Danny Haiphong (2021-11-10). On American Patriotism: A Marxist Polemic. orinocotribune.com By Danny Haiphong — Nov 5, 2021 | The embrace of American patriotism, what some are calling "proletarian patriotism" within online circles, is yet another attempt to rebrand American nationalism. It is similar in character but different in form to the ongoing effort to rebrand the two-party system through the development of a "socialist" bloc within the Democratic Party's corporate jaws. Ideology is rendered an abstraction in each case rather than a reflection of the material conditions of society. The Democratic Party is a capitalist-owned party and therefore cannot but serve the interests of the capitalist…

Fra Hughes (2021-11-10). Getting Away With Murder — Britain to Protect its War Criminals. orinocotribune.com By Fra Hughes — Nov 8, 2021 | Every Empire is guilty of war crimes. Executing enemy combatants on the battlefield. Destroying hospitals, watercourses, and infrastructure. Carpet bombing cities. Murdering civilians. Torture. Raping men, women, and children. Starving the enemy into submission. Genocide. Mass slaughter and ethnic cleansing. | The British Empire was no different. | From North America to Australia. From New Zealand to Zimbabwe. From Ireland to Palestine, Britain has been accused of heinous war crimes against indigenous populations while extracting the wealth, minerals, and natural resources of th…

This Week in Fascism (2021-11-10). This Week in Fascism #122: Boston Shuts It Down, Hundreds Protest Milo, Far-Right Mass Shooter in Boise, National Justice Party Gathers Neo-Nazi Island of Unwanted Goys. itsgoingdown.org photo: @AlissaAzar And we are back! Lots to cover in this installment — and happily, a lot of it is action! We've got a jammed list of action reports along with the usual doxxes, news, ways to support prisoners, and a few alerts and breaking stories. From leftovers ala Unite the Right attempting to rebrand…

WSWS (2021-11-10). House Republican Paul Gosar tweets anime video depicting him killing Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. wsws.org Paul Gosar, the fascistic Republican congressman from Arizona and supporter of Trump's attempt to overthrow the 2020 election, posted a video on social media depicting himself attacking and killing Democratic Representative Ocasio-Cortez.

Bruce Lerro (2021-11-10). New Agers vs Neopagans: Can Either be Salvaged for Socialism? (Part II). dissidentvoice.org Is it possible or desirable for socialists to integrate pantheism into dialectical materialism? Can Wiccan covens be integrated into anarchist affinity groups? Can socialism improve itself by embracing celebratory Neopagan seasonal rituals? All this is possible if socialists could admit that being atheists has not been attractive, fun or inspiring in organizing the working class. …

WSWS (2021-11-10). Letter from a Brooklyn teacher on the conditions in New York City schools. wsws.org A Brooklyn, New York, middle school teacher and member of the New York City Educators Rank-and-File Safety wrote the following letter to the World Socialist Web Site about conditions in city schools and the fight to eliminate COVID-19.

WSWS (2021-11-10). Immunologist Dr. Anthony Leonardi speaks on Long COVID and the dangers posed by SARS-CoV-2. wsws.org Part one of a two-part interview with the World Socialist Web Site…

WSWS (2021-11-10). Film industry workers speak out against IATSE sell-out contract ahead of November 12 vote. wsws.org World Socialist Web Site reporters spoke to IATSE members who are outraged with the contract being presented to them as a "Hollywood Ending" by the IATSE leadership…

Rainer Shea (2021-11-09). How Imperialist Propaganda Weaponizes Genocide to Justify War. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Nov 8, 2021 | The imperialists have a weapon more powerful than the atomic bomb. It's called propaganda. The type of propaganda that's been fine tuned by decades of practice in false flags, fabricated atrocity stories, and glorifications of militarism. With the onset of the new cold war, and its correlating advancements in the high-tech sector, the U.S. empire's cognitive warfare has taken on unprecedented scope and subtlety. Should aspiring U.S. revolutionaries succumb to the deceptions this manipulation matrix is laying down for us, the movement towards proletarian revolution in the imperi…

In Defense of Liberation! (2021-11-09). Some More Questions: Fascism, Revolution, and History. anchor.fm I mean I think the title says it all. US Empire and Imperialism need to come tumbling down, but how? Fascism, what is it? How is it connected to the US? What can/should we do about all of this? Please donate to the homie from Bands of Turtle Island, Zitkato's Patreon/Cashapp! Cashapp: $bandsofturtleisland…

WSWS (2021-11-09). New investigations reveal major police departments across the US riddled with Oath Keeper fascists. wsws.org Last Tuesday's elections also show Oath Keeper fascists and supporters of Donald Trump's January 6 coup continue to run as Republicans and be elected to state and local offices.

The Socialist Program (2021-11-09). "Uproot the System!" — Save the Planet, End Capitalism. liberationnews.org Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how tens of thousands of people marched in Glasgow and all over the world last weekend, chanting "uproot the system!" and demanding the transformation of the world economy to combat the climate crisis.

Joris Leverink (2021-11-09). Economic Update: A Story of War. roarmag.org On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses how Amazon rips off small business and squeezes workers; US and China's military tactics; top mainstream economists grasp the deepening critique of capitalism; and how strikes at Nabisco and Kellogg expose capitalism's classic contours of class struggle. | The second half of the show features an interview with Prof Talia Lugacy on her new independent film This is Not a War Story released by Warner Media HBO Max. | You can support this show on

Isheka N. Harrison (2021-11-09). What Happened In The Buffalo Mayor's Race? How Socialist India Walton Was Stopped By Democratic Party Establishment And Republicans. moguldom.com Buffalo mayoral candidate India Walton made history in the Democratic primaries in June when she defeated long-serving incumbent Mayor Byron Brown. For a while, it looked like Walton was on the verge of becoming the first Black person, woman and openly socialist candidate to lead New York's second-most populous city. Those hopes were dashed on …

WSWS (2021-11-09). Howard University students denounce deplorable living conditions. wsws.org Student protesters spoke to the World Socialist Web Site about their living conditions and wrongful campus layoffs as the protest at Howard University enters its fifth week.

WSWS (2021-11-09). New Zealand emergency doctor warns of "preventable catastrophe" from COVID-19. wsws.org Northland-based emergency doctor Gary Payinda spoke to the World Socialist Web Site about the low vaccination rates for COVID-19 and warned that already overstretched hospitals will be unable to cope with a wave of severe illnesses.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-09). Working class groups worldwide celebrate anniversary of October Revolution. peoplesdispatch.org The communist-oriented working class in Petrograd led by Vladimir Lenin captured state power in Russia and established a socialist state under workers' control, which expanded and became the Soviet Union in 1922…

In Defense of Liberation! (2021-11-09). *BONUS* Some Questions on My Mind. anchor.fm I ask two questions: 1.) What role do individuals play in history? 2.) Can we build a true Proletarian Revolution/People's Liberation as atomized, and disconnected, and especially without a Communist Party? Idk, you tell me! Go think some thought yo!

Abbasi J. (2021-11-09). Closed Loop Device May Alleviate Treatment-Resistant Depression. jamanetwork.com A patient with treatment-resistant depression experienced rapid and sustained improvements with personalized brain mapping and a closed loop deep brain sensing and stimulation device. Results from the proof-of-concept trial appeared in Nature Medicine.

David Ruccio (2021-11-09). Class conflict and economics. mronline.org A funny thing happened on the way to the recovery from the Pandemic Depression: class conflict is back at the core of economics.

Maureen Clare Murphy (2021-11-09). Israeli spyware targeted Palestinian human rights workers. electronicintifada.net Totalitarian population surveillance revealed in occupied West Bank.

MEE staff (2021-11-09). US Holocaust Museum warns China 'may be committing genocide' against Uighurs. middleeasteye.net US Holocaust Museum warns China 'may be committing genocide' against Uighurs | Report says Beijing could be moving beyond forced assimilation of the Muslim minority as it tries to 'biologically destroy the group' | Tue, 11/09/2021 – 20: 14 | Protesters with the Stanton Public Policy Center's Purple Sash Revolution hold a rally outside the White House on 27 May, 2021 in support of Uighur women and call for a bo…

Prof. Anthony J. Hall (2021-11-09). Putting Trudeau On Notice, Our Governments are No Longer Legitimate: Throwing Off the Tyranny of Canada's Mandatory Vaccines. globalresearch.ca

Yasmeen Afghan (2021-11-09). Kabul Diaries Part 19: Afghan cricketers subtly defy Taliban. greenleft.org.au Afghanistan, a country gripped by misery, tyranny and an uncertain future, is having moments of joy and pride, thanks to the men's national cricket team, reports Yasmeen Afghan.

Abbasi J. (2021-11-09). Pfizer Launches Phase 1 mRNA Flu Vaccine Trial. jamanetwork.com Following close on the heels of Moderna Inc, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced a phase 1 trial of mRNA-based influenza vaccine candidates. The program will start with candidates encoding individual influenza virus strains, leading up to tests of multivalent combinations.

Rainer Shea (2021-11-09). How Imperialist Propaganda Weaponizes Genocide to Justify War. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Nov 8, 2021 | The imperialists have a weapon more powerful than the atomic bomb. It's called propaganda. The type of propaganda that's been fine tuned by decades of practice in false flags, fabricated atrocity stories, and glorifications of militarism. With the onset of the new cold war, and its correlating advancements in the high-tech sector, the U.S. empire's cognitive warfare has taken on unprecedented scope and subtlety. Should aspiring U.S. revolutionaries succumb to the deceptions this manipulation matrix is laying down for us, the movement towards proletarian revolution in the imperi…

WSWS (2021-11-09). New investigations reveal major police departments across the US riddled with Oath Keeper fascists. wsws.org Last Tuesday's elections also show Oath Keeper fascists and supporters of Donald Trump's January 6 coup continue to run as Republicans and be elected to state and local offices.

