Is abolishing the same as defunding? Does either one mean the police have been defeated? What does it mean when liberals start saying abolishing the police isn't all that scary? A socialist take on an exciting set of slogans.
Leftist publishers said that Sanders' campaign was the path to a militant mass movement and a break with the two-party system. Now Sanders is defeated, they're arguing to stay inside the Democrats. What gives?
There's no "China virus". Neither China's factory farming nor its authoritarianism set it apart from the rest of the world. China is a vital component of the world capitalist system, both the rival and the collaborator of the West; and it's that system of capitalism that created and spread COVID-19.
