Anonymous Contributor (2023-07-05). Gender Fascist "Mom's for Liberty" Conference Met with Resistance in Philadelphia. itsgoingdown.org Report from Philadelphia on the recent protests against the 'Mom's for Liberty' conference. What follows is a short blow-by-blow report from the streets of Philadelphia, as people turned out to shout down the gender fascist "Mom's for Liberty" conference which saw speeches from both Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis. Thursday Banner drop over I-95 this…

Anonymous103 (2023-07-04). Kiev Regime Forces Under Increased Pressure To Step Up Counteroffensive Days Ahead Of NATO Summit. southfront.org Illustrative ImageThe pressure comes amid stepped-up blackmail by Washington DC which is now threatening that it will slow down or ever cut so-called "military aid" to the Neo-Nazi junta in case its forces don't demonstrate they're capable of advancing, taking and holding Russian position. | Written by As if the situation for the Kiev regime forces wasn't bad already, the political West has now increased its already massi…

teleSUR (2023-07-05). Bolivian President Rejects US Restrictions, De-Dollarization. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Bolivian President Luis Alberto Arce Catacora rejected the constraints imposed by the U.S. financial system, urging the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) to "reduce dependence on the U.S. dollar," and strengthen local currencies in South America for foreign trade, as survival mechanisms in the midst of a "structural crisis of capitalism". | Related: | "Our region is seriously impacted by the restrictions…

Emanuel Pastreich (2023-07-04). Happy July Fourth, Formally Known as Independence Day. globalresearch.ca

Derek Wall (2023-07-05). Hugo Blanco, peasant leader and ecosocialist, 1934—2023. greenleft.org.au Derek Wall pays tribute to Peruvian revolutionary leader and pioneering ecosocialist Hugo Blanco, who died in London on June 25.

Freedom Road Socialist Organization (2023-07-05). Sunday 7/9: Defend the Tampa 5! Drop the Charges Now! indybay.org San Jose City Hall | 200 E. Santa Clara St. San Jose, Ca 95113…

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-05). Socialist Sarah Hathway elected to the City of Greater Geelong Council. greenleft.org.au

Yasiel Betancourt Clavijo (2023-07-05). Scholars discuss about Marxism at Casa de las Americas. plenglish.com Havana, Jul 5 (Prensa Latina) Scholars from eight countries are participating today in the International Summer Course "Marxist Thought and Political Practices in Afro-America", organized in Havana by Cuba's Casa de las Americas.

Rhoda Wilson (2023-07-05). Build the Parallel Polis to counteract totalitarianism. expose-news.com The common feature of all totalitarian systems is neither concentration camps, secret police, nor mass surveillance — as horrifying as all these are. The common feature of all totalitarian systems is the …

JANET (2023-07-04). SCOTUS's latest attack on affirmative action. iacenter.org By Monica Moorehead June 30, 2023 The Supreme Court of the United States confirmed once again what an utterly reactionary, rightwing institution it is by striking down the right to use affirmative action in college admissions. The 6-3 ruling, issued June 29, stems from two cases — Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina — which claim that whites and Asians are victims of "reverse discrimination." Oct. 31, 2022, protest in front of the Supreme Court. What this vote means is that "race-conscious admissions policies," can no long…

Nicholas Powers, Truthout. (2023-07-05). As We Celebrate Independence, The US Stifles Freedom Around The Globe. popularresistance.org As fireworks boom and politicians solemnize Independence Day, the United States betrays the freedom of people around the world. The 4th of July is a strange spectacle: In Washington, D.C., patriots wave American flags at a parade even as the U.S. approves Morocco's occupation of the Western Sahara, helping to crush the Sahrawi people's hope for independence. | Take your pick: Rwanda to Bahrain, Israel to Morocco; the U.S. is the boss of an international ring of client states that crush dissent. It has flooded dictatorships and settler-colonial regimes with military weapons and drone bombed the hell out of innocen…

Michael Hudson, CounterPunch. (2023-07-05). America Has Just Destroyed A Great Empire. popularresistance.org Herodotus (History, Book 1.53) tells the story of Croesus, king of Lydia c. 585-546 BC in what is now Western Turkey and the Ionian shore of the Mediterranean. Croesus conquered Ephesus, Miletus and neighboring Greek-speaking realms, obtaining tribute and booty that made him one of the richest rulers of his time. But these victories and wealth led to arrogance and hubris. Croesus turned his eyes eastward, ambitious to conquer Persia, ruled by Cyrus the Great. | Having endowed the region's cosmopolitan Temple of Delphi with substantial silver and gold, Croesus asked its Oracle whether he would be successful in the…

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-07-04). Presidents Keep Hiring Elliott Abrams Because The US Empire Is Just That Evil. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): | CNN

Carl Gibson (2023-07-04). The 2024 election could be Big Pharma's reckoningÔøºÔøº. nationofchange.org It's clear at this point that the 2024 election could very well hinge on which party can capture the populist mantle on Big Pharma.

WSWS (2023-07-04). Australian Pharmaceuticals Industry warehouse workers' strike enters second week. wsws.org The United Workers Union's privileged position within the warehousing industry is based on its long record of collaboration with employers and government, suppressing wages, enforcing productivity measures, and ensuring there is no resistance to mass layoffs as the automation-driven restructuring drive continues.

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-07-04). Presidents Keep Hiring Elliott Abrams Because The US Empire Is Just That Evil. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): | CNN

Carl Gibson (2023-07-04). The 2024 election could be Big Pharma's reckoningÔøºÔøº. nationofchange.org It's clear at this point that the 2024 election could very well hinge on which party can capture the populist mantle on Big Pharma.

WSWS (2023-07-04). Australian Pharmaceuticals Industry warehouse workers' strike enters second week. wsws.org The United Workers Union's privileged position within the warehousing industry is based on its long record of collaboration with employers and government, suppressing wages, enforcing productivity measures, and ensuring there is no resistance to mass layoffs as the automation-driven restructuring drive continues.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-07-04). Canadian Armed Forces Complicit in Supporting Fascist Muslim Paramilitaries in Yugoslavia. orinocotribune.com

Anonymous103 (2023-07-04). Kiev Regime Forces Under Increased Pressure To Step Up Counteroffensive Days Ahead Of NATO Summit. southfront.org Illustrative ImageThe pressure comes amid stepped-up blackmail by Washington DC which is now threatening that it will slow down or ever cut so-called "military aid" to the Neo-Nazi junta in case its forces don't demonstrate they're capable of advancing, taking and holding Russian position. | Written by As if the situation for the Kiev regime forces wasn't bad already, the political West has now increased its already massi…

Emanuel Pastreich (2023-07-04). Happy July Fourth, Formally Known as Independence Day. globalresearch.ca

Freedom Road Socialist Organization (2023-07-04). Sunday 7/9: Defend the Tampa 5! Drop the Charges Now! indybay.org San Jose City Hall | 200 E. Santa Clara St. San Jose, Ca 95113…

WSWS (2023-07-04). Will Lehman sues Biden administration demanding rerun of fraudulent UAW election. wsws.org On Monday, July 3, rank-and-file socialist autoworker Will Lehman sued the Biden administration's Department of Labor, demanding that the UAW national officers' election be rerun with the names of all candidates on the ballot due to massive voter disenfranchisement by the bureaucracy.

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-04). Socialist Sarah Hathway elected to the City of Greater Geelong Council. greenleft.org.au

ecns.cn (2023-07-04). Top economic regulator vows steps to promote the private sector. ecns.cn China's top economic regulator has pledged efforts to tackle issues faced by enterprises and create a better development environment for the private sector.

Oraily Madruga Rios (2023-07-04). Doubts and reluctance on Sweden's accession to NATO. plenglish.com Brussels, Jul 4 (Prensa Latina) Hungary will give the green light to Sweden's accession to NATO if Turkey does so, but from Ankara there are doubts today about whether the new partner would be a burden for the military alliance, or not.

Carl Gibson (2023-07-04). The 2024 election could be Big Pharma's reckoningÔøºÔøº. nationofchange.org It's clear at this point that the 2024 election could very well hinge on which party can capture the populist mantle on Big Pharma.

WSWS (2023-07-04). Australian Pharmaceuticals Industry warehouse workers' strike enters second week. wsws.org The United Workers Union's privileged position within the warehousing industry is based on its long record of collaboration with employers and government, suppressing wages, enforcing productivity measures, and ensuring there is no resistance to mass layoffs as the automation-driven restructuring drive continues.

