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		<title>Chilean Student Demonstrators Met With Heavy Handed Police Repression</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RIAD AZAR December 22nd 2011 Since the recent change in leadership of the FECH (Federacion de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile) the student mobilizations that have been engaging in the struggle for a free and quality education since May have been in limbo. Some see the election of Gabriel Boric as a move further [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libya and the Left</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Frase</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PETER FRASE I’ve been putting off this post, waiting for the Libyan revolution to reach some kind of decisive conclusion to its military phase. But it looks like that could take a while: the game of “Where’s Muammar” may go on for a while, and in the worst case scenario his loyalists could mount a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norway and Social Democracy Under Attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anders Behring Breivik]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAWRENCE GULOTTA While our domestic right-wing pundits and bloggers remain focused on Muslim immigration into Europe and the U.S., the motivation behind Anders Behring Breivik&#8217;s murderous rampage appears to be blind, insane hatred of Norway’s ruling Labor Party and the social democratic model of development. The youth group, Arbeidernes Ungdomsfylking (Workers’ Youth League), which owns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Global Crisis of Legitimacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[class struggle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legitimacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neoliberalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zbigniew Brzezinski]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MAISANO The world is not simply in the midst of a deep economic slump. This is but one aspect of the crisis of legitimacy that confronts almost all of the political and economic institutions that comprise the capitalist world system today. The ongoing revolt in the Arab world against political corruption and socioeconomic exclusion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End U.S. Support for Bahrain&#8217;s Oppressive Government</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/end-u-s-support-for-bahrains-oppressive-government</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 23:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the Libyan civil war and the upheavals in Syria have dominated headlines in recent weeks, the repression of pro-democracy activists in U.S. ally Bahrain, an absolute monarchy governed by and for the country&#8217;s Sunni elite against the Shia majority, continues unabated. As Al Jazeera has documented, medical workers, athletes, and schoolgirls have all been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet as a Tool for Repression</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 20:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evgeny Morozov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online organizing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theactivist.org/blog/?p=3786</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MARK ENGLER We often hear about the revolutionary power of the Internet to take down authoritarian regimes. Less often do we consider how online technologies can provide dastardly means for repressive governments to locate, monitor, and persecute dissidents. The geniuses over at the RSA Animate have recently posted an annotated talk by Evgeny Morozov. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Left in the Canadian Elections</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/curb-your-enthusiasm-the-left-in-the-canadian-elections</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/curb-your-enthusiasm-the-left-in-the-canadian-elections#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 14:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[2011 Canadian elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bloc Quebecois]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theactivist.org/blog/?p=3766</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people in the U.S., including most leftists, know next to nothing about Canadian politics. Because of this, Canada tends to be seen as some sort of social democratic paradise &#8211; a land of universal healthcare, multiculturalism, and benign stoners &#8211; instead of the complex and changing society it is in reality. In an effort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libya: Real Problems, No Answers</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/libya-real-problems-no-answers</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/libya-real-problems-no-answers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 05:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Schulman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lead Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News and Views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David McReynolds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaddafi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[no-fly zone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DAVID MCREYNOLDS Sheila Cooper was my first indirect contact with Libya &#8212; back in the 1980&#8242;s. Sheila had great secretarial skills, she enjoyed that work, and had been the essential person to serve as back-up to Peggy Duff. (I just checked Wikipedia for Peggy &#8212; an interesting entry but a deplorable &#8220;evaluation.&#8221;) Peggy was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organizing the Egyptian Revolution</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/organizing-the-egyptian-revolution</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/organizing-the-egyptian-revolution#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Payne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frances Fox Piven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gene Sharp]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mohamed ElBaradei]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Amar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resource Mobilization Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Dreyfuss]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theactivist.org/blog/?p=3690</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MARK ENGLER All of us who have been watching the Egyptian protests over the last few weeks have been told many times that the demonstrations have been “spontaneous” and “leaderless,” sparked by the Tunisian rebellion and spread via the Internet. Those intent on repeating this storyline can count me as skeptical. As I previously wrote, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salmaan Taseer and the Crisis of Pakistani Liberalism</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/salmaan-taseer-and-the-crisis-of-pakistani-liberalism</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/salmaan-taseer-and-the-crisis-of-pakistani-liberalism#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhaskar Sunkara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News and Views]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BHASKAR SUNKARA Mumtaz Hussain Qadri was grinning minutes after he ripped twenty-seven bullets through Salmaan Taseer, the liberal governor of Punjab, last month. He was not alone. While Taseer’s funeral was sparsely attended, Qadri was embraced as a national hero by many, showered with garlands before his first court appearance, and offered free council by [...]]]></description>
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