Walden Bello (2024-06-17). How Capitalism Really Works. fpif.org Vulture Capitalism is, at one level, a really good read, for the scandals that it brings together in one volume—like the Boeing 737 MAX debacle, where the pursuit of profits, lack of regulation, and corporate cost-cutting culture resulted in two crashes that killed hundreds of people, or the ways most of the $800 million allocated by Washington for the Paycheck Protection Plan (PPP) to enable workers to get through the COVID 19 pandemic actually ended up with their employers. Among the direct or indirect beneficiaries of the PPP were House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Senate majority leader Mitch McConne…

Peter Koenig (2024-06-17). Video: Geopolitical Issues. "War is a Racket… The Most Profitable". Fear, Poverty and Homelessness, The Depopulation Agenda. Peter Koenig. globalresearch.ca

Editor (2024-06-17). Pioneers for Communism: Strive to be like Che. mronline.org The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once called Ernesto 'Che' Guevara the "most complete human being of our age."

WSWS (2024-06-17). Social banditry: Oligarch Elon Musk takes record $45 billion payout. wsws.org The awarding by Tesla shareholders on Thursday of a massive pay package worth more than $45 billion to CEO Elon Musk is part of accelerating social inequality and the deepening economic, social, military and political crisis of world capitalism.

WSWS (2024-06-17). Campaigning in Detroit, Trump incites violence against immigrants. wsws.org Speaking at a church in Detroit, Trump blamed immigrants for the poverty and unemployment caused by capitalism.

newleftreview (2024-06-17). Oliver Eagleton: Stakeholder Capitalism, Again. newleftreview.org Oliver Eagleton on Will Hutton, This Time No Mistakes. Lessons for the incoming Labour government on humanizing British capitalism, from a proselytizer of Blair's Third Way.

Eric Brooks (2024-06-16). Greeting to the 32nd CPUSA Convention: Palestinian People's Party. cpusa.org Dear comrade Joe Sims, Dear comrades in the leadership of CPUSA, | On behalf of the leadership and all members of Palestinian Peoples Party (PPP) we extend to you and through you to all members of your party our congratulations for the successful end of the 32nd national convention of your party hoping you every success in your struggle for better future of your people and the peoples of the world for social justice, peace and socialism. | With this opportunity we would like also to thank you for your firm position of solidarity with the just struggle of our people for ending the ongoing genocide and ending th…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2024-06-16). War, Terrorism and the Global Economic Crisis. Ninety-nine Interrelated Concepts. globalresearch.ca Everything is interrelated: war, terrorism, the police state, the global economy, financial fraud, corrupt governments, poverty and social inequality, media disinformation, war propaganda, WMD, international law,…

Harry Glasbeek (2024-06-16). Law At Work: Class, Property, Capitalism. socialistproject.ca This essay is an excerpt from Harry Glasbeek's new book For thousands of years, workers have produced goods and services for themselves and others, sometimes being paid, sometimes not. But, for the most part, workers had few legally recognized political or social rights. Workers were not free, at least not in the way in which we describe freedom in our time. It was not until the late 1800s that the goods and services provided for others by workers in the Angl…

Mehret Ayalew Mandefro (2024-06-16). A New Documentary Highlights China's Expansion Into Ethiopia. fairobserver.com This Sunday, Made in Ethiopia premiers at the DC/DOX documentary festival in Washington, DC. This film rejects simplistic narratives and explores Ethiopia's burgeoning industrial sector and partnership with China through three individuals' perspectives. Ethiopia is the most populous nation in East Africa. In the 20th century, it faced economic troubles and civil war between communist…

newleftreview (2024-06-16). Oliver Eagleton: Stakeholder Capitalism, Again. newleftreview.org Oliver Eagleton on Will Hutton, This Time No Mistakes. Lessons for the incoming Labour government on humanizing British capitalism, from a proselytizer of Blair's Third Way.

latintimes (2024-06-12). Almost half of all Latina tipped workers live near or under the poverty line. latintimes.com

