(2022-06-13). Marcello Musto's Anthology of Karl Marx's Writings on Alienation (Book Review). orinocotribune.com 
By Carlos L. Garrido | Marcello Musto's anthology of Karl Marx's Writings on Alienation
(2022-06-13). Red Theory: The contradiction between town and country. fightbacknews.org Much is made of what is often referred to as the urban/rural divide. There is a fundamental disconnect, we are told, between the people from the cities and the rural population. Marx and Engels called this contradiction the division between town and country. Marxism-Leninism can help us understand this contradiction, how it arose historically, and how it can be overcome. | When we think of this contradiction, a lot of things come to mind. We may think of the distinction between more conservative "red states" and more liberal "blue states." We think of disparities in terms of education and infrastructure. We may t…
(2022-06-13). Prices for workers rise by more than 9%. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – On Friday, June 10, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that prices for workers' families, the so-called Consumer Price Index-Wage or CPI-W rose by 9.3% as compared to prices a year ago. This rate of inflation is near a 40-year high, only exceeded by the 9.4% increase in March. The last time that prices rose so quickly was in November of 1981. | The headline number that the corporate media reported was a smaller 8.6%. This was the number for the CPI-Urban or CPI-U that includes households with managers and professionals as well as wage workers. The CPI-W inflation is higher than the CPI-U becau…
(2022-06-13). Mayo Clinic, NAACP to welcome inaugural RISE for Youth cohort on June 6. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic and NAACP Rochester Branch will welcome 40 promising high school and college students to RISE for Youth, on Monday, June 6. This program, which is in its inaugural year, is designed to help Black and underrepresented students find pathways to success in education and employment. RISE stands for Reflect, Inspire, Strengthen and Empower, and is an approach developed by Anjali Bhagra, M.D., medical director of Mayo Clinic's Office of Equity,…
(2022-06-13). Hearing for Dr. Issam Hijjawi Bassalat continued: Solidarity against anti-Palestinian repression! samidoun.net 
On Friday, 10 June, Palestinian-Scottish doctor Issam Hijjawi Bassalat appeared before the Supreme Court of Scotland in a case seeking to reclaim his medical license after it was suspended by the medical board due to his political arrest in 2020. Dr. Bassalat was released on bail in December 2021 after spending 16 months — and …
(2022-06-12). Two in three Americans expect inflation to get worse: poll. ecns.cn Despite the U.S. Federal Reserve hiking interest rates in hopes of taming the country's rampant inflation, 66 percent of Americans expect inflation to get worse in the coming year, a recent poll showed.
(2022-06-12). Economic Trends After Outbreak Of War. Is Recovery Possible? southfront.org 
SPIEF will be organized in an era of great change | Despite the increasing influence of the military agenda on the information background in the world, business still plays the main role. It is the monetary component that determines the agenda, contrary to emotions and political gestures. | It should be noted that a situation similar to the one in which Russia is currently trapped has been occurring periodically lately. Economic sanctions have become the m…
(2022-06-12). Capitalism and baby formula. iacenter.org By Margaret Kimberley June 10, 2022 The following article was posted on Black Agenda Report on May 29. The baby formula shortage is not a glitch in the system. It actually exemplifies everything that goes wrong when the profit motive rules. Capitalism can't ensure a food supply or anything else that humans need. "Socialism doesn't work" is repeated like a mantra. We're told endlessly that capitalism provides jobs, housing, food and health care in this country, when it does a very bad job of doing all these things. The United States is said to be "the richest country in the world," a strange statement which implie…
(2022-06-12). Tax evasion and avoidance and Democracy at a tipping point. indybay.org The biggest losses from tax evasion and avoidance are caused by multinational corporations, followed by wealthy individuals. Sums in the triple-digit billions of up to one trillion. Euros are evaded annually in the EU. Of the global private wealth of around 160 trillion. US dollars, between 21-32 trillion US dollars are undeclared via tax havens…
(2022-06-12). How Do We Get a Wage-Price Spiral When Wage Growth Is Slowing? cepr.net 
That's the question millions are asking, or hopefully at least the folks at the Fed making decisions on interest rates. Ostensibly, the Fed is concerned that the economy is too strong and that we are either on the edge, or already stuck in, the sort of wage-price spiral that led to double digit inflation back …
(2022-06-12). Mass opposition to Biden's Summit gains momentum. iacenter.org By Lyn Neeley June 10, 2022 President Joe Biden's Summit of the Americas is being boycotted by most countries in the Western hemisphere, and it is opposed by two large coalitions protesting Biden's refusal to invite Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua to this year's event. ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America), a coalition of 11 anti-imperialist Latin American countries, opposes Biden's unilateral actions against Venezuela and Nicaragua and the economic blockade against Cuba. What if the United States held a summit and nobody came? Credit: Carlos Latuff ALBA just held its 21st Summit of Heads of Sta…
(2022-06-12). Model-Based Net-Zero Scenarios Aren't Worth The Paper They're Written On. popularresistance.org In a new paper, Sir Nicholas Stern, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz and Charlotte Taylor conclude that climate-energy-economy Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), which are the key tool in producing emission-reduction scenarios, "have very limited value in answering the two critical questions" of the speed and nature of emissions reductions and "fail to provide much in the way of useful guidance, either for the intensity of action, or for the policies that deliver the desired outcomes". The research paper is The economics of immense risk, urgent action and radical change: towards new approaches to the economics…
