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2025-01-13: News Headlines

Joel Wendland-Liu (2025-01-13). Hu Yamin's new book on Chinese Marxist literary criticism. peoplesworld.org Hu Yamin is a prominent Chinese scholar specializing in comparative Marxist literary criticism. Her recent work, The Contemporary Construction of the Chinese Form of Marxist Literary Criticism, offers a historical-geographic comparative analysis of Western and Chinese Marxist literary theories. Her previous translated work includes a two-volume edited set titled Keywords in Western Literary Criticism and …

Maliha Safri (2025-01-12). Where Urban Fault Lines Run Deep, Solidarity Cities Take Root. truthout.org Contemporary debates about capitalism and its alternatives often fall into two traps: either portraying economic life as so fully saturated by (racial) capitalism that alternatives are rendered insignificant, or idealizing these alternatives to the point of overlooking racial and economic divisions within social movement spaces. The new book Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism… |

Maliha Safri (2025-01-12). Where Urban Fault Lines Run Deep, Solidarity Cities Take Root. truthout.org Contemporary debates about capitalism and its alternatives often fall into two traps: either portraying economic life as so fully saturated by (racial) capitalism that alternatives are rendered insignificant, or idealizing these alternatives to the point of overlooking racial and economic divisions within social movement spaces. The new book Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism… |

Nava J. Thakuria (2025-01-12). Dam in Tibet, A Concern for India, Bangladesh. pressenza.com The construction of a colossal hydropower project by China in Tibet has emerged as a matter of grave concern for India, especially for those residing in its eastern regions including Bangladesh. These areas now face a perpetual threat akin to living under a water bomb, controlled by a foreign power governed by a Communist regime that lacks credible bilateral relations with India, the world's largest democracy. The recent earthquake in the Tibetan plateau, which claimed over 125 lives and injured numerous others, has exacerbated these fears. The disaster has underscored the seismic vulnerabilities of the region, f…

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead (2025-01-12). Anti-poverty charities urge government to do more to address rising child poverty. leftfootforward.org 4.3 million children live in poverty in the UK, Labour has promised to reduce child poverty and has introduced a new taskforce responsible for 'developing an ambitious strategy to reduce child poverty.' | But anti-poverty and children's charities are urging for more to be done. | The Resolution Foundation is calling on the government to provide greater support to fulfil its promise of reducing child poverty. The charity p…

The Independent (2025-01-12). Leaders endorse strategy for Africa's agri-food systems. independent.co.ug Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Head of State and government from Africa have endorsed a new strategy aimed at improving the agri-food systems in the continent. The UN Food and Agricultural Organization hold that Africa holds the key to moving towards a world free from hunger and poverty. It states that It is in …

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead (2025-01-12). Anti-poverty charities urge government to do more to address rising child poverty. leftfootforward.org 4.3 million children live in poverty in the UK, Labour has promised to reduce child poverty and has introduced a new taskforce responsible for 'developing an ambitious strategy to reduce child poverty.' | But anti-poverty and children's charities are urging for more to be done. | The Resolution Foundation is calling on the government to provide greater support to fulfil its promise of reducing child poverty. The charity p…

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2025-01-11: News Headlines

The Black Alliance for Peace. (2025-01-11). LA Fires: The Santa Ana Blowback of Capitalist Climate Change Neglect. popularresistance.org The incendiary cataclysms in Los Angeles, California remind us that the root cause of the climate crisis exacerbating the fires spreading throughout that city and surrounding areas is fossil fuel production emblematic of runaway capitalism fueled by white "supremacy" ideology, patriarchy, and colonization. And while it's easy to focus solely on the fires, it's important to note that the associated smoke will be the main culprit in the loss of life due to environmental racism that has assaulted the public health of Black, Brown, Indigenous and all poor and working class people in Los Angeles and throughout the cou…

WSWS (2025-01-11). New Zealand government's "foreign interference" bill prepares new attacks on democratic rights. wsws.org The proposed law—which is supported by the opposition Labour Party—will be used to criminalise opposition to militarism and war, as well as other actions that are deemed to benefit "foreign powers" and to undermine the interests of New Zealand capitalism.

WSWS (2025-01-11). The 2024 wildfire season in Canada: Climate catastrophe and capitalism converge. wsws.org In line with the homicidal response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, capitalist governments at all levels, dedicated to the enrichment of the corporate and financial elite no matter the social costs, have done nothing to prevent wildfires and assist those already devastated by them.

