(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…
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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…
(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…
(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…
(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.
(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 …
(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.
(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.
(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"&…
(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…
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.