Tomasz Konicz (2022-08-26). The necessary breach and Rackets and Rockets. indybay.org The climate movement should not be afraid of being accused of radicalism. Given the civilization-threatening dimensions of the climate crisis, it is a matter of sheer collective will to survive to solve this monstrous problem. It is obvious that global capitalism, in its boundless compulsion to grow, is incapable of reducing resource consumption and emissions.

Cameron orr (2022-08-25). The struggle for full legalization of our party. cpusa.org On the CPUSA's visible "existence" in national life Before I joined the CPUSA in the spring of 2017, I had no idea that the Communist Party of the United States still existed. As someone new to the movement at the time, being only exposed to the Black Lives Matter movement following the murders of Trayvon …

Deweylaura (2022-08-25). LGBTQ+ theory, history, and the CPUSA (part 1). cpusa.org The following article has been adapted from a talk presented at the Little Red Schoolhouse in New York City, July 28, 2022. Part 2 will be posted next week. Good afternoon, everyone. Some of you may be familiar with my name, Eric A. Gordon, as a writer. I'm the Cultural Editor of People's World …

Staff (2022-08-25). Cuban president visits supertanker base in Matanzas. en.cubadebate.cu Díaz-Canel arrived at the super tanker base in Matanzas. Photo: Presidency of Cuba/ Twitter. The first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic Miguel Díaz Canel Bermúdez arrived this Thursday at the industrial zone of Matanzas to check the recovery program of the supertanker base after an unprecedented fire that occurred due to an electrical discharge on August 5.

WSWS (2022-08-25). The revival of German militarism and the fight for socialism. wsws.org These remarks were delivered by Christoph Vandrier to the Seventh National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US). Vandrier is the chairman of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP), the German section of the International Committee of the Fourth International.

Staff (2022-08-25). Cancel It All: Debt Collective's Astra Taylor on Biden Plan & Need for Full Student Debt Relief. democracynow.org In a much-anticipated move, President Biden has signed an executive order Wednesday for student debt relief that could help more than 40 million borrowers by canceling up to $20,000 of their federal loans. Many advocates for canceling student debt say Biden's plan doesn't go far enough, while Republicans decry the plan as "student debt socialism." We speak to Astra Taylor, writer, filmmaker and co-director of the Debt Collective, a union for debtors and one of the original advocates for a debt jubilee that would cancel all student debt. Despite the mixed reaction, "this is incredibly…

Tomasz Konicz (2022-08-25). The necessary breach and Rackets and Rockets. indybay.org The climate movement should not be afraid of being accused of radicalism. Given the civilization-threatening dimensions of the climate crisis, it is a matter of sheer collective will to survive to solve this monstrous problem. It is obvious that global capitalism, in its boundless compulsion to grow, is incapable of reducing resource consumption and emissions.

Vijay Prashad (2022-08-24). When People Want Housing in India, They Build It. orinocotribune.com By Vijay Prashad — Aug 18, 2022 | It all started with a survey. In April 2022, members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M), went door to door in the town of Warangal in Telangana state. The party was already aware of challenges in the community but wanted to collect data before working on a plan of action. Thirty-five teams of three to four CPI(M) members and supporters went to 45,000 homes and learned how people were suffering from a range of issues, such as the lack of pensions and subsidised food. Many expressed anxieties around the absence of permanent housing, with a third saying that…

Jim Hightower (2022-08-24). Billion Dollar Franchises Are Paying Workers Chicken Feed. otherwords.org America's stringent system of corporate capitalism keeps carving out new depths of worker exploitation. Take Chick-fil-A — a right-wing, Atlanta-based fast-food operation that likes to boast about following "biblically-based" principles. | Like slavery? | Well, Chick-fil-A hasn't gone quite that Biblical yet, but one of its North Carolina franchises recently This outlet of the $11-billion-a-year c…

WSWS (2022-08-24). UK National Health Service warns thousands will die due to unaffordable energy bills. wsws.org According to research published by the University of York last week, two thirds (65.8 percent) of all UK households will be trapped in fuel poverty by January. This equates to 18 million families, or 45 million people.

