Ben Radford (2022-11-30). Deep-sea mining: Capitalism's next destructive frontier. greenleft.org.au Mining companies argue that deep-sea mining is necessary to achieve the global transition to renewables, reports Ben Radford, but this is a lie.

Matthias Brockers, Michael Haller (2022-11-30). Farewell to the unipolar world and Disaster capitalism: back to Marx! indybay.org The sanctions have already proved to be a dangerous boomerang because they hit Europe harder than Russia… It is a suicidal illusion to try to win a war against the raw materials giant Russia – which possesses more than a third of all fossil energies and raw materials on earth – and the world's largest high-tech workshop, China, which is united with it.

____ (2022-11-30). (100 great changes) China's aerospace shifts from follower to world leader. ecns.cn Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has made fruitful achievements in aerospace, shifting from "following" others to "leading" the world in some aspects.

Fight Back (2022-11-29). Bookstore packed for FRSO program release party. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — About 70 activists packed Mayday Bookstore, November 20, for the release of the print edition of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization's (FRSO) political program. | FRSO Political Secretary Mick Kelly told the excited crowd, "Our program amounts to a declaration war against the existing order things. It is a clear statement that analyzes the conditions we face, lays bare the laws of capitalism, the need for revolution and socialism – and defines a clear strategy getting from here to there." | The room was filled with many of the movers and shakers in the Twin Cites people's struggles.

Misión Verdad (2022-11-29). The Countries Which Participate in the World Cup of Opportunism. orinocotribune.com by Ernesto Cazal Nov 24, 2022 | Venezuela is once again a protagonist on the international scene, and on its own merits. Of course, a lot has to do with the current international situation, with disaster capitalism having already devastated the global status quo and the economic dynamics being shattered. | All the factors converge to rekindle the importance of our country on the regional scene and in other latitudes. We can speak with certainty that oil and the political and diplomatic importance that Chavismo holds for other countries is essential for the resolution of multiple crises manifesting themselve…

Niko Leka (2022-11-29). Challenger ticket wins 39% of NSW Nurses and Midwives Association vote. greenleft.org.au In the first contested election in the New South Wales Nurses and Midwives Union since 2003, John-Paul Marx, who ran on "A Smarter Union" ticket, received 38.7% of the vote. Niko Leka reports.

Editor (2022-11-29). Western media has not much evolved from the era of the yellow peril in its routine China-bashing. mronline.org Distorted coverage of alleged removal of Hu Jintao from Communist Party Congress is par for the course along with other recent coverage.

UnitedEditor (2022-11-29). Rummaging through the documents of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China. uwidata.com By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * Delving into some of the documents of the XX Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), into its conclusions and repercussions, it is possible to discover aspects that are quite unknown or little disclosed in our countries. I am going to expose four of them that seem substantial to …

_____ (2022-11-29). The Two Types Of Death Penalties. popularresistance.org A political prisoner is a person targeted or imprisoned because of their political actions, affiliations and/or beliefs. A political prisoner is also an individual, who while incarcerated, transforms themselves from a social prisoner by gaining clarity, embracing and maintaining political struggle. | Thirty-seven-year-old Kevin "KJ" Johnson is scheduled to be executed by the State of Missouri on November 29th; most would not view him as a "political prisoner." However, given the poverty, neglect, suffering and abuse that comes with being a captive in domestic colonies and urban enclaves within a capitalist and im…

Ramzy Baroud (2022-11-29). Liberating Africa From Poverty Requires Changing Power Relations With the West. orinocotribune.com By Ramzy Baroud Nov 21, 2022 | Soon after arriving in Oslo, my taxi zigzagged through the city's well-organized streets and state-of-the-art infrastructure. Large billboards advertised the world's leading brands in fashion, cars, and perfumes. Amid all the expressions of wealth and plenty, an electronic sign by a bus stop flashed the images of poor looking African children needing help. | Over the years, Norway has served as a relatively good model of meaningful humanitarian and medical aid. This is especially true if compared to other self-serving western countries, where aid is often linked to direct poli…

Fight Back (2022-11-28). Red Theory: Socialism and the national question. fightbacknews.org The Russian Empire under the Tsar was rightly called a "prisonhouse of nations," because it oppressed, within its borders, whole nations of people. The Bolsheviks saw that it was a principal task of the socialist revolution to dismantle national oppression and support self-determination for the oppressed nations. | The United States is likewise a prisonhouse of nations, where the African American nation in the Black Belt South, the Chicano nation in the Southwest and the Hawaiian nation are all oppressed within the borders of the imperialist U.S. It will be a principal task of the socialist revolution in the U.S…

Editor (2022-11-28). Beating around the bush: polycrisis, overlapping emergencies, and capitalism. mronline.org It is in vogue nowadays to describe the multifaceted and intertwined crises of capitalism without referring to capitalism itself. Obscure jargon of 'overlapping emergencies' and 'polycrisis' are brought up to describe the complexity of the situation, and they serve, with or without intention, to conceal the culprit, namely the totality of capitalist relations.

____ (2022-11-28). Friedrich Engels (28 Nov 1820 — 5 Aug 1895). transcend.org Friedrich Engels was a German author, political theorist and philosopher, best known for his monumental works with Karl Marx, 'The Communist Manifesto' and 'Das Kapital'. He is pegged as being the cornerstone of a development of Marxism that led to Soviet Marxists and the institution of dialectical materialism.

Thecommunists (2022-11-28). Brian Berletic on China's 'social credit score system': fact or fiction? thecommunists.org Across the internet and social media, the alleged existence of a draconian 'social credit score system' is given as evidence that China is an authoritarian state, particularly by those trying to disparage China's image. Various disturbing claims in western media are made about China's system, including that it violates privacy, monitors and records an untold …

Brittani Banks (2022-11-28). Could China Help Brazil to Overcome Its Economic Crisis? independentmediainstitute.org The election victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as the president of Brazil for a third term on October 30 is expected to revise the relations between Brasília and Beijing. Brazil is going through a serious economic, political, social, and environmental crisis. Fighting poverty, resuming economic growth with income redistribution, reindustrializing the country, and …

Fight Back (2022-11-29). Bookstore packed for FRSO program release party. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — About 70 activists packed Mayday Bookstore, November 20, for the release of the print edition of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization's (FRSO) political program. | FRSO Political Secretary Mick Kelly told the excited crowd, "Our program amounts to a declaration war against the existing order things. It is a clear statement that analyzes the conditions we face, lays bare the laws of capitalism, the need for revolution and socialism – and defines a clear strategy getting from here to there." | The room was filled with many of the movers and shakers in the Twin Cites people's struggles.

