(2021-11-22). The US is Preparing a Biological Time Bomb in Kazakhstan. journal-neo.org 
The Open Regulations website and the website of the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan recently published information on the Kazakh government's intention to build a "BSL-4 laboratory and underground storage facility for a collection of dangerous and highly dangerous strains" in the south of the country in the Korday …
(2021-11-22). Deere workers denounce UAW "dirty tricks" operation to pass contract: "They're criminal scumbags" wsws.org As 10,000 John Deere workers have begun to return to plants and warehouses in recent days following the shutdown of their five-week-long strike, anger has remained high at the United Auto Workers union.
(2021-11-22). Reader's comment on Belarus' warning of war. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com From Alex re "If we start a war here in Belarus, NATO and Russia will get involved. It will be a nuclear war." With the recent failure of US-NATO-allied bloc regime change efforts (targeting Belarus) through colour revolution techniques, a kinetic stage of operations is approaching. Importantly, recent joint Russia-Belarus displays of military cooperation (involving …
(2021-11-22). Remembering Greenham Common. zcomm.org Review of Mothers of the Revolution, a new documentary that tells the story of the women who helped to end the Cold War…
(2021-11-22). Australia: Overloaded Victorian hospital system narrowly avoids Code Red. wsws.org The state Labor government has only been able to carry out its dangerous policy to prematurely open up the economy because of the health unions' opposition to any mobilisation of their members against it.
(2021-11-22). Workers at Navy shipyards in Virginia and Mississippi reject pro-company contracts. wsws.org Huntington Ingalls Industries, the parent company of Newport News and Ingalls, is the largest military shipbuilding firm in the US.
(2021-11-22). After year of protests, Modi says three pro-agribusiness laws will be repealed. wsws.org The far-right Modi government is withdrawing the farm bills only so as to better prepare and prosecute its class war offensive against India's workers and toilers.
(2021-11-22). United Workers Union rams through sell-out at Australian clothing warehouse. wsws.org Country Road workers have returned to work under a union-management agreement that does nothing to address bottom-of-industry wages.
(2021-11-22). The way forward for film and television workers in the aftermath of IATSE's sabotage. wsws.org Workers need to build independent rank-and-file committees, independent of IATSE, that actually represent their interests.
(2021-11-22). Behind Chinese President Xi's populism, mounting social inequality. wsws.org Xi's calls for "common prosperity," philanthropy from the super-rich and the need to reduce social inequality are aimed at deflecting mounting discontent among workers and young people.
(2021-11-22). For a Global Workers' Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic. wsws.org This Inquest is necessary to break through the cover-up, falsifications and misinformation that have been deployed to justify policies responsible for the avoidable deaths of millions since the initial detection of SARS-CoV-2.
(2021-11-22). Venezuela: Chavismo Triumphs Electorally Despite Difficulties. libya360.wordpress.com Yoselina Guevara On Sunday, November 21, the candidates of the Gran Polo Patriotico coalition and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), representing the political force of the current Venezuelan government, managed to defeat the opposition parties, which, although divided, participated again in the voting after they had successively withdrawn since 2017 in an effort…
(2021-11-22). Raids, Arrests and Death Threats: Israel's Strategy of Silencing Human Rights Defenders. dissidentvoice.org 
On October 21, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced the issuance of a military order designating six prominent Palestinian human rights groups as 'terrorist organizations'. Gantz claimed that they are secretly linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a socialist political group that Israel considers, along with most Palestinian political parties, …
(2021-11-22). Unite's "new and improved offer" at Arriva North Wales: another de facto pay cut. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site urges Arriva drivers in North Wales to vote down Unite's wretched pay deal concocted with the company.
(2021-11-22). Left Bloc pleads for alliance with Socialist Party in Portuguese elections. wsws.org After voting against its budget, The Left Bloc is campaigning for an ever closer relationship with the Socialist Party and its pro-austerity politics.
(2021-11-22). New 'Union-Busting Tracker' debuts online. mronline.org 
On Nov. 6, a group of volunteers launched a Web page called the 'Union-Busting Tracker' to post examples of union-busting. Eleven days later, they'd listed 180 separate cases, naming the employers and the union-busting outfits they'd hired.
