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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 9h
"Cyberattacks in Brazil have nearly doubled since last year." The 30th Progressive International Briefing of 2026 is online now. buff.ly/PsK2PQE
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PI Briefing | No. 30 | Nobody’s Backyard
Brazil votes on Sunday as its intelligence service alleges foreign interference, cyberattacks rise and economic warfare to defeat the popular forces behind President Lula da Silva.
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muir @muir.eurosky.social · 19h
Bioinputs School In China: Global South Could Meet Up To 50% Of Fertiliser Demand With Organic Waste www.roots-iapc.org/en/article/b...
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Bioinputs School in China: Global South Could Meet Up to 50% of Fertiliser Demand with Organic Waste
https://youtu.be/3Kktb4wVBUw?si=cEJNmpcBd6zZwkwW In an interview with Bem Viver, a Brasil de Fato programme, during the sixth edition of the International Bioinputs School in Suzhou, China, Professor ...
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"We call on all dockworkers’ unions to discuss this declaration, to strengthen our common steps, and to organize common actions, to strengthen solidarity bonds among ports." buff.ly/PQankc6
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Istanbul Declaration: "Dockworkers will not become a link in the chain of their wars!"
Dockworkers' unions from over 35 ports across Europe and the Mediterranean declare their refusal to handle weapons and military cargo.
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muir @muir.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
Sliman Mansour: A Life Spent Painting Hope mronline.org/2026/10/02/s...
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Sliman Mansour: A Life Spent Painting Hope - MR Online
The late Palestinian painter Sliman Mansour left the world a precious legacy: an art whose symbolism mourns the longest exile of our age.
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muir @muir.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
The Continuing Struggle for Reparatory Justice The wounds of slavery and colonial theft did not close with abolition or independence; they endure in global inequality, and their repair demands truth, law, memory and organised African power. thetricontinental.org/pan-africa/n...
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The Continuing Struggle for Reparatory Justice - Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
The wounds of slavery and colonial theft did not close with abolition or independence; they endure in global inequality, and their repair demands truth, law, memory and organised African power.
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muir @muir.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Literacy and Organisation: The Literacy Process in Zambia and the Internationalist Solidarity of MST thetricontinental.org/nuestra-amer...
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Literacy and Organisation: The Literacy Process in Zambia and the Internationalist Solidarity of MST
Five years ago, the Landless Workers' Movement (MST), in partnership with the Socialist Party of Zambia, launched one of the boldest literacy projects: bringing Brazilian popular education to rural an...
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muir @muir.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Ghana swiftly rejects US health deal, calls it ‘humiliating’ breakthroughnews.org/2026/10/01/g...
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Ghana swiftly rejects US health deal, calls it ‘humiliating’ - BT News
Ghana rejected the $109 million deal, citing concerns over the sharing of sensitive health data, financing obligations, and restrictions on Ghana’s regulatory authority over medical products. Presiden...
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muir @muir.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Marxian Ecology and the Critique of AI Capital monthlyreview.org/articles/mar...
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Marxian Ecology and the Critique of AI Capital - Monthly Review
What is the rise of AI capital, and what does it mean for contemporary work, culture, and the ecological state of our planet? John Bellamy Foster dispels the myth of... READ MORE
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muir @muir.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
The Critical Minerals Beneath the Trump Corollary thetricontinental.org/newsletteris...
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The Critical Minerals Beneath the Trump Corollary: The Fortieth Newsletter (2026)
The imperial drive to monopolise critical minerals unmasks a renewed strategic architecture: securing military and industrial supply chains enforces peripheral subordination, turning sovereign nations...
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dockworkers' unions from over 35 ports across Europe and the Mediterranean declare their refusal to handle weapons and military cargo. buff.ly/PQankc6
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Istanbul Declaration: "Dockworkers will not become a link in the chain of their wars!"
Dockworkers' unions from over 35 ports across Europe and the Mediterranean declare their refusal to handle weapons and military cargo.
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Against apartheid, declarations were followed by a UN committee, sanctions and eventually a mandatory arms embargo. In New York last week, forty states put their modern equivalents on the table." The 29th Progressive International Briefing of 2026 is online now. buff.ly/R6RqHoC
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PI Briefing | No. 29 | From Law to Justice
As Trump attacked the ICC and Netanyahu faced a walkout at the UN, forty states gathered to put an arms embargo, protections for the Court and a new UN mechanism modelled on the Special Committee…
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muir @muir.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
Financialization and De-dollarisation: The Dollar as an Instrument of Imperialism triconpoliticaleconomy.substack.com/p/financiali...
