C.J. Atkins
LATEST ARTICLES BY C.J. Atkins
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Making time for Marx, not just the market
April 25, 2018A directive from Xi Jinping to study The Communist Manifesto suggests that in the world’s biggest country, the market still has to give way to Marx, or at least some version of him.
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Cuba’s Revolution: A new generation takes the lead
April 19, 2018Cuba enters the post-Castro era, with 57-year-old Miguel Diaz-Canel slated to become the country's next president.
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Syria airstrikes added $10 billion to missile manufacturer stock values
April 16, 2018War, who is it good for? Missile manufacturers, that’s who.
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In Russia, Putin wins again; Communist candidate calls election “filthy”
March 19, 2018Allegations of ballot-stuffing are swirling, but Putin still easily overcame the Communist candidate, strawberry millionaire Pavel Grudinin.
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Steel tariffs: Playing Trump’s protectionist game
March 13, 2018Labor and progressives should be skeptical of what Trump is putting on the table. He's not thinking of workers' interests with his trade proposals.
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Vietnam: 50 years after the Tet offensive
March 5, 2018The war-torn capital of a despised dictatorship only half-a-century ago, Ho Chi Minh City is now the economic powerhouse for a country on the move.
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Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Alabama Republican downplays pedophilia, defends Roy Moore
November 10, 2017If Republicans are truly worried about the moral degeneracy of the nation, they should start by looking inward—to their own party.
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The Soviet past we never knew
November 6, 2017The real Russian Revolution had, at its heart, a liberting potential and a Marxism rooted in real-world practice that still holds lessons a century later.
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