2022-11-28: News Headlines

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.

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