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  • Igor Mosyichuk

    Igor Mosiychuk, “Crimea will be Ukrainian or will be depopulated”

    Originally published: Donbass-Insider on May 19, 2022 by Laurent Brayard (more by Donbass-Insider) (Posted May 20, 2022)

    If you do not know this sordid character, you should know that the man is one of the leaders of the neo-Nazi party Pravy Sektor, a party that is very influential in military circles and very active in repression and assassinations.

  • Sonja van den Ende

    Did the CIA train Ukrainian torturers?

    Originally published: Internationalist 360 on May 16, 2022 by Lucas Leiroz (more by Internationalist 360) (Posted May 19, 2022)

    The matter raises suspicions about a possible “instruction” that would be transmitted by American intelligence to Ukrainian neo-Nazis on “how to torture”.

  • What is the Fetishism of Commodities?

    What is the fetishism of commodities?

    Originally published: Midwestern Marx on May 17, 2022 by ​​Carlos L. Garrido (more by Midwestern Marx) (Posted May 19, 2022)

    I was asked by a few comrades to explain Marx’s concept of the fetishism of commodities, and with that, the main ways it has been misunderstood by both mainstream bourgeois academia and by well-meaning Marxists. The following short reflection attempts to do just that.

  • Troops from 14 countries, including the United States, Sweden, Finland, and Ukraine, are participating in massive exercises in Estonia.

    NATO begins military drills near Russian border

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on May 17, 2022 by Agencies (more by Al Mayadeen) (Posted May 18, 2022)

    Troops from 14 countries, including the United States, Sweden, Finland, and Ukraine, are participating in massive exercises in Estonia.

  • Bolivian ex-President Evo Morales

    Evo Morales urges Bolivia to withdraw from OAS as more Presidents look to skip Latin American Summit

    Originally published: Internationalist 360 on May 16, 2022 by Wyatt Reed (more by Internationalist 360) (Posted May 18, 2022)

    Bolivian ex-President Evo Morales suggested Sunday that his country should leave the Organization of American States, the international organization that Morales says “provoked” the 2019 coup d’etat against him.

  • Student Loan Debt

    No half measures, cancel all student loan debt

    Originally published: Hood Communist on May 12, 2022 by Frederick Bell Jr. (more by Hood Communist) (Posted May 18, 2022)

    The material benefits of this pause to student loan payments are not something to be taken lightly. But considering the pause has clearly helped borrowers survive, the question for the Biden administration is simple: Why not make it permanent, and cancel all student debt?

  • Tanks

    The war against food–who is to blame

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on May 13, 2022 by Ikolai Storozhenko (more by Dances with Bears) (Posted May 18, 2022)

    This week President Joseph Biden stopped at an Illinois farm to say he’s going to help the  Ukraine ship 20 million tonnes of wheat and corn out of storage into export, thereby relieving  grain shortages in the international markets and lowering bread prices around the world. 

  • Front: Actors of a Beijing opera troupe perform. Back: Drama students of the Lu Xun Academy of Arts (also known as Luyi) rehearse a play in a structure they built themselves.

    Go to Yan’an: culture and national liberation

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on May 16, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research) (Posted May 17, 2022)

    The Chinese communist base area of Yan’an was a literal and metaphorical stage for envisioning, experimenting, and building a new society and a new human being.

  • Who’s middle class?

    Who’s middle class?

    Originally published: Red Flag on May 14, 2022 by Diane Fieldes (more by Red Flag) (Posted May 17, 2022)

    Of all classes, the middle class is the one with the most people clamouring to be part of it. Many members of the ruling class prefer the label “middle” to one that makes capitalist dominance so overt. Many workers think that having a middle-income job by default puts them in the middle class. And people who want to downplay the working class’s revolutionary potential prefer to say,

  • Выступление Алексея Пряхина 3 мая 2022 года на совместном семинаре Российского социального форума и Конгресса работников образования и науки "Профсоюзное движение и трудовое законодательство"

    Precarious employment and workers struggle in Russia today: the case of Kirill Ukraintsev, chairman of the Kurier trade union

    Originally published: Russian Communist Workers Party on May 13, 2022 by Alexey Pryakhin (more by Russian Communist Workers Party) (Posted May 17, 2022)

    The problem of precarious employment, non-standard labor relations concerns today an increasing number of employees. 

  • U.S. Administration to deliver military aid to Ukraine! (Photo: Petition)

    $40 Billion more for the Ukraine war: a wakeup call for those who still believe in lesser-evilism

    Originally published: Antiwar.com on May 16, 2022 by Ryan Costello (more by Antiwar.com) (Posted May 17, 2022)

    The U.S. House of Representatives just approved another massive military “aid” package for the Ukraine War.