(2021-11-22). Oppose the attempt by the teachers union to sell out Scranton strike! wsws.org The SFT has announced a deal with the Scranton School District that will pit teachers against their community and solve none of the immense problems facing educators, students and parents in Scranton.
(2021-11-22). Organising to defeat union busting. greenleft.org.au Alex Salmon reviews an inspiring memoir of the fight against union busting inside a North Carolina carpet mill.
(2021-11-22). "In Our DNA": Jacob Blake's Father & Uncle on the Family's Long History of Racial Justice Activism. democracynow.org 
Jacob Blake Sr., whose son was shot by Kenosha police in 2020 and left partially paralyzed, says the family is part of a larger movement fighting for victims of police violence and racial injustice. "We were always pro-Black activists and then after this happened to my son, we've become activists for everyone who's been affected," he says. The Blake family has a long history of activism going back to the civil rights movement and beyond. Justin Blake, Jacob Blake's uncle, says it's in the family's DNA. "We cannot sit down, we must make change."
(2021-11-22). Huntington West Virginia hospital strike enters third week. wsws.org Staff at the hospital are maintaining 24-hour picketing at the hospital battling short staffing and unsafe working conditions in the midst of the expanding pandemic.
(2021-11-22). New Zealand police announce they have photographed bodies in Pike River mine. wsws.org The discovery sparked anger among some families of the 2010 Pike River mine disaster victims, and supporters, who questioned why the Labour Party-led government had sealed the mine, preventing the recovery of the 29 men who died.
(2021-11-22). Canadian Tire Fire #20: Floods in Southern BC, Raids on Wet'suwet'en Territory, #AllOutForWedzinKwa Solidarity Actions Spread. itsgoingdown.org 
Cover image: @Gidimten / @M_Tol In this week's column, we present an update on the recent wave of repression and arrests on Wet'suwet'en territory by the RCMP, as well as a roundup of solidarity actions across so-called Canada and beyond. Be sure to listen to a recent interview with Sleydo' of the Gidimt'en on a…
(2021-11-22). NAM and India's Attempts to Nurture Asian-African Ties. libya360.wordpress.com ND Jayaprakash After the ceasefire agreement came into force in Korea on 27 July 1953, the United States shifted its attention to Indo-China to prevent the defeat of France in its colonial war of over seven years. On 18 May 1953, United States Secretary of State John Dulles had already expressed alarm. He said, "…all…
(2021-11-22). What Do an Apology, Reconciliation, and a Sacred Obligation to Constitutionally Guaranteed Rights of First Nations Look Like in Canada? dissidentvoice.org 
They send a hundred RCMP to go protect a pipeline and not protect people's lives so we need to push back. They put industry, they put fracking, they put gas and oil over everyone's lives. — Eve Saint, a Wet'suwet'en land defender In the nineteenth century, Gilbert Malcolm Sproat, a colonial official, wrote an account …
(2021-11-22). Sudan's Anti-Coup Protesters Reject Agreement to Reinstate Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch By agreeing to pick a new cabinet of technocrats devoid of all representation from civilian political parties, PM Hamdok has lost support of all sections of the protesters and most political parties In Sudan, a 14-point agreement was signed between army chief and coup leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and deposed prime minister Abdalla…
(2021-11-22). To Keep Fossil Carbon Out of the Air, Just Stop Pulling It Out of the Earth. zcomm.org Ending the extraction of fossil fuels from the Earth while achieving material sufficiency, equity, and justice would move us a long way toward the more livable future…
(2021-11-21). Rittenhouse is Yet Another Murderer in the Nation of Murderers: A History and a Solution to US White Supremacy. anchor.fm In this episode we briefly discuss the case of Kyle Rittenhouse and explain as to why he is not someone we need to focus on individually, unless someone plans on logging him out of the matrix. He is someone we will probably watch become a cop or a US Representative, but if that is the case will he truly be any different than many of the others? | We also discuss the history of the US as a Settler-Colonial State and how Colonialism was directly connected to and a part of the Capitalist development in history. We also discuss the importance of organizing and why getting organized is the most important thing we can…
(2021-11-21). WW says: Rittenhouse verdict promotes white supremacy. workers.org 
Workers World is outraged — along with the rest of the country and the world — with the devastating November 20 acquittal of 18-year-old, white vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse for the murders of two anti-racists, Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, and the wounding of a third anti-racist, Gaige Grosskreutz. These killings . . . |
(2021-11-21). Biden's Call for Racial Equity Lacks Protections for Marginalized Workers. truthout.org 
It was already clear that meatpacking plants hosted some of the country's worst COVID-19 outbreaks. But a
(2021-11-21). Live Updates: Chile Votes 2021. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, 15 million Chileans are called upon to elect their new president, 155 lawmakers, 27 senators, and 302 regional councilors for the 2022-2026 term. The presidential candidates who are more likely to win are not part of either the Independent Democratic Union or the Socialist Party, which have formed the coalitions that have taken turns in the exercise of power since 1990. The main events of this electoral event are presented below according to their occurrence at local time. | Citizens work today as poll workers at the Colegio Seminario Pontificio Menor electoral college in the Las Condes commune, in Santi…
(2021-11-21). Vote no on the UNAC/UHCP sellout! Join the Kaiser Workers rank-and-file committee! wsws.org If they thought that by calling off the strike they would demoralize us, they were badly mistaken. The struggle is not over. It is only just beginning.
