Monthly Archives: May 2023

2023-05-31: News Headlines

WSWS (2023-05-31). Oppose the witch-hunting of Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation workers. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party opposes the victimisation of SLIC workers and stands unconditionally in defense of the jobs and democratic rights of all insurance corporation employees.

WSWS (2023-05-31). Unions use Los Angeles rally billed as support for striking writers to promote Democrats in 2024. wsws.org The attendees, numbering in the hundreds, were a mix of lower-level union and Democratic Party officials and supporters, and those writers who decided to attend.

WSWS (2023-05-31). Biden-McCarthy austerity debt ceiling bill moves to vote in Congress. wsws.org The Republican Party, led by its fascistic wing, is used to drive the so-called "debate," making the most extreme demands for social cuts and thereby paving the way for the Democrats to agree to somewhat less onerous attacks, while accelerating the process of gutting all of the social gains won by the working class in a century of struggle.

Spyros A. Sofos (2023-05-30). Erdoƒüan's Electoral Victory Imperils Democratic Forces in Turkey. truthout.org On May 28, Turkish citizens went to the polls for a second round of voting in the presidential election. On the ballot, Recep Tayyip Erdoƒüan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) were challenged by a six-party opposition alliance purporting to stand for an alternative politics embracing all Turks regardless of political views, religious affiliation, ethnic background… |

Ann Brown (2023-05-30). Black Chicago Group Calls For Boycotting Biden Vote, Holding America Hostage. moguldom.com One of the Democratic Party's biggest fears—losing the Black vote—may be closer to coming true. Slowly over the last few years, the DNC has been losing Black voters, as some Black voters complain that the party does not appreciate their continued support and has not pursued policies that would benefit the Black community. Now, a …

Muhammed Shabeer (2023-05-30). Giorgia Meloni government is a regime of private corporations that is normalizing fascism. peoplesdispatch.org Maurizio Coppola from Potere al Popolo (Power to the People) talks about his party's campaign for a 10 Euro minimum wage, the Giorgia Meloni government's attack on workers, and the attempt to normalize authoritarianism and fascism…


Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-30). Imperialist Hegemony and the Class Struggle in Africa and the Diaspora. libya360.wordpress.com Abayomi Azikiwe Kwame Nkrumah And Haile Selassie Note: The following solidarity statement was prepared and delivered in part to the African Liberation Day program organized by the All-African People's Revolutionary Party, (A-APRP-GC) under the theme "Pan-Africanism: Waging Class Struggle in Africa and the Diaspora, Fighting for the One United Socialist Africa!" on Sat. May 27,…

Freedom Socialist Party (2023-05-31). Wednesday 6/7: Feminists Fighting Transphobia. indybay.org New Valencia Hall | 747 Polk St. (at Ellis St.), San Francisco | Seven blocks from Civic Center BART, on or near Muni bus lines #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49…

Ana Luisa Brown (2023-05-31). DPRK boosts production of agricultural machinery. plenglish.com Pyongyang, May 31 (Prensa Latina) By virtue of a resolution from the 8th Session of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, the workers of the mechanical industry branch are making progress in the production of agricultural machinery, it was announced on Tuesday.


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2023-05-30: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2023-05-30). Xi stresses accelerated efforts to build leading country in education. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, stressed accelerated efforts to build China into a leading country in education as the Party's leadership convened a study session on Monday.

ecns.cn (2023-05-30). Xi calls for accelerated efforts to build leading country in education. ecns.cn The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a group study session Monday on building a leading country in education. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the session.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-29). Venezuela: The Fight Between PSUV and PCV is Unnecessary, Untimely, and Alien. libya360.wordpress.com Clodovaldo Hernández Life turns on a dime: The Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) had never had as much public attention as it does these days. It has even become a trending topic on social media platforms despite the fact that many of their leaders do not use those platforms because they are weapons (although not…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-29). Violations Mar Sudan's Ceasefire, Paramilitary RSF Occupies Communist Party's Office. libya360.wordpress.com Pavan Kulkarni A market in Khartoum that was destroyed in the fighting. Photo: Ayin Network "The occupation of our party office is a part of the ongoing attempts by the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces to silence the voice of the democratic forces that opposed this catastrophic war," SCP spokesperson Fathi Elfadl…

A Guest Author (2023-05-29). G7 in Hiroshima: a War summit. workers.org Published May 25 in Avante!, weekly newspaper of the Portuguese Communist Party. Translation by John Catalinotto. Living in the illusion of past domination, the seven countries known as the G7 insist on trying to convey the idea that they are the seven largest economies in the world. But the reality . . . |

