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Nawrocki’s Victory May Prove Pyrrhic for Poland’s PiS Party

Sunday night marked the final dramatic act in Poland’s presidential elections after months of campaigning in what had ultimately become a neck-and-neck race between the mayor of Warsaw, Rafal Trzaskowski, and the head of Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance, Karol Nawrocki. Within minutes of the polls closing, the government-backed Trzaskowski …

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Should Our Resistance Enrich Or Transcend Marxism?

Not long ago a Jacobin article (re-posted on ZNet) argued that we need more Marxism. To my eyes the tone was if we aren’t Marxist we aren’t materialist, if we aren’t materialist we don’t believe in reality, and if we pay inadequate attention to reality we will chase rainbows and …

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Israel Fears Arms Race in Fight to Remain Middle East’s Only Nuclear Power

Located among the sprawling dunes of Israel’s southern desert is a central component of what Avner Cohen calls his country’s “worst kept secret.” The Negev Nuclear Research Center, officially renamed in 2018 after late Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and often referred to by the name of the nearby city …

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