November 2021 Archives

Monthly Archives: November 2021

2021-11-10: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-11-10). John Deere strike at the crossroads. wsws.org In the week since workers voted down a second company proposal backed by the United Auto Workers union, Deere management has gone on the offensive. The path to the strike's victory exists, but only if workers take the initiative and break the UAW's isolation of the struggle.

Danny Haiphong (2021-11-10). On American Patriotism: A Marxist Polemic. orinocotribune.com By Danny Haiphong — Nov 5, 2021 | The embrace of American patriotism, what some are calling "proletarian patriotism" within online circles, is yet another attempt to rebrand American nationalism. It is similar in character but different in form to the ongoing effort to rebrand the two-party system through the development of a "socialist" bloc within the Democratic Party's corporate jaws. Ideology is rendered an abstraction in each case rather than a reflection of the material conditions of society. The Democratic Party is a capitalist-owned party and therefore cannot but serve the interests of the capitalist…

Joris Leverink (2021-11-10). Liberian health workers organize amidst the pandemic. roarmag.org Ebola survivor Korlia Bonarwolo leads a training of health workers at a mock Ebola Treatment Unit in Monrovia, Liberia. November 2014. Photo: Morgana Wingard / Sarah Grile | This essay is published in collaboration with Public Services International | | On October 26, the Liberian government declared that the country no longer had any active COVID-19 cases. Dixon Korveh heard the news and felt good, "no active case is proof of the hard work we did, despite challenges, we did this" he says. | The challenges Dixon talks about are major. During the…

Bruce Lerro (2021-11-10). New Agers vs Neopagans: Can Either be Salvaged for Socialism? (Part II). dissidentvoice.org Is it possible or desirable for socialists to integrate pantheism into dialectical materialism? Can Wiccan covens be integrated into anarchist affinity groups? Can socialism improve itself by embracing celebratory Neopagan seasonal rituals? All this is possible if socialists could admit that being atheists has not been attractive, fun or inspiring in organizing the working class. …

WSWS (2021-11-10). "This party fights for a real democracy through the political organisation of the working class" wsws.org "COVID is eradicable, there is scientific evidence to be able to do so. No other political organisation adopts that position."

WSWS (2021-11-10). Defend Deere workers against company-UAW strikebreaking! Join the Deere Strike Rank-and-File Solidarity Committee! wsws.org On November 6, workers who have been involved at strikes and struggles at Deere, Volvo and Mack Trucks, Dana, the Detroit automakers, nurses and educators voted to establish the Deere Strike Rank-and-File Solidarity Committee.

WSWS (2021-11-10). Film industry workers speak out against IATSE sell-out contract ahead of November 12 vote. wsws.org World Socialist Web Site reporters spoke to IATSE members who are outraged with the contract being presented to them as a "Hollywood Ending" by the IATSE leadership…

WSWS (2021-11-10). Immunologist Dr. Anthony Leonardi speaks on Long COVID and the dangers posed by SARS-CoV-2. wsws.org Part one of a two-part interview with the World Socialist Web Site…

WSWS (2021-11-10). Letter from a Brooklyn teacher on the conditions in New York City schools. wsws.org A Brooklyn, New York, middle school teacher and member of the New York City Educators Rank-and-File Safety wrote the following letter to the World Socialist Web Site about conditions in city schools and the fight to eliminate COVID-19.

WSWS (2021-11-10). Warsaw and Brussels intensify attacks on refugees at Polish-Belarusian border. wsws.org The Polish government, with the support of the European Union and NATO, is waging a veritable war against refugees.

WSWS (2021-11-10). As strike movement grows, DSA-aligned groups push dead end of UAW "reform" wsws.org The corporate media has given prominent treatment to various "left" groups in the orbit of the UAW leadership and the Democratic Party promoting union reform.

Staff (2021-11-10). NASA will miss Trump target for Moon landing. rt.com NASA has shared that its astronauts will not return to the Moon until 2025 at the earliest, missing an ambitious target set by then-US President Donald Trump's administration to reach the lunar surface "by any means necessary." | Announcing the delay on Tuesday, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said Congress had not provided enough funding for the landing system needed for its Artemis moon program and that more money is required for its Orion capsule program — which now has a revised cost of $9.3 billion. | A legal challenge from billionaire Jeff Bezos rocket company, Blue Origin, over the procurement by El…

WSWS (2021-11-10). New Zealand recalibrates Pacific strategy countering China. wsws.org Labour's policy shift, set against the US-drive to war, aims to push back against China's influence as the economic crisis in the Pacific intensifies amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Staff (2021-11-10). 21N Elections: 1,895 Voting Machines Deployed in 19 States — EU Companions Work Without Restrictions. orinocotribune.com This Tuesday, November 9, a total of 1,875 voting machines were deployed across 19 of Venezuela's 24 states, for use in the upcoming regional and municipal elections to be held on November 21. | Through a press release, Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) reported that for the deployment of the machines, the fifteenth day of audit of the production of voting machines was carried out, and is ongoing in the industrial warehouse of the National Electoral Council in Filas de Mariche. | CNE indicated that on Tuesday, 35 teams corresponding to four municipalities in Anzoátegui state (Bolívar, Aragua, Diego Bau…

Rainer Shea (2021-11-09). How Imperialist Propaganda Weaponizes Genocide to Justify War. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Nov 8, 2021 | The imperialists have a weapon more powerful than the atomic bomb. It's called propaganda. The type of propaganda that's been fine tuned by decades of practice in false flags, fabricated atrocity stories, and glorifications of militarism. With the onset of the new cold war, and its correlating advancements in the high-tech sector, the U.S. empire's cognitive warfare has taken on unprecedented scope and subtlety. Should aspiring U.S. revolutionaries succumb to the deceptions this manipulation matrix is laying down for us, the movement towards proletarian revolution in the imperi…

Steve Sweeney (2021-11-09). U.S. bans Communist journalist from traveling to Nicaragua for elections. peoplesworld.org MEXICO CITY—"Are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" U.S. authorities infamously asked those entering the country during the Cold War. Nowadays, the questions may have changed, but the intention is the same—to keep out undesirables. It seems that I am one of those undesirables—as well as a Communist—finding myself …

IGD Worldwide (2021-11-09). Against the Snakes of Political Moderation and Centrism. itsgoingdown.org | Our latest submission comes from an anonymous comrade in the Balkans and is a critique of so-called "Horseshoe Theory" — the pernicious fallacy that the so-called extreme left and extreme right are somehow alike or equivalent. This dangerous doctrine is not only beloved of Western politicians, who originated it, but also favored by the unprecedentedly powerful and wealthy oligarchs of Big Tech. It's no coincidence that IGD Worldwide was suspended and banned three times from Facebook befor…

In Defense of Liberation! (2021-11-09). Some More Questions: Fascism, Revolution, and History. anchor.fm I mean I think the title says it all. US Empire and Imperialism need to come tumbling down, but how? Fascism, what is it? How is it connected to the US? What can/should we do about all of this? Please donate to the homie from Bands of Turtle Island, Zitkato's Patreon/Cashapp! Cashapp: $bandsofturtleisland…

KWORINOCO (2021-11-09). Vladimir Acosta Discusses his New Book 'Leaving the Colony' at Venezuela's National Book Fair. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan intellectual Vladimir Acosta was honored at the 17th International Book Fair of Venezuela (FILVEN), where he explained the content of one his four books, Leaving the Colony. | Acosta, speaking on the role of Catholicism both during colonialism and now under US imperialism, commented that "today we can see how a religion was used to impose culture and language on us. They took our consciousness from us. In three years we will be celebrating the bicentennial anniversary of the battle of Ayacucho, which was the decisive moment in the fight against Spanish colonialism, but we have to keep fighting. Now we…

ecns.cn (2021-11-09). China to strengthen scientific cooperation. ecns.cn The Chinese scientific community will collaborate with international peers to deepen research cooperation in frontier sciences, promote openness and inclusivity for scientific undertakings, and jointly tackle major global challenges.

jamanetwork (2021-11-09). Addition of Nonauthor Collaborator Names of the COMEBAC Study. jamanetwork.com The Original Investigation titled "Four-Month Clinical Status of a Cohort of Patients After Hospitalization for COVID-19," published in the April 20, 2021, issue of JAMA, has been updated to include the nonauthor collaborator (group) names in a supplement. This article was corrected online.

Ran NA, Hedberg ML, Rosenbach M. (2021-11-09). Blue Pigmentation of the Skin, Sclera, and Teeth. jamanetwork.com A 69-year-old patient presented with progressive blue skin pigmentation. He had recurrent staphylococcus bacteremia due to infection of an ICD lead and was being treated with minocycline, 100 mg twice daily. He reported no discoloration of his sweat or urine. Laboratory tests revealed elevated creatinine and total bilirubin. What is the diagnosis and what would you do next?

Joris Leverink (2021-11-09). The Laura Flanders Show: "The Way Forward" with AOC & Noam Chomsky. roarmag.org In this historic, inter-generational meeting of minds, Laura Flanders brings together New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY Representative 14th District) and MIT professor emeritus Noam Chomsky — for the first time ever — to discuss the way forward for people, politics and the planet. From labor strikes to racial uprisings to climate action to the Great Resignation, they reflect on the renewed power of collective organizing and the changing tide in economic thinking and electoral politics. | Their insights demand that we think differently about everything from our nation's history and…

WSWS (2021-11-09). New York Times hails "labor coverage" of publications aligned with the Democratic Party and trade union apparatus. wsws.org The political establishment is nervous that strikes have broken out in defiance of the trade unions, and the Times is trying to promote publications that can shore up support for these pro-management institutions.

Joris Leverink (2021-11-09). Economic Update: A Story of War. roarmag.org On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses how Amazon rips off small business and squeezes workers; US and China's military tactics; top mainstream economists grasp the deepening critique of capitalism; and how strikes at Nabisco and Kellogg expose capitalism's classic contours of class struggle. | The second half of the show features an interview with Prof Talia Lugacy on her new independent film This is Not a War Story released by Warner Media HBO Max. | You can support this show on

David Ruccio (2021-11-09). Class conflict and economics. mronline.org A funny thing happened on the way to the recovery from the Pandemic Depression: class conflict is back at the core of economics.

WSWS (2021-11-09). Letter from a Caterpillar worker to Deere strikers: "Take the reins in your own hands" wsws.org The UAW's betrayals of two strikes at Caterpillar in the 1990s—one from 1991-1992 and a second, 17-month long strike from 1994-1995—were among the most bitter and significant defeats suffered by the working class at the hands of the union bureaucracy in that decade.

WSWS (2021-11-09). Brutal police killing of 18 year old Roma youth sparks protests in Greece. wsws.org While Roma are disproportionate victims of police harassment and violence in Greece, with police raids in Roma settlements a common occurrence, police violence affects the entire working class.

WSWS (2021-11-09). Brutal police killing of 18 year old Roma youth sparks protests. wsws.org While Roma are disproportionate victims of police harassment and violence, with police raids in Roma settlements a common occurrence, police violence affects the entire working class.

WSWS (2021-11-09). Australia: Property bubble bonanza for ruling elite fuels social crisis for the working class. wsws.org Amid a pandemic and massive economic disruption, property prices have risen at a faster rate than ever before, while wages stagnate or decline.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-09). Working class groups worldwide celebrate anniversary of October Revolution. peoplesdispatch.org The communist-oriented working class in Petrograd led by Vladimir Lenin captured state power in Russia and established a socialist state under workers' control, which expanded and became the Soviet Union in 1922…

_____ (2021-11-09). Farmers In Solidarity With Striking Workers. popularresistance.org It's going to be a very good year for the top dogs and shareholders at Deere & Co. The Iowa-based equipment manufacturer says it earned more in the first nine months of its fiscal year than during its best year in 2013. The corporation's third-quarter results are nearly $4.7 billion. John May, the company's CEO, made over $14.7 million in total compensation in 2020. Reports are that his salary increased 160 percent during the pandemic while laid-off manufacturing workers saw "incentive" pay cut. | On October 14, 10,000 unionized skilled manufacturing employees at Deere & Co. initiat…

_____ (2021-11-09). Fast-Food Workers Strike Across California. popularresistance.org Fast-food workers say they are fed up with their working conditions, and on Tuesday morning, they're walking out. | Thousands of employees in the fast-food industry are going on strike across California, walking out for better working conditions, wages and hours and calling on lawmakers to offer them a bigger say in their futures. | A McDonald's location on Floral Drive in Monterey Park, where workers allege sewers recently flooded the kitchen, is the SoCal site of the rally employees planned for 9 a.m. | Other rallies in the area are planned for 12 p.m. and 3 p.m. | By and large, fast-food employees are not repr…

Brittani Banks (2021-11-09). Why the California Shipping Bottleneck Reflects a Threat to U.S. Security. independentmediainstitute.org Workers at the Sibanye-Stillwater complex in Montana mine minerals used to fight cancer, produce lifesaving surgical instruments and manufacture the wind turbines and solar panels essential for the clean economy. They touch so many facets of American life that Ed Lorash, president of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 11-0001, considers their work essential to national security. …

C.J. Atkins (2021-11-09). New book gives civil rights leader Alphaeus Hunton long overdue recognition. peoplesworld.org People's World continues its interview series with authors of the latest books from International Publishers. In this edition, we talk with Tony Pecinovsky, author and editor of The Cancer of Colonialism: W. Alphaeus Hunton, Black Liberation, and the Daily Worker 1944-1946. Q: This is the third book you've had in as many years dealing with …

Dean Baker (2021-11-09). Hot Tip for NYT: Real Average Hourly Wages for Truckers are Down Five Percent Since 1990, Might Affect Driver Shortage. cepr.net According to new developments in economic theory, it is believed that workers respond to incentives.

Mark Gruenberg (2021-11-09). McDonald's and Kaiser workers carry 'Striketober' into 'Strikesgiving'. peoplesworld.org LOS ANGELES—"Striketober" may be over, but forced worker walkouts continue, with a big one coming on Nov. 9 by fast-food workers in California. And a mandatory 10-day strike plan announcement by unions representing 32,000 Kaiser workers nationwide will be issued the same day. Another 8,000 may join them the week after; 12,000 more are affected. …

Maureen Clare Murphy (2021-11-09). Israeli spyware targeted Palestinian human rights workers. electronicintifada.net Totalitarian population surveillance revealed in occupied West Bank.

Mei Mei Chan (2021-11-09). San Fransisco gig workers demand DoorDash drop appeal of Prop 22 ruling. liberationnews.org 'We are fighting not only for ourselves, but the future of contract workers. We cannot let what we're going through become the new normal."

WSWS (2021-11-09). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Some 2,000 workers at a giant Cargill plant in Alberta, Canada voted 97 percent to authorize strike while teacher unions in Uruguay held a one-day strike November 5 to protest cuts.

WSWS (2021-11-09). Unions betray Tollcross McVitie's workers in Scotland factory closure. wsws.org Workers at the closure threatened McVitie's biscuit factory in Glasgow, Scotland have voted to accept redundancy terms after months of sabotage by the GMB, Unite and Unison trade unions.

WSWS (2021-11-09). New Brunswick's Tory government criminalizes health care workers' strike. wsws.org The Canadian Union of Public Employees' refusal to oppose this draconian attack on 2,000 of its members will only embolden the Higgs Conservative government to criminalize the ongoing action of 20,000 other public sector workers.

WSWS (2021-11-09). Georgia Kaiser Permanente workers vote to authorize strike. wsws.org The vote came just days before unions covering nearly 32,000 Kaiser Permanente workers on the US West Coast announced a strike deadline of November 15.

WSWS (2021-11-09). Scranton teachers' strike faces danger of isolation by the AFT. wsws.org On Friday, a member of the Mack Workers Rank-and-File Committee visited teachers on the picket line to appeal for unity between teachers and industrial workers, and was warmly received.

Monica Cruz (2021-11-09). Columbia University student workers begin second largest strike in the US. peoplesdispatch.org The strike by over 3,000 Columbia graduate student workers is taking place amid a wave of similar actions at some of the richest universities in the United States which have failed to give workers their due…

Isheka N. Harrison (2021-11-09). What Happened In The Buffalo Mayor's Race? How Socialist India Walton Was Stopped By Democratic Party Establishment And Republicans. moguldom.com Buffalo mayoral candidate India Walton made history in the Democratic primaries in June when she defeated long-serving incumbent Mayor Byron Brown. For a while, it looked like Walton was on the verge of becoming the first Black person, woman and openly socialist candidate to lead New York's second-most populous city. Those hopes were dashed on …

The Socialist Program (2021-11-09). "Uproot the System!" — Save the Planet, End Capitalism. liberationnews.org Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how tens of thousands of people marched in Glasgow and all over the world last weekend, chanting "uproot the system!" and demanding the transformation of the world economy to combat the climate crisis.

WSWS (2021-11-09). New Zealand emergency doctor warns of "preventable catastrophe" from COVID-19. wsws.org Northland-based emergency doctor Gary Payinda spoke to the World Socialist Web Site about the low vaccination rates for COVID-19 and warned that already overstretched hospitals will be unable to cope with a wave of severe illnesses.

WSWS (2021-11-09). Howard University students denounce deplorable living conditions. wsws.org Student protesters spoke to the World Socialist Web Site about their living conditions and wrongful campus layoffs as the protest at Howard University enters its fifth week.

