WSWS (2023-09-18). UK students: Stop the war in Ukraine! Build a movement in the working class! Fight for socialism! wsws.org The future for young people is dominated by a series of crises, including: the escalation of the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine, another surge of COVID-19 infections, the deadly consequences of climate change, and the rise of the far-right across Europe and attacks on democratic rights.

Ian Angus (2023-09-19). Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2023. greenleft.org.au Water, farming, nuclear tests, copper mining, new biology, and sugar. Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents six books to help understand and change the world.

Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. (2023-09-19). 'Climate Bill' Enriches The Fossil Fuel Industry As Communities Suffer. popularresistance.org One year after the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which Big Green groups hailed as a 'climate justice bill,' the truth is surfacing that this legislation is lining the pockets of the fossil fuel industry to the detriment of frontline, especially Black and Indigenous, communities. Clearing the FOG speaks to Anthony Rogers-Wright, a national racial and climate justice advocate, about the ways Joe Biden and the Democrats are failing to address the climate crisis and Big Green groups are turning away from climate justice to embrace Green Capitalism. Rogers-Wright also describes better alternatives to the Big…

Federico Fuentes, Michael Prà∂bsting (2023-09-18). Why imperialism remains relevant to understanding 21st century capitalism. greenleft.org.au In the first part of our interview, Austrian Marxist Michael Prà∂bsting, author of The Great Robbery of the South and Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Great Power Rivalry, discusses his views on imperialism in the 21st century with Green Left's Federico Fuentes.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-18). Libya, Devastated by U.S./NATO Bombing, Unprepared for Extreme Storm Floods. libya360.wordpress.com Scott Scheffer Blame for the horrible flooding that has killed nearly 20,000 people in the city of Derna, with many thousands still unaccounted for in northeastern Libya, belongs squarely on the doorstep of Western capitalism and the U.S. imperialist military menace. The 2011 U.S.-led NATO war on Libya left the country in a weakened, vulnerable state. This…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-09-18). Fascism Is Capitalism in Decay. orinocotribune.com By Ekaterina Cabylis — Sep 16, 2023 | The Relationship Between Economic Decline and Authoritarianism | "Fascism is capitalism in decay," we have all heard this referenced to Lenin. While it's important to note that this specific quote may not be verbatim from his writings or speeches, it does capture the essence of Lenin's views on capitalism and its potential consequences. Lenin believed that as capitalism reached a certain stage of development, it would exhibit characteristics that resembled fascism. This idea suggests that fascism emerges due to the inherent contradictions and crises within capitalism as…

_____ (2023-09-18). What Every Child Should Know about Marx's Theory of Value. transcend.org September 2023 – The law of value works in mysterious ways. For some Marxists, it underlies everything we need to know about capitalism. But, just as Karl Marx claimed he was not a Marxist, so too might he have said, "that's not my law of value."

teleSUR, lvm, YSM (2023-09-18). Honduras en la ONU: el conocimiento tiene que ser para todos. telesurtv.net "El capitalismo profundiza la depauperación de todas las personas en el planeta y a los pobres los hace más pobres", dijo el ministro de Planificación de Honduras, Ricardo Salgado.

WSWS (2023-09-18). The lie of a "just transition" under capitalism: EVs, critical minerals and the exploitation of the working class. wsws.org The energy transition, as it currently stands, has little to do with stopping global warming and protecting the environment. It has much more to do with control over the world's resources, supply chains and advanced trade exports.

_____ (2023-09-18). What Every Child Should Know about Marx's Theory of Value. transcend.org September 2023 – The law of value works in mysterious ways. For some Marxists, it underlies everything we need to know about capitalism. But, just as Karl Marx claimed he was not a Marxist, so too might he have said, "that's not my law of value."

teleSUR, lvm, YSM (2023-09-18). Honduras en la ONU: el conocimiento tiene que ser para todos. telesurtv.net "El capitalismo profundiza la depauperación de todas las personas en el planeta y a los pobres los hace más pobres", dijo el ministro de Planificación de Honduras, Ricardo Salgado.

WSWS (2023-09-18). The lie of a "just transition" under capitalism: EVs, critical minerals and the exploitation of the working class. wsws.org The energy transition, as it currently stands, has little to do with stopping global warming and protecting the environment. It has much more to do with control over the world's resources, supply chains and advanced trade exports.

Binoy Kampmark (2023-09-18). Brief for Murder: Pinochet's Apologists Five Decades On. dissidentvoice.org During the Cold War, assassinations most foul were entertained as necessary measures to advance the set cause. In Latin America, military regimes were keenly sponsored as reliably brutal antidotes to the Marxist tic, or at the very least the tic in waiting. Any government deemed by Washington to be remotely progressive would become ripe targets …

Federico Fuentes, Michael Prà∂bsting (2023-09-18). Multipolarity or anti-imperialist internationalism? greenleft.org.au In the second part of our interview, Austrian Marxist Michael Prà∂bsting, author of The Great Robbery of the South and Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Great Power Rivalry, discusses his views on anti-imperialism in the 21st century with Green Left's Federico Fuentes.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-18). Communists call for abolishing monarchy in Sweden. peoplesdispatch.org September 15 marked the 50th anniversary of the ascendance of King Carl XVI Gustaf to the throne in Sweden. Communists termed the monarchy as an outdated, redundant institution which must be abolished…

Staff (2023-09-18). Argentina's Extreme-Right Politician Javier Milei to Tucker Carlson: The Pope Endorses Theft and Has Affinity to Murderous Communists. orinocotribune.com Argentina's extreme-right presidential candidate for La Libertad Avanza party, Javier Milei, took a hard line against Pope Francis and said that "he is on the side of bloody dictatorships." | In an

Tony Martel (2023-09-18). Ecosocialist Electricity? Just Transition or Neo-Luddite Revolution. counterpunch.org "Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country… What we must now try is to convert every electric power station we build into a stronghold of enlightenment to be used to make the masses electricity-conscious, so to speak" — V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 31 "The sun never sets on the

thecommunists (2023-09-18). Belt and Road envy dominates G20 summit. thecommunists.org With Russia not invited to the party and Xi Jinping declining the invitation, the once-mighty G20 circus that pitched up in Delhi from 9 to 13 September, whilst still pulling in the massed ranks of the world's imperialist media and providing a platform for an endless parade of heads of state to strut their stuff, …

Bharat Dogra (2023-09-18). Poverty in India: Providing Schools for the Most Marginalized Children in Remote Villages in Uttar Pradesh. globalresearch.ca

Rick Kohn, Resumen English. (2023-09-18). New US Sanctions Bill Designed To Bring Misery To Nicaraguans. popularresistance.org As we all know, the U.S. already has imposed sanctions on Nicaragua, but they haven't yet brought about the kind of hunger and poverty and suffering that some U.S. policymakers think is necessary to overthrow the popular Nicaraguan government. So there is a new sanctions bill co-sponsored by Marco Rubio and Tim Kaine that will try to further depress the Nicaraguan economy, increase unemployment, decrease revenue for the government's popular programs so the government will be less popular. | The stated goal is the overthrow of the Nicaraguan government and a "free and fair election" to replace Daniel Ortega.