David Sirota (2024-06-12). SIROTA'S SIGNALS: America's Biggest Ponzi Scheme. levernews.com Where can you find America's biggest and most rapacious Ponzi scheme of all? What stage of capitalism is it when you need a new regulation to ban banks from repossessing prosthetic limbs? How could governments get a two-to-one return on their investments? When will the country take the simplest step possible to improve the electricity grid? The answers to these questions and more can be found below in today's edition of Sirota's Signals, a weekly dose of must-read stories, missed nuggets, and worthwhile distractions from Lever founder David Sirota, exclusively for paid subscribers. | This full story is for p…

Liberation Staff (2024-06-12). (VIDEO) Workers, mothers, socialists: How Claudia and Karina became fighters for a new system — PSL roundtable. liberationnews.org In this roundtable discussion, Claudia and Karina are joined by Caro Yao, a campaign volunteer and organizer with the PSL, to discuss motherhood under capitalism, the fight against patriarchy and their respective journeys in becoming not only organizers themselves but socialists fighting for revolution in our lifetime.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2024-06-12). Cuba is a victim of US economic terrorism, CYF of Sri Lanka said. plenglish.com Colombo, Jun 12 (Prensa Latina) The Communist Youth Federation (CYF) of Sri Lanka denounced on Wednesday that Cuba does not support terrorism; it is a victim of the economic and other kinds of terrorism generated by and from the United States.

thecommunists (2024-06-12). President Raisi has died, but the Axis of Resistance lives on! thecommunists.org On 19 May 2024, President Sayyid Ebrahim Raisi of the Islamic Republic of Iran lost his life in a helicopter crash along with several companions, including Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. We in the CPGB-ML send our deep condolences to the heroic Iranian people on the occasion of this great tragedy, which is all the greater …

GABIK (2024-06-12). Eastern Cape honours women in agriculture. sanews.gov.za Eastern Cape honours women in agriculture | The Eastern Cape Department of Rural Development and Agrarian Reform will this week award top performing women in the agricultural sector, as part of the department's programme to recognise the contribution of women in agriculture. | The department said the objective of the awards is to empower and honour women in agriculture and agro processing. | "The awards are an instrument through which the contribution of women in the fight against poverty, hunger and joblessness is recognised. This will increase participation and visibility of women in the sector," the departmen…

znetwork (2024-06-12). What's Going On?! znetwork.org Capitalism, sexism, racism, and authoritarianism. Four plagues. Each corrupts. Each perverts, robs, and kills.

Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. (2024-06-04). Twenty Years Of Building An Economic Alternative To Capitalism In The US. popularresistance.org The US Federation of Worker Cooperatives recently turned twenty years old. Clearing the FOG speaks with Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, a professor and author of "Collective Courage: A History of African-American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice," and a charter member of the USFWC, about the work to create a national cooperative organization and the rise of the cooperative economy in the United States. She spoke about the role that cooperatives have played in advancing social and economic justice, the benefits of cooperatives not only to the individual but also more broadly to their communities, and the his…

midwesternmarx (2024-06-04). The movement for Palestinian Solidarity in Chilean Universities: defying the liberal academia. By: Camilo Godoy & Catalina Calderón. midwesternmarx.com ​After 76 years of occupation, students from across the Globe have shown their support towards the Palestinian cause during recent months. The agreements, cooperation and public relations with Universities and academic institutions from Israel has been a common factor in the causes towards it, considering the context of imperialism and aggression with direct complicity from the US' government and the UK after the AlAqsa Flood Operation by Hamas and then continued by other part …

midwesternmarx (2024-06-04). "Modern (Mis)interpretations of Clean Slates'. By: Michael Hudson. midwesternmarx.com ​Why were Clean Slates so important to Bronze Age societies? From the third millennium in Mesopotamia, people were aware that debt pressures, if left to accumulate unchecked, would distort normal fiscal and landholding patterns to the detriment of the community. They perceived that debts grow autonomously under their own dynamic by the exponential curves of compound interest rather than adjusting themselves to reflect the ability of debtors to pay. This idea never has been accepted …