Kate Edwards (2023-07-03). "Fascists Go Home!": Philadelphians Reject Far Right "Moms for Liberty" truthout.org Early on Thursday, June 29, banners were dropped over Interstate-95 coming into Philadelphia that read "Philly Protects Trans Kids" and "Bad Things Happen (to fascists) in Philadelphia." This very Philly welcoming of the attendees of the Moms for Liberty (M4L) annual conference at the Marriott hotel from June 29 to July 2 set the tone for what would be four days of high-energy protests against the… |

_____ (2023-07-03). Ukraine, Nazi Symbols—Media Disinformation, ALL Wrapped with "Dismal Failure" journal-neo.org

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-07-03). Ask Who Benefits: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): | It is the Republican Party's job to expand the US military, rob and oppress the working class, serve US plutocrats, facilitate ecocidal capitalism, and foment division among the electorate. It is the Democratic Party's job to do these same things while blaming it on Republicans. | ‚ùñ | One of the weirdest things to happen last year was the entire western political/media class deciding to start pretending Ukrainian Nazis aren't Nazis based on literally nothing whatsoever, just because it's convenient, and a substantial portion of…

Tomasz Konicz (2023-07-03). The End of the "Golden Age" of Capitalism and the Rise of Neoliberalism. indybay.org The rise of the neoliberal world economic system marked by the dominance of financial markets — whose financial superstructure collapses over us — resulted from the radical economic crises of the early 1970s that seized nearly all western industrial countries. This crisis ended a period of economic prosperity in Western Europe and the US that continued since the early 1950s.

Fight Back (2023-07-03). Against Trotskyism: The Shachtmanites and "Third Camp" Trotskyism. fightbacknews.org Max Shachtman was one of the original founders of the Trotskyite movement in the United States. He was a pragmatist, an opportunist even among opportunists, who led the first major split from the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in 1940. At that time, he broke with the orthodox Trotskyite position that the USSR should be understood as a "degenerated workers state" and that it instead had come to be ruled by a new "bureaucratic collectivist" class. | Under the cloak of the theory of the "degenerated workers state" the Trotskyites kept up the pretense of support for the Soviet Union while making every effort to subve…

Freedom Road Socialist Organization (2023-07-03). Sunday 7/9: Defend the Tampa 5! Drop the Charges Now! indybay.org San Jose City Hall | 200 E. Santa Clara St. San Jose, Ca 95113…

Gary Olson (2023-07-03). China's BRI: Toward a Hybrid International Order with Socialist Characteristics? dissidentvoice.org This year marks the 10th anniversary of President Xi Jinping's launch of China's flagship, One Belt One Road (OBOR), later referred to as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Echoing the historic Silk Road, the ancient trade network of Eurasia that connected the East and West, BRI is the most ambitious and expensive infrastructure plan …

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-03). Socialist Sarah Hathway elected to the City of Greater Geelong Council. greenleft.org.au

WSWS (2023-07-03). Communication Workers Union stalls "rule 13" industrial action in Shropshire against revisions. wsws.org "We had heard about the walkout in Glasgow and the vote for rule 13 action at Craigavon, Northern Ireland, but not through the CWU. It was via the internet, social media and the World Socialist Web Site."

WSWS (2023-07-03). Pseudo-left club at Australia's Macquarie University slanders IYSSE amid affiliation struggle. wsws.org Macquarie Socialists' statement reveals just how wide the gap is between this pseudo-left outfit and the principled, left-wing and socialist politics of the IYSSE.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-02). Ghana's constitution must set the stage to build Pan-African Unity. peoplesdispatch.org In light of recent discussions on a review of Ghana's constitution, we talk to Kwesi Pratt Jnr, General Secretary of the Socialist Movement of Ghana. He explains the history of constitutional review and the steps that can be taken to ensure the voice of the people is heard…

Larry Johnson (2023-07-03). Is Moscow Burning As Prigozhin's Vast Network of Side Businesses is Exposed? sonar21.com Remember the book and movie, Is Paris Burning? The title is taken from the question reportedly asked by Adolf Hitler following his order to destroy the city rather than let it be…

Prof Michael Hudson (2023-07-03). America Has Just Destroyed a Great Empire. globalresearch.ca

Robert Inlakesh (2023-07-03). The Decline Of The Western Empire. thelastamericanvagabond.com The United States government has had an uncontested position of world domination, a one world government under which it has subjected the planet to its dictates, since the end of the Cold War with the Soviet Union. This is now changing; recognizing this is the first step to creating a brighter future, but in order

Oscar Perry Abello, Next City. (2023-07-03). Public Banking Efforts Are Gaining Momentum In California. popularresistance.org Prince Osemwengie has been looking into every tool in the toolbox to help stem the tide of local businesses being displaced due to rising rents and rising property values in South Los Angeles: Technical assistance and legal aid for small business owners, commercial rent subsidies, tax credits for small business oriented economic development, community ownership of commercial real estate, and all the above. | But with the financial system so tilted against local businesses, especially Black- and Brown-owned businesses, he believes the time has come for a more drastic solution: L.A.'s first city-owned bank. And wit…

Staff (2023-07-03). US Chamber Of Commerce Comes To Rescue Big Pharma In Pricing Lawsuit. trofire.com We recently talked about drug company Merck suing the federal government because they don't want to lower the cost of their drugs. That lawsuit has now expanded, with groups like the US Chamber of Commerce and Big Pharma front groups joining in to keep prices high for American consumers. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Transcript: *This transcript …

Katu Arkonada (2023-07-03). Bolivia: Catastrophic Standoff and Dual Power. orinocotribune.com By Katu Arkonada — Jun 30, 2023 | Luis Arce was faced with a difficult panorama, leaving behind the coup, without economic reserves, and in the middle of a pandemic, and it can be said that his government, now that he is halfway through his term, is a government of light and dark. Although he recovered the country economically, governing a country is not the same as directing a Ministry of Economy, and so far he has not been able to carry out the great strategic projects of the country, biodiesel, pharmaceuticals, basic chemicals, which were aimed at the industrialization of Bolivia. | Suspicions and accusat…

Bryce Greene, Fairness, Accuracy in Reporting. (2023-07-03). How Military Industrial Complex Sets Media Narrative On Ukraine. popularresistance.org Wealthy donors have long funded think tanks with official-sounding names that produce research that reflects the interests of those funders (Extra!, 7/13). The weapons industry is a major contributor to these idea factories; a recent report from the Quincy Institute (6/1/23) demonstrates just how much influence war profiteers have on the national discourse. | The Quincy Institute—whose own start-up funding came mainly from George Soros and Charles Koch—looked at 11 months of Ukraine War coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, from March 1, 2022, through January 31, 202…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-07-01). Canadian Armed Forces Complicit in Supporting Fascist Paramilitaries in Yugoslavia. libya360.wordpress.com Marthad Shingiro Umucyaba Serbian demonstrations against the arrest of Ratko Mladic. The current Vucic government handed him over to the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) in exchange for candidate status to the EU in 2011. Courtesy of The New York Times. Classified documents from the Canadian Armed Forces and an interview reveal the longstanding…

Tomasz Konicz (2023-07-02). The End of the "Golden Age" of Capitalism and the Rise of Neoliberalism. indybay.org The rise of the neoliberal world economic system marked by the dominance of financial markets — whose financial superstructure collapses over us — resulted from the radical economic crises of the early 1970s that seized nearly all western industrial countries. This crisis ended a period of economic prosperity in Western Europe and the US that continued since the early 1950s.

ecns.cn (2023-07-02). Xi gives important instructions on Party building and organizational work. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, has recently given important instructions on Party building and organizational work. He stressed that how the CPC and the people fare makes all the difference to comprehensively building a modern socialist country in all respects and advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts.

Freedom Road Socialist Organization (2023-07-02). Sunday 7/9: Defend the Tampa 5! Drop the Charges Now! indybay.org San Jose City Hall | 200 E. Santa Clara St. San Jose, Ca 95113…

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-02). Socialist Sarah Hathway elected to the City of Greater Geelong Council. greenleft.org.au

midwesternmarx (2023-07-01). Bertrand Russell on Hegel and Marx: Part Two Marx. By: Thomas Riggins. midwesternmarx.com ​Bertrand Russell discusses the philosophy of Karl Marx in chapter 27 of his A History of Western Philosophy (HWP). He begins by telling us he is not going to deal with his economics or politics, just his philosophy and its influence on others. While Lenin saw Marx's philosophy as developing from three sources— British economic theory, early French socialist thought, and classical German philosophy (Hegel) Russell sees only two sources. Marx's philosophy is t …

reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2023-07-01). Falleció Hugo Blanco, histórico luchador social y ecosocialista peruano. indybay.org

Fight Back (2023-07-01). New Orleans: LGBTQ solidarity delegation, Cuban trans activist speak in panel. fightbacknews.org New Orleans, LA — Activists convened in an open forum, June 22, hosted by members of an LGBTQ delegation that visited Cuba in early May. About 25 others joined virtually. Gregory William from the Women in Struggle / Mujeres en Lucha and Serena Sojic-Borne of Real Name Campaign New Orleans spoke as delegation members. Speaker Verde Gil Jimenez, a coordinating member of the Trans Masculine Group of Cuba, attended remotely from Santa Clara. | The speakers reported on the Cuban Families Code, the LGBTQ movement in Cuba, and Cuban socialist democracy. "The basis for Cuban democracy comes from the people. Municip…

Gavrielle Gemma (2023-07-01). UPS Teamsters struggle is critical for all workers. workers.org JUNE 24, 2023 BY WORKERS VOICE Guest article, first published June 24, 2023, by Workers Voice Socialist Movement, Louisiana Some 340,000 workers, members of the Teamsters union (IBT), worked tirelessly during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite exhaustion from overwork, disease and family tragedies, they saved lives by delivering . . . |

ecns.cn (2023-07-01). Xi stresses improving quality of CPC's organizational work. ecns.cn Xi Jinping has underlined the critical role of the Party and people in building a modern socialist country and advancing national rejuvenation, calling for persistent efforts to improve the quality of the Party's organizational work.

