2023-01-24: News Headlines

Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel (2023-01-24). Idea of Socialism Can Only Flourish in Peace and Freedom. globalresearch.ca

Soh Sook Hwa (2023-01-24). Video: Malaysian socialist on the new government, climate change and ecosocialism. greenleft.org.au Malaysian socialist Soh Sook Hwa spoke to Isaac Nellist about Malaysian politics and building a political alternative.

Fight Back (2023-01-24). Seattle activists present the program of the FRSO. fightbacknews.org Seattle, WA — On January 20 and 21, over 30 people turned out to Freedom Road Socialist Organization's events to promote the recently released print edition of FRSO's political program. These events were held at the Khalsa Gurmat Center in Federal Way and the University of Washington-Seattle's campus. | The room was full of vigor and excitement in light of the ongoing struggle within the Pacific Northwest and the country as a whole. "We have to have a clear eyed view of our enemy, monopoly capitalism. This system exploits and kills workers here and is part of global empire that exploits and kills around the…

Declan McKenna (2023-01-24). Thoughts of an Ageing Communist. dissidentvoice.org I was struck by an article in Counterpunch late last year: Scott Tucker wrote a piece centred around war and peace and to further enlighten his readers he provided links to two other articles: "I am including links to two articles readers may find useful. The first article was just published at World Socialist Website …

ecns.cn (2023-01-24). Xi extends Spring Festival greetings to all Chinese, urging solid work to create better future. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping, on behalf of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the State Council, extended Spring Festival greetings to all Chinese Friday at a reception in Beijing.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-01-23). Conjoining the Incommensurables at the WEF Davos Forum of 2023. transcend.org Freudian Economics Underlying Stakeholder Capitalism…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-01-23). (Italiano) Immanuel Wallerstein su sinistra e destra globali. transcend.org Crisi, appunto. La via d'uscita è un discorso nuovo, meno materiale, più spirituale; qualcosa per cui vivere, non solo da. In questo momento Wallerstein vede il capitalismo in crisi senza rimedio–di cui non sono cosਠsicuro–e anche l'egemonia americana in crisi senza rimedio–una visione che condivido–, come la caduta di un impero per il quale i locali le élite erano solite uccidere e governare; ora deve fare la maggior parte degli omicidi da solo.

Brittani Banks (2023-01-23). An Ancient Recipe for Social Success. independentmediainstitute.org The following is an excerpt. Read the full article at Naked Capitalism. By Linda M. Nicholas and Gary M. Feinman New evidence and understandings about the structure of successful early societies across Asia, Africa, and the Western Hemisphere are sweeping away the popular assumption that early societies tended toward autocracy and despotism. Archaeology has a …

Staff (2023-01-23). Davos, 2023: Preservar un mundo injusto. cubadebate.cu El pasado lunes se reunió en Davos el Foro Económico Mundial. A diferencia de la gran mayoría de la población mundial, explotada por el capitalismo, que no logra crear una estructura tipo Davos para coordinar las grandes luchas de nuestro tiempo, la derecha aprecia muy bien las virtudes de una organización mundial y el diseño de estrategias globales de intervención.

Fight Back (2023-01-23). Against Trotskyism: What is Trotskyism? fightbacknews.org Trotskyism has been one of the most persistent and damaging opportunist ideological opponents of Marxism-Leninism within the left. In the next several articles, we're going to look at the origin and development of this ideology, what it is and what it seeks to accomplish. But first, who was Trotsky, and what is Trotskyism? | Who was Trotsky? Briefly, Leon Trotsky was a Menshevik who came over to the Bolsheviks on the eve of the October Revolution in 1917. He was a skilled writer and speaker. After the February Revolution, he joined a centrist social-democratic group called the "interboroughites." This small grou…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-01-23). Activists occupy Wyndford high-flats in Glasgow, protesting demolition plans. peoplesdispatch.org Housing rights activists in Glasgow escalated their struggle for affordable housing last week. On Monday January 16, activists from the Wyndford Residents Union and Young Communist League (YCL) occupied the high-rise flats in Wyndford protesting the plan of social landlord Wheatley Homes demolish the flats. Glasgow police arrested three men and women who were part of the occupation of the flats. The protesters have stated that "occupation was the inevitable consequence of Wheatley Homes' refusal to negotiate with the Wyndford Residents Union." | On January 16, from one of the tower blocks, the occupying activists…

thecommunists (2023-01-23). Communists condemn cancellation of WPB anti-Nato meeting by Conway Hall. thecommunists.org The Workers Party of Britain is due to hold a public meeting on 25 February in central London against Nato's war in Ukraine. The original meeting venue was lost when St Pancras Church pulled the rug out from under the organisers on the lamest of excuses. Now it has happened again, with Conway Hall's management …

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