2022-11-17: News Headlines

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.

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