Monica Moorehead, Workers World. (2023-07-02). SCOTUS's Latest Attack On Affirmative Action. popularresistance.org The Supreme Court of the United States confirmed once again what an utterly reactionary, rightwing institution it is by striking down the right to use affirmative action in college admissions. The 6-3 ruling, issued June 29, stems from two cases — Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina — which claim that whites and Asians are victims of "reverse discrimination." | What this vote means is that "race-conscious admissions policies," can no longer be used to assure that working class students of color, especially if they are Blac…

Monica Moorehead (2023-07-01). WW commentary: SCOTUS's latest attack on affirmative action. workers.org The Supreme Court of the United States confirmed once again what an utterly reactionary, rightwing institution it is by striking down the right to use affirmative action in college admissions. The 6-3 ruling, issued June 29, stems from two cases — Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University and Students . . . |

Brian Berletic (2023-07-01). Washington's REAL Policy on China — "Repairing Ties" is Theater Ahead of Sanctions, War. thealtworld.com The US Build-Up for War with China | — Visit by US Secretary of State attempts to portray the US as "reasonable" versus a "belligerent" Chinese "dictatorship;" | — Secretary Blinken recited the US "One China" policy, omitting the many ways the US has and still is blatantly violating it and provoking China; | — US strategy follows similar pattern of the US "reset" with Russia or the US-Iran "nuclear deal," where the US sought to appear to have exhausted diplomatic options before moving on "reluctantly" to economic sanctions and war; | — Such a strategy is necessary for consensus building among…

_____ (2023-07-02). America has Just Destroyed a Great Empire. strategic-culture.org By Michael HUDSON | Herodotus (History, Book 1.53) tells the story of Croesus, king of Lydia c. 585-546 BC in what is now Western Turkey and the Ionian shore of the Mediterranean. Croesus conquered Ephesus, Miletus and neighboring Greek-speaking realms, obtaining tribute and booty that made him one of the richest rulers of his time. But these victories and wealth led to arrogance and hubris. Croesus turned his eyes eastward, ambitious to conquer Persia, ruled by Cyrus the Great. | Having endowed the region's cosmopolitan Temple of Delphi with substantial silver and gold, Croesus asked its Oracle whether he would…

Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović (2023-07-01). The 1823 Monroe Doctrine and Its First Consequences for Global Politics: Making the U.S. a Global Empire. globalresearch.ca

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-07-01). Video: Pfizer's "Secret" Report on the Covid Vaccine. Beyond Manslaughter. The Evidence is Overwhelming. The Vaccine Should Be Immediately Withdrawn Worldwide. globalresearch.ca Pfizer was fully aware that the mRNA vaccine which it is marketing Worldwide would result in a wave of mortality and morbidity. This is tantamount to a crime against humanity on the part of Big Pharma.

àìscar Manteca (2023-06-30). Sobre la estrategia global de la nueva ola del fascismo occidental. globalizacion.ca

_____ (2023-06-30). Misdirecting the Fight Against Anti-Semitism. strategic-culture.org By Lawrence DAVIDSON | In late May, the Biden administration released a 60-page In recent decades there has been an outburst of such hate and bias that is doing harm to many groups worldwide. It appears to be part of a resurgent fascism which, in turn, appears to be a backlash against liberal trends. | This reactionary p…

infobrics (2023-06-30). Gloves off — Kiev regime henchmen targeted by Russian high-precision strikes. infobrics.org While Moscow initially demonstrated its willingness to completely adhere to all norms of international law during the hostilities and gave Kiev a chance to end the conflict through negotiations and avoid senseless killing, the Neo-Nazi junta rejected this in the most disgraceful manner possible. Patience and rationality were met with mass terror and rabid Russophobia.

Tomasz Konicz (2023-07-01). The End of the "Golden Age" of Capitalism and the Rise of Neoliberalism. indybay.org The rise of the neoliberal world economic system marked by the dominance of financial markets — whose financial superstructure collapses over us — resulted from the radical economic crises of the early 1970s that seized nearly all western industrial countries. This crisis ended a period of economic prosperity in Western Europe and the US that continued since the early 1950s.

_____ (2023-06-30). Meet the World's Most Murderous Killing Machine: the United States of America. strategic-culture.org If the political culture in the U.S. changes, someone might open a museum dedicated to the victims of capitalism or the U.S. empire, whose death toll would be much greater than the 100 million blamed on Communism, writes CovertAction Magazine's Jeremy Kuzmarov. | (Click on the image to enlarge)…

Editor (2023-06-30). Levy del àÅguila Marchena: 'Communism, Political Power and Personal Freedom in Marx'. mronline.org Marx diagnosed the oppression of the working class, the alienation of workers from their labor, as well as the alienation of all human beings living within capitalism from their own authentic selves, and proposed that it was objectively possible that emancipation, true liberation, would come one day.

Fight Back (2023-07-01). New Orleans: LGBTQ solidarity delegation, Cuban trans activist speak in panel. fightbacknews.org New Orleans, LA — Activists convened in an open forum, June 22, hosted by members of an LGBTQ delegation that visited Cuba in early May. About 25 others joined virtually. Gregory William from the Women in Struggle / Mujeres en Lucha and Serena Sojic-Borne of Real Name Campaign New Orleans spoke as delegation members. Speaker Verde Gil Jimenez, a coordinating member of the Trans Masculine Group of Cuba, attended remotely from Santa Clara. | The speakers reported on the Cuban Families Code, the LGBTQ movement in Cuba, and Cuban socialist democracy. "The basis for Cuban democracy comes from the people. Municip…

ecns.cn (2023-07-01). Xi stresses improving quality of CPC's organizational work. ecns.cn Xi Jinping has underlined the critical role of the Party and people in building a modern socialist country and advancing national rejuvenation, calling for persistent efforts to improve the quality of the Party's organizational work.

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-01). Socialist Sarah Hathway elected to the City of Greater Geelong Council. greenleft.org.au

midwesternmarx (2023-07-01). Bertrand Russell on Hegel and Marx: Part Two Marx. By: Thomas Riggins. midwesternmarx.com ​Bertrand Russell discusses the philosophy of Karl Marx in chapter 27 of his A History of Western Philosophy (HWP). He begins by telling us he is not going to deal with his economics or politics, just his philosophy and its influence on others. While Lenin saw Marx's philosophy as developing from three sources— British economic theory, early French socialist thought, and classical German philosophy (Hegel) Russell sees only two sources. Marx's philosophy is t …

reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2023-07-01). Falleció Hugo Blanco, histórico luchador social y ecosocialista peruano. indybay.org

ecns.cn (2023-07-01). Xi gives important instructions on Party building and organizational work. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, has recently given important instructions on Party building and organizational work. He stressed that how the CPC and the people fare makes all the difference to comprehensively building a modern socialist country in all respects and advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts.

Gavrielle Gemma (2023-07-01). UPS Teamsters struggle is critical for all workers. workers.org JUNE 24, 2023 BY WORKERS VOICE Guest article, first published June 24, 2023, by Workers Voice Socialist Movement, Louisiana Some 340,000 workers, members of the Teamsters union (IBT), worked tirelessly during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite exhaustion from overwork, disease and family tragedies, they saved lives by delivering . . . |

Fight Back (2023-06-30). FRSO leader condemns the Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action. fightbacknews.org Carlos Montes, a member of the Central Committee of Freedom Road Socialist Organization, condemned the Supreme Court for their June 29 ruling that bans affirmative action at colleges and universities. | "The successful struggle for affirmative action in the late sixties opened the doors to higher education for thousands of African Americans, Chicanos and other underrepresented oppressed nationalities," said Montes. | He continued, "This opened the doors to thousands of African Americans and Chicanos to become educators, lawyers, doctors and other professionals. This led to improvements in the quality of life for…

midwesternmarx (2023-06-30). RECALLING THE 1933 COMMUNIST PARTY EXTRAORDINARY CONFERENCE By: Chris Townsend. midwesternmarx.com As the Communist Party of the United States entered the fourth full year of the Great Depression in 1933, its leadership recognized that a major consolidation and refocus of Party effort was necessary to reach the vast potential of the moment. The communist movement had been established in the U.S. for 15 years by that point, and some advances had been made in rooting the Party in certain key sectors — but not in others.The left and socialist organizations were all growing amidst th …

WSWS (2023-06-30). Jacobin, Democratic Socialists of America cover up for Syriza and prepare new betrayals. wsws.org In the aftermath of Syriza's debacle in the Greek elections on Sunday, pseudo-left groups internationally are engaged in a collective effort to cover over their own criminal role in Syriza's betrayals, the better to prepare for new betrayals in the future.