Matthias Brockers, Michael Haller (2022-11-29). Farewell to the unipolar world and Disaster capitalism: back to Marx! indybay.org The sanctions have already proved to be a dangerous boomerang because they hit Europe harder than Russia… It is a suicidal illusion to try to win a war against the raw materials giant Russia – which possesses more than a third of all fossil energies and raw materials on earth – and the world's largest high-tech workshop, China, which is united with it.

Niko Leka (2022-11-29). Challenger ticket wins 39% of NSW Nurses and Midwives Association vote. greenleft.org.au In the first contested election in the New South Wales Nurses and Midwives Union since 2003, John-Paul Marx, who ran on "A Smarter Union" ticket, received 38.7% of the vote. Niko Leka reports.

Ramzy Baroud (2022-11-29). Liberating Africa From Poverty Requires Changing Power Relations With the West. orinocotribune.com By Ramzy Baroud Nov 21, 2022 | Soon after arriving in Oslo, my taxi zigzagged through the city's well-organized streets and state-of-the-art infrastructure. Large billboards advertised the world's leading brands in fashion, cars, and perfumes. Amid all the expressions of wealth and plenty, an electronic sign by a bus stop flashed the images of poor looking African children needing help. | Over the years, Norway has served as a relatively good model of meaningful humanitarian and medical aid. This is especially true if compared to other self-serving western countries, where aid is often linked to direct poli…

Fight Back (2022-11-28). Red Theory: Socialism and the national question. fightbacknews.org The Russian Empire under the Tsar was rightly called a "prisonhouse of nations," because it oppressed, within its borders, whole nations of people. The Bolsheviks saw that it was a principal task of the socialist revolution to dismantle national oppression and support self-determination for the oppressed nations. | The United States is likewise a prisonhouse of nations, where the African American nation in the Black Belt South, the Chicano nation in the Southwest and the Hawaiian nation are all oppressed within the borders of the imperialist U.S. It will be a principal task of the socialist revolution in the U.S…

Editor (2022-11-28). Beating around the bush: polycrisis, overlapping emergencies, and capitalism. mronline.org It is in vogue nowadays to describe the multifaceted and intertwined crises of capitalism without referring to capitalism itself. Obscure jargon of 'overlapping emergencies' and 'polycrisis' are brought up to describe the complexity of the situation, and they serve, with or without intention, to conceal the culprit, namely the totality of capitalist relations.

____ (2022-11-28). Friedrich Engels (28 Nov 1820 — 5 Aug 1895). transcend.org Friedrich Engels was a German author, political theorist and philosopher, best known for his monumental works with Karl Marx, 'The Communist Manifesto' and 'Das Kapital'. He is pegged as being the cornerstone of a development of Marxism that led to Soviet Marxists and the institution of dialectical materialism.

Infobrics (2022-11-28). Turkic nationalist battalion forms in Ukraine to "destroy the regime" in Russia. infobrics.org This suggests of a growing pan-Turkic ultra-nationalism emerging in the formerly communist Central Asia region.

Thecommunists (2022-11-28). Brian Berletic on China's 'social credit score system': fact or fiction? thecommunists.org Across the internet and social media, the alleged existence of a draconian 'social credit score system' is given as evidence that China is an authoritarian state, particularly by those trying to disparage China's image. Various disturbing claims in western media are made about China's system, including that it violates privacy, monitors and records an untold …

Brittani Banks (2022-11-28). Could China Help Brazil to Overcome Its Economic Crisis? independentmediainstitute.org The election victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as the president of Brazil for a third term on October 30 is expected to revise the relations between Brasília and Beijing. Brazil is going through a serious economic, political, social, and environmental crisis. Fighting poverty, resuming economic growth with income redistribution, reindustrializing the country, and …

_____ (2022-11-27). Rebellion Against The Legalized Robbery. popularresistance.org The following commentary was written by Marxist economist, politician and former Finance Minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis. He follows the first part of the debate "Ecological Catastrophe, Collapse, Democracy and Socialism" between the renowned American intellectual Noam Chomsky, the Chilean exponent of the new ideology of Collapsist Marxism Miguel Fuentes and climate scientist Guy McPherson. One of the main characteristics of Varoufakis' comment (who describes himself as a "Libertarian Marxist") is offering a balanced review of some of the main ideas expressed earlier in this debate. The latter from the perspe…

Hans A Baer (2022-11-27). Seeking to jumpstart the dialogue between ecosocialism and ecoanarchism. greenleft.org.au In his new self-published e-book, long-time Australian ecoanarchist Ted Trainer argues for a Simpler Way, where people shift from competition to cooperation, individualism to collectivism, and acquisitiveness to gaining life satisfaction from non-material pursuits. Hans A Baer reviews.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-11-27). The Billionaire Plot to Impose Full Corporate Dictatorship in the Core of a Declining Empire. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea The arc of capitalism is one where the system contracts, losing the robustness that it had when it was in the process of replacing feudalism. Its demand for limitless growth inevitably runs into obstacles, and that forces it to eat itself. Because there's no way for capital to reverse its decline, and the…

Felix Abt (2022-11-27). Western Media Has Not Much Evolved From the Era of the Yellow Peril in Its Routine China-Bashing. covertactionmagazine.com Distorted coverage of alleged removal of Hu Jintao from Communist Party Congress is par for the course along with other recent coverage. It is common for Western media to automatically imply or label everything that happens in China as "evil." The most recent case concerns the events surrounding former Communist Party Chairman Hu Jintao at …

Felix Abt (2022-11-27). Western Media Has Not Much Evolved From the Era of the Yellow Peril in Its Routine-China Bashing. covertactionmagazine.com Distorted coverage of alleged removal of Hu Jintao from Communist Party Congress is par for the course along with other recent coverage. It is common for Western media to automatically imply or label everything that happens in China as "evil." The most recent case concerns the events surrounding former Communist Party Chairman Hu Jintao at …

Thecommunists (2022-11-27). Oppose US 'special measures' against sovereign Nicaragua! thecommunists.org The following statement was initiated by the US-based Nicaragua Advocacy Network and has been signed by our party. ***** On 10 November 2022, an online White House statement announced that President Biden had invoked emergency powers on 24 October, declaring Nicaragua a continuing "unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of …

WSWS (2022-11-27). Germany: More than one-third of all students at acute risk of poverty. wsws.org The already dramatic social plight of German students is growing worse. According to the latest figures from the German Federal Statistics Bureau, more than a third of all students were at risk of poverty in 2021.

