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Hongkongers purge social media, delete accounts as Beijing passes national security law Hongkongers have deleted their social media accounts and scrubbed online traces of political content as Beijing passed sweeping national security legislation for the city on Tuesday 30.
The unprecedented law, which targets secession, subversion, foreign interference and terrorism, came into (...)USA: Protests Against Racism; LBGTQ Pride; Continuing Crisis; Trump’s Decline Throughout June hundreds of thousands of Americans in hundreds of cities and towns protested the killing of George Floyd who had been murdered by police in Minneapolis. But there were also LGBTQ Pride Marches in support of the protests against racism. There were large Black Pride marches in New (...)
Renaming India as Bharat: The Longstanding Hindutva Agenda Though the Supreme Court refused to entertain on June 3 a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) for renaming India as ‘Bharat’ or ‘Hindustan’, it does not put an end to the longstanding Hindutva agenda on this issue. The Supreme Court decision was purely on technical/legal grounds namely that ‘Bharat’ (...)
USA: A Long History of Dehumanizing The “Darker Brother” I am the darker brother and “I, too, sing America”
When the Black American poet, Langston Hughes (1902-1967), wrote his beautiful poem, “I, too, sing America”, Harlem Renaissance or “the New Negro Movement” as it was called in the 1920’s, was in vogue. Most Black artists, even though proud of their (...)Justice for Lee Cheuk Yan and ensuring fundamental rights in Hong Kong On 15 June 2020, Lee Cheuk Yan, General Secretary of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU), and fourteen other pro-democracy leaders and activists appeared in court, charged with participating and organising illegal assemblies demanding the withdrawal of the extradition bill and (...)
Produce less, share better, decide together! – Final Statement of the 2020 Ecosocialist Conference for Climate Justice The initiative to prepare an ecosocialist conference was taken by two organizations in Switzerland, solidaritéS and the Movement for Socialism.
Our main goal is to bring together individuals and organisations with an ecosocialist orientation in order to reflect together on common demands and (...)Pandemic (India): Work in the Time of Covid The title of this article is a humble nod to a significant work of literature of the last century, Marquez’s magic realism, ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’. The current Covid crisis is no less of magic realism: a tiny virus has virtually brought capitalism to its knees. The damage that two World (...)
Inside China’s race to beat poverty Xi Jinping has vowed to eradicate extreme rural deprivation by the end of 2020. Will he meet his target?
Two A3-sized cards hanging outside the door of Jike Shibu’s house in Atule’er, a village perched on a cliff in the mountains of south-west China, were enough to determine his family’s fate. (...)The Economic Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Czech Republic The Czech Republic (CZ) entered the pandemic in exceptionally good economic condition, with the lowest unemployment rate in all of the EU, with solid economic growth (2.6 %) and increasing real wages together with low public indebtedness at a level of about 31 % of GDP. Therefore, the Czech (...)
United States: Coronavirus and Crises of U.S. Capitalism In the United States we are facing a number of interrelated crises: the coronavirus, the economy, institutional racism including police violence against African Americans, disarray in the federal government, and climate change.
The new upsurge in virus infections is increasing. Spikes in new (...)An Interview on the Futures of Black Radicalism – The concept of racial capitalism “The concept associated with Black Marxism that I find most productive and most potentially transformative is the concept of racial capitalism.... Global capitalism cannot be adequately comprehended if the racial dimension of capitalism is ignored.”
Futures of Black Radicalism brings together (...)Lagos distributes free phones to pupils to bridge digital divide Closure of Nigeria’s schools during lockdown has hit access to learning for poorer children
Like millions of other children in the sprawling Nigerian city of Lagos, 15-year-old Sharifa Umar switched from classroom learning to lessons over radio, TV and the internet when schools were closed in (...)Malaysia: Penjana is a deeply flawed stimulus package Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) appreciates the fact that the Perikatan Nasional government recognises the need for government intervention in addressing the economic downturn that we are now undergoing.
This indicates that the government realises that the neoliberal dictum that markets are (...)Statement (USA): Defend the Hong Kong Democracy Movement! In an act of retribution to the Hong Kong movement beginning last year, which has seen prolonged street clashes between the police and protestors, China has decided to unilaterally impose new national security laws to Hong Kong.
These laws severely circumvent the city’s existing autonomy, (...)Malaysia: Absorb hospital cleaners to prevent exploitation, government told An activist has taken the government to task, calling on it to get involved and use its political will to resolve issues regarding a cleaning company allegedly mistreating its employees.
National Union of Workers in Hospital Support and Allied Services (NUWHSAS) executive secretary M (...)Malaysia: PSM urges gov’t to implement universal basic income-type programme Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) president Dr Michael Jeyakumar said the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government appears ready to spend money to boost the economy in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic but it needs to do so effectively in order to help everyone in the country.
He suggested one of the (...)United States: Reopening the Economy Will Send Us to Hell As we head into the fifth month of the outbreak millions of working families feel like they have been kidnapped and sent to hell.
As unemployment (officially reported) soars toward 30 percent or more, an estimated 20 million more people will fall helplessly below the poverty line. In a recent (...)Malaysia: Protection of workers - legal obligation, not mere recommendation We, the 56 undersigned organisations, groups and trade unions are concerned about the lack of obvious enforcement and prosecution of employers, contractors, developers including directors and CEOs when they violate laws meant to ensure worker safety and health, even during this movement control (...)
Revolution and the Negro The Negro’s revolutionary history is rich, inspiring, and unknown. Negroes revolted against the slave raiders in Africa; they revolted against the slave traders on the Atlantic passage. They revolted on the plantations.
The docile Negro is a myth. Slaves on slave ships jumped overboard, went on (...)India: Assam Govt Sets up Six-Member Transgender Welfare Board Assam becomes the seventh state in the country to have such a welfare board.
Guwahati: A six-member transgender welfare board has been set up by the Assam government and members from the state’s transgender community have now been incorporated into the welfare board. This was confirmed by a (...)
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