KCK: The Turkish State is the Biggest Threat for IraqThe statement added: “The Iraqi state has made significant progress toward resolving the Kurdish issue and has recognized the identity and rights of the Kurds in accordance with its constitution. The policies of previous administrations, which had been genocidal and denialist, have been abandoned by the current administration, in favor of democratic progress. The Iraqi state will emerge as an inspiration in the Middle East and earn the support of democratic circles and all Kurds if it takes further courageous steps towards democratization. Seeing this, the Turkish state is determined to divert Iraq from its political course, converting the country into a partner of its own policies of genocide and annihilation, digressing it to the customs of more than a century ago.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/16/kck-the-turkish-state-is-the-biggest-threat-for-iraq/Pharma-Backed Democrats Are Fighting To Keep Drugs ExpensiveWhile President Joe Biden is using Medicare to lower the cost of a handful of overpriced drugs and wants to expand the practice to hundreds more, some of Big Pharma’s favorite Democrats are working to do the opposite. After the pharmaceutical industry unleashed a $1.5 million bipartisan donation blitz, members of Biden’s own party have joined with Republican lawmakers to try to limit the number of drugs regulators can cut prices for in the future — an initiative Donald Trump is actively campaigning on in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential elections. Democratic Reps. Scott Peters (CA), Wiley Nickel (NC), Josh Gottheimer (NJ) and Donald Davis (NC) are each cosponsoring at least one of several proposed bills that would limit regulators’ ability to negotiate down prices of drugs covered by the Medicare government insurance program. The legislation would erode the drug-pricing reforms included in the Democrats’ 2022 Inflation Reduction Act — efforts that Peters, Nickel, and Gottheimer supported. (Davis had not yet been elected to Congress.) The four, who all hail from states with a major biotech or drug-industry presence, have together raked in more than $300,000 from pharmaceutical and health-products interests during the 2023–2024 congressional session. Gottheimer is reportedly eyeing a 2025 gubernatorial run in New Jersey, home to the pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co.
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/pharma-drug-price-negotiations-democratsNestor Makhno. Platform: General Section.1. Class struggle, its role and meaning: There is no one single humanity There is a humanity of classes Slaves and Masters
Like all those which have preceded it, the bourgeois capitalist society of our times is not 'one humanity'. It is divided into two very distinct camps, differentiated socially by their situations and their functions, the proletariat (in the wider sense of the word), and the bourgeoisie. The lot of the proletariat is, and has been for centuries, to carry the burden of physical, painful work from which the fruits come, not to them, however, but to another, privileged class which owns property, authority, and the products of culture (science, education, art): the bourgeoisie. The social enslavement and exploitation of the working masses form the base on which modern society stands, without which this society could not exist. This generated a class struggle, at one point taking on an open, violent character, at others a semblance of slow and intangible progress, which reflects needs, necessities, and the concept of the justice of workers. In the social domain all human history represents an uninterrupted chain of struggles waged by the working masses for their rights, liberty, and a better life - In the history of human society this class struggle has always been the primary factor which determined the form and structure of these societies. The social and political regime of all states is above all the product of class struggle. The fundamental structure of any society shows us the stage at which the class struggle has gravitated and is to be found. The slightest change in the course of the battle of classes, in the relative locations of the forces of the class struggle, produces continuous modifications in the fabric and structure of society. Such is the general, universal scope and meaning of class struggle in the life of class societies.
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