ecns.cn (2023-07-06). InsightsÔΩúVietnamese Ph.D. Graduate: CPC is the key to China's success. ecns.cn China's development path of socialism with Chinese characteristics and Chinese-style modernization under the leadership of the CPC is the key to China's success today,said Hoang Thi Hanh Trang, Vietnamese Ph.D. Graduate from School of International Studies, Renmin University of China.

Staff (2023-07-06). 8 July, Albuquerque: Solidarity Rally for a Free Palestine. samidoun.net Samidoun Albuquerque will be participating in the following rally: | Solidarity rally for a Free Palestine! End all U.S. Aid to Israel — Solidarity with Palestinians in Jenin! | Saturday, July 8 | 11 am | UNM Bookstore, Albuquerque, NM | Organized by PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation) and Stop the War Machine…

unitedEditor (2023-07-06). Democracy in check: The crisis of MAS in Bolivia and Evo's alliance with the accomplices of the coup. uwidata.com By Ana Laura Dagorret* The Movement Towards Socialism in Bolivia (MAS) is going through its final crisis. The rupture has left two well defined sides: On one side, the current president Luis Arce leads the "renovation" of the party. The other side's leader is the former president and founder of MAS, Evo Morales, who is …

midwesternmarx (2023-07-06). Bolivia Forges Lithium Extraction Partnerships with China and Russia By: Misión Verdad. midwesternmarx.com Bolivia's government has recently entered into agreements with Chinese and Russian companies for the extraction of lithium from two of the country's salt flats. Signed on Thursday, June 29, these agreements grant authorization to China's Citic Guoan and Russia's Uranium One Group to deploy direct lithium extraction (DLE) technologies for lithium exploration in Bolivia, with a total investment of $1.4 billion.A previous agreement worth a similar value had already be …

midwesternmarx (2023-07-06). Pakistan arrests human trafficking suspects after migrant boat tragedy By: The Associated Press. midwesternmarx.com Pakistani authorities said Wednesday they have arrested seven alleged key figures in a human trafficking ring following last week's sinking of an overcrowded smuggling vessel off Greece that left more than 500 migrants missing, including Pakistanis.Police told The Associated Press that the ring was engaged in smuggling Pakistanis into Europe and that the arrests took place over the last two days, as part of a government crackdown on traffickers.Thirty other suspects were arrested over the …

thecommunists (2023-07-06). Prigozhin's failed mutiny. thecommunists.org On Saturday 24 June, Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner private military group, occupied key points in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, after which he began a march towards Moscow with a view to effecting a change in the composition of the Russian government, if not its complete overthrow. For months leading up to …

Vijay Prashad (2023-07-06). The Rice Bowl of the Chinese People Is Held Firmly in Their Hands. dissidentvoice.org Fan Wennan (China), ‰∏≠ÂõΩ 2098: §™Èò≥ÁÖßÂ∏∏Âçá˵∑ ('China 2098: The Sun Rises Just the Same'), 2019—2022. At the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), member states decided to replace the Millennium Development Goals (established in 2000) with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The first SDG was to 'end poverty in …

WSWS (2023-07-04). The National Health Service at 75: Defending free healthcare demands a struggle for socialism. wsws.org The NHS was the jewel in the crown of…

ecns.cn (2023-07-04). Xi sends congratulatory letter to forum on civilization and sinology. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese president, sent a congratulatory letter on Monday to the third Dialogue on Exchanges and Mutual Learning among Civilizations and the first World Conference of Sinologists.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-04). Communist party vows to continue fight for a "secular Turkey" on 30th anniversary of Sivas massacre. peoplesdispatch.org 37 people, including 33 activists of the Turkish Communist Party (TKP), were burnt to death in a fire started by religious fanatics and right-wing mobs in Sivas in central Turkey in 1993…

thecommunists (2023-07-04). Max Blumenthal to UN security council: Ukraine war is a giant Ponzi scheme. thecommunists.org This video and its transcription are reproduced from The Grayzone, with thanks. ***** Thank you to Wyatt Reed, Alex Rubinstein and Anya Parampil for helping me prepare this presentation. Wyatt has first hand experience with the subject as a journalist whose hotel in Donetsk was targeted with a US-made howitzer by the Ukrainian military in …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-07-04). Police Brutality, Racism and Poverty Underlines Youth Rebellion in France. libya360.wordpress.com Abayomi Azikiwe North African Youth Nahel M Killed by Police Macron government has deployed 45,000 security personnel in attempt to quell the outrage sweeping the country in the aftermath of the police killing of Nahel M A 17-year-old youth of Moroccan and Algerian descent named Nahel M was gunned down by the French police on…

