Robin Philpot (2025-01-16). Canada and Ukraine: The Suppression of a Shameful History. covertactionmagazine.com A few days before Remembrance Day, November 11, 2024, the Government of Canada announced that it will not release that portion of a report produced by the Commission of Inquiry into War Criminals in Canada (Deschênes Commission) that names 900 Canadians accused of war crimes committed on behalf of the Nazis. Canada admitted these people …

Workers World Party (2025-01-16). PDF of January 16 print issue. workers.org Download the PDF LA fires showDisaster response in U.S. collapsed Dr. King's legacy & recent strikes Philly Chinatown wins arena battle Capitalism's housing crisis On the picket line Global warming inferno Musk boosts bigots worldwide Galápagos — Pentagon base? Editorials: Real solidarity with Los Angeles Trump puts profits first Tear . . . |

Luis F. Alvarez Leon (2025-01-16). The Power of Place in Understanding—and Reframing—Digital Capitalism. counterpunch.org The Internet, digital technologies, and the informational ecosystems they create are too often understood in abstract, immaterial, and (particularly) aspatial terms. While this mythology is not as prevalent as it once was, terms like "the cloud," "cyberspace," and even "ethernet" underscore a sense that our digital communications, interactions, and exchanges take place "somewhere else" —somewhere

WSWS (2025-01-16). Los Angeles fires destroy the archive of 20th century composer Arnold Schoenberg. wsws.org The disasters produced by capitalism are threatening all of human culture.

James Bovard (2025-01-16). Biden's "Better Angels" Bullshit. counterpunch.org Joe Biden's presidency ends on January 20, 2025. There will likely be a media stampede to hallow his reign and trumpet his virtues. But Biden perpetually trampled his January 20, 2021, oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." In his 2022 State of the Union address, Biden declared, "When dictators

Joseph Grosso (2025-01-16). Copped Out: Global Warming and Global Markets. counterpunch.org As is now something of an annual ritual, last month's COP29 conference in Baku, Azerbaijan ended on a rather shabby note. Actually, one can describe its beginning the same way. Ilham Aliyev, the dictator who rules Azerbaijan, a country where fossil fuels make up 90 percent of its export revenues, opened the conference calling fossil

Human Rights Watch (2025-01-16). Retreat and Resistance in Dark Times. hrw.org Play Video | (New York) — The events of 2024 have shown that even in the darkest times there are those who dare to resist oppression and demonstrate the courage to seek progress, said Tirana Hassan, executive director at Human Rights Watch, today in releasing the organization's World Report 2025. In the face of rising authoritarianism, repression, and armed conflict, governments should respect and defend universal human rights with more rigor and urgency than ever, and civil society should remain steadfast in holding them accountable.For the 546-page world report, in its 35th edition, Human Rights Watch…

Jean Andreau (2025-01-16). Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire. cadtm.org

newarab (2025-01-15). Unlike Nazis, Israeli war criminals can't hide in Latin America. newarab.com If you had read the headline "war criminal flees to Argentina to avoid war crimes arrest" in 1945, it would have referred to Nazi war criminals escaping Germany

Yuri Rubtsov (2025-01-15). History: Adolph Hitler was Financed by Wall Street, the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of England. globalresearch.ca Numerous U.S. conglomerates invested in Nazi Germany's arms industry. "Both GM and Ford went along with the conversion of their German plants to military production" (WP)…

Staff (2025-01-15). El director de Auschwitz considera "cínico" invitar al país que liberó Auschwitz. cubadebate.cu Piotr Cywi≈Ñski se negó a invitar a la delegación rusa al 80. ∞ aniversario de la liberación del campo de exterminio nazi de Auschwitz con el siguiente falso y xenófobo pretexto: "Se llama Día de la Liberación, y no creo que un país que no entiende el valor de la libertad tenga algo que hacer en una ceremonia dedicada a la liberación. Sería cínico que estuvieran allí".

UMMID (2025-01-15). Hindu Nationalism versus Dr Ambedkar. ummid.com The BJP's anxiety to prove that Dr Ambedkar was part of Hindutva politics is a pure concoction.

UMMID (2025-01-15). Hindu Nationalism versus Dr Ambedkar. ummid.com The BJP's anxiety to prove that Dr Ambedkar was part of Hindutva politics is a pure concoction.

Jean Andreau (2025-01-15). Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire. cadtm.org

Marc Brodine (2025-01-13). Militants and the millions: Building resistance for real world impact. peoplesworld.org Millions of people are thinking about how to build the resistance, about how they can become active in fighting the second Trump administration's plans to facilitate and impose fascism. In the process, some folks confuse sounding as radical as they want and feel with having the biggest impact on real world developments. It is important …

Staff (2025-01-13). Canciller de Venezuela denuncia ataques contra sedes diplomáticas del país en el extranjero. cubadebate.cu El canciller de Venezuela, Yván Gil, ha hecho un llamado urgente a las autoridades de Lisboa (Portugal), Frankfurt (Alemania), Medellín (Colombia), Vigo (España) y San José (Costa Rica) para que aceleren las investigaciones relacionadas con los recientes ataques a sedes consulares venezolanas. Denunció que estos actos son parte de una "acción coordinada por los comanditos del fascismo desquiciado".

María Candela (2025-01-13). Nicolás Maduro, pudo el pueblo, para Venezuela lo que viene es paz, reconciliación, entendimiento (+Fotos y Audio). radiohc.cu En la clausura del Festival Mundial Antifascista en Caracas, el Presidente Nicolás Maduro abogó por la paz, la reconciliación, el entendimiento y convocó a fortalecer la Internacional Antifascista para detener el avance y vencer ese flagelo mundial.

WSWS (2025-01-13). Labour in crisis and Reform UK gaining ground—build the Socialist Equality Party! wsws.org With the class struggle suppressed and Labour in power, opportunity has been given to the far-right to scapegoat migrants for the deep social grievances of the working class.

Editor (2025-01-13). Ellen Brown: Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game — The Bank of North Dakota Model. scheerpost.com By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost North Dakota is staunchly conservative, having voted Republican in every presidential election since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. So how is it that the state boasts the only state-owned bank in the nation? Has it secretly gone socialist? No. The Bank of North Dakota (BND) operates on the same …

Javier Arana Villasusa (2025-01-13). World Day for the fight against depression celebrated. plenglish.com According to the World Health Organization, depression is the leading cause of disability and contributes significantly to the global burden of disease. | It is a complex disorder that influences mood, thinking, behavior, and physical functioning. It is characterized by profound sadness, loss of interest, changes in appetite and sleep, fatigue, guilt feelings, and difficulties in concentration. | In any case, specialized medical attention is required for timely diagnosis and treatment. | It is not a simple decline in mood or emotional state, as it can lead to the emergence of other diseases such as stress, phobia…

Staff (2025-01-13). 13 Holocaust survivors and descendants slam Met Police over Palestine demo ban at BBC. thecanary.co Thirteen Holocaust survivors and survivor descendants have just signed a joint letter protesting against the Met Police's plans to prevent the next Palestine march from gathering outside the BBC headquarters on 18 January. Palestine protest: it is not antisemitic As survivors of the Jewish genocide, or descendants of such survivors, the 13 say they are in despair …

_____ (2025-01-13). (Português) A Geopolítica da Insanidade da Elite (Parte 2): Criando Eretz Yisrael para Remodelar a Ordem Mundial. transcend.org À medida que o programa multifacetado das Elites para remodelar a ordem mundial, capturar a propriedade e o controle de todos os recursos-chave, matar uma proporàßà£o substancial da populaàßà£o humana, e impor uma ditadura tecnocrática sobre os "transumanos" que sobraram vivos, avanàßa rapidamente.

Jean Andreau (2025-01-13). Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire. cadtm.org

Alina Ramos Martin (2025-01-13). Vaccination campaigns against Covid-19 and RSV in Uruguay. plenglish.com The immunization will be done with the drug Comirnaty JN.1, a vaccine developed by the pharmaceutical company Pfizer and adapted to the Omicron JN.1 subvariant of the virus. | In the first instance, risk groups will be considered, including older adults, people with comorbidities and minors with moderate to severe immunosuppresion. | Also pregnant women, people with Down syndrome, health care workers with potential risk and caregivers. | The MSP recommends that the booster dose should be given at least four months after the last dose received or after the infection. | The MSP will also roll out from Monday a vac…

Pablo Rafael Fuentes (2025-01-12). Un mundo de paz contra el fascismo. radiohc.cu La Habana, 12 ene (RHC) Con un llamado a las fuerzas progresistas de todos los continentes a articularse en la lucha contra el fascismo, para transformar el planeta en un mundo de paz y emancipación, concluyó este sábado en la capital venezolana, Caracas, el Festival Mundial Internacional Antifascista Por un mundo nuevo.

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead (2025-01-12). MAGA mania — will Britain follow Trump's immigration rift? leftfootforward.org Unless Britain truly distances itself from the racially charged nationalism emerging from MAGA mania across the Atlantic, the true victims will be immigrants, who will face an increasingly normalised wave of vilification.

UMMID (2025-01-12). Hindu Nationalism versus Dr Ambedkar. ummid.com The BJP's anxiety to prove that Dr Ambedkar was part of Hindutva politics is a pure concoction.