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Financialization and De-dollarisation
The Dollar as an Instrument of Imperialism
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The profits of capital depend pretty much on how much it wastes, on how much it makes society pay for the costs of production." buff.ly/SFULPy0
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Kadri: The Accumulation of Waste
Capitalism produces death and waste on a genocidal scale.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Must-watch short on the Bandung movement, when global South countries challenged imperial power in the world-system. More relevant now than ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpDU...
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What happens when countries stand up to the superpowers? | Bandung 1955
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Declassified files reveal that brutal interrogation techniques used by British forces in 1970s Oman were later applied in Northern Ireland, with key officers involved in both operations. Available in EN, ES, PT-BR and FR. buff.ly/2yUjULK
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When Britain Used Torture To Control The Strait Of Hormuz
Declassified files reveal that brutal interrogation techniques used by British forces in 1970s Oman were later applied in Northern Ireland, with key officers involved in both operations.
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Between the Houthis disrupting fossil fuel production and Cuba advancing solar energy transition (under extreme duress from US), anti-imperialist forces are leading on climate action.
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muir @muir.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
The Palantir Pledge – developed by the Progressive International, the BDS Movement, DiEM25 and many more – is a commitment from public officials that reads: "I will not sign, vote, or support public contracts with Palantir Technologies." act.progressive.international/palantir/
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The Palantir Pledge
A Global Call to Action. 29 September to 1 October. Join Us.
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google Maps has updated its satellite imagery of Gaza exposing the criminal devastation apartheid Israel has wreaked during its genocide. Shame on the so-called international community, including Ireland, for enabling these crimes against Palestinians. #GazaGenocide Video Al Jazeera English
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The United States is targeting China because China has contested the financial power of US monopoly finance capitalism by offering Global South states access to capital and surplus in ways that break them out of dependent development." buff.ly/SakMnt7
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Gill: Imperialism — Then and Now
Imperialism, the denial of sovereignty that underwrites global capitalism, is the primary contradiction.
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muir @muir.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
From Belfast to Bethlehem: A Short History of Irish-Palestinian Solidarity www.anclogan.ie/from-belfast...
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From Belfast to Bethlehem: A Short History of Irish-Palestinian Solidarity, 1967-2023
Irish support for Palestine was neither automatic nor inevitable. Pádraig Mac Oscair traces six decades of patient organising up to our present moment, where historically high solidarity meets histori...
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muir @muir.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
The Southbound Initiative provides material support to Global South organizers and educators and anti-imperialist projects. givebutter.com/southbound-i...
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Southbound Initiative
Supporting on-the-ground organizing for peace and justice in the Global South
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muir @muir.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
Of Soil and Blood: Lu Xun’s Revolutionary Literature Ninety Years After His Death thetricontinental.org/art-bulletin...
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Of Soil and Blood: Lu Xun’s Revolutionary Literature Ninety Years After His Death
Through political essays and speeches from the final decade of his life, we revisit Lu Xun’s reflections on language, despair, internationalism, and the cultural soil needed for social transformation.
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muir @muir.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
FAI board must reflect on their positions after ultimate betrayal of Irish football and, most importantly, the people of Palestine – Joanna Byrne TD sinnfein.ie/news/fai-boa...
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FAI board must reflect on their positions after ultimate betrayal of Irish football and, most importantly, the people of Palestine - Joanna Byrne TD - Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin spokesperson on Sport, Joanna Byrne TD, has said that the FAI board must reflect on their positions after their ultimate betrayal of Irish football and, most importantly, the people of Pales...
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muir @muir.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
BRICS in Delhi: Building a Trading System Free of Western Control thetricontinental.org/asia/newslet...
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BRICS in Delhi: Building a Trading System Free of Western Control
When Washington can freeze a nation’s money at will, the answer emerging from the recent summit in India was not a rival currency but a quiet rewiring of how countries pay one another.
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"There is a war on the masses taking place all the time, whether it is open war like the major wars of the second half of the twentieth century and this century, or a protracted, slow-motion war to reduce the social costs of the reproduction of people." buff.ly/SFULPy0
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Kadri: The Accumulation of Waste
Capitalism produces death and waste on a genocidal scale.
