2022-07-23: News Headlines

Fight Back (2022-07-23). FRSO condemns State Department designation of Communist Party of the Philippines as 'terrorist'. fightbacknews.org Freedom Road Socialist Organization condemns in the strongest possible terms the U.S. State Department decision to keep the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People's Army on its list of designated "Foreign Terrorist Organizations." This is an example of confounding facts with fiction, and it is an attempt to criminalize international solidarity. | The real terrorists in the Philippines are to be found in the U.S.-backed regime of President Marcos. Jails in the Philippines are filled with political prisoners. Trade union federations, like the May First Workers Movement, face constant government repre…

Labor Video Projectt (2022-07-23). US Covid-19 Insanity, The Working Class. Covid & Capitalism & THE NEW NORMAL By Dr. Gordon. indybay.org Dr. Nayvin Gordon reports on abandonment of any public health protection as the Covid-19 pandemic expands over two years after the pandemic starts.

Manas Ranjan Pradhan (2022-07-23). [Comment] Contraceptive mix and informed choice. thelancet.com Contraceptive use is associated with economic development, improved maternal and child health, education, and the empowerment of women and their family planning needs.1 These gains can also reduce poverty and slow population growth.2—3 Access to contraception supports the quest for gender equity4 and human rights,5 and represents a strategy to reduce health system and household costs.6 Measuring progress toward satisfying the need for family planning entails assessing the general contraceptive prevalence and unmet demand and the range and types of contraceptive procedures employed.

Michael Roberts (2022-07-22). Is China headed for a crash? mronline.org So, is this the moment of collapse in the Chinese model of development and the end of all that talk about 'moving towards socialism' etc? Many Western experts think so.

WSWS (2022-07-22). Poverty in Germany: Food banks count 2 million people seeking help. wsws.org Social inequality in Germany continues to rise at an alarming rate, expressed in the record numbers of people lining up at the food banks for donations.

Tony Norman (2022-07-22). Capitalism's 'Practicality' While We Bake to Death. commondreams.org During one of the hottest summers ever, we're weirdly blasé.

_____ (2022-07-21). Gramsci In The Midst Of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement. popularresistance.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. This is taking place in the face of economic, political, social, and environmental crises as well as a continuing lack of vision of how to overcome the health crisis. Our intellectuals must put their hearts and souls precisely into this orientation toward the future, one based on the possibility of change and hope for human emancipation, as we argued in Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research dossier no. 13, The New Intell…

Fight Back (2022-07-21). Philippines: U.S. puts revolutionaries on list of "foreign terrorist organizations" fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). | Condemn U.S. intervention over re-inclusion of CPP and NPA in US-FTO | The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns the U.S. government for political and military intervention in the country's national affairs over the recent re-inclusion of the CPP and the New People's Army (NPA) in the list of so-called "foreign terrorist organizations" maintained by the U.S. State Department. | The re-inclusion of the CPP and NPA, as well as other Moro and domestic Islamic groups, was made in a July 6 r…

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