____ (2022-05-10). German government imposes war costs on working class. wsws.org If the German government has its way, the working class will pay for the cost of its participation in the Ukraine war and the biggest rearmament programme since Hitler with mass poverty and the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs.

_____ (2022-05-09). Inside Operation Gladio: How NATO Supported Nazis And Terrorists. popularresistance.org Today, I have on Asa Winstanley to talk about a series that he's been publishing at his Substack about Operation Gladio, that is the NATO 'stay behind' networks in Europe, and that is how in the first Cold War, NATO supported a bunch of former Nazis and fascists to wage a war against the Soviet Union but really it was also a war internally against socialism. And today, we're going to talk about what Operation Gladio is. This is not that well known even though there's so many documents that have been released proving definitively that after World War II, NATO, the CIA and European intelligence agencies created a s…

____ (2022-05-09). May Day 2022: Young people must turn to the working class and the fight for socialism! wsws.org This is the report delivered by Gregor Link to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Link is a leading member in Germany of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality, the youth movement of the International Committee of the Fourth International and its affiliated Socialist Equality Parties.

____ (2022-05-09). May Day 2022: Finance capital and the deepening crisis of global capitalism. wsws.org This is the report delivered by Nick Beams to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Beams is a longstanding leader of the International Committee of the Fourth International and an expert on Marxist economics.

Jaime Taylor (2022-05-09). Attacks on Libraries Are Attacks on Labor. truthout.org When Emily Drabinski was elected president of the American Library Association (ALA) in mid-April, she tweeted her excitement that someone like her, a self-proclaimed Marxist lesbian, could garner enough votes to head the oldest and largest association of library workers in the United States. The ALA was founded in 1876

Fight Back (2022-05-09). What is historical materialism? fightbacknews.org Now that we have talked about the Marxist theory of knowledge and examined the meaning and function of dialectical materialism, let's look at how that is applied to studying the historical development of society. Marx called this "the materialist conception of history," or historical materialism. It is historical materialism that demonstrates the link between dialectical materialism and political economy. Here we have dialectical materialism applied to history. | Before we get into all of the details of historical materialism, let's take an introductory look at some of the key concepts. This way we can understan…

Joel Richards (2022-05-09). Buenos Aires: music from below. america.cgtn.com This record label in Buenos Aires is exploring the sounds of the 'Barrio' and connecting its emerging artists to a wider public and, also, brands.