Fight Back (2022-11-28). Red Theory: Socialism and the national question. fightbacknews.org The Russian Empire under the Tsar was rightly called a "prisonhouse of nations," because it oppressed, within its borders, whole nations of people. The Bolsheviks saw that it was a principal task of the socialist revolution to dismantle national oppression and support self-determination for the oppressed nations. | The United States is likewise a prisonhouse of nations, where the African American nation in the Black Belt South, the Chicano nation in the Southwest and the Hawaiian nation are all oppressed within the borders of the imperialist U.S. It will be a principal task of the socialist revolution in the U.S…

____ (2022-11-28). Friedrich Engels (28 Nov 1820 — 5 Aug 1895). transcend.org Friedrich Engels was a German author, political theorist and philosopher, best known for his monumental works with Karl Marx, 'The Communist Manifesto' and 'Das Kapital'. He is pegged as being the cornerstone of a development of Marxism that led to Soviet Marxists and the institution of dialectical materialism.

Infobrics (2022-11-28). Turkic nationalist battalion forms in Ukraine to "destroy the regime" in Russia. infobrics.org This suggests of a growing pan-Turkic ultra-nationalism emerging in the formerly communist Central Asia region.

_____ (2022-11-27). Rebellion Against The Legalized Robbery. popularresistance.org The following commentary was written by Marxist economist, politician and former Finance Minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis. He follows the first part of the debate "Ecological Catastrophe, Collapse, Democracy and Socialism" between the renowned American intellectual Noam Chomsky, the Chilean exponent of the new ideology of Collapsist Marxism Miguel Fuentes and climate scientist Guy McPherson. One of the main characteristics of Varoufakis' comment (who describes himself as a "Libertarian Marxist") is offering a balanced review of some of the main ideas expressed earlier in this debate. The latter from the perspe…

Hans A Baer (2022-11-27). Seeking to jumpstart the dialogue between ecosocialism and ecoanarchism. greenleft.org.au In his new self-published e-book, long-time Australian ecoanarchist Ted Trainer argues for a Simpler Way, where people shift from competition to cooperation, individualism to collectivism, and acquisitiveness to gaining life satisfaction from non-material pursuits. Hans A Baer reviews.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-11-27). The Billionaire Plot to Impose Full Corporate Dictatorship in the Core of a Declining Empire. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea The arc of capitalism is one where the system contracts, losing the robustness that it had when it was in the process of replacing feudalism. Its demand for limitless growth inevitably runs into obstacles, and that forces it to eat itself. Because there's no way for capital to reverse its decline, and the…

Matthias Brockers, Michael Haller (2022-11-27). Farewell to the unipolar world and Disaster capitalism: back to Marx! indybay.org The sanctions have already proved to be a dangerous boomerang because they hit Europe harder than Russia… It is a suicidal illusion to try to win a war against the raw materials giant Russia – which possesses more than a third of all fossil energies and raw materials on earth – and the world's largest high-tech workshop, China, which is united with it.

Felix Abt (2022-11-27). Western Media Has Not Much Evolved From the Era of the Yellow Peril in Its Routine China-Bashing. covertactionmagazine.com Distorted coverage of alleged removal of Hu Jintao from Communist Party Congress is par for the course along with other recent coverage. It is common for Western media to automatically imply or label everything that happens in China as "evil." The most recent case concerns the events surrounding former Communist Party Chairman Hu Jintao at …

Felix Abt (2022-11-27). Western Media Has Not Much Evolved From the Era of the Yellow Peril in Its Routine-China Bashing. covertactionmagazine.com Distorted coverage of alleged removal of Hu Jintao from Communist Party Congress is par for the course along with other recent coverage. It is common for Western media to automatically imply or label everything that happens in China as "evil." The most recent case concerns the events surrounding former Communist Party Chairman Hu Jintao at …

WSWS (2022-11-27). Germany: More than one-third of all students at acute risk of poverty. wsws.org The already dramatic social plight of German students is growing worse. According to the latest figures from the German Federal Statistics Bureau, more than a third of all students were at risk of poverty in 2021.

Cameron orr (2022-11-26). NY CP joins Albany tenant protest. cpusa.org Members of the New York State Communist Party joined the housing movement in Albany on Monday, November 21st, to demand statewide legislation that would empower tenants in the fight for the right to housing. Property owners are currently trying to evict nearly 270,000 renters across the state, yet only a small percentage of tenants …

____ (2022-11-26). Chinese premier meets with Cuban president. ecns.cn Chinese Premier Li Keqiang met with Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, who is also the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, on Friday in Beijing.

WSWS (2022-11-26). The German government's Citizen's Income: Hartz IV poverty gets a new name. wsws.org Germany's new "Citizen's Income" will only increase the abject poverty of the current 5.3 million recipients of Hartz IV social security payments.

Hans A Baer (2022-11-27). Seeking to jumpstart the dialogue between ecosocialism and ecoanarchism. greenleft.org.au In his new self-published e-book, long-time Australian ecoanarchist Ted Trainer argues for a Simpler Way, where people shift from competition to cooperation, individualism to collectivism, and acquisitiveness to a frugal lifestyle based on gaining life satisfaction from non-material pursuits. Hans A Baer reviews.

Matthias Brockers, Michael Haller (2022-11-27). Farewell to the unipolar world and Disaster capitalism: back to Marx! indybay.org The sanctions have already proved to be a dangerous boomerang because they hit Europe harder than Russia… It is a suicidal illusion to try to win a war against the raw materials giant Russia – which possesses more than a third of all fossil energies and raw materials on earth – and the world's largest high-tech workshop, China, which is united with it.

____ (2022-11-26). Chinese premier meets with Cuban president. ecns.cn Chinese Premier Li Keqiang met with Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, who is also the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, on Friday in Beijing.

Cameron orr (2022-11-26). NY CP joins Albany tenant protest. cpusa.org Members of the New York State Communist Party joined the housing movement in Albany on Monday, November 21st, to demand statewide legislation that would empower tenants in the fight for the right to housing. Property owners are currently trying to evict nearly 270,000 renters across the state, yet only a small percentage of tenants …

WSWS (2022-11-26). The German government's Citizen's Income: Hartz IV poverty gets a new name. wsws.org Germany's new "Citizen's Income" will only increase the abject poverty of the current 5.3 million recipients of Hartz IV social security payments.

