greenleft.org.au (2023-07-24). Ecosocialism needed in the age of climate emergency. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-24). Videos from Ecosocialism 2023. greenleft.org.au

infobrics (2023-07-24). The BRICS Dream Towards 2050. infobrics.org The BRIC group thesis, defended in the essay "Dreaming with BRICS: The Road to 2050", held that Brazil, Russia, India and China — South Africa had not yet been accepted — had promoted global capitalism have changed their political systems to adopt…

Jorge Alemán (2023-07-24). Capitalismo invisible/antagonismos borrosos. globalizacion.ca La insistencia en el carácter digital del nuevo capitalismo financiero no es suficiente. Hay una mutación antropológica testimoniada por los 23000 millones de dispositivos conectados a la red. Como bien señala Mauricio Ferraris el siervo de la gleba que trabajaba…

Editor (2023-07-24). Why Capitalism Is Leaving the US in Search of Profit. scheerpost.com By Richard Wolff / CounterPunch Early U.S. capitalism was centered in New England. After some time, the pursuit of profit led many capitalists to leave that area and move production to New York and the mid-Atlantic states. Much of New England was left with abandoned factory buildings and depressed towns evident to this day. Eventually …

Editor (2023-07-24). The revolutionary spirit of the Buddha. mronline.org Marx and Engels both took a surprising interest in the ideas of the great Indian spiritual leader, argues Sean Ledwith.

midwesternmarx (2023-07-23). Western Marxism and the Politics of Abstract Humanism By: Yanis Iqbal. midwesternmarx.com Western Marxism is dominated by the use of empty phrases when the need arises for a practical intervention in the conjuncture. Slavoj Žižek, for instance, has been calling for a "stronger NATO" in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, so that "European unity" can be preserved. The analytical focus is wholly tilted towards ahistorical cultural symbols. For Žižek, a "Eurasian" project is not about the reduction of European count …

midwesternmarx (2023-07-23). The Eco Collapse We Were Warned About Has Begun By: José Seoane. midwesternmarx.com In 2023, different climatic anomalies have been recorded that set new historical records in the tragic progression of climate change at the global level.​Thus, in June, the surface temperature in the North Atlantic reached the maximum increase of 1.3 degrees Celsius with respect to preindustrial values. In a similar direction—although in lower values—the average temperature of the seas at the global level increased. On the other hand, the retraction of Antarctic ice reac …

midwesternmarx (2023-07-23). Hollywood Executives Bring Industry to Halt Rather Than Pay Workers a Fair Price By: Sonali Kolhatkar. midwesternmarx.com Refusing to negotiate better compensation and fair working conditions for actors and writers, major film and television studios are to blame for the work stoppages afflicting their industry. Hollywood has come to a standstill this summer as actors join their writer colleagues on the picket line. The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) announced that it would be on strike starting July 14, 2023, over negotiations breaking down with t …

thecommunists (2023-07-24). Seven decades of US imperialist interference in Ukraine. thecommunists.org This short video gives a quick run-down of the divide in Ukraine between the east and the west that has been fuelled in order to lay the groundwork for today's war against Russia on Ukrainian soil. A divide known to, studied, and exploited by the USA and its Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since at least …

Taroa Zúñiga Silva (2023-07-24). In Chile, having a good constitution doesn't guarantee social change. greenleft.org.au Bárbara Navarrete, newly-elected secretary general of the Communist Youth of Chile speaks to Taroa Zúñiga Silva.

scorinoco (2023-07-24). President of Cuba: Solidarity Remains an Indestructible Weapon of Struggle and a Message of Peace. orinocotribune.com The following is the English translation of the speech delivered by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the Republic of Cuba, at the People's Summit Solidarity Festival, in Brussels, Belgium, on July 17, 2023 (stenographic version from the Presidency of Cuba). | Brother Centella; | Brother Manu; | Sisters and brothers from Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe; | Comrades who fight for social justice (Applause): | I was told that someone was asking if we were going to be at this event, and we ask you: do you think we would ha…

ecns.cn (2023-07-23). Insights | Westerners should have deeper understanding of CPC's achievements: Swedish researcher. ecns.cn "One of the reasons I think that has been so successful, in terms of China's internal modernization improvement，is because of the foundation of the common good," said Stephen Brawer, chairman of the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden, in a recent interview with China News Network. He also voiced his ideas on socialism with Chinese characteristics, the Chinese modernization, and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-23). Ecosocialism needed in the age of climate emergency. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-23). Videos from Ecosocialism 2023. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-23). Video: Capitalism in Crisis. greenleft.org.au

Editor (2023-07-22). When can there be a fall in the rate of profit? mronline.org SEVERAL major economists have put forward theories predicting a falling tendency of the rate of profit under capitalism; Marx had seen in this fact an awareness on their part of the essential transitoriness of the capitalist system. But while some of these theories have logical validity, others do not. Among the latter is Adam Smith's theory.

Nick Corbishley, Naked Capitalism. (2023-07-22). Latin America Again Refuses To Fall In Line With The Collective West. popularresistance.org Volodymyr Zelensky is accustomed to being the star guest, whether in person or on-screen, at just about every Western international summit, though his shine does appear to be fading. But at the summit that took place in Brussels early this week between the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), the president of Ukraine was nowhere to be seen. This was despite the best efforts of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who is current holder of the EU Council's rotating president, to get his name on the guest list. | At a bare minimum, Zelensky's participation would have requ…

krish-rad_ind (2023-07-22). The Cycles and Spirals of Capitalism. dissidentvoice.org

susanrosenthal (2023-07-22). Gender Rebels: A Threat to Capitalism. susanrosenthal.com Why are gender rebels being attacked? Why are they being attacked now? Who benefits from such attacks?>

midwesternmarx (2023-07-23). Western Marxism and the Politics of Abstract Humanism By: Yanis Iqbal. midwesternmarx.com Western Marxism is dominated by the use of empty phrases when the need arises for a practical intervention in the conjuncture. Slavoj Žižek, for instance, has been calling for a "stronger NATO" in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, so that "European unity" can be preserved. The analytical focus is wholly tilted towards ahistorical cultural symbols. For Žižek, a "Eurasian" project is not about the reduction of European count …

midwesternmarx (2023-07-23). The Eco Collapse We Were Warned About Has Begun By: José Seoane. midwesternmarx.com In 2023, different climatic anomalies have been recorded that set new historical records in the tragic progression of climate change at the global level.​Thus, in June, the surface temperature in the North Atlantic reached the maximum increase of 1.3 degrees Celsius with respect to preindustrial values. In a similar direction—although in lower values—the average temperature of the seas at the global level increased. On the other hand, the retraction of Antarctic ice reac …

midwesternmarx (2023-07-23). Hollywood Executives Bring Industry to Halt Rather Than Pay Workers a Fair Price By: Sonali Kolhatkar. midwesternmarx.com Refusing to negotiate better compensation and fair working conditions for actors and writers, major film and television studios are to blame for the work stoppages afflicting their industry. Hollywood has come to a standstill this summer as actors join their writer colleagues on the picket line. The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) announced that it would be on strike starting July 14, 2023, over negotiations breaking down with t …

