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2022-06-29: News Headlines

____ (2022-06-29). CPC membership exceeds 96.7 million. ecns.cn The number of the Communist Party of China (CPC) members surpassed 96.71 million at the end of 2021, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee announced on Wednesday.

_____ (2022-06-28). Thousands Take To Streets Against Upcoming NATO Summit In Madrid. popularresistance.org Thousands of people took to the streets of Madrid, Spain, on Sunday, June 26, in opposition to the upcoming summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the city. Protesters called NATO a threat to global peace and demanded its dissolution. | The organizers stated that close to 30,000 people participated in the protest, holding banners and posters with slogans such as "No to NATO, Not to War, For Peace". They also raised slogans against US military bases in Spain and asked for their removal. | The protest was organized by a set of groups including the Communist Youth, the youth wing of the Communist…

WSWS (2022-06-28). Sri Lankan corporations reap large profits as workers and rural toilers face poverty and starvation. wsws.org The Lanka Hospitals Corporation, one of the largest of the more than 140 private hospitals in Sri Lanka, recorded a 2.8 billion-rupee turn over in the first quarter of this year, a 27 percent increase on the same period last year.

Staff (2022-06-28). Ecuador: Fuel Price Reduction Insufficient, Says CONAIE. orinocotribune.com Monday, June 27, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) rejected President Guillermo Lasso's recent announcement that, in response to the 15-day national strike, the country would reduce the cost of various fuels by 10 cents per gallon. | CONAIE branded the measure as "insufficient and insensitive, since it does not sympathize with the situation of poverty faced by millions of families." CONAIE stated that it would confer with its supporters to formulate a clear position in the coming days. | The organization that has led the protests warned that, despite persecution, criminalization, a…

Amanda Yee (2022-06-28). 53 years ago: Queer liberation's roots were socialist, working class and anti-imperialist. liberationnews.org Standing for queer community means also standing against police brutality and mass incarceration, and join the struggle to dismantle capitalism and imperialism!

Editor2 (2022-06-28). The CIA & the Frankfurt School's Anti-Communism. orinocotribune.com By Gabriel Rockhill &#1 ; Jun 27, 2022 | Foundations of the Global Theory Industry | Frankfurt School critical theory has been—along with French theory—one of the hottest commodities of the global theory industry. Together, they serve as the common source for so many of the trend-setting forms of theoretical critique that currently dominate the academic market in the capitalist world, from postcolonial and decolonial theory to queer theory, Afro-pessimism and beyond. The Frankfurt School's political orientation has therefore had a foundational effect on the globalized Western intelligentsia. | The lum…

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