Hugo East (2025-02-11). China's DeepSeek AI reveals advantages of socialism. workers.org The Chinese company DeepSeek released its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to the U.S. market on Jan. 20. By the following week, it was the most downloaded app on the iOS App Store, surpassing Open AI's ChatGPT. Comparison of research leadership growth by country over twenty-year period. ASPI Critical Technology Tracker . . . |

Hugo East (2025-02-11). China's DeepSeek AI reveals advantages of socialism. workers.org The Chinese company DeepSeek released its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to the U.S. market on Jan. 20. By the following week, it was the most downloaded app on the iOS App Store, surpassing Open AI's ChatGPT. Comparison of research leadership growth by country over twenty-year period. ASPI Critical Technology Tracker . . . |

Christopher Verga (2025-02-11). Far-Right and Anti-Government Groups Gain a Foot Hold In New York City Suburbs. counterpunch.org In the shadow of New York City, the biggest and one of the bluesiest cities in America, Nassau and Suffolk Counties have seen a growth of far-right /anti-government groups. These groups designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as anti-government include a Nassau County chapter of the Proud Boys, Loud Majority (active in both Suffolk and Nassau Counties), Tactical Civics Mutual Assistance Group (Nassau County), and Moms for Liberty. From truck parades donning Trump flags while promoting conspiracies of immigrants voting illegally to so-called concerned mothers at school board meetings trying to ban any materi…

WSWS (2025-02-10). To stop fascism and war, young people must fight for socialism! wsws.org The IYSSE is the only political tendency that advances a genuine socialist perspective based on the lessons of history and the interests of the working class.

Matt Willgress, Morning Star. (2025-02-10). Socialism Or Barbarism: A Statement Of Fact. popularresistance.org Engels once said that capitalist society "stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism." | Commenting on these remarks during World War I, the great socialist Rosa Luxemburg said: "What does 'regression into barbarism' mean to our lofty European civilisation? Until now, we have all probably read and repeated these words thoughtlessly, without suspecting their fearsome seriousness. A look around us at this moment shows what the regression of bourgeois society into barbarism means. This world war is a regression into barbarism. The triumph of imperialism leads to the annihil…

WSWS (2025-02-10). To stop fascism and war, young people must fight for socialism! wsws.org The IYSSE is the only political tendency that advances a genuine socialist perspective based on the lessons of history and the interests of the working class.

_____ (2025-02-10). USAID "Marxists"? Once again Elon Musk Displays His Invincible Ignorance. transcend.org King Donald and Prince Elon (or do I have their titles reversed?) have begun to treat the thousands working in foreign aid with a cruel contempt that reflects their true feelings about all workers other than those wearing MAGA hats.

cameron orr (2025-02-10). Marxist IQ: A defense of Black history. cpusa.org 1. Many people in the U.S. today still imagine that the fight against slavery in the U.S. was mainly waged by white abolitionists in the North. However, historians like W.E.B. Du Bois, Howard Zinn, and others have shown that | a. Black leaders, newspapers, and organizations played an enormous role in the leadership and grassroots organizing of the abolitionist movement. | b. the enslaved population of the South turned the tide of the Civil War by carrying out a general strike against the Confederacy, reducing or even stopping their work and escaping Southern plantations — many times for Union Army barrac…

newleftreview (2025-02-10). Ernesto Teuma: A New Left in Cuba. newleftreview.org Amid a worsening economic and climatic situation, cultural opening in Cuba has seen a flourishing blogosphere. Interview with an editor of La Tizza, a collectively run digital magazine that aims to revive the free-thinking Marxism of the Pensamiento Crítico tradition.

Kary Love (2025-02-10). The American Inquisition Cometh. counterpunch.org Don Trump, current temporary occupant of the elective office of President of the United States, has issued an Executive Order to ferret out "antichristianity" from the federal government. Now cynics might perceive an odd karmic resonance from the "communist witch hunts" of Senator Joe McCarthy though the grotesque, twisted soul of Roy Cohn to his

thecommunists (2025-02-10). How the Chinese beat Trump and OpenAI. thecommunists.org This article is reproduced from Moon of Alabama, with thanks. Since the article was published, some developments of note have taken place. The first was the wiping out a huge part of the valuation of US chip monopoly Nvidia, which lost $600bn in a single day and nearly $1tn in a week following the news …