Algernon Austin (2023-09-19). Conservative Politicians Choose Higher Child Poverty Rates. counterpunch.org The U.S. Census Bureau released its annual report on poverty today. It confirms that policymakers have all the tools necessary to reduce poverty rates, but they choose to have a high U.S. poverty rate. Although the United States is one of the richest countries in the world, the U.S. has a much higher child poverty

Matt Bruenig (2023-09-18). Who Are the Poor in 2021 and 2022? peoplespolicyproject.org The Census The headline from the report is that the expiration of the one-year pandemic-era Child Tax Credit and the lack of one-off stimulus payments resulted in child poverty being much higher in 2022 than 2021. This headline is certainly true, though some of the specific numbers involved may n…

Jon Jeter, Black Agenda Report. (2023-09-17). The Pyramid Scheme That Is Racial Capitalism. popularresistance.org On August 26, a lone white gunman, 21-year-old Ryan Christopher Palmeter, fired 11 rounds from his semi-automatic weapon into the windshield of a car parked outside a Jacksonville Dollar General, killing the African American driver. Then he walked into the discount store, and fatally shot two other African Americans before turning the gun on himself. | Palmeter left behind a manifesto indicating his displeasure with African Americans, reminiscent of another 21-year-old white gunman, Dylan Roof, who eight years earlier sat outside the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina. Finishing off a bottle of Smir…

Editor (2023-09-16). Capitalism must be stopped, not reformed. mronline.org The time needed for understanding is delaying the radical decisions that are needed immediately. This premise is fundamental. If we wait for people to understand fully, we do not save ourselves. We do not save the planet.

Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. (2023-09-16). The Polycrisis Is The Singular Dilemma Of Humanity Called Capitalism. popularresistance.org Dilemmas of humanity abound. There is little need to look at statistical data to know that we are in a spiral of crises, from the environmental and climate crisis to the crises of poverty and hunger. In 1993, the philosophers Edgar Morin and Anne-Brigitte Kern used the term 'polycrisis' in their book Terre-Patrie ('Homeland Earth'). Morin and Kern argued that 'there is no single vital problem, but many vital problems, and it is this complex intersolidarity of problems, antagonisms, crises, uncontrolled processes, and the general crisis of the planet that continues the number one vital problem'.

Candice Norwood, Scheer Post. (2023-09-17). Teenagers' Detention At Angola Exposes Fractured Juvenile System. popularresistance.org This week the state of Louisiana was expected to transfer a group of mostly Black boys out of the former death row unit of Louisiana State Penitentiary — a maximum-security adult prison also known as Angola. But a federal appeals court on Wednesday temporarily paused a judge's order requiring the state to move the children out of Angola by Friday. | The American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center and several law firms, pushed for a year to stop the state from detaining children at the prison, which is located on a former slave plantation. The legal advocates praised a federal judge's man…

Matthew Cunningham-Cook, Lucy Dean Stockton, The Lever. (2023-09-17). Automakers Hand Billions To Shareholders While Stiffing Workers. popularresistance.org Roughly 150,000 auto workers are preparing to launch what may be the biggest strike in decades this Thursday over their employers' refusal to provide adequate pay and job security. Meanwhile, in the past twelve months, the Big Three automakers — General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis — have authorized $5 billion in stock buybacks, effectively giving billions of dollars to shareholders that could have gone to auto workers. | On top of the stock buybacks, the Big Three have reported $21 billion in profits in just the first six months of 2023. Despite the enormous gains, the companies have cried poverty in…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-16). G-77 Has a Common Position to Create a New International Order. libya360.wordpress.com Addis Ababa, September 16, 2023 (The Ethiopian Herald)- "The group of 77 needs a collective reflection on how to face the new global realities to have access to development, eradicate poverty, defend cultures and take its rightful place in the global decision-making that affects everyone. Since its establishment, this group has played an important role as…

Fidel Vascós González (2023-09-15). Hacia una democracia directa en Cuba socialista. globalizacion.ca Presentación en el Panel titulado "La estructura del sistema del Estado cubano para un socialismo próspero y sostenible", organizado por el Consejo Científico de la Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País el 8 de septiembre de 2023. | El objetivo principal…

People's Dispatch. (2023-09-15). Why Democracy Is Not Possible Under Capitalism. popularresistance.org In Atlanta, residents are using the existing democratic systems under capitalism to fight the construction of a multi-million dollar training ground for militarized police repression, and finding those systems lacking. Meanwhile, in socialist Cuba, the people and the government collaborated on formulating the world's most progressive family code. | Is it possible to have democracy under a capitalist system? Under a different economic system, such as socialism, what would democracy look like? Mariah Parker, Stop Cop City activist, labor organizer with the Union of Southern Service Workers, and rapper, spoke to ove…

teleSUR, JGN (2023-09-15). Presidente de Nicaragua conmemora aniversario de independencia. telesurtv.net El mandatario de la nación centroamericana ratificó su compromiso con el pueblo y la juventud nicaragüense en ideas de justicia, igualdad y socialismo.

WSWS (2023-09-15). Oppose all capitalist parties in the New Zealand election! Fight against war and for world socialism! Build the Socialist Equality Group! wsws.org This statement of the Socialist Equality Group explains the socialist perspective needed to unite the working class against the agenda of war and austerity shared by Labour, National and all the parliamentary parties.

Editor (2023-09-15). The pyramid scheme that is racial capitalism. mronline.org On August 26, a lone white gunman, 21-year-old Ryan Christopher Palmeter, fired 11 rounds from his semi-automatic weapon into the windshield of a car parked outside a Jacksonville Dollar General, killing the African American driver. Then he walked into the discount store, and fatally shot two other African Americans before turning the gun on himself.

Vijay Prashad (2023-09-15). Beneath the polycrisis is the singular dilemma of humanity called capitalism: The Thirty-Seventh Newsletter (2023). mronline.org Dilemmas of humanity abound. There is little need to look at statistical data to know that we are in a spiral of crises, from the environmental and climate crisis to the crises of poverty and hunger.

Alex Salmon (2023-09-14). Bernie Sanders: Don't just get angry, get organised. greenleft.org.au Alex Salmon reviews Bernie Sanders' new book, It's Ok to be Angry about Capitalism.

