Monthly Archives: February 2023

2023-02-15: News Headlines

Nino Brown (2023-02-14). Marshall "Eddie" Conway (1946-2023): A life committed to the people and revolutionary change. liberationnews.org The Party for Socialism and Liberation sends our condolences to the family and loved ones of Marshall 'Eddie' Conway and salute his life of service, self-sacrifice, and struggle for the people.

Raúl Zibechi (2023-02-15). El capitalismo de la impunidad. globalizacion.ca El reciente informe de Oxfam, ´La supervivencia de los más ricos ª, distribuido el mismo día que comenzaba el Foro de Davos, revela que el 1% más rico del planeta se apoderó de casi dos tercios de la nueva riqueza creada…

WSWS (2023-02-15). Super Bowl LVII: Money, militarism, spectacle … and football. wsws.org The sponsors and organizers of the Super Bowl at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona were at pains to keep anything about the multiple crises of world capitalism from finding its way into the festivities.

Editor (2023-02-14). Capitalism in Black and Blue. mronline.org Policing is inextricably linked to racism and to capitalism.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-14). 'For the French working class, this pension reform is a gift to capitalism'. peoplesdispatch.org To understand more about the movement against pension reform in France, we spoke to Ramon Vila, the secretary of the trade union SUD Santé-Sociaux.

Sarah Jaffe, In These Times. (2023-02-14). Valentine's Day: Look To Marxists To Reimagine Love, Romance And Sex. popularresistance.org Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci has been quoted quite a lot in recent years amid our various political catastrophes from Trump to Covid-19 to climate collapse and the political center's seeming inability to resist any of the above. The most famous line from his Prison Notebooks, written between 1929 and 1935 while a political prisoner of the Mussolini regime, is probably: "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." This is sometimes more loosely translated as ‚Ä&atilde…

Nino Brown (2023-02-14). Marshall "Eddie" Conway (1946-2023): A life committed to the people and revolutionary change. liberationnews.org The Party for Socialism and Liberation sends our condolences to the family and loved ones of Marshall 'Eddie' Conway and salute his life of service, self-sacrifice, and struggle for the people.

Raúl Zibechi (2023-02-15). El capitalismo de la impunidad. globalizacion.ca El reciente informe de Oxfam, ´La supervivencia de los más ricos ª, distribuido el mismo día que comenzaba el Foro de Davos, revela que el 1% más rico del planeta se apoderó de casi dos tercios de la nueva riqueza creada…

WSWS (2023-02-15). Super Bowl LVII: Money, militarism, spectacle … and football. wsws.org The sponsors and organizers of the Super Bowl at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona were at pains to keep anything about the multiple crises of world capitalism from finding its way into the festivities.

Editor (2023-02-14). Capitalism in Black and Blue. mronline.org Policing is inextricably linked to racism and to capitalism.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-14). 'For the French working class, this pension reform is a gift to capitalism'. peoplesdispatch.org To understand more about the movement against pension reform in France, we spoke to Ramon Vila, the secretary of the trade union SUD Santé-Sociaux.

Sarah Jaffe, In These Times. (2023-02-14). Valentine's Day: Look To Marxists To Reimagine Love, Romance And Sex. popularresistance.org Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci has been quoted quite a lot in recent years amid our various political catastrophes from Trump to Covid-19 to climate collapse and the political center's seeming inability to resist any of the above. The most famous line from his Prison Notebooks, written between 1929 and 1935 while a political prisoner of the Mussolini regime, is probably: "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." This is sometimes more loosely translated as ‚Ä&atilde…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-14). Communist Party of Swaziland Continues Campaign to Boycott 'Farcical' Elections Despite Arrests and Torture. libya360.wordpress.com Pavan Kulkarni Bongi Mamba (Right) and Mvuselelo Mkhabela (Center) after being released. Photo: Communist Party of Swaziland) In Swaziland, only individuals approved by the local chiefs of King Mswati III can contest elections, and the parliament cannot hold the monarchy accountable. Pro-democracy activists have been calling for a boycott of the elections which are scheduled…

thecommunists (2023-02-14). Lawfare in Latin America: the case of Argentina's Cristina Kirchner. thecommunists.org Ten days after the murder attempt against Argentinean vice-president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK), the Clarin newspaper, owned by the country's largest media conglomerate, wrote an article headlined: 'Cristina, entre la bala que no salió y el fallo que si saldrá' (Cristina, between the bullet that did not fire and the court sentence that will …

WSWS (2023-02-15). Florida Disney World workers vote overwhelmingly to reject company's paltry "best offer" wsws.org Some 32,000 workers at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, voted by a 96 percent margin last week to reject an insulting offer of an immediate $1 raise in poverty-level wages.

ecns.cn (2023-02-14). Per capita disposable income of farmers who get rid of poverty reaches $2,217 in 2022. ecns.cn In 2022, the per capita disposable income of farmers in areas that have eliminated poverty in China reached 15,111 yuan (about 2217 U.S. dollars), up 7.5 percent over the previous year, 1.2 percentage points higher than the growth rate of the per capita disposable income of farmers nationwide, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said Tuesday.

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2023-02-14: News Headlines

Editor (2023-02-13). Review of "Critique of the Gotha Program," by Karl Marx. mronline.org This new edition of Marx's 1875 'Critique of the Gotha Program' comes with a few surprises in translation for Marxists who have previously interpreted it as justification for the continuation of wage-labour and commodity production, under the 'dictatorship of the proletariat' in the 'first phase' of socialism/communism.