Editor (2023-06-30). A deeply misleading narrative. mronline.org A Deeply Misleading Narrative: Answering the Claims of Cedric Robinson's 'Black Marxism'.

Monica Moorehead (2023-07-01). WW commentary: SCOTUS's latest attack on affirmative action. workers.org The Supreme Court of the United States confirmed once again what an utterly reactionary, rightwing institution it is by striking down the right to use affirmative action in college admissions. The 6-3 ruling, issued June 29, stems from two cases — Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University and Students . . . |

Yves Engler (2023-06-30). Canadian Foreign Policy Critics Don't Do It for Dough. orinocotribune.com By Yves Engler — Jun 27, 2023 | Investigating the political economy of ideas is imperative to understanding foreign policy. But those seeking to discredit already marginalized critical perspectives shouldn't ignore Canada's large, well-financed, ideological apparatus promoting pro-corporate and US empire policies. | Recently, a journalist from leftist Québec publication Pivot asked me "Do you receive some money when you're interviewed by Chinese media like CCTV or CGTN?" The question followed a query about whether "you might sometimes share Chinese propaganda in the articles you write." I responded: "just li…

Agatha Scaggiante, Waging Nonviolence. (2023-07-01). To Stop Demolition, One London Home Transformed Into An Art Exhibit. popularresistance.org London's residents face the highest rents and have the lowest rate of homeownership in the U.K. today. One solution would be for local councils to expand public housing, known as "council housing." However, the waitlist for these homes has jumped by 50,000 since 2020. This has happened partially because London councils have reduced their housing stock by 10 percent since the beginning of the pandemic, often due to privatization. | Building complexes made up of only council housing, called council estates, are becoming increasingly rare sights in the capitol.

midwesternmarx (2023-06-30). Millions of people in the US ration medicine as Big Pharma fights to keep prices high By: Natalia Marques. midwesternmarx.com

_____ (2023-06-30). Misdirecting the Fight Against Anti-Semitism. strategic-culture.org By Lawrence DAVIDSON | In late May, the Biden administration released a 60-page In recent decades there has been an outburst of such hate and bias that is doing harm to many groups worldwide. It appears to be part of a resurgent fascism which, in turn, appears to be a backlash against liberal trends. | This reactionary p…

àìscar Manteca (2023-06-30). Sobre la estrategia global de la nueva ola del fascismo occidental. globalizacion.ca

infobrics (2023-06-30). Gloves off — Kiev regime henchmen targeted by Russian high-precision strikes. infobrics.org While Moscow initially demonstrated its willingness to completely adhere to all norms of international law during the hostilities and gave Kiev a chance to end the conflict through negotiations and avoid senseless killing, the Neo-Nazi junta rejected this in the most disgraceful manner possible. Patience and rationality were met with mass terror and rabid Russophobia.

_____ (2023-06-30). Meet the World's Most Murderous Killing Machine: the United States of America. strategic-culture.org If the political culture in the U.S. changes, someone might open a museum dedicated to the victims of capitalism or the U.S. empire, whose death toll would be much greater than the 100 million blamed on Communism, writes CovertAction Magazine's Jeremy Kuzmarov. | (Click on the image to enlarge)…

unitedEditor (2023-06-30). Geopolitics, war, climate and economy: The need for a global alternative economic and social paradigm. uwidata.com The present still dominant global economic system is a generalized, expanded and globalized form of the one prevailing in western capitalism during the 19th century, based on the same neoclassic economic doctrines. The previous form of "neo-classic" capitalism has provoked the two big economic crises (1873 and 1929), two world wars, the Russian Revolution and …

Tomasz Konicz (2023-06-30). The End of the "Golden Age" of Capitalism and the Rise of Neoliberalism. indybay.org The rise of the neoliberal world economic system marked by the dominance of financial markets — whose financial superstructure collapses over us — resulted from the radical economic crises of the early 1970s that seized nearly all western industrial countries. This crisis ended a period of economic prosperity in Western Europe and the US that continued since the early 1950s.

WSWS (2023-06-30). Jacobin, Democratic Socialists of America cover up for Syriza and prepare new betrayals. wsws.org In the aftermath of Syriza's debacle in the Greek elections on Sunday, pseudo-left groups internationally are engaged in a collective effort to cover over their own criminal role in Syriza's betrayals, the better to prepare for new betrayals in the future.

ecns.cn (2023-06-30). Xi stresses improving quality of CPC's organizational work. ecns.cn Xi Jinping has underlined the critical role of the Party and people in building a modern socialist country and advancing national rejuvenation, calling for persistent efforts to improve the quality of the Party's organizational work.

Fight Back (2023-06-30). FRSO leader condemns the Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action. fightbacknews.org Carlos Montes, a member of the Central Committee of Freedom Road Socialist Organization, condemned the Supreme Court for their June 29 ruling that bans affirmative action at colleges and universities. | "The successful struggle for affirmative action in the late sixties opened the doors to higher education for thousands of African Americans, Chicanos and other underrepresented oppressed nationalities," said Montes. | He continued, "This opened the doors to thousands of African Americans and Chicanos to become educators, lawyers, doctors and other professionals. This led to improvements in the quality of life for…

greenleft.org.au (2023-06-30). Socialist Sarah Hathway elected to the City of Greater Geelong Council. greenleft.org.au

midwesternmarx (2023-06-30). RECALLING THE 1933 COMMUNIST PARTY EXTRAORDINARY CONFERENCE By: Chris Townsend. midwesternmarx.com As the Communist Party of the United States entered the fourth full year of the Great Depression in 1933, its leadership recognized that a major consolidation and refocus of Party effort was necessary to reach the vast potential of the moment. The communist movement had been established in the U.S. for 15 years by that point, and some advances had been made in rooting the Party in certain key sectors — but not in others.The left and socialist organizations were all growing amidst th …

reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2023-06-30). Falleció Hugo Blanco, histórico luchador social y ecosocialista peruano. indybay.org

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-06-30). Cuban president pays tribute to revolutionaries killed by tyranny. plenglish.com Havana, Jun 30 (Prensa Latina) President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Friday paid tribute to revolutionaries Josué País, Floro Vistel, and Salvador Pascual, who were assassinated during the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship in 1957.

Yves Engler (2023-06-30). Canadian Foreign Policy Critics Don't Do It for Dough. orinocotribune.com By Yves Engler — Jun 27, 2023 | Investigating the political economy of ideas is imperative to understanding foreign policy. But those seeking to discredit already marginalized critical perspectives shouldn't ignore Canada's large, well-financed, ideological apparatus promoting pro-corporate and US empire policies. | Recently a journalist from leftist Québec publication Pivot asked me "Do you receive some money when you're interviewed by Chinese media like CCTV or CGTN?" The question followed a query about whether "you might sometimes share Chinese propaganda in the articles you write." I responded, "just lik…

ecns.cn (2023-06-30). Forum themed on 'Modern SOEs' held in Beijing. ecns.cn A forum themed on "Modern State-owned Enterprises" (SOEs) was held during the 2023 Mid-Year Conference on Finance and Economics hosted by China News Service in Beijing on Wednesday.

midwesternmarx (2023-06-30). Millions of people in the US ration medicine as Big Pharma fights to keep prices high By: Natalia Marques. midwesternmarx.com

Editor (2023-06-28). Climate collapse threatens slide to fascism and war. mronline.org More and more, desperate people seeking refuge in Europe are not just fleeing from economic disaster and war. Many are also refugees from climate collapse.

WSWS (2023-06-28). The election of the far-right AfD in Sonneberg, Germany and the fight against fascism. wsws.org The election of Robert Sesselmann, the candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), as Sonneberg district administrator in the federal state of Thuringia casts a spotlight on the growing fascist danger in Germany.

Editor (2023-06-28). Yes, We Have Home-Grown Fascists. scheerpost.com

WSWS (2023-06-28). Kremlin allows Wagner to continue operations in Belarus as Prigozhin defends coup attempt as legitimate "demonstration" wsws.org In the days following the collapse of a coup attempt by the fascistic warlord, ex-convict and billionaire Evgeny Prigozhin and his mercenary Wagner army, the Kremlin has made clear that it will allow the insurrectionists to continue their operations in neighboring Belarus.

