2023-06-03: News Headlines

Jim McMahan (2023-06-02). Workers World Party intersex candidate opens Seattle City Council campaign. workers.org Seattle Liv Morgan Liv Morgan, an intersex Workers World Party member, declared her candidacy for Seattle City Council, District 3, on May 25. Her campaign as an official write-in candidate is breaking new ground in the struggle of oppressed genders for representation, visibility and for socialism. Abandoned and orphaned, and . . . |

Federico Fuentes (2023-06-02). Brazil: Can Lula's plan bring peace to Ukraine? greenleft.org.au Israel Dutra, of the Brazilian Socialist Left Movement within the Socialism and Liberty Party, speaks to Federico Fuentes about Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's peace proposal for the war in Ukraine.

JANET (2023-06-03). How capitalism drives climate catastrophe. iacenter.org By Maddi Johnson May 17, 2023 Portland, Oregon Since I moved to Oregon, all I've been hearing is: "This weather isn't normal. It's too hot in the summers, too cold in the winters." You hear the same story all across the globe. Every year, everywhere, new weather records are broken. Anecdotes aside, the data is indisputable. Already we've seen historical bread baskets start to fail. Places where crops have been grown for generations are suddenly no longer viable. Whether it's due to freak storms, temperature changes, lack of rain or water sources drying up, farmers are losing their livelihoods. The global economy…

Editor (2023-06-03). Canada is burning. Capitalism stoked the flames. mronline.org Wildfires are tearing through the Canadian province of Alberta, the heart of Canada's lucrative oil and gas industry.

In Defense of Liberation! (2023-06-02). Democracy Under Capitalism – What is it? podcasters.spotify.com Does democracy exist? What is it? What isn't it? What are we told about it? Where do these ideas come from? Can capitalism, a system based on exploitation, profit, and oppression, truly be "liberal", "free" or "Democratic"? For more on this and maybe an answer or to, give this episode a listen!

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-06-02). Georgi Dimitrov's "United Front: The Struggle Against Fascism and War" and its Value for Our Moment. libya360.wordpress.com Turner Roth Introduction In a period of increasing tensions, where world powers, caught in the systemic compulsions of our contemporary capitalism dominated by the United States axis, draw closer to forms of world-historical conflict, a third world war being that thing which may if it comes to pass seal the fate of the human species…


Rainer Shea (2023-06-02). Bezos Is Planning To Replace the Present US Imperialism With a 'Decolonized' Version of Imperialism. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — May 29, 2023 | The project by Jeff Bezos and other oligarchs to weaponize the concept of anti-colonialism towards reinforcing capitalism goes deeper than their "decolonial" NGOs. This is because whereas these NGOs are relatively easy for developing radicals to recognize as anti-revolutionary, there are other, more insidious ways that imperialism-compatible "anti-colonial" politics is getting normalized. The effort by Bezos to set up his "Earth Fund" so that he can

Carlos L. Garrido (2023-06-03). The US Censors Dissenting Voices: On the Attacks Against the Midwestern Marx Institute. orinocotribune.com By Edward Liger Smith, Carlos L. Garrido, and Noah Khrachvik — May 31, 2023 | The First Amendment of the United States Constitution says that "Congress shall make no law… Abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Yet in 2023 the United States is attempting to extradite Julian Assange because he

Editor (2023-06-02). The U.S. censors Dissenting Voices: On the attacks against the Midwestern Marx Institute. mronline.org The First Amendment of the United States Constitution says that "Congress shall make no law… Abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

ecns.cn (2023-06-03). Xi visits a Beijing school ahead of International Children's Day. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president, and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visited Beijing Yuying School on Wednesday morning ahead of International Children's Day, which falls on June 1.

thecommunists (2023-06-03). Model motion: Break the link with Labour. thecommunists.org This model motion for use by trade unionists and others is included in our upcoming pamphlet Manifesto for the Crisis, which will be available to buy soon in the party bookshop. ***** This [conference]* condemns the Labour party's century-long history of prioritising the interests of Britain's imperialist ruling class over the interests of working-class people …

Pavan Kulkarni (2023-06-02). Communist Party of Swaziland to launch campaign for release of its member Mvuselelo Mkhabela and other political prisoners. peoplesdispatch.org 21-year-old Mvuselelo Mkhabela, a Central Committee member of the banned Communist Party of Swaziland, who had continued organizing anti-monarchist resistance underground after escaping police custody with a bullet wound, was arrested in April and tortured again…




Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-06-02). U.S. Empire: Most Murderous Killing Machine in History. libya360.wordpress.com Jeremy Kuzmarov New study finds U.S. responsible for nearly 300 million deaths—and counting In September, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation—established by a bipartisan act of Congress in 1993—opened the Victims of Communism Museum in Washington, D.C., which aims to spotlight the plight of the alleged 100 million victims of Communist ideology. The 100 million figure was…

thecommunists (2023-06-02). Solidarity with the people of Serbia against Nato-backed violence in Kosovo. thecommunists.org The following statement and call for solidarity has been issued by the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia (NKPJ). ***** The New Communist Party of Yugoslavia (NKPJ) strongly condemns the violent intrusion of police forces of the Albanian pro-imperialist authorities in Pristina (Kosovo) to the buildings of the municipalities of Zveƒçan, Leposaviƒá and Zubin Potok, in …

Peoples Health Dispatch (2023-06-02). People's Health Tribunal Finds Shell and Total Energy Guilty of Harming African Communities. towardfreedom.org During a People's Health Tribunal, environmental, health, and human rights activists deplored extractive corporations in Africa for exploiting natural resources and for sowing poverty and disease. Peoples Health Dispatch reports.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-06-02). U.S. Empire: Most Murderous Killing Machine in History. libya360.wordpress.com Jeremy Kuzmarov New study finds U.S. responsible for nearly 300 million deaths—and counting In September, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation—established by a bipartisan act of Congress in 1993—opened the Victims of Communism Museum in Washington, D.C., which aims to spotlight the plight of the alleged 100 million victims of Communist ideology. The 100 million figure was…

thecommunists (2023-06-02). Solidarity with the people of Serbia against Nato-backed violence in Kosovo. thecommunists.org The following statement and call for solidarity has been issued by the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia (NKPJ). ***** The New Communist Party of Yugoslavia (NKPJ) strongly condemns the violent intrusion of police forces of the Albanian pro-imperialist authorities in Pristina (Kosovo) to the buildings of the municipalities of Zveƒçan, Leposaviƒá and Zubin Potok, in …

Peoples Health Dispatch (2023-06-02). People's Health Tribunal Finds Shell and Total Energy Guilty of Harming African Communities. towardfreedom.org During a People's Health Tribunal, environmental, health, and human rights activists deplored extractive corporations in Africa for exploiting natural resources and for sowing poverty and disease. Peoples Health Dispatch reports.

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