A Guest Author (2022-11-25). European workers fight for wages and rights. workers.org This article was published in the Nov. 17 issue of Avante, the newspaper of the Portuguese Communist Party, giving a roundup of struggles in Europe by the workers, whose living standards have been reduced as they are forced to pay the costs of the pandemic and the U.S./NATO proxy war . . . |

____ (2022-11-25). Xi holds talks with Cuban president. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese president, held talks Friday with Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and Cuban president.

Fight Back (2022-11-25). China committed to support for socialist Cuba. fightbacknews.org Talks took place November 25 between General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez. The discussions took place in Beijing's Great Hall of the People. | According to the New China News Agency, Xi stated, "Cuba is the first country in the Western Hemisphere that established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. Our ties have become an example of solidarity and cooperation between socialist countries, as well as an example of sincere mutual assistance between developing count…

Klaus-Jurgen Bruder, Silvia Federici (2022-11-26). The psychology of warmongers and The war cannot be won. indybay.org We should strive quite fundamentally for a different Europe and a different Russia, namely each freed from capitalist, parasitic oligarchy. The Jaurès maxim, "Capitalism carries war like the cloud carries rain," is more relevant than ever. Only in another – post-capitalist, social-ecological – Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, can peace and justice become a reality.

____ (2022-11-26). Chinese premier meets with Cuban president. ecns.cn Chinese Premier Li Keqiang met with Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, who is also the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, on Friday in Beijing.

Cameron orr (2022-11-26). NY CP joins Albany tenant protest. cpusa.org Members of the New York State Communist Party joined the housing movement in Albany on Monday, November 21st, to demand statewide legislation that would empower tenants in the fight for the right to housing. Property owners are currently trying to evict nearly 270,000 renters across the state, yet only a small percentage of tenants …

A Guest Author (2022-11-25). European workers fight for wages and rights. workers.org This article was published in the Nov. 17 issue of Avante, the newspaper of the Portuguese Communist Party, giving a roundup of struggles in Europe by the workers, whose living standards have been reduced as they are forced to pay the costs of the pandemic and the U.S./NATO proxy war . . . |

____ (2022-11-25). Xi holds talks with Cuban president. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese president, held talks Friday with Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and Cuban president.

Fight Back (2022-11-25). China committed to support for socialist Cuba. fightbacknews.org Talks took place November 25 between General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez. The discussions took place in Beijing's Great Hall of the People. | According to the New China News Agency, Xi stated, "Cuba is the first country in the Western Hemisphere that established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. Our ties have become an example of solidarity and cooperation between socialist countries, as well as an example of sincere mutual assistance between developing count…

Staff (2022-11-24). Dr. Gabor Maté on "The Myth of Normal," Healing in a Toxic Culture & How Capitalism Fuels Addiction. democracynow.org In an extended interview, acclaimed physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté discusses his new book, "The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture." "The very values of a society are traumatizing for a lot of people," says Maté, who argues in his book that "psychological trauma, woundedness, underlies much of what we call disease." He says healing requires a reconnection between the mind and the body, which can be achieved through cultivating a sense of community, meaning, belonging and purpose. Maté also discusses how the healthcare system has harmfully promo…

WSWS (2022-11-24). What do Americans have to be thankful for this Thanksgiving? wsws.org Daily mass shootings, skyrocketing inflation, unending pandemics and the threat of nuclear war is what capitalism has to offer workers and their families in 2022.

WSWS (2022-11-24). Eight billion people on Earth: A milestone for humanity. wsws.org It is capitalism, not the increase in human population, that is the cause of economic upheaval and environmental crisis.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-11-24). Canada Sets Up Embassy in Rwanda, Amidst Growing Mass Anti-Imperialist Movement in Neighbouring DRC. libya360.wordpress.com Christian Shingiro PCCO (Parti Communiste Congolais) in demonstration protesting rebel groups in Eastern Congo. Image courtesy of: Boswa Isekombe Sylvere, general secretary of the PCCO and leader of the FUPC. The Canadian government set up an embassy in Rwanda this June, to combat Russian and Chinese influence in Africa, under the racist logic that African…

_____ (2022-11-24). Africa to fortify the architecture of peace and security on the continent. journal-neo.org In recent decades, the issue of ensuring the security of African states has become particularly acute. This is as a matter of fact, due to the numerous problems that have accumulated on the continent, including high levels of poverty, the dissatisfaction of the population of several countries with the policies of the authorities, territorial claims, …

WSWS (2022-11-24). CUPE leadership unites to ram through sellout for Ontario education workers as rank-and-file calls for "no" vote, relaunch of strike. wsws.org School support staff, who earn on average the poverty wage of $39,000 per year, confront on the one hand the ruthless attack of the hard-right Ford government on their wages and working conditions, and on the other the complicity of the entire trade union bureaucracy in enforcing another round of massive concessions.

A Guest Author (2022-11-25). European workers fight for wages and rights. workers.org This article was published in the Nov. 17 issue of Avante, the newspaper of the Portuguese Communist Party, giving a roundup of struggles in Europe by the workers, whose living standards have been reduced as they are forced to pay the costs of the pandemic and the U.S./NATO proxy war . . . |

____ (2022-11-25). Xi holds talks with Cuban president. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese president, held talks Friday with Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and Cuban president.

Staff (2022-11-24). Dr. Gabor Maté on "The Myth of Normal," Healing in a Toxic Culture & How Capitalism Fuels Addiction. democracynow.org In an extended interview, acclaimed physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté discusses his new book, "The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture." "The very values of a society are traumatizing for a lot of people," says Maté, who argues in his book that "psychological trauma, woundedness, underlies much of what we call disease." He says healing requires a reconnection between the mind and the body, which can be achieved through cultivating a sense of community, meaning, belonging and purpose. Maté also discusses how the healthcare system has harmfully promo…

WSWS (2022-11-24). What do Americans have to be thankful for this Thanksgiving? wsws.org Daily mass shootings, skyrocketing inflation, unending pandemics and the threat of nuclear war is what capitalism has to offer workers and their families in 2022.

