Daily Archives: March 8, 2023

2023-03-08: News Headlines

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2023-03-08). PSL Statement — 50 years after Roe, mass resistance the key in abortion struggle. liberationnews.org To win back and extend the right to abortion requires continuous grassroots organizing and a return to powerful, large-scale mobilizations…

IGD Worldwide, It's Going Down. (2023-03-07). Rally In Solidarity With Resistance To Cop City In Avon, Massachusetts. popularresistance.org The Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta is the proposed site of a massive police training facility, known to most as "Cop City." Cop City is the logical outgrowth of violent, racialized capitalism in the United States. Corporations and wealthy Atlantans believe that they need a large and well-equipped police force to tamp down "crime" in the city they are working to gentrify, and have thus contributed financially to this project. As landlords and cops push Black residents out, wealthy, mostly white neighborhoods like Buckhead demand ever more police intervention to keep them and their ill-gotten wealth "safe." With all t…

Revolution Books (2023-03-07). Thursday 3/9: Raymond Lotta, Industrialization of Sexual Exploitation and Global Capitalism. indybay.org 2444 Durant Avenue Berkeley…

The Lever (2023-03-07). üéß Movies vs. Capitalism: Modern Times (w/ Pedro àÅngel Rivera Muñoz). levernews.com

Editor (2023-03-07). Superexploitation of migrant children/'The coining of children's blood into capital'. workers.org The horror portrayed in a recent New York Times exposé of migrant child labor shows how relevant what Karl Marx wrote 156 years ago is now. Marx's monumental work, "Capital," was a tremendous theoretical contribution, describing in meticulous detail how the capitalist system of exploitation operates. One class of toilers, . . . |

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2023-03-08). PSL Statement — 50 years after Roe, mass resistance the key in abortion struggle. liberationnews.org To win back and extend the right to abortion requires continuous grassroots organizing and a return to powerful, large-scale mobilizations…

IGD Worldwide, It's Going Down. (2023-03-07). Rally In Solidarity With Resistance To Cop City In Avon, Massachusetts. popularresistance.org The Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta is the proposed site of a massive police training facility, known to most as "Cop City." Cop City is the logical outgrowth of violent, racialized capitalism in the United States. Corporations and wealthy Atlantans believe that they need a large and well-equipped police force to tamp down "crime" in the city they are working to gentrify, and have thus contributed financially to this project. As landlords and cops push Black residents out, wealthy, mostly white neighborhoods like Buckhead demand ever more police intervention to keep them and their ill-gotten wealth "safe." With all t…

Revolution Books (2023-03-07). Thursday 3/9: Raymond Lotta, Industrialization of Sexual Exploitation and Global Capitalism. indybay.org 2444 Durant Avenue Berkeley…

The Lever (2023-03-07). üéß Movies vs. Capitalism: Modern Times (w/ Pedro àÅngel Rivera Muñoz). levernews.com

Editor (2023-03-07). Superexploitation of migrant children/'The coining of children's blood into capital'. workers.org The horror portrayed in a recent New York Times exposé of migrant child labor shows how relevant what Karl Marx wrote 156 years ago is now. Marx's monumental work, "Capital," was a tremendous theoretical contribution, describing in meticulous detail how the capitalist system of exploitation operates. One class of toilers, . . . |

George Marx (2023-03-07). Sunday 3/12: Men 4 Equity & Rep Justice: Free Screening + Panel Disc: "The Business of Birth Control" indybay.org Zoom Panel Discussion: 11-12: 15 Pacific Time — + from March 9-12 – Free Viewing of The Documentary Film: "The Business of Birth Control" – Men (especially) Welcome – Caring People Desired!

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-07). What is False Consciousness? libya360.wordpress.com Marx Memorial Library False consciousness is a term used to describe the way in which exploited, oppressed or disadvantaged groups in society accept, assimilate and indeed actively defend or promote ideas which ultimately act against their own interests. It can apply to individuals, to the working class as a whole, or to sections of it….

Fight Back (2023-03-07). Nearly lost: "History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Volume 11, The Great Depression, 1929-1932", by Philip Foner. fightbacknews.org When legendary and prolific labor history researcher and author Phil Foner died in 1994, he left behind more than 100 meticulously researched and detailed histories of the U.S. labor movement. But Foner was not merely an historian in the usual university mold; he was a partisan, a lifetime communist, and he saw his work as not just chronicles of past events but serious guides to action for those still on the labor battlefront. His books in many ways became the untold stories of our class struggle. | Probably his most accomplished and massive work is the 11-volume History of the Labor Movement in the United State…

Mark Gruenberg (2023-03-07). Trump at CPAC reflects the clear and present danger facing America. peoplesworld.org NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Donald Trump strode onto the stage on March 4 and gave the big right-wing crowd what it craved: Red meat. Lots of it. Call it a whole side of beef—or beefs. Communists, Socialists, Joe Biden, Democrats, the "fake news media," critical race theory, LBGTQ people, migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, federal workers—whom he …

CA Poor People's Campaign (2023-03-07). Wednesday 3/8: International Women's Day: End Women's Poverty – Invest in Caring, Not Killing w/ PPC. indybay.org Online rally for women's rights…

manager (2023-03-07). Subsidized Employment Can Help Fight Poverty in Good Times & Bad. cepr.net Nearly 15 million people in the U.S. who would like to work are unable to find a job right now—despite a historically low national unemployment rate.[1] This joblessness is not uniformly distributed across the country but concentrated in the most disadvantaged communities, particularly Black and Brown communities. A targeted, large-scale subsidized employment program can help …

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