Monthly Archives: February 2024

2024-02-29: News Headlines

WSWS (2024-02-29). Twenty weeks of protests in Australia against Gaza genocide. wsws.org "I'm increasingly convinced that socialism is the only option. There's clearly a need for a change, for a system that doesn't work in the interests of profit and exploitation."

greenleft.org.au (2024-02-29). Palestine, South Africa activists to address Ecosocialism 2024. greenleft.org.au

Suds, Snacks,, Socialism Forum Committee (2024-02-29). Saturday 3/2: Fighting the Recall of Pamela Price. indybay.org The Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue | Berkeley, CA 94705…

Ron Jacobs (2024-02-29). Unchained Capitalism: A Demonic Theology. counterpunch.org

Ron Jacobs (2024-02-29). Unchained Capitalism: A Demonic Theology. counterpunch.org In the minds of many, the US state of Vermont is an idyllic place of trees, mountains, ski resorts, craft beer and people with lots of money. In all honesty, Vermont does have its share of all these things. However, like any other place in the world's capitalist economy, they come at a price. Until

Editor (2024-02-29). Defending materialism: Lenin the philosopher. mronline.org NICK MATTHEWS looks at the great Bolshevik leader's intense three-week period of furious study in the British Library in 1908 and the timeless classic on Marxism and philosophy it produced: Materialism and Empirio-Criticism.

midwesternmarx (2024-02-29). "An accursed evil": Darwin's Struggle to Write "On the Origin of Species". By: JEFFREY S. KAYE. midwesternmarx.com Today is Charles Darwin's 215th birthday. On the Origin of Species was published in 1859, when Darwin was 50 years old. After a period of extraordinary scientific creativity in his late 20s, after returning to London from the five-year circumnavigation of the HMS Beagle, a period that included his working out of the theory of evolution via natural selection, Darwin did not publish on the subject of evolution for the next 19 years. Why?There are a lot of reasons. As part of …

midwesternmarx (2024-02-29). Another Lost Cold War Document: Zhou Enlai's March 8, 1952 Denunciation of U.S. Germ Warfare. By: Jeffrey S. Kaye. midwesternmarx.com Picture of the "Northeast China Group of the Commission for Investigating the Crime of Bacteriological Warfare Committed by the American Imperialists," taken at Shenyang, April 1, 1952. From 1952 pamphlet, "Exhibition on Bacteriological War Crimes Committed by the Government of the United States," pg. 13, published by The Chinese People's Committee for World Peace (author's private collection) IntroductionThis is an updated version of the original post. The update is necessary, …

midwesternmarx (2024-02-29). China's economy is still far out growing the U.S. — contrary to Western media "fake news. By: John Ross. midwesternmarx.com GDP data for China, the U.S., and the other G7 countries for the year 2023 has now been published. This makes possible an accurate assessment of China's, the U.S., and major economies performance—both in terms of China's domestic goals and international comparisons. There are two key reasons this is important.​First for China's domestic reasons: to achieve a balanced estimate of China's socialist economic situation and therefore the tasks it faces.Secon …

midwesternmarx (2024-02-29). Dialectics, Science, and Naturalism: An Outline. By: Rasmus S. Haukedal. midwesternmarx.com Should one claim that, unless they have studied the Science of Logic, these scientists don't know what they are doing? Doubtless, they know what they are doing but, philosophically speaking, they often do not know what they know and beyond a certain point this limitation cannot but have a regrettable influence on their work(Sève 2008: 91)​IntroductionThe last century saw two prevailing trends between dialectics and science. On one side, Western Marxism, which was define …

midwesternmarx (2024-02-29). From Guernica to Gaza. By: Raouf Halaby. midwesternmarx.com To say that I was awed is an understatement.​Standing in front of Picasso's 11.5 ft. x 25.5 ft. celebrated painting Guernica is one of the most sobering encounters I've had the displeasure of experiencing. Displeasure because the massive composition's theme is revoltingly gruesome. Since that dastardly first-of-its-kind-waging-of-wars, nations have not learned to abide by and practice peaceful and harmonious existence.World War 2 was followed by war …