Chauncey K. Robinson (2023-06-28). Fascist tactics: Rick Scott tells socialists and communists they're not welcome in Florida. peoplesworld.org GOP Sen. Rick Scott wants the world to know that socialists, communists, and anyone who loves "big government" are not welcome in the state of Florida. In a short 30-second video posted on the Twitter social media platform this week, the Sunshine State senator issued a somewhat awkward travel advisory to those belonging to any …

_____ (2023-06-29). On Launching the New International War Crimes Tribunal. strategic-culture.org But if it is to fulfil its task credibly the new Tribunal must conceptually step out of its comfort zone. | "The East is East, and the West is West, and never the twain shall meet." Rudyard Kipling was basically right. That being said, as they complete their task, the countries which are setting up the urgently needed international Tribunal to look into the war crimes committed in the Ukraine and the environs by the Kiev neo-Nazi regime and its foreign sponsors should make sure not to prove Kipling right once again. In this case, that would work to the immense detriment of justice. | These reflections are prompte…

Svante Myrick (2023-06-28). This Fourth of July, Fight Back Against Attacks on Our Freedom. otherwords.org In May of 1933 in Berlin, Nazis gathered in the streets, built a gigantic bonfire, and burned thousands of books. | The books had been seized from the city's‚ÄØ Before the raid, the organization had a number of transgender employees and hosted an extensive library of materials on LGBTQ health. Tragica…

WSWS (2023-06-28). In Nazi diatribe, Trump calls for mass deportations of socialists and communists. wsws.org Trump speaks not just for himself. A substantial section of the ruling class is convinced that it confronts a massive social movement of workers that poses the greatest danger to its wealth and privileges.

_____ (2023-06-28). The Ukrainification of the World. strategic-culture.org Something has gone awry when American institutions embrace the myths of other countries' revanchist nationalisms | By Katya SEDGWICK | On the very day my piece about Gilbert's deci…

Rainer Shea (2023-06-29). If Marxists Try to Appeal to Radical Liberals, We'll Never Win the People's Support. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Jun 23, 2023 | Communism used to be a mainstream force in the United States. The state saw communists as capable of replicating the Russian revolution, so it orchestrated mass raids against them simply for being involved in the movement. Communists were a pivotal force in labor organizing. Communists were able to pose big enough of a threat to American capitalism's future that FDR got intimidated into implementing the New Deal. | Then the efforts to force them out of public life scared the movement's major representatives (too easily) into ceasing their operations. And when the Black libera…

greenleft.org.au (2023-06-29). Socialist Sarah Hathway elected to the City of Greater Geelong Council. greenleft.org.au

reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2023-06-29). Falleció Hugo Blanco, histórico luchador social y ecosocialista peruano. indybay.org

WSWS (2023-06-29). The bankrupt politics of Socialist Alternative's Workers Strike Back campaign in New York: "Frighten the Democrats to respond" wsws.org Earlier this month, Socialist Alternative held a public meeting at the Borough of Manhattan Community College for the "New York City launch" of its Workers Strike Back (WSB) campaign.

Leslie Feinberg (2023-06-29). At Stonewall, many histories converged to fight back, 1969. workers.org Leslie Feinberg, Boston, July 25, 2004. Originally published Aug. 24, 2006, this column was part of Leslie Feinberg's series of articles on the connections between LGBTQ2S+ and socialist history. The 120-part series "Lavender & Red," which appeared in Workers World from 2004 to 2008, is available for free download at . . . |

Palestinian Youth Movement (2023-06-29). We Must Raise Popular Consciousness on Palestinian Resistance. socialistproject.ca

Chris Walker (2023-06-28). Sen. Rick Scott's Travel Warning for Florida Is a Veiled Threat to Socialists. truthout.org In a Twitter video message he posted on Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Florida) advised people who are socialist or communist, or even supportive of left-leaning views, not to consider moving or traveling to the Sunshine State. "‍‍Let me give you a travel warning: if you're socialist, ‍communist, ‍somebody that believes in big government, ‍I would think twice ‍if you're thinking about taking a… |

Staff (2023-06-28). Reports: US Lifts Flight Ban on Venezuela (+LATAM). orinocotribune.com The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cancelled its flight ban on Venezuela, according to the Air Navigation Services Directorate of the National Institute of Civil Aeronautics (INAC), quoted by the outlet La Tabla. To date, neither the FAA or the INAC have issued official statements on the subject. | In May 2019, the US government imposed a unilateral restriction on commercial flights to and from Venezuela connecting with the United States. The ban was issued as part of the US's failed attempt to oust the socialist government of President Nicolás Maduro. Ironically, those affected the most by the decision…

Liberation Staff (2023-06-28). PSL Editorial — Moore v. Harper: Why the court felt compelled to reject far-right elections theory. liberationnews.org This ruling is not the result of some miraculous change of heart on the part of the hardline reactionary justices. The Supreme Court makes decisions based on political calculations…

WSWS (2023-06-28). Sri Lanka: Plantation unions promote reactionary identity politics at Malaiyaham 200 conference. wsws.org The call for Indian Tamil plantation workers to be recognized as a separate nation is to block a unified struggle of the working class against worsening social conditions, while boosting the power and privileges of the Indian Tamil elites.

WSWS (2023-06-28). New Zealand factors ethnicity in prioritising surgery waiting lists. wsws.org The elevation of ethnic criteria is a reactionary mechanism for rationing health care among working people of every race who depend on the underfunded and over-stressed public system.

Editor (2023-06-28). Patrick Lawrence: Breaking Bread with Authoritarians. scheerpost.com In his way, India's prime minister is as bad as some of the old Latin American dictators who got plenty of American support but never an evening meal — and certainly no cardamon-flavored strawberry shortcake for dessert.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-06-28). How Honduran activist Edwin Espinal won his freedom from JOH's dictatorship. peoplesdispatch.org Five years ago, Honduran activist Edwin Espinal sat in a supermax prison facing trumped up charges of arson, property damage, and use of homemade explosive material. | Espinal was arrested and faced possibly decades of jail time due to his participation in the mass protests in Honduras against the electoral fraud carried out by Juan Orlando Hernández in the November 2017 elections. The blatant fraud had sparked a mass reaction and from the end of November 2017 well into February 2018, the streets and highways across the country were sites of road blockades, marches, rallies, and cultural actions demanding "Out JO…

Global Research News (2023-06-28). Selected Articles: The COVID Jab. Maybe There's Hope After All? globalresearch.ca By Just recently another person died in close proximity to having received the Covid jab. As can be expected, we on the freedom front here …

_____ (2023-06-28). Can Zelensky, the Klitschkos & MI5 Overcome Russia's Maskirovka Where Napoleon and Hitler Failed? strategic-culture.org The future of Russia and of Ukraine hinges on the Crimean Peninsula, Declan Hayes writes. | Although the fate of Napoleon's La Grande Armée's Russian adventure is famously depicted by

Alan MacLeod (2023-06-29). The CIA, NATO And The US Empire With Aaron Good. orinocotribune.com By Alan MacLeod — Jun 26, 2023 | The United States is an empire, even if its citizens don't all realize it. That is the conclusion from historian and political scientist Aaron Good, who joins Alan MacLeod on this week's edition of "MintCast." Today, Good walks us through the history of how the United States came to dominate the world and the organizations it uses — especially the CIA and NATO — in order to enforce its control over the planet. | He notes that as Europe and Asia were destroying themselves in conflict, the U.S. gave the powerful business think tank, the Council on Foreign Relatio…

ecns.cn (2023-06-28). China's industrial enterprises profit declines by 18.8% in Jan-May. ecns.cn Profit of China's industrial enterprises above a designated scale hit 2.67 trillion yuan ($369.37 billion) from January to May in 2023, declining by 18.8 percent year-on-year.

Editor (2023-06-28). Climate collapse threatens slide to fascism and war. mronline.org More and more, desperate people seeking refuge in Europe are not just fleeing from economic disaster and war. Many are also refugees from climate collapse.

WSWS (2023-06-28). The election of the far-right AfD in Sonneberg, Germany and the fight against fascism. wsws.org The election of Robert Sesselmann, the candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), as Sonneberg district administrator in the federal state of Thuringia casts a spotlight on the growing fascist danger in Germany.

WSWS (2023-06-28). Kremlin allows Wagner to continue operations in Belarus as Prigozhin defends coup attempt as legitimate "demonstration" wsws.org In the days following the collapse of a coup attempt by the fascistic warlord, ex-convict and billionaire Evgeny Prigozhin and his mercenary Wagner army, the Kremlin has made clear that it will allow the insurrectionists to continue their operations in neighboring Belarus.