Joris Leverink (2021-11-09). Economic Update: A Story of War. roarmag.org On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses how Amazon rips off small business and squeezes workers; US and China's military tactics; top mainstream economists grasp the deepening critique of capitalism; and how strikes at Nabisco and Kellogg expose capitalism's classic contours of class struggle. | The second half of the show features an interview with Prof Talia Lugacy on her new independent film This is Not a War Story released by Warner Media HBO Max. | You can support this show on

The Socialist Program (2021-11-09). "Uproot the System!" — Save the Planet, End Capitalism. liberationnews.org Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how tens of thousands of people marched in Glasgow and all over the world last weekend, chanting "uproot the system!" and demanding the transformation of the world economy to combat the climate crisis.

Isheka N. Harrison (2021-11-09). What Happened In The Buffalo Mayor's Race? How Socialist India Walton Was Stopped By Democratic Party Establishment And Republicans. moguldom.com Buffalo mayoral candidate India Walton made history in the Democratic primaries in June when she defeated long-serving incumbent Mayor Byron Brown. For a while, it looked like Walton was on the verge of becoming the first Black person, woman and openly socialist candidate to lead New York's second-most populous city. Those hopes were dashed on …

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-09). Working class groups worldwide celebrate anniversary of October Revolution. peoplesdispatch.org The communist-oriented working class in Petrograd led by Vladimir Lenin captured state power in Russia and established a socialist state under workers' control, which expanded and became the Soviet Union in 1922…

WSWS (2021-11-09). Howard University students denounce deplorable living conditions. wsws.org Student protesters spoke to the World Socialist Web Site about their living conditions and wrongful campus layoffs as the protest at Howard University enters its fifth week.

WSWS (2021-11-09). New Zealand emergency doctor warns of "preventable catastrophe" from COVID-19. wsws.org Northland-based emergency doctor Gary Payinda spoke to the World Socialist Web Site about the low vaccination rates for COVID-19 and warned that already overstretched hospitals will be unable to cope with a wave of severe illnesses.

In Defense of Liberation! (2021-11-09). *BONUS* Some Questions on My Mind. anchor.fm I ask two questions: 1.) What role do individuals play in history? 2.) Can we build a true Proletarian Revolution/People's Liberation as atomized, and disconnected, and especially without a Communist Party? Idk, you tell me! Go think some thought yo!

Abbasi J. (2021-11-09). Closed Loop Device May Alleviate Treatment-Resistant Depression. jamanetwork.com A patient with treatment-resistant depression experienced rapid and sustained improvements with personalized brain mapping and a closed loop deep brain sensing and stimulation device. Results from the proof-of-concept trial appeared in Nature Medicine.

David Ruccio (2021-11-09). Class conflict and economics. mronline.org A funny thing happened on the way to the recovery from the Pandemic Depression: class conflict is back at the core of economics.

Maureen Clare Murphy (2021-11-09). Israeli spyware targeted Palestinian human rights workers. electronicintifada.net Totalitarian population surveillance revealed in occupied West Bank.

MEE staff (2021-11-09). US Holocaust Museum warns China 'may be committing genocide' against Uighurs. middleeasteye.net US Holocaust Museum warns China 'may be committing genocide' against Uighurs | Report says Beijing could be moving beyond forced assimilation of the Muslim minority as it tries to 'biologically destroy the group' | Tue, 11/09/2021 – 20: 14 | Protesters with the Stanton Public Policy Center's Purple Sash Revolution hold a rally outside the White House on 27 May, 2021 in support of Uighur women and call for a bo…

Prof. Anthony J. Hall (2021-11-09). Putting Trudeau On Notice, Our Governments are No Longer Legitimate: Throwing Off the Tyranny of Canada's Mandatory Vaccines. globalresearch.ca

Yasmeen Afghan (2021-11-09). Kabul Diaries Part 19: Afghan cricketers subtly defy Taliban. greenleft.org.au Afghanistan, a country gripped by misery, tyranny and an uncertain future, is having moments of joy and pride, thanks to the men's national cricket team, reports Yasmeen Afghan.

Abbasi J. (2021-11-09). Pfizer Launches Phase 1 mRNA Flu Vaccine Trial. jamanetwork.com Following close on the heels of Moderna Inc, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced a phase 1 trial of mRNA-based influenza vaccine candidates. The program will start with candidates encoding individual influenza virus strains, leading up to tests of multivalent combinations.

_____ (2021-11-08). As Nicaragua Resists Regime Change, The US Ramps Up Its Economic Warfare. popularresistance.org The United States has tried to control the poor Central American country, Nicaragua, for more than 100 years. John Bolton designated Nicaragua as part of the "Troika of Tyranny" along with Cuba and Venezuela for daring to defend its sovereignty. Since the failed violent coup attempt in 2018, the US foreign policy establishment has focused on preventing President Daniel Ortega's reelection using a variety of tactics. Ben Norton, associate editor of The Grayzone, who is based in Managua, describes those tactics, the complicity of corporate media and social media and how Nicaragua is working to protect its democrati…

Staff (2021-11-08). Biden labels Nicaragua's election a 'pantomime,' vows to hold Ortega's govt accountable. rt.com Nicaragua's "sham elections," in which longtime President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, are expected to claim victory, were "neither free nor fair," US President Joe Biden has said. | The people in the Central American country of some 6.5 million went to the polls on Sunday, with the 75-year-old socialist leader Ortega looking to secure his fourth consecutive and fifth overall five-year term in office. | The Nicaraguan leadership "orchestrated… a pantomime election that was neither free nor fair, and most certainly not democratic," Biden said in a statement late on Sunday.

Yuri Martins Fontes (2021-11-08). Caio Prado e o fascismo como estratégia do capitalismo em crise (Parte III). globalresearch.ca Na continuaàßà£o desta análise** sobre as reflexàµes de Caio Prado Júnior acerca do fascismo, vejamos como o marxista brasileiro entende o golpe de Getúlio Vargas (de fins de 1937), que instaura o Estado Novo, pouco antes do início da Segunda …

Staff (2021-11-08). "We Are Not Responsible": Youth Climate Activists Rally in Glasgow to Demand World Leaders Act Now. democracynow.org More than 100,000 people took to the streets of Glasgow this weekend in a pair of climate rallies outside the U.N. climate summit. The first protest was organized by Fridays for Future, an international movement of students which grew out of Greta Thunberg's climate strike outside the Swedish parliament in 2018. We hear from climate activists Evelyn Acham, Mikaela Loach, Raki Ap, Helena Gualinga and Jon Bonifacio. In her address, Loach slammed the leaders of rich nations at COP26: "[They] steal our sacred words and use them to defend and uphold the oppressive systems of capitalism and white supremacy." Gualina al…

WSWS (2021-11-08). The winter of death: Governments slash COVID-19 restrictions as cases surge. wsws.org Capitalism is carrying out an elimination policy, not of the pandemic, but of human beings.

Michael Arney (2021-11-08). India Walton loses bitter Buffalo race but progress in Rochester and Syracuse. peoplesworld.org Buffalo's election for mayor provided the biggest setback for state progressives. The desperate and flush loser of the June primary, four-term incumbent Democrat Mayor Byron Brown, defeated India Walton, the Democratic Socialist primary winner. Walton won nearly 24,000 votes, or 41 percent, but "write in" won over 34,000 votes (about 59%). Nearly all write-in votes …

WSWS (2021-11-08). Former Los Angeles teacher speaks out on conditions in schools and fight to eliminate COVID-19. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site spoke with Juanita Garcia, a former teacher and grandmother in Los Angeles, who described her bitter experiences in the district and expressed agreement with the recent WSWS webinar, "How to end the pandemic."

WSWS (2021-11-08). Why the SEP has taken up the fight against Australia's anti-democratic electoral laws. wsws.org Launched amid the COVID-19 disaster, the Socialist Equality Party's campaign is part of the fight for the independent mobilisation of the working class against the capitalist profit system.

WSWS (2021-11-08). Deere Reman worker in Springfield, Missouri: "Someone is finally taking a stand!" wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site received a message of support for the 10,000 striking Deere workers from a worker at the company's remanufacturing facility in Missouri.

teleSUR (2021-11-08). Uruguay: Defense Minister Conceals Proves On Dictatorship Crimes. telesurenglish.net The Leftist party Broad Front will summon Defense Minister Javier Garcia to declare before Congress since he concealed records involving retired Colonel Armando Mendez in Operation Conserve, an illegal meat export business carried out during Gregorio Alvarez's dictatorship (1981-1985). | RELATED: | "This secrecy is aimed at prolonging impunity on the military involved in this shady business, which caused US$16 mil…

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-08). U.S. nuclear bombers "soar through Black Sea with NATO fighters" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Bomber Task Force Europe: Lancers Soar Through Black Sea With NATO Fighters The 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron's B-1B Lancers soared over Eastern Europe during a NATO fighter integration mission through the Black Sea region over the weekend. Fighter aircraft from Denamrk, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Turkey joined the strategic bombers on the long-range mission and …

teleSUR (2021-11-08). Chile: Lower House to Vote on Impeaching President Piñera. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the Chilean Lower House will vote to move forward with the impeachment process against President Sebastian Piñera for his involvement in the Pandora Papers scandal. If its motion passes, it will be up to the Senate to decide whether to unseat the right-wing politician or not. | Related | The Lower House investigation accuses Piñera of infringing ethical principles and forsaking the nation's interest in favor of…

Staff (2021-11-08). Biden labels Nicaragua's election a 'pantomime,' vows to hold Ortega's govt accountable. rt.com Nicaragua's "sham elections," in which longtime President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, are expected to claim victory, were "neither free nor fair," US President Joe Biden has said. | The people in the Central American country of some 6.5 million went to the polls on Sunday, with the 75-year-old socialist leader Ortega looking to secure his fourth consecutive and fifth overall five-year term in office. | The Nicaraguan leadership "orchestrated… a pantomime election that was neither free nor fair, and most certainly not democratic," Biden said in a statement late on Sunday.

