(2024-07-17). Delas report exposes PSOE-Sumar-Podemos collaboration with Israeli genocide in Gaza. wsws.org It is another devastating exposure of the imperialist militarism and support for genocide of the Socialist Party-Sumar government and of its accomplices in Podemos.
(2024-07-17). Syria's Assad says he will not meet with Turkey's Erdogan. newarab.com Syrian dictator "The problem is not the meeting, but its content," a video clip released by the p…
(2024-07-17). A New Era Of Endless Labor Shortages? popularresistance.org Every so often a publication comes along that more or less perfectly captures the Zeitgeist of world business elites. So it was on the 26th of June when the McKinsey Global Institute issued a new report: "Help Wanted: Charting the Challenge of Tight Labor Markets in Advanced Economies." | The message its few pages of charts and text deliver is dire indeed: "Labor markets in advanced economies today are among the tightest in two decades, not merely a pandemic-induced blip but rather a long-term trend that may continue as workforces age." | This constraining labor market, the report claims, "means forgone economic…
(2024-07-17). Truth Dies: Uhuru 3 Trial May Set Dangerous Precedent For Free Speech. popularresistance.org On July 29, 2022, the FBI raided seven properties connected to the African People's Socialist Party/Uhuru Movement and fabricated charges against three prominent members: Chairman Omali Yeshitela, Jesse Nevel, Chair of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, and Penny Hess, Chair of the African People's Solidarity Committee. They are facing up to 15 years in jail for speaking out against the proxy war in Ukraine. Their trial is currently scheduled for September 3. Clearing the FOG spoke with Penny Hess and Leonard Goodman, a criminal defense attorney with the Uhuru Legal Team. Mr. Goodman made the point that if this trial…
(2024-07-17). AI, Guaranteed Income, and the "Which Way Is Up?" Problem Afflicting Our Elites. cepr.net Leading media outlets like the New York Times, The Atlantic, and New Yorker have about as much concern for intellectual consistency as TikTok videos. In very serious and somber tones they will warn the rest of us about a major problem and then in the next issue, or the next article, present a story that …
(2024-07-17). Tyrannicide: An American Value? counterpunch.org The US has a long, chequered relationship with assassination. On one hand, the myths of 1776 recount of a nation born through resistance to the tyranny that it holds at the core of its identity. Values legitimizing tyrannicide can be imputed from the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. On the other hand, the US
(2024-07-17). How the Knowledge Economy and Science Bolster Cuba's Socialist Revolution. counterpunch.org Cuba and Cuban science gained acclaim worldwide for producing their own very effective Covid-19 vaccines. The achievement stood out among nations of the Global South. The feat reflects Cuba's development over decades of a formidable scientific establishment engaged in the development and marketing of biologic products oriented to healthcare mostly, and also to food production.
(2024-07-17). The center will not hold. indybay.org The existing late capitalist ideology in the center of society, the tattered national identity, is being driven to barbaric extremes in reaction to the crisis. Neo-liberalism, with its social Darwinism and economic nationalism, provided the springboards that the new right used.
(2024-07-17). Thursday 7/25: From Asian America to Palestine: A Teach-In on Zionism, Empire, and Hindutva. indybay.org Zoom | bit.ly/AA2PALI…
(2024-07-17). Samuel Sharpe Jr. Murdered by Ohio Police in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at The RNC! indybay.org Samuel Sharpe Jr. was Murdered by Ohio police in town for the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin! Rise in Power Samuel | Sharpe Jr! Say his name! Please spread the word and fight to dismantle this fascist police state everywhere! www.instagram.com/reel/C9f95i7OclE/?igsh=MW40ajFxdXhkOTRoZQ==…
(2024-07-17). Trump and MAGA plow ahead with plan for abortion ban. peoplesworld.org Trump and MAGA Republicans are plowing ahead full throttle with their fascist agenda to create an authoritarian Christian nationalist theocracy that bans abortions, in vitro fertilization (IVF), and contraception and runs roughshod over the privacy rights of Americans. The full-blown mass fascist party is on open and ugly display. Its embrace of the Project 2025 …
(2024-07-17). Diaz-Canel meets with Belarusian prime minister. plenglish.com The Cuban head of State wrote on his X profile that he had a pleasant and fruitful meeting with the Belarusian prime minister and conveyed warm greetings to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. | Diaz-Canel and Golovchenko highlighted the potentialities to strengthen ties in the agri-food, biopharmaceutical, industrial, and financial sectors, the Cuban president wrote on the same social platform. | On Wednesday morning, Golovchenko visited the Fidel Castro Center in Havana, an institution dedicated to the study and dissemination of the life, work, and thought of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution.
(2024-07-17). Teamsters president at the Republican National Convention: The bureaucracy throws its lot in with fascism. wsws.org Sean O'Brien's speech called for "bipartisanship" based on nationalism, militarism and the integration of the unions with management and the capitalist state—but he made clear his particular sympathy for Trump and the extreme right.
(2024-07-17). French New Popular Front's attempt to form government collapses. wsws.org The collapse, amid bitter infighting between the Socialist Party and France Unbowed, betrays the expectations of all those who voted for the NFP to oppose both Macron and the far right.
(2024-07-17). Sanjay Subrahmanyam: Blood and Bombast. newleftreview.org Sanjay Subrahmanyam on Vinayak Chaturvedi, Hindutva and Violence and Janaki Bakhle, Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva. Intellectual biographies of Hindu nationalism's Mazzini-inspired theoretician.
(2024-07-17). New Criminal Laws in India: Why They Must be Reviewed and Revised? ummid.com It seems that the BJP has used the opportunity under the cover of colonial baggage to enact more draconian laws that fit well into the ongoing project of Hindu nationalism.
(2024-07-17). Grey Anderson: Imperium Uncloaked. newleftreview.org Grey Anderson on Tom Stevenson, Someone Else's Empire. Lucid anatomization of the American imperium, with a devastating assessment of the UK's equerry role.
(2024-07-17). Cédric Durand: Landscapes of Capital. newleftreview.org A critical engagement with the work of Brett Christophers, whose books—The New Enclosure, Rentier Capitalism, Our Lives in Their Portfolios and The Price Is Wrong—unfold a novel critique of the 'rentier stage' of contemporary capitalism, in the tradition of radical historical geography developed by Lefebvre, Harvey and Davis.
(2024-07-17). Diputados debatieron sobre propuesta de política para la emisión de la norma sobre la empresa estatal socialista. cubadebate.cu Reunidos en sesión conjunta de varias comisiones, con la presencia del presidente Miguel Díaz-Canel y del presidente de la Asamblea Nacional, Esteban Lazo, los parlamentarios recibieron información y debatieron sobre la propuesta de política para la emisión de la norma sobre la empresa estatal socialista, presentada por la viceministra de Economía y Planificación, Yohana Odriozola Guitart.