(2023-03-04). Tech Layoffs Expose Capitalism. orinocotribune.com By Otis Grotewohl — Feb 20, 2023 | High-tech companies are laying off workers at record levels. More than 93,000 tech positions have been eliminated this year, and it is only the second month. These cuts include 6,650 job losses announced by Dell and the layoff of 1,300 Zoom employees in early February. (crunchbase.com, Feb. 15, 2023) | The abrupt reduction of high-tech positions started last fall. Amazon, Lyft and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, unleashed major cuts against their workforce in November. Twitter slashed several thousand jobs one month prior. Both the app company Robinhood and Snap, the…
(2023-03-04). ALBA Movimientos debate crisis sistémica del capitalismo global. telesurtv.net Alba Movimientos es un instrumento de integración que nos ayuda a mirar de forma conjunta para enfrentar esos tiempos de inestabilidad.
(2023-03-04). Dana workers fired with UAW consent for reporting exploitation, wage theft and sexual harassment. wsws.org The real aim of this ongoing purge is to remove militant workers, lower labor costs, and terrify those remaining to accept worse conditions. This is a lesson in the reality of capitalism.
(2023-03-03). Capitalism's Conclusion, Part I: What the Ohio train derailment exposed. nationofchange.org The recent derailment of trains in East Palestine isn't just a once-in-a-generation environmental disaster, it's what will continue to happen when profit is put above public health.
(2023-03-04). Tech Layoffs Expose Capitalism. orinocotribune.com By Otis Grotewohl — Feb 20, 2023 | High-tech companies are laying off workers at record levels. More than 93,000 tech positions have been eliminated this year, and it is only the second month. These cuts include 6,650 job losses announced by Dell and the layoff of 1,300 Zoom employees in early February. (crunchbase.com, Feb. 15, 2023) | The abrupt reduction of high-tech positions started last fall. Amazon, Lyft and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, unleashed major cuts against their workforce in November. Twitter slashed several thousand jobs one month prior. Both the app company Robinhood and Snap, the…
(2023-03-04). ALBA Movimientos debate crisis sistémica del capitalismo global. telesurtv.net Alba Movimientos es un instrumento de integración que nos ayuda a mirar de forma conjunta para enfrentar esos tiempos de inestabilidad.
(2023-03-04). Dana workers fired with UAW consent for reporting exploitation, wage theft and sexual harassment. wsws.org The real aim of this ongoing purge is to remove militant workers, lower labor costs, and terrify those remaining to accept worse conditions. This is a lesson in the reality of capitalism.
(2023-03-03). Capitalism's Conclusion, Part I: What the Ohio train derailment exposed. nationofchange.org The recent derailment of trains in East Palestine isn't just a once-in-a-generation environmental disaster, it's what will continue to happen when profit is put above public health.
(2023-03-03). COVID-19 proved workers make the world run, not the bosses. therealnews.com 
The start of the COVID-19 pandemic compounded the existing crises of capitalism for workers everywhere. This was most obviously apparent for "frontline" or "essential" workers, who were forced by their need to survive to risk disease, disability, and potential death on a daily basis at their jobs. While lauded in media and culture in the early days of the pandemic, the rewards these workers have actually received have been precarity, damaged health, depressed wages, and for far too many, an early death. As a new ruling class narrative that insists the pandemic is over becomes hegemonic, the stories and ongo…
(2023-03-03). The Psychology and Reality of Colonialism, Capitalism and Imperialism. anchor.fm In this episode we begin by sharing our explicit support and solidarity with the revolutionary masses, parties and governments of Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Vietnam, China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Iran, Palestine and elsewhere. We then speak about oppression, class society, colonialism and its consequences psychologically, socially, and it's revolutionary conclusions to come.
(2023-03-03). New 1% stock buyback tax better than nothing, but won't fix systemically-broken capitalism. nationofchange.org Right now, inequality is as predictable as another decade of authoritarian Republican politics—banish the thought.
(2023-03-03). Kohei Saito: 'Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism'. mronline.org 
In 2017, Japanese Marx scholar Kohei Saito published 'Karl Marx's Ecosocialism', which won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize the following year.
(2023-03-03). International Women's Day Event: Black Women's Struggle for Democracy and Socialism. peoplesworld.org 
Join us on March 8th for an International Women's Day celebration. Titled "Black Women's Struggle for Democracy and Socialism," the virtual Zoom event will begin at 8: 00 PM Eastern, 7: 00 PM Central, 6: 00 PM Mountain, and 5: 00 PM Pacific time. Register here. Among those whose lives will be highlighted: are Artist Elizabeth Catlett CPUSA leader …
(2023-03-03). Greek rail workers stage 24-hour strike after deadly train crash kills 43. peoplesworld.org 
Rail workers in Greece staged a 24-hour strike Thursday in protest over what they describe as a dangerous failure to modernize the Greek railway system and the lack of public investment in the network. This comes days after the country's deadliest rail crash in northern Greece which killed at least 43 people when a train …
(2023-03-03). Protests and strikes over deadly Greek train crash denounce government and private rail firm. wsws.org All the parties of the ruling class are implicated in the deaths, having overseen an unsafe rail system for years.
(2023-03-03). East Palestine Residents Confront Norfolk Southern at Town Hall Meeting. truthout.org At a town hall meeting in East Palestine, Ohio Thursday night, hundreds of residents had their first chance to directly confront the rail company responsible for the train derailment that took place in the town last month, and used the opportunity to share their outrage over Norfolk Southern's failure to keep residents safe following its release of toxic chemicals from the crash site. |
(2023-03-04). Protesters Disrupt House China Panel's First Hearing. popularresistance.org Protesters disrupted the first hearing of a House select committee investigating potential threats that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) poses to the country and U.S.-China competition late Tuesday, arguing that the country should cooperate with China instead of competing with it. | "China is not our enemy," read a sign held by Olivia DiNucci, an organizer for CODEPINK: Women for Peace, which advocates against the United States engaging in wars and "regime change efforts." A CODEPINK release states that DiNucci delivered a message that "The American people need cooperation, not competition with China" before she…
(2023-03-03). Russian Lancet Drones Take Out Two More Ukrainian M109 Howitzers (Videos). southfront.org 
MOSCOW REGION, RUSSIA — JUNE 25, 2019: A ZALA Lancet-3 attack drone developed by Kalashnikov Concern on display at the Army 2019 International Military Technical Forum at Patriot Park. Marina Lystseva/TASS | On March 2, news sources released videos documenting recent Russian strikes on two M109 self-propelled 155 mm howitzers of Kiev forces within the special military operation zone in Ukraine. | The howitzers were targeted with Lancet loitering munitions. At least one of the howitzers was repor…
(2023-03-03). U.S. Forces Are Searching For Drones, Anti-Aircraft Missiles In Syria's Al-Tanf (Photos). southfront.org 
Green Berets and their partner force, the Maghaweir al-Thowra (MaT), during a joint patrol mission near At-Tanf Garrison, Syria, April 29, 2020. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. William Howard) | The United States-led coalition is searching for drones and anti-aircraft missiles near its garrison in the southeastern Syrian area of al-Tanf. | On March 1, the coalition's proxy in al-Tanf, the Syrian Free Army (SFA), released photos showi…
(2023-03-03). Atlanta event April 1 featuring Eugene Puryear: Peace in Ukraine – No to Endless U.S. Wars! answercoalition.org 
Peace in Ukraine – No to Endless U.S. Wars!, Fund People's Needs, Not the War Machine!: | , Featured speaker: Eugene Puryear, journalist and organizer with ANSWER Coalition: | , Atlanta, GA, Saturday, April 1 – 1pm ET, The Neighborhood Church (1561 McLendon Ave NE): | The moment is now to inaugurate a new, multi-national, grassroots movement to demand an end to the war in Ukraine. There is no road to peace if the U.S. government policy remains to obstruct negotiations and send endless weapons into the war zone to escalate its war against Russia. | We must begin to build a peace movem…
(2023-03-03). Russia Says It Suspended New START Treaty Because the US Helped Ukraine Attack Strategic Sites. news.antiwar.com Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Thursday that one of the reasons Moscow suspended its participation in the New START treaty was because the US helped Ukraine attack a facility housing Russian nuclear weapons. New START is the last nuclear arms control treaty between the US and Russia and limits the deployment of warheads …
(2023-03-03). Borrell boasts how he broke EU's "taboo" of not wanting to send weapons. infobrics.org EU's diplomacy chief equalises assistance to French dairy farmers to sending arms to Ukraine.
(2023-03-03). Medvedev Defines the Red Line for Direct War with NATO. libya360.wordpress.com British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky meet Ukrainian troops being trained on Challenger 2 tanks at Lulworth in Dorset Training Ukrainians on Western weapons qualifies, said Dmitry Medvedev after the Bryansk attack Canadian and German troops teaching Ukrainians how to use Leopard tanks already qualifies as participation in the conflict, but…
(2023-03-03). How Israeli cyber weapons are taking over Latin America. mintpressnews.com In January, Salvadoran newspaper El Faro revealed that the country's police have purchased three Israeli surveillance tools. Through the approximately $2.2 million contract, El Salavador's police acquired the Wave Guard Tracer, from Wave Guard Technologies, designed to trace calls, text, and data, the GEOLOC system sold by an unknown Israeli firm, which intercepts signals between …
(2023-03-03). Will China Send Weapons to Russia? sonar21.com 
Yes. I think they will. But not because Russia is running out of shells and rockets. Nope. I think China wants a chance to field test some of its weaponry…
(2023-03-03). Lawmakers Quietly Gave Weapons Firms a Bailout for So-Called Inflation Relief. truthout.org The defense industry spent the majority of 2022 exploiting inflation as a justification for more military spending. It succeeded when Congress delivered a budget $45 billion higher than the president requested, but lesser known is how Congress quietly slipped contractors another form of so-called inflation relief in the annual defense policy bill. Lawmakers authorized potential sweeping price… |