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La Via Campesina Official - EN @viacampesina-en.movimientos.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
This year, we call upon our member organizations and allies to mobilize, against the damaging role that global financial institutions, including the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), have played in undermining democracy and food sovereignty. #16Oct26 […]
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A war criminal, Netanyahu, is allowed to travel to New York and soil the chamber, but the Palestinians were denied a visa. See my 20 minute conversation with BreakThrough News, Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra - www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTnN...
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What Is the UN Actually Good For? | w/ Vijay Prashad
YouTube video by BreakThrough News
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muir @muir.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
“Behind widespread youth uprisings lies a stark contradiction: an economic system that protects capital while stripping young people of dignified work, community, and the confidence that tomorrow can be different.” thetricontinental.org/newsletteris...
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The Youth Want a Future: The Thirty-Ninth Newsletter (2026)
Behind widespread youth uprisings lies a stark contradiction: an economic system that protects capital while stripping young people of dignified work, community, and the confidence that tomorrow can b...
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Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A frightening forecast from the University of Chicago's Climate Impact Lab. This is a time when I truly hope that the science is wrong. [IA] climateandcapitalism.com/2026/09/24/s...
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Super El Niño may cause 451,000 excess deaths by February | Climate & Capitalism
More than a hot summer, it’s a postcard from the future, before we have time to adapt…
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Declassified files reveal that brutal interrogation techniques used by British forces in 1970s Oman were later applied in Northern Ireland, with key officers involved in both operations. Available in EN, ES, AR and RU. buff.ly/2yUjULK
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When Britain Used Torture To Control The Strait Of Hormuz
Declassified files reveal that brutal interrogation techniques used by British forces in 1970s Oman were later applied in Northern Ireland, with key officers involved in both operations.
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"To all of us, imperialism is piracy transplanted from the seas to dry land — piracy reorganised, consolidated, and adapted to the aim of plundering the natural and human resources of our peoples, and of other peoples of the world." buff.ly/8qftTjB
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Kadri: The Accumulation of Waste
Capitalism produces death and waste on a genocidal scale.
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Myself, Seán Fearon and Pat Brodie have published a report today examining the exaggerated benefits and significant costs of data centres to Ireland. Below is a short thread on some of the key takeaways. Read the full report here: mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/21... 1/6
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"The traditional tools of imperial coercion — tariffs, sanctions and military hard power — are combined with new tools, including bot farms, paid influencers and data operations." The 28th PI Briefing of 2026 is online now. buff.ly/EgxZ7YR
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PI Briefing | No. 28 | Great Avenues
As Brazil prepares to vote, Washington and its allies are deploying old powers and new technologies across the hemisphere.
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Duroyan Fertl ᚇᚓᚑᚏᚐᚇᚐᚅ @dfertl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
At the UN, #Trump once again threatens to annihilate an entire country (Iran) of over 90 million people. There are no two sides here. No equivalence. No "neither/nor". #Iran is not threatening to annihilate the US, nor can it. Trump & the US must be stopped in the Middle East (& elsewhere).
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"If imperialism walks on two legs of military and economic power, anti-imperialism must also walk on two legs. This is key to understanding our current moment." buff.ly/pjRNjea
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Gill: Imperialism — Then and Now
Imperialism, the denial of sovereignty that underwrites global capitalism, is the primary contradiction.
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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
2,500 Irish writers, musicians and artists have now signed the @ipsc.bsky.social's Irish Artists’ Pledge to Boycott Israel. If you are an Irish cultural worker, please consider signing here: www.ipsc.ie/cultural-boy... #FreePalestine
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2,500 Irish artists sign Irish Artists' Pledge to Boycott Israel!
Pledge now has more than 2,500 signatories, among them Irish cultural legends like Fontaines D.C., Kneecap, Stephen Rea, Sinéad Cusack, Donal Lunny, Andy Irvine, CMAT, Damien Dempsey, Sharon Shannon, ...
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Sinn Féin @sinn-fein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On UN International Day of Peace, Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire TD, has said that Ireland must rededicate itself to the cause of multilateralism and called on the government to abandon its plans to ditch the ‘Triple Lock’. sinnfein.ie/news/on-un-i...
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On UN International Day of Peace, we must rededicate ourselves to multilateralism - Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire TD - Sinn Féin
On UN International Day of Peace, Sinn Féin spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and Defence, Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire TD, has said that Ireland must rededicate itself to the cause of multilateralism and call...
