WSWS (2022-07-18). The relativisation of fascism in Germany and the recall of Ukrainian ambassador Andrij Melnyk. wsws.org The reactions to the dismissal of the Ukrainian ambassador in Berlin, Andrij Melnyk show how far the rehabilitation of the Nazis in Germany has progressed 77 years after the end of the Third Reich.

____ (2022-07-18). The West Is Experiencing a Contraction of Its Power, Not Necessarily Its Decline. transcend.org 15 Jul 2022 – With the same ease with which they foresee being able to reduce Russia (one of the largest nuclear power in the world) to a vassal state or bring it to ruin, they foresee neutralizing China (which is on its way to becoming the first world economy) and soon provoking a war in Taiwan, (like the one in Ukraine) to achieve that purpose. On the other hand, the history of empires shows that contraction goes hand in hand with decline, and that decline is irreversible and entails much human suffering.

Liberation Staff (2022-07-18). Left Unity slate wins big in California primary elections. liberationnews.org Hundreds of thousands vote for Left Unity slate, socialist candidates in California. The final results of California's June 7 primary election show Left Unity Slate and socialist candidates receiving hundreds of thousands of votes.

Fight Back (2022-07-18). Collective statement: Biden in occupied Palestine and the 'Jerusalem Declaration'. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement on Biden in Palestine and the Jerusalem Declaration, signed by 80 organizations, including Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). | The joint declaration of U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid reveals not only the fundamental bankruptcy of the imperialist and Zionist systems they represent but also underlines the necessity to act and stand now in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their resistance, to liberate their land from the river to the sea. This strategic partnership of violence, warmongering, repression…

Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area (2022-07-18). Wednesday 7/20: Labor History Online Discussion Group – Regaining Labor's Mojo. indybay.org Zoom (Register: bit.ly/FSFD-Labor)…

Reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2022-07-18). Ecuador: Revista àëawpa. indybay.org Ecuador: Revista àëawpa | Espacio de reflexión plurinacional, intercultural y socialista…

Paul Haeder (2022-07-18). Imagination: Finding the End of the World as Capitalists Know It! dissidentvoice.org It's truly amazing that the capitalists see the end of the world — human species, I suppose — way before they can imagine the end of capitalism. You know, that perfect system of slavery then, slavery now, and even more draconian slavery for the future. That sort is not based on whips, 15 hours a …

____ (2022-07-18). Rail track installation to start on Bangladesh's largest bridge. ecns.cn Installation of rail tracks on the lower deck of Bangladesh's Padma Bridge built by a Chinese enterprise is expected to start this week.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-17). The Belarus Tactical Group: Belarusians in the DUK SS International. libya360.wordpress.com Laurent Brayard Denis Prokhorov The Belarus Tactical Group was in fact a squad that grew out of a small company founded by Belarusian neo-Nazi activists who came to Ukraine to fight in the Donbass. They initially joined various battalions, most notably the Azov Battalion, but some also participated in the Maidan Revolution during the winter…

Vijay Prashad (2022-07-17). On Marxism and decolonisation. mronline.org IN 1959, one of the revolutionary leaders in Cuba, Haydée Santamaria, a hundred years old this year, arrived at a cultural centre in the heart of Havana, Cuba.

Editor (2022-07-17). Heat waves tied to Big Energy capitalism. mronline.org The population of the world is enduring crises from climate change that, until recently, climatologists thought may only happen decades from now.

Editor (2022-07-17). The Corporatization of Just About Everything — Including the Climate Crisis and Outer Space. scheerpost.com Corporate interests are vigorously employing massive and costly PR and propaganda campaigns to muddy the water. (Photo: Getty/ By Tom Valovic / Back in the day, a Yale law professor named Charles Reich wrote a

Editor (2022-07-17). "The American Production System": The Rise and Fragmentation of a Manufacturing Empire. scheerpost.com By Yan Peng / Manufacturing is the industrial foundation of the United States' rise to world system hegemony and the material basis on which the United States has been able to maintain its hegemony to date. Within the political shell of the United States, a manufacturing empire continued to evolve under the name "The American System. The concept of the American System has two connotations, one refers to the 19th century A…

Fight Back (2022-07-17). Red Theory: The historic emergence of capitalism. fightbacknews.org Despite what bourgeois economists, the priests of property and profit, would have us believe, capitalism isn't the eternal way of things. It had a beginning, and it will have an end. As we begin our discussion of political economy, let's draw upon historical materialism to examine how capitalism arose. | Capitalism didn't arise out of nowhere, and it wasn't born from the minds of Adam Smith or David Ricardo. It emerged historically and materially from the womb of feudalism, and like any mode of production is limited and conditioned by what came before it. There are several phases in its history, from agrarian to…

_____ (2022-07-17). Ghost Stories Of Capitalism: Watching The Shutters Of Austerity Close. popularresistance.org By the end of the 1970s,U.S. capitalism entered its neoliberal phase where austerity and privatization reigned supreme. Federal agencies such as the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) were reduced to near non-existence. Welfare was eradicated all together in 1996 and tens of thousands of public housing units were demolished or privatized under the Bill Clinton administration. CAP agencies either shut their doors permanently or offered only the services that were supported by a mixture of private philanthropy and meagre government subsidy. It was out of this environment that Tri-CAP formed to addres…

Colin Todhunter (2022-07-17). What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…

Zach Farber (2022-07-16). Thousands vote for socialist for Congress in California's 51st District. liberationnews.org Revolutionary socialist congressional candidate Jose Cortes received 3,343 votes in the San Diego, California primary race.