In Defense of Liberation! (2021-11-09). *BONUS* Some Questions on My Mind. anchor.fm I ask two questions: 1.) What role do individuals play in history? 2.) Can we build a true Proletarian Revolution/People's Liberation as atomized, and disconnected, and especially without a Communist Party? Idk, you tell me! Go think some thought yo!

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2021-11-09: News Headlines

David Ruccio (2021-11-09). Class conflict and economics. mronline.org A funny thing happened on the way to the recovery from the Pandemic Depression: class conflict is back at the core of economics.

Maureen Clare Murphy (2021-11-09). Israeli spyware targeted Palestinian human rights workers. electronicintifada.net Totalitarian population surveillance revealed in occupied West Bank.

MEE staff (2021-11-09). US Holocaust Museum warns China 'may be committing genocide' against Uighurs. middleeasteye.net US Holocaust Museum warns China 'may be committing genocide' against Uighurs | Report says Beijing could be moving beyond forced assimilation of the Muslim minority as it tries to 'biologically destroy the group' | Tue, 11/09/2021 – 20: 14 | Protesters with the Stanton Public Policy Center's Purple Sash Revolution hold a rally outside the White House on 27 May, 2021 in support of Uighur women and call for a bo…

_____ (2021-11-09). America's Eager European Provocateurs Visit Taiwan. journal-neo.org In what at first glance looked like the European Union getting onboard with the US-led confrontation with China, a recent delegation led by Raphael Glucksmann sent to Taiwan supposedly representing the EU tells a story less of supposed mainland "interference" within the island territory, and instead, a story about US interference within the EU. Glucksmann …

Fight Back (2021-11-09). Statement Against Israel Declaring Six Human Rights Organizations as "Terrorist" fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. | The Israeli Defense Minister has tagged six human rights organizations in Palestine as "terrorists." These organizations – Al-Haq, Addameer, Bisan Center, Defense for Children International-Palestine, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, and the Union of Palestinian Women's Committees — are all well known for their courage in aiding the besieged Palestinian people as they continue to resist harsh and illegal occupation. | Labeling them as terrorists means the occupation f…

Manlio Dinucci (2021-11-09). Le nuove armi finanziarie dell'Occidente. globalresearch.ca Nuove armi si stanno aggiungendo all'arsenale delle politiche economiche e finanziarie dell'Occidente. Per comprenderne la natura e portata, occorre partire da quelle sinora usate: le sanzioni — compresa quella più pesante, l'embargo — attuate soprattutto da Stati uniti e Unione …

WSWS (2021-11-09). Australian Education Union imposes limited school work bans in Victoria. wsws.org The campaign for decent wages and working conditions must be taken out of the hands of the union bureaucracy, and connected to the fight to protect the safety of staff and students by closing schools in conditions of continued COVID-19 transmission.

Aidan O'Brien (2021-11-09). How the U.S. Lost the "Great Game" in Central Asia. covertactionmagazine.com When the Soviet Union collapsed, the U.S. power elite saw an opportunity to take over the oil-rich region considered key …

MEE staff (2021-11-09). Covid-19 pandemic fuelled antisemitic conspiracy theories: EU study. middleeasteye.net Covid-19 pandemic fuelled antisemitic conspiracy theories: EU study | Report finds 'new antisemitic myths and conspiracy theories that blame Jews for the pandemic have come to the fore' | Tue, 11/09/2021 – 12: 23 | The report by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights found that antisemitic acts were consistently under-reported (AFP) | Antisemitism increased during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly…

Marjorie Cohn (2021-11-09). Absent Any Proof, Israel Designates Palestinian Rights Groups "Terrorist" truthout.org In an effort to cut off the financial lifelines of six of the most prominent Palestinian human rights groups, the state of Israel has baselessly designated them as "terrorist" organizations. | On October 22, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced that Israel will henceforth officially consider the six groups — Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Al-Haq, Bisan Center for Research and Development, Defense for Children International — Palestine, the Union of Agri…

WSWS (2021-11-09). Stagecoach faces further strike action across England and Wales. wsws.org Unite and the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) have so far managed to prevent twenty or more pay disputes across Stagecoach from becoming a national strike movement, including shutting down at least a half dozen.

Anonymous007 (2021-11-09). Lithuania Mulls State Of Emergency In Anticipation Of Migrant Wave From Belarus. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Lithuania's government has asked the parliament to declare a state of emergency on the country's border with Belarus. | After thousands of migrants are organizing a sit-in with tents and attempting to push into Poland, Vilnius expects that the same fate awaits its border with Belarus."In view of this really serious situation, the Interior Ministry proposes to introduce an emergency situation. The government will have to consider the proposal and make the decision," Interior M…

I.J. (2021-11-09). Pittsburghers rally to support Pillsbury boycott in solidarity with Palestine. liberationnews.org On October 24, the Party for Socialism and Liberation's Pittsburgh branch joined with the Pittsburgh BDS Coalition for a demonstration promoting the boycott of Pillsbury.

Ann Brown (2021-11-09). Talk Show Host Joe Madison Goes On Hunger Strike Until Biden Passes Voting Rights Bill. moguldom.com Talk Show Host Joe Madison is frustrated that voting rights bills have yet to be passed so he's taking matters into his own hands to raise awareness of the issue. The host of SiriusXM Urban View's podcast "Joe Madison The Black Eagle " has announced he is on a hunger strike until President Joe Biden …

Anonymous765 (2021-11-09). Locations Of US Carrier Strike Groups — November 9, 2021. southfront.org This is the newest update of the 'U.S. Carrier Strike Groups Locations Map' exclusive series showing the approximate locations of U.S. Carrier Strike Groups. SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence tracks locations of U.S. aircraft carriers using the available open-source information. No classified information was used in production of the map. | click to see the full-size image | Carrier strike group (CSG) is an operational formation of the United States Navy. It is centered on an aircraft carrier and a carrier ai…

Anonymous007 (2021-11-09). Military Situation In Yemen On November 9, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The Liaison and Coordination Officers' Operations Room (loyal to Ansar Allah) reported 228 ceasefire violations in al-Hudaydah during the past 24 hours | On November 8, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 40 airstrikes on the Jubah and Sarwah districts | On November 8, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 3 airstrikes on the Khab and Shaaf district | On November 8, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 2 airstrikes on the Kitaf district | On November 9, clashes be…

Zahra Mirzafarjouyan (2021-11-09). 6.2-Magnitude earthquake strikes near coast of Nicaragua. en.mehrnews.com The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) registered a strong earthquake near the coast of Nicaragua.

Anonymous103 (2021-11-09). Syrian Air Defence Systems In Tartus Intercepted Israeli Missiles. But Not All Of Them (Video). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On November 8th, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) carried out an attack on south-western and central Syria. according to the Syrian Defence Ministry, the Israeli Air Force launched a series of missile strikes from Lebanese airspace. | According to the Syrian officials, the air defense systems in Tartus repelled the attack and shot down most of the missiles over the Homs province. However, 2 SAA soldiers were injured and material damage was reported as a result of the attack. | According to…

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2021-11-08: News Headlines

Ben Norton (2021-11-08). From Nicaraguan Revolutionaries to US Embassy Informants: How Washington Recruited Ex-Sandinistas Like Dora María Téllez and her MRS Party. orinocotribune.com By Ben Norton — Nov 5, 2021 | The story of how Nicaragua's former guerrilla Dora María Téllez and her anti-Sandinista MRS party allied with the right wing and became coup-supporting informants for the US embassy. | One of the most high-profile opponents of Nicaragua's Sandinista government points to her revolutionary youth to justify her position. And while the international media constantly

Staff (2021-11-08). Biden labels Nicaragua's election a 'pantomime,' vows to hold Ortega's govt accountable. rt.com Nicaragua's "sham elections," in which longtime President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, are expected to claim victory, were "neither free nor fair," US President Joe Biden has said. | The people in the Central American country of some 6.5 million went to the polls on Sunday, with the 75-year-old socialist leader Ortega looking to secure his fourth consecutive and fifth overall five-year term in office. | The Nicaraguan leadership "orchestrated… a pantomime election that was neither free nor fair, and most certainly not democratic," Biden said in a statement late on Sunday.

WSWS (2021-11-08). With new school program on Quebec Culture and Citizenship, CAQ government intensifies its national-chauvinist offensive. wsws.org Faced with rising social tensions and mounting working class resistance, Quebec's CAQ government is redoubling its efforts to divide workers along linguistic, ethnic and religious lines.

WSWS (2021-11-08). Why the SEP has taken up the fight against Australia's anti-democratic electoral laws. wsws.org Launched amid the COVID-19 disaster, the Socialist Equality Party's campaign is part of the fight for the independent mobilisation of the working class against the capitalist profit system.

WSWS (2021-11-08). Sri Lankan president's "One Country, One Law" taskforce will provoke racial tensions. wsws.org Rajapakse is attempting to whip up ethnic and religious communalism to break up and divert a rising working class movement against his government.

Fight Back (2021-11-08). Women Against Military Madness: Stand with the Six. fightbacknews.org Fight News Service is circulating the following statement from Women Against Military Madness (WAMM). | Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) denounces Israel's harassment and criminalization of six Palestinian human rights and grassroots organizations, labeling them "terrorist" organizations. The designation is provocative and dangerous and could result in devastating cuts in funding from international sources as well as grave legal issues for their workers. | Along with a growing number of important international organizations, WAMM stands with the six targeted organizations: Addameer Prisoner Support and…

Fight Back (2021-11-08). Bi-Co SDS acts in solidarity with Kellogg strikers. fightbacknews.org Lancaster, PA – On Friday, October 29, the Haverford/Bryn Mawr, or Bi-Co, Chapter of Students for a Democratic Society drove to Lancaster in solidarity with striking Kellogg's workers. SDS had coordinated a canned food drive in the week leading up to the event and dropped these goods off at the local BCTGM 374-G (Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union) Union Hall. | Students spoke with the local president and vice president of the union, who, despite being in the fourth week of the strike, were filled with vitality and prepared to negotiate with Kellogg's on the upcoming Tue…

Fight Back (2021-11-08). Coal miners vow to continue strike despite temporary restraining order From Alabama Judge. fightbacknews.org Tuscaloosa AL – On October 28 a Tuscaloosa judge granted a temporary restraining order filed by the Warrior Met Mine where around 1,100 members of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) have been on strike since early April after voting down an offer from the mine by a 95% majority. The order prohibits "picketing or other activity" within 300 yards of the mine entrances and any activity that interferes with "the conduct and operation of Warrior Met's business and supporting activities". | 7 months into the strike the miners have vowed to continue their strike regardless of the temporary restraining order. Warr…

WSWS (2021-11-08). Deere Reman worker in Springfield, Missouri: "Someone is finally taking a stand!" wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site received a message of support for the 10,000 striking Deere workers from a worker at the company's remanufacturing facility in Missouri.

WSWS (2021-11-08). New Orleans sanitation workers strike over pay and working conditions. wsws.org Workers are fighting against low pay, poor health insurance and safety and equipment failures at the New Orleans facility.

WSWS (2021-11-08). Former Los Angeles teacher speaks out on conditions in schools and fight to eliminate COVID-19. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site spoke with Juanita Garcia, a former teacher and grandmother in Los Angeles, who described her bitter experiences in the district and expressed agreement with the recent WSWS webinar, "How to end the pandemic."

Leila Rafei (2021-11-08). How the FBI Spied on Orange County Muslims — And Attempted to Get Away With It | American Civil Liberties Union. aclu.org In 2006, the FBI ordered an informant to pose as a Muslim convert and spy on the congregants of several large, diverse mosques in Orange County, California. The agent, Craig Monteilh, professed his conversion before hundreds of congregants during the month of Ramadan. Renaming himself "Farouk," the informant quickly made friends and impressed members of the community with his seeming devotion. The whole time, he was secretly recording conversations and filming inside people's homes, mosques, and businesses using devices hidden in everyday objects, like the keychain fob of his car keys. | Among those subjected…

WSWS (2021-11-08). Central Indiana teachers conduct sickout for higher pay, lower insurance premiums. wsws.org A sickout by Indiana teachers ended last week over low pay and insurance premiums, conditions long imposed on teachers with the help of the teachers unions.

WSWS (2021-11-08). Committee for Public Education online meeting: Oppose the dangerous reopening of schools in Australia! Form and join our rank-and-file action safety committees! wsws.org Educators and students need to take matters into their own hands by forming rank-and-file safety committees in every school, independent of the unions, to organise resistance and defend the lives of staff and pupils, including the right to fully-resourced online learning.

WSWS (2021-11-08). Snap elections called in Portugal after government falls amid mass strikes. wsws.org The calling of elections is a desperate ploy, aimed at helping the union bureaucracy and pseudo-left parties as they try to control a mounting eruption of strikes.

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Ben Slowey (2021-11-08). Milwaukee vigil backs Palestinian prisoner hunger strike. liberationnews.org Israel couldn't get away with this ethnic cleansing if it weren't for the U.S. war machine propping it up.

Staff (2021-11-08). New emergency strikes Baldwin's 'Rust' movie set. rt.com A crew member working to wind down production of Alec Baldwin's movie 'Rust' — after the cinematographer was accidentally shot dead on set — was bitten by a venomous spider and may end up losing his arm. | The incident involving lamp operator and pipe rigger Jason Miller occurred some time ago, with Sky News learning about it through a 'Just Giving' page set up raise money for the man's treatment. | Miller was working at the production site in New Mexico when he was bitten in the arm by a brown recluse spider, which injects necrotic venom into its prey. | The crew member was hospitalized several da…

WSWS (2021-11-08). USW invites economic chauvinist politician, Sherrod Brown, to ArcelorMittal Tubular Products picket line. wsws.org USW officials respond to the second week of the ArcelorMittal strike by inviting Senator Brown, a nationalist with close ties to the steel companies, to speak with strikers.

WSWS (2021-11-08). The winter of death: Governments slash COVID-19 restrictions as cases surge. wsws.org Capitalism is carrying out an elimination policy, not of the pandemic, but of human beings.

Staff (2021-11-08). Elon Musk speaks out after internet votes YES to him selling 10% of Tesla stock. rt.com Elon Musk's followers voted yes to the billionaire selling 10% of his stocks in Tesla this weekend, and he has promised to stick with the outcome of his controversial Twitter poll. | Musk, the CEO of Tesla and the world's richest man, put the decision of whether to sell his stocks to a Twitter poll on Saturday, and pledged to "abide by the results of this poll, whichever way it goes." | Over 3.5 million people voted in the poll, which concluded with the 'Yes' faction winning by a comfortable margin (57.9%). When asked if the poll went the way he wanted, Musk signaled that he won't go back on his promise to fol…

Editor (2021-11-08). Miami's ultra-right and its coercion against Cuban artists. mronline.org Havana, Nov. 4 (Prensa Latina) The Communist Party of Cuba highlighted today the methods of pressure that the extreme right of Miami, U.S., exerts on Cuban artists to take sides against the government of the island.

It's Going Down (2021-11-08). Wet'suwet'en Solidarity Actions Spread as Blockades Continue. itsgoingdown.org photo: yintahaccess.com Resistance continues on Wet'suwet'en territory, as blockades and direct resistance to Coast Gaslink (CGL) enters into its second month, in only the latest chapter of struggle against resource extraction and RCMP brutality against Native sovereignty. The #CIRG Unit has returned and are testing the waters again. It looks as though things are beginning…

_____ (2021-11-07). Women's Struggle In Nicaragua: From Liberation Fighters To Building An Alternative Society. popularresistance.org According to the Global Gender Gap Index, the Central American country of Nicaragua currently places twelfth in the world for gender parity, above the likes of France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Since the 1979 Sandinista revolution, the living conditions for women have drastically improved, successes which even the period of neoliberal rule from 1990 to 2006 couldn't completely overturn. Throughout the second Sandinista period—from 2007 until today—the material and social position of women has continued to strengthen. Recently, new laws protecting the political and economic rights of w…

scorinoco (2021-11-07). Why Black Revolutionaries Must Stand with the People of Nicaragua. orinocotribune.com By Netfa Freeman — Nov 2, 2021 | On November 7, the people of Nicaragua will go to the polls to reaffirm the commitment to their revolutionary democratic project, a project that began in 1979 when the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) defeated a vicious, neocolonial, gangster regime of Anastasio Somoza that was put in power by the United States. Under the leadership of the FSLN, the people of Nicaragua were able to finally control their own history and destiny. However, US imperialism was not going to respect the wishes of the people. Under the neofascist president Ronald Reagan, the US launched a…

_____ (2021-11-07). Journalist Banned From US, Detained In Mexico On The Way To Nicaragua. popularresistance.org Steve Sweeney, the international editor of the British socialist newspaper, was detained in Mexico City on Friday as he traveled to Nicaragua to cover the presidential election being held today. Sweeney is anti-imperialist and a founder of Media Workers for Palestine. His detention follows a multi-platform social media ban on independent journalists, activists and websites in Nicaragua, as detailed by Ben Norton of The Grayzone. There is also a corporate media disinformation campaign targeting Nicaragua and the current election. Sweeney's detention must be viewed in this context as an effort to prevent readers in…

_____ (2021-11-07). St. Vincent Nurses Strike Sadly Reaches Eight Months. popularresistance.org On Monday, Nov. 8, the historic St. Vincent Hospital nurses strike will reach the eight-month mark, another sad milestone in their struggle against Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, a for-profit corporation that has spent more than $100 million and engaged in a number of unfair labor practices to retaliate against the nurses for exercising their right to advocate for safer patient care. The strike is the longest nurses strike in state history, and one of the longest of several strikes by workers across the nation, who are standing up to corporate greed and the devaluation of essential workers in the wake of the COVI…

Grant Miner (2021-11-07). Columbia U. student workers launch second largest strike in the country. liberationnews.org The SWC is demanding higher pay, more comprehensive healthcare, and non-monetary benefits like neutral third-party arbitration in cases of discrimination and harassment.

