Daily Archives: January 29, 2023

2023-01-29: News Headlines

reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2023-01-29). Rosa Luxemburgo y el ecosocialismo… indybay.org Rosa Luxemburgo y el ecosocialismo: | un amor correspondido…

Suds, snacks,, socialism forum committee (2023-01-29). Saturday 2/4: Haiti: Past, Present, and Future. indybay.org Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705…

reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2023-01-29). Rosa Luxemburgo y el ecosocialismo… indybay.org Rosa Luxemburgo y el ecosocialismo: | un amor correspondido…

Suds, snacks,, socialism forum committee (2023-01-29). Saturday 2/4: Haiti: Past, Present, and Future. indybay.org Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705…

ecns.cn (2023-01-29). Chinese mainland Taiwan affairs official meets former KMT chairperson. ecns.cn Song Tao, head of both the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, met on Saturday with Hung Hsiu-chu, former chairperson of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party, in Xiamen, east China's Fujian Province.

ecns.cn (2023-01-29). Income of Chinese people exiting poverty increases by 14.3% in 2022. ecns.cn In 2022, the per capita net income of people who have been lifted out of poverty reached 14,342 yuan (about $2,114.56), an increase of 14.3 percent year on year, which was higher than the 6.3 percent growth rate disposable income of rural residents across the country, according to National Rural Revitalization Administration"ÄÇ…

Author Blank (2023-01-28). Drought crisis is result of profit system. themilitant.com Statement issued Jan. 25 by Ellie García, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from California in 2022. | Working farmers are victims of conditions over which they have no control. But these are not primarily natural disasters such as the drought raging in California today. They are social conditions, the result of the workings of capitalism. | Farmers are exploited by the banks and real estate sharks that hold title to their land. Processing and distribution of food and other farm products is monopolized by giant corporations that ruthlessly squeeze them. The manufacturers of farm implements, seed,…

Labor Video Project (2023-01-28). South Africa Power Outages, The ANC & Capitalism With Weizemann Hamilton. indybay.org The power outages in South Africa threaten the lives, jobs and future of South Africa. Weizmann Hamilton was one of the founders of the ANC and is now a leader of the Marxist Workers Party talks about the causes of this energy crisis, the role of the ANC, Imperialism and capitalism. T…

WSWS (2023-01-28). The class issues in the police killing of Tyre Nichols. wsws.org The fatal beating of Nichols by five African-American police undercuts the racialist narrative advanced by the Democratic Party and its identity and racial politics allies. It shatters the claim that the answer to police brutality is to "diversify" police departments. Police violence, like every other social evil under capitalism, is fundamentally a class question.

Vivian Sahner (2023-01-28). 103 years since 'Palmer Raids' unleashed FBI against workers. themilitant.com "This Day in History" on Fox News retold the story about the Jan. 2, 1920, "Palmer Raids," carried out by Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and his right-hand man, J. Edgar Hoover. They "unleashed a shocking and often violent unconstitutional nationwide dragnet," the article said, "detaining as many as 10,000 people." | The arrests, deportations and prosecutions targeted unions, the newly formed Communist parties and immigrant workers. | Throughout the next 100 years the rulers' political police have continued assaulting freedoms that are vital to working people. Last year t…

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