https://www.yahoo.com/news/google-walkout-marks-new-direction-metoo-timesup-160508737.html

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NDAs, Non-Disclosure Agreements, threaten press freedom, but it seems defending Billionaires like Sir Green overrides any commitment to democracy.  Spending $640,000 apparently buys Sir Green a personal court-backed dictatorship and the right to censor the free press. Where should socialists stand?  With NDAs and billionaires or with the democratic right to a free press?  Is

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During this interview both Niles Niemuth at 3:30 and Patrick Martin 4:00 argue that certain people with successful careers in politics and intelligence are war criminals engaged in criminal activity without using the word alleged. Is this a trial in the media? Why can Patrick Martin, Niles Niemuth, and in other places Bill Van Auken

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I noticed that since I started posting blocked comments to this page, September has had the most blocked comments and the most traffic to my site. The greater the level of censorship, the greater the amount of traffic that lands on my page. So, thank you for blocking my point of view, because it proves

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The ouster of New York Review of Books editor Ian Buruma: Th… Marx and Engels describe the suffering of workers under bourgeois “democracy” in the Communist Manifesto: “In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed – a class of labourers, who live

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I wrote an email to disqus.com customer support.  I did not receive any response yet, but the full comment has been restored to my history.  So I will now post the original (edited slightly) in its entirety below, with a marker (at this point) to show where it had originally been excised. Ida B. Wells

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Blocked Comment in Reply to Raghuram 2 days ago To find where the censorship began, scroll down to “at this point.” The #MeToo campaign versus the presumption of innocence Random Poster raghuram 2 days ago Removed It is the methods of the capitalist state, even under the admission of this social-chauvinist writer, that would be

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/thousands-marriott-workers-strike-7-183856467.html Striking hotel workers want panic buttons to prevent sexual assault. Does there need to be a trial before the panic-button can be pushed? By pushing the button, are they not making an accusation without providing any evidence? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-hotels-abuse/u-s-hotels-arm-staff-with-panic-buttons-after-years-of-resistance-idUSKCN1LN00J “A 2016 survey of nearly 500 Chicago-area female hospitality workers found that 58 percent in the

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Summary: In 2017, the US economy paid out $16.4 trillion in personal income. Latina women earn 62% what white men earn, (three not four fifth) meaning they would need a more than 61% increase to reach equality. Latinos make up 16.8% of the labor force. Workers, regardless of race, earn 37% less in Colombus, Georgia

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Random Poster Don Barrett 2 days ago Removed Be careful about your statements on lynch mobs, because again, you veer into very anti-marxist territory. First of all, Charles Lynch, a Virginia Judge and an American revolutionary, began “Lynch’s Law” in his famous capture and ad hoc trial of British Loyalists hostile to the revolution. His

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