2022-01-17: News Headlines

In Defense of Liberation! (2022-01-17). Our Revolution Can't Come in a Day: Organize, Build, and Fight for Tomorrow, Today! anchor.fm In this episode I try to put a lot of what's been on my mind into a cohesive discussion about yet again why we need to organize, why we need to get involved, and why we need to build. We have much to do and not a lot of time to do it! We must build a base in our community, connect with internationalists and organizations, and build together so we can strike a blow at the heart of this broken global system: Capitalism-Imperialism!

Michael Albert (2022-01-17). Marxism Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. zcomm.org To highlight past words often limits substance to what the past emphasized. Why not use our own words? Why not let "dead generations" rest in peace?>

Balihar Sanghera (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…

Prabhat Patnaik (2022-01-16). Financial Markets under capitalism. mronline.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.

Prabhat Patnaik (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…

teleSUR, na, JGN (2022-01-16). 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.

Editor (2022-01-16). Challenging the poverty of words: Interview with progressive poet Frederick Pollack. mronline.org San Francisco State University professor Daniel Langton has called Frederick Pollack's poems "necessary" because "do what poetry should do—grapple with the important."

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