(2024-08-15). Why is the far-right winning support from the working class? peoplesdispatch.org The latest dossier from the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research addresses the need for the left in Latin America to confront neofascism rising across the region and the world…
(2024-08-15). Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela continúa programa legislativo contra el fascismo (+Foto). radiohc.cu El Parlamento venezolano prosigue los debates para aprobar un Cuerpo legislativo que defienda al país de los daños del fascismo y el ciberfascismo.
(2024-08-15). The U.S. Supports Horrific Atrocities in Indian-Occupied Kashmir—Where is the Outcry? covertactionmagazine.com The Biden administration has ratcheted up weapons supplies to India's quasi-fascist government as part of a dangerous anti-China policy In early February, the U.S. State Department approved nearly $4 billion in drone sales to India, adding to the $20 billion worth of U.S.-origin defense material the U.S. had sold to India since 2008. State Department …
(2024-08-15). ProPublica releases dozens of Project 2025 secret training videos. indybay.org The release of some Project 2025 secret training videos released by ProPublica. Plus some links to articles about former fascist KKK Grand Wizard, David Duke's campaign contributors. David Duke is a Trump supporter! The David Duke campaign contributors that received national media coverage, were originally exposed locally by Lynda Carson, on IndyBay Media.
(2024-08-15). The 1st International Antifascist Conference will take place in Porto Alegre in 2025. links.org.au 
Following its cancellation due to the floods in Porto Alegre in May 2024, the 1st International Antifascist Conference will take place next year in the capital of Rio Grande do Sul.
(2024-08-15). Venezuela rechaza declaraciones del Alto Comisionado de la ONU para los Derechos Humanos. radiohc.cu La Habana, 15 ago (RHC) El Parlamento venezolano, en reunión este martes, decidió aprobar un conjunto de leyes para cuidar y proteger a la población del odio, del terrorismo y de la difusión de ideas fascistas en las redes sociales, declaró el presidente de la Asamblea Nacional (AN), Jorge Rodríguez.
(2024-08-15). Fim das negociaàßàµes após o massacre ucraniano de civis em Kursk. globalresearch.ca O conflito ucraniano entrou numa nova fase. Na sequência das últimas provocaàßàµes do regime neonazista contra as áreas civis russas, Moscou tomou uma decisà£o importante, eliminando qualquer possibilidade de negociaàßà£o. O ataque terrorista ucraniano a Kursk violou uma grave linha …
(2024-08-15). West wants neo-Nazi hardliner to replace Zelensky. infobrics.org According to recent intelligence reports, Western backers are once again plotting to replace Zelensky, this time betting on former minister Arsen Avakov as a "candidate."
(2024-08-15). Why is Egypt's new grand mufti Nazir Ayyad under fire. newarab.com 
(2024-08-15). Capitalism, Imperialism, The 2024 French Olympics & The Working Class. indybay.org The 2024 Olympics in France should the role of profiteering and capitalism as well as nationalism and imperialism as tools used by the US and other major imperialist countries.
(2024-08-15). Sanjay Subrahmanyam: Blood and Bombast. newleftreview.org Sanjay Subrahmanyam on Vinayak Chaturvedi, Hindutva and Violence and Janaki Bakhle, Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva. Intellectual biographies of Hindu nationalism's Mazzini-inspired theoretician.
(2024-08-15). More Australian workers and youth explain why they have joined the SEP as electoral members. wsws.org "As a Palestinian myself I've always felt that all these systems of oppression are interconnected. We see that in the most violent and blatant way in Israel and the occupied territories, but really the whole world is basically occupied by capitalism, by greed."
(2024-08-15). The Persistence of Global Capitalism's Long Depression. cadtm.org
(2024-08-15). Cédric Durand: Landscapes of Capital. newleftreview.org A critical engagement with the work of Brett Christophers, whose books—The New Enclosure, Rentier Capitalism, Our Lives in Their Portfolios and The Price Is Wrong—unfold a novel critique of the 'rentier stage' of contemporary capitalism, in the tradition of radical historical geography developed by Lefebvre, Harvey and Davis.
