2023-06-01: News Headlines

Marcelo Colussi (2023-06-01). El retorno triunfal del fascismo. globalizacion.ca

Staff (2023-06-01). Declaración del Minrex: "Asedio del odio fascista a la cultura cubana" cubadebate.cu La cultura cubana, que sufre el impacto del inhumano e ilegal bloqueo, es portadora de mensajes de paz, diálogo y tolerancia. Rechaza la barbarie, el odio y la violencia que tratan de imponer intereses monopólicos imperialistas desde Estados Unidos y algunos de sus aliados. Cuba no renunciará a exponer su cultura en cualquier rincón del mundo y ante cada agresión responderá con firmeza y unidad.

WSWS (2023-06-01). DeSantis, Trump compete over who is the bigger fascist. wsws.org The two leading candidates for the Republican presidential nomination are threatening, as part of a war against socialism, to destroy democratic rights embedded in the US Constitution.

WSWS (2023-06-01). Democratic New York City mayor uses Memorial Day speech to rail against socialism and communism. wsws.org Adams is increasingly channeling the red-baiting Senator Joseph McCarthy of the 1950s and the fascistic former president, Donald Trump.

Editor (2023-06-01). 'Behavior of a Fascist Police State': Legal Aid Organizers Arrested After Backing Cop City Protesters. scheerpost.com

Editor (2023-05-31). Fascists' Convictions Not a Cause for Celebration. scheerpost.com


teleSUR (2023-06-01). Ukrainian Conflict Has Far-Reaching Negative Impact: Italy's CB. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, the Italian Central Bank Governor Ignazio Visco said that the Ukrainian conflict has had a sprawling impact on the European economies, pushing the median wealth and consumer confidence lower. | RELATED: | In his annual report, he pointed out that the Ukraine crisis has also had an impact on energy prices, which resulted in an increase in interest rates by the European Central Bank (ECB), all of which…

infobrics (2023-05-31). Ukrainians might suffer due to Kiev regime's escalating drone attacks on Russia. infobrics.org Russian President Vladimir Putin himself has issued a stark warning to the Neo-Nazi junta: "[The drone attacks] are designed to prompt a reaction from Russia… they provoke mirrored actions. Well, we will see what [we can do] about it."

WSWS (2023-06-01). Quebec's political elite mounts hysterical anti-immigration campaign. wsws.org A new stage has been reached in the Quebec ruling elite's promotion of an explicitly chauvinistic Quebec nationalism, with the media and all four parties in the National Assembly lending support to hysterical claims of a "federalist plot" to destroy the "Quebec nation" through "mass" immigration.

Jack Rasmus, LA Progressive. (2023-06-01). Biden-McCarthy Deal: Neoliberal Fiscal Policy Continues. popularresistance.org Over the weekend, US House of Representatives speaker McCarthy and president Biden announced a tentative agreement on raising the debt ceiling. The deal—almost certain to pass Congress later this week—represents a typical Neoliberal fiscal policy deal. | Ever since neoliberal capitalism policies were introduced under president Carter in the late 1970s, and subsequently expanded dramatically under Reagan, Neoliberal fiscal policy has been characterized by accelerating Pentagon and war spending; simultaneous cutting of business-investor taxes; acceptance of consequent escalating budget deficits—an…

Robert Reich (2023-06-01). The debt ceiling debacle is NOT a 'partisan standoff'. nationofchange.org Did Republicans alone manufactured this looming disaster?>

A Guest Author (2023-05-31). No Austrian soldiers to Ukraine, not even under the pretext of removing mines! workers.org The organization Self-determination for Austria called for a vigil on June 1 at 5 p.m. local time at the Ballhausplatz in Vienna, issuing this statement. Translation: John Catalinotto. Call for a vigil June 1, 2023, to defend Austrian neutrality. Alexander Van der Bellen is the Austrian president. President Alexander Van . . . |




Chloe DS (2023-06-01). Malaysia: Building solidarity in a time of climate crisis. greenleft.org.au Green Left's Chloe DS spoke to Cheong Huei Ting, Central Committee member of the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) and Coordinator of the PSM's Environmental and Climate Crisis Bureau ahead of her participation in the Ecosocialism 2023 Conference in July in Naarm/Melbourne.