(2021-11-21). Vote no to the UNAC/UHCP sellout! Join the Kaiser Workers rank-and-file committee! wsws.org If they thought that by calling off the strike they would demoralize us, they were badly mistaken. The struggle is not over. It is only just beginning.
(2021-11-21). Exploited bookshop workers keep up the fight. greenleft.org.au Better Read Than Dead bookshop workers, who are fighting for a new work agreement, were given a boost with around 150 unionists and locals joining a rally in solidarity with their struggle. Isaac Nellist reports.
(2021-11-21). Teamsters United victory is historic step forward. fightbacknews.org Washington, DC – Members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) around the country have much to celebrate. For over two decades, the IBT led by Jimmy Hoffa Jr. did very little to help union members and working people. Instead, the Hoffa Jr. regime busied itself with arranging givebacks to employers and managing the general decline of the Teamsters. Workers represented by the Teamsters saw their contracts become weaker, their union become smaller, and whatever respect they had on the job evaporate. | However, all of that is set to change now that O'Brien-Zuckerman (OZ) and their Teamsters United slat…
(2021-11-21). Socialist draws biggest applause at mayoral candidate meeting. greenleft.org.au The Supercar race, council transparency and Stockton's sand erosion problems were key discussion topics at a lord mayoral candidates' forum organised by Hunter Community Forum. Kathy Fairfax reports.
(2021-11-21). Venezuela Election Update: Socialist Party Notes People's Vote. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, 21.1 million Venezuelans are entitled to elect 23 governors, 335 mayors, 253 state legislators, and 2,471 councilors. For the first time since 2007, opposition parties participate in the democratic process and call on the population to go to the polling stations. The main events of this electoral event are presented below according to their occurrence at local time. | RELATED: | 16.30. United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV)…
(2021-11-21). European Union Election Observation Mission Meets with Right-Wing Politicians: Guaidó, Capriles, Machado, Evans and Figuera. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, November 18, representatives of the European Union (EU) Elections Observation Mission (EOM) that is in Venezuela reported via Twitter on several meetings they held with spokespersons of Venezuela's extreme right, such as former deputy Juan Guaidó and the coordinator of the Vente Venezuela movement, María Corina Machado, in the hours before of the regional and municipal mega-elections. | In this regard, the international observers is maintaining their work schedule while the National Electoral Council's (CNE) schedule for the November 21 mega-elections advances with the objective to materialize the de…
(2021-11-21). President Maduro Asks EU Commission to Respect Venezuela's Electoral Process. orinocotribune.com On Saturday, November 20, President Nicolás Maduro urged the European Union Observation Mission, which is currently in Venezuela as an international observer for the November 21 elections, to respect the country's electoral process and legal framework. | During a meeting held with members of the International Accompaniment Program for the November 21 Elections, Maduro rejected the EU Mission's intention to issue a final verdict on the validity of the Venezuelan elections. | President Maduro asked "can any international observer visiting any country in the world be the one to give a verdict on the validity of a di…
(2021-11-21). 'Changes' for San Francisco after 'horrible' night of looting. rt.com 
San Francisco's mayor and police chief have promised "changes" after a night of massive looting, a crime becoming more and more common in the city, and one that's driving businesses away. | Numerous stores, including Louis Vuitton and Bloomingdale's, were hit on Friday night as part of a massive looting spree hitting businesses in the California city's Union Square. | In a Saturday press conference addressing the attack on businesses, Mayor London Breed promised "changes" to the area that will limit car access after the "horrible" night of crime. Police Chief Bill Scott similarly pointed to infrastructure chan…