Kary Love (2025-02-10). The American Inquisition Cometh. counterpunch.org Don Trump, current temporary occupant of the elective office of President of the United States, has issued an Executive Order to ferret out "antichristianity" from the federal government. Now cynics might perceive an odd karmic resonance from the "communist witch hunts" of Senator Joe McCarthy though the grotesque, twisted soul of Roy Cohn to his

Alan Austin (2025-02-10). Albo and Dr Jim steadily reduce poverty and homelessness — at last. independentaustralia.net

Matt Willgress, Morning Star. (2025-02-10). Socialism Or Barbarism: A Statement Of Fact. popularresistance.org Engels once said that capitalist society "stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism." | Commenting on these remarks during World War I, the great socialist Rosa Luxemburg said: "What does 'regression into barbarism' mean to our lofty European civilisation? Until now, we have all probably read and repeated these words thoughtlessly, without suspecting their fearsome seriousness. A look around us at this moment shows what the regression of bourgeois society into barbarism means. This world war is a regression into barbarism. The triumph of imperialism leads to the annihil…

WSWS (2025-02-10). To stop fascism and war, young people must fight for socialism! wsws.org The IYSSE is the only political tendency that advances a genuine socialist perspective based on the lessons of history and the interests of the working class.

Kary Love (2025-02-10). The American Inquisition Cometh. counterpunch.org Don Trump, current temporary occupant of the elective office of President of the United States, has issued an Executive Order to ferret out "antichristianity" from the federal government. Now cynics might perceive an odd karmic resonance from the "communist witch hunts" of Senator Joe McCarthy though the grotesque, twisted soul of Roy Cohn to his

Yorgos Mitralias (2025-02-09). Auschwitz, the bankruptcy of the idea of progress and the rehabilitation of the utopian dimension of socialism. cadtm.org

ecns.cn (2025-02-09). Xi calls for promoting full revitalization of northeast China. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday urged Jilin Province to further implement the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee's strategic arrangements for the full revitalization of northeast China in the new era and to play a bigger role in advancing Chinese modernization.

Yorgos Mitralias (2025-02-08). Auschwitz, the bankruptcy of the idea of progress and the rehabilitation of the utopian dimension of socialism. cadtm.org

communispress (2025-02-08). The Desire Question. communispress.com The following text is a revised and expanded version of the author's keynote of the same title delivered on 2 March 2024.

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead (2025-02-08). #TaxTheSuperRich campaign gains momentum. leftfootforward.org A #TaxTheSuperRich campaign is gaining momentum, with thousands of people adding their names to a petition launched by Oxfam calling for higher taxes on the wealthiest individuals. | In 2024, billionaire wealth surged by $2 trillion, three times faster than the previous year, while 3.5 billion people around the world continue to live in poverty. Shockingly, four new billionaires are created every week. | Oxfam's campaign highlights the growing disparity between the super-rich and the rest of us, calling it "out of control." | The charity warns that at this rate, we could see five trillionaires within the next…

Yorgos Mitralias (2025-02-07). Auschwitz, the bankruptcy of the idea of progress and the rehabilitation of the utopian dimension of socialism. cadtm.org

krish-rad_ind (2025-02-07). Trump, white supremacy and capitalism: The enemies of Black liberation. liberationnews.org

cameron orr (2025-02-07). Globalization, immigration, and the H1-B debate. cpusa.org Since Marx and Lenin, the world market that they studied during their lifetimes has grown and changed immeasurably. In tandem with the establishment of the world market, Marx writes that "the bourgeoisie developed, increased its capital, and pushed into the background every class handed down from the Middle Ages" and "in place of the old local and national seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universal interdependence of nations." | This interdependence that Marx describes, though perhaps shocking at the time, was a mere nascent form of its existence today. This is no better…

Richard D. Wolff, Counter Punch. (2025-02-03). Settler Colonialism: 'It Ends With Us' In Palestine And Israel. popularresistance.org My birth emerged from European capitalism's fascistic catastrophe in the 1920s—1940s. That catastrophe also produced Israel's experiment with settler colonialism in Palestine. This article refers to both these incidents to analyze the current Palestine-Israel catastrophe. | My reasons or qualifications to write such an article start with the fact that my maternal grandmother and grandfather were killed at the Nazis' Mauthausen concentration camp. My father's sister was killed in Auschwitz. My mother and her sister spent years in different concentration camps. Because of these events, my parents fled Europe…

_____ (2025-02-03). Cloud Capital vs AI: DeepSeek, Technofeudalism, Capitalism, and the New Cold War. transcend.org 28 Jan 2025 | Yanis Varoufakis delves into the seismic developments of January 2025, spotlighting the transformative impact of DeepSeek—a groundbreaking Chinese AI company that has sent shockwaves through the global tech and financial landscapes.