Maliha Safri (2025-01-12). Where Urban Fault Lines Run Deep, Solidarity Cities Take Root. truthout.org Contemporary debates about capitalism and its alternatives often fall into two traps: either portraying economic life as so fully saturated by (racial) capitalism that alternatives are rendered insignificant, or idealizing these alternatives to the point of overlooking racial and economic divisions within social movement spaces. The new book Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism… |

Paul Craig Roberts (2025-01-12). In the Western World You Become Respectable by Selling Out the People. thealtworld.com Two themes to which I return are the difficulty of effecting change and the disappearance of ethnic nations in the West. What is going on right now in France is a story of both together. | Marine Le Pen's political party, National Rally (formerly National Front), is the largest French party, but it is kept from office by all other parties combining against it. Le Pen's party has stood for French ethnicity as opposed to a diverse Tower of Babel. In Europe an ethnic-based national state has become associated with Hitler's Third Reich. Consequently, the French establishment has branded the National Rally racist and…

WSWS (2025-01-12). 140 years since the Berlin Congress: The new Scramble for Africa—Part Two. wsws.org The development of the revolutionary socialist movement was inseparably bound up with the struggle against imperialism.

newarab (2025-01-12). Holocaust Memorial Day trust slammed over Gaza omission. newarab.com Jewish Holocaust survivors have fiercely criticised the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT) over its decision to exclude any reference to Gaza from its official invitation to the 2025 The row began when HMDT issued an official invitation for the event on January 27, which marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. | The invitation initially included a reference to "the devastating violence against Palestinian civilians in Gaza". | But the inclusion of t…

Editor (2025-01-12). Chris Hedges: How Algorithms Suppress Speech and Perpetuate Empire. scheerpost.com

Jean Andreau (2025-01-12). Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire. cadtm.org

Caitlin Johnstone (2025-01-12). It's Not The Responsibility Of The Global South To Bring Down The Empire. It's Ours. caitlinjohnstone.com.au There can be a temptation to sit back and cheerlead for this or that state or militant group and say they're going to bring the empire to its knees, but really it isn't their responsibility to end the western empire. It's ours.

Elsy Fors Garzon (2025-01-12). Sanctions against Russia create problems for Europe, warns Hungary. plenglish.com Budapest, Jan 12 (Prensa Latina) Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó today denounced the damage that the most recent package of sanctions against Russia, announced by the United States, will cause to Central Europe, local television reported.

Rhoda Wilson (2025-01-12). An overview of the nefarious activities of the "Mutton Crew": From Brexit to covid to climate change and Ukraine. expose-news.com The "Mutton Crew" is an organisation with pharmaceutical and financial interests. Although it has links to the British Army, it is not a military unit but its operatives may have been trained …

Staff (2025-01-11). How Fascism Came. defenddemocracy.press America's democracy was destroyed by the two ruling parties who sold us out to corporations, militarists and billionaires. Now we pay the price. By Chris Hedges Dec 23, 2024 For over two decades, I and a handful of others — Sheldon Wolin, Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Barbara Ehrenreich and Ralph Nader — warned that the …

WSWS (2025-01-11). Workers Party marks second anniversary of coup attempt hailing Brazil's military and condemning socialist revolution. wsws.org If the fascists failed two years ago, they are already looking for their next and better prepared attempt under more favorable domestic and international conditions.

WSWS (2025-01-11). Milei shuts down museums memorializing victims of Argentina's military dictatorship. wsws.org Argentina's fascist President Milei seeks to erase the record of torture, disappearances and murder of tens of thousands of militant workers and youth.

UMMID (2025-01-11). Hindu Nationalism versus Dr Ambedkar. ummid.com The BJP's anxiety to prove that Dr Ambedkar was part of Hindutva politics is a pure concoction.

The Black Alliance for Peace. (2025-01-11). LA Fires: The Santa Ana Blowback of Capitalist Climate Change Neglect. popularresistance.org The incendiary cataclysms in Los Angeles, California remind us that the root cause of the climate crisis exacerbating the fires spreading throughout that city and surrounding areas is fossil fuel production emblematic of runaway capitalism fueled by white "supremacy" ideology, patriarchy, and colonization. And while it's easy to focus solely on the fires, it's important to note that the associated smoke will be the main culprit in the loss of life due to environmental racism that has assaulted the public health of Black, Brown, Indigenous and all poor and working class people in Los Angeles and throughout the cou…

WSWS (2025-01-11). New Zealand government's "foreign interference" bill prepares new attacks on democratic rights. wsws.org The proposed law—which is supported by the opposition Labour Party—will be used to criminalise opposition to militarism and war, as well as other actions that are deemed to benefit "foreign powers" and to undermine the interests of New Zealand capitalism.

WSWS (2025-01-11). The 2024 wildfire season in Canada: Climate catastrophe and capitalism converge. wsws.org In line with the homicidal response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, capitalist governments at all levels, dedicated to the enrichment of the corporate and financial elite no matter the social costs, have done nothing to prevent wildfires and assist those already devastated by them.

JANET (2025-01-11). No applause for collapse of Syria's government. iacenter.org January 7, 2025 Mick Kelly, representing Freedom Road Socialist Organization, gave this presentation at a webinar on the U.S. role in Syria, organized by the United National Antiwar Coalition on Dec. 28, 2024. Mick Kelly on webinar on U.S. role in Syria, Dec. 28, 2024. I am not a religious person, but I do agree with the statement in the good book that says, "Woe unto those that call good evil and evil good." The events in Syria, the collapse of its progressive government, are not something to be applauded. Instead, it needs to be identified as what it is: a setback for the people of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, pe…

Staff (2025-01-11). The Los Angeles fire disaster and the necessity of socialist planning. defenddemocracy.press By Tom Carter Han 10, 2024 The multiple fires currently raging out of control in Los Angeles, California, represent a catastrophe of staggering proportions. Communities, the size of small cities in themselves, have been erased from the map as numerous separate fires, accelerated by high winds and dry conditions, have rapidly overwhelmed what inadequate or …

WSWS (2025-01-11). Los Angeles residents speak out on ongoing fire catastrophe. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site spoke to numerous workers and residents in the city, on the direct impact of the fire, as well as the connected social and political issues. We ask all our readers in the Los Angeles area to write to us about their experiences with the fires this week.

WSWS (2025-01-11). The Los Angeles fires: What must be done. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party insists that one principle—human need—must in all circumstances take precedence over the wealth and profits of the super-rich.

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead (2025-01-11). Liverpool FC fans reject rumoured Musk takeover — 'he'll ruin us'. leftfootforward.org Liverpool FC supporters aren't mincing their words about Elon Musk — the world's richest man — potentially taking over their club. | As Liverpool is widely considered one of the world's most left-wing football clubs, it's not surprising that fury is being vented over the prospect of a " What would Bill Shankly do? | The club's socialist co…

Cherise Morris (2025-01-11). Amid Reactionary Backlash, We Must Reinvigorate Our Movement for Racial Justice. truthout.org The early days of the COVID-19 shutdown necessitated a particular stillness. In the quiet and uncertainty of the pandemic's first months, there was more time to pay attention to what was happening in the world around us, beyond the narrowing bubbles of our own personal lives. As the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery garnered media attention, people in cities across the… |

Jean Andreau (2025-01-11). Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire. cadtm.org

Brian Berletic (2025-01-11). Chinese Military Might vs Washington's Asymmetrical Tools of Empire. thealtworld.com China continues to strengthen its military capabilities, combining rapid growth in conventional power with readiness to counter U.S. asymmetrical strategies. | Over the past few months China has achieved several breakthroughs in terms of military power in both quantity and quality including the introduction of new aircraft, increased production rates of existing aircraft, and the launching of a new amphibious assault ship proposed as recently as 2020, demonstrating a rapid progression from drawing board to dockside all within China's already vast shipbuilding capacity. | The implications of these recent developme…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2025-01-11). Mass Incarceration Arose Out of Empire Building Across North America, Carribean and Pacific. covertactionmagazine.com The United States today has by far the world's largest incarceration rate, with nearly two million people living in prisons and jails. The conditions in those facilities are often substandard, with Amnesty International criticizing the dehumanizing practice of holding prisoners in prolonged solitary confinement. Benjamin Weber's book, American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of …

Juan M. Garcia (2025-01-11). Cuba convenes congress on nonclinical biopharmaceutical development. plenglish.com Havana, Jan 11 (Prensa Latina) The Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) called on the global scientific community to participate in the International Congress on Biopharm Nonclinical Development, BioNCiD 2025, which will take place in Varadero beach in late May, the institution announced.

scorinoco (2025-01-10). Delcy Rodríguez Inaugurates International Anti-Fascist Festival: 'Venezuela Will Be Fascism's Tomb in Latin America'. orinocotribune.com The vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, stated that it is time to unite in the fight against fascism because if the fight is postponed, "then perhaps there will no longer be humanity." Rodriguez made this comment on Thursday, January 9, at the "Venezuela will be the tomb of fascism in Latin America, as we are st…

cameron orr (2025-01-10). Militants and the millions: building resistance for real world impact. cpusa.org Millions of people are thinking about how to build the resistance, about how they can become active in fighting the second Trump administration's plans to facilitate and impose fascism. | In the process, some folks confuse sounding as radical as they want and feel with having the biggest impact on real world developments. It is important to have a clear idea of what is effective — what will reach, motivate, activate, and inspire the most people. Otherwise, we can spin our wheels being very active in ways that are not effective in reaching our goals. | In order to build a movement massive enough and unite…

María Candela (2025-01-10). Delegación cubana en Festival Antifascista ratifica respaldo a Venezuela y a su Presidente Nicolás Maduro (+Fotos y Audio). radiohc.cu Delegación cubana que participa en Festival Mundial Antifascista ratifica la solidaridad de nuestro país con el hermano pueblo venezolano, y el Presidente de la nación bolivariana, Nicolás Maduro Moros, quien realizará su acto de juramentación este 10 de enero.

