(2023-09-04). Twenty-first century socialism: what it will become and why. nationofchange.org Together these goals comprise an effective, attractive new vision to define and motivate a socialism for the 21st century.
(2023-09-04). Saturday 9/9: Labor on the Move: Prospects and Challenges. indybay.org The Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue | Berkeley, CA 94705…
(2023-09-03). Cuba: New Actions against the Island are Being Prepared. libya360.wordpress.com Arthur Gonzalez The war that the United States is waging against Cuba is broad and covers politics, economy, culture, sports, health, education and everything they can do to hinder the development of the island, with the purpose of preventing the satisfaction of the people through their media campaigns projecting socialism as a failed system. The…
(2023-09-04). Twenty-First Century Socialism: What It Will Become and Why. counterpunch.org The real left is not the caricature crafted by the U.S. right. Alongside parallel right-wing political formations abroad, that caricature tries hard to revive and recycle Cold War demonizations no matter how far-fetched. Nor is the real left what Democratic Party leaders and their foreign counterparts try hard to dismiss as tiny and politically irrelevant (except when electoral campaigns flirt with "progressive" proposals to get votes). The real left in the United States and beyond are the millions who at least vaguely understand that the whole system (including its mainstream right and left) is the core problem.
(2023-09-03). You Can't Be A Socialist Alone. popularresistance.org Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Astra Taylor — no relation, except their friendship — are two of the Gen X socialist intellectuals and movement leaders bridging the "Boomer" activists, radicalized in the 1960s, with the millennials and zoomers politically educated in the internet age. The two comrades held a freewheeling hour-long conversation about the complexities of organizing through the death throes of neoliberalism, a flailing Democratic establishment and a rising authoritarian Right. They shared their journeys to socialism, took on tough questions from reform and revolution to…
(2023-09-03). Movements, Intellectuals To Discuss Building Socialism In Latin America. popularresistance.org Movement leaders and intellectuals from across Latin America and the Caribbean will meet in Santiago, Chile, from September 2-4 for the Regional Dilemmas of Humanity Conference. The conference seeks to provoke debate and discussion about building socialism and finding solutions to address the major crises generated by capitalism. | The conference, organized by the regional social movement platform ALBA Movimientos and the International Peoples' Assembly (IPA), will be held in the Open University of Recoleta. It will take place alongside a series of historical commemorations to be held in the Chilean capital to ma…
(2023-09-04). Venezuela to hold National Congress on Climate Crisis. plenglish.com The Minister for Ecosocialism, Josué Lorca, invited researchers from the Ecological Community, Popular Power, Communal Councils and Social Movements to participate in the meeting, whose sessions will alternate between this capital and the states of Mérida and Falcón, Venezolana de Televisión reported. | The authority called on all Venezuelans to join the purpose of the event to "build strategies for the preservation of Mother Earth", as a continuity to the agreements of the previous Congress on the subject in May 2022. | The first National Congress on Climate Crisis assumed strategies to stop such process and tr…
(2023-09-04). Marxism and the U.S. Response to the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 Pandemics. internationalviewpoint.org Over the last fifty years, few public health professionals have considered Marxism relevant, and few Marxists have treated pandemics as an imminent concern. We offer this paper to help both public health professionals and socialists view pandemics through a Marxist lens. Although our theory is global in scope, we focus on the U.S. because of its scientific prominence, its outsized global role in the AIDS pandemic, and its poor performance in the COVID-19 pandemic. Our hope is that this piece will strengthen efforts to protect public health and, better yet, help usher capitalism off the Earth before it makes the p…
(2023-09-04). Labour, protests, and state capitalism in Belarus, three years on. internationalviewpoint.org
(2023-09-03). Ambiguity in an Art World Shaped by Capital. By: Ian Matchett. midwesternmarx.com 
"You can't be Neutral on a moving train"- Howard Zinn I am standing in front of an assemblage of found objects, culled from a midwestern city ravaged by capitalism and racism. The pile has been helpfully located here by an artist with support of the local billionaire's philanthropic foundation, and a private art school in the suburbs. The artist's statement informs me that the work is about the possible importance of these objects in the …
(2023-09-03). Death, the Crisis of Meaning, and Capitalism. By: Carlos L. Garrido. midwesternmarx.com 
The Moving finger writes; and, having writ,Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor WitShall lure it back to cancel half a Line,Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. – The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Death as the Nexus for the Possibility of Meaning in Human Life In This Life, the philosopher Martin Hägglund argues that: To attain a peaceful state of eternity you must be liberated from the risk of losing what you love. Were such liberation pos …
(2023-09-04). Burning out of control: Capitalism's climate catastrophe. mronline.org 
Canada's unprecedented wildfires drive home the harsh realities of climate change, in all their enormity. We are fighting an incorrigibly destructive social and economic system, but we are also, at the same time, engaged in a struggle for survival.
