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French communists: A revolutionary crisis is developing in France

20May

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France

French communists: A revolutionary crisis is developing in France

If properly directed, workers’ action has the power to sweep away not only the rule of Emmanuel Macron but of the entire French bourgeoisie. French communist orgs Subscribe to our channel The true face of the French state has been clearly revealed in the way that it has responded to workers’ resistance to a renewed attack on their pensions. On the one hand, running battles between striking workers and tooled-up riot police have become a daily occurrence across the country, while on the other, the prime minister has shocked the country by invoking an emegency clause, article 49.3, in the French constitution in order to enact the hated ‘reform’ by decree when it became clear that the parliament could no longer be relied upon to pass it. https://w.soundcloud.com/player...

20May

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Saudi Arabia

Blood, Golf and Saudi Arabia

BY BINOY KAMPMARK Photo by Markus Spiske The recently concluded LIV Tournament in Adelaide was a matter of bread, circuses and golf. It was something of a triumph for the chief sponsor: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and, more notably, the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Critics, and criticism about the regime and the blood spattered House of Saud, were generally forgotten. This vulgar display of denial and indulgence was typified by the face of Australian golf, Greg Norman. After three days of competition at The Grange, The Advertiser ran with the painful headline: “LIV-ing the dream: Golf’s boom weekend for SA.” The South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas, who scandalously threw his state’s money into a mix also funded by Saudi...

Breaking the Logjam in the South African Left

19May

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Africa

Breaking the Logjam in the South African Left

BY IMRAAN BUCCUS Graffiti in Johannesburg, South Africa. Photo by Hennie Stander South Africa is in serious trouble. Inequality is worse than under apartheid, unemployment is at over 40% with young people being particularly hard hit. The state has not been able to ensure a regular power supply for more than a decade, the water supply is increasingly precarious in some areas, the national airline and the Post Office have collapsed due to mismanagement, murder rates are through the roof and the educated classes are leaving the country in droves. The collapse started when Jacob Zuma, a crude populist, was elected to power in 2009 and proceeded to turn the state into an organised kleptocracy. Zuma, a socially conservative ethnic nationalist who sometimes used the langua...

19May

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USA

The Hypocrisy of Anti-Abortionists

BY HOWARD LISNOFF Photograph Source: Tony Webster – CC BY-SA 2.0 There are lots of kids who live in poverty in the US. The poverty rate for children cited below from US Census figures is lower than prior to the pandemic because of pandemic policies, such as rent subsidies, child tax credits, and food assistance. But, in the wealthiest country in the world, 16.9% of children live in poverty. That is 16.9% of the 37.9 million people living in poverty in 2021, even with the pandemic assistance programs. In 2003, the Guttmacher Institute noted, in answer to continued threats to Roe v. Wade (that have now become a reality) that women in the US faced the prospect of unintended pregnancies: But regardless of the legal status of abortion, its fundamental under...

Atlanta’s “Cop City” and the Struggle for Climate Justice

19May

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Environment, USA

Atlanta’s “Cop City” and the Struggle for Climate Justice

BY STAN COX Manuel Téran. Image: Priti Gualati Cox. Along the South River, in the southwest corner of DeKalb County, Georgia, lies a forested area of about 300 acres that has been owned by the nearby City of Atlanta for over a century. It was once part of a vastly larger wooded landscape, home to the Muskogee (Creek) people. They gave the river and forest the name “Weelaunee.” In 2021, Atlanta officials decided to split 85 acres off this remnant of the Weelaunee forest and lease it to the Atlanta Police Foundation, a nonprofit organization, for construction of a $90 million tactical training center. If built, it will be one of the country’s largest such facilities and include an entire “mock village” in which cops can practice doing the kinds of things cops do. For the pas...

The Fight Over a Pill – and the Freedom of Women

19May

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Environment, USA

The Fight Over a Pill – and the Freedom of Women

BY CHLOE ATKINSON The Supreme Court on Friday preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues. Women seeking to end their pregnancies in the first 10 weeks without more invasive surgical abortion can take mifepristone, along with misoprostol. According to an AP report, abortion opponents filed a lawsuit in Texas in November, asserting that the FDA’s original approval of mifepristone 23 years ago and subsequent changes were flawed. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled in their favor on April 7, revoking FDA approval of mifepristone. The judge gave the Biden administration and Danco Laboratories a week to appeal and seek to keep his ruling on hold. Responding to ...

Monster Heat Hits 1/3rd of World Population

19May

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Human Rights, World

Monster Heat Hits 1/3rd of World Population

BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Image by Nicolas Houdaye. It has started, and it’s fierce… Monster Heat! “It’s a ‘monster heat spell like none before,” according to climatologist and weather historian Maximiliano Herrera, describing Asia’s heatwave as the worst in history. (Source: Extreme Heat Scorches Asia, Affecting at Least a Third of the World’s Population, The Verge, April 19, 2023) Global warming is hitting full stride as SE Asia, inclusive of parts of China and India literally roast. It’s a bad omen for the rest of the world as the entire planet is threatened by an emerging El Niño event starting this year. El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño-Southern oscillation that originates in the equatorial Pacific every few years, bringing on more heat throughout the pl...

19May

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China, USA

China is Bigger. Get Over It

BY DEAN BAKER Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain It is standard for politicians, reporters, and columnists to refer to the United States as the world’s largest economy and China as the second largest. I suppose this assertion is good for these people’s egos, but it happens not to be true. Measuring by purchasing power parity, China’s economy passed the U.S. in 2014, and it is now roughly 25 percent larger.[1] The I.M.F. projects that China’s economy will be nearly 40 percent larger by 2028, the last year in its projections. Source: International Monetary Fund. The measure that the America boosters use is an exchange rate measure, which takes each country’s GDP in its own currency and then converts the currency into dollars at the current exch...

The US and the War Crimes in the War on Terror

19May

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Human Rights, USA

The US and the War Crimes in the War on Terror

BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: mike_benedetti – CC BY 2.0 “The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” – Thucydides, 5th Century BC. For the past two decades, the International Criminal Court has concentrated on the war crimes and criminals who have operated in Africa. Over the past month, however, the court has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Commissioner or Children’s Rights. Our own Department of Justice is even considering a federal indictment of Syrian leaders responsible for the torture and execution of an American human rights worker, Layla Shweikani. The war crimes of Syrian President Basher al-Assad are well known, but this would mark the first time that the United States has...

19May

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USA

The Idolatry of Gun Worship

BY ARIEL GOLD Image by Maxx. In the aftermath of the horrific Nashville school shooting that took the lives of three adults and three little children, Tony Perkins president of the Family Research Council, refused to find fault in America’s obsession with guns. Instead, he posited prayer being the only solution to the crisis of mass shootings “We must return to the only lasting source of hope and freedom — the Lord Jesus Christ,” he added. “Nothing Washington is doing will matter until we acknowledge and address the moral decay and brokenness plaguing our culture.” Perkins isn’t wrong in connecting religion to gun violence. But, rather than a deeper embrace of his organization’s mission “to advance faith, family, and freedom in public policy and the culture fro...