(2024-08-15). Venezuela Today: Revolution and Elections. libya360.wordpress.com Chris Gilbert Celebrating Maduro's victory. (Rome Arrieche) In light of recent imperialist aggressions, Chris Gilbert reflects on the challenges and complexities of using elections as a tool for socialist construction. Hugo Chávez changed the way socialists viewed elections around the world. The left had long been skeptical about them. The main arguments were that elections…
(2024-08-15). Alerta Diosdado Cabello sobre nuevos planes violentos en Venezuela. radiohc.cu La Habana, 15 ago (RHC) El primer vicepresidente del Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, alertó sobre nuevos planes violentos orquestados por la ultraderecha para el venidero sábado, trascendió hoy en Caracas.
(2024-08-15). Free Bogdan Syrotiuk! wsws.org This resolution was unanimously adopted by the Eighth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
(2024-08-15). Socialist autoworker Will Lehman proposes 3-point program to defend Warren Truck jobs. wsws.org A rebellion against the UAW bureaucrats is needed. Workers should replace them with leaders drawn from the shop floor, exercising leadership democratically through rank-and-file action committees.
(2024-08-15). CovertAction Bulletin — Eyewitness: Venezuela's Election. covertactionmagazine.com Venezuela's elections took place on July 28th. Nicolás Maudro defeated the right-wing candidate Edmundo González Urrutia by over a million votes. The imperialist machine immediately jumped into action to denounce the elections, condemning Maduro as a dictator and calling the results undemocratic…
(2024-08-15). Grey Anderson: Imperium Uncloaked. newleftreview.org Grey Anderson on Tom Stevenson, Someone Else's Empire. Lucid anatomization of the American imperium, with a devastating assessment of the UK's equerry role.
Watch the full Southern Workers Assembly Town Hall — video at the end of this article. "People are tired of hearing that this is the most important election of our lifetime, but it's true," declared Bill Fletcher, Jr., at the Southern Workers Assembly (SWA) Town Hall held last week. Fletcher is a trade union activist …
Looking at economic and other transformations during the Industrial Revolution and beyond, he showed that there is nothing inevitable and 'natural' about free markets, the ideological belief that they can solve most economic problems being utopian and dangerous. | JM Keynes, an important economic thinker of the last century, saw those in authority as distilling thoughts "from some academic scribbler of a few years back." Indeed, his ideas underpin much economic policy today. | However, unlike Keynes who was an apologist for some form of capitalism, the less-remembered Polanyi's "scribbling" shows that market f…
In the wake of his huge defeat on June 30, 2024, when 80 percent of voters rejected French "centrist" President Emmanuel Macron, he said he understood the French people's anger. In the UK, Conservative loser Rishi Sunak said the same about the British people's anger, as Labor leader Starmer now says as the anger explodes. 
Clifton D'Rozario — There is no denying the far right has emerged as a formidable political force around the world. In India, fascism is not just being fought in the electoral arena; it is also being confronted on the streets.
The racist pogroms on the streets of Britain are the result of British support for genocide in Palestine and the construction of a "migrant threat".
Counterfire members attended demonstrations across the country and sent the following reports of the heartening mobilisations against racism and fascism.
On Thursday, August 8th, Chris "Big Tex," was found not guilty by a jury in a criminal trial on charges of "assault on a police officer," following a mobilization in the spring of 2023 in defense of a drag event at a brewery in Fort Worth, Texas in response to threats from fascist groups. In… 
Phil Hearse — Thousands of anti-fascists mobilised to face down fascist groups threatening immigration lawyers and mosques in cities across Britain on August 7.
