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  • The Yes Men performing an earlier hoax to highlight climate breakdown.

    We can’t bank on climate action

    Originally published: The Ecologist on December 9, 2020 by Brendan Montague (more by The Ecologist)  | (Posted Dec 14, 2020)

    Bank of England forced to deny taking basic climate actions after hoax from laughtervists, the Yes Men.

  • THE END OF WORK? Labour leader Keir Starmer meets a fleet of Starship delivery robots at a Co-op in Milton Keynes, during a visit to discuss technological innovation during Covid-19

    Does automation spell the end of capitalism?

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on December 4, 2020 (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Dec 14, 2020)

    Capitalism will not ‘automatically’ morph into some ‘postcapitalist’ or socialist system due to technology replacing the human workforce. As the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY explains, ending capitalism will require a conscious, collective action on the part of ‘the many’—the working class.

  • Secret Amazon Reports Expose the Company’s Surveillance of Labor and Environmental Groups

    Secret Amazon reports expose the company’s surveillance of labor and environmental groups

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on December 10, 2020 by Lauren Kaori Gurley (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Dec 14, 2020)

    Dozens of leaked documents from Amazon reveal the company’s use of Pinkerton operatives to spy on warehouse workers, labor unions and social movements.

  • Vladimir Morozov/akxmedia

    UN climate report calls out global elite as cause of the crisis

    Originally published: Liberation News on December 11, 2020 by Tina Landis (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Dec 14, 2020)

    The UN Emissions Gap Report released on Dec. 9, shows how far off the mark we are for averting complete climate catastrophe. Current global emissions reduction policies have us on track for 3.5 C warming by 2100, which would be catastrophic for life on Earth.

  • Jade, For Hire! The Mystery of the Missing Worker.

    Originally published: San Francisco Mimi Troupe on July 4th, 2020 - Episode 1 by Michael Gene Sullivan (more by San Francisco Mimi Troupe)  | (Posted Dec 14, 2020)

    Looking for work during a race and class war ain’t easy, its hard enough already–why were they fired in the first place from… Jamazon.com! Find out this week in… Jade for Hire!

  • Marx - 'Unite'

    Marxism vs the state

    Originally published: Red Flag on December 10, 2020 by Sadie Schneider (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Dec 12, 2020)

    Karl Marx developed his theory of revolution by arguing against would-be progressives who looked to the capitalist state as a force for progress.

  • Marx Didn’t Invent Socialism, Nor Did He Discover It

    Marx didn’t invent socialism, nor did he discover it

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on December 9, 2020 by Steve Lalla (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Dec 11, 2020)

    Without aiming to tear down the legacy of Marx or to minimize his contributions to economics and history—a hopeless task that we can leave up to capitalists—we can examine the historical context in which he arose.

  • Seattle Police Department utilizes chemical weapons to push protestors back over the “Black Lives Matter” mural on Capitol Hill (Derek Simeone, Flickr)

    Silencing Black radicalism since the Cold War

    Originally published: Black Perspective on December 3, 2020 by Denise Lynn (more by Black Perspective)  | (Posted Dec 11, 2020)

    Describing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as socialist and accusing them of fomenting disorder in America’s urban areas invoked racial disorder for the majority white voters who cast their ballots for an avowed white supremacist.

  • Hong Kong protester throws egg at President Xi Jinping’s portrait on China’s National Day, Oct. 1, 2019. (Studio Incendo, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)

    Australia sabotaged its own interests in China relations

    Originally published: Consortium News on December 8, 2020 by Tony Kevin (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Dec 10, 2020)

    The destruction over the past five years of Australia’s mutually beneficial diplomatic and trade relationship with China was probably a successful “Five Eyes” information warfare operation, writes Tony Kevin.

  • Largest Strike in World History : Over 200 Million Workers and Farmers Protest against Poverty and Unemployment Triggered by Covid Lockdown

    Over 200 million workers and farmers protest against poverty and unemployment triggered by COVID Lockdown

    Originally published: Global Research on December 4, 2020 by Maria Aurelio (more by Global Research)  | (Posted Dec 10, 2020)

    The general strike occurred in the context of the devastation brought about by the coronavirus pandemic in India. Added to this are the millions of people who have lost income and who now face increased poverty and hunger, in a country where even before the pandemic 50 percent of all children suffered malnourishment.