Andrew Johnson (2025-01-10). Housing crisis significantly worse in 2024. workers.org Capitalism, and class societies generally, have always been defined by poor housing conditions for the working classes. Contrary to popular myth, homelessness is not the result of individual failures or particular party governance, but rather an inbuilt inequity in the distribution of resources that permeates all class societies, which is . . . |

Stephen F. Eisenman (2025-01-10). Kvetching, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. counterpunch.org Gwen avocado (attribution), photographer unknown, n.d. "Is this truth I'm delivering up, or is it just plain kvetching? Or is kvetching for people like me a form of truth?" — Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint,1969 Form and content of the expat's kvetch Harriet knew it would happen eventually but was surprised it was so soon. Barely

Andrew Johnson (2025-01-10). Housing crisis significantly worse in 2024. workers.org Capitalism, and class societies generally, have always been defined by poor housing conditions for the working classes. Contrary to popular myth, homelessness is not the result of individual failures or particular party governance, but rather an inbuilt inequity in the distribution of resources that permeates all class societies, which is . . . |

editor (2025-01-10). Happy Epiphany! Wokeism is not post-modern Marxism, but heretical Christianity. onlineopinion.com.au If you want to fight back against Wokeism, the most successful and potent arguments are more likely to be found in the writings of Paul the Apostle than anyone from the Enlightenment.

Luis Linares Petrov (2025-01-10). China allocates millions of dollars for aid and recovery in Tibet. plenglish.com Beijing, Jan 10 (Prensa Latina) The Communist Party of China (CPC) has allocated 50 million yuan (approximately 7.3 million dollars) to support the relief and recovery efforts that continue in Tibet after the earthquake.

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2025-01-09: News Headlines

WSWS (2025-01-09). The Los Angeles inferno: A historic crime of capitalism. wsws.org The extent of the devastation—much of which has yet to be accounted for—is yet another criminal indictment of the capitalist ruling elite, which is fueling climate change and doing nothing to combat its ever greater impact on the world's population in the name of profits, leaving poor and rich alike to deal with the consequences.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2025-01-09). The Case Against 'Western' Marxism. libya360.wordpress.com Richard Clarke THE DISRUPTORS: Frankfurt School regulars in Heidelberg, April 1964: Horkheimer is front left, Adorno front right, and Habermas is in the background, right, running his hand through his hair. Siegfried Landshut is in the background left. Photo: Jeremy J Shapiro/CC Western Marxism: How It Was Born, How It Died, How It Can Be Reborn…

thecommunists (2025-01-09). On the events in Korea. thecommunists.org Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration of martial law on 3 December 2024 was destined to come into conflict with the opposition Democratic party, which secured control of the 300-seat south Korean legislature in the election that took place last April. Since then, the Democratic party has blocked legislation and held up the national budget. Government-affiliated agencies …

thecommunists (2025-01-09). El papel del gobierno laborista británico y la necesaria respuesta de los trabajadores. thecommunists.org

2025-01-08: News Headlines

Steve Topple (2025-01-07). DWP staff bonuses topped £11 MILLION — just as it plunged countless people into poverty. thecanary.co The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has come under fire once again. This time, it's around it giving civil servants bonuses of up to £14,000. However, the right-wing corporate media framing of the story isn't quite right — because it was disabled people who suffered at the expense of civil servants. It wasn't a […] | By

Steve Topple (2025-01-07). DWP staff bonuses topped £11 MILLION — just as it plunged countless people into poverty. thecanary.co The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has come under fire once again. This time, it's around it giving civil servants bonuses of up to £14,000. However, the right-wing corporate media framing of the story isn't quite right — because it was disabled people who suffered at the expense of civil servants. It wasn't a […] | By

2025-01-07: News Headlines

Steve Topple (2025-01-07). DWP staff bonuses topped £11 MILLION — just as it plunged countless people into poverty. thecanary.co The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has come under fire once again. This time, it's around it giving civil servants bonuses of up to £14,000. However, the right-wing corporate media framing of the story isn't quite right — because it was disabled people who suffered at the expense of civil servants. It wasn't a […] | By

Staff (2025-01-06). Hablemos a lo Maduro. Esto no es una apología. cubadebate.cu En los años que Nicolás Maduro lleva obedeciendo el mandato que su pueblo le ha dado por la vía del voto directo, universal y secreto, por la dialéctica de todos los conflictos o por la interpósita persona de Hugo Chávez, extrañado amigo del alma, ha madurado a su modo una vertiente de lucha que irradia claridad y despeja caminos desde el interior mismo del socialismo bolivariano y del humanismo chavista.