Staff (2023-07-22). Venezuela's El Panal 2021 Commune Welcomes Vietnam's Communist Party Delegation (+Arreaza & PCV). orinocotribune.com Venezuelan Socialist Commune El Panal 2021 welcomed the Commission of Mass Mobilization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, accompanied by Venezuelan Minister for Communes and Social Movements Jorge Arreaza. The aim of the meeting is sharing the advances made in social and communal organizing in both countries in order to resolve problems of the communities. | The Vietnamese delegation toured the productive spaces of the commune and noted the progress and experiences of Venezuela's grassroots organizations. | "With a tour of its productive facilities, the Socialist Commune El Panal 2021 re…

thecommunists (2023-07-22). Capitalist contradictions abound: Victorian illnesses on the rise. thecommunists.org Around 11,000 people in England were hospitalised with malnutrition last year. Read that again. Provisional data recently obtained by the Times Health Commission under freedom of information laws reveal that cases of malnutrition have more than doubled in a decade and have quadrupled since the banking collapse of 2007/8 and the harsh regime of cuts and austerity …

ecns.cn (2023-07-22). Insights | CPC never forgets its main mission to serve people: Italian expert. ecns.cn The Communist Party of China (CPC) has never forgotten its main mission, which is to serve the people and their interests. The distinctive model of the socialist market economy has tried to combine private profits and common prosperity, productivity and welfare, merit and social demand, something even impossible to think of nowadays in the West.

ecns.cn (2023-07-22). Insights | BRI doesn't distinguish participants based on ideologies, nor does it respond to zero-sum game logic: expert. ecns.cn "The Communist Party of China (CPC) has never forgotten its main mission, which is to serve the people and their interests," said Fabio Massimo Parenti, professor of international studies at the International Institute Lorenzo de' Medici in Florencein an online interview with China News Network.

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-22). Ecosocialism needed in the age of climate emergency. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-22). Videos from Ecosocialism 2023. greenleft.org.au

midwesternmarx (2023-07-21). Africa's path to socialism By: Tanupriya Singh. midwesternmarx.com 200 delegates from 40 organizations are gathering in South Africa for the "Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism" conference. For the next four days, progressive movements and organizations will discuss the challenges posed by capitalism, and articulate the socialist way forward On Monday, July 17, 200 delegates from progressive organizations, political parties, people's movements, and trade unions across the African continent will gather in Bel …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-07-21). "It's Not Socialism": China is a Capitalist Cheap Labour Economy, Based on Exceedingly Low Wages. globalresearch.ca

thecommunists (2023-07-21). Comrade Tongogara, who dedicated his life to the cause of freedom. thecommunists.org Lalkar is sad to announce the death of Comrade Tongogara, who breathed his last on 11 May this year. Born Danny Morrell on 6 February 1942, he adopted the name Tongogara after the great Zimbabwean fighter Josiah Tongogara who fought for the liberation of Zimbabwe from the clutches of the racist white minority regime of …

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-22). Video: Capitalism in Crisis. greenleft.org.au

midwesternmarx (2023-07-21). COMMUNISTS CONDEMN DEATH THREATS AGAINST BROTHERS ALEXANDER AND MIKHAIL KONONOVICH IN UKRAINE By: MLToday. midwesternmarx.com Communist Party of Ireland Statement: Solidarity with Aleksander Kononovich and his brother Mikhail Kononovich The Communist Party of Ireland joins communist parties and other leftist and progressive forces around the world in condemning the death threats, persecution and other forms of ongoing intimidation against communist youth leaders Aleksander Kononovich and his brother Mikhail Kononovich who are under house arrest in Ukraine.Following the onset of the proxy NATO war against R …

midwesternmarx (2023-07-21). Thousands of actors join picket lines in Los Angeles and New York By: David Walsh. midwesternmarx.com The strike by tens of thousands of US film and television actors officially began Friday. The actors, members of the Screen Actors Guild—American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), have now joined the 11,000 members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA), on strike since May 2.The actors and writers are striking against the cabal of giant film and television production companies organized in the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) over fundamental …

Fidel Castro (2023-07-21). Our right to be Marxist-Leninists. workers.org This commentary, reprinted from Havana Times, was given May 7, 2015, by late Cuban President Fidel Castro Ruz. We share this now in honor of the 70th anniversary of the attack on the Moncada Barracks, which launched the Cuban Revolution. This 2021 graphic honors the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Hospital, opened . . . |

ecns.cn (2023-07-22). Insights | BRI doesn't distinguish participants based on ideologies, nor does it respond to zero-sum game logic: expert. ecns.cn "The Communist Party of China (CPC) has never forgotten its main mission, which is to serve the people and their interests," said Fabio Massimo Parenti, professor of international studies at the International Institute Lorenzo de' Medici in Florencein an online interview with China News Network.

ecns.cn (2023-07-22). Insights | CPC never forgets its main mission to serve people: Italian expert. ecns.cn The Communist Party of China (CPC) has never forgotten its main mission, which is to serve the people and their interests. The distinctive model of the socialist market economy has tried to combine private profits and common prosperity, productivity and welfare, merit and social demand, something even impossible to think of nowadays in the West.

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-07-22). China prosecutes corrupted public servants of various ranks. plenglish.com Beijing, Jul 22 (Prensa Latina) Chinese authorities investigated 316,000 cases of corruption in the first half of the year, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China (CPC) reported.

Fidel Castro (2023-07-21). Our right to be Marxist-Leninists. workers.org This commentary, reprinted from Havana Times, was given May 7, 2015, by late Cuban President Fidel Castro Ruz. We share this now in honor of the 70th anniversary of the attack on the Moncada Barracks, which launched the Cuban Revolution. This 2021 graphic honors the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Hospital, opened . . . |

ecns.cn (2023-07-22). Insights | BRI doesn't distinguish participants based on ideologies, nor does it respond to zero-sum game logic: expert. ecns.cn "The Communist Party of China (CPC) has never forgotten its main mission, which is to serve the people and their interests," said Fabio Massimo Parenti, professor of international studies at the International Institute Lorenzo de' Medici in Florencein an online interview with China News Network.

ecns.cn (2023-07-22). Insights | CPC never forgets its main mission to serve people: Italian expert. ecns.cn The Communist Party of China (CPC) has never forgotten its main mission, which is to serve the people and their interests. The distinctive model of the socialist market economy has tried to combine private profits and common prosperity, productivity and welfare, merit and social demand, something even impossible to think of nowadays in the West.