(2022-06-12). Model-based net-zero scenarios, including those of the IPCC, aren't worth the paper they are written on. popularresistance.org World-leading economists have blown a hole right through the middle of the main tool used to produce the net-zero scenarios embraced by climate policymakers. | In a new paper, Sir Nicholas Stern, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz and Charlotte Taylor conclude that climate-energy-economy Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), which are the key tool in producing emission-reduction scenarios, "have very limited value in answering the two critical questions" of the speed and nature of emissions reductions and "fail to provide much in the way of useful guidance, either for the intensity of action, or for the policies th…
(2022-06-12). AFL-CIO convention must unconditionally support Puerto Rico's unions. iacenter.org June 9, 2022 This article is by a member of the construction trades and a member of the AFL-CIO. The 2022 convention of the AFL-CIO will be held in Philadelphia June 12-15. Every four years the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations meets in a convention to talk about its achievements and what must be accomplished in the near future. You will hear many speakers from the building trades, teachers unions, service workers, etc., in consonance when it comes to who they support politically, trade deals that affect them, infrastructure projects that they think are warranted and so on. What yo…
(2022-06-12). One year on, Hainan FTP law secures wider opening-up. ecns.cn Since the implementation of the Hainan free trade port (FTP) law on June 10, 2021, Hainan has issued 17 related regulations, with the new law speeding up local legislation to guarantee better development and wider opening-up of the Hainan FTP.
(2022-06-12). Iran seeks to strengthen economy through interaction. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 12 (MNA) — Economy Minister Ehsan Khanduzi attended the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) meeting in Egypt Sunday during which he said that the most important priority for the Iranian government is to strengthen the economy.
(2022-06-12). Saturday 6/11: Northern California Communist Bulletin Group Public Meeting. indybay.org The Long Haul Bookshop, 3124 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley…
(2022-06-12). Indígenas anuncian protestas por crisis económica en Ecuador. telesurtv.net El presidente de la Conaie, Leonidas Iza, expresó que las protestas serán por tiempo indefinido.
(2022-06-12). Western colonizers imposed anti-gay laws throughout world — Lavender & Red, Part 112. iacenter.org By Leslie Feinberg June 10, 2022 The following is one installment of Feinberg's "Lavender & Red" series on the intersection of LGBTQ2S+ and socialist history, which appeared Sept. 27, 2007, in Workers World newspaper. The 120-part series was published between 2004 and 2008 and can be downloaded for free at workers.org/books. Sodomy laws, imposed on India in 1861 by British colonizers, were still in force at the time of this 2013 protest. Wherever class-divided societies overturned matrilineal-communal groupings, laws began to punish sexualities, gender expressions and bodies that did not fit the new patriarchal f…
(2022-06-12). Venezuela And Iran Sign 20-year Cooperation Plan. popularresistance.org Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro took a historic trip to Iran and announced a 20-year cooperation agreement, pledging to more closely integrate the countries' economies and work together in a joint "anti-imperialist struggle for a better world, of international respect and peace, without hegemonies." | Maduro signed the pact with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran on June 11. It was described by the Venezuelan and Iranian governments as a "partnership agreement" and "cooperation agreement." | The deal involves collaboration in science, technology, agriculture, oil and gas, petrochemicals, tourism, and…
(2022-06-12). Casualidad y/o causalidad de un video viral. cubadebate.cu Poco después de concluir la Cumbre, el sistema de laboratotrios de guerra psicológica contra Cuba en las redes digitales, operado desde Estados Unidos, convierte en viral un video que culpa al gobierno cubano de los efectos del bloqueo en la vida de los habitantes de la Isla, acudiendo a algo tan sensible como el testimonio de una madre de tres hijos que, de manera muy emotiva, coloca en primer plano esas carencias sin aludir a la política estadounidense que busca provocarlas. y llama a "salir a la calle".
(2022-06-12). War On Public Education, Oakland OEA Teachers Speak Out On School Closures, Privatization. indybay.org Two teachers spoke out about Oakland public school closures, privatization, the Parker Elementary School occupation and the role of the OEA/CTA leadership in their struggle.
(2022-06-11). The Indian economy is heading for a stationary state. mronline.org 
ADAM Smith and David Ricardo had been haunted by the idea of capitalism ending up in a "stationary state", by which they meant a stable state of zero growth.
(2022-06-11). Inflation, wages, and profits. mronline.org 
Inflation continues to run hot—and now, finally, the debate about inflation is heating up.
(2022-06-11). 'Karl Marx's Writings on Alienation' by: Marcello Musto, reviewed by: Carlos L. Garrido. mronline.org 
Marcello Musto's anthology of 'Karl Marx's Writings on Alienation' is both comprehensive and concise, containing within the span of 100 pages the three decades long development of the theory through more than a dozen published works and posthumously published manuscripts.
(2022-06-11). Sanders and Gillibrand Call on Amazon to Recognize Historic Union Victory. commondreams.org "It is time for Amazon to end its blatant disregard of labor law and treat workers with the respect and dignity they deserve."