Daily Archives: July 11, 2023

2023-07-11: News Headlines

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-11). Ecosocialism 2023 strengthens the fight for a world beyond capitalism. greenleft.org.au

Anonymous Contributor (2023-07-11). Capitalism is the Tumor, Solidarity Is Our Medicine. itsgoingdown.org Reflections from Peter Gelderloos on his ongoing crowdfunding campaign and its implications for health-care, capitalism, and solidarity. Support his GoFundMe campaign here. At the end of April I had a seizure and after some scans they found a brain tumor. At the end of June I had an operation in which they took out half…

Paul Reynolds (2023-07-11). The Rise and Rise of the Cult of the Ego. indybay.org All types of people are convinced to buy something to ward off feelings of inner emptiness. A mix of clickbait hyper-capitalism will hoodwink an entire generation.

Richard D. Wolff, Naked Capitalism. (2023-07-11). It's Hard To Engage In China-Bashing Without Tripping On Contradictions. popularresistance.org The contradictions of China-bashing in the United States begin with how often it is flat-out untrue. The Wall Street Journal reports that the "Chinese spy" balloon that President Joe Biden shot down with immense patriotic fanfare in February 2023 did not in fact transmit pictures or anything else to China. White House economists have been trying to excuse persistent U.S. inflation saying it is a global problem and inflation is worse elsewhere in the world. China's inflation rate is 0.7 percent year-on-year. Financial media outlets stress how China's GDP growth rate is lower than it used to be. China now estimates…

The Lever (2023-07-11). üéß MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: Dude, Where's My Car? (w/ Devon Young). levernews.com

Freedom Socialist Party (2023-07-11). Saturday 7/15: Banking Busts and Bailouts – A Marxist Look at Why and What Next. indybay.org New Valencia Hall, 747 Polk St., | San Francisco (near Ellis St.) | 7 blocks from Civic Center BART, on/near Muni #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49 | Wheelchair accessible | To participate via Zoom, please register:…


ecns.cn (2023-07-11). Wang Yi to attend series of meetings in Indonesia. ecns.cn Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Communist Party of China Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, will attend a series of foreign ministers' meetings to be held in Jakarta, Indonesia, from Thursday to Friday.

ecns.cn (2023-07-11). Insights | Bangladesh student: CPC lifts millions of people out of poverty,achieves noticeable accomplishment. ecns.cn "Foreign students in China have heard a lot about the achievements made by the Communist Party of China. I have seen by my own eyes," Sabbir Ahamed, an international student from Bangladesh, said in a recent interview with China News Network.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-07-11). Chile: Having a Good Constitution Doesn't Guarantee Social Change. libya360.wordpress.com Taroa Zúñiga Silva Graffiti in Chile, attributed to the Communist Youth, reads "For an free education #Iwantanewconstitution" (Photo via Marcelo Bernal on Twitter) Taroa Zúñiga Silva speaks to Bárbara Navarrete, secretary-general of the Communist Youth of Chile. "We are a generation totally interested in taking power," says Bárbara Navarrete, the new secretary-general of the Communist Youth of…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-11). A dark day for peace: Communists slam Sweden's likely accession to NATO. peoplesdispatch.org As Turkey agreed to lift its veto on Sweden's accession to NATO, communists in these countries condemned the expanding footprint of the military alliance and the accompanying militarization…

thecommunists (2023-07-11). Public Order Act: latest anti-worker legislation to outlaw protests and strikes. thecommunists.org The Public Order Act (POA) 2023 is another extreme limitation of, and general attack on, the civil liberties of protesters who want to stay within the legally acceptable rules while expressing their displeasure over any aspect of government policy, or who are trying to fight against a bellicose hostile employer. The truth that has not …

John Helmer (2023-07-10). Silence of the Lambs: How the Russian Communists Have Responded to the Wagner Mutiny and Prigozhin's Empire. mronline.org The calls have begun in Mosco, for keeping intact Yevgeny Prigozhin's conglomerate of military budget contractors. The reason argued is that they have established themselves so strategically in the logistics of the military services that they cannot be purged without doing greater damage than Prigozhin himself has caused. In short, a Russian oligarch who knows too much, with too many mouths to feed, too many pockets to fill, and so too big to fail.


Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-10). Young socialist activists in the forefront of mobilizing against Period Poverty in Africa. peoplesdispatch.org Young activists from Ghana and Lesotho talk about the crisis of Period Poverty in their countries and the urgent need for mobilizing on this issue. This follows a march in late June in Ghana calling for the removal of taxes on sanitary pads…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-10). Young socialist activists in the forefront of mobilizing against Period Poverty in Africa. peoplesdispatch.org Young activists from Ghana and Lesotho talk about the crisis of Period Poverty in their countries and the urgent need for mobilizing on this issue. This follows a march in late June in Ghana calling for the removal of taxes on sanitary pads…

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