NYC Marxist Studies Collective

10/25/2024

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/met-museum-acquires-enslaved-portrait-2350056

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired Bélizaire and the Frey Children, a rare 19th-century portrait with an enslaved person.

10/19/2024

10/17/2024

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/17/iran_israel_escalation

We look at Israel’s threats to launch retaliatory strikes against Iran as fears grow of a broader regional war. We speak to analyst Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, about the Biden administration sending U.S. troops and the top-of-the-line T...

10/17/2024

You really feel good about voting for this?

10/17/2024

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/09/opinion/gaza-doctor-interviews.html?searchResultPosition=1

“Nearly every day I was there, I saw a new young child who had been shot in the head or the chest, virtually all of whom went on to die.”

10/17/2024

"Israel Is Routinely Shooting Children in the Head in Gaza: U.S. Surgeon & Palestinian Nurse":

"You know, if you look at the differential of killing between Ukraine and Israel — it depends on what day you calculate it, but the differential is literally hundreds of times. The rate of killing of children in Gaza is hundreds of times higher than it is in Ukraine. So, it’s very hard for me to believe that this is just a byproduct of a war that’s being fought in otherwise just ways. I find that hard to believe."

https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2024/10/16 #

A daily independent global news hour with Amy Goodman & Juan González. Israel Is Routinely Shooting Children in the Head in Gaza: U.S. Surgeon & Palestinian Nurse; Uncommitted Co-Founder Abbas Alawieh on U.S. Election & Family in Lebanon Fleeing Israeli Bombs; “Deportation First”: Trump and Har...

10/08/2024

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-most-moral-army/

Mary Turfah examines Israeli officials’ weaponization of language, particularly that of medicine, in an attempt to reframe their genocide in Gaza.

10/08/2024

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/23/human-shielding-in-action-israeli-forces-strap-palestinian-man-to-jeep

Israeli forces tie wounded Palestinian man to a military jeep in an incident a UN expert condemned as human shielding.

10/08/2024

https://www.declassifieduk.org/israels-brutality-against-palestinians-draws-on-british-rule/ #:~:text=7%20October%202023.-,Human%20shields,up%20before%20British%20troops%20proceeded.

10/05/2024

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/al-jazeera-close-up/2024/5/17/im-a-professor-who-got-fired-and-arrested-for-protesting-israels-gaza-war

This American professor was fired and arrested for protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza

10/04/2024

https://fair.org/home/top-papers-quoted-more-wine-importers-than-union-leaders-on-port-strike/

The more a strike affects the economy, i.e., the more effective it is, the harder corporate media try to smear workers as selfish and destructive.

10/03/2024

The longshormen's union, the ILA (International Longshoremen's Association: ilaunion.org/) is on strike because while corporate profits have been at a record high, most longshoremen are living precariously (2/3rds of longshoremen don't have any income if there are no ships to work on, but are permanently on "call"). The USMX is the organization for the shipping/carrier corporations that hire longshoremen. Please read about this outrageous situation and support the Longshoremen!

https://ilaunion.org/ila-responds-to-usmxs-statement-that-distorts-the-facts-and-misleads-the-public/

ILA Responds To USMX’s Statement That Distorts the Facts and Misleads the Public October 1, 2024 NORTH BERGEN, NJ. – (October 1, 2024) USMX’s recent press release is another attempt to distort the facts and mislead the public. The ILA has rejected their so-called “nearly 50% wage increase”...