WSWS (2021-11-08). The winter of death: Governments slash COVID-19 restrictions as cases surge. wsws.org Capitalism is carrying out an elimination policy, not of the pandemic, but of human beings.

WSWS (2021-11-08). Why the SEP has taken up the fight against Australia's anti-democratic electoral laws. wsws.org Launched amid the COVID-19 disaster, the Socialist Equality Party's campaign is part of the fight for the independent mobilisation of the working class against the capitalist profit system.

WSWS (2021-11-08). Former Los Angeles teacher speaks out on conditions in schools and fight to eliminate COVID-19. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site spoke with Juanita Garcia, a former teacher and grandmother in Los Angeles, who described her bitter experiences in the district and expressed agreement with the recent WSWS webinar, "How to end the pandemic."

WSWS (2021-11-08). Deere Reman worker in Springfield, Missouri: "Someone is finally taking a stand!" wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site received a message of support for the 10,000 striking Deere workers from a worker at the company's remanufacturing facility in Missouri.

scorinoco (2021-11-07). Why Black Revolutionaries Must Stand with the People of Nicaragua. orinocotribune.com By Netfa Freeman — Nov 2, 2021 | On November 7, the people of Nicaragua will go to the polls to reaffirm the commitment to their revolutionary democratic project, a project that began in 1979 when the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) defeated a vicious, neocolonial, gangster regime of Anastasio Somoza that was put in power by the United States. Under the leadership of the FSLN, the people of Nicaragua were able to finally control their own history and destiny. However, US imperialism was not going to respect the wishes of the people. Under the neofascist president Ronald Reagan, the US launched a…

_____ (2021-11-07). Journalist Banned From US, Detained In Mexico On The Way To Nicaragua. popularresistance.org Steve Sweeney, the international editor of the British socialist newspaper, was detained in Mexico City on Friday as he traveled to Nicaragua to cover the presidential election being held today. Sweeney is anti-imperialist and a founder of Media Workers for Palestine. His detention follows a multi-platform social media ban on independent journalists, activists and websites in Nicaragua, as detailed by Ben Norton of The Grayzone. There is also a corporate media disinformation campaign targeting Nicaragua and the current election. Sweeney's detention must be viewed in this context as an effort to prevent readers in…

Fight Back (2021-11-07). Lenin talks about the October revolution. fightbacknews.org To mark the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, Fight Back! is circulating the following article by the outstanding Russian revolutionary V. I. Lenin. At the time of the 1917 revolution, the Julian calendar was in use. When the modern calendar was adopted, the revolution of October 25 was celebrated on November 7. | Fourth Anniversary of the October Revolution | The fourth anniversary of October 25 (November 7) is approaching. | The farther that great day recedes from us, the more clearly we see the significance of the proletarian revolution in Russia, and the more deeply we reflect upon the p…

Staff (2021-11-07). A Date with History: Vietnamese People's Great Victory Celebrated at Venezuela's FILVEN 2021. orinocotribune.com In a friendly atmosphere of fraternal bonding between Venezuela and Vietnam, the reissue of La Cita de la Historia , written by Vietnamese general Vo Nguyen Giap, was presented at the 17th International Book Fair of Venezuela, FILVEN 2021. The book presentation was presided over by the Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in Venezuela, Le Viet Duyen; the president of the Venezuela-Vietnam Friendship House, Carolus Wimmer; and Defense Attaché of Vietnam, Vu The Trung. Vietnam is the guest country of honor at FILVEN 2021. | During the presentation, Le Viet Duyen quoted Commander Hugo…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-07). Venezuela vaccinates 67% of its population against COVID-19. mronline.org Despite the U.S. blockade against Venezuela, the socialist government led by President Nicolás Maduro has been carrying out a successful mass vaccination drive against COVID-19…

Lee Hieb, M.D. (2021-11-07). How Vaccine Hysteria Could Spark A Totalitarian Nightmare. globalresearch.ca Incisive and carefully documented article (with foresight) by Dr. Lee Hieb, focussing on fundamental issues pertaining to the vaccine, first published by Global Research in early 2015. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has been vilified for making a …

Staff (2021-11-07). WATCH: People protesting vaccine mandates square off with counter-rally in Boston. rt.com Police had to intervene after people protesting Covid-19 vaccine mandates and government restrictions clashed with counter-protesters over the weekend in Boston. | The organizers behind the main protest — dubbed 'Rise Against Tyranny' — said they were demonstrating NOW: Clashing rallies on…

scorinoco (2021-11-07). Why Black Revolutionaries Must Stand with the People of Nicaragua. orinocotribune.com By Netfa Freeman — Nov 2, 2021 | On November 7, the people of Nicaragua will go to the polls to reaffirm the commitment to their revolutionary democratic project, a project that began in 1979 when the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) defeated a vicious, neocolonial, gangster regime of Anastasio Somoza that was put in power by the United States. Under the leadership of the FSLN, the people of Nicaragua were able to finally control their own history and destiny. However, US imperialism was not going to respect the wishes of the people. Under the neofascist president Ronald Reagan, the US launched a…

Staff (2021-11-07). 'Only UK journo' going to cover Nicaragua election on ground says he was detained. rt.com A reporter from a left British newspaper says he was detained without explanation in Mexico as he was traveling to Nicaragua to cover the Sunday election. The US threatened the country with new sanctions ahead of the poll. | Steve Sweeney, international editor for the UK socialist daily Morning Star, said he had been placed in police custody as he was making a transfer flight through Mexico City. If his detention continues, he will not be able to reach Nicaragua in time to cover the general election, which the country is holding on Sunday. | The ballot is a complicated one, with critics of President Daniel Ort…

teleSUR (2021-11-07). Venezuelan Lawmakers Accompany Nicaraguan Elections. telesurenglish.net The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) announced that lawmakers Julio Chavez, Marelis Perez, and Fernando Soto traveled to Managua to participate as international companions in the Nicaraguan elections, which are held this Sunday. | RELATED: | "By doing so, they assume their commitment to solidarity and inform the world that the Nicaraguan people are on their feet, with joy and enthusiasm for the elections," t…

_____ (2021-11-07). Journalist Banned From US, Detained In Mexico On The Way To Nicaragua. popularresistance.org Steve Sweeney, the international editor of the British socialist newspaper, was detained in Mexico City on Friday as he traveled to Nicaragua to cover the presidential election being held today. Sweeney is anti-imperialist and a founder of Media Workers for Palestine. His detention follows a multi-platform social media ban on independent journalists, activists and websites in Nicaragua, as detailed by Ben Norton of The Grayzone. There is also a corporate media disinformation campaign targeting Nicaragua and the current election. Sweeney's detention must be viewed in this context as an effort to prevent readers in…

CA Poor People's Campaign (2021-11-07). Thursday 11/18: Dismantling the Distorted Moral Narrative of Christian Nationalism Webinar w/ CA PPC. indybay.org Online event…

| Nameelanah Uretsky, Associate Professor of International, Global Studies, Brandeis University (2021-11-07). The US was not prepared for a pandemic — free market capitalism and government deregulation may be to blame. Elanah Uretsky, Associate Professor of International and Global Studies, Brandeis University

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-07). Venezuela vaccinates 67% of its population against COVID-19. mronline.org Despite the U.S. blockade against Venezuela, the socialist government led by President Nicolás Maduro has been carrying out a successful mass vaccination drive against COVID-19…

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Fight Back (2021-11-07). Lenin talks about the October revolution. fightbacknews.org To mark the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, Fight Back! is circulating the following article by the outstanding Russian revolutionary V. I. Lenin. At the time of the 1917 revolution, the Julian calendar was in use. When the modern calendar was adopted, the revolution of October 25 was celebrated on November 7. | Fourth Anniversary of the October Revolution | The fourth anniversary of October 25 (November 7) is approaching. | The farther that great day recedes from us, the more clearly we see the significance of the proletarian revolution in Russia, and the more deeply we reflect upon the p…

Revolution Books (2021-11-07). Friday 11/12: Is China Socialist or Capitalist? What is Real Socialism? indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

teleSUR, fgh, JGN (2021-11-07). Los principales logros de la Revolución Socialista de Octubre. telesurtv.net El proceso conocido como la Revolución rusa ni empezó con la victoria de los bolcheviques, ni triunfó en octubre.

Oscar Grenfell (2021-11-07). Assange's Brother Gabriel Shipton Speaks to the WSWS: "The CIA Plan to Kidnap Julian is Continuing Under a Veil of Legality" orinocotribune.com By Richard Phillips, Oscar Grenfell — Oct 28, 2021 | The World Socialist Web Site spoke this week to Gabriel Shipton, a film producer and brother of Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks founder is again before a British court that will decide whether he will be dispatched to the United States for the "crime" of exposing illegal US wars, human rights abuses, mass spying operations and global diplomatic conspiracies affecting the lives of millions of people. | Shipton has recently completed a feature-length documentary entitled Ithaka, which will have its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival next month and open…

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Seth Galinsky (2021-11-06). SWP campaign points the road forward for all working people. themilitant.com Today's discussion about what workers can do to fight back against the relentless attacks of the bosses and their government continues broadly, as results of the Nov. 2 elections offer no solutions for working people. | Socialist Workers Party campaigners continue to present the party and its program as they talk to working people on their doorsteps; build solidarity with workers striking for better conditions and wages; and join protests against the U.S. embargo of Cuba and in solidarity with working people in Sudan fighting to overturn the military coup there. | They explain why organizing solidarity with today…
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Lyle Goldstein (2021-11-06). The Unintended Consequence of AUKUS: CHIRUS. anti-empire.com Washington and other allied capitals have been abuzz with talk of nuclear submarines since the surprise announcement Some have raised legitimate concerns about the impact of the deal on nuclear non-proliferation. How to prevent myriad other countries from leaping…
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Jean Lee (2021-11-06). San Francisco Will Require Children 5 to 11 to Show Proof of COVID Injection for Indoor Activities. anti-empire.com The city, which has a proof-of-vaccination mandate for everyone 12 and older to access indoor activities, like restaurants, gyms and sporting events, said that San Franciscans should start preparing to show immunization cards for children 5 to 11 in the coming months. | dummyvar2