Vijay Prashad (2023-09-14). Beneath the Polycrisis Is the Singular Dilemma of Humanity Called Capitalism. dissidentvoice.org Tsherin Sherpa (Nepal), Lost Spirits, 2014. Dilemmas of humanity abound. There is little need to look at statistical data to know that we are in a spiral of crises, from the environmental and climate crisis to the crises of poverty and hunger. In 1993, the philosophers Edgar Morin and Anne-Brigitte Kern used the term 'polycrisis' …

WSWS (2023-09-14). Australian property developer Tim Gurner reveals the real face of capitalism. wsws.org Gurner said the unemployment rate must rise by 50 percent to hit the working class and change its "attitudes" and "arrogance" by bringing "pain" to the economy.

WSWS (2023-09-14). South Korean government targets democratic rights. wsws.org In language reminiscent of the country's past dictatorships, President Yoon has denounced anti-government opposition as the result of "communist totalitarianism" influence and "anti-state forces."

WSWS (2023-09-15). Child poverty in the US doubled in 2022 with ending of expanded benefits. wsws.org The doubling of poverty is the direct result of a deal cut between President Joe Biden and congressional Republicans last year on a federal budget which protected massive military spending while slashing the limited social program expansions implemented at the outset of the pandemic.

Ashley Curtin (2023-09-14). Poverty in America on the rise in 2022 based on Census Bureau data. nationofchange.org While Supplemental Poverty Measures (SPM) showed sharp increases, childhood poverty more than doubled in 2022.

Dana Sanchez (2023-09-14). Is Bidenomics Working? Black Child Poverty Skyrockets To Almost 18%. moguldom.com The child supplemental poverty rate among Black children spiked from less than 10 percent to almost 18 percent in 2022 after inflation sent the cost of living into the stratosphere and federal pandemic stimulus programs expired for families. Heightened poverty rates followed two years of historic declines in poverty, driven mainly by safety net programs created or …

isabella (2023-09-14). Poverty Just Jumped — And It Was No Accident. inequality.org

Lucrecia Franco (2023-09-14). Refugee-led language school helps migrants. america.cgtn.com "Rebuilding trust and reigniting global solidarity," will be on top of the agenda at this year's United Nations General Assembly. | One key global issue is the refugee crisis which has seen millions of people flee war-torn and poverty-stricken countries. | In Brazil, there are over 65,000 registered refugees, a number that grows steadily every year, but one initiative is providing refugees and vulnerable migrants an opportunity to start a new life by using their native languages.

manager (2023-09-14). New Analysis Shows Restoring the Expanded Child Tax Credit is Vital in an Age of Frequent Work Instability. cepr.net Earlier this week, the Census Bureau reported its annual income, poverty, and health insurance data for 2022. Due to the tight labor market and the partial continued pandemic benefits, the 2022 supplemental poverty rate (at 12.4 percent) changed very little relative to pre-pandemic levels (at 12.3 percent from 2018 to 2019). However, we are seeing …

Max Jones, Scheer Post. (2023-09-14). Poverty Rose In 2022 As Inflation Surged, Pandemic Aid Terminated. popularresistance.org In the aftermath of pandemic relief programs such as increased unemployment and nutrition benefits, greater rental assistance and the child tax credit — policies which the Biden administration allowed to expire in 2021 — Americans faced the largest one-year increase of poverty on record. | According to a report from the Census Bureau published on Sept. 12, the sharpest increase in poverty affected children, as child poverty more than doubled from a record low of 5.2 percent to now 12.4 percent. This was indicated by the Supplemental Poverty Measure, which "factors in the impact of government assistanc…

Sharon Zhang (2023-09-14). Child Poverty More Than Doubled in 2022 After Congress Let Tax Credit Expire. truthout.org New data shows that child poverty skyrocketed in 2022 after lawmakers allowed pandemic stimulus provisions to expire, leaving millions to languish even as the pandemic and its economic consequences raged on. According to the Census Bureau's latest report on poverty in the U.S., the supplemental poverty rate among children more than doubled between 2021 and 2022, jumping from 5.2 percent to 12.4… |

Staff (2023-09-14). Conservative Politicians Choose Higher Child Poverty Rates. cepr.net The U.S. Census Bureau released its annual report on poverty today. It confirms that policymakers have all the tools necessary to reduce poverty rates, but they choose to have a high U.S. poverty rate. Although the United States is The United States moved in the right direction on poverty in response…

WSWS (2023-09-12). "Socialism 2023" conference: Imperialist warmongering and Democratic Party politics. wsws.org The "Socialism 2023" conference was dominated by the self-absorption and reactionary politics of the upper middle class milieu populating the DSA, the fraudulent "reformists" of the trade union bureaucracy and pro-imperialist state operatives.

Walden Bello (2023-09-11). Remembering Salvador Allende and the Chilean Counterrevolution. fpif.org When I heard that Salvador Allende won the Chilean presidential elections in September 1970 and sought to bring his country to socialism by peaceful means, I decided to do my doctoral dissertation on Chile. In May 1972, I went to take a crash course in Spanish in Cuernavaca in the Mexican state of Morelos, the birthplace of the legendary peasant leader Emiliano Zapata whose life had been made into a movie starring Marlon Brando that I had seen and liked as a teenager. After three weeks, I felt that the course had substantially improved the rudimentary Spanish I had from high school in the Philippines. So, I flew…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-09-12). Prettification of Capitalism Is Backfiring. orinocotribune.com By Prabhat Patnaik — Sep 8, 2023 | Metropolitan economies that arm-twisted the Third World to accept that 'global trade is beneficial for all', are now taking the lead in protecting themselves against imports by violating their own neoliberal rules. | Liberal bourgeois writers tend to explain the problems that arise under capitalism not by the immanent tendencies of the system but by the capriciousness of particular governments. This way they can continue to believe in their own false theories that prettify capitalism, while putting the blame for the travails it generates on political bloody-mindedness. One…

Staff (2023-09-12). "Capitalism Is an Insecurity Machine": Astra Taylor on Student Debt & Our Radically Unequal World. democracynow.org As the COVID-19 era pause on federal student debt payments comes to an end and some 40 million Americans will resume payments next month, we speak with Debt Collective organizer Astra Taylor about Biden's new Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan and her organization's new tool that helps people apply to the Department of Education to cancel the borrower's debt. Taylor also discusses her new book, The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, in which she writes, "How we understand and respond to insecurity is one of the most urgent questions of our moment, for nothi…