Democracy Now! (2025-01-06). Democracy Now! 2025-01-06 Monday. democracynow.org Headlines for January 06, 2025; American Historical Assoc. Votes Overwhelmingly to Support Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza; Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics | Headlines for January 06, 2025; American Historical Assoc. Votes Overwhelmingly to Support Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza; Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics…

Staff (2025-01-06). Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics. democracynow.org Billionaire Trump associate Elon Musk's latest disinformation campaign is targeting the U.K. government, which Musk appears to believe is not sufficiently anti-immigrant. Musk, who has already shaped the incoming Trump administration's economic policy by proposing cuts to government spending and tech-oriented privatization of services, signifies a "new era" in American politics, says our guest Quinn Slobodian, who is chronicling right-wing tech billionaires' accelerating attempts to mold the world according to their "destructive" and "nihilist" beliefs. In a f…

Democracy Now! (2025-01-06). Democracy Now! 2025-01-06 Monday. democracynow.org Headlines for January 06, 2025; American Historical Assoc. Votes Overwhelmingly to Support Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza; Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics | Headlines for January 06, 2025; American Historical Assoc. Votes Overwhelmingly to Support Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza; Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics…

Owen Schalk, Canadian Dimension. (2025-01-06). Why Be A Doormat? popularresistance.org US President-elect Donald Trump recently referred to Canada as the "51st State" and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as its "governor." While on one level, such ridiculous statements are part and parcel of Trump's political persona, they reveal something deeper about the role that Canada occupies in the American economy and political imagination. This is an issue that the Canadian Marxist historian Stanley B. Ryerson explored in a pamphlet entitled "Why Be a Doormat?" published by the Labor-Progressive Party in 1948. | "Canadians need complete and permanent union with the US… Since Canada has shown that she cannot…

Tom Sandborn, Rabble. (2025-01-06). 2024: Workers Organized, Bosses Grew Nervous. popularresistance.org If in the 19th century Marx and Engels could prematurely proclaim that Communist revolution was a "spectre haunting Europe," in 2024 the business class of North America and its compliant mainstream press were growing increasingly nervous about a different but related spectre, a working class that was showing signs of increased and well organized militance. | Strikes were more common and workers, still remembering the hypocritical Covid-era praise for them as heroes and…

Owen Schalk, Canadian Dimension. (2025-01-06). Why Be A Doormat? popularresistance.org US President-elect Donald Trump recently referred to Canada as the "51st State" and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as its "governor." While on one level, such ridiculous statements are part and parcel of Trump's political persona, they reveal something deeper about the role that Canada occupies in the American economy and political imagination. This is an issue that the Canadian Marxist historian Stanley B. Ryerson explored in a pamphlet entitled "Why Be a Doormat?" published by the Labor-Progressive Party in 1948. | "Canadians need complete and permanent union with the US… Since Canada has shown that she cannot…

Tom Sandborn, Rabble. (2025-01-06). 2024: Workers Organized, Bosses Grew Nervous. popularresistance.org If in the 19th century Marx and Engels could prematurely proclaim that Communist revolution was a "spectre haunting Europe," in 2024 the business class of North America and its compliant mainstream press were growing increasingly nervous about a different but related spectre, a working class that was showing signs of increased and well organized militance. | Strikes were more common and workers, still remembering the hypocritical Covid-era praise for them as heroes and…

Greg Kearney (2025-01-06). The cold, dead hand of McCarthyism. peoplesworld.org Related reading: | >

Greg Kearney (2025-01-06). The cold, dead hand of McCarthyism. peoplesworld.org Related reading: | >

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2025-01-06: News Headlines

Staff (2025-01-06). Hablemos a lo Maduro. Esto no es una apología. cubadebate.cu En los años que Nicolás Maduro lleva obedeciendo el mandato que su pueblo le ha dado por la vía del voto directo, universal y secreto, por la dialéctica de todos los conflictos o por la interpósita persona de Hugo Chávez, extrañado amigo del alma, ha madurado a su modo una vertiente de lucha que irradia claridad y despeja caminos desde el interior mismo del socialismo bolivariano y del humanismo chavista.