María Candela (2025-01-10). Comenzó en Venezuela Festival Mundial de la Internacional Antifascista "Por un nuevo mundo" radiohc.cu En Venezuela comenzó el Festival Mundial de la Internacional Antifascista , con la presencia de unos dos mil delegados, a pocas horas de la juramentación del Presidente Nicolás Maduro.

Emanuel Pastreich (2025-01-10). Have You Been Faked Out by the Panama-Canada-Greenland Syndrome? globalresearch.ca The Newspapers are filled with impossible, crazy claims and declarations by Donald Trump that have just about everyone confused, angry, or amused. Everyone is either denouncing Trump as a fascist, a Zionist, or making jokes about his crazy plans to …

Charles Pierson (2025-01-10). The Yanquis Are Coming: Trump Threatens a "Soft Invasion" of Mexico. counterpunch.org Towards the end of Sinclair Lewis' 1935 novel, It Can't Happen Here, the fascist dictatorship which has come to power in the US has launched a war of aggression against Mexico. I thought of this as I read that President-Elect Donald Trump has been talking about using US special operations units against Mexican drug cartels.

Drago Bosnic (2025-01-10). NATO still trying to use Ukraine Neo-Nazi Junta to attack Russia's Nuclear Triad. Drago Bosnic. globalresearch.ca On January 8,

infobrics (2025-01-10). NATO still trying to use Neo-Nazi junta to attack Russia's nuclear triad. infobrics.org While proud of the supposed achievement, as it would severely limit the Tu-160 operations, the Kiev regime's outlet conceded that the VKS "barely ever uses Tu-160 bombers for strikes on Ukraine anyway" and that they were last used during a massive combined missile/drone strike on November 17 last year, "the first such deployment after 550 days of inactivity". This admission alone raises questions as to why the depot was targeted.

Andrew Johnson (2025-01-10). Housing crisis significantly worse in 2024. workers.org Capitalism, and class societies generally, have always been defined by poor housing conditions for the working classes. Contrary to popular myth, homelessness is not the result of individual failures or particular party governance, but rather an inbuilt inequity in the distribution of resources that permeates all class societies, which is . . . |

Stephen F. Eisenman (2025-01-10). Kvetching, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. counterpunch.org Gwen avocado (attribution), photographer unknown, n.d. "Is this truth I'm delivering up, or is it just plain kvetching? Or is kvetching for people like me a form of truth?" — Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint,1969 Form and content of the expat's kvetch Harriet knew it would happen eventually but was surprised it was so soon. Barely

cameron orr (2025-01-10). When liberalism turns pathetic: an open letter to Robert Reich. cpusa.org Dear Brother Reich, | You have recently However, the advice you are promoting, in short, is a demonstration of the pathetic condition of U.S. liberalism and its near collapse in the wake of Trump's popular vote vi…

Henry Giroux (2025-01-10). Beyond the Illusion: The Dark Dreams of a Unified Reich. counterpunch.org Before even taking office, Trump has conjured grotesque visions of what he once called the dreams of a "unified Reich." His delusions of grandeur, disdain for reason and truth, sycophantic worship of billionaires and despots, militarism, and embrace of white supremacy signal the rebirth of authoritarianism on a scale that recalls the horrors of the Third Reich, Pinochet's Chile, and Putin's Russia.

WSWS (2025-01-10). Demonstrations across Australia oppose attack on Gaza Hospital, demand release of health workers. wsws.org In Brisbane, Dr Zewlan Moor said she was speaking as a socialist, condemned the complicity of the Australian government in the genocide and called for an independent movement of the working class to fight it.

scorinoco (2025-01-10). Interior Minister of Venezuela Exposes Opposition Leader Enrique Márquez's Involvement in Coup Plot. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, presented evidence of the coup plot involving opposition leader Enrique Márquez, who has already been arrested. | "There are no saints here, and even less so if there is money involved. In this opposition everything is contaminated, absolutely everything," said Cabello, the first vice-president of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), during his program Con El Mazo Dando on Wednesday, January 8. | The minister also confirmed Márquez's close friendship with US-linked Juan Barreto and lawyer María Alejandra Díaz, as well as w…

Staff (2025-01-10). Venezuela: Authorities Condemn Far-Right Cover-Up of Failed Demonstration With Fake News (+María Corina Machado). orinocotribune.com Caracas ( OrinocoTribune.com)—In the afternoon of this Thursday, January 9, after a failed demonstration in the east of Caracas, María Corina Machado once again made false claims against the government of Venezuela in a continuation of her widely mocked fake news campaign. | The first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, stated that the far-right opposition attempted to cover up the failure of its call for mobilization by excusing it with false claims that María Corina Machado had somehow been arrested, despite the fact she was neither in police custody, nor had…

WSWS (2025-01-10). The Los Angeles fire disaster and the necessity of socialist planning. wsws.org The fires raging out of control in Los Angeles underscore how the socialist transformation of society by the international working class is not only possible but urgently necessary.

editor (2025-01-10). Happy Epiphany! Wokeism is not post-modern Marxism, but heretical Christianity. onlineopinion.com.au If you want to fight back against Wokeism, the most successful and potent arguments are more likely to be found in the writings of Paul the Apostle than anyone from the Enlightenment.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2025-01-10). President Nicolás Maduro 2025-2031: Towards Communal Democracy and Popular Power. libya360.wordpress.com Horacio Duque Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Jan. 10, 2025. The international reactionary mafias have prioritized Venezuela, the Bolivarian revolution and President Maduro as the target of their attacks. On the day of Nicolás Maduro's inauguration as president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for the period 2025-2031, the scenario is quite turbulent and agitated. Obviously,…

Waging Nonviolence (2025-01-10). Can nonviolent struggle defeat a dictator? This database emphatically says yes. pressenza.com The Global Nonviolent Action Database details some 40 cases of mass movements overcoming tyrants through strategic nonviolent campaigns. | By George Lakey | With Donald Trump set to take office after a fear-mongering campaign that reignited concerns about his desire to become a dictator, a reasonable question comes up: Can nonviolent struggle defeat a tyrant? | There are many great resources that answer this question, but the one that's been on my mind lately is the

David Issacharoff (2025-01-10). 'Hitler wasn't right-wing': Elon Musk gives Germany's AfD leader an election boost with hour-long talk on X. haaretz.com Musk, who has become the patron of global far-right politicians, discussed Hitler, the Israel-Hamas war and faith in God with Alice Weidel – amid reports that the Bundestag is investigating whether Musk's support for her far-right party could constitute an illegal party donation…

David Issacharoff (2025-01-10). 'Hitler wasn't right wing': Elon Musk gives Germany's AfD leader an election boost with hour-long talk on X. haaretz.com Musk, who has become the patron of global far-right politicians, discussed Hitler, the Israel-Hamas war and faith in God with Alice Weidel – amid reports that the Bundestag is investigating whether Musk's support for her far-right party could constitute an illegal party donation…

Paul Craig Roberts (2025-01-10). Watching the Banners of Empire Unfurl. thealtworld.com The Destruction of Syria Has Altered the Correlation of Forces | Washington, Israel, and Turkey conspired in the destruction and partition of Syria, and now they face conflict among themselves. It is enough to put you on the side of the terrorists. | An Israeli government committee has advised that Israel must prepare for war with Turkey, suspected of intentions of restoring the Ottoman Empire which would encroach on Israel's plans for Greater Israel. Such a war would present Washington with a dilemma. Turkey is a NATO member to whose aid Washington must go. But how can Washington go to war against Israel when Is…

Jean Andreau (2025-01-10). Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire. cadtm.org

Global Research News (2025-01-10). Selected Articles: 2025 — Endless Chaos Towards a One World Government or Vicious Confusion? Towards a One World Tyranny. globalresearch.ca By Is Turkey going to tolerate Israel's entry into Turkey's self-styled no-man's land? Or is …

John W. Whitehead — Nisha Whitehead (2025-01-10). Welcome to 2025: Where Your Freedoms Go to Die. counterpunch.org "There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice." —Montesquieu, Enlightenment philosopher Wondering what to expect from the government in 2025? So far, it looks like it will be more of the same ill-advised, costly, greedy, taxpayer-funded, dunderheaded power grabs, saber-rattling, graft,

Peter Koenig (2025-01-10). 2025 — Endless Chaos Towards a One World Government or Vicious Confusion? Towards a One World Tyranny. Peter Koenig. globalresearch.ca Aren't we all so happy as chaos is upon us — planned chaos for confusion and destruction, and for those who see through it, evoking a smile? | It is like a run for the end game that will never end …

tvbrics (2025-01-10). Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches massive projects in Andhra Pradesh. tvbrics.com These include setting up the country's largest green hydrogen production centre, Krishnapatnam industrial node, and a pharmaceutical park…

therealnews.com (2025-01-08). She was fired for pro-Palestine speech. She's a Jewish professor. Maura Finkelstein, a former tenured professor at Muhlenberg College, was fired for sharing a post by Palestinian poet Remi Kenazi on her Instagram story.