Corinne Loperfido, In These Times. (2023-09-11). No Parties On A Dead Planet: It's Time We Reimagine Burning Man. popularresistance.org For the past 37 years, people have flocked to Burning Man to celebrate art, radical self expression and community. The first iteration of Burning Man began in 1986 when a small group of friends met on a San Francisco beach with an eight-foot statue of a man they built with scrap lumber. They soaked the statue in gasoline and burned it, symbolizing the destruction of the powers that be. | The world does not look today as it did in 1986: As about 72,000 "Burners" lined up in their cars and campers to take reprieve from the grind of capitalism and attend this year's Burning Man, which now conven…

Editor (2023-09-11). Review: "Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Fuel Capitalism" mronline.org Nicolas Graham's book on forces of production and fossil-fuel capitalism gives an important analysis of why fundamental change is needed to solve the climate crisis, finds John Clarke…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-11). Socialist "movement incubator" celebrates five year anniversary in the heart of NYC. peoplesdispatch.org The People's Forum in New York City, founded in 2018 as a "movement incubator" to unite working class movements in the US and abroad, celebrated its five year anniversary on Saturday, September 9. In its five years of existence, TPF has been able to support the strengthening of progressive and socialist organizations from the heart of world capitalism. | "Over the past five years, TPF has become a reference for people who are seeking to understand what's going on in the world around them, and who want a place where they can ask questions and exchange ideas, and where there's space for socialist and internationali…

Anand Naidoo (2023-09-12). The Heat: Chile Coup 50 Years On. america.cgtn.com Chile marks the 50th anniversary of its coup in 1973. | It is now 50 years since Chile was rocked by a military coup in September 1973. | It was backed by the United States and brought an end to the government of the democratically elected Marxist president, Salvador Allende. | General Augusto Pinochet took over and under his military rule, which was bloody and divisive, it lasted until 1990. Today, Chile is still dealing with the trauma of those turbulent times. | Joining the discussion: | Peter Kuznick is…

Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. (2023-09-12). The Pedagogy Of Power. popularresistance.org I am standing in a classroom in a maximum security prison. It is the first class of the semester. I am facing 20 students. They have spent years, sometimes decades, incarcerated. They come from some of the poorest cities and communities in the country. Most of them are people of color. | During the next four months they will study political philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes, Niccolà≤ Machiavelli, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx and John Locke, those often dismissed as anachronistic by the cultural left. | It is not that the criticisms leveled against these philosophers are incorrect. They wer…

midwesternmarx (2023-09-11). Book Review: Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky's 'The Withdrawel.' Reviewed by: Edward Liger Smith. midwesternmarx.com Summary and Analysis Last year in the summer of 2022 a wonderful friend named Debbie sent me a copy of Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad's new book The Withdrawal. A year later I finally got the chance to sit down and read it (sorry it took me so long Debbie) and I was not disappointed as this text provides an excellent history of the major events and developments that have taken place within Western Capitalist imperialism throughout the last forty years or so. Those looking for a den …

WSWS (2023-09-11). From the archives of Marxism: Lessons of the 1973 coup in Chile. wsws.org This statement was published by the International Committee of the Fourth International on September 18, 1973, in response to the overthrow of the government of Salvador Allende in Chile.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-11). Finnish Left slams government's decommunization attempts in the name of anti-discrimination. peoplesdispatch.org The government has been widely criticized for defending two ministers in the right-wing coalition with a history of making racist comments and for trying to use a recently announced anti-discrimination drive to ban communist symbols…

Taroa Zúñiga Silva (2023-09-11). 'Chile Needs a Communist Party': Interview With Lautaro Carmona. orinocotribune.com The general secretary of the Communist Party of Chile says with the resumption of democracy, the Communist Party has made the case for its legality by reviving this slogan in the country. | On August 31, 2023, the President of the Communist Party of Chile, Guillermo Teillier, was buried in the historical cemetery of Recoleta. In this graveyard lies the remains of a range of important people, from former Chilean President Salvador Allende to the socialist singer Victor Jara. Both Allende and Jara were victims of the military coup d'état that took place 50 years ago on September 11, 1973. | Teillier, who was tortur…

WSWS (2023-09-11). Poverty Strategy Commission report finds millions "surviving not living" in Britain. wsws.org Low pay and lack of support for the disabled are the major driving factors of this ongoing social disaster. Half of all people in poverty are disabled themselves or live with someone who is disabled. Nearly two-thirds are in a household where someone works, and over a fifth where all adults work full time.

Walden Bello (2023-09-11). Remembering Salvador Allende and the Chilean Counterrevolution. fpif.org When I heard that Salvador Allende won the Chilean presidential elections in September 1970 and sought to bring his country to socialism by peaceful means, I decided to do my doctoral dissertation on Chile. In May 1972, I went to take a crash course in Spanish in Cuernavaca in the Mexican state of Morelos, the birthplace of the legendary peasant leader Emiliano Zapata whose life had been made into a movie starring Marlon Brando that I had seen and liked as a teenager. After three weeks, I felt that the course had substantially improved the rudimentary Spanish I had from high school in the Philippines. So, I flew…

Corinne Loperfido, In These Times. (2023-09-11). No Parties On A Dead Planet: It's Time We Reimagine Burning Man. popularresistance.org For the past 37 years, people have flocked to Burning Man to celebrate art, radical self expression and community. The first iteration of Burning Man began in 1986 when a small group of friends met on a San Francisco beach with an eight-foot statue of a man they built with scrap lumber. They soaked the statue in gasoline and burned it, symbolizing the destruction of the powers that be. | The world does not look today as it did in 1986: As about 72,000 "Burners" lined up in their cars and campers to take reprieve from the grind of capitalism and attend this year's Burning Man, which now conven…

Editor (2023-09-11). Review: "Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Fuel Capitalism" mronline.org Nicolas Graham's book on forces of production and fossil-fuel capitalism gives an important analysis of why fundamental change is needed to solve the climate crisis, finds John Clarke…

Zane McNeill (2023-09-10). Oral History of Political Prisoners Shows Enduring Power of Revolutionary Hope. truthout.org Political prisoners "are our messengers, our dreamers, and our pioneers," writes celebrated Marxist and abolitionist Angela Davis in the preface to Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners. "They teach us that we do not have to accede to existing modes of organizing our collective existence. They remind us that there is life beyond racial capitalism… |

WSWS (2023-09-11). From the archives of Marxism: Lessons of the 1973 coup in Chile. wsws.org This statement was published by the International Committee of the Fourth International on September 18, 1973, in response to the overthrow of the government of Salvador Allende in Chile.

