WSWS (2022-12-30). Fascist terror and military hostility set tone for Lula's inauguration in Brazil. wsws.org The inauguration of Brazil's president-elect Luís Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers Party (PT), set for January 1, is being prepared under the shadow of fascistic conspiracies in the country.
Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-12-30). Always Room for More: Zionism's Endless Extremism. orinocotribune.com By Jeremy Salt Dec 24, 2022 | In the latest incarnation of Israeli politics, incoming 'prime minister' Benyamin Netanyahu has given the most extreme figures on an already extreme spectrum the portfolios for 'national security' and settlement-building on the West Bank. | Itamar Ben Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party, who has been allocated the national security portfolio, recently called on his settler followers to shoot Palestinians who resist the takeover of their homes and land. That can be taken as a portent of how he intends to do his job. | Ben Gvir's portfolio gives him control over…
_____ (2022-12-29). Progressives In Belgium Protest Detention Of Migrants. popularresistance.org On Saturday, December 24, progressive groups in Belgium protested at the Vottem detention center in Liège, denouncing the state's unfair policy on migrants. The protest was organized by the Collective of Resistance to Centers for Foreigners (CRACPE). Hundreds of people including Wallonian MP Julien Liradelfo from the Workers Party of Belgium (PTB/PVDA) and activists from the PTB and the Communist Party of Belgium (PCB/CPB) participated in the protest. The protesters asked the federal government to close down migrant detention centers across the county and release and regularize the incarcerated migrants. | Progre…
ecns.cn (2022-12-29). CPC continues self-reform as it embarks on new journey. ecns.cn Less than a week after the conclusion of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, led the newly elected top leadership on a visit to Yan'an, an old revolutionary base in northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-12-29). On the Application of Xi Jinping Thought in an Imperialist Country. orinocotribune.com By Friends of Socialist China Dec 23, 2022 | On 10 December, the first of two online seminars on the theme 'The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and its World Significance', organised jointly by Friends of Socialist China and the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, was held. We are pleased to publish below the contribution by Dr Hugh Goodacre, Managing Director of the Institute for Independence Studies and lecturer in the History of Economic Thought at University College London. Hugh's speech provides a profound and thought-provoking analy…
Pavan Kulkarni (2022-12-29). Hundreds More Injured in Anti-Coup Protests in Sudan As December Revolution Enters Fifth Year. towardfreedom.org Attempts by an alliance of foreign powers, domestic right-wing parties and the military junta to consolidate an authoritarian state in Sudan will be defeated by mass movements, said the Sudanese Communist Party. Pavan Kulkarni reports for Peoples Dispatch.
WSWS (2022-12-29). Jose Ma. Sison, founder of the Stalinist Communist Party of the Philippines, dies aged 83. wsws.org To take stock of the life of Jose Ma. Sison is to document the bloody history of betrayed workers' struggles in the Philippines of the past 60 years.
Staff (2022-12-29). Bolivia's Far-Right Governor Camacho Arrested. orinocotribune.com 
Caracas, December 29, 2022 ( Estefanía Morales, legislator of Bolivia's governing party, the Movement for Socialism-Political Instrument for the Soverei…
WSWS (2022-12-29). Is Sahra Wagenknecht founding a new party? wsws.org A Wagenknecht party would seek to steer opposition to the Ukraine war into a nationalist dead-end. Resting on anti-Americanism, it would strengthen German militarism.
Chris Walker (2022-12-29). Biden WH Reminds GOP Leaders: You Don't Have Oversight Powers Until Next Week. truthout.org President Joe Biden's White House Counsel has penned a letter to key Republican legislators, telling them they will have to reissue requests for documents they've made in the past month relating to investigations they plan to open when the party controls the House. When it became clear that Republicans would win control of the House of Representatives in the 2022 midterms, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)… |
Sharon Zhang (2022-12-29). New York Prosecutors Open Investigation Into Representative-Elect George Santos. truthout.org Following a series of revelations about lies that Representative-elect George Santos has told on the campaign trail, New York prosecutors have opened an investigation into the Republican as party leaders in Congress remain silent about the scandal. Nassau County prosecutors in Long Island, New York, opened the investigation on Wednesday. It's unclear which claims are under scrutiny… |
WSWS (2022-12-29). January 6 Committee Final Report upholds "one-man coup" whitewash of Republican Party, Supreme Court, military-intelligence agencies. wsws.org Damning revelations concerning the role played by elements within key state institutions in support of Trump's coup are omitted in the 814-page report.