2023-04-24: News Headlines

Editor (2023-04-24). Chris Hedges: The United States of Paralysis. scheerpost.com The longer the corporate state erodes the social bonds that knit us to society and give us a sense of purpose and meaning the more inevitable an authoritarian state and a Christianized fascism becomes.

Sondoss Al Asaad (2023-04-23). Palestine in Sheikh Ali Salman's eyes: Normalization is a reward for the occupation. thealtworld.com Sheikh Ali Salman labels the deprivation of the Palestinians of their motherland as "a repressive practice that practically reminds us of what fascist and racist regimes have done." | Bahrain's Al-Wefaq Society has launched a booklet titled "Palestine in the Eyes of Al-Wefaq's SG," which includes the views of imprisoned Secretary-General, Sheikh Ali Salman, in support of the Palestinian cause, along with his unyielding condemnation of the Israeli occupation and its abhorrent practices. | In the introduction written by the SG in Jau Central Prison, Sheikh Salman states, "Most of the peoples of the world were subje…

Anonymous103 (2023-04-23). In Video: Survivors From Bakhmut Testify On War Crimes Of Kiev's Nazis. southfront.org

Alex Bainbridge (2023-04-24). Video: Jonathan Sriranganathan on Greens, capitalism and social change. greenleft.org.au Green Left's Alex Bainbridge speaks to outgoing Greens Gabba Ward councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan about politics, social change and the role of elected representatives. | They discussed the role of elected representatives in achieving social change, the nature of anti-capitalism, the lack of democracy under capitalism, debates within the Greens, the climate safeguard mechanism, and more.




Michael A. Lebowitz (2023-04-23). The State and the Future of Socialism. socialistproject.ca We are in the midst of a class war. That's not unusual. There is always class war in capitalism — although sometimes it is hidden and sometimes there is the interlude of an apparent Carthaginian Peace. But the class war has intensified now because of the crisis in capitalism — a crisis rooted in the over-accumulation of capital. And, in this crisis, capital has intensified the class war against the working class. Austerity, cutbacks, the need to sacrifice — these are the demands of capital as it calls upon workers to bear the burden of capital's own failures. This is a war conducted by capita…

thecommunists (2023-04-23). Dan O'Brien, Ranjeet Brar: immigration and the new 'stop the boats' bill. thecommunists.org Is it immigration, or exploitation of wage-labour, that is causing the cost of living crisis in Britain and the west, and the deepening poverty of the masses of humanity around the world? Since poverty and war cause the modern phenomnon of mass migration, who is responsible for the difficulties caused to workers as a result? …

Freedom Socialist Party, Bob Price (2023-04-24). Sunday 4/30: May Day Celebration 2023 — Workers vs. Billionaires: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly. indybay.org New Valencia Hall, 747 Polk Street, San Francisco | (7 blocks from Civic Center BART, on/near Muni lines #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49)…

Tanupriya Singh (2023-04-24). Socialist Movement of Ghana calls for urgent public health response to new malaria threat. peoplesdispatch.org The invasive, malaria-transmitting Anopheles stephensi mosquito has been detected in Ghana for the first time. The species can survive in high temperatures and urban areas, posing new challenges for disease response and control…

Michael A. Lebowitz (2023-04-23). The State and the Future of Socialism. socialistproject.ca We are in the midst of a class war. That's not unusual. There is always class war in capitalism — although sometimes it is hidden and sometimes there is the interlude of an apparent Carthaginian Peace. But the class war has intensified now because of the crisis in capitalism — a crisis rooted in the over-accumulation of capital. And, in this crisis, capital has intensified the class war against the working class. Austerity, cutbacks, the need to sacrifice — these are the demands of capital as it calls upon workers to bear the burden of capital's own failures. This is a war conducted by capita…

thecommunists (2023-04-23). Dan O'Brien, Ranjeet Brar: immigration and the new 'stop the boats' bill. thecommunists.org Is it immigration, or exploitation of wage-labour, that is causing the cost of living crisis in Britain and the west, and the deepening poverty of the masses of humanity around the world? Since poverty and war cause the modern phenomnon of mass migration, who is responsible for the difficulties caused to workers as a result? …

Freedom Socialist Party, Bob Price (2023-04-24). Sunday 4/30: May Day Celebration 2023 — Workers vs. Billionaires: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly. indybay.org New Valencia Hall, 747 Polk Street, San Francisco | (7 blocks from Civic Center BART, on/near Muni lines #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49)…

Tanupriya Singh (2023-04-24). Socialist Movement of Ghana calls for urgent public health response to new malaria threat. peoplesdispatch.org The invasive, malaria-transmitting Anopheles stephensi mosquito has been detected in Ghana for the first time. The species can survive in high temperatures and urban areas, posing new challenges for disease response and control…

Editor (2023-04-24). A brutal system replaced socialist health care in Europe. mronline.org Matthew Read, researcher at the IF DDR, talks to the People's Health Dispatch about similarities between East Germany's and Yugoslavia's socialist health systems and the lessons to be learned from these systems.