midwesternmarx (2023-09-10). Canadian foreign worker program a 'breeding ground' for slavery — UN expert By: RT. midwesternmarx.com ​The United Nations has called on Ottawa to guarantee the rights of tens of thousands of migrant workers who enter the country annually Migrant workers remove weeds surrounding strawberries plants at a farm in Markham, Ontario, Canada, on July 30, 2023 © Getty Images / Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images Canada's temporary foreign worker program, under which up to 60,000 people a …

midwesternmarx (2023-09-10). 'Clear As The Full Moon': The Revolution Will Not Be Defeated By: Andreína Chávez Alava. midwesternmarx.com With presidential elections on the horizon, VA writer Andreína Chávez looks at the recent history and challenges facing the Bolivarian Process. ​Revolutionary leader Hugo Chávez alongside President Nicolás Maduro on December 8, 2012. (Archive) "This Revolution does not depend on one man. This Revolution belongs to the people and no one can stop it." Hugo Chávez Recently, I went to a bar in a popular neighborhood of western Caracas that has a lon …

midwesternmarx (2023-09-10). Nigerian president Bola Tinubu weathers challenge to electoral victory but faces resistance from labor By: Tanupriya Singh. midwesternmarx.com The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) has dismissed all petitions filed by the opposition challenging the victory of President Bola Tinubu in the February 25 polls. The ruling was issued in the midst of a two-day strike organized by the Nigeria Labour Congress against the government's economic policies Nigerian President Bola Tinubu. (Photo: @officialABAT/Twitter) The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) of Nigeria has dismissed all petitions challenging the victo …

Taroa Zúñiga Silva (2023-09-11). 'Chile Needs a Communist Party': Interview With Lautaro Carmona. orinocotribune.com The general secretary of the Communist Party of Chile says with the resumption of democracy, the Communist Party has made the case for its legality by reviving this slogan in the country. | On August 31, 2023, the President of the Communist Party of Chile, Guillermo Teillier, was buried in the historical cemetery of Recoleta. In this graveyard lies the remains of a range of important people, from former Chilean President Salvador Allende to the socialist singer Victor Jara. Both Allende and Jara were victims of the military coup d'état that took place 50 years ago on September 11, 1973. | Teillier, who was tortur…

Liberation Staff (2023-09-09). End Capitalism Before It Ends Us: Claudia De La Cruz & Karina Garcia for President & VP. liberationnews.org Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia are running for President and Vice-President of the United States on the ticket of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Vijay Prashad (2023-09-08). What if there had been no coup in Chile in 1973?: The Thirty-Sixth Newsletter (2023). mronline.org As Chile's people, led by the Popular Unity government, took control over their economic and political lives and worked hard to improve their social and cultural worlds, they sent a flare into the sky announcing the great possibilities of socialism.

WSWS (2023-09-08). How people in Ukraine are declared traitors to the state: The mechanism of the repressive apparatus. wsws.org This essay by Maxim Goldarb, the head of the "Union of Left Forces of Ukraine – For New Socialism" party in Ukraine, describes the blatantly anti-democratic persecution by the Zelensky regime of its political opponents.

Harriet A Washington (2023-09-09). Perspectives] Pharmacovigilance against racial capitalism. thelancet.com In 1852, abolitionist physician James McCune Smith, the first African American known to have earned a medical degree, exposed the pervasive conception of the Black American as a dangerous creature and described how this was a manufactured image: "The Negro with us is not an actual physical being of Ô¨Çesh and bones and blood, but a hideous monster of the mind, ugly beyond all physical portraying, so utterly and ineffably monstrous as to frighten reason from its throne, and justice from its balance, and mercy from its hallowed temple…It is a constructive Negro, that haunts with grim presence the…

Sam Friedman, Suzie Kay (2023-09-09). 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…

Volodymyr Artiukh (2023-09-09). Labour, protests, and state capitalism in Belarus, three years on. internationalviewpoint.org

WSWS (2023-09-09). As Ukraine offensive collapses, US tries to drum up support for war at G20. wsws.org The G20 summit convened Friday in New Delhi, India, against the backdrop of the debacle of Ukraine's offensive and a deepening economic, political and social crisis of American capitalism.

WSWS (2023-09-09). The ICFI's exposure of Ernest Mandel's "neo-capitalism" and the analysis of the global economic crisis: 1967—1971. wsws.org This lecture was delivered by Max Boddy, assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.

Prabhat Patnaik (2023-09-08). Believing one's own false theories. mronline.org LIBERAL bourgeois writers tend to explain the problems that arise under capitalism not by the immanent tendencies of the system but by the capriciousness of particular governments.

Sam Friedman, Suzie Kay (2023-09-08). 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…

Volodymyr Artiukh (2023-09-08). Labour, protests, and state capitalism in Belarus, three years on. internationalviewpoint.org

ecns.cn (2023-09-09). Xi encourages flood-affected villagers to bolster their confidence to overcome difficulties. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Thursday visited flood-affected villagers in the city of Shangzhi, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-09-08). Chile requests compensation for US interference in the 1973 coup. plenglish.com Santiago de Chile, Sep 8 (Prensa Latina) The Chilean Communist Party in the Chamber of Deputies asked the U.S. government to compensate Chile economically for meddling in the 1973 coup d'état.

ecns.cn (2023-09-08). Xi encourages flood-affected villagers to bolster their confidence to overcome difficulties. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Thursday visited flood-affected villagers in the city of Shangzhi, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

Taroa Zúñiga Silva (2023-09-08). "Chile needs a communist party," an interview with Lautaro Carmona, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Chile. peoplesdispatch.org Carmona reflects on the political situation in Chile amid increased right-wing attacks, the death of the CP's president, and the 50th anniversary of the coup against Salvador Allende…

Julia Conley (2023-09-08). Child refugees hit record in Latin America, Caribbean as climate crisis, poverty grip region. nationofchange.org "The unprecedented scale of the child migration crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean urgently requires a stronger humanitarian response as well as the expansion of safe and regular migration pathways for children and families," said one international advocate.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-09-08). Daniel Ortega's Speech: 44th Anniversary of the Founding of the Nicaraguan Army. orinocotribune.com Transcript of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega at the central act to commemorate the 44th anniversary of the founding of the Nicaraguan army. | Nicaraguan brothers and sisters; families of this Free, Sovereign, Dignified Nation, fighting for Peace to eradicate Poverty, fighting for Peace to improve the living conditions of all Nicaragua's Families. | How much joy and how much optimism it gives us to receive this recognition from the Conference of Armed Forces of Central America. The CFAC, as the General explained just now, is made up of the armies, the armed forces of the countries that make up the System for C…

Colin Todhunter (2023-09-09). An Engineered Food and Poverty Crisis to Secure Continued U.S. Dominance. globalresearch.ca The issue is not food shortage but speculation on food commodities and the manipulation of an inherently flawed global food system that serves the interests of corporate agribusiness traders and suppliers of inputs at the expense of people's needs and genuine food security.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-07). Brian Becker: It is time for US movements to decide, stand with the masses or stand on the sidelines? peoplesdispatch.org Party for Socialism and Liberation leader Brian Becker outlines the dynamic nature of revolution, and how the US left has often been caught flat-footed by the working class…

Vijay Prashad (2023-09-08). What if there had been no coup in Chile in 1973?: The Thirty-Sixth Newsletter (2023). mronline.org As Chile's people, led by the Popular Unity government, took control over their economic and political lives and worked hard to improve their social and cultural worlds, they sent a flare into the sky announcing the great possibilities of socialism.

