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Mapuche Students Occupy TVN and Junaeb Offices in Chile Over Cultural Funding

Students occupied two buildings in Temuco after accusing Chile’s government of withholding CLP 30 million for Mapuche cultural activities.

Hugo Castro

4 days ago

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10 Men Who Changed the World: A Left-Wing Historical Selection

A non-ranked selection of ten men whose ideas, movements and institutions reshaped politics, religion and social life across continents—from Marx and Mao to Muhammad and Confucius.

Listicles

Gianna Mao

Apr 14, 2025

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Who Owns the News? Class Power Inside the Media System

A Marxist media analysis starts with ownership, advertising, distribution and labor. The question is not whether every journalist takes orders—it is who controls the institutions that make journalism possible.

Theory & Analysis

Gianna Mao

Apr 14, 2025

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Why China Still Calls Itself Socialist: Party Power, Markets and the Commanding Heights

China combines markets and private capital with Communist Party rule, public ownership and state direction of strategic sectors. The Marxist debate is about which class forces ultimately command the system.

China

Gianna Mao

Apr 13, 2025

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10 Famous Figures and the Left: Who Was Actually Communist?

Einstein, Chaplin, Kahlo, Davis, Mandela and others had very different relationships to socialism and communism. Here’s what the documented record actually shows.

Listicles

Gianna Mao

Apr 13, 2025

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