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By Sonny Melencio, Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM), Philippines PLM Webinar presentation. May 16, 2020 My main idea for this presentation actually comes from a reading of an article written by Simon Hannah, titled “Coronavirus has given us two visions of the future” published in Mutiny, an online paper of a group of socialists inContinue reading “The Capitalist Pandemic and Socialist Solutions”

Siva Arumgan, Party Socialist Malaysia Webinar slide presentation, hosted by the Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM), Philippines. May 16, 2020

A SOCIALIST MANIFESTO FOR A POST-COVID-19 PHILIPPINES Mayo 2020 The English Language version is available here https://www.facebook.com/notes/laban-ng-masa/a-socialist-manifesto-for-a-post-covid-19-philippines/1136252453402561/ Habang sinusubukang bawasan ng pamahalaan at ng pribadong sektor ang epekto ng pandemikong COVID-19 sa pamamagitan ng pag-institusyonalisa ng mga hakbanging pangkalusugan at panlipunang amelyorisasyon, nangingibabaw ang pag-aakalang kung huhupa na ang krisis, babalik din ang lahat saContinue reading “Isang Sosyalistang Pahayag para sa Pilipinas Matapos ang COVID-19”

Ang Kapitalistang Pandemya at Sosyalistang Solusyon Webinar video “Hindi kami maaaring bumalik sa normal, dahil normal ang tunay na problema.” “We can’t go back to normal, because normal was precisely the problem”.

by Paul Blackledge Reprinted from Monthly Review At the bicentenary of his birth, Frederick Engels’s reputation as an original thinker is, among Anglophone academics at least, at its nadir. The main reason for this unfortunate state of affairs is undoubtedly political. Despite the recent global economic crisis and associated increases in inequality that have tended toContinue reading “Engels vs. Marx?: Two Hundred Years of Frederick Engels”

By Julian Coppens Reprinted from Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal April 27, 2020 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — For Stalinists and liberals, Vladimir Lenin has been useful both as a myth and as a scapegoat. For the former, a myth selectively cited and distorted to justify the terror of bureaucratic rule and the theoryContinue reading “Lenin, 150 years on”

MIKE DAVIS Reprinted from New Left Review 122, March-April 2020 Coronavirus footnote1 is the old movie that we’ve been watching over and over again since Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone (1994)introduced us to the exterminating demon, born in a mysterious bat cave in Central Africa, known as Ebola. It was the first in a succession of new diseases eruptingContinue reading “THE MONSTER ENTERS”

By Walden Bello, April 22, 2020 Reprinted from Foreign Policy In Focus The global food system has been very much front and center in the COVID-19 story. Everyone, of course, is aware that hunger is closely tracking the virus as its wreaks havoc in both the global North and global South. Indeed, one can say that, unlikeContinue reading “The Corporate Food System Is Making the Coronavirus Crisis Worse”

Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino PRESS RELEASEApril 29 2020 Nationally-coordinated, decentralized, community-wide noise barrage on Labor Day:“Kaldero at sikmurang walang laman”from poor communities to cyberspace Various groups, initiated by the Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP), held an online press conference today to announce its plans for a nationwide coordinated community-wide noise barrage on Labor Day. TheContinue reading “Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino, Philippines, Press Release”

The South African Federation of Trade Unions joins the workers of the world in celebrating May Day, when we all come together in solidarity to demand an end to exploitation, poverty, hunger and inequality. Today is the day the world working class celebrate their victories against the brutalities of the world profit mongers and theirContinue reading “Workers of the World Unite! South African Federation of Trade Union’s (SAFTU) May Day 2020 message”