JANET (2022-08-24). Fighting fire with solidarity. iacenter.org August 22, 2022 These are especially bitter days to be living in the United States for those of us who are communists, socialists, progressives, even those remotely left of center. The killing of Roe v. Wade and the state subjection of women and anyone who can get pregnant to the role of breeding animals. The up-reared head of the rawest racists, in cop blue or proto-Nazi black shirt, gun in hand, aiming at people of color. The laws against teaching scientific and historical truths in the schools — against teaching that nature has a variety of genders, that U.S. presidents were, yes, owners of enslaved peop…

Liberation Staff (2022-08-24). How U.S. Capitalism Buries Students in Debt. liberationnews.org How did we end up in a situation where borrowers have accumulated over $1.7 trillion in debt just because they wanted to get an education?>

John Catalinotto (2022-08-24). WW commentary: A Marxist view of the search at Mar-a-Lago. workers.org Aug. 21 — The most recent conflict among U.S. ruling institutions displays the depth of the crises wracking U.S. imperialism. As U.S. worldwide dominance declines and the government at home fails to stem growing inequality or resolve health and climate disasters, internal conflicts are sharpening. Credit: Tony Murphy U.S. ruling-class . . . |

JANET (2022-08-24). Palestinians resist U.S. imperialism and Israeli occupation. iacenter.org By Richie Merino August 23, 2022 On Aug. 18, Israeli occupation forces raided, physically blocked and imposed closure orders on the offices of seven prominent Palestinian human rights, feminist and social services organizations operating in the Ramallah area of the occupied West Bank. Background to the demonization In 2021, Israel falsely and preemptively designated six of the seven targeted organizations as "terrorist groups," alleging ties to the banned Marxist liberation organization, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), in order to justify any raids. The groups facing repression and intimidat…

Liberation Staff (2022-08-24). Social & Economic Crisis in Turkey w/ TKP Secretary General. liberationnews.org A political, social, economy, and class struggle has been intensifying in Turkey. What are the demands of the people and the progressive forces like the TKP, the Communist Party of Turkey?>

Colin Todhunter (2022-08-24). 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.

____ (2022-08-24). Pandemic sets back poverty reduction efforts in Asia by 2 years: ADB report. ecns.cn The COVID-19 pandemic has set back the fight against poverty in Asia and the Pacific by at least two years, and many in the region will likely find it harder than before to escape poverty.

John Bachtell (2022-08-24). Heartland Alliance workers say wages qualify them for its services. peoplesworld.org CHICAGO &#1 ; Over 0 workers are locked in a battle with Heartland Alliance, one of the nation's oldest, largest, and most venerable social justice non-profits, over wages and health and safety conditions. The workers say poverty-level wages qualify them for many of the agency's services. Heartland and its unionized workforce are negotiating a new contract …

____ (2022-08-24). Pandemic sets back poverty reduction efforts in Asia by 2 years: ADB report. ecns.cn The COVID-19 pandemic has set back the fight against poverty in Asia and the Pacific by at least two years, and many in the region will likely find it harder than before to escape poverty.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-23). Ghost Stories of Capitalism: Mental Health is a Class Issue. libya360.wordpress.com Danny Haiphong We can't fight capitalism or imperialism without confronting the psychic suffering that these systems have spread far and wide among us In addition to producing socialist and anti-imperialist independent media, I've been in social work for nine years. Before this, I moved from childhood to adulthood within a household that struggled with mental…

WSWS (2022-08-23). Australian Labor government supplies more fuel to Sri Lankan navy for anti-refugee operations. wsws.org The fuel arrangements seek to bolster the repressive military-backed government and stop refugees fleeing the poverty-stricken country.

WSWS (2022-08-23). No to another school year of mass infection, death and austerity! wsws.org The breakdown of public education and the policies of mass infection are symptoms of the crisis of capitalism and must be opposed through the building of rank-and-file committees in every school and neighborhood.

WSWS (2022-08-23). South Korean workers take action against assault on working conditions. wsws.org Not only do workers face the companies and the government of President Yoon Suk-yeol, but the trade unions that are isolating workers' struggles and blocking a political fight against capitalism.

