International Peoples’ Assembly. Working class communities around the world are organizing against capitalism. They are also forging a new international movement of solidarity and cooperation in the International People’s Assembly. How can organizers build international unity, and oppose the tools used by the ruling class to divide and defeat the popular movements that are expanding democracy while fighting to save the planet? Brian is joined at the People’s Summit for Democracy by Stephanie Weatherbee Brito with the International Peoples’ Assembly. Source link
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Inside China’s economic model. How does socialism with Chinese characteristics differ from Western neoliberal capitalism? Economist John Ross, who has taught in China, explains Beijing’s model. Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton discussed China’s socialist model with economist John Ross, a senior fellow at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China. Ross criticized Western left-wing academics like David Harvey, who have argued that China’s economy is capitalist or even neoliberal. “The Chinese model has nothing to do whatever with neoliberalism. And that’s why it produced totally different results,” Ross said. “China has raised, by World Bank criteria, since 1978, 850 […]
Above Photo: CNBC interview (6 / 20/19) with billionaire investor Leon Cooperman. Big news, everyone! Billionaires don’t like socialism. In response to a rising progressive tide in the United States, a new genre of stories has emerged in corporate media: rich guys warning against taxing them, or really changing anything about the system at all. Just as the press are keen for you to know that Medicare for All is a very bad idea (FAIR.org, 4/29/19), they are equally anxious to make sure that the voices of beleaguered, unheard plutocrats are given as much of a boost as possible. A case in […]
Above Photo: Anti-China propaganda is intended to indoctrinate Americans with fear and hatred and gain support for war against that country and against socialism itself. Friends of Socialist China formed out of what we saw as a dire need to gather all information, original and otherwise, to counter the misinformation being spread about China. We didn’t include the word “socialist” in our title for gimmick or display but rather to send a firm message of respect and admiration to the Chinese people’s socialist path. In many ways, the propaganda war against China possesses a dual mission: the ramping up of a […]
Elections And The Path To Socialism In Venezuela By Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. December 9, 2020 | Featured Campaign, Podcast Elections And The Path To Socialism In Venezuela2020-12-092020-12-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/20201206_103705-1-scaled-e1607270890967.jpg200px200px On December 6, Venezuelans elected a new National Assembly with a left political majority. This election, which was well-run and legitimate despite what the imperialist media and countries say, reconstitutes the Venezuelan parliamentary body with participation from both the ruling and opposition parties. It marks the end of an era during which the National Assembly was a tool of the right wing agenda and US regime change efforts. To facilitate understanding of […]
Movement Towards Socialism Wins Landslide Victory In Bolivia October 23, 2020 Movement Towards Socialism Wins Landslide Victory In Bolivia2020-10-232020-10-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/boliwin-e1603486790520.jpg200px200px Above photo: Luis Arce (right) and David Choquehuanca on the campaign trail. Twitter. With 100% of the votes counted, the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) presidential ticket of Luis Arce and David Choquehuanca has won 55.1% of the votes, with a lead of 26.27% over their nearest rival Carlos Mesa. After 11 months of being ruled by a repressive coup-regime, Bolivians have finally recovered democracy. After five days of counting, the official results of the Bolivian presidential elections are finally in. The Movement […]
Socialism—it’s a convention tradition for the GOP. References to the economic philosophy of government ownership were only slightly outnumbered by the words “the” and “Trump” on the first night of the remote-access GOP summit on Monday. Ex-United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley warned of the nefarious influence “the socialist left” would have on former Vice President Joseph Biden’s prospective administration, while Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) imagined the Democratic nominee and his understudy Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) would look to implement a “socialist utopia.” The first son’s significant other, Kimberly Guilfoyle, inveighed against a “socialist Biden-Harris future,” while Florida businessman Maximo Alvarez warned […]