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-05-29). Cuban President congratulates workers in the tobacco sector. plenglish.com The president stressed on his Twitter account that every May 29 is celebrated the day of tobacco workers in honor of the birth of Lázaro Peña, the captain of the working class in Cuba. | Peña (1911-1974) was born in Havana into a very humble family that barely managed to support his public education for two years, until the death of his father forced him, as a child, to work in various trades to ensure the family's livelihood. | At the end of 1929 he joined the ranks of the clandestine Communist Party, actively participating in the organization of workers to fight against the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado (1925…

Clodovaldo Hernández (2023-05-29). Fight Between PSUV and PCV is Unnecessary, Untimely, and Alien. orinocotribune.com By Clodovaldo Hernández — May 28, 2023 | Life turns on a dime: The Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) has never had as much public attention as it does these days. It has even become a trending topic on social media platforms despite the fact that many of their leaders do not use those platforms because they are weapons (although not necessarily dented) of imperialism. | I have the slight impression that this was not the purpose of those who, hailing from the government and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), wanted to knock out their former ally. These are, apparently, shots that have backfired.

Pavan Kulkarni (2023-05-29). Violations mar Sudan's soon-to-expire ceasefire, paramilitary RSF occupies Communist Party's office. peoplesdispatch.org "The occupation of our party office is a part of the ongoing attempts by the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces to silence the voice of the democratic forces that opposed this catastrophic war," SCP spokesperson Fathi Elfadl told Peoples Dispatch…

Ann Brown (2023-05-30). Black Chicago Group Calls For Boycotting Biden Vote, Holding America Hostage. moguldom.com One of the Democratic Party's biggest fears—losing the Black vote—may be closer to coming true. Slowly over the last few years, the DNC has been losing Black voters, as some Black voters complain that the party does not appreciate their continued support and has not pursued policies that would benefit the Black community. Now, a …

Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. (2023-05-29). The Democratic Party's Crucifixion Of Matt Taibbi. popularresistance.org On Dec. 24, 2022 Matt Taibbi was in a room at the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco poring through reports sent to Twitter from an entity called the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF). The FITF is an FBI-led interagency task force that forwards "moderation requests" from numerous government agencies, including Homeland Security, the CIA, the Pentagon and the State Department, to social media outlets. Taibbi was given access to the internal traffic by Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk. It revealed how the FBI and other government agencies routinely suppressed news and commentary. He published a Twitter thread that nigh…

Editor (2023-05-29). Chris Hedges: The Democratic Party's Crucifixion of Matt Taibbi. scheerpost.com Extensive government blacklists, revealed by the Twitter Files, are used to censor left-wing and right-wing critics. This censorship apparatus has been turned on the reporter who exposed them.

Staff (2023-05-30). Giorgia Meloni government is a regime of private corporations that is normalizing fascism. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in Peoples Dispatch on May 30, 2023. It is shared here under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA) license. Peoples Dispatch (PD) speaks to Maurizio Coppola from the Italian leftist political party Potere al Popolo (Power to the People) regarding the policies of the far-right government in Italy led by Giorgia Meloni and the campaigns undertaken …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-30). Imperialist Hegemony and the Class Struggle in Africa and the Diaspora. libya360.wordpress.com Abayomi Azikiwe Kwame Nkrumah And Haile Selassie Note: The following solidarity statement was prepared and delivered in part to the African Liberation Day program organized by the All-African People's Revolutionary Party, (A-APRP-GC) under the theme "Pan-Africanism: Waging Class Struggle in Africa and the Diaspora, Fighting for the One United Socialist Africa!" on Sat. May 27,…

WSWS (2023-05-30). Introduction to Lawrence Porter's Marcus Garvey and the Reactionary Logic of Racialist Politics. wsws.org Mehring Books is pleased to announce the publication of Marcus Garvey and the Reactionary Logic of Racialist Politics by Lawrence Porter, assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (US).

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-29). Early elections called in Spain following defeat of incumbent party in regional polls. peoplesdispatch.org The conservative People's Party led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo were the major winners in the regional and local polls held across Spain on May 28, which were considered a trial run for the general elections scheduled for this year…

Freedom Socialist Party (2023-05-30). Wednesday 6/7: Feminists Fighting Transphobia. indybay.org New Valencia Hall | 747 Polk St. (at Ellis St.), San Francisco | Seven blocks from Civic Center BART, on or near Muni bus lines #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49…

unitedEditor (2023-05-30). Does Meloni raise the bet? unitedworldint.com By Yiƒüit Saner, reporting from Rome / Italy Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy), the party of Italian premier Giorgia Meloni, and the other coalition forces forming the government, Forza Italia and Lega (League), had put a sort of "presidential system" on the agenda in their 2022 electoral program to solve the problem of instability of …

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