WSWS (2022-11-24). Eight billion people on Earth: A milestone for humanity. wsws.org It is capitalism, not the increase in human population, that is the cause of economic upheaval and environmental crisis.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-11-24). Canada Sets Up Embassy in Rwanda, Amidst Growing Mass Anti-Imperialist Movement in Neighbouring DRC. libya360.wordpress.com Christian Shingiro PCCO (Parti Communiste Congolais) in demonstration protesting rebel groups in Eastern Congo. Image courtesy of: Boswa Isekombe Sylvere, general secretary of the PCCO and leader of the FUPC. The Canadian government set up an embassy in Rwanda this June, to combat Russian and Chinese influence in Africa, under the racist logic that African…

_____ (2022-11-24). Africa to fortify the architecture of peace and security on the continent. journal-neo.org In recent decades, the issue of ensuring the security of African states has become particularly acute. This is as a matter of fact, due to the numerous problems that have accumulated on the continent, including high levels of poverty, the dissatisfaction of the population of several countries with the policies of the authorities, territorial claims, …

WSWS (2022-11-24). CUPE leadership unites to ram through sellout for Ontario education workers as rank-and-file calls for "no" vote, relaunch of strike. wsws.org School support staff, who earn on average the poverty wage of $39,000 per year, confront on the one hand the ruthless attack of the hard-right Ford government on their wages and working conditions, and on the other the complicity of the entire trade union bureaucracy in enforcing another round of massive concessions.

Colin Todhunter (2022-11-19). 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…

Nilàºfer Koàß (2022-11-18). Video: Kurdistan National Congress' Nilàºfer Koàß answers questions on Ukraine, Iran and Rojava. greenleft.org.au Nilàºfer Koàß, spokesperson for the Commission on Foreign Relations of the Kurdistan National Congress, spoke at the Brisbane session of Ecosocialism 2022. In the Q&A after her presentation, she answered questions on Ukraine, Iran and Rojava.

Josh Pallas (2022-11-18). Video: NSW Civil Liberties Council president Josh Pallas — 'Fight for the right to protest as if our lives depended on it!'. greenleft.org.au NSW Civil Liberties Council president Josh Pallas gave a presentation on anti-protest laws and the right to protest at Ecosocialism 2022.

Veronica Koman (2022-11-18). Video: Free West Papua with Veronica Koman and George Dimara. greenleft.org.au West Papuan activist George Dimara and Indonesian Human Rights lawyer and West Papua solidarity activist Veronica Koman spoke as part of Ecosocialism 2022.

Michael Shellenberger (2022-11-18). Crypto Fraud Exposes Woke Capitalism as a Scam. globalresearch.ca

Vijay Prashad (2022-11-18). Those Who Struggle to Change the World Know It Well. dissidentvoice.org K.C.S. Paniker (India), Words and Symbols, 1968 In 1845, Karl Marx jotted down some notes for The German Ideology, a book that he wrote with his close friend Friedrich Engels. Engels found these notes in 1888, five years after Marx's death, and published them under the title Theses on Feuerbach. The eleventh thesis is the …

Vijay Prashad (2022-11-18). Those who struggle to change the world know it well: The Forty-Sixth Newsletter (2022). mronline.org In 1845, Karl Marx jotted down some notes for The German Ideology, a book that he wrote with his close friend Friedrich Engels. Engels found these notes in 1888, five years after Marx's death, and published them under the title Theses on Feuerbach. The eleventh thesis is the most famous: 'philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it'.

Editor (2022-11-18). The Communist Party is the only force capable of challenging ultra-nationalism in Israeli society. mronline.org The collapse of the "Zionist Left" during Israel's most recent elections leaves Hadash and the Communist Party as the only force able to stand against the rise of ultra-nationalism.

Thecommunists (2022-11-18). Support our nurses' struggle for decent pay! thecommunists.org Download this leaflet as a pdf Way beyond breaking point, nurses across the NHS have finally voted to take strike action. The last time they had a real-terms pay increase was back in 2010, since when pay settlements have fallen further and further behind inflation. Throughout that time, many have descended into poverty, as is …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-11-18). Euthanasia Used in Canada to Get Rid of Poorest People. libya360.wordpress.com Misión Verdad Pentobarbital, an anesthetic drug, is used in euthanasia. Euthanasia, also called "assisted death," is a measure available in some countries that allows people suffering from incurable illnesses to request medical assistance for a painless death. However, in Canada, it is increasingly used by people living alone and in poverty, yet it is not…

WSWS (2022-11-18). Evictions in Detroit return to pre-pandemic levels. wsws.org A study conducted by Poverty Solutions, a University of Michigan research organization, shows that the number of impoverished working class families in Detroit being evicted have returned to rates that existed prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alex Bainbridge (2022-11-17). Nilàºfer Koàß: 'Iran uprising gives new hope for oppressed people'. greenleft.org.au Nilàºfer Koàß from the Kurdish National Congress spoke at the Ecosocialism 2022 conference about the popular uprising in Iran, war in Ukraine and Rojava Revolution. Alex Bainbridge and Susan Price report.

Editor (2022-11-17). U.S. media searched for crisis at China Party Congress. mronline.org For the Western press, the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party offered a number of signals which—if read in good faith—could have been perceived as reassuring.

Amy Goodman (2022-11-17). False Corporate Solutions at COP27 Further Entrench Capitalism and Colonialism. truthout.org Democracy Now! is broadcasting live from COP27, the U.N. climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where hundreds of activists protested outside the plenary hall Thursday to demand climate justice. We speak to two Indigenous activists and land defenders at the summit, Eriel Tchekwie Deranger and Tom Goldtooth. "It is frontline communities, land defenders and Indigenous peoples that have experienced the loss of our territories at the hands of oil and gas and extractivism," says Deranger, executive director of Indigenous Climate Action and member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation. "Colonialism has to be a…

Jessica Corbett (2022-11-17). New Bernie Sanders Book to Declare: "It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism" commondreams.org "Humane, clear-eyed, and—yes—angry, this is a vital book for our times and for our future," said publishing director Thomas Penn.

