albawaba (2024-03-05). Russians to open Stalin death investigation after 71 years. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – According to Erem News, the Russian Communist Party including protestors taking to the streets demanded that the Russian Federal Security Service and top prosecutors investigate the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953.The

Government of the Philippines (2024-03-06). Philippines: DSWD DROMIC Report #3 on the Armed Conflict in Iloilo as of 06 March 2024, 6AM. reliefweb.int Country: Philippines | Source: Government of the Philippines | Please refer to the attached file. | I. Situation Overview | On 28 February 2024 at around 3AM, an armed conflict transpired between the troops of the 61st Infantry (Hunter) Battalion and Communist NPA Terrorists (CNT) of Southern Panay Front, Komiteng Rehiyon-Panay in the Municipality of San Joaquin,, | Iloilo which resulted in the displacement of affected families / individuals and several reported casualties. | On March 04, 2024 at around 4: 40 PM, series of encounter occurred in Brgy. Igsolique, Miagao, Iloilo and Brgy. Igcabito-on during the…

Ji Siqi (2024-03-06). TikTok told to break with China's Communist Party or lose access to US users. scmp.com New push by American lawmakers would give TikTok parent company ByteDance 165 days to divest, else the popular app would no longer be available on app stores.

WSWS (2024-03-05). Kentucky seeks to remove child labor restrictions. wsws.org The bill is part of the effort by the American ruling class to turn back the clock to the time when American capitalism was built through the use of child labor and horrendous working conditions in factories, mills and mines.

WSWS (2024-03-05). Migrant worker exploitation escalates in New Zealand. wsws.org Migrant exploitation, with tens of thousands brought into the country often to work as virtual slave labour, is an entrenched feature of New Zealand capitalism.

David Schultz (2024-03-05). How the Corporate University Created and Destroyed Diversity. counterpunch.org The Supreme Court did not kill diversity. Higher education did it to itself. It has done it slowly and methodically over the last few years, as the corporate university created and then destroyed diversity as part of its business plan to attract students and make itself more relevant to American capitalism.

WSWS (2024-03-05). Migrant worker exploitation escalates in New Zealand. wsws.org Migrant exploitation, with tens of thousands brought into the country, often to work as virtual slave labour, is an entrenched feature of New Zealand capitalism.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2024-03-05). Bolivarian Revolution Celebrates 25th Year Anniversary. orinocotribune.com By Jeremy Kuzmarov — Feb 27, 2024 | Revolution Has Survived and Flourished Despite U.S. Attempts to Destroy It | February 2 marked the 25th anniversary of the Bolivarian Revolution. On that day in 1999, Hugo Chávez, a left-wing Venezuelan army officer, assumed power and initiated a socialist revolution that had ripple effects across the region and world. | Invoking the legacy of Simón Bolívar, who had led much of Latin America's liberation from Spanish colonization in the 1820s, Chávez's government enacted measures to retake national control over Venezuela's oil resources and to use the revenues to fund soci…

albawaba (2024-03-05). Russians to open Stalin death investigation after 71 years. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – According to Erem News, the Russian Communist Party including protestors taking to the streets demanded that the Russian Federal Security Service and top prosecutors investigate the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953.The

newarab (2024-03-05). French probe on 'Saied dictatorship' sparks Tunisian uproar. newarab.com A French channel has aired an investigation on the 'dictatorship' of Kais Saied, sparking controversy in Tunisia and risking diplomatic ties between Paris and Tunis. | On Sunday at midnight, hundreds of Tunisians tuned in to watch "Exclusive investigation: Between Poverty and Dictatorship, The Grand Step Backwards," a one-hour investigation on the shrinking freedoms within the North African country, produced by the private French channel, M6. | The investigation had already ruffled Tunisian officials' feathers before its official broadcast. | On 29 February, Tunisia's Prime Minister, Ahmed Hachani, praised his…

_____ (2024-03-04). (Franàßais) Le Rà¥le de la Vision dans l'Histoire. transcend.org Nous entrons dans une ère de contradictions économiques et politiques qui mèneront à un changement révolutionnaire. Le capitalisme, sous son couvert de démocratie bourgeoise, s'effondre. Cela est déjà évident avec le rejet des candidats politiques traditionnels de l'establishment.

_____ (2024-03-04). The Role of Vision in History. transcend.org We are entering an era of economic and political contradictions that will lead to revolutionary change. Capitalism, clothed in its cover of bourgeois democracy, is crumbling. This is already evident with the rejection of traditional establishment political candidates.

Luis Chirino (2024-03-04). China and Cuba hope to tighten bilateral relations. america.cgtn.com China and Cuba have enjoyed close political, trade and cooperation relations based on a long-standing friendship between the two peoples, and strong links between the two communist parties. | Over the past few years, both nations have deepened their bilateral relationship. | CGTN's Luis Chirino reports.

Jennesa Calvo-Friedman (2024-03-04). New York's Coercion of Private Companies to Blacklist the NRA Has a Long and Dark History. aclu.org More than 60 years ago the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment bars the government from coercing private entities to punish speech that the government disfavors. Just as the government can't directly punish or censor speech it disagrees with, it cannot do so indirectly by coercing private parties to do the same. | History underscores the importance of this free speech protection. Government officials have all too often enlisted private parties—from the White Citizens' Councils of the Jim Crow South to the blacklists of Communists in the McCarthy era—to punish those with whom they disagree.

thecommunists (2024-03-04). Joti Brar and Garland Nixon: Policing Palestine protestors, episode 4. thecommunists.org In this instalment of their regular series, Comrade Joti Brar and Garland Nixon begin by discussing the second set of arrests of CPGB-ML members. The unjust arrests, where party members were charged under anti-terror legislation for incitement of 'supporting a banned terror group' (!) — for distributing a leaflet condemning the racist Israeli state — …

EDWIN (2024-03-04). Gauteng emerging farmers urged to apply for funding. sanews.gov.za Gauteng emerging farmers urged to apply for funding | Emerging farmers in the priority areas of poultry, piggery, grains, vegetables, red meat, cannabis, aquaculture, rabbit, bee farming and agri-processing have been invited to apply for funding. | This is part of the Gauteng Department of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment's efforts to grow the agricultural sector, create jobs and alleviate poverty in the province. | The CASP which closes on Friday, is informed by the department's elevated priority focus to maintain sustainable food security in the province. | "We are making a call to the historicall…

UN Women (2024-03-04). World: How can gender equality reduce poverty? reliefweb.int

Suds, Snacks,, Socialism Forum Committee (2024-03-02). Saturday 3/2: Fighting the Recall of Pamela Price. indybay.org The Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue | Berkeley, CA 94705…

DARIN (2024-03-02). BERKELEY LEAP YEAR Save the Park. indybay.org We toured with the Brass Liberatin Orchestra and sussed capitalism and oligarchy…

Scott Ferguson (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.

Carlos L. Garrido (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…

Editor (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…

WSWS (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.

ecns.cn (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.

thecommunists (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.

WSWS (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.