WSWS (2023-04-24). Sri Lankan pseudo-left FSP and IUSF silent on their thuggish attack against IYSSE socialist campaigner. wsws.org The Frontline Socialist Party and Inter University Student Federation, which posture as champions of democratic rights at press conferences and meetings, violently oppose the IYSSE and students exercising their democratic rights on university campuses.

Fight Back (2023-04-23). FRSO salutes the National Democratic Front of the Philippines on 50th anniversary. fightbacknews.org Dear Comrades, | On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), Freedom Road Socialist Organization sends warm and militant greetings. The achievements of the NDFP are legion and inspiration to revolutionaries everywhere. We are certain that efforts of the NDFP to build the national democratic movement and assisting the peoples war will meet with even great successes in the future. | For the past 50 years the NDFP and its constituent organization have crystallized the aspirations of the peoples of the Philippines to end the rule of imperialism,…

mforinoco (2023-04-23). Biden DOJ Indicts Four Americans For 'Weaponized' Free Speech. orinocotribune.com By Caitlin Johnstone — Apr 19, 2023 | The Biden administration's Department of Justice has just charged four members of the African People's Socialist Party (APSP) for conspiring to act as agents of Russia by using speech and political action in ways the DOJ says "weaponized" the First Amendment rights of Americans. | The Washington Post

scorinoco (2023-04-23). Indictment of African People's Socialist Party is a Racist Assault on the Black Liberation Movement (Statement). orinocotribune.com

WSWS (2023-04-23). Amazon warehouse workers speak out during Coventry, UK strike. wsws.org Striking workers told World Socialist Web Site reporters about their low pay and terrible working conditions.

Staff (2023-04-24). Marxism and Colonialism: An Interview with Vijay Prashad. orinocotribune.com Vijay Prashad is above all a militant. His intellectual work is an attempt to understand and respond to some of the great challenges of our time. Of Indian origin, this Marxist historian has displayed an intense vital activity that has taken him to numerous countries, always in defense of the cause of humanity.He currently works as executive director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, a task that alternates with his work as a teacher and researcher at various universities, as well as with a prolific work in which we can highlight texts such as The Darker Nations, The Poorer Nations and the most…

Rhoda Wilson (2023-04-24). Shocking Truths about Your Money. expose-news.com Since the beginning of the "pandemic" three quarters of the world's increase in wealth has gone to the 1%. The coming Great Depression was deliberately engineered in February 2020. It will lead …

Mark Curtis (2023-04-24). How Tony Blair Sealed UK Relations with Egypt's Dictatorship. globalresearch.ca

Editor (2023-04-24). We STILL don't get it: It is an Empire, Folks! mronline.org In mid-March 2023, David Swanson published a very interesting article: "Iraq and 15 Lessons We Never Learned." There were some things in there I agreed with, some I disagreed with, others I might want to debate. Still, I appreciated his effort to pull together ideas from these experiences. However, there's one thing that he did …

Manlio Dinucci (2023-04-23). Rebellion Grows Against the Dollar Empire. globalresearch.ca

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-04-23). The Empire Of Hypocrisy: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com

Peter Koenig (2023-04-23). WHO's Worldwide Power Grab: Beware of the New International Health Regulation and Pandemic Treaty, a Health Tyranny Never Heard of Before in Human History. globalresearch.ca

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-04-23). The Death of Law-Based Justice. thealtworld.com I have stressed for many years that prosecutors and judges have turned trials into convicting the defendant regardless of innocence or guilt. The methods of producing convictions include withholding exculpatory evidence of the defendant, paying false witnesses with money or reduced or dropped charges for false testimony against the defendant, and piling on false charges until the defendant gives up and incriminates himself with a plea bargain (The Tyranny of Good Intentions, 2000). | US Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves' illegitimate cases against Trump supporters for a nonexistent "January 6 i…

People's Dispatch. (2023-04-24). EU's Withdrawal Of Tariffs On Ukrainian Grain Backfires. popularresistance.org European Union (EU) authorities and five eastern European countries are in a stand-off over the import of tariff-free grain from Ukraine. The decision to remove the tariffs on grain imports from Ukraine was taken by the EU in June 2022. However, eastern European countries such as Poland, Hungary, and Romania have been increasingly unhappy with the withdrawal of tariffs, citing the impact on their local markets. The disagreement boiled over last week when five countries — Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and Slovenia — blocked the import of Ukrainian grain. A meeting on Wednesday, April 19, between…

Rhoda Wilson (2023-04-24). Vaccine injuries become the dominant theme of German reporting on the mRNA injections. expose-news.com Last month, German Health Minister and renowned virus pest Karl Lauterbach gave a remarkable interview in which he denounced "exorbitant" pharmaceutical profits, deplored "dismaying" vaccine injuries, and called for the manufacturers to set …

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