(2023-09-04). Canadian Workers, the Social-Ecological Crisis and Alternatives. socialistproject.ca 
As workers, we are today confronted with the challenge of defending what we have and making gains in the face of an ever-expanding and relentless employer offensive. The employers' drive to increase productivity and profits — central to capitalism everywhere — demands that we accept job loss and insecurity, concessions, new forms of speedup, and expanded management control in the workplace. More of us are forced to work in precarious forms of employment, making ourselves 'flexible' without access to unemployment and other social benefits or hope of a decent pension. Our economic insecurity makes it…
(2023-09-04). A comprehensive Ukrainian defeat is the only possible outcome of its conflict with Russia. By: Scott Ritter>. midwesternmarx.com 
Kiev was offered a peace deal long ago, but chose war instead, egged on by its Western backers. Now its fate is sealed September 2 marked the 78th anniversary of the World War Two surrender ceremony onboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. This moment formalized Japan's unconditional capitulation to the United States, and its allies, and marked the end of the conflict. From the Japanese perspective, it had been ongoing since the Marco Polo bridge incident of July 7, 1937, w …
(2023-09-04). BRICS expansion: What's in it for Africa? By: Andrey Maslov. midwesternmarx.com 
Following the Johannesburg summit, the continent will become a major focus for the organization Traditionally, BRICS policy makers turn their attention to African issues every five years, when the summit is held in South Africa. Last month's gathering was no exception, and compared to the previous years, was even grander in scale. For the first time ever, invitations were sent out to all the leaders of the continent, and almost everyone responded. The event in Johannesburg was …
(2023-09-04). Coup in Gabon: Franc Zone Continues to Crumble. By: Steve Lalla. midwesternmarx.com (OrinocoTribune.com) – Military leaders in Gabon have taken power, placing the president under house arrest following disputed elections. The military takeover follows recent coups d'état in the former French colonies of Niger (earlier this year), Burkina Faso (2022), Mali (2020 and 2021), and Guinea (2021). Gabon's military was likely inspired by the recent military coup in Niger, which France and its allies, including Nigeria and the US, have been unable to ove …
(2023-09-04). No respite for France as a 'New Africa' rises. By: Pepe Escobar. midwesternmarx.com Like dominos, African states are one by one falling outside the shackles of neocolonialism. Chad, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and now Gabon are saying 'non' to France's longtime domination of African financial, political, economic, and security affairs. By adding two new African member-states to its roster, last week's summit in Johannesburg heralding the expanded BRICS 11 showed once again that Eurasian integration is inextricably linked to the integration of Afro- …
(2023-09-03). BRICS summit ends with six new members and calls for inclusive multilateralism and UN reform By: Peoples Dispatch. midwesternmarx.com 
BRICS has decided to invite six countries to join the bloc — Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. The leaders also agreed on a future plan of expansion and called for increased use of local currencies in trade as opposed to the dollar (Photo: Sputnik) The three-day BRICS summit in South Africa concluded on Thursday, August 24 with the adoption of the Johannesburg II declaration, calling for "inclusive multilateralism" in global politic …
(2023-09-03). Five New Documents Confirm US Plot Against Chile's Allende By: Misión Verdad. midwesternmarx.com Chilean Troops Surround the Presidential Palace. Photo: BBC/File photo. This year, five documents were released that confirmed the participation of the United States before and after the coup d'état in Chile against Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973. Below, are some details regarding the declassified files.Documents from the US National Security Archive reveal that five weeks before the coup, President Richard Nixon ordered a CIA-orchestrated plot.US Pr …
(2023-09-03). Hollywood workers are fighting to save creativity in entertainment By: Natalia Marques. midwesternmarx.com 
Top studios are determined to wait out the strike by starving out entertainment workers, while workers fight to be stewards of their own creative process Striking actors and writers on the picket line in NYC (Photo: FJ Parsa) 248 days after the inauguration of the Hollywood writers' strike, and 47 days after the kickoff of a similar strike by Hollywood actors, it appears that the big studios are no closer to reaching worker demands and finalizing contract negotiations. &ldquo …