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-06). Anti-fascist demonstration in Berlin demands complete destruction of neo-Nazi networks. peoplesdispatch.org The neo-Nazi National Socialist Underground (NSU) exposed in 2011 was found to be involved in multiple murders, bombings and robberies. It was also found that in some cases, personnel of the security services were connected with the NSU attacks on leftists and human rights activists…
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WSWS (2021-11-06). Prosecution avoids mention of Rittenhouse's fascist politics in first week of murder trial. wsws.org The prosecution in the trial of the right-wing teenage vigilante who killed two men and injured a third during anti-police violence protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has studiously avoided any questions regarding the motivation of the shooter.
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Seth Galinsky (2021-11-06). Cuban Revolution vs. US capitalism. themilitant.com There is no COVID-19 vaccine mandate in Cuba. Yet by the time you read this some 73% of the population will be fully vaccinated and over 90% will have at least one dose, one of the highest rates in the world. | Leaders of the socialist revolution there act on the capacities of working people to join together and mobilize to advance our interests. That approach is well captured in the words of Thomas Sankara, the communist leader of the 1983-87 popular revolution in Burkina Faso, West Africa. A real revolution, Sankara said, is based on "a convinced people, not a conquered people." | In the United States, the most…
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Brett Wilkins (2021-11-06). Bolivian President Warns 'Carbon Colonialism' Won't Solve Climate Crisis. zcomm.org "The solution," said Luis Arce at COP26, "is to change the model of civilization and move towards an alternative model to capitalism, the concept of living well together in harmony with Mother Earth.
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WSWS (2021-11-06). "People are getting killed and the government is indifferent"—SEP (Australia) electoral members support campaign to eliminate COVID-19. wsws.org "It is critical for the Socialist Equality Party to be registered, to be able to discuss the political situation with the working class."
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WSWS (2021-11-06). Argentine judge indicts Spanish Franco-era minister on murder charges. wsws.org Spain's Socialist Party-Podemos government is refusing to implement the arrest warrant issued in Argentina for former Francoite minister Rodolfo Martín Villa.
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WSWS (2021-11-06). Experts oppose "reckless" easing of COVID-19 restrictions in New Zealand. wsws.org Auckland University associate professor of public health Collin Tukuitonga told the World Socialist Web Site the decision to reopen retail in Auckland next week, while COVID-19 numbers continue to soar, is "reckless."
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WSWS (2021-11-06). How Sri Lankan workers can fight privatisation. wsws.org Workers need to form action committees, independent of the trade unions, in every workplace and unify with other sections of workers in a common political struggle for socialist policies.
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Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-11-06). The 2020-21 Worldwide Corona Crisis: Destroying Civil Society, Engineered Economic Depression, Global Coup d'État and the "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca We are at the crossroads of one of the most serious crises in modern history. We are living history, yet our understanding of the flow of events since January 2020 has been blurred. Worldwide, people have been misled both by their governments and the media.
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_____ (2021-11-06). The Covid War Is a Class War. strategic-culture.org Covid was merely a pretense for the elites to wage a war on the working class. | By Bradley DEVLIN | Last year, we were told the American economy had to completely shut down for the sake of public health. Workers were told they had to work from home if at all possible. Others weren't so lucky, as millions applied for unemployment benefits seemingly overnight. Somehow, as the economy was shuttered, hundreds of new billionaires were minted, scattered throughout tech, Big Pharma, and other industries. The public health establishment also told us to empty our churches and schools out of fear of viral transmission,…
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oneworld.press (2021-11-06). The World Burns While The Elites Enjoy The Great Climate Show. oneworld.press This week the elites from large parts of the world were gathered in Glasgow, Scotland for the COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference, mainly Western leaders, MainStream Media (MSM) journalists and CEOs were present. Joe Biden was in Rome, for the G20 meeting and a meeting with Pope Francis, he drove around with his 85-car motorcade (petrol or diesel).
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_____ (2021-11-06). The West's Role In Israel's Illegal Settlement Expansion. popularresistance.org The international uproar in response to Israel's approval of a massive expansion of its illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied Palestinian West Bank may give the impression that such a reaction could, in theory, force Israel to abandon its plans. Alas, it will not, because the statements of 'concern,' 'regrets', 'disappointment' and even outright condemnation are rarely followed by meaningful action.

WSWS (2021-11-06). Prosecution avoids mention of Rittenhouse's fascist politics in first week of murder trial. wsws.org The prosecution in the trial of the right-wing teenage vigilante who killed two men and injured a third during anti-police violence protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has studiously avoided any questions regarding the motivation of the shooter.

Brett Wilkins (2021-11-06). Bolivian President Warns 'Carbon Colonialism' Won't Solve Climate Crisis. zcomm.org "The solution," said Luis Arce at COP26, "is to change the model of civilization and move towards an alternative model to capitalism, the concept of living well together in harmony with Mother Earth.

WSWS (2021-11-06). Experts oppose "reckless" easing of COVID-19 restrictions in New Zealand. wsws.org Auckland University associate professor of public health Collin Tukuitonga told the World Socialist Web Site the decision to reopen retail in Auckland next week, while COVID-19 numbers continue to soar, is "reckless."

WSWS (2021-11-06). How Sri Lankan workers can fight privatisation. wsws.org Workers need to form action committees, independent of the trade unions, in every workplace and unify with other sections of workers in a common political struggle for socialist policies.

WSWS (2021-11-06). Argentine judge indicts Spanish Franco-era minister on murder charges. wsws.org Spain's Socialist Party-Podemos government is refusing to implement the arrest warrant issued in Argentina for former Francoite minister Rodolfo Martín Villa.

WSWS (2021-11-06). "People are getting killed and the government is indifferent"—SEP (Australia) electoral members support campaign to eliminate COVID-19. wsws.org "It is critical for the Socialist Equality Party to be registered, to be able to discuss the political situation with the working class."

oneworld.press (2021-11-06). The World Burns While The Elites Enjoy The Great Climate Show. oneworld.press This week the elites from large parts of the world were gathered in Glasgow, Scotland for the COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference, mainly Western leaders, MainStream Media (MSM) journalists and CEOs were present. Joe Biden was in Rome, for the G20 meeting and a meeting with Pope Francis, he drove around with his 85-car motorcade (petrol or diesel).

_____ (2021-11-05). Washington Piles On Pressure Ahead Of Nicaraguan Elections. popularresistance.org Washington has ratcheted up the pressure just days before Nicaragua's presidential and parliamentary elections, approving legislation calling for more sanctions and other punitive measures. | The bipartisan Renacer Act was passed by 387 votes to 35 on Wednesday evening and will be sent to President Joe Biden to pass into law. | It is expected to be introduced ahead of Sunday's poll to pile additional pressure on President Daniel Ortega and his Sandinista government. | The Senate foreign relations committee welcomed the passing of the draconian and reactionary Bill. | Senator Bob Menendez said that he was proud to…

WSWS (2021-11-05). Widespread support for Socialist Equality Party's lawsuit against the German secret service. wsws.org The SGP's complaint against its surveillance by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany's secret service, is of great political importance, because the government wants to criminalize socialist ideas. Hundreds of WSWS readers and workers have quickly recognized this fact.

Atilio Boron (2021-11-05). Latin America: The Imperial Reconquest. orinocotribune.com By Atilio Boron — Nov 2, 2021 | The empire has lost all its composure. In a few days it has produced two very disturbing pieces of news, which speak of its sickening pretension to recapture total control of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, taking relations between them and the United States back to the point they were at before the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. | One of them has to do with Argentina, made in the scandalous statements by Joe Biden's nominee for Argentina, Ambassador Marc Stanley, at his confirmation hearing before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. His words oozed…

WSWS (2021-11-05). Pseudo-left and Labor promote unions, oppose socialist perspective at University of Sydney meeting. wsws.org International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia) and the Committee for Public Education members called for a unified movement of students and staff on an independent socialist perspective.

Alan Johnstone (2021-11-05). The Socialist Cooperative Commonwealth. dissidentvoice.org Since its origin in the early 19th century by followers of Robert Owen, the term "socialism" has evolved to mean many different things to many different people and has been misused by dictatorships to describe their draconian management of capitalism. At the present time "socialism" is an unpopular word. Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot have …

Fight Back (2021-11-05). Join the FRSO General Members meeting. fightbacknews.org The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is hosting another meeting for general members this coming Thursday, November 11 at 8 p.m. Eastern time. We will use Zoom to again to welcome the scores of new members who chose to join the FRSO over the past four months. | Tracy Molm, an environmental justice activist, and Masao Suzuki, chair of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) Joint Nationalities Commission, will speak on how capitalism destroys the environment to achieve ever greater profits. This also harms the working class and puts the greatest burden on oppressed nationality communities. This inc…

Peter Dolack (2021-11-05). China's winding road towards capitalism. canadiandimension.com There is perhaps no bigger controversy among partisans of the left than the nature of China and its economy. Is it socialist? Capitalist? State capitalist? A hybrid? That so much debate swirls around this issue is its own proof that the question doesn't have a definitive answer, at least not yet. | What can be agreed upon is that China has experienced decades of extraordinary economic growth. But the nature of that growth, and the base upon which it has been created, are also subject to intense debate, arguments that necessarily rest on how a debater classifies the Chinese economy. An additional debate is whet…

Paul Haeder (2021-11-05). Quitting is a Mental Health Decision. dissidentvoice.org Well well, some of us try-try. We end up having to take pittance jobs, with pitiful nonprofits, where the bottom line is, well, poverty pimping. So in a time of Covid Capitalism, in a time of quick silver circling the drain, quitting after 5 weeks on the job may appear rash, or self-defeating. But here …

Joris Leverink (2021-11-05). TNI Webinar series: China and the World. roarmag.org We are excited to announce a new China's economic rise in the last three decades is unprecedented and is shaping our world like never before. Global capitalism today would not survive in its current fo…

Hayley McMahon (2021-11-05). Lord Mayoral Q&A: Socialist Alliance candidate Steve O'Brien. greenleft.org.au Steve O'Brien, who is running for Lord Mayor of Newcastle and councillor in Ward 1, discusses his people before profit campaign.