Anonymous Contributor (2023-06-27). Community Confronts Neo-Nazis and Proud Boys Disrupting Kid's Pride Event in Sacramento, CA. itsgoingdown.org Report back on recent confrontation in Sacramento, CA against neo-Nazis and Proud Boys by local antifascists. On Saturday June 24th, the Sacramento Children's Museum was set to hold their pride event, a joyful all-ages celebration with food trucks, story time, and other fun, family-friendly events. Last year, this same event was attacked by White Lives…

Ben Norton (2023-06-27). US Woos India's Far-Right PM Modi To Help Wage New Cold War on China. orinocotribune.com By Ben Norton — Jun 24, 2023 | The US government is trying to divide the BRICS bloc and recruit India for its new cold war on China. Biden doesn't care that far-right Prime Minister Modi is closely linked to fascistic Hindu-supremacist groups that violently oppress minorities. | India's far-right Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a historic trip to the United States this June. | President Joe Biden rolled out the proverbial

Editor (2023-06-27). Declassified files expose British role in NATO's Gladio terror armies. mronline.org Newly declassified British files shed disturbing light on the origins and internal workings of Operation Gladio, a covert NATO plot deploying fascist terror militias across Italy. Have spies in London applied these lessons in Ukraine?>

kwjorinoco (2023-06-27). Not-so-soft Coups and the Use of Blackouts in Honduras. orinocotribune.com By Ricardo Salgado — Jun 26, 2023 | These days, we are entering a new phase in Honduras in the attempt of the right to provoke a color revolution. | This time, the issue seems more organized: power stations that turn off their generators, constant blackouts, people who become enraged, go out to protest in various parts of the country, and even enter frenzies by firing at electrical power transformers. | Faced with allegations of commercial sabotage made by the progressive government, and while the president completed a successful tour of the People's Republic of China, the Honduran fascist right wing notes t…

cameron orr (2023-06-27). CP says all out for strike struggles and coalition to defeat MAGA right. cpusa.org The National Committee of the Communist Party USA, that organization's top leadership, met in New York over the weekend with a declaration that the nationwide party organization is putting its full force behind a movement it expects will inflict a strategic defeat upon the MAGA right and its leader, "the fascist Donald Trump" as the ex-president was described by a top party leader Saturday morning. | The striking thing about the gathering of CPUSA leaders and activists at the Henry Winston Unity Hall is the diversity it represents when compared to any other political party in the nation. The hall was filled wi…

WSWS (2023-06-28). In Nazi diatribe, Trump calls for mass deportations of socialists and communists. wsws.org Trump speaks not just for himself. A substantial section of the ruling class is convinced that it confronts a massive social movement of workers that poses the greatest danger to its wealth and privileges.

_____ (2023-06-28). The Ukrainification of the World. strategic-culture.org Something has gone awry when American institutions embrace the myths of other countries' revanchist nationalisms | By Katya SEDGWICK | On the very day my piece about Gilbert's deci…

Jacob Andrewartha, Aishik Saha (2023-06-27). Podcast: Artificial Intelligence and capitalism. greenleft.org.au Green Left's Jacob Andrewartha spoke to Aishik Saha, an activist with All India Students Association and a researcher on digital and algorithmic labour, about the development of artificial intelligence under capitalism.

Staff (2023-06-28). Reports: US Lifts Flight Ban on Venezuela (+LATAM). orinocotribune.com The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cancelled its flight ban on Venezuela, according to the Air Navigation Services Directorate of the National Institute of Civil Aeronautics (INAC), quoted by the outlet La Tabla. To date, neither the FAA or the INAC have issued official statements on the subject. | In May 2019, the US government imposed a unilateral restriction on commercial flights to and from Venezuela connecting with the United States. The ban was issued as part of the US's failed attempt to oust the socialist government of President Nicolás Maduro. Ironically, those affected the most by the decision…

greenleft.org.au (2023-06-28). Socialist Sarah Hathway elected to the City of Greater Geelong Council. greenleft.org.au

reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2023-06-28). Falleció Hugo Blanco, histórico luchador social y ecosocialista peruano. indybay.org

Staff (2023-06-28). Imperialism, China, and the World Economy. soundcloud.com On today's episode Brian Becker and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the decline of the U.S. world order and economic domination, as BRICS economies overtake those of the G7. Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work. You can find his work at rdwolff.com, and more about this discussion in …

Jacob Andrewartha, Aishik Saha (2023-06-27). Podcast: Artificial Intelligence and capitalism. greenleft.org.au Green Left's Jacob Andrewartha spoke to Aishik Saha, an activist with All India Students Association and a researcher on digital and algorithmic labour, about the development of artificial intelligence under capitalism.

Staff (2023-06-28). Reports: US Lifts Flight Ban on Venezuela (+LATAM). orinocotribune.com The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cancelled its flight ban on Venezuela, according to the Air Navigation Services Directorate of the National Institute of Civil Aeronautics (INAC), quoted by the outlet La Tabla. To date, neither the FAA or the INAC have issued official statements on the subject. | In May 2019, the US government imposed a unilateral restriction on commercial flights to and from Venezuela connecting with the United States. The ban was issued as part of the US's failed attempt to oust the socialist government of President Nicolás Maduro. Ironically, those affected the most by the decision…

greenleft.org.au (2023-06-28). Socialist Sarah Hathway elected to the City of Greater Geelong Council. greenleft.org.au

reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2023-06-28). Falleció Hugo Blanco, histórico luchador social y ecosocialista peruano. indybay.org

Staff (2023-06-28). Imperialism, China, and the World Economy. soundcloud.com On today's episode Brian Becker and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the decline of the U.S. world order and economic domination, as BRICS economies overtake those of the G7. Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work. You can find his work at rdwolff.com, and more about this discussion in …

Dongsheng Collective (2023-06-27). Socialism 3.0: The Practice and Prospects of Socialism in China. dongshengnews.org Discussions on socialism and its potential future forms, must place socialism in the context of existing historical processes, in the context of industrialised mass production, and analyse the complex interaction between the ideal of equality and the material realities of production. China's socialist project has passed through two phases, under Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping; today, it must construct a 'Socialism 3.0' that builds upon the previous eras and addresses their shortcomings, by advancing working-class interests and combating inequality.

Liberation Staff (2023-06-28). PSL Editorial — Moore v. Harper: Why the Court felt compelled to reject far-right elections theory. liberationnews.org This ruling is not the result of some miraculous change of heart on the part of the hardline reactionary justices. The Supreme Court makes decisions based on political calculations…

WSWS (2023-06-28). Sri Lanka: Plantation unions promote reactionary identity politics at Malaiyaham 200 conference. wsws.org The call for Indian Tamil plantation workers to be recognized as a separate nation is to block a unified struggle of the working class against worsening social conditions, while boosting the power and privileges of the Indian Tamil elites.

WSWS (2023-06-28). New Zealand factors ethnicity in prioritising surgery waiting lists. wsws.org The elevation of ethnic criteria is a reactionary mechanism for rationing health care among working people of every race who depend on the underfunded and over-stressed public system.

Fight Back (2023-06-27). Organizers assemble for major conference to resist DeSantis, establish the Emergency Committee to Defend the Tampa 5. fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – On June 24, over 130 people packed the Maureen Gauzza Library in Tampa early Saturday morning to join in the fight to defend the Tampa 5, activists charged with felonies, some facing up to ten years in prison for exercising their free speech rights. | An aim of the conference was uniting progressive people and movements to fight for civil liberties in Florida and against the reactionary agenda of Governor Ron DeSantis. | Attendees joined three panel discussions titled: "Florida Students Fight to Save Public Education," "Unions: A Worker's Last Defense Against DeSantis," and "Civil Liberties in the A…

Editor (2023-06-28). Patrick Lawrence: Breaking Bread with Authoritarians. scheerpost.com In his way, India's prime minister is as bad as some of the old Latin American dictators who got plenty of American support but never an evening meal — and certainly no cardamon-flavored strawberry shortcake for dessert.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-06-28). How Honduran activist Edwin Espinal won his freedom from JOH's dictatorship. peoplesdispatch.org Five years ago, Honduran activist Edwin Espinal sat in a supermax prison facing trumped up charges of arson, property damage, and use of homemade explosive material. | Espinal was arrested and faced possibly decades of jail time due to his participation in the mass protests in Honduras against the electoral fraud carried out by Juan Orlando Hernández in the November 2017 elections. The blatant fraud had sparked a mass reaction and from the end of November 2017 well into February 2018, the streets and highways across the country were sites of road blockades, marches, rallies, and cultural actions demanding "Out JO…

teleSUR (2023-06-27). Uruguay Upholds the Memory of the Struggle Against Dictatorship. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the Inter-Union Workers and the National Workers Convention (PIT-CNT) called upon the citizens to commemorate the victims of the military dictatorship that seized power on June 27, 1973 and ruled Uruguay until March 1, 1985. | RELATED: | The workers will hold a four-hour general strike starting at 9: 00 a.m. and march from La Teja, an emblematic popular neighborhood, to Carlos Maria Ramirez and Carlos Tellier avenues.