Michael K. Smith (2023-09-07). Native Son: Big Bill Haywood. dissidentvoice.org [The] barbarous gold barons do not find the gold, they do not mine the gold, they do not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belongs to them. — Big Bill Haywood, addressing commencement of miners' strike, Colorado, 1903. Work taught him of injustice early and converted him to socialism. His …

Suds, Snacks,, Socialism Forum Committee (2023-09-07). Saturday 9/9: Labor on the Move: Prospects and Challenges. indybay.org The Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue | Berkeley, CA 94705…

Suds, Snacks,, Socialism Forum Committee (2023-09-07). Saturday 9/9: Labor on the Move: Prospects and Challenges. indybay.org The Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue | Berkeley, CA 94705…

Harriet A Washington (2023-09-09). Perspectives] Pharmacovigilance against racial capitalism. thelancet.com In 1852, abolitionist physician James McCune Smith, the first African American known to have earned a medical degree, exposed the pervasive conception of the Black American as a dangerous creature and described how this was a manufactured image: "The Negro with us is not an actual physical being of Ô¨Çesh and bones and blood, but a hideous monster of the mind, ugly beyond all physical portraying, so utterly and ineffably monstrous as to frighten reason from its throne, and justice from its balance, and mercy from its hallowed temple…It is a constructive Negro, that haunts with grim presence the…

Prabhat Patnaik (2023-09-08). Believing one's own false theories. mronline.org LIBERAL bourgeois writers tend to explain the problems that arise under capitalism not by the immanent tendencies of the system but by the capriciousness of particular governments.

Sam Friedman, Suzie Kay (2023-09-08). 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…

Volodymyr Artiukh (2023-09-08). Labour, protests, and state capitalism in Belarus, three years on. internationalviewpoint.org

Sam Friedman, Suzie Kay (2023-09-07). 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…

Volodymyr Artiukh (2023-09-07). Labour, protests, and state capitalism in Belarus, three years on. internationalviewpoint.org

Kenny Coyle (2023-09-08). Chile's '1000 Days of Revolution': A Marxist analysis of the Allende years. peoplesworld.org On the morning of September 11, 1973, Hawker Hunter jets bombed La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile. Hours later, Chile's elected head of state, President Salvador Allende, was dead. Soldiers raided working-class districts across the country rounding up left-wing activists. Around 40,000 were incarcerated in Chile's National Stadium, awaiting interrogation. Many faced torture and imprisonment, …

Taroa Zúñiga Silva (2023-09-08). "Chile needs a communist party," an interview with Lautaro Carmona, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Chile. peoplesdispatch.org Carmona reflects on the political situation in Chile amid increased right-wing attacks, the death of the CP's president, and the 50th anniversary of the coup against Salvador Allende…

ecns.cn (2023-09-08). Xi encourages flood-affected villagers to bolster their confidence to overcome difficulties. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Thursday visited flood-affected villagers in the city of Shangzhi, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

Mehul Reuben Das (2023-09-08). $44 bn to fight 'woke' culture: New book claims Elon Musk bought X because daughter turned 'communist'. firstpost.com In June 2021, Elon Musk's child, Xavier Alexander Musk, publicly revealed their identity as transgender, a significant moment in their personal journey. | This announcement, however, resulted in a strain on the relationship between Elon Musk and his child, ultimately affecting Musk's political stance and even influencing his decision to acquire Twitter, as outlined in an excerpt from his biographer Walter Isaacson's upcoming book, "Elon Musk." | Daughter's conversion | According to the excerpt published in The Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk's conservative political leanings were partly catalyzed when his 16-year-…

thecommunists (2023-09-08). 'Post-socialist mortality crisis' proves that deindustrialisation kills. thecommunists.org

C.J. Atkins (2023-09-07). South African Communists call for U.S. ambassador's expulsion over Russia weapons allegations. peoplesworld.org The South African Communist Party is calling on President Cyril Ramaphosa to expel U.S. Ambassador Reuben Brigety over the diplomat's accusations that South Africa provided weapons to Russia for the war in Ukraine. "Brigety baselessly accused South Africa of supporting" Russia's campaign against Ukraine, an SACP statement issued Tuesday said. "In defense of our democratic …

FP Explainers (2023-09-07). Revealed: Why China's Xi Jinping is skipping the G20 meeting in Delhi. firstpost.com

thecommunists (2023-09-07). Ukraine: Is the USA changing proxies in midstream? thecommunists.org As the fabled Ukrainian 'counteroffensive' against Russian forces stutters on with nothing to show for itself save a few terrorist spectaculars (like the drone attack on the Kremlin and drone attacks on the Kerch bridge and a Russian oil tanker) and a mounting death toll, it is proving increasingly difficult to conceal from the world …

Yige Dong (2023-09-07). 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…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-09-08). Daniel Ortega's Speech: 44th Anniversary of the Founding of the Nicaraguan Army. orinocotribune.com Transcript of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega at the central act to commemorate the 44th anniversary of the founding of the Nicaraguan army. | Nicaraguan brothers and sisters; families of this Free, Sovereign, Dignified Nation, fighting for Peace to eradicate Poverty, fighting for Peace to improve the living conditions of all Nicaragua's Families. | How much joy and how much optimism it gives us to receive this recognition from the Conference of Armed Forces of Central America. The CFAC, as the General explained just now, is made up of the armies, the armed forces of the countries that make up the System for C…

Mike Walter (2023-09-07). The Heat: A Decade of Belt & Road. america.cgtn.com It's the infrastructure project connecting the world by land and sea. Ten years on, we take a look at the impact of China's Belt and Road Initiative. | Chinese President Xi Jinping launched the Belt and Road Initiative during a speech in Kazakhstan on September 7, 2013, proposing new trade routes to create a 'new Silk Road' and wider economic cooperation. | A decade later, 152 countries have seen 3,000 BRI projects and nearly a trillion dollars in new investment. By Chinese estimates, it's helped lift nearly 40 million people out of poverty. Back in Kazakhstan where it all began, trade between the two countries u…

Julia Conley (2023-09-08). Child refugees hit record in Latin America, Caribbean as climate crisis, poverty grip region. nationofchange.org "The unprecedented scale of the child migration crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean urgently requires a stronger humanitarian response as well as the expansion of safe and regular migration pathways for children and families," said one international advocate.

ecns.cn (2023-09-07). New report reveals reversal in global antipoverty progress. ecns.cn A new report points out that the combined impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical conflicts, inflation, and economic slowdown has led to a reversal in the global antipoverty progress achieved in the past years, affecting countries and regions worldwide.

ecns.cn (2023-09-07). New report reveals reversal in global antipoverty progress. ecns.cn A new report points out that the combined impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical conflicts, inflation, and economic slowdown has led to a reversal in the global antipoverty progress achieved in the past years, affecting countries and regions worldwide.

