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Why Black Women Must Fight for Their Own Healthcare

The healthcare experiences detailed in this Guardian report reveal how the US medical system operates not as a universal service but as a site of racialized class warfare. Black women, positioned at the intersection of racial and gender oppression, encounter a healthcare apparatus that...

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State Violence Escalates as Capital Flees to Safety

This news roundup reveals a deepening crisis of legitimacy for the American state, where the repressive apparatus is being deployed against the working class with increasing brutality while mechanisms of accountability collapse. The killing of two US citizens by federal immigration officers in...

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Tory Defections to Reform Expose Ruling Class Fractures

Suella Braverman's defection from the Conservative Party to Reform UK represents more than personal political calculation—it signals a fracturing within Britain's traditional ruling class coalition as the post-Brexit political settlement continues to unravel. Braverman's rhetoric of 'broken...

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Biden's Disappearance Reveals Disposability of Bourgeois Politicians

The Guardian's portrait of Joe Biden's vanishing from public life offers more than political gossip—it reveals the fundamental disposability of individual politicians within the capitalist state apparatus. Biden, once 'the most powerful man on the planet,' now struggles to raise funds for his...

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Epstein Files Reveal State Protection of Elite Criminals

The ongoing suppression of Jeffrey Epstein investigative files by Trump's Department of Justice reveals a fundamental truth about the capitalist state: it exists to protect the interests of the ruling class, even when that protection requires openly defying laws that the state itself enacted...

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Trump's NATO Insult Exposes Fractures in Western Imperial Alliance

Donald Trump's false claim that NATO allies 'stayed a little back' from frontline combat in Afghanistan has provoked unusual bipartisan condemnation across the British political spectrum, from Labour ministers to Conservative Brexiteers. This diplomatic rupture illuminates deeper contradictions...

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Lancashire Care Home Victory Shows Protest Works

The reversal of planned care home closures in Lancashire represents a significant, if limited, victory for working-class organization against austerity governance. When Reform UK—a party that markets itself as anti-establishment—attempted to close five care homes affecting some of society's most...

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UK Caught Between US Imperial Demands and European Allies

The parliamentary exchange reveals a profound contradiction facing the British state: how to maintain its privileged position within the US-led imperial order while that very order's hegemon makes increasingly naked territorial demands. Starmer's repeated insistence that he 'will not yield' on...

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