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Fake News on Russia and Other Official Enemies: The New York Times, 1917Ð2017

Fake News on Russia and Other Official Enemies: The New York Times, 1917Ð2017

by Edward S. Herman

July 1, 2017

Mainstream media outlets have recently expressed their dismay over the rise and spread of "fake news," taking it as an obvious truth that what they themselves provide is straightforward, unbiased, fact-based reporting. They do offer such news, but they also provide a steady flow of false or misleading information, often supplied by the national security state, other branches of government, and sites of corporate power.

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This Is Not Populism

This Is Not Populism

by John Bellamy Foster

June 1, 2017

Since Trump's election, mainstream commentary has generally avoided the question of fascism or neofascism, preferring instead to apply the vaguer, safer notion of "populism." In today's political context, however, it is crucial to understand not only how the failures of neoliberalism give rise to neofascist movements, but also to connect these to the structural crisis of concentrated, financialized, and globalized capitalism.

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The Origins of American Fascism

The Origins of American Fascism

by Michael Joseph Roberto

June 1, 2017

What can a class analysis tell us about fascism's national particularities and early forms? Why was there no mass movement for a separate fascist party in the United States? The lessons of several now-forgotten works of scholarship from the 1930s are critical to our understanding of American fascism—not only for what they tell us about its history, but also about how to fight it today.

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Old Malbec in New Bottles: The Return of Neoliberalism in Argentina

Old Malbec in New Bottles: The Return of Neoliberalism in Argentina

by Kenneth Mitchelland Robert H. Scott

June 1, 2017

Argentina has long been plagued by cycles of economic mismanagement, including multiple failed neoliberal experiments. Before his election as president, Mauricio Macri promised resumed growth, an export boom, lower inflation, a smaller budget deficit, and less poverty. Since then, has the new neoliberalism outperformed the old?

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What Happened at CCSF?

What Happened at CCSF?

by Allan Fisher, Marcy Rein, Rick Baumand Wynd Kaufmyn

June 1, 2017

Did the accreditation crisis and subsequent labor struggle at City College of San Francisco represent a failure of union democracy, or a hard-won victory against corporate education reform? Rick Baum's recent article on this question, "A Teachers Union Against Itself" (published the April 2017 issue of Monthly Review) prompted a lively response from AFT Local 2121 members and supporters. This correspondence article collects their letters, as well as a reply by Baum.

A Progressive City Fights Back

A Progressive City Fights Back

by Daniel M. Berman

June 1, 2017

In 2014, after years of grassroots organizing, a coalition of progressives transformed Richmond, California into the largest city in the United States governed by a Green Party mayor. But Richmond is not just Anytown: its economy and government has been dominated for a century by a giant Chevron refinery, and by a racist political machine determined to keep the city's working-class and nonwhite majority out of power.

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