Daily Archives: March 8, 2022

2022-03-08: News Headlines

Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam (2022-03-08). Don't sell your land, you will benefit from it when Museveni is gone- Kabuleta tells Ugandans. plusnews.ug The National Economic Empowerment Dialogue (NEED) leader, Joseph Kabuleta has rallied Ugandans to guard their land jealously and avoid the temptation of selling it. Kabuleta said land is a priceless natural resource which will help Ugandans overcome poverty in future when the current government led by President Yoweri Museveni is out of power. The former …

Editor2 (2022-03-08). Costa Rica: A Paradise for the Few After First Round of Elections. orinocotribune.com By Giovanni Beluche V. — Mar 3, 2022 | 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…

Binoy Kampmark (2022-03-08). Cutting Ties: The West, Ukraine, and the Russian Academy. dissidentvoice.org Working with Russian academics and institutions. The attack upon Ukraine by Russia. These are two features playing out heavily in university discussions. As typifies such chitchat, nuance features rather less than cant and sanctimony. As writer and lecturer Paolo Nori of Milano-Bicocca University stated after discovering that his course on Fyodor Dostoevsky would be cancelled …

Ana Santoyo (2022-03-08). Celebrating International Women's Day. liberationnews.org IWD means acknowledging the root cause of women's oppression—class society—and its centrality to the system that oppresses our working class today—capitalism.

Fight Back (2022-03-08). Eyewitness report from Venezuela: Second day of PSUV Congress. fightbacknews.org Caracas, Venezuela – The second day of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) 5th Congress, March 6, featured speeches and workshops about building the party among working people, while strengthening the role of women and youth. Facts and figures played an important part in educating the PSUV militants, with data and explanations appearing on giant video walls. However, it was the speaker's analysis of problems, and proposed solutions that kept everyone talking. | For example, there are 8 million registered to vote for the PSUV, but until now, no way to check how people participate in the party. There is…

Fight Back (2022-03-08). Milwaukee: New International Women's Day Coalition hosts first action. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI — On the afternoon of March 6, over a dozen organizations joined together under the banner of the new Milwaukee International Women's Day Coalition to host a march and rally in commemoration of the working-class holiday. A crowd of more than 50 people turned out to celebrate the occasion. | The Coalition united community, campus and labor organizations under one umbrella with a platform that included points about reproductive rights, trans women's rights, compensation for domestic laborers, expanded union rights, paid parental leave, and community control of the police. | The action started at…

Fight Back (2022-03-08). Philippines: Women and toiling people, rise up amid grave crises. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following March 8 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines | The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) extends its revolutionary greetings to women in the country and across the world on the occasion of the International Working Women's Day. Let us recall the heroism of women from the ranks of workers, peasants and other progressive classes and sectors who broke through imposed gender, cultural and economic barriers and took their place as cadres and fighters of the Philippine revolution. | It is significant that in ten days, we are set to mark the 50th a…

Sarah Anderson (2022-03-08). 'Reckoning' with the Economic Marginalization of Native Americans. inequality.org

Diana Ramos Gutierrez (2022-03-07). In Puerto Rico, Paradise for a Few and Austerity for the Masses. towardfreedom.org A U.S. federal judge recently approved a debt adjustment plan for Puerto Rico, but it does not bode well for the people, as foreigners have been encouraged to enjoy the island as a tax-free paradise, reports Diana Ramos Gutiérrez.

Sharon Zhang (2022-03-07). Biden Is Considering Extending Student Loan Pause as Activists Ramp Up Pressure. truthout.org Last week, a top White House official said that the Biden administration is considering extending the student loan payment freeze, which is set to expire on May 1, for a second time — and suggested that the administration may cancel some portion of student debt before payments resume. | In an interview on the podcast Pod Save America,

Whitney Webb (2022-03-07). Ukraine and the New Al Qaeda. orinocotribune.com By Whitney Webb — Mar 2, 2022 | The eruption of war between Russia and Ukraine appears to have given the CIA the pretext to launch a long-planned insurgency in the country, one poised to spread far beyond Ukraine's borders with major implications for Biden's "War on Domestic Terror" | As the conflict between Ukraine and Russia continues to escalate and dominate the world's attention, the increasing evidence that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is and has been working to create and arm an insurgency in the country has received considerably little attention considering its likely consequences. This is…

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…

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 …

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.

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