(2023-09-03). Hondurans mobilize in support of Xiomara Castro's government By: Peoples Dispatch. midwesternmarx.com 
The head of state called for the mobilization following an intensified destabilization campaign by the right-wing opposition Thousands on the streets of Tegucigalpa in support of the government of Xiomara Castro. Photo: David de la Paz Thousands of people took to the streets of the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa on the afternoon of Tuesday August 29 to express their support for the government of President Xiomara Castro. The head of state had called for the mobilization in response …
(2023-09-03). Maui: Deadliest U.S. fires in a century. By: Gregory E. Williams. midwesternmarx.com 
The Aug. 8 wildfires that devastated parts of Maui are the deadliest in the U.S. since the 1918 Cloquet fire in northern Minnesota. Some two weeks after the fires, the official death toll stands at 115, and authorities in Hawaii have released the names of 388 people still unaccounted for. Tens of thousands have evacuated. Over 3,000 acres burned in Lahaina and neighboring communities.Eighty percent of Lahaina burned. The town of 13,000 was called Lele in the Hawaiian language and was the …
(2023-09-03). Report back from Xinjiang. By: Aymeric Monville. midwesternmarx.com 
We are very pleased to publish below the report by the progressive French academic Aymeric Monville of his recent (August 2023) trip to Xinjiang. The report responds directly to the obscene anti-Chinese propaganda that has been raging for several years in the Western media regarding ostensible human rights abuses against China's Uyghur population.Aymeric describes his visits, along with the writer Maxime Vivas, to Kashgar, Urumqi and assorted villages. The picture he paints is drama …
(2023-09-03). Serbian MPs propose abandoning EU ambitions for BRICS. By: RT. midwesternmarx.com 
The Movement of Socialists has argued that the group would offer better prospects for economic development A group of Serbian lawmakers has proposed joining the BRICS group of nations, arguing that Belgrade's aspirations of EU membership have stalled and that the move would offer better economic prospects.The Movement of Socialists, which acts as a junior partner to the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, submitted a resolution on the issue to the Serbian parliament on Monday. …
(2023-09-03). The birth of dialectics in Ancient Greece. By: Sean Ledwith. midwesternmarx.com 
Conventional historians often like to talk about the so-called 'Greek Miracle' lasting from about 700-300 BCE in which many of the foundational concepts of the Western world first emerged. Pioneering developments in disciplines as diverse as architecture, drama, philosophy, poetry, political science, and sculpture were made by creative geniuses such as Euripides, Phidias, Socrates and Aristotle who remain the starting points for study in their respective fields. The …
(2023-09-03). The news is full of headlines about 'China's economic collapse' — ignore them. By: John Ross. midwesternmarx.com 
Once again, the Western media Establishment, and sadly some on the left, are talking up an impending economic disaster in China, when the truth is quite the opposite, argues JOHN ROSS IN THE last four years, covering the period of the Covid pandemic, China's economy has grown two-and-a-half times as fast as the US, 15 times as fast as France, 23 times as fast as Japan, 45 times as fast as Germany, and 480 times as fast as Britain.To add in smaller G7 countries, …
(2023-09-03). Prosperity in Xinjiang speaks louder than 'UN report. By: Fan Anqi in Turpan, Liu Xin and Xu Yelu in Beijing. midwesternmarx.com 
Although the summer of 2023 was one of the hottest in history, it did not stop millions of visitors from seeking out the most scorching place in China – Turpan, a city sitting in the Tarim Basin in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region – just to enjoy the magnificent natural beauty of the Huoyan Mountain, taste some roast lamb, sweet grapes and watermelon and experience the cultures of different ethnic groups. The booming tourism in Turpan is the epitome of the stable de …
(2023-09-04). Beijing Culture Forum to be held this month. ecns.cn This year's Beijing Culture Forum, co-organized by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, the municipal Party committee and government of Beijing, will be held from Sept. 14-15 in the capital.