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-07-04). Venezuela congratulates US people on Independence Day. plenglish.com Venezuela and the United States have been linked by struggles and aspirations for a life with guarantees of happiness and dignity, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed in a statement. | The release stated that the Venezuelan people will always express solidarity with the US people in fighting for social justice, overcoming poverty and discrimination, and for "relations of respect with the rest of the world that leave any imperialist pretensions behind. | The Bolivarian Government stated that, with political will, the United States could resume the path of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and diplomacy…

Editor (2023-07-04). 55 Years After the Launch of the Poor People's Campaign, Taking Stock of Interlocking Injustices. scheerpost.com 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.

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-07-03). Ask Who Benefits: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): | It is the Republican Party's job to expand the US military, rob and oppress the working class, serve US plutocrats, facilitate ecocidal capitalism, and foment division among the electorate. It is the Democratic Party's job to do these same things while blaming it on Republicans. | ‚ùñ | One of the weirdest things to happen last year was the entire western political/media class deciding to start pretending Ukrainian Nazis aren't Nazis based on literally nothing whatsoever, just because it's convenient, and a substantial portion of…

Tomasz Konicz (2023-07-03). The End of the "Golden Age" of Capitalism and the Rise of Neoliberalism. indybay.org The rise of the neoliberal world economic system marked by the dominance of financial markets — whose financial superstructure collapses over us — resulted from the radical economic crises of the early 1970s that seized nearly all western industrial countries. This crisis ended a period of economic prosperity in Western Europe and the US that continued since the early 1950s.

thecommunists (2023-07-03). Why does Russia now believe that Covid-19 was a US-created bioweapon? thecommunists.org Western mainstream media reporting of chemical, biological and genetic experimentation, 'biosecurity' and bioweapons has become so integral to the information war that it has become hard to disentangle fact from fiction, and truth from psychological operation, even for those with sound political instincts and a healthy scepticism. Yet the war in Ukraine is shedding some …

Oraily Madruga Rios (2023-07-03). Pope Francis sent message to the 43rd FAO Conference. plenglish.com Vatican City, Jul 3 (Prensa Latina) Pope Francis on Monday sent a message to the participants in the 43rd Conference of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), where he regrets the poverty and malnutrition existing in the world.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-07-01). Communist Party of Serbia welcomes DPRK's achievements. plenglish.com Pyongyang, Jul 1 (Prensa Latina) The Communist Party of Serbia has expressed admiration for the great achievements of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in building socialism, KCNA reported on Saturday.

Tomasz Konicz (2023-07-02). The End of the "Golden Age" of Capitalism and the Rise of Neoliberalism. indybay.org The rise of the neoliberal world economic system marked by the dominance of financial markets — whose financial superstructure collapses over us — resulted from the radical economic crises of the early 1970s that seized nearly all western industrial countries. This crisis ended a period of economic prosperity in Western Europe and the US that continued since the early 1950s.

midwesternmarx (2023-07-01). Bertrand Russell on Hegel and Marx: Part Two Marx. By: Thomas Riggins. midwesternmarx.com ​Bertrand Russell discusses the philosophy of Karl Marx in chapter 27 of his A History of Western Philosophy (HWP). He begins by telling us he is not going to deal with his economics or politics, just his philosophy and its influence on others. While Lenin saw Marx's philosophy as developing from three sources— British economic theory, early French socialist thought, and classical German philosophy (Hegel) Russell sees only two sources. Marx's philosophy is t …

ecns.cn (2023-07-02). CPC leadership reviews guidelines on policies supporting construction of Xiong'an. ecns.cn The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting on Friday to review Guidelines on Policies and Measures Supporting the High-standard and High-quality Construction of Xiong'an New Area. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting.

