(2022-01-16). Rentier capitalism and class warfare in Kazakhstan. zcomm.org Blame 'free' market reforms that benefit the rich and powerful at the expense of the working class for the country's recent protests…
(2022-01-16). Bank privatization isn't conducive for financial markets under capitalism. peoplesdispatch.org One of the most important arguments advanced by John Maynard Keynes, the renowned economist, was that the operation of financial markets under capitalism is deeply flawed. Such markets are intrinsically incapable of distinguishing between "enterprise" where an asset is held because of the stream of returns that its ownership yields over time, and "speculation" where an asset is held not for this yield but only because it can be sold at a higher price tomorrow to someone else who in turn would buy it because he believes that he can sell it at an even higher price the day after tomorrow. | The existence of speculat…
(2022-01-15). Condiciones para una exitosa película crítica con el capitalismo. cubadebate.cu No se trata de hacer una enmienda a la totalidad de esas películas que triunfan en el mercado y que se presentan como críticas contra el capitalismo. Sin duda, son mejores que la media y aportan elementos valiosos de reflexión. Pero es importante que seamos capaces de observar las grietas en su discurso revolucionario que no lo es tanto, que nos fijemos en las trampas para hacernos creer que son más subversivas de lo que son…
(2022-01-15). øCómo era la vida de Rosa Luxemburgo?>. telesurtv.net Sus propuestas teóricas sobre el capitalismo e imperialismo y su negativa a participar en la I Guerra Mundial la posicionaron como una de las mejores revolucionarias del siglo XX.
(2022-01-15). Condiciones para una exitosa película crítica con el capitalismo. cubadebate.cu No se trata de hacer una enmienda a la totalidad de esas películas que triunfan en el mercado y que se presentan como críticas contra el capitalismo. Sin duda, son mejores que la media y aportan elementos valiosos de reflexión. Pero es importante que seamos capaces de observar las grietas en su discurso revolucionario que no lo es tanto, que nos fijemos en las trampas para hacernos creer que son más subversivas de lo que son…
(2022-01-15). øCómo era la vida de Rosa Luxemburgo?>. telesurtv.net Sus propuestas teóricas sobre el capitalismo e imperialismo y su negativa a participar en la I Guerra Mundial la posicionaron como una de las mejores revolucionarias del siglo XX.
(2022-01-15). Return the gold to Venezuela! orinocotribune.com 
On 8-9 January the Revolutionary Communist Group and supporters of its newspaper Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! took to the streets demanding that Britain return $1.8bn of gold to Venezuela. | The action was called in response to the criminal ruling on 20 December, where Britain's Supreme Court recognised as the owner of $1.8bn of gold held in the Bank of England's vaults, not the legitimate socialist party government of Venezuela, but rather the discredited opposition 'interim president', Juan Guaido — the failed puppet of US imperialism. Whilst Nicolas Maduro's government in Venezuela demands the gold…
(2022-01-15). Monthly Child Tax Credit Payments Have Ended as Congress Debates Its Future. truthout.org 
Originally published by For six months at the tail end of two tumultuous years, parents received direct payments — no strings attached — of as much as $300 per child in their bank accounts. By many accounts, that money delivered long-awaited relief for 61 million children, dropping rates of poverty and hunger. | This week will mark the first time since July that parents will go without a monthly paymen…