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-07-22). China prosecutes corrupted public servants of various ranks. plenglish.com Beijing, Jul 22 (Prensa Latina) Chinese authorities investigated 316,000 cases of corruption in the first half of the year, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China (CPC) reported.

thecommunists (2023-07-21). Donetsk communist leader: 'No democracy in Ukraine'. thecommunists.org Steve Sweeney interviews Boris Litinov, head of the Donetsk republican branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Topics discussed range from Comrade Litinov's views on the split in the international communist movement over the war in Ukraine, his thoughts on the effect of western propaganda on the communist and trade union organisations in …

Mike Ludwig (2023-07-21). 60 Years After the March on Washington, 1 in 3 Black Children Live in Poverty. truthout.org Conservatives today would have you believe the civil rights movement of the 1960s was so successful that systemic racism is a problem of the past. Every February, white Republicans observe Black History Month by twisting famous lines from Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech to serve their own agendas. The Constitution is "colorblind," they claim, and if this flies in the face of… |

Zara Jemuel (2023-07-21). Militant Black Unionism Offers Best Resistance to Growing White Nationalism. truthout.org The United States economy keeps Black labor at the bottom because when bosses conceded on slavery, they settled on poverty wages. While white nationalism's most visible soldiers are terror organizations and politicians, the quest for racial purity is made possible by Sears, General Motors, Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil, Chase Bank, and other so-called job creators. Corporate benefactors fund extremist… |

Sara Flounders (2023-07-21). As Yellen dictates terms to China What we defend, what Wall Street wants to destroy. workers.org What is the material basis of the growing hostility on every level of the U.S. ruling class toward China? No great struggle is based on the personalities or aspirations of individuals. At the root is a very concrete, material basis that drives the conflict. Otherwise, meetings, discussions and diplomacy would . . . |

midwesternmarx (2023-07-21). Africa's path to socialism By: Tanupriya Singh. midwesternmarx.com 200 delegates from 40 organizations are gathering in South Africa for the "Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism" conference. For the next four days, progressive movements and organizations will discuss the challenges posed by capitalism, and articulate the socialist way forward On Monday, July 17, 200 delegates from progressive organizations, political parties, people's movements, and trade unions across the African continent will gather in Bel …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-07-21). "It's Not Socialism": China is a Capitalist Cheap Labour Economy, Based on Exceedingly Low Wages. globalresearch.ca

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-21). Ecosocialism needed in the age of climate emergency. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-21). Videos from Ecosocialism 2023. greenleft.org.au

thecommunists (2023-07-21). Comrade Tongogara, who dedicated his life to the cause of freedom. thecommunists.org Lalkar is sad to announce the death of Comrade Tongogara, who breathed his last on 11 May this year. Born Danny Morrell on 6 February 1942, he adopted the name Tongogara after the great Zimbabwean fighter Josiah Tongogara who fought for the liberation of Zimbabwe from the clutches of the racist white minority regime of …

Lauren Smith, Covert Action Magazine. (2023-07-20). Nicaraguans Celebrate Anniversary Of The Sandinista Revolution. popularresistance.org In the United States, the word "socialism" has come to have a negative meaning. In that meaning, the word implies the loss of individual sovereignty, rejection of religion and the institution of authoritarian political measures. | While denounced as socialist by U.S. propagandists and repeated by the ill-informed media, in fact, Nicaragua has a mixed economy based on traditional humane Christian spiritual beliefs under the concept of Sandinismo. It also encourages multiple political parties in line with genuinely social democratic ideals. | The foreign media denounce the Ortega administration for its alleged oppr…

WSWS (2023-07-21). Michael: Rapper Killer Mike releases an unflattering self-portrait. wsws.org The outspoken rapper responds to this moment of capitalism's intersecting crises … with an album that worships God and Mammon.

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-21). Video: Capitalism in Crisis. greenleft.org.au

Jacqueline Luqman, Black Agenda Report. (2023-07-21). RFK, Jr.: It's Not Genetics, It's Racial Capitalism. popularresistance.org I know that opinions about COVID-19 and the vaccines related to it are still as varied as they are passionate, at least in the US where this government did absolutely nothing under two presidents to protect people and save lives in the midst of a global pandemic. But let me just be the one to say it if you were afraid to. Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s recent comments about the virus are wackadoodle, but should not be dismissed outright because of his dismissal of US racialized capitalism that fueled the deadly outcome of the pandemic in the US among certain groups of people.

Richard D. Wolff (2023-07-20). Why capitalism is leaving the US, in search of profit. nationofchange.org Ongoing controversies and alarms surround this capitalist exodus.

midwesternmarx (2023-07-21). Thousands of actors join picket lines in Los Angeles and New York By: David Walsh. midwesternmarx.com The strike by tens of thousands of US film and television actors officially began Friday. The actors, members of the Screen Actors Guild—American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), have now joined the 11,000 members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA), on strike since May 2.The actors and writers are striking against the cabal of giant film and television production companies organized in the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) over fundamental …

midwesternmarx (2023-07-21). COMMUNISTS CONDEMN DEATH THREATS AGAINST BROTHERS ALEXANDER AND MIKHAIL KONONOVICH IN UKRAINE By: MLToday. midwesternmarx.com Communist Party of Ireland Statement: Solidarity with Aleksander Kononovich and his brother Mikhail Kononovich The Communist Party of Ireland joins communist parties and other leftist and progressive forces around the world in condemning the death threats, persecution and other forms of ongoing intimidation against communist youth leaders Aleksander Kononovich and his brother Mikhail Kononovich who are under house arrest in Ukraine.Following the onset of the proxy NATO war against R …

Fidel Castro (2023-07-21). Our right to be Marxist-Leninists. workers.org This commentary, reprinted from Havana Times, was given May 7, 2015, by late Cuban President Fidel Castro Ruz. We share this now in honor of the 70th anniversary of the attack on the Moncada Barracks, which launched the Cuban Revolution. This 2021 graphic honors the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Hospital, opened . . . |

ecns.cn (2023-07-21). Insights | CPC never forgets its main mission to serve people: Italian expert. ecns.cn The Communist Party of China (CPC) has never forgotten its main mission, which is to serve the people and their interests. The distinctive model of the socialist market economy has tried to combine private profits and common prosperity, productivity and welfare, merit and social demand, something even impossible to think of nowadays in the West.