_____ (2025-02-03). US Capitalism just Got a Black Eye. transcend.org 27 Jan 2025 – The Story behind Today's Stock Market Tank – Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google became too big, fat, and musclebound for innovation. Instead of invention, they specialized in marginal improvements. China's DeepSeek came up with more advanced AI than all US Big Tech companies.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2025-02-03). Canada Props Up Gang-Supported Plunder of Haiti Under Pretext of "Kenyan-Led" Intervention. libya360.wordpress.com Marthad Shingiro Umucyaba A screenshot from The Canada Files' interview with Booker Ngesa Omole, the Communist Party of Kenya (Marxist)'s General Secretary. A Canadian military mission is focused on enabling NATO and its' Kenyan proxy to select gang members in Haiti to guard resource extraction sites, and sanction gang members so when they get into…

cameron orr (2025-02-03). Trump's proposal to "clear out" Gaza a crime against humanity. cpusa.org The Communist Party USA unequivocally condemns the illegal, inhumane, and monstrous proposal by President Trump to "clear out" the population of the Gaza Strip. | Trump's suggestion that the Palestinian population should be removed from Gaza and "absorbed" by Egypt and Jordan is a blatant call for population transfer. The United States, Israel, Jordan, and Egypt are all signatories to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), both of which categorically declare forced population transfers illegal. Additionally, the U.S., Jordan, and Egypt are signatories…

WSWS (2025-02-03). This week in history: February 3-9. wsws.org Sri Lankan civil war; mass evacuation in Haicheng earthquake; McCarthy gives first anti-communist speech; Nepal abolishes slavery…

ecns.cn (2025-02-03). Xi lauds China's solid progress despite challenges in Year of Dragon. ecns.cn The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the State Council held a Spring Festival reception for the year 2025 at the Great Hall of the People on the morning of Jan. 27.

Caleb Crowder (2025-02-03). The War on Trans People is a Culture War — and a Class War. ips-dc.org Three charts show that trans people have higher unemployment and poverty rates and earn less on average than other Americans.

Martin Hacthoun (2025-02-02). Top musicians to close the Jazz Plaza Festival in Cuba (+Photo). plenglish.com Tonight at the Yara cinema, a tribute will be paid to the Cuban Tres (a countryside kind of guitar with three strings), with the presence of an exceptional player of the instrument: Pancho Amat, who was honoured at the 20th International Jazz Colloquium "Leonardo Acosta in Memoriam" on the occasion of his 75th birthday. | Manolito Simonet and his Trabuco, Celso and his Changàºí de Yateras, Yarima Blanco, Isaac Mena, Juan Antonio de la Cruz Antomarchi (Cotó), Kay Lions, Maikel Elizarde, Abel Acosta and Rodrigo Sosa, among others, will be performing. | Meanwhile, the Karl Marx Theatre will host the Cuba Vive…

Martin Hacthoun (2025-02-02). Top musicians to close the Jazz Plaza Festival in Cuba (+Photo). plenglish.com Tonight at the Yara cinema, a tribute will be paid to the Cuban Tres (a countryside kind of guitar with three strings), with the presence of an exceptional player of the instrument: Pancho Amat, who was honoured at the 20th International Jazz Colloquium "Leonardo Acosta in Memoriam" on the occasion of his 75th birthday. | Manolito Simonet and his Trabuco, Celso and his Changàºí de Yateras, Yarima Blanco, Isaac Mena, Juan Antonio de la Cruz Antomarchi (Cotó), Kay Lions, Maikel Elizarde, Abel Acosta and Rodrigo Sosa, among others, will be performing. | Meanwhile, the Karl Marx Theatre will host the Cuba Vive…

Martin Hacthoun (2025-02-02). Top musicians to close the Jazz Plaza Festival in Cuba (+Photo). plenglish.com Tonight at the Yara cinema, a tribute will be paid to the Cuban Tres (a countryside kind of guitar with three strings), with the presence of an exceptional player of the instrument: Pancho Amat, who was honoured at the 20th International Jazz Colloquium "Leonardo Acosta in Memoriam" on the occasion of his 75th birthday. | Manolito Simonet and his Trabuco, Celso and his Changàºí de Yateras, Yarima Blanco, Isaac Mena, Juan Antonio de la Cruz Antomarchi (Cotó), Kay Lions, Maikel Elizarde, Abel Acosta and Rodrigo Sosa, among others, will be performing. | Meanwhile, the Karl Marx Theatre will host the Cuba Vive…

WSWS (2025-02-01). The fight against fascism requires a fight against capitalism and war! wsws.org Having twice voted with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in favor of a brutal policy of sealing the borders against refugees, the conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) parliamentary groups in the Bundestag are prepared to accept the far-right party as a government partner.