United World International (2025-01-08). Lessons from Syria for China. uwidata.com By Oràßun Gà∂ktàºrk, Beijing / China For 13 years, the Assad leadership in Syria has resisted an imperialist, reactionary, and separatist war. Last month, however, Assad's government collapsed following the advance of HTS (Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham), first to Aleppo and then to Damascus. The new situation in Syria poses a significant threat to China, as well as …

United World International (2025-01-08). Lessons from Syria for China. unitedworldint.com China needs to revise its traditional 'wait-and-see' or 'economy-first' approach to International Relations. By Oràßun Gà∂ktàºrk, Beijing / China For 13 years, the Assad leadership in Syria has resisted an imperialist, reactionary, and separatist war. Last month, however, Assad's government collapsed following the advance of HTS (Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham), first to Aleppo and then to Damascus. The new situation …

Rhoda Wilson (2025-01-08). 47 quotes from self-styled "elites" demonstrating they really do want to reduce the world's population. expose-news.com Michael Snyder has collected 47 quotes from so-called "elites" who belong to the depopulation cult. They have the erroneous belief that by reducing the world's population (not themselves of course) all the …

Grant Inskeep (2025-01-08). Haiti and American Neocolonialism. counterpunch.org Haiti is best understood in the contexts of the modern world as an American neocolonial protectorate. Besides US policy in Cuba, which includes a genocidal blockade depriving the Cuban people of precious resources needed to function society, it's hard to find another case of such an ongoing and sustained assault from the largest empire in

Jean Andreau (2025-01-08). Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire. cadtm.org

Ron Ridenour (2025-01-08). Scandinavians, the World's Happiest People, Love Killing for the USA. covertactionmagazine.com Part IV: The Yankees Are Coming to All Scandinavia [See Parts 1, 2 and 3 of veteran journalist and political activist Ron Ridenour's look into Denmark and its ties to the U.S. empire—Editors] Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen surprised the nation three days after Joe Biden warned Russia it would lose its Nord Stream natural gas …

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2025-01-08). BRICS Grows, Adding Indonesia As Member. popularresistance.org Indonesia is the world's number one producer of nickel, by a large margin. Nickel is an important mineral needed for renewable energy technologies like batteries and solar panels. | In the past decade, the Indonesian government has embarked upon an ambitious industrialization program. Through careful state planning and industrial policy, Jakarta banned the export of raw minerals and, with strategic investments from Chinese state-owned enterprises and favorable loans from Chinese state-owned banks, Indonesia has moved up the value chain, processing nickel at home, instead of simply exporting the ore.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2025-01-08). Pfizer's "Secret" Report on the Covid "Vaccine". Beyond Manslaughter. The Evidence is Overwhelming. The Vaccine Should Be Immediately Withdrawn Worldwide. globalresearch.ca Pfizer was fully aware that the mRNA vaccine which it is marketing Worldwide would result in a wave of mortality and morbidity. This is tantamount to a crime against humanity on the part of Big Pharma.

Yaniv Kubovich (2025-01-07). Two Israeli army officers killed in northern Gaza. haaretz.com An incident in northern Gaza left two soldiers dead and two seriously wounded. Capt. Eitan Israel Shiknazi, from the West Bank settlement of Eli is the 10th person from that community to be killed in the war…

Yaniv Kubovich (2025-01-07). Two Israeli army officers killed in northern Gaza. haaretz.com An incident in northern Gaza left two soldiers dead and two seriously wounded. Capt. Eitan Israel Shiknazi, from the West Bank settlement of Eli is the 10th person from that community to be killed in the war.

newarab (2025-01-07). How Elon Musk is ushering in a new era of global far-right power. newarab.com The Nazis first entered regional power in 1930. It was in the Eastern state of Thuringia where the Nazis first held ministerial-level posts. Three years later, Adolf Hitler became chancellor. | Nearly a century on, the far-right in Germany is once again in the ascendancy. Echoing this dark history, last September, on the very date Adolf Hitler invaded Poland, a far-right party won a regional election for the first time in Germany's post-war history. | The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) won

Nick Barrickman, World Socialist Web Site. (2025-01-07). IKEA Workers Vote To Extend Strike Into The New Year. popularresistance.org Perryville, Maryland – On December 28, 320 unionized workers at the Perryville IKEA distribution center in northern Maryland voted to remain on strike into the new year after voting down a tentative agreement offered to them by the company and the International Association of Machinists (IAM) union. | The distribution workers have been on strike since mid-November, citing seniority treatment and pay which is below the cost of living. | "Seniority is the most important thing here," said striking worker Lisa Mengel in a video statement released by More Perfect Union.

aljazeera (2025-01-07). Last Days of the Bibby Stockholm: Life aboard the UK's migrant barge. aljazeera.com Living on a UK migrant barge, an asylum seeker battles depression through running while awaiting an asylum decision.

WSWS (2025-01-07). New Zealand government, opposition parties glorify deceased Māori Party founder. wsws.org The embrace of Māori Party founder Tariana Turia by the National Party-ACT-NZ First coalition government and the opposition Labour and Green parties underscores the party's reactionary record and the right-wing character of its racial identity politics.

Staff (2025-01-07). Jimmy Carter's "Decency & Humanity" Came with Deadly U.S. Policies in Latin America: Greg Grandin. democracynow.org As the remains of Jimmy Carter arrive in Washington, D.C., as part of a weeklong state funeral, we speak with historian Greg Grandin about the former U.S. president's legacy. Carter, who served a single term from 1977 to 1981, promised to restore faith in government after the twin traumas of Watergate and the Vietnam War and to reorient U.S. foreign policy toward upholding human rights. "He came to power promising … a new kind of doctrine, that the United States was moving away from both the ideological excess and the support for dictatorships that led to wars like Vietnam or coups in Chile,"…

UMMID (2025-01-07). Bashar al Assad survives assassination attempt in Moscow: Report. ummid.com Ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad was poisoned in the Russian capital Moscow, reports said adding he is now under medical treatment.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2025-01-07). America is a Threat to Humanity. libya360.wordpress.com BettBeat Media The illusion of American imperial decline lies shattered amidst the rubble of Syrian cities and the smoldering ruins of Gaza. As human rights advocate Dan Kovalik grimly observes, what we're witnessing isn't the death throes of an empire, but rather its devastating demonstration of still-formidable power to crush resistance and reshape regional realities at…

Jean Andreau (2025-01-07). Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire. cadtm.org

Saleem Samad (2025-01-07). India's 'Neighborhood First' Testament Fails Bangladesh. pressenza.com Ancient India's visionary strategist Chanakya gave six-fold policy deals on war and peace with the neighboring states, how a king should assess his power, and what actions he needed to take to deal with the states. | Nearly 2316 years ago, the Indian philosopher, economist, jurist, and royal advisor professed diplomatic principles that still have relevance in modern diplomacy. | Chanakya who lived around 300 BCE was a key figure in the establishment of the glorious Mauryan Empire and is known for writing Arthashastra, an ancient Indian treatise on politics and economics. | Unfortunately, the South Block in New De…

The Independent (2025-01-07). Luwero stuck with sh740 million debt for road works after Ramathan Ggoobi declines to pay. independent.co.ug Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Authorities in Luwero District are grappling with a sh740 million debt related to road works after the Ministry of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development rejected their request to settle the amount. The debt dates back to 2014, when the district contracted Busenvi Enterprises Limited for sh522 million to construct …

Yaniv Kubovich (2025-01-07). Two Israeli army officers killed in northern Gaza. haaretz.com An incident in northern Gaza left two soldiers dead and two seriously wounded. Capt. Eitan Israel Shiknazi, from the West Bank settlement of Eli is the 10th person from that community to be killed in the war.

newarab (2025-01-07). How Elon Musk is ushering in a new era of global far-right power. newarab.com The Nazis first entered regional power in 1930. It was in the Eastern state of Thuringia where the Nazis first held ministerial-level posts. Three years later, Adolf Hitler became chancellor. | Nearly a century on, the far-right in Germany is once again in the ascendancy. Echoing this dark history, last September, on the very date Adolf Hitler invaded Poland, a far-right party won a regional election for the first time in Germany's post-war history. | The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) won

Nick Barrickman, World Socialist Web Site. (2025-01-07). IKEA Workers Vote To Extend Strike Into The New Year. popularresistance.org Perryville, Maryland – On December 28, 320 unionized workers at the Perryville IKEA distribution center in northern Maryland voted to remain on strike into the new year after voting down a tentative agreement offered to them by the company and the International Association of Machinists (IAM) union. | The distribution workers have been on strike since mid-November, citing seniority treatment and pay which is below the cost of living. | "Seniority is the most important thing here," said striking worker Lisa Mengel in a video statement released by More Perfect Union.

WSWS (2025-01-07). New Zealand government, opposition parties glorify deceased Māori Party founder. wsws.org The embrace of Māori Party founder Tariana Turia by the National Party-ACT-NZ First coalition government and the opposition Labour and Green parties underscores the party's reactionary record and the right-wing character of its racial identity politics.

UMMID (2025-01-07). Bashar al Assad survives assassination attempt in Moscow: Report. ummid.com Ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad was poisoned in the Russian capital Moscow, reports said adding he is now under medical treatment.

