a home in Palestine, the movement didn’t originate there. It was an exported ideology and only gained a foothold in the Middle East thanks to British patronage. Theodor Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, was a secular Austrian Jew who didn’
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The Black Panther Party On Palestine — Hampton Institute
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By Greg Thomas The following article by Greg Thomas , the curator of “ George Jackson in the Sun of Palestine ,” was published in Ittijah, a new Arabic-language publication by Palestinian youth issued by Nabd, the Palestinian Youth Forum. Dr. Greg Thomas is
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The Imperative to Organize: What Palestine Needs from Us Now — Hampton Institute
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[Photo Credit: Ringo H.W. Chiu, AP] By Juan Gonzalez Valdivieso and Salma Hamamy On October 7th, the Islamic Resistance Movement — a Palestinian political and military organization based in Gaza better known as Hamas — began a multi-faceted attack against the settler colony of Israel. Th
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"I Don’t Believe Capitalism Can Be Fair": An Interview with Clara Mattei — Hampton Institute
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[Photo credit: AFP via Getty Images] By Diego Viana Where capitalism goes, austerity invariably follows. This phenomenon has puzzled intellectuals for generations. Why does the dominant economic system consistently adopt reforms that seem to destabilize its very foundations? Dr. C
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Irish Diaspora for a Free Palestine and a Decolonized Turtle Island — Hampton Institute
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By Michael Farrell Seeds of resistance, liberation, and connection to place and land were planted in me as a child through the Irish songs my father sang. His renditions of Four Green Fields, Grace, The Fields of Athenry, and other Irish rebel songs instilled in me a grounding in Ireland’s 800 y
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By Sudip Bhattacharya and Elias Khoury As legendary English metal band Iron Maiden sang in a 1988 track, “Only the good die young. All the evil seem to live forever.” Enter Henry Kissinger. On May 27th, 2023, the former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor turned 100 yea
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By Oskar Kaut Amidst America’s increasingly polarized political climate, there has been growing concern regarding the emergence of reactionary groups that display cult-like behaviors and tactics, posing vital questions about the impact these groups have on individuals as well as mainstream poli
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