(2022-07-19). A Marxist view of the Asian American National Questions. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – Over the last two years, hundreds of thousands of Asian Americans and their supporters have taken to the streets to protest the wave of violence against Asian Americans. From the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when a Burmese family was assaulted in Texas; to the Atlanta Spa killing in April 2021, where six of the eight people killed were Asian American women, this wave of violence against Asian Americans inspired protests across the country, even including middle-school students. | These protests were the largest ever to draw together Asian Americans of different nationalities. This was in pa…
(2022-07-19). Six Theses on Imperialism. orinocotribune.com By Yanis Iqbal  ; Jul 16, 2022 | 1.- During the Middle Ages and early modern period, the West occupied a marginal position in the world-system. In the Middle East, China, Japan and India, productive forces were equally or more developed. The emergence of capitalism in Europe was driven by intensifying class antagonisms between the feudal ruling classes and peasants and artisans, which resulted in the victory of the latter. Similar conflicts in China, Japan, India and the Middle East could not create a bourgeois rupture due to the entrenched power of landed elites and state bureaucracies, which discouraged merc…
(2022-07-19). Europe's "apocalypse of heat" highlights capitalism's climate crisis. wsws.org Thousands are dying, vast swaths of land are burning, and harvests are being destroyed as global warming makes heat waves and droughts ever more frequent and severe.
(2022-07-19). Cuadrando la Caja: Evasión fiscal, causas y consecuencias (+ Video). cubadebate.cu El 17 de julio conversamos sobre la evasión fiscal en Cuba. | øCuáles son las principales causas de la evasión fiscal en nuestro país? øA quiénes afecta? øQué acciones podemos realizar desde el socialismo para evitar este delito?
(2022-07-18). Scandinavia and imperialism. mronline.org There are many misconceptions about Scandinavian capitalism. A very common one is the belief that since the Scandinavian countries developed vigorous capitalist economies, without ever having acquired any colonies of their own, they constitute a clear refutation of the claim that capitalist development necessarily requires imperialism.
(2022-07-18). øDe qué se trataba realmente el coronavirus? Desencadenar una crisis de deuda global ø"Acelerar una estrategia imperialista"? globalizacion.ca "Y así se vuelve cada vez más evidente el gran hecho central de que la causa de la condición miserable de la clase obrera debe buscarse, no en estos agravios menores, sino en el sistema capitalista mismo". Friedrich Engels ,…
(2022-07-18). øDe qué se trata realmente el coronavirus? Desencadenar una crisis de deuda global ø"Acelerar una estrategia imperialista"? globalizacion.ca "Y así se vuelve cada vez más evidente el gran hecho central de que la causa de la condición miserable de la clase obrera debe buscarse, no en estos agravios menores, sino en el sistema capitalista mismo". Friedrich Engels ,…
(2022-07-17). Red Theory: The historic emergence of capitalism. fightbacknews.org Despite what bourgeois economists, the priests of property and profit, would have us believe, capitalism isn't the eternal way of things. It had a beginning, and it will have an end. As we begin our discussion of political economy, let's draw upon historical materialism to examine how capitalism arose. | Capitalism didn't arise out of nowhere, and it wasn't born from the minds of Adam Smith or David Ricardo. It emerged historically and materially from the womb of feudalism, and like any mode of production is limited and conditioned by what came before it. There are several phases in its history, from agrarian to…
(2022-07-17). Ghost Stories Of Capitalism: Watching The Shutters Of Austerity Close. popularresistance.org By the end of the 1970s,U.S. capitalism entered its neoliberal phase where austerity and privatization reigned supreme. Federal agencies such as the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) were reduced to near non-existence. Welfare was eradicated all together in 1996 and tens of thousands of public housing units were demolished or privatized under the Bill Clinton administration. CAP agencies either shut their doors permanently or offered only the services that were supported by a mixture of private philanthropy and meagre government subsidy. It was out of this environment that Tri-CAP formed to addres…
(2022-07-17). What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…