midwesternmarx (2024-02-29). Habonim Dror: How Israeli Regime Recruits Left-Wing Americans to Fan Zionism. By: Shabbir Rizvi. midwesternmarx.com One of the most profound awakenings for Westerners since the launch of the Palestinian resistance operation Al-Aqsa Storm has been their understanding of how influential the Zionist lobby is.​This lobby, which works in line with the US State Department when it can and independently and subversively when it cannot, tends to influence major arenas of societal interest.On the surface level, one can simply follow the money and understand the phenomenon: the Israeli lobby pouring million …

midwesternmarx (2024-02-29). Herbert Matthews' great interview, sixty-six years later. By: Guillermo Suárez Borges. midwesternmarx.com I never did another story that gave me more professional satisfaction… I only take credit for having correctly interpreted what I saw and heard, for having realized that the extraordinary young man who opened his heart to me in whispers, for three hours, would be the one around whom the hopes and passions of Cuba would be concentrated, for a tide of victory.​Herbert Matthews interviewing Fidel in the Sierras.This is how Herbert Matthews, the distinguished American journalist …

midwesternmarx (2024-02-29). It is dark before the dawn, but Israeli settler colonialism is at an end. By: Ilan Pappe. midwesternmarx.com Professor Ilan Pappe spoke at IHRC's annual Genocide Memorial Day in London, UK on 21st January 2024, on the need to understand that the genocide of Palestinians we are currently witnessing, as brutal as it is, is also the demise of the so-called Jewish state. We need to be ready to imagine a new world beyond it.​——The idea that Zionism is settler colonialism is not new. Palestinian scholars in the 1960s working in Beirut in the PLO Research Centre had already underst …

midwesternmarx (2024-02-29). State Ownership and the People's Republic. By: Chen Kojira. midwesternmarx.com The dawn of the twentieth century saw the rise of modern, planned national economies around the world. In many of these cases, planned economies often were coupled with state ownership of production. China, especially due to becoming a Marxist-Leninist state in 1949, is no exception to this trend. It is commonly misconceived by both leftists and rightists that the People's Republic of China has ceased to plan its economy; that the government has relinquished its obligations of maint …

midwesternmarx (2024-02-29). The dialectic in the service of revolution By: Ann Robertson. midwesternmarx.com Marxist revolutionaries strive to analyze the surrounding bourgeois, capitalist world with the goal of fundamentally changing it. But the hegemony of bourgeois metaphysical modes of thinking in capitalist societies—modes that always end up assuring us that the essential institutions of bourgeois society are not susceptible to change and are as permanent as the law of gravity—can sometimes derail this goal.Karl Marx (1818-83), like Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) befo …

midwesternmarx (2024-02-29). There Is No Place for the Palestinians of Gaza to Go. By: Vijay Prashad. midwesternmarx.com On February 9, 2024, Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that his army would advance into Rafah, the last remaining city in Gaza not occupied by the Israelis. Most of the 2.3 million Palestinians who live in Gaza had fled to its southern border with Egypt after being told by the Israelis on October 13, 2023, that the north had to be abandoned and that the south would be a "safe zone." As the Palestinians from the north, particularly from G …

midwesternmarx (2024-02-29). Why Are Definitions Problematic for Marxists? By: Carlos L. Garrido. midwesternmarx.com This article is a reply to a reader's question, which can be read HERE. In Anti-Dühring, Friedrich Engels writes the following on definitions: ​"From a scientific standpoint all definitions are of little value. In order to gain an exhaustive knowledge of what life is, we should have to go through all the forms in which it appears, from the lowest to the highest. But for ordinary usage such definitions are very convenient and in places cannot well be dispensed with; moreover …

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2024-02-29). Vietnam and Cuba communist parties to promote high-level agreements. plenglish.com Hanoi, Feb 29 (Prensa Latina) Leaders of the Communist Parties of Vietnam (PCV) and Cuba (PCC) agreed on Thursday to further promote the role of these party organizations in advising and promoting the implementation of high-level bilateral agreements.

Anjoulie Woodhead (2024-02-29). Brazil Chairs G20 and Vows to Address Poverty, Hunger and Climate Change as Finance Minist. indybay.org The Brazilian Presidency of the G20 hosts finance ministers for their first G20 meeting this year.