Minnesota: Thousands hear the SWP campaign program: | MINNEAPOLIS — "No offense, but how are you guys going to change things?" Steven Lutchen, a truck driver, asked Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, at a Hmong Farmers Market in St. Paul Aug. 4. "They won't give you any publicity." | "We're counting on what's beginning to change among working people," Richter replied, pointing to recent labor struggles, from flight attendants fighting for a new contract to the autoworkers strike last fall. | "We need to build a party of labor, to organize to fight in the interests…
Dear Readers: | In its 1,000 year history Russia has been invaded quite a lot of times. For this reason, Russian rulers (at least the wise ones) always placed much emphasis on fortifying and controlling the border areas. For example, Tsar Ivan Grozny, who put together the basic architecture of the centralized Empire, had designated four major border cities: Smolensk, Pskov, Novgorod, and Kazan. The first three were assigned to keep out Poles and Swedes; and the latter, Crimean Tatars. To govern these border towns, the Tsar appointed four Dukes of high-ranking nobility who also served in his privy council. Thes…
Max Elbaum — The mood among opponents of MAGA has shifted dramatically. But the electoral map hasn't changed, and the Gaza genocide continues. What does this mean for progressives and the socialist Left?
THE racist riot in Southport following the murderous knife attack on a children's dance class speaks both to the unscrupulousness and mobilising reach of Britain's fascist right.
Bourgeois economists, ever ready to proclaim the impending demise of the socialist economic model in the People's Republic of China (PRC), find every opportunity to throw shade on China's economic system.
Jess Spear — We need to place an understanding of the ecological crisis at the centre of what we are doing. We are not just ecosocialists when we are campaigning about the environment and socialists the rest of the time.
I get it: in order to induce the declining, cognitively crippled Joe Biden to admit that he's a catastrophic loser bringing down his party and greatly increasing the likelihood of full Republi-fascist takeover in 2025, Democrats have had to kiss the president's ass. The only way to get Bernie Sanders' "good friend" "Genocide Joe" Biden to give up his delegates and allow them to go to someone with (perhaps) a better shot at beating Adolph Trump (the man Trump's 2024 vice presidential running mate JD Vance called "America's Hitler" in 2016) was to praise the incumbent as "a man of great integrity with a long and no…
A football match between Belgium and The move to Hungary comes after the Belgian Football Federation (RBFA) announced last week it would not host the game on 6 September, as it would likely spark demonstrations amid Israel's ongoing war on Ac…
By Dean Baker / Beat the Press Leading media outlets like The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker have about as much concern for intellectual consistency as TikTok videos. In very serious and somber tones they will warn the rest of us about a major problem and then in the next issue, …
What are the results of the parliamentary elections in France on 7 July 2024?: | In the second round of France's 
This article is part of the People's World 100th Anniversary Series. Forty-five years ago, on July 19, 1979, the Nicaraguan Revolution was victorious. The hated U.S.-backed Somoza family dictatorship was overthrown and the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) established a new revolutionary government. Led by Daniel Ortega, the FSLN governed Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990. It …
We host a roundtable the morning after Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president on Thursday, just five days after surviving an assassination attempt, delivering the longest acceptance speech in convention history. Trump began with a somber recounting of what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a bullet grazed his right ear, and soon went off script to deliver a rambling diatribe against various political enemies and repeatedly demonized immigrants. "The first three or four days of the convention were pitched as a display of unity," says Benjamin Wallace-Wells of The New Yorker,…
Syrian dictator "The problem is not the meeting, but its content," a video clip released by the p…
The US has a long, chequered relationship with assassination. On one hand, the myths of 1776 recount of a nation born through resistance to the tyranny that it holds at the core of its identity. Values legitimizing tyrannicide can be imputed from the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. On the other hand, the US 
Cuba and Cuban science gained acclaim worldwide for producing their own very effective Covid-19 vaccines. The achievement stood out among nations of the Global South. The feat reflects Cuba's development over decades of a formidable scientific establishment engaged in the development and marketing of biologic products oriented to healthcare mostly, and also to food production. 