WSWS (2025-02-01). DeepSeek has shattered basis of US AI stock market surge. wsws.org The last place the tech giants expected any competition to emerge from was China, because US capitalism was the great innovator and China a mere imitator.

guest author (2025-02-01). Trump's threats to the Panama Canal, an update of the Monroe Doctrine. workers.org The author of this Jan. 16, 2025, article reacting to President Donald Trump's threats is a Panamanian anti-imperialist and Marxist analyst. Translation: John Catalinotto. Since December 21, 2024, in the framework of the commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the last U.S. military invasion against Panama (Dec. 20, 1989), U.S. . . . |

JANET (2025-02-01). Trump's threats to the Panama Canal, an update of the Monroe Doctrine. iacenter.org By Olmedo Beluche January 31, 2025 The author of this Jan. 16, 2025, article reacting to President Donald Trump's threats is a Panamanian anti-imperialist and Marxist analyst. Translation: John Catalinotto. Since December 21, 2024, in the framework of the commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the last U.S. military invasion against Panama (Dec. 20, 1989), U.S. President Donald Trump, before having taken office, began a series of repeated statements in which he threatened to take over the Panama Canal by force. Protest of 1989 U.S. invasion, in Panama, December 2024. The arguments used by Trump to justify these…

guest author (2025-02-01). Trump's threats to the Panama Canal, an update of the Monroe Doctrine. workers.org The author of this Jan. 16, 2025, article reacting to President Donald Trump's threats is a Panamanian anti-imperialist and Marxist analyst. Translation: John Catalinotto. Since December 21, 2024, in the framework of the commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the last U.S. military invasion against Panama (Dec. 20, 1989), U.S. . . . |

WSWS (2025-02-01). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific. wsws.org India: Tamil Nadu public transport workers hold state-wide protest; Bangladeshi tannery workers strike over poverty wages; Australia: Dnata ground workers walkout for higher pay at four airports; New South Wales Snowy Hydro workers ban work in dangerous tunnels…

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead (2025-02-01). Scotland's promise to abolish two-child benefit cap expected to reduce child poverty by 2029. leftfootforward.org Scotland is the only country where child poverty rates are expected to fall by 2029, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's (JRF) annual poverty report. | Scotland has promised to scrap the two-child limit on benefits from 2026, which will boost the income of larger families on low incomes. There is already the Scottish child payment in place, providing families who receive certain benefits and have children under the age of 16, with a weekly top-up of £25. | As a result of these measures, child poverty in Scotland is currently 7 percent lower than the rest of the UK, and it is projected to be 10…

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead (2025-02-01). Scotland's promise to abolish two-child benefit cap expected to reduce child poverty by 2029. leftfootforward.org Scotland is the only country where child poverty rates are expected to fall by 2029, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's (JRF) annual poverty report. | Scotland has promised to scrap the two-child limit on benefits from 2026, which will boost the income of larger families on low incomes. There is already the Scottish child payment in place, providing families who receive certain benefits and have children under the age of 16, with a weekly top-up of £25. | As a result of these measures, child poverty in Scotland is currently 7 percent lower than the rest of the UK, and it is projected to be 10…

WSWS (2025-01-29). The role of budget cuts and private equity firms in the Los Angeles wildfires. wsws.org The crisis facing the LA Fire Department is a microcosm of the broader contradictions of capitalism. It highlights the urgent need for a socialist program that prioritizes public welfare over private profit.

Rachel Hu, Chris Garaffa (2025-01-29). CovertAction Bulletin — LA Fires: Natural Disaster Made Worse By Capitalism. covertactionmagazine.com Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday was met with protests around the country. As he immediately launched attacks on immigrants, the environment, LGBTQ people, labor and beyond, people took to the streets in opposition, pledging to continue organizing to defend the oppressed against the onslaught of attacks from Trump and the billionaires…

Staff (2025-01-29). La imagen del día: øLatinos por Trump? cubadebate.cu Made in América. "Latinos por Trump", cuándo al energúmeno le han interesado los latinos, a no ser para cortar el césped en sus campos de golf, y limpiar las habitaciones de sus hoteles. El mejor invento del capitalismo moderno, es el pobre de derecha.

