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Mum spots face of Jesus in her Sunday roast dinner gravy

"I did think it looked like Jesus, or Karl Marx. My son is a big fan of The Doors, so he suggested Jim Morrison."

Wales Online

Does competition make us less moral? New research says yes, but only a little bit

Many of our economic and even social interactions are competitive. We use markets to find jobs, but also dates. What does this mean for our morals? Does capitalism give us the American dream, or American Psycho? Does the experience of competition keep us honest, or drive us towards cheating?

The Conversation

Communism explained in 60 seconds: ideas that changed the world

In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that permanently changed the way we see the world.

The Week

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Inside Manchester's secret passageways

Chetham's Library is right on our doorstep and offers a fascinating step back in time

Manchester Evening News

A Redditor Shared A Sign Some Sad Fuck At Their Work Made Which Banned Employees From Having ‘Fun’

Karl Marx did not die for this.

Pedestrian.tv

Ancient rivalries, social panic, revolution … the 19th century is back

Russia has returned to its pre-20th century role, tension between Greece and Turkey is heightened and the revolutions of 1848 feel less distant

The Guardian - UK

Victoria 3's first gameplay DLC lets you invite Marx and Lenin to your place for tea and revolution

Voice of the People is all about rousing the rabble.

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Australian Nursing Federation's WA branch compared to Hitler, Karl Marx at Industrial Relations Commission hearing

The Industrial Relations Commission's registrar alleges the ANF's WA branch breached its orders 3,590 times, which the union says could see it fined more than $27 million.

ABC News

Friday essay: could a reinterpreted Marxism have solutions to our unprecedented environmental crisis?

In 2021, Kohei Saito’s Capital in the Anthropocene became a publishing sensation in Japan, eventually selling more than half a million copies.

The Conversation

Simon Clarke obituary

Other lives: Sociology professor who studied labour relations and trade unions in post-Soviet Russia

The Guardian - UK

Historic Salford pub where Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels drank set to reopen

Six years after closing a start is made on plans to re-open historic pub

Manchester Evening News

One of UK's most famous cemeteries heating graves to protect from extreme weather

Highgate Cemetery in North London is the final resting place for dozens of famous people such as George Michael but also Karl Marx and poisoned Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko - the graves become damaged during extreme cold

Daily Mirror

Economic growth is fuelling climate change – a new book proposes 'degrowth communism' as the solution

I’m often told that degrowth, the planned downscaling of production and consumption to reduce the pressure on Earth’s ecosystems, is a tough sell. But a 36-year-old associate professor at Tokyo University has made a name for himself arguing that “degrowth communism” could halt the escalating climate emergency.

The Conversation

A greener Marx? Kohei Saito on connecting communism with the climate crisis

Author of surprise hit Capital in the Anthropocene has developed his arguments in a new study of Karl Marx’s ecological thinking

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Antisemitic tropes are back on stage again

The Lehman Trilogy is an enthralling and acclaimed play. But, as it returns to London, we should discuss the profound problem at its core

The Guardian - UK

John Eldridge obituary

Sociologist and writer who studied the disparities in media coverage of industrial conflicts

The Conversation

We live in a time of 'late capitalism'. But what does that mean? And what's so late about it?

The term “late capitalism” seems to be everywhere as a trending meme – often used as a kind of shorthand to illustrate the absurdities of certain free market economies.

Salon

Crushing unions: Both sides do it!

Democrats and their "proud pro-labor president" say the right things and do the wrong ones, over and over again

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Mikhail Gorbachev wanted to save communism, but he buried it instead

The death of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, under whose leadership the communist bloc was brought to an end, was met in the west with tributes and personal reminiscences by leaders who had met him and enjoyed his company. This reverence wasn’t matched in Russia or…

The Guardian - US

Swifties know: the Ticketmaster fiasco shows America has a monopoly problem

The power of irate Taylor Swift fans means something might actually be done about the dominance of Ticketmaster and co

The Conversation

British politics urgently needs more imagination. Competence alone will not save us from this 'polycrisis'

The recent turmoil in British politics has led much of the political establishment and commentariat to agree on one thing: what the country needs now is competence, the more boring the better. The last thing we need is risky ideas.

The Conversation

Permacrisis: what it means and why it's word of the year for 2022

The Collins Dictionary’s word of the year for 2022 is “permacrisis”. As accolades go, the managing director of Collins Learning, Alex Beecroft, has said that this one “sums up quite succinctly how truly awful 2022 has been for so many people”.

Reason

When Karl Marx Made the Case for Capitalism

In barely a century, capitalism led to more productivity "than have all preceding generations together," Marx and Friedrich Engels argued.

The Hindu

Sudhakaran slams foreign tours of Pinarayi, Ministers

No public funds used for Loka Kerala Sabha regional conference in London, clarifies State govt.

The Guardian - UK

‘Not living our values’: Royal Society of Arts accused of hypocrisy on staff union

The body gave an award for unionising workers to the IWGB, which it now refuses to recognise

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