(2022-08-23). Capitalism's war in Ukraine. greenleft.org.au Under capitalism, wars are fought to gain access to markets, resources and to harness the working class in its service. The suffering of the Ukrainian people attests to this, writes William Briggs.
(2022-08-23). Australian Labor government supplies more fuel to Sri Lankan navy for anti-refugee operations. wsws.org The fuel arrangements seek to bolster the repressive military-backed government and stop refugees fleeing the poverty-stricken country.
(2022-08-23). No to another school year of mass infection, death and austerity! wsws.org The breakdown of public education and the policies of mass infection are symptoms of the crisis of capitalism and must be opposed through the building of rank-and-file committees in every school and neighborhood.
(2022-08-23). South Korean workers take action against assault on working conditions. wsws.org Not only do workers face the companies and the government of President Yoon Suk-yeol, but the trade unions that are isolating workers' struggles and blocking a political fight against capitalism.
(2022-08-22). Independent Unions Can Help Break Through The Economic Crisis. popularresistance.org In a period of extreme social and economic crises, when the major labor unions have reduced their organizing programs to a fraction of what they once were and the courts stand athwart any effort to protect workers' interests, scrappy new independent unions raise hope against hope that maybe — just maybe — workers can fight back and win. I'm writing, of course, about the early 1930s. A newly published book finds some surprising parallels between that era and our own. | An eleventh volume in the prolific Marxist labor historian Philip S. Foner's History Of The Labor Movement In The United States has jus…
(2022-08-22). The UK Heads Towards Its Worst Economic Crisis Since 1926. telesurenglish.net As millions of people in Britain face the prospect of escalating bills, Keith Baker, a research fellow in fuel poverty and energy policy at Glasgow Caledonian University, warned the country could face its worst peacetime crisis since the General Strike of 1926. | RELATED: | For many British families, food prices were already rocketing, adding extra dollars to weekly food bills, but planned rises in the cost of electricity and gas du…
(2022-08-22). Fighting fire with solidarity. workers.org 
These are especially bitter days to be living in the United States for those of us who are communists, socialists, progressives, even those remotely left of center. The killing of Roe v. Wade and the state subjection of women and anyone who can get pregnant to the role of breeding . . . |
(2022-08-22). An Engineered Food and Poverty Crisis to Secure Continued US Dominance. globalresearch.ca
(2022-08-22). Sunday 8/21: Stop the Trigger Laws!: March and Rally to Defend Abortion Rights. indybay.org San José City Hall | 200 East Santa Clara Street | San José, CA 95113…
(2022-08-22). Down with the conspiracies of Bolsonaro and the military! wsws.org The GSI calls on the working class to mobilize independently against the dictatorial threats, rejecting the pseudo-left's demands for submission to capitalism and the bourgeois state.
(2022-08-21). (W.E. Talk) Liu Zhipeng: How to look back on the century since the Revolution of 1911 and the founding of the Communist Party of China. ecns.cn "We have long looked back on the past hundred years from a western viewpoint," said Liu Zhipeng, associate vice president and professor of history at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, in an exclusive interview with China News Service's "W.E. Talk". "When we re-examined it from the perspective of contemporary world history, what we learn is, of course, different from what we have seen in the last 100 years."