Trump and MAGA Republicans are plowing ahead full throttle with their fascist agenda to create an authoritarian Christian nationalist theocracy that bans abortions, in vitro fertilization (IVF), and contraception and runs roughshod over the privacy rights of Americans. The full-blown mass fascist party is on open and ugly display. Its embrace of the Project 2025 …
In the aftermath of over five hundred shootings during the July 4th weekend, reports indicate that "a Texas-based company has developed vending machines that sell bullets and installed them at a handful of grocery stores in Texas, Oklahoma, and Alabama, with plans for expansion into other states."1 Violence has become an organizing and governing principle 
As Donald Trump selected Ohio Senator J.D. Vance to be his vice-presidential candidate Monday, we look at the record of the 39-year-old political rookie, who rose to fame after writing the memoir Hillbilly Elegy and who once compared Trump to Hitler and called him unfit for the presidency. He was elected to the Senate in 2022 with backing from right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, and he has since embraced the MAGA movement and become one of Trump's most loyal supporters. For more on Vance's rise and his appeal to the Republican base, we go to Pikeville, Kentucky, to speak with famed sociologist Arlie R…
"We were given a genocidal man and a fascist man, and that is a terrible decision to pick from," says one of the protesters who joined a broad coalition of progressive groups and unions to march in Milwaukee against the Republican Party Monday on the first day of the Republican National Convention. We speak with people calling for an end to racist policies supported by the GOP; defending the rights of women, LGBTQ people and abortion access; supporting Palestine and more.
We speak with journalist Robert Kuttner about Donald Trump's selection of Ohio Senator J.D. Vance to be his running mate in the 2024 election. Vance rose to fame in 2016 after writing the memoir Hillbilly Elegy about his upbringing in Appalachia. He was elected to the Senate in 2022 with the backing of right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, who spent $10 million on his candidacy. While he was a vocal critic of Trump's politics, once comparing him to Hitler, Vance has since embraced the MAGA movement and is now one of the most vocal defenders of the former president. Vance's elevation is "very…
A brilliant theoretical physicist best known for his theory of relativity, Albert Einstein was also a socialist. John Bellamy Foster describes Einstein's radical political commitments, including his efforts in relation to the founding of Brandeis University, his role in the Henry Wallace campaign, and his seminal essay "Why Socialism?"
Commercial farming of wild animals as luxury food for the rich triggered a global pandemic.
The 20th CPC Central Committee started its third plenary session in Beijing on Monday. | During the four-day meeting, China's political leadership is expected to discuss deepening reforms, long-term economic development and advancing Chinese modernization. | China is working to become a high-level socialist market economy by 2035. | To discuss: | Qu Qiang is the Assistant Director of the International Monetary Institute. | 
A genocidal Jewish supremacist political culture rewards, well, a genocidal Jewish supremacist. That explains Anthony Housefather's recent appointment as Special Adviser on Jewish Community Relations and Antisemitism. On Friday Justin Trudeau rewarded his most openly hostile caucus member with the newly created position. This gives Housefather a bigger platform to promote Israel's holocaust in Gaza. …
Image by Hennie Stander. | We are endlessly and repetitively treated to sermons on the wonders of capitalism. Everybody will be taken care of, with the proviso that you are willing to work. As I have had frequent cause to note, that a line has to be furiously propagated across every channel speaks to a lack of concrete reality. And as more people, especially young people, see that they have declining possibilities, more questioning inevitably arises. | The only thing worse in capitalism to having a job, however unpleasant, is not having a job. Unemployment benefits are barely at starvation rates and end all to…
Richard Simmons, television's hyperactive court jester of physical fitness who built a mini-empire in his trademark tank tops and short shorts by urging the overweight to exercise and eat better, died Saturday. He turned 76 on Friday. | Simmons died at his home in Los Angeles, his publicist Tom Estey said in an email to The Associated Press. He gave no further details. | Los Angeles police and fire departments say they responded to a house — whose address the AP has matched with Simmons through public records — where a man was declared dead from natural causes. | Simmons, who had revealed a skin cance…