midwesternmarx (2024-06-04). Western arms supplies to Ukraine prevent peaceful solutions By: Margaret Kimberley. midwesternmarx.com Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you all for this opportunity to address the Security Council and to provide a briefing on the issue of peace as it relates to Ukraine and its connections with people in this country and all over the world.​As a journalist, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, and a member of the Black Alliance for Peace and of the United National Antiwar Coalition, and as a citizen of the United States, the nation which has taken a lead role in continuing this cri …

midwesternmarx (2024-06-04). Communists must heed Marx & Engels' warnings about relying on the lumpen, or be backstabbed in the class war By: Rainer Shea. midwesternmarx.com The need for Marxists to avoid romanticizing the lumpenproletariat—the social element that operates on the economy's margins—is more urgent than ever. Because our class conflict is escalating amid the recent disruptions to U.S. hegemony, and the related economic breakdowns. Which means the ruling class is increasingly seeking to weaponize the lumpen against the working class cause, heightening the dangers of investing in the lumpen.​In The Peasant War in Germany, E …

midwesternmarx (2024-06-04). Forgotten Scandal: Canadian Peace Congress Leader Threatened for Leaking Canada's Cooperation with U.S. Germ Warfare By: Jeffrey S. Kaye. midwesternmarx.com This article has been slightly modified from its original appearance (under a different title) in The Canada Files, March 14, 2023. New documentation on Canada's Cold War experiments breeding insects and rodents for use in biological warfare has been added to this article. It was late April 1952 and the Korean War was nearing its second anniversary with no end in sight. In Canada, newspapers and the Canadian government erupted in fury when it was reported that t …

midwesternmarx (2024-06-04). Raisi led the charge for Russia—Iran—China's 'new world order' By: Pepe Escobar. midwesternmarx.com Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi's eastward vision was instrumental in advancing the strategic Moscow—Tehran—Beijing nexus and bulldozing a path toward institutionalizing multipolarity. Amidst all the sadness and grief over the loss of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, let's take a moment to showcase the critical path he helped forge toward a new global order. ​In the nearly three years since Raisi ascended to the Iranian presidency, Eurasian integration …

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2024-06-04). Cuban youths pay tribute to patriots Maceo and Che. plenglish.com Havana, Jun 4 (Prensa Latina) A varied program of activities is reportedly being carried out by the Cuban Young Communist League (UJC, in Spanish) to commemorate the 179th and 96th birthdays of Antonio Maceo and Ernesto Che Guevara, respectively.

WSWS (2024-06-04). Australian Labor government ramps up anti-immigrant measures. wsws.org "Foreigners" are being blamed for the deteriorating social conditions being produced by capitalism's economic and cost-of-living crisis and the channelling of billions of dollars into military spending.

Staff (2024-06-03). The Milei Effect: The 'Lion' Against Argentina's Soup Kitchens. orinocotribune.com Since Javier Milei's administration as president of Argentina began in December 2023, he made the decision to no longer send food to soup kitchens. The women who are in charge of cooking for the people who benefit from these places say that they don't get anything: no rice, no pasta, no grains. | This uncovered a large-scale scandal when it became known that the government of El León (Milei) has held more than 5 thousand tons of food in warehouses, while the country is experiencing the worst food, employment and social crisis in history. Poverty grows and as the soup kitchens stopped receiving help from the gover…

newleftreview (2024-06-03). Oliver Eagleton: Stakeholder Capitalism, Again. newleftreview.org Oliver Eagleton on Will Hutton, This Time No Mistakes. Lessons for the incoming Labour government on humanizing British capitalism, from a proselytizer of Blair's Third Way.