Edward Hunt (2023-02-13). U.S. Anti-Socialism Resolution Overlooks Socialist Allies. fpif.org

Paul Gregoire (2023-02-13). Rachel Evans: 'Young people prefer socialism over capitalism'. greenleft.org.au NSW is heading towards an election and communities are wondering if a future Labor government will make the necessary changes. Paul Gregoire spoke to Rachel Evans, Socialist Alliance candidate for Heffron, about housing justice and her campaign.

Staff (2023-02-13). La protección integral de los derechos humanos, elemento esencial para la viabilidad del socialismo. cubadebate.cu No es posible el socialismo sin la democracia socialista y esta debe caracterizarse por la participación popular como su elemento funcional y por la protección y la salvaguarda de los derechos humanos.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-02-13). (Português) A Ética de um Capitalismo Selvagem: A Corrupàßà£o das Americanas. transcend.org 10 fev 2023 – No Brasil, os cristà£os sà£o apenas cristà£os culturais que nà£o aprenderam nada do Jesus histórico que estava sempre do lado da vida, do pobre, do cego, do coxo e do desprezado. Por isso há tanta desigualdade social, das maiores do mundo. Porque falta sensibilidade, solidariedade, sentido humano.

Staff (2023-02-13). El capitalismo extremo invade las 'bigtechs', que afrontan una segunda oleada de despidos masivos. cubadebate.cu El libre mercado sin escrúpulos hace mella el modelo de negocio de las grandes tecnológicas que han expulsado a cientos de miles de trabajadores. En la cuna del idealismo tecnológico, Silicon Valley, algunos de sus fetiches, como Elon Musk, se arrojan a las redes de la extrema derecha.

Editor (2023-02-13). Review of "Critique of the Gotha Program," by Karl Marx. mronline.org This new edition of Marx's 1875 'Critique of the Gotha Program' comes with a few surprises in translation for Marxists who have previously interpreted it as justification for the continuation of wage-labour and commodity production, under the 'dictatorship of the proletariat' in the 'first phase' of socialism/communism.

Edward Hunt (2023-02-13). U.S. Anti-Socialism Resolution Overlooks Socialist Allies. fpif.org

Paul Gregoire (2023-02-13). Rachel Evans: 'Young people prefer socialism over capitalism'. greenleft.org.au NSW is heading towards an election and communities are wondering if a future Labor government will make the necessary changes. Paul Gregoire spoke to Rachel Evans, Socialist Alliance candidate for Heffron, about housing justice and her campaign.

Staff (2023-02-13). La protección integral de los derechos humanos, elemento esencial para la viabilidad del socialismo. cubadebate.cu No es posible el socialismo sin la democracia socialista y esta debe caracterizarse por la participación popular como su elemento funcional y por la protección y la salvaguarda de los derechos humanos.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-02-13). (Português) A Ética de um Capitalismo Selvagem: A Corrupàßà£o das Americanas. transcend.org 10 fev 2023 – No Brasil, os cristà£os sà£o apenas cristà£os culturais que nà£o aprenderam nada do Jesus histórico que estava sempre do lado da vida, do pobre, do cego, do coxo e do desprezado. Por isso há tanta desigualdade social, das maiores do mundo. Porque falta sensibilidade, solidariedade, sentido humano.

Staff (2023-02-13). El capitalismo extremo invade las 'bigtechs', que afrontan una segunda oleada de despidos masivos. cubadebate.cu El libre mercado sin escrúpulos hace mella el modelo de negocio de las grandes tecnológicas que han expulsado a cientos de miles de trabajadores. En la cuna del idealismo tecnológico, Silicon Valley, algunos de sus fetiches, como Elon Musk, se arrojan a las redes de la extrema derecha.

thecommunists (2023-02-13). Anticommunism in the USA: the spectre remains. thecommunists.org The following article is reproduced from the Marx Engels Institute, with thanks. ***** "A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French radicals and German police-spies. "Where is the party in …

Dave DeCamp (2023-02-13). Members of House Committee on China Planning Taiwan Trip to 'Infuriate' Beijing. news.antiwar.com Members of the newly formed House committee on China are in talks about sending a delegation to Taiwan, knowing that it will "infuriate" Beijing and likely raise military tensions in the region. The House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party was formed on January 10 after Republicans …

ecns.cn (2023-02-14). Per capita disposable income of farmers who get rid of poverty reaches $2,217 in 2022. ecns.cn In 2022, the per capita disposable income of farmers in areas that have eliminated poverty in China reached 15,111 yuan (about 2217 U.S. dollars), up 7.5 percent over the previous year, 1.2 percentage points higher than the growth rate of the per capita disposable income of farmers nationwide, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said Tuesday.

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2023-02-13: News Headlines

Paul Gregoire (2023-02-13). Rachel Evans: 'Young people prefer socialism over capitalism'. greenleft.org.au NSW is heading towards an election and communities are wondering if a future Labor government will make the necessary changes. Paul Gregoire spoke to Rachel Evans, Socialist Alliance candidate for Heffron, about housing justice and her campaign.

lacuna.org.uk (2023-02-12). The People's Green New Deal demands true Ecosocialism. lacuna.org.uk Adam Weymouth speaks with Max Ajl about what a true eco-socialism would look like, and how the world might get there.