_____ (2022-08-22). Independent Unions Can Help Break Through The Economic Crisis. popularresistance.org In a period of extreme social and economic crises, when the major labor unions have reduced their organizing programs to a fraction of what they once were and the courts stand athwart any effort to protect workers' interests, scrappy new independent unions raise hope against hope that maybe — just maybe — workers can fight back and win. I'm writing, of course, about the early 1930s. A newly published book finds some surprising parallels between that era and our own. | An eleventh volume in the prolific Marxist labor historian Philip S. Foner's History Of The Labor Movement In The United States has jus…

William Briggs (2022-08-23). Capitalism's war in Ukraine. greenleft.org.au Under capitalism, wars are fought to gain access to markets, resources and to harness the working class in its service. The suffering of the Ukrainian people attests to this, writes William Briggs.

WSWS (2022-08-23). Australian Labor government supplies more fuel to Sri Lankan navy for anti-refugee operations. wsws.org The fuel arrangements seek to bolster the repressive military-backed government and stop refugees fleeing the poverty-stricken country.

WSWS (2022-08-23). No to another school year of mass infection, death and austerity! wsws.org The breakdown of public education and the policies of mass infection are symptoms of the crisis of capitalism and must be opposed through the building of rank-and-file committees in every school and neighborhood.

WSWS (2022-08-23). South Korean workers take action against assault on working conditions. wsws.org Not only do workers face the companies and the government of President Yoon Suk-yeol, but the trade unions that are isolating workers' struggles and blocking a political fight against capitalism.

_____ (2022-08-22). Independent Unions Can Help Break Through The Economic Crisis. popularresistance.org In a period of extreme social and economic crises, when the major labor unions have reduced their organizing programs to a fraction of what they once were and the courts stand athwart any effort to protect workers' interests, scrappy new independent unions raise hope against hope that maybe — just maybe — workers can fight back and win. I'm writing, of course, about the early 1930s. A newly published book finds some surprising parallels between that era and our own. | An eleventh volume in the prolific Marxist labor historian Philip S. Foner's History Of The Labor Movement In The United States has jus…

TeleSUR (2022-08-22). The UK Heads Towards Its Worst Economic Crisis Since 1926. telesurenglish.net As millions of people in Britain face the prospect of escalating bills, Keith Baker, a research fellow in fuel poverty and energy policy at Glasgow Caledonian University, warned the country could face its worst peacetime crisis since the General Strike of 1926. | RELATED: | For many British families, food prices were already rocketing, adding extra dollars to weekly food bills, but planned rises in the cost of electricity and gas du…

Editor (2022-08-22). Fighting fire with solidarity. workers.org These are especially bitter days to be living in the United States for those of us who are communists, socialists, progressives, even those remotely left of center. The killing of Roe v. Wade and the state subjection of women and anyone who can get pregnant to the role of breeding . . . |

Colin Todhunter (2022-08-22). An Engineered Food and Poverty Crisis to Secure Continued US Dominance. globalresearch.ca

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-08-22). Sunday 8/21: Stop the Trigger Laws!: March and Rally to Defend Abortion Rights. indybay.org San José City Hall | 200 East Santa Clara Street | San José, CA 95113…

WSWS (2022-08-22). Down with the conspiracies of Bolsonaro and the military! wsws.org The GSI calls on the working class to mobilize independently against the dictatorial threats, rejecting the pseudo-left's demands for submission to capitalism and the bourgeois state.

____ (2022-08-21). (W.E. Talk) Liu Zhipeng: How to look back on the century since the Revolution of 1911 and the founding of the Communist Party of China. ecns.cn "We have long looked back on the past hundred years from a western viewpoint," said Liu Zhipeng, associate vice president and professor of history at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, in an exclusive interview with China News Service's "W.E. Talk". "When we re-examined it from the perspective of contemporary world history, what we learn is, of course, different from what we have seen in the last 100 years."

Colin Todhunter (2022-08-22). An Engineered Food and Poverty Crisis to Secure Continued US Dominance. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2022-08-22). Down with the conspiracies of Bolsonaro and the military! wsws.org The GSI calls on the working class to mobilize independently against the dictatorial threats, rejecting the pseudo-left's demands for submission to capitalism and the bourgeois state.

