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Oil’s History 🔖 Dissecting The Many-Headed Hydra

Simon Pirani ☭ Review of Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market by Adam Hanieh (Verso 2024).18-November-2024Witnessing genocide can be paralysing. The horror of Israel’s onslaught on the civilian population of Gaza seeps in to the spaces in our heads, interrupting and disrupting attempts to think.My memory keeps connecting Gaza to the Vietnam war, news

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Four Hundred And Thirty Eight

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousUnited States: The Democrats’ stubborn refusal to learn from the campus protests for PalestinePalestinians sue State Department

50th Celebration Night Of The IRSM 🪶 A Personal Perspective

Daithi Hopkins ✍This is my personal recollection of the 50th Celebration of the IRSM night held on Saturday the 30th of November 2024. As this is my own view, anyone else present won’t be mentioned or quotations/pictures of those attending. However, fret not. I have been informed that the Party intends on producing a proper telling of the events via social media and other sources. Anthony

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Four Hundred And Thirty Seven

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousChinese Trotskyists: The Longest NightCommunity Relations and the Troubles in Northern IrelandA Bangladeshi feminist’s personal –

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Bastard Al-Assad Falls 🪶 Rejoice, Rejoice (For Now Maybe)

Barry Gilheany ✍ In the end, the event crept up on the world unnoticed.The overthrow of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad and the Assad dynasty which had ruled Syria for 54 years in a manner which requires the redefinition of the words “brutality” and tyranny on the weekend of 7-8 December 2024 happened with such stunning speed as to make the downfall of communism in Eastern Europe in

Biden's Gambit

Peter Maguire ✏ writing in Sour Milk. President Biden’s 11th hour decision to escalate the war in Ukraine is the kind of quixotic, unilateral exercise of power that we have been told to expect from Donald Trump. Nothing has disappointed me more about the Biden administration than their appetite for war and indifference to the human suffering caused by it. Blood thirstiness, however

News From Ukraine 💣 Bulletin 124

A Digest of News ✊ from Ukrainian Sources ⚔ 2-December-2024. In this week’s bulletin⬤ Russia’s persecution of Tatars and elected councillors.⬤  When Russian soldiers return home.⬤ UN condemnation of Russian attacks on energy network.⬤ Western “anti imperialism” & Ukraine.⬤  “Solidarity not charity” in Odesa.⬤ Evidence of torture and Russia’s killing of

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Four Hundred And Thirty Six

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousExplained: Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trialNetanyahu testimony opens in public corruption trialA dozen ministers, MKs, attend

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