ecns.cn (2023-07-21). Insights | BRI doesn't distinguish participants based on ideologies, nor does it respond to zero-sum game logic: expert. ecns.cn "The Communist Party of China (CPC) has never forgotten its main mission, which is to serve the people and their interests," said Fabio Massimo Parenti, professor of international studies at the International Institute Lorenzo de' Medici in Florencein an online interview with China News Network.

thecommunists (2023-07-21). Donetsk communist leader: 'No democracy in Ukraine'. thecommunists.org Steve Sweeney interviews Boris Litinov, head of the Donetsk republican branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Topics discussed range from Comrade Litinov's views on the split in the international communist movement over the war in Ukraine, his thoughts on the effect of western propaganda on the communist and trade union organisations in …

Sara Flounders (2023-07-21). As Yellen dictates terms to China What we defend, what Wall Street wants to destroy. workers.org What is the material basis of the growing hostility on every level of the U.S. ruling class toward China? No great struggle is based on the personalities or aspirations of individuals. At the root is a very concrete, material basis that drives the conflict. Otherwise, meetings, discussions and diplomacy would . . . |

Mike Ludwig (2023-07-21). 60 Years After the March on Washington, 1 in 3 Black Children Live in Poverty. truthout.org Conservatives today would have you believe the civil rights movement of the 1960s was so successful that systemic racism is a problem of the past. Every February, white Republicans observe Black History Month by twisting famous lines from Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech to serve their own agendas. The Constitution is "colorblind," they claim, and if this flies in the face of… |

Zara Jemuel (2023-07-21). Militant Black Unionism Offers Best Resistance to Growing White Nationalism. truthout.org The United States economy keeps Black labor at the bottom because when bosses conceded on slavery, they settled on poverty wages. While white nationalism's most visible soldiers are terror organizations and politicians, the quest for racial purity is made possible by Sears, General Motors, Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil, Chase Bank, and other so-called job creators. Corporate benefactors fund extremist… |

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-07-21). Not even remittances can save El Salvador from poverty. plenglish.com San Salvador, Jul 21 (Prensa Latina) At least two of ten Salvadoran families who receive remittances from the United States and other countries are in a state of poverty, El Salvador's Multipurpose Household Survey (EHPM) reported.

Editor (2023-07-20). The World Needs a New Development Theory That Does Not Trap the Poor in Poverty. scheerpost.com By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research In June, the United Nations' Sustainable Development Solutions Network published its Sustainable Development Report 2023, which tracks the progress of the 193 member states towards attaining the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 'From 2015 to 2019', the network wrote, 'the world made some progress on the SDGs, although this was already …

Damian Balassone (2023-07-20). Poem: Spiritual Land/Spiritless Man. greenleft.org.au Damian Balassone, on the poverty of spirit.

Eleanor J. Bader, The Indypendent. (2023-07-20). When The Welfare Rights Movement Was Force For Uplifting The Poor. popularresistance.org When Dartmouth history professor Annelise Orleck was still working on her first book, Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965, she learned about the work of an intrepid group of low-income, southern-born women in Las Vegas, Nevada. Thirteen years of research and interviews followed. The result, Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty, tells the amazing story of fed-up and reviled welfare recipients who organized on their own behalf, winning a raft of financial, medical and educational improvements for themselves, their chi…

Lauren Smith (2023-07-20). Nicaraguans Celebrate 44th Anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution. covertactionmagazine.com Under Stewardship of Original Revolutionary Leader Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua Remains a Beacon for Social Progress Despite Crushing U.S. Sanctions In the United States, the word "socialism" has come to have a negative meaning. In that meaning, the word implies the loss of individual sovereignty, rejection of religion and the institution of authoritarian political measures. While …

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-20). Ecosocialism needed in the age of climate emergency. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-20). Videos from Ecosocialism 2023. greenleft.org.au

Tanupriya Singh, People's Dispatch. (2023-07-20). There Can Be No Justice Until Capitalism Is Removed From The Earth. popularresistance.org "What is the path that we are going to chart towards socialism?" This is the question that animated the first day of the 'Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism' conference, which is being held in South Africa between July 17 to 20. | The conference has been divided into commissions, each with a mandate to deliberate upon a particular theme and draft a concrete plan of action which will be adopted in the form of a resolution on the final day. The commissions on July 17 addressed the themes of food sovereignty and agroecology, gender struggles against patriarchy, and urban struggles for hou…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-19). What are the Dilemmas of Humanity today? peoplesdispatch.org We bring you glimpses from the first day of the Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism conference that is currently underway in South Africa. Delegates from across the continent are deliberating on the crisis of capitalism and the socialist alternatives of our time…

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-20). Video: Capitalism in Crisis. greenleft.org.au

Editor (2023-07-19). Patriarchy and the origins of women's oppression. mronline.org Any vision of a world beyond capitalism involves the liberation of women from oppression, exploitation and discrimination. But just because we might have been able to win revolutionary social change, it does not mean that equal economic, social and cultural rights will be automatic for women.

Ian Angus (2023-07-19). Ecosocialist Bookshelf, July 2023. greenleft.org.au Wildfires, deadly heat, climate strategy, sensing the world, anti-science, mining resistance. Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents six important new books for reds and greens.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-19). For US workers, capitalism brings the heat. peoplesdispatch.org

Jaime Richart (2023-07-19). La patética lógica del gobernante. globalizacion.ca Dice Karl Marx que la política es una mera superestructura cambiante de lo económico. Si aceptamos este aserto, los políticos de las democracias occidentales de partidos son meros rehenes de los poderes que manejan la economía y especialmente la financiera….

