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Atacicept in IgA Nephropathy — Phase 3 Trial Final Efficacy Analysis Original
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Small‐Molecule KRAS Inhibitors by Tyrosine Covalent Bond Formation
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Clinical Decision Support for Patient Cases with Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis Using AI Models and Electronic Medical Records
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Robert Brenner: ‘The most extreme characteristics of US imperialism come from its relationship to the indigenous population’
[Editor's note: The following is an edited transcript of the speech given by Robert Brenner on the “Imperialism(s) today” panel at the “ Boris Kagarlitsky and the challenges of the left today” online conference, which was organised by the Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign on October 8.
Dylan Riley & Robert Brenner, Seven Theses on American Politics, NLR 138, November–December 2022
In the weeks following the 2022 us midterms, the mood in the intellectual penumbra of the Democratic Party swung wildly from impassioned handwringing to euphoric self-congratulation. Dire warnings of a ‘red wave’ delivering large congressional majorities to the Republicans gave way to jubilation at the salvation of democracy. In reality the results were decidedly mixed. The Republicans took the House with a narrow majority, while Democrats retained their slim hold on the Senate.
The 1929 Loray Mill Strike Was a Landmark Working-Class Struggle in the US South
Although Ella May worked at the American Mill No. 2 in Bessemer City — not the Loray Mill in Gastonia, where the strike had broken out — her experience, and the demands of workers there, were similar. She earned just $9 a week, laboring for six ten- or twelve-hour shifts while her children slept. By her late twenties, she had already buried four children, and the family often lacked proper health care or nutrition.
Fascism and Democracy
Interview by George Souvlis Fascism is back in fashion — at least if mainstream political commentators are to be believed. Many have been quick to seize upon the oft-misunderstood term to describe Donald Trump, presenting the Republican presidential candidate as a uniquely menacing figure along the lines of Franco or Mussolini. But this careless use of the fascist label ignores the historical roots of fascism and sidesteps the vital work of carefully analyzing Trump’s political ascendance.
Sound As A Defense Weapon: How Sound Frequency Can Cause Pain
Sound as a defense weapon? This article explains the ways in which sound can be an excellent self-defense tool. RELATED: Sound As A Weapon Part 2: How to Use Sound for Your Own Protection Sound as a Defense Weapon: Using Sound Frequency to Survive In this article: What Is Sound?
Jacobin Radio: Robert Brenner on Coronavirus
Suzi talks toRobert Brenner,who has just published “Escalating Plunder” in New Left Review 123, about the federal response to the shutdown of the economy in the wake of the coronavirus. The punchline is that the COVID-19 bailout, or Cares Act, not only escalates plunder, it is predation on steroids in a stalled economy in worsening decline.
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Capital could not just abolish the gains of the postwar period. It was necessary to preserve social peace. The "trick" in the 1970s consisted of using inflation to defuse the emerging conflict between labour and capital over redistribution. The money machine was used to compensate for the loss of income which resulted from the reduction in capital’s contribution to the welfare state… Evidently, that could not last.
Jacobin Radio: Mike Davis and Robert Brenner
Podcasting in the time of coronavirus: Suzi's new episode of Jacobin Radio features interviews with Marxist greats Mike Davis and Robert Brenner. Mike Davis is writing widely on the COVID-19 pandemic in Jacobin and the Nation. Fifteen years ago, Davis published The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu, and he sees the coronavirus pandemic as the familiar monster now at our door.
The Last Night at Tad's Steakhouse, NYC Institution Closes After 60 Years
Tad’s was an inexpensive chain of steakhouses. The last one in New York City closed Sunday, January 5th 2020, after 60 years in business. It was located at 761 7th Ave., adjoining a T.G.I. Friday’s in Times Square. For those who have never been to Tad’s, it’s difficult to explain the appeal. The steaks were rubbery. The décor was bordello-esque—red flocked wallpaper, fake Tiffany lamps.
The Landing: Fascists without Fascism
This post first appeared at Research & Destroy. We can imagine a person slowly becoming aware that he is the subject of catastrophe. The form of consciousness might be likened to someone peering out the window of a plane. They have been aboard for a long time, years, decades. From cruising altitude the landscape below scrolls past evenly, somewhat abstracted. The stabilizing mechanisms of eye and brain smooth the scene. Perhaps they are somewhere above the upper midwest.
Robert Brenner on the State of the Economy
Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Android Subscribe by Email Add to MyCast Share The state of the economy is, despite assertions to the contrary, not strong; it is being plundered by the alliance of top corporate managers, leading financiers and political leaders from both parties.
Cataract-associated Connexin 46 Mutation Alters Its Interaction with Calmodulin and Function of Hemichannels
Connexin channels help maintain eye lens homeostasis and transparency. The G143R missense substitution in connexin (Cx) 46 is associated with congenital Coppock cataracts; however, the underlying molecular mechanism is largely unknown. Here, we report that compared with wild type (WT) Cx46, the G143R substitution abolishes hemichannel conductance in Xenopus oocytes and in HeLa cells. Moreover, this substitution is dominant-negative and inhibits conductance of WT Cx46.
Photographing New York's Endangered Mom and Pop Stores
A new book, Store Front II, expands the quest to document family-owned businesses before they disappear. The Mansoura family has been in the pastry business since the 18th century.
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Baptiste Touverey's interview with Wolfgang Streeck was first published in Books in February 2017. Translated by David Broder. What can we still learn from Karl Marx? Firstly, that our society is a historically determinate one, inscribed in a flow of events. Next, that this flow of events is structurally ordered, that the evolution of society obeys a logic that we must understand if we are to be able to interpret whatever takes place.
