(2022-07-23). Dialogue With US 'Is Just For Putting The Noose Around Your Own Neck'. popularresistance.org The front-row seat reservations at the central act of the 43rd anniversary of the Sandinista revolution in Managua, Nicaragua, saw no sign of the international community—a stale euphemism for the US' withering clientele. | Instead, the pantheon of the vaunted multipolar world order took its place: Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and Bolivia were all represented, as were an assortment of lesser deities, enclaves of resistance, and potential allies: Argentina, Brazil, Angola, Western Sahara, and Palestine, just to mention a few. | The crowd, mostly party youth sprinkled with groups of foreign representa…
(2022-07-23). FRSO condemns State Department designation of Communist Party of the Philippines as 'terrorist'. fightbacknews.org Freedom Road Socialist Organization condemns in the strongest possible terms the U.S. State Department decision to keep the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People's Army on its list of designated "Foreign Terrorist Organizations." This is an example of confounding facts with fiction, and it is an attempt to criminalize international solidarity. | The real terrorists in the Philippines are to be found in the U.S.-backed regime of President Marcos. Jails in the Philippines are filled with political prisoners. Trade union federations, like the May First Workers Movement, face constant government repre…
(2022-07-23). Nine Arrested In Police Crackdown On Protests In Tunisia. popularresistance.org Tunisian security forces violently repressed a massive protest in the country's capital on July 22 against the moves by President Kais Saied to further undermine democratic institutions in the country. According to human rights organizations, police repressed protesters who had gathered at the emblematic Habib Bourguiba Street in the center of Tunis by hitting them with batons and launching tear gas at them. Several people injured during the repression were hospitalized, and police arrested nine people. | Among those arrested are feminist rights activist Olfa Baazaoui of the Workers' Party of Tunisia, human right…
(2022-07-23). Biden's Presidency Isn't Sinking Because of the Left—It's Because of Right-Wing Democrats. commondreams.org Don't blame progressives for Biden's failures. It's the party's right flank that abandoned the working class.
(2022-07-23). Growing opposition to Twitter censorship of Socialist Equality Party (Australia). wsws.org More than 48 hours since it effectively disabled the SEP's account, the social media corporation has provided no credible explanation or responded to demands for the measure to be reversed.
(2022-07-23). January 6 Committee covers up role of Republican Party, national security officials in Trump coup. wsws.org The Democratic-controlled committee presented the absurd narrative that the fascist siege of the Capitol was allowed to drag on because Trump rejected pleas to call it off from White House staffers, family members, congressional leaders and other loyalists who had supported his baseless claims of a "stolen election," but heroically came to the defense of the Constitution.