(2024-03-02). Saturday 3/2: Fighting the Recall of Pamela Price. indybay.org The Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue | Berkeley, CA 94705…
(2024-03-02). BERKELEY LEAP YEAR Save the Park. indybay.org We toured with the Brass Liberatin Orchestra and sussed capitalism and oligarchy…
(2024-03-02). The Alternative w/ Nick Romeo. mronline.org Scott Ferguson and Billy Saas speak with New Yorker writer Nick Romeo about his exciting new book, The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy, released in January 2024 with Public Affairs. Romeo's The Alternative rebukes Margaret Thatcher's infamous axiom that "there is no alternative" to neoliberal capitalism. In doing so, the book inventories the most promising experiments in radical economic democracy underway across the world today.
(2024-03-02). Social Media and the War of Positions. orinocotribune.com By Carlos L. Garrido — Feb 19, 2024 | Historical materialist view of ideas | The collections of ideas we hold are historically conditioned by the mode of life we exist in. They reflect, in the realm of ideas, the limitations and possibilities of the mode of social life that dominates the era — of the forms of social intercourse which pervade our everyday lives. A feudal peasant cannot concern themselves with their social media profiles — with the likes their posts get, the shares it receives, and the subscribers or followers they have accumulated. These are, however, central concerns for most peo…
(2024-03-02). Why are definitions problematic for Marxists? mronline.org "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, they can do no harm, provided their inevitable deficiencies are not forgotten." – Friedrich Engels…
(2024-03-02). Strong response to IYSSE lecture on the Communist Manifesto at Sri Lanka's Peradeniya University. wsws.org The principles for the world socialist movement elaborated by Marx and Engels and published in their 1848 ground-breaking work retain all power and validity.
(2024-03-02). CPC leadership discusses draft government work report. ecns.cn The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee met on Feb. 29 to discuss the draft government work report, which the State Council will submit at the second session of the 14th National People's Congress for deliberation. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting.
(2024-03-02). The Palestinian resistance is changing the world. thecommunists.org The zionist murder machine continues its daily slaughter of unarmed Palestinian men, women and children, taking a toll of hundreds each day. At the time of writing (22 January), 30,000 Gazans have been murdered, the overwhelming majority of them being women and children, whereas 70,000 have been badly wounded. This horrendous toll does not take …
radiohc.cu (2024-03-02). Cuba marches in favor of Palestine and against Israeli genocideHavana, March 2 (RHC)– Summoned by the Union of Young Communists (UJC) and other social organizations, Cubans are staging massive acts of solidarity with Palestine and to demand an end to the Israeli genocide this Saturday across the country. | | The mobilizations in the Caribbean nation, as in the whole world, are taking place in view of the announcement of Israel's new offensive against the city of Rafah, home to more than one million Palestinians.
(2024-03-02). IMF, White House applaud Milei's "shock therapy" as Argentina's poverty rate nears 60 percent. wsws.org Global finance capital has chosen Argentina as a key battleground and testing site to spearhead a dramatic escalation of the war against the working class internationally.