WSWS (2022-12-13). To fight for the future we must fight for socialism! wsws.org These are the introductory remarks by Gregor Link, a member of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality in Germany, to the December 10 rally, "For a Mass Movement of Students and Youth to Stop the War in Ukraine!"

Colin Todhunter (2022-12-13). The Netherlands: Template for Ecomodernism's Brave New World? dissidentvoice.org Disaster capitalism and crisis narratives are currently being used to manipulate popular sentiment and push through a set of unpalatable policies that would otherwise lack sufficient political support. These policies are being promoted by wealthy interests that stand to make billions of dollars from what is being proposed. They seek to gain full control of food …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-12-12). U.S. Imperialism is Bringing Eurasia Towards a Repeat of World War II. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea A reaction to Operation Z's impacts that I've seen from Marxists in the imperial center is one of alarm, in which it's appeared to them that Russia was reckless for deciding to intervene in Ukraine. They've seen Sweden and Finland's joining NATO, the crackdown on anti-imperialist sentiments, the further neoliberalization that the EU…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-12-12). Dakar Manifesto: Africa: From Resistance to Alternatives, 2001. orinocotribune.com By Black Agenda Report Nov 9, 2022 | The 2001 Dakar Manifesto had a simple but unassailable claim: the total and unconditional cancellation of the odious African debt. | Two recent incidents demonstrate in unembellished and unambiguous fashion how capitalism, to paraphrase the great Walter Rodney, continues to exploit and under-develop Africa. First, the UK's Serious Fraud Office convicted a subsidiary of the Anglo-Swiss multinational corporation Glencore of paying millions of dollars in bribes to state-owned companies in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and South Sudan, in order to buy pri…

Staughton Lynd (2022-12-12). Our kind of Marxist: an interview with Staughton Lynd. mronline.org In my opinion, American capitalism no longer has any use for, let's say, 40 percent of the population. These are the descendants of folks who were brought over here in one way or another during the period of capital accumulation. They're now superfluous human beings.

Norman Markowitz (2022-12-12). Manuel Tiago's 'A Line in the Sand': How to beat back a fascist coup. peoplesworld.org I remember reading accounts of àÅlvaro Cunhal, leading Portuguese Communist, in the U.S. after the 1974 military coup and popular uprising ended the long fascist regime of Salazar and his successors. Cunhal was often denounced as a rigid and dogmatic "Stalinist" and defender of the Soviet Union. Fortunately, I had already learned to question capitalist …

Robert Griffiths (2022-12-12). Split between Venezuela's Communists and Maduro's ruling party deepens. peoplesworld.org CARACAS—Venezuela's economy is likely to grow faster than most this year and next, according to Credit Suisse. GDP is forecast to have grown by as much as 20% this year (the IMF reckons 6%), up from around 4% in 2021 (the IMF claims 0.5%), before easing down to 7 or 8% in 2023. But there …

Fight Back (2022-12-11). Red Theory: The achievements of socialism in the Soviet Union. fightbacknews.org As Marxist-Leninists in the United States, we can draw lessons from the experiences of others in carrying out revolution and building socialism. While every revolutionary struggle must be firmly based on the concrete analysis of its own conditions, we should still study closely both the successes and failures in the rich experience of the Soviet Union. From that experience we can draw both lessons from their struggle as well as inspiration from their heroic achievements. In the next article we will examine the causes of the collapse of the USSR and draw lessons from it, but here let's look at all that it achieved…

Bruce Lerro (2022-12-11). Multiple Economic Fractures in Mordor. dissidentvoice.org Orientation The golden age of left-wing economists In part because the 1960s was still a period of capitalist abundance, there were few socialists in Yankeedom who pointed to the economic contradictions of capitalism as a motivator for the coming revolution. "Western Marxists" ignored the economy, imagining capitalism could go on forever. As first anarcho-communist and …

_____ (2022-12-11). Making 'The Right To The City' Real For Urban Dwellers Worldwide. popularresistance.org This International Human Rights Day, as our mostly urban world is increasingly challenged by rising poverty, migration, inequality and climate risk, let us think about what it would mean to truly enjoy the "right to the city." | From the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the end of World War II to the ensuing drumbeat of further international rights covenants, conventions and declarations, the language of protection and universality of rights would seem to be ubiquitous and generally agreed. | Yet discrimination persists. In cities, it most often manifests itself against low-income families,…

Bruce Lerro (2022-12-11). Multiple Economic Fractures in Mordor. dissidentvoice.org Orientation The golden age of left-wing economists In part because the 1960s was still a period of capitalist abundance, there were few socialists in Yankeedom who pointed to the economic contradictions of capitalism as a motivator for the coming revolution. "Western Marxists" ignored the economy, imagining capitalism could go on forever. As first anarcho-communist and …

Fight Back (2022-12-11). Red Theory: The achievements of socialism in the Soviet Union. fightbacknews.org As Marxist-Leninists in the United States, we can draw lessons from the experiences of others in carrying out revolution and building socialism. While every revolutionary struggle must be firmly based on the concrete analysis of its own conditions, we should still study closely both the successes and failures in the rich experience of the Soviet Union. From that experience we can draw both lessons from their struggle as well as inspiration from their heroic achievements. In the next article we will examine the causes of the collapse of the USSR and draw lessons from it, but here let's look at all that it achieved…

_____ (2022-12-11). Making 'The Right To The City' Real For Urban Dwellers Worldwide. popularresistance.org This International Human Rights Day, as our mostly urban world is increasingly challenged by rising poverty, migration, inequality and climate risk, let us think about what it would mean to truly enjoy the "right to the city." | From the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the end of World War II to the ensuing drumbeat of further international rights covenants, conventions and declarations, the language of protection and universality of rights would seem to be ubiquitous and generally agreed. | Yet discrimination persists. In cities, it most often manifests itself against low-income families,…

_____ (2022-12-10). Next On The US Supreme Court Chopping Block: Democracy. popularresistance.org On December 7, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments for the case Moore v. Harper, a case which could effectively eliminate the influence of the popular vote in presidential elections. In Moore, a case which the Court, now dominated by a far-right majority, will likely decide before July 2023, it is possible that justices will rule in favor of allowing state legislatures the authority to decide the outcome of presidential elections, regardless of the popular vote. | Peoples Dispatch spoke to Brian Becker, founding member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) and part of the PSL's central…

Denis Pilash (2022-12-10). Video: Ukraine, imperialism and the left. greenleft.org.au Ecosocialism 2022 session on Ukraine, imperialism and the left featuring Denis Pilash and Sam Wainwright.