Staff (2023-02-13). El capitalismo extremo invade las 'bigtechs', que afrontan una segunda oleada de despidos masivos. cubadebate.cu El libre mercado sin escrúpulos hace mella el modelo de negocio de las grandes tecnológicas que han expulsado a cientos de miles de trabajadores. En la cuna del idealismo tecnológico, Silicon Valley, algunos de sus fetiches, como Elon Musk, se arrojan a las redes de la extrema derecha.

Paul Gregoire (2023-02-13). Rachel Evans: 'Young people prefer socialism over capitalism'. greenleft.org.au NSW is heading towards an election and communities are wondering if a future Labor government will make the necessary changes. Paul Gregoire spoke to Rachel Evans, Socialist Alliance candidate for Heffron, about housing justice and her campaign.

lacuna.org.uk (2023-02-12). The People's Green New Deal demands true Ecosocialism. lacuna.org.uk Adam Weymouth speaks with Max Ajl about what a true eco-socialism would look like, and how the world might get there.

Staff (2023-02-13). El capitalismo extremo invade las 'bigtechs', que afrontan una segunda oleada de despidos masivos. cubadebate.cu El libre mercado sin escrúpulos hace mella el modelo de negocio de las grandes tecnológicas que han expulsado a cientos de miles de trabajadores. En la cuna del idealismo tecnológico, Silicon Valley, algunos de sus fetiches, como Elon Musk, se arrojan a las redes de la extrema derecha.

Staff (2023-02-12). Estamos obligados a forjar nuevos valores y esperanzas para nuestros pueblos. cubadebate.cu El mundo vive una crisis sistémica estructural: económica, energética, alimentaria, ambiental, social, civilizatoria. Y no se vislumbran respuestas globales, porque el capitalismo no es capaz de estructurarlas, sino que es el causante de su agudización, para lo cual sólo tiene ante sí la exacerbación de conflictos bélicos y la modernización y expansión de sus arsenales cada vez más letales.

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2023-02-10: News Headlines

WSWS (2023-02-10). Gregor Link: "We fight for a united international movement of the working class against the war and against capitalism" wsws.org The following speech was delivered by Gregor Link on February 4 on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin at the election rally of the Sozialistiche Gleichheitspartei (SGP, the German section of the Fourth International) in opposition to the war in Ukraine. Link is a spokesman for its youth organization, the IYSSE.

David Sirota (2023-02-09). Introducing our new podcast: 'Movies vs Capitalism'. mronline.org The Lever's new movie podcast launches.

Marie Kelly (2023-02-09). Capitalism's undervaluation of nursing care. workers.org Based on a talk given at the Feb. 5 webinar "Global Class War: Lessons from Sam Marcy for workers struggles today." Go to youtu.be/5Arb33Q8SN0 to view the webinar. WW photo In "High Tech/Low Pay," Sam Marcy spoke of the feminization of labor, as more women worked jobs that had been . . . |

Stephanie Hedgecoke (2023-02-09). The working class ‚àí gravediggers of capitalism. workers.org Based on a talk given at the Feb. 5 webinar "Global Class War: Lessons from Sam Marcy for workers struggles today." Go to youtu.be/5Arb33Q8SN0 to view the webinar. WW PHOTO Comrades and friends, the working class in this country hails from all nationalities, all races, colors, gender and sexual identities, . . . |

A Guest Author (2023-02-09). Sam Marcy clarified Marx for us. workers.org The following message was from a study group of prisoners on Texas Death Row at the Ellis I Unit, Huntsville, Texas, on the occasion of the 85th birthday celebration of the late chairperson of Workers World Party, Sam Marcy, Oct. 5, 1996. Both Emerson Rudd and Ponchai Wilkerson were legally . . . |

WSWS (2023-02-10). Gregor Link: "We fight for a united international movement of the working class against the war and against capitalism" wsws.org The following speech was delivered by Gregor Link on February 4 on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin at the election rally of the Sozialistiche Gleichheitspartei (SGP, the German section of the Fourth International) in opposition to the war in Ukraine. Link is a spokesman for its youth organization, the IYSSE.

David Sirota (2023-02-09). Introducing our new podcast: 'Movies vs Capitalism'. mronline.org The Lever's new movie podcast launches.

Marie Kelly (2023-02-09). Capitalism's undervaluation of nursing care. workers.org Based on a talk given at the Feb. 5 webinar "Global Class War: Lessons from Sam Marcy for workers struggles today." Go to youtu.be/5Arb33Q8SN0 to view the webinar. WW photo In "High Tech/Low Pay," Sam Marcy spoke of the feminization of labor, as more women worked jobs that had been . . . |

Stephanie Hedgecoke (2023-02-09). The working class ‚àí gravediggers of capitalism. workers.org Based on a talk given at the Feb. 5 webinar "Global Class War: Lessons from Sam Marcy for workers struggles today." Go to youtu.be/5Arb33Q8SN0 to view the webinar. WW PHOTO Comrades and friends, the working class in this country hails from all nationalities, all races, colors, gender and sexual identities, . . . |