Chris Walker (2025-01-29). Amid Confusion and Panic, WH Rescinds Funding "Freeze" on Grants and Programs. truthout.org A federal judge has issued a stay on an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo that sought to freeze federal spending for several programs and grants, ostensibly to give the Trump administration time to review how federal funds are being spent. The priorities of the administration, according to that memo, include ensuring monies aren't being disbursed to fund "wokeness," "Marxist equity,"… |

The Canary (2025-01-29). A scathing new report on child poverty just shamed the Labour Party. thecanary.co The UK government won't see progress on child poverty by the end of this parliament — even with high economic growth — if investment in social security does not form a part of its child poverty strategy. Joseph Rowntree Foundation: its latest damning report As the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) publishes its annual UK Poverty …

cameron orr (2025-01-28). Connecticut CP renewed by the People's March. cpusa.org When the People's March was announced for January 18th, 2025, the Communist Party USA immediately mobilized all districts to join the already strong contingent in D.C. The march would cap the strong, 60-day response to Trump's election victory, which focused on strengthening our coalitions and building a united front against his fascist agenda. It would be a show of strength against Trump and the MAGA movement's threat of mass deportations, attacks on civil, labor, and reproductive rights. We would stand with over a hundred working class organizations and parties who have been involved in the struggle for free…

cameron orr (2025-01-28). Connecticut CP renewed by the People's March. cpusa.org When the People's March was announced for January 18th, 2025, the Communist Party USA immediately mobilized all districts to join the already strong contingent in D.C. The march would cap the strong, 60-day response to Trump's election victory, which focused on strengthening our coalitions and building a united front against his fascist agenda. It would be a show of strength against Trump and the MAGA movement's threat of mass deportations, attacks on civil, labor, and reproductive rights. We would stand with over a hundred working class organizations and parties who have been involved in the struggle for free…

Christiane Heisse, Sevgi Mutlu Sirakova, Resilience. (2025-01-27). Reclaiming Traditional Foods For A Degrowth Food Future. popularresistance.org Crusty Bread, creamy cheese, bubbly kimchi or refreshing tepache — all cultures have fermented foods and beverages with their own traditions, language, and cultural heritage surrounding them. Fermentation, in this sense, is a living food culture that taps into ancient skills and traditional knowledge. But this knowledge is under attack. As capitalism continues its onslaught on rural, indigenous, communal, and non-commodified ways of life, traditional food practices are slowly dying out in the contexts in which they originally emerged.

Sonali Kolhatkar (2025-01-27). Abolish Climate Disasters. counterpunch.org "Under racial capitalism, land is treated as nothing more than a natural resource to be extracted, and violence is committed against the climate and the waters," said Leah Penniman, who runs Soul Fire Farm in upstate New York and is the author of the acclaimed book Farming While Black. Penniman's words have been echoing in

Prem Sikka (2025-01-27). Pensioner poverty in the world's sixth largest economy is a political choice. leftfootforward.org The hardship inflicted on retirees now will surely visit future retirees unless steps are taken to alleviate misery.

RONALD MUSOKE (2025-01-27). Why are poor poorer, and the rich richer? independent.co.ug Anti-poverty report sees billionaire wealth surging as poverty is unchanged since 1990 COVER STORY | RONALD MUSOKE | On Jan.20, the global anti-poverty NGO, Oxfam International published its 2025 report. It coincided with the day business elites gathered in the Swiss resort town of Davos for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting and American billionaire, Donald …

Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. (2025-01-25). Maersk Exports Cargo From Illegal Israeli Settlements To The US. popularresistance.org A new report details a shipping and logistics giant's role in sustaining illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine and Syrian territories. | A.P. Moller Maersk is a publicly traded Danish company that netted a revenue of $51.1 billion in 2023. According to research compiled by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and its Mask off Maersk campaign, the company has repeatedly facilitated shipments to the United States from illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and the Syrian Golan Heights. | "The global structures of financialized capitalism, logistics and supply chains play an outsize role in the ma…

WSWS (2025-01-25). The thesis of Squid Game 2: Capitalism is a hell of our own making. wsws.org Three years after the "survival drama" phenomenon attracted millions of viewers' attention worldwide, Squid Game's second season struggles to build on the series' cracked foundation.