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., stands on stage in an empty Mellon Auditorium while addressing the Republican National Convention on Monday. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., stands on stage in an empty Mellon Auditorium while addressing the Republican National Convention on Monday. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Follow live coverage of the RNC all week at NPR.org/conventions. The first night of the Republican National Convention was a little scattershot. It seemed to be partially about counter-programming the Democratic National Convention last week, partially intended to fire up the base and partially aimed at winning back […]
Hunger and misery continue to escalate in Venezuela. Meanwhile the socialist regime buys weapons. While senior officials of Maduro’s regime live like kings with millionaires, millions of their citizens are going through the worst humanitarian tragedy in modern history. Venezuelans today look like zombies on the streets looking for something to eat or take home at the end of the day. They even dig through garbage for food. TRENDING: Goodyear Bans Employees From Wearing ‘All Lives Matter,’ ‘Blue Lives Matter’ or MAGA Slogans, But Says Black Lives Matter is Allowed Nicolas Maduro’s regime has taken away any possibility of a decent […]
CoronaShock And Socialism By Vijay Prashad, TriContinental: Institute for Social Research. July 14, 2020 CoronaShock And Socialism2020-07-142020-07-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/202000702_coronashock-03_web-feature-5-e1594747554144.jpg200px200px Above photo: Adapted graphic from People’s Medical Publishing House, China, 1977. CoronaShock is a term that refers to how a virus struck the world with such gripping force; it refers to how the social order in the bourgeois state crumbled, while the social order in the socialist parts of the world appeared more resilient. This is the third in a multiple-part series of studies on CoronaShock. It is based on research by Ana Maldonado (Frente Francisco de Miranda, Venezuela), Manolo de los Santos (researcher with Tricontinental: […]
Scheer Intelligence: For Many Young People, Socialism Is As American As Apple Pie June 26, 2020 | Educate!, Featured Campaign Scheer Intelligence: For Many Young People, Socialism Is As American As Apple Pie2020-06-262020-06-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/bernie-etc-scaled-e1593193423966.jpg200px200px Above image: By Mr. Fish. Bernie Sanders may never make it to the White House, but, just when we need them most, socialists like “Bigger than Bernie” co-author Megan Day have picked up his torch. In the devastating aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, many young Americans who felt betrayed by capitalism were introduced to socialism by Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaigns. Meagan Day, a staff writer for the popular […]
Bernie Blackout, a new VICE TV documentary directed by Pat McGee examining the mainstream media’s alleged bias against the Sanders campaign, is rooted in independent and alternative journalism instead of the corporate cable news outlets like MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN. While McGee’s film straightforwardly breaks down the cynical function of corporate media (that is, to turn a profit, not to tell the truth), the documentary unfortunately does not reach beyond the 24-hour news cycle and into the centuries of knowledge produced around spin, propaganda, and political manipulation that came before today’s U.S.-based podcasters, vloggers, and other digital writers (including me) […]
Post-Pandemic America: Prelude To Socialism Or Fascism? By Werner Lange, Hampton Think. May 8, 2020 Post-Pandemic America: Prelude To Socialism Or Fascism?2020-05-082020-05-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/pandemic-e1588950208739.jpg200px200px Above photo: A New York Police officer stands guard in an almost empty Times Square during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York City, U.S., March 31, 2020. Eduardo Munoz/Reuters. May 8 marks the 75th anniversary of the defeat of fascism in Europe, a historic victory over modern despotism that catapulted American capitalism to world domination by default. As the only combatant country with its cities and infrastructure left intact, the United States emerged from this colossal bloodbath […]
For Democrats, COVID-19 is the road to socialism. As the country navigates the course of the mis-modeled and over-hyped COVID-19 pandemic, we are hovering on a fragile tightrope between freedom and socialism, with those on the left pushing for socialism. TRENDING: Shelley Luther Sentenced to Seven Days in Jail for Opening Dallas Hair Salon During Coronavirus Lockdown Eager not to let a “crisis go to waste,” Democrat lawmakers have become tyrannical, enforcing draconian unconstitutional stay home orders. Joe Biden admits his goal is to use COVID-19 as an excuse to push a radically left agenda. Dead Americans, millions of people plunged into […]