(2023-09-12). "Socialism 2023" conference: Imperialist warmongering and Democratic Party politics. wsws.org The "Socialism 2023" conference was dominated by the self-absorption and reactionary politics of the upper middle class milieu populating the DSA, the fraudulent "reformists" of the trade union bureaucracy and pro-imperialist state operatives.
(2023-09-11). Remembering Salvador Allende and the Chilean Counterrevolution. fpif.org When I heard that Salvador Allende won the Chilean presidential elections in September 1970 and sought to bring his country to socialism by peaceful means, I decided to do my doctoral dissertation on Chile. In May 1972, I went to take a crash course in Spanish in Cuernavaca in the Mexican state of Morelos, the birthplace of the legendary peasant leader Emiliano Zapata whose life had been made into a movie starring Marlon Brando that I had seen and liked as a teenager. After three weeks, I felt that the course had substantially improved the rudimentary Spanish I had from high school in the Philippines. So, I flew…
(2023-09-12). Prettification of Capitalism Is Backfiring. orinocotribune.com By Prabhat Patnaik — Sep 8, 2023 | Metropolitan economies that arm-twisted the Third World to accept that 'global trade is beneficial for all', are now taking the lead in protecting themselves against imports by violating their own neoliberal rules. | Liberal bourgeois writers tend to explain the problems that arise under capitalism not by the immanent tendencies of the system but by the capriciousness of particular governments. This way they can continue to believe in their own false theories that prettify capitalism, while putting the blame for the travails it generates on political bloody-mindedness. One…
(2023-09-12). "Capitalism Is an Insecurity Machine": Astra Taylor on Student Debt & Our Radically Unequal World. democracynow.org 
As the COVID-19 era pause on federal student debt payments comes to an end and some 40 million Americans will resume payments next month, we speak with Debt Collective organizer Astra Taylor about Biden's new Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan and her organization's new tool that helps people apply to the Department of Education to cancel the borrower's debt. Taylor also discusses her new book, The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, in which she writes, "How we understand and respond to insecurity is one of the most urgent questions of our moment, for nothi…
(2023-09-11). No Parties On A Dead Planet: It's Time We Reimagine Burning Man. popularresistance.org For the past 37 years, people have flocked to Burning Man to celebrate art, radical self expression and community. The first iteration of Burning Man began in 1986 when a small group of friends met on a San Francisco beach with an eight-foot statue of a man they built with scrap lumber. They soaked the statue in gasoline and burned it, symbolizing the destruction of the powers that be. | The world does not look today as it did in 1986: As about 72,000 "Burners" lined up in their cars and campers to take reprieve from the grind of capitalism and attend this year's Burning Man, which now conven…
(2023-09-11). Review: "Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Fuel Capitalism" mronline.org 
Nicolas Graham's book on forces of production and fossil-fuel capitalism gives an important analysis of why fundamental change is needed to solve the climate crisis, finds John Clarke…
(2023-09-11). Socialist "movement incubator" celebrates five year anniversary in the heart of NYC. peoplesdispatch.org The People's Forum in New York City, founded in 2018 as a "movement incubator" to unite working class movements in the US and abroad, celebrated its five year anniversary on Saturday, September 9. In its five years of existence, TPF has been able to support the strengthening of progressive and socialist organizations from the heart of world capitalism. | "Over the past five years, TPF has become a reference for people who are seeking to understand what's going on in the world around them, and who want a place where they can ask questions and exchange ideas, and where there's space for socialist and internationali…
(2023-09-12). The Heat: Chile Coup 50 Years On. america.cgtn.com 
Chile marks the 50th anniversary of its coup in 1973. | It is now 50 years since Chile was rocked by a military coup in September 1973. | It was backed by the United States and brought an end to the government of the democratically elected Marxist president, Salvador Allende. | General Augusto Pinochet took over and under his military rule, which was bloody and divisive, it lasted until 1990. Today, Chile is still dealing with the trauma of those turbulent times. | Joining the discussion: | Peter Kuznick is…
(2023-09-12). The Pedagogy Of Power. popularresistance.org I am standing in a classroom in a maximum security prison. It is the first class of the semester. I am facing 20 students. They have spent years, sometimes decades, incarcerated. They come from some of the poorest cities and communities in the country. Most of them are people of color. | During the next four months they will study political philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes, Niccolà≤ Machiavelli, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx and John Locke, those often dismissed as anachronistic by the cultural left. | It is not that the criticisms leveled against these philosophers are incorrect. They wer…
(2023-09-11). Book Review: Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky's 'The Withdrawel.' Reviewed by: Edward Liger Smith. midwesternmarx.com 
Summary and Analysis Last year in the summer of 2022 a wonderful friend named Debbie sent me a copy of Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad's new book The Withdrawal. A year later I finally got the chance to sit down and read it (sorry it took me so long Debbie) and I was not disappointed as this text provides an excellent history of the major events and developments that have taken place within Western Capitalist imperialism throughout the last forty years or so. Those looking for a den …
(2023-09-11). From the archives of Marxism: Lessons of the 1973 coup in Chile. wsws.org This statement was published by the International Committee of the Fourth International on September 18, 1973, in response to the overthrow of the government of Salvador Allende in Chile.
(2023-09-11). Finnish Left slams government's decommunization attempts in the name of anti-discrimination. peoplesdispatch.org The government has been widely criticized for defending two ministers in the right-wing coalition with a history of making racist comments and for trying to use a recently announced anti-discrimination drive to ban communist symbols…
(2023-09-11). 'Chile Needs a Communist Party': Interview With Lautaro Carmona. orinocotribune.com The general secretary of the Communist Party of Chile says with the resumption of democracy, the Communist Party has made the case for its legality by reviving this slogan in the country. | On August 31, 2023, the President of the Communist Party of Chile, Guillermo Teillier, was buried in the historical cemetery of Recoleta. In this graveyard lies the remains of a range of important people, from former Chilean President Salvador Allende to the socialist singer Victor Jara. Both Allende and Jara were victims of the military coup d'état that took place 50 years ago on September 11, 1973. | Teillier, who was tortur…
(2023-09-11). Poverty Strategy Commission report finds millions "surviving not living" in Britain. wsws.org Low pay and lack of support for the disabled are the major driving factors of this ongoing social disaster. Half of all people in poverty are disabled themselves or live with someone who is disabled. Nearly two-thirds are in a household where someone works, and over a fifth where all adults work full time.