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Last month's protests in Russia may have been sparked by the arrest of opposition figure Aleksey Navalny, writes Aleksandr Buzgalin, but they were mostly a mass response to the social and economic suffering of the people.

James Let me get this straight. In July and August Trump wanted to reopen schools and teachers were bravely resisting the bad man. The chorus was so loud that even the American Academy of Pediatrics walked back their reopening position. Now, Teachers and their unions are enemies of the public, are going against “the science”, and are harming children? Is this is counterprogramming we’re getting during the impeachment trial? Bipartisan agreement that teachers and school are bad? Just want to clarify what the narrative is supposed to be. Baldanders We have always been at war with East As...

February 5, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — This text is being written in the heat of events, immediately following the mass protests that occurred in most regions of Russia on 23 and 31 January 2021. The total number of protesters throughout the country on 23 January was put by the authorities at fewer than 10,000, but by the opposition at more than 100,000. The largest of the demonstrations was, as usual, the one in Moscow, where according to the official count 4000 people came onto the streets, while unofficial figures put the number at 40,000. Similar nu...

** UPDATES AT BOTTOM OF ARTICLE! (12:40 EST, 1/28)** As I write this first line, it is 1:41 P.M. EST on Tuesday, January 26th, and GME — the stock of retail video game seller GameStop — is flying past $115. It was at $100 at the start of the hour, $88.56 at the start of the day. That’d be great news for the average investor on a long call, but today is anything but average. For the traders driving this surge, they want $1000 per GME or nothing, total victory or crushing defeat. They just might pull it off, and they only need to bankrupt a multi-billion-dollar hedge fund to do it.