(2021-11-21). National SDS condemns Israel's attacks on Palestinian human rights organizations. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from Students for a Democratic Society (National). | National SDS unequivocally condemns Israel's designation of 6 Palestinian human rights organizations as "terrorist". The targeted organizations include the Bisan Center for Research and Development, Al-Haq, Addameer, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, the Union of Palestinian Women's Committees and the Defense for Children International-Palestine. All of these organizations have longstanding roots among the Palestinian people. We see this as the US-backed Israeli apartheid regime paving the…
(2021-11-21). US Lawmakers Raise Questions Over Biden's Reasoning For Syria Air Strike. popularresistance.org More than 30 bipartisan US lawmakers sent a letter to President Joe Biden questioning the administration's reasoning for bypassing Congress and launching a military strike in Syria earlier this year. Led by Democrats Jamaal Bowman, Peter DeFazio and Republican Nancy Mace, the lawmakers said that Biden appeared to be "acting in contravention of the Constitution". They also said that the administration has offered less of a basis for its strike than the previous Donald Trump administration did when conducting a strike in Syria.
(2021-11-21). Bolivian government repeals law being used as a pretext for destabilization by right-wing. peoplesdispatch.org The Bolivian government abrogated Law 1386 of the National Strategy to Combat the Legitimization of Illicit Profits and the Financing of Terrorism, which the members of far-right civic committees and the opposition had used as a pretext to strike, mobilize and block roads…
(2021-11-21). The Situation in this Sunday's Elections in Chile. orinocotribune.com By Resumen Latinoamericano — Nov 17, 2021 | Chileans will go to the polls today to elect a new president against the backdrop of allegations of human rights violations by the government and the challenge of keeping the Covid-19 pandemic under control. | The elections, in which the entire Chamber of Deputies, part of the Senate and the regional councilors will also be renewed, will take place within the framework of the Constitutional Convention that arose from the social outburst of October 2019, which seeks for the country to abandon the remnants of Pinochet's military dictatorship. | The exercise of the ri…
(2021-11-21). Venezuela: The Dictatorship of Democracy. orinocotribune.com By Marcos Maranges — Nov 18, 2021 | On this coming Sunday, November 21, Venezuela will go to regional and local elections to vote for over 3000 public officials. However, some governments and people still think that the country is a dictatorship ruled by President Nicolás Maduro. We all know where these words come from, but despite it, is there any solid evidence or argument to believe it? The upcoming electoral process gives us the perfect context to put a light on this issue. | In this opportunity, the right-wing parties have proposed candidates for the first time since 2018. The Venezuelan opposition inte…
(2021-11-21). On Contact: Struggle Against Industrial Agriculture. popularresistance.org On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the struggle against industrial agriculture with author Daniel J. O'Connell. The San Joaquin Valley in California is the most agriculturally productive farmland in the United States, but it is also plagued by high levels of poverty and water pollution, as well as the serious health risks that come with …
(2021-11-21). Indigenous Communities Brave Police Violence to Block Pipeline Project. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch Royal Canadian Mounted Police forcibly clearing an indigenous checkpoint near Coyote Camp on Wet'suwet'en land on November 18. (Photo: Gidimt'en Checkpoint/Twitter) Police cracked down on a blockade by members of the Wet'suwet'en tribe and arrested over a dozen people but failed to end the blockade of the drill site. The tribe has been resisting…
(2021-11-21). Climate Change and Nicaragua: Who Will Pay for the Damage? orinocotribune.com By Rick Kohn — Nov 18, 2021 | To people in developing countries, it seems clear, the wealthy countries that caused most of the problem of climate change should pay the most to adapt to it and to solve the problem. But instead, countries like the United States lecture low low-emitting countries to do more while they extract their resources and destroy their forests. | For example, Nicaragua was an outspoken critic of the 2015 Paris climate talks because they did not go far enough. It is one of the countries most impacted by climate change, yet its own greenhouse gas footprint is one of the smallest. Nicaragua…