John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead (2023-06-27). A State of Martial Law: America Is a Military Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy. dissidentvoice.org What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? —Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, December 20, 1787, in Papers of Jefferson, ed. The government is goosestepping all over our freedoms. Case in point: America's founders did not want a military …

Global Research News (2023-06-28). Selected Articles: The COVID Jab. Maybe There's Hope After All? globalresearch.ca By Just recently another person died in close proximity to having received the Covid jab. As can be expected, we on the freedom front here …

_____ (2023-06-28). Can Zelensky, the Klitschkos & MI5 Overcome Russia's Maskirovka Where Napoleon and Hitler Failed? strategic-culture.org The future of Russia and of Ukraine hinges on the Crimean Peninsula, Declan Hayes writes. | Although the fate of Napoleon's La Grande Armée's Russian adventure is famously depicted by

ecns.cn (2023-06-28). China's industrial enterprises profit declines by 18.8% in Jan-May. ecns.cn Profit of China's industrial enterprises above a designated scale hit 2.67 trillion yuan ($369.37 billion) from January to May in 2023, declining by 18.8 percent year-on-year.

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-06-27). Liberals Are Tyrannical Imperialists: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com

ecns.cn (2023-06-28). Airbus delivers first A321neo to Europe from Tianjin line. ecns.cn Hungarian airline Wizz Air, the largest Central and Eastern European low-cost carrier, took delivery of its first A321neo aircraft assembled at Airbus' final assembly line in Tianjin on Tuesday.

Matthew Hoh (2023-06-28). The long prehistory of Russia's war of aggression. indybay.org This analysis is intended to convey that this war was not unprovoked and that decades of U.S. and NATO actions prepared the ground for a military conflict – a war long desired by some megalomaniacs and war profiteers in Washington, London, Brussels, Kiev, and Moscow, and a reality in February 2022.

Debbie Lerman (2023-06-27). Pandemic Leaders Were Biodefense Puppets and Profiteers. globalresearch.ca

Ben Norton (2023-06-27). US Woos India's Far-Right PM Modi To Help Wage New Cold War on China. orinocotribune.com By Ben Norton — Jun 24, 2023 | The US government is trying to divide the BRICS bloc and recruit India for its new cold war on China. Biden doesn't care that far-right Prime Minister Modi is closely linked to fascistic Hindu-supremacist groups that violently oppress minorities. | India's far-right Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a historic trip to the United States this June. | President Joe Biden rolled out the proverbial

kwjorinoco (2023-06-27). Not-so-soft Coups and the Use of Blackouts in Honduras. orinocotribune.com By Ricardo Salgado — Jun 26, 2023 | These days, we are entering a new phase in Honduras in the attempt of the right to provoke a color revolution. | This time, the issue seems more organized: power stations that turn off their generators, constant blackouts, people who become enraged, go out to protest in various parts of the country, and even enter frenzies by firing at electrical power transformers. | Faced with allegations of commercial sabotage made by the progressive government, and while the president completed a successful tour of the People's Republic of China, the Honduran fascist right wing notes t…

Editor (2023-06-27). Declassified files expose British role in NATO's Gladio terror armies. mronline.org Newly declassified British files shed disturbing light on the origins and internal workings of Operation Gladio, a covert NATO plot deploying fascist terror militias across Italy. Have spies in London applied these lessons in Ukraine?>

Anonymous Contributor (2023-06-27). Community Confronts Neo-Nazis and Proud Boys Disrupting Kid's Pride Event in Sacramento, CA. itsgoingdown.org Report back on recent confrontation in Sacramento, CA against neo-Nazis and Proud Boys by local antifascists. On Saturday June 24th, the Sacramento Children's Museum was set to hold their pride event, a joyful all-ages celebration with food trucks, story time, and other fun, family-friendly events. Last year, this same event was attacked by White Lives…

WSWS (2023-06-27). How Syriza's betrayals strengthened the extreme political right in Greece. wsws.org Based on an analysis of Syriza's class character as representative of an upper middle class strata, advancing a pro-capitalist programme, the International Committee of the Fourth International warned that it would rapidly renege on its promises and impose the austerity offensive demanded by Greece's creditors—leading to the strengthening of right-wing and fascistic forces.

WSWS (2023-06-27). Trump escalates fascistic rants against socialism and Marxism. wsws.org The ex-president has increasingly tied his return to power to an open embrace of McCarthyite anticommunism.

Editor (2023-06-26). U.S. woos India's far-right PM Modi to help wage new cold war on China. mronline.org The U.S. government is trying to divide the BRICS bloc and recruit India for its new cold war on China. Biden doesn't care that far-right Prime Minister Modi is closely linked to fascistic Hindu-supremacist groups that violently oppress minorities.

thecommunists (2023-06-27). Sergei Lavrov on western imperialism, nazism and the rise of the global south. thecommunists.org The following interview with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov was conducted by RT at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (Spief) in June. It is reproduced here with thanks. ***** RT: Hello, Mr Lavrov, thank you for agreeing to speak with us. Hello. RT: Let's start with Ukraine. As we all know, the western countries …

Jacob Andrewartha, Aishik Saha (2023-06-27). Podcast: Artificial Intelligence and capitalism. greenleft.org.au Green Left's Jacob Andrewartha spoke to Aishik Saha, an activist with All India Students Association and a researcher on digital and algorithmic labour, about the development of artificial intelligence under capitalism.

Staff (2023-06-27). The Failed Coup in Russia: Preliminary Assessment [Brian Becker Seminar Preview]. soundcloud.com In this patrons-only Q&A seminar, Brian analyzes the attempted coup in Russia by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his troops from the mercenary Wagner group. Brian discusses who Prigozhin is, why mercenaries are working for Russia, how this happened, how this compares with Trump's efforts to stay in the White House after losing the 2020 election, and …

William Paul (2023-06-27). Putting the Squeeze on Hope: Ford Government Hacks Toronto School Budget. socialistproject.ca One hundred and twenty kids are sitting in the Toronto District School Board's (TDSB) Brookview Middle School auditorium listening to Mohamed Ahmed talk to them about possibility and hope. It's happened this way for a few years as his group, Success Beyond Limits (SBL), makes its pitch to students who are considering high schools in the area like Westview Centennial from which SBL operates its program to guide young people through the tough years of secondary school. It's a time — especially post-COVID, that's fraught with tough personal decisions and the likely realization that opportunity is written wi…

Dongsheng Collective (2023-06-27). Socialism 3.0: The Practice and Prospects of Socialism in China. dongshengnews.org Discussions on socialism and its potential future forms, must place socialism in the context of existing historical processes, in the context of industrialised mass production, and analyse the complex interaction between the ideal of equality and the material realities of production. China's socialist project has passed through two phases, under Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping; today, it must construct a 'Socialism 3.0' that builds upon the previous eras and addresses their shortcomings, by advancing working-class interests and combating inequality.

Leslie Feinberg (2023-06-27). At the Stonewall Rebellion, crowd rage ignites. workers.org Originally published June 15, 2006, this column was part of Leslie Feinberg's series on the connections between LGBTQ2S and socialist history. The 120-part "Lavender & Red," which appeared in Workers World from 2004 to 2008, is available for free download at workers.org/book/lavender-red. A number of accounts of the confrontation between . . . |

WSWS (2023-06-27). Strikes erupt across Spain as snap general election campaign begins. wsws.org Mass strikes are erupting across Spain on the eve of the snap elections called by the Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government after its electoral debacle last month.

Fight Back (2023-06-27). Organizers assemble for major conference to resist DeSantis, establish the Emergency Committee to Defend the Tampa 5. fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – On June 24, over 130 people packed the Maureen Gauzza Library in Tampa early Saturday morning to join in the fight to defend the Tampa 5, activists charged with felonies, some facing up to ten years in prison for exercising their free speech rights. | An aim of the conference was uniting progressive people and movements to fight for civil liberties in Florida and against the reactionary agenda of Governor Ron DeSantis. | Attendees joined three panel discussions titled: "Florida Students Fight to Save Public Education," "Unions: A Worker's Last Defense Against DeSantis," and "Civil Liberties in the A…

teleSUR (2023-06-27). Argentina Recovers the Dictatorship's 'Death Plane'. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernandez-Kirchner and the Minister of Economy and presidential pre-candidate for the Union for the Homeland Sergio Massa led a ceremony where the Skyvan PA-51 plane, used during the "death flights," was presented. | RELATED: | During the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983), this plane threw twelve illegally detained citizens into the water in 1977, including three of…

Richard Becker (2023-06-27). How Daniel Ellsberg Exposed the U.S. War Machine and Became a Top Enemy of Empire. globalresearch.ca

Alan Macleod (2023-06-26). The CIA, NATO and the US Empire with Aaron Good. mintpressnews.com Uncover the hidden truths behind America's empire as historian Aaron Good delves into the history of US dominance, the role of the CIA and NATO, and the looming challenge posed by China, revealing the fragile nature of America's military might and the power dynamics shaping our world.

Leslie Feinberg (2023-06-27). At the Stonewall Rebellion, crowd rage ignites. workers.org Originally published June 15, 2006, this column was part of Leslie Feinberg's series on the connections between LGBTQ2S and socialist history. The 120-part "Lavender & Red," which appeared in Workers World from 2004 to 2008, is available for free download at workers.org/book/lavender-red. A number of accounts of the confrontation between . . . |

WSWS (2023-06-27). Strikes erupt across Spain as snap general election campaign begins. wsws.org Mass strikes are erupting across Spain on the eve of the snap elections called by the Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government after its electoral debacle last month.