A Guest Author (2023-02-09). Sam Marcy clarified Marx for us. workers.org The following message was from a study group of prisoners on Texas Death Row at the Ellis I Unit, Huntsville, Texas, on the occasion of the 85th birthday celebration of the late chairperson of Workers World Party, Sam Marcy, Oct. 5, 1996. Both Emerson Rudd and Ponchai Wilkerson were legally . . . |

Brian Shea (2023-02-09). Disabled people are proletarians worldwide. workers.org Based on a talk given at the Feb. 5 webinar "Global Class War: Lessons from Sam Marcy for workers struggles today." Go to youtu.be/5Arb33Q8SN0 to view the webinar. Brian Shea. PHOTO: Howard Rotman In "The Communist Manifesto," Marx and Engels characterize the working class as being the revolutionary gravediggers of . . . |

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2023-02-09: News Headlines

scorinoco (2023-02-08). Neo-Compradors: The Leftist Foot Soldiers of Imperialism. orinocotribune.com By Sammy Ismail &#1 ; Feb 2, 2023 | A review of James Petras' NGOs: In The Service of Imperialism. | NGOs: In The Service of Imperialism by James Petras scientifically unpacks imperialism in contemporary communities of the global south. Prompted by the premise that capitalism, and by extension imperialism, is constantly evolving in an effort to perpetuate itself. James Petras takes neo-compradors as the unit of analysis for his study of imperialism. | The purpose of studies like this is a profound frustration with contemporary leftist discourse which has distorted Scientific Socialism, under the pretext of modern…

Susan Price (2023-02-08). Struggling for climate action, solidarity and ecosocialism in Malaysia. greenleft.org.au Malaysian socialist Soh Sook Hwa, addressing the recent Socialist Alliance national conference, talked about the need for action and solidarity to confront the climate crisis. Susan Price reports.

David Sirota (2023-02-09). Introducing our new podcast: 'Movies vs Capitalism'. mronline.org The Lever's new movie podcast launches.

A Guest Author (2023-02-09). Sam Marcy clarified Marx for us. workers.org The following message was from a study group of prisoners on Texas Death Row at the Ellis I Unit, Huntsville, Texas, on the occasion of the 85th birthday celebration of the late chairperson of Workers World Party, Sam Marcy, Oct. 5, 1996. Both Emerson Rudd and Ponchai Wilkerson were legally . . . |

scorinoco (2023-02-08). Neo-Compradors: The Leftist Foot Soldiers of Imperialism. orinocotribune.com By Sammy Ismail &#1 ; Feb 2, 2023 | A review of James Petras' NGOs: In The Service of Imperialism. | NGOs: In The Service of Imperialism by James Petras scientifically unpacks imperialism in contemporary communities of the global south. Prompted by the premise that capitalism, and by extension imperialism, is constantly evolving in an effort to perpetuate itself. James Petras takes neo-compradors as the unit of analysis for his study of imperialism. | The purpose of studies like this is a profound frustration with contemporary leftist discourse which has distorted Scientific Socialism, under the pretext of modern…

Susan Price (2023-02-08). Struggling for climate action, solidarity and ecosocialism in Malaysia. greenleft.org.au Malaysian socialist Soh Sook Hwa, addressing the recent Socialist Alliance national conference, talked about the need for action and solidarity to confront the climate crisis. Susan Price reports.

David Sirota (2023-02-09). Introducing our new podcast: 'Movies vs Capitalism'. mronline.org The Lever's new movie podcast launches.

A Guest Author (2023-02-09). Sam Marcy clarified Marx for us. workers.org The following message was from a study group of prisoners on Texas Death Row at the Ellis I Unit, Huntsville, Texas, on the occasion of the 85th birthday celebration of the late chairperson of Workers World Party, Sam Marcy, Oct. 5, 1996. Both Emerson Rudd and Ponchai Wilkerson were legally . . . |

Niko Leka (2023-02-08). Thalia Anthony: 'Colonialism continues in Alice Springs'. greenleft.org.au In a recent address, Professor Thalia Anthony discussed colonisation through a Marxist framework, including the ongoing impacts on First Nations people in Alice Springs. Niko Leka reports.

Richard Saville (2023-02-08). Spreading anti-communist hot air: Washington's balloon warfare against the USSR. peoplesworld.org LONDON—On Feb. 3, 1956, astonished residents in the U.K. towns of Lewisham, Pinner, and Farnborough were greeted with the news that several U.S. propaganda balloons had crash-landed locally. Appearing in the local press and the publication World News, the report brought the Cold War to Britons' very doorsteps, quite literally. This was not the first …

thecommunists (2023-02-08). Cuban president: 'We must strengthen the integration of Our America'. thecommunists.org The following speech was delivered by Cuban president Miguel-Diaz Canel to the seventh summit of heads of state and government of the Community of Latin-American and Caribbean States (Celac) on 24 January 2023. ***** Dear President Alberto Fernández Your Excellencies Heads of State and Government and other heads of delegation Dear Latin-American and Caribbean friends …

Liz Theoharis (2023-02-08). Poverty amid Plenty: A World Fragmented by Inequality. juancole.com By Liz Theoharis | &#1 ; ( Tomdispatch.com) &#1 ; A few weeks ago, the world's power brokers — politicians, CEOs, millionaires, billionaires — met in Davos, the mountainous Swiss resort town, for the 2023 World Economic Forum. In an annual ritual that reads ever more like Orwellian farce, the global elite gathered — their private jets …

Liz Theoharis (2023-02-08). Poverty Amid Plenty. A World Fragmented by Inequality. globalresearch.ca

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2023-02-08: News Headlines

Susan Price (2023-02-08). Struggling for climate action, solidarity and ecosocialism in Malaysia. greenleft.org.au Malaysian socialist Soh Sook Hwa, addressing the recent Socialist Alliance national conference, talked about the need for action and solidarity to confront the climate crisis. Susan Price reports.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-07). Socialism is increasingly popular in the U.S. So the House of Representatives denounces it. mronline.org Conservatives in the House of Representatives passed a resolution "denouncing the horrors of socialism" and opposing the implementation of socialist policies.