Kelly Hayes (2022-11-17). Abolition Is About Escaping the Death Trap of "Normalcy" truthout.org "There's no doubt that we have to abolish the carceral state. And there's no doubt that policing and racial capitalism go hand in hand so that we can't be pursuing abolition in a capitalist context," says author and organizer Andrea Ritchie. In this episode of "Movement Memos," Ritchie and host Kelly Hayes talk about why the Democrats will not save us, the relationship between abolition and the state, and why it's so hard for most people to imagine political transformations. | Music by TRANSCRIPT: | Note: This a rush transcript and ha…

Maximillian Alvarez (2022-11-17). William Robinson: How COVID-19 will lead to a global capitalist police state. therealnews.com Capitalism was in crisis before the COVID-19 pandemic, and existing conditions of inequality, dispossession, and ecological ruin set the stage for the deadly success of the coronavirus. But how has COVID-19 changed capitalism, and where is the system headed now? The system shock of the pandemic has provoked growing resistance from the working class. At the same time, the wealthiest fraction of society has exploited the crisis of COVID-19 to accelerate their accumulation of wealth and violent dispossession of the world's majority. Professor William I. Robinson argues that humanity is now on a path towards th…

Staff (2022-11-17). At COP27 Indigenous Land Defenders from Mexico, Guatemala Warn "Green Capitalism" Creates Violence. democracynow.org We continue our coverage of the U.N. climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, by asking what Indigenous leaders at the frontlines of the climate crisis are calling for from world leaders. We speak to Andrea Ixchíu, a land defender from Guatemala, and Rosa Marina Flores Cruz, an Afro-Indigenous activist from Mexico, who are both part of the Futuros Indígenas collective. They discuss how their countries' megaprojects and big business are devastating Indigenous communities. "Green capitalism is affecting our communities. It's displacing people. It's creating violence," says Ixchíu.

WSWS (2022-11-17). Elon Musk issues ultimatum to Twitter employees: Submit to "extremely hardcore" culture, or face termination. wsws.org In a rational society, a platform like Twitter would be publicly owned, but under capitalism it has become the plaything of a single billionaire oligarch, and a fascistic buffoon to boot.

WSWS (2022-11-17). Michigan Medicine worker speaks out against capitalism's COVID policy. wsws.org "This place gave me COVID, but all they talk about is he, him or that I might be gay. I agree with the pandemic being a socially criminal policy, and this happening internationally."

Thecommunists (2022-11-17). Brian Berletic: How and why the west lies about Myanmar. thecommunists.org The western media described a recent strike by Myanmar's military as having "bombed a concert", making it sound as if the attack had been a senseless strike on innocent music-lovers. In fact, the strike took place against an armed rebel base, and the concert it was hosting was attended not only by terrorist militants but …

WSWS (2022-11-17). University of California strikers remain determined to end poverty wages. wsws.org As the strike of 48,000 educators and researchers wins powerful support in the working class, the UAW is maneuvering to shut it down.

Nilàºfer Koàß (2022-11-18). Video: Kurdistan National Congress' Nilàºfer Koàß answers questions on Ukraine, Iran and Rojava. greenleft.org.au Nilàºfer Koàß, spokesperson for the Commission on Foreign Relations of the Kurdistan National Congress, spoke at the Brisbane session of Ecosocialism 2022. In the Q&A after her presentation, she answered questions on Ukraine, Iran and Rojava.

Josh Pallas (2022-11-18). Video: NSW Civil Liberties Council president Josh Pallas — 'Fight for the right to protest as if our lives depended on it!'. greenleft.org.au NSW Civil Liberties Council president Josh Pallas gave a presentation on anti-protest laws and the right to protest at Ecosocialism 2022.

Veronica Koman (2022-11-18). Video: Free West Papua with Veronica Koman and George Dimara. greenleft.org.au West Papuan activist George Dimara and Indonesian Human Rights lawyer and West Papua solidarity activist Veronica Koman spoke as part of Ecosocialism 2022.

WSWS (2022-11-18). Evictions in Detroit return to pre-pandemic levels. wsws.org A study conducted by Poverty Solutions, a University of Michigan research organization, shows that the number of impoverished working class families in Detroit being evicted have returned to rates that existed prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alex Bainbridge (2022-11-17). Nilàºfer Koàß: 'Iran uprising gives new hope for oppressed people'. greenleft.org.au Nilàºfer Koàß from the Kurdish National Congress spoke at the Ecosocialism 2022 conference about the popular uprising in Iran, war in Ukraine and Rojava Revolution. Alex Bainbridge and Susan Price report.

Editor (2022-11-17). U.S. media searched for crisis at China Party Congress. mronline.org For the Western press, the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party offered a number of signals which—if read in good faith—could have been perceived as reassuring.

Staff (2022-11-17). At COP27 Indigenous Land Defenders from Mexico, Guatemala Warn "Green Capitalism" Creates Violence. democracynow.org We continue our coverage of the U.N. climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, by asking what Indigenous leaders at the frontlines of the climate crisis are calling for from world leaders. We speak to Andrea Ixchíu, a land defender from Guatemala, and Rosa Marina Flores Cruz, an Afro-Indigenous activist from Mexico, who are both part of the Futuros Indígenas collective. They discuss how their countries' megaprojects and big business are devastating Indigenous communities. "Green capitalism is affecting our communities. It's displacing people. It's creating violence," says Ixchíu.

WSWS (2022-11-17). Elon Musk issues ultimatum to Twitter employees: Submit to "extremely hardcore" culture, or face termination. wsws.org In a rational society, a platform like Twitter would be publicly owned, but under capitalism it has become the plaything of a single billionaire oligarch, and a fascistic buffoon to boot.

WSWS (2022-11-17). Michigan Medicine worker speaks out against capitalism's COVID policy. wsws.org "This place gave me COVID, but all they talk about is he, him or that I might be gay. I agree with the pandemic being a socially criminal policy, and this happening internationally."

Amy Goodman (2022-11-17). False Corporate Solutions at COP27 Further Entrench Capitalism and Colonialism. truthout.org Democracy Now! is broadcasting live from COP27, the U.N. climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where hundreds of activists protested outside the plenary hall Thursday to demand climate justice. We speak to two Indigenous activists and land defenders at the summit, Eriel Tchekwie Deranger and Tom Goldtooth. "It is frontline communities, land defenders and Indigenous peoples that have experienced the loss of our territories at the hands of oil and gas and extractivism," says Deranger, executive director of Indigenous Climate Action and member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation. "Colonialism has to be a…

Kelly Hayes (2022-11-17). Abolition Is About Escaping the Death Trap of "Normalcy" truthout.org "There's no doubt that we have to abolish the carceral state. And there's no doubt that policing and racial capitalism go hand in hand so that we can't be pursuing abolition in a capitalist context," says author and organizer Andrea Ritchie. In this episode of "Movement Memos," Ritchie and host Kelly Hayes talk about why the Democrats will not save us, the relationship between abolition and the state, and why it's so hard for most people to imagine political transformations. | Music by TRANSCRIPT: | Note: This a rush transcript and ha…

Jessica Corbett (2022-11-17). New Bernie Sanders Book to Declare: "It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism" commondreams.org "Humane, clear-eyed, and—yes—angry, this is a vital book for our times and for our future," said publishing director Thomas Penn.