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2024-02-27: News Headlines

Mark Lesseraux (2024-02-27). Capitalism Has Left the Building. Enter Technofeudalism. pressenza.com The Search for a Definition | Over the last four or five years, like just about everyone else, I've been feeling that some kind of huge shift, some sort of sea change has taken place that I haven't quite been able to define. There were certainly occurrences that stood out. There was the Trump presidency, there was the COVID pandemic, there are the horrible wars in Ukraine, in Gaza and elsewhere, etc.. However, none of these phenomena held up, by themselves or in conjunction with one another, as a satisfying answer to my query. | Inverted Socialism? | Two years ago, I wrote an article for Pressenza entitled, "We H…

greenleft.org.au (2024-02-27). Palestine, South Africa activists to address Ecosocialism 2024. greenleft.org.au

thecommunists (2024-02-27). Why is Manchester in poverty? Workers need socialism! thecommunists.org Download this leaflet as a pdf. Labour, Tory, same old story Sometime this year, working-class people in Manchester will be asked to cast their vote in favour of Labour, Tory or Liberal candidates in a general election. Each will claim to be for policies that they claim could help improve the living conditions of everyday …

latintimes (2024-02-27). Cuban Cigar Exports Soar Amid Demand For Luxury Goods. latintimes.com Cuba cannot sell its cigars in North America — the world's biggest market for the product — due to a trade embargo imposed by Washington on the communist island since 1962.

WSWS (2024-02-27). Flint, Michigan teachers, living in poverty, outraged over school board's revoking of labor contract. wsws.org The United Teachers of Flint has not called a strike vote, instead calling for closing schools and selling buildings.

WSWS (2024-02-27). Washington D.C. Democrats and pseudo-left support draconian, punitive crime bill. wsws.org As is the case in Democratic Party-run governments at the local and national levels, rather than deal with the root social causes of crime, bourgeois politicians advocate a massive crackdown on the poorest layers of the population and criminalizing poverty.

Princess Harmony (2024-02-27). Politicians attack harm reduction programs. workers.org It's 2024 and people are still buying into anti-addict, anti-houseless politics in the age of the opioid epidemic and record poverty in Philadelphia. Council member Quetcy Lozada, whose heart seems to be extraordinarily hardened against drug addicts and problematic users, is using her political position to attack harm reduction-based organizations . . . |

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2024-02-26: News Headlines

greenleft.org.au (2024-02-26). Palestine, South Africa activists to address Ecosocialism 2024. greenleft.org.au

Valentin Gràºnn (2024-02-26). 14 Characteristics of primitive fascism according to Umberto Eco. pressenza.com How can you recognize a fascist system? Nowadays, many dictatorial regimes and political parties are labeled as fascists."Fascism has become an "all-purpose term" because you can eliminate characteristics from fascist regimes and they will still be recognizable as fascist," wrote Umberto Eco in 1995. "Take away imperialism from fascism and you still have Franco and Salazar. Take away colonialism and you still have the Balkan fascism of the Ustasha. Add to Italian fascism a radical anti-capitalism (which never fascinated Mussolini) and you have Ezra Pound. Add a cult of Celtic mythology and Grail mysticism (comple…

Government of the Philippines (2024-02-26). Philippines: DSWD DROMIC Report #1 on the Armed Conflict in Brgy. Campagao, Bilar, Bohol as of 24 February 2024, 6PM. reliefweb.int Country: Philippines | Source: Government of the Philippines | Please refer to the attached file. | I. Situation Overview | On 23 February 2024 at around 8: 30 AM, an armed conflict transpired in Brgy. Campagao, Bilar, Bohol between the troops of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and alleged members of the Communist Terrorists Group (CTG) that resulted in the displacement of families and persons in the area. | Source: DSWD Field Office (FO) VII | II. Status of Affected Areas and Population | A total of 250 families or 770 persons are affected in Brgy. Campagao, Bilar, Bohol (see Annex A).

ecns.cn (2024-02-26). (W.E. Talk) Telling the Stories of China's Journey from Poverty to Prosperity Through the Lives of Ordinary People. ecns.cn Malcolm Clarke says, "China is not good at self-defense," which is why it has not been able to shoot down the false accusations coming regularly from the Western world. However, it has pulled 1.4 billion people out of absolute poverty when Western countries have never achieved such large-scale poverty reduction.

