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2022-01-31: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-01-31). Spanish Morenoites attack China's "Zero COVID" strategy. wsws.org The Revolutionary Workers' Current (CRT) is denouncing essential public health measures that allowed China to rapidly bring the pandemic under control.

WSWS (2022-01-31). Thousands of Sri Lankan health workers hold one-day strike in Western Province. wsws.org Repeated struggles in the health sector indicate that the working class will not accept the government's attack, and is determined to defend its living conditions and social rights.

WSWS (2022-01-31). NYC mayor Adams steps up law and order campaign after two police officers killed. wsws.org The city's new Democratic mayor, along with the entire political establishment and bourgeois media, is preparing increased police repression as a response to growing working class resistance to the pandemic and its consequences.

WSWS (2022-01-31). Brazil's Workers Party lays out 2022 election program: austerity and corporatism. wsws.org Behind bombastic announcements that the party intends to "undo" the austerity imposed over the last five years, the PT is criticizing Bolsonaro's inability to control spending and attract foreign capital.

WSWS (2022-01-31). Labour run Coventry council mount strike breaking operation against bin workers. wsws.org Unite the union is doing everything to isolate and end a dispute that is the highest expression of an offensive by councils of all political stripes, allied with private company management, against workers throughout the sector.

Sameena Rahman, Zach Farber (2022-01-31). The socialist case for CalCare. liberationnews.org Single-payer universal healthcare is within reach for Californians. On Jan. 20, Assembly Bill 1400, also known as CalCare, passed the California state assembly appropriations committee. If CalCare passes the assembly floor by Jan. 31 it will advance to the state senate.

WSWS (2022-01-31). SEP (Australia) files objection to party deregistration. wsws.org The SEP is demanding the basic democratic right to stand candidates in its name at the looming federal election in order to advance, in the broadest possible way, the necessary socialist perspective, based on the protection of health and lives, not private profit.

In Defense of Liberation! (2022-01-31). Revolutionary Hope, Kinship, and Community w/Elena from the Red Nation. anchor.fm In this episode me and Elena from Red Power Hour and the Red Nation, were able to go over some really fun and important conversations. We discussed what we've been doing to cope and deal with everything going on since not only the beginning of the pandemic, as well as how we've been trying find ways to get organized and built community while this pandemic is enduring. It's difficult, it's scary, and one of the things we desperately need to know how to overcome. We have a desperate need for organizing, we have a desperate need to come together and to build towards a new world! Many groups, organizations, and peopl…

Staff (2022-01-31). 5 February, Webinar: Remembering Samah Idriss. samidoun.net REMEMBERING SAMAH IDRISS: An Organic Intellectual and his Subversive Literary and Socio-Political Paths Speakers: RABAB ABDULHADI & RULA JURDI Saturday, February 5, 2022 11 am Pacific — 2 pm Eastern — 9 pm Palestine Register to join on Zoom: bit.ly/samahevent This webinar will take place in English. Organized by: Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement (Masar …

WSWS (2022-01-31). National Labor Relations Board schedules new election at Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. wsws.org The RWDSU's campaign at Amazon has relied on unprecedented support from the Democratic Party, for whom the pro-corporate unions are a key element in their strategy to enforce labor discipline upon and increasingly restive workforce.

WSWS (2022-01-31). The NHS vaccine mandate: Corbyn, pseudo-left and trade unions join Tory and libertarian right. wsws.org Like the Tory right, the union bureaucracy, their spokesperson Corbyn and their backers in the pseudo-left see no sense in requiring vaccination against a disease which they have accepted will be widespread throughout society forever.

Editor2 (2022-01-31). Following "Unjustifiable" UAE Bombing of Saada Prison, US & UN Condemn Yemeni Retaliation. orinocotribune.com By Ahmed Abdulkareem — Jan 25, 2022 | "This is the latest in a long line of unjustifiable airstrikes carried out by the Saudi-led Coalition on places like schools, hospitals, markets, wedding parties, and prisons." — Ahmed Mahat, head of the Doctors Without Borders mission in Yemen | SAADA, YEMEN — In a scene rife with chaos and crying, volunteers and a rescue squad pulled the bodies of 91 prisoners from the rubble of the Sa'ada City Remand Prison in southern Yemen on Tuesday. Early last Friday morning, United Arab Emirates (UAE) warplanes supported by the United States targeted the overcrowded p…

WSWS (2022-01-31). Greater Manchester drivers escalate pay strike against First Bus: "It's modernised slavery" wsws.org First Bus insisted on a pay freeze last year due to the pandemic, and drivers say they have not had a real pay rise in three years.