Susan Price (2022-12-10). Philippines: Ecosocialism launched. greenleft.org.au Socialist and environmental activists came together to launch a course of educational seminars on ecosocialism in the Philippines' capital, Manila, on November 25, reports Susan Price.

WSWS (2022-12-10). Humboldt University students in Berlin support call for an international mass movement against war. wsws.org "NATO must stop with its threatening gestures and expansions to the East and stop its provocations. Capitalism is a global problem. There must be no war that takes place merely for the interests of the rulers. Workers must unite against it."

WSWS (2022-12-10). The class logic behind Washington's anti-strike law against railroaders. wsws.org The policy of the Biden administration is determined not one iota by dishonest phrases meant for public consumption, but entirely by the class interests of American capitalism.

Staff (2022-12-10). øSe garantizan los derechos humanos en Cuba?: Una mirada desde la sociedad civil. cubadebate.cu "La Revolución, el Socialismo cubano, ha demostrado que es un sistema de todos y para todos; que no es perfecto —porque la perfección no existe-, pero es el sistema más justo al que se puede aspirar. Es un sistema basado en la justicia social, la igualdad, el humanismo, en darle un espacio dentro de nuestra sociedad a todas y todos".

Bruce Lerro (2022-12-11). Multiple Economic Fractures in Mordor. dissidentvoice.org Orientation The golden age of left-wing economists In part because the 1960s was still a period of capitalist abundance, there were few socialists in Yankeedom who pointed to the economic contradictions of capitalism as a motivator for the coming revolution. "Western Marxists" ignored the economy, imagining capitalism could go on forever. As first anarcho-communist and …

Denis Pilash (2022-12-10). Video: Ukraine, imperialism and the left. greenleft.org.au Ecosocialism 2022 session on Ukraine, imperialism and the left featuring Denis Pilash and Sam Wainwright.

WSWS (2022-12-10). Humboldt University students in Berlin support call for an international mass movement against war. wsws.org "NATO must stop with its threatening gestures and expansions to the East and stop its provocations. Capitalism is a global problem. There must be no war that takes place merely for the interests of the rulers. Workers must unite against it."

Susan Price (2022-12-10). Philippines: Ecosocialism launched. greenleft.org.au Socialist and environmental activists came together to launch a course of educational seminars on ecosocialism in the Philippines' capital, Manila, on November 25, reports Susan Price.

_____ (2022-12-10). Next On The US Supreme Court Chopping Block: Democracy. popularresistance.org On December 7, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments for the case Moore v. Harper, a case which could effectively eliminate the influence of the popular vote in presidential elections. In Moore, a case which the Court, now dominated by a far-right majority, will likely decide before July 2023, it is possible that justices will rule in favor of allowing state legislatures the authority to decide the outcome of presidential elections, regardless of the popular vote. | Peoples Dispatch spoke to Brian Becker, founding member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) and part of the PSL's central…

WSWS (2022-12-10). The class logic behind Washington's anti-strike law against railroaders. wsws.org The policy of the Biden administration is determined not one iota by dishonest phrases meant for public consumption, but entirely by the class interests of American capitalism.

Staff (2022-12-10). øSe garantizan los derechos humanos en Cuba?: Una mirada desde la sociedad civil. cubadebate.cu "La Revolución, el Socialismo cubano, ha demostrado que es un sistema de todos y para todos; que no es perfecto —porque la perfección no existe-, pero es el sistema más justo al que se puede aspirar. Es un sistema basado en la justicia social, la igualdad, el humanismo, en darle un espacio dentro de nuestra sociedad a todas y todos".

Editor (2022-12-09). The Netherlands: Template for ecomodernism's Brave New World? mronline.org Disaster capitalism and crisis narratives are currently being used to manipulate popular sentiment and push through a set of unpalatable policies that would otherwise lack sufficient political support.

WSWS (2022-12-09). At the behest of world capitalism, Chinese Communist Party opens China to COVID-19. wsws.org The demand for mass infection in China comes not from the Chinese people but from international finance capital.

Fight Back (2022-12-09). Philippines: Raise the demand for freedom of all political prisoners. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). | The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) extends its solidarity to all political prisoners, their families, friends and supporters in line with the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War. The Filipino people, in particular, demand the release of all political prisoners who continue to languish in jail under the Marcos regime. | The number of political prisoners Philippines continues to rise. Over the past six month, at least 25 have been arrested, adding to…

Reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2022-12-09). Silvia Federici: Elogio del cuerpo que baila. indybay.org Un fragmento de "Ir más allá de la piel. Repensar, rehacer y reivindicar el cuerpo en el capitalismo contemporáneo", nuevo libro de Silvia Federici…

WSWS (2022-12-09). At the behest of world capitalism, Chinese Communist Party opens China to COVID-19. wsws.org The demand for mass infection in China comes not from the Chinese people but from international finance capital.

Reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2022-12-09). Silvia Federici: Elogio del cuerpo que baila. indybay.org Un fragmento de "Ir más allá de la piel. Repensar, rehacer y reivindicar el cuerpo en el capitalismo contemporáneo", nuevo libro de Silvia Federici…

C.J. Polychroniou (2022-12-08). Noam Chomsky: "We're on the Road to a Form of Neofascism" truthout.org Neoliberalism has reigned supreme as an economic philosophy for nearly half a century. But neoliberal policies have wreaked havoc around the world, reversing most gains made under managed capitalism after the end of the Second World War. Neoliberalism works only for the rich and the huge corporations. But the failures of neoliberalism extend beyond economics. They spread into politics as the… |

Colin Todhunter (2022-12-08). "Disaster Capitalism" in The Netherlands: Template for Ecomodernism's "Brave New World"? globalresearch.ca

Hina Naveed (2022-12-08). The Child Welfare System Needs an Overhaul. aclu.org This article was When I graduated from nursing school five years ago, I worked for an agency in New York City's foster care system. I believed I was helping families. But what I saw there was not a system working for children's best interests, but one that was quick to separate children from their parents because they were living in poverty. | I've since gone to law school and now work as a human rights advocate. For the past year, as a fellow with Human Rights Watch and…

_____ (2022-12-08). Robbing The Global South, Then Scorning Its Poverty. strategic-culture.org Michael Parenti has said that "Poor countries are not 'under-developed', they are over-exploited." The west tends to look down on the rest of the world for reasons that either directly or indirectly relate to the poverty in those nations, which is silly because that poverty comes largely from western theft and exploitation. It's like mugging someone and then scorning them for their empty wallet.