  • The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock and the Washington Post (Simon & Schuster: New York, 2021)

    ‘The Afghanistan Papers’ leaves a critical question unanswered

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on May 13, 2022 by Patterson Deppen (more by Toward Freedom) (Posted May 16, 2022)

    While Afghanistan may finally be free of outside military occupation, Afghans are still suffering the deadly consequences of 40 years of U.S.-led subversion and war.

  • Modern Working Class

    Australia’s modern working class

    Originally published: Red Flag on May 14, 2022 by Eleanor Morley (more by Red Flag) (Posted May 16, 2022)

    More than 160 years ago, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, in the “Communist Manifesto,” described workers as those “who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital”.

  • San Francisco, protest Supreme Court attack on Women’s rights.

    Beyond abortion, a struggle to win our future

    Originally published: Resumen Latinoamericano and the Third World on May 14, 2022 by Cheryl LaBash (more by Resumen Latinoamericano and the Third World) (Posted May 16, 2022)

    “When you have touched a woman you have struck a rock,” says a South African proverb. It continues, you have dislodged a boulder, you will be crushed. The U.S. Supreme Court justices who penned the recently leaked draft majority opinion abolishing voluntary legal pregnancy termination, should take heed.

  • Facebook

    Cambridge Analytica reborn? Private spy agency weaponizes Facebook again

    Originally published: MintPress News on May 11, 2022 by Kit Klarenberg (more by MintPress News) (Posted May 14, 2022)

    For all the public outcry, official probes and hearings, financial penalties, apologies and proposed regulations, Facebook remains the world’s foremost surveillance tool–weaponized in all manner of malevolent ways by any number of hostile elements.

  • Susan Williams, White Malice. The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa (Hurst Publishers 2021), xii, 651pp.

    “White Malice: The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa”

    Originally published: Counter Fire on May 12, 2022 by Elaine Graham-Leigh (more by Counter Fire) (Posted May 14, 2022)

    Barack Obama recounts in his memoir ‘Dreams from my Father’ reading a book about Africa as a young man. He remembered how he was filled with ‘an anger all the more maddening for its lack of a clear target’ at the way that the dominant images of the book shifted from the independence struggles of leaders like Jomo Kenyatta and Kwame Nkrumah to ‘famine, disease, the coups and counter-coups led by illiterate young men wielding AK-47s like shepherd sticks’ (p.515).

  • US Europe Illustration: Liu Rui/GT

    NATO’s northward expansion risks turning Europe into a new powder keg

    Originally published: Global Times on May 13, 2022 by Global Times (more by Global Times) (Posted May 14, 2022)

    “Finland must apply for NATO membership without delay,” Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto and Prime Minister Sanna Marin jointly announced on Thursday. A similar announcement will come from Sweden on Sunday.

  • The Donbass Diaries Part II

    The Donbass Diaries Part II: The Azov Battalions – ordinary Fascism

    Originally published: United World on May 13, 2022 by Mehmet Perinçek (more by United World) (Posted May 14, 2022)

    We gather around the school in Mariupol. All windows without exception are broken. The rooms inside are fully demolished. The Ukrainian have used the school and its surrounding as defense position. At 09:00 in the morning, humanitarian aid will be distributed. We start talking with Mariupol’s locals.

  • Climate march in London

    Prevent pandemics and halt climate change? Strengthen land rights for Indigenous peoples

    Originally published: The Lancet on May 2022 by Jessica Hernandez, Julianne Meisner, Kevin Bardosh and Peter Rabinowitz (more by The Lancet) (Posted May 14, 2022)

    Land is and means different things to different people. Indigenous, pastoralist, and rural farming communities are especially dependent on land, which is widely recognised by conservation organisations. Such communities are often uniquely vulnerable to the effects of ecosystem destruction while simultaneously having strong social norms and cultural values that support ecosystem preservation.

  • House

    “Stay safe”: the whole world is in harms’ way

    Originally published: Internationalist 360 on May 11, 2022 by Jim “Fergie” Chambers (more by Internationalist 360) (Posted May 13, 2022)

    This is not a dispatch, editorial, or an article, but a brief note.

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    Jean-Philippe Stone © UN Photo/Martine Perret | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

    December 2013 marked the beginning of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Ebola, a severe hemorrhagic virus which causes muscle and joint pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding, spread from Guinean forests to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone by the summer of 2014.

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    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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