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March 5, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from MROnline — It is clear today that the emancipation of labour from capitalist alienation and exploitation is a task that still confronts us. Marx’s concept of the worker is not limited to European white males, but includes Irish and Black super-exploited and therefore doubly revolutionary workers, as well as women of all races and nations. But, his research and his concept of revolution go further, incorporating a wide range of agrarian non-capitalist societies of his time, from India to Russia and from...

Debates over Beijing's derelict Old Summer Palace are about more than history CNN 2/14/2021 Paul French and Oscar Holland, CNN © Li He/Xinhua/GettyImages The Zhengjue Temple, one of the few parts of the Old Summer Palace to have undergone restoration. Northeast of Beijing's resplendent Summer Palace lie the ruins of another stately structure, burned to the ground by European forces during the Second Opium War. Once an elaborate network of pavilions, palaces, bridges and gardens, Yuanmingyuan -- "The Garden of Perfect Brightness," known simply as the Old Summer Palace in ...

architecture Updated 14th February 2021 Debates over Beijing's derelict Old Summer Palace are about more than history Written by Paul FrenchOscar Holland, CNN Paul French is the author of books including "Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China," and "Through the Looking Glass: China's Foreign Journalists from Opium Wars to Mao." Northeast of Beijing's resplendent Summer Palace lie the ruins of another stately structure, burned to the ground by European forces during the Second Opium War. Once an elaborate network of pavilions, palaces, b...