Fight Back (2023-06-27). Organizers assemble for major conference to resist DeSantis, establish the Emergency Committee to Defend the Tampa 5. fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – On June 24, over 130 people packed the Maureen Gauzza Library in Tampa early Saturday morning to join in the fight to defend the Tampa 5, activists charged with felonies, some facing up to ten years in prison for exercising their free speech rights. | An aim of the conference was uniting progressive people and movements to fight for civil liberties in Florida and against the reactionary agenda of Governor Ron DeSantis. | Attendees joined three panel discussions titled: "Florida Students Fight to Save Public Education," "Unions: A Worker's Last Defense Against DeSantis," and "Civil Liberties in the A…

teleSUR (2023-06-27). Argentina Recovers the Dictatorship's 'Death Plane'. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernandez-Kirchner and the Minister of Economy and presidential pre-candidate for the Union for the Homeland Sergio Massa led a ceremony where the Skyvan PA-51 plane, used during the "death flights," was presented. | RELATED: | During the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983), this plane threw twelve illegally detained citizens into the water in 1977, including three of…

Richard Becker (2023-06-27). How Daniel Ellsberg Exposed the U.S. War Machine and Became a Top Enemy of Empire. globalresearch.ca

Alan Macleod (2023-06-26). The CIA, NATO and the US Empire with Aaron Good. mintpressnews.com Uncover the hidden truths behind America's empire as historian Aaron Good delves into the history of US dominance, the role of the CIA and NATO, and the looming challenge posed by China, revealing the fragile nature of America's military might and the power dynamics shaping our world.

ecns.cn (2023-06-27). Forum promotes development of SMEs in Asia-Pacific. ecns.cn Economies in the Asia-Pacific region should work together to promote the sustainable development of small and medium-sized enterprises, given the unstable and unbalanced trend of the global economic recovery.

The Exposé (2023-06-27). The Names & Faces of 150 Bilderbergers who controlled COVID-19 Pandemic response. expose-news.com Over 150 Bilderbergers (of the 1,861 who are still alive) have played important parts in the Covid-19 event. Many, perhaps most, of the below have been active in various roles; this page …

infobrics (2023-06-26). Hungary could block EU plans to increase arms funds for Ukraine by €3.5 billion. infobrics.org Tensions continue to build between Budapest and Kiev.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-06-27). Cuba produces effective radiopharmaceuticals for medical diagnosis. plenglish.com For the first time, the country produces positronic radiopharmaceuticals; labeled with a | radionuclide obtained in a cyclotron. Its introduction into the National Health System allows a qualitative leap in applying more precise oncological treatment techniques. | Its commercial name is F-Glutep, and the molecule has been recorded at the Cuban Industrial Property Office, Granma newspaper reports. | The Nuclear Energy and Advanced Technologies Agency awarded the work "Results of the introduction of the 18F-FDG molecule in the National Health System" with one of its 2022 prizes.

WSWS (2023-06-27). Australian media denounce striking warehouse workers for opposing real wage cut. wsws.org Around 190 warehouse workers at an Australian Pharmaceutical Industries plant in Melbourne are striking in opposition to company management efforts to impose a significant real wage cut over the next four years.

Debbie Lerman (2023-06-27). Pandemic Leaders Were Biodefense Puppets and Profiteers. globalresearch.ca

Phil Hearse (2023-06-26). Climate collapse, fascism and war. greenleft.org.au Phil Hearse explains how the global climate and migrant crises fuel fascism and war.

Andy Kroll (2023-06-25). Yes, We Have Home-Grown Fascists. tomdispatch.com One day when I was about six, I was walking with my dad in New York City. We noticed that someone had stuck little folded squares of paper under the windshield wipers of the cars parked on the street beside us. My father picked one up and read it. I saw his face grow dark with anger. "What is it, Papa?" "It's a message from people who think that all Jews should be killed." This would have been in the late 1950s, a time when the Nazi extermination of millions of Jews in Europe was still fresh in the American consciousness. Not, you might have thought, a good season for sowing murderous antisemitism in lower Manhat…

Editor (2023-06-26). Jerusalem's Armenian Community Fears Erasure After Controversial Land Deal. scheerpost.com A shady property deal threatens to transform part of the Armenian Quarter in Jerusalem's Old City into a luxury resort. "It will change the status quo and the entire picture of Jerusalem," says Armenian activist Hagop Djernazian.

WSWS (2023-06-26). The far-right politics of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wsws.org Kennedy Jr. has garnered support from billionaire libertarians, anti-vaccine zealots and Trump co-conspirators for centering his presidential campaign on opposition to all COVID-19 mitigation measures, anti-immigrant border policies and a zealous adherence to "American free market capitalism."

Ian Angus (2023-06-25). Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2023. greenleft.org.au From peasant farms to world history to cities in crisis, Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents six important new books for greens and reds.

Peninsula Peace & Justice Center (2023-06-25). Thursday 6/22: Pride, Prejudice & Corporate P.R: Corporate Capitalism and Anti-LGBTQIA+ Hate. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

Sonali Kolhatkar (2023-06-25). Replacing the Capitalist Dream of AI-Driven Profits. socialistproject.ca Artificial intelligence (AI) and how it's going to change the world is a popular topic of conversation these days. There is concern that it will generate ever-more deceptive Then there's the seemingly…

Editor (2023-06-26). Ralph Nader: The Surging Arrogance of Corporatism. scheerpost.com By Ralph Nader / Nader.org Most heads of giant corporations are drunk with their own power. These corporate CEOs push the envelope in ways that harm defenseless people. They believe they can get away with anything, and they do, with few exceptions. The few corporate crime prosecutions keep declining from Obama to Trump to Biden, …

Jeff Abbott, Waging Nonviolence. (2023-06-26). 50 Years Later, Families Demand Justice For The Disappeared In Uruguay. popularresistance.org Excavations by forensic anthropologists at a notorious military base in Toledo, Uruguay have unearthed human remains. It is likely that the remains are those of one the many victims of the campaign of forced disappearance carried out by the state during the military dictatorship that began five decades ago. | The remains are the first to be discovered in over a decade, and a painful reminder of the lengths the military went to permanently disappear dissidents and leftists in a campaign that lasted 12 years. For families of the missing, the news has brought a mix of emotions. This is only the seventh person recove…

WSWS (2023-06-26). New US diplomatic provocations fuel tensions with China. wsws.org US Secretary of State Blinken's trip to China, supposedly to ease tensions, has been swiftly followed by Biden's denunciation of Xi as "a dictator" and the fuelling of allegations of Chinese spying from Cuba.

teleSUR (2023-06-25). Guatemala Update: Candidate Mulet Accuses the Ruling Party. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, around 9.3 million Guatemalans will elect a president, vice president, 160 legislators, 20 legislators for the Central American Parliament, and 340 municipal authorities. Nineteen politicians compete to reach the Presidency. | RELATED: | Among them, former First Lady Sandra Torres, former United Nations official Edmond Mulet, and Zuri Rios, the daughter of former dictator Efrain Rios-Montt, lead the latest voting intention polls. Below are the major ev…

_____ (2023-06-25). Women War Criminals: A Vital Cog in NATO's Plans of World Conquest. strategic-culture.org Although Chairman Mao told us that women hold up half the sky, he failed to expound on what proportion of NATO's war crimes women are responsible for. | Although China's Chairman Mao Zedong famously told us that women hold up half the sky, he failed to expound on what proportion of NATO's war crimes women are responsible for. | We must, first of all, realise that new-born baby girls do not enter the world as newly-minted war criminals but, as Hillary Clinton, Greta Thunberg, Victoria Nuland and Ursula von der Leyen all show, they are groomed to it, just as the architects of Hitler's Final Solution or any other ps…

Aurig Hernández (2023-06-25). President Maduro Affirms Venezuela's Resolute Stand Against Empire on Carabobo Battle Anniversary" orinocotribune.com To commemorate Bolivarian Army Day and the 202nd anniversary of the Battle of Carabobo, President Nicolás Maduro has asserted that Venezuela will never surrender to any empire. | "Here we are, 202 years later, with the same spirit, with the same love for our homeland, and telling the empires of the world: Venezuela will not surrender to any empire, Venezuela is heading towards the century of power," President Maduro said on Saturday, June 24, during the official event for the commemoration of the historic Battle of Carabobo, held at the Paseo Monumental del Campo de Carabobo, in Carabobo state. | Maduro highlight…

Dean Baker (2023-06-25). Why the RFK Jr., Rogan, Musk Outrage Machine Doesn't Bother Big Pharma. cepr.net It's been hard to miss the screaming on the Internet because Dr. Peter Hotez has refused to debate RFK Jr. over vaccine safety. I think Farhad Manjoo did a good job laying out the case against Dr. Hotez debating Kennedy in a column last week. But I think there is a more fundamental question worth …