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muir @muir.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
Contested Memory: The German Democratic Republic and Its Erasure The dominant Western account demonises the GDR, erasing its social achievements, the conditions it faced and the experiences of its people. www.anclogan.ie/contested-me...
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Contested Memory: The German Democratic Republic and Its Erasure
Three decades after its disappearance, the GDR remains the subject of bitter historical dispute. The dominant Western account demonises it, erasing its social achievements, the conditions it faced and...
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Putting on the Irish jersey and representing your country means something. But the Ireland we want represented is the one that remembers its roots in anti-colonial and anti-imperial resistance, which Irish sport played a large part of."
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"The traditional tools of imperial coercion — tariffs, sanctions and military hard power — are combined with new tools, including bot farms, paid influencers and data operations." The 28th Progressive International Briefing of 2026 is online now. buff.ly/1Df8M9d
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PI Briefing | No. 28 | Great Avenues
As Brazil prepares to vote, Washington and its allies are deploying old powers and new technologies across the hemisphere.
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
BRICS, India & the Global South: Can a New World Order Emerge? Talking to Left Lens on the BRIC+ summit in Delhi, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ija8...
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BRICS, India & the Global South: Can a New World Order Emerge? - Vijay Prashad
YouTube video by CPIM Speak
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muir @muir.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
Interwar Communist women’s activism for the socialization of housework and care, argues Daria Dyakonova, offered a powerful vision of what we now know as intersectionality and reproductive justice. www.redthreads.media/p/to-create-...
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“To Create Model Social Institutions”: The International Communist Women’s Movement, Reproductive Labor, and the Politics of Care, 1920–1936
Interwar Communist women’s activism for the socialization of housework and care, argues Daria Dyakonova, offered a powerful vision of what we now know as intersectionality and reproductive justice.
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muir @muir.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
“The hyper-imperialist apparatus—for all its technological firepower and planetary emissions—finds its authority surprisingly fragile at the very nodes that sustain global capital.” nickestes.substack.com/p/letters-fr...
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Letters from the American Empire: September 17, 2026
Last week marked a quarter century since September 11, 2001.
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muir @muir.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
“For the Global South, development cannot be achieved by imitating the capitalist West; it requires breaking imperialist dependency through the defence of sovereignty, socialist planning, and the transformation of social relations.” thetricontinental.org/newsletteris...
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Modernisation Does Not Mean Capitalism: The Thirty-Eighth Newsletter (2026)
For the Global South, development cannot be achieved by imitating the capitalist West; it requires breaking imperialist dependency through the defence of sovereignty, socialist planning, and the trans...
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International Labour Organization @ilo.org · 18/09/2026
Equal pay for work of equal value is a matter of rights, fairness and economic sense. Yet globally, women in wage employment still earn on average 18% less than men. On International Equal Pay Day, it’s time to turn commitment into action.
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Warnings from researchers at Anthropic and OpenAI that their own products could end humanity distract from the real damage AI is already doing. africasacountry.com/2026/09/the-...
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The extinction pitch
Warnings from researchers at Anthropic and OpenAI that their own products could end humanity distract from the real damage AI is already doing.
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Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ecosocialist Bookshelf: October 2026 Eight left-wing books on the rise, ideas, and goals of the new far right climateandcapitalism.com/2026/09/18/e...
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf: October 2026 | Climate & Capitalism
Eight left-wing books on the rise, ideas, and goals of the new far right…
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muir @muir.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
Beyond Scarcity: Thomas Sowell and the Limits of Neoclassical Economics monthlyreview.org/articles/bey...
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Beyond Scarcity: Thomas Sowell and the Limits of Neoclassical Economics - Monthly Review
Through the work of neoclassical economist Thomas Sowell, Elliot Goodell Ugalde dissects the orthodox view that takes for granted that scarcity is at the center of economic life. In a... READ MORE
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muir @muir.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
AI and the Global South: a conversation between Jeff Xiong and Belen de los Santos jeffxiong.substack.com/p/ai-and-the...
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AI and the Global South
A Conversation with Belen de los Santos
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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In this new post for roape.net, James Akpu argues the underlying logics of a colonial wartime potato scheme in Nigeria’s highlands continue to reproduce themselves in so-called ‘food security’ programmes across the African continent today. roape.net/2026/09/18/f...
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ROAPE
For 50 years, ROAPE has brought readers pathbreaking analysis on radical African political economy.
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