Staff (2025-01-07). Jimmy Carter's "Decency & Humanity" Came with Deadly U.S. Policies in Latin America: Greg Grandin. democracynow.org As the remains of Jimmy Carter arrive in Washington, D.C., as part of a weeklong state funeral, we speak with historian Greg Grandin about the former U.S. president's legacy. Carter, who served a single term from 1977 to 1981, promised to restore faith in government after the twin traumas of Watergate and the Vietnam War and to reorient U.S. foreign policy toward upholding human rights. "He came to power promising … a new kind of doctrine, that the United States was moving away from both the ideological excess and the support for dictatorships that led to wars like Vietnam or coups in Chile,"…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2025-01-07). America is a Threat to Humanity. libya360.wordpress.com BettBeat Media The illusion of American imperial decline lies shattered amidst the rubble of Syrian cities and the smoldering ruins of Gaza. As human rights advocate Dan Kovalik grimly observes, what we're witnessing isn't the death throes of an empire, but rather its devastating demonstration of still-formidable power to crush resistance and reshape regional realities at…

Jean Andreau (2025-01-07). Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire. cadtm.org

Saleem Samad (2025-01-07). India's 'Neighborhood First' Testament Fails Bangladesh. pressenza.com Ancient India's visionary strategist Chanakya gave six-fold policy deals on war and peace with the neighboring states, how a king should assess his power, and what actions he needed to take to deal with the states. | Nearly 2316 years ago, the Indian philosopher, economist, jurist, and royal advisor professed diplomatic principles that still have relevance in modern diplomacy. | Chanakya who lived around 300 BCE was a key figure in the establishment of the glorious Mauryan Empire and is known for writing Arthashastra, an ancient Indian treatise on politics and economics. | Unfortunately, the South Block in New De…

The Independent (2025-01-07). Luwero stuck with sh740 million debt for road works after Ramathan Ggoobi declines to pay. independent.co.ug Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Authorities in Luwero District are grappling with a sh740 million debt related to road works after the Ministry of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development rejected their request to settle the amount. The debt dates back to 2014, when the district contracted Busenvi Enterprises Limited for sh522 million to construct …

Steve Topple (2025-01-06). Ed Davey appears to be the only politician talking sense over Elon Musk. thecanary.co As batshit tech billionaire Elon Musk further spreads racist fake news and disinformation across his X feed, while courting far-right fascists (probably because he is one), UK Lib Dem leader Ed Davey appears to be one of the few politicians taking sense — as he directly calls for the UK government to intervene. Elon Musk: […] | By

People's World Editorial Board (2025-01-06). Jan. 6, 2021 — Never forget Trump's fascist coup. peoplesworld.org Four years ago, on Jan. 6, 2021, Trump staged an attempted fascist coup in Washington as part of a last-ditch effort to block Congressional certification of his defeat in the 2020 election. The violence took five lives within the first 36 hours, and four officers who responded to the attack took their own lives over …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2025-01-06). Video: A Jewish-Russian Proxy President: Zelensky Transformed into a Neo-Nazi. globalresearch.ca

Basit Mahmood (2025-01-06). Footage shows senior Tories laughing at Nazi jokes at private members club event. leftfootforward.org Disturbing footage has emerged showing senior Tories at a private member's club laughing at Nazi jokes with the host singing "we're all racist now". | The clip, which has drawn much condemnation, was obtained by the London Economic and was from a dinner hosted by right-wing media outlet Guido Fawkes at the Carlton Club in London which was attended by former prime minister Boris Johnson and wife Carrie, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, ex-PM Liz Truss, former cabinet secretary Robert Jenrick and Reform MP Lee Anderson among others. | In the clip, comic Dominic Frisby can be heard singing: "We've lost our way, lon…

Democracy Now! (2025-01-06). Democracy Now! 2025-01-06 Monday. democracynow.org Headlines for January 06, 2025; American Historical Assoc. Votes Overwhelmingly to Support Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza; Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics | Headlines for January 06, 2025; American Historical Assoc. Votes Overwhelmingly to Support Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza; Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics…

Staff (2025-01-06). Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics. democracynow.org Billionaire Trump associate Elon Musk's latest disinformation campaign is targeting the U.K. government, which Musk appears to believe is not sufficiently anti-immigrant. Musk, who has already shaped the incoming Trump administration's economic policy by proposing cuts to government spending and tech-oriented privatization of services, signifies a "new era" in American politics, says our guest Quinn Slobodian, who is chronicling right-wing tech billionaires' accelerating attempts to mold the world according to their "destructive" and "nihilist" beliefs. In a f…

Emanuel Pastreich (2025-01-06). An American Psychopathocracy. "How Google and Facebook Shut Down the American Mind". "Supercomputers Make the Ultimate Decision" globalresearch.ca No doubt you have noticed, with the complete inability of any public intellectual to come to terms with the series of false flag attacks in New Orleans, New York, Las Vegas, and elsewhere. Nor are any of them, including the …

WSWS (2025-01-06). IYSSE (Sri Lanka) public meeting in Kandy: How to defeat the IMF austerity program. wsws.org The IYSSE meeting, which will discuss the socialist program necessary to defend the social and democratic rights of workers and youth, is being held in Kandy after being anti-democratically banned at Peradeniya University.

WSWS (2025-01-06). "Feminist foreign policy" in action: German Foreign Minister Baerbock meets al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria. wsws.org When Green foreign minister Annalena Baerbock presented her "Guidelines for a Feminist Foreign Policy" in March 2023, we wrote that this project, as absurd as it is reactionary, was "ultimately about enforcing geostrategic and economic interests." If necessary, this would also be done in "close cooperation with the most reactionary regimes in the world."

UMMID (2025-01-06). Bashar al Assad survives assassination attempt in Moscow: Report. ummid.com Ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad was poisoned in the Russian capital Moscow, reports said adding he is now under medical treatment.

Jean Andreau (2025-01-06). Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire. cadtm.org

Caitlin Johnstone (2025-01-06). There Is No Need To Wait For Revolution Or Paradise. thealtworld.com There is no need to wait for the great revolution to begin fighting against our rulers. There is no need to wait for things to get better to experience this world as paradise. The time for both of these things is now. | Right at this very moment you can begin a daily practice of sowing the seeds of revolution. You as an individual cannot defeat the empire yourself, but it is absolutely within your power to open a few people's eyes to the reality that the status quo is unacceptable, and that a better world is possible. It is absolutely within your power to show people how they've been lied to their whole lives abo…

_____ (2025-01-06). 1421 — 1434. transcend.org In 1421 the Chinese traveled to the Americas. They came, saw, did not conquer, many stayed. Unlike the West no empire, no sucking tentacles. Also unlike the West they learnt, and preserved much of it. The center of the world now moves toward China.

_____ (2025-01-06). Age of Anxiety. transcend.org 30 Dec 2024 – Meanwhile, in the evil empire…

editor (2025-01-06). The myth of the sustainable enterprise. onlineopinion.com.au The reality is that such organisations rarely exist, and those that do aren't sustainable.

Steve Topple (2025-01-06). Ed Davey appears to be the only politician talking sense over Elon Musk. thecanary.co As batshit tech billionaire Elon Musk further spreads racist fake news and disinformation across his X feed, while courting far-right fascists (probably because he is one), UK Lib Dem leader Ed Davey appears to be one of the few politicians taking sense — as he directly calls for the UK government to intervene. Elon Musk: […] | By

People's World Editorial Board (2025-01-06). Jan. 6, 2021 — Never forget Trump's fascist coup. peoplesworld.org Four years ago, on Jan. 6, 2021, Trump staged an attempted fascist coup in Washington as part of a last-ditch effort to block Congressional certification of his defeat in the 2020 election. The violence took five lives within the first 36 hours, and four officers who responded to the attack took their own lives over …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2025-01-06). Video: A Jewish-Russian Proxy President: Zelensky Transformed into a Neo-Nazi. globalresearch.ca

Basit Mahmood (2025-01-06). Footage shows senior Tories laughing at Nazi jokes at private members club event. leftfootforward.org Disturbing footage has emerged showing senior Tories at a private member's club laughing at Nazi jokes with the host singing "we're all racist now". | The clip, which has drawn much condemnation, was obtained by the London Economic and was from a dinner hosted by right-wing media outlet Guido Fawkes at the Carlton Club in London which was attended by former prime minister Boris Johnson and wife Carrie, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, ex-PM Liz Truss, former cabinet secretary Robert Jenrick and Reform MP Lee Anderson among others. | In the clip, comic Dominic Frisby can be heard singing: "We've lost our way, lon…

Democracy Now! (2025-01-06). Democracy Now! 2025-01-06 Monday. democracynow.org Headlines for January 06, 2025; American Historical Assoc. Votes Overwhelmingly to Support Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza; Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics | Headlines for January 06, 2025; American Historical Assoc. Votes Overwhelmingly to Support Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza; Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics…

Staff (2025-01-06). Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics. democracynow.org Billionaire Trump associate Elon Musk's latest disinformation campaign is targeting the U.K. government, which Musk appears to believe is not sufficiently anti-immigrant. Musk, who has already shaped the incoming Trump administration's economic policy by proposing cuts to government spending and tech-oriented privatization of services, signifies a "new era" in American politics, says our guest Quinn Slobodian, who is chronicling right-wing tech billionaires' accelerating attempts to mold the world according to their "destructive" and "nihilist" beliefs. In a f…

Emanuel Pastreich (2025-01-06). An American Psychopathocracy. "How Google and Facebook Shut Down the American Mind". "Supercomputers Make the Ultimate Decision" globalresearch.ca No doubt you have noticed, with the complete inability of any public intellectual to come to terms with the series of false flag attacks in New Orleans, New York, Las Vegas, and elsewhere. Nor are any of them, including the …

WSWS (2025-01-06). IYSSE (Sri Lanka) public meeting in Kandy: How to defeat the IMF austerity program. wsws.org The IYSSE meeting, which will discuss the socialist program necessary to defend the social and democratic rights of workers and youth, is being held in Kandy after being anti-democratically banned at Peradeniya University.