Chauncey K. Robinson (2023-07-19). 'Oppenheimer' review: Masterful exploration of history, anti-communism, and the Atomic Age's legacy. peoplesworld.org This review was published during the historic SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes. People's World acknowledges that film and television would not be possible without the workers who make it happen. We stand in solidarity with the strike and the workers. The existence of a film like Oppenheimer shows just how necessary it is to teach history …

Editor (2023-07-20). The World Needs a New Development Theory That Does Not Trap the Poor in Poverty. scheerpost.com By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research In June, the United Nations' Sustainable Development Solutions Network published its Sustainable Development Report 2023, which tracks the progress of the 193 member states towards attaining the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 'From 2015 to 2019', the network wrote, 'the world made some progress on the SDGs, although this was already …

Damian Balassone (2023-07-20). Poem: Spiritual Land/Spiritless Man. greenleft.org.au Damian Balassone, on the poverty of spirit.

isabella (2023-07-19). What Decades of Social Work Taught Me About Poverty. inequality.org

Thalia Charles (2023-07-19). Guaranteed Income Programs Are Uplifting Oppressed Communities Across the US. truthout.org The expanded child tax credit, signed into law by President Joe Biden more than two years ago, provided families with children with monthly installments of $250 or $300, reduced rates of child poverty, and served as a lifeline for low-income families. The tax credit expired after the 2022 tax year, and efforts to revive it were unsuccessful. In its absence, local and state organizers and advocates… |

Tanupriya Singh, People's Dispatch. (2023-07-20). There Can Be No Justice Until Capitalism Is Removed From The Earth. popularresistance.org "What is the path that we are going to chart towards socialism?" This is the question that animated the first day of the 'Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism' conference, which is being held in South Africa between July 17 to 20. | The conference has been divided into commissions, each with a mandate to deliberate upon a particular theme and draft a concrete plan of action which will be adopted in the form of a resolution on the final day. The commissions on July 17 addressed the themes of food sovereignty and agroecology, gender struggles against patriarchy, and urban struggles for hou…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-19). What are the Dilemmas of Humanity today? peoplesdispatch.org We bring you glimpses from the first day of the Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism conference that is currently underway in South Africa. Delegates from across the continent are deliberating on the crisis of capitalism and the socialist alternatives of our time…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-07-18). "There Can Be No Justice Until Capitalism is Removed from the Earth" libya360.wordpress.com Tanupriya Singh As the 'Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism' conference kicks off in South Africa, peoples' movements and organizations have convened to discuss concrete strategies for a united struggle against the violence of capitalism and imperialism "What is the path that we are going to chart towards socialism?" This is the question…

Ian Angus (2023-07-19). Ecosocialist Bookshelf, July 2023. greenleft.org.au Wildfires, deadly heat, climate strategy, sensing the world, anti-science, mining resistance. Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents six important new books for reds and greens.

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-19). Video: Capitalism in Crisis. greenleft.org.au

Editor (2023-07-19). Patriarchy and the origins of women's oppression. mronline.org Any vision of a world beyond capitalism involves the liberation of women from oppression, exploitation and discrimination. But just because we might have been able to win revolutionary social change, it does not mean that equal economic, social and cultural rights will be automatic for women.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-19). For US workers, capitalism brings the heat. peoplesdispatch.org

teleSUR, YSM (2023-07-19). Canciller de Venezuela insta a construir un mundo diferente. telesurtv.net Gil resaltó las alianzas del capitalismo con el fascismo en distintos momentos de la historia, y destacó que en los últimos tiempos, se evidencian en el avance de las derechas.

Bruce Lerro (2023-07-18). The Cycles and Spirals of Capitalism. dissidentvoice.org Orientation How long has capitalism existed? Has it always been with us all the way back to tribal societies or is it a product of the modern age? Is there any pattern to its evolution? Is it cyclic, spiral-like or random? What is the nature of capitalist crises? Why does capitalism grow flush in certain …

The Lever (2023-07-18). üéß MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: Dr. Strangelove (w/ Matthew Cunningham-Cook). levernews.com

Jaime Richart (2023-07-19). La patética lógica del gobernante. globalizacion.ca Dice Karl Marx que la política es una mera superestructura cambiante de lo económico. Si aceptamos este aserto, los políticos de las democracias occidentales de partidos son meros rehenes de los poderes que manejan la economía y especialmente la financiera….

midwesternmarx (2023-07-18). They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine By: Chris Hedges. midwesternmarx.com he playbook the pimps of war use to lure us into one military fiasco after another, including Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and now Ukraine, does not change. Freedom and democracy are threatened. Evil must be vanquished. Human rights must be protected. The fate of Europe and NATO, along with a "rules based international order" is at stake. Victory is assured.The results are also the same. The justifications and narratives are exposed as lies. The cheery prognosis is …

midwesternmarx (2023-07-18). WILL BIDEN DESTROY THE UPS STRIKE? By: Chris Townsend. midwesternmarx.com EDITORS NOTE: Just before this posting of Marxism-Leninism Today, it was reported on July 16th that Teamster President Sean O'Brien had requested that President Joe Biden not involve himself in a possible strike at UPS. ​Final union contract negotiations are proceeding between the Teamsters Union and the gigantic and super-profitable UPS (United Parcel Service) Corporation. Will the 330,000 union members be forced to strike on August 1? Will UPS agree to the reasonable demand …

thecommunists (2023-07-19). As Ukraine bleeds, British defence minister looks to a new life. thecommunists.org The following article is reproduced from The Indicter with thanks. ***** The recent notice of resignation by the British defence minister Ben Wallace provides another insight into how impunity operates inside British imperialism. Mediocrities rising to positions of tremendous influence in the imperialist British parliamentary system are free to wreak unimaginable havoc upon the world, …

ecns.cn (2023-07-19). Insights | South Korean student: CPC devotes itself to China's development, strives for Chinese people's happiness. ecns.cn The Communist Party of China (CPC) is committed to the development of the country and strives for the happiness of the Chinese people, said South Korean student Bae Eun Yeong in an interview with China News Network.

Chauncey K. Robinson (2023-07-19). 'Oppenheimer' review: Masterful exploration of history, anti-communism, and the Atomic Age's legacy. peoplesworld.org This review was published during the historic SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes. People's World acknowledges that film and television would not be possible without the workers who make it happen. We stand in solidarity with the strike and the workers. The existence of a film like Oppenheimer shows just how necessary it is to teach history …

thecommunists (2023-07-18). An NHS nurse speaks out on pay, privatisation and demoralisation. thecommunists.org The following article was written by a long-serving NHS nurse and party member. ***** A myth was perpetrated in the late 19th century that continues to this day. A new political party, the Labour party, had been born to represent the interests and needs of the urban working class — but, looking back, when has …

Damian Balassone (2023-07-20). Poem: Spiritual Land/Spiritless Man. greenleft.org.au Damian Balassone, on the poverty of spirit.

midwesternmarx (2023-07-18). WILL BIDEN DESTROY THE UPS STRIKE? By: Chris Townsend. midwesternmarx.com EDITORS NOTE: Just before this posting of Marxism-Leninism Today, it was reported on July 16th that Teamster President Sean O'Brien had requested that President Joe Biden not involve himself in a possible strike at UPS. ​Final union contract negotiations are proceeding between the Teamsters Union and the gigantic and super-profitable UPS (United Parcel Service) Corporation. Will the 330,000 union members be forced to strike on August 1? Will UPS agree to the reasonable demand …

thecommunists (2023-07-19). As Ukraine bleeds, British defence minister looks to a new life. thecommunists.org The following article is reproduced from The Indicter with thanks. ***** The recent notice of resignation by the British defence minister Ben Wallace provides another insight into how impunity operates inside British imperialism. Mediocrities rising to positions of tremendous influence in the imperialist British parliamentary system are free to wreak unimaginable havoc upon the world, …

ecns.cn (2023-07-19). Insights | South Korean student: CPC devotes itself to China's development, strives for Chinese people's happiness. ecns.cn The Communist Party of China (CPC) is committed to the development of the country and strives for the happiness of the Chinese people, said South Korean student Bae Eun Yeong in an interview with China News Network.