Sudip Bhattacharya (2025-01-24). Capitalism is Smartphones and Eugenics. counterpunch.org We've entered the era of smartphones and eugenics. "They're eating cats, they're eating dogs," Trump had exclaimed frantically, echoing words that could've been uttered by a Klansman in the early 1920s, but now that very same level of toxicity having been beamed into households all across the world for whoever has the stomach to bear

John Perry, The Grayzone. (2025-01-24). Development Banker Says US Knew Of Plot To Oust Him Over Nicaragua Loans. popularresistance.org After Nicaragua suppressed a violent US-backed 2018 coup d'etat which saw hundreds of deaths, Washington enacted the "Nica Act" sanctions bill in 2018, which largely succeeded in cutting off the country's funding from international institutions such as the World Bank. According to Nicaragua's former finance minister, the sanctions had two immediate effects: First, the World Bank stopped financing anti-poverty projects in Nicaragua, meaning that the poorest communities lost funding of around US$500 million annually.

Sudip Bhattacharya (2025-01-24). Capitalism is Smartphones and Eugenics. counterpunch.org We've entered the era of smartphones and eugenics. "They're eating cats, they're eating dogs," Trump had exclaimed frantically, echoing words that could've been uttered by a Klansman in the early 1920s, but now that very same level of toxicity having been beamed into households all across the world for whoever has the stomach to bear

John Perry, The Grayzone. (2025-01-24). Development Banker Says US Knew Of Plot To Oust Him Over Nicaragua Loans. popularresistance.org After Nicaragua suppressed a violent US-backed 2018 coup d'etat which saw hundreds of deaths, Washington enacted the "Nica Act" sanctions bill in 2018, which largely succeeded in cutting off the country's funding from international institutions such as the World Bank. According to Nicaragua's former finance minister, the sanctions had two immediate effects: First, the World Bank stopped financing anti-poverty projects in Nicaragua, meaning that the poorest communities lost funding of around US$500 million annually.

John Mitchinson (2025-01-23). The Upside Down: Vegetable Leather. bylinetimes.com This article was originally published in the February 2025 print edition of Byline Times | To stay ahead of the curve, The story of rubber is an early example of how the forces of imperial ambition, technological innovation and unfettered capitalism came together to deliver the modern world. Sometimes known as 'white gold', the scale and impact of its cultivation, production, and exploitation is only matched by that of oil. | The story begins in Brazil in 1735, when the poet, mathematician, and friend of Voltaire, Charles Marie de la Condamine, s…

John Mitchinson (2025-01-23). The Upside Down: Vegetable Leather. bylinetimes.com This article was originally published in the February 2025 print edition of Byline Times | To stay ahead of the curve, The story of rubber is an early example of how the forces of imperial ambition, technological innovation and unfettered capitalism came together to deliver the modern world. Sometimes known as 'white gold', the scale and impact of its cultivation, production, and exploitation is only matched by that of oil. | The story begins in Brazil in 1735, when the poet, mathematician, and friend of Voltaire, Charles Marie de la Condamine, s…

cameron orr (2025-01-23). Cuba's return to terror list belies Trump's pro-peace claims. cpusa.org Days after the Biden administration removed Cuba from the so-called State Sponsors of Terrorism list, Trump rescinded the decision through executive order on his first day in office. The Communist Party USA condemns the continuation of this aggressive policy aimed at overturning the Cuban Revolution. | The incoming Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said that the Trump administration plans to impose additional restrictions on the island nation. The economic warfare against the Cuban people waged by the U.S. government and condemned by the United Nations represents an illegal and inhumane attack on Cuban sovereig…

cameron orr (2025-01-23). Cuba's return to terror list belies Trump's pro-peace claims. cpusa.org Days after the Biden administration removed Cuba from the so-called State Sponsors of Terrorism list, Trump rescinded the decision through executive order on his first day in office. The Communist Party USA condemns the continuation of this aggressive policy aimed at overturning the Cuban Revolution. | The incoming Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said that the Trump administration plans to impose additional restrictions on the island nation. The economic warfare against the Cuban people waged by the U.S. government and condemned by the United Nations represents an illegal and inhumane attack on Cuban sovereig…

