(2024-01-02). Massive march for Palestine disrupts NYC on New Years Eve. peoplesdispatch.org Thousands marched down Manhattan on New Year's Eve, on one of the largest celebrations in the city, in solidarity with Palestine. The march was organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement, the People's Forum, the ANSWER Coalition, No Tech for Apartheid, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and around a dozen other organizations in the #ShutItDown4Palestine coalition. Protesters demanded an end to Israel's genocide and siege against Gaza, an immediate ceasefire, and an end to all US funding of Israel. | Participants such as PSL Presidential Candidate Claudia de la Cruz, told Peoples Dispatch why they were partic…
(2024-01-03). For a European movement against capitalism and war. wsws.org Millions of people around the world are taking to the streets to protest against the genocide in Gaza and the threat of world war. The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei, in close cooperation with its comrades in France, the UK, Turkey, Ukraine and Russia, is participating in the European elections to give voice to this opposition and develop it into a powerful movement against the root cause of war, capitalism.
(2024-01-03). Australian protests against Gaza genocide: "Governments are trying to suppress the opposition" wsws.org "People are waking up to the inequity of capitalism, which is at the root of a lot of problems in the world."
(2024-01-02). The Politics of Emergency Time and the Emerging Threat of Fascism. counterpunch.org 
The underbelly of contemporary violence is colonialism, the politics of disposability, religious fundamentalism, neoliberalism, and raw militarism. Violence seems to have engulfed the earth like a blinding sandstorm. Children are being killed en mass in Gaza, homelessness is increasingly spreading among youth in many countries, inequality exists at staggering levels, and a culture for justice has been replaced by a global culture of war. Gangster capitalism is waging a war on the working class, women's reproductive rights, gay rights, people of color, and democracy itself–brazenly wrapping itself in the discours…
(2024-01-02). Jan 2, 2024. sitrepworld.info Platoon Soundtrack — Adagio for Strings The Great Clarification, by James Howard Kunstler US Foreign Policy Is a Scam Built on Corruption, by Jeffrey D. Sachs Is It Over Yet? Dissecting capitalism, by Michael Hudson, Radhika Desai (Transcript) The War Party Tantrum, by Matt Taibbi Tributes Pour in For John Pilger — Consortium News The End of Free Speech? by John Leake The China Convergence: Yes, the West is becoming more like China, by N.S. Lyons Happy Days Are Here Again? by Bill Astore 1984/2024 — the hidden hope in Orwell's warning, by Paul Cudenec Newyear's resolution: "be…
(2024-01-03). Israel's Genocide Betrays the Holocaust By: Chris Hedges. midwesternmarx.com Never Again and Again and Again – by Mr. Fish Israel's lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazi's depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear. Destroy infrastructure, medical facilities and sanitation, including access to clean water. Block shipments of food and fuel. Unleash indiscriminate industrial violence to kill and wound hundreds a day. Let starvation — the U.N. estimates that more than half a million people are already starvi …
(2024-01-03). I Don't Care What Religion The Genocidal Child Murderers Are By: Caitlin Johnstone. midwesternmarx.com Unfuckingbelievable. It is un fucking believable that it's 2024 and the US-sponsored incineration of Gaza is still going on. They're just looking us dead in the eye and doing the worst things humans could possibly do, right in front of us. Against all laws. Against all opposition.‚ùñThe other day Tony Blinken posted an astonishingly obnoxious tweet fretting about how "This has been an extraordinarily dangerous year for press around the world," as though his own administ …
(2024-01-03). The Death of Israel By: Chris Hedges. midwesternmarx.com Birth of a New Nation – by Mr. FishSettler colonial states have a terminal shelf life. Israel is no exception. Israel will appear triumphant after it finishes its genocidal campaign in Gaza and the West Bank. Backed by the United States, it will achieve its demented goal. Its murderous rampages and genocidal violence will exterminate or ethnically cleanse Palestinians. Its dream of a state exclusively for Jews, with any Palestinians who remain stripped of basic righ …
(2024-01-03). Russia is on a path to becoming socialist again. In anticipation of this, we must unite the globe's anti-imperialist forces By: Rainer Shea. midwesternmarx.com The way that we interpret Russia's special military operation, and the events surrounding it, is going to determine how we wage the class struggle throughout…
(2024-01-03). Forge ahead with reform and opening-up By: Ken Hammond. midwesternmarx.com 
In December 1978 the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) made a momentous decision to open a new program of economic development. Over the first three decades of the People's Republic of China, a foundation for a modern socialist system had been built, but this had been an arduous process, with advances and retreats, successes and failures, and much contention about how best to pursue the goals of enhancing production in industry and agriculture and of improving the mat …
(2024-01-03). Bangladesh solidarity rally with Palestine. workers.org 
By the Socialist Party of Bangladesh On Dec. 29, a solidarity rally and march was held in Bangladesh with the slogan "Genocide, Free Palestine." The event occurred at Shahbagh Square in Dhaka. It was organized by the "Palestine Solidarity Committee, Bangladesh" Chapter, constituting communist, socialist, left progressive political parties, organizations, . . . |
(2024-01-02). Caravan of Freedom is being re-launched in Cuba. plenglish.com Santiago de Cuba, Jan 2 (Prensa Latina) In front of the first Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, the Caravan of Freedom left Santiago de Cuba province for Havana, 65 years after the event.
(2024-01-02). Communist Abraham Lincoln Brigade volunteer Paul Wendorf's letters published in Spain. peoplesworld.org 
The letters of Paul Wendorf, a member of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, have been translated and published in Spain by Salamanca University Press as Vida y lucha de otro norteamericano en las trincheras de España. [At the site where Wendorf's letters are posted—see below—Nancy Phillips writes: "Paul Wendorf was my mother's first cousin and my …
(2024-01-02). Optimizing Interventions for Early Childhood. jamanetwork.com Early childhood is a critical period for development. The estimated costs of children not reaching their full developmental potential during this period are high and persist throughout life, including lower economic productivity and poorer health. Attaining full developmental potential has been recognized as the right of every child, and investing in early childhood development is key to breaking intergenerational cycles of poverty, increasing human capital, and improving population health and well-being. Yet the most recent estimates indicate that about 43% of children younger than 5 years in low- and middle-inc…