David Sirota (2023-02-07). Introducing Our New Podcast: MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM. levernews.com

Jeanne McGuire (2023-02-07). 'Be your own boss!': The myth of unemployment as opportunity. peoplesworld.org There is a myth in capitalism that anybody and everybody—with the necessary drive and ambition—can make a go of starting their own business. Statistically, that is just not the case. Most new businesses launched in the U.S. fail—at such a high rate that by the end of five years, just over half are still functioning. …

Ashley Gjà∏vik (2023-02-07). Nestlé's Blatant Misconduct Shows Us the Darkness of Capitalism. covertactionmagazine.com From inventing the need for mass-scale baby formula leading to the deaths of infants, to redirecting much needed water from impoverished areas to bottle and sell back to the same communities, to exploiting child labor and slavery, Nestlé will stoop to any moral low to make a buck. [This article inaugurates Ms. Gjovik's new column …

Susan Price (2023-02-08). Struggling for climate action, solidarity and ecosocialism in Malaysia. greenleft.org.au Malaysian socialist Soh Sook Hwa, addressing the recent Socialist Alliance national conference, talked about the need for action and solidarity to confront the climate crisis. Susan Price reports.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-07). Socialism is increasingly popular in the U.S. So the House of Representatives denounces it. mronline.org Conservatives in the House of Representatives passed a resolution "denouncing the horrors of socialism" and opposing the implementation of socialist policies.

David Sirota (2023-02-07). Introducing Our New Podcast: MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM. levernews.com

Jeanne McGuire (2023-02-07). 'Be your own boss!': The myth of unemployment as opportunity. peoplesworld.org There is a myth in capitalism that anybody and everybody—with the necessary drive and ambition—can make a go of starting their own business. Statistically, that is just not the case. Most new businesses launched in the U.S. fail—at such a high rate that by the end of five years, just over half are still functioning. …

Ashley Gjà∏vik (2023-02-07). Nestlé's Blatant Misconduct Shows Us the Darkness of Capitalism. covertactionmagazine.com From inventing the need for mass-scale baby formula leading to the deaths of infants, to redirecting much needed water from impoverished areas to bottle and sell back to the same communities, to exploiting child labor and slavery, Nestlé will stoop to any moral low to make a buck. [This article inaugurates Ms. Gjovik's new column …

WSWS (2023-02-07). The Turkey-Syria earthquake catastrophe: An indictment of capitalism. wsws.org The fact that thousands of people die preventable deaths in earthquakes constitutes an indictment of imperialism and the capitalist system.

WSWS (2023-02-07). Support the Socialist Equality Party in the NSW election! No to War! Lives before profits! Billions for healthcare and education! wsws.org The SEP is running in the NSW election to help build a revolutionary party of the working class, directed against capitalism, which offers nothing but social misery and an expanding series of existential crises that threaten the very future of humanity.

WSWS (2023-02-07). Australian Labor government prioritises indigenous "Voice" in bid to divert mounting class tensions. wsws.org The same government that claims to be addressing the historic injustices done to indigenous people is seeking to make the working class as a whole pay for the crisis of global capitalism.

Niko Leka (2023-02-08). Thalia Anthony: 'Colonialism continues in Alice Springs'. greenleft.org.au In a recent address, Professor Thalia Anthony discussed colonisation through a Marxist framework, including the ongoing impacts on First Nations people in Alice Springs. Niko Leka reports.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-07). Nicaraguan Ambassador: Only Socialist and Revolutionary Countries are Putting People Over Profit. libya360.wordpress.com Below we are pleased to publish the text of the powerful speech given by Guisell Morales Echaverry, Ambassador of the Republic of Nicaragua to the United Kingdom, Ireland and Iceland, to the event we recently co-organised at the Marx Memorial Library in London, Socialist solutions to the climate crisis. Guisell notes it's the socialist and progressive…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-07). Anti-imperialists protest docking of US warship at Greek port. peoplesdispatch.org On Saturday, February 4, communists and other anti-imperialist groups in Greece protested the docking of nuclear-powered American aircraft supercarrier USS George HW Bush (CVN-77) at the port of Piraeus in Athens. Activists from the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) marched to Alexandra's Square in Pasalimani, near the port, protesting the docking of the warship. The protesters demanded that NATO "get out from Greek bases" and called on the conservative New Democracy (ND)-led Greek government to abstain from participating in imperialist interventions led by NATO. Member of Eu…

Liz Theoharis (2023-02-08). Poverty amid Plenty: A World Fragmented by Inequality. juancole.com By Liz Theoharis | &#1 ; ( Tomdispatch.com) &#1 ; A few weeks ago, the world's power brokers — politicians, CEOs, millionaires, billionaires — met in Davos, the mountainous Swiss resort town, for the 2023 World Economic Forum. In an annual ritual that reads ever more like Orwellian farce, the global elite gathered — their private jets …

Dorian Warren (2023-02-07). Biden Can Show Up for Working Families—Again. progressive.org The American Rescue Plan's child tax credit cut child poverty by half; Biden should bring it back.

