Lewis Raven Wallace, Truthout. (2024-06-25). Queer Activists Are Making BDS A Key Question Of Pride This Year. popularresistance.org Every June, as rainbow boas and blue and pink banners unfurl, and jello shots and plastic cups of light beer tumble onto the streets, borne by tens of thousands of happy gays, a cultural battle ensues. Pride season is here, and everyone is pissed. | On one side of the battle, you have the corporate gays, the nonprofit-industrial complex of LGBTQ organizations, the glitzy and boozy Pride parades and parties, and the representation of gay and trans identity as a fully assimilated, capitalism-compatible lifestyle. | On the other, you have all of us who recognize that Pride emerged from a legacy of anti-police uprisi…

Editor (2024-06-25). Jun 25, 2024. sitrepworld.info This Song Will Lift Your Spirit | Oceans — Hillsong United Julian Assange Is Free! by Joe Lauria 'Draft Notice' from the Shop of Horrors, by Dennis Kucinich Here It Comes, by James Howard Kunstler Putin's "war" to re-shape the American Zeitgeist, by Alastair Crooke Bring Back Capitalism !?, by Matt Taibbi Stumbling Into Ruin: Reflections on senescence, amnesia, and war, by John Leake Belief in eternal progress has been a driving element of liberalism for generations, by eugyppius We're all buying more nukes. Here are the five main reasons why, by Martin Jay American Pravda: JFK, LB…

David Giesen (2024-06-25). Tuesday 6/25: A Close Reading by Leo Tolstoy of POVERTY, BY AMERICA. indybay.org on line: ZOOM: us05web.zoom.us/j/82330465191?pwd=HYB7va3R7hDegBbiamybmqE6qKaK5U.1…

Geopolitical Economics (2024-06-25). A look inside China: Is this the most sovereign country on Earth? indybay.org Journalist Ben Norton discusses his experience living in China. | China went through a partial colonialization, a century of humiliation. | China is responsible for 3/4 of all poverty reduction and has lifted 800 million out of extreme poverty…

WSWS (2024-06-25). An actor of the anti-establishment, Donald Sutherland, dies aged 88. wsws.org Unlike Jane Fonda, who has done everything in her power to make the public forget her onetime radical days and views, Sutherland retained a general hostility to capitalism until his death.

Staff (2024-06-25). France, the new Popular Front, hopes and contradictions. defenddemocracy.press By Dimitris Skarpalezos After the thunderous victory of the far-right "National Rally" in the French European elections, under the pressure of the mass of their supporters, the parties of the broader left formed a coalition for the parliamentary elections called the "New Popular Front" in reference to the Popular Front of communists and socialists …

| Peter Boyle | (2024-06-25). Why ecosocialism is not just a good idea but a necessity. socialist-alliance.org As the climate emergency and extinction crises deepen, there is no choice but to struggle to democratise the economy so that it can be made to serve social needs and ecological sustainability. Peter Boyle reports.

newleftreview (2024-06-25). Oliver Eagleton: Stakeholder Capitalism, Again. newleftreview.org Oliver Eagleton on Will Hutton, This Time No Mistakes. Lessons for the incoming Labour government on humanizing British capitalism, from a proselytizer of Blair's Third Way.

ecns.cn (2024-06-25). (W.E. Talk) How to meet the challenges posed by AI using Marxism views. ecns.cn In the latest W.E. Talk with China News Service, Xu Feng, deputy director of the United Front Theory Department at the Central Institute of Socialism, said that the answer to the question of whether there will be an emergence of autonomous consciousness as a result of AI's autonomous learning is still controversial, and the standards and criteria for examining it are varied.In his opinion, there is still a high probability that humankind will be able to control AI as much as possible and make it work for humankind and will not rapidly go in the direction of alienation and dissimulation."ÄÄ"&…

Hannah Davenport (2024-06-25). Damning analysis reveals shocking rise in child poverty under Tories. leftfootforward.org New analysis has revealed the devastating rise of child poverty in working families in Britain under the Conservative government. | The Trades Union Congress (TUC) found that between 2010 and 2023, the number of children growing up in poverty in working households has increased by a staggering 44 per cent. | This is on average an increase of over 1,300 a week and refers to households with at least one parent in work. Children growing up in poverty in working households now account for 69% of all children in poverty, while making up for nearly a quarter of all children in working families. | In 2023, there wer…

