We don’t agree with the author that China is not a socialist country. However, the author has written a book pointing out the low wages in China’s export economy and that 33% of the workers only work seasonally. We also want to add that it is very difficult, if not impossible to form labor unions…

When it comes to the impact of the UAW strike on customers, auto dealerships are really where the rubber meets the road. This is because profit  from selling parts and performing repairs have historically been higher than profits from vehicle sales. During the GM strike in 2019 some frustrated customers who…

For at least the past 130 years the rulers of the United States and England have had it in for Russia. They have lived in mortal fear of Russia and Germany being on the same side. Attacks on Russia have been relentless both before, during and after the Russian Revolution. But this United Nations report…

Most of the time we think of coops as involving bakeries, grocery stores or restaurants. But musician cooperative Groupmuse “provides a platform for organizing house concerts – and how it allows musicians autonomy and independence to earn money from their music without depending on top-down funding…

Orientation Examples of Superstitious Behavior Stuart Vyse is a psychologist and the author of one of the books I’ll be referencing called Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition. In that book he used his students as guinea pigs for his research on superstition. Before taking one of his…

We think that Matthew Ehret has some very interesting things to say about the role of Tavistock and the CIA in relation to the counterculture. However, using the word satanic is a loaded vice word that invites people to think dualistically and moralistically. If satanic refers to Tavistock and the CIA…

The Chinese Belt Road Initiative is not just about building physical infrastructures like trains and roads. In the case of Argentina, it is also about digital trade. From this article in Global Times: “Argentina’s strength in services trade stems from a state policy initiated in 2004 with focus on…

Three of the smartest people in the world discuss Pepe’s  travels to multipolar conferences. His experiences there are contrasted to the the deadness of the G7 and G20 conferences where the best Western rulers can do is plot to derail the multipolar world.  They showed no vision for the human species…

In this article professor Chossudovsky provides a dazzling picture of how the world capitalism crisis is related to 99 other variables. They include the globalization of war; the global war of counterterrorism; world-wide austerity measures; disinformation media propaganda and the influence of the CIA…

It is hard to believe that the SPD was founded over 140 years ago as a Marxist party. It is also fairly unbelievable that the German Greens were once socialists with some anarchist influences. Today both parties dutifully obey Mordor and deindustrialize their economies. Furthermore, they follow the imperialist…

What financial center of the world is so powerful it is not under the jurisdiction of a national government? It is not taxed. It has a separate voting system and has been the financial center of the world for the last 400 years. Even 25 years ago almost ninety percent of international loans went through…

Russia is a difficult country to place in terms of geographic loyality. Historically, for the most part it has been rejected by Europe in spite of Peter the Great’s efforts to Europeanize Russia. Yet the culture of Russia is not eastern in the way of China, Japan or even India. This article explains…

How did China really cope with the pandemic? What will it mean for China if there is an increase in trade with Brazil? How successful has the Belt and Road Initiative really been? Has the recent slowdown in China’s economy been because of lack of consumer demands as the Keynesians say or is it because…

Is nuclear energy safe? “What can we do about the waste? What about Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima – don’t they prove that we can’t rely on nuclear reactors? Won’t a tiny amount of radiation kill you? Why are reactors so expensive to build with so many delays? Why don’t we just use…

Big wheels keep on churnin’, proud Mordor propaganda keeps on burnin’. Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ down the river. Black propaganda poured into the naive minds of upper middle-class liberals. What is really going on with China and the chip industry is described in this Global Research article…

For the first time in history unions from Ford, General Motors and Stellantis (formerly Chrysler) are all striking at the same time. This strike demonstrates the best in human collective creativity – coordination across three unions, courage in the face of threatening bosses and follow through. There…

Mordor’s propaganda machine against China is revealed to be black propaganda.White and gray propaganda are based on facts. The propaganda comes in the interpretation of facts. It is relatively effective on the masses. Black propaganda is based on lies, not facts, and does not reach the large majority…

One of Russia’s most important plans in the future is to integrate both Koreas with Russia, specifically the Eurasian Economic Union. This interview discusses what this means both geo-economically and militarily for North Korea to be part of not only China’s Belt and Road Initiative but also Russia’s…

Using many of the writings of Michael Parenti’s book Blackshirts and Reds, the author outlines the commonalities between the anarchist-liberal Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges. Just as with Chomsky, Hedges attacks actually existing socialism claiming that communism and fascists are both totalitarian…

“Should every member’s vote be equal? One Member, One Vote is such a bedrock principle of cooperativism that the question itself seems heretical. Worker cooperatives are subject to constant pressure to abandon democracy and labor sovereignty, member power should be defended, not doubted. And yet…

As of today we have been in an economic crisis for over eight years. We think that if you ask most Americans who or what is responsible for this economic crisis, they will say the bankers and Wall Street. This is certainly true up to a point. However the crisis is bigger than just the banks. Since the…

Marxists have followed to the letter Marx’s understanding of religion as the opium of the people. Marx also said the figure of God was an expression of the alienated creativity of humanity. He also saw the religious promise of heaven in the afterlife as a way to keep workers from rebelling in this…

By saying workers are complicit in their oppression, we deny that workers are victims of circumstance. But neither do we say workers create their own reality. Capitalists limit and control the life of workers with the Deep State’s first line of terrorism: police departments. They control workers through…

Capitalists have done a good job of convincing people to believe “there is no alternative” to capitalism – or TINA. This is not true. Workers’ self-management, workers’ control and worker cooperatives currently exist and are surviving better than many capitalist businesses. These organizations…

 WHAT ARE WORKERS’ COUNCILS? Throughout the last 150 years, there have erupted a series of attempts to take over social life without capitalists, without the state or vanguard party leadership. These “workers’ councils” arose out of irreversibly critical situations in the existing order. In…