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-08-22). Sunday 8/21: Stop the Trigger Laws!: March and Rally to Defend Abortion Rights. indybay.org San José City Hall | 200 East Santa Clara Street | San José, CA 95113…

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-08-21). Sunday 8/21: Stop the Trigger Laws!: March and Rally to Defend Abortion Rights. indybay.org San José City Hall | 200 East Santa Clara Street | San José, CA 95113…

____ (2022-08-21). (W.E. Talk) Liu Zhipeng: How to look back on the century since the Revolution of 1911 and the founding of the Communist Party of China. ecns.cn "We have long looked back on the past hundred years from a western viewpoint," said Liu Zhipeng, associate vice president and professor of history at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, in an exclusive interview with China News Service's "W.E. Talk". "When we re-examined it from the perspective of contemporary world history, what we learn is, of course, different from what we have seen in the last 100 years."

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-08-21). Sunday 8/21: Stop the Trigger Laws!: March and Rally to Defend Abortion Rights. indybay.org San José City Hall | 200 East Santa Clara Street | San José, CA 95113…

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-08-21). Sunday 8/21: Stop the Trigger Laws!: March and Rally to Defend Abortion Rights. indybay.org San José City Hall | 200 East Santa Clara Street | San José, CA 95113…

____ (2022-08-21). (W.E. Talk) Liu Zhipeng: How to look back on the century since the Revolution of 1911 and the founding of the Communist Party of China. ecns.cn "We have long looked back on the past hundred years from a western viewpoint," said Liu Zhipeng, associate vice president and professor of history at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, in an exclusive interview with China News Service's "W.E. Talk". "When we re-examined it from the perspective of contemporary world history, what we learn is, of course, different from what we have seen in the last 100 years."

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-08-20). Sunday 8/21: Stop the Trigger Laws!: March and Rally to Defend Abortion Rights. indybay.org San José City Hall | 200 East Santa Clara Street | San José, CA 95113…

Vijay Prashad (2022-08-19). When government won't provide housing, India's Communists organize people to build it themselves. peoplesworld.org It all started with a survey. In April 2022, members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M), went door to door in the town of Warangal in Telangana state. The party was already aware of challenges in the community but wanted to collect data before working on a plan of action. Thirty-five teams …

Anonymous103 (2022-08-19). Powerful New Evidence that U.S. Is A Dictatorship. southfront.org Written by Because the U.S. Government flaunts itself as being a democracy instead of a dictatorship and it coups and invades and overthrows and replaces ("regime changes") Governments that it declares to be dictatorships instead of democracies (the "New Cold War" isn't about "capitalism versus communism," but about "democracy versus dictatorship"), a crucial q…

_____ (2022-08-19). When People Want Housing in India, They Build It. popularresistance.org Above Photo: Communist Party of India (Marxist) protest in Khila Warangal, 10 May 2022. It all started with a survey. In April 2022, members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M), went door to door in the town of Warangal in Telangana state. The party was already aware of challenges in the community …

_____ (2022-08-19). The System Is Causing Food Crisis, Not The War. popularresistance.org Worsening harvests, infertile soil and increasing food poverty are affecting the majority of small farmers across the globe, especially in the Global South. But the climate and food crises are not isolated phenomena. They are the result of a global capitalist system — and a neoliberal agenda — that has prioritised big corporate agricultural profits over people and the planet. | "Most farmers can no longer produce adequate food for their families," says Vladimir Chilinya. "Profit-making entities control our food systems… including the production and distribution of seed." | Chilinya is a Zambian coor…

Contributing Writers (2022-08-19). Lies Concerning the History of the Soviet Union/ By Mario Sousa. marktaliano.net By Mario SousaMember of theCommunist Party Marxist-Leninist RevolutionariesSwedenKPML(r) From Hitler to Hearst, from Conquest to Solzhenitsyn The history of the millions of people who were allegedly incarcerated and died in the labour camps of the Soviet Union and as a result of starvation during Stalin's time. In this world we live in, who can avoid …

John Kiriakou (2022-08-19). J. Edgar Hoover's Evil Brainchild. orinocotribune.com By John Kiriakou &#1 ; Aug 13, 2022 | All of COINTELPRO should be declassified. Bobby Rush's legislation — now at high risk of getting lost in Congress — would do that. | COINTELPRO, an abbreviation for Counter-Intelligence Program, was the illegal brainchild of the F.B.I.'s first and longest-serving director, J. Edgar Hoover, whose obsession with communism and "subversion" allowed him to justify violating the civil rights and civil liberties of millions of Americans. | Under COINTELPRO, which Hoover initiated in 1956, the F.B.I. surveilled, infiltrated, discredited, disrupted, burglarized and harasse…

Abayomi Azikiwe (2022-08-18). Sudanese Communist Party Forms a New Alliance Committed to Ending Military Rule. towardfreedom.org After withdrawing from the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), the Sudanese Communist Party has continued to call for democratic civilian rule. Abayomi Azikiwe analyzes the situation.

