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Monday Oct 25, 2021
Monday Oct 25, 2021
The brutality and invasiveness of the capitalist imperialism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was readily evident. With utter ruthlessness the imperial powers of the era smashed opened markets with gunboats and plundered the wealth of Asia and Africa through conquest and occupation. The process of decolonialization in the 1960s and 1970s raised hopes that a new era of peace and prosperity was about to dawn in those parts of the world that had been ravaged by imperialist exploitation. Unfortunately, those hopes have been dashed by the rise of informal networks and methodologies of imperial dominations. While the territorial empires of old no longer exist and imperialism is now a dirty word, behind the façade of independence, the peoples of the developing world continue to labor under foreign economic and political domination. However, today this domination is rarely exercised directly. Instead, it is often realized through indirect economic pressure with so-called international institutions such as the IMF and World Bank acting as the vanguard of this insidious neo-colonial order. What are the systems that perpetuate this state of affairs? How do the IMF and World Bank serve the interests of western capitalism? And what is the cost to people in the developing world? We ask these questions and more. This is Revolution.
Owen Schalk
Owen Schalk is a writer from Winnipeg. His short stories have been published by Fairlight Books, Sobotka Literary Magazine, Goat's Milk Magazine, and others, and his political analyses have been featured in Alborada, People's Voice, and Protean Magazine. He is a regular contributor to Canadian Dimension, and you can read his new essay on the culture industry and the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini in the November edition of Monthly Review.
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Sunday Oct 24, 2021
Sunday Oct 24, 2021
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Before the economic shock of the COVID pandemic, homelessness and affordable housing was becoming a major issue in many blue cities and states across the country. With the eviction moratorium lifted, what protections do poor and working-class people have to stave off homelessness in gentrifying cities? A recent U.S Census Bureau HouseHold Pulse survey is estimating we could have 4.3 million Americans evicted and foreclosed on. Will the Biden ``Build Back Better” infrastructure bill be enough to try to curb this potential homelessness crisis?
About Randy Shaw:
Randy Shaw is the Director of San Francisco's Tenderloin Housing Clinic and the Editor-in-Chief of the online daily newspaper "Beyond Chron." He is the author of three books, "Beyond the Fields", "The Activist's Handbook", and "Reclaiming America".
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Wednesday Oct 20, 2021
Wednesday Oct 20, 2021
Monday Oct 18, 2021
Monday Oct 18, 2021
In 1982 China’s population crossed the one-billion-mark, only three years after the promulgation of its famous, or in some quarters infamous, “One Child Policy”, a policy that was only abolished in 2015. That China’s ruling communist party might be concerned with questions of overpopulation in the world’s most populous country seems to make intuitive sense. However, such a perspective is perhaps over simplistic as it obscures the complex history of birth control in modern China. For instance, upon assuming control of China in 1949, the initial stance of the Communist Party was one that favored high fertility rates. What factors have shaped both the attitudes of the Chinese state and Chinese society towards the issue of birth control? How have policies and attitudes change regarding this issue since the Communist Party assumed power? And what have been the implications for gender relations in the world’s most populous nation? We ask these questions and more, This is Revolution.
About Sara:
Sarah Mellors Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor of East Asian History at Missouri State University. Her forthcoming book (Cambridge University Press, 2022) examines birth control and abortion in China from the early twentieth century to the present.
Sunday Oct 17, 2021
Sunday Oct 17, 2021
Friday Oct 15, 2021
Friday Oct 15, 2021
Wednesday Oct 13, 2021
Wednesday Oct 13, 2021
Monday Oct 11, 2021
Monday Oct 11, 2021
Sunday Oct 10, 2021
Sunday Oct 10, 2021