Fight Back (2021-11-07). Lenin talks about the October revolution. fightbacknews.org To mark the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, Fight Back! is circulating the following article by the outstanding Russian revolutionary V. I. Lenin. At the time of the 1917 revolution, the Julian calendar was in use. When the modern calendar was adopted, the revolution of October 25 was celebrated on November 7. | Fourth Anniversary of the October Revolution | The fourth anniversary of October 25 (November 7) is approaching. | The farther that great day recedes from us, the more clearly we see the significance of the proletarian revolution in Russia, and the more deeply we reflect upon the p…

Staff (2021-11-07). A Date with History: Vietnamese People's Great Victory Celebrated at Venezuela's FILVEN 2021. orinocotribune.com In a friendly atmosphere of fraternal bonding between Venezuela and Vietnam, the reissue of La Cita de la Historia , written by Vietnamese general Vo Nguyen Giap, was presented at the 17th International Book Fair of Venezuela, FILVEN 2021. The book presentation was presided over by the Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in Venezuela, Le Viet Duyen; the president of the Venezuela-Vietnam Friendship House, Carolus Wimmer; and Defense Attaché of Vietnam, Vu The Trung. Vietnam is the guest country of honor at FILVEN 2021. | During the presentation, Le Viet Duyen quoted Commander Hugo…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-07). Venezuela vaccinates 67% of its population against COVID-19. mronline.org Despite the U.S. blockade against Venezuela, the socialist government led by President Nicolás Maduro has been carrying out a successful mass vaccination drive against COVID-19…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-11-07). Minister Plasencia Responds to Borrell's Latest Comments. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Felix Plasencia categorically repudiated the latest interventionist comments issued by the high representative of the European Union (EU), Josep Borrell, regarding the internal affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. | Through his social media accounts, the Venezuelan foreign affairs minister confirmed that Venezuela has its doors open for the EU to observe the electoral process, just as the country has opened its doors to many other movements, governments and international organizations. | "On his tour of neighboring countries, he insists on dedicating his rhetoric ag…

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_____ (2021-11-07). Teachers Strike Against A 'Heartless' School Board In Biden's Hometown. popularresistance.org It was a long time coming, but when 400 members of the Scranton Federation of Teachers marched out of the school board meeting Tuesday night singing "Solidarity Forever," they were strike-ready. | The school board had just given the go-ahead to cut off educators' health insurance if they went on strike. This after dozens of teachers and para-educators had spoken about the devastating cuts that students and teachers have endured over the last four years—cuts to PreK education, to the arts, to music, to libraries. And after educators had told the school board about the medical conditions—cancer, multipl…

Anonymous669 (2021-11-07). Alleged ISIS Commander Killed In US Drone Strike On Turkish-Occupied Town In Northern Syria (Photos). southfront.org A MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle prepares to land after a mission in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson) | On November 7 afternoon, a suspected US drone strike killed a man allegedly affiliated with ISIS in the Turkish-occupied Syrian town of Jarabulus in northern Aleppo. | The man was killed on the spot. His body was shredded into pieces as a result of the strike. The remains of a US-made AGM-114 Hellfire were found at the scene of the strike. The mis…

Anonymous007 (2021-11-07). Military Situation In Yemen On November 7, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The Liaison and Coordination Officers' Operations Room (loyal to Ansar Allah) reported 135 ceasefire violations in al-Hudaydah during the past 24 hours | On November 6, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 13 airstrikes on the Jubah district | On November 6, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 16 airstrikes on the Sarwah district | On November 7, clashes between Ansar Allah and Saudi-led forces continued in the west of Marib city | On November 7, clashes between Ans…

Staff (2021-11-07). Elon Musk puts 10% Tesla stock sale to TWITTER POLL, promises to stick to result. rt.com Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk asked the public whether he should sell 10% of his stock in his electric car company, Tesla, promising to abide by the result in a move which shocked social media users. | In a tweet on Saturday, Musk asked his followers to vote either yes or no to the sale of the stocks, which are valued at around $21 billion. | "Much is made lately of unrealized gains being a means of tax avoidance, so I propose selling 10% of my Tesla stock. Do you support this?" he

Staff (2021-11-07). UN Expresses Concern over Militarization of Southern Chile that Claimed the Life of a Mapuche Youth. orinocotribune.com The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) for South America has issued a statement condemning the militarization of southern Chile which led to the death of a Mapuche community member, calling it an "unfortunate and worrying situation." | According to the statement, "OHCHR regrets the death of a Mapuche community member from the Cañete Commune, in Biobío Region [in southern Chile] and expresses its concern over the militarization in the area and the escalation of violence." | The UN body stated that it had received information about the death of Jordan Llempi, a 23-year-old Mapuc…

Ngakiya Camara (2021-11-07). Students Are Pushing US Colleges to Sever Ties With Military-Industrial Complex. truthout.org The violence wreaked by U.S. wars since 9/11 has been immense — more than

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2021-11-07: News Headlines

_____ (2021-11-07). Women's Struggle In Nicaragua: From Liberation Fighters To Building An Alternative Society. popularresistance.org Nicaragua currently places twelfth in the world for gender parity, above the likes of France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Since the 1979 Sandinista revolution, the living conditions for women have drastically improved, successes which even the period of neoliberal rule from 1990 to 2006 couldn't completely overturn. Throughout the second Sandinista period—from 2007 until today—the material and social position of women has continued to strengthen. Recently, new laws protecting the political and economic rights of women have been ratified after organized campaigns from the Nicaraguan wome…

Labor Video Project (2021-11-07). "We're On Verge Of What Could Be Biggest Healthcare Strike In American History" IUOE39. indybay.org IUOE Local 39 San Francisco Kaiser hospital stationary engineers and biomed techs and other workers talked about the battle and union busting at Kaiser and the coming mass strike of Kaiser around the country.

teleSUR (2021-11-07). Venezuelan Lawmakers Accompany Nicaraguan Elections. telesurenglish.net The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) announced that lawmakers Julio Chavez, Marelis Perez, and Fernando Soto traveled to Managua to participate as international companions in the Nicaraguan elections, which are held this Sunday. | RELATED: | "By doing so, they assume their commitment to solidarity and inform the world that the Nicaraguan people are on their feet, with joy and enthusiasm for the elections," t…

Staff (2021-11-07). 'Only UK journo' going to cover Nicaragua election on ground says he was detained. rt.com A reporter from a left British newspaper says he was detained without explanation in Mexico as he was traveling to Nicaragua to cover the Sunday election. The US threatened the country with new sanctions ahead of the poll. | Steve Sweeney, international editor for the UK socialist daily Morning Star, said he had been placed in police custody as he was making a transfer flight through Mexico City. If his detention continues, he will not be able to reach Nicaragua in time to cover the general election, which the country is holding on Sunday. | The ballot is a complicated one, with critics of President Daniel Ort…

_____ (2021-11-07). St. Vincent Nurses Strike Sadly Reaches Eight Months. popularresistance.org The historic St. Vincent Hospital nurses strike will reach the eight-month mark, another sad milestone in their struggle against Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, a for-profit corporation that has spent more than $100 million and engaged in a number of unfair labor practices to retaliate against the nurses for exercising their right to advocate for safer patient care. The strike is the longest nurses strike in state history, and one of the longest of several strikes by workers across the nation, who are standing up to corporate greed and the devaluation of essential workers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dolores Perez Heilbron (2021-11-07). Sunday 11/14: Labor, Forever Wars and Environmental Crisis – What's the Connection? indybay.org UUSF/Humanist Zoom event at 1: 00 PM: | us06web.zoom.us/j/89836429943?pwd=eUpoVXZJM0ZyMTRLODFaaEtQYXJxQT09…

sputniknews (2021-11-07). House GOPers Express Concern as Intelligence Agencies May Dismiss Thousands of Unvaccinated Officers. sputniknews.com Mandatory vaccination for many categories of employees across the United States has raised concerns over lack of qualified personnel, especially in some crucial services, including firefighters and police, as many workers fail to meet vaccination deadlines.

teleSUR (2021-11-07). Israel Criminalizes Six Palestinian Charities. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Israel ratified the declaration of six West Bank-based NGOs as terrorist organizations. This decision allows the Israeli army to deploy actions against these charities and their workers. | RELATED: | "The Central Command Commander-in-Chief, Major General Yehuda Fuchs, signed the legal documents declaring that the organizations are illegal entities… in the Judea and Samaria region," the Israeli Army said.

Fight for $15 (2021-11-07). Tuesday 11/9: Fast Food Workers Strike for Safe Conditions & Fair Wages in California. indybay.org Multiple strike locations in the SF Bay Area and Sacramento region…

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Revolution Books (2021-11-07). Friday 11/12: Is China Socialist or Capitalist? What is Real Socialism? indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

teleSUR, fgh, JGN (2021-11-07). Los principales logros de la Revolución Socialista de Octubre. telesurtv.net El proceso conocido como la Revolución rusa ni empezó con la victoria de los bolcheviques, ni triunfó en octubre.

Oscar Grenfell (2021-11-07). Assange's Brother Gabriel Shipton Speaks to the WSWS: "The CIA Plan to Kidnap Julian is Continuing Under a Veil of Legality" orinocotribune.com By Richard Phillips, Oscar Grenfell — Oct 28, 2021 | The World Socialist Web Site spoke this week to Gabriel Shipton, a film producer and brother of Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks founder is again before a British court that will decide whether he will be dispatched to the United States for the "crime" of exposing illegal US wars, human rights abuses, mass spying operations and global diplomatic conspiracies affecting the lives of millions of people. | Shipton has recently completed a feature-length documentary entitled Ithaka, which will have its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival next month and open…

sputniknews (2021-11-07). French Medical Union Chief Hopes Macron to Encourage Revaccination in Upcoming Address. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – French Medical Trade Union head Jacques Battistoni told Franceinfo he hopes that French President Emmanuel Macron's upcoming national address will give "a push forth to booster vaccination."

sputniknews (2021-11-07). UK Health Service Must Cope With COVID-19 Issues Without Tough Lockdowns, Union Head Says. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The CEO of the UK National Health Service (NHS) Providers, Chris Hopson, told Times Radio on Sunday that the NHS must find a way to settle COVID-19 related issues without imposing "draconian lockdowns."

Ken Bank (2021-11-07). Seminole Tribe Named As Top Employer And Best Place To Work In New. zcomm.org It is probably not coincidence that New Jersey's number 1 employer based on employee satisfaction is owned by a collective, community group of Seminole Tribe members…

morningstaronline.co.uk (2021-11-07). Cop26: it's socialism or extinction. morningstaronline.co.uk

Suds, Snacks,, Socialism Forum Committee (2021-11-07). Saturday 11/13: The Glasgow Climate Summit — What The Sierra Club Won't Tell You. indybay.org Online, Please register in advance at bit.ly/Glasgow_SSS_211113 to receive your personal link for this event.

_____ (2021-11-07). Teachers Strike Against A 'Heartless' School Board In Biden's Hometown. popularresistance.org The school board had just given the go-ahead to cut off educators' health insurance if they went on strike. This after dozens of teachers and para-educators had spoken about the devastating cuts that students and teachers have endured over the last four years—cuts to PreK education, to the arts, to music, to libraries. And after educators had told the school board about the medical conditions—cancer, multiple sclerosis—that would go untreated or result in monumental bills without health insurance. In the face of the board's "callous and heartless" decision, as SFT President Rosemary Boland calle…

| Nameelanah Uretsky, Associate Professor of International, Global Studies, Brandeis University (2021-11-07). The US was not prepared for a pandemic — free market capitalism and government deregulation may be to blame. Elanah Uretsky, Associate Professor of International and Global Studies, Brandeis University

ecns.cn (2021-11-07). China is smarter than U.S. at handling economic booms: billionaire. ecns.cn China is smarter than the United States as China began to cope with its economic booms earlier than the latter did in the same situation, billionaire Charlie Munger, the vice chairman of the U.S. multinational conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, has said.

morningstaronline.co.uk (2021-11-07). What's in store for the Communist Party's 56th congress? morningstaronline.co.uk

Staff (2021-11-07). Fix the money, fix the world: RT's Keiser Report looks at why eco-themed meetings of fiat world leaders are doomed to fail. rt.com The ongoing climate change conference in Glasgow seems to bear no fruit, as world leaders continue struggling to reach consensus on the energy transition away from carbon. | Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert dissect the green energy lobby as yet another example of colonialism, while true eco-geopolitical innovation is taking place far from money-printing agendas — in the bitcoin-mining 'land of volcanoes', El Salvador. | For more stories on economy & finance visit

ecns.cn (2021-11-07). China-Japan industrial cooperation still has big room to grow. ecns.cn China and Japan have large room for cooperation in emerging industries and the two sides should seek complementary development, scholars said on Thursday.

| Namemayank Kejriwal, Research Assistant Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Southern California (2021-11-07). Matching tweets to ZIP codes can spotlight hot spots of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. Mayank Kejriwal, Research Assistant Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Southern California

CA Poor People's Campaign (2021-11-07). Sunday 11/14: Climate Crisis: A "Perfect Storm" of Interlocking Injustices for Poor, Indigenious, POC. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

