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Fidel Castro and the fetishism of power

Talking to us of homeland and freedom is a waste of time unless they start by guaranteeing our independence as individuals; we are not about to redeem the homeland while we are all left slaves. The measure of the homeland’s … Continue reading

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Remembering revolutions past: Vietnam, 1975

The “third world” seems a distant place under the rule of “neoliberal” capitalism.  And yet the term once conveyed not denigration or humiliation, but revolution, the revolutions of colonised peoples against an arrogant and brutal colonial and neocolonial “first world”.  … Continue reading

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