Democracy Now! (2025-01-06). Democracy Now! 2025-01-06 Monday. democracynow.org Headlines for January 06, 2025; American Historical Assoc. Votes Overwhelmingly to Support Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza; Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics | Headlines for January 06, 2025; American Historical Assoc. Votes Overwhelmingly to Support Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza; Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics…

Staff (2025-01-06). Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics. democracynow.org Billionaire Trump associate Elon Musk's latest disinformation campaign is targeting the U.K. government, which Musk appears to believe is not sufficiently anti-immigrant. Musk, who has already shaped the incoming Trump administration's economic policy by proposing cuts to government spending and tech-oriented privatization of services, signifies a "new era" in American politics, says our guest Quinn Slobodian, who is chronicling right-wing tech billionaires' accelerating attempts to mold the world according to their "destructive" and "nihilist" beliefs. In a f…

Owen Schalk, Canadian Dimension. (2025-01-06). Why Be A Doormat? popularresistance.org US President-elect Donald Trump recently referred to Canada as the "51st State" and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as its "governor." While on one level, such ridiculous statements are part and parcel of Trump's political persona, they reveal something deeper about the role that Canada occupies in the American economy and political imagination. This is an issue that the Canadian Marxist historian Stanley B. Ryerson explored in a pamphlet entitled "Why Be a Doormat?" published by the Labor-Progressive Party in 1948. | "Canadians need complete and permanent union with the US… Since Canada has shown that she cannot…

Tom Sandborn, Rabble. (2025-01-06). 2024: Workers Organized, Bosses Grew Nervous. popularresistance.org If in the 19th century Marx and Engels could prematurely proclaim that Communist revolution was a "spectre haunting Europe," in 2024 the business class of North America and its compliant mainstream press were growing increasingly nervous about a different but related spectre, a working class that was showing signs of increased and well organized militance. | Strikes were more common and workers, still remembering the hypocritical Covid-era praise for them as heroes and…

Greg Kearney (2025-01-06). The cold, dead hand of McCarthyism. peoplesworld.org Related reading: | >

Caitlin Johnstone (2025-01-05). We Live In A Nightmare. thealtworld.com Awakening from the propaganda matrix is like being a conservative: you're frequently disgusted with society and where it appears to be headed. But unlike a conservative, you're disgusted by actual problems instead of imaginary nonsense. | Also unlike a conservative, your problem is not with relatively new societal developments like recent immigration waves and LGBTQ acceptance; your problem is with abusive dynamics which have been plaguing civilization for centuries. Capitalism. Imperialism. Militarism. Settler-colonialism. Genocide. Plutocracy. Exploitation. Consumerism. | Many rightists warn urgently that our s…

Caitlin Johnstone (2025-01-05). We Live In A Nightmare. thealtworld.com Awakening from the propaganda matrix is like being a conservative: you're frequently disgusted with society and where it appears to be headed. But unlike a conservative, you're disgusted by actual problems instead of imaginary nonsense. | Also unlike a conservative, your problem is not with relatively new societal developments like recent immigration waves and LGBTQ acceptance; your problem is with abusive dynamics which have been plaguing civilization for centuries. Capitalism. Imperialism. Militarism. Settler-colonialism. Genocide. Plutocracy. Exploitation. Consumerism. | Many rightists warn urgently that our s…

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2025-01-04: News Headlines

WSWS (2025-01-03). Socialism against oligarchy, fascism and war. wsws.org Underlying the interlinked crises of the capitalist system is an oligarchy that subordinates all of society to profit and the accumulation of personal wealth. The fight against the oligarchy is by its very nature a revolutionary task.

WSWS (2025-01-03). Socialism against oligarchy, fascism and war. wsws.org Underlying these interlinked crises of the capitalist system is an oligarchy that subordinates all of society to profit and the accumulation of personal wealth. The fight against the oligarchy is by its very nature a revolutionary task.

Staff (2025-01-03). Estados Unidos: Signos de degradación. cubadebate.cu El capitalismo de libre mercado que admira Javier Milei exhibe cotidianamente un doble perfil sangriento. La lógica de la refracción explica el vínculo entre las 700 bases militares estadounidenses esparcidas a lo largo y ancho del Planeta Tierra y su obvia relación con las recurrentes matanzas, tiroteos masivos y asesinatos colectivos.

Eve Ottenberg (2025-01-03). Mass Hysteria Strikes Again: The Great Drone Invasion of 2024. counterpunch.org The latest American mass psychosis involves drones, a rather mundane twist in a long, gaudy, societal psychopathology leading from communists under the bed, to the lunatic Havana Syndrome, to dastardly Chinese spy balloons. So our current fixation is mystery drones, sighted across the U.S. but most alarmingly, for birdbrains I guess, over U.S. military bases.

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2024-12-31: News Headlines

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2024-12-31). J.P. Morgan Heatlhcare Investment Conf & United Healthcare Coming To Town 1/13/24. indybay.org J.P. Morgan Healthcare Investment conference will be held at the St. Francis Hotel on January 13, 2025 and it will have executives from all the insurance companies and capitalists who want to make more money off of healthcare including United Healthcare. There will be a rally at 4: 00 PM at the hotel to demand an end to this healthcare madness under capitalism.