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2023-02-07: News Headlines

WSWS (2023-02-06). IYSSE (Australia) statement: Join the fight against imperialist war and for world socialism. wsws.org Imperialism's spiral toward a catastrophic nuclear war must be stopped. But to build an anti-war movement, youth and students must understand the root of war.

WSWS (2023-02-07). The Turkey-Syria earthquake catastrophe: An indictment of capitalism. wsws.org The fact that thousands of people die preventable deaths in earthquakes constitutes an indictment of imperialism and the capitalist system.

WSWS (2023-02-07). Support the Socialist Equality Party in the NSW election! No to War! Lives before profits! Billions for healthcare and education! wsws.org The SEP is running in the NSW election to help build a revolutionary party of the working class, directed against capitalism, which offers nothing but social misery and an expanding series of existential crises that threaten the very future of humanity.

WSWS (2023-02-06). IYSSE (Australia) statement: Join the fight against imperialist war and for world socialism. wsws.org Imperialism's spiral toward a catastrophic nuclear war must be stopped. But to build an anti-war movement, youth and students must understand the root of war.

WSWS (2023-02-07). The Turkey-Syria earthquake catastrophe: An indictment of capitalism. wsws.org The fact that thousands of people die preventable deaths in earthquakes constitutes an indictment of imperialism and the capitalist system.

WSWS (2023-02-07). Support the Socialist Equality Party in the NSW election! No to War! Lives before profits! Billions for healthcare and education! wsws.org The SEP is running in the NSW election to help build a revolutionary party of the working class, directed against capitalism, which offers nothing but social misery and an expanding series of existential crises that threaten the very future of humanity.

WSWS (2023-02-07). Australian Labor government prioritises indigenous "Voice" in bid to divert mounting class tensions. wsws.org The same government that claims to be addressing the historic injustices done to indigenous people is seeking to make the working class as a whole pay for the crisis of global capitalism.

Fight Back (2023-02-06). Against Trotskyism: The theory of permanent revolution. fightbacknews.org When Lenin gave his brief and scathing overview of Trotsky's career in his 1914 article "Disruption of Unity Under Cover of Outcries for Unity," so that "the younger generation of workers should know exactly whom they are dealing with," he made a point of referring to Trotsky's "absurdly Left 'permanent revolution' theory." What is the role of this "permanent revolution" theory within Trotskyism, and why is it "absurdly Left," as Lenin says? | Karl Marx himself said in his 18 address to the Communist League, | While the democratic petty bourgeois want to bring the revolution to an end as quickly as possible, ach…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-07). Anti-imperialists protest docking of US warship at Greek port. peoplesdispatch.org On Saturday, February 4, communists and other anti-imperialist groups in Greece protested the docking of nuclear-powered American aircraft supercarrier USS George HW Bush (CVN-77) at the port of Piraeus in Athens. Activists from the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) marched to Alexandra's Square in Pasalimani, near the port, protesting the docking of the warship. The protesters demanded that NATO "get out from Greek bases" and called on the conservative New Democracy (ND)-led Greek government to abstain from participating in imperialist interventions led by NATO. Member of Eu…

thecommunists (2023-02-06). Pardeep Singh and Boohoo: sweatshop and semi-slavery conditions on the rise. thecommunists.org At the close of 2022, film emerged on social media of a young man being berated and the punched about the face and head, in what appeared to be a faux-hostage scenario. Certainly, the violence being meted out had ritualistic elements, with the victim made to kneel humiliatingly and receiving taunts from off-camera, whilst a …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-06). Communists celebrate 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazis at Stalingrad. peoplesdispatch.org In the historic five-month-long battle of Stalingrad (August 1942 to February 1943), the Soviet Red Army and partisans defeated the invading Nazi forces, marking the beginning of the Nazi retreat and defeat in World War II…

Dorian Warren (2023-02-07). Biden Can Show Up for Working Families—Again. progressive.org The American Rescue Plan's child tax credit cut child poverty by half; Biden should bring it back.

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2023-02-06: News Headlines

WSWS (2023-02-06). IYSSE (Australia) statement: Join the fight against imperialist war and for world socialism. wsws.org Imperialism's spiral toward a catastrophic nuclear war must be stopped. But to build an anti-war movement, youth and students must understand the root of war.