Combined Sources (2024-06-03). South Africa elections: ANC loses 30-year majority; Communists warn of right-wing threat. peoplesworld.org South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) party will not consider any demands from possible coalition partners that President Cyril Ramaphosa step down, a top official said on Sunday. This came after the ANC lost its 30-year-old majority after a stinging result in Wednesday's election. South Africa has now been plunged into a series of negotiations …

newleftreview (2024-05-23). Oliver Eagleton: Stakeholder Capitalism, Again. newleftreview.org Oliver Eagleton on Will Hutton, This Time No Mistakes. Lessons for the incoming Labour government on humanizing British capitalism, from a proselytizer of Blair's Third Way.

ecns.cn (2024-05-23). Xi inspects Rizhao in east China's Shandong Province. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, inspected the city of Rizhao in east China's Shandong Province on Wednesday afternoon.

Editor (2024-05-23). Ianir Milevski (ed) "Marxist Archeology Today: Historical Materialist Perspectives in Archeology from America, Europe and the Near East in the 21st Century" mronline.org Archeology has always been a political science. Since its inception the field has attempted to trace our lineage as a species along the lines of identity, territory and culture. Though often portrayed as a discipline slightly closer to the hard sciences than historiography, it is much closer to its distant cousin in the social sciences than towards anything resembling an empirical practice.

newarab (2024-05-23). Why I called out Suella Braverman's gaslighting live on TV. newarab.com Last week former UK government minister Suella Braverman tried to jumpstart her stalling career. She attempted to pick a fight with pro-Palestine So, to up the stakes, she decided to debate me, a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), live on

WSWS (2024-05-22). University of Michigan police violently clear anti-genocide encampment. wsws.org Four students were arrested and several more injured after riot police assaulted the peaceful encampment early Tuesday morning. The police attack came less than two weeks after the lecturers' union forced through a poverty contract that doubled as a political betrayal of the students and workers, who have protested for months against the Gaza genocide.

Adam Fishbein (2024-05-22). Many Asian American Renters Are Struggling to Pay for Housing. cepr.net Asian American households have the highest median income of the major racial and ethnic groups. Although Asian Americans have a higher median income than the non-Hispanic white population, they also have a higher poverty rate than the white population on the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM). (The SPM is a more comprehensive poverty measure that also …

Editor (2024-05-22). Ian Angus's "The War Against the Commons": A vital new history of the bloody rise of capitalism. mronline.org Primitive accumulation is the historical process through which capitalists stole their wealth or took it by force. Canadian ecosocialist Ian Angus has contributed an excellent new book on this history, covering the violent transition from feudalism to capitalism in depth while demonstrating its continuing relevance to the modern world..

newleftreview (2024-05-22). Oliver Eagleton: Stakeholder Capitalism, Again. newleftreview.org Oliver Eagleton on Will Hutton, This Time No Mistakes. Lessons for the incoming Labour government on humanizing British capitalism, from a proselytizer of Blair's Third Way.

newarab (2024-05-22). Why I called out Suella Braverman's gaslighting live on TV. newarab.com Last week former UK government minister Suella Braverman tried to jumpstart her stalling career. She attempted to pick a fight with pro-Palestine So, to up the stakes, she decided to debate me, a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), live on

Isaac Nellist (2024-05-21). Labor's budget: 'An unearned veneer of humanity'. greenleft.org.au Treasurer Jim Chalmers said Labor's third budget will 'ease cost-of-living pressures', but it does not include any raise to JobSeeker or other payments. Isaac Nellist reports.

newleftreview (2024-05-21). Oliver Eagleton: Stakeholder Capitalism, Again. newleftreview.org Oliver Eagleton on Will Hutton, This Time No Mistakes. Lessons for the incoming Labour government on humanizing British capitalism, from a proselytizer of Blair's Third Way.