Freedom Socialist Party (2023-06-01). Wednesday 6/7: Feminists Fighting Transphobia. indybay.org New Valencia Hall | 747 Polk St. (at Ellis St.), San Francisco | Seven blocks from Civic Center BART, on or near Muni bus lines #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49…

WSWS (2023-06-01). Royal Mail workers speak out: "My life is turned upside down. Will I survive?" wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) is publishing a further round-up of comments received from UK postal workers condemning the Communication Workers Union sell-out deal with Royal Mail.

Abayomi Azikiwe (2023-06-01). Imperialist Hegemony and the Class Struggle in Africa and the Diaspora (Statement). orinocotribune.com By Abayomi Azikiwe -May 29, 2023 | Africa Liberation Day comes amid an escalating campaign by the West and their allies to stifle sovereignty and sustainable development. | Note: The following solidarity statement was prepared and delivered in part to the African Liberation Day program organized by the All-African People's Revolutionary Party, (A-APRP-GC) under the theme "Pan-Africanism: Waging Class Struggle in Africa and the Diaspora, Fighting for the One United Socialist Africa!" on Sat. May 27, 2023. The event was broadcast over the "Africans on the Move" internet radio program hosted by Lee Robinson of the A…

Sue Bolton (2023-05-31). Councils must show solidarity, stop enabling drag panic. greenleft.org.au Merri-bek Socialist Alliance councillor Sue Bolton argues that councils must not cave in to pressure from the homophobic far-right and cancel LGBTIQ gatherings because that enables "drag panic".

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-31). Proletarian Political Revolution: Myth and Reality. libya360.wordpress.com Workers League An essential element of the lexicon of Orthodox Trotskyism is the concept of the proletarian political revolution. From 1933, Russian revolutionary leader LD Trotsky (co-leader with VI Lenin of the October Revolution of 1917) and his supporters called for a proletarian political revolution in the then Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), after conservative…

Chloe DS (2023-06-01). Malaysia: Building solidarity in a time of climate crisis. greenleft.org.au Green Left's Chloe DS spoke to Cheong Huei Ting, Central Committee member of the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) and Coordinator of the PSM's Environmental and Climate Crisis Bureau ahead of her participation in the Ecosocialism 2023 Conference in July in Naarm/Melbourne.

Freedom Socialist Party (2023-06-01). Wednesday 6/7: Feminists Fighting Transphobia. indybay.org New Valencia Hall | 747 Polk St. (at Ellis St.), San Francisco | Seven blocks from Civic Center BART, on or near Muni bus lines #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49…

WSWS (2023-06-01). Royal Mail workers speak out: "My life is turned upside down. Will I survive?" wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) is publishing a further round-up of comments received from UK postal workers condemning the Communication Workers Union sell-out deal with Royal Mail.

Abayomi Azikiwe (2023-06-01). Imperialist Hegemony and the Class Struggle in Africa and the Diaspora (Statement). orinocotribune.com By Abayomi Azikiwe -May 29, 2023 | Africa Liberation Day comes amid an escalating campaign by the West and their allies to stifle sovereignty and sustainable development. | Note: The following solidarity statement was prepared and delivered in part to the African Liberation Day program organized by the All-African People's Revolutionary Party, (A-APRP-GC) under the theme "Pan-Africanism: Waging Class Struggle in Africa and the Diaspora, Fighting for the One United Socialist Africa!" on Sat. May 27, 2023. The event was broadcast over the "Africans on the Move" internet radio program hosted by Lee Robinson of the A…

Sue Bolton (2023-05-31). Councils must show solidarity, stop enabling drag panic. greenleft.org.au Merri-bek Socialist Alliance councillor Sue Bolton argues that councils must not cave in to pressure from the homophobic far-right and cancel LGBTIQ gatherings because that enables "drag panic".