Fight Back (2022-12-07). Red Theory: Socialism and patriarchy, women's liberation and LGBTQ liberation. fightbacknews.org The historic task of the working class in the socialist revolution is to eliminate all oppression. This includes the oppression of women and LGBTQ people from the shackles of patriarchy. | In her 1949 article "We Seek Full Equality for Women," Claudia Jones states, "Marxism-Leninism exposes the core of the woman question and shows that the position of women in society is not always and everywhere the same, but derives from woman's relation to the mode of production." | In The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, Friedrich Engels gives us a historical materialist analysis of patriarchy's foundat…

Fight Back (2022-12-07). COP27 Recap and response: Green capitalism as class warfare. fightbacknews.org To no one's surprise, the COP27 conference has left the world much in the same place that COP26 did the year before, and COP25 before it, and so on. This November, world leaders convened in Egypt to discuss and debate what an international response to climate action could look like (or so they would like you to believe). | Some new measures were begrudgingly adopted, others swiftly shot down, and ultimately many attendees left exhausted and unenthused. For every step forward, there was a step back, as was summed up by chief Mexican climate negotiator Camila Zepeda, who said with quiet resignation, "you take a wi…

Maximillian Alvarez (2022-12-07). William Robinson: Global revolts in the age of COVID capitalism. therealnews.com Capitalism's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has come at the expense of the lives, health, and freedom of millions of poor and working people around the world. While corporations guzzle profits at every opportunity, governments have been ready to discipline workers to keep profits churning, and cooperation between capitalist states and the transnational capitalist class during COVID-19 has led to the erection of a global police state. What forms of resistance are taking shape around the globe to the emerging post-pandemic police state and a capitalist order dead set on destroying our shared planet and eve…

____ (2022-12-07). CPC leadership analyzes economic work for next year, makes arrangements for anti-graft work. ecns.cn The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee convened a meeting on Tuesday to analyze and study the economic work in 2023, and make arrangements for improving Party conduct and moral integrity and combating corruption.

____ (2022-12-07). China's leadership holds symposium for soliciting advice on economic work. ecns.cn The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has held a symposium with non-CPC personages to solicit opinions and suggestions on this year's economic situation and economic work for the next year.

Global Research News (2022-12-07). Selected Articles: The WEF Reveals the Agenda for Davos 2023. "Cooperation in a Fragmented World". Triggering Economic Chaos, Debt, Poverty and Social Tyranny Worldwide… globalresearch.ca By What can I say? I dipped in and out of …

Fight Back (2022-12-07). Red Theory: Socialism and patriarchy, women's liberation and LGBTQ liberation. fightbacknews.org The historic task of the working class in the socialist revolution is to eliminate all oppression. This includes the oppression of women and LGBTQ people from the shackles of patriarchy. | In her 1949 article "We Seek Full Equality for Women," Claudia Jones states, "Marxism-Leninism exposes the core of the woman question and shows that the position of women in society is not always and everywhere the same, but derives from woman's relation to the mode of production." | In The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, Friedrich Engels gives us a historical materialist analysis of patriarchy's foundat…

____ (2022-12-07). CPC leadership analyzes economic work for next year, makes arrangements for anti-graft work. ecns.cn The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee convened a meeting on Tuesday to analyze and study the economic work in 2023, and make arrangements for improving Party conduct and moral integrity and combating corruption.

____ (2022-12-07). China's leadership holds symposium for soliciting advice on economic work. ecns.cn The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has held a symposium with non-CPC personages to solicit opinions and suggestions on this year's economic situation and economic work for the next year.

Reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2022-12-07). Silvia Federici: Elogio del cuerpo que baila. indybay.org Un fragmento de "Ir más allá de la piel. Repensar, rehacer y reivindicar el cuerpo en el capitalismo contemporáneo", nuevo libro de Silvia Federici…

Anonymous349 (2022-12-06). Overview Of Ukrainian UAV Strikes On Russian Military Airfields Used By Strategic Bombers. southfront.org Satellite images and photos showing the impact of the Ukrainian drone strike on Russian military airfields at Dyagilevo and Engels have appeared online. | Images from Engels show traces of the fall of the UAV close to the Tu-22M3 bomber. The explosion killed 3 people and injured 4 others. The bomber received damage to the tail, elevators and an engine. | According to media reports, one of the main issues with this kind of damage is that engines for Tu-22M3 have not been produced for a lon…

_____ (2022-12-06). Ten Years Of Citizens Assemblies. popularresistance.org The assemblies started to happen in the times when there was a general feeling (in Europe) that everything was possible. After the economic crisis, municipalist movements came to life and older ideas of different political and economic systems (socialism, communism) became a possibility again. People suddenly realized that representative democracy really doesn't work and that alternative ways of decision making closer to communities are needed. This new optimistic wave of democracy was extremely strong in Maribor, which meant that a lot of people wanted to be part of the change. This resulted in a really high lev…

_____ (2022-12-06). Thousands March In Morocco To Protest Worsening Economy. popularresistance.org Thousands of people gathered at the Bab Al-Ahad Square in Moroccan capital Rabat on Sunday, December 4, as part of a national march against "high prices, political repression, and social oppression." The action was organized by the Moroccan Social Front (FSM), a coalition of left-wing political parties and trade unions, with support from leading human rights groups as well as various political, civil society, and sectoral organizations and unions. | "We came to protest a government that embodies the marriage between money and power and supports monopoly capitalism," declared Younes Ferachine, a coordinator at FSM…

_____ (2022-12-06). The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World. strategic-culture.org Andrew Doyle's The New Puritans: How The Religion of Social Justice Captured The Western World begins and ends with America's Salem Witch Trials. In between, he has twelve chapters, each of whose titles has a religious connotation and all of which, when taken collectively, fillet not only Critical Race Theory (CRT) but all of its neo Marxist derivatives. If you are looking for a book to assail all such nonsense, this is the tome for you.