William Briggs (2022-01-31). COVID-19 vaccines, a 'testament' to capitalism? greenleft.org.au There was no altruism in the speed in which pharmaceutical companies developed successful vaccines. The very future of capitalism relied on science's ability to keep the wheels turning, argues William Briggs.

Alexander Rubinstein (2022-01-31). New Gates Foundation trustee led plot to overthrow Zimbabwean leader alongside US gov't. thegrayzone.com Listed as a US asset while spearheading Zimbabwean regime change plans, billionaire Strive Masiyiwa joins a cast of technocratic zealots on Gates' new board of trustees. In a shake-up of an institution named for one of the world's wealthiest and most influential oligarchs, Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa was appointed to the Gates Foundation's board of trustees this January. He will be joined on the board by a seemingly diverse cast of corporate elites known for their embrace of technocratic and …

Sara Flounders (2022-01-30). Capitalist Russia: a target, not a superpower. workers.org This article, originally published July 12, 2017, by Workers World, remains timely in January 2022 as the U.S. threatens war at the Russian border with Ukraine and ramps up China-baiting in an attempt to break up agreements being forged between nations seeking to remain independent of U.S. imperialism. See also . . . |

Manuel Raposo (2022-01-30). Which side are you on? U.S.-EU vs. Russia-China. workers.org Raposo, editor of jornalmudardevida.net, in which this article was published Jan. 26, refutes the conclusions of another article titled, "Putin and Xi Jinping, imperialism's favorites," arguing they are enemies who serve the goals of imperialism by giving the imperialists a pretext for attack. Raposo's response serves to answer anyone on . . . |

Editor2 (2022-01-30). Sanctions in the New Cold War on China. orinocotribune.com By Carlos Martinez — Jan 27, 2022 | The following article by Carlos Martinez features as a chapter in the forthcoming book Sanctions Kill — The World Stands Up. The article provides a detailed analysis of the sanctions imposed by the US and its allies on the People's Republic of China and exposes the role they play within the escalating New Cold War. | Sanctions Kill — The World Stands Up will be published by World View Forum in early Spring 2022. | Background | The instinctive attitude of the United States towards the Chinese Revolution was of course one of hostility. In a protracted war between…

Claudia Drdul (2022-01-30). Columbia Student Workers win 10-week battle against greedy university. liberationnews.org Student workers "cannot educate unless we have everything we need to live outside our role as educators."

Labor Video Projecct (2022-01-30). Victory To South African Clover Workers & Smash Israeli Union Busting! For Workers Control. indybay.org As part of an international day of action on January 27, 2022 for the 5,000 South African Clover workers actions took place all over the world including in San Francisco at the Israeli consulate. The workers have been on strike since November 22, 2022.

Luis Feliz Leon (2022-01-30). Mexico Auto Workers Are Set for Landmark Union Vote at General Motors Plant. truthout.org This was first published at Workers at a massive General Motors plant in central Mexico will vote in a landmark election this week to decide which union will represent the plant's 6,500 workers. A victory by the independent union there would be a big step toward breaking the stranglehold of the employer-friendly unions that have long dominated Mexico's labor scene. | Employees at th…

In Defense of Liberation! (2022-01-30). Morning Commute w/In Defense of Liberation (1/30/2022). anchor.fm This is the very first officially titled "morning commute with in defense of liberation!" in this episode we talk about all sorts of ongoing movements, and how we must fight to defend the revolutionary potential and human right of people fighting for self-determination and liberation. We talk about also the need to build connections and community, and just other stuff that's on my mind. From now on all episodes titled morning commute will be without a necessary central focus, me talking on my drive to work. Let me know what you think!

