2022-02-06: News Headlines

William Briggs (2022-02-06). Taiwan and Ukraine: How United States foreign policy operates in the service of capitalism. greenleft.org.au The sabre rattling of the United States and its allies grows as capitalism's crisis sharpens, writes William Briggs.

In Defense of Liberation! (2022-02-06). Morning Commute: 2-6-2022. anchor.fm In this episode I discuss more about George Jackson's "blood in my eye" as well as some other incredible works and articles I've read such as those from hoodcommunist.org, Black Alliance for Peace and Black Agenda Report. I discuss a bit about the liberal attempt to appear woke by co-opting black history month for white interests and white ideas. I also discuss the necessity to organize, arm yourself (if legal üòâ) And get building relationships with ongoing people movements wherever you can find them!

Fight Back (2022-02-06). Baltimore: Protest demands: 'No U.S., NATO war on Russia and Donbass'. fightbacknews.org Baltimore, MD — Dozens of protesters gathered on February 5 in downtown Baltimore to speak out against a possible U.S./NATO war on Russia and Donbass. Speakers called on the U.S. government to fight COVID and poverty instead of Russia. | Protesters chanted demands for money for social investments in healthcare, housing and jobs instead of the military budget and war. Cars honked their horns in solidarity as they drove by the picket. A caravan of protesters drove throughout the city after the initial picket, before meeting up with another group for a joint closing rally at a different intersection. | A coali…

WSWS (2022-02-05). Chilean and international capital praise Boric's cabinet picks. wsws.org Like SYRIZA in Greece and Podemos in Spain, the Chilean pseudo-left and Stalinist front has the task of dissipating seething opposition among workers and young people to capitalism.

Bruce, Barbara MacLean-Lerro (2022-02-05). Renaissance Woman Sylvia Pankhurst: Feminist, Artist, Council Communist, Anti-Imperialist. dissidentvoice.org Why Sylvia Matters How many of you about to read this have heard of Sylvia Pankhurst? Our guess is, not many. She seems to have fallen through the cracks of socialist and suffragette movement literature. Her mother, Emmeline Pankhurst and sister, Christabel Pankhurst are still looked up to as leaders in the suffragette movement. What …

Martha Grevatt (2022-02-05). New trend/ U.S. workers strike and organize at a new pace. workers.org This lightly edited article, based on an interview with Workers World Managing Editor Martha Grevatt, was published Feb. 2 in the Danish Communist Party's newspaper, "Worker." In March 2021, protesters took to the streets in 50 cities across the U.S. to support workers in the state of Alabama who were . . . |

Staff (2022-02-05). Young Communists in France mobilize for Georges Abdallah and a free Palestine. samidoun.net On Saturday, 22 January, the Jeunes Communistes 13 (Young Communists of Bouches-du-Rhone, France, with the central city of Marseille) organized a screening of "Fedayin: Georges Abdallah's Fight" with a presentation by a member of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra, a member organization of the Samidoun Network that plays a leading role in organizing for the liberation …

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