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2023-10-16: News Headlines

Luis De Jesus Reyes, Zoe Alexandra (2023-10-15). Moving from rhetoric to action to build socialism. liberationnews.org Dilemmas of Humanity will address the obstacles and possibilities of the peoples in their struggle for a more just world far removed from the oppressive capitalist system…

Luis De Jesus Reyes (2023-10-15). Moving from rhetoric to action to build socialism. peoplesdispatch.org The organization of the working class internationally, the right of people to health and housing, food sovereignty and the rights of immigrants were at the center of the discussion on Sunday October 15 of the III International Conference Dilemmas of Humanity taking place in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. | On the second day of the meeting, attended by around 500 delegates from more than 70 countries, the presentations were once again centered around the main dilemmas facing humanity today due to the prevailing capitalist system and the advance of imperialism in every corner of the planet. | The day began…

Luis De Jesus Reyes (2023-10-15). Pasar de la retórica a la acción para construir el socialismo. peoplesdispatch.org En el segundo dia de la III Conferencia Internacional Dilemas de la Humanidad, líderes discutieron los retos y las tareas principales para organizar la clase trabajadora…

Zoe Alexandra (2023-10-15). "Socialism is not just a possibility, it is the only possibility": left leaders gather in Johannesburg. peoplesdispatch.org The III International Dilemmas of Humanity will run from October 14 to 18 in Constitution Hill in Johannesburg…

Zoe Alexandra (2023-10-15). "Socialism is not just a possibility, it is the only possibility": left leaders gather in Johannesburg. liberationnews.org Around 500 movement leaders, trade unionists, and members of left parties from more than 70 countries are partaking in the conference…

Rob Urie (2023-10-15). Is It Fascism Yet? counterpunch.org Image by Alexander Grey. | "Is fascism merely a dictatorial force in the service of capitalism? That may not be all it is, but that certainly is an important part of fascism's raison d'etre, the function Hitler himself kept referring to when he talked about saving the industrialists and bankers from Bolshevism." | — Michael Parenti, The question of fascism in the US of A is both tedious and necessary because of the ways in which the term has been weaponized in recent years.

D. W. Livingstone (2023-10-15). Class Leaders and Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism. socialistproject.ca We are living in the most dangerous time for the human species since our early origins. The massive numbers of wildfires destroying large swaths of Canada and elsewhere this summer are one sign among many that we are mere years away from irreversible environmental degradation. The Ukraine War reminds us that we are within a few minutes of nuclear winter. We are witnessing historic highs in the inequitable concentration of wealth and lows in popular confidence in elected governments. The capitalist system is driven by the obsessive need to turn every conceivable material good and service into profitable commodi…

WSWS (2023-10-16). The Declaration of the 46. wsws.org The Declaration of the 46 is considered the founding document of the Left Opposition, which led the struggle by the Marxist and internationalist wing of the Russian Communist Party and the Communist International against the Stalinist betrayal of the October Revolution.

ecns.cn (2023-10-15). Xi stresses high-quality development of Yangtze River Economic Belt. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivered an important speech at a symposium on advancing the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB).

thecommunists (2023-10-15). Association of United Ukrainian Canadians condemns honouring of Nazis. thecommunists.org This statement was published by the Association Of United Ukrainian Canadians Branch 2 Edmonton on 29 September 2023. ***** The Edmonton Branch of the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians (AUUC) condemns the honouring of a Nazi Ukrainian World War 2 veteran, a member of the notorious 14th Waffen SS division 'Halychyna', in the House of …

thecommunists (2023-10-15). Rewriting history, rehabilitating nazism. thecommunists.org As the fallout from the appearance of former Galician division member Yaroslav Hunka in the Canadian parliament continues, the final nail appears to have been hammered into the coffin of western governments' attempts to whitewash the presence and influence of neo-nazis in today's Ukraine. However, it now looks as if the falsification of history is …

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