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2024-02-24: News Headlines

greenleft.org.au (2024-02-24). Palestine, South Africa activists to address Ecosocialism 2024. greenleft.org.au

Javier Tolcachier (2024-02-24). Latin American and Caribbean Day of Integration has begun. pressenza.com The Latin American and Caribbean Day of Peoples' Integration inaugurated its activities with an exciting cultural event in the city of Foz do Iguaàßu, Brazil. This event brings together various organizations, movements, and political parties with the aim of addressing current and future challenges at the continental level. | The first day brought together some 4,000 activists from twenty-six countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. | In a packed hall, after the opening session, the first conference began, with speakers addressing the crisis of capitalism and the threats to peace and the sovereignty of…

People's Dispatch. (2024-02-24). Red Books Day: 176 Years Since The Communist Manifesto Was Published. popularresistance.org February 21 marked 176 years since the publication of the Communist Manifesto, and socialists around the world marked the date by celebrating the Manifesto and all "Red Books" that shaped the world. | Throughout India, socialists celebrated the 176th anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto. In Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, Communist Party of India (Marxist) Kerala State Secretary MV Govindan gave an opening speech and read from the book "Leninism and the Approach to Indian Revolution" by EMS Namboodiripad, the first Chief Minister of Kerala and former General Secretary of the CPI(M).

ecns.cn (2024-02-24). Xi stresses promoting equipment renewal, trade-in of consumer goods, lowering logistics costs. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, chairman of the Central Military Commission and director of the Central Commission for Financial and Economic Affairs (CCFEA), presided over the fourth meeting of the CCFEA on the afternoon of Feb. 23.

Xinhua (2024-02-24). Brazil to propose global alliance against hunger and poverty to G20. pressenza.com Brazil will today propose to the G20 a global alliance against hunger and poverty, coinciding with the South American country's rotating presidency of the group this year. | The initiative was proposed by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva when Brazil took over the rotating presidency of the G20 in December last year. It was endorsed on Wednesday by Brazil's Minister of Development and Social Welfare, Family and the Fight against Hunger, Wellington Dias, during the first virtual technical meeting of the G20 working group. | The meeting discussed the terms of accession for countries interested in joinin…

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2024-02-17: News Headlines

Andrés Madrid, Andrés Tapia (2024-02-16). Capitalism and drug trafficking in Ecuador: Two sides of the same coin. cadtm.org

Ellen Brown, Scheer Post. (2024-02-16). Defusing The Derivatives Time Bomb: Some Proposed Solutions. popularresistance.org This is a sequel to a Jan. 15 article titled "Casino Capitalism and the Derivatives Market: Time for Another 'Lehman Moment'?", discussing the threat of a 2024 "black swan" event that could pop the derivatives bubble. That bubble is now over ten times the GDP of the world and is so interconnected and fragile that an unanticipated crisis could trigger the collapse not just of the bubble but of the economy. To avoid that result, in the event of the bankruptcy of a major financial institution, derivative claimants are put first in line to grab the assets — not just the deposits of customers but their stocks an…

Ellen Brown (2024-02-17). Defusing the Derivatives Time Bomb: Some Proposed Solutions. dissidentvoice.org The "protected class" is granted "safe harbor" only because their bets are so risky that to let them fail could crash the economy. But why let them bet at all? This is a sequel to a January 15 article titled "Casino Capitalism and the Derivatives Market: Time for Another 'Lehman Moment'?", discussing the threat of …

WSWS (2024-02-17). The WHO and the inability of capitalism to prevent future pandemics. wsws.org The international working class must assimilate the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, above all the inability of capitalism to organize on a global scale to address the current pandemic and prevent future ones.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-02-16). Imperialism and Resistance in the Red Sea. libya360.wordpress.com Jesse Harasta Jesse Harasta describes the complex dynamics of contemporary imperialism and resistance. Understanding a world system divided into Core, Semi-Periphery and Periphery is essential to the workings of global capitalism. Harasta argues that Gulf states have engaged in an active imperial re-peripheralization of the Horn of Africa. Since the beginning of the 2023 Israeli…