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A Guest Author (2021-11-06). Alex Saab's case—Legally, politically damaging to the U.S. workers.org The following is based on a statement on the case of diplomatic Special Envoy Alex Saab — kidnapped by the U.S. for attempting to ameliorate the dire conditions wreaked on Bolivarian Venezuela by U.S. sanctions — and was issued Nov. 5 by the International Action Center. The statement has been . . . |
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Terry Evans (2021-11-06). Marches, strikes protest coup, call for end to military rule in Sudan. themilitant.com Carrying banners saying "No to military rule," hundreds of thousands marched through the streets of Khartoum and other cities across Sudan Oct. 30, demanding the military coup carried out a week earlier be overturned. Solidarity protests were held the same day in cities around the world. | "People are not going to leave the streets until we get the prime minister back," Musa Hussein, a factory worker from Manchester attending a protest in London, told the Militant. Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok was arrested, a state of emergency declared and the government dissolved by Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Oct. 25. | H…
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teleSUR -HIM (2021-11-06). Cuba aumentará producción de vacunas en laboratorio del Mariel. telesurtv.net El laboratorio CIGB-Mariel es el más moderno de su tipo en Cuba y uno de los más avanzados de Latinoamérica y el Caribe.
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Luvis Hochimín Pareja (2021-11-06). Uruguay: Tratado de libre comercio con China beneficiaría sólo al agronegocio y caerían miles de empleos. globalizacion.ca Académicos y referentes de organizaciones sociales uruguayas coincidieron en que un eventual tratado de libre comercio (TLC) con China beneficiaría casi exclusivamente al sector agroexportador, a la vez que pondría en riesgo entre 25.000 y 35.000 puestos laborales de sectores…
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Arlene Rubinstein (2021-11-06). Barbers defeat boss move to cut pay at army bases. themilitant.com "I'm glad to be back at work," Mike Kates, a barber with 15 years at the Fort Lee U.S. Army base barbershop in central Virginia, told the Militant in a phone call Oct. 29. "After almost four months on strike, we won some things, and on the picket line we bonded together." | The 20 barbers, members of Laborers' International Union Public Service Employees Local 572, had struck Sheffield Barbers, a contractor hired by the Army & Air Force Exchange Service, on July 4. Most of the barbers are African American or Korean American. | Sheffield bosses' "last, best and final" offer was a 6-cent increase per haircut, even…
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teleSUR (2021-11-06). Famous Singer Marilia Mendonàßa Passed Away in Brazil. telesurenglish.net In Brazil, famous singer Marilia Mendonàßa passed away in a plane crash at the age of 26 on Friday. | RELATED: | She was a well-known defender of the "sertanejo" music style, in which she incorporated a revolutionary feminist discourse. | The accident happened in an open area of Piedade de Caratinga in the Minas Gerais State where she was due to give a concert. | Her last work, Patroas 35% in collaborati…
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WSWS (2021-11-06). Rank-and-File Committee for Safe Education gathered educators and parents from around Brazil in critical online meeting. wsws.org The event presented a comprehensive analysis of the situation of the pandemic and the class struggle in Brazil and around the world.
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Jack Peat (2021-11-06). The death of left-wing media? zcomm.org As the old adage goes, only when the working class stop reading right-wing news will we see progressive change…
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WSWS (2021-11-06). "People are getting killed and the government is indifferent"—SEP (Australia) electoral members support campaign to eliminate COVID-19. wsws.org "It is critical for the Socialist Equality Party to be registered, to be able to discuss the political situation with the working class."
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_____ (2021-11-06). The Covid War Is a Class War. strategic-culture.org Covid was merely a pretense for the elites to wage a war on the working class. | By Bradley DEVLIN | Last year, we were told the American economy had to completely shut down for the sake of public health. Workers were told they had to work from home if at all possible. Others weren't so lucky, as millions applied for unemployment benefits seemingly overnight. Somehow, as the economy was shuttered, hundreds of new billionaires were minted, scattered throughout tech, Big Pharma, and other industries. The public health establishment also told us to empty our churches and schools out of fear of viral transmission,…
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_____ (2021-11-06). Kellogg Workers Are Still On Strike In Memphis And Across The Country. popularresistance.org As the sun rose in Memphis on October 18, Rodigah Blaylock stood in the brisk air outside the Kellogg plant with her fellow union members, waving signs that read "We Stand Strong" and "Equality For All." Some drivers passing by blew their horns in support. Blaylock and other members of the Local 252-G union have been on this picket line since October 5, when members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) launched a national strike at factories that produce Kellogg's cereals. The company-wide strike also spans factories in Omaha, Nebraska; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and…
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G. Dunkel (2021-11-06). Haiti in crisis, U.S. big-business press calls for intervention. workers.org Oct. 31 — The Haitian economy lacks the fuel it needs to function. Because Haiti's electric grid is unreliable, hospitals, factories, banks, cell phone towers, schools, taxis and the "tap taps" that provide public transport — are cutting back or shutting down. A general strike of fuel truck drivers and . . . |
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Kevin Gosztola (2021-11-06). Dissenter Weekly: Colorado Kept Mental Patient 'Unconstitutionally Confined'. thedissenter.org Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo (Photo from Colorado's state government website and in the public domain) | In this edition, the "Dissenter Weekly" returns after a month-long hiatus as a short podcast (10-15 minutes). There is both a video and an audio version. | The show starts with coverage of the state of New York, where whistleblower protection for workers was recently Toward the end, Kevin covers the Colorado Mental Health Insitute at Pueblo and a whistleblower who…
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Osborne Hart (2021-11-06). Kellogg's workers demand 'Equal pay for equal work'. themilitant.com LANDISVILLE, Pa. — Striking Kellogg's cereal workers, members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union Local 374G, held a cookout and rally at the fire station pavilion here Oct. 30. Some 1,400 BCTGM members have been on strike since Oct. 5 at four plants — in Battle Creek, Michigan; Omaha, Nebraska; Memphis, Tennessee; and here in Lancaster County. There are over 360 Local 374G strikers. | Critical issues are at stake, especially the bosses' insistence on keeping a two-tier wage system that pays new hires roughly half what workers hired before 2016 get. One of the most popula…
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Susan Lamont (2021-11-06). Alabama court bans miners' right to picket at Warrior Met. themilitant.com ATLANTA — In an outrageous assault on workers' rights, Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court Judge James H. Roberts Jr. handed down a restraining order Oct. 27 ordering the United Mine Workers of America to halt all picketing or any other union activity within 300 yards of Warrior Met Coal. It covers all 12 of the mine entrances, railroad crossings and other sites in Brookwood, Alabama, where striking union members have been picketing since the walkout began. | "The judge has said 'no picketing' for the time being," striker Steven Smith told the Militant in an Oct. 30 phone interview. "We still have our canopie…
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WSWS (2021-11-06). Deere strike winning support among autoworkers. wsws.org Despite Deere's efforts to use its media leverage to disparage the strikers—as well as the UAW's attempts to convince workers that they're isolated—autoworkers are expressing solidarity and calling for a joint struggle.

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2021-11-06: News Headlines

Jack Peat (2021-11-06). The death of left-wing media? zcomm.org As the old adage goes, only when the working class stop reading right-wing news will we see progressive change…

Assata Shakur (2021-11-06). Assata Shakur: 'Fight tooth and nail to save Mumia's life and free him'. workers.org Note: This statement was recorded at Radio Havana in Cuba in 1998 and featured on "All Things Censored: Vol. 1, 1998" by Mumia Abu-Jamal. "The first time I heard a tape of one of Mumia's radio broadcasts, it was the first time I fully understood why the United States government . . . |

WSWS (2021-11-06). Vote "No" on the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees MOA! wsws.org The agreement between the IATSE and the studios does not meet a single demand of entertainment workers and should be resoundingly rejected.

WSWS (2021-11-06). How Sri Lankan workers can fight privatisation. wsws.org Workers need to form action committees, independent of the trade unions, in every workplace and unify with other sections of workers in a common political struggle for socialist policies.

WSWS (2021-11-06). Columbia University student workers strike for the second time this year. wsws.org More than 3,000 student workers are back on the picket line, after the UAW sabotaged an earlier strike this spring.

WSWS (2021-11-06). Tens of thousands of health care workers at Kaiser Permanente set to strike. wsws.org Workers in multiple unions have voted overwhelmingly in the past month to authorize a strike at Kaiser Permanente hospitals, including a possible open-ended walkout planned for November 15 by nearly 32,000 staff.

Kathy Durkin (2021-11-06). Protesters demand: "Protect safe, legal abortion!" workers.org Demonstrators outside the U.S. Supreme Court Nov. 1 demanded an end to the near-total ban on abortions in Texas. Inside, arguments were made in two separate lawsuits challenging S.B. 8, the brutal Texas law — one brought by Whole Woman's Health, a reproductive health care provider in Texas, the other . . . |

WSWS (2021-11-06). Reject Howard University's attempts to blame students for cafeteria layoffs! wsws.org The attempt by administrators to blame student protesters for the layoff of school cafeteria workers is a provocative attack on the rights of workers and students alike and must be actively opposed.

WSWS (2021-11-06). Argentine judge indicts Spanish Franco-era minister on murder charges. wsws.org Spain's Socialist Party-Podemos government is refusing to implement the arrest warrant issued in Argentina for former Francoite minister Rodolfo Martín Villa.

WSWS (2021-11-06). Experts oppose "reckless" easing of COVID-19 restrictions in New Zealand. wsws.org Auckland University associate professor of public health Collin Tukuitonga told the World Socialist Web Site the decision to reopen retail in Auckland next week, while COVID-19 numbers continue to soar, is "reckless."

WSWS (2021-11-06). New York taxi union declares victory with agreement that leaves drivers deeply in debt. wsws.org After a two-week hunger strike by a dozen drivers, the agreement between the union, the largest debt holder, and the city amounts to a bailout of the financiers.

WSWS (2021-11-06). Peru's Castillo wins confidence vote after ordering army into the streets. wsws.org Putting troops in the streets follows a steady lurch to the right by the Peruvian president, a former rural teachers union leader hailed by the pseudo-left as a revival of the "Pink Tide."

Brett Wilkins (2021-11-06). Bolivian President Warns 'Carbon Colonialism' Won't Solve Climate Crisis. zcomm.org "The solution," said Luis Arce at COP26, "is to change the model of civilization and move towards an alternative model to capitalism, the concept of living well together in harmony with Mother Earth.

Sam Pizzigati (2021-11-06). Why We Need to Keep Our Super Rich 'Occupied'. zcomm.org Grand fortunes won't start fading, new research suggests, so long as millions of us buy into billionaires as individuals of rare talent and genius…

Sonali Kolhatkar (2021-11-06). How the Wealthiest Countries Schemed to Avoid Economic Commitments at COP26. zcomm.org The G20, an exclusive club of mostly wealthy nations, met just before the COP26 in Glasgow and paid little more than lip service to the world's leading problems, while preserving their own financial dominance…

Sharon Zhang (2021-11-06). Sanders Slams Democrats' Tax Break for the Wealthy as "Beyond Unacceptable" zcomm.org Because the proposal almost exclusively favors the wealthy and the 1 percent, progressives are vehemently opposed to the idea…

Sara Flounders (2021-11-05). Protest targets discrimination against Koreans living in Japan. workers.org credit: WW photo: Sara Flounders A demonstration in front of the Japanese Consulate in New York City on Oct. 28, with drums, chants and tall banners in Korean and Japanese drew attention to the continued discrimination against the oppressed Korean nationality living within Japan. Koreans were brought to imperial . . . |

WSWS (2021-11-05). Widespread support for Socialist Equality Party's lawsuit against the German secret service. wsws.org The SGP's complaint against its surveillance by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany's secret service, is of great political importance, because the government wants to criminalize socialist ideas. Hundreds of WSWS readers and workers have quickly recognized this fact.

Atilio Boron (2021-11-05). Latin America: The Imperial Reconquest. orinocotribune.com By Atilio Boron — Nov 2, 2021 | The empire has lost all its composure. In a few days it has produced two very disturbing pieces of news, which speak of its sickening pretension to recapture total control of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, taking relations between them and the United States back to the point they were at before the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. | One of them has to do with Argentina, made in the scandalous statements by Joe Biden's nominee for Argentina, Ambassador Marc Stanley, at his confirmation hearing before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. His words oozed…

Special to People's World (2021-11-05). Connecticut group home workers strike Sunrise for wages, pensions, dignity. peoplesworld.org HARTFORD, Conn.—From the moment over 100 courageous caregivers walked onto the picket line against group home company Sunrise Inc., they had the support of the community and the labor movement behind them. Part of the national post-pandemic strike wave and racial justice uprisings, these working-class Black, Latino, and white women are standing up for living …

WSWS (2021-11-05). In wake of rejection of Deere sellout contract, Sanders' "Labor Strikes Back" forum covers for union bureaucracy. wsws.org At a sparsely watched online forum Wednesday, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders tried to falsely portray the unions as fighting organizations of the working class.

WSWS (2021-11-05). Pseudo-left and Labor promote unions, oppose socialist perspective at University of Sydney meeting. wsws.org International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia) and the Committee for Public Education members called for a unified movement of students and staff on an independent socialist perspective.

Staff (2021-11-05). Headlines for November 5, 2021. democracynow.org World's Biggest Polluters Remain on Sidelines as Over 40 Nations Pledge to Phase Out Coal, House Schedules Votes on Infrastructure Bill & Build Back Better Act, "We Want to Live!": Climate Activists Confront Sen. Joe Manchin over Climate Emergency, White House Announces Vaccine Mandate for Over 100 Million U.S. Workers by January 4, U.S. to Cancel Contract with COVID-19 Vaccine Maker That Ruined Millions of Doses, Moderna Reports $3.3B Third-Quarter Profit; Protesters Demand It Share Vaccine Recipe, U.S. Proposes New $650 Million Missile Sale to Saudi Arabia, Despite Yemen War Crimes, Two Indigenous Mapuche Leade…

Fight Back (2021-11-05). Join the FRSO General Members meeting. fightbacknews.org The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is hosting another meeting for general members this coming Thursday, November 11 at 8 p.m. Eastern time. We will use Zoom to again to welcome the scores of new members who chose to join the FRSO over the past four months. | Tracy Molm, an environmental justice activist, and Masao Suzuki, chair of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) Joint Nationalities Commission, will speak on how capitalism destroys the environment to achieve ever greater profits. This also harms the working class and puts the greatest burden on oppressed nationality communities. This inc…

WSWS (2021-11-05). The way forward for striking Scranton teachers. wsws.org Our committee issues a call-to-action to mobilize the support of the working class behind over 800 striking educators in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

_____ (2021-11-05). Alabama Judge Orders Stop To Picketing At Warrior Met Coal. popularresistance.org A Tuscaloosa County circuit judge has issued a restraining order against picket line activity by the United Mine Workers of America at Warrior Met Coal. | Circuit Judge James H. Roberts Jr. issued the order Wednesday afternoon. | It prohibits picketing "or other activity" within 300 yards of 12 different locations owned by Warrior Met Coal in Tuscaloosa County, including mines and offices. | The three-page order also prohibits "in any manner interfering with, hindering or obstructing, by threats, intimidation or acts of violence, the conduct and operation of Warrior's business and supporting activities." | That i…

G. Dunkel (2021-11-05). Rally demands CUNY budget increases. workers.org The Professional Staff Congress (AFT 2334) represents 25,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York. CUNY is an unusual higher education public institution, since it is funded by both the state and city of New York. A rally called by the PSC at the CUNY Board of . . . |

Mark Gruenberg (2021-11-05). Workers welcome OSHA emergency antivirus standard; GOP doesn't. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Workers facing the fear and uncertainty caused by the coronavirus plague welcomed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's new emergency temporary standard ordering all firms that employ at least 100 people mandate anti-virus vaccinations for workers or weekly testing for the unvaccinated. And if workers contract the virus, the firms must give them paid sick …

WSWS (2021-11-05). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand. wsws.org Malaysian contract doctor threaten national strike; India: Spicejet engineers workers walkout over unpaid wages; FedEx drivers to strike in Australia…

WSWS (2021-11-05). Hospital workers strike in Huntington, West Virginia. wsws.org On November 3, 1,000 staff at Cabell-Huntington Hospital in Huntington, West Virginia, walked out against abysmal pay and working conditions as management mobilizes strikebreakers.

Rebekah Entralgo (2021-11-05). Rediscovering the Power of Unions. zcomm.org Better wages, health care, paid leave, and real curbs on inequality may always face headwinds in Washington. But as workers across the country are rediscovering, a strong union can win those things directly…

Monica Cruz (2021-11-05). Striking Warrior Met coal miners arrested at protest in New York City. peoplesdispatch.org Seven members of the United Mine Workers of America were arrested after staging a sit-in in front of the headquarters of the multi-trillion dollar investment firm BlackRock, which is largest shareholder in Warrior Met Mines…

WSWS (2021-11-05). John Deere workers in Germany support strike action in US. wsws.org Entering its fourth week, the strike by 10,000 workers at the world's largest agricultural equipment manufacturer John Deere is finding growing support from coworkers in Germany and Europe.

Betsey Piette (2021-11-05). Supply chain crisis: Driven by deregulation. workers.org Corporate media and the Biden administration have focused on major West Coast ports, specifically Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., as the pivot points in the global supply chain crisis impacting the U.S. But the problem is far more complex. It involves points of production, methods of global transport, points . . . |

WSWS (2021-11-05). New Brunswick premier meets with top CUPE official in bid to shut down militant public sector strike. wsws.org New Brunswick's striking public sector workers must beware. The CUPE leadership is conspiring with Premier Higgs and his hard-right Tory government to smother their struggle for a wage "catch-up" after 15 years of declining real incomes.

WSWS (2021-11-05). Philadelphia transit workers: oppose the TWU's sellout contract! Form independent rank-and-file committees! wsws.org Workers in Philadelphia's transit system occupy a powerful position as workers throughout the United States and globally take strike action to oppose decades of wage stagnation, poor working conditions and the continuation of the pandemic.

WSWS (2021-11-05). "JobKeeper" billions boosted Australian corporate profits while casual workers axed. wsws.org The wage subsidy scheme, like all the COVID-19 "stimulus" packages in Australia and around the world, has been another historic transfer of wealth to big business.

WSWS (2021-11-05). Deere declares "all options on the table" after workers defeat second UAW-backed contract. wsws.org A top executive at the giant agricultural and construction equipment maker said the contract rejected by striking workers was its "best and final" offer and that it would redouble efforts to force it through.

WSWS (2021-11-05). Three things striking Deere workers need to know about the company's finances. wsws.org Deere has responded to the rejection of its second tentative agreement with the UAW by carrying out a media blitz aimed at sowing fear and division among workers, claiming it has no more money to spend.

Alan Johnstone (2021-11-05). The Socialist Cooperative Commonwealth. dissidentvoice.org Since its origin in the early 19th century by followers of Robert Owen, the term "socialism" has evolved to mean many different things to many different people and has been misused by dictatorships to describe their draconian management of capitalism. At the present time "socialism" is an unpopular word. Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot have …

Peter Dolack (2021-11-05). China's winding road towards capitalism. canadiandimension.com There is perhaps no bigger controversy among partisans of the left than the nature of China and its economy. Is it socialist? Capitalist? State capitalist? A hybrid? That so much debate swirls around this issue is its own proof that the question doesn't have a definitive answer, at least not yet. | What can be agreed upon is that China has experienced decades of extraordinary economic growth. But the nature of that growth, and the base upon which it has been created, are also subject to intense debate, arguments that necessarily rest on how a debater classifies the Chinese economy. An additional debate is whet…

Hayley McMahon (2021-11-05). Lord Mayoral Q&A: Socialist Alliance candidate Steve O'Brien. greenleft.org.au Steve O'Brien, who is running for Lord Mayor of Newcastle and councillor in Ward 1, discusses his people before profit campaign.

WSWS (2021-11-05). UK Corbynite's Zero Covid campaign: "Zero" in name only. wsws.org The campaign exists solely to provide an apologia for the refusal of the Labour Party and trade unions to do anything that genuinely opposes the Conservative government's policy of allowing the virus to rip through workplaces and schools.

WSWS (2021-11-05). Teachers must form rank-and-file committees to fight Australia's dangerous school reopenings. wsws.org "The unions' modus operandi on school reopenings is to say as little as possible, post nothing on social media about the issue, present COVID safety as a matter for individual schools and teachers and attempt to silence and intimidate opposition."

