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Presenting the Strike MoMa Reader
The titles below trace this history and provide the backdrop for understanding class struggle today in the context of the collapse of neoliberalism:
Combatting climate change will take more than adapting to its symptoms. In this reflection on COP26 and a year of climate disaster, Andreas Malm argues that governments need to start targeting the causes of the climate crisis, beginning with fossil fuels.
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In an article for il manifesto, Claudio Natoli reflects on the life and work of Enzo Collotti. One of the most important historians of European fascism and the anti-fascist Resistance, Collotti died in Florence on October 7 aged 82.
On 28 April 1971, the first issue of the daily version of il manifesto hit the newsstands. Despite countless difficulties, phases when its survival was deeply imperilled, and periods when it temporarily had to suspend publication, fifty years later the newspaper is still with us — and thriving.
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Books that identify our economic system as the key obstacle in our fight for liberation.
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As world leaders gathered in Glasgow last month for COP26, Sinn Féin’s Chris Hazzard MP has said Covid19 and the Climate Crisis has exposed the ‘rotten infrastructure’ of the capitalist economic system and called on all shades of progressive activists to identify economic & social concepts that will emancipate exploited workers; protect hard-pressed families; empower local communities; and decolonise the natural world.