WSWS (2025-01-06). "Feminist foreign policy" in action: German Foreign Minister Baerbock meets al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria. wsws.org When Green foreign minister Annalena Baerbock presented her "Guidelines for a Feminist Foreign Policy" in March 2023, we wrote that this project, as absurd as it is reactionary, was "ultimately about enforcing geostrategic and economic interests." If necessary, this would also be done in "close cooperation with the most reactionary regimes in the world."

UMMID (2025-01-06). Bashar al Assad survives assassination attempt in Moscow: Report. ummid.com Ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad was poisoned in the Russian capital Moscow, reports said adding he is now under medical treatment.

Jean Andreau (2025-01-06). Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire. cadtm.org

Caitlin Johnstone (2025-01-06). There Is No Need To Wait For Revolution Or Paradise. thealtworld.com There is no need to wait for the great revolution to begin fighting against our rulers. There is no need to wait for things to get better to experience this world as paradise. The time for both of these things is now. | Right at this very moment you can begin a daily practice of sowing the seeds of revolution. You as an individual cannot defeat the empire yourself, but it is absolutely within your power to open a few people's eyes to the reality that the status quo is unacceptable, and that a better world is possible. It is absolutely within your power to show people how they've been lied to their whole lives abo…

_____ (2025-01-06). 1421 — 1434. transcend.org In 1421 the Chinese traveled to the Americas. They came, saw, did not conquer, many stayed. Unlike the West no empire, no sucking tentacles. Also unlike the West they learnt, and preserved much of it. The center of the world now moves toward China.

_____ (2025-01-06). Age of Anxiety. transcend.org 30 Dec 2024 – Meanwhile, in the evil empire…

editor (2025-01-06). The myth of the sustainable enterprise. onlineopinion.com.au The reality is that such organisations rarely exist, and those that do aren't sustainable.

A a (2025-01-05). L'Unione Europea sopravviverà al Piano B della Germania? strategic-culture.su La Germania si trova in una situazione quasi catastrofica alla fine del 2024. Il Paese ha un piano B? | Segue nostro "L'economia tedesca si trova ad affrontare una fase di stagnazione e incertezza, con previsioni poco incoraggianti per il 2025". Secondo le stime dell'Istituto di Economia Tedesco (IW), un ente di ricerca vicino agli ambienti imprenditoriali, il prossimo anno vedrà una crescita del PIL di appena lo 0,1%, dopo un calo dello…

Caitlin Johnstone (2025-01-05). We Live In A Nightmare. thealtworld.com Awakening from the propaganda matrix is like being a conservative: you're frequently disgusted with society and where it appears to be headed. But unlike a conservative, you're disgusted by actual problems instead of imaginary nonsense. | Also unlike a conservative, your problem is not with relatively new societal developments like recent immigration waves and LGBTQ acceptance; your problem is with abusive dynamics which have been plaguing civilization for centuries. Capitalism. Imperialism. Militarism. Settler-colonialism. Genocide. Plutocracy. Exploitation. Consumerism. | Many rightists warn urgently that our s…

WSWS (2025-01-05). Postal workers at Mount Pleasant oppose CWU Framework Agreement with Kretinsky's takeover of Royal Mail. wsws.org A World Socialist Web Site reporting team campaigned on Friday at the Mount Pleasant mail centre in London for the online meeting on Sunday of…

UMMID (2025-01-05). Bashar al Assad survives assassination attempt in Moscow: Report. ummid.com Ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad was poisoned in the Russian capital Moscow, reports said adding he is now under medical treatment.

Gregory Elich (2025-01-05). How Yoon Planned to Set South Korea on the Path to Military Dictatorship. globalresearch.ca Scroll down to read this article in Korean. | AI Î≤àÏó≠ | AI TRANSLATION | . | . | How Yoon Planned to Set South Korea on the Path to Military Dictatorship | by Gregory Elich | Ïù¥ Í∏∞ÏǨΕº Ìïú͵≠Ïñ¥Î°ú ÏùΩÏúºÎ §Î©¥ ÏïÑÎûòΰú Ïä§ÌŨΰ§ÌïòÏÑ∏Ïö&…

Rhoda Wilson (2025-01-05). Tommy Robinson speaks out from prison. expose-news.com The establishment hates Tommy Robinson. Why? Because he is a working-class lad standing up for the working class and the "elites" don't like it. Despite corporate media's demonisation of him, he has …

Jean Andreau (2025-01-05). Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire. cadtm.org

Di Stefania Maurizi (2025-01-04). Journalist faces prison for refusing to hand over passwords to the British fascist police. indybay.org Richard Medhurst is the first reporter arrested and under investigation under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000. The UK police have sought to obtain the passwords to his phones, including a highly secure phone with a Graphene operating system. If the UK authorities prevail, no journalist travelling to London will be safe any longer when it comes to source protection…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2025-01-04). Ukraine's "Neo-Nazi Summer Camp". Military Training for Young Children, Para-military Recruits. globalresearch.ca The Azov battalion supported by its Western partners is not only involved in para-military operations in Donbass, it is also running a Summer Camp military training project for young children.

____ (2025-01-04). In Related News. . smoothiex12.blogspot.com Musk comments on Yakut soldier and his knife fight with a Nazi.

____ (2025-01-04). No, Russians Are Not Coming. smoothiex12.blogspot.com Recall Zhukov to Rokossovsky in Berlin in May 1945: "we liberated them from Nazism, and they will hate us for that." An interesting comment from the discussion under my new video:

United World International (2025-01-04). Moldova: Elections and consequences. uwidata.com By Gà∂kalp Erba≈ü The second round of Moldova's presidential elections, like the first one, was completed last November amid controversies and suspicions. The country now faces parliamentary elections planned for July 2025. After the official results were announced, Maia Sandu secured her presidency, even though the Socialist Party, whose presidential candidate lost by a very small margin, …

Bruce E. Levine, Counter Punch. (2025-01-04). Psychiatry's Latest Insane Magic-Bullet Treatment For Depression. popularresistance.org Clinics offering ketamine infusions and injections for "treatment-resistant depression" are today claiming 24-48 hours remission, and ketamine is also being marketed for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder, and anxiety disorder. | "Between 500 and 750 ketamine clinics have cropped up across the United States," NPR reported early in 2024 ("The Ketamine Economy: New Mental Health Clinics are a 'Wild West' with Few Rules"). This may be an underestimation, as Psychiatric News reported later in 2024, "More than 1,500 intravenous (IV) infusion clinics have proliferated…

UMMID (2025-01-04). Bashar al Assad survives assassination attempt in Moscow: Report. ummid.com Ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad was poisoned in the Russian capital Moscow, reports said adding he is now under medical treatment.

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2025-01-04). Ignoring a Leopard's Spots: The UK, Syria and Courting Dictators. globalresearch.ca Moral evangelists in power preaching about democracy and human rights resemble dowdy advocates of family values. When given a chance, they will wander, leaving their principles aside like unwanted impediments. This was certainly the case regarding various Western powers and …

Jean Andreau (2025-01-04). Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire. cadtm.org

Guest Blogger (2025-01-04). 2025 Looks Bleak For Germany…Energy the Most Expensive In Europe …Growing Speech Tyranny. wattsupwiththat.com But 2025 will not be an easy year for dissenters and critics of the government, as this is increasingly being criminalized in Germany thanks to recently passed laws and acts that aim to suppress free speech.

WSWS (2025-01-03). Socialism against oligarchy, fascism and war. wsws.org Underlying the interlinked crises of the capitalist system is an oligarchy that subordinates all of society to profit and the accumulation of personal wealth. The fight against the oligarchy is by its very nature a revolutionary task.

WSWS (2025-01-03). Socialism against oligarchy, fascism and war. wsws.org Underlying these interlinked crises of the capitalist system is an oligarchy that subordinates all of society to profit and the accumulation of personal wealth. The fight against the oligarchy is by its very nature a revolutionary task.

Chris Walker (2025-01-03). Elon Musk to Host X Event Promoting Neo-Nazi AfD Party Ahead of German Elections. truthout.org Mega-billionaire Elon Musk, owner of the social media site X, plans to hold an online audio discussion on the platform with the leader of a far right German party, amplifying the party's fascist and neo-Nazi ideology. The discussion between him and Alice Weidel, a leader for Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the party's candidate for chancellor in the February 23 snap elections… |

Staff (2025-01-03). Estados Unidos: Signos de degradación. cubadebate.cu El capitalismo de libre mercado que admira Javier Milei exhibe cotidianamente un doble perfil sangriento. La lógica de la refracción explica el vínculo entre las 700 bases militares estadounidenses esparcidas a lo largo y ancho del Planeta Tierra y su obvia relación con las recurrentes matanzas, tiroteos masivos y asesinatos colectivos.

A Guest Author (2025-01-03). Condemn the tragic attack in New Orleans. Reject scapegoating of Middle Easterners, Muslims and Immigrants. workers.org New Orleans The Workers Voice Socialist Movement (Louisiana) issued the following lightly edited statement on Jan. 1, 2025. Our condolences go out to the families and friends of those killed and injured in the horrific attack in the French Quarter of New Orleans. We condemn it completely. We also call . . . |

Bruce E. Levine (2025-01-03). Psychiatry's Latest Insane Magic-Bullet Treatment for Depression: Why Ketamine? counterpunch.org Clinics offering ketamine infusions and injections for "treatment-resistant depression" are today claiming 24-48 hours remission, and ketamine is also being marketed for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder, and anxiety disorder. "Between 500 and 750 ketamine clinics have cropped up across the United States," NPR reported early in 2024 ("The Ketamine Economy: New Mental Health Clinics are a 'Wild West' with Few Rules"). This may be an underestimation, as Psychiatric News reported later in 2024, "More than 1,500 intravenous (IV) infusion clinics have proliferated n…

UMMID (2025-01-03). Bashar al Assad survives assassination attempt in Moscow: Report. ummid.com Ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad was poisoned in the Russian capital Moscow, reports said adding he is now under medical treatment.