Niniek Karmini (2022-12-06). New Indonesian law: No sex outside marriage, no abortion, no Marxism. peoplesworld.org JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP)—Indonesia's Parliament unanimously passed a long-expected revision of the country's penal code on Tuesday that criminalizes sex outside of marriage for citizens as well as foreigners, prohibits promotion of contraception, forbids progressive political thought, and bans defamation of the president and state institutions. The amended code also expands an existing blasphemy law and …

Final Straw (2022-12-06). Final Straw: The Legacy of Ricardo Flores Magón. itsgoingdown.org Long-running anarchist radio and podcast show the Final Straw looks at the life and legacy of Mexican anarchist leader, Ricardo Flores Magón. Listen and Download HERE We just passed the 100th anniversary of the murder by incarceration and hounding of Mexican Revolutionary anarchist communist Ricardo Flores Magón on 21st of November. For this hour or…

WSWS (2022-12-06). Chinese Communist Party moves towards "herd immunity" policy. wsws.org Confronting economic crisis at home and under the conjoined pressures of international finance capital and the military provocations of US imperialism, the Xi government is scrapping China's Zero-COVID policy that has saved millions of lives.

Sikh for Truth (2022-12-06). The WEF Reveals the Agenda for Davos 2023. "Cooperation in a Fragmented World". Triggering Economic Chaos, Debt, Poverty and Social Tyranny Worldwide… globalresearch.ca

Dave DeCamp (2022-12-05). Explosions Hit Air Bases Deep Inside Russia, Killing Three Russian Soldiers. news.antiwar.com Explosions hit two Russian air bases deep inside Russian territory early Monday morning, killing three Russian soldiers and damaging two aircraft, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Blasts were reported at the Dyagilevo airfield in the Ryazan Oblast and Engels airfield in the Saratov Oblast, two locations that are over 250 miles from the Ukrainian border. …

Liberation Staff (2022-12-05). Order now! "The Supreme Court versus Democracy" liberationnews.org The newest pamphlet from the Party for Socialism and Liberation exposes the attempts of the right wing of the capitalist ruling class to alter the form of the political system in the United States to destroy core democratic rights.

Liberation Staff (2022-12-05). Order now! 'The Supreme Court versus Democracy'. liberationnews.org The newest pamphlet from the Party for Socialism and Liberation exposes the attempts of the right wing of the capitalist ruling class to alter the form of the political system in the United States to destroy core democratic rights.

John Bellamy Foster (2022-12-05). Engels and the second foundation of Marxism. mronline.org John Bellamy Foster, Editor of Monthly Review (New York, USA) gives our annual Engels Memorial Lecture, joint with the Working Class Movement Library.

____ (2022-12-05). Central delegation visits HK, Macao to deepen understanding of Party congress. ecns.cn Representatives from Hong Kong and Macao gathered to discuss the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China as a central government delegation arrived in the two special administrative regions.

____ (2022-12-05). CPC is active promoter, staunch defender of human rights cause: report. ecns.cn The Communist Party of China (CPC) is an active promoter and staunch defender of the human rights cause, and has always included respecting and protecting human rights as a key part of national governance, says a report on China's human rights development.

Laith Fadel (2022-12-05). New Colombian government seeks to end educational deficits. america.cgtn.com Colombia's new left-wing government under Gustavo Petro, has promised to tackle long-standing issues of inequality and poverty; however, the country has a long way to go to reverse decades of educational deficits while tackling new issues. CGTN's correspondent Michelle Begue has this story from Bogota.

____ (2022-12-05). (Franàßais) Préparons-Nous pour un Nouvel Ordre Mondial. transcend.org 1 décembre 2022 – La culture de la guerre est si fermement établie, en particulier dans l'État moderne, qu'une culture de la paix ne peut être achèvée qu'avec un changement radical dans la gouvernance mondiale. Pour comprendre la nature du changement radical, je me tourne vers ce vieil expert, Karl Marx.

Anonymous349 (2022-12-06). Overview Of Ukrainian UAV Strikes On Russian Military Airfields Used By Strategic Bombers. southfront.org Satellite images and photos showing the impact of the Ukrainian drone strike on Russian military airfields at Dyagilevo and Engels have appeared online. | Images from Engels show traces of the fall of the UAV close to the Tu-22M3 bomber. The explosion killed 3 people and injured 4 others. The bomber received damage to the tail, elevators and an engine. | According to media reports, one of the main issues with this kind of damage is that engines for Tu-22M3 have not been produced for a lon…

Final Straw (2022-12-06). Final Straw: The Legacy of Ricardo Flores Magón. itsgoingdown.org Long-running anarchist radio and podcast show the Final Straw looks at the life and legacy of Mexican anarchist leader, Ricardo Flores Magón. Listen and Download HERE We just passed the 100th anniversary of the murder by incarceration and hounding of Mexican Revolutionary anarchist communist Ricardo Flores Magón on 21st of November. For this hour or…

WSWS (2022-12-06). Chinese Communist Party moves towards "herd immunity" policy. wsws.org Confronting economic crisis at home and under the conjoined pressures of international finance capital and the military provocations of US imperialism, the Xi government is scrapping China's Zero-COVID policy that has saved millions of lives.

