(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…
(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…
(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.
(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
(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…
(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.