Editor (2024-06-25). How Karl Marx influenced Abraham Lincoln and his position on slavery & labor. mronline.org If resistance to the Slave Power was the reserved watchword of your first election, the triumphant war cry of your re-election is Death to Slavery.

ecns.cn (2024-06-25). (W.E. Talk) British scholar: China is better placed to cope with possible dangers of AI. ecns.cn The development of AI should be regulated, and compared to the United States, China is better placed to cope with the possible dangers of AI, said David McLellan, author of Karl Marx: A Biography, in the latest W.E. Talk.

Prabhat Patnaik (2024-06-25). AI and employment. mronline.org This problem, it must be noted, relates exclusively to the application of AI under capitalist conditions; but, capitalism being the reality over much of the world, the threat of AI to the working people remains extremely serious.

Editor (2024-06-25). Cuba tells the United States there is only one Cuba. mronline.org Far from being a sign of the U.S. government softening its economic and financial siege on Cuba and contributing to help Cuba's private sector, this new policy attempts to destroy the core of the ideological makeup of Cuban socialism.

Monthly Review (2024-06-23). Two (wrong) views on Marx, degrowth, and productivism (plus John Bellamy Foster on ecosocialism and degrowth). links.org.au Monthly Review — The myth of Prometheanism in Marx's thought, revived by two opposite extremes on the issue, has resulted in the erection a "Tower of Babel" that threatens to extinguish much that has been achieved by Marxian ecology.

newleftreview (2024-06-23). Oliver Eagleton: Stakeholder Capitalism, Again. newleftreview.org Oliver Eagleton on Will Hutton, This Time No Mistakes. Lessons for the incoming Labour government on humanizing British capitalism, from a proselytizer of Blair's Third Way.

Micky Metts, Keegan Rankin, Benjamin Melancon, Grassroots Economic Organizing. (2024-06-19). Technology Cooperatives In The Movement: Where Are We Now? popularresistance.org Cooperatives have many benefits to their members and communities. The transformation of the economy to one that works for all, likely requires a much greater role for cooperatives—worker owned cooperatives perhaps most of all. Marxist economist Richard Wolff has gone so far as to posit that the critical failing of past socialist revolutions has been not democratizing the workplace. Certainly, catalyzing a solidarity economy network will require as much of the economy and public infrastructure as possible to be under people's direct control. | Tech worker cooperatives have the potential to provide particular…

Carlos L. Garrido, Edward Liger Smith, Orinoco Tribune. (2024-06-19). Pioneers For Communism: Strive To Be Like Che. popularresistance.org The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once called Ernesto Che Guevara the "most complete human being of our age." Today, 96 years after his birth, it is still difficult to find a better example of the socialist human being than the one who proclaimed courageously with his unforgettable last words, "Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man!" Che was for Fidel Castro "the most extraordinary of [the] revolutionary comrades;" a man with an infectious character who organically lifted those around him to emulate his revolutionary virtues of "altruism," "selflessness," and the "immediate [and] instantaneous wil…

ecns.cn (2024-06-19). Xi inspects northwest China's Qinghai Province. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, inspected northwest China's Qinghai Province on Tuesday.

W. T. Whitney (2024-06-19). Colombian Paramilitaries Encounter Adverse US Court Decision and People's Resistance. counterpunch.org Other than in industrial countries, capitalism has worked its way through enslavement, die-offs, wars, plunder, and thugs. Colombia specializes in thugs, since the 1970s. Paramilitaries, shock troops for Colombia's rich and powerful, are an arm of Colombia's military. A recent court decision in the United States provokes questions about the future of Colombia's paramilitaries and

Hannah Davenport (2024-06-19). EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Teachers' union leader urges Labour to go further to tackle child poverty. leftfootforward.org There is room for Labour "to do better" when it comes to funding pledges and tackling child poverty, the leader of the National Education Union (NEU) has said as he highlighted the crises in education the next government must take on. | Daniel Kebede, NEU General Secretary, told LFF that the omission of removing the two-child benefit cap in Labour's manifestos was "disappointing", as the devastating effects of child poverty are acutely felt in the education sector. | The next government must do three things for education, Kebede said, address the funding crisis, tackle the recruitment and retention issue and t…

newleftreview (2024-06-19). Oliver Eagleton: Stakeholder Capitalism, Again. newleftreview.org Oliver Eagleton on Will Hutton, This Time No Mistakes. Lessons for the incoming Labour government on humanizing British capitalism, from a proselytizer of Blair's Third Way.