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-31). Proletarian Political Revolution: Myth and Reality. libya360.wordpress.com Workers League An essential element of the lexicon of Orthodox Trotskyism is the concept of the proletarian political revolution. From 1933, Russian revolutionary leader LD Trotsky (co-leader with VI Lenin of the October Revolution of 1917) and his supporters called for a proletarian political revolution in the then Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), after conservative…

Palestine Chronicle. (2023-05-31). Belgian City Of Verviers Cuts Ties With Israel's 'Apartheid Regime'. popularresistance.org The Belgian city of Verviers has become the latest city in Europe to cut its ties with the Israeli "apartheid regime" to "strengthen its support for the Palestinian people," the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. | In its meeting, Verviers Municipal Council discussed a motion introduced by members of the Socialist Party (PS), the Labor Party (PTB), and the Ecologist Confederation (ECOLO) that says that the City of Verviers wants to strengthen its support for the Palestinian people by cutting its ties with the Israeli apartheid regime. | The draft proposal said that the municipal council of Verviers u…

teleSUR (2023-06-01). Second Tropical Depression Forms In The Atlantic. telesurenglish.net The National Hurricane Center (NHC), based in Miami, Florida, reported Thursday the formation of the second tropical depression of 2023 in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. | RELATED: | According to the most recent NHC bulletin, the tropical depression is moving at 2 mph (4 km/h) in a west-northwesterly direction with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph (55 km/h). | The depression is 305 miles (490 kilometers) west-northwest of Ft.

Maximillian Alvarez (2023-06-01). How illegal Great Depression-era Pennsylvania coal miners fought cops, banks, and bosses to unionize. therealnews.com

Clau O'Brien Moscoso, Black Agenda Report. (2023-06-01). Justice For Forced Sterilization Cases During Fujimori Dictatorship. popularresistance.org After almost six months of a coup regime that has murdered over 80 people during continuous protests against the illegal ouster of President Pedro Castillo, survivors of another case of human rights abuses may finally be seeing justice. On May 19th, former dictator Alberto Fujimori was summoned virtually from Penal de Barbadillo (where Pedro Castillo is also imprisoned on preventative detention) by the Chilean Supreme Court for the cases of forced sterilization during his regime in the 1990s. Between 1996 and 2000, approximately 270,000 women and 22,000 men were forcibly sterilized under the dictatorship's "famil…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-31). 30 Years Later, Justice for Forced Sterilization Cases During Fujimori Dictatorship? libya360.wordpress.com Clau O'Brien Moscoso Protest against forced sterilizations in Peru (Photo: Iván Vicente) The Fujimori regime forcibly sterilized thousands of people in Peru and the victims are still fighting for justice. National Strike, Day 147 After almost six months of a coup regime that has murdered over 80 people during continuous protests against the illegal ouster of…

Ted Galen Carpenter (2023-05-31). Libertarian Apologists for Ukraine's Authoritarianism. globalresearch.ca

Rainer Mausfeld (2023-06-01). Why do the lambs remain silent? indybay.org James Madison (1751-1836), one of the founding fathers of the constitution, proclaimed that every form of government should be designed "to protect the minority of the opulent against the | majority". Madison tried to solve the tense relationship between the common people and the elites with a "representative democracy", a de-facto oligarchy.

Rachel Evans (2023-06-01). Traditional Owners demand Empire Energy stop plans to frack Betaloo Basin. greenleft.org.au More than 30 people took action outside Empire Energy's Annual General Meeting in Gadi/Sydney, demanding that the company stop its plans to frack the Betaloo Basin in the Northern Territory. Rachel Evans reports.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-05-31). U.S. Empire Named Most Murderous Killing Machine In History. covertactionmagazine.com New study finds U.S. responsible for nearly 300 million deaths—and counting In September, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation—established by a bipartisan act of Congress in 1993—opened the Victims of Communism Museum in Washington, D.C., which aims to spotlight the plight of the alleged 100 million victims of Communist ideology. The 100 million figure was …

Peter Koenig (2023-06-01). WHO: The Reckless Power Grab. Health Tyranny Postponed? globalresearch.ca

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