Michael K. Smith (2023-09-07). Native Son: Big Bill Haywood. dissidentvoice.org [The] barbarous gold barons do not find the gold, they do not mine the gold, they do not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belongs to them. — Big Bill Haywood, addressing commencement of miners' strike, Colorado, 1903. Work taught him of injustice early and converted him to socialism. His …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-06). Dilemmas of Humanity conference concludes in Santiago. peoplesdispatch.org Movement leaders and intellectuals from across Latin America and the Caribbean met in Santiago, Chile, from September 2-4 for the Regional Dilemmas of Humanity Conference. The conference, organized by the regional social movement platform ALBA Movimientos and the International Peoples' Assembly (IPA), sought to provoke debate and discussion about building socialism and finding solutions to address the major crises generated by capitalism. | Peoples Dispatch was on the ground to bring you everything you need to know about the Santiago Dilemma's Conference on regarding building socialism in the region and what it w…

Suds, Snacks,, Socialism Forum Committee (2023-09-07). Saturday 9/9: Labor on the Move: Prospects and Challenges. indybay.org The Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue | Berkeley, CA 94705…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-06). Dilemmas of Humanity conference concludes in Santiago. peoplesdispatch.org Movement leaders and intellectuals from across Latin America and the Caribbean met in Santiago, Chile, from September 2-4 for the Regional Dilemmas of Humanity Conference. The conference, organized by the regional social movement platform ALBA Movimientos and the International Peoples' Assembly (IPA), sought to provoke debate and discussion about building socialism and finding solutions to address the major crises generated by capitalism. | Peoples Dispatch was on the ground to bring you everything you need to know about the Santiago Dilemma's Conference on regarding building socialism in the region and what it w…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-09-06). 'Our Major Interest Is Copper': Britain Backed Pinochet's Bloody Coup in Chile. orinocotribune.com By Mark Curtis — Sep 4, 2023 | When the Chilean military overthrew Salvador Allende's democratically elected government in September 1973, UK officials supported and worked with the new junta as it indulged in widespread atrocities, declassified files show. | ‚Ä¢ "For British interests… there is no doubt that Chile under the junta is a better prospect than Allende's chaotic road to socialism", the foreign secretary said | ‚Ä¢ "The prospects for British business in Chile are clearly much brighter under the new regime", Britain's ambassador in Santiago agreed. | ‚Ä&…

Suds, Snacks,, Socialism Forum Committee (2023-09-07). Saturday 9/9: Labor on the Move: Prospects and Challenges. indybay.org The Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue | Berkeley, CA 94705…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-09-06). 'Our Major Interest Is Copper': Britain Backed Pinochet's Bloody Coup in Chile. orinocotribune.com By Mark Curtis — Sep 4, 2023 | When the Chilean military overthrew Salvador Allende's democratically elected government in September 1973, UK officials supported and worked with the new junta as it indulged in widespread atrocities, declassified files show. | ‚Ä¢ "For British interests… there is no doubt that Chile under the junta is a better prospect than Allende's chaotic road to socialism", the foreign secretary said | ‚Ä¢ "The prospects for British business in Chile are clearly much brighter under the new regime", Britain's ambassador in Santiago agreed. | ‚Ä&…

Sam Friedman, Suzie Kay (2023-09-07). 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…

Volodymyr Artiukh (2023-09-07). Labour, protests, and state capitalism in Belarus, three years on. internationalviewpoint.org

Margaret Kimberley (2023-09-06). The climate crisis will end when capitalism ends. mronline.org Humans have an infinite capacity for wishful thinking, but a revolutionary project is by definition a recognition that wishes are for fairy tales.

Margaret Kimberley (2023-09-06). The climate crisis will end when capitalism ends. mronline.org Humans have an infinite capacity for wishful thinking, but a revolutionary project is by definition a recognition that wishes are for fairy tales.

C.J. Atkins (2023-09-07). South African Communists call for U.S. ambassador's expulsion over Russia weapons allegations. peoplesworld.org The South African Communist Party is calling on President Cyril Ramaphosa to expel U.S. Ambassador Reuben Brigety over the diplomat's accusations that South Africa provided weapons to Russia for the war in Ukraine. "Brigety baselessly accused South Africa of supporting" Russia's campaign against Ukraine, an SACP statement issued Tuesday said. "In defense of our democratic …

FP Explainers (2023-09-07). Revealed: Why China's Xi Jinping is skipping the G20 meeting in Delhi. firstpost.com

thecommunists (2023-09-06). Joti Brar: What happened to our trade unions? thecommunists.org In this segment of our recent seminar on Trade unionism and working-class leadership, Comrade Joti outlines why the action undertaken by British unions in the past year have ended in extremely poor settlements, with real-terms pay cuts across the board. She also makes some comparisons with the strike movement in France. A supremacist ideology is …

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-09-06). France and Cuba to boost parliamentary ties through visit. plenglish.com Paris, Sep 6 (Prensa Latina) A delegation of the National Assembly of France will travel tomorrow to Cuba in order to strengthen parliamentary ties and promote bilateral cooperation, communist deputy André Chassaigne announced.

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-09-06). France and Cuba to boost parliamentary ties through visit. plenglish.com Paris, Sep 6 (Prensa Latina) A delegation of the National Assembly of France will travel tomorrow to Cuba in order to strengthen parliamentary ties and promote bilateral cooperation, communist deputy André Chassaigne announced.

Yige Dong (2023-09-07). 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…

ecns.cn (2023-09-07). New report reveals reversal in global antipoverty progress. ecns.cn A new report points out that the combined impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical conflicts, inflation, and economic slowdown has led to a reversal in the global antipoverty progress achieved in the past years, affecting countries and regions worldwide.

ecns.cn (2023-09-07). New report reveals reversal in global antipoverty progress. ecns.cn A new report points out that the combined impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical conflicts, inflation, and economic slowdown has led to a reversal in the global antipoverty progress achieved in the past years, affecting countries and regions worldwide.

