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2023-04-28: News Headlines

teleSUR, DRL (2023-04-28). Evo Morales retoma actividades tras un percance de salud. telesurtv.net El senador del Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) Leonardo Loza confirmó que Morales recibió una invitación en Venezuela, donde se realizó un chequeo médico, y que todo está bien.

thecommunists (2023-04-28). Chinese Marxist: The evaluation of Stalin is essentially an ideological struggle. thecommunists.org Wang Weiguang (born 1950) served as president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences from 2013-18. This article was originally published in Studies in Political Economy No 4, 2022, and was adapted from the online Red Culture Network. It is reproduced from Red Sails, with thanks. ***** The evaluation of Stalin's merits and demerits would …

Anonymous103 (2023-04-27). Anxiety as Socialism: AI Moratorium Fantasies. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark | Rumours and streaks of hysteria are running rife about what such artificial intelligence (AI) systems as ChatGPT are meant to do. Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy recently showed himself to be

Ted Kelly (2023-04-28). How to make capitalism ungovernable — a WW commentary. workers.org Every year, Mumia Abu Jamal's birthday is observed by the most militant and politically advanced workers around the world. This year there were demonstrations in London, Paris, Berlin, Juarez, Mexico, Houston, Sacramento, California, Los Angeles and, of course, in his hometown of Philadelphia. This year, these protests calling for Mumia's . . . |

Pablo Navarrete (2023-04-28). Cine Liberación: The revolutionary cinema we need. peoplesworld.org In their 1969 manifesto, Toward a Third Cinema, Argentinian filmmakers Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino defined Third Cinema as "a cinema of liberation" that stood in opposition to the values of the first and second cinemas. They described First cinema as "the dominant commercial cinema," in the service of U.S. capitalism and imperialism; Second cinema …

Frank Scott (2023-04-28). Capitalism is Democratic the Way Rape is Romance. dissidentvoice.org Whenever I see he/him or she/her I think fuck/you. You must be living an awfully precious life if, amid the pervasive despair of an economy in free fall, your uppermost concern is clinging to your pronouns." — Norman Finkelstein, I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It! Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, …

teleSUR, DRL (2023-04-28). Evo Morales retoma actividades tras un percance de salud. telesurtv.net El senador del Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) Leonardo Loza confirmó que Morales recibió una invitación en Venezuela, donde se realizó un chequeo médico, y que todo está bien.

thecommunists (2023-04-28). Chinese Marxist: The evaluation of Stalin is essentially an ideological struggle. thecommunists.org Wang Weiguang (born 1950) served as president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences from 2013-18. This article was originally published in Studies in Political Economy No 4, 2022, and was adapted from the online Red Culture Network. It is reproduced from Red Sails, with thanks. ***** The evaluation of Stalin's merits and demerits would …

Anonymous103 (2023-04-27). Anxiety as Socialism: AI Moratorium Fantasies. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark | Rumours and streaks of hysteria are running rife about what such artificial intelligence (AI) systems as ChatGPT are meant to do. Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy recently showed himself to be

Ted Kelly (2023-04-28). How to make capitalism ungovernable — a WW commentary. workers.org Every year, Mumia Abu Jamal's birthday is observed by the most militant and politically advanced workers around the world. This year there were demonstrations in London, Paris, Berlin, Juarez, Mexico, Houston, Sacramento, California, Los Angeles and, of course, in his hometown of Philadelphia. This year, these protests calling for Mumia's . . . |

Pablo Navarrete (2023-04-28). Cine Liberación: The revolutionary cinema we need. peoplesworld.org In their 1969 manifesto, Toward a Third Cinema, Argentinian filmmakers Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino defined Third Cinema as "a cinema of liberation" that stood in opposition to the values of the first and second cinemas. They described First cinema as "the dominant commercial cinema," in the service of U.S. capitalism and imperialism; Second cinema …