ecns.cn (2023-07-02). Xi gives important instructions on Party building and organizational work. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, has recently given important instructions on Party building and organizational work. He stressed that how the CPC and the people fare makes all the difference to comprehensively building a modern socialist country in all respects and advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts.

ecns.cn (2023-07-02). CPC sees membership rise 1.4% to 98.04 million. ecns.cn The number of the Communist Party of China members reached 98.04 million at the end of 2022, and the total membership was 1.4 percent up from the 2021 figure, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee said Friday.

Pavel López Lazo (2023-07-02). UJC member condemns at SPF media war on Cuba. plenglish.com Brasilia, Jul 2 (Prensa Latina) The media war on Cuba is a phenomenon as old as the struggles for sovereignty and independence in a country engrossed in championing the basic pillars that underpin both the State and the Revolution, according to Reudenys Salas, member of the National Bureau of the Union of Young Communists of Cuba (UJC) at the 26th Meeting of the Sao Paulo Forum.

_____ (2023-07-01). Russia's Ya Russkiy Women Slam Dunk the Culture Wars. strategic-culture.org Instead of giving these young women vacuous teenage love crushes as most Western rock singers do, Shaman is instilling true pride and confidence in and of themselves. | The chorus of Ya Russkiy, I am Russian, First off, the women, whose red ribbons indicate they may be members of the youth wing of the Russian Communist Party, all possess in abundance the beauty,…

thecommunists (2023-07-01). Mick Lynch, Sharon Graham and the capitulating left. thecommunists.org The following article is reproduced from the Class Conciousness Project with thanks. ***** Another week and another exasperating capitulation by the so-called leaders of the so-called 'left'. It seems like a neverending conveyer belt of promise that always falls into the waste bin that is the Labour party. The RMT's Mick Lynch was bellowing his …

thecommunists (2023-07-01). Former CIA chief to John Pilger: backing Pinochet's crimes in Chile was 'worth it'. thecommunists.org For those who believe in the whole narrative about how the USA fights for freedom and democracy or whatever, there was a time when the CIA — before it openly integrated into the newsrooms of media corporations like NBC and CNN — was candid about its real mission. In this video, journalist John Pilger interviews …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-01). Activists in Ghana march to the parliament demanding tax-free periods. peoplesdispatch.org Ghanaian activists took to the streets of Accra for the "Don't Tax My Period" parade where they opposed the heavy taxation of menstrual hygiene products. The action aimed to draw attention to the pervasive yet often overlooked issue of period poverty…

Tomasz Konicz (2023-07-01). The End of the "Golden Age" of Capitalism and the Rise of Neoliberalism. indybay.org The rise of the neoliberal world economic system marked by the dominance of financial markets — whose financial superstructure collapses over us — resulted from the radical economic crises of the early 1970s that seized nearly all western industrial countries. This crisis ended a period of economic prosperity in Western Europe and the US that continued since the early 1950s.

_____ (2023-06-30). Meet the World's Most Murderous Killing Machine: the United States of America. strategic-culture.org If the political culture in the U.S. changes, someone might open a museum dedicated to the victims of capitalism or the U.S. empire, whose death toll would be much greater than the 100 million blamed on Communism, writes CovertAction Magazine's Jeremy Kuzmarov. | (Click on the image to enlarge)…

Editor (2023-06-30). Levy del àÅguila Marchena: 'Communism, Political Power and Personal Freedom in Marx'. mronline.org Marx diagnosed the oppression of the working class, the alienation of workers from their labor, as well as the alienation of all human beings living within capitalism from their own authentic selves, and proposed that it was objectively possible that emancipation, true liberation, would come one day.

midwesternmarx (2023-07-01). Bertrand Russell on Hegel and Marx: Part Two Marx. By: Thomas Riggins. midwesternmarx.com ​Bertrand Russell discusses the philosophy of Karl Marx in chapter 27 of his A History of Western Philosophy (HWP). He begins by telling us he is not going to deal with his economics or politics, just his philosophy and its influence on others. While Lenin saw Marx's philosophy as developing from three sources— British economic theory, early French socialist thought, and classical German philosophy (Hegel) Russell sees only two sources. Marx's philosophy is t …

