2023-07-21: News Headlines

midwesternmarx (2023-07-21). Africa's path to socialism By: Tanupriya Singh. midwesternmarx.com 200 delegates from 40 organizations are gathering in South Africa for the "Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism" conference. For the next four days, progressive movements and organizations will discuss the challenges posed by capitalism, and articulate the socialist way forward On Monday, July 17, 200 delegates from progressive organizations, political parties, people's movements, and trade unions across the African continent will gather in Bel …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-07-21). "It's Not Socialism": China is a Capitalist Cheap Labour Economy, Based on Exceedingly Low Wages. globalresearch.ca

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-21). Ecosocialism needed in the age of climate emergency. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-21). Videos from Ecosocialism 2023. greenleft.org.au

thecommunists (2023-07-21). Comrade Tongogara, who dedicated his life to the cause of freedom. thecommunists.org Lalkar is sad to announce the death of Comrade Tongogara, who breathed his last on 11 May this year. Born Danny Morrell on 6 February 1942, he adopted the name Tongogara after the great Zimbabwean fighter Josiah Tongogara who fought for the liberation of Zimbabwe from the clutches of the racist white minority regime of …

Lauren Smith, Covert Action Magazine. (2023-07-20). Nicaraguans Celebrate Anniversary Of The Sandinista Revolution. popularresistance.org In the United States, the word "socialism" has come to have a negative meaning. In that meaning, the word implies the loss of individual sovereignty, rejection of religion and the institution of authoritarian political measures. | While denounced as socialist by U.S. propagandists and repeated by the ill-informed media, in fact, Nicaragua has a mixed economy based on traditional humane Christian spiritual beliefs under the concept of Sandinismo. It also encourages multiple political parties in line with genuinely social democratic ideals. | The foreign media denounce the Ortega administration for its alleged oppr…

WSWS (2023-07-21). Michael: Rapper Killer Mike releases an unflattering self-portrait. wsws.org The outspoken rapper responds to this moment of capitalism's intersecting crises … with an album that worships God and Mammon.

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-21). Video: Capitalism in Crisis. greenleft.org.au

Jacqueline Luqman, Black Agenda Report. (2023-07-21). RFK, Jr.: It's Not Genetics, It's Racial Capitalism. popularresistance.org I know that opinions about COVID-19 and the vaccines related to it are still as varied as they are passionate, at least in the US where this government did absolutely nothing under two presidents to protect people and save lives in the midst of a global pandemic. But let me just be the one to say it if you were afraid to. Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s recent comments about the virus are wackadoodle, but should not be dismissed outright because of his dismissal of US racialized capitalism that fueled the deadly outcome of the pandemic in the US among certain groups of people.

Richard D. Wolff (2023-07-20). Why capitalism is leaving the US, in search of profit. nationofchange.org Ongoing controversies and alarms surround this capitalist exodus.

midwesternmarx (2023-07-21). Thousands of actors join picket lines in Los Angeles and New York By: David Walsh. midwesternmarx.com The strike by tens of thousands of US film and television actors officially began Friday. The actors, members of the Screen Actors Guild—American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), have now joined the 11,000 members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA), on strike since May 2.The actors and writers are striking against the cabal of giant film and television production companies organized in the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) over fundamental …

midwesternmarx (2023-07-21). COMMUNISTS CONDEMN DEATH THREATS AGAINST BROTHERS ALEXANDER AND MIKHAIL KONONOVICH IN UKRAINE By: MLToday. midwesternmarx.com Communist Party of Ireland Statement: Solidarity with Aleksander Kononovich and his brother Mikhail Kononovich The Communist Party of Ireland joins communist parties and other leftist and progressive forces around the world in condemning the death threats, persecution and other forms of ongoing intimidation against communist youth leaders Aleksander Kononovich and his brother Mikhail Kononovich who are under house arrest in Ukraine.Following the onset of the proxy NATO war against R …

Fidel Castro (2023-07-21). Our right to be Marxist-Leninists. workers.org This commentary, reprinted from Havana Times, was given May 7, 2015, by late Cuban President Fidel Castro Ruz. We share this now in honor of the 70th anniversary of the attack on the Moncada Barracks, which launched the Cuban Revolution. This 2021 graphic honors the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Hospital, opened . . . |

ecns.cn (2023-07-21). Insights | CPC never forgets its main mission to serve people: Italian expert. ecns.cn The Communist Party of China (CPC) has never forgotten its main mission, which is to serve the people and their interests. The distinctive model of the socialist market economy has tried to combine private profits and common prosperity, productivity and welfare, merit and social demand, something even impossible to think of nowadays in the West.

ecns.cn (2023-07-21). Insights | BRI doesn't distinguish participants based on ideologies, nor does it respond to zero-sum game logic: expert. ecns.cn "The Communist Party of China (CPC) has never forgotten its main mission, which is to serve the people and their interests," said Fabio Massimo Parenti, professor of international studies at the International Institute Lorenzo de' Medici in Florencein an online interview with China News Network.

thecommunists (2023-07-21). Donetsk communist leader: 'No democracy in Ukraine'. thecommunists.org Steve Sweeney interviews Boris Litinov, head of the Donetsk republican branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Topics discussed range from Comrade Litinov's views on the split in the international communist movement over the war in Ukraine, his thoughts on the effect of western propaganda on the communist and trade union organisations in …

Sara Flounders (2023-07-21). As Yellen dictates terms to China What we defend, what Wall Street wants to destroy. workers.org What is the material basis of the growing hostility on every level of the U.S. ruling class toward China? No great struggle is based on the personalities or aspirations of individuals. At the root is a very concrete, material basis that drives the conflict. Otherwise, meetings, discussions and diplomacy would . . . |

Mike Ludwig (2023-07-21). 60 Years After the March on Washington, 1 in 3 Black Children Live in Poverty. truthout.org Conservatives today would have you believe the civil rights movement of the 1960s was so successful that systemic racism is a problem of the past. Every February, white Republicans observe Black History Month by twisting famous lines from Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech to serve their own agendas. The Constitution is "colorblind," they claim, and if this flies in the face of… |

Zara Jemuel (2023-07-21). Militant Black Unionism Offers Best Resistance to Growing White Nationalism. truthout.org The United States economy keeps Black labor at the bottom because when bosses conceded on slavery, they settled on poverty wages. While white nationalism's most visible soldiers are terror organizations and politicians, the quest for racial purity is made possible by Sears, General Motors, Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil, Chase Bank, and other so-called job creators. Corporate benefactors fund extremist… |

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-07-21). Not even remittances can save El Salvador from poverty. plenglish.com San Salvador, Jul 21 (Prensa Latina) At least two of ten Salvadoran families who receive remittances from the United States and other countries are in a state of poverty, El Salvador's Multipurpose Household Survey (EHPM) reported.

Editor (2023-07-20). The World Needs a New Development Theory That Does Not Trap the Poor in Poverty. scheerpost.com By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research 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 …

Damian Balassone (2023-07-20). Poem: Spiritual Land/Spiritless Man. greenleft.org.au Damian Balassone, on the poverty of spirit.

Eleanor J. Bader, The Indypendent. (2023-07-20). When The Welfare Rights Movement Was Force For Uplifting The Poor. popularresistance.org When Dartmouth history professor Annelise Orleck was still working on her first book, Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965, she learned about the work of an intrepid group of low-income, southern-born women in Las Vegas, Nevada. Thirteen years of research and interviews followed. The result, Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty, tells the amazing story of fed-up and reviled welfare recipients who organized on their own behalf, winning a raft of financial, medical and educational improvements for themselves, their chi…

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