Frank Scott (2023-04-28). Capitalism is Democratic the Way Rape is Romance. dissidentvoice.org Whenever I see he/him or she/her I think fuck/you. You must be living an awfully precious life if, amid the pervasive despair of an economy in free fall, your uppermost concern is clinging to your pronouns." — Norman Finkelstein, I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It! Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, …

midwesternmarx (2023-04-28). Is This Man a Russian Agent Operating in the Black Community of St. Louis? By: Jeremy Kuzmarov. midwesternmarx.com ​Omali Yeshitela [Source: sfbayview.com] The Justice Department has just indicted him and three other members of the African People's Socialist Party for advancing Russian propaganda—though it looks more like the Biden administration was looking for a scapegoat to justify its anti-Russia offensive and found one in a familiar place. On April 18, the Department of Justice announced the indictment of four leaders of the African People's Socialist Part …

midwesternmarx (2023-04-28). 6 Weeks Later: The State of East Palestine, Ohio from the Eyes of a Local By: Katie F. midwesternmarx.com Timothea is a long-time resident of East Palestine, Ohio and a victim of the Norfolk Southern train derailment. The train transporting toxic chemicals was 150 cars-long, 20-25% longer than the average length of trains in 2017, and it was operated by three conductors, with only 4 paid sick days each— just half of the national average. Of course, the release of 100,000 gallons of chemicals into a town only 3 square miles in size might have been avoided had our so-called …

midwesternmarx (2023-04-28). Frozen By: Ross Ion Coyle. midwesternmarx.com I've just come away from watching an interview with the acclaimed author and philosopher, John Bellamy Foster, conducted on the Midwestern Marx YT channel. It was like a bucket of ice water in the face (for me!). In what way?Well, as anyone unfortunate enough to read my stuff will know, I'm enthralled by what Foster would call philosophical "irrationalism". Years ago, I resurrected my mental stability in part through the works of philosophers such as& …

Robert S. Becker (2023-04-28). The rampage of reckless individualism matches climate change as a global threat. nationofchange.org Reckless individualism delivers just as many body blows to collective freedom as fascism, communism or fundamentalism.

unitedEditor (2023-04-28). China-Russia cooperation in the construction of a new world. unitedworldint.com China-Russia relations have become increasingly more decisive in the reshaping of the world order. In particular, the visit of Chinese leader Xi Jinping to Moscow has played a role in boosting the cooperation between the two countries. As the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee said to Russian President Vladimir …

thecommunists (2023-04-27). Desperate for a 'win' in Europe, USA mulls merging Ukraine with Poland. thecommunists.org Whilst the collective west hypocritically chides Russia for supposedly disrespecting the rights of sovereign nations, misrepresenting Russia's justified measures to defend its own borders as a war of aggression, it is imperialism itself that continually tramples underfoot the sovereign rights of other nations. And this is nowhere better illustrated than in the gross disservice it …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-04-28). Breaking barriers: Helping Native Americans in need get the gift of life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Robert Monroe and Jackie Johnson stand near their home on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona For many American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on an Indian reservation provides a sense of pride, independence, and the ability to maintain cultural and social traditions important to their heritage. Life on the Indian reservation can also mean high rates of poverty, lack of access to food, transportation, communication and health care. Complex medical procedures like an organ…

WSWS (2023-04-28). Lessons of the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand for the Australian working class. wsws.org The Australian Labor government and some representatives of the Indigenous elite have praised the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand as a model for Australia; the treaty, first signed in 1840 during the colonisation of New Zealand, has been used over the past 30 years to enrich a narrow layer of Māori while leaving the vast majority in poverty.

Isaac Nellist (2023-04-28). Kristin O'Connell: 'The welfare system is stealing people's present and future'. greenleft.org.au Welfare recipients, anti-poverty campaigners and supporters gathered outside Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's electoral office to demand he urgently commit to raising JobSeeker. Isaac Nellist reports.

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