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The most pressing issue we face is not how to manage our feelings, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith, but how to show up in ways that are important to us

NPR readers of different belief systems share the poignant rituals that make them feel close to their spirituality. For some, it's poetry and gardening, for others, it's meditation and community.

Published in the Council Communist zine "Revolution Times".

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By the L' Ouvrier Communiste, this text sketches out their views on the State and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Way ahead of its time, this not only anticipates the form-analytic theories of states of the 1970s but also has the novelty of developing one of the first clear conceptions of Councils and Dictatorship of the Proletariat as an anti-state. Originally published in "L'Ouvrier Communiste, No. 12,…

Discover the rewards of discussing deep things.

Published in 1963, Thompson's influential The Making of the English Working Class quickly led to questions about the nature of the American working class.

Including: resistance to Franco, austerity in Belgium, thousands of anarchist and syndicalists jailed in Bulgaria, London busmens' strike 1937, socialism and the state by Tom Brown, Nuremburg trials, unions collaborate with bosses in Norway and Finland, etc.

Money and education no longer explain voting patterns.

AGI will shift the relative importance of human v non-human factors of production, reducing the incentive to care about humans while making existing powers more effective and entrenched

By the French Council Communist "Groupe Communiste de Conseils", this text talks about the May 68 Events in France while also talking about the Utopian dimension of Communism. Originally published in "Cahiers de discussion pour le socialisme de conseils – Numéro spécial – Novembre 1968"

Social media addiction can reduce grey matter, shorten attention spans, weaken memory, and distort core cognitive functions, according to recent research

/ CLASS WAR / We present here a short contribution from a group of comrades in Iran about the recent events in Syria. These comrades, who call themselves "Anti-Capitalist Workers", publish the blog "Against Capital", and we recently opened our columns to them when we published our bulletin on the important class struggles in Iran in 2022 (see our bulletin n°15).

Jesus defied an empire and championed the poor — a legacy that some Christians are trying to reclaim.

In the simulation hypothesis, some scientists believe we could outsmart the simulator—even in the unlikely case we're just glitches in the code.

Dennis Zhou interviews the writer Daisy Hildyard about her story "Revision," which appears in the December 23, 2024, issue of The New Yorker.

From underconsumption and de-influencing to work-life balance and the novelty of no-tech, Gen Z will upend the status quo.