Fight Back (2023-02-06). Against Trotskyism: The theory of permanent revolution. fightbacknews.org When Lenin gave his brief and scathing overview of Trotsky's career in his 1914 article "Disruption of Unity Under Cover of Outcries for Unity," so that "the younger generation of workers should know exactly whom they are dealing with," he made a point of referring to Trotsky's "absurdly Left 'permanent revolution' theory." What is the role of this "permanent revolution" theory within Trotskyism, and why is it "absurdly Left," as Lenin says? | Karl Marx himself said in his 18 address to the Communist League, | While the democratic petty bourgeois want to bring the revolution to an end as quickly as possible, ach…

thecommunists (2023-02-06). Pardeep Singh and Boohoo: sweatshop and semi-slavery conditions on the rise. thecommunists.org At the close of 2022, film emerged on social media of a young man being berated and the punched about the face and head, in what appeared to be a faux-hostage scenario. Certainly, the violence being meted out had ritualistic elements, with the victim made to kneel humiliatingly and receiving taunts from off-camera, whilst a …

thecommunists (2023-02-05). Oppose western pressure on Serbia to recognise the Kosovo province as a state. thecommunists.org The following joint statement was initiated by the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia (NKPJ) and has been signed by the CPGB-ML amongst others. ***** The signatories to this joint statement strongly condemn the latest pressure from the governments of the Quinte countries (the United States of America, Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy) on Belgrade …

WSWS (2023-02-06). IYSSE (Australia) statement: Join the fight against imperialist war and for world socialism. wsws.org Imperialism's spiral toward a catastrophic nuclear war must be stopped. But to build an anti-war movement, youth and students must understand the root of war.

Fight Back (2023-02-06). Against Trotskyism: The theory of permanent revolution. fightbacknews.org When Lenin gave his brief and scathing overview of Trotsky's career in his 1914 article "Disruption of Unity Under Cover of Outcries for Unity," so that "the younger generation of workers should know exactly whom they are dealing with," he made a point of referring to Trotsky's "absurdly Left 'permanent revolution' theory." What is the role of this "permanent revolution" theory within Trotskyism, and why is it "absurdly Left," as Lenin says? | Karl Marx himself said in his 18 address to the Communist League, | While the democratic petty bourgeois want to bring the revolution to an end as quickly as possible, ach…

thecommunists (2023-02-06). Pardeep Singh and Boohoo: sweatshop and semi-slavery conditions on the rise. thecommunists.org At the close of 2022, film emerged on social media of a young man being berated and the punched about the face and head, in what appeared to be a faux-hostage scenario. Certainly, the violence being meted out had ritualistic elements, with the victim made to kneel humiliatingly and receiving taunts from off-camera, whilst a …

thecommunists (2023-02-05). Oppose western pressure on Serbia to recognise the Kosovo province as a state. thecommunists.org The following joint statement was initiated by the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia (NKPJ) and has been signed by the CPGB-ML amongst others. ***** The signatories to this joint statement strongly condemn the latest pressure from the governments of the Quinte countries (the United States of America, Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy) on Belgrade …

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2023-02-05: News Headlines

WSWS (2023-02-04). The specter of socialism haunts US Congress. wsws.org Last week the US Congress spent three days denouncing socialism and pledging to reverse all the social gains made by the working class on a global scale in the century since the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Fight Back (2023-02-04). On his 125th birthday, read Harry Haywood on Black power and the fight for socialism. fightbacknews.org One of the most important communists in U.S. history, Harry Haywood, was born 125 years ago today, on February 4, 1898. | Haywood was a member of the Communist Party (CPUSA), serving on the Central Committee from 1927 to 1938 and on the Politburo from 1931 until 1938. After the CPUSA's turn towards revisionism Haywood helped to found the New Communist Movement. | He is best known as the main theorist of the African American National Question. Specifically, Haywood developed the theory that African Americans make up an oppressed nation in the Black Belt region of the South where they have the right to self-determi…

Editor (2023-02-04). 109 Democrats Join GOP's Ridiculous 'Horrors Of Socialism' Vote. scheerpost.com Emma Vigeland and Sam Seder look at the recent House vote to denounce socialism and what that means for the future of socialist policies like M4A, with 109 Democrats joining the Right on the vote.

Princess Harmony (2023-02-04). Salute to LSN Murthy of the CPI (Maoist). workers.org Workers World Party sends its condolences to the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and all other Indian Marxists over the death of Comrade LSN Murthy on Dec. 21, 2022. He served as a powerful force in the revolutionary struggle in India for over 50 years as a writer and translator . . . |

ecns.cn (2023-02-04). Senior Chinese official calls for timely communication between China, U.S. to avoid misjudgment. ecns.cn China and the United States need to stay focused, communicate in a timely manner, avoid misjudgment and manage differences in the face of unexpected situations, Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said on Friday night.

WSWS (2023-02-04). The specter of socialism haunts US Congress. wsws.org Last week the US Congress spent three days denouncing socialism and pledging to reverse all the social gains made by the working class on a global scale in the century since the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Fight Back (2023-02-04). On his 125th birthday, read Harry Haywood on Black power and the fight for socialism. fightbacknews.org One of the most important communists in U.S. history, Harry Haywood, was born 125 years ago today, on February 4, 1898. | Haywood was a member of the Communist Party (CPUSA), serving on the Central Committee from 1927 to 1938 and on the Politburo from 1931 until 1938. After the CPUSA's turn towards revisionism Haywood helped to found the New Communist Movement. | He is best known as the main theorist of the African American National Question. Specifically, Haywood developed the theory that African Americans make up an oppressed nation in the Black Belt region of the South where they have the right to self-determi…

Editor (2023-02-04). 109 Democrats Join GOP's Ridiculous 'Horrors Of Socialism' Vote. scheerpost.com Emma Vigeland and Sam Seder look at the recent House vote to denounce socialism and what that means for the future of socialist policies like M4A, with 109 Democrats joining the Right on the vote.