WSWS (2021-11-05). CDC approval of COVID-19 vaccines for children is portrayed as the last threshold to "normalcy" wsws.org While vaccination of children is entirely welcome, this breakthrough is being used to disguise the reactionary character of the campaign to reopen schools and businesses and further spread the pandemic.

The Global Research Team (2021-11-05). Protect Our Children Against the COVID Jab, Support the Constitutional Rights of Parents. globalresearch.ca Big Pharma with the support of national governments is waging a Worldwide crusade to enforce the inoculation of our children, despite ample evidence that the Covid-19 experimental "vaccine" is resulting in a wave of injuries and deaths. | Global Research has …

Ann Brown (2021-11-05). Pfizer Says Covid-19 Pill Cuts Hospital, Death Risk By 90 Percent. moguldom.com Is a covid-19 pill on the way? Covid-19 vaccine maker Pfizer said its antiviral pill cuts hospitalization rates and deaths by nearly 90 percent in high-risk adults. Pfizer is not the only pharmaceutical company making progress with an easy-to-use covid-19 medication. After showing strong initial results, Merck's covid-19 pill is already under review at the …

WSWS (2021-11-05). Widespread support for Socialist Equality Party's lawsuit against the German secret service. wsws.org The SGP's complaint against its surveillance by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany's secret service, is of great political importance, because the government wants to criminalize socialist ideas. Hundreds of WSWS readers and workers have quickly recognized this fact.

_____ (2021-11-05). Washington Piles On Pressure Ahead Of Nicaraguan Elections. popularresistance.org Washington has ratcheted up the pressure just days before Nicaragua's presidential and parliamentary elections, approving legislation calling for more sanctions and other punitive measures. | The bipartisan Renacer Act was passed by 387 votes to 35 on Wednesday evening and will be sent to President Joe Biden to pass into law. | It is expected to be introduced ahead of Sunday's poll to pile additional pressure on President Daniel Ortega and his Sandinista government. | The Senate foreign relations committee welcomed the passing of the draconian and reactionary Bill. | Senator Bob Menendez said that he was proud to…

Atilio Boron (2021-11-05). Latin America: The Imperial Reconquest. orinocotribune.com By Atilio Boron — Nov 2, 2021 | The empire has lost all its composure. In a few days it has produced two very disturbing pieces of news, which speak of its sickening pretension to recapture total control of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, taking relations between them and the United States back to the point they were at before the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. | One of them has to do with Argentina, made in the scandalous statements by Joe Biden's nominee for Argentina, Ambassador Marc Stanley, at his confirmation hearing before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. His words oozed…

WSWS (2021-11-05). Pseudo-left and Labor promote unions, oppose socialist perspective at University of Sydney meeting. wsws.org International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia) and the Committee for Public Education members called for a unified movement of students and staff on an independent socialist perspective.

Alan Johnstone (2021-11-05). The Socialist Cooperative Commonwealth. dissidentvoice.org Since its origin in the early 19th century by followers of Robert Owen, the term "socialism" has evolved to mean many different things to many different people and has been misused by dictatorships to describe their draconian management of capitalism. At the present time "socialism" is an unpopular word. Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot have …

Fight Back (2021-11-05). Join the FRSO General Members meeting. fightbacknews.org The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is hosting another meeting for general members this coming Thursday, November 11 at 8 p.m. Eastern time. We will use Zoom to again to welcome the scores of new members who chose to join the FRSO over the past four months. | Tracy Molm, an environmental justice activist, and Masao Suzuki, chair of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) Joint Nationalities Commission, will speak on how capitalism destroys the environment to achieve ever greater profits. This also harms the working class and puts the greatest burden on oppressed nationality communities. This inc…

Joris Leverink (2021-11-05). TNI Webinar series: China and the World. roarmag.org We are excited to announce a new China's economic rise in the last three decades is unprecedented and is shaping our world like never before. Global capitalism today would not survive in its current fo…

Peter Dolack (2021-11-05). China's winding road towards capitalism. canadiandimension.com There is perhaps no bigger controversy among partisans of the left than the nature of China and its economy. Is it socialist? Capitalist? State capitalist? A hybrid? That so much debate swirls around this issue is its own proof that the question doesn't have a definitive answer, at least not yet. | What can be agreed upon is that China has experienced decades of extraordinary economic growth. But the nature of that growth, and the base upon which it has been created, are also subject to intense debate, arguments that necessarily rest on how a debater classifies the Chinese economy. An additional debate is whet…

Paul Haeder (2021-11-05). Quitting is a Mental Health Decision. dissidentvoice.org Well well, some of us try-try. We end up having to take pittance jobs, with pitiful nonprofits, where the bottom line is, well, poverty pimping. So in a time of Covid Capitalism, in a time of quick silver circling the drain, quitting after 5 weeks on the job may appear rash, or self-defeating. But here …

Hayley McMahon (2021-11-05). Lord Mayoral Q&A: Socialist Alliance candidate Steve O'Brien. greenleft.org.au Steve O'Brien, who is running for Lord Mayor of Newcastle and councillor in Ward 1, discusses his people before profit campaign.

WSWS (2021-11-05). CDC approval of COVID-19 vaccines for children is portrayed as the last threshold to "normalcy" wsws.org While vaccination of children is entirely welcome, this breakthrough is being used to disguise the reactionary character of the campaign to reopen schools and businesses and further spread the pandemic.

The Global Research Team (2021-11-05). Protect Our Children Against the COVID Jab, Support the Constitutional Rights of Parents. globalresearch.ca Big Pharma with the support of national governments is waging a Worldwide crusade to enforce the inoculation of our children, despite ample evidence that the Covid-19 experimental "vaccine" is resulting in a wave of injuries and deaths. | Global Research has …

WSWS (2021-11-04). Students and young people must take up the fight against Australia's anti-democratic electoral laws. wsws.org "It is becoming clear to millions of young people that capitalism offers them no future. The government and Labor know this opposition exists and its one of the central reasons they have imposed these anti-democratic electoral laws."

Yuri Martins Fontes (2021-11-04). Caio Prado e o fascismo como estratégia do capitalismo em crise (Parte II). globalresearch.ca Conforme apresentado na primeira parte deste artigo, em época de crise econà¥mica generalizada e consequente turbulência social — caso do período entreguerras (anos 1920 e 1930) e da época atual —, costumam se fortalecer os discursos irracionais, dentre os quais …

It's Going Down (2021-11-04). The Fascist Wing Solidifies: Anti-Vaxx Cops & Pardons for Paramilitaries. itsgoingdown.org photo: @nycantifa On this episode of the It's Going Down podcast, we discuss the continuing anti-democratic turn of Trumpism into an authoritarian, paramilitary movement. We touch on two key stories: first, the embrace of anti-vaccine conspiracy theories by some sections of the police and other public employees, which has manifested in continued coalition building with…

Bruce Lerro (2021-11-04). New Agers vs Neo-Pagans: Can Either Be Salvaged for Socialism? (Part I). dissidentvoice.org Neopagans have a great deal to teach 21st Century socialists, if only we would listen. As capitalism has gone into deep decline in the United States and England beginning in the 1970s, two spiritual movements have sprung up outside Judeo-Christianity: The New Age and Neopaganism. Contrary to some sociologists' claims that Neopagan Wiccans, Druids and …

Markela Panegyres (2021-11-04). Capitalism makes people sick. greenleft.org.au Children and young people are experiencing a mental health epidemic. Markela Panegyres argues that resources are not being made available either for the treatment or to tackle some of the causes.

Editor2 (2021-11-04). As Chávez Said, 'Let's not Change the Climate, Let's Change the System!': A Conversation with Max Ajl. orinocotribune.com An anti-imperialist approach to global warming in the context of COP26. | This week and through November 12, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) takes place in Glasgow, Scotland. COP26 brings together heads of state and other prominent figures to talk about climate change. However, the conference won't address the central environmental problem: capitalism. In this interview we talk to

Staff (2021-11-04). Headlines for November 4, 2021. democracynow.org Global Carbon Emissions Near Record High as Nations Meet for Crucial Climate Summit, NJ Gov. Phil Murphy Narrowly Wins Reelection, in Ominous Sign for Democrats Ahead of 2022 Midterms, Socialist Candidate India Walton Concedes Hard-Fought Mayoral Race in Buffalo, NY, Senate Republicans Filibuster Voting Rights Legislation Again, U.S. COVID-19 Death Toll Passes 750,000, White House Warns of Vaccine Misinformation, Urges Parents to Get Children Vaccinated, Russia Records Another Record Daily COVID-19 Death Toll, WHO Approves Emergency Use of India's 2-Shot Coronavirus Vaccine Covaxin, U.S. Blacklists Israel's NSO G…

Editor (2021-11-04). Richard Lewontin, dialectical materialism, the relationship between evolutionary biology and Marxism. mronline.org Dialectical materialism combines two philosophical traditions: historical materialism formulated by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and dialectics, an idealist philosophy formulated by German philosopher Georg Willhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Ramzy Baroud (2021-11-04). Words without Action: The West's Role in Israel's Illegal Settlement Expansion. dissidentvoice.org The international uproar in response to Israel's approval of a massive expansion of its illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied Palestinian West Bank may give the impression that such a reaction could, in theory, force Israel to abandon its plans. Alas, it will not, because the statements of 'concern,' 'regrets', 'disappointment' and even outright condemnation …

Ramzy Baroud (2021-11-04). Words without Action: The West's Role in Israel's Illegal Settlement Expansion. dissidentvoice.org The international uproar in response to Israel's approval of a massive expansion of its illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied Palestinian West Bank may give the impression that such a reaction could, in theory, force Israel to abandon its plans. Alas, it will not, because the statements of 'concern,' 'regrets', 'disappointment' and even outright condemnation …

Staff (2021-11-04). Palestine Chronicle: "Words without Action: The West's Role in Israel's Illegal Settlement Expansion" imemc.org By Dr. Ramzy Baroud for the Palestine Chronicle: The international uproar in response to Israel's approval of a massive expansion of its illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied Palestinian West Bank may give the impression that such a reaction could, in theory, force Israel to abandon its plans.

krish-rad_ind (2021-11-04). Simplifying Stories & History Is How Empires Control The Narrative. currentaffairs.org

WSWS (2021-11-04). Students and young people must take up the fight against Australia's anti-democratic electoral laws. wsws.org "It is becoming clear to millions of young people that capitalism offers them no future. The government and Labor know this opposition exists and its one of the central reasons they have imposed these anti-democratic electoral laws."

