Daily Archives: March 2, 2023

2023-03-02: News Headlines

Chris Walker (2023-03-01). Critics Decry "Fascist" GOP Bill That Would Dismantle Florida Democratic Party. truthout.org A Republican lawmaker in Florida has proposed a bill that would effectively dismantle the Democratic Party, a move that would disenfranchise millions of voters in the state. Senate Bill 1248, sponsored by Republican state Senator Blaise Ingoglia, is titled "The Ultimate Cancel Act," a reference to right-wing grievances about so-called cancel culture. The bill doesn't mention the Democratic Party… |

WSWS (2023-03-02). New Zealand's flooding disaster and the case for socialism. wsws.org The avoidable devastation caused by Cyclone Gabrielle, which has left thousands of people homeless and threatens to plunge many more into poverty, is an unanswerable indictment of capitalism.

WSWS (2023-03-02). The East Palestine disaster: A crime of capitalism. wsws.org The poisoning of East Palestine, Ohio, is not merely an environmental catastrophe. It is a man-made disaster which raises fundamental questions about the structure of the society which produced it.

Birrion Sondahl (2023-03-01). Socialism Works and History Proves It. realprogressives.org If capitalism were so successful at eliminating poverty, the United States today should be a paradise on earth.

SAM (2023-03-01). When Will Congress Vote To Condemn The Horrors Of Capitalism? progressivehub.net ROB LARSON | CURRENT AFFAIRS…




Freedom Socialist Party (2023-03-02). Wednesday 3/8: Black Liberation Reading Circle. indybay.org New Valencia Hall, 747 Polk St., San Francisco, near Ellis St. Seven blocks from Civic Center BART, on or near Muni bus lines #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49. Wheelchair Accessible, Also via Zoom…

Staff (2023-03-02). Eligen a nuevo presidente de la República Socialista de Vietnam. cubadebate.cu Vo Van Thuong fue elegido este jueves como presidente de la República Socialista de Vietnam en una sesión extraordinaria de la decimoquinta legislatura de la Asamblea Nacional. El mandato de Van Thuong se extenderá hasta 2026. El nuevo mandatario, de 52 años, fue respaldado por más del 98% del Parlamento.

WSWS (2023-03-02). Support the strike against government austerity! Withdraw draconian essential service orders! Fight for a socialist program to defend workers' social and democratic rights! wsws.org Workers should take the struggle for their social and democratic rights into their own hands. The SEP urges workers to form their own action committees independent of all capitalist parties and trade unions in every workplace, factory, plantation and neighborhood.

Fight Back (2023-03-01). Join your local International Women's Day event! fightbacknews.org Fight Back! has collected a partial list of International Women's Day marches, events and celebrations that members of Freedom Road Socialist Organization are helping to build and lead. We encourage you to find the event nearest to you and attend. | | Eastern Time Zone | New York City, NY | Sturday, March 11, 3: 00pm | Barclays Center, 620 Atlantic, Ave, Brooklyn, NY | A demonstration against sexual assault and mistreatment of women by the NYPD. Organized by New York Community Action Project (NYCAP)…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-01). Fred M'membe: It's the US, Not China, that Threatens African Sovereignty. libya360.wordpress.com In this powerful interview on BreakThrough News, Fred M'membe (leader of the Socialist Party of Zambia) explodes the myth of Chinese colonialism in Zambia. He states: "China has never threatened our independence. We've never been subjected to any form of mistreatment or exploitation by China, but we can't say the same about the US." M'membe recalls…

Freedom Socialist Party (2023-03-02). Wednesday 3/8: Black Liberation Reading Circle. indybay.org New Valencia Hall, 747 Polk St., San Francisco, near Ellis St. Seven blocks from Civic Center BART, on or near Muni bus lines #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49. Wheelchair Accessible, Also via Zoom…

Staff (2023-03-02). Eligen a nuevo presidente de la República Socialista de Vietnam. cubadebate.cu Vo Van Thuong fue elegido este jueves como presidente de la República Socialista de Vietnam en una sesión extraordinaria de la decimoquinta legislatura de la Asamblea Nacional. El mandato de Van Thuong se extenderá hasta 2026. El nuevo mandatario, de 52 años, fue respaldado por más del 98% del Parlamento.

WSWS (2023-03-02). Support the strike against government austerity! Withdraw draconian essential service orders! Fight for a socialist program to defend workers' social and democratic rights! wsws.org Workers should take the struggle for their social and democratic rights into their own hands. The SEP urges workers to form their own action committees independent of all capitalist parties and trade unions in every workplace, factory, plantation and neighborhood.

Fight Back (2023-03-01). Join your local International Women's Day event! fightbacknews.org Fight Back! has collected a partial list of International Women's Day marches, events and celebrations that members of Freedom Road Socialist Organization are helping to build and lead. We encourage you to find the event nearest to you and attend. | | Eastern Time Zone | New York City, NY | Sturday, March 11, 3: 00pm | Barclays Center, 620 Atlantic, Ave, Brooklyn, NY | A demonstration against sexual assault and mistreatment of women by the NYPD. Organized by New York Community Action Project (NYCAP)…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-01). Fred M'membe: It's the US, Not China, that Threatens African Sovereignty. libya360.wordpress.com In this powerful interview on BreakThrough News, Fred M'membe (leader of the Socialist Party of Zambia) explodes the myth of Chinese colonialism in Zambia. He states: "China has never threatened our independence. We've never been subjected to any form of mistreatment or exploitation by China, but we can't say the same about the US." M'membe recalls…

Norman Markowitz (2023-03-01). A few of the Communist women who shaped U.S. history. peoplesworld.org For Women's History Month, People's World presents this article from the Political Affairs archives. It was first published in April 2010. From its very outset, the struggle for women's liberation has had deep connections to the development of the socialist movement. The utopian socialist Charles Fourier said famously that a society was judged by its …

WSWS (2023-03-01). UK teachers speak from picket lines during latest three days of strikes. wsws.org Roughly 200,000 teachers represented by the National Education Union (NEU) are taking strike action this week. World Socialist Web Site reporters attended pickets and spoke with those taking action.

Peter Boyle (2023-03-01). Forum highlights ongoing LGBTIQ+ struggles at World Pride. greenleft.org.au A forum hosted by Green Left highlighted ongoing struggles by LGBTIQ+ radical activists in a highly corporatised Sydney World Pride.

Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson, Geopolitical Economy. (2023-03-01). The Rise Of US Dollar Imperialism, And Why It Failed. popularresistance.org Today we are continuing our discussion of de-dollarization. As many of you know we have structured our discussion around some ten questions, and last time we dealt with the first five. | What is money? What is the relation between money and debt? Is money a commodity? What is the theory of how the dollar serves as world money? | And then because this theory so much relies on the sterling system we discussed the sterling system. What is it? What was this real basis not gold but actually empire etcetera. | And then we decided that in this show we will discuss the next five questions which are, how did the sterling…

National Network on Cuba. (2023-03-01). National Network On Cuba Condemns Biden's Country Report. popularresistance.org There is no mistake about it. With the February 27 release of the State Department Country Report on Terrorism 2021, President Biden accepted ownership of the illegal U.S. economic war on Cuba, following suit with Donald Trump, George Bush, and Ronald Reagan's hawkishness with the false designation of Cuba as a so-called "State Sponsor of Terror." | Unbelievably Biden's Secretary of State asserts that "Cuba had repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism since its State Sponsor of Terrorism designation had been rescinded in 2015." Despite this untrue report, Pres. Biden need only review the pa…

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