Daily Archives: June 23, 2023

2023-06-23: News Headlines

Peter Boyle (2023-06-23). The idea of degrowth communism was Marx's last breakthrough—and perhaps most important. mronline.org Even if Japanese Marxist Kohei Saito had not written

C.J. Atkins (2023-06-22). Remembering Gary Dotterman: Anti-racist Oklahoman, Vietnam vet for peace, and irrepressible gay Communist. peoplesworld.org Fighter against racism and Jim Crow segregation in 1960s Oklahoma. Vietnam vet turned peace activist. Advance man for Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign who was standing next to the candidate the night he was assassinated. Gay rights pioneer who pushed the Communist Party USA to turn away from its homophobic past. Advocate of socialism on …

Editor (2023-06-22). On the dialectics of socialism and western Marxisms' purity fetish. mronline.org Gabriel Rockhill "one of my favorite jokes that I've heard about the socialist project is the following: socialism looks good on paper, but in reality… you just get invaded by the United States."

Peninsula Peace & Justice Center (2023-06-23). Thursday 6/22: Pride, Prejudice & Corporate P.R: Corporate Capitalism and Anti-LGBTQIA+ Hate. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

teleSUR, nama, DRL (2023-06-23). Petro asegura que capitalismo no resolverá crisis climática. telesurtv.net El mandatario colombiano aseguró, además, que las medidas propuestas por Bruselas son demasiado dependientes de la empresa privada.


WSWS (2023-06-23). Podemos electoral debacle in Spain exposes bankruptcy of Revolutionary Left (IR) group. wsws.org IR's complaint that "the 'progressive' management of capitalism has gone very wrong" amounts to an exposure of this party's decade-long support for the anti-worker Podemos party.

Mark Gruenberg (2023-06-22). Starbucks is latest corporation ditching Pride to protect profits, showing rainbow capitalism's limits. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Somebody tell Starbucks's bosses that June is Pride Month. They've gone in the other direction. An internal memo, leaked to Starbucks Workers United—the Service Employees-backed group that's aiding the grassroots union organizing drive at the coffee giant—orders local store managers to take down and remove all pro-LGBTQ material from their stores. This is, of course, …

John Bellamy Foster (2023-06-23). Marx, the Anthropocene, and the Metabolic Rift. mronline.org A Polen Ekoloji seminar featuring John Bellamy Foster on the theoretical and historical background of Marx, the Anthropocene, and the metabolic rift.

ecns.cn (2023-06-23). CPC official says China, UK have common responsibility. ecns.cn Despite having different views on a number of issues, China and the United Kingdom share a common responsibility to shun group politics and bloc confrontations, and China welcomes genuine discussion based on equality and respect to expand mutual understanding, a senior official of the Communist Party of China said.

thecommunists (2023-06-23). Seek the truth to save humanity: why context matters. thecommunists.org The press office of the international department of the Communist Party of China's central committee sent an email last week containing some links to videos that highlight different facets of Chinese history and culture. An exercise in public relations (PR), and no wonder considering the rap the Chinese are getting from western media. A cynic …


ecns.cn (2023-06-23). Insights | China's poverty reduction experience instructive for Latin America: Honduran official. ecns.cn One of the main things that Latin America could learn from China is the strategy used for poverty elimination, said Marcela Arias, minister at the Permanent Mission of Honduras to the UN and Other International Organizations based in Geneva, on Thursday in an interview with China News Network.

Caleb Crowder (2023-06-22). 55 Years After the Launch of the Poor People's Campaign, Taking Stock of Interlocking Injustices. ips-dc.org New fact sheets by the Poor People's Campaign and the Institute for Policy Studies reveal disturbing data on systemic racism, poverty and inequality, ecological devastation, and militarism in every U.S. state.

Mark Gruenberg (2023-06-22). Poor People's campaigners bring call to end poverty to Congress. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Poor People's Campaign members and their allies descended on Congress advocating an end to poverty in the U.S. But on that issue and others like workers' rights and slashing the military budge, they got a mixed reaction. Several hundred of the campaigners and allies then rallied after a day of lobbying to hear colleagues describe …

ecns.cn (2023-06-23). Insights | China's poverty reduction experience instructive for Latin America: Honduran official. ecns.cn One of the main things that Latin America could learn from China is the strategy used for poverty elimination, said Marcela Arias, minister at the Permanent Mission of Honduras to the UN and Other International Organizations based in Geneva, on Thursday in an interview with China News Network.

Caleb Crowder (2023-06-22). 55 Years After the Launch of the Poor People's Campaign, Taking Stock of Interlocking Injustices. ips-dc.org New fact sheets by the Poor People's Campaign and the Institute for Policy Studies reveal disturbing data on systemic racism, poverty and inequality, ecological devastation, and militarism in every U.S. state.

Mark Gruenberg (2023-06-22). Poor People's campaigners bring call to end poverty to Congress. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Poor People's Campaign members and their allies descended on Congress advocating an end to poverty in the U.S. But on that issue and others like workers' rights and slashing the military budge, they got a mixed reaction. Several hundred of the campaigners and allies then rallied after a day of lobbying to hear colleagues describe …

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