Joel Wendland-Liu (2024-05-17). 'Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation'. peoplesworld.org When wealthy, Harvard-trained ultra-right Senator Tom Cotton described racial slavery as a "necessary evil" in 2020, he made two crucial admissions. First, the enslavement and consequent genocide of millions of Africans by Europeans and Euro-Americans between 1492 and the 1880s was a necessary feature for the development of capitalism (and consequent European and U.S. imperialism …

WSWS (2024-05-17). UK Labour Party rail policy: A pro-capitalist rescue plan. wsws.org Labour's rail plan is not a programme of "renationalisation" but an effort to save a collapsed privatisation strategy and to safeguard the interests of British capitalism.

Eric Brooks (2024-05-17). Envisioning socialism with American characteristics. cpusa.org This piece is a contribution to the Pre-Convention Discussion for our 32nd National Convention. During Pre-Convention Discussion, all aspects of the party's program, strategy, and tactics are up for consideration and debate. The ideas presented here are those of the author or authors alone, and do not necessarily reflect the positions of the Communist Party USA, its membership, or their elected leadership bodies. — Editors | In envisioning the future of socialism in America, it is crucial to understand it not as a utopian reconstruction of our economy from scratch, but as a pragmatic evolution of existin…

Eric Brooks (2024-05-17). Develop "healthcare struggles" cpusa.org This piece is a contribution to the Pre-Convention Discussion for our 32nd National Convention. During Pre-Convention Discussion, all aspects of the party's program, strategy, and tactics are up for consideration and debate. The ideas presented here are those of the author or authors alone, and do not necessarily reflect the positions of the Communist Party USA, its membership, or their elected leadership bodies. — Editors | Let's update and expand our party's analysis of "Healthcare Struggles." The party program should emphasize the role of special oppression in this discussion. Racist medical experimen…

newleftreview (2024-05-17). Oliver Eagleton: Stakeholder Capitalism, Again. newleftreview.org Oliver Eagleton on Will Hutton, This Time No Mistakes. Lessons for the incoming Labour government on humanizing British capitalism, from a proselytizer of Blair's Third Way.

Eric Brooks (2024-05-17). Anti-work is anti-socialist. cpusa.org This piece is a contribution to the Pre-Convention Discussion for our 32nd National Convention. During Pre-Convention Discussion, all aspects of the party's program, strategy, and tactics are up for consideration and debate. The ideas presented here are those of the author or authors alone, and do not necessarily reflect the positions of the Communist Party USA, its membership, or their elected leadership bodies. — Editors | There is a peculiar trend in the western left. It goes by many names, by many different modes of expression, but it remains the same essential thought: Anti-work. Whatever one wishes…

Peter Hudis, Kevin B. Anderson, Heather Brown, Lyndon Porter, Fernando Baleia (2024-05-16). From the genocide in Palestine and Ukraine to the fascist threat: Working toward a revolutionary, Marxist-Humanist response. links.org.au Today's global capitalism is sinking into unimaginable levels of barbarism. Nowhere is this barbarism more glaring than in Israel's genocide in Gaza…

newleftreview (2024-05-16). Oliver Eagleton: Stakeholder Capitalism, Again. newleftreview.org Oliver Eagleton on Will Hutton, This Time No Mistakes. Lessons for the incoming Labour government on humanizing British capitalism, from a proselytizer of Blair's Third Way.

Basit Mahmood (2024-05-16). Paul Mason applies to be Labour's candidate in Islington North in bid to replace Jeremy Corbyn. leftfootforward.org Paul Mason has put his name forward, saying he was passionate about tackling the scale of poverty in the borough.

newarab (2024-05-16). Nakba yesterday, Nakba today: My grandmother's two keys. newarab.com "History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce." | Karl Marx coined the phrase to denote the cyclical nature of history. When tragedies reoccur in the same context they become a farcical spectacle, pointing not only to the cynical human nature but also the poor imitation of past events. | My 94-year-old Palestinian grandmother, Ghefreh, does not know Karl Marx, and I doubt she cares about philosophy. But she understands that tragedies do recur and that history can "often rhyme" — to quote Mark Twain. | "The tent turned into a house in a refugee camp. The refugee camp turned into a communi…