  • National Electoral Council President Indira Alfonzo announces the initial results late Sunday night. (CNE)

    Venezuela’s PSUV retakes control of National Assembly despite low turnout

    Eds.

    With 99 percent of the votes counted, the PSUV has won 68 percent with a 30.5 percent participation rate.

  • István Mészáros (photo credit: Carrie Ann Naumoff)

    Mészáros 90 – Eszmélet

    Originally published: The Eszmélet Youtube Channel on December 7, 2020 (more by The Eszmélet Youtube Channel) (Posted Dec 09, 2020)

    The Eszmélet, a quarterly journal for social critique and culture will organise an international panel discussion on the occasion that István Mészáros, the great Marxist philosopher was born 90 years ago.

  • Ding Yining/Sixth Tone

    The new-style pop histories making socialism cool again

    Originally published: Sixth Tone on December 1, 2020 by Wang Rui (more by Sixth Tone)  | (Posted Dec 09, 2020)

    Online and on social media, popular historians are helping young Chinese reframe the country’s leftist past in a more positive light.

  • Computers and Composition Digital Press transnational literate lives in digital times: chapter 5.3 (Image: Computers and Composition Digital Press)

    Think tankers against China: The Australian Strategic Policy Institute

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on December 6, 2020 by Binoy Kampmark (more by Dissident Voice)  | (Posted Dec 08, 2020)

    Security think tanks are the leeches of industry. Attached to their appropriate field, they compile analysis that is supposedly masterful, insightful and even useful.

  • US 82nd Airborne paratroopers training with Colombian troops (Credit: Sgt. Andrea Salgado-Rivera)

    Pentagon to Biden: Latin America a major battlefield in war with China

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site on December 5, 2020 by Bill Van Auken (more by World Socialist Web Site)  | (Posted Dec 08, 2020)

    The head of SOUTHCOM, Admiral Craig Faller, told Pentagon reporters Wednesday that U.S. imperialism’s “competitive edge [in the region]…is eroding, particularly when it comes to the Chinese influence.”

  • Fidel Castro

    The voracious reader

    Originally published: Granma English on December 2, 2020 by Pedro de la Hoz (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Dec 08, 2020)

    “We do not tell the people: believe. We say: read,” a statement not made casually, but rather a public expression of a deep conviction, spoken by Fidel in 1961.

  • COVID-19: Deadliest day recorded

    COVID-19: Deadliest day recorded

    Originally published: Liberation News on December 3, 2020 by Mufid Majnun (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Dec 07, 2020)

    The number of recorded infections now tops 14 million and the total official death toll stands at more than 274,000. 

  • Bitcoin mining

    Should the left care about blockchain technology?

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on November 30, 2020 by Thomas Redshaw (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Dec 07, 2020)

    Despite its utopian promises of digital democracy, Thomas Redshaw argues socialists should be wary of embracing blockchain technology.

  • No, Joe Biden isn’t going to save us from climate catastrophe

    No, Joe Biden isn’t going to save us from climate catastrophe

    Originally published: Red Flag on December 3, 2020 by Jamiel Deeb (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Dec 07, 2020)

    Many have celebrated Joe Biden’s win in the U.S. presidential election as a major turning point in the battle to save the world from climate catastrophe. The liberal media have been Biden’s main advocates. For example, a 12 November editorial in the Guardian argued: “Joe Biden’s win will make a big difference to international efforts to deal with the climate emergency”.

  • AnalysisFeaturesVenezuela Venezuela’s anti-blockade law and the Dec. 6 elections

    Venezuela’s anti-blockade law and the Dec. 6 elections

    Originally published: Liberation News on December 1, 2020 by Gloria La Riva (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Dec 05, 2020)

    On Sunday, Dec. 6, the Venezuelan people will vote to elect the new deputies of the National Assembly. This election is enormously important for the Bolivarian Revolution.

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