Maximillian Alvarez (2022-11-17). William Robinson: How COVID-19 will lead to a global capitalist police state. therealnews.com Capitalism was in crisis before the COVID-19 pandemic, and existing conditions of inequality, dispossession, and ecological ruin set the stage for the deadly success of the coronavirus. But how has COVID-19 changed capitalism, and where is the system headed now? The system shock of the pandemic has provoked growing resistance from the working class. At the same time, the wealthiest fraction of society has exploited the crisis of COVID-19 to accelerate their accumulation of wealth and violent dispossession of the world's majority. Professor William I. Robinson argues that humanity is now on a path towards th…

WSWS (2022-11-17). University of California strikers remain determined to end poverty wages. wsws.org As the strike of 48,000 educators and researchers wins powerful support in the working class, the UAW is maneuvering to shut it down.

WSWS (2022-11-16). The COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for socialism. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party (UK) Congress resolution explains: "The two alternatives posed before mankind are either unending mass infection, debilitation and death, or the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and implementation of a policy of global elimination, to end all human-to-human transmission of COVID-19."

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-11-16). PSL Statement — Workers shouldn't be fooled: Trump is a tool of the ultra-rich. liberationnews.org Trump is nothing more than a tool for the millionaires and billionaires to grow even more disgustingly rich while workers' rights are trampled on.

WSWS (2022-11-16). Chinese Communist Party begins lifting Zero-COVID policy. wsws.org There is no scientific justification for this shift in policy, which is based solely on political and economic considerations.

____ (2022-11-16). UK scholar: China's poverty alleviation helps world achieve goal five years in advance. ecns.cn It is China that has helped the United Nations attain the Sustainable Development Goals, including the eradication of extreme poverty and halving poverty in all its forms, said Robert Walker…

Alex Bainbridge (2022-11-17). Nilàºfer Koàß: 'Iran uprising gives new hope for oppressed people'. greenleft.org.au Nilàºfer Koàß from the Kurdish National Congress spoke at the Ecosocialism 2022 conference about the popular uprising in Iran, war in Ukraine and Rojava Revolution. Alex Bainbridge and Susan Price report.

WSWS (2022-11-17). Elon Musk issues ultimatum to Twitter employees: Submit to "extremely hardcore" culture, or face termination. wsws.org In a rational society, a platform like Twitter would be publicly owned, but under capitalism it has become the plaything of a single billionaire oligarch, and a fascistic buffoon to boot.

WSWS (2022-11-17). Michigan Medicine worker speaks out against capitalism's COVID policy. wsws.org "This place gave me COVID, but all they talk about is he, him or that I might be gay. I agree with the pandemic being a socially criminal policy, and this happening internationally."

WSWS (2022-11-16). The COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for socialism. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party (UK) Congress resolution explains: "The two alternatives posed before mankind are either unending mass infection, debilitation and death, or the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and implementation of a policy of global elimination, to end all human-to-human transmission of COVID-19."

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-11-16). PSL Statement — Workers shouldn't be fooled: Trump is a tool of the ultra-rich. liberationnews.org Trump is nothing more than a tool for the millionaires and billionaires to grow even more disgustingly rich while workers' rights are trampled on.

WSWS (2022-11-16). Chinese Communist Party begins lifting Zero-COVID policy. wsws.org There is no scientific justification for this shift in policy, which is based solely on political and economic considerations.

____ (2022-11-16). UK scholar: China's poverty alleviation helps world achieve goal five years in advance. ecns.cn It is China that has helped the United Nations attain the Sustainable Development Goals, including the eradication of extreme poverty and halving poverty in all its forms, said Robert Walker…

Fight Back (2022-11-15). Red Theory: Socialism and bourgeois right. fightbacknews.org The task of socialism is to transition from capitalist society to communist society, from a society ruled by and for the rich, based on exploitation and oppression, to a society without classes and without exploitation and oppression. When the working class takes power and expropriates the wealth and power of the capitalist class, the dictatorship of the proletariat will have to eliminate the contradictions carried over from capitalist society in a planned, thoroughgoing, and step-by-step way. One of the most important tasks of the socialist state is the elimination of what Marx called "bourgeois right." We alrea…

Ben Radford (2022-11-15). Gustavo Petro, Nicolás Maduro at COP27: 'Capitalism will not cure the climate crisis'. greenleft.org.au Latin American leaders have used COP27 in Egypt to highlight the global capitalist system as the cause of the climate crisis and demand that rich countries take meaningful action, reports Ben Radford.

Suitbert Cechura, Guido Speckmann (2022-11-15). Who can afford capitalism anymore? and Why are prices rising? indybay.org When the state now debates the need to create relief packages for employees, pensioners, unemployment benefit recipients, trainees and families, this is official confirmation that the result of wage labor is also poverty. The majority of citizens, however, find themselves in a dual role in the market economy: as workers & as King Customer, they are supposed to buy, to return the money.

WSWS (2022-11-15). The escalating class struggle in Britain and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party. wsws.org British and world capitalism faces an economic, social and political crisis that increasingly assumes revolutionary dimensions.

WSWS (2022-11-15). "A way to tell the story of how the United States operates in the world": An interview with Jonathan M. Katz, author of Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire. wsws.org Through recounting Butler's life and military career, Katz offers a brief but indelible history of the emergence of American imperialism in the first decades of the 20th century.

WSWS (2022-11-15). FTX collapse: A damning exposure of the criminality of capitalism. wsws.org The fraudulent operations of the FTX crypto exchange would not have even made it to first base had it not been for the promotion it received from top levels of the media, political, financial, and even sporting establishment.

____ (2022-11-14). China's policies open, transparent with clearly stated strategic intentions, Xi says. ecns.cn The domestic and foreign policies of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese government are open and transparent, with clearly stated and transparent strategic intentions and great continuity and stability.