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2021-11-05: News Headlines

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-05). Administrative detention of Miqdad al-Qawasmeh, who is on hunger strike, reactivated. peoplesdispatch.org Miqdad al-Qawasmeh has been on hunger strike for 106 days. According to his family, he is experiencing symptoms such as memory loss, body pain and liver issues…

Staff (2021-11-05). "Please Open Your Hearts": Kenyan Activist Elizabeth Wathuti Urges Leaders to Act on Climate Crisis. democracynow.org Youth activists are taking to the streets outside the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow to demand world leaders do more to avert a climate catastrophe. The protest is being organized by Fridays for Future, an international movement of students which grew out of Greta Thunberg's climate strike outside the Swedish parliament in 2018. We hear from Elizabeth Wathuti of Kenya. "Over 2 million of my fellow Kenyans are facing climate-related starvation," Wathuti said earlier this week. "The decisions you make here will determine whether the children will have food and water."

Joris Leverink (2021-11-05). TNI Webinar series: China and the World. roarmag.org We are excited to announce a new China's economic rise in the last three decades is unprecedented and is shaping our world like never before. Global capitalism today would not survive in its current fo…

Paul Haeder (2021-11-05). Quitting is a Mental Health Decision. dissidentvoice.org Well well, some of us try-try. We end up having to take pittance jobs, with pitiful nonprofits, where the bottom line is, well, poverty pimping. So in a time of Covid Capitalism, in a time of quick silver circling the drain, quitting after 5 weeks on the job may appear rash, or self-defeating. But here …

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-05). Portuguese communists kickstart celebrations for Jose Saramago's birth centenary. peoplesdispatch.org On Saturday, October 30, the Communist Party of Portugal (PCP) organized a cultural event in Lisbon titled: "Universal Writer, Intellectual of April, Communist Militant" to kick start the birth centenary celebration of renowned writer and communist Jose Saramago. November 16, 2022 is the 100th birth anniversary of Saramago, who was born in Santarém, Portugal. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998. Preparations for the official centenary celebrations by the Portuguese state and the Jose Saramago Foundation, headed by his wife Pilar del Río, are also underway. | Before becoming a full fledged writer, S…

WSWS (2021-11-05). Tonga's first COVID-19 case enters from New Zealand. wsws.org New Zealand's Labour-led government, having "transitioned" from its COVID-19 elimination strategy, is facilitating the export of the deadly virus into the Pacific.

Anonymous Contributor (2021-11-05). Community Begins Eviction Resistance to Combat Wave of Displacement in Asheville, NC. itsgoingdown.org Report from Asheville Solidarity Network about resistance to an eviction in the midst of a housing crisis and ongoing pandemic. Community members, including tenants and precariously housed people, have come together on November 4th to resist an eviction in support of a multi-generational family experiencing forced displacement by Buncombe County. A number of people have…

Staff (2021-11-05). "Too Little, Too Late": Global South Activists Decry 2050 "Net Zero" Goal by Wealthy Nations. democracynow.org After nearly a week of speeches, negotiations and protests at the COP26 U.N. climate summit, we speak with Meena Raman, head of programs at Third World Network, who says developing countries need more time and resources to adapt to the climate crisis and end the use of fossil fuels. Without a just transition that addresses inequality, she says, many countries will continue to suffer from both poverty and environmental devastation. "When the rich world has not been able to phase out fossil fuels, … it's really dubious to preach to the developing world that they have to get out of fossil fuels," says Raman.

Erika Takeo (2021-11-04). Women's struggle in Nicaragua: from liberation fighters to building an alternative society. peoplesdispatch.org "Throughout Central America, women are actively mobilizing for their rights; the crucial difference in Nicaragua is that the new government has a commitment to support them. The challenges they face are similar to those faced by each of the neighboring republics — but only in Nicaragua have concrete opportunities for change arisen." — Helen Collinson et al., 'Women and Revolution in Nicaragua' (1990) | According to the

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-04). Top NATO/EUCOM and Ukrainian military commanders: collaboration against Russia to intensify. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Zaluzhny, Wolters discuss response to Russian aggression Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valeriy Zaluzhny has held his first phone call with NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe Tod Wolters, emphasizing the importance of NATO's continued military and naval presence in the Black Sea region. *** "…I informed him about…brazen ceasefire violations by the Russian occupation …

WSWS (2021-11-04). Students and young people must take up the fight against Australia's anti-democratic electoral laws. wsws.org "It is becoming clear to millions of young people that capitalism offers them no future. The government and Labor know this opposition exists and its one of the central reasons they have imposed these anti-democratic electoral laws."

WSWS (2021-11-04). Rampant inflation pushing Canada's low-income workers even further into poverty. wsws.org Inflation is slashing workers' real wages at an accelerating pace, propelling ever broader layers of the working class into struggle.

Zoi Parcharidi (2021-11-04). Public healthcare workers in Greece go on strike seeking greater investment, pay hikes. peoplesdispatch.org The Greek government has been taking advantage of the pandemic to reinforce the privatization of the healthcare sector by promoting public-private partnerships, contractual agreements and merging of healthcare units…

WSWS (2021-11-04). Public service union Verdi ends 50-day strike by Berlin health workers. wsws.org After sabotaging the strike by nursing staff at the state-owned hospital Vivantes and at the Charité in Berlin, the German public service union Verdi has now called off a strike by workers at Vivante subsidiaries.

WSWS (2021-11-04). Sudan's military seek to crush opposition demanding civilian rule. wsws.org The claim that the civilian-military transitional government established in 2019 would be capable of resolving the enormous social and economic problems confronting Sudanese workers was a dangerous trap.

WSWS (2021-11-04). GMB reinstates strike action by Glasgow refuse and street cleansing workers as anger grows at pay offer promoted by the unions. wsws.org The sole reason why the GMB reinstated the strike was because they knew the proposals they were promoting would be rejected and they might lose control of the workers.

WSWS (2021-11-04). Union betrayals open way for more "spill and fill" job cuts at Australia's Macquarie University. wsws.org Across the entire university, workers are being ordered to compete against each other for a much smaller number of jobs, with many positions also downgraded.

WSWS (2021-11-04). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Danish nurses continue one-hour wildcat stoppages over pay and staff shortages, begun in August; French transport workers continue strike wave over pay and conditions while unions prevent national strike; UK bus strikes planned in Wales and England at different companies over pay, while Unite union agrees below-inflation deals; Workers in Cross Rivers State, Nigeria defy court order and continue strike for minimum wage begun October 12…

WSWS (2021-11-04). Sri Lankan power, port and petroleum workers protest against privatisation. wsws.org State-sector unions are desperately seeking to tie workers' rising anger over the government's privatisation agenda to the parliamentary opposition.

Kris Hamel (2021-11-04). Michigan rally supports striking Kellogg's workers. zcomm.org Hundreds of unionists and community supporters from around Michigan gathered in Battle Creek, Mich., on Oct. 27 for a rally in support of striking workers at Kellogg's…

WSWS (2021-11-04). UAW conspiring with Deere management to ram through contract that workers voted to reject. wsws.org The announcement by Deere that the contract was their "best and final offer" amounts to giving the United Auto Workers its marching orders to shut down the strike and enforce the contract that workers just rejected.

Bruce Lerro (2021-11-04). New Agers vs Neo-Pagans: Can Either Be Salvaged for Socialism? (Part I). dissidentvoice.org Neopagans have a great deal to teach 21st Century socialists, if only we would listen. As capitalism has gone into deep decline in the United States and England beginning in the 1970s, two spiritual movements have sprung up outside Judeo-Christianity: The New Age and Neopaganism. Contrary to some sociologists' claims that Neopagan Wiccans, Druids and …

Staff (2021-11-04). Headlines for November 4, 2021. democracynow.org Global Carbon Emissions Near Record High as Nations Meet for Crucial Climate Summit, NJ Gov. Phil Murphy Narrowly Wins Reelection, in Ominous Sign for Democrats Ahead of 2022 Midterms, Socialist Candidate India Walton Concedes Hard-Fought Mayoral Race in Buffalo, NY, Senate Republicans Filibuster Voting Rights Legislation Again, U.S. COVID-19 Death Toll Passes 750,000, White House Warns of Vaccine Misinformation, Urges Parents to Get Children Vaccinated, Russia Records Another Record Daily COVID-19 Death Toll, WHO Approves Emergency Use of India's 2-Shot Coronavirus Vaccine Covaxin, U.S. Blacklists Israel's NSO G…

Alan MacLeod (2021-11-04). The United States is organizing a color revolution in Cuba for November 15. mronline.org It remains an open question as to how successful the upcoming action against the Cuban government will be. But who is behind the protests is hardly in doubt.

Medea Benjamin (2021-11-04). COP26: Can a Singing, Dancing Rebellion Save the World? zcomm.org The appropriate public response to governments that are ready to squander the lives of millions of people, whether by war or by ecological mass suicide, is rebellion and revolution…

Editor (2021-11-04). Richard Lewontin, dialectical materialism, the relationship between evolutionary biology and Marxism. mronline.org Dialectical materialism combines two philosophical traditions: historical materialism formulated by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and dialectics, an idealist philosophy formulated by German philosopher Georg Willhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-04). "Deep Peace": Nordic Council, NATO's new appendage. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO Secretary General to the Nordic Council: strong institutions build trust and peace NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg addressed the 73rd Session of the Nordic Council in Copenhagen on Wednesday (3 November 2021)…. Mr Stoltenberg said that organisations like the Nordic Council, NATO, and the European Union have helped to secure the "deep peace" of …

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-04). Poland prepares for armed clashes on Belarusian border. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com 'Another provocation against Polish soldiers' at Belarus border: defence ministry Poland's defence ministry on Thursday accused Belarus of staging "another provocation" against Polish troops helping protect the European Union's external border, saying that Belarusian soldiers guarding migrants threatened to open fire on Polish soldiers. *** The foreign ministry in Warsaw said in a statement on …

WSWS (2021-11-04). Striking Scranton, Pennsylvania teachers discuss deplorable school conditions. wsws.org Educators walking the picket line in Scranton, Pennsylvania explained the issues in their struggle after 800 teachers and paraprofessionals walked out Wednesday morning.

Anonymous669 (2021-11-04). Houthis Destroyed Ma'rib City Communication Towers With Ballistic Missile. southfront.org Illustrative image, source: the Houthis media wing. | On October 4, a ballistic missile struck communication towers in the western outskirts of the city of Ma'rib, which is held by Saudi-backed forces. | The missile was allegedly launched by the Houthis (Ansar Allah) from the province of Saada, to the north of Ma'rib. As a result of the strike, all communications were cut off Ma'rib city. | The communication towers were equipped with military and civilian systems. The two main telecommunication companies in Yemen,…

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2021-11-04: News Headlines

_____ (2021-11-04). Denial of Wrongdoing in Deadly Kabul Strike Reveals 'Systemic Problem' at Pentagon: Critics. commondreams.org "The flood of disinformation unleashed by Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook is drowning audiences around the world."

Staff (2021-11-04). Nimotuzumab: El medicamento cubano contra el cáncer que reduce las secuelas pulmonares de la COVID-19. cubadebate.cu El Nimotuzumab es una molécula muy segura, que además evidencia una alta tasa de recuperación y permite la reducción de las secuelas pulmonares en pacientes que enfermaron de covid-19. La mejor de las pruebas está en historias como la de Marlon, o en las tantas batallas acumuladas de Leonor, Yaikiel y Raity, quienes desde dentro de la zona roja han visto en el Nimotuzumab traducirse la ciencia de un laboratorio, a la esperanza y la seguridad en salvar vidas.

Staff (2021-11-04). South Dakota governor sues Biden over vax mandate… after getting sued by Republicans. rt.com South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem says her state has joined a lawsuit against the Biden administration over its latest "unconstitutional" vaccine mandate. However, Noem herself is facing a mandates-related lawsuit. | The Department of Labor's Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) revealed the details of its vaccine mandate for the private sector on Thursday. Threatening companies with fines of up to $136,000, the mandate requires all firms with more than 100 staff to force their employees to get vaccinated against Covid-19, or submit to regular testing and masking. | Within hours, Noem announced…

Staff (2021-11-04). US airline staff could 'end up on the street' for refusing vaccines, pilot tells RT. rt.com With details of President Biden's private-sector vaccine mandate revealed, commercial pilot Jason Kunisch told RT that such mandates already risk cratering the aviation industry, which is dealing with "severe" staffing shortages. | The Department of Labor's Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) on Thursday revealed the details of the Biden administration's controversial vaccine order for private companies. The order, which OSHA is considering making permanent, requires all companies with more than 100 staff to force their employees to get vaccinated by early January or submit to regular testing…

_____ (2021-11-04). Shell CEO: We Need to Keep Extracting Oil to Stop Extracting Oil. commondreams.org "These terms mean that over 4,000 to 6,000 families can get their lives back," said the president of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance.

sputniknews (2021-11-04). New York's Ex-Cop Mayor-Elect Says Will 'Revisit' Vaccine Mandate in Wake of NYPD Walkout. sputniknews.com A day after winning his mayoral election in New York City, former New York Police Department (NYPD) captain Eric Adams has said he's considering negotiating with city workers who have so far refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine, as required by an order from Mayor Bill De Blasio.

Rosa Miriam Elizalde (2021-11-04). The US Has an Unhealthy Obsession With Cuba. socialistproject.ca The piggy bank was rattled again. In September 2021, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Staff (2021-11-04). Putin & Lukashenko approve new military doctrine as they ink Russia-Belarus integration docs. rt.com The Russian and Belarusian presidents have signed a revised Union State military doctrine, as well as a package of other integration documents, paving the way for bringing the two nations closer together. | The landmark documents were signed by Vladimir Putin and Aleksandr Lukashenko on Thursday during a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus. Due to Covid-19 measures, the meeting was held via a video link. | The new military doctrine, also signed on Wednesday, would "make defense policy more coherent [and] adapt the objectives of the defense ministries in a timely fashio…

teleSUR, jaa, SH (2021-11-04). Anuncian fecha para próxima reunión sobre Siria en Kazajstán. telesurtv.net Esta sería la decimoséptima ronda de reuniones de este tipo sobre la situación Siria.

Cian Walker (2021-11-04). Capitalism is Bad for Business. realprogressives.org The reason debates about economic equality, social mobility, access to opportunity, capitalism, socialism, and politics are bogged down in stubborn, circular quagmires is because most people, on both ends of the political spectrum, see capitalism and commerce as the same thing.

IMEMC News (2021-11-04). 108 Days Of Hunger Strike, Israel To Reactivate Administrative Detention Order. imemc.org The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that the Israeli military prosecution has decided to reactivate the arbitrary Administrative Detention order against Miqdad al-Qawasma who continues the hunger strike for the 108th consecutive day, protesting his continued imprisonment without charges. Attorney Jawad Boulus stated that the prosecution is alleging that the medical reports indicate "an …

Caitlin Johnstone (2021-11-04). Mass Media Hasten To Help Pentagon Exonerate Itself In Afghan Airstrike. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article: | ‚ùñ | The mass media are full of headlines announcing that a "watchdog" has concluded in an "independent" investigation that US military personnel did nothing wrong in an August airstrike in Kabul which killed ten civilians and zero combatants. | "An independent Pentagon review has concluded that the U.S. drone strike that killed innocent Kabul civilians and children in the final days of the Afghanistan war was not caused by misconduct or negligence, and it doesn't recommend any disciplinary action," the Associated Press reports in an article titled "

Anonymous007 (2021-11-04). U.S. Strike That Killed 10 Civilians In Afghanistan Was Not Against "Law Of War" southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On November 3rd, Lt. Gen. Sami Said, U.S. Air Force inspector general, held a briefing at the Pentagon to discuss the drone strike in Kabul that killed Afghan civilians. | He said an investigation found "no violation of law" but did find "execution errors." | Said said he didn't find "violations of law or the law of war" and the officials behind the strike "truly believed at the time that they were targeting an imminent threat." | The full report on the strike, which includes…

_____ (2021-11-04). 'Historic Moment' as NYC Taxi Drivers Win Major Debt Relief Following Hunger Strike. commondreams.org "After being hunted down, cornered, and shot for being a Black man in a white Georgia neighborhood, Ahmaud Arbery is again denied justice."

tribunemag.co.uk (2021-11-04). If COP Wants to Save the Planet, It Has to Challenge Capitalism. tribunemag.co.uk COP26 could be an opportunity to tackle capitalism's destruction of the planet — if world leaders choose to take it.

Markela Panegyres (2021-11-04). Capitalism makes people sick. greenleft.org.au Children and young people are experiencing a mental health epidemic. Markela Panegyres argues that resources are not being made available either for the treatment or to tackle some of the causes.

Editor2 (2021-11-04). As Chávez Said, 'Let's not Change the Climate, Let's Change the System!': A Conversation with Max Ajl. orinocotribune.com An anti-imperialist approach to global warming in the context of COP26. | This week and through November 12, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) takes place in Glasgow, Scotland. COP26 brings together heads of state and other prominent figures to talk about climate change. However, the conference won't address the central environmental problem: capitalism. In this interview we talk to

Staff (2021-11-04). Court dismisses lawsuit by Bezos' Blue Origin over SpaceX/NASA contract. rt.com The lawsuit filed by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company Blue Origin against rival billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX firm — and the US government, which picked SpaceX over Blue Origin — has been dismissed. | The suit, filed in federal claims court, was dismissed by Judge Richard Hertling on Thursday. The ruling bars either party from further speaking out about the details of the decision until November 18, but no financial settlements were awarded. Bezos' effort to pry SpaceX from its privileged position as the beneficiary of the $2.9 billion NASA contract to return the US space agency…

_____ (2021-11-04). Is There a Republican Alive Who Still Believes in Democracy? commondreams.org Like our billionaires at home, foreign oligarchs and despots are sheltering untold sums from taxation across our country.