Gregory Elich (2025-01-03). How Yoon Planned to Set South Korea on the Path to Military Dictatorship. counterpunch.org Since South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's failed attempt to impose martial law on December 3, a steady stream of revelations has emerged from reporters and investigators, painting an increasingly disturbing picture of events. Plans drawn up by Yoon's co-conspirators included a shocking level of brutality and the promise of repression on a mass scale.

Prem Sikka (2025-01-03). How our democracy has been hijacked by corporations and wealthy elites. leftfootforward.org Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. | 'Free and fair elections' is the slogan of liberal democracies. But when did we have free and fair elections? | The slogan obfuscates the power of corporations and wealthy elites in shaping public choices. People merely rubber-stamp the policies already decided by political elites and their financial backers. Some crumbs are occasionally thrown to the masses but the rich and corporations always win because they contr…

Jean Andreau (2025-01-03). Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire. cadtm.org

Damon Orion (2025-01-03). How a Community Collaborative in Arkansas is Pioneering Solutions to Long-Standing Social Problems. counterpunch.org Redlining, exclusionary zoning, and predatory lending schemes have put prospective Black homeowners at a severe disadvantage. As the Ballard Center for Social Impact points out, the gap in homeownership rates between Black and white families was larger in 2019 than in the 1960s. In 2023, the National Association of Realtors reported a nearly 29 percent homeownership divide between these

Frank Bergman (2025-01-03). Pfizer Caught Hiding Sudden Deaths During COVID 'Vaccine' Trials. globalresearch.ca Pfizer has been caught hiding sudden deaths during the clinical trials for the pharmaceutical giant's Covid mRNA "vaccine." | The hidden deaths were discovered during a major 1 and half year investigation by a team of researchers. | The team, volunteering for …

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (2024-12-31). PFLP-GC Condemns Zionist Siege of Kamal Adwan Hospital. indybay.org The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command condemns the Nazi Zionist terrorist army's storming of Kamal Adwan Hospital and burning it after imposing a siege on it with fire, systematically targeting it and the medical staff, torturing patients and accompanying staff and forcing them to leave it, not to mention the deaths of more than 50 martyrs, some of whom were burned to death as a result of the fire spreading throughout the hospital, in a complete war crime that is added to the record of Nazi crimes committed by the enemy in its violation of international humanitarian laws.

David Issacharoff (2024-12-31). 'We must have a more relaxed view of our past': Hanging out with Germany's extremist AfD party. haaretz.com At a well-attended speech by Alternative for Germany co-founder Alexander Gauland, there was much talk of immigration, Israel-Gaza, Trump and Putin — and the Nazi Party. 'We cannot live properly if we are told that our past is one of crime,' one AfD lawmaker tells Haaretz…

aljazeera (2024-12-31). North Korea's Kim hails 'comrade' Putin in New Year's greeting. aljazeera.com North Korean leader expresses hope that Moscow will defeat 'neo-Nazism and achieve a great victory' in Ukraine.

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2024-12-31). J.P. Morgan Heatlhcare Investment Conf & United Healthcare Coming To Town 1/13/24. indybay.org J.P. Morgan Healthcare Investment conference will be held at the St. Francis Hotel on January 13, 2025 and it will have executives from all the insurance companies and capitalists who want to make more money off of healthcare including United Healthcare. There will be a rally at 4: 00 PM at the hotel to demand an end to this healthcare madness under capitalism.

Editor (2024-12-31). 20 Years after his death, Gary Webb's truth is still dangerous. mronline.org Twenty years ago this month, on December 10, 2004, former San Jose Mercury News investigative reporter Gary Webb died by apparent suicide, following a stretch of depression.

palestinechronicle.com (2024-12-31). Canadian Media Prioritizes 'Antisemitism' over Freezing Gaza Babies Babies are dying of hypothermia. Cats have joined stray dogs in eating the dead. The last functioning hospital in the north has been burned down. | | Amidst this ever-worsening holocaust in Gaza, the media and politicians want us to believe Canadian Jews are the real victims.

Jean Andreau (2024-12-31). Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire. cadtm.org

Binoy Kampmark (2024-12-31). Greenland Redux: Trump and America's Continuing Obsession. counterpunch.org History shows that empires acquire territories in various ways. Dynasties link arms through marriage, as the Habsburgs were famous for doing. Territories are pinched by means of arms or stolen through sham contracts and undertakings. They might also be purchased. The United States made much of the vast property sale in acquiring an empire. The Louisiana purchase of 1803

Juan M. Garcia (2024-12-31). Rebelliousness in the final blow to Batista's tyranny in Cuba. plenglish.com Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, Dec 31 (Prensa Latina) The forces of Batista's tyranny received on December 31, 1958, "the hell of rebellion" by Column 2 Antonio Maceo under the command of Camilo Cienfuegos, in Yaguajay, in central Cuba.

Henry A. Giroux, Truthout. (2024-12-30). Higher Education Must Champion Democracy, Not Surrender To Fascism. popularresistance.org For decades, neoliberalism has systematically attacked the welfare state, undermined public institutions and weakened the foundations of collective well-being. Shrouded in the alluring language of liberty, it transforms market principles into a dominant creed, insisting that every facet of life conform to the imperatives of profit and economic efficiency. | But in reality, neoliberalism consolidates wealth in the hands of a financial elite, celebrates ruthless individualism, promotes staggering levels of inequality, perpetuates systemic injustices like racism and militarism, and commodifies everything, leaving no…

Michael Albert (2024-12-30). Fascism and Radical Left Lunacy. counterpunch.org Donald, the idiot, the madman, the consummate cowardly thug is preparing to unleash shock and awe to paint his agenda onto the American and the world stage such as we have never seen before. Day one, two, three…infinity. He will attempt to unleash the hounds of horror. Why? To impose his horrendous agenda—of course. But

Henry A. Giroux (2024-12-30). Higher Education Must Champion Democracy, Not Surrender to Fascism. globalresearch.ca For decades,

WSWS (2024-12-30). Trudeau government scrapes all names from "Victims of Communism" monument in attempt to hide Canada's patronage of Nazi collaborators and war criminals. wsws.org No member of the Liberal government was allowed to show their face at the inauguration ceremony, for fear it would once again draw public attention to the Canadian state's longstanding and ongoing patronage of fascist forces.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (2024-12-30). PFLP-GC Condemns Zionist Siege of Kamal Adwan Hospital. indybay.org The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command condemns the Nazi Zionist terrorist army's storming of Kamal Adwan Hospital and burning it after imposing a siege on it with fire, systematically targeting it and the medical staff, torturing patients and accompanying staff and forcing them to leave it, not to mention the deaths of more than 50 martyrs, some of whom were burned to death as a result of the fire spreading throughout the hospital, in a complete war crime that is added to the record of Nazi crimes committed by the enemy in its violation of international humanitarian laws.

A A (2024-12-30). Lo sviluppo delle relazioni bilaterali tra Vietnam e Giappone. strategic-culture.su A inizio dicembre, il Presidente dell'Assemblea Nazionale del Vietnam, Tr·∫ßn Thanh M·∫´n, ha visitato ufficialmente Giappone e Singapore, rafforzando i legami diplomatici con entrambi i Paesi. Questo articolo esplora il rafforzamento delle relazioni bilaterali tra Vietnam e Giappone, con prospettive future promettenti. | Segue nostro Ad inizio dicembre, il Presidente dell'Assemblea Nazionale del Vietnam…

A a (2024-12-30). Un anno di disastri "all'italiana" strategic-culture.su Il risultato del 2024 per l'Italia e il governo di Giorgia Meloni e quali previsioni si possono fare per il 2025? | Segue nostro Un'Italia che non cambia | In Italia abbiamo un detto in politica "cambiare tutto affinché niente cambi": cambiano i governi, cambiano i partiti politici, cambiano le dinamiche internazionali, ma alla fine non cambia niente nel Paese. Come mai? Il problema è radicato nella incapacità di andare oltre il sistema…

WSWS (2024-12-30). What is the Revolutionary Communist International proclaimed by the former International Marxist Tendency of Alan Woods?—Part 3. wsws.org What Woods, et al, now dare to dismiss as the defence by a "sect" of an "orthodoxy" disproved by events, as they themselves oriented to the counter-revolutionary bureaucracies, represented the essential struggle for the perspective of world socialist revolution and the international party required for its realisation.

WSWS (2024-12-30). Petition against the frame-up of the Socialist Laborers Party in Turkey. wsws.org The Socialist Laborers Party in Turkey has launched a petition against the frame-up "terror" charges targeting its leader and many members. The World Socialist Web Site and the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu, notwithstanding their political differences with the SLP, oppose this sham police operation and support the petition.