Clinicopathological case: progressive cognitive decline with gait disturbance in a steel worker
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Clinicopathological case: progressive cognitive decline with gait disturbance in a steel worker
Clinicopathological case: progressive cognitive decline with gait disturbance in a steel worker Fiona C Moreton1, Robert Brenner2, Jayam Lazarus3, Richard Davenport1 1Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK 2Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK 3Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Lincolnshire, UK Correspondence to Dr Fiona Moreton, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK;...
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Nissan plant, Smyrna, TN. The 2016 election was primarily a referendum on US trade and immigration policies. Trump’s case, insofar as one could be found amid all his bloviating, was something like the following: the US sent jobs abroad at the same time as it let workers in from Mexico, and that has been bad for most Americans. It’s worth remembering that Trump began his campaign by attacking financial elites, who, he said, had paid off the politicians to keep this con act going.
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Bhaskar Sunkara’s interview with Robert Brenner , on the forces that made and unmade the American welfare state, was first published in Jacobin (The Memorial Day Massacre: Chicago police attack Republic Steel strikers) Robert Brenner: I would say that the key to the emergence of the New Deal reforms was the transformation in the level and character of working-class struggle. Within a year or two of Roosevelt’s election, we saw the sudden emergence of a mass militant working-class movement.
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Bhaskar Sunkara’s interview with Robert Brenner , on the forces that made and unmade the American welfare state, was first published in Jacobin (The Memorial Day Massacre: Chicago police attack Republic Steel strikers) Robert Brenner: I would say that the key to the emergence of the New Deal reforms was the transformation in the level and character of working-class struggle. Within a year or two of Roosevelt’s election, we saw the sudden emergence of a mass militant working-class movement.
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The results themselves have already received much scrutiny. Broadly speaking, the basis for the Democrats’ victory in the 2006 mid-terms lay in swings of 4–6 per cent in their favour among nearly every category of the electorate, plus a highly significant 14 per cent swing among Latinos. [1] This enabled the Democrats to increase their House delegation from 201 to 233 seats, with the Republicans dropping from 232 to 202.
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The results themselves have already received much scrutiny. Broadly speaking, the basis for the Democrats’ victory in the 2006 mid-terms lay in swings of 4–6 per cent in their favour among nearly every category of the electorate, plus a highly significant 14 per cent swing among Latinos. [1] This enabled the Democrats to increase their House delegation from 201 to 233 seats, with the Republicans dropping from 232 to 202.
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The apparent viability of Bernie Sanders' campaign for the Democratic nomination and the left-ward drift of opinion amongst, especially, young Americans has raised the question of the prospects for a Social Democratic turn in American politics.
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In the third part of his essay on social democracy in the United States Robert Brenner considers the notion of movement building via electoral campaigns through the prism of Jesse Jackson's 1984 presidential bid. Brenner is the author of The Boom and the Bubble Merchants and Revolution , and The Economics of Global Turbulence amongst many other crucial contributions to economic thought.The essay first appeared in the 1985 edition of The Year Left: An American Socialist Yearbook.
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In the second part of a three-part essay on social democracy in the United States Robert Brenner discusses two cycles of attempted reform of American capitalism in the 1930s and 1960s, the decline of those reformist cycles, and the consequences of the crisis of American capitalism in the 1970s. Brenner is the author of many penetrating studies of global economics including: The Boom and the Bubble, Merchants and Revolution, and The Economics of Global Turbulence.
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The apparent viability of Bernie Sanders' campaign for the Democratic nomination and the left-ward drift of opinion amongst, especially, young Americans has raised the question of the prospects for a Social Democratic turn in America politics.
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In the second part of his 1991 essay on the decline of the Eastern Bloc Robert Brenner provides a prescient analysis of the likely outcome of the political and economic crisis in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. He correctly predicts that the future for the region would resemble less the post-war experience of Western Europe and would more closely follow the trajectory of the nations of the Global South.
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In 1991 Robert Brenner, Director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA, authored a two-part essay on the decline and collapse of the Soviet and Eastern European economic systems. The article appeared in the March/April 1991 issue of Against the Current and is reproduced here for the first time. Brenner is the author of many vital books on global economics including: The Boom and the Bubble, Merchants and Revolution, and The Economics of Global Turbulence.
Up From Liberalism
The German Social Democratic Party therefore does not fight for new class privileges and class rights, but for the abolition of class rule and of classes themselves, for equal rights and equal obligations for all, without distinction of sex or birth. Starting from these views, it fights not only the exploitation and oppression of wage earners in society today, but every manner of exploitation and oppression, whether directed against a class, party, sex, or race.
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Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extension of age-old practices of trade and commerce. In this original and provocative book Ellen Meiksins Wood reminds us that capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extension of age-old practices of trade and commerce.
Must-Read: Robert Brenner (2001): The Low Countries in the Transition to Capitalism
Must-Read: Robert Brenner (2001): The Low Countries in the Transition to Capitalism Must-Read: Robert P. Brenner (2001): The Low Countries in the Transition to Capitalism: “The medieval and early modern Northern and Southern Netherlands… …[were] the most highly urbanized and commercialized regions in Europe….
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Bernie Sanders led Hillary Clinton by a 22-point lead in the New Hampshire primaries, the second biggest democratic New Hampshire primary win in history! And a recent Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register poll showed that 43 percent of Iowa Democratic caucus goers described themselves as “socialist” while only 38 percent described themselves as “capitalist.” Bernie Sanders has tapped in to a growing popular movement that demands economic justice for all.
Maurice Thomson’s War
The English Civil War occupies a strange niche in contemporary memory. To all official appearances, no episode of the country’s modern past is so parenthetical. Leaving no reputable trace in common traditions or public institutions, it looks in established retrospect like a temporary black-out in the growth of the national psyche. Our only republic remains under ban, a historical freak.
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