WSWS (2021-11-04). New Zealand COVID-19 cases surge as government plans to lift more restrictions. wsws.org Public health experts have warned that the Labour Party-led government's decision to open more businesses in Auckland, while case numbers are surging, will lead to more hospitalisations and deaths.

IMEMC News (2021-11-04). Israeli Soldiers Demolish a Mosque Near Nablus. imemc.org Israeli soldiers demolished, on Thursday at dawn, a Palestinian mosque in Douma town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors Israel's illegal colonialist activities in northern West Bank, said several army jeeps and a bulldozer invaded the town, before demolishing the mosque. He added that the …

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-11-04). ICC Chief Prosecutor's Visit to Venezuela Ends with Signing of Memorandum of Understanding. orinocotribune.com The visit to Venezuela by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Ahmad Khan, concluded with the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the ICC. During a three-day stay in the country, Khan pursued a busy schedule. | In this sense, the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, mentioned that it was three days of work, and of frank and direct dialogue which he considered favorable and positive for the work carried out by the ICC. For this reason, the president added that the debate demonstrated the legal, doctrinal, and constitutional str…

Peoples Health Dispatch (2021-11-04). Activists and scholars condemn closure of Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity in Australia. peoplesdispatch.org In a surprise move, Flinders University has decided to shut down the world-renowned Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity, a key institution for the research of social determinants of health…

Peter Bolton (2021-11-03). Socialist International's Parroting of US Line on Nicaragua Shows What a Worthless Fossil It's Become. orinocotribune.com By Peter Bolton — Nov 1, 2021 | On October 25, about two weeks before Nicaragua's 2021 presidential election, the Socialist International (SI) released a statement titled Nicaragua: A Contemporary Victim of Absolute Power. Given the steady stream of tendentious twaddle about Nicaragua that's been disseminated from Washington and dutifully repeated by the corporate-owned media, one might reasonably assume that the global federation of social democratic and labor parties would at least provide some semblance of balance. | But far from adding nuance, the statement reads as if it were a press release sent direct…

Nan McCurdy (2021-11-03). Electoral Contras: U.S. Plotting to Sabotage Nicaraguan Democracy Yet Again. covertactionmagazine.com But Nicaraguans Will Not Let the Evil Empire Dictate Who They Vote for, with Sandinista Revolutionary Leader Daniel Ortega Poised …

Jim McMahan (2021-11-03). Prisoners win minimum wage victory. workers.org Incarcerated workers on strike against horrific conditions at the Northwest Detention Center were supported by La Resistencia, Dec. 15, 2020. Seattle After years of hunger strikes, immigrant workers detained at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash., have won the right to be paid for their labor at the same . . . |

Karen Conner (2021-11-03). Preview: What to Look for in the October Jobs Report. cepr.net (The monthly Employment Situation is scheduled for release by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday, November 5 at 8: 30 AM Eastern Time.) | The rate of employment growth has slowed sharply in the last two months, averaging just 280,000 jobs a month. However, this is not a story of weak demand for labor. The index of aggregate weekly hours rose by 0.8 percent in September. This suggests that employers who were unable to hire more workers instead met their demand by increasing hours. The September increase in hours would be equivalent to adding 1.2 million workers if the average workweek had remained unchanged.

Daniela Jimenez (2021-11-03). Airports to Restart Operations as Venezuela Eases COVID-19 Restrictions. orinocotribune.com As part of the flexibilization of commercial and labor activities in Venezuela, announced by President Nicolás Maduro to begin on Monday, November 1, and that will last up to December 31, general, private and commercial aviation will begin operations to and from the controlled airports of the Maiquetía region, La Guaira. This measure exempts uncontrolled airports, which still require authorization. This was informed by the National Institute of Civil Aeronautics (INAC). | Through a statement, INAC explained that starting from November 1, as part of the flexibilization scheme, the air routes, which had remained su…

Bertil Lintner (2021-11-03). Myanmar's junta kills off all economic hope. asiatimes.com As Myanmar descends deeper and deeper into civil war, a conflict driven by nationwide resistance to the military's disastrous democracy-suspending coup, the economy is taking the brunt of the chaotic collateral damage. The February 1 coup sparked countrywide labor strikes, runs on banks and now rising warfare punctuated by bomb blasts in key urban areas …

Emir Sader (2021-11-03). Chile: Laboratorio de experiencias políticas de América Latina. globalizacion.ca Engels llamó a Francia el laboratorio de experiencias políticas, donde los acontecimientos se desarrollarían de la forma más radical, desde la Revolución de 1789, pasando por la Revolución de 1848, hasta llegar a la Comuna de París. Chile es el…

Anthony Cartalucci (2021-11-03). Deep Dive: Adrian Zenz & Claims of "Coerced Labor" in Xinjiang China. thealtworld.com Adrian Zenz is repeatedly cited as an expert on alleged abuses taking place in China's western region of Xinjiang. | More recently, he — along with ASPI — have been used as sources to help justify economic sanctions against companies operating in Xinjiang or employing people from Xinjiang. | The Western media has repeated what are otherwise baseless claims to pressure companies to stop doing business with companies in China either operating in Xinjiang or employing workers from the region. | These baseless claims are having a real world impact. To expose these lies, I dissect one of Adrian Zenz' reports…

Anthony Cartalucci (2021-11-03). US Economic Warfare vs China: Adrian Zenz & Xinjiang Cotton Lies. thealtworld.com Adrian Zenz is regularly cited as the source regarding alleged abuses in Xinjiang, China. More recently, his reports have become the cornerstone of not only accusations against China regarding supposed "forced labor," but also the justification for sanctions imposed by the US. | He is regularly involved in campaigns aimed at placing pressure on companies to divest from raw materials and processed goods emanating from X…

Johanna Kichton (2021-11-03). People's Action Urges House to Move Swiftly and Pass Biden's Build Back Better Act. peoplesaction.org Contact: Johanna Kichton, press@peoplesaction.org, 202.660.0605 WASHINGTON, D.C.—People's Action today released the following statement by Campaigns Director Sondra Youdelman after final bill text was released for President Biden's Build Back Better Act: "The Build Back Better Act is the result of years of organizing across the country by working class people around a bold, progressive vision that puts people …

Peter Certo (2021-11-03). In OtherWords: November 3, 2021. otherwords.org Well, despite our leading with it each week for what feels like months, congressional leaders still haven't quite wrapped up a deal on the Biden administration's jobs and infrastructure agenda. | But while higher wages, better health care, sick leave, and other priorities have hit a wall in Washington — something Khalil Bendib illustrates skillfully in his cartoon — workers across the country are organizing to win them directly. This week in OtherWords, Rebekah Entralgo reports on a remarkable surge of union activism — and explains how the Build Back Better Act, if it ever passes, could help uni…

_____ (2021-11-03). Protest In Miami In Support Of Alex Saab. popularresistance.org Members of the Bolivarian Circle in Miami and Trokia Kollective chant "free Alex Saab" outside Miami's Clyde Atkins Courthouse on Monday, Nov 1st – the day originally scheduled for Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab's arraignment. Despite the disappointing delay of his arraignment to November 15th, his supporters are energized as they stand witness outside Ambassador Saab's prison, the Miami Federal Detention Center (FDC). They are resolute in their commitment to Diplomat Saab for breaking through the crippling illegal U.S. unilateral economic sanctions imposed on the people of Venezuela. | Reportedly, the arraignment…

_____ (2021-11-03). John Deere Workers Hold The Line And Vote Down Second Contract Offer. popularresistance.org Striking John Deere employees rejected a second contract offer on Tuesday. After decades of austerity contracts with cuts to pensions, healthcare, and wages, workers at the farm equipment manufacturer — members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) — are standing up and demanding more, just as the t-shirts they've been wearing on the picket lines put it: "Deemed essential in 2020. Prove it in 2021." | This strike is proving it. | UAW members across Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas voted down the tentative agreement, 55 percent to 45 percent. This is a much closer vote margin than when 90 percent of union members…

Chauncey K. Robinson (2021-11-03). 'Rust' shooting was avoidable: Put worker safety center stage in Hollywood. peoplesworld.org It can be hard to connect the glitz and glamour of Hollywood film and television to the real-world work that goes into making it all possible. Yet it has become clear, as details emerge regarding the tragic shooting on the set of the movie Rust, that the safety of workers on the job at film …

Dean Baker (2021-11-03). Combatting Global Warming: The Solution to China's Demographic "Crisis" cepr.net There have been numerous news articles in recent years telling us that China faces a demographic crisis. The basic story is that the market reforms put in place in the late 1970s, together with country's one-child policy, led to many fewer children being born in the last four decades. As a result, the number of current workers entering retirement, exceeds the size of the cohorts entering the workforce, leading to a stagnant or declining workforce. This is supposed to be a crisis. | I used the word "supposed" because it is not in any way obvious that a declining workforce is any sort of crisis. We see shifts of po…

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2021-11-03: News Headlines

New Atlas (2021-11-03). US Economic Warfare vs China: Adrian Zenz & Xinjiang Cotton Lies. newatlas.report November 3, 2021 (The New Atlas — Brian Berletic) — Adrian Zenz is regularly cited as the source regarding alleged abuses in Xinjiang, China. More recently, his reports have become the cornerstone of not only accusations against China regarding supposed "forced labor," but also the justification for sanctions imposed by the US. He is regularly …

WSWS (2021-11-03). Hunger strike by New York City taxi drivers against crushing debt nearing the end of its second week. wsws.org New York City taxi drivers are suffering under horrendous debt loads due to predatory lending practices compounded by the effects of the pandemic.

Mark Gruenberg (2021-11-03). Election 2021: Republicans make some major gains but not everywhere. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Except for the Boston and Atlanta mayoral races and numerous local elections scattered around the country, Election 2021 was not the night the Democratic Party and many of the people's movements had hoped for. Pro-worker candidates especially in Virginia but elsewhere took major hits. In Boston, however, there was an outstanding victory by the progressive …

Fight Back (2021-11-03). Appleton, WI: SDS rallies for $15 an hour for students on campus. fightbacknews.org Appleton, WI – The Appleton Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and Sunrise Fox Valley are continuing the "Fight for $15'' at Lawrence University. This campaign seeks to increase the on-campus student worker minimum wage to $15 per hour. At the moment, the average student worker is undercompensated with a meagre $7.25 wage, which is unable to meet the rising costs of tuition and other exorbitant living expenses. | Through consistent agitation and numerous flyer drives, Appleton SDS has been able to gain the support of hundreds of student workers and other sympathetic allies. With the assistance of S…

Martha Grevatt (2021-11-03). Strikers vote down second contract at John Deere. workers.org John Deere strikers in Waterloo, Iowa, with supporters from Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union who brought food and supplies Oct. 29. Bulletin: This article was written before the contract vote. On Nov. 2 John Deere UAW members voted down the second contract, 55% against. They remain on strike. Members . . . |

WSWS (2021-11-03). The "No" vote by John Deere workers shows Dana workers must overturn the illegitimate UAW-USW-Dana contract! wsws.org Now is the time for Dana workers to join Deere workers and all auto workers to overturn the fraudulent contracts signed by the UAW in recent months and years.

WSWS (2021-11-03). Striking Deere workers defeat second UAW-company agreement, in powerful show of determination that workers' needs be met. wsws.org The contract rejection is the latest major repudiation by workers of the pro-corporate policies pursued by the UAW and other trade unions for over 40 years.

WSWS (2021-11-03). Deere workers rank-and-file statement: What's next in our strike. wsws.org The following statement was released by the Deere Workers Rank-and-File Committee on Wednesday afternoon, following the Deere workers defeat of a second UAW-backed contract on Tuesday.

A Guest Author (2021-11-03). Another October uprising in Ecuador? workers.org New uprising in Ecuador began Oct. 26. Sign reads, "The government of dialogue doesn't show its face" by Harí Villareal Quito, Ecuador The author's article appeared in revistacrisis.com Oct. 28. Villareal is a filmmaker and professor at the University of Quito. Translator Mike Otto from Workers World has added an . . . |

Malik Miah (2021-11-03). United States: Workers rise up in strike wave. greenleft.org.au Thousands of workers are on strike right now in the United States, in what is being dubbed "Striketober", reports Malik Miah.

WSWS (2021-11-03). Australia: Patrick Terminals seeks termination of dock workers' enterprise agreement. wsws.org Reverting to the industry award will cut workers' pay by more than 50 percent.

WSWS (2021-11-03). Five hundred steelworkers strike ArcelorMittal Tubular Products plant in Ohio. wsws.org Roughly 500 steel workers in Shelby, Ohio walked off the job after ArcelorMittal representatives ended negotiations.

WSWS (2021-11-03). Rank-and-file Canadian educators discuss "How to end the pandemic" webinar, vow support for John Deere strike. wsws.org At the latest meeting of the Cross-Canada Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee, education workers drew the connection between the fight to stop the pandemic and the need to unify their struggles with other sections of workers battling low wages and punishing working conditions.

WSWS (2021-11-03). Live updates: Deere management declares rejected contract was its "best and final offer" wsws.org The statement amounts to giving the UAW its marching orders to shut down the strike and enforce the contract, which workers everywhere must mobilize to prevent.

WSWS (2021-11-03). Striking Deere workers defeat second UAW-company agreement. wsws.org The contract rejection is the latest major repudiation by workers of the pro-corporate policies pursued by the UAW and other trade unions for over 40 years.

WSWS (2021-11-03). Deere parts center in Milan, Illinois reports first rejection of UAW contract, as ballot count continues: Live updates. wsws.org Nearly 10,000 striking Deere workers are voting today on a tentative agreement backed by the UAW, which only released five pages of "highlights" on the deal Sunday.

WSWS (2021-11-03). Dana fires temps en masse in apparent retaliation for leak that revealed they were making $25 per hour. wsws.org The revelation sparked outrage among full-time Dana workers at management and the UAW and USW unions, who had bullied them into accepting a contract with wages far below what Dana has been compelled to pay temps to maintain production.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-03). Iran claims to have thwarted US attempt to steal oil from its ship in Sea of Oman. peoplesdispatch.org According to the Tasnim News Agency, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps personnel landed on a tanker which the US was trying to confiscate and later steered it into Iranian waters…

Editor (2021-11-03). What to expect from COP26: climate action, climate justice or greenwashing? mronline.org If Karl Marx and Frederick Engels were writing the Communist Manifesto today, it is not inconceivable that they would begin with the sentence: "A spectre is haunting humanity—the spectre of extinction."

