(2024-08-29). Three Amigos No More? popularresistance.org Just a week ago, we wagered that the US and Canadian embassies would soon begin piling pressure on Mexico as the outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (aka AMLO) seeks to pass sweeping constitutional reforms to its mining laws, energy laws and judicial system, among other things, in his last month in office. Just two days later, the US Ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, sent a communique warning that the proposed judicial reforms could have serious consequences for the US' trade relations with its biggest trade partner: | Based on my lifelong experience supporting the rule of law, I believe popular direc…
(2024-08-29). Awareness of Capitalists' Use of Colonialism Encourages International Solidarity. counterpunch.org 
Studying capitalism, Karl Marx examined the Industrial Revolution in Europe. He explored conflict between worker and employer. In their book Capital and Imperialism (Monthly Review Press, 2021), authors Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik emphasize that Marx's followers believed that, with the onset of capitalism, "accumulation [has] occurred only on the basis of the generation of surplus value." (Surplus value signifies that part
(2024-08-29). Cédric Durand: Landscapes of Capital. newleftreview.org A critical engagement with the work of Brett Christophers, whose books—The New Enclosure, Rentier Capitalism, Our Lives in Their Portfolios and The Price Is Wrong—unfold a novel critique of the 'rentier stage' of contemporary capitalism, in the tradition of radical historical geography developed by Lefebvre, Harvey and Davis.
(2024-08-28). Cuban FM sends congratulations to his Venezuelan counterpart. plenglish.com "We will work together for the strengthening of the solid bonds of brotherhood that unite our peoples and governments," Rodriguez highlighted on social network X. | This Tuesday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced a transformation in the ministerial cabinet to advance in the new stage of transition to socialism. | In total, the head of State made 17 changes and ratified 20 positions, highlighting the ratification of Executive Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, who will also assume the Ministry of Petroleum. | Maduro stressed the importance of the team being integrated "to go to the great stage of the new…
(2024-08-28). Cédric Durand: Landscapes of Capital. newleftreview.org A critical engagement with the work of Brett Christophers, whose books—The New Enclosure, Rentier Capitalism, Our Lives in Their Portfolios and The Price Is Wrong—unfold a novel critique of the 'rentier stage' of contemporary capitalism, in the tradition of radical historical geography developed by Lefebvre, Harvey and Davis.
(2024-08-28). What should we do about 'degrowth'? mronline.org 
The 'degrowth' debate raises critical issues to which only a Marxist approach can provide answers, argues the Marx Memorial Library.
(2024-08-28). HK to play greater role in modernization push. ecns.cn The seminars, attended by about 1,600 representatives from various sectors, featured two central government officials who outlined the key takeaways from the third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
(2024-08-28). CPC leadership reviews measures on western region's development. ecns.cn The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting on Friday to review policies and measures to open up a new vista in the large-scale development of China's western region. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, chaired the meeting.
(2024-08-28). Debate in Chile on Fidel Castro's legacy to the youths. plenglish.com Santiago, Chile, Aug 28 (Prensa Latina) Convened by the Communist Youth of Chile and the Movement in Solidarity with Cuba, a debate was held in this capital on the validity of Fidel Castro's thought nowadays, on his 98th birthday, August 13, 1926.
(2024-08-28). Afghanistan's Communist Rulers: A Study in Secular Radicalism. muslimskeptic.com The emergence of state communism within societies that are commonly considered to be the most religiously observant is a particularly puzzling reality of the Muslim world's modern political history. I am referring, of course, to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Both, while beginning roughly around the same time …