Walden Bello (2024-06-17). How Capitalism Really Works. fpif.org Vulture Capitalism is, at one level, a really good read, for the scandals that it brings together in one volume—like the Boeing 737 MAX debacle, where the pursuit of profits, lack of regulation, and corporate cost-cutting culture resulted in two crashes that killed hundreds of people, or the ways most of the $800 million allocated by Washington for the Paycheck Protection Plan (PPP) to enable workers to get through the COVID 19 pandemic actually ended up with their employers. Among the direct or indirect beneficiaries of the PPP were House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Senate majority leader Mitch McConne…

Peter Koenig (2024-06-17). Video: Geopolitical Issues. "War is a Racket… The Most Profitable". Fear, Poverty and Homelessness, The Depopulation Agenda. Peter Koenig. globalresearch.ca

Editor (2024-06-17). Pioneers for Communism: Strive to be like Che. mronline.org The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once called Ernesto 'Che' Guevara the "most complete human being of our age."

WSWS (2024-06-17). Social banditry: Oligarch Elon Musk takes record $45 billion payout. wsws.org The awarding by Tesla shareholders on Thursday of a massive pay package worth more than $45 billion to CEO Elon Musk is part of accelerating social inequality and the deepening economic, social, military and political crisis of world capitalism.

WSWS (2024-06-17). Campaigning in Detroit, Trump incites violence against immigrants. wsws.org Speaking at a church in Detroit, Trump blamed immigrants for the poverty and unemployment caused by capitalism.

newleftreview (2024-06-17). Oliver Eagleton: Stakeholder Capitalism, Again. newleftreview.org Oliver Eagleton on Will Hutton, This Time No Mistakes. Lessons for the incoming Labour government on humanizing British capitalism, from a proselytizer of Blair's Third Way.

Eric Brooks (2024-06-16). Greeting to the 32nd CPUSA Convention: Palestinian People's Party. cpusa.org Dear comrade Joe Sims, Dear comrades in the leadership of CPUSA, | On behalf of the leadership and all members of Palestinian Peoples Party (PPP) we extend to you and through you to all members of your party our congratulations for the successful end of the 32nd national convention of your party hoping you every success in your struggle for better future of your people and the peoples of the world for social justice, peace and socialism. | With this opportunity we would like also to thank you for your firm position of solidarity with the just struggle of our people for ending the ongoing genocide and ending th…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2024-06-16). War, Terrorism and the Global Economic Crisis. Ninety-nine Interrelated Concepts. globalresearch.ca Everything is interrelated: war, terrorism, the police state, the global economy, financial fraud, corrupt governments, poverty and social inequality, media disinformation, war propaganda, WMD, international law,…

Harry Glasbeek (2024-06-16). Law At Work: Class, Property, Capitalism. socialistproject.ca This essay is an excerpt from Harry Glasbeek's new book For thousands of years, workers have produced goods and services for themselves and others, sometimes being paid, sometimes not. But, for the most part, workers had few legally recognized political or social rights. Workers were not free, at least not in the way in which we describe freedom in our time. It was not until the late 1800s that the goods and services provided for others by workers in the Angl…

Mehret Ayalew Mandefro (2024-06-16). A New Documentary Highlights China's Expansion Into Ethiopia. fairobserver.com This Sunday, Made in Ethiopia premiers at the DC/DOX documentary festival in Washington, DC. This film rejects simplistic narratives and explores Ethiopia's burgeoning industrial sector and partnership with China through three individuals' perspectives. Ethiopia is the most populous nation in East Africa. In the 20th century, it faced economic troubles and civil war between communist…

newleftreview (2024-06-16). Oliver Eagleton: Stakeholder Capitalism, Again. newleftreview.org Oliver Eagleton on Will Hutton, This Time No Mistakes. Lessons for the incoming Labour government on humanizing British capitalism, from a proselytizer of Blair's Third Way.