Chauncey K. Robinson (2022-11-15). 'The Menu' review: A deliciously wicked satirical bite into elitism and class politics. peoplesworld.org Food is a necessity to live. Every human on this planet requires nourishment to survive. But in this society—where poverty and world hunger are pressing issues—there are far too many with not enough food, and many more who go without it at all. Then there are those who have the privilege to not only afford …

Eugene Puryear (2022-11-15). Haiti: Between a rock and a revolution. liberationnews.org The current push for invasion is a counter-insurgency strategy to quell a four-year cycle of mass protest and uprising that works against the advocates of pro-poverty, high-profit policies.

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-11-16). PSL Statement — Workers shouldn't be fooled: Trump is a tool of the ultra-rich. liberationnews.org Trump is nothing more than a tool for the millionaires and billionaires to grow even more disgustingly rich while workers' rights are trampled on.

WSWS (2022-11-16). Chinese Communist Party begins lifting Zero-COVID policy. wsws.org There is no scientific justification for this shift in policy, which is based solely on political and economic considerations.

____ (2022-11-16). UK scholar: China's poverty alleviation helps world achieve goal five years in advance. ecns.cn It is China that has helped the United Nations attain the Sustainable Development Goals, including the eradication of extreme poverty and halving poverty in all its forms, said Robert Walker…

Fight Back (2022-11-15). Red Theory: Socialism and bourgeois right. fightbacknews.org The task of socialism is to transition from capitalist society to communist society, from a society ruled by and for the rich, based on exploitation and oppression, to a society without classes and without exploitation and oppression. When the working class takes power and expropriates the wealth and power of the capitalist class, the dictatorship of the proletariat will have to eliminate the contradictions carried over from capitalist society in a planned, thoroughgoing, and step-by-step way. One of the most important tasks of the socialist state is the elimination of what Marx called "bourgeois right." We alrea…

WSWS (2022-11-15). The escalating class struggle in Britain and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party. wsws.org British and world capitalism faces an economic, social and political crisis that increasingly assumes revolutionary dimensions.

Ben Radford (2022-11-15). Gustavo Petro, Nicolás Maduro at COP27: 'Capitalism will not cure the climate crisis'. greenleft.org.au Latin American leaders have used COP27 in Egypt to highlight the global capitalist system as the cause of the climate crisis and demand that rich countries take meaningful action, reports Ben Radford.

Suitbert Cechura, Guido Speckmann (2022-11-15). Who can afford capitalism anymore? and Why are prices rising? indybay.org When the state now debates the need to create relief packages for employees, pensioners, unemployment benefit recipients, trainees and families, this is official confirmation that the result of wage labor is also poverty. The majority of citizens, however, find themselves in a dual role in the market economy: as workers & as King Customer, they are supposed to buy, to return the money.

WSWS (2022-11-15). "A way to tell the story of how the United States operates in the world": An interview with Jonathan M. Katz, author of Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire. wsws.org Through recounting Butler's life and military career, Katz offers a brief but indelible history of the emergence of American imperialism in the first decades of the 20th century.

WSWS (2022-11-15). FTX collapse: A damning exposure of the criminality of capitalism. wsws.org The fraudulent operations of the FTX crypto exchange would not have even made it to first base had it not been for the promotion it received from top levels of the media, political, financial, and even sporting establishment.

____ (2022-11-14). China's policies open, transparent with clearly stated strategic intentions, Xi says. ecns.cn The domestic and foreign policies of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese government are open and transparent, with clearly stated and transparent strategic intentions and great continuity and stability.

Chauncey K. Robinson (2022-11-15). 'The Menu' review: A deliciously wicked satirical bite into elitism and class politics. peoplesworld.org Food is a necessity to live. Every human on this planet requires nourishment to survive. But in this society—where poverty and world hunger are pressing issues—there are far too many with not enough food, and many more who go without it at all. Then there are those who have the privilege to not only afford …

Ian Angus (2022-11-14). Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2022. greenleft.org.au Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents six new books for reds and greens.

WSWS (2022-11-14). Socialist Equality Party (UK) holds Sixth National Congress. wsws.org The party's sixth congress was held under conditions of an extraordinary political, economic and social crisis gripping British and world capitalism.

_____ (2022-11-14). US Media Searched For Crisis At China Party Congress. popularresistance.org For the Western press, the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party offered a number of signals which—if read in good faith—could have been perceived as reassuring. | Instead, establishment outlets reverted to familiar narratives regarding China's Covid mitigation strategy and tied these into renewed predictions of a long-prophesied economic disaster—one that would inevitably befall China as a result of its government's decision to forsake the orthodoxy of open markets. | More than anything else, corporate media fixated on Hu Jintao's departure from the congress hall, engaging in ta…

____ (2022-11-14). More Party regulations to tighten up discipline. ecns.cn The Communist Party of China believes that its commitment to continuously improve conduct and enforce discipline is a major reason it has won the full support of the people.

____ (2022-11-14). New CPC chiefs named for Beijing and Fujian. ecns.cn Yin Li, former Party chief of Fujian province, has been appointed by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China as Party chief of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, replacing Cai Qi, according to a report from Xinhua News Agency.

Thecommunists (2022-11-14). Harpal Brar: Lenin on party building (One Step Forward). thecommunists.org Comrade Harpal Brar, founding chair of the CPGB-ML, gives a presentation on VI Lenin's work One Step Forward, Two Steps Back. Written to address a specific crisis in the Russian communist movement of the early 20th century, the book remains relevant for the ground-breaking theoretical work that Lenin did in explaining exactly how workers need …

____ (2022-11-14). Nation to strive for world free from hunger. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping said on Saturday that China will work with all countries to make greater contributions to building a world free from hunger and poverty.

Medya News (2022-11-14). 150% rise in child malnutrition in North East Syria, says Save the Children. greenleft.org.au The number of malnourished children in North East Syria has increased by 150% in the past six months, and poverty rates have increased by 90%, reports Medya News.

WSWS (2022-11-14). "These living conditions are without dignity": University of California academic workers begin powerful strike across 10 campuses. wsws.org On Monday, 48,000 academic workers throughout the entire University of California (UC) school system will launch a powerful, indefinite strike. Workers are protesting poverty wages and the soaring cost of living in one of the most expensive parts of the world.

Aram Aharonian (2022-11-14). El nuevo capitalismo de plataformas y vigilancia, øEl adiós a la esperanza? globalizacion.ca El contexto de la pandemia de la covid-19 creó las condiciones adecuadas para disponer de un marco institucional y normativo capaz de modificar las mentalidades, costumbres y valores de nuestras sociedades, impulsando nuevos deseos, hábitos y valores, pero, sobre todo,…