(2021-10-14). The Case for a Substantive Universal Basic Income. counterpunch.org A substantive and non-neoliberal Universal Basic Income (UBI) could substantially improve people's lives, is feasible and possible and can be a step towards a revolutionary transformation of a society towards participatory socialism. There is no conflict with related proposals for Universal Basic Services, a UBS, or with a Guaranteed Jobs Program. A UBI is expensive
(2021-10-14). Free Leonard Peltier and all Native prisoners! workers.org 
Leonard Peltier During the era of colonial theft and conquest, North America became a proving ground for European imperialists. This was where strategies of biological warfare and genocide were honed, as well as the industry that has become a pillar of modern global capitalism: mass incarceration. One cannot talk about . . . |
(2021-10-14). Is "Progress" at a Standstill? counterpunch.org In 1788, Thomas Jefferson wrote to Edward Carrington, a fellow Virginian soldier and statesman, "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) and Karl Marx (1818-1883) offered different but complementary, if less critical, notions of progress. "Truth, in the great practical concerns of life, is
(2021-10-13). Regulating Big Tech is not enough. We need platform socialism. zcomm.org Facebook won't let state oversight trump shareholder interest, so alternatives — based on common ownership and community control — are needed…
(2021-10-13). Cuba's President Holds Historic Meeting with LGBTI Activists. orinocotribune.com President Miguel Díaz-Canel opened the doors of the Palace of the Revolution to representatives of the LGBTI community on Friday, with aims of turning political will into guarantees, making him the first Cuban head of state in history to hear from and speak directly with a group of LGBTI activists. | The President and First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee invited the leaders to participate in the construction of an increasingly inclusive nation towards a more "perfect socialism" and thanked them for the meeting, which he said puts the government in a position "to better understand a gro…
(2021-10-13). US Socialists Must Back Existing Socialism and Support Land Back. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Oct 11, 2021 | In 1981, the Sixth Plenum of the 11th Communist Party of China's Central Committee The Party, the country and the people suffered from the most serious setbacks and the biggest loss during the "cultural revolution," which lasted from May 1966 to October 1976, since the founding of the PRC… The history of the "cultural revolution" proved that the…
(2021-10-13). U.S. intervention and capitalism have created a monster in Honduras. peoplesworld.org 
Chilean author and human rights advocate Ariel Dorfman recently memorialized Orlando Letelier, former Chilean President Salvador Allende's foreign minister. Agents of dictator Augusto Pinochet murdered Letelier in Washington in 1976. Dorfman noted that Chile and the United States were "on excellent, indeed obscenely excellent, terms (like they are today, shamefully, between the United States and …
(2021-10-13). Chomsky, Pollin and Lapavitsas: Are We Witnessing the Demise of Neoliberalism? truthout.org 
After 40 years of neoliberal rule, in which the state actively sought to eradicate the boundary between market, civil society and governance by making economic rationality the cornerstone of every human activity, advanced capitalism appears to be at a crossroads on account of the economic and social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. So-called "big government" has staged a dramatic comeback, and even conservative leaders have broken with some of the basic orthodoxies of neoliberalism. | Are we i…
(2021-10-13). US Intervention and Capitalism Have Created a Monster in Honduras. counterpunch.org Honduras, a dependent nation, is subject to U.S. expectations. These center on free rein for businesses and multi-national corporations, large foreign investment, low-cost export goods, low wages, foreigners' access to land holdings and sub-soil resources, and a weakened popular resistance. Meanwhile, the U.S. government casts a blind eye on Hernández's many failings.
(2021-10-13). Argentine Solidarity Stops Attack Cuban Embassy in Buenos Aires. telesurenglish.net The attempt was made by a gusano-Cuban group financed by CADAL, Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America, an Argentine anti-communist NGO linked to the US State Department, the CIA and USAID. | RELATED: | The tiny anti-revolutionary group had the support of the right-wing faction of the Libertarian Party, which openly adheres to the policies of Bolsonaro in Brazil and VOX in Spain, and tries, with violent act…
(2021-10-13). Philippines: Call for collective action to extend aid to victims of massive flooding. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following Oct. 12 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines. | The Party calls on all revolutionary forces to lead in efforts to mobilize all possible resources to extend aid to all victims of massive flooding in various provinces, especially in northern Luzon. | Just several months after suffering from widespread economic devastation brought about by rains last December, millions of people of northern Luzon provinces have been ravaged again by widespread flooding following a few days of heavy rains and landslides brought by typhoon Maring. Widespread inunda…
(2021-10-13). Ascension: Social division and social ambition in China. wsws.org The movie, according to its director, is "observational and essayistic," examining, among other things, the "juxtaposition of wealth and poverty" and the "often coercive relationships between the various levels of capitalist enterprise."