Daily Archives: January 19, 2022

2022-01-19: News Headlines

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2022-01-19). Friday 1/21: Virtual Forum: The Crisis in SF Public Education. indybay.org Virtual event. Register here…

William Briggs (2022-01-19). Sub-Saharan Africa and the degeneration of capitalism. greenleft.org.au Africa ought to be the richest continent on Earth. Its natural resources alone make this a fact and yet it remains oppressed and prey to exploitation. William Briggs explains why.

WSWS (2022-01-18). German media on course for war against Russia. wsws.org The press spokesmen for German capitalism seem determined to wage its third war against Russia or the Soviet Union in little more than a century.

Emir Sader (2022-01-18). La izquierda del siglo XXI. globalizacion.ca Desde que el capitalismo tomó como modelo al neoliberalismo, se ha redefinido el carácter y las formas en que opera la izquierda. Ser anticapitalista, en este período histórico, es ser, ante todo, antineoliberal. Resistir y combatir la hegemonía neoliberal en…

Fight Back (2022-01-18). Dallas rally demands justice for murdered Kerala student leader Dheeraj Rajendran. fightbacknews.org Dallas, TX – On January 16, progressives gathered downtown at Dallas City Hall to demand justice for Dheeraj Rajendran, an engineering student and member of the Student Federation of India, a mass student movement connected to the Communist Party of India (Marxist), murdered in the Indian state of Kerala by members of the Kerala Students Union and the youth wing of the Indian National Congress. | Dheeraj was murdered by the local branch of the Youth Congress because he was poised to win local school elections at the Government Engineering College of Idukki. | The protest was called by the Dallas Anti-War Committe…

Staff (2022-01-18). NBA co-owner backtracks after saying 'no one cares' about Uighur Muslims. rt.com Billionaire CEO Chamath Palihapitiya claimed that nobody cares about the Chinese ethnic group | Chamath Palihapitiya, part-owner of the NBA franchise the Golden State Warriors, has retracted comments on Uighur Muslims in China. | China has faced persistent accusations of mistreating its Uighur population, including allegations of sending more than a million of the group to detention camps. | While the ruling Communist Party denies the allegations, Warriors part-owner and Social Capital head Palihapitiya controversially claimed on an appearance on the All-In Podcast that "nobody cares about what's happening" to…

S. Arutchelvan (2022-01-18). Think of the many — don't worry for the few. greenleft.org.au Oxfam International revealed that Asia's billionaires have increased their wealth by 74% while 148 million others in the region have been pushed into poverty since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, writes S. Arutchelvan.

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