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2022-03-07: News Headlines

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-07). Blinken: U.S. to transfer warplanes from Poland to Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Interfax-UkraineMarch 6, 2022 Blinken: USA working with Poland to transfer military aircraft to Ukraine The United States is negotiating with Poland on the possibility of transferring MiG and SU aircraft to Ukraine, on which Ukrainian pilots will be able to fly, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said. "We are working with Poland as …

Fight Back (2022-03-07). Leninism: The Marxism of the current era. fightbacknews.org So far in our series on theory, we've looked at the historical emergence of Marxism. But by the time Marx finished writing Capital, capitalism was still developing and changing. The fundamental characteristics of the capitalist mode of production haven't changed. Commodity production and exploitation of workers' surplus value by the capitalists remain the driving force of the capitalist system. And it remains a system plagued by regular cycles of crises of overproduction, pushing poor and working-class people further down while the rich get richer and richer. But by the beginning of the 20th century the internal…

Staff (2022-03-07). Drought sparks famine fears in Zimbabwe. en.mehrnews.com Farmer groups have warned of foods shortages in Zimbabwe owing to the prolonged dry spell currently being experienced in the country.

Roselena Ramirez (2022-03-06). When Being Poor Co-exists with Dangers. america.cgtn.com In the Caribbean and Latin America, 1 out of every 5 people are living in slums. These slums are also often referred to as "informal settlements" within cities. For a poverty-stricken population, the low cost of living in these neighborhoods and the chance to make …

_____ (2022-03-06). Costa Rica: A Paradise For The Few After First Round Of Elections. popularresistance.org It seems that hard times indeed are coming for the working class, micro- and small-business owners, and small-scale farmers of Costa Rica after the first round of presidential voting on February 6. The two candidates that will go on to the runoff, José María Figueres Olsen and Rodrigo Chaves, have clearly neoliberal proposals: more free trade, more taxes on wage earners, and more cuts to university budgets and social spending. They offer no specific proposals to address the serious crisis of tax evasion and tax avoidance, nor anything to curtail the use of tax havens to hide people's fortunes. The new Legislative…

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-06). Britain helps Turkey develop fifth-generation combat aircraft. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Daily SabahMarch 6, 2022 Turkey working with Rolls-Royce on 5th-gen combat aircraft engine he top body of Turkey's defense industry has started cooperating with United Kingdom-based Rolls-Royce on the engine to power the country's National Combat Aircraft (MMU), the head of the authority said Saturday. In a televised program on broadcaster CNN Tàºrk, Ismail Demir, …

JANET (2022-03-06). In Haiti, misery breeds resistance. iacenter.org By G. Dunkel March 3, 2022 Thousands of Haitian garment workers, mainly women, have hit the streets in February demanding that the government raise their minimum wage to 1,500 gourdes (about $14) for a 9-hour day. They currently make 500 gourdes (about $4.80) a day. The workers, mostly women who spend over half their salaries on transportation to and from the factories, are demanding a raise. credit: Konbit Journalis These low wages, and a bourgeoisie more than willing to intensely exploit workers, are what has drawn big companies like Gap, Old Navy, H&M, JCPenney and Zara to hire Haitian companies in duty-free "

_____ (2022-03-06). Putin, Lenin, Imperialism And The (Real) History Of Ukraine. popularresistance.org The people of this country suffer, I've always thought, from a general ignorance of history. This is because with vast oceans for borders, and ever-friendly neighbors, and no experience of being invaded, living in a country that has always urged assimilation including the acceptance of "American exceptionalism," schooled through an educational system that avoids teaching U.S. history with any degree of credibility so as not to upset anybody, they've never been encouraged to think critically about the past. To ask questions. To raise objections—not necessarily about what happened, but about how to interpret…

Staff (2022-03-06). EU comments on warplanes for Kiev. rt.com Ukraine insists it needs jet fighters to repel the Russian attack | European Council President Charles Michel has said that the bloc's military aid to Ukraine will not include jet fighters, which Kiev has insisted it badly needs to fend off the ongoing Russian invasion. | "The European Union is definitely not at war with Russia. A war is what Russia has launched against Ukraine, a country very friendly and very close to the EU. That is why we support Ukraine on all levels," Michel said in an interview with several European newspapers on Saturday. | The chief of the EU's top political body confirmed that the EU…

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