(2023-07-01). US Legally Owes Reparations To Nicaragua; Refuses To Honor Ruling. popularresistance.org The International Court of Justice in the Hague ruled in 1986 that the US government had violated international law in its attacks on Nicaragua and that it owed the Central American nation reparations. | June 27, 2023 was the 37th anniversary of this ruling, and Washington still to this day refuses to pay Nicaragua the money that it legally owes it. | The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the judicial arm of the United Nations. (It is not to be confused with the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is independent of the UN. The ICJ was founded in 1945, in order to settle disputes between states; wherea…
(2023-07-01). Panama speeds up destruction of firearms. plenglish.com According to the report from the Ministry of Security (Minseg), the operation took place on Thursday in the presence of national and capital authorities, including Governor Carla García and the director of Patrimonial Assets at the Ministry of Economy and Finances, Orlando Barria. | Security Minister Juan Manuel Pino pointed out that this was the 37th ceremony of this kind during the administration of President Laurentino Cortizo (2019-2024). | The official explained specified that 349 of the total number of weapons destroyed came from criminal activities, 642 were property of the National Police and others belo…
(2023-06-30). BRICS: A Positive Alternative for a New World Order. libya360.wordpress.com BRICS and the Political Economy of the New World Order Nivedita Das Kundu The BRICS countries are asserting themselves in global politics, aiming for greater representation and influence. They have the potential to drive global economic growth and innovation, particularly through investments in education and emerging technologies. The development of a consolidated and constructive global…
(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…
(2023-07-01). Digital China a crucial engine to advance Chinese modernization: Experts. ecns.cn Digitalizing China is a crucial engine to advance the Chinese modernization, experts said at a forum held during the CNS Frontiers in Finance and Economics Conference Mid-2023 hosted by China News Service and organized by China News Network in Beijing on Thursday.
(2023-07-01). 3rd China-Africa Expo kicks off in Hunan. ecns.cn The third China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo with the theme of "Common Development for a Shared Future", kicked off in Changsha on Thursday.
(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 …
(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.
(2023-07-01). FAO strengthens gender capacities in Cuba. plenglish.com Havana, Jul 1 (Prensa Latina) The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is collaborating in Cuba to strengthen gender capacities in economic knowledge projects, according to a statement released on Friday.
(2023-07-01). Mayo Clinic names leaders for Discovery Oasis biotech innovation hub in Phoenix. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org In 2021, Mayo Clinic announced plans to develop a biotechnology innovation hub called Discovery Oasis adjacent to Mayo Clinic Hospital in North Phoenix. Two leaders have now been named to champion this organizational priority. Steven Lester, M.D., Mayo Clinic cardiologist and health care futurist, will serve as the medical director for Discovery Oasis. Aric Bopp, an experienced economic development leader, will serve as its executive director. "I am inspired by this opportunity because I believe Discovery…
(2023-06-30). Bolivia: Catastrophic Standoff and Dual Power. libya360.wordpress.com Katu Arkonada The popular victory of October 2020, one year after the coup, without any doubt recovered democracy, but not the process of change prior to the 2019 coup d'état. 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…
(2023-06-30). The Heat: China-Africa Economic Relations. america.cgtn.com 
China-Africa trade sets a new record. We'll go behind the numbers of their growing economic partnership. China has been Africa's largest trading partner for 14 straight years and its fourth-biggest source of investment. Bilateral trade reached a record $282 billion last year, in part due …
(2023-06-30). Trade Between Colombia and Venezuela Soars by 76%: Venezuelan Exports More than Double. orinocotribune.com According to the Venezuelan-Colombian Chamber of Economic Integration (CAVECOL), trade between Colombia and Venezuela saw a significant boost, with a 76% increase compared to last year. Moreover, Venezuelan exports to Colombia more than doubled during the same period. | CAVECOL president Luis Alberto Russián stated in a recent interview that trade between Colombia and Venezuela increased from $106 million in 2022 to $187 million in 2023 — an increase of 76%. | "Trade grew by 76%, and in the same period, exports grew 150%, but we have to keep working," Russián stated. He added that the increase is mainly due…
(2023-06-30). Venezuela: Opposition Politician María Corina Machado to Unveil Economic Plan in New York Amidst Presidential Aspirations and Legal Uncertainties. orinocotribune.com
(2023-06-30). BRICS Nations Shifting Global Economics and Political Order. infobrics.org BRICS comprises Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa which represent five major world economies in the Global South. Right from valuing local currencies more to working towards dethroning the U.S. dollar, these nations are together trying to shift the power from the Global North to the Global South…
(2023-06-30). Colombia, Venezuela to launch Integration Commission. plenglish.com Both nations will seek to promote cooperation and joint development in neighboring areas, following the re-establishment of their political, diplomatic, commercial and economic ties past August when Gustavo Petro took the office. | At the end of the meeting, held at the San Carlos Palace, the two foreign ministers and respective delegations signed several agreements in virtue of strengthening bilateral ties. | "What we are doing today, which is to return to good neighborliness, to integration, to leave behind that mistake, is something that exalts both republics," said Leyva. | Colombian FM, on the other hand, no…
(2023-06-30). Mainstream Media Colludes with U.S. Government To Conceal Source of Syria's Heartbreaking Humanitarian Crisis. covertactionmagazine.com Illegal U.S. bombing raids, brutal economic sanctions, and incredibly brazen theft by U.S. forces of 66,000 barrels of Syrian oil per day (80% of its total output) have visited a biblical-scale tragedy upon the Syrian people that has battered them virtually back to the stone age. Following a devastating earthquake in February that displaced thousands of people …
(2023-06-30). Petro Decrees Economic and Social Emergency in La Guajira. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Colombian President Gustavo Petro decreed a state of economic and social emergency in La Guajira, a department located in the northern part of the country that has been devastated by drought. | RELATED: | "It is absolutely necessary to declare the economic and social emergency because a public calamity is looming. All climate models are warning us about an impending drought that has never been seen b…
(2023-06-30). US Delivery Truck Drivers' Nationwide Strike Imminent: The Hill. telesurenglish.net The Teamsters working for shipping giant UPS said a strike is "imminent" after walking away from the bargaining table, reported The Hill. | RELATED: | The UPS Teamsters said that it gave UPS a one-week notice on Tuesday to "act responsibly and exchange a stronger economic proposal" to more than 340,000 employees of the shipping company. The Teamsters demanded that UPS deliver its "last, best and final offer" to the…
(2023-06-30). New Zealand: Plastic Produce Bags Banned From July 1. telesurenglish.net Official statements show that New Zealand's major supermarkets have been preparing for the second phase of the national plastics ban starting from Saturday (July 1), which will see the phase-out of more single-use plastics. | Related: | According to the Ministry for Environment, this round of the national ban targets single-use and hard-to-recycle items, is expected to stop 150 million produce bags from ending up…
(2023-07-01). Activists in Ghana march to the parliament demanding tax-free periods. peoplesdispatch.org Ghanaian activists took to the streets of Accra for the "Don't Tax My Period" parade where they opposed the heavy taxation of menstrual hygiene products. The action aimed to draw attention to the pervasive yet often overlooked issue of period poverty…
(2023-07-01). Correspondence] How funders can support improved clinical trial practice for outbreaks. thelancet.com The World Health Assembly's resolution 75 ∑8 on strengthening clinical trials is a call to action to improve the quality and coordination of trials globally.1 Large-scale, sufficiently powered trials are important in the context of outbreak response, when opportunities to gather evidence for clinical management are scarce. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the health system witnessed success in the rapid initiation of adaptive trials that generated life-saving results, but also a proliferation of competing, underpowered trials that were concentrated in high-income settings.
(2023-07-01). NZ trade union hails phony "victory" in universities jobs crisis. wsws.org The TEU has led academics and students into a dead-end by insisting that the onslaught on tertiary education can be reversed by appeals to the Labour-Green Party government.
(2023-07-01). NZ trade union hails phony "victory" in universities' jobs crisis. wsws.org The TEU has led academics and students into a dead-end by insisting that the onslaught on tertiary education can be reversed by appeals to the Labour-Green Party government.
(2023-07-01). Mick Lynch, Sharon Graham and the capitulating left. thecommunists.org The following article is reproduced from the Class Conciousness Project with thanks. ***** Another week and another exasperating capitulation by the so-called leaders of the so-called 'left'. It seems like a neverending conveyer belt of promise that always falls into the waste bin that is the Labour party. The RMT's Mick Lynch was bellowing his …
(2023-07-01). Time to stop routine prescription of low-molecular-weight heparin to women with recurrent pregnancy loss and inherited thrombophilia. thelancet.com There has been a knowledge gap concerning the effect of anticoagulant treatment for recurrent pregnancy loss in women with hereditary thrombophilia. In the updated guideline from the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology on recurrent pregnancy loss from 2022,1 there is a conditional recommendation not to use low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH), based on low certainty of evidence. This called for another trial, particularly as LMWH was still being prescribed by many clinicians. In The Lancet, Siobhan Quenby and colleagues presented the results of the ALIFE2 trial, an international collaborative eff…
(2023-07-01). STOP Robo Madness NOW! SF Taxi & UBER Drivers Protest Dangers Of AI Cars & The Tech Barons. indybay.org
(2023-07-01). Mayo Clinic and University of Minnesota announce new pathway program for training nurse-midwives. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences and the University of Minnesota School of Nursing are collaborating to create a new academic pathway for nurse-midwives that will expand the nurse-midwifery workforce in the Upper Midwest. The collaboration creates a pathway for students admitted to the University of Minnesota School of Nursing's Doctor of Nursing Practice program to complete the approximately 1,000 hours of required clinical training at Mayo Clinic hospitals in Minnesota and…
(2023-07-01). Mayo Clinic researchers pioneer AI method to predict how cells are organized in disease microenvironments. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Cells in the human body, the building blocks of life, are arranged in a precise way. That's necessary because pathways and spaces provide a means for cells to communicate, collaborate and function within the specific tissue or organ. Changes in cell arrangement can lead to uncontrolled cell growth, cell death and diseases, including cancer. Scientists at the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine and Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed an artificial intelligence method, called Spatially Informed Artificial…
(2023-07-01). Communications Workers Seek Answers And Accountability From Top Leaders. popularresistance.org When your union doesn't permit direct election of national officers, hasn't had a contested convention vote for union president since the 1950s, and has never had a presidential debate, how should an activist respond to an unprecedented three-way race for the top spot? | AT&T call center worker Kieran Knutson, who is president of Communications Workers Local 7250 in Minneapolis, had two choices. He could treat the race as a matter of concern only to executive board members going to the convention in St. Louis where a new president will be picked—or as "an important opportunity for CWA members to take s…
(2023-07-01). Australian Broadcasting Corporation axes 120 jobs, decimating news, arts and other vital services. wsws.org ABC management, working in collaboration with the MEAA and the CPSU, have halved the state-funded broadcaster's workforce in the past three decades.
(2023-07-01). Labor's "buy-back" scheme cuts and exclusions outrage residents in Australian flood-hit region. wsws.org After more than 16 months of living in limbo in makeshift accommodation, distraught flood victims have suddenly received "cold calls" from government officials, saying they are not eligible for assistance.
(2023-07-01). European parliament committee recommends EU collaborate with ICC to probe Israeli war crimes. peoplesdispatch.org The resolution by the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee regretted ""the limited progress on the ICC investigations in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the occupied Palestinian territories" and called for helping the ICC and its prosecutor move forward with the investigation and the prosecution…
(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). Biden administration's Department of Labor denies Will Lehman's complaint protesting UAW election disenfranchisement. wsws.org The DOL denied Lehman's complaint without explanation or addressing any of the evidence of voter suppression he had presented.
(2023-06-30). OceanGate and how the wealthy kill. mronline.org 
The saga of the OceanGate Titan submersible was the sort of story that rivets millions of people. Not only was it revealed that passengers paid $250,000 to see the wreck of the Titanic, but the vessel was poorly built, and its creator ignored warnings about its defects and continued to use it.
(2023-06-30). Millions of people in the US ration medicine as Big Pharma fights to keep prices high By: Natalia Marques. midwesternmarx.com 
(2023-07-01). Supreme Court strikes down Biden's partial student loan forgiveness plan, 43 million borrowers denied debt relief. wsws.org No faction of the court expressed any concerns about administrative "overreach" only weeks ago when the Treasury, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation unilaterally declared a systemic financial risk and made available hundreds of billions of dollars to guarantee the assets of rich depositors at three failing banks.
(2023-06-30). "What Arrogance Looks Like": Supreme Court Justice Alito's Ruling vs. EPA Allegedly Violates Ethics. democracynow.org 
On the final day of the Supreme Court's term, we speak with David Dayen, executive editor of The American Prospect, about recent revelations detailing many of the Supreme Court conservative justices' close relationships to Republican megadonors, and how allegations of financial impropriety further delegitimize the court's standing as an objective legal authority. "These are lifetime appointments," says Dayen. "This is what arrogance looks like."…
(2023-06-30). Argentina Enables Deposits in Yuan for Local Bank Accounts. telesurenglish.net The Central Bank of Argentina announced that it will allow financial entities to use the Chinese yuan as a currency to capture deposits from individuals and legal entities. | RELATED: | According to a statement released Thursday, financial entities will be able to open checking and savings accounts denominated in the Chinese currency. | The central bank indicated that "the measure is complementary to the decision of the National Securities Commission…
(2023-06-30). All Aboard the Gravy Train: An Independent Audit of US Funding for Ukraine. orinocotribune.com 
By Heather Kaiser, Anya Parampil and Max Blumenthal — Jun 27, 2023 | In the absence of official scrutiny of Washington's spending spree on Ukraine, The Grayzone conducted an independent audit of US funding for the country. We discovered a series of wasteful, highly unusual expenditures the Biden administration has yet to explain. | During a recent discussion with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Samantha Power, touted her organization's push to guarantee transparency for US taxpayer funds sent to Ukraine. | "We are inv…
(2023-07-01). Bolivia Forges Lithium Extraction Partnerships with China and Russia. orinocotribune.com Bolivia's government has recently entered into agreements with Chinese and Russian companies for the extraction of lithium from two of the country's salt flats. Signed on Thursday, June 29, these agreements grant authorization to China's Citic Guoan and Russia's Uranium One Group to deploy their direct lithium extraction (DLE) technologies for lithium exploration in Bolivia, with a substantial total investment of $1.4 billion. | A previous agreement worth a similar value had already been signed in January with the Chinese consortium CATL BRUNP & CMOC (CBC). Currently, there are four companies operating in the Bol…
(2023-06-30). Private health companies prosper while healthcare access stagnates. peoplesdispatch.org A new report by Oxfam shows how investments made by development finance institutions from the Global North benefit private health companies rather than people in need of health care…
(2023-06-30). Public Pension Funds Have Lost Billions on Their Fossil Fuel Investments: New Analysis. desmog.com
(2023-06-30). Bolivia To Process Lithium With Russian and Chinese Companies. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Bolivian President Luis Arce signed agreements with China's Citic Guoan and Russia's Uranium One Group for the application of their Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) technologies in two salt flats, with a total investment of US$1.4 billion. | RELATED: | These agreements add to the one signed in January with the Chinese consortium CATL BRUNP & CMOC (CBC). President Arce pointed out that Bolivia has signed deals…
(2023-07-01). Regulations address use of civilian drones. ecns.cn China has issued a set of rules to govern the use of civilian drones.
(2023-06-30). A deeply misleading narrative. mronline.org 
A Deeply Misleading Narrative: Answering the Claims of Cedric Robinson's 'Black Marxism'.
(2023-06-30). BOOK REVIEW: WORKING CLASS GIANT, THE LIFE OF WILLIAM Z. FOSTER By: Bob Bonner. midwesternmarx.com 
Imagine if you will, that we lived in a country in which TV and movie scripts were produced for merit and not edited and censored to ensure compliance with capitalist ideology.Imagine that in this fictitious USA, it were possible to make movies celebrating heroic leaders of the struggles for working people, Black people, and immigrants.Imagine that those films could be financed, promoted, and viewed as widely as the mindless tripe we are currently subjected to that encompasses all …
(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 …
(2023-06-30). Ukraine Violated Peace Agreement Approved in Turkey, Putin Reveals By: Al Mayadeen Español. midwesternmarx.com Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed during an African leaders meeting in St. Petersburg that Russian forces had withdrawn from Kiev and other regions of Ukraine last year in compliance with a peace agreement reached in Turkey, as part of an African mediation mission to Russia.However, during the meeting with the members of the African delegation, who were entrusted with presenting an initiative to resolve the Ukrainian conflict, Putin informed them that Kiev had declined to sign the …
(2023-07-01). NSW hospital workers strike over wages. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-07-01). Largest Hotel Workers' Strike In Modern US History May Begin Soon. popularresistance.org On June 22, nearly 200 workers, union leaders, progressive politicians, and other community members were arrested in a mass civil disobedience action. 200 demonstrators sat down in the middle of the road in Los Angeles, subjecting themselves to arrest to demand better wages, pensions, a housing fund, benefits, and safer workloads for UNITE HERE Local 11 workers in Los Angeles. | Workers are gearing up to possibly strike after their contract with Hyatt, IHG, Hilton and Marriott hotels in LA expires on June 30. Local 11 workers authorized a strike on June 8 with 96% approval. This strike would involve over 15,000 u…
(2023-07-01). ON STRIKE: 1,800 Portland Prudential nurses. workers.org 
Portland, Oregon Nurses and clinicians marched off the job June 19 for a weeklong strike after an overwhelming 97% strike authorization vote from three Providence facilities: Providence Portland, Providence Seaside and Providence Home Health and Hospice. The nurses' demands emphasize health care coverage, paid time off, wages and staffing levels. . . . |
(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)…
(2023-07-01). EVG rail union agrees to arbitration with Deutsche Bahn, calls off strike. wsws.org The EVG executive could not demonstrate more clearly that it wants to avoid industrial action at all costs.
(2023-07-01). Israel Claims It Seized Millions Of Dollars In Cryptocurrency From Quds Force, Hezbollah. southfront.org 
File image. | On June 27, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced the seizure of digital wallets with millions of dollars in cryptocurrency that belonged to both Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and Lebanese Hezbollah. | Gallant said at a conference hosted by the ministry's National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing (NBCTF) that the funds were being used for "terrorism" and the seizure constitutes the first of its kind for Israel."A few days ago, an extensive and pr…
(2023-07-01). For strike pay immediately at our full pay rate! Broaden the National Steel Car strike to win our demands! wsws.org With the strike launched Thursday, we have struck an important first blow. It is now imperative we build on that by taking the conduct of the struggle from the pro-company USW bureaucrats into our own hands.
(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…
(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.
(2023-07-01). Socialist Sarah Hathway elected to the City of Greater Geelong Council. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-07-01). Falleció Hugo Blanco, histórico luchador social y ecosocialista peruano. indybay.org
(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.
(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 . . . |
(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…
(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.
(2023-07-01). CPC sees membership rise 1.4% to 98.04 million. ecns.cn The number of the Communist Party of China members reached 98.04 million at the end of 2022, and the total membership was 1.4 percent up from the 2021 figure, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee said Friday.
(2023-07-01). CPC leadership reviews guidelines on policies supporting construction of Xiong'an. ecns.cn The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting on Friday to review Guidelines on Policies and Measures Supporting the High-standard and High-quality Construction of Xiong'an New Area. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting.
(2023-07-01). Former CIA chief to John Pilger: backing Pinochet's crimes in Chile was 'worth it'. thecommunists.org For those who believe in the whole narrative about how the USA fights for freedom and democracy or whatever, there was a time when the CIA — before it openly integrated into the newsrooms of media corporations like NBC and CNN — was candid about its real mission. In this video, journalist John Pilger interviews …