Suds, Snacks,, Socialism Forum Committee (2023-09-05). Saturday 9/9: Labor on the Move: Prospects and Challenges. indybay.org The Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue | Berkeley, CA 94705…

Richard D. Wolff (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.

Dr. Harriet Fraad Richard D. Wolff (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.

Suds, Snacks,, Socialism Forum Committee (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…

Alina Ramos Martin (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…

Carlos L. Garrido (2023-09-05). Death, the Crisis of Meaning, and Capitalism. orinocotribune.com By Carlos L. Garrido — Sep 3, 2023 | The Moving finger writes; and, having writ, | Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit | Shall 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 Hà§gglund argues that: | To attain a peaceful state of eternity you must be liberated from the risk of losing what you love. Were such liberation possible, however, nothing would matter to you. You literally would not care. There would be n…

Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. (2023-09-05). Our Collective Trauma Is The Road To Tyranny. popularresistance.org Corporate capitalism, defined by the cult of the self and the ruthless exploitation of the natural world and all forms of life for profit, thrives on the fostering of chronic psychological and physical disorders. The diseases and pathologies of despair — alienation, high blood pressure, diabetes, anxiety, depression, morbid obesity, mass shootings (now almost two per day on average), domestic and sexual violence, drug overdoses (over 100,000 per year) and suicide (49,000 deaths in 2022) — are the consequences of a deeply traumatized society. | The core traits of psychopaths — superficial charm,…

Frank Cappello (2023-09-05). MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: The Grapes Of Wrath (w/ Harvey Kaye). levernews.com

Editor (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.

Andrea Brower (2023-09-05). Imperialism and capitalism set Hawaii ablaze. peoplesworld.org Over 100 people (likely many more) were burned alive and many are still missing on Maui, in one of the most deadly and destructive wildfires in history. The dire crisis continues as hospitals are overwhelmed with burn patients, residents inhale highly toxic air, the community reals with trauma, and basic necessities fail to get to those most in …

Editor (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…

midwesternmarx (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 …

midwesternmarx (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 …

midwesternmarx (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 …

midwesternmarx (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- …

Federico Fuentes, Kimitoshi Morihara (2023-09-05). Japanese Communists reject growing militarism, propose framework for peace in East Asia. greenleft.org.au Green Left's Federico Fuentes interviewed Japanese Communist Party (JCP) International Commission vice chair Kimitoshi Morihara regarding the peace and security initiatives the party is promoting to help counter growing militarisation in the Indo-Pacific region.

Fight Back (2023-09-05). Philippines: Marcos is daydreaming that he can defeat the New People's Army. fightbacknews.org Fight Back New Service is circulating the following statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines. | Officials of the Marcos regime are daydreaming when they make declarations of attaining "strategic victory" and defeating the New People's Army (NPA). These wishful declarations are not new. They have been issuing exactly the same statements for three decades now and have repeatedly been proven wrong by facts. | General Año's pronouncement yesterday of "ending the local communist armed conflict" within the term of the Marcos government rings hollow, especially after an NPA unit carried out a successful aga…

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-09-05). French festival includes initiative against US blockade against Cuba. plenglish.com Paris, Sep 5 (Prensa Latina) The Fête de L'Humanité, a traditional political-cultural festival, will include the launch of a campaign against the United States blockade against Cuba, the Communist Party of France (PCF) announced on Monday.

Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. (2023-09-05). Dilemmas Of Humanity Conference In The US Outlines Principle Task. popularresistance.org "We know this system is in crisis," said Manolo De Los Santos, co-executive director of the People's Forum and lifelong communist, opening the Dilemmas of Humanity: A Socialist Horizon conference in Atlanta, Georgia. This conference was organized by the International People's Assembly-North America as part of the IPA's international conference series, "Dilemmas of Humanity," which will conclude with an international conference in Johannesburg in October. The US-based conference was held in Atlanta's Neighborhood Church on September 2, and supported by organizations such as Community Movement Builders, Faith Coali…

Peoples Dispatch (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…

Juan M. Garcia (2023-09-05). Cuban authorities salute 60th anniversary of the Revolutionary Navy. plenglish.com On the social network X, formerly Twitter, National People's Power Assembly Esteban Lazo sent congratulations to all the members of the Navy and stressed that "they have been bulwarks in the defense of the Socialist Homeland and in Fidel (Castro)'s call to be a Navy of Patria o Muerte (Homeland and Death). | Prime Minister Manuel Marrero, in turn, congratulated the Cuban sailors, whom he described as faithful defenders of sovereignty and peace. | The Secretary of Organization of the Communist Party of Cuba, Roberto Morales, also congratulated the Revolutionary Navy and described its troops as the safeguard of Cu…

ecns.cn (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.

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-09-05). French deputy addresses in book US war against Cuba. plenglish.com Paris, Sep 5 (Prensa Latina) The communist leader and French deputy André Chassaigne today considered his book "Cuba a star in the night" an opportunity to know the war that Cuba faces against the United States with the blockade as a spearhead.

ecns.cn (2023-09-05). 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.

Paul Street (2023-09-05). The Chicago Non-Defender's Cowardly Cuddle with Anti-Communist Cancel Culture. counterpunch.org The Chicago Defender and the "Eye of the [Racist-Imperialist United States] Government" One Century Ago First, some haunting history. In early 1918, an agent from United States (US) Military Intelligence visited the offices of The Chicago Defender, the most influential Black newspaper in the US. Read by masses of Black folks north and south, the

thecommunists (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 …

Staff (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. …

Richard D. Wolff (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.

Suds, Snacks,, Socialism Forum Committee (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…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (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…

Dr. Harriet Fraad Richard D. Wolff (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.

Astra Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, In These Times. (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…

Zoe Alexandra, People's Dispatch. (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…

Alina Ramos Martin (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…

Sam Friedman, Suzie Kay (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…

Volodymyr Artiukh (2023-09-04). Labour, protests, and state capitalism in Belarus, three years on. internationalviewpoint.org

midwesternmarx (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 …

midwesternmarx (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 …

Editor (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.

Editor (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…

midwesternmarx (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 …

midwesternmarx (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 …

midwesternmarx (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 …

midwesternmarx (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- …

midwesternmarx (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 …

midwesternmarx (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 …

midwesternmarx (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 …

midwesternmarx (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 …

midwesternmarx (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 …

midwesternmarx (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 …

midwesternmarx (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. …

midwesternmarx (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 …

midwesternmarx (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 I​N 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, …

midwesternmarx (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 …

ecns.cn (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.

Yige Dong (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…

Peoples Dispatch (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…

thecommunists (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 …

thecommunists (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. …

Staff (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. …

ecns.cn (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.

ecns.cn (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.

Newswire Editor (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…