(2023-09-04). Chinese Feminists Face Paradoxical State Policies. internationalviewpoint.org Struggles for women's rights, and the state's responses, have shifted over the history of the People's Republic of China. In an initial period of socialist state feminism, the Chinese Communist Party celebrated "women's liberation" and offered child-friendly services to facilitate women's entry into the workforce. During the era of post-socialist economic modernization, services were curtailed, shifting family responsibilities back to women and reinforcing patriarchal norms. Most recently, a form of made-in-China feminism has emerged, characterized by everyday resistance to prevailing gender expectations. Now, th…
(2023-09-04). 47th Avante Fest concludes in Portugal with a call to advance the legacy of the April Revolution. peoplesdispatch.org The three-day festival witnessed more than 70 debates and discussions over social-political and economic issues. Numerous cultural, and sports events were also part of the annual fest organized by the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) and its youth…
(2023-09-04). Air traffic out of control. thecommunists.org There could be no more striking example of the fragility of current capitalist society than the complete balls-up that overtook British aviation on two days at the end of August, leaving over 1,850 flights cancelled over two days, thousands of passengers stranded, and incurring a likely bill topping £159m. According to the hapless chief of …
(2023-09-03). Who wants to keep Yemen divided, and who is trying to unify it? thecommunists.org As of July 2023, protesters have been taking to the streets in Aden, the de facto capital of the Saudi/UAE coalition-occupied southern portion of war-torn Yemen. Amidst a blistering summer heatwave, they are only receiving six hours of electricity a day; this in a region where there is no shortage of natural resources for fuel. …
(2023-09-04). 47th Avante Fest concludes in Portugal with a call to advance the legacy of the April Revolution. peoplesdispatch.org The 47th edition of the Festa do Avante (Avante Festival), organized by the Communist Party of Portugal (PCP) and its youth wing, concluded on Sunday, September 3, at Atalaia, Seixal, with a massive rally of communist militants, other sections of the Portuguese working class, international delegates from progressive political parties, youth groups and trade unions. …
(2023-09-03). Eleventh National Congress of Returned Overseas Chinese and Their Relatives opens in Beijing. ecns.cn The 11th National Congress of Returned Overseas Chinese and Their Relatives commenced at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday morning. Xi Jinping, Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, Han Zheng and other senior leaders of the Party and the state attended the event. Li Xi, on behalf of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, delivered a speech.
(2023-09-03). CPC leadership deliberates regulations, plan for training of officials. ecns.cn The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee convened a meeting on Thursday to deliberate a set of regulations and a five-year plan (2023-27) concerning the education and training of officials. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting.
(2023-09-04). Climate Activists and Frontline communities Call for Genuine Climate Leadership From African Leaders as Climate Summit Kicks Off. commondreams.org As the Africa climate summit begins in Nairobi this week, grassroots groups and climate activists from across the continent will be holding African leaders to account to deliver concrete climate action and plans to address the continent's pressing needs. " We are calling on African governments to prioritize the needs of the African people and deliver adequate measures to address the climate crisis, energy poverty and interlinked challenges. African nations need to prioritize green renewable energy targets rooted in justice over fossil fuels and false solutions and push for substantial global investments to sup…