2022-03-04: News Headlines

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-03-04). Declara»õia PSL privind interven»õia militarƒÉ a Rusiei àÆn Ucraina. liberationnews.org Amenin»õarea rƒÉzboiului poate fi àÆnvinsƒÉ doar prin solidaritatea interna»õionalƒÉ àÆntre popoarele lumii »ôi printr-o luptƒÉ hotƒÉrâtƒÉ àÆmpotriva imperialismului american, care trebuie sƒÉ impunƒÉ abolirea NATO. FƒÉrƒÉ rƒÉzboi cu Rusia!

deweylaura (2022-03-04). Marxist IQ: Women in history. cpusa.org The Marxist IQ for Women's History Month is dedicated to women who struggle for democracy, socialism, and peace. 1. International Women's Day was first established by the Socialist International (Second International) in solidarity with an early twentieth-century strike of women workers in a. London. b. Berlin. c. New York. d. Paris. 2. Women …

Betsey Piette (2022-03-04). Global supply chain: Rail industry prioritizes profits over safety. workers.org The global supply chain crisis, fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, has laid bare systemic problems within global capitalism — when and where goods are produced to how they are transported and the growing disparity between the bosses' wealth versus the wages and benefits paid to millions of workers throughout this . . . |

WSWS (2022-03-03). The threat of world war looms: Take up the fight against imperialism and for international socialism! wsws.org The IYSSE (Australia) meeting at 4 p.m. (AEDT) Saturday, March 12 will discuss the urgent need to build an international anti-war movement of youth, students and workers as the danger of nuclear war heightens amid the escalating crisis in Ukraine.

_____ (2022-03-03). Capitalism, Nationalism, And Copaganda. popularresistance.org In a room filled with maskless war criminals and Ukrainian flags, President Joe Biden said, in perhaps the most obvious sentence ever spoken in that chamber, that he was a capitalist. That's not shocking to anyone, but it is a wonder that he had to say it, given that every other element of his speech was so focused on protecting American capitalism and imperialism. From defending NATO, to arguing for a more productive U.S. economy, to shouting out the CEO of Intel (who was, inexplicably, in the room for the speech), Biden doubled down on his campaign promise that "nothing would fundamentally change." | Biden took…

deweylaura (2022-03-03). The Young Communist League in Great Britain is growing — here's why. cpusa.org Over 30 years on from the dissolution of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), British communism has reached a new juncture, characterized by defiance of the anti-communist myths of the past and faith that Marxism-Leninism is the political path best suited to turning the looming contradictions in contemporary capitalism — climate collapse and …

WSWS (2022-03-03). Climate change is triggering a humanitarian crisis, UN report finds. wsws.org The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest report is an indictment of global capitalism's utter failure to address climate change.

JANET (2022-03-03). The war on Donbass: why we must all stand against fascism. iacenter.org March 2, 2022 The people of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics celebrating Russia's recognition of the independence of their republics, Feb. 21. This lightly edited opinion piece by journalist, author and activist Fra Hughes first appeared in the Arab independent media satellite Al Mayadeen, Feb. 26. The Donbass people, much like the Palestinian people, continued to resist the dominance of global capitalism that supports fascism in Ukraine for eight years. For those who claim President [Vladimir] Putin is a megalomaniac sociopath, intent on drawing Europe and the U.S. into some kind of Machiavellian war…

_____ (2022-03-03). Western Media Accuse China Of Wanting To Do What US Does To Other Countries. popularresistance.org Last month, the Washington Post (2/15/22) ran an opinion piece by David Von Drehle claiming that, "in a sense, the alliance of democracies" (by which he means the US and its partners) fell "into a fitful sleep" at the end of the Cold War. "What began as a happy dream of perpetual peace," he contended, "changed in recent years to a nightmare," featuring "Communist empire-building in China." | The notion that there was a "happy dream of perpetual peace at the end of the Cold War" that only recently became a nightmare because of international bad guys like China suggests that Von Drehle himself has been not merely s…

Ann Brown (2022-03-03). Fact Check: Biden Claimed 'We Reduced Black Poverty By Over 30 Percent'. moguldom.com During President Joe Biden's March 1 State of the Union address, he made claims about reducing Black poverty. "The estimate is that we've cut Black poverty by over 30 percent. We reduced child poverty more than 50 percent in the Black community," Biden said. Biden didn't go into details on how his administration did this, …

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