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-08-19). Sunday 8/21: Stop the Trigger Laws!: March and Rally to Defend Abortion Rights. indybay.org San José City Hall | 200 East Santa Clara Street | San José, CA 95113…

Abayomi Azikiwe (2022-08-18). Sudanese Communist Party Forms a New Alliance Committed to Ending Military Rule. towardfreedom.org After withdrawing from the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), the Sudanese Communist Party has continued to call for democratic civilian rule. Abayomi Azikiwe analyzes the situation.

Tony Murphy (2022-08-18). Capitalism 101: How the rich stay on top. workers.org

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-18). South Africa: Decent Health Care Requires Dignified Attention to Each Patient. libya360.wordpress.com Richard Pithouse 17 April 2021: Permaculture activist Ntsika Mateta from Ngqwele village near Qonce in the Eastern Cape holds a carrot plant he is using for seed production to support rural residents in establishing communal and household vegetable gardens. (Photograph by Bonile Bam) Yogesh Jain, a communist doctor practicing in rural central India, recently visited…

____ (2022-08-18). Xi: CPC is always with the people. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said more efforts should be made so that the people feel the CPC serves the people wholeheartedly and is always with the people.

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-08-18). Sunday 8/21: Stop the Trigger Laws!: March and Rally to Defend Abortion Rights. indybay.org San José City Hall | 200 East Santa Clara Street | San José, CA 95113…

____ (2022-08-18). Xi: CPC is always with the people. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said more efforts should be made so that the people feel the CPC serves the people wholeheartedly and is always with the people.

____ (2022-08-17). Xi expresses full confidence in revitalization of China's northeast region. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has expressed full confidence in the revitalization of China's northeast region.

JANET (2022-08-17). Twenty years ago, Nigerian women took over ChevronTexaco and won concession. iacenter.org By Monica Moorehead August 11, 2022 The following article first appeared on workers.org in two parts, dated Aug. 1 and 8, 2002. In honor of Black August founded in 1979, WW is reprinting slightly edited versions of both articles which can also be found in "Marxism, Reparations and the Black Freedom Struggle" on workers.org/book/marxism-reparations-and-the-black-freedom-struggle/. Nigerian women protest in Escravos, near Lagos, against ChevronTexaco in July 2002.Credit: Environmental Justice Atlas The quest for reparations by nationally oppressed peoples worldwide takes many forms. But the basis for this fundament…

John Wight (2022-08-17). The U.S. empire's undignified exit from Afghanistan—one year later. peoplesworld.org Empires advance and empires retreat, though not in circumstances of their own choosing—to paraphrase Karl Marx—and certainly never smoothly or without upending entire regions, countries, and societies in their wake. With this in mind, what unfolded in Afghanistan a year ago with the panicked withdrawal of U.S. forces to end Washington and its allies' 20-year …

Deweylaura (2022-08-17). The Communist view on community control of police. cpusa.org The murder of George Floyd at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing global rebellion brought to the fore the advanced demands of the Black freedom movement in the ongoing struggle for freedom, democracy, and equality. The abolitionist demands to "defund the police," that is, to divest from police departments (up to …

_____ (2022-08-16). Various Points On Ukraine And Media. popularresistance.org Today I learned that the anonymous 'Marinus' author of the Marine Corps Gazette piece is allegedly the retired General Karl Van Riper who is well know for spoiling the Millennium Challenge war game by applying realistic conditions. The guy is hated by the chairborne divisions in the Pentagon. BTW – a facsimile of the first part of Marine Gazette piece is available here. Another excellent Gazette piece on the Russian way of fighting from January 2022 is here. | Still another excellent paper I found through a link at Naked Capitalism is by Myrmikan Research which looks at the historic context of the war through the…

