Daily Archives: November 13, 2021

2021-11-13: News Headlines

_____ (2021-11-13). China And Solutions To Climate Change. popularresistance.org Last year, President Xi Jinping, pledged that China's CO2 emissions would peak before 2030, and China would become carbon neutral before 2060. | China has a track history of setting ambitious, nearly impossible goals and then achieving them–often before deadline–so this pledge is significant. Under the CPC, China has already created "an economic miracle" in transforming China into the largest economy in the world. It ended extreme poverty while creating the largest middle class in the world. It has virtually eradicated Covid through non-pharmaceutical methods, while vaccinating up to 20 million people daily, an…

Monica E Peek (2021-11-13). [Comment] By any means necessary: why lowering insulin prices is relevant to racial health equity. thelancet.com When young revolutionaries in the 1960s sought to free Black people in the USA from lives of structured racism (ie, the differential access to opportunity, goods, and services by race) "by any means necessary",1 few people imagined this movement might one day include efforts to overcome exorbitant insulin prices. Yet organisations such as the Black Panther Party (BPP) understood long ago how poverty and other structural inequities lead to worse health, and were instrumental in creating a framework for cross-sector collaboration to address health disparities in low-income Black communities.

Editor (2021-11-13). Marx on the metabolic rift: How capitalism cuts us off from nature. mronline.org Marx and Engels were witnesses to and keen analysts of the environmental problems inherent in nineteenth-century capitalism. They wrote about the depletion of coal reserves, the destruction of forests, and, especially, about diminishing soil fertility, which Foster recognizes was the most pressing issue of the day.

John Bellamy Foster (2021-11-13). Return of the Dialectics of Nature: Marxian Ecology and the Struggle for Freedom as Necessity —A Discussion of the Deutscher Prize 2020. mronline.org This session is a discussion of the Deutscher Prize Winning Book 2020 'The Return of the Dialectics of Nature: Marxian Ecology and the Struggle for Freedom as Necessity' — John Bellamy Foster…

Ajamu Baraka (2021-11-12). Class Warfare and Socialist Resistance: Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela as Existential Threats to the US. dissidentvoice.org Why do Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela pose such an existential threat to the U.S.? The promise of socialism and their resistance to US class warfare. One of the extreme ironies of the latest attack by the settler-colonial regime of the United States against the national democratic project of Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua, the second …

Rachel Collett (2021-11-12). Sheila Rowbotham's Dream Deferred. zcomm.org In her new memoir, Sheila Rowbotham writes about the radical aspirations of feminism and socialism in the 1970s — and how many of the decade's struggles remain to be won today…

Marcelo Colussi (2021-11-12). COP 26, soluciones tibias para problemas candentes. globalizacion.ca El planeta está en peligro y, por tanto, todos los seres vivos (animales y vegetales) que allí vivimos. Desde el inicio de la revolución industrial hace dos siglos, hoy ya extendida por todo el mundo, el capitalismo ha cambiado la…

_____ (2021-11-12). The Hood Communist Guide To The US Blockade On Cuba. popularresistance.org July 2021 caught many on the US left slipping. While the US exploited relatively small protests in Cuba for round the clock coverage of what was being called "the day of reckoning for the Cuban revolution", true colors were exposed as so-called leftists in the imperial core struggled to model what anti-imperialist solidarity actually looks like. For more than 50 years, the call from revolutionary Cuban citizens and organizations has been to end the US blockade on Cuba. For more than 50 years, this has been the most important contribution that the US left could make toward the island. But in the face of protests e…

sputniknews (2021-11-12). Chinese Communist Party Brands Upcoming US Democracy Summit as 'Ironic'. sputniknews.com BEIJING (Sputnik) – The idea of the United States holding a democracy summit at the time when a whole range of democratic issues is mounting in Western nations is very ironic, Jiang Jinquan, head of the Chinese Communist Party's (CPC) Central Committee's policy research office, said on Friday.

Staff (2021-11-12). BLM could 'unleash the people' in New York — co-founder to RT. rt.com Black Lives Matter co-founder Chivona Newsome has warned that she has the power to "snap our fingers and unleash the people," should New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams resurrect controversial NYPD anti-crime units. | "Eric Adams is a man without a plan, so all he can conceive of is brute force," Newsome told RT America on Thursday. "That's how he wants to and plans to unleash law enforcement, NYPD, on black and brown people who live in … dire, dire poverty." | Read more | | Created to sto…

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