(2024-01-21). Anti-Fascism & Solidarity: Bhagat Singh Jan Adhikar Yatra By: Vansh Yadav. midwesternmarx.com First Day of Bhagat Singh Jan Adhikar Yatra, December 10 Phase 2 of The Bhagat Singh Jan Adhikar Yatra (BSJAY), which began on December 10, is set to cover 8,500 km, going through 80 districts and 13 states, and will continue until March 3. The Rally is primarily organised by the Revolutionary Workers Party of India (RWPI), Disha Students Organisation, Naujawan Bharat Sabha, and Mazdoor Bigul Dasta, along with numerous other progressive organisations. The Yatra is essentially an an …
(2024-01-21). Thanks to Gaza, European philosophy has been exposed as ethically bankrupt By: Hamid Dabashi. midwesternmarx.com From Heidegger's Nazism to Habermas's Zionism, the suffering of the 'Other' is of little consequence Imagine if Iran, Syria, Lebanon, or Turkey – fully backed, armed and diplomatically protected by Russia and China – had the will and the wherewithal to bomb Tel Aviv for three months, day and night, murder tens of thousands of Israelis, maim countless more and make millions homeless, and turn the city into a heap of uninhabitable rubble, …
(2024-01-21). Russian Strike On Elite French Merc Nest Delivers 'Devastating Blow' to Ukraine's War Effort. orinocotribune.com On the evening of 16 January, Russian missiles hit a building in Kharkov that had been converted into a major center for high-level European (mostly French) mercenaries. It was a devastating blow, with at least 60 killed and 20 wounded. | It is important to note that these were elite soldiers, not the run of the mill American thrill-seekers and "Tik Tok soldiers", nor Colombian hitmen. The European mercenaries tend to be highly trained specialists who work on specific weapons systems too complex for the average Ukrainian conscripts and Nazi footsoldiers to operate efficiently. | This strike did not just elimin…
(2024-01-21). Da Gaza al Medioriente la Strategia della Catastrofe ONU: "Conseguenze Inimmaginabili" | Grandangolo — Pangea. globalresearch.ca Articolo e trasmissione a cura di Manlio Dinucci. | Martin Griffiths — Sottosegretario Generale delle Nazioni Unite per gli Affari Umanitari e Coordinatore degli Aiuti d'Emergenza — ha presentato al Consiglio di Sicurezza una documentata relazione, di cui riportiamo alcuni stralci: …
(2024-01-21). 'Nazis out': 250,000 Germans rage against far-right AfD. presstv.ir Around 250,000 protesters march in cities across Germany to protest against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and its stance against migrants.
(2024-01-21). Reflections on Racism, "Coloniality of Power", Mal-Development and Contemporary Capitalism. globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-21). The Transnational Capitalist Class. The Billionaires, the Trillionaires. Stake Holder Capitalism and The New World Order. globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-21). The Only Solution to "Wealth Supremacy" Is a Democratic Economy. truthout.org The extraction of wealth is a pathology of late capitalism and is defined by the cultural and political processes by which the rich establish themselves as the dominant class. Social theorist and organizer Marjorie Kelly labels this phenomenon "wealth supremacy" which is also the title of her latest book. But as she points out in this exclusive interview for Truthout, wealth supremacy… |
(2024-01-21). Capitalism and the Production of Poverty By: Jim Silver. midwesternmarx.com The perpetual production of ever-changing forms of poverty is an inevitable part of the creative destruction that characterizes capitalism. The form of the poverty changes, because capitalism is dynamic and constantly changing, but poverty remains. The production of poverty is not only an inevitable but also a necessary part of capitalism. This has been the case in Britain, the world's first capitalist industrial power, for the past eight hundred years.Poverty is in large part about …
(2024-01-21). US imperial dominance, BRICS sub-imperialism and unequal ecological exchange. cadtm.org Patrick Bond is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg, as well as a political economist, political ecologist and scholar of social mobilisation. He is the author of BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique and Extreme Uneven Development: Financial Volatility, Deep Capitalist Crisis and Super-Exploitation in South Africa and the World. In this interview with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Bond discusses modern-day (…) | – | / |
(2024-01-21). The Tragedy Of India's Authoritarian Descent: The Case of Prabir Purukayastha. socialistproject.ca Despite all the talk about India being the world's largest democracy the existing reality is very different indeed. For persistent dissidents and opponents of the current Hindu nationalist regime headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the general political environment is effectively an undeclared emergency. In many respects it is worse than the declared Emergency of 1975-77 with its suspension of fundamental civic and political rights. That lasted a little less than two years. The current process of systematic degradation of the basic institutions of Indian democracy under the Modi government has been going o…
(2024-01-21). Behind rising tensions on the Korean peninsula: A socialist view. greenleft.org.au Green Left's Federico Fuentes spoke to Youngsu Won, a socialist and coordinator of the International Forum in South Korea, about the new tensions flaring on the Korean peninsula and their potential ramifications.
(2024-01-21). Socialist councillor: New rainbow crossing a 'positive step'. greenleft.org.au
(2024-01-21). Our Postmodern Crisis and the Progressive Alternative in the Harlem Renaissance By: Kathie Jiang. midwesternmarx.com This article explores the Harlem Renaissance's ideological and artistic contributions to the American social consciousness for imagining possibilities for political struggle, and as a timely alternative to the dominant postmodern aesthetic and cultural tendencies of nihilism of our times — including 1950's Pop Art, the 1980's neo expressionist art of Jean-Michel Basquiat, and contemporary hip-hop culture. Between World War I and the Great Depression, in New …
(2024-01-21). Experts Worry About At-Risk Women's Access to New Postpartum Depression Pill. scheerpost.com