Sikh for Truth (2022-12-06). The WEF Reveals the Agenda for Davos 2023. "Cooperation in a Fragmented World". Triggering Economic Chaos, Debt, Poverty and Social Tyranny Worldwide… globalresearch.ca

Reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2022-12-06). Silvia Federici: Elogio del cuerpo que baila. indybay.org Un fragmento de "Ir más allá de la piel. Repensar, rehacer y reivindicar el cuerpo en el capitalismo contemporáneo", nuevo libro de Silvia Federici…

Dave DeCamp (2022-12-05). Explosions Hit Air Bases Deep Inside Russia, Killing Three Russian Soldiers. news.antiwar.com Explosions hit two Russian air bases deep inside Russian territory early Monday morning, killing three Russian soldiers and damaging two aircraft, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Blasts were reported at the Dyagilevo airfield in the Ryazan Oblast and Engels airfield in the Saratov Oblast, two locations that are over 250 miles from the Ukrainian border. …

Liberation Staff (2022-12-05). Order now! "The Supreme Court versus Democracy" liberationnews.org The newest pamphlet from the Party for Socialism and Liberation exposes the attempts of the right wing of the capitalist ruling class to alter the form of the political system in the United States to destroy core democratic rights.

John Bellamy Foster (2022-12-05). Engels and the second foundation of Marxism. mronline.org John Bellamy Foster, Editor of Monthly Review (New York, USA) gives our annual Engels Memorial Lecture, joint with the Working Class Movement Library.

____ (2022-12-05). Central delegation visits HK, Macao to deepen understanding of Party congress. ecns.cn Representatives from Hong Kong and Macao gathered to discuss the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China as a central government delegation arrived in the two special administrative regions.

____ (2022-12-05). CPC is active promoter, staunch defender of human rights cause: report. ecns.cn The Communist Party of China (CPC) is an active promoter and staunch defender of the human rights cause, and has always included respecting and protecting human rights as a key part of national governance, says a report on China's human rights development.

Laith Fadel (2022-12-05). New Colombian government seeks to end educational deficits. america.cgtn.com Colombia's new left-wing government under Gustavo Petro, has promised to tackle long-standing issues of inequality and poverty; however, the country has a long way to go to reverse decades of educational deficits while tackling new issues. CGTN's correspondent Michelle Begue has this story from Bogota.

____ (2022-12-05). (Franàßais) Préparons-Nous pour un Nouvel Ordre Mondial. transcend.org 1 décembre 2022 – La culture de la guerre est si fermement établie, en particulier dans l'État moderne, qu'une culture de la paix ne peut être achèvée qu'avec un changement radical dans la gouvernance mondiale. Pour comprendre la nature du changement radical, je me tourne vers ce vieil expert, Karl Marx.

J Goldberg, A Leisewitz, G Wiegel & M Zander (2022-12-04). Lockdown light – Corona crisis and capitalism. indybay.org The pandemic and countermeasures have effects shaped by the neoliberal form of capitalism[6] that has dominated since the 1980s. Three aspects are worth mentioning: 1.the independence of the financial sphere,2.the fragmentation of the labor markets, and | 3.the weakening of social systems. In the financialized economy, measures to cushion the crisis strengthen the haves.

____ (2022-12-04). Profile: Jiang Zemin's great, glorious life. ecns.cn Jiang Zemin was an outstanding leader enjoying high prestige acknowledged by the whole Communist Party of China (CPC), the entire military and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups.

Editor (2022-12-04). The Secret Reason the US is Still in Syria. scheerpost.com It's tough to overstate how bad things are in Syria. According to the UN, "90 percent of all Syrians today are forced to live below the poverty line with around 12 million grappling with severe food insecurity."

Kenny Stancil (2022-12-04). Protesters Across UK Demand Government Address Fuel Poverty Crisis This Winter. truthout.org People in dozens of cities across the United Kingdom hit the streets on Saturday to demand immediate government action to prevent thousands of struggling workers from freezing to death in their homes this winter. Demonstrators drew attention to the worsening crisis of fuel poverty and called on lawmakers to pick up more of the tab for skyrocketing bills, fund home insulation… |

____ (2022-12-05). Central delegation visits HK, Macao to deepen understanding of Party congress. ecns.cn Representatives from Hong Kong and Macao gathered to discuss the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China as a central government delegation arrived in the two special administrative regions.

____ (2022-12-05). CPC is active promoter, staunch defender of human rights cause: report. ecns.cn The Communist Party of China (CPC) is an active promoter and staunch defender of the human rights cause, and has always included respecting and protecting human rights as a key part of national governance, says a report on China's human rights development.

Reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2022-12-05). Silvia Federici: Elogio del cuerpo que baila. indybay.org Un fragmento de "Ir más allá de la piel. Repensar, rehacer y reivindicar el cuerpo en el capitalismo contemporáneo", nuevo libro de Silvia Federici…

Tanupriya Singh (2022-12-04). An image of hope: Abahlali baseMjondolo's fight for dignity and land, 17 years on. peoplesdispatch.org On November 17, a photo exhibition titled 'Socialism or Death: Abahlali baseMjondolo on the Frontlines of Struggle' opened at The Forge in Johannesburg. The work displayed chronicles the years-long struggle of South Africa's shack dwellers movement to secure land and housing for the urban poor…

J Goldberg, A Leisewitz, G Wiegel & M Zander (2022-12-04). Lockdown light – Corona crisis and capitalism. indybay.org The pandemic and countermeasures have effects shaped by the neoliberal form of capitalism[6] that has dominated since the 1980s. Three aspects are worth mentioning: 1.the independence of the financial sphere,2.the fragmentation of the labor markets, and | 3.the weakening of social systems. In the financialized economy, measures to cushion the crisis strengthen the haves.

____ (2022-12-04). Profile: Jiang Zemin's great, glorious life. ecns.cn Jiang Zemin was an outstanding leader enjoying high prestige acknowledged by the whole Communist Party of China (CPC), the entire military and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups.