Editor (2023-06-30). A deeply misleading narrative. mronline.org A Deeply Misleading Narrative: Answering the Claims of Cedric Robinson's 'Black Marxism'.

midwesternmarx (2023-06-30). BOOK REVIEW: WORKING CLASS GIANT, THE LIFE OF WILLIAM Z. FOSTER By: Bob Bonner. midwesternmarx.com Imagine if you will, that we lived in a country in which TV and movie scripts were produced for merit and not edited and censored to ensure compliance with capitalist ideology.​Imagine that in this fictitious USA, it were possible to make movies celebrating heroic leaders of the struggles for working people, Black people, and immigrants.Imagine that those films could be financed, promoted, and viewed as widely as the mindless tripe we are currently subjected to that encompasses all …

midwesternmarx (2023-06-30). Millions of people in the US ration medicine as Big Pharma fights to keep prices high By: Natalia Marques. midwesternmarx.com

midwesternmarx (2023-06-30). RECALLING THE 1933 COMMUNIST PARTY EXTRAORDINARY CONFERENCE By: Chris Townsend. midwesternmarx.com As the Communist Party of the United States entered the fourth full year of the Great Depression in 1933, its leadership recognized that a major consolidation and refocus of Party effort was necessary to reach the vast potential of the moment. The communist movement had been established in the U.S. for 15 years by that point, and some advances had been made in rooting the Party in certain key sectors — but not in others.The left and socialist organizations were all growing amidst th …

midwesternmarx (2023-06-30). Ukraine Violated Peace Agreement Approved in Turkey, Putin Reveals By: Al Mayadeen Español. midwesternmarx.com Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed during an African leaders meeting in St. Petersburg that Russian forces had withdrawn from Kiev and other regions of Ukraine last year in compliance with a peace agreement reached in Turkey, as part of an African mediation mission to Russia.However, during the meeting with the members of the African delegation, who were entrusted with presenting an initiative to resolve the Ukrainian conflict, Putin informed them that Kiev had declined to sign the …

ecns.cn (2023-07-01). CPC sees membership rise 1.4% to 98.04 million. ecns.cn The number of the Communist Party of China members reached 98.04 million at the end of 2022, and the total membership was 1.4 percent up from the 2021 figure, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee said Friday.

ecns.cn (2023-07-01). CPC leadership reviews guidelines on policies supporting construction of Xiong'an. ecns.cn The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting on Friday to review Guidelines on Policies and Measures Supporting the High-standard and High-quality Construction of Xiong'an New Area. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting.

ecns.cn (2023-07-01). Xi gives important instructions on Party building and organizational work. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, has recently given important instructions on Party building and organizational work. He stressed that how the CPC and the people fare makes all the difference to comprehensively building a modern socialist country in all respects and advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts.

thecommunists (2023-07-01). Mick Lynch, Sharon Graham and the capitulating left. thecommunists.org The following article is reproduced from the Class Conciousness Project with thanks. ***** Another week and another exasperating capitulation by the so-called leaders of the so-called 'left'. It seems like a neverending conveyer belt of promise that always falls into the waste bin that is the Labour party. The RMT's Mick Lynch was bellowing his …

thecommunists (2023-07-01). Former CIA chief to John Pilger: backing Pinochet's crimes in Chile was 'worth it'. thecommunists.org For those who believe in the whole narrative about how the USA fights for freedom and democracy or whatever, there was a time when the CIA — before it openly integrated into the newsrooms of media corporations like NBC and CNN — was candid about its real mission. In this video, journalist John Pilger interviews …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-01). Activists in Ghana march to the parliament demanding tax-free periods. peoplesdispatch.org Ghanaian activists took to the streets of Accra for the "Don't Tax My Period" parade where they opposed the heavy taxation of menstrual hygiene products. The action aimed to draw attention to the pervasive yet often overlooked issue of period poverty…