WSWS (2024-12-30). What is the Revolutionary Communist International proclaimed by the former International Marxist Tendency of Alan Woods?—Part 3. wsws.org What Woods, et al, now dare to dismiss as the defence by a "sect" of an "orthodoxy" disproved by events, as they themselves oriented to the counter-revolutionary bureaucracies, represented the essential struggle for the perspective of world socialist revolution and the international party required for its realisation.

WSWS (2024-12-30). Trudeau government scrapes all names from "Victims of Communism" monument in attempt to hide Canada's patronage of Nazi collaborators and war criminals. wsws.org No member of the Liberal government was allowed to show their face at the inauguration ceremony, for fear it would once again draw public attention to the Canadian state's longstanding and ongoing patronage of fascist forces.

Dahlia Scheindlin (2024-12-30). Palestinians are souring on Hamas — and they want an end to the war. haaretz.com There's the bad news — apocalyptic destruction in Gaza, rampant poverty, utter despair about the Palestinian Authority — and there's more bad news: Over half of Palestinians still back the October 7 attack. But recent polls show that's not the whole story…

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2024-12-30: News Headlines

WSWS (2024-12-30). What is the Revolutionary Communist International proclaimed by the former International Marxist Tendency of Alan Woods?—Part 3. wsws.org What Woods, et al, now dare to dismiss as the defence by a "sect" of an "orthodoxy" disproved by events, as they themselves oriented to the counter-revolutionary bureaucracies, represented the essential struggle for the perspective of world socialist revolution and the international party required for its realisation.

WSWS (2024-12-30). Trudeau government scrapes all names from "Victims of Communism" monument in attempt to hide Canada's patronage of Nazi collaborators and war criminals. wsws.org No member of the Liberal government was allowed to show their face at the inauguration ceremony, for fear it would once again draw public attention to the Canadian state's longstanding and ongoing patronage of fascist forces.

Dahlia Scheindlin (2024-12-30). Palestinians are souring on Hamas — and they want an end to the war. haaretz.com There's the bad news — apocalyptic destruction in Gaza, rampant poverty, utter despair about the Palestinian Authority — and there's more bad news: Over half of Palestinians still back the October 7 attack. But recent polls show that's not the whole story…

Vijay Prashad (2024-12-29). Resist, My People, Resist. orinocotribune.com By Vijay Prashad — Dec 27, 2024 | With a year marked by genocide and conflict almost behind us, we welcome the new year with struggle. | May it bring us closer to a socialist world where the dreams of humanity can finally awaken. | Pain shudders through the arteries of global society. Day after day passes by as the genocide against the Palestinian people continues and the conflicts in the Great Lakes region of Africa and Sudan escalate. More and more people slip into absolute poverty as arms companies' profits soar. These realities have hardened society, allowing people to bury their heads and ignore the hor…

Vijay Prashad (2024-12-29). Resist, My People, Resist. orinocotribune.com By Vijay Prashad — Dec 27, 2024 | With a year marked by genocide and conflict almost behind us, we welcome the new year with struggle. | May it bring us closer to a socialist world where the dreams of humanity can finally awaken. | Pain shudders through the arteries of global society. Day after day passes by as the genocide against the Palestinian people continues and the conflicts in the Great Lakes region of Africa and Sudan escalate. More and more people slip into absolute poverty as arms companies' profits soar. These realities have hardened society, allowing people to bury their heads and ignore the hor…

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2024-12-28: News Headlines

Editor (2024-12-28). Western Marxism, anti-communism and imperialism. mronline.org Since the 1990s, Western Marxists have replaced imperialism with global capitalism that is untethered to Western imperialism. Western Marxists have also deemed socialist projects as a betrayal of their utopian views rooted in the Hegelian "purity fetish."

WSWS (2024-12-28). Rising rents leads to increasing poverty in Germany. wsws.org The policies of federal and state governments of all political colours have led to a massive increase in rents in recent years, which are becoming almost impossible to afford for ever larger sections of the population. At the same time, property companies are making fantastic profits.

WSWS (2024-12-27). New Zealand economy in deepening slump. wsws.org Amid the historic decline in the position of New Zealand capitalism, the ruling elite is intensifying its assault on the working class.

John W. Whitehead (2024-12-27). The Child that Christmas Forgot: How Would Jesus Fare in the American Police State? globalresearch.ca The modern-day church has largely shied away from applying Jesus' teachings to modern problems such as war, poverty, immigration, etc., but thankfully there have been individuals throughout history who ask themselves and the world: what would Jesus do?

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