Jacqueline Luqman, Black Agenda Report. (2025-01-23). Trump's Presidency And The Prospects For Peace In 2025. popularresistance.org A lot of people are angry about the inauguration falling on MLK Day this year, but I actually believe the convergence of dates is auspicious because it gives me the opportunity to bring the issues that Dr. King raised in his speech Beyond Vietnam—Time To Break The Silence to this forum. | In this speech, Dr. King raised the issue of the triple evils plaguing this country and the world: racism, poverty, militarism. What Dr. King was alluding to what we in the Black Alliance for Peace recognize is imperialism, which is why BAP was founded on April 4, 2017, to commemorate this pivotal address, and as a means t…

The Independent (2025-01-23). Museveni blames poverty on reluctance to embrace gov't programs. independent.co.ug Luuka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has attributed the poverty in the country to the failure of people to embrace government programs. While inspecting different enterprises of farmers under the parish development Model-PDM program across the Busoga sub-region on Wednesday, Museveni said that he started economic empowerment programs in 1989 by steering the …

Jacqueline Luqman, Black Agenda Report. (2025-01-23). Trump's Presidency And The Prospects For Peace In 2025. popularresistance.org A lot of people are angry about the inauguration falling on MLK Day this year, but I actually believe the convergence of dates is auspicious because it gives me the opportunity to bring the issues that Dr. King raised in his speech Beyond Vietnam—Time To Break The Silence to this forum. | In this speech, Dr. King raised the issue of the triple evils plaguing this country and the world: racism, poverty, militarism. What Dr. King was alluding to what we in the Black Alliance for Peace recognize is imperialism, which is why BAP was founded on April 4, 2017, to commemorate this pivotal address, and as a means t…

Mnar Adley, MintPress News. (2025-01-22). Hyperimperialism, The Fall Of Syria And Capitalist Gangsters. popularresistance.org As 2025 begins, California is on fire. And it feels like much of the rest of the world is burning, too. From the slaughter in the Middle East to a new Cold War brewing in Asia, everywhere we look is filled with uncertainty. | At home, the California wildfires have exposed much of the true face of capitalism. From prison laborers risking their lives for pennies by fighting the blazes to massive price hikes for rents in Southern California, the U.S. is crumbling. | Yet externally, America is as aggressive as ever. Only last month, it helped force through a coup against the Assad government in Syria, and Trump has m…

newarab (2025-01-22). Elon Musk's 'come-to-Zionism moment' and his DOGE dancing troupe. newarab.com Elon Musk, the obscenely wealthy, self-appointed messiah of the digital age, wields influence like a neural network running on overload. | Hailed by some as a genius in the pantheon of Western capitalism, his ventures range from

cameron orr (2025-01-22). International Notes: Communists face twists and turns worldwide. cpusa.org Chile: Communist Party holds XXVII Congress | The Communist Party of Chile opened its XXVII Congress on January 11. The Party held elections for a new Central Committee and voted on a number of resolutions. | "The Party identifies a fundamental contradiction between neoliberalism and democracy, understood as a structural conflict that subordinates popular sovereignty to the market." The Party's President Lautaro Carmona

John Perry (2025-01-22). Development banker says US knew of plot to oust him over Nicaragua loans. thegrayzone.com The US government was aware of a campaign to remove a top development banker from power to stop anti-poverty loans to Nicaragua, where Washington sought regime change. In an exclusive interview with The Grayzone, Dante Mossi, who headed the Central American Bank for Economic Integration from 2018 to 2023, denounced a plot by "Costa Rica and Guatemala, with the knowledge of the US… to oust me." After Nicaragua suppressed a violent US-backed 2018 coup d'etat which saw hundreds of deaths, …

Mnar Adley (2025-01-21). Vijay Prashad: Hyperimperialism, the Fall of Syria and Capitalist Gangers. mintpressnews.com As 2025 begins, California is on fire. And it feels like much of the rest of the world is burning, too. From the slaughter in the Middle East to a new Cold War brewing in Asia, everywhere we look is filled with uncertainty. | At home, the California wildfires have exposed much of the true face of capitalism. From prison laborers risking their lives for pennies by fighting the blazes to massive price hikes for rents in Southern California, the U.S. is crumbling. | Yet externally, America is as aggressive as ever. Only last month, it helped force through a coup against the Assad government in Syria, and Trump has m…

Danny Shaw, Popular Resistance. (2025-01-21). Despised: The Poor white Trash Manifesto, Part V. popularresistance.org The petit-bourgeois whites are a non-thinking tail to the kite of the dominant wing of capitalism. Appearance is everything; dialectics is a cross to the liberal vampire. | It is not uncommon that they recruit, artificially elevate and reward "diverse" members of the oppressed class who do their bidding. There are such examples which Fox News unabashedly refers to as "diversity hires." On our side of the class barricades, we should be careful of those possessing the appearance of militancy but not critically grasping the essence of Marxism. Independent thinkers are a problem for the PMC.