Kenny Stancil (2022-12-04). Protesters Across UK Demand Government Address Fuel Poverty Crisis This Winter. truthout.org People in dozens of cities across the United Kingdom hit the streets on Saturday to demand immediate government action to prevent thousands of struggling workers from freezing to death in their homes this winter. Demonstrators drew attention to the worsening crisis of fuel poverty and called on lawmakers to pick up more of the tab for skyrocketing bills, fund home insulation… |

_____ (2022-12-03). America's Fate: Revolution or Fascism? strategic-culture.org Daniel Lazare is a journalist, author and commentator who specializes in critically analyzing the politics and Constitution of the United States. He has authored several books, including The Velvet Revolution and the Decline of American Democracy. | The Covid-19 pandemic over the past two years exposes the pathological diseased state of US capitalism where private profit is prioritized over public health. Over one million people have died in the US, by far the biggest death toll of any other nation. | By contrast, China's death toll from Covid-19 stands at around 5,200, or 0.5 percent of the US. That shows tha…

Thecommunists (2022-12-03). Comrade Joti: Why our rulers hide the truth about socialist science. thecommunists.org On 5 November, at the 105th anniversary celebration of the 1917 October Revolution in Russia, CPGB-ML vice-chair Joti Brar spoke about the extraordinary importance of scientific socialism in both the success of the October Revolution and in our current-day work to bring about socialism in Britain. Two key points about our scientific work today, the …

Ariadna Eljuri (2022-12-03). President of Bolivia Calls for Unity to Defeat Coup Attempts. orinocotribune.com On Friday, December 2, Bolivian President Luis Arce called for internal unity to defeat coup attempts in the country after recognizing the existence of conflicts within his own party, Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), the ruling party of Bolivia. | Arce said in a video message that both the right wing and "comrades from inside" are looking for ways for his government to fail. | The Bolivian president reiterated his fight for the Bolivian people and for the construction of a project that strengthens the nation's sovereignty. | "I know that there are those who want to see us fail, from outside, and unfortunately so…

Dr. T. P. Wilkinson (2022-12-03). What System Governs the People's Republic of China? "Socialism With Chinese Characteristics" globalresearch.ca

Fight Back (2022-12-03). Theory: Reproductive labor and the family. fightbacknews.org Mother Bloor, a Communist revolutionary who fought for women's suffrage, emphasized that women couldn't just stop at the right to vote. Working women still had to organize against the capitalist ruling class, which forced them to endure long hours, low wages and suffocating labor conditions. The vote was just another tool in that struggle. The suffrage movement relied on people like Bloor – workers who recognized that women's liberation depends on the struggle for socialism. | This struggle has always brought out the hardest fighters for women's liberation, and in recent decades it has empowered the LGBTQ movemen…

UnitedEditor (2022-12-03). Municipal elections in Taiwan: Big defeat for US policy in the region. uwidata.com By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * The recently concluded 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) persisted in the guideline of peaceful reunification of the country under the idea of sustaining two political systems for a period of time. Under the one-China principle, the CPC has set out to promote "broad and in-depth consultations …

Brett Wilkins (2022-12-03). Pentagon to Spend $200 Billion on New Nuclear Bomber as Millions Live in Poverty. truthout.org Peace and economic justice advocates responded to the imminent unveiling Friday of the United States Air Force's new $750 million-per-plane nuclear bomber by reiterating accusations of misplaced priorities in a nation where tens of millions of people live in poverty and lack adequate healthcare coverage. Military-industrial complex giant Northrop Grumman is set to introduce its B-21 Raider on… |

Rebekah Barber (2022-12-03). With No Child Tax Credit, Families Are Slipping Back Into Poverty Amid Inflation. truthout.org Originally published by The 19th A year ago, the expanded child tax credit ended. Between 2020 and 2021, the credit — which gave monthly payments of up to $300 per child — helped reduce child poverty by more than 40 percent. More than 36 million families received the credit in 2021, and the money helped push the child poverty rate below that of adults for the first time. But since the program… |

Staff (2022-12-03). Protesting Fuel Poverty, People Tell UK Government to 'Keep Everyone Warm This Winter'. commondreams.org As energy bills—and fossil fuel profits—continue to soar, demonstrators around Britain demanded immediate action from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and members of Parliament.

J Goldberg, A Leisewitz, G Wiegel & M Zander (2022-12-04). Lockdown light – Corona crisis and capitalism. indybay.org The pandemic and countermeasures have effects shaped by the neoliberal form of capitalism[6] that has dominated since the 1980s. Three aspects are worth mentioning: 1.the independence of the financial sphere,2.the fragmentation of the labor markets, and | 3.the weakening of social systems. In the financialized economy, measures to cushion the crisis strengthen the haves.

____ (2022-12-04). Profile: Jiang Zemin's great, glorious life. ecns.cn Jiang Zemin was an outstanding leader enjoying high prestige acknowledged by the whole Communist Party of China (CPC), the entire military and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups.

Reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2022-12-04). Silvia Federici: Elogio del cuerpo que baila. indybay.org Un fragmento de "Ir más allá de la piel. Repensar, rehacer y reivindicar el cuerpo en el capitalismo contemporáneo", nuevo libro de Silvia Federici…

Ariadna Eljuri (2022-12-03). President of Bolivia Calls for Unity to Defeat Coup Attempts. orinocotribune.com On Friday, December 2, Bolivian President Luis Arce called for internal unity to defeat coup attempts in the country after recognizing the existence of conflicts within his own party, Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), the ruling party of Bolivia. | Arce said in a video message that both the right wing and "comrades from inside" are looking for ways for his government to fail. | The Bolivian president reiterated his fight for the Bolivian people and for the construction of a project that strengthens the nation's sovereignty. | "I know that there are those who want to see us fail, from outside, and unfortunately so…

Dr. T. P. Wilkinson (2022-12-03). What System Governs the People's Republic of China? "Socialism With Chinese Characteristics" globalresearch.ca

Fight Back (2022-12-03). Theory: Reproductive labor and the family. fightbacknews.org Mother Bloor, a Communist revolutionary who fought for women's suffrage, emphasized that women couldn't just stop at the right to vote. Working women still had to organize against the capitalist ruling class, which forced them to endure long hours, low wages and suffocating labor conditions. The vote was just another tool in that struggle. The suffrage movement relied on people like Bloor – workers who recognized that women's liberation depends on the struggle for socialism. | This struggle has always brought out the hardest fighters for women's liberation, and in recent decades it has empowered the LGBTQ movemen…

UnitedEditor (2022-12-03). Municipal elections in Taiwan: Big defeat for US policy in the region. uwidata.com By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * The recently concluded 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) persisted in the guideline of peaceful reunification of the country under the idea of sustaining two political systems for a period of time. Under the one-China principle, the CPC has set out to promote "broad and in-depth consultations …