Abayomi Azikiwe (2022-08-16). Sudanese Communist Party Forms a New Alliance Committed to Ending Military Rule. orinocotribune.com By Abayomi Azikiwe &#1 ; Aug 10, 2022 | After withdrawing from the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), the SCP has continued to call for democratic civilian rule | Since December of 2018, the Republic of Sudan has undergone general strikes, mass demonstrations, the forced removal of longtime former President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and the failed formations of several interim administrations. | Hundreds of people have lost their lives due to the repression carried out by the military and its supporters against protests which have been led by the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) and its Popular Resistance Commit…

Liberation Staff (2022-08-16). Columbia, S.C., pizza workers on strike against racism, poverty wages. liberationnews.org In the middle of a dinner rush, striking workers packed the lobby of the store, waving signs with their demands and chanting "MOD Pizza, you're no good! Treat your workers like you should!"

____ (2022-08-17). Xi expresses full confidence in revitalization of China's northeast region. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has expressed full confidence in the revitalization of China's northeast region.

John Wight (2022-08-17). The U.S. empire's undignified exit from Afghanistan—one year later. peoplesworld.org Empires advance and empires retreat, though not in circumstances of their own choosing—to paraphrase Karl Marx—and certainly never smoothly or without upending entire regions, countries, and societies in their wake. With this in mind, what unfolded in Afghanistan a year ago with the panicked withdrawal of U.S. forces to end Washington and its allies' 20-year …

JANET (2022-08-17). Twenty years ago, Nigerian women took over ChevronTexaco and won concession. iacenter.org By Monica Moorehead August 11, 2022 The following article first appeared on workers.org in two parts, dated Aug. 1 and 8, 2002. In honor of Black August founded in 1979, WW is reprinting slightly edited versions of both articles which can also be found in "Marxism, Reparations and the Black Freedom Struggle" on workers.org/book/marxism-reparations-and-the-black-freedom-struggle/. Nigerian women protest in Escravos, near Lagos, against ChevronTexaco in July 2002.Credit: Environmental Justice Atlas The quest for reparations by nationally oppressed peoples worldwide takes many forms. But the basis for this fundament…

_____ (2022-08-16). Various Points On Ukraine And Media. popularresistance.org Today I learned that the anonymous 'Marinus' author of the Marine Corps Gazette piece is allegedly the retired General Karl Van Riper who is well know for spoiling the Millennium Challenge war game by applying realistic conditions. The guy is hated by the chairborne divisions in the Pentagon. BTW – a facsimile of the first part of Marine Gazette piece is available here. Another excellent Gazette piece on the Russian way of fighting from January 2022 is here. | Still another excellent paper I found through a link at Naked Capitalism is by Myrmikan Research which looks at the historic context of the war through the…

Abayomi Azikiwe (2022-08-16). Sudanese Communist Party Forms a New Alliance Committed to Ending Military Rule. orinocotribune.com By Abayomi Azikiwe &#1 ; Aug 10, 2022 | After withdrawing from the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), the SCP has continued to call for democratic civilian rule | Since December of 2018, the Republic of Sudan has undergone general strikes, mass demonstrations, the forced removal of longtime former President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and the failed formations of several interim administrations. | Hundreds of people have lost their lives due to the repression carried out by the military and its supporters against protests which have been led by the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) and its Popular Resistance Commit…

Liberation Staff (2022-08-16). Columbia, SC: Pizza workers on strike against racism & poverty wages. liberationnews.org In the middle of a dinner rush, striking workers packed the lobby of the store, waving signs with their demands and chanting "MOD Pizza, you're no good! Treat your workers like you should!"

Liberation Staff (2022-08-16). Columbia, S.C., pizza workers on strike against racism, poverty wages. liberationnews.org In the middle of a dinner rush, striking workers packed the lobby of the store, waving signs with their demands and chanting "MOD Pizza, you're no good! Treat your workers like you should!"

____ (2022-08-16). China steps up rural road construction to boost investment, employment. ecns.cn China will launch a new round of construction and rebuilding of rural roads, expand investment in rural construction and create more jobs for the rural population, amid efforts to consolidate poverty alleviation achievements and accelerate rural revitalization.

WSWS (2022-08-16). Creeping martial law in the Philippines as poverty grows. wsws.org The months since the election of Marcos Jr have been marked by the incremental expansion of authoritarian rule.