Steve Sweeney (2022-07-20). Kononovich brothers thank supporters as trial resumes in Ukraine. mronline.org Jailed communist Mikhail Kononovich thanked supporters who have protested in solidarity with Ukrainian political prisoners as the trial of him and his brother Alexander resumed on Monday.

Otis Grotewohl (2022-07-20). Young workers show the way forward as economic crisis deepens. workers.org A global economic crisis is emerging, and for readers of Workers World, this comes as little to no surprise. As Marxists and dialectical materialists, we are cautious about making predictions. It is no secret that corporations are bragging about record profits at the same time working people are struggling to . . . |

Graham Holton (2022-07-20). Indigenous rights take center stage in Chile's new constitution. peoplesworld.org Chile's new constitution will give official recognition to the Indigenous peoples within its borders, making it the third plurinational country in South America, after Ecuador and Bolivia. It is part of the sweeping reforms of President Gabriel Boric Font, whose broad coalition of left-wing parties, including Chile's Communist Party, came to power on Nov. 19, …

_____ (2022-07-19). Brian Becker On Socialism And The US Campaign Against China. popularresistance.org In the US, where I live, more than one million people have died. More than 60 million workers lost their jobs in 2020. More than 100,000 small businesses were sent into bankruptcy. While the US was plunged into an economic recession and a healthcare crisis of unprecedented proportions, the Chinese government pursued a policy preventing such loss of life inside a country with 1.4 billion people. This would have been impossible had it not been for the policy, guidance, and unified approach of the government. That does not mean that there aren't still significant challenges, but this was a huge achievement. Also, wh…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-19). Gramsci in the Midst of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement (MST). libya360.wordpress.com Tricontinental Dossier no. 54 (July 2022) An Interview with MST Militante Neuri Rossetto Introduction Despite the persistent hegemony of capitalism and its ruling neoliberal ideology, various forms of resistance, social struggle, and proposals for an emancipated future continue to emerge. This is taking place in the face of economic, political, social, and environmental crises as…

Fight Back (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…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-07-19). Morocco's Democratic Way blocked from holding national conference, supporters attacked by police. peoplesdispatch.org Morocco's Ministry of Interior has been delaying granting permission for the conference of the marxist Democratic Way (Al-Nahj Al-Democratic) party for several months now…

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-07-19). PSL Editorial — Deadly heat wave sweeping Europe highlights criminal inaction on climate crisis. liberationnews.org The unfolding disaster in Europe has rightfully drawn global attention to the woefully inadequate action taken by the governments of the wealthy capitalist countries to address the climate change crisis.

The Tricontinental (2022-07-19). Dossier no. 54: Gramsci in the midst of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement (MST): an interview with MST Militante Neuri Rossetto. mronline.org Despite the persistent hegemony of capitalism and its ruling neoliberal ideology, various forms of resistance, social struggle, and proposals for an emancipated future continue to emerge.

Peter Lownds (2022-07-19). 'The Slackers and Other Stories': Earnest purpose, useful lessons and enjoyable reading. peoplesworld.org The portrait on the cover of Eric A. Gordon's recently released translation of Manuel Tiago's short story collection The Slackers and Other Stories is of a young, devastatingly handsome soldier who turns out to be none other than the author himself as a young "slacker." The life of àÅlvaro Cunhal, long-time Communist Party functionary and …

_____ (2022-07-19). Imran Khan Rewrites Pakistan's Political History. popularresistance.org It is an unsavory proposition always, be it in India or Pakistan, when political power is usurped by fly-by-night operators who engineer defections from a ruling party, and an established government gets overthrown despite its mandate to govern. | In India — so far, at least — such shenanigans leading to regime change at the federal or state level have not been manipulated by foreign powers — except, perhaps, in the ouster of the first communist government in the southern state of Kerala, way back in 1959. | In South Asian politics, Nepal, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Maldives have been chronic ca…