Princess Harmony (2023-02-04). Salute to LSN Murthy of the CPI (Maoist). workers.org Workers World Party sends its condolences to the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and all other Indian Marxists over the death of Comrade LSN Murthy on Dec. 21, 2022. He served as a powerful force in the revolutionary struggle in India for over 50 years as a writer and translator . . . |

ecns.cn (2023-02-04). Senior Chinese official calls for timely communication between China, U.S. to avoid misjudgment. ecns.cn China and the United States need to stay focused, communicate in a timely manner, avoid misjudgment and manage differences in the face of unexpected situations, Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said on Friday night.

thecommunists (2023-02-04). EVENT: Drive to war in the Americas: Disband Nato; Yankees go home! thecommunists.org Download meeting leaflet as a pdf. On Saturday 4 March, the CPGB-ML will be organising an event in London to coincide with actions taking place worldwide, coordinated by the World Anti-Imperialist Platform. These events, taking place in cities across the globe, form a part of the Platform's next international programme, which is focused this time …

_____ (2023-02-04). Will U.S. 'Interests' Become Sacrificed on Altar of New Indo-Pacific Strategy? strategic-culture.org The Anglo-American foreign policy hawks imagine that the world is yearning to be liberated from Beijing's nefarious agenda to end poverty | As the trans-Atlantic world is pulled into the vortex of a McCarthyite nightmare with a renewed wave of anti-Russian and now anti-China hysterics, a wave of new "Asia Pacific" doctrines have emerged across captured states… I mean "member" states throughout NATO. | Starting with the February 2022

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2023-02-04: News Headlines

WSWS (2023-02-04). The specter of socialism haunts US Congress. wsws.org Last week the US Congress spent three days denouncing socialism and pledging to reverse all the social gains made by the working class on a global scale in the century since the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Brett Wilkins (2023-02-03). Progressives: House Anti-Socialism Resolution Is Step Toward Slashing Safety Net. truthout.org More than 100 U.S. House Democrats — including some of the wealthiest members of Congress — joined with Republican lawmakers on Thursday in passing a resolution "denouncing the horrors of socialism," a largely symbolic gesture that opponents warned is nonetheless a step toward slashing Social Security, Medicare, and other safety net programs. House Concurrent Resolution 9, which "denounces… |

Princess Harmony (2023-02-04). Salute to LSN Murthy of the CPI (Maoist). workers.org Workers World Party sends its condolences to the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and all other Indian Marxists over the death of Comrade LSN Murthy on Dec. 21, 2022. He served as a powerful force in the revolutionary struggle in India for over 50 years as a writer and translator . . . |

ecns.cn (2023-02-04). Senior Chinese official calls for timely communication between China, U.S. to avoid misjudgment. ecns.cn China and the United States need to stay focused, communicate in a timely manner, avoid misjudgment and manage differences in the face of unexpected situations, Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said on Friday night.

Joe Sims (2023-02-03). Philip Foner's The Great Depression 1929 &#1 ; 1932: A review. cpusa.org The History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Vol 11: The Great Depression 1929-1932, Philip Foner, International Publishers, New York: 2022. A poem appeared in the underground newspaper of the Metal Workers Union, an industrial union created by Communist activists at the beginning of the Depression. It captures the initial stages of …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-02-03). Mass Poverty. The Protest Movement. The Economic and Social Crisis (2020-2023). Building a Movement against "Corona Tyranny" globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-02-04). The specter of socialism haunts US Congress. wsws.org Last week the US Congress spent three days denouncing socialism and pledging to reverse all the social gains made by the working class on a global scale in the century since the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Brett Wilkins (2023-02-03). Progressives: House Anti-Socialism Resolution Is Step Toward Slashing Safety Net. truthout.org More than 100 U.S. House Democrats — including some of the wealthiest members of Congress — joined with Republican lawmakers on Thursday in passing a resolution "denouncing the horrors of socialism," a largely symbolic gesture that opponents warned is nonetheless a step toward slashing Social Security, Medicare, and other safety net programs. House Concurrent Resolution 9, which "denounces… |

Princess Harmony (2023-02-04). Salute to LSN Murthy of the CPI (Maoist). workers.org Workers World Party sends its condolences to the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and all other Indian Marxists over the death of Comrade LSN Murthy on Dec. 21, 2022. He served as a powerful force in the revolutionary struggle in India for over 50 years as a writer and translator . . . |

ecns.cn (2023-02-04). Senior Chinese official calls for timely communication between China, U.S. to avoid misjudgment. ecns.cn China and the United States need to stay focused, communicate in a timely manner, avoid misjudgment and manage differences in the face of unexpected situations, Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said on Friday night.

Joe Sims (2023-02-03). Philip Foner's The Great Depression 1929 &#1 ; 1932: A review. cpusa.org The History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Vol 11: The Great Depression 1929-1932, Philip Foner, International Publishers, New York: 2022. A poem appeared in the underground newspaper of the Metal Workers Union, an industrial union created by Communist activists at the beginning of the Depression. It captures the initial stages of …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-02-03). Mass Poverty. The Protest Movement. The Economic and Social Crisis (2020-2023). Building a Movement against "Corona Tyranny" globalresearch.ca

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-02-03). Mass Poverty. The Protests Movement. The Economic and Social Crisis (2020-2023). Building a Movement against "Corona Tyranny" globalresearch.ca

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