Andrés Madrid, Andrés Tapia (2024-02-17). Capitalism and drug trafficking in Ecuador: Two sides of the same coin. cadtm.org

midwesternmarx (2024-02-17). A Letter to my Gazan Palestinian Son. By: Hebh Jamal>. midwesternmarx.com Dear Malik, I am sitting here in bed with you in my arms. It is 11: 59 PM, and you are fast asleep. Did you know you sleep talk? Yes at 21 months, you sleep talk. Sometimes you just chuckle and then roll to the other side, and other times you manage to touch my face and say "mama" while your eyes are closed.I am looking up at the ceiling fan and it's lying perfectly still. Our vases are on the shelves- we're not afraid of them falling. The windows are closed when w …

midwesternmarx (2024-02-17). Planned BBC smear on UK Palestinians will rely on Israeli spy source By: Asa Winstanley. midwesternmarx.com Citing Israeli "terror" allegations, the BBC plans to broadcast an attack on prominent British Palestinians in a television program presented by pro-Israel reporter John Ware.The Electronic Intifada has learned that the episode of Panorama is likely to be based partly on "confidential evidence" which has almost certainly been provided by Israeli spies.The BBC and Panorama declined to comment when asked a series of detailed questio …

midwesternmarx (2024-02-16). A Dementia Patient Is President Because It Doesn't Matter Who The President Is By: Caitlin Johnstone>. midwesternmarx.com So it turns out the dementia symptoms Biden's supporters have long dismissed as a "stutter" are actually exactly what they look like.The special counsel assigned to investigate Joe Biden for mishandling classified documents reports that investigators "uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen," but concludes that "no …

midwesternmarx (2024-02-16). Eyes on the South: Low intensity conflict & escalation-risk in Lebanon. By: Sammy Ismail. midwesternmarx.com Hezbollah fighter, on border guard duty, sitting astride a motorbike blocking the pathway of an Israeli Merkava tank that had broken through the electric fence into Lebanese territories, the photo was taken by Al-Manar correspondent Ali Sheaib, Jalet al-Mahafer, 2022 (Illustrated by: Mahdi Rtail, Al Mayadeen English) More than 100 days have passed since the Al-Aqsa Flood came crashing down on the colonial outpost of US imperialism in West Asia; the tide has been …

midwesternmarx (2024-02-16). "In The War Of Propaganda, It Is Very Difficult To Defeat The United States"By: Caitlin Johnstone. midwesternmarx.com One under-appreciated moment from Tucker Carlson's recent interview with Vladimir Putin came after Putin implied that NATO powers were behind the 2022 bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline. Carlson responded by asking why Putin wouldn't present evidence of this to the world, so as to "win a propaganda victory.""In the war of propaganda it is very difficult to defeat the United States because the United States controls all the world's media and many European media," Putin re …

midwesternmarx (2024-02-16). The International Court of Justice Censures Israel for Its Genocidal War. By: Vijay Prashad. midwesternmarx.com On January 26, 2024, the judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) released their 29-page order that found "plausible" (paragraph 54) evidence that Israel was conducting a genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza. The court intervened in that war due to South Africa's application that Israel had violated its obligations to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948). South Africa came to the ICJ two months …

A Guest Author (2024-02-17). From Kolkata, IndiaUnite to end war and save Palestine. workers.org By Provas Ghosh Provas Ghosh, general secretary of the Socialist Unity Center of India (Communist), sent this message to the Lenin Centennial, held in New York City on Jan. 21. Dear Comrades, On the occasion of the centennial of the death of the great Lenin, remembering his teachings is of . . . |

guest author (2024-02-17). Lenin, Amílcar Cabral and Palestine. workers.org Carlos Lopes Pereira, former member of the Secretariat of the liberation organization led by the late Amílcar Cabral and contributor to the newspaper Avante (organ of the Portuguese Communist Party), sent this message to the Lenin Centennial held in New York City on Jan. 21. This international anti-imperialist day marking . . . |

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2024-02-16: News Headlines

Maria Calvo (2024-02-15). Avanzan Cuba y Bolivia en el fortalecimiento de sus nexos. radiohc.cu La visita a La Habana de la ministra de Relaciones Exteriores de Bolivia, Celinda Sosa Lunda, reafirmó el buen estado de las relaciones existentes entre las dos naciones, retomadas con fuerza tras el retorno al poder del MàÅS, Movimiento al Socialismo, y que se habían interrumpido tras el golpe de estado de 2019 contra el entonces presidente Evo Morales.

