(2023-08-28). The double objective of Democratic ecosocialism. mronline.org 
The title of this week's episode is taken from an article to be published in September's Monthly Review. The author, Jason Hickel, talks to Steve about the topic in his third visit to the podcast.
(2023-08-28). Alienation under capitalism and the conspiracy pipeline. mronline.org 
When class analysis is absent from discussions about systemic problems, issues like income inequality, access to resources, and power imbalances are often oversimplified or ignored.
(2023-08-29). Negotiating Faith and Capitalism: An Exploration of Contemporary Spirituality. dissidentvoice.org Born into a Muslim family, I regularly encounter people who come to my house to invite me to religious gatherings. In these times of neoliberal fascism, it is interesting to note the ideological experience that piety seeks to provide. The most recent person whom I interacted with attempted to root the everyday relevance of religion …
(2023-08-29). New Film: Colonialism And Capitalism Are Decimating Our Forests. popularresistance.org
(2023-08-28). Trade unions and communists condemn French state's persecution of energy workers' leader Sébastien Menesplier By: Peoples Dispatch. midwesternmarx.com 
Sébastien Menesplier, the leader of the National Federation of Mines and Energy, was summoned by the police for his role in organizing a strike against the unpopular pension reforms. Unions and the French left have termed it an unprecedented escalation of attacks on labor organizing French trade union leader Sébastien Menesplier Workers' organizations and progressive movements in France denounced the state's attempt to persecute Sébastien Menesplier, nat …
(2023-08-28). BRICS and G77+China: A Historic Transformational Opportunity By: Alejandra Garcia. midwesternmarx.com world leaders attending the BRICS Summit in South Africa. photo: Alejandro Azcuy The BRICS group, an alliance of leading emerging economies formed by Brazil, Russia, India, and China in June 2009 with South Africa coming on board in 2010, concluded its first face-to-face meeting on Thursday after three years of impasse due to the health crisis caused by COVID-19. From August 22-24, Johannesburg, South Africa, was the scene of key discussions in an ever-changing geopolitical landscape.Pre …
(2023-08-28). The BRICS Have Changed the Balance of Forces, but They Will Not by Themselves Change the World: The Thirty-Third Newsletter (2023) By: Vijay Prashad. midwesternmarx.com 
Mao Xuhui (China), '92 Paternalism, 1992. Dear friends,Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.In 2003, high officials from Brazil, India, and South Africa met in Mexico to discuss their mutual interests in the trade of pharmaceutical drugs. India was and is one of the world's largest producers of various drugs, including those used to treat HIV-AIDS; Brazil and South Africa were both in need of affordable drugs for pat …
(2023-08-29). Imagining Karl Marx as a Private Eye. covertactionmagazine.com What If the Co-Author of The Communist Manifesto Would Have Become a Gumshoe? Novelist Jim Feast's sly alternate history Karl Marx Private Eye (PM Press) somehow manages to bring Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, Karl Marx and his youngest daughter together at Karlsbad, Bohemia, in 1875. The author may have chosen to set his whodunit at Karlsbad …
(2023-08-28). Philippines: Vow to attain justice for the Tiamzons and all victims of state terrorism! fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following August 21 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines. | One year ago today, Benito Tiamzon (Ka Laan), Wilma Austria (Ka Bagong-tao), together with eight other revolutionaries, were arrested by troops belonging to the 8th Infantry Division, on their way to the coasts of Catbalogan town, Samar. While in the custody of their fascist captors, they were subjected to severe torture before they were subsequently killed. Their lifeless bodies were loaded on a boat and brought to sea where reportedly being exploded. | The torture and murder of the Tiamzons,…
(2023-08-28). Philippines: Vow to attain justice for the Tiamzons and all victims of state terrorism! fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following August 21 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines. | One year ago today, Benito Tiamzon (Ka Laan), Wilma Austria (Ka Bagong-tao), together with eight other revolutionaries, were arrested by troops belonging to the 8th Infantry Division, on their way to the coasts of Catbalogan town, Samar. While in the custody of their fascist captors, they were subjected to severe torture before they were subsequently killed. Their lifeless bodies were loaded on a boat and brought to sea where reportedly being exploded. | The torture and murder of the Tiamzons,…
(2023-08-28). Antipoverty Centre's Kristin O'Connell: 'There are common sense solutions to the housing crisis'. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-08-29). Antipoverty Centre's Kristin O'Connell: 'There are common sense solutions to the housing crisis'. greenleft.org.au