Chauncey K. Robinson (2023-07-19). 'Oppenheimer' review: Masterful exploration of history, anti-communism, and the Atomic Age's legacy. peoplesworld.org This review was published during the historic SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes. People's World acknowledges that film and television would not be possible without the workers who make it happen. We stand in solidarity with the strike and the workers. The existence of a film like Oppenheimer shows just how necessary it is to teach history …

thecommunists (2023-07-18). An NHS nurse speaks out on pay, privatisation and demoralisation. thecommunists.org The following article was written by a long-serving NHS nurse and party member. ***** A myth was perpetrated in the late 19th century that continues to this day. A new political party, the Labour party, had been born to represent the interests and needs of the urban working class — but, looking back, when has …

Damian Balassone (2023-07-20). Poem: Spiritual Land/Spiritless Man. greenleft.org.au Damian Balassone, on the poverty of spirit.

isabella (2023-07-19). What Decades of Social Work Taught Me About Poverty. inequality.org

Thalia Charles (2023-07-19). Guaranteed Income Programs Are Uplifting Oppressed Communities Across the US. truthout.org The expanded child tax credit, signed into law by President Joe Biden more than two years ago, provided families with children with monthly installments of $250 or $300, reduced rates of child poverty, and served as a lifeline for low-income families. The tax credit expired after the 2022 tax year, and efforts to revive it were unsuccessful. In its absence, local and state organizers and advocates… |

Tanupriya Singh (2023-07-18). "There can be no justice until capitalism is removed from the Earth" peoplesdispatch.org As the 'Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism' conference kicks off in South Africa, peoples' movements and organizations have convened to discuss concrete strategies for a united struggle against the violence of capitalism and imperialism…

Walter Smolarek (2023-07-17). Three things a socialist government would be doing RIGHT NOW to tackle the heat wave. liberationnews.org If the government and the economy were controlled by the people instead of the billionaires — socialism — then we could immediately get to work on solutions.

Tanupriya Singh, People's Dispatch. (2023-07-17). Africa's Path To Socialism. popularresistance.org On Monday, July 17, 200 delegates from progressive organizations, political parties, people's movements, and trade unions across the African continent will gather in Bela-Bela, South Africa for the "Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism" conference. | Over the course of four days, delegates will interact and deliberate on the myriad challenges that capitalism poses for working class people today, and importantly, advance concrete proposals of action to build socialism "within our lifetime." The event is being held at a critical juncture. "The world is changing, and it is changing very fas…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-17). Charting a Socialist path for Africa. peoplesdispatch.org 200 delegates from political parties and people's movements have gathered for the "Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism" conference. The delegates talk about why this conference is important and the socialist path forward for the challenges faced by the continent…

The Lever (2023-07-18). üéß MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: Dr. Strangelove (w/ Matthew Cunningham-Cook). levernews.com

teleSUR, YSM (2023-07-18). Canciller de Venezuela insta a construir un mundo diferente. telesurtv.net Gil resaltó las alianzas del capitalismo con el fascismo en distintos momentos de la historia, y destacó que en los últimos tiempos, se evidencian en el avance de las derechas.

Megan Sherman (2023-07-18). Capitalism's Failed Paradigm. globalresearch.ca

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-18). Video: Capitalism in Crisis. greenleft.org.au

teleSUR odr DRL (2023-07-18). Fallece el intelectual alemán Franz Josef Hinkelammert. telesurtv.net Dentro de sus aportes contamos con los realizados en el campo de la teología de la liberación, el humanismo y la crítica teológica al capitalismo, así como sus relecturas del marxismo.

midwesternmarx (2023-07-17). The attempted coup in Nicaragua in 2018: Why support for it collapsed By: John Perry, Daniel Kovalik. midwesternmarx.com Two previous articles (1, 2) described the build up to the attempted coup in Nicaragua and how the media were crucial in convincing the public to support it. This article, covering the period from May 30 onwards, shows how the initial support peaked, then collapsed. After more than a month of conflict, most Nicaraguans hoped that a "national dialogue" set up by the Catholic church would lead to peace, but in fact it led to renewed violence. During the hiatus before the d …

midwesternmarx (2023-07-17). Why are there no slums in China? By: Dongsheng. midwesternmarx.com ​With over 20 million inhabitants each, Shanghai and Beijing are among the "hypercities" of the Global South, including Delhi, São Paulo, Dhaka, Cairo, and Mexico City, far surpassing the "megacities" of the Global North like London, Paris, or New York1. Walking the streets in China's cities, you will however, quickly notice one marked difference — the absence of large slums or pervasive homelessness that is so common to most of the rest of …

midwesternmarx (2023-07-17). A Brutal Colonial Legacy Is Tinder for the Fires That Are SweepingAcross France By: Vijay Prashad>. midwesternmarx.com On Saturday, July 1, 2023, a large crowd gathered inside and around the Ibn Badis Mosque in Nanterre, France, where a seventeen-year-old boy, Nahel M, was mourned and then later buried. Nahel M, of Algerian and Tunisian heritage, was shot dead by a police officer during a traffic stop. It was clear that the police officer had not acted in self-defense but had shot the young man in cold blood. A wave of outrage swept through the country, with protests and riots breaking out across France. …

midwesternmarx (2023-07-17). Silence of the Lambs: How the Russian Communists have responded to the Wagner mutiny and Prigozhin's Empire By: John Helmer. midwesternmarx.com The calls have begun in Moscow, starting among the war blogs and battlefield reporters, for keeping intact Yevgeny Prigozhin's conglomerate of military budget contractors. The reason argued is that they have established themselves so strategically in the logistics of the military services that they cannot be purged without doing greater damage than Prigozhin himself has caused.In short, a Russian oligarch who knows too much, with too many mouths to feed, too many pockets to fill, an …

ecns.cn (2023-07-18). Insights | Australian sinologist: Great accomplishments of China couldn't have been obtained without CPC. ecns.cn The year 2023 marks the 102nd anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC). In a recent exclusive interview with China News Network, Colin Mackerras, an Australian sinologist, highly commended the achievements of the CPC in multiple areas and pointed out that those achievements of China, from maintaining national stability to building infrastructure, developing the economy, and to promoting the status of women, could not have been obtained without the CPC's leadership.