Brett Wilkins (2022-12-03). Pentagon to Spend $200 Billion on New Nuclear Bomber as Millions Live in Poverty. truthout.org Peace and economic justice advocates responded to the imminent unveiling Friday of the United States Air Force's new $750 million-per-plane nuclear bomber by reiterating accusations of misplaced priorities in a nation where tens of millions of people live in poverty and lack adequate healthcare coverage. Military-industrial complex giant Northrop Grumman is set to introduce its B-21 Raider on… |

Rebekah Barber (2022-12-03). With No Child Tax Credit, Families Are Slipping Back Into Poverty Amid Inflation. truthout.org Originally published by The 19th A year ago, the expanded child tax credit ended. Between 2020 and 2021, the credit — which gave monthly payments of up to $300 per child — helped reduce child poverty by more than 40 percent. More than 36 million families received the credit in 2021, and the money helped push the child poverty rate below that of adults for the first time. But since the program… |

T.P. Wilkinson (2022-12-02). Transformation of Political Language (Part 1). dissidentvoice.org In response to Jeff J. Brown's article "The Myth of Chinese Capitalism," Ron Leighton wrote an article published at Dissident Voice, Counterpunch, and elsewhere. Dr. T. P. Wilkinson has interviewed Jeff J. Brown about his article and much more. ***** The debate about what system actually governs the People's Republic of China has continued since …

Lee Camp (2022-12-02). The Secret Reason the US Is Still in Syria. mintpressnews.com It's tough to overstate how bad things are in Syria. According to the UN, "90 percent of all Syrians today are forced to live below the poverty line with around 12 million grappling with severe food insecurity."

J Goldberg, A Leisewitz, G Wiegel & M Zander (2022-12-03). Lockdown light – Corona crisis and capitalism. indybay.org The pandemic and countermeasures have effects shaped by the neoliberal form of capitalism[6] that has dominated since the 1980s. Three aspects are worth mentioning: 1.the independence of the financial sphere,2.the fragmentation of the labor markets, and | 3.the weakening of social systems. In the financialized economy, measures to cushion the crisis strengthen the haves.

____ (2022-12-03). Profile: Jiang Zemin's great, glorious life. ecns.cn Jiang Zemin was an outstanding leader enjoying high prestige acknowledged by the whole Communist Party of China (CPC), the entire military and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups.

T.P. Wilkinson (2022-12-02). Transformation of Political Language (Part 1). dissidentvoice.org In response to Jeff J. Brown's article "The Myth of Chinese Capitalism," Ron Leighton wrote an article published at Dissident Voice, Counterpunch, and elsewhere. Dr. T. P. Wilkinson has interviewed Jeff J. Brown about his article and much more. ***** The debate about what system actually governs the People's Republic of China has continued since …

Lee Camp (2022-12-02). The Secret Reason the US Is Still in Syria. mintpressnews.com It's tough to overstate how bad things are in Syria. According to the UN, "90 percent of all Syrians today are forced to live below the poverty line with around 12 million grappling with severe food insecurity."

WSWS (2022-12-01). Youth in Australia speak out against war, promote IYSSE global anti-war webinar. wsws.org "I am against war, as many others are. I also believe that international socialism is the only way to end war for good."

Barry Healy (2022-12-01). Ways of seeing Australia through capitalist and Aboriginal eyes. greenleft.org.au Barry Healy reviews two Perth art exhibitions exploring the Australian landscape as seen through the eyes of invading capitalism and surviving Aboriginality.

Fight Back (2022-12-01). Dallas celebrates People's Thanksgiving. fightbacknews.org Dallas, TX – On Saturday, November 26, more than 60 activists gathered at the Pan-African Connection bookstore in Dallas to celebrate People's Thanksgiving, a celebration honoring those who struggle against imperialism, capitalism and national oppression. | The event was emceed by Ammar Hussein of Freedom Road Socialist Organization, who gave an opening speech welcoming the many organizations and participants to the event as well as praising the struggle of indigenous peoples for whom Thanksgiving is a national day of mourning. | "We reject the colonialist myth of Thanksgiving, and we stand in unwavering sol…

Matthias Brockers, Michael Haller (2022-12-01). Farewell to the unipolar world and Disaster capitalism: back to Marx! indybay.org The sanctions have already proved to be a dangerous boomerang because they hit Europe harder than Russia… It is a suicidal illusion to try to win a war against the raw materials giant Russia – which possesses more than a third of all fossil energies and raw materials on earth – and the world's largest high-tech workshop, China, which is united with it.

WSWS (2022-12-01). Ruben àñstlund's Triangle of Sadness: Today's "master class" and "subject class" wsws.org The English-language film is uneven, but its skewering of capitalism is certainly welcome.

Anonymous103 (2022-12-01). British PM: The "Golden Era" With China Is Over. southfront.org Click to see full-size imageRishi Sunak believes it was "naàØve" to think closer economic ties would lead to reforms in China. | Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher | On November 28, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivered his first long speech on foreign policy. Sunak said that the "Golden Era" with China was over. He also described the belief that closer economic ties would lead to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) making internal political reforms as "naà&…

Eric A. Gordon (2022-12-01). Despite the ban, queers made important contributions to U.S. Communist movement. peoplesworld.org Ordinarily a person cited, interviewed and profiled in a book wouldn't be the appropriate person to review it. But we are not dealing here with an ordinary book, an ordinary author, nor an ordinary reviewer! And what is "appropriate" anyway? Much of this book talks about who and what were considered "appropriate." The book under …

J Goldberg, A Leisewitz, G Wiegel & M Zander (2022-12-02). Lockdown light – Corona crisis and capitalism. indybay.org The pandemic and countermeasures have effects shaped by the neoliberal form of capitalism[6] that has dominated since the 1980s. Three aspects are worth mentioning: 1.the independence of the financial sphere,2.the fragmentation of the labor markets, and | 3.the weakening of social systems. In the financialized economy, measures to cushion the crisis strengthen the haves.