Anonymous765 (2021-11-03). SouthFront Survival Depends On You! southfront.org DEAR FRIENDS, | : | Since November 1, we've collected 100 USD. This is about 2% of the monthly budget needed to continue SouthFront work and further. | Today, you can send your donations via BTC or Bitcoincash. | In order to support the activities of SouthFront through PayPal, Western union or other traditional means, please write to , . | We stay still to save the vestiges of freedom of speech and to show you the real face of the world most dangerous crises. | BUT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE WIT…

Staff (2021-11-03). Kumi Naidoo at COP26: Will Rich Countries Deliver Pledged Billions for South Africa to Get Off Coal? democracynow.org On day three of the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, we look at the fight against Big Coal, starting with leading South African climate activist Kumi Naidoo. South Africa is one of the world's largest coal producers, and the United States has joined the European Union and other wealthy nations to announce a new deal to provide $8.5 billion to the country to help it decommission its coal plants and invest in renewable energy. "Let's see if the money actually flows and if those countries actually follow up with that commitment," says Naidoo, global ambassador for Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dign…

Richard Hodgkins (2021-11-03). Why progress at COP26 is crucial. asiatimes.com COP26, which is taking place in Glasgow, is the latest in a series of meetings through which the world's governments attempt to deal with climate change. COP stands for "Conference of the Parties": these 197 parties are the United Nations member countries, plus a few small non-UN member countries and the European Union, all of …

Mark Gruenberg (2021-11-03). After long GOP Trump delay, feds OK rest hours for flight attendants. peoplesworld.org Sara Nelson, AFA-CWA. | "Fatigue is real. We need our 10 hours yesterday," said Association of Flight Attendants-CWA President Sara Nelson, a veteran United Airlines flight attendant. Her union has led the long fight for more rest between long flight times. | But the rule won't kick in until after FAA takes public comments, due by Jan. 3, then reviews and responds via the Federal Register. | Flight attendant unions, led by AFA-CWA, joined by the Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA), the Machinists, the Teamsters' Airline Division, the AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department, and the Transport Wor…

Suzy Wurtz (2021-11-03). Not in Our Town: Ephrata, PA Says No to Extremists. zcomm.org How did we win? By organizing everyday people, especially parents, using a populist narrative to build a coalition of working-class people who agreed on one thing: right-wing extremism goes too far, even for Ephrata…

Mark Gruenberg (2021-11-03). Scranton School System forces teachers to strike. peoplesworld.org SCRANTON, Pa. —After years with no contract, and school board demands for big increases in teachers' share of health care costs, teachers and staff in the Scranton, Pa., school district, members of Teachers (AFT) Local 1147, were forced to strike Nov. 3. "See us on the picket lines. Scranton educators, parents, and students have sacrificed …

PAI (2021-11-03). Impasse in talks may force 6,300 U of C faculty, 500 librarians to strike. peoplesworld.org SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—A university system-declared impasse after two years of bargaining may force some 6,300 teaching, non-tenured faculty, plus 500 librarians, at the University of California system to strike. Though yet another bargaining session is scheduled for Nov. 10—and is open to the public and supporters via Zoom starting at 2 pm Pacific Time—the two …

Mustafa Abu Sneineh (2021-11-03). Palestinian prisoner risks 'clinical death' as he enters 110th day of hunger strike. middleeasteye.net Palestinian prisoner risks 'clinical death' as he enters 110th day of hunger strike | Kayed al-Fasfous' health deteriorates as he continues to protest against his administrative detention by Israel | Wed, 11/03/2021 – 12: 37 | Palestinians with banners of Kayed al-Fasfous and Miqdad al-Qawasmi call for the release of prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails, 24 October 2021 (AF…

George Monbiot (2021-11-03). Capitalism is killing the planet — it's time to stop buying into our own destruction. zcomm.org Our survival depends on piercing the glassy surface of distraction, and ceasing to obey…

Staff (2021-11-03). Uproot the System: Filipina Activist Mitzi Tan on How Capitalism & Colonialism Fuel Climate Crisis. democracynow.org We speak to Mitzi Tan, a climate activist based in the Philippines, who will join Greta Thunberg of Sweden and Vanessa Nakate of Uganda in speaking at a major march and rally in Glasgow on Saturday. Among their demands are reparations from the Global North to the Global South to help rebuild the lives of those most impacted by the climate crisis. Tan has recently protested outside the offices of Standard Chartered Bank in London, which funds the most fossil fuel companies based in the Philippines, which she says contributes directly to their yearly typhoons that cause insurmountable destruction. "At this point, n…

Kevin Mwanza (2021-11-03). Billionaire Chamath Admits He Dumped His Tesla Shares After Telling Cult Fans 'Don't Sell'. moguldom.com Billionaire venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya admits that he dumped his Tesla shares over the last year despite telling cult fans not to sell because he believed the stock would double or triple in value. The founder of venture firm Social Capital, Palihapitiya has a cult following among amateur traders. He's a big fan of SPACs — …

Anonymous (2021-11-03). Palestine in Pictures: October 2021. electronicintifada.net A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine.

Monica Moorehead (2021-11-02). Without U.S. interference, Nicaragua's right to sovereignty, development. workers.org Managua, Nicaragua The Central American country of Nicaragua will hold national elections Nov. 7. Already the U.S. bourgeois press, a mouthpiece for U.S. imperialism, has declared that the elections will be "unfair and undemocratic." For example, the New York Times ran an article Oct. 7, entitled "Democracy, or Something Like . . . |

In Defense of Liberation! (2021-11-02). Hi Chi Minh Should've Killed More of Your Grandparents (We Need Militant Anti-Imperialism, Now!). anchor.fm In this episode I continue on my discussion about the myths surrounding capitalism and communism. What are we going to do to stop the continuation of imperialist aggression across the world? How will we in the belly of the beast take down this empire? When will we recognize now is the time to act?

Sara Flounders (2021-11-02). U.S. role exposed/Masses resist Sudan coup. workers.org The Oct. 25 military coup in Sudan, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has been met by a heroic outpouring of coordinated people's resistance. Sudanese coup protest in the capital, Khartoum, Oct. 25 U.S. imperialism is intensely involved behind the scenes in an effort to sabotage the revolutionary struggle arising . . . |

_____ (2021-11-02). Three Starbucks Set For Vote On Union. popularresistance.org Workers hoping to unionize Starbucks stores in the U.S. have won a preliminary victory before the National Labor Relations Board. | The board said employees at three separate Starbucks stores in Buffalo, N.Y., can hold union elections in November in a new ruling. That means that workers need only a majority of votes cast at a single location to form a union. The company had argued that employees at all 20 Buffalo-area stores should vote in a single election. | If the effort is successful, the stores would be the first of Starbucks' 8,000 company-owned U.S. stores to unionize. The Seattle coffee giant opposes the…

jamanetwork (2021-11-02). The Magnetic Field is Not a Health Hazard. jamanetwork.com Magnetism is a word before which the untutored stand aghast and with which the faker may conjure. Among the growing number of therapeutic projects constantly being brought to the attention of the American practitioner, "magnetotherapy" has not acquired any recognition, although it has actually received mention in medical literature. There are industries in which workmen may be exposed to magnetic fields of considerable strength in the course of the operations in which they are engaged; hence the problem of possible physiologic effects cannot be lightly brushed aside. Drinker and Thomson of the Laboratory of Appli…

Joris Leverink (2021-11-02). Rejecting the existential futility of neoliberal life. roarmag.org This is an excerpt of Neil Vallely's " Photo: Protester in Chile during the 2019 October uprising. abriendomundo / Shutterstock.com | For centuries, economists and philosophers have theorized the value of utility: how it shapes the division of labor, influences consumer choice, and contributes to conceptions of the good life or common good. Utilitarian philosophers, from Jeremy Bentham to John Stuart Mill, told us that maximizing utility [m…

jamanetwork (2021-11-02). Clinical Laboratory Service for Physicians. jamanetwork.com Laboratory methods now play a large part in the daily work of physicians. Chemical, morphologic, bacteriologic and serologic methods, as well as the roentgen ray, are in daily use everywhere, and new methods, for example, the electrocardiographic determinations and tests of metabolism, are being introduced. To meet the constantly growing needs for such methods, there have come into existence laboratories of health departments and of hospitals, with more or less differentiation into separate departments; also wholly private laboratories. The latter group includes those frequently referred to as commercial, because…

_____ (2021-11-02). Alex Saab Case: Mapping The US' Main Violations Of International Law. popularresistance.org Alex Saab is a Special Envoy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and also its Deputy Permanent Representative to the African Union. He was arrested and detained in the Republic of Cape Verde ("Cape Verde") on June 12, 2020, following a request from the United States of America and remained in arbitrary detention until October 16, 2021, when he was illegally removed by the United States to Miami. | This operation carried out by the United States against a Venezuelan diplomat is marked by a series of violations of international law attributable directly or indirectly to the United States. Although the arbitrary…

Editor2 (2021-11-02). Mapping Main US Direct and Indirect Violations of International Law on Alex Saab Case. orinocotribune.com By Femi Falana — Oct 31, 2021 | Alex Saab is a Special Envoy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and also its Deputy Permanent Representative to the African Union. He was arrested and detained in the Republic of Cape Verde ("Cape Verde") on June 12, 2020, following a request from the United States of America and remained in arbitrary detention until October 16, 2021, when he was illegally removed by the United States to Miami. | This operation carried out by the United States against a Venezuelan diplomat is marked by a series of violations of international law attributable directly or indirectly to the…

The Tricontinental (2021-11-02). Dossier No. 46: Big Tech and the current challenges facing the class struggle. mronline.org We cannot give ourselves the luxury of being technophobic, of negating the importance of technologies and their potential in the struggle. At the same time, we cannot believe in the idea that technology in itself will result in advances for the organised working class.

WSWS (2021-11-02). Chilean government slashes health staff, critical beds as Delta becomes dominant strain. wsws.org These socially criminal policies are in line with demands from international capital that the working class "learn to live"—in fact, die—with the virus for the sake of profits.

Special to Workers World (2021-11-02). International Tribunal finds U.S. guilty of crimes against humanity. workers.org The International Tribunal on Human Rights Abuses Against Black, Brown and Indigenous Peoples was held Oct. 23-25 at The Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center in Washington Heights, New York City, aka Turtle Island, Lenape land. The main theme of the Tribunal was "We Still Charge . . . |

Mark Gruenberg (2021-11-02). U.S. environment workers to Biden: Declare a climate emergency! peoplesworld.org

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2021-11-02: News Headlines

Wayne Nealis (2021-11-02). Minnesota answers Sudanese people's call for solidarity. peoplesworld.org PAUL, Minn.—Last weekend, the Sudanese community in Minnesota rallied at the state capitol here to protest the coup carried out by Sudan's military leaders Oct. 25. Rally participants responded to the call of the Sudanese diaspora to act in solidarity with those protesting on the streets of the capital Khartoum and cities across Sudan. Rallies …

MEE, agencies (2021-11-02). Sudan coup: Hope for path out of crisis in days, says UN envoy. middleeasteye.net Sudan coup: Hope for path out of crisis in days, says UN envoy | Volker Perthes says 'multiple mediation efforts under way' but ousted premier says he will not negotiate with army rulers | Tue, 11/02/2021 – 08: 32 | Several professionals groups reaffirmed their commitment to general strikes on Monday in protest against the coup (AFP) | National and international mediation efforts working t…

Kris Hamel (2021-11-02). Michigan rally supports striking Kellogg's workers. liberationnews.org The workers have been on strike since October 5 when their contract with the breakfast cereal giant expired.

Tom Conway (2021-11-02). Why American workers want Congress to deliver an infrastructure bill. nationofchange.org It all starts with the infrastructure bill. Millions of Americans eager for better lives expect Congress to push it over the finish line.

Mark Gruenberg (2021-11-02). U.S. environment workers to Biden: Declare a climate emergency! peoplesworld.org

WSWS (2021-11-02). Opposition high among Deere workers on eve of second UAW contract vote. wsws.org While there is widespread resistance to the UAW-Deere agreement among workers, financial markets signaled their approval of the contract's terms Monday, driving Deere's stock up nearly 5 percent.

WSWS (2021-11-02). SEP holds online meeting to fight Australia's new anti-democratic election laws. wsws.org Speakers called on workers and youth to join and build the Socialist Equality Party in order to reject government dictates to "live with the virus" and embrace the promotion of militarism and war.

WSWS (2021-11-02). With opposition mounting to sellout deal, IATSE officials call for "unity" wsws.org The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) is trying to push through a contract that would do nothing to end dangerously long work schedules, poverty pay for many workers and the undermining of health and pension benefits.

WSWS (2021-11-02). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Long haul truckers in Brazil stage a national protest strike on October 25 over fuel prices and wages while transport workers in Haiti and Panama staged strikes and protests over deteriorating social conditions.

WSWS (2021-11-02). Right-wing New Brunswick government locks out 3,000 education workers amid public sector strike. wsws.org Premier Blaine Higgs has threatened to criminalize the public sector strike with back-to-work legislation, which could be tabled in the provincial legislature this week.

WSWS (2021-11-02). Autoworkers voice support for Deere strikers, warn of UAW treachery: "Hold out as long as you can" wsws.org The struggle at Deere and the outcome of the vote on Tuesday is being closely watched by workers in the US and in other countries.

Fight Back (2021-11-02). FRSO condemns murder of Ka Oris, beloved spokesperson for the New People's Army. fightbacknews.org Freedom Road Socialist Organization condemns the cowardly October 29 murder of New People's Army spokesperson Ka Oris (Jorge Madlos) by elements of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Medical aid Eighfel Dela Peña (Ka Pika) was also killed in the ambush. Both were unarmed and had no opportunity to defend themselves. The killers are now lying to the media to cover up their crimes. | Ka Oris was a communist who devoted the whole of his life to building the revolutionary movement in the Philippines. He was a committed proletarian internationalist. He worked tirelessly to build and promote the New People's Army (NPA…

WSWS (2021-11-02). The record of the World Socialist Web Site on Trump's coup attempt of January 6. wsws.org On Sunday, the Washington Post published a three-part investigation of the January 6, 2021 insurrection detailing Trump's months-long plot to remain in power no matter the outcome of the 2020 election. Only one publication—the World Socialist Web Site—warned clearly and consistently about the existential danger posed by Trump's plot.

WSWS (2021-11-02). Jacobin magazine, the Democratic Socialists of America and the collapse of Biden's social reform bill. wsws.org The debacle refutes claims that major reforms could be enacted through the Democratic Party.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-02). Massive mobilization in Rome protests G-20 summit. peoplesdispatch.org Trade unions, progressive political parties, anti-imperialists, youth/student groups, climate activists, and others participated in the mobilization in Rome to denounce the neoliberal agenda of the 16th G20 summit that prioritize profits over people…

Anonymous765 (2021-11-02). Locations Of US Carrier Strike Groups — November 2, 2021. southfront.org This is the newest update of the 'U.S. Carrier Strike Groups Locations Map' exclusive series showing the approximate locations of U.S. Carrier Strike Groups. SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence tracks locations of U.S. aircraft carriers using the available open-source information. No classified information was used in production of the map. | click to see the full-size image | Carrier strike group (CSG) is an operational formation of the United States Navy. It is centered on an aircraft carrier and a carrier ai…

WSWS (2021-11-02). Republicans back fascist militias threatening school board members, teachers, students. wsws.org Fascist militias and billionaire-backed anti-mask groups continue to oppose public health guidelines and school curriculums as part of the Republican Party's paramilitary operations.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-02). Activists worldwide demand end to Cuban blockade as US renews destabilization attempts. peoplesdispatch.org The solidarity day demonstrations come as a march against the Cuban govenment is being planned for November 15 which has received widespread support from various US officials…

Markela Panegyres (2021-11-02). New bill aims to end the removal of First Nations' children. greenleft.org.au First Nations children are still being stolen from their family, culture and Country and at an increasing rate. Markela Panegyres spoke to David Shoebridge about a NSW Greens' bill aimed at making this colonial practice illegal.

Fra Hughes (2021-11-02). Partition — 100 Years of Sectarianism in Ireland. orinocotribune.com By Fra Hughes — Oct 30, 2021 | Modern Irish history has simply been one of subjugation, repression, and tyranny at the hands of the invaders. | In 1921 under threat of immediate and terrible war, Ireland was partitioned against the wishes of the majority of the people on the island. | Britain might have been forced out of 26 counties but they were keeping a foothold on Irish soil by proxy, through their colonial settlers in the six counties in the North East of Ireland. | When Irish men and women won the war for independence and Britain sued for peace, the price of limited autonomous self-rule for Southern I…

Editor (2021-11-01). Cuba-Vietnam: on the road to vaccine self-reliance. mronline.org Unlike the agreements entered into by Western multinational corporations such as Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, the Cuba-Vietnam agreement sets a precedent of solidarity and prioritizes people's health over business profits.

Anonymous103 (2021-11-01). Recent Coup In Sudan Taking Place Amid Escalation Of tensions In Red Sea. southfront.org Illustrative ImageIt could further decline Sudan's relations with neighboring Ethiopia. | Written by Uriel Araujo, researcher with a focus on international and ethnic conflicts. | There has been a coup in Sudan. The military seized the capital city of Khartoum and has arrested several civilian leaders. Last week the African Union Chairman Faki Mahamat expressed "deep dismay" over the situation and called for the arrested authorities to be released. The AU has suspended the country's participation in a…

Rainer Shea (2021-11-01). All Communists Must Properly Grasp Geopolitics in Order to Win. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Oct 28, 2021 | The global class and anti-colonial war is a conflict that the imperialists have been able to rig at every turn. In the era of imperialism, where capital has gotten its tentacles into virtually every corner of the planet, those who seek to supplant capital must at all times carefully anticipate the next maneuvers of the forces of counterrevolution. This is because for as long as imperialism remains dominant, for as long as monopoly capital and finance capital have more leverage than the revolutionaries, the revolutionaries must navigate global markets. | This requires compromis…

Alexa Pantuck (2021-11-01). Immigrant rights activists in Los Angeles demand: Ignore the Parliamentarian! liberationnews.org The rally was a reminder that organized mass struggle is the key to liberation and that a diverse, multicultural, and internationalist labor movement is essential for working class gains.

Special to People's World (2021-11-01). Historic U.S.- Cuba cultural exchange coming to NYC. peoplesworld.org Chicago's iconic HotHouse announced they are proud to be a producer of the momentous cultural exchange "A Function at the Junction: Ancestral Bridge, Musical Streams" / "Una Función en el Cruce: Puente Ancestral, Corrientes Musicales," an historic and collaborative, multimedia event presented live and via exclusive online broadcasts. The first event of the series will …

teleSUR, JCM, SH (2021-11-01). Accidente en una cueva en Brasil deja nueve bomberos muertos. telesurtv.net Alrededor de 75 bomberos y socorristas trabajaron durante todo el día en las labores de búsqueda y rescate en el lugar de los hechos.

A Guest Author (2021-11-01). Miami defenders rally for release of twice-kidnapped Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. workers.org By Lauren Smith Bulletin: On Nov. 1 U.S. District Judge Robert Scola dropped all but one money laundering charge against Alex Saab, but the one remaining count of "conspiracy to commit money laundering" carries a maximum sentence of 20 years. Saab continues to be denied access to legal counsel and . . . |

Luis Feliz León (2021-11-01). Beneath Striketober Fanfare, The Lower Frequencies of Class Struggle. zcomm.org As the rich and comfortable stayed indoors and rode out the worst months of the pandemic on their Peloton bikes, workers around the country shifted into a different gear…

WSWS (2021-11-01). Latest barrage of anti-vaccine protests in New York City aimed at building a far-right movement. wsws.org The wave of protests is backed by elements within the highest levels of the state, with support from the trade union bureaucracies, disaffected middle class layers and certain disoriented and destitute elements of the working class.