Yasiel Betancourt Clavijo (2023-07-18). Colombian Communist Party ratified its duty with social justice. plenglish.com Bogotá, Jul 18 (Prensa Latina) Yesterday, the Colombian Communist Party (PCC) in a message to the nation on the occasion of its 93rd anniversary expressed its commitment to the struggles for social justice.

_____ (2023-07-17). Listening to Oppenheimer, Seven Decades Later. transcend.org 12 Jul 2023 – A mere 55 years after his death, the U.S. government has restored J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance, which the Atomic Energy Commission had taken away from him in 1954, declaring him to be not simply a communist but, in all likelihood, a Soviet spy.

Deb Sitarski (2023-07-18). What Decades of Social Work Taught Me About Poverty. otherwords.org If my decades of work as a social worker taught me one great lesson, it's this. Poverty is an entrenched system of political choices by self-serving lawmakers, not a personal failing of ordinary people. Poverty is not, and never has been, a crime. | I've worked with many economically struggling people. I grew up in meager circumstances myself and well remember the stigma and shame of having to do without. | And this I can tell you: Not one person I've ever met wants to be poor, sick, disabled, struggling, or on the receiving end of public assistance programs. These programs are vital but often inadequate and diff…

teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2023-07-17). Oposición gana en primarias en Santa Fe, Argentina. telesurtv.net La alianza opositora Unidos Para Cambiar Santa Fe fue integrada por Propuesta Republicana, el partido de Mauricio Macri, la Unión Cívica Radical y el socialismo.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-17). Charting a Socialist path for Africa. peoplesdispatch.org 200 delegates from political parties and people's movements have gathered for the "Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism" conference. The delegates talk about why this conference is important and the socialist path forward for the challenges faced by the continent…

Tanupriya Singh (2023-07-16). Africa's path to socialism. peoplesdispatch.org 200 delegates from 40 organizations are gathering in South Africa for the "Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism" conference. For the next four days, progressive movements and organizations will discuss the challenges posed by capitalism, and articulate the socialist way forward…

WSWS (2023-07-17). Actors and writers bring film and television production in the US to a halt, with growing impact in Canada, UK. wsws.org Tens of millions of people around the globe have become aware of this social conflict in the US which further helps to puncture the myths that American capitalism peddles about itself.

Colin Todhunter (2023-07-16). What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…

ecns.cn (2023-07-17). Xi stresses advancing high-quality development of internet and information technology sector. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, has given important instructions on cyber security and information technology application work.

thecommunists (2023-07-17). EVENT: Trade unionism and working-class leadership. thecommunists.org On Saturday 29 July , the CPGB-ML will be holding a seminar in London on trade unionism and working-class leadership and hear from our guest speaker on the French perspective. We will be drawing from our recent publication dealing with these matters; Manifesto for the Crisis: Class Against Class. Event details 2.00pm on Saturday 29 …

thecommunists (2023-07-17). Reflections on a visit to China and its path to modernisation. thecommunists.org Between 16-29 April 2023, representatives of communist and progressive organisations from 15 countries were invited by the international department of the…

_____ (2023-07-16). NATO Has Been Nothing but Trouble for Ukraine. strategic-culture.org

Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. (2023-07-16). Chris Hedges: American Poverty Is A Calamity By Design. popularresistance.org Some 50 million people in the United States live in poverty today—and over 108 million people survive on less than $55,000 a year. Despite having the largest economy on earth, poverty in the US is often grinding and brutal. From millions who live without running water or reliable power, to countless children who experience food insecurity and homelessness. The data on poverty only becomes exacerbated when race is taken into account. In 2019, the median White household had a net worth of $188,200, compared with $24,100 for the median Black household. Matthew Desmond joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss h…

_____ (2023-07-16). NATO Has Been Nothing but Trouble for Ukraine. strategic-culture.org

Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. (2023-07-16). Chris Hedges: American Poverty Is A Calamity By Design. popularresistance.org Some 50 million people in the United States live in poverty today—and over 108 million people survive on less than $55,000 a year. Despite having the largest economy on earth, poverty in the US is often grinding and brutal. From millions who live without running water or reliable power, to countless children who experience food insecurity and homelessness. The data on poverty only becomes exacerbated when race is taken into account. In 2019, the median White household had a net worth of $188,200, compared with $24,100 for the median Black household. Matthew Desmond joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss h…

Colin Todhunter (2023-07-16). What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…

Editor (2023-07-15). Engels: How North West England shaped an internationalist. mronline.org Katherine Connelly outlines how the events and context of their times shaped the partnership and ideas of Marx and Engels.

ecns.cn (2023-07-16). Xi stresses advancing high-quality development of internet and information technology sector. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, has given important instructions on cyber security and information technology application work.

ecns.cn (2023-07-15). Insights | Malaysian student: China has developed by leaps and bounds under the leadership of the CPC. ecns.cn The year 2023 marks the 102nd anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Malaysian student Toh Wei Yuan is quite impressed with how China has developed and progressed by leaps and bounds over the years under the leadership of the CPC. During an interview with ECNS, she shared her observation.

Pavel López Lazo (2023-07-15). China to avoid bloc confrontation in Asia-Pacific region. plenglish.com The head of the Chinese Communist Party's Foreign Affairs Commission and member of its Political Bureau, Wang Yi, made this appeal during the Foreign Ministers' Meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which is taking place in Indonesia. | According to the Xinhua news agency, the senior diplomat urged the other members to adhere to openness and inclusiveness, in addition to promoting common security. In this regard, he opposed the so-called Asia-Pacific version of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that incites confrontation in the region. | The Treaty of Friendship and Cooperatio…

Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. (2023-07-16). Chris Hedges: American Poverty Is A Calamity By Design. popularresistance.org Some 50 million people in the United States live in poverty today—and over 108 million people survive on less than $55,000 a year. Despite having the largest economy on earth, poverty in the US is often grinding and brutal. From millions who live without running water or reliable power, to countless children who experience food insecurity and homelessness. The data on poverty only becomes exacerbated when race is taken into account. In 2019, the median White household had a net worth of $188,200, compared with $24,100 for the median Black household. Matthew Desmond joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss h…

