(2023-06-02). Georgi Dimitrov's "United Front: The Struggle Against Fascism and War" and its Value for Our Moment. libya360.wordpress.com Turner Roth Introduction In a period of increasing tensions, where world powers, caught in the systemic compulsions of our contemporary capitalism dominated by the United States axis, draw closer to forms of world-historical conflict, a third world war being that thing which may if it comes to pass seal the fate of the human species…
(2023-06-02). Democracy Under Capitalism – What is it? podcasters.spotify.com Does democracy exist? What is it? What isn't it? What are we told about it? Where do these ideas come from? Can capitalism, a system based on exploitation, profit, and oppression, truly be "liberal", "free" or "Democratic"? For more on this and maybe an answer or to, give this episode a listen!
(2023-06-02). Bezos Is Planning To Replace the Present US Imperialism With a 'Decolonized' Version of Imperialism. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — May 29, 2023 | The project by Jeff Bezos and other oligarchs to weaponize the concept of anti-colonialism towards reinforcing capitalism goes deeper than their "decolonial" NGOs. This is because whereas these NGOs are relatively easy for developing radicals to recognize as anti-revolutionary, there are other, more insidious ways that imperialism-compatible "anti-colonial" politics is getting normalized. The effort by Bezos to set up his "Earth Fund" so that he can
(2023-06-01). Strike wave grows in Portugal despite trade unions' attempt to strangle it. wsws.org Amid the deepest crisis of global capitalism since the 1930s, the PS is trying to impose austerity and the costs of a war economy on the backs of the working class.
(2023-06-02). Workers World Party intersex candidate opens Seattle City Council campaign. workers.org Seattle Liv Morgan Liv Morgan, an intersex Workers World Party member, declared her candidacy for Seattle City Council, District 3, on May 25. Her campaign as an official write-in candidate is breaking new ground in the struggle of oppressed genders for representation, visibility and for socialism. Abandoned and orphaned, and . . . |
(2023-06-02). Brazil: Can Lula's plan bring peace to Ukraine? greenleft.org.au Israel Dutra, of the Brazilian Socialist Left Movement within the Socialism and Liberty Party, speaks to Federico Fuentes about Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's peace proposal for the war in Ukraine.
(2023-06-01). Malaysia: Building solidarity in a time of climate crisis. greenleft.org.au Green Left's Chloe DS spoke to Cheong Huei Ting, Central Committee member of the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) and Coordinator of the PSM's Environmental and Climate Crisis Bureau ahead of her participation in the Ecosocialism 2023 Conference in July in Naarm/Melbourne.
(2023-06-01). How illegal Great Depression-era Pennsylvania coal miners fought cops, banks, and bosses to unionize. therealnews.com
(2023-06-01). Second Tropical Depression Forms In The Atlantic. telesurenglish.net The National Hurricane Center (NHC), based in Miami, Florida, reported Thursday the formation of the second tropical depression of 2023 in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. | RELATED: | According to the most recent NHC bulletin, the tropical depression is moving at 2 mph (4 km/h) in a west-northwesterly direction with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph (55 km/h). | The depression is 305 miles (490 kilometers) west-northwest of Ft.
(2023-06-02). Escalating assault on jobs and living standards in New Zealand. wsws.org The New Zealand Reserve Bank's agenda of deliberately engineering a recession is escalating the cost-of-living crisis and initiating an onslaught on jobs.
(2023-06-02). Economy Gains 339,000 Jobs in May Though Unemployment Rises to 3.7 Percent. truthout.org The establishment and household surveys told two different stories in May. The jobs numbers for the month were surprisingly high, with the survey showing a gain of 339,000 jobs. In addition, the numbers for the prior two months were revised up, so that the three-month average now stands at 283,000 jobs. At the same time, the household survey showed a drop in employment of 310,000… |
(2023-06-02). Economy Adds 339,000 Jobs in May, but Unemployment Rises to 3.7 Percent. cepr.net If the goal of the Fed's interest rate policy was to weaken the labor market, they seem to have gotten their wish. With luck, we will not see further deterioration, but it is difficult to try to predict the future based on this report.
(2023-06-02). American Economy Adds 339,000 Jobs But Full-Time Employment Declines By 22,000. moguldom.com After near-record-low unemployment in April of 3.4 percent, the U.S. jobless rate rose to 3.7 percent in May, but employers are still finding it difficult to fill job openings and the U.S. economy continued cranking out jobs — just not for everyone. Public and private sector payrolls increased by 339,000 in May, the 29th straight …
(2023-06-02). Why There Should Be A Treaty Against The Use Of Weaponized Drones. popularresistance.org Citizen activism to bring about changes in how brutal wars are conducted is extremely difficult, but not impossible. Citizens have successfully pushed through the United Nations General Assembly treaties to abolish nuclear weapons and to ban the use of landmines and cluster munitions. | Of course, countries that want to continue to use these weapons will not follow the lead of the vast majority of countries in the world and sign those treaties. The United States and the other eight nuclear armed countries have refused to sign the treaty to abolish nuclear weapons.