Revolution Books (2022-01-30). Sunday 1/30: America's Torture Chamber: 20 Years of Guantanamo… It Must Be Closed NOW! indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

_____ (2022-01-30). The Global Links Of The Recent Escalation In The Yemen Conflict. popularresistance.org The last month has seen a drastic escalation in the war in Yemen. According to the UN, January will most likely be the month with the highest ever casualties reported since the war began in 2014. The January 21 strike on a prison in Sa'ada which killed 91 people marked the highest death toll in a single strike in the last three years. The number of airstrikes carried out by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition last December was already the highest in years. In all likelihood, this figure will be even higher by the end of January. | On the other hand, the Houthis have demonstrated their capacity and willingness to retal…

Editor (2022-01-30). ACLU Demands 'Truly Systemic Overhaul' of U.S. Civilian Harm Policies. scheerpost.com By Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams After the Pentagon chief moved to improve how the U.S. mitigates and responds to civilian harm, the ACLU on Thursday urged more sweeping action in light of recent tragedies, including an August drone strike that killed 10 people in Afghanistan. "While a serious Defense Department focus on civilian harm is long overdue and welcome, it's …

_____ (2022-01-30). How Politicians Are Papering Over Social Problems Caused By Capitalism. popularresistance.org The declines of U.S. capitalism and of its imperial position provoke fear among its mainstream politicians. Their response, in large part, has been to deny that any such decline is happening. These politicians do this partly by acting as though the U.S. remains in the globally dominant position it occupied in the second half of the 20th century. Thus, to maintain this illusion, they start wars in the Middle East, maintain military bases in dozens of countries, intervene in other countries at will and describe the U.S. as the global guarantor of peace, security, and democracy. | Yet these U.S. politicians also sen…

Paul Haeder (2022-01-30). Requiem for a People-Centered World Dream. dissidentvoice.org My dream is to invite a reader into a room and pour a nice cup of tea . . . and then nail the door shut. — author Charles Bowden, 2010 NPR interview There is so much daily that expresses so much about the slippery slopes we are in globally because of predatory-penury-parasitic-pugilistic capitalism. In the …

Brenda Norrell (2022-01-30). Nevada and Canada: Laboratories for Genocide and Death. indybay.org The United States government left a trail of cancer and death for Western Shoshone during secret atomic bomb testing, Western Shoshone Ian Zabarte tells the White House. In Canada, the government and churches carried out the systematic kidnapping, starvation, torture and murder of Native children who were incarcerated in residential schools. As unmarked graves of children are discovered, the horrific abuse and medical experiments are described by The Tyee media. Mohawk Mothers are holding McGill responsible in Montreal for UKUltra torture and mind control experiments on Mohawk children conducted by the Canadian g…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-01-30). There are No Untouchables: Another Gasoline Mafia Dismantled in Venezuela. orinocotribune.com In another blow to the gasoline mafia in Venezuela, within the framework of the "Iron Hand" operation against fuel mafias, several officials from Anzoátegui state were captured for being involved in fuel smuggling. Among the arrested individuals is the mayor of Independencia municipality (Soledad), Carlos Rafael Vidal Bolívar; as well as the Superior Prosecutor of Bolívar state, Manuel Junior Gil da Silva. | This was reported by the Venezuelan Minister for Petroleum, Tareck El Aissami. He also informed about the arrest of a captain of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), Antonio José Barrios González, commander o…

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2022-01-30: News Headlines

Revolution Books (2022-01-30). Sunday 1/30: America's Torture Chamber: 20 Years of Guantanamo… It Must Be Closed NOW! indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-01-29). Independence, self-reliance salient achievements of IR. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — Deputy Coordinator of Army Ideological-Political Organization said that independence, self-credence and self-reliance are of the salient achievements of the Islamic Revolution of Iran.

Rick Rozoff (2022-01-29). Stoltenberg touts new French-led deployments to Black Sea, readiness of 40,000-troop strike force. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO Command of USS Harry S. Truman Sends Signal to Russia, Says Secretary General Stoltenberg Putting an American aircraft carrier strike group under alliance control should be a "clear message to Russia" that its 30 members are unwavering in their commitment to come to each other's defense if attacked, NATO's secretary general said Friday. Jens …

sputniknews (2022-01-29). US Turned NATO Into Force That Carries Out Washington's Military Agenda, Anti-War Group Says. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – NATO became an organisation devoid of a purpose after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the United States decided to continue building the alliance and turned it into a force that executes Washington's military agenda, United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) coordinator Joe Lombardo told Sputnik.

_____ (2022-01-29). Endless War Is The Empire's Last Dance. popularresistance.org This moment of history will be remembered for the massive shift in global relations currently underway. On one side stands the forces of peace and multipolarity led by China, Russia, and their allies in the Global South. