(2023-07-21). Saudi Arabia To Provide 500-Mln-Usd Aid to Tunisia's Economy. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Saudi Arabia signed agreements with Tunisia to provide 500 million U.S. dollars to help finance Tunisia's state budget. | Related: | According to official statements, at the government headquarters in Tunis, in the presence of Tunisian Prime Minister Najla Bouden Romdhane, the agreements were signed by Tunisian Finance Minister Sihem Namsia and her Saudi counterpart Mohammed bin Abdullah Al-Jadaan.
(2023-07-21). James Cleverly Rules Out UK And US Troops Joining Conflict In Ukraine. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size imageMeanwhile, Germany does not have a single combat-ready division. | Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher | UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said on July 19 that he had doubts that UK and US troops would fight in Ukraine when asked at the Aspen Institute's Security Forum. Although this guarantee was made at the forum, Cleverly could not help but make bombastic claims, such as Russia's military facing an inevitable collapse."Be under no illusion Russia…
(2023-07-21). Is the US a Failed State with Michael Hudson. indybay.org It's a failed state because its economy is paralyzed and we're in a debt deflation, an economic polarization, that is just transferring all wealth and income away from labor, away from industry, into really the financial sector and what I call the finance, insurance, and real estate sector.
(2023-07-21). "The war in Ukraine is a war for the dollar" – part 2. indybay.org Moscow has really threatened the U.S. dollar on the international stage, and with it the entire U.S. economy behind it. Since Putin took office, well before 2021 and even before the anti-Russian coup in Ukraine in 2014, Russia, a leading energy power, has begun the process of liquidating U.S. dollar-denominated bonds. Russia halved the number of U.S. bonds it held.
(2023-07-21). "It's Not Socialism": China is a Capitalist Cheap Labour Economy, Based on Exceedingly Low Wages. globalresearch.ca
(2023-07-21). Militant Black Unionism Offers Best Resistance to Growing White Nationalism. truthout.org The United States economy keeps Black labor at the bottom because when bosses conceded on slavery, they settled on poverty wages. While white nationalism's most visible soldiers are terror organizations and politicians, the quest for racial purity is made possible by Sears, General Motors, Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil, Chase Bank, and other so-called job creators. Corporate benefactors fund extremist… |
(2023-07-21). Insights | CPC never forgets its main mission to serve people: Italian expert. ecns.cn The Communist Party of China (CPC) has never forgotten its main mission, which is to serve the people and their interests. The distinctive model of the socialist market economy has tried to combine private profits and common prosperity, productivity and welfare, merit and social demand, something even impossible to think of nowadays in the West.
(2023-07-21). Chinese, Ukrainian commerce officials eye deepening economic cooperation, expanding imports. ecns.cn China's Vice Minister of Commerce and Deputy International Trade Representative Ling Ji met with Deputy Minister for Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine Taras Kachka in Beijing on Thursday.
(2023-07-21). Argentine president denounces effects of debt with IMF. plenglish.com Buenos Aires, Jul 21 (Prensa Latina) The debt contracted by former President Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) represents an impressive weight for the Argentine economy, President Alberto Fernández said today.
(2023-07-20). Nicaraguans Celebrate Anniversary Of The Sandinista Revolution. popularresistance.org In the United States, the word "socialism" has come to have a negative meaning. In that meaning, the word implies the loss of individual sovereignty, rejection of religion and the institution of authoritarian political measures. | While denounced as socialist by U.S. propagandists and repeated by the ill-informed media, in fact, Nicaragua has a mixed economy based on traditional humane Christian spiritual beliefs under the concept of Sandinismo. It also encourages multiple political parties in line with genuinely social democratic ideals. | The foreign media denounce the Ortega administration for its alleged oppr…
(2023-07-21). African Union: STC New Economic Objective. telesurenglish.net This July 21 culminates the sixth Specialized Technical Committee of the African Union, with new economic objectives raised and agreed upon. | Related: | Russia Ready to Supply Free Grain to African Countries -Kremlin | After several days of sessions between ministers, central bank presidents, specialists in economic issues, and investors, the meeting has managed to specify several areas of work and understanding. The central purpose is to implement the collective development…
(2023-07-21). UN proposes elimination of all nuclear weapons as first step under new agenda for peace. peoplesdispatch.org Rising geopolitical and geo-economic tensions across the globe need a better, reformed, and updated UN system which reflects the growing multipolarity and is more representative, unbiased, and effective…
(2023-07-21). One year after mass uprising, Sri Lanka's political and economic crisis festers. peoplesdispatch.org Ahilan Kadirgamar, Senior Lecturer at the University of Jaffna, talks about the political and economic crisis in Sri Lanka, one year after the uprising that overthrew President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. He explains how the Ranil Wickremesinghe regime has combined repression with anti-people economic policies…
(2023-07-21). Venezuela's National Assembly Approves New Tax Law Aimed at Safeguarding Citizen Rights and Fostering Economic Growth. orinocotribune.com 
The National Assembly of Venezuela has approved the Organic Law for the Coordination and Harmonization of the Tax Powers of the States and Municipalities. | The law was approved by the National Assembly during a second round of discussions on Tuesday, July 18. It is aimed at protecting the rights of Venezuelan people embroiled in tax issues. | Jorge Rodríguez, the president of the National Assembly, emphasized that the primary objective of this law is to establish a systematic framework for tax regulations while safeguarding the rights of individuals, merchants, entrepreneurs, and small businesses. Additionally,…
(2023-07-21). Guidance greeted as stimulative for entrepreneurs. ecns.cn China's latest guidance to drive the development of the private sector will boost confidence among private enterprises, allowing them to make more innovations and stimulate market vitality for greater economic growth.
(2023-07-21). IMF Surcharge Fees Hurt Those the Fund Is Meant to Help. cepr.net DC Journal Opelika-Auburn News See article on original site When Rep. Chuy Garcia, D-Illinois, learned about the International Monetary Fund's surcharge policy, it felt familiar: "To me, this looks like the business model of payday lenders here in Chicago, not an economic development agency." The IMF is the lender of last resort to countries experiencing economic difficulties. …
(2023-07-21). World Federation of Trade Unions rejects US blockade against Cuba. plenglish.com Havana, Jul 21 (Prensa Latina) The general secretary of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), Pambis Kyritsis, rejected here the use of economic blockades as a political tool of powerful nations to impose their model of domination on countries like Cuba.
(2023-07-21). 7 Signs The Ad-Supported Media Business Is Headed For Financial Crisis. moguldom.com Media companies are being hit hard by the current economic downturn the U.S. is experiencing. Media companies, big and small, are announcing total shutdowns or major workforce cuts. While it is mainly media that is ad-supported, even non-profit media companies are making deep cuts as well. But this is really nothing new; media job losses …
(2023-07-21). Private firms on tap for more gov't assistance. ecns.cn China will soon roll out a series of policy measures to support more private investment and boost private enterprises as part of a package of measures to bolster corporate confidence and revive economic recovery.
(2023-07-21). Nation's ODI to maintain upward trajectory. ecns.cn China's outbound direct investment is poised to maintain an upward trajectory in the second half of 2023, boosting the growth of its private companies and contributing to global economic recovery.
(2023-07-20). From Affirmative Action To Reparations: Bridging Racial Economic Inequality. scheerpost.com 
(2023-07-20). 175+ Groups Urge Biden to Immediately Enact New Student Debt Cancellation Plan. scheerpost.com 
"Restarting the fundamentally broken student loan system without first delivering on the relief promised to borrowers remains a grave mistake, and will only exacerbate already dire economic situations for millions."
(2023-07-20). Machado Confirms Neoliberal Agenda at Council of the Americas Forum. orinocotribune.com María Corina Machado, the far-right pre candidate for Venezuela's primary elections, reiterated her neoliberal agenda as she spoke about her hopes to run for the presidency. Machado is currently unable to hold public office in Venezuela due to her efforts to overthrow the country's democratically elected president. | This Tuesday, July 18, Machado presented her "Economic Plan of Government" at a virtual event organized by the far-right think tank
(2023-07-20). Russia Extends Countermeasures Against Sanctions to 2025. telesurenglish.net Russian President Vladimir Putin extended until December 31, 2025, the validity of trade restrictions against non-friendly countries in response to Western sanctions. | RELATED: | The previous version of the decree "On the use of special economic measures in foreign trade" was initially issued on March 8, 2022, and was to be in effect until December 31, 2023. | The new document is now available on the official web…
(2023-07-20). EU Says Slavery Inflicted 'Untold Suffering,' Hints At Reparations. moguldom.com The European Union (EU) has acknowledged and expressed deep regret for the "untold suffering" inflicted by Europe's slave-trading past on millions of people. The EU also hinted at the need for reparations for slavery, which it described as a "crime against humanity." The EU is a supranational political and economic union of 27 member states …
(2023-07-20). Military Situation In Iraq On July 20, 2023 (Map Update). southfront.org 
The Iraqi security forces arrested four ISIS members in the Nineveh province; | Hundreds of Iraqi protesters attacked the Sweden's embassy in Baghdad and set it on fire in response to Sweden's permission to burn the Holy Quran and the Iraqi flag again.; | After insulting the Holy Quran in Sweden under auspice of Sweden government, the Ashab al-Kahf resistance group announced that the forces of this group will target all commercial and economic interests of Sweden in Iraq;…
(2023-07-20). Experts Pitch for Kenya to Join BRICS. infobrics.org As more countries are considering joining BRICS, the bloc of emerging economies, experts in Kenya are now urging the new administration to follow suit for economic and trade benefits…
(2023-07-20). BRICS Currency: Is It a Feasible Idea?>. infobrics.org In recent times, there has been a growing call among countries to trade in currencies apart from the US dollar due to the economic disruption caused by Western sanctions against Russia and its subsequent eviction from international dollar-trading systems like SWIFT…
(2023-07-20). Economic and Financial Collapse: "Saudi Crown Prince has a new plan for Lebanon" globalresearch.ca
(2023-07-20). Venezuela's Non-Energy Exports Reach $3 Billion in 2023. orinocotribune.com According to data from the Venezuelan Exporters Association (AVEX), Venezuela's exports—excluding the energy sector—have reached approximately $3 billion so far in 2023. | AVEX president, Ramón Goyo, According to Goyo, Venezuela's main markets are the European Union, the United States—whose governments maintain illegal sanctions against Venezuela[m…
(2023-07-21). As Yellen dictates terms to China What we defend, what Wall Street wants to destroy. workers.org 
What is the material basis of the growing hostility on every level of the U.S. ruling class toward China? No great struggle is based on the personalities or aspirations of individuals. At the root is a very concrete, material basis that drives the conflict. Otherwise, meetings, discussions and diplomacy would . . . |
(2023-07-21). 60 Years After the March on Washington, 1 in 3 Black Children Live in Poverty. truthout.org Conservatives today would have you believe the civil rights movement of the 1960s was so successful that systemic racism is a problem of the past. Every February, white Republicans observe Black History Month by twisting famous lines from Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech to serve their own agendas. The Constitution is "colorblind," they claim, and if this flies in the face of… |
(2023-07-21). Not even remittances can save El Salvador from poverty. plenglish.com San Salvador, Jul 21 (Prensa Latina) At least two of ten Salvadoran families who receive remittances from the United States and other countries are in a state of poverty, El Salvador's Multipurpose Household Survey (EHPM) reported.
(2023-07-20). The World Needs a New Development Theory That Does Not Trap the Poor in Poverty. scheerpost.com 
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research In June, the United Nations' Sustainable Development Solutions Network published its Sustainable Development Report 2023, which tracks the progress of the 193 member states towards attaining the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 'From 2015 to 2019', the network wrote, 'the world made some progress on the SDGs, although this was already …
(2023-07-20). Poem: Spiritual Land/Spiritless Man. greenleft.org.au 
Damian Balassone, on the poverty of spirit.
(2023-07-20). When The Welfare Rights Movement Was Force For Uplifting The Poor. popularresistance.org When Dartmouth history professor Annelise Orleck was still working on her first book, Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965, she learned about the work of an intrepid group of low-income, southern-born women in Las Vegas, Nevada. Thirteen years of research and interviews followed. The result, Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty, tells the amazing story of fed-up and reviled welfare recipients who organized on their own behalf, winning a raft of financial, medical and educational improvements for themselves, their chi…
(2023-07-22). Correspondence] Orthopaedic preparedness for disasters must extend to infection surveillance. thelancet.com We read with interest the work of Hamaiyal Sana and colleagues who highlight the unique surgical requirements and barriers to quality provision of orthopaedic care in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) during disaster situations.1 Development of the suggested collaborative framework has merit, but preparedness stretches beyond adequacy of surgical equipment and must consider the entire care pathway. Disaster situations are associated with considerable disruption to diagnostic microbiology laboratory infrastructure, exacerbating limited capacity in many LMICs.
(2023-07-21). In the midst of bitter conflict with actors and writers, Netflix reports $8.2 billion in second-quarter revenue. wsws.org On Wednesday, Netflix reported total revenue of $8.2 billion in the second quarter of 2023, with net income of $1.5 billion.
(2023-07-20). Canada Is Pushing Climate Refugees Into Migrant Worker Programs. popularresistance.org In 2017, wildfires in B.C. captured headlines around the world. Canadians from coast to coast donated generously to those whose homes and businesses were impacted. But there were some agricultural workers whose precarity rendered them nearly invisible, even as they continued to labour in the heat and the smoke. Andrea,* a former blueberry worker who was employed under the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program during the disaster, vividly remembers what it was like to work during the fires. | "There was a mix of colours, red, grey, brown. It was covering the sky. You couldn't see the sky and it was hard to breathe.
(2023-07-21). Cuban President calls to strengthen local productive systems. plenglish.com At the First Ordinary Sessions of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP), the Cuban leader said major productive forms must make up robust and efficient systems subordinated by municipalities. | "Where are the workers from? Who discusses the problems? Who takes care of labor force?", the President asked as he urged for provincial and municipal autonomies to boost local development. | By empowering the municipalities, provinces and the entire country are empowered. It ¥s necessary to order, structure and transform, he added during discussions on the implementation of the Food Sovereignty and Food and N…
(2023-07-21). UC UAW Workers & Unite Here 11 Strikers Protest Union Busting By UC Bosses At UC Regents. indybay.org Hundreds of UC UAW members and Unite Here Local 11 strikers from Southern California rallied at the UC Regents meeting against the flagrant union busting tactics including felony arrests for chalking at UCSD.
(2023-07-21). Tuesday 7/18: Labor Report on Argentina With High School Teacher Luciana Alterleib, member of ADEMYS tra. indybay.org Labor Report on Argentina With High School Teacher Luciana Alterleib, member of ADEMYS trade union and a member of the workers organization Tribuna Docente, Partido Obrero in the Left Workers Front in Argentina…
(2023-07-21). Bay Area activists launch new anti-APEC coalition. workers.org 
San Francisco A broad coalition of Filipino progressive organizations, anti-imperialist groups, labor and other supporters gathered on July 11 in front of San Francisco City Hall. This was part of a countrywide push to demand "No to APEC! People Before Profits!" Demonstration against APEC, San Francisco, July 11, 2023. Photo: . . . |
(2023-07-21). Michigan Amazon Workers Stage Largest Delivery Station Strike Yet. scheerpost.com 
By Luis Feliz Leon / Labor Notes In the middle of Amazon's Prime Day promotional sales rush, 60 warehouse workers walked out for more than three hours at its delivery station in Pontiac, Michigan—bringing the facility to the brink of a total shutdown. A delivery station is the last warehouse an Amazon package passes through …
(2023-07-21). TSMC delays chip production at Arizona plant. ecns.cn Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) — the world's largest chipmaker — will delay mass production of chips at its new Arizona-based chip plant until 2025 due to a shortage of skilled labor.
(2023-07-21). U.S. Military Sought to Experiment on Africans for Big Pharma: Kremlin. strategic-culture.org 
The allegations involve Metabiota, a firm with links to US President Joe Biden's son, Hunter | Join us on , , and . | The Pentagon planned to use its biolaboratories in Africa to test unregistered medicines on local populati…
(2023-07-21). UPS Teamsters Are 'Just Practicing'. popularresistance.org The clock is ticking on the August 1 strike deadline of 340,000 UPS Teamsters. It would be the largest strike at a private employer in decades. | "People are actually paying attention," said delivery driver Kioma Forero, a Local 804 shop steward in New York City. Customers along her route stop her to say, "I hope your negotiations go well." The hosts are talking about it on Hot 97, the city's top hip-hop station. | A deal could still avert a strike—as we went to press, the Teamsters announced UPS had reached out to resume negotiations. The union bargaining team had dispersed to members' home locals after ta…
(2023-07-21). Science Saturday: Mayo Clinic discovery leads to diagnoses of 9 people with rare form of muscular dystrophy. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Nine people around the world who have been living with unexplained, muscular dystrophy-like symptoms may now have an answer for what is causing the progressive muscle weakness in their body's mid-section, arms and legs. In a new discovery, a collaborative team of scientists led by researchers at Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine has pinpointed alterations in a single gene deep inside these people's genetic blueprint as the root cause of their ultra-rare disorder, known as limb-girdle muscular…
(2023-07-21). Colombianos se movilizan en apoyo al Gobierno de Petro. telesurtv.net Trabajadores se movilizarán en todo el país para respaldar las reformas laboral, pensional y a la salud que serán presentadas ante el Congreso.
(2023-07-20). "The Weaponization of the Federal Government": The FBI's Collaboration with a Compromised Ukrainian Intelligence Agency to Censor American Speech. globalresearch.ca
(2023-07-20). UK's MI6 Spy Chief Urges Russians to Spy. news.antiwar.com The head of Britain's MI6 spy agency has called for Russians opposed to the war in Ukraine to collaborate with the intelligence service. "I invite them to do what others have done this past 18 months and join hands with us. Our door is always open," MI6 chief Richard Moore told POLITICO in an interview …
(2023-07-20). Migration and the Shadow of War. tomdispatch.com Seeking news coverage about the Adriana, the boat crowded with some 700 people migrating to Europe to seek a better life that sank in mid-June off the coast of Greece, I googled "migrant ship" and got 483,000 search results in one second. Most of the people aboard the Adriana had drowned in the Mediterranean, among them about 100 children. I did a similar search for the Titan submersible which disappeared the same week in the North Atlantic. That kludged-together pseudo-submarine was taking four wealthy men and the 19-year-old son of one of them to view the ruins of the famed passenger ship, the Titanic. They all…
(2023-07-21). Cuban Parliament debates on food, prices and energy. plenglish.com Havana, Jul 21 (Prensa Latina) The 10th Legislature of the National Assembly of People's Power (parliament) today debates transcendental issues for the population such as food, price control and the national energy system.
(2023-07-21). Federal Reserve Set to Launch Instant Payments Service FedNow: 3 Things to Know. moguldom.com On July 20, the Federal Reserve's new system for instant payments, the FedNow Service, went live. Much like Zelle, this new tool will allow banks and other financial institutions to instantly transfer money for their customers, 24/7, 365 days a year. Instant payment is a method of exchanging money and processing payments, allowing for almost …
(2023-07-20). Headlines for July 20, 2023. democracynow.org More Temperature Records Fall as U.S. Heat Wave Intensifies, Migrants Face Intense Heat in Mexico as They Wait to Apply for Asylum at U.S. Border, Receding Floodwaters in Northern India Prompt Warnings over Waterborne Diseases, Russia Bombards Ukraine's Black Sea Ports and Threatens Cargo Ships, Kenyan Police Crack Down as Protesters Rally Against Tax Hikes and Inflation, Taliban Guards Attack Women Protesting Closure of Beauty Parlors and Salons, Iraqis Storm Swedish Embassy in Baghdad to Protest Qur'an Burning in Stockholm, Egyptian President Pardons Rights Researcher and Lawyer for Political Prison…
(2023-07-21). Young organizers talk unions with Biden and Bernie at the White House. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—Ordinarily, Kumbar Nambiar, a young Yale grad, would be spending his Mondays off before relief pitching for the rest of the week for the Lansing Lugnuts, a Detroit Tigers minor league baseball farm club in outstate Michigan. Not on July 17, though. Instead, Nambiar spent it at the White House telling Democratic President Joe Biden, …
(2023-07-21). Mayo Clinic Q and A: Effects of hot weather, humidity on blood pressure, heart. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I'm retired and enjoy spending time outdoors in my garden and kayaking with my family. I have high blood pressure, which has been managed by medication for nearly 10 years. Recently I've noticed that I develop a headache, nausea and sometimes dizziness after a few hours in the heat and sun. What is causing these symptoms? ANSWER: Weather can play a role in triggering certain health problems. High temperatures and high humidity are two…
(2023-07-20). House and Senate Set Up for Fight Over How Much Military Aid to Give Taiwan. news.antiwar.com The House and Senate are set up for a fight over how much military aid to include for Taiwan in 2024 spending bills as each chamber's appropriators granted a different amount, Defense News reported Thursday. The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday passed its 2024 State Department and foreign aid spending bill that includes $113 million …
(2023-07-20). 'On what planet is that fiscally responsible?' GOP spending cuts would kill 500,000 jobs. nationofchange.org "Even by the low standards of Congress in 2023, it's shocking how quickly House Republicans ripped up their end of the bargain that steered the country clear of default last month."
(2023-07-21). Experts call for R&D investments in booming hair health sector. ecns.cn China's hair health sector requires greater investment in research and development to develop rapidly and meet rising consumer demand, industry experts have said.
(2023-07-20). Investment Industry Pours Cash Into Kyrsten Sinema's Leadership PAC. truthout.org After preserving a tax benefit for investment managers last year, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) continues to rely on investment industry donors as she faces a Democratic challenger in a possible 2024 re-election campaign. In the second quarter this year, private equity, hedge fund, and venture capital executives streamed dozens of four-figure donations to Sinema's campaign… |
(2023-07-20). Community Investors Are Doing What Big Dollar Retail Investors Won't. popularresistance.org Lyneir Richardson has been helping Black people buy the block since 1991 or 1992. | Then a new lawyer at the First National Bank of Chicago, Richardson occasionally had to take on pro-bono assignments that popped up related to the bank's community reinvestment obligations. One such pro-bono assignment sent him to his childhood neighborhood on the West Side to work on loan documents for a $100,000 loan from a community-based organization to a barbershop on Chicago Avenue. | "The amount of the loan, $100,000 or $100 million, didn't matter. It was the same documents, a promissory note, a mortgage," Richardson says.
(2023-07-20). Sports betting is a tax on fans—and a ticking time bomb. therealnews.com 
It was once taken from granted that gambling and professional sports could never mix, for the sake of the fans and the integrity of the games themselves. Those days are long gone. Smartphones have made sports betting more accessible and widespread than ever—and tech companies and sports leagues are in cahoots to reap the profits. Edge of Sports takes aim at this regressive and dangerous turn in the world of professional sports, asking what happens to the games we love when a scandal inevitably strikes. | Studio Production: David Hebden, Cameron Granadino | Post-Production: Taylor Hebden Audio | Post-…
(2023-07-20). Why capitalism is leaving the US, in search of profit. nationofchange.org Ongoing controversies and alarms surround this capitalist exodus.
(2023-07-21). Our right to be Marxist-Leninists. workers.org 
This commentary, reprinted from Havana Times, was given May 7, 2015, by late Cuban President Fidel Castro Ruz. We share this now in honor of the 70th anniversary of the attack on the Moncada Barracks, which launched the Cuban Revolution. This 2021 graphic honors the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Hospital, opened . . . |
(2023-07-21). Africa's path to socialism By: Tanupriya Singh. midwesternmarx.com 
200 delegates from 40 organizations are gathering in South Africa for the "Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism" conference. For the next four days, progressive movements and organizations will discuss the challenges posed by capitalism, and articulate the socialist way forward On Monday, July 17, 200 delegates from progressive organizations, political parties, people's movements, and trade unions across the African continent will gather in Bel …
(2023-07-21). COMMUNISTS CONDEMN DEATH THREATS AGAINST BROTHERS ALEXANDER AND MIKHAIL KONONOVICH IN UKRAINE By: MLToday. midwesternmarx.com 
Communist Party of Ireland Statement: Solidarity with Aleksander Kononovich and his brother Mikhail Kononovich The Communist Party of Ireland joins communist parties and other leftist and progressive forces around the world in condemning the death threats, persecution and other forms of ongoing intimidation against communist youth leaders Aleksander Kononovich and his brother Mikhail Kononovich who are under house arrest in Ukraine.Following the onset of the proxy NATO war against R …
(2023-07-21). Thousands of actors join picket lines in Los Angeles and New York By: David Walsh. midwesternmarx.com 
The strike by tens of thousands of US film and television actors officially began Friday. The actors, members of the Screen Actors Guild—American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), have now joined the 11,000 members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA), on strike since May 2.The actors and writers are striking against the cabal of giant film and television production companies organized in the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) over fundamental …
(2023-07-21). Canadian autoworkers at General Motors' CAMI plant forced to rely on food banks amid massive attacks on wages and conditions during electric vehicle transition. wsws.org The 170,000 autoworkers in all the other operations of the Detroit Three in Canada and the United States who face—or will face—EV retooling programs, would do well to learn the lessons of the CAMI experience.
(2023-07-20). Rents soaring to record levels in Australia. wsws.org With real wages being cut and the cost of living rising across the board, rents have grown over the past 12 months at some of the fastest rates on record.
(2023-07-21). Michael: Rapper Killer Mike releases an unflattering self-portrait. wsws.org The outspoken rapper responds to this moment of capitalism's intersecting crises … with an album that worships God and Mammon.
(2023-07-21). Video: Capitalism in Crisis. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-07-21). RFK, Jr.: It's Not Genetics, It's Racial Capitalism. popularresistance.org I know that opinions about COVID-19 and the vaccines related to it are still as varied as they are passionate, at least in the US where this government did absolutely nothing under two presidents to protect people and save lives in the midst of a global pandemic. But let me just be the one to say it if you were afraid to. Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s recent comments about the virus are wackadoodle, but should not be dismissed outright because of his dismissal of US racialized capitalism that fueled the deadly outcome of the pandemic in the US among certain groups of people.
(2023-07-21). Tropical Depression Near The Philippines, Call For Vigilance. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Philippine volcanologists called for vigilance as an approaching tropical depression could develop into a super typhoon and dump heavy rain in areas near an erupting volcano southeast of Manila. | Related: | According to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), the tropical depression will bring heavy rainfall from Sunday, triggering floods and landslides. | An…
(2023-07-21). Presidente Petro llama a discutir reformas sociales en Colombia. telesurtv.net El mandatario señaló que una reforma agraria "amplía el mercado interno, se libera la fuerza de trabajo de la tierra y por tanto se pondrían las condiciones fundamentales para la industrialización".
(2023-07-21). Australian entertainment union opposes industrial action to support striking US actors and writers. wsws.org The Media Entertainment Arts Alliance has made clear to the US entertainment corporations that there will be no disruption to their productions in Australia during the strike.
(2023-07-20). MintPress News Is Being Targeted: Join Us in Standing up to the War Machine. mintpressnews.com 
Stand up for truth. Stand up against war. Today, we invite you to join us in empowering MintPress News, the vanguard of fearless investigative journalism that unearths the hidden web of the military industrial complex.
(2023-07-20). BBC Under Fire For Doing Pesticide Giant's Public Relations. popularresistance.org The BBC has been accused of "selling the public's trust" by producing "totally biased" documentaries on the future of sustainable food sponsored by Corteva, one of the world's largest pesticide firms, potentially in breach of the broadcaster's editorial guidelines. | The "Follow the Food" documentaries, which featured a total of 28 episodes over three series, showcase "solutions" to climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and food security in the farming sector. | Sustainable farming advocates have criticised the content for favouring industrial agriculture, which is heavily dependent on chemical pesticides and fer…
(2023-07-20). Lula Sanctions Food Purchase Program for Small Producers. telesurenglish.net Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sanctioned on Thursday the Food Acquisition Program (PAA) and the Solidarity Kitchens Program. At least 30% of public purchases of food products must be made from small farmers. | RELATED: | "The government is investing in the quality of food for the Brazilian people; it is investing so that they have the right to the necessary calories and proteins, so that children c…
(2023-07-21). Reject management-union privatisation and job destruction program at Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation. wsws.org Appeals for increased retrenchment payouts is a cynical manoeuvre by union bureaucrats who are simply asking for a higher price for the destruction of jobs that they have no right to sell.
(2023-07-21). Ecosocialism needed in the age of climate emergency. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-07-21). Videos from Ecosocialism 2023. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-07-21). Comrade Tongogara, who dedicated his life to the cause of freedom. thecommunists.org Lalkar is sad to announce the death of Comrade Tongogara, who breathed his last on 11 May this year. Born Danny Morrell on 6 February 1942, he adopted the name Tongogara after the great Zimbabwean fighter Josiah Tongogara who fought for the liberation of Zimbabwe from the clutches of the racist white minority regime of …
(2023-07-20). SDS Denver stands up and speaks out for the Tampa 5. fightbacknews.org Denver, CO – On July 12, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Denver was joined at the Union Station by members of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, the Black Student Alliance of MSU Denver, and other members of the community. They staged a speak-out demanding that the politically-motivated charges against the Tampa 5 be dropped. | July 12 marked the day that the Tampa 5 made their second appearance in court. | Paul Nelson, member of the Denver SDS connected the Tampa 5 to the broader progressive movement, saying, "This is about more than just the Tampa 5. What's at risk here is right to protest. The r…
(2023-07-20). Freedom Road Socialist Organization launches two new Nationalities Commissions. fightbacknews.org The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) took another major step forward with the launching of an African American Commission and a Chicano/Latino plus other oppressed nationalities commission. Comrades from more than a dozen cities where the FRSO does organizing among African Americans, Chicanos, and other oppressed nationalities gathered to carry out a decision by the 9th Congress to establish these commissions. | Attendees ranged from veterans of the upsurge of the Asian American, Black, and Chicano peoples struggles in the 1960s and 1970s to a plurality of the meeting who joined in the last three years…
(2023-07-20). Malaysian socialists in election pact with youth-based party. greenleft.org.au 
The Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) and the Malaysian United Democracy Alliance (MUDA) have agreed on an electoral pact for the upcoming state assembly elections on August 12, reports Peter Boyle.
(2023-07-21). Insights | BRI doesn't distinguish participants based on ideologies, nor does it respond to zero-sum game logic: expert. ecns.cn "The Communist Party of China (CPC) has never forgotten its main mission, which is to serve the people and their interests," said Fabio Massimo Parenti, professor of international studies at the International Institute Lorenzo de' Medici in Florencein an online interview with China News Network.
(2023-07-21). Donetsk communist leader: 'No democracy in Ukraine'. thecommunists.org Steve Sweeney interviews Boris Litinov, head of the Donetsk republican branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Topics discussed range from Comrade Litinov's views on the split in the international communist movement over the war in Ukraine, his thoughts on the effect of western propaganda on the communist and trade union organisations in …