WSWS (2025-01-21). As viruses spread in Los Angeles shelters, fire survivors discuss the class issues. wsws.org The Palisades and Eaton fires, which continue to ravage large parts of Southern California, serve as stark reminders of the systemic failures in disaster management under capitalism.

Mnar Adley (2025-01-21). Vijay Prashad: Hyperimperialism, the Fall of Syria and Capitalist Gangers. mintpressnews.com As 2025 begins, California is on fire. And it feels like much of the rest of the world is burning, too. From the slaughter in the Middle East to a new Cold War brewing in Asia, everywhere we look is filled with uncertainty. | At home, the California wildfires have exposed much of the true face of capitalism. From prison laborers risking their lives for pennies by fighting the blazes to massive price hikes for rents in Southern California, the U.S. is crumbling. | Yet externally, America is as aggressive as ever. Only last month, it helped force through a coup against the Assad government in Syria, and Trump has m…

Danny Shaw, Popular Resistance. (2025-01-21). Despised: The Poor white Trash Manifesto, Part V. popularresistance.org The petit-bourgeois whites are a non-thinking tail to the kite of the dominant wing of capitalism. Appearance is everything; dialectics is a cross to the liberal vampire. | It is not uncommon that they recruit, artificially elevate and reward "diverse" members of the oppressed class who do their bidding. There are such examples which Fox News unabashedly refers to as "diversity hires." On our side of the class barricades, we should be careful of those possessing the appearance of militancy but not critically grasping the essence of Marxism. Independent thinkers are a problem for the PMC.

cameron orr (2025-01-21). Resist Trump and MAGA's McCarthyism 2.0! cpusa.org The first 100 days of the Trump administration will be full of many challenges and dangers. Not least of these will be the incoming attacks against immigrant communities, the trade union movement, abortion access, LGBTQ people, and the justice for Palestine and other movements for peace and self-determination. | An important plank in the defenses of Resistance 2.0 will be launching efforts to prevent the MAGA right from resurrecting McCarthyism from its grave. During his campaign, Trump vowed to "root out" the communists, Marxists, and the "radical left." Should such a McCarthyism 2.0 be implemented, no pro-wo…

Staff (2025-01-21). Modelos de lenguaje de la inteligencia artificial: Conversando con un amigo virtual. cubadebate.cu Los humanos hemos inventado la inteligencia artificial a imagen y semejanza de nosotros mismos. Esta paráfrasis bíblica, y también marxista, se aplica perfectamente también a muchos otros avances de la ciencia y la tecnología que tienen que ver con la información, como es el caso de la computación digital.

cameron orr (2025-01-21). Resist Trump and MAGA's McCarthyism 2.0! cpusa.org The first 100 days of the Trump administration will be full of many challenges and dangers. Not least of these will be the incoming attacks against immigrant communities, the trade union movement, abortion access, LGBTQ people, and the justice for Palestine and other movements for peace and self-determination. | An important plank in the defenses of Resistance 2.0 will be launching efforts to prevent the MAGA right from resurrecting McCarthyism from its grave. During his campaign, Trump vowed to "root out" the communists, Marxists, and the "radical left." Should such a McCarthyism 2.0 be implemented, no pro-wo…

cameron orr (2025-01-21). Letter to Reps: Vote "No" on the Crucial Communism Teaching Act! cpusa.org

Ed Sykes (2025-01-21). Here are the pro-Trump, pro-Israel billionaires Oxfam's report should have told you about. thecanary.co As Donald Trump becomes US president for a second time, Oxfam has released a report showing that the wealth of billionaires increased by $2tn in 2024, "three times faster than the year before". About four new billionaires popped up every week last year, but "the number of people living in poverty has barely changed since […] | By

Ed Sykes (2025-01-21). Here are the pro-Trump, pro-Israel billionaires Oxfam's report should have told you about. thecanary.co As Donald Trump becomes US president for a second time, Oxfam has released a report showing that the wealth of billionaires increased by $2tn in 2024, "three times faster than the year before". About four new billionaires popped up every week last year, but "the number of people living in poverty has barely changed since […] | By