It's Going Down (2021-11-04). The Fascist Wing Solidifies: Anti-Vaxx Cops & Pardons for Paramilitaries. itsgoingdown.org photo: @nycantifa On this episode of the It's Going Down podcast, we discuss the continuing anti-democratic turn of Trumpism into an authoritarian, paramilitary movement. We touch on two key stories: first, the embrace of anti-vaccine conspiracy theories by some sections of the police and other public employees, which has manifested in continued coalition building with…

Bruce Lerro (2021-11-04). New Agers vs Neo-Pagans: Can Either Be Salvaged for Socialism? (Part I). dissidentvoice.org Neopagans have a great deal to teach 21st Century socialists, if only we would listen. As capitalism has gone into deep decline in the United States and England beginning in the 1970s, two spiritual movements have sprung up outside Judeo-Christianity: The New Age and Neopaganism. Contrary to some sociologists' claims that Neopagan Wiccans, Druids and …

Cian Walker (2021-11-04). Capitalism is Bad for Business. realprogressives.org The reason debates about economic equality, social mobility, access to opportunity, capitalism, socialism, and politics are bogged down in stubborn, circular quagmires is because most people, on both ends of the political spectrum, see capitalism and commerce as the same thing.

tribunemag.co.uk (2021-11-04). If COP Wants to Save the Planet, It Has to Challenge Capitalism. tribunemag.co.uk COP26 could be an opportunity to tackle capitalism's destruction of the planet — if world leaders choose to take it.

Editor2 (2021-11-04). As Chávez Said, 'Let's not Change the Climate, Let's Change the System!': A Conversation with Max Ajl. orinocotribune.com An anti-imperialist approach to global warming in the context of COP26. | This week and through November 12, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) takes place in Glasgow, Scotland. COP26 brings together heads of state and other prominent figures to talk about climate change. However, the conference won't address the central environmental problem: capitalism. In this interview we talk to

Markela Panegyres (2021-11-04). Capitalism makes people sick. greenleft.org.au Children and young people are experiencing a mental health epidemic. Markela Panegyres argues that resources are not being made available either for the treatment or to tackle some of the causes.

Rosa Miriam Elizalde (2021-11-04). The US Has an Unhealthy Obsession With Cuba. socialistproject.ca The piggy bank was rattled again. In September 2021, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Anonymous103 (2021-11-04). Why Putin Criticized the Bolshevik Counter Revolution: Trotsky, Parvus and the War on Civilization. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Matthew Ehret | Doesn't Putin respect Soviet Russian accomplishments including the sacrifices made to put down Hitler? How could Putin be a true anti-imperialist if he is an anti-revolutionary? | A scandal arose this week as President Putin took some time to denounce the Bolshevik Revolution at the "Just over a century ago, Russia objectively faced seriou…

Peter Bolton (2021-11-03). Socialist International's Parroting of US Line on Nicaragua Shows What a Worthless Fossil It's Become. orinocotribune.com By Peter Bolton — Nov 1, 2021 | On October 25, about two weeks before Nicaragua's 2021 presidential election, the Socialist International (SI) released a statement titled Nicaragua: A Contemporary Victim of Absolute Power. Given the steady stream of tendentious twaddle about Nicaragua that's been disseminated from Washington and dutifully repeated by the corporate-owned media, one might reasonably assume that the global federation of social democratic and labor parties would at least provide some semblance of balance. | But far from adding nuance, the statement reads as if it were a press release sent direct…

Nan McCurdy (2021-11-03). Electoral Contras: U.S. Plotting to Sabotage Nicaraguan Democracy Yet Again. covertactionmagazine.com But Nicaraguans Will Not Let the Evil Empire Dictate Who They Vote for, with Sandinista Revolutionary Leader Daniel Ortega Poised …

_____ (2021-11-03). The Manufacture of Decline. strategic-culture.org Americans suffer the same disabilities as the Europeans of 1919: They cannot think. They cannot speak plainly among themselves. | By Patrick LAWRENCE"We modern civilizations have learned to recognize that we are mortal like the others. We had heard tell of whole worlds vanished, of empires foundered … sunk to the inexplorable depths of the centuries with their gods and laws, their academies and their pure and applied sciences, their grammars, dictionaries, classics … their critics and the critics of their critics…. We could not count them. But these wrecks, after all, were of no concern of ours." | That is…

WSWS (2021-11-03). Trial of fascist shooter Kyle Rittenhouse begins in Kenosha, Wisconsin. wsws.org The jury trial of the vigilante gunman, who was 17 years old when he shot and killed two protesters and wounded a third in Kenosha in August 2020, began on Tuesday.

WSWS (2021-11-03). University of Florida bars professors from testifying in lawsuit against right-wing voting rights bill. wsws.org The move by the university is a blatant attack on free speech and democratic rights in line with the fascistic strategy being pursued by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis.

George Monbiot (2021-11-03). Capitalism is killing the planet — it's time to stop buying into our own destruction. zcomm.org Our survival depends on piercing the glassy surface of distraction, and ceasing to obey…

Staff (2021-11-03). Uproot the System: Filipina Activist Mitzi Tan on How Capitalism & Colonialism Fuel Climate Crisis. democracynow.org We speak to Mitzi Tan, a climate activist based in the Philippines, who will join Greta Thunberg of Sweden and Vanessa Nakate of Uganda in speaking at a major march and rally in Glasgow on Saturday. Among their demands are reparations from the Global North to the Global South to help rebuild the lives of those most impacted by the climate crisis. Tan has recently protested outside the offices of Standard Chartered Bank in London, which funds the most fossil fuel companies based in the Philippines, which she says contributes directly to their yearly typhoons that cause insurmountable destruction. "At this point, n…

Robert Reich (2021-11-03). What happened to the party of limited government? nationofchange.org The Republican Party now poses a clear and present threat even to the values it once espoused.

Staff (2021-11-03). Samidoun salutes Filipino leader, martyr Ka Oris. samidoun.net On October 29, Jorge "Ka Oris" Madlos, leader of the New People's Army of the Philippines was killed together with his comrade Ka Pika, in a cowardly ambush by the reactionary forces of the Philippines state army. Ka Oris was on his way to a medical check-up when he and Ka Pika were gunned down […] | The article

William Minter (2021-11-03). The United States of Tax Havens. fpif.org There are many ways in which the United States is not one country. | I'm not referring to the electoral reality of red states versus blue states, or to the split between a radicalized Republican Party and those of us who hope that an inclusive democratic vision of the nation might eventually prevail. Nor am I speaking here of racial or ethnic divisions, however defined. | Rather, what I mean is that the United States, where countless corrupt billionaires and dictators have stashed their loot, is not a single tax haven, but many separate tax havens. | Each state and territory has its own laws and regulations about…

teleSUR (2021-11-03). Chile: Piñera Defends Pardon Granted to Pinochet Era Criminals. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Chile's President Sebastian Piñera defended the pardons that he granted to 10 convicted criminals who participated in the torture, murder, and disappearance of political opponents during the Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship (1973-1990). | Related | Previously, the Association of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared (AFDD) filed a legal appeal before the Court of Appeals to seek the annulment of the 2020…

theanalysis.news (2021-11-03). COP 26: End the Cynicism and Denial. theanalysis.news The global elites call for technology and market "solutions" they know will not reach the necessary targets.

Janine Jackson (2021-11-03). 'Every turn in this case has been another brick wall, and behind it is Chevron'. mronline.org CounterSpin interview with Paul Paz y Miño on Chevron vs. Steven Donziger.

WSWS (2021-11-03). Australia: Patrick Terminals seeks termination of dock workers' enterprise agreement. wsws.org Reverting to the industry award will cut workers' pay by more than 50 percent.