Andrés Madrid, Andrés Tapia (2024-02-16). Capitalism and drug trafficking in Ecuador: Two sides of the same coin. cadtm.org

Ellen Brown, Scheer Post. (2024-02-16). Defusing The Derivatives Time Bomb: Some Proposed Solutions. popularresistance.org This is a sequel to a Jan. 15 article titled "Casino Capitalism and the Derivatives Market: Time for Another 'Lehman Moment'?", discussing the threat of a 2024 "black swan" event that could pop the derivatives bubble. That bubble is now over ten times the GDP of the world and is so interconnected and fragile that an unanticipated crisis could trigger the collapse not just of the bubble but of the economy. To avoid that result, in the event of the bankruptcy of a major financial institution, derivative claimants are put first in line to grab the assets — not just the deposits of customers but their stocks an…

Andrés Madrid, Andrés Tapia (2024-02-15). Capitalism and drug trafficking in Ecuador: Two sides of the same coin. cadtm.org

Colin Todhunter (2024-02-15). What Was COVID Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…

Editor (2024-02-15). Did Wall Street Just End the Class War? scheerpost.com By Les Leopold / Substack All workers can become capitalists, all workers can become rich! That's the future of the economy according to the infamous Wall Street buyout firm, KKR, (formerly Kohlberg Kravis, Roberts & Co.) Today, KKR says that the iron laws of capitalism don't have to pit workers against bosses. They claim …

midwesternmarx (2024-02-16). Eyes on the South: Low intensity conflict & escalation-risk in Lebanon. By: Sammy Ismail. midwesternmarx.com Hezbollah fighter, on border guard duty, sitting astride a motorbike blocking the pathway of an Israeli Merkava tank that had broken through the electric fence into Lebanese territories, the photo was taken by Al-Manar correspondent Ali Sheaib, Jalet al-Mahafer, 2022 (Illustrated by: Mahdi Rtail, Al Mayadeen English) More than 100 days have passed since the Al-Aqsa Flood came crashing down on the colonial outpost of US imperialism in West Asia; the tide has been …

midwesternmarx (2024-02-16). Eyes on the South: Low intensity conflict & escalation-risk in Lebanon By: Sammy Ismail. midwesternmarx.com ​To analyze and contextualize the burgeoning war in south Lebanon, this paper borrows the theoretical concepts of Galtung's conflict theory and reviews Amal Saad's recent article on The Guardian. More than 100 days have passed since the Al-Aqsa Flood came crashing down on the colonial outpost of US imperialism in West Asia; the tide has been only gaining momentum since. The war quickly spilled over beyond the territories of Occupied Palestine to include south …

midwesternmarx (2024-02-16). The International Court of Justice Censures Israel for Its Genocidal War. By: Vijay Prashad. midwesternmarx.com On January 26, 2024, the judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) released their 29-page order that found "plausible" (paragraph 54) evidence that Israel was conducting a genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza. The court intervened in that war due to South Africa's application that Israel had violated its obligations to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948). South Africa came to the ICJ two months …

Editor (2024-02-15). The Organism as a Subject: Hegel on Nature, Subjectivity, and Interconnectedness. mronline.org In his thesis entitled Agency and Organisation, Rasmus Haukedal highlights the remarkable mutual relevance of recent theoretical trends in biology and the dialectical approach to (living) nature as developed by Hegel, Engels, and others (Haukedal 2022).

CA Poor People's Campaign (2024-02-15). Saturday 3/2: Sacramento: March & Rally for Voting Rights, Poverty Justice, Living Wage & More w/ CA PPC. indybay.org California State Capitol – West Steps | 1128 L Street | Sacramento, CA 95814…

World Bank (2024-02-15). Fighting fragility: Helping half a million girls stay in school in Mozambique. reliefweb.int Country: Mozambique | Source: World Bank | Empowering girls and women is key to creating inclusive societies and reducing poverty. This is critically important in a fragile setting like Mozambique, where conflict, climate shocks, widespread gender-based violence, and high rates of child marriage and early pregnancies place an extreme burden on women and girls and, thus, on families. | Ana António (name changed for privacy), a girl from Northern Mozambique, had all the odds stacked against her. Married at the age of 13, she had to leave school, only to be abandoned by her husband with a baby in her arms shortly…

