(2021-11-29). Xiomara Castro Leading by Wide Margin in Honduras Elections. orinocotribune.com After a historic voter turnout of 62%, and despite attempts by the right-wing National Party (PAN) to claim an early victory, democratic socialist candidate Xiomara Castro de Zelaya is leading by a nearly 20% margin in the country's presidential elections. | Leading ovr Nasry Asfura, current mayor of the capital city Tegucigulpa and PAN candidate, as well as Yani Rosenthal, candidate for the Liberal Party, Castro is on track to become the first woman president of the Central American nation, and the first leftist leader of the country since her husband Manuel 'Mel' Zelaya was ousted in a U.S.-backed coup in 2009.
(2021-11-29). Communist playing a leading role in Spain's governing coalition. peoplesworld.org 
Spanish Communist Yolanda Díaz presently serves as minister of labor and social economy in the coalition government headed by Pablo Sanchez's Socialist Party (PSOE). It includes the United Podemos (UP) formation, with which Díaz's own Communist Party of Spain (PCE) is associated. (Podemos is "Yes, we can!) UP leader Pablo Iglesias in early 2021 resigned …
(2021-11-29). Anti-fascist sections in Germany protest spike in police brutality. peoplesdispatch.org The media has exposed private chats between police officers in Cologne supporting violence against suspects. The North Rhine-Westphalian (NRW) State authorities have initiated an investigation against six police officers involved…
(2021-11-29). Republican Lauren Boebert incites fascistic violence against Democrat Ilhan Omar during recent campaign event. wsws.org During the event, the far-right Colorado lawmaker insinuated that Omar, one of two Muslims serving in Congress, was a potential suicide bomber, smearing her as a member of the "Jihad Squad."
(2021-11-29). Succession Season 3: The American elite lurches towards fascist conspiracy. wsws.org Season 3 of HBO's Succession, the black comedy-drama series created by Jesse Armstrong, brings out the anti-democratic rot at the heart of contemporary American politics, business and media.
(2021-11-29). Debunking the "Eco-Fortress Nationalism" of the AOC/Markey Green New Deal. mronline.org 
Max Ajl's 'People's Green New Deal' is a brutal reminder for the American left that even the most celebrated and progressive developments in American politics are still simply American politics, in other words they are a politics for America, and America first.
(2021-11-29). Video: Jeff Sparrow discusses 'Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating'. greenleft.org.au Jeff Sparrow sits down with Green Left to speak about his new book Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating.
(2021-11-29). Diosdado Cabello: 21N Elections Showed that Chavismo Remains Solid & United. orinocotribune.com 
On Sunday, November 28, the First Vice President of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, stated that the November 21 elections demonstrated that Chavismo remains solid and united, while the opposition remains divided in the short and long term. | Cabello made the comments during an interview on the program Aqui Con Ernesto Villegas. "The victory of the 21N elections was whole, absolute, unquestionable, and indisputable, based on a strategy defined by the high command of the Revolution and President Nicolás Maduro," said Cabello. | The parliamentarian noted that without the excellent s…
(2021-11-29). Video: How would socialists in government have handled the pandemic. greenleft.org.au Malaysian Socialist Party secretary general Sivarajan Arumugam addresses the question of how socialists in government would have handled the pandemic at the #Socialism2021 conference.
(2021-11-29). Chile at the Crossroads: Between Reform and Reaction. fpif.org In separate votes in October 2020 and May 2021, Chileans went to the polls and delivered three resounding defeats to the country's political establishment. | First, nearly 80 percent of voters chose to discard the country's constitution, a neoliberal-oriented product of the violent, U.S.-backed Augusto Pinochet dictatorship that ruled from 1973-1990. | Second, a similar margin decided to exclude existing representatives from the process of drafting a proposed new constitution, instead putting this power in the hands of directly elected citizens. | And third, they elected a left-dominated slate to serve on the Con…
(2021-11-28). One World Governance and the Council on Foreign Relations. "We Shall have World Government… by Conquest or Consent." globalresearch.ca The fact is the Council on Foreign Relations has been controlling US foreign policy for almost a century, and chief among its most obvious agendas has been building and maintaining US Empire's global unipolar hegemony and military strength at all cost.
(2021-11-28). Tech Workers, Bigger Than Big Tech. popularresistance.org Tech companies are the new empires of today: Alphabet annual revenue surpassed Hungary's GDP, Facebook employs over 15000 content moderators around the world, and Microsoft has built datavcenters in nearly every corner of our planet. Yet we continue to be sold the myth that the workers of the tech industry, which spans every corner of the globe, have nothing to do with each other. | To hold these tech companies accountable, tech workers in the United States have begun to organize. "Help us be Alphabet's conscience", proclaimed the recently-formed Alphabet Workers Union, a minority union composed of full-time empl…
(2021-11-28). Black Radical Internationalist Traditions. popularresistance.org In the 1950's and 1960's, it became a juxtaposition of highly educated workers for the most advanced productive forces on the planet, but developed within the unresolved, deeply violent, four hundred year-long colonial and racist architecture of the US. It was externally influenced by the period of the explosion of national liberation socialism that began with the Chinese revolution and was punctuated by the defeat of the US empire by the Korean and Chinese revolutions and at great costs to their peoples. The 1950s were capped off by the historic 1959 victory in Cuba, whose significance reverberates to this day i…
(2021-11-28). U.S. Capitalism Born in Blood: From the First Thanksgiving to Today w/ Dr. Gerald Horne. liberationnews.org 
The genocidal expansion of colonialism across the continent led to unspeakable suffering and death for Indigenous peoples.
(2021-11-28). Venezuela's Socialists Win Elections In Landslide. popularresistance.org After years of boycotting previous votes, Venezuela's right-wing opposition parties agreed to participate in these elections, through a series of negotiations that were held in Mexico and sponsored by Norway and the Netherlands. | A delegation of US National Lawyers Guild members traveled to Venezuela to monitor the elections, visiting 12 voting sites in Caracas and other states. They reported, "We observed a balanced and transparent voting process which voters expressed confidence in." | "From a technical point of view, we observed an electoral system that was fundamentally transparent and facilitated by a workf…
(2021-11-28). Read some Engels on Engels's 201 birthday. fightbacknews.org To mark the Nov. 28, 1820 birthday of the revolutionary Frederick Engels, Fight Back News Service is circulating one of his writings — On Authority. | On Authority | A number of Socialists have latterly launched a regular crusade against what they call the principle of authority. It suffices to tell them that this or that act is authoritarian for it to be condemned. This summary mode of procedure is being abused to such an extent that it has become necessary to look into the matter somewhat more closely. | Authority, in the sense in which the word is used here, means: the imposition of the will of another u…
(2021-11-28). Women Have Always Been at the Forefront of Sudanese Resistance. libya360.wordpress.com Shadia Abdel Moneim Women protesters in Khartoum, Sudan April 2019 | Ala Kheir/DPA/PA Images. All rights reserved A military coup carried out last month threatens to roll back the gains made in the 2019 revolution that overthrew al-Bashir's brutal regime Protests against authoritarianism and military regimes are not new to Sudan. Even the revolution that…
(2021-11-28). Video: Digital Tyranny and the Rockefeller-Gates WHO "Vaxx-Certificate Passport": Towards a World War III Scenario. globalresearch.ca It's an electronic ID-program using the Covid-19 "vaccine as a platform for digital identity, linking everything to everything of each individual (records of health, banking, personal and private, etc.), managed by a state agency or in extremis, by the private sector.