Isheka N. Harrison (2021-11-03). New Owner Of Ebony Magazine Pivots To Generational Wealth Building, Small Business Content. moguldom.com The new owner of Ebony Magazine and his team have pivoted the historical publication's focus to wealth building and small business content aimed at equipping the Black community to be successful. After years of financial challenges and several changes in leadership and ownership as a result of print publications being decimated by digital media, Ebony …

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-03). Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah facing forced expulsion reject Israeli court's 'compromise deal'. peoplesdispatch.org The Israeli supreme court had offered the Palestinians 'protected tenants' status in exchange for them recognizing temporary Jewish ownership of their homes and paying a symbolic rent to the Israeli settler organization involved in the so-called 'property dispute' in Sheikh Jarrah…

Peter Bolton (2021-11-03). Socialist International's Parroting of US Line on Nicaragua Shows What a Worthless Fossil It's Become. orinocotribune.com By Peter Bolton — Nov 1, 2021 | On October 25, about two weeks before Nicaragua's 2021 presidential election, the Socialist International (SI) released a statement titled Nicaragua: A Contemporary Victim of Absolute Power. Given the steady stream of tendentious twaddle about Nicaragua that's been disseminated from Washington and dutifully repeated by the corporate-owned media, one might reasonably assume that the global federation of social democratic and labor parties would at least provide some semblance of balance. | But far from adding nuance, the statement reads as if it were a press release sent direct…

Nan McCurdy (2021-11-03). Electoral Contras: U.S. Plotting to Sabotage Nicaraguan Democracy Yet Again. covertactionmagazine.com But Nicaraguans Will Not Let the Evil Empire Dictate Who They Vote for, with Sandinista Revolutionary Leader Daniel Ortega Poised …

_____ (2021-11-03). The Manufacture of Decline. strategic-culture.org Americans suffer the same disabilities as the Europeans of 1919: They cannot think. They cannot speak plainly among themselves. | By Patrick LAWRENCE"We modern civilizations have learned to recognize that we are mortal like the others. We had heard tell of whole worlds vanished, of empires foundered … sunk to the inexplorable depths of the centuries with their gods and laws, their academies and their pure and applied sciences, their grammars, dictionaries, classics … their critics and the critics of their critics…. We could not count them. But these wrecks, after all, were of no concern of ours." | That is…

WSWS (2021-11-03). Trial of fascist shooter Kyle Rittenhouse begins in Kenosha, Wisconsin. wsws.org The jury trial of the vigilante gunman, who was 17 years old when he shot and killed two protesters and wounded a third in Kenosha in August 2020, began on Tuesday.

WSWS (2021-11-03). University of Florida bars professors from testifying in lawsuit against right-wing voting rights bill. wsws.org The move by the university is a blatant attack on free speech and democratic rights in line with the fascistic strategy being pursued by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis.

George Monbiot (2021-11-03). Capitalism is killing the planet — it's time to stop buying into our own destruction. zcomm.org Our survival depends on piercing the glassy surface of distraction, and ceasing to obey…

Staff (2021-11-03). Uproot the System: Filipina Activist Mitzi Tan on How Capitalism & Colonialism Fuel Climate Crisis. democracynow.org We speak to Mitzi Tan, a climate activist based in the Philippines, who will join Greta Thunberg of Sweden and Vanessa Nakate of Uganda in speaking at a major march and rally in Glasgow on Saturday. Among their demands are reparations from the Global North to the Global South to help rebuild the lives of those most impacted by the climate crisis. Tan has recently protested outside the offices of Standard Chartered Bank in London, which funds the most fossil fuel companies based in the Philippines, which she says contributes directly to their yearly typhoons that cause insurmountable destruction. "At this point, n…

Robert Reich (2021-11-03). What happened to the party of limited government? nationofchange.org The Republican Party now poses a clear and present threat even to the values it once espoused.

Janine Jackson (2021-11-03). 'Every turn in this case has been another brick wall, and behind it is Chevron'. mronline.org CounterSpin interview with Paul Paz y Miño on Chevron vs. Steven Donziger.

WSWS (2021-11-03). Australia: Patrick Terminals seeks termination of dock workers' enterprise agreement. wsws.org Reverting to the industry award will cut workers' pay by more than 50 percent.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-03). Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah facing forced expulsion reject Israeli court's 'compromise deal'. peoplesdispatch.org The Israeli supreme court had offered the Palestinians 'protected tenants' status in exchange for them recognizing temporary Jewish ownership of their homes and paying a symbolic rent to the Israeli settler organization involved in the so-called 'property dispute' in Sheikh Jarrah…

In Defense of Liberation! (2021-11-02). Hi Chi Minh Should've Killed More of Your Grandparents (We Need Militant Anti-Imperialism, Now!). anchor.fm In this episode I continue on my discussion about the myths surrounding capitalism and communism. What are we going to do to stop the continuation of imperialist aggression across the world? How will we in the belly of the beast take down this empire? When will we recognize now is the time to act?

WSWS (2021-11-02). Republicans back fascist militias threatening school board members, teachers, students. wsws.org Fascist militias and billionaire-backed anti-mask groups continue to oppose public health guidelines and school curriculums as part of the Republican Party's paramilitary operations.

Eric Vogt (2021-11-02). Nicolás Guillén llama 'naziparaíso' a la hegemonía de EEUU hace 57 años. peoplesworld.org En 1964, el poeta nacional cubano, Nicolás Guillén (1902-1989) publicó una colección titulada 'Tengo' en la cual apareció el poema 'Crecen altas las flores', el cual, por ser cinco páginas de largo, no podemos reproducir en su totalidad. Este poema arroja mucha luz sobre unas realidades de la vida actual estadounidense, realidades duraderas y dolorosas, …

Manlio Dinucci (2021-11-02). Difendono il clima mentre preparano la fine del mondo. globalresearch.ca Agli inizi di ottobre l'Italia ha ospitato la riunione preparatoria della Conferenza Onu sul cambiamento climatico, attualmente in corso a Glasgow. Due settimane dopo l'Italia ha ospitato un altro evento internazionale che, a differenza del primo ampiamente reclamizzato, è stato …

_____ (2021-11-02). Capitalism Has Never Really Worked Out For The Earth. popularresistance.org As we gather in Glasgow for two weeks of deliberations for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties #26, (COP26) otherwise known as the "Conference of Polluters" or the "Conference of Profiteers," we must be like Jesus in the temple overturning the tables of the money changers. We can no longer accept business as usual in the vein of moneyed interests suppressing ambition and holding us back from the bold commitments necessary to turn the tide of climate change. Too often, we members of frontline communities convene at these meetings, raise our voices and demands, yet find ourselves unw…

David Swanson (2021-11-02). The Climate Crisis Presents a Stark Choice Between Capitalism and Survival. warisacrime.org By Sputnik, November 2, 2021 Climate and Capitalism's Death Drive, Biden Sells Out Working and Poor People, Military Drives Climate Crisis In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Don Debar host of the Weekday World show on Radio Justice LA to discuss the gutting of …

Fight Back (2021-11-02). FRSO condemns murder of Ka Oris, beloved spokesperson for the New People's Army. fightbacknews.org Freedom Road Socialist Organization condemns the cowardly October 29 murder of New People's Army spokesperson Ka Oris (Jorge Madlos) by elements of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Medical aid Eighfel Dela Peña (Ka Pika) was also killed in the ambush. Both were unarmed and had no opportunity to defend themselves. The killers are now lying to the media to cover up their crimes. | Ka Oris was a communist who devoted the whole of his life to building the revolutionary movement in the Philippines. He was a committed proletarian internationalist. He worked tirelessly to build and promote the New People's Army (NPA…

WSWS (2021-11-02). The record of the World Socialist Web Site on Trump's coup attempt of January 6. wsws.org On Sunday, the Washington Post published a three-part investigation of the January 6, 2021 insurrection detailing Trump's months-long plot to remain in power no matter the outcome of the 2020 election. Only one publication—the World Socialist Web Site—warned clearly and consistently about the existential danger posed by Trump's plot.

WSWS (2021-11-02). Jacobin magazine, the Democratic Socialists of America and the collapse of Biden's social reform bill. wsws.org The debacle refutes claims that major reforms could be enacted through the Democratic Party.

WSWS (2021-11-02). SEP holds online meeting to fight Australia's new anti-democratic election laws. wsws.org Speakers called on workers and youth to join and build the Socialist Equality Party in order to reject government dictates to "live with the virus" and embrace the promotion of militarism and war.

WSWS (2021-11-02). UK: Unite calls off Arriva North West bus drivers strike, recommends below inflation pay offer. wsws.org Drivers told the World Socialist Web Site on Saturday that the deal has strings attached. It eliminates bonus pay for working Saturday afternoons, meaning for many drivers it is worse than the offer rejected last week.

Hahn SR. (2021-11-02). Depressive Symptom Assessment in Medically Ill Patients. jamanetwork.com To the Editor The recent article about diagnosis of depression in patients with comorbid medical conditions failed to make 3 important points. First, in their discussion of screening tools for diagnosing depression, the authors briefly mentioned the Patient Health Questionnaire 2 (PHQ-2) and Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9) in conjunction with the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II), and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and contrasted these with the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 (SCID). This catalog of tools does not do jus…

Brown HK, Vigod SN. (2021-11-02). Making Decisions About Antidepressant Treatment in Pregnancy. jamanetwork.com Depression is a common complication of pregnancy and is estimated to affect 9.2% of pregnant women in high-income countries, according to a 2017 meta-analysis. Prenatal depression is associated with negative outcomes, including elevated risk of postpartum depression and chronic mental illness in women, preterm birth and other perinatal complications, and child developmental, social, and behavioral problems. As such, treatment of depression in pregnancy is a priority for affected women, their children, and their families. Psychotherapies may be effective to treat depression of mild and moderate severity; however,…

WSWS (2021-11-02). Harvard's American Repertory Theater designates performance of Macbeth In Stride for "Black-identifying" only. wsws.org This act of racial segregation is deeply reactionary. Prior to the event, the Bay State Banner approvingly described the October 29 performance as "a safe space for Black-identifying audience members to attend."