Chris Walker (2024-12-30). Elon Musk Op-Ed in German Newspaper Prompts Editor to Resign in Protest. truthout.org An editor for a prominent newspaper in Germany has resigned in protest after the paper published an op-ed in which billionaire Elon Musk endorsed a far right political party. Earlier this month, Musk signaled his support for Alternative for Germany (AfD) ahead of elections set to be held in that country in February. AfD is widely recognized as a reactionary political party… |

Staff (2024-12-30). "Total Moral, Ethical Failure": Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov on Israel's Genocide in Gaza. democracynow.org Since October 7, 2023, Israel's onslaught in Gaza has killed more than 45,500 Palestinians and injured more than 108,000. At the same time, Gaza officials continue to accuse Israel of deliberately blocking aid deliveries. Human rights organizations are condemning Israel for attacking Palestinian lifesaving infrastructure, including Gaza's water supply and medical system. All of this has led to the world's leading specialist on the subject of genocide to declare Israel is carrying out a combination of "genocidal actions, ethnic cleansing and annexation of the Gaza Strip." Omer Bartov,…

Mark Taliano (2024-12-30). Continuity of Barbarism. Empire and Its Proxies Destroy Healthcare and Humanity as Policy. Mark Taliano. globalresearch.ca In Syria and Gaza, the mechanics of Western-perpetrated terror are eerily similar. | Empire's proxies, al Qaeda, ISIS and affiliates in Syria, and Zionists in occupied Palestine, destroy healthcare as policy. | In February, 2023, journalist Sara Salloum explained that, | "the years …

Jean Andreau (2024-12-30). Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire. cadtm.org

Caitlin Johnstone (2024-12-30). The Empire Burns The Middle East While US Homelessness Surges. caitlinjohnstone.com.au The US empire is up to its elbows in the middle east working frenetically to manipulate what happens there, while in the United States itself homelessness has taken another record-shattering leap forward.

Henry A. Giroux, Truthout. (2024-12-30). Higher Education Must Champion Democracy, Not Surrender To Fascism. popularresistance.org For decades, neoliberalism has systematically attacked the welfare state, undermined public institutions and weakened the foundations of collective well-being. Shrouded in the alluring language of liberty, it transforms market principles into a dominant creed, insisting that every facet of life conform to the imperatives of profit and economic efficiency. | But in reality, neoliberalism consolidates wealth in the hands of a financial elite, celebrates ruthless individualism, promotes staggering levels of inequality, perpetuates systemic injustices like racism and militarism, and commodifies everything, leaving no…

Michael Albert (2024-12-30). Fascism and Radical Left Lunacy. counterpunch.org Donald, the idiot, the madman, the consummate cowardly thug is preparing to unleash shock and awe to paint his agenda onto the American and the world stage such as we have never seen before. Day one, two, three…infinity. He will attempt to unleash the hounds of horror. Why? To impose his horrendous agenda—of course. But

Henry A. Giroux (2024-12-30). Higher Education Must Champion Democracy, Not Surrender to Fascism. globalresearch.ca For decades,

WSWS (2024-12-30). Trudeau government scrapes all names from "Victims of Communism" monument in attempt to hide Canada's patronage of Nazi collaborators and war criminals. wsws.org No member of the Liberal government was allowed to show their face at the inauguration ceremony, for fear it would once again draw public attention to the Canadian state's longstanding and ongoing patronage of fascist forces.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (2024-12-30). PFLP-GC Condemns Zionist Siege of Kamal Adwan Hospital. indybay.org The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command condemns the Nazi Zionist terrorist army's storming of Kamal Adwan Hospital and burning it after imposing a siege on it with fire, systematically targeting it and the medical staff, torturing patients and accompanying staff and forcing them to leave it, not to mention the deaths of more than 50 martyrs, some of whom were burned to death as a result of the fire spreading throughout the hospital, in a complete war crime that is added to the record of Nazi crimes committed by the enemy in its violation of international humanitarian laws.

A A (2024-12-30). Lo sviluppo delle relazioni bilaterali tra Vietnam e Giappone. strategic-culture.su A inizio dicembre, il Presidente dell'Assemblea Nazionale del Vietnam, Tr·∫ßn Thanh M·∫´n, ha visitato ufficialmente Giappone e Singapore, rafforzando i legami diplomatici con entrambi i Paesi. Questo articolo esplora il rafforzamento delle relazioni bilaterali tra Vietnam e Giappone, con prospettive future promettenti. | Segue nostro Ad inizio dicembre, il Presidente dell'Assemblea Nazionale del Vietnam…

A a (2024-12-30). Un anno di disastri "all'italiana" strategic-culture.su Il risultato del 2024 per l'Italia e il governo di Giorgia Meloni e quali previsioni si possono fare per il 2025? | Segue nostro Un'Italia che non cambia | In Italia abbiamo un detto in politica "cambiare tutto affinché niente cambi": cambiano i governi, cambiano i partiti politici, cambiano le dinamiche internazionali, ma alla fine non cambia niente nel Paese. Come mai? Il problema è radicato nella incapacità di andare oltre il sistema…

WSWS (2024-12-30). What is the Revolutionary Communist International proclaimed by the former International Marxist Tendency of Alan Woods?—Part 3. wsws.org What Woods, et al, now dare to dismiss as the defence by a "sect" of an "orthodoxy" disproved by events, as they themselves oriented to the counter-revolutionary bureaucracies, represented the essential struggle for the perspective of world socialist revolution and the international party required for its realisation.

WSWS (2024-12-30). Petition against the frame-up of the Socialist Laborers Party in Turkey. wsws.org The Socialist Laborers Party in Turkey has launched a petition against the frame-up "terror" charges targeting its leader and many members. The World Socialist Web Site and the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu, notwithstanding their political differences with the SLP, oppose this sham police operation and support the petition.

Chris Walker (2024-12-30). Elon Musk Op-Ed in German Newspaper Prompts Editor to Resign in Protest. truthout.org An editor for a prominent newspaper in Germany has resigned in protest after the paper published an op-ed in which billionaire Elon Musk endorsed a far right political party. Earlier this month, Musk signaled his support for Alternative for Germany (AfD) ahead of elections set to be held in that country in February. AfD is widely recognized as a reactionary political party… |

Staff (2024-12-30). "Total Moral, Ethical Failure": Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov on Israel's Genocide in Gaza. democracynow.org Since October 7, 2023, Israel's onslaught in Gaza has killed more than 45,500 Palestinians and injured more than 108,000. At the same time, Gaza officials continue to accuse Israel of deliberately blocking aid deliveries. Human rights organizations are condemning Israel for attacking Palestinian lifesaving infrastructure, including Gaza's water supply and medical system. All of this has led to the world's leading specialist on the subject of genocide to declare Israel is carrying out a combination of "genocidal actions, ethnic cleansing and annexation of the Gaza Strip." Omer Bartov,…

Mark Taliano (2024-12-30). Continuity of Barbarism. Empire and Its Proxies Destroy Healthcare and Humanity as Policy. Mark Taliano. globalresearch.ca In Syria and Gaza, the mechanics of Western-perpetrated terror are eerily similar. | Empire's proxies, al Qaeda, ISIS and affiliates in Syria, and Zionists in occupied Palestine, destroy healthcare as policy. | In February, 2023, journalist Sara Salloum explained that, | "the years …

Jean Andreau (2024-12-30). Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire. cadtm.org

Caitlin Johnstone (2024-12-30). The Empire Burns The Middle East While US Homelessness Surges. caitlinjohnstone.com.au The US empire is up to its elbows in the middle east working frenetically to manipulate what happens there, while in the United States itself homelessness has taken another record-shattering leap forward.

Vijay Prashad (2024-12-29). Resist, My People, Resist. orinocotribune.com By Vijay Prashad — Dec 27, 2024 | With a year marked by genocide and conflict almost behind us, we welcome the new year with struggle. | May it bring us closer to a socialist world where the dreams of humanity can finally awaken. | Pain shudders through the arteries of global society. Day after day passes by as the genocide against the Palestinian people continues and the conflicts in the Great Lakes region of Africa and Sudan escalate. More and more people slip into absolute poverty as arms companies' profits soar. These realities have hardened society, allowing people to bury their heads and ignore the hor…

socialistworker.co.uk (2024-12-29). London protest rages against Israel's destruction of Kamal Adwan Hospital They came to show their horror and fury at the Israeli destruction and burning of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza the day before. | | This was the last major functioning hospital in northern Gaza. Israeli troops drove people from it on Friday 27 December. Earlier airstrikes around Kamal Adwan had killed dozens of people.

APR editor (2024-12-29). Valls hopes to tackle New Caledonia in Rocard-style 'spirit of dialogue'. asiapacificreport.nz By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Overseas Minister Manuel Valls, who was appointed yesterday as part of the new French government of Prime Minister Franàßois Bayrou, intends to tackle New Caledonia's numerous issues in the spirit of dialogue of former Socialist Prime Minister Michel Rocard. Rocard is credited as the main…

The Independent (2024-12-29). China attaches greater importance to minors' mental health. independent.co.ug BEIJING | Xinhua | China has attached increasing importance to the mental health of children and adolescents, experts said at a press conference held by the National Health Commission (NHC) on Wednesday. Epidemiological survey results from authoritative institutions show that the actual prevalence of depression among adolescents in China is about 2 percent, said Xie …

Ed Vulliamy, Portside. (2024-12-29). How A US President And JP Morgan Made Panama. popularresistance.org This goes back a long way. The Panamanian state was originally created to function on behalf of the rich and self-seeking of this world — or rather their antecedents in America — when the 20th century was barely born. | Panama was created by the United States for purely selfish commercial reasons, right on that historical hinge between the imminent demise of Britain as the great global empire, and the rise of the new American imperium. | The writer Ken Silverstein put it with estimable simplicity in an article for Vice magazine two years ago: "In 1903, the administration of Theodore Roosevelt created…