2022-01-16: News Headlines

WorkWeek (2022-01-16). SEIU Members On Death Of Ludwig Leota,Chicago Teachers/ Zero Covid vs Permanent Covid. indybay.org WorkWeek covers SEIU 1021 Members On Death Of Ludwig Leota, Chicago Teachers & Zero Covid vs Permanent Covid 19, Vermont AFL-CIO On Rise Of Fascism, Journalist Jeremy Portjo's Assault & Argentina General Strike Against A Mining Company.

Prabhat Patnaik (2022-01-16). Bank privatization isn't conducive for financial markets under capitalism. peoplesdispatch.org One of the most important arguments advanced by John Maynard Keynes, the renowned economist, was that the operation of financial markets under capitalism is deeply flawed. Such markets are intrinsically incapable of distinguishing between "enterprise" where an asset is held because of the stream of returns that its ownership yields over time, and "speculation" where an asset is held not for this yield but only because it can be sold at a higher price tomorrow to someone else who in turn would buy it because he believes that he can sell it at an even higher price the day after tomorrow. | The existence of speculat…

sputniknews (2022-01-16). Florida Governor's Race Candidate Compares DeSantis to Hitler for 'Abuse of Power'. sputniknews.com The Florida gubernatorial primary is expected to be held in August of this year. Fried will campaign against former Florida Governor Charlie Crist and others in the hopes of defeating DeSantis in November's general election.

Rick Rozoff (2022-01-15). Canadian foreign minister to visit troops in Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Canada, under Operation UNIFIER, has trained more Ukrainian troops for war in the Donbass and, potentially, against Russia than any other nation has: over 30,000. A fact that Ukrainian neo-Nazis have bragged about. Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly will visit Ukraine next week… Joly's office said the trip was meant to reaffirm Canada's unwavering support …

Don Gross (2022-01-15). Chicago activists counter anti-abortion marchers, fascist allies. liberationnews.org Counter protesters confronted the anti-abortion marchers and their fascist allies at multiple points along their route.

Jersey Counter-Info (2022-01-15). Introducing: Jersey Counter-Info. itsgoingdown.org Introducing a new counter-information website in so-called New Jersey. Check out Jersey Counter-Info here. Jersey Counter-Info is a counter-information platform to promote and spread anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, abolitionist, and other radical ideas, news, and events in occupied Lenapehoking or so-called "New Jersey" and the surrounding areas. This project is intended to fill a need for…

WSWS (2022-01-15). Stewart Rhodes and Oath Keepers charged with seditious conspiracy. wsws.org The arrest of fascist Oath Keeper leader Stewart Rhodes and 10 other Oath Keepers on charges of seditious conspiracy explodes the claim that January 6 was merely an unruly protest and not a conspiracy by Trump to overturn the 2020 election result and establish a dictatorship.

teleSUR, na, JGN (2022-01-15). øCómo era la vida de Rosa Luxemburgo?>. telesurtv.net Sus propuestas teóricas sobre el capitalismo e imperialismo y su negativa a participar en la I Guerra Mundial la posicionaron como una de las mejores revolucionarias del siglo XX.

Staff (2022-01-15). Condiciones para una exitosa película crítica con el capitalismo. cubadebate.cu No se trata de hacer una enmienda a la totalidad de esas películas que triunfan en el mercado y que se presentan como críticas contra el capitalismo. Sin duda, son mejores que la media y aportan elementos valiosos de reflexión. Pero es importante que seamos capaces de observar las grietas en su discurso revolucionario que no lo es tanto, que nos fijemos en las trampas para hacernos creer que son más subversivas de lo que son…

teleSUR, na, JGN (2022-01-15). øCómo era la vida de Rosa Luxemburgo?>. telesurtv.net Sus propuestas teóricas sobre el capitalismo e imperialismo y su negativa a participar en la I Guerra Mundial la posicionaron como una de las mejores revolucionarias del siglo XX.

Staff (2022-01-15). Condiciones para una exitosa película crítica con el capitalismo. cubadebate.cu No se trata de hacer una enmienda a la totalidad de esas películas que triunfan en el mercado y que se presentan como críticas contra el capitalismo. Sin duda, son mejores que la media y aportan elementos valiosos de reflexión. Pero es importante que seamos capaces de observar las grietas en su discurso revolucionario que no lo es tanto, que nos fijemos en las trampas para hacernos creer que son más subversivas de lo que son…

Aldo Brambila, Zach Farber (2022-01-15). Socialist Jose Cortes announces run in new CA51 congressional district. liberationnews.org Jose Cortes, a socialist candidate for U.S. Congress in 2022, filed to run in California's new 51st congressional district (CA51). After previously running as a Peace and Freedom Party candidate in CA50, the change comes after redistricting in California following the 2020 U.S. census.

Editor2 (2022-01-15). Return the gold to Venezuela! orinocotribune.com On 8-9 January the Revolutionary Communist Group and supporters of its newspaper Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! took to the streets demanding that Britain return $1.8bn of gold to Venezuela. | The action was called in response to the criminal ruling on 20 December, where Britain's Supreme Court recognised as the owner of $1.8bn of gold held in the Bank of England's vaults, not the legitimate socialist party government of Venezuela, but rather the discredited opposition 'interim president', Juan Guaido — the failed puppet of US imperialism. Whilst Nicolas Maduro's government in Venezuela demands the gold…

Seth Galinsky (2022-01-15). Cuba's socialist revolution built on participation of workers, farmers. themilitant.com Sixty-three years ago, after the U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista fled Cuba, Fidel Castro led the "Caravan of Freedom" from Santiago, in the east, to Havana, as part of the victorious rebel forces organizing workers and farmers to take political power into their own hands. | Hundreds of thousands greeted Castro and Rebel Army combatants in towns and villages across the island during the Jan. 1-8 caravan. The massive response to the revolution helps explain why every attempt by the U.S. rulers to turn back the Cuban Revolution has failed. | Just hours before Batista fled in the early morning of Jan. 1, 1959,…

Editor2 (2022-01-15). Narrative and Reality of the Libyan Crisis. orinocotribune.com By Manlio Dinucci — Jan 11, 2022 | The most remarkable thing about the NATO-led operation in Libya is the difference between what the West and the Libyans perceived. For the former, it was the liberation of a People crushed by a dictatorship, while for the latter, it was a foreign invasion that destroyed everything in its path and sent the nation back to the stone age. | NATO declares its concern for the crisis in Libya, which "has direct implications for regional stability and the security of all Allies". It therefore assures that it "remains committed to providing advice to Libya on defence and security".

WSWS (2022-01-15). Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia. wsws.org Delhi University staff strike over unpaid wages; Sri Lankan health workers strike in North Central Province; Australia: Patrick Terminals to terminate enterprise agreement…

Binoy Kampmark (2022-01-15). Enduring Stain: The Guantánamo Military Prison Turns Twenty. dissidentvoice.org Anniversaries for detention centres, concentration camps and torture facilities are not the relishable calendar events in the canon of human worth. But not remembering them, when they were used, and how they continue being used, would be unpardonable amnesia. On January 11, 2002, the first prisoners of the absurdly named "War on Terror", declared with …

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