latintimes (2024-06-12). Almost half of all Latina tipped workers live near or under the poverty line. latintimes.com

David Sirota (2024-06-12). SIROTA'S SIGNALS: America's Biggest Ponzi Scheme. levernews.com Where can you find America's biggest and most rapacious Ponzi scheme of all? What stage of capitalism is it when you need a new regulation to ban banks from repossessing prosthetic limbs? How could governments get a two-to-one return on their investments? When will the country take the simplest step possible to improve the electricity grid? The answers to these questions and more can be found below in today's edition of Sirota's Signals, a weekly dose of must-read stories, missed nuggets, and worthwhile distractions from Lever founder David Sirota, exclusively for paid subscribers. | This full story is for p…

Liberation Staff (2024-06-12). (VIDEO) Workers, mothers, socialists: How Claudia and Karina became fighters for a new system — PSL roundtable. liberationnews.org In this roundtable discussion, Claudia and Karina are joined by Caro Yao, a campaign volunteer and organizer with the PSL, to discuss motherhood under capitalism, the fight against patriarchy and their respective journeys in becoming not only organizers themselves but socialists fighting for revolution in our lifetime.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2024-06-12). Cuba is a victim of US economic terrorism, CYF of Sri Lanka said. plenglish.com Colombo, Jun 12 (Prensa Latina) The Communist Youth Federation (CYF) of Sri Lanka denounced on Wednesday that Cuba does not support terrorism; it is a victim of the economic and other kinds of terrorism generated by and from the United States.

thecommunists (2024-06-12). President Raisi has died, but the Axis of Resistance lives on! thecommunists.org On 19 May 2024, President Sayyid Ebrahim Raisi of the Islamic Republic of Iran lost his life in a helicopter crash along with several companions, including Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. We in the CPGB-ML send our deep condolences to the heroic Iranian people on the occasion of this great tragedy, which is all the greater …

GABIK (2024-06-12). Eastern Cape honours women in agriculture. sanews.gov.za Eastern Cape honours women in agriculture | The Eastern Cape Department of Rural Development and Agrarian Reform will this week award top performing women in the agricultural sector, as part of the department's programme to recognise the contribution of women in agriculture. | The department said the objective of the awards is to empower and honour women in agriculture and agro processing. | "The awards are an instrument through which the contribution of women in the fight against poverty, hunger and joblessness is recognised. This will increase participation and visibility of women in the sector," the departmen…

znetwork (2024-06-12). What's Going On?! znetwork.org Capitalism, sexism, racism, and authoritarianism. Four plagues. Each corrupts. Each perverts, robs, and kills.

Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. (2024-06-04). Twenty Years Of Building An Economic Alternative To Capitalism In The US. popularresistance.org The US Federation of Worker Cooperatives recently turned twenty years old. Clearing the FOG speaks with Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, a professor and author of "Collective Courage: A History of African-American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice," and a charter member of the USFWC, about the work to create a national cooperative organization and the rise of the cooperative economy in the United States. She spoke about the role that cooperatives have played in advancing social and economic justice, the benefits of cooperatives not only to the individual but also more broadly to their communities, and the his…

midwesternmarx (2024-06-04). The movement for Palestinian Solidarity in Chilean Universities: defying the liberal academia. By: Camilo Godoy & Catalina Calderón. midwesternmarx.com ​After 76 years of occupation, students from across the Globe have shown their support towards the Palestinian cause during recent months. The agreements, cooperation and public relations with Universities and academic institutions from Israel has been a common factor in the causes towards it, considering the context of imperialism and aggression with direct complicity from the US' government and the UK after the AlAqsa Flood Operation by Hamas and then continued by other part …

midwesternmarx (2024-06-04). "Modern (Mis)interpretations of Clean Slates'. By: Michael Hudson. midwesternmarx.com ​Why were Clean Slates so important to Bronze Age societies? From the third millennium in Mesopotamia, people were aware that debt pressures, if left to accumulate unchecked, would distort normal fiscal and landholding patterns to the detriment of the community. They perceived that debts grow autonomously under their own dynamic by the exponential curves of compound interest rather than adjusting themselves to reflect the ability of debtors to pay. This idea never has been accepted …

