2024-06-04: News Headlines

Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. (2024-06-04). Twenty Years Of Building An Economic Alternative To Capitalism In The US. popularresistance.org The US Federation of Worker Cooperatives recently turned twenty years old. Clearing the FOG speaks with Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, a professor and author of "Collective Courage: A History of African-American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice," and a charter member of the USFWC, about the work to create a national cooperative organization and the rise of the cooperative economy in the United States. She spoke about the role that cooperatives have played in advancing social and economic justice, the benefits of cooperatives not only to the individual but also more broadly to their communities, and the his…

Freedom Socialist Party (2024-06-04). Wednesday 7/24: Reading Circle — General Strike: A Key to Unlocking Worker Power Today. indybay.org New Valencia Hall | 747 Polk St (near Ellis), San Francisco | Also on Zoom: bit.ly/GeneralStrikeReadingCircle

Marc Batko (2024-06-04). Trump and the Danger of Fascism. indybay.org Peace is the imperative that should outweigh escalation and the unspeakable risk of global war! The constitutional state must not be confused with the security state or the emergency state as Rousseau and the social contract must not be confused with Thomas Hobbes and the punishing or fearsome state. People would fight endlessly without the state or Leviathan, he said.

WSWS (2024-06-04). Australian Labor government ramps up anti-immigrant measures. wsws.org "Foreigners" are being blamed for the deteriorating social conditions being produced by capitalism's economic and cost-of-living crisis and the channelling of billions of dollars into military spending.

WSWS (2024-06-04). SEP (Australia) calls for release of Bogdan Syrotiuk on Hunter Valley radio. wsws.org Nick Beams and John Davis called on listeners to join the fight to free Syrotiuk, the victim of a gross frameup for his socialist opposition to war.

The Independent (2024-06-04). New 'game-changer' HIV drug sought for Africa. independent.co.ug More than 300 politicians, health experts and celebrities on Thursday called for US pharmaceutical giant Gilead to allow cheap, generic versions of a promising new HIV drug to be produced so it can reach people in developing countries most affected by the deadly disease ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | The drug lenacapavir could be a "real game-changer" …

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