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• Koenig: Peru at the Brink of Civil War?

  The Uprising of the Dispossessed
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  Sarkar: Immunity is liberty: Vaccine internationalism during a pandemic

  The various grassroots-based community initiatives active across the world are breaking the barriers of identities as well as challenging divisive capital-politics linkages to embrace each other
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  Barber: Black Voters Matter Holds Freedom Ride Across the South

  The Freedom Ride for Voting Rights will kick off with a Juneteenth celebration in Jackson, Mississippi, and make stops in seven states, concluding with a June 26 rally in Washington, DC.
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  Giroux: To End Racial Capitalism, We Will Need to Take On the Institution of Policing

  Police in the United States act with impunity in targeted neighborhoods, public schools, college campuses, hospitals, and almost every other public sphere
• Chan: State–labor relations and the emergence of grassroots workers’ organizations in China

  Labor organizers coached workers to take individual actions, rather than collective protests, to make their urgent appeals
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  Wolff: Why the Neoliberal Drive to Privatize Everything Is Running Out of Gas

  Today’s declining U.S. capitalism can no longer repeat its previous bland celebrations of private enterprises and free markets
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  Rogers: COVID-19 is a bigger threat than war

  So why isn’t it funded the same?
• Seattle: Seattle PD crackdown can’t stop #blocktheboat movement vs. Israeli apartheid

  As part of the global movement to Boycott, Divest and Sanction Apartheid Israel, the Block the Boat movement has emerged to engage in peaceful direct action to stop the unloading of Israeli ships and cargo
• Padhi: Indian women rise up against Modi’s Farm Bills

  Women are turning the tide against the patriarchal oppression and agrarian distress that have often kept them from organizing actively in farmers' resistance
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  Kolhatkar: Making Juneteenth a holiday was the easy part — but will real justice follow?

  Marking Juneteenth as a federal holiday is only the first step toward financial redress, not the last
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  Cohn: Affordable Care Act Survives Right-Wing Attack in Supreme Court

  In a long-awaited decision, the Supreme Court rejected a right-wing challenge to the Affordable Care Act in California v. Texas, preserving health insurance for 21 million people
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  Feffer: Building the World Back Better?

  Instead of consigning China to the doghouse, why not create one big Green reconstruction team?
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  Pitt: After Wasting Time, Senate Democrats Demand Action on Infrastructure

  If the infrastructure bill survives the current battles and is passed through the crucible of reconciliation, thank Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders first
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  Sanders: Washington’s Dangerous New Consensus on China

  Don’t Start Another Cold War
• Avilés: “The Billionaires Are Nervous. And They Should Be Nervous.”

  Alexa Avilés discusses her history of education organizing, recent billionaire-funded scaremongering attacks against her, and why she’s running for office on a citywide socialist slate
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  Baroud: On Trumpism and Netanyahu-ism

  How Benjamin Netanyahu Won America and Lost Israel
• Moss: The Urgent Need to Educate America about Climate-Related Migration

  As long as the Biden administration cedes center stage on a critical issue like climate migration, other voices will dominate the stage and define the narrative
• Mackey: European Soccer Stars Refuse to Yield to Racist Fans

  Young athletes who represent increasingly multiracial European nations insist on taking a knee to protest racism
• Weiss: No First Use — Or No Nuclear Weapons?

  If international law is to preserve its teeth, it cannot do so with halfway measures.
• Hollar: Pushing Consumers to Amazon Is Baked In to NYT’s Business Model

  It’s not an Amazon ad—it’s a message from the Times, encouraging readers to sign up for alerts telling them the best ways to spend their money on Amazon‘s biggest marketing day of the year
• DeManuelle-Hall: Chicago Amazon Workers Help Win Megacycle Pay Nationwide

  AU activists in Chicago plan to keep doing what they’ve been doing: “uniting with our co-workers, identifying the issues that are most popular, and taking action to address them.”