midwesternmarx (2024-06-04). Western arms supplies to Ukraine prevent peaceful solutions By: Margaret Kimberley. midwesternmarx.com Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you all for this opportunity to address the Security Council and to provide a briefing on the issue of peace as it relates to Ukraine and its connections with people in this country and all over the world.​As a journalist, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, and a member of the Black Alliance for Peace and of the United National Antiwar Coalition, and as a citizen of the United States, the nation which has taken a lead role in continuing this cri …

midwesternmarx (2024-06-04). Communists must heed Marx & Engels' warnings about relying on the lumpen, or be backstabbed in the class war By: Rainer Shea. midwesternmarx.com The need for Marxists to avoid romanticizing the lumpenproletariat—the social element that operates on the economy's margins—is more urgent than ever. Because our class conflict is escalating amid the recent disruptions to U.S. hegemony, and the related economic breakdowns. Which means the ruling class is increasingly seeking to weaponize the lumpen against the working class cause, heightening the dangers of investing in the lumpen.​In The Peasant War in Germany, E …

midwesternmarx (2024-06-04). Forgotten Scandal: Canadian Peace Congress Leader Threatened for Leaking Canada's Cooperation with U.S. Germ Warfare By: Jeffrey S. Kaye. midwesternmarx.com This article has been slightly modified from its original appearance (under a different title) in The Canada Files, March 14, 2023. New documentation on Canada's Cold War experiments breeding insects and rodents for use in biological warfare has been added to this article. It was late April 1952 and the Korean War was nearing its second anniversary with no end in sight. In Canada, newspapers and the Canadian government erupted in fury when it was reported that t …

midwesternmarx (2024-06-04). Raisi led the charge for Russia—Iran—China's 'new world order' By: Pepe Escobar. midwesternmarx.com Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi's eastward vision was instrumental in advancing the strategic Moscow—Tehran—Beijing nexus and bulldozing a path toward institutionalizing multipolarity. Amidst all the sadness and grief over the loss of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, let's take a moment to showcase the critical path he helped forge toward a new global order. ​In the nearly three years since Raisi ascended to the Iranian presidency, Eurasian integration …

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2024-06-04). Cuban youths pay tribute to patriots Maceo and Che. plenglish.com Havana, Jun 4 (Prensa Latina) A varied program of activities is reportedly being carried out by the Cuban Young Communist League (UJC, in Spanish) to commemorate the 179th and 96th birthdays of Antonio Maceo and Ernesto Che Guevara, respectively.

WSWS (2024-06-04). Australian Labor government ramps up anti-immigrant measures. wsws.org "Foreigners" are being blamed for the deteriorating social conditions being produced by capitalism's economic and cost-of-living crisis and the channelling of billions of dollars into military spending.

Staff (2024-06-03). The Milei Effect: The 'Lion' Against Argentina's Soup Kitchens. orinocotribune.com Since Javier Milei's administration as president of Argentina began in December 2023, he made the decision to no longer send food to soup kitchens. The women who are in charge of cooking for the people who benefit from these places say that they don't get anything: no rice, no pasta, no grains. | This uncovered a large-scale scandal when it became known that the government of El León (Milei) has held more than 5 thousand tons of food in warehouses, while the country is experiencing the worst food, employment and social crisis in history. Poverty grows and as the soup kitchens stopped receiving help from the gover…

newleftreview (2024-06-03). Oliver Eagleton: Stakeholder Capitalism, Again. newleftreview.org Oliver Eagleton on Will Hutton, This Time No Mistakes. Lessons for the incoming Labour government on humanizing British capitalism, from a proselytizer of Blair's Third Way.

Combined Sources (2024-06-03). South Africa elections: ANC loses 30-year majority; Communists warn of right-wing threat. peoplesworld.org South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) party will not consider any demands from possible coalition partners that President Cyril Ramaphosa step down, a top official said on Sunday. This came after the ANC lost its 30-year-old majority after a stinging result in Wednesday's election. South Africa has now been plunged into a series of negotiations …