(2023-06-02). Russian defense forces shoot down several drones near Kursk. plenglish.com The senior official wrote on Telegram that the air defense forces shot down several unmanned aerial vehicles near Kursk, although he did not specify how many devices were downed. | Starovoyt did not say whether the attack had caused any casualties but urged Kursk residents to "remain calm," assuring that "the city is under the firm protection" of the Russian military troops and report suspicious objects to emergency services. | Russian provinces bordering Ukraine, such as Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, and Voronezh, regularly report shelling, drone strikes, and other attacks from across the border. | Since the beginn…
(2023-06-01). Despite U.S. Denials… Kiev Regime Hasn't Gone Rogue With Strikes on Moscow — It's an Obedient Cat's Paw. strategic-culture.org Moscow's dilemma is how to show its Western aggressor that playing with fire means getting burned — without inciting a catastrophic Third World War. | If the United States and its NATO lackeys really wanted to avoid a direct war with Russia, then they know what to do: stop arming the reactionary Kiev regime and get down to serious diplomacy. | This insanely dangerous conflict could end right now. | This week saw a swarm of military drones
(2023-06-02). Activists Block The CANSEC Weapons Show In Ottawa. popularresistance.org As more than 100 activists blocked the entrances to the parking lots of the CANSEC weapons show in Ottawa yesterday, traffic was snarled for a distance on Uplands Avenue and the Airport Parkway delaying many attendees getting inside the EY Centre. | Canada's Defence Minister Anita Anand, who was scheduled to speak at 7: 50 am, tweeted at 9: 51 am that she had "just delivered [her] remarks". There was also a tweet at 9: 17 am that suggests she was just then "officially open[ing] the event". | After Anand's speech, U.S. Ambassador David L. Cohen visited the booth of Lockheed Martin, the world's largest weapons company…
(2023-06-01). Mexican TV Spots Anti-Tank Missile Launcher That Has Been Sent to Ukraine in Hands of Cartel. news.antiwar.com Mexican TV has reported that a militant affiliated with Mexico's Gulf Cartel was spotted carrying an advanced rocket launcher, the same type that the US has shipped thousands of to Ukraine. Azucena Uresti, a news anchor for Milenio TV, identified the rocket launcher as a Raytheon-made Javelin anti-tank missile system, which the US has been …
(2023-06-01). Headlines for June 1, 2023. democracynow.org House Approves Debt Ceiling Deal Slammed by Progressives as "Extortion" , 19 Killed, 100+ Injured as Shells Fall on Market Near Sudan's Capital, U.S. to Send Additional $300 Million in Weapons to Ukraine, Failed North Korean Rocket Launch Triggers Evacuation Alert in Seoul, Protests Mount over Planned Release of Radioactive Water from Fukushima Plant into Pacific, Tennessee Woman Is Left Infertile After She's Denied Abortion Care, Georgia Police Arrest 3 Organizers of Bail Fund for Cop City Protesters, Danny Masterson Found Guilty of Raping Women He Met Through Church of Scientology, NASA…
(2023-06-01). Four ways Democrats and Republicans just agreed to attack workers. liberationnews.org This piece of legislation contains provisions that would deepen hunger and weaken a wide range of public services, all while keeping the money flowing into the pockets of fossil fuel executives and weapons manufacturers.
(2023-06-01). Poland arms Moldova for suppression of Transnistria, Gagauzia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Polish RadioJune 1, 2023 Poland donates police weapons, equipment to Moldova Poland has donated a shipment of weapons, ammunition and equipment to strengthen Moldova's police force amid Russia's attempts to destabilise the internal situation in that country, the Polish interior minister has said. Mariusz Kami≈Ñski announced the donation via social media on Thursday…. The Polish …
(2023-06-01). U.S. Is Creating 'Free Army' In Raqqa To Destabilize Syria: Russia's UN Representative. southfront.org File image. | The United States is creating a "Free Syria Army" faction near the northern Syrian city of Raqqa in order to destabilize the war-torn country, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya warned on May 30. "We would like to once again point to the U.S. destructive policy. It looks like it is not enough for the U.S. to simply supply weapons to illegal armed groups they created in al-Tanf and on the Euphrates eastern bank," the senior diplomat said a…