The Zionist Killing Machine, Backed by America, Continues Unchecked: PFLPCoinciding with the convening of the United Nations General Assembly, the zionist killing machine, backed by America, continued to commit the most heinous forms of organized crime. Dozens of martyrs ascended in the besieged Gaza City following shelling that targeted displaced people near Al-Yarmouk market, forcing residents to bury them in the courtyard of the besieged hospital. Meanwhile, the entire Gaza Strip, from homes to schools, hospitals, and displaced persons’ tents, is subjected to continuous shelling that spares no child, woman, sick person, or hungry person. This is a crime of genocide being committed in full view of the world gathered at the General Assembly, unchecked and unaccounted for, leaving questions hanging: Who will hold this criminal entity accountable? And why does the international community fail to stop this ongoing massacre against an unarmed people? The crime does not stop at shelling alone; it extends to a suffocating siege that deprives residents of food, medicine, and fuel, a policy of collective starvation that constitutes a crime against humanity. All of this is happening before the eyes of a world whose institutions are shackled by the American veto and decision. We welcome the international consensus demonstrated by the positions of the international community at the United Nations General Assembly, supporting Palestine and its right to statehood and self-determination, condemning the occupation’s crimes, and calling for a halt to the ongoing massacre. Meanwhile, the United States today stands alone in defending this outcast entity, which is experiencing increasing isolation even among many of its traditional allies.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/21545/Bhaskar Sunkara : Your Party: A Left for ItselfWhen it comes to absurd beginnings for new left-wing formations, it’s fair to say that Britain has a certain notoriety. In 2014, before Corbynism’s spectacular rise, there was a nascent formation known as the International Socialist Network (ISN). This split from the Socialist Workers Party came amid much optimism; it seemed to be younger, more democratic, and more in touch with the zeitgeist than its rivals on the revolutionary left. This optimism, unfortunately, was short-lived. Just months after the foundation of the ISN, the party was embroiled in controversy. Looking back, you might have expected a dispute to revolve around the response to the coalition government’s austerity agenda, or perhaps the approach to the Labour Party and the next year’s general election, or even to the Syrian Civil War, which was raging at the time. Instead, the party saw seven resignations from its national executive over whether a human posing as a chair in a piece of art was sexy or racist. It would have been hard to believe that this episode could be surpassed in absurdity by any new party on the British left. Yet we certainly now have a candidate to rival it. The launch of Your Party earlier this summer was met with vastly more enthusiasm than the ISN ever achieved — a reminder of the improved position of socialist politics in the wake of the 2010s. But as the new party devolved into bitter factional warfare and even rival legal threats, it also stands to contribute to a far greater wave of demoralization. The project was fraught from the start. In early July 2025, Zarah Sultana announced that she was leaving the Labour Party and launching a new left formation in partnership with Jeremy Corbyn, naming herself and Corbyn as coleaders. However, Corbyn’s team had not formally agreed to any elements of the rollout, or even to her coleader status, and had no idea that she would make the announcement. Tensions over decision-making protocols and internal structures simmered throughout the summer. Matters came to a head last week, when Sultana emailed supporters announcing a membership portal. She insisted the move was part of the agreed-upon “road map” for building the party and pointed to more than 20,000 sign-ups within hours. Corbyn’s camp, however, denounced it as premature and unauthorized, urging supporters to cancel any payments. Sultana, for her part, said she had been sidelined by what she called a “sexist boys’ club.” After a week of recriminations and threats, both sides stepped back from escalation. Plans for a founding conference in November remain in place, but the episode has been an international embarrassment and drained momentum from the project.
https://jacobin.com/2025/09/your-party-corbyn-sultana-workersKeeping Each Other Afloat in a Difficult World: 2024 Review of Labor Issues in ChinaSince 2020, an anonymous group of netizens has been coming together to prepare an annual review of labor struggles (or, in their terminology, “labor rights incidents”) and related social trends in China. The effort is led by Wechat User “Chiapas Eastern Wind TV” (恰帕斯东风电视机), who releases a call for contributions within self-described “pan-leftist” (泛左翼) circles. An ad hoc collective then forms, adopting a different tongue-in-cheek name each year to better avoid censorship: for the 2024 report they were named “Straw Mushroom Stewed Chicken” (草菇炖鸡); for 2023, “Iron Pot Braised Yellow Catfish” (铁锅炖嘎鱼), for 2022, “Three Fresh Ingredient Menzi Stall” (三鲜焖子大排档). Sometimes names are listed for editors. Sometimes no names are listed. Though there appear to be regular contributors who participate most years, the anonymous and collective nature of the project makes it difficult to determine. The collective is therefore an essentially crowdsourced team composed each year of members from vastly different backgrounds unified by a shared concern over the situation of ordinary workers. This team then distributes work, edits the ensuing material into a coherent report, and promotes it on social media. Aimed at a broad audience including Chinese liberals and progressives whose understanding is often framed in a language of identity politics and “labor rights,” the final report balances a number of viewpoints. As explained by the lead organizer, however, the authors share a broad consensus around several key goals: First, it hopes to convince liberals and progressives who have little concern for labor issues of the invariant importance of class struggle to social change. Second, it encourages those in the traditional labor left to more accurately grasp the intersectional complexity of working-class experience. Third, in response to a largely online left prone to overly philosophical speculation and doctrinal debate, it argues that aspirations for radical change must be grounded in a detailed understanding and analysis of the existing system. Finally, the authors have intentionally incorporated certain theories and practices related to “labor system reform” (工作体制变革) as a rejoinder to various mainstream ideologies that idealize nothing but work ethic. Although the resulting document is somewhat inconsistent in terms of writing style and political analysis, given its crowdsourced nature, these annual reports have nonetheless served as the most comprehensive reviews of labor issues in China since the pandemic. To our knowledge, none have yet been translated into English. We therefore offer here the first installment in a full English-language translation of the most recent year in review, released at the end of 2024: “Keeping Each Other Afloat in a Difficult World: Taking Stock of Labor Struggles in 2024”. The original Chinese version, including the hyperlinks to each cited case, can be found here. Given that the report is roughly 100 pages, requiring many hours of translation work, we will be serializing the release. Individual sections will be launched on our blog every few weeks, likely until the end of the year (when the 2025 edition will be released in Chinese). If readers find the review useful, we hope to be able to mobilize resources to translate next year’s report more quickly.
https://chuangcn.org/2025/08/keeping-each-other-afloat-in-a-difficult-world-2024-review-of-labor-issues-in-china/