Vijay Prashad (2023-07-15). The World Needs a New Development Theory That Does Not Trap the Poor in Poverty. dissidentvoice.org The Akosombo Dam in the Volta River, inaugurated in 1965 during Kwame Nkrumah's presidency. In June, the United Nations' Sustainable Development Solutions Network published its Sustainable Development Report 2023, which tracks the progress of the 193 member states towards attaining the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 'From 2015 to 2019', the network wrote, 'the world …

Colin Todhunter (2023-07-15). 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.

krish-rad_ind (2023-07-15). World Needs A New Development Theory That Does Not Trap The Poor In Poverty. popularresistance.org

Roberto Laxe (2023-07-14). La cuestión nacional en la guerra del siglo XXI. globalizacion.ca Desde el colapso de la URSS y la "muerte del socialismo" como proyecto social enfrentado al capitalismo en crisis, el debate en la izquierda está enrarecido por una ideología, el identitarismo sea nacional, de género o racial con una visión…

Editor (2023-07-15). Engels: How North West England shaped an internationalist. mronline.org Katherine Connelly outlines how the events and context of their times shaped the partnership and ideas of Marx and Engels.

ecns.cn (2023-07-15). Insights | Malaysian student: China has developed by leaps and bounds under the leadership of the CPC. ecns.cn The year 2023 marks the 102nd anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Malaysian student Toh Wei Yuan is quite impressed with how China has developed and progressed by leaps and bounds over the years under the leadership of the CPC. During an interview with ECNS, she shared her observation.

Pavel López Lazo (2023-07-15). China to avoid bloc confrontation in Asia-Pacific region. plenglish.com The head of the Chinese Communist Party's Foreign Affairs Commission and member of its Political Bureau, Wang Yi, made this appeal during the Foreign Ministers' Meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which is taking place in Indonesia. | According to the Xinhua news agency, the senior diplomat urged the other members to adhere to openness and inclusiveness, in addition to promoting common security. In this regard, he opposed the so-called Asia-Pacific version of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that incites confrontation in the region. | The Treaty of Friendship and Cooperatio…

A Guest Author (2023-07-14). Ukraine: Communist Kononovich brothers appeal for help. workers.org The following statement of July 5, 2023, from Mikhail and Aleksander Kononovich updates a report published earlier in Workers World about the Kiev regime's persecution of leftists. (workers.org/2022/04/63662/) We Kononovich brothers, Ukrainian communists and anti-fascists, appeal to the World Federation of Democratic Youth, communists, all leftists and anti-fascists of Europe . . . |

Editor (2023-07-14). From ICC to 'Sportswashing': West's Self Serving Narratives Must Be Combated. scheerpost.com By Ramzy Baroud / CounterPunch In March, the South Africa Communist Party (SACP) denounced what it described as the 'imperialist bias' of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The denunciation of the ICC as a "supranational institution at the service of imperialist states" came two days after the Hague-based court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and …

Staff (2023-07-14). Interview: Freeing Georges Abdallah requires collective action. samidoun.net On Tuesday, 11 July, the Lebanese TV channel Al Mayadeen conducted an interview with a member of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra (a member organization of the Samidoun NetworK) about the mobilization for the release of Georges Abdallah. Tom Martin, speaking for CPV, emphasized the significant growth of the campaign in support of the Lebanese Arab communist struggler …

Pavel López Lazo (2023-07-14). Cuba celebrates UPEC ¥s 60th foundation anniversary. plenglish.com Havana, Jul 14 (Prensa Latina) The Association of Journalists of Cuba (UPEC) held on Friday a commemorative ceremony for its 60th foundation anniversary, an activity that will be attended by the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) President Esteban Lazo, Secretary of Organization of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) Roberto Morales, Deputy Prime Minister Inés María Chapman, as well as other high-ranking officials and leaders.

Colin Todhunter (2023-07-15). 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.

Vijay Prashad (2023-07-15). The World Needs a New Development Theory That Does Not Trap the Poor in Poverty. dissidentvoice.org The Akosombo Dam in the Volta River, inaugurated in 1965 during Kwame Nkrumah's presidency. In June, the United Nations' Sustainable Development Solutions Network published its Sustainable Development Report 2023, which tracks the progress of the 193 member states towards attaining the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 'From 2015 to 2019', the network wrote, 'the world …

Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. (2023-07-15). World Needs A New Development Theory That Does Not Trap The Poor In Poverty. popularresistance.org In June, the United Nations' Sustainable Development Solutions Network published its Sustainable Development Report 2023, which tracks the progress of the 193 member states towards attaining the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 'From 2015 to 2019', the network wrote, 'the world made some progress on the SDGs, although this was already vastly insufficient to achieve the goals. Since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020 and other simultaneous crises, SDG progress has stalled globally'. This development agenda was adopted in 2015, with targets intended to be met by 2030.

Chris Hedges (2023-07-14). American poverty is a calamity by design. therealnews.com Some 50 million people in the United States live in poverty today—and over 108 million people survive on less than $55,000 a year. Despite having the largest economy on earth, poverty in the US is often grinding and brutal. From millions who live without running water or reliable power, to countless children who experience food insecurity and homelessness. The data on poverty only becomes exacerbated when race is taken into account. In 2019, the median White household had a net worth of $188,200, compared with $24,100 for the median Black household. Matthew Desmond joins The Chris Hedges Report to dis…

teleSUR (2023-07-14). Colombia to Propose Debt-for-Climate Swap in EU-CELAC Summit. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro confirmed his participation in the 3rd Summit of Heads of State and Government of the European Union (EU) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), which will take place in Brussels on July 17 and 18. | RELATED: | In this high-level meeting, he will present his main government proposals, such as the achievement of total peace, the use of clean energy, the fight against poverty, and the debt swap for…

Vijay Prashad (2023-07-14). The world needs a new development theory that does not trap the poor in poverty: The Twenty-Eighth Newsletter (2023). mronline.org In June, the United Nations' Sustainable Development Solutions Network published its Sustainable Development Report 2023, which tracks the progress of the 193 member states towards attaining the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

WSWS (2023-07-14). PSOE-Podemos government intensifies Spain's housing crisis and pushes thousands into poverty. wsws.org None of the political parties standing for the July 23 general election offer any solution to the mounting social misery, particularly among working-class households and young people.

Pavel López Lazo (2023-07-14). UNDP urges G20 to pause debt payments as global poverty rates surge. plenglish.com United Nations, Jul 14 (Prensa Latina) The UN Development Program (UNDP) on Friday urged the G-20 (the world's most developed economies) to give poor nations debt payment breaks, estimating the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent surge in inflation and borrowing costs had pushed an extra 165 million people into poverty.