Daily Archives: July 7, 2022

2022-07-07: News Headlines

Peoples Dispatch (2022-07-07). Daily Round-up | Sudanese opposition rejects military regime's 'democracy' offer & other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode, we take a look at stories from Sudan, protests in Panama, the ban on Ukraine's communist party and the crisis of the British government…

JANET (2022-07-07). Opening the boxes of capitalism's skeletons. iacenter.org By Julia Wright July 5, 2022 "This is the hour of the furnaces; we only see the light" — Che Guevara "Blossoming purple, a forgotten artichoke in a dark cupboard" — haiku by Richard Wright, 1960 Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley These are strange days during the floundering of what was said to be our unsinkable "democracy," when each dark event seems to be the butterfly effect of a deja vu going back to slavery or to our Civil Rights Movement. Science fiction would appear to be old hat. We, writers, will have to invent something else. This July 3 marks the 40th year of the incarceration of…

Kevin Fox Jr. (2022-07-07). Philadelphia abortion rights march shows strong future for organizing and solidarity. peoplesworld.org PHILADELPHIA—After the overturn of Roe v. Wade on Friday, June 24, socialist organizers in Philadelphia seized the moment to build solidarity and show dissent toward the right-wing Supreme Court majority. A broad coalition of socialist and progressive organizations, which included members of the Philadelphia chapters of the Communist Party (CPUSA) and the Young Communist League, …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-06). Ukrainian Court Upholds Ban of Communist Party. libya360.wordpress.com Muhammed Shabeer Members of WFDY held a protest in Madrid, Spain during the NATO Summit to demand the release of the Kononovich brothers. Photo: WFDY The Communist Party of Ukraine has been targeted by successive governments through decommunization laws, smear campaigns, and repression. The Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal in Lviv, Ukraine ruled on July…

Muhammed Shabeer (2022-07-06). Ukrainian court upholds ban on Communist Party. peoplesdispatch.org The Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal in Lviv, Ukraine ruled on July 5 to uphold the ban on the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU) and ordered the state to seize the properties of the party. | The Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal stated that in their decision: "We inform you that the court has complied with the requests of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine: the activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine are prohibited; the property, funds and other assets of the party, its regional, municipal, district organizations, primary organizations and other structural entities have been transferred to the owners…

_____ (2022-07-06). White Socialist Left: Seeing A Bleak Future For 'Black And White Unite'. popularresistance.org The Red Summer of 1919 put paid to the lie of a monochromatic class struggle as thousands of hysterical white workers took to the streets around the country over the course of the year to lynch, beat, shoot and burn to death more than 250 of their African American coworkers who they feared were replacing them in the workplace. | One-hundred and ten years after O'Hare published her racist polemic, another white woman with ties to the political Left in the U.S., Krystal Ball, appeared on the Marxist economist Richard Wolff's podcast to once again downplay the role that racism plays in the struggle between capital a…

Editor (2022-07-06). China Miéville: "If you don't feel despair, you're not opening your eyes" mronline.org The fantasy novelist and left activist on why Marx's 'Communist Manifesto' speaks to the crisis-ridden politics of the present.

Amarynth (2022-07-06). Russia Sanctions and Asset Grab 2022. thesaker.is Russia Sanctions and ASSET GRAB 2022 The Coming Sanctions-Induced Economic Tsunami? July 6, 2022 by Yves Smith. www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/07/the-coming-sanctions-induced-economic-tsunami.html Today I am risking being too glib, but my excuse is aspiring to meet…

WSWS (2022-07-06). Pandemic is driving poverty in Germany to new highs. wsws.org The poverty rate in Germany in the pandemic year 2021 reached 16.6 percent of the population, a new record. This means there are 13.8 living in poverty, 600,000 more than before the pandemic began.

Editor (2022-07-06). The CIA & the Frankfurt school's anti-communism. mronline.org 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.

Deweylaura (2022-07-05). Marxist IQ: A crisis-ridden July Fourth. cpusa.org This is the July 4th weekend. This Independence Day comes as the Supreme Court has struck down Roe v. Wade, struck down a New York state law regulating guns, defended religious exercises in schools, undermined the ability of the EPA to lower greenhouse admissions, approved a racially gerrymandered congressional district in Louisiana, and threatened …

Joe Sims (2022-07-05). Demand justice for Jayland Walker, killed by 60 cop bullets. cpusa.org The Communist Party of Ohio is outraged and heartbroken at the murder of Jayland Walker by Akron police on the night of June 27. Jayland, a 25-year-old Doordash driver, was shot in a hail of bullets — 60 gunshot wounds were found on his body — following a traffic stop in which he exited …

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