WSWS (2021-11-01). Big Three automakers release earnings reports for third quarter of 2021. wsws.org In spite of overall year-over-year declines, the Big Three US automakers' earnings reflect a ramping up of the exploitation of the global working class in the face of a global pandemic and supply chain crisis.

Tom Conway (2021-11-01). Hospitals at risk of collapse, workers pull 14 — 16 hour shifts. peoplesworld.org So many people with COVID-19 sought treatment at Providence St. Mary Medical Center in recent months that the hospital triaged patients outside the facility and set up a makeshift ward in the main lobby. Many workers put in 14 and 16-hour shifts to keep the Southern California facility operating during the crisis, with some comforting the …

Roz Foyer (2021-11-01). Scottish union leader: Politicians' COP26 promises require worker power to come true. peoplesworld.org GLASGOW—As some world leaders descend on Glasgow (and others stay away), our city will host a summit that has no treaty to agree but which will nevertheless be closely scrutinized to see whether the world, particularly those who run its dominant economies, are showing any signs of facing up to the crisis that is engulfing …

Editor (2021-11-01). It's time to bury the 'chop'. workers.org Baseball — long touted as "America's National Pastime" — has just given millions of people around the world a horrifying look at the raw settler-colonial racism on which the U.S. is founded. Game 1 of the World Series in Houston's Minute Maid Park, Oct. 26. This year the National League . . . |

_____ (2021-11-01). Nabisco Workers Hope Strike Inspires Others. popularresistance.org A month-long strike by Nabisco workers beat back the snack-maker's bid to introduce a two-tier health care plan and switch them onto 12-hour shifts. Employer contributions to workers' 401(k) plans will be doubled. | One of the biggest issues in the strike was the company's effort to do away with premium pay for weekend shifts and work after eight hours. The company wanted to put all workers on an Alternative Work Schedule consisting of 12-hour days, paid at straight time. | "The big issue for me is I just can't do the 12 hours," said April Flowers-Lewis, who's been at the Chicago plant for 27 years. "Because the…

WSWS (2021-11-01). Japan's ruling party maintains majority in general election. wsws.org Voters' rejection of the so-called progressive parties in Japan stems from their political bankruptcy and inability to address the needs of workers and youth.

WSWS (2021-11-01). Strikes at Huntington, West Virginia hospital and metal production facility. wsws.org Workers at two of the largest employers in Huntington are fighting against poor wages, health insurance premium hikes, and more.

WSWS (2021-11-01). American Postal Workers Union prepares new betrayal. wsws.org For more than a month, the APWU has kept 200,000 workers on the job without a new contract and suppressed information about its closed-door negotiations with the US Postal Service.

WSWS (2021-11-01). UAW-Deere contract "highlights" show deal again fails to meet workers' demands. wsws.org The contract, which the UAW is trying to ram through in a vote on Tuesday, once again fails to meet workers' demands for major wage increases, the restoration of retiree health care and significant improvements to working conditions.

Betsey Piette (2021-11-01). Justice again denied for Mumia Abu-Jamal. workers.org The Pennsylvania Superior Court on Oct. 26 denied Pennsylvania political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal's appeals, filed in 2019 following a December 2018 decision by Pennsylvania Common Pleas Court Judge Leon Tucker that awarded Abu-Jamal the right to reopen his Post-Conviction Relief Appeals. Mumia Abu-Jama His appellate case, first filed in August . . . |

teleSUR (2021-11-01). Portugal: Subway Workers Go On Strike Amid Lisbon Web Summit. telesurenglish.net Metro workers will carry out a strike in a week in which Portugal receives some 40,000 people for the 2021 Web Summit in Lisbon. | RELATED: | On Tuesday, the subway will only start operating at 10: 15 a.m. instead of the usual time at 6: 30 a.m. Then, there will be no shuttle service from 11: 00 PM on Wednesday to 6: 30 AM on Friday. Besides rejecting the wage freeze, the Federation of Transport and Communication Tra…

WSWS (2021-11-01). Deere workers issue statement opposing latest tentative agreement: "Reject UAW-Deere blackmail!" wsws.org "We are in a powerful position to win this struggle, with Deere feeling the pressure of the lack of replacement parts in the harvest season and their earnings report due soon. We cannot allow the UAW to snatch this victory from us."

Angela Carr (2021-11-01). Housing and homelessness workers push for better deal. greenleft.org.au Workers in the housing and homelessness sector are one of the most undervalued and unappreciated workers. Angela Carr reports.

WSWS (2021-11-01). Power workers demonstrate against Sri Lankan government's privatisation deal. wsws.org The CEB United Trade Union Alliance is not organising a genuine struggle but attempting to divert workers with bogus claims that the government can be pressured into abandoning its privatisation policies.

Staff (2021-11-01). Headlines for November 1, 2021. democracynow.org World Leaders, Activists Descend on Glasgow for COP26 as Future of Humanity Hangs in the Balance, G20 Members Agree to Minimum Corporate Tax Rate, Vaccines Push, Make Little Progress on Climate, Global COVID Death Toll Tops 5 Million; FDA Approves Vaccines for 5- to 11-Year-Olds, SCOTUS Rejects Religious Objection to Vaccine for Maine Health Workers; NYC Mandate Takes Effect, Biden Admin Issues New Memo to End "Remain in Mexico" as Migrant Caravan Takes Break on Trek to U.S., Veteran Reporter Fredy López Arévalo Is at Least the Ninth Murdered Journalist in Mexico This Year, 10 People Killed in Marib Fighting as 2…

WSWS (2021-11-01). SEP electoral members speak out on Australia's anti-democratic electoral laws and the socialist program to eliminate COVID-19. wsws.org "The virus has been used for the most enormous shift from the poor to the rich in the history of capitalism."

_____ (2021-11-01). Why Putin Criticized the Bolshevik Counter Revolution: Trotsky, Parvus and the War on Civilization. strategic-culture.org Doesn't Putin respect Soviet Russian accomplishments including the sacrifices made to put down Hitler? How could Putin be a true anti-imperialist if he is an anti-revolutionary? | A scandal arose this week as President Putin took some time to denounce the Bolshevik Revolution at the "Just over a century ago, Russia objectively faced serious problems… Russia could have dealt with its problems gradually and in a civilised manner. But revolutionary shocks led to the collapse and disintegration of a great power… These…

Ann Brown (2021-11-01). Feds Bust Veteran LAPD Officer Dealing Cocaine, Used Informant. moguldom.com A 21-year veteran Los Angeles Police Department officer and his confidential informant have been arrested on federal drug trafficking charges. The officer, John Abel Baca, is a 45-year-old member of the Inglewood Police Department and a police union representative. He was arrested on Oct. 21 after a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging …

Paul Dobson (2021-11-01). 'Mega-election' Campaign Kicks Off in Venezuela. venezuelanalysis.com The European Union has also deployed its observer team which will be joined by others including the Carter Center and CEELA closer to the day.

teleSUR (2021-11-01). Protests to Escalate in India if Mody Keeps Anti-Farmers Laws. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) warned that Indian farmers will blockade New Delhi city if Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not repeal his pro-corporate land laws by Nov. 26. | RELATED: | "From Nov. 27 onwards, farmers will drive their tractors from villages to protest sites surrounding Delhi. With solid fortifications, they will strengthen the movement," the BKU leader Rakesh Tikait said, as reported by Industan Times.

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2021-11-01: News Headlines

Rainer Shea (2021-11-01). All Communists Must Properly Grasp Geopolitics in Order to win. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Oct 28, 2021 | The global class and anti-colonial war is a conflict that the imperialists have been able to rig at every turn. In the era of imperialism, where capital has gotten its tentacles into virtually every corner of the planet, those who seek to supplant capital must at all times carefully anticipate the next maneuvers of the forces of counterrevolution. This is because for as long as imperialism remains dominant, for as long as monopoly capital and finance capital have more leverage than the revolutionaries, the revolutionaries must navigate global markets. | This requires compromis…

Jason Koslowski (2021-11-01). After Four Years without a Contract, Teachers Prepare to Strike in Scranton, PA. zcomm.org Union teachers in Scranton, Pennsylvania, are readying for a strike — threatening to help push Striketober into Strikevember…

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WSWS (2021-11-01). IG Metall's "Fair Change Day of Action": A repulsive masquerade by the German union bureaucracy. wsws.org The union used the day of action to offer itself to the incoming federal government and industry, to help push through mass job cuts—and to suppress the growing opposition to them.

Rachel M. Cohen (2021-11-01). How to Cancel $3.2 Million of Debt. zcomm.org The Debt Collective, which has focused on other forms of debt, is turning its attention to the crushing financial burden on formerly incarcerated people…

Aseel Jundi (2021-11-01). How Israel's use of skunk water is damaging Palestinian health and economy. middleeasteye.net How Israel's use of skunk water is damaging Palestinian health and economy | Life is becoming unbearable for Palestinian business owners as repeated sprayings of skunk water by Israeli police ruin their wares | Mon, 11/01/2021 – 09: 45 | An Israeli police van fires skunk water in Jerusalem, 24 October, 2021 (MEE/Aseel Jundi) | Kamal Abu Qwaider is one of a number of businessmen who set up shop arou…

MEE, agencies (2021-11-01). Yemen: Dozens killed and injured in Houthi attack in Marib, says government. middleeasteye.net Yemen: Dozens killed and injured in Houthi attack in Marib, says government | Government minister says ballistic missile attack left 29 casualties after striking mosque and religious school | Mon, 11/01/2021 – 07: 54 | Fighters loyal to Yemen's government man a position near al-Jawba frontline facing Houthi rebels, in the country's northeastern province of Marib on 31 October 2021 (AFP)…

WSWS (2021-11-01). School bus drivers and attendants strike in three Maryland counties in October. wsws.org The rising militancy among bus drivers take place in the midst of a massive bus driver shortage.

Mustafa Abu Sneineh (2021-11-01). Israel: Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike against detention reaches 100 days. middleeasteye.net Israel: Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike against detention reaches 100 days | Miqdad Al-Qawasmi and Kayed al-Fasfous have been on hunger strike for over 100 days protesting their imprisonment without charges or trial by Israel | Mon, 11/01/2021 – 12: 46 | Palestinian prisoner Kayed al-Fasfous with his mother Fawzia at an Israeli hospital while being on hunger strike for over 1…

Sam Pizzigati (2021-11-01). Billionaires' shiny utopias are dulling our democracy. peoplesworld.org Great wealth can do great damage. Grand personal fortunes, we've come to understand, can menace our democracy and distort our economic life. But these fortunes can also wreak a much more hidden havoc: They can mess up the minds of people who hold them. Great fortunes can leave their owners feeling supremely sure they themselves …

Thom Hartmann (2021-11-01). The Insidious Cancer at the Core of Democracy that Could Take Down Biden. zcomm.org Billionaires & their companies now own politicians — and the Supreme Court set it all up with their poisonous Citizens United decision…

Fight Back (2021-11-01). Spokesperson for New People's Army murdered by Armed Forces of Philippines. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following Oct. 31 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines. | Ka Oris (Jorge Madlos), spokesperson of the New People's Army (NPA), was not killed in an armed encounter. He was ambushed on the road between Impasug-ong town proper and the national highway at 8 pm of Oct 29. He and his medical aide were riding a motorcycle on their way to seek medical treatment. This is according to his wife Ka Maria Malaya. | Ka Oris and aide Eighfel Dela Peña (Ka Pika) were both unarmed when ambushed. Whether they were ambushed while moving or were accosted and thereafte…

Emily Von Gerichten (2021-11-01). PSL San Diego hosts letter writing event for 5 Palestinian political prisoners. liberationnews.org PSL of San Diego and others gathered: to show solidarity for five unjustly jailed Palestinian-Americans known as the Holy Land Foundation Five.

teleSUR (2021-11-01). 67 Percent of the Venezuelans Are Already Vaccinated. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro announced that the Bolivarian government has already vaccinated 67 percent of the country's population and hopes to immunize 80 percent of the eligible citizens by the end of November. | Related | At least seven states have already surpassed 70 percent of vaccinated population: Tachira, Caracas, La Guaira, Miranda, Carabobo, Cojedes and Merida. | Despite the U.S. blockade, this South American nation has been a…

teleSUR (2021-11-01). President Nicolas Maduro Receives ICC Prosecutor Karim AA Khan. telesurenglish.net At the Miraflores Palace in Caracas on Monday morning, the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro received the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim A.A. Khan QC, to inaugurate the three-day agenda in which it is planned to hold meetings with the authorities and interested parties. | Within the framework of the meeting, President Maduro thanked the Prosecutor for having devoted himself to getting to know the Venezuela case in depth and for his willingness to meet in situ with the national authorities in the spirit of cooperation with the ICC. | This meeting was f…

MEE, agencies (2021-10-31). Sudan coup: Protest strike after nationwide demonstrations. middleeasteye.net Sudan coup: Protest strike after nationwide demonstrations | Tensions remain high in Khartoum a day after mass protest against military power was violently repressed | Sun, 10/31/2021 – 12: 44 | A Sudanese anti-coup protester waves the national flag during a gathering in the capital Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman on 30 October 2021 to express support for the country's democratic transiti…

Richard D Wolff (2021-10-31). Why the troubled US empire could quickly fall apart. asiatimes.com The US wars lost in Iraq and Afghanistan exposed imperial overreach beyond what even 20 years of war could manage. That the defeats were drawn out for so many years shows that domestic politics and the funding of the domestic military-industrial complex were, more than geopolitics, the key drivers of these wars. Empires can die …

Labor Video Project (2021-10-31). SF Protest Against BlackRock & The Destruction of The Climate By Corporations & Government. indybay.org Healthcare workers, teachers, students and community activists protested against BlackRock in San Francisco because of their investments in fossil fuels. Many painted murals on the streets surrounding the $8 trillion hedge fund.

_____ (2021-10-31). COVID Hit The Working Class Hardest, But The Traditional Left Is Deaf To Them. popularresistance.org The ruling class across Europe and in the US would rather see people divided than united against oligarchy, that's why Left populism coupled with the working-class outlook represents a greater threat to the establishment. | In the aftermath of the recent German Federal election many people were wondering how Die Linke (The Left) had become so relegated to the sidelines as to lose 30 seats and become the smallest party in Germany's parliament. | Many liberal publications were quick to place blame on Sahra Wagenknecht, one of Die Linke's most prolific politicians, for the release of her book "The Self Righteous." I…

Muhammed Shabeer (2021-10-31). 'Landlord, Landlord, My roof has sprung a leak'. peoplesdispatch.org The COVID-19 pandemic and the socio-economic crisis worsened by it has affected people from all walks of lives across the world, with the working class being forced to bear the burden of the ongoing crisis. In most parts of the world, the common peoples' tax money has been used by governments to save big businesses, while small-scale enterprises and the livelihoods of millions of people have been ruined in this period due to lockdowns and other rotating restrictions to contain the pandemic. | Many sections of society have adapted to this 'new normalcy' and slowly started reconfiguring their lives, especially as d…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-10-31). Workers of Attorney General's Office in Paraguay begins one-month strike. peoplesdispatch.org The workers of the Attorney General's Office are protesting the budget cuts announced in the ministry for 2022. The unions have condemned that the reduction in budget will affect various areas of its competence in addition to its daily functioning…

Anish R M (2021-10-31). Cathy Rojas is NYC's socialist alternative for mayor. peoplesdispatch.org Peoples Dispatch spoke to the socialist candidate for the upcoming New York City mayoral election, Cathy Rojas, about the significance of a people-driven campaign in a largely corporate-driven electoral process and why alternatives are important for people's movements…

Matthew Ehret-Kump (2021-10-31). The History of "Transhumanism" and the Cult of the WEF's Fourth Industrial Revolution. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's "Insurgency against Christianity" globalresearch.ca

William Hawes (2021-10-31). Capitalism is Not Your Friend. dissidentvoice.org The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. — Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology, (1932) If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull …

_____ (2021-10-31). Europe: The Subordinate Ally Of The United States. popularresistance.org In recent months, European countries and the European Union have been put under pressure from the United States to substantially break ties with the People's Republic of China as well as to orient Europe's military towards confrontation with China. The pressure campaign — which began with US President Donald Trump and continues with his successor Joe Biden — goes against the obvious interests of most European countries. China, not the United States, is Germany's largest trading partner and has been so for the past five years; Germany, the economic dynamo of Europe, would suffer if it attempts to cut c…

_____ (2021-10-31). The Green New Deal From Below. popularresistance.org The Green New Deal is a visionary program to protect the earth's climate while creating good jobs, reducing injustice, and eliminating poverty. Its core principle is to use the necessity for climate protection as a basis for realizing full employment and social justice. | The Green New Deal first emerged as a proposal for national legislation, and the struggle to embody it in national legislation is ongoing. But there has also emerged a little-noticed wave of initiatives from community groups, unions, city and state governments, tribes, and other non-federal institutions designed to contribute to the climate prot…

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