2022-01-06: News Headlines

Prabhat Patnaik (2022-01-06). Yet another contradiction of capitalism. mronline.org In the United States there are still four million persons who remain unemployed compared to before the pandemic; and yet the Biden administration's attempt to stimulate the economy has already run into a crisis with the re-emergence of inflation not just in that country but elsewhere in the capitalist world as well.

WSWS (2022-01-05). How American capitalism profits on death. wsws.org Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the correspondence between mass infection and stock prices is well established. The markets fall when they suspect measures will be taken to stop the spread of COVID-19, and they rise when the disease is allowed to spread unchecked.

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2022-01-05). Tuesday 1/4: Press Conference: Stop the Mayor's War on the Tenderloin! indybay.org SF City Hall. Tune into the livestream via @PSLBayArea on Twitter…

WSWS (2022-01-05). World leaders mourn Archbishop Desmond Tutu in acknowledgement of services rendered to imperialism. wsws.org Post-apartheid, Tutu's greatest service by far to South African capitalism and world imperialism was as head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-05). Beyond the Capitalist Paradigm of Destruction: Generative Chaos. libya360.wordpress.com Leonardo Boff I believe that this leap, with our participation, especially the victims of the exploitation of capitalism, can occur and would be within the possibilities of the history of the universe and the Earth: from the current destructive chaos, we can move on to generative chaos of a new way of being and inhabiting…

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