(2023-08-06). Conozca cinco datos curiosos sobre Federico Engels. telesurtv.net Federico Engels fue uno de los padres del socialismo científico, también conocido como marxismo, y se destacó como dirigente socialista.
(2023-08-05). Caitlin Johnstone: Disrupt The Culture Wars. scheerpost.com 
By Caitlin Johnstone / Substack One of the great challenges faced by westerners who oppose the political status quo today is the way the narrative managers of both mainstream factions continuously divert all political energy away from issues which threaten the interests of the powerful like economic injustice, war, militarism, authoritarianism, corruption, capitalism and ecocide …
(2023-08-05). Nancy Fraser on capitalism, gender oppression, Marxism, and the post-left populist moment. youtube.com Nancy Fraser's many groundbreaking contributions to Marxism and feminism make her a legendary figure on the left.
(2023-08-05). The indictment of Trump and the threat of fascism in America. wsws.org Whatever the outcome of the legal proceedings against the ex-president, the drive towards dictatorship and war is rooted in the crisis of American and world capitalism.
(2023-08-06). India: Commemorating poet, writer and revolutionary, Saroj Dutta. greenleft.org.au 
Members of the All India Students Association and the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) — Liberation (CPIML) gathered in central Kolkata on August 5 to mark 52 years since one of the CPIML's founders and historic leaders, Saroj Dutta, was murdered, report Isaac Nellist, Jacob Andrewartha and Chloe DS.
(2023-08-05). 120 Years of Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk: Education and Progress in "Of the Meaning of Progress." By: Carlos L. Garrido. midwesternmarx.com 
Aristotle famously starts his Metaphysics with the claim that "all men by nature desire to know."[1] For Dubois, if there are a people in the U.S. who have immaculately embodied this statement, it is black folk. In Black Reconstruction, for instance, Du Bois says that "the eagerness to learn among American Negroes was exceptional in the case of a poor and recently emancipated folk."[2] In The Souls of Black Folk, he highlights "how faithfully, how piteously, …
(2023-08-05). Why has the Progress in Building a National Single-Payer Movement Stalled? By: Ed Grystar. midwesternmarx.com 
With the public support for a national single payer system remaining strong and the need greater than ever, why is the movement stalled? What are the key sources of our power? Who are our allies? What can we do and how do we focus our energies to build the power necessary to end profiteering and make health care free at the point of service?More than a decade after the misnamed Affordable Care Act, (ACA) we still have tens of millions without any coverage while millions more are sa …
(2023-08-05). African nations reject Western hegemony, embrace multipolarity. By: Shabbir Rizvi. midwesternmarx.com 
For centuries, Africa has been subject to hyper-exploitation by the colonial West. From the plunder of resources, the facilitation of multiple waves of the slave trade, and the outright genocide — the cruel subjugation of the continent and its resources has known no bounds. To this day, African countries are subjected to exploitation. France imposes a colonial-era tax that ensures Africans live subsistence-level lives while ensnaring state enterprises wi …
(2023-08-05). Russia helped Africa reach these anti-imperialist victories. The western left was wrong to disavow it. By: Rainer Shea. midwesternmarx.com 
It's no coincidence that multiple African countries have begun to carry out unprecedented measures towards breaking from neo-colonial control at the same time when American power has been seeing an acceleration in its decline. At a time when we're two decades into the process of realignment of global power which started in the 2000s; where the world's anti-imperialist forces began to regain their strength, while Washington's criminal actions brought upon it compoun …
(2023-08-05). Burkina Faso's President Traoré Delivers Anti-Imperialist Speech at Russia—Africa Summit. By: Steve Lalla. midwesternmarx.com On the second day of the Russia—Africa summit, the president of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré, delivered an anti-imperialist address and employed slogans identified with the Cuban Revolution.Traoré assumed the presidency on September 30, 2022. At age 35, he is the world's youngest head of state. Traoré has paid homage to Burkinabé socialist revolutionary Thomas Sankara who, in 1983, at age 33, took power in what was then Upper Volta. During hi …
(2023-08-05). Russia, Donbass, and the reality of the conflict in Ukraine By: Daniel Kovalik. midwesternmarx.com 
I just returned from my third trip to Russia and my second trip to Donbass (now standing for the republics of Donetsk and Lugansk collectively) in about 8 months. This time, I flew into lovely Tallinn, Estonia, and took what should be about a 6-hour bus ride to St. Petersburg. In the end, the bus trip took me about 12 hours due to a long wait in customs on the Russian side of the border.Having a U.S. passport and trying to pass the frontier from a hostile, NATO country into Russia during …
(2023-08-05). Neo-compradors: the leftist foot soldiers of Imperialism By: Sammy Ismail. midwesternmarx.com 
(2023-08-05). Nearly 800 Indegenous Brazilians Were Murdered Under Bolsonaro's Rule, Report Shows. By: Robert McKenzie. midwesternmarx.com 
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro | AP There were 800 Brazilian indigenous people murdered during the presidency of right-winger Jair Bolsonaro, a new report revealed today.The report Violence against Indigenous Peoples in Brazil, published by the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI) said that during Mr. Bolsonaro's time in office, there were 795 cases of homicides against indigenous people throughout the country.The launch of the report at the National Conf …
(2023-08-05). Niger is the fourth country in the Sahel to experience an anti-Western coup By: Vijay Prashad & Kambale Musavuli. midwesternmarx.com 
The coup in Niger follows coups in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Guinea. Each of these was led by military officers angered by the presence of French and US troops and by economic crises inflicted on their countries At 3 am on July 26, 2023, the presidential guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum in Niamey, the capital of Niger. Troops, led by Brigadier General Abdourahmane Tchiani closed the country's borders and declared a curfew. The coup d'état was immediately …
(2023-08-05). Escobar: First We Go For Moscow, Then We Take Beijing By: Tyler Durden. midwesternmarx.com 
The Global Majority is free to choose two different paths to counteract the rabid, cognitive dissonant Straussian neocon psychos in charge of imperial foreign policy; to relentlessly ridicule them, or to work hard on the long and winding road leading to a new multipolar reality.Reality struck deep at the Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg, with its astonishing breadth and scope, reflected in the official declaration and key facts such as Russia writing off no less than …