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.

_____ (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.

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 …

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-06-30). Chile reports seventh consecutive increase in unemployment rate. plenglish.com Santiago, Chile, Jun 30 (Prensa Latina) Chile's National Statistics Institute (INE) reported that the unemployment rate in the March-May mobile quarter had an increase of 0.7 points and stood at 8.7 percent.

ecns.cn (2023-06-30). Regulations address use of civilian drones. ecns.cn China has issued a set of rules to govern the use of civilian drones.

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-06-30). Russia develops drone suppression system. plenglish.com The system was first presented at the "Equipment" exhibition taking place on June 29th and 30th in Moscow, and is capable of stopping mid-flight one or more drones, including a swarm of them, in its area of effect from the moment of its launch, said the development director of the Kaysant company, Aliona Balandina. | According to Balandina, the Argus-Kupol system was developed both in a stationary and mobile version. She also explained that units of the Russian armed forces are currently testing the product in the special military operation. | "The portable Argus-Kupol can be used for rescue operations and to pr…

WSWS (2023-06-30). US moves toward sending cluster bombs and long-range missiles to Ukraine. wsws.org In a script repeated over and over again since the start of the Ukraine war in February 2022, the United States is moving to send a new set of weapons to Ukraine that it had previously ruled out.

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…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-06-28). People's movements set to converge in Johannesburg for dialogues on socialism in Dilemmas of Humanity Conference. peoplesdispatch.org The III International Dilemmas of Humanity Conference, organized by the International Peoples' Assembly, is scheduled to be held in October this year, to "confront the crises of humanity" and highlight the solutions that movements, governments, and working people are building together to overcome the system…

WSWS (2023-06-28). IMF deputy chief outlines "uncomfortable truths" about inflation and financial instability. wsws.org Central bankers could be faced with a stark choice between lifting interest rates in the so-called fight against inflation and risking a financial crash in heavily indebted countries.

Dante O'Hara (2023-06-28). Bill is passed re-naming street for alleged pro-democracy Cuban. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Since 2015, extreme-right Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has introduced multiple bills to designate the street in front of the Embassy of Cuba in Washington as "Oswaldo PayaÃÅ Way," in honor of Oswaldo PayaÃÅ SardinÃÉas, an opponent of the Cuban government who died in a car crash in 2012. Payá was a conservative and religious political …

Luis Feliz Leon, Labor Notes. (2023-06-29). Six Thousand Machinists Strike Aircraft Parts Giant In Kansas. popularresistance.org Six thousand Machinists at a key Boeing supplier, Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, Kansas, went on strike June 24 after voting down the company's "best and final offer." | "We could all go somewhere else and make similar pay," said one worker who has been at the company for 15 years and asked to be anonymous to speak freely. The average pay is around $20 hourly. | "We are fighting for insurance and language involving mandatory overtime," he said. "We really want to be able to work a reasonable amount of time and afford to pay our bills without having to work 60 to 70 hours a week. Overtime should be for a new boat…

Ehsan Etesam (2023-06-28). Military Equipment Sent to Ukraine: An Avalanche of Weaponry."Let's Feed Them (Iranian) Shahed Drones" globalresearch.ca

Sarah Glynn (2023-06-28). Turkish armed drones assassinate women political leaders in Rojava. greenleft.org.au Turkey — a member of NATO and the Council of Europe — carried out a targeted assassination of local political leaders in North-Eastern Syria, on June 20, reports Sarah Glynn.

Anonymous669 (2023-06-29). Netanyahu: Says Israel Will Not Supply Iron Dome Air Defense System To Ukraine. southfront.org Illustrative image. Source: the Israeli Ministry of Defense. | Israel will not supply the Iron Dome air defense system or any other weapons to Ukraine because of concerns that they might end up in Iran's possession, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that was published on June 29.."I think it's important to understand that we are concerned also with the possibility that systems that we would gi…

Anonymous669 (2023-06-28). In Video: Hezbollah Downs, Captures Israeli Army Drone. southfront.org Click to see full-size image. Source: Hezbollah Military Media. | On June 26, Hezbollah announced that its fighters had downed a drone of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) over southern Lebanon. | In a statement, the group said that the drone had penetrated some seven kilometers of Lebanese airspace before being downed."The Islamic Resistance shot down, with appropriate weapons, an Israeli drone… near the town of Zibqin in south Lebanon," the statement reads. | From its side, the IDF said that t…

Anonymous669 (2023-06-28). Russian Army Targeted Logistics Of Kiev Forces, Repelled More Attacks (Videos). southfront.org File image. | The Russian military destroyed an oil refinery and fuel storage facilities which were supplying Kiev forces in the Donbass region, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on June 28. | In a statement, the ministry said that the strikes, which were carried out with high-precision weapons, were successful without providing any further details. | The ministry also reported a new wave of failed attacks by Kiev forces in the South Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Donetsk sectors. | In the Donetsk direction, t…