T.P. Wilkinson (2022-12-02). Transformation of Political Language (Part 1). dissidentvoice.org In response to Jeff J. Brown's article "The Myth of Chinese Capitalism," Ron Leighton wrote an article published at Dissident Voice, Counterpunch, and elsewhere. Dr. T. P. Wilkinson has interviewed Jeff J. Brown about his article and much more. ***** The debate about what system actually governs the People's Republic of China has continued since …

____ (2022-12-02). Profile: Jiang Zemin's great, glorious life. ecns.cn Jiang Zemin was an outstanding leader enjoying high prestige acknowledged by the whole Communist Party of China (CPC), the entire military and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups.

WSWS (2022-12-01). Youth in Australia speak out against war, promote IYSSE global anti-war webinar. wsws.org "I am against war, as many others are. I also believe that international socialism is the only way to end war for good."

Barry Healy (2022-12-01). Ways of seeing Australia through capitalist and Aboriginal eyes. greenleft.org.au Barry Healy reviews two Perth art exhibitions exploring the Australian landscape as seen through the eyes of invading capitalism and surviving Aboriginality.

Fight Back (2022-12-01). Dallas celebrates People's Thanksgiving. fightbacknews.org Dallas, TX – On Saturday, November 26, more than 60 activists gathered at the Pan-African Connection bookstore in Dallas to celebrate People's Thanksgiving, a celebration honoring those who struggle against imperialism, capitalism and national oppression. | The event was emceed by Ammar Hussein of Freedom Road Socialist Organization, who gave an opening speech welcoming the many organizations and participants to the event as well as praising the struggle of indigenous peoples for whom Thanksgiving is a national day of mourning. | "We reject the colonialist myth of Thanksgiving, and we stand in unwavering sol…

Matthias Brockers, Michael Haller (2022-12-01). Farewell to the unipolar world and Disaster capitalism: back to Marx! indybay.org The sanctions have already proved to be a dangerous boomerang because they hit Europe harder than Russia… It is a suicidal illusion to try to win a war against the raw materials giant Russia – which possesses more than a third of all fossil energies and raw materials on earth – and the world's largest high-tech workshop, China, which is united with it.

WSWS (2022-12-01). Ruben àñstlund's Triangle of Sadness: Today's "master class" and "subject class" wsws.org The English-language film is uneven, but its skewering of capitalism is certainly welcome.

Anonymous103 (2022-12-01). British PM: The "Golden Era" With China Is Over. southfront.org Click to see full-size imageRishi Sunak believes it was "naàØve" to think closer economic ties would lead to reforms in China. | Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher | On November 28, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivered his first long speech on foreign policy. Sunak said that the "Golden Era" with China was over. He also described the belief that closer economic ties would lead to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) making internal political reforms as "naà&…

Eric A. Gordon (2022-12-01). Despite the ban, queers made important contributions to U.S. Communist movement. peoplesworld.org Ordinarily a person cited, interviewed and profiled in a book wouldn't be the appropriate person to review it. But we are not dealing here with an ordinary book, an ordinary author, nor an ordinary reviewer! And what is "appropriate" anyway? Much of this book talks about who and what were considered "appropriate." The book under …

_____ (2022-11-30). DC Government's Racial Equity Plan Is Elite Capture By The State. popularresistance.org D.C. Mayor Bowser's "Draft Racial Equity Action Plan " (REAP) is a public relations document which reflects a continued commitment to the systemic foundations of racial inequities. As a follow-up to the empty gesture of painting the words "Black Lives Matter" on 800 16th Street Northwest, Washington, DC and declaring that space "Black Lives Matter Plaza ", the REAP suggests that the state structures which maintain settler colonialism and capitalism can be a remedy for racial inequity. | "It is our charge and our responsibility to put in place policies that are intentional about ending structural racism and revers…

Ben Radford (2022-11-30). Deep-sea mining: Capitalism's next destructive frontier. greenleft.org.au Mining companies argue that deep-sea mining is necessary to achieve the global transition to renewables, reports Ben Radford, but this is a lie.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-11-30). At Stake in Ukraine Is the Future of Globalized Capitalism. libya360.wordpress.com Samir Saul and Michel Seymour Photo by Dmytro Smolienko/Ukraine Territorial Defense Forces/Twitter Ukraine is only one front in an all-round confrontation The far-reaching war in Ukraine is only one phase of a world-wide conflict that began earlier. In international relations, the driving forces are often obscured by surface occurrences, such as immediate military events and the din…

____ (2022-11-30). (100 great changes) China's aerospace shifts from follower to world leader. ecns.cn Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has made fruitful achievements in aerospace, shifting from "following" others to "leading" the world in some aspects.

Misión Verdad (2022-11-30). Myths About Chinese 'Police State' and Recent Protests Over COVID-19 Measures. orinocotribune.com The recent protests against government measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 infections in China cover the headlines of mainstream Western media. Given the rarity of the event, the opportunity to promote anti-China propaganda was obviously not going to be passed up. | The BBC, for example, argued that the protests are actually more against Xi Jinping's repressive communist government rather than the sanitary measures. What followed was to be expected: a romanticizing of the brave protesters standing up to the "monster" of the Chinese state. | "Across the country, 'want freedom' has become a rallying cry for a g…

Scorinoco (2022-11-30). The Future of China-Cuba Economic Relations. orinocotribune.com By Alessandro Golombiewski Teixeira Nov 25, 2022 | Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermudez embarked on a two-day visit to China at the invitation of the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Díaz-Canel is the first head of state from Latin America and the Caribbean region to visit China after the 20th CPC National Congress. It's important to highlight that this visit carries more than a traditional friendship visit between two comrades and leaders of the communist parties. The Cuba-China relationship goes beyond good friends and good c…

Sharon Zhang (2022-11-30). High-Ranking Senate Republican Reveals GOP Plan to Slash Social Security. truthout.org The GOP is preparing to use next year's debt limit talks to potentially hold the economy hostage in order to slash crucial anti-poverty programs like Social Security, according to a new interview with the Senate's second ranking Republican. Sen. John Thune (R-South Dakota) said that slashing such programs would be a "solution" to the national debt — an issue that Republicans only bring up in… |