____ (2022-05-20). Timothy Snyder claims "Russia is fascist": Falsification in the service of US-NATO war propaganda. wsws.org The New York Times' op-ed column by Timothy Snyder—"We Should Say It. Russia is Fascist"—is yet another example of the Yale professor's role as an unscrupulous purveyor of historical falsification aimed at legitimizing the US-NATO war against Russia.

____ (2022-05-20). Germany's Left Party in free fall. wsws.org The war in Ukraine has finally exposed the pro-imperialist character of the Left Party. It fully supports the German government's war propaganda. Criticism of NATO will no longer be tolerated.

Staff (2022-05-19). Disbelief as Mainstream Media Alleges Defeated Ukrainians Were 'Evacuated'. orinocotribune.com On May 16, the commander of the Azov regiment entrenched in the Azovstal plant, Denís Prokópenko, announced the surrender of the troops under his command in the face of the Russian siege. However, the headlines of international mainstream media outlets presented the news not as a surrender, but as an "evacuation." | For example, the following headlines appeared in Spanish-language outlets: | ‚Ä¢ "Ukraine evacuates 264 soldiers from the Azovstal steel mill" (RTVE, Spain's publicly owned media) | ‚Ä¢ "Ukraine abandons the fight in the Mariupol steelworks and evacuates 2 soldiers" (S…

Editor (2022-05-19). What is the fetishism of commodities? mronline.org I was asked by a few comrades to explain Marx's concept of the fetishism of commodities, and with that, the main ways it has been misunderstood by both mainstream bourgeois academia and by well-meaning Marxists. The following short reflection attempts to do just that.