(2023-01-02). Saturday 1/7: Election 2022: What Does It Mean for the Socialist Left? indybay.org
(2023-01-02). Venezuela Present at Lula's Inauguration in Brazil. orinocotribune.com 
This Sunday, January 1, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil's president, while harshly criticising former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro and promising a change of course to rescue a nation plagued with hunger, poverty and racism, all of which were exacerbated during Bolsonaro's rule. | The president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, arrived in Brasilia on Sunday afternoon as the official representative of the Venezuelan State. | "On behalf of the President of the republic Nicolás Maduro, we arrived in the city of Brasilia to accompany our Brazilian brothers and sisters in the…
(2023-01-01). Washington Blames Record Migration On 'Communism'. popularresistance.org After two years of Joe Biden's presidency, four times as many undocumented migrants are trying to cross the border into the United States, and he's getting desperate to explain away the increase. | In September, the administration discovered a new narrative: that migrants are fleeing "communism." | The White House ignores that fact that in the fiscal year just ended, migrants coming from the three countries he labels "communist" formed less than a third of the total: of the 2.7 million people "encountered" at the border, only a fifth came from Cuba, Nicaragua or Venezuela. | Half of all migrants still come from t…
(2023-01-01). Full text of Xi Jinping's speech at New Year gathering of CPPCC National Committee. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivered an important speech at the New Year gathering of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) on Friday.
(2023-01-01). Xi's speech at 1st plenum of 20th CPC Central Committee to be published. ecns.cn Qiushi Journal, the flagship magazine of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, will on Sunday publish a speech delivered by Xi Jinping at a key Party meeting in October.
(2023-01-01). Philippines: Aim for revolutionary victories in 2023. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines. | The Communist Party of the Philippines extends its revolutionary greetings to the Filipino people, their heroic Red fighters, and all their revolutionary forces as we enter the new year 2023. Let us aim high and make big revolutionary strides this coming year. | The Party is filled with optimism that it can achieve its goals of consolidating its ranks and leading the comprehensive advance of the revolution. The Party and all revolutionary forces owe it to the Filipino people who are determined to resist f…
(2023-01-01). Eradication of poverty and hunger key priorities for Lula government. peoplesdispatch.org On Sunday January 1, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party of Brazil (PT) gave his first speech to the Brazilian people as president at the National Congress. In the speech, he presented a brief diagnosis of the situation and conditions of the country that he will govern over for the next four years. | "It's appalling," said Lula, about the conditions in which he receives the country from his predecessor, former president Jair Bolsonaro of the Liberal Party, who abandoned the country and went to the US just before the inauguration. "They have emptied out the resources for health. They have dismantled th…