_____ (2021-11-02). Yakama Nation Acquires Inaba Produce Farms. popularresistance.org On Monday, November 1, 2021, the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation ("Yakama Nation"), acting through its agricultural enterprise Yakama Nation Farms, purchased Inaba Produce Farms, Inc. from the Inaba family. | "When the Inaba family began farming here on the Yakama Reservation in the early 1900's, Yakama tribal members supported their efforts, leasing land to them when the laws of the United States did not permit Japanese immigrants to be landowners. Today, the Inaba family honors our historic relationship by selling Inaba Produce Farms to the Yakama Nation to support our sovereignty and food se…

Fra Hughes (2021-11-02). Partition — 100 Years of Sectarianism in Ireland. orinocotribune.com By Fra Hughes — Oct 30, 2021 | Modern Irish history has simply been one of subjugation, repression, and tyranny at the hands of the invaders. | In 1921 under threat of immediate and terrible war, Ireland was partitioned against the wishes of the majority of the people on the island. | Britain might have been forced out of 26 counties but they were keeping a foothold on Irish soil by proxy, through their colonial settlers in the six counties in the North East of Ireland. | When Irish men and women won the war for independence and Britain sued for peace, the price of limited autonomous self-rule for Southern I…

Latino USA (2021-11-02). How I Made It: Rodrigo Reyes And '499' (A Latino USA Podcast). latinorebels.com Reyes reflects on what it meant to go back to Cortés' route on the 500 anniversary of the fall of the Aztec empire, and what he hopes viewers will take away from his film…

WSWS (2021-11-02). Republicans back fascist militias threatening school board members, teachers, students. wsws.org Fascist militias and billionaire-backed anti-mask groups continue to oppose public health guidelines and school curriculums as part of the Republican Party's paramilitary operations.

Eric Vogt (2021-11-02). Nicolás Guillén llama 'naziparaíso' a la hegemonía de EEUU hace 57 años. peoplesworld.org En 1964, el poeta nacional cubano, Nicolás Guillén (1902-1989) publicó una colección titulada 'Tengo' en la cual apareció el poema 'Crecen altas las flores', el cual, por ser cinco páginas de largo, no podemos reproducir en su totalidad. Este poema arroja mucha luz sobre unas realidades de la vida actual estadounidense, realidades duraderas y dolorosas, …

Fight Back (2021-11-02). FRSO condemns murder of Ka Oris, beloved spokesperson for the New People's Army. fightbacknews.org Freedom Road Socialist Organization condemns the cowardly October 29 murder of New People's Army spokesperson Ka Oris (Jorge Madlos) by elements of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Medical aid Eighfel Dela Peña (Ka Pika) was also killed in the ambush. Both were unarmed and had no opportunity to defend themselves. The killers are now lying to the media to cover up their crimes. | Ka Oris was a communist who devoted the whole of his life to building the revolutionary movement in the Philippines. He was a committed proletarian internationalist. He worked tirelessly to build and promote the New People's Army (NPA…

WSWS (2021-11-02). SEP holds online meeting to fight Australia's new anti-democratic election laws. wsws.org Speakers called on workers and youth to join and build the Socialist Equality Party in order to reject government dictates to "live with the virus" and embrace the promotion of militarism and war.

WSWS (2021-11-02). Jacobin magazine, the Democratic Socialists of America and the collapse of Biden's social reform bill. wsws.org The debacle refutes claims that major reforms could be enacted through the Democratic Party.

WSWS (2021-11-02). The record of the World Socialist Web Site on Trump's coup attempt of January 6. wsws.org On Sunday, the Washington Post published a three-part investigation of the January 6, 2021 insurrection detailing Trump's months-long plot to remain in power no matter the outcome of the 2020 election. Only one publication—the World Socialist Web Site—warned clearly and consistently about the existential danger posed by Trump's plot.

WSWS (2021-11-02). Harvard's American Repertory Theater designates performance of Macbeth In Stride for "Black-identifying" only. wsws.org This act of racial segregation is deeply reactionary. Prior to the event, the Bay State Banner approvingly described the October 29 performance as "a safe space for Black-identifying audience members to attend."

Fra Hughes (2021-11-02). Partition — 100 Years of Sectarianism in Ireland. orinocotribune.com By Fra Hughes — Oct 30, 2021 | Modern Irish history has simply been one of subjugation, repression, and tyranny at the hands of the invaders. | In 1921 under threat of immediate and terrible war, Ireland was partitioned against the wishes of the majority of the people on the island. | Britain might have been forced out of 26 counties but they were keeping a foothold on Irish soil by proxy, through their colonial settlers in the six counties in the North East of Ireland. | When Irish men and women won the war for independence and Britain sued for peace, the price of limited autonomous self-rule for Southern I…

WSWS (2021-11-01). Civil suit against far-right organizers of 2017 fascist riot begins in Charlottesville, Virginia. wsws.org The suit alleges that the organizers of the 2017 rally of far-right groups planned to carry out acts of violence.

Anonymous007 (2021-11-01). Protests In Sudan Continue As Junta And Civilian Officials Mull "Compromise Solution" southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Protests in Sudan are continuing, as protest leaders said that they would not stop until the military reverses its recent takeover and hands over the rule of the country to a civilian government. | So far, the death toll of the protests is at least 12 people and hundreds others injured. | The Spokesperson for the Sudanese professional association, Mohammed Yousef al-Mustafa insists those behind the takeover be held accountable."It is either the Military ruling with dictator…

In Contempt (2021-11-01). In Contempt #10: Anarchist & Antifascist Prisoner News, Political Prisoners Released, George Floyd Repression Updates. itsgoingdown.org photo: @AshAgony Welcome to the tenth installment of In Contempt, your monthly one-stop shop for state repression news, political prisoners birthdays and updates, and information about how to support those being targeted by the State in the aftermath of the George Floyd rebellion. With so much to cover, let's dive right in! Political Prisoner News…

WSWS (2021-11-01). Federal officials deliberately ignored January 6 coup plotting, Washington Post reveals. wsws.org The plans for fascist violence were so alarming that one lower-level official notified D.C. hospitals to prepare for a "mass casualty event."

Jaume Plumb-Planas (2021-11-01). Four years after Charlottesville violence, Unite the Right organizers face legal consequences. peoplesworld.org CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—On August 11 and 12, 2017, white supremacist terror transformed Charlottesville from a quiet college town, whose rowdiest events were college basketball games, to a horrific scene reminiscent of the early 1900s. Neo-Nazis were in town for the Unite the Right (UTR) rally protesting the removal of a statue of Confederate traitor Robert E. …

WSWS (2021-11-01). SEP electoral members speak out on Australia's anti-democratic electoral laws and the socialist program to eliminate COVID-19. wsws.org "The virus has been used for the most enormous shift from the poor to the rich in the history of capitalism."

Schenker Y, Althouse AD, Rosenzweig M, et al. (2021-11-01). Effect of Primary Palliative Care Intervention on Patients With Advanced Cancer. jamanetwork.com This cluster randomized clinical trial evaluates the quality of life, symptom burden, and anxiety and depression reported by adults with advanced cancer who were receiving a primary palliative care intervention.

_____ (2021-11-01). Why Putin Criticized the Bolshevik Counter Revolution: Trotsky, Parvus and the War on Civilization. strategic-culture.org Doesn't Putin respect Soviet Russian accomplishments including the sacrifices made to put down Hitler? How could Putin be a true anti-imperialist if he is an anti-revolutionary? | A scandal arose this week as President Putin took some time to denounce the Bolshevik Revolution at the "Just over a century ago, Russia objectively faced serious problems… Russia could have dealt with its problems gradually and in a civilised manner. But revolutionary shocks led to the collapse and disintegration of a great power… These…

Dr. Pascal Sacré (2021-11-01). The Lord of "Vaccines" and the "Health Terrorist Ideology". Where Do You Think this Is Going? Get Off that Crazy Train. globalresearch.ca "A tyrant needs above all a tyrant-state, so he will use a million little civil servant tyrants who each have a trivial task to perform, and each will perform that task competently, and without remorse"

WSWS (2021-11-01). Civil suit against far-right organizers of 2017 fascist riot begins in Charlottesville, Virginia. wsws.org The suit alleges that the organizers of the 2017 rally of far-right groups planned to carry out acts of violence.

In Contempt (2021-11-01). In Contempt #10: Anarchist & Antifascist Prisoner News, Political Prisoners Released, George Floyd Repression Updates. itsgoingdown.org photo: @AshAgony Welcome to the tenth installment of In Contempt, your monthly one-stop shop for state repression news, political prisoners birthdays and updates, and information about how to support those being targeted by the State in the aftermath of the George Floyd rebellion. With so much to cover, let's dive right in! Political Prisoner News…

WSWS (2021-11-01). Federal officials deliberately ignored January 6 coup plotting, Washington Post reveals. wsws.org The plans for fascist violence were so alarming that one lower-level official notified D.C. hospitals to prepare for a "mass casualty event."

WSWS (2021-11-01). SEP electoral members speak out on Australia's anti-democratic electoral laws and the socialist program to eliminate COVID-19. wsws.org "The virus has been used for the most enormous shift from the poor to the rich in the history of capitalism."

Richard D Wolff (2021-10-31). Why the troubled US empire could quickly fall apart. asiatimes.com The US wars lost in Iraq and Afghanistan exposed imperial overreach beyond what even 20 years of war could manage. That the defeats were drawn out for so many years shows that domestic politics and the funding of the domestic military-industrial complex were, more than geopolitics, the key drivers of these wars. Empires can die …

William Hawes (2021-10-31). Capitalism is Not Your Friend. dissidentvoice.org The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. — Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology, (1932) If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull …

Anish R M (2021-10-31). Cathy Rojas is NYC's socialist alternative for mayor. peoplesdispatch.org Peoples Dispatch spoke to the socialist candidate for the upcoming New York City mayoral election, Cathy Rojas, about the significance of a people-driven campaign in a largely corporate-driven electoral process and why alternatives are important for people's movements…

Muhammed Shabeer (2021-10-31). 'Landlord, Landlord, My roof has sprung a leak'. peoplesdispatch.org The COVID-19 pandemic and the socio-economic crisis worsened by it has affected people from all walks of lives across the world, with the working class being forced to bear the burden of the ongoing crisis. In most parts of the world, the common peoples' tax money has been used by governments to save big businesses, while small-scale enterprises and the livelihoods of millions of people have been ruined in this period due to lockdowns and other rotating restrictions to contain the pandemic. | Many sections of society have adapted to this 'new normalcy' and slowly started reconfiguring their lives, especially as d…