(2022-02-28). Down with US Empire! Long live Revolutionary Internationalism and Socialism! (w/Luna Oi!). anchor.fm In this episode the amazing Luna Oi joins us all the way from Vietnam to discuss her country's history and the struggles they've endured, but more broadly we also go into a discussion about what is stopping the "Left" from within the US Empire and the west, generally, from being able to build a movement capable of combatting these different stopping-blocks that seem to have us stagnant. We discuss misinformation about the virus and vaccines, we talk about organizing and how to help your community and comrades, we discuss isolation, US Imperialism, the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine, and elsewhere, as well as Revolu…
(2022-02-28). The historical emergence of Marxism. fightbacknews.org Continuing the Fight Back! series on the theoretical concepts of Marxism-Leninism, let's examine how Marxism emerged, and the struggles that it grew out of. | Marxism-Leninism didn't spring fully grown from the heads of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao. It developed historically as a result of the struggles that were taking place as it emerged. This is because revolutionaries needed to understand the world in order to change it. In the time that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were working, they took the most advanced theory in philosophy, political economy and socialist thought and brought them to a higher lev…
(2022-02-28). Bill McKibben on Dire IPCC Climate Report & How Oil and Gas Are Fueling Putin's Ukraine Invasion. democracynow.org We speak with climate author, journalist and movement leader Bill McKibben upon the release of the highly anticipated U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2022 report, which finds the impacts of the climate crisis are already worse than predicted, driving poverty, hunger, disease and species extinction. McKibben also speaks about how global dependency on oil and gas empowers autocrats like President Vladimir Putin and is helping fuel the Russian war in Ukraine. Renewable energy could help defeat fascism and deter some of "the worst people on Earth" if deployed at scale, he says.
(2022-02-28). Headlines for February 28, 2022. democracynow.org Ukraine Demands Ceasefire as Casualties Mount, Ukrainian and Russian Delegations Meet in Belarus, Belarus Could Join Russian Invasion as Putin Puts Nuclear Forces on High Alert in Latest Escalation, 500,000+ Ukrainians Become Refugees as Families Torn Apart by War, International Community Send Military Assistance, Up Sanctions on Russia
| , Protests Around the World Condemn Invasion of Ukraine; Russian Police Arrest Thousands, U.S. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Accepts Historic Supreme Court Nomination, U.N. Report Warns Climate Crisis Is Driving Hunger, Poverty, Disease and Species Loss, El Salvador Ex-Presid…
(2022-02-28). Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, Poverty is the Sin, Not Poor People. warisacrime.org This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Yes, there had been rich American presidents before, but never a billionaire. And it wasn't a mistake either that this country — already in a nosedive of inequality — elected Donald Trump president in 2016 (though who knows …