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…the Left narrative, no matter how accurate and intellectually powerful it may be, cannot expect to catch the imagination of the citizenry without including a vision for a real alternative future. Moreover, working-class institutions need to be reinstituted for the enhancement of class consciousness and authentic socialist parties need to be rediscovered for the Left

The hero of a Stephen Sewell play, and clearly his creator’s alter ego, says: “People change.

It’s now over one hundred days since 7 Oct, when 3 000 Hamas fighters raided the border villages (kibbutzim) of the Gaza Strip to rape, burn and murder Israeli citizens: young and old, male and female – some celebrating a Jewish holiday of rejoicing. But this was also a moment for rejoicing for the raiders as captured in the ecstatic telephone conversation of a young terrorist:

While yesteryear’s anti-Semitism was based in large measure in demented paranoia, today’s left-wing anti-Zionism and hostility to Israel are founded in an even larger measure of double standards and hypocrisy. Leftists hostile to Israel wholly ignore the undemocratic nature of most of the Arab countries and other Third World states, bizarrely attacking the Middle East’s only democracy

Veteran leftist Robert Reid says New Zealand’s at war with Yemen. Chris Trotter begs to differ

For nearly two decades, one of the world’s most successful spies hid in plain sight. Ana Montes, a “superstar” employee for the Defense Intelligence Agency, was a highly decorated and well-respected analyst on Latin American affairs. But as Peter J. Lapp and Kelly Kennedy recount in their new book, Queen of Cuba, Montes’s loyalty was to Fidel Castro’s Cuba, not the United States.

Whether or not you believe that anthropomorphic climate change is a genuine problem or not, you have to admit that our government’s programs to deal with it are thinly veiled scams....

The CCP’s reversion to hard-line neo-Maoist totalitarianism with all its negative implications for science and innovation is usually attributed to the rise of Xi Jinping. Xi is certainly dragging China back to the Maoist dark ages in many respects.

 

As the genocide in Gaza resumes, it becomes ever more clear that the Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood”, launched by the Palestinian Resistance on October 7, and the events that followed, have not only destroyed the prestige of the Israeli army: they completely unmasked the hypocrisy of the West, who is not only silent but accomplice of the unprecedented massacres perpetrated against a defenseless and trapped civilian population, as well as the duplicity of most of the so-called Western “friends”...