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