2023-07-15: News Headlines

Roberto Laxe (2023-07-14). La cuestión nacional en la guerra del siglo XXI. globalizacion.ca Desde el colapso de la URSS y la "muerte del socialismo" como proyecto social enfrentado al capitalismo en crisis, el debate en la izquierda está enrarecido por una ideología, el identitarismo sea nacional, de género o racial con una visión…

Editor (2023-07-15). Engels: How North West England shaped an internationalist. mronline.org Katherine Connelly outlines how the events and context of their times shaped the partnership and ideas of Marx and Engels.

ecns.cn (2023-07-15). Insights | Malaysian student: China has developed by leaps and bounds under the leadership of the CPC. ecns.cn The year 2023 marks the 102nd anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Malaysian student Toh Wei Yuan is quite impressed with how China has developed and progressed by leaps and bounds over the years under the leadership of the CPC. During an interview with ECNS, she shared her observation.

Pavel López Lazo (2023-07-15). China to avoid bloc confrontation in Asia-Pacific region. plenglish.com The head of the Chinese Communist Party's Foreign Affairs Commission and member of its Political Bureau, Wang Yi, made this appeal during the Foreign Ministers' Meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which is taking place in Indonesia. | According to the Xinhua news agency, the senior diplomat urged the other members to adhere to openness and inclusiveness, in addition to promoting common security. In this regard, he opposed the so-called Asia-Pacific version of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that incites confrontation in the region. | The Treaty of Friendship and Cooperatio…

A Guest Author (2023-07-14). Ukraine: Communist Kononovich brothers appeal for help. workers.org The following statement of July 5, 2023, from Mikhail and Aleksander Kononovich updates a report published earlier in Workers World about the Kiev regime's persecution of leftists. (workers.org/2022/04/63662/) We Kononovich brothers, Ukrainian communists and anti-fascists, appeal to the World Federation of Democratic Youth, communists, all leftists and anti-fascists of Europe . . . |

Editor (2023-07-14). From ICC to 'Sportswashing': West's Self Serving Narratives Must Be Combated. scheerpost.com By Ramzy Baroud / CounterPunch In March, the South Africa Communist Party (SACP) denounced what it described as the 'imperialist bias' of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The denunciation of the ICC as a "supranational institution at the service of imperialist states" came two days after the Hague-based court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and …

Staff (2023-07-14). Interview: Freeing Georges Abdallah requires collective action. samidoun.net On Tuesday, 11 July, the Lebanese TV channel Al Mayadeen conducted an interview with a member of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra (a member organization of the Samidoun NetworK) about the mobilization for the release of Georges Abdallah. Tom Martin, speaking for CPV, emphasized the significant growth of the campaign in support of the Lebanese Arab communist struggler …

Pavel López Lazo (2023-07-14). Cuba celebrates UPEC ¥s 60th foundation anniversary. plenglish.com Havana, Jul 14 (Prensa Latina) The Association of Journalists of Cuba (UPEC) held on Friday a commemorative ceremony for its 60th foundation anniversary, an activity that will be attended by the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) President Esteban Lazo, Secretary of Organization of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) Roberto Morales, Deputy Prime Minister Inés María Chapman, as well as other high-ranking officials and leaders.

Colin Todhunter (2023-07-15). An Engineered Food and Poverty Crisis to Secure Continued U.S. Dominance. globalresearch.ca The issue is not food shortage but speculation on food commodities and the manipulation of an inherently flawed global food system that serves the interests of corporate agribusiness traders and suppliers of inputs at the expense of people's needs and genuine food security.

Vijay Prashad (2023-07-15). The World Needs a New Development Theory That Does Not Trap the Poor in Poverty. dissidentvoice.org The Akosombo Dam in the Volta River, inaugurated in 1965 during Kwame Nkrumah's presidency. In June, the United Nations' Sustainable Development Solutions Network published its Sustainable Development Report 2023, which tracks the progress of the 193 member states towards attaining the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 'From 2015 to 2019', the network wrote, 'the world …

Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. (2023-07-15). World Needs A New Development Theory That Does Not Trap The Poor In Poverty. popularresistance.org In June, the United Nations' Sustainable Development Solutions Network published its Sustainable Development Report 2023, which tracks the progress of the 193 member states towards attaining the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 'From 2015 to 2019', the network wrote, 'the world made some progress on the SDGs, although this was already vastly insufficient to achieve the goals. Since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020 and other simultaneous crises, SDG progress has stalled globally'. This development agenda was adopted in 2015, with targets intended to be met by 2030.

Chris Hedges (2023-07-14). American poverty is a calamity by design. therealnews.com Some 50 million people in the United States live in poverty today—and over 108 million people survive on less than $55,000 a year. Despite having the largest economy on earth, poverty in the US is often grinding and brutal. From millions who live without running water or reliable power, to countless children who experience food insecurity and homelessness. The data on poverty only becomes exacerbated when race is taken into account. In 2019, the median White household had a net worth of $188,200, compared with $24,100 for the median Black household. Matthew Desmond joins The Chris Hedges Report to dis…

teleSUR (2023-07-14). Colombia to Propose Debt-for-Climate Swap in EU-CELAC Summit. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro confirmed his participation in the 3rd Summit of Heads of State and Government of the European Union (EU) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), which will take place in Brussels on July 17 and 18. | RELATED: | In this high-level meeting, he will present his main government proposals, such as the achievement of total peace, the use of clean energy, the fight against poverty, and the debt swap for…

Vijay Prashad (2023-07-14). The world needs a new development theory that does not trap the poor in poverty: The Twenty-Eighth Newsletter (2023). mronline.org In June, the United Nations' Sustainable Development Solutions Network published its Sustainable Development Report 2023, which tracks the progress of the 193 member states towards attaining the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

WSWS (2023-07-14). PSOE-Podemos government intensifies Spain's housing crisis and pushes thousands into poverty. wsws.org None of the political parties standing for the July 23 general election offer any solution to the mounting social misery, particularly among working-class households and young people.

Pavel López Lazo (2023-07-14). UNDP urges G20 to pause debt payments as global poverty rates surge. plenglish.com United Nations, Jul 14 (Prensa Latina) The UN Development Program (UNDP) on Friday urged the G-20 (the world's most developed economies) to give poor nations debt payment breaks, estimating the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent surge in inflation and borrowing costs had pushed an extra 165 million people into poverty.

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