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2024-02-14: News Headlines

Andrés Madrid, Andrés Tapia (2024-02-14). Capitalism and drug trafficking in Ecuador: Two sides of the same coin. cadtm.org

Andrés Madrid, Andrés Tapia (2024-02-13). Capitalism and drug trafficking in Ecuador: Two sides of the same coin. cadtm.org

Bárbara Gómez (2024-02-13). Destaca presidente de Cuba pertinencia de nueva Operación Verdad. radiohc.cu La Habana, 13 feb (RHC) El presidente de Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, expresó este martes la urgencia de articular a las fuerzas de izquierda del mundo para desarrollar acciones revolucionarias contra la ofensiva ideológica del capitalismo, en una nueva Operación Verdad.

Frank Cappello (2024-02-13). MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: 27 Dresses (w/ Erica Bitton). levernews.com

CA Poor People's Campaign (2024-02-14). Saturday 3/2: Sacramento: March & Rally for Voting Rights, Poverty Justice, Living Wage & More w/ CA PPC. indybay.org California State Capitol – West Steps | 1128 L Street | Sacramento, CA 95814…

Isaac Nellist, Kristin O'Connell (2024-02-14). Anti-poverty campaigner: 'Scrap Stage 3 and spend big on public housing'. greenleft.org.au The Antipoverty Centre's Kristin O'Connell spoke to Green Left's Isaac Nellist about solutions to counter worsening poverty and homelessness.

Kristin O'Connell, Isaac Nellist (2024-02-14). Podcast: Kristin O'Connell on how to end homelessness. greenleft.org.au Kristin O'Connell, spokesperson for The Antipoverty Centre, spoke to Isaac Nellist about the need for government investment in public housing as one solution to counter worsening poverty.

Brian Berletic (2024-02-13). CNN Propaganda Depicts Russia's Use of Nepali Mercenaries as Cruel & Unusual. thealtworld.com CNN Propaganda Depicts Russia's Use of Nepali Mercenaries as Cruel & Unusual, But the British & Americans Have Used & Abused Nepali Fighters for Generations | CNN sets out to blame Russia, but the poverty & exploitation of Nepali labor including soldiers-for-hire began during the British Empire ( The West delibe…

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2024-02-13: News Headlines

Andrés Madrid, Andrés Tapia (2024-02-13). Capitalism and drug trafficking in Ecuador: Two sides of the same coin. cadtm.org

Sonali Kolhatkar (2024-02-13). Cashing in on Racist Bail. counterpunch.org Most Americans have not considered "cash bail" as critical to equality and freedom. The term is an esoteric one but is increasingly central to the ongoing battle over racial capitalism, policing, and mass incarceration, especially in an election year as critical as 2024. Here's what cash bail means: When arrested by police on suspicion of

Andrés Madrid, Andrés Tapia (2024-02-12). Capitalism and drug trafficking in Ecuador: Two sides of the same coin. cadtm.org

midwesternmarx (2024-02-13). How Yemen's 'asabiyya' is reshaping geopolitics By: Pepe Escobar. midwesternmarx.com The Arabic word Asabiyya, or 'social solidarity,' is a soundbite in the west, but taken very seriously by the globe's new contenders China, Russia, and Iran. It is Yemen, however, that is mainstreaming the idea, by sacrificing everything for the world's collective morality in a bid to end the genocide in Gaza. When there is a general change of conditions,It is as if the entire creation had changedand the whole world been altered,as if it were a new and repeated creation,a world brought i …

midwesternmarx (2024-02-13). Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger withdraw from ECOWAS By: Peoples Dispatch. midwesternmarx.com Land area under ECOWAS, which is condemned by West Africa's popular movements as an agent of French imperialism, has been reduced to less than half after their withdrawal Representatives of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger at the formation of the Alliance of Sahel States. Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Mali In a televised statement on Sunday, January 28, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger announced their withdrawal from the Economic Community o …

midwesternmarx (2024-02-13). Nicaragua to take western states to ICJ for 'facilitating genocide By: News Desk. midwesternmarx.com The Central American nation has called on Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, and Canada to stop sending arms to IsraelThe Nicaraguan government has started legal proceedings to take Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, and Canada to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for complicity in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and other violations of international law. In a statement, Managua said it has informed the governments of "the [UK], Germany, the Netherlands, …

Editor (2024-02-12). Ernest Mandel — "Hope and Marxism: Historical and Theoretical Essays" mronline.org Some of Ernest Mandel's finest work on Marxist theory and revolutionary politics appeared in the form of short articles. "Hope and Marxism" collects eleven of Mandel's most significant articles and provides an excellent introduction to his thought.

WSWS (2024-02-13). Sri Lankan IYSSE public lecture at Peradeniya University: "A study of the Communist Manifesto" wsws.org The lecture will explain the basic conceptions and principles elaborated in the Communist Manifesto. We invite students, workers and academics to attend and participate in this critical discussion.

Mansa Musa, The Real News Network. (2024-02-13). Baltimore's 'Downward Spiral' Of Poverty, Disinvestment, And Policing. popularresistance.org The crisis of mass incarceration is about more than the conduct of police officers—it's a question of public expenditures, and how pouring taxpayer money into incarceration at the expense of other, more humanizing ventures takes a toll on society at large. As public schools and public health programs across the nation grapple with a host of preventable problems arising from underinvestment, state and local governments across the nation spend over $200 billion each year on prisons, jails, and police. Now, a new report from the Justice Policy Institute, "The Right Investment 2.0", takes a detailed look at the…

Chris Walker (2024-02-12). Minnesota's New Child Tax Credit Could Reduce Childhood Poverty by 33 Percent. truthout.org Minnesota government officials are touting the state's new child tax credit, effective for the 2023 tax filing year, as an incredible investment that will reduce child poverty in the state by a third. Minnesota families can claim up to $1,750 per child with the new credit, which was passed by the state legislature and signed into law by Gov. Tim Walz (D) last year. The credit is tailored to help… |

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Pavel López Lazo (2024-02-12). How to build socialism? Zapatista experience: Success or failure? plenglish.com Guatemala City (Prensa Latina) On January 1, 1994, the same day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into effect, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) made its public appearance.

Andrés Madrid, Andrés Tapia (2024-02-12). Capitalism and drug trafficking in Ecuador: Two sides of the same coin. cadtm.org

WSWS (2024-02-12). Amid furor over Biden's age and acuity: The deeper issues in the Democratic Party crisis. wsws.org The political crisis in the United States is rooted in the global crisis of capitalism, which threatens working people with war, social austerity and dictatorship.

Andrés Madrid, Andrés Tapia (2024-02-11). Capitalism and drug trafficking in Ecuador: Two sides of the same coin. cadtm.org

Editor (2024-02-12). Ernest Mandel — "Hope and Marxism: Historical and Theoretical Essays" mronline.org Some of Ernest Mandel's finest work on Marxist theory and revolutionary politics appeared in the form of short articles. "Hope and Marxism" collects eleven of Mandel's most significant articles and provides an excellent introduction to his thought.

midwesternmarx (2024-02-11). Lying Across the Globe with Nancy Pelosi. By: Riley Miller. midwesternmarx.com ​It's been Democrats' favorite refrain for years now. Don't like something? Call it Russian. For years, Democrats labeled Donald Trump a Russian agent. Despite multiple investigations yielding no evidence to support this lofty claim, they cling to it. Or what about when Hillary Clinton accused Tulsi Gabbard of being groomed by Russia for a spoiler presidential run? Clinton's theory was little more than a petty attack against someone who called her &ldquo …

ecns.cn (2024-02-11). Xi extends Spring Festival greetings to all Chinese, urging efforts to write new chapter in advancing Chinese modernization. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivers a speech at a Spring Festival reception at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 8, 2024.

Jim Hightower (2024-02-12). Turning Down Food Aid for Poor Children is Shockingly Callous. counterpunch.org This plot line could have come from one of Charles Dickens' novels about upper-class depravity: "Miserly governors refuse to provide gruel for poverty-stricken ragamuffins." Unfortunately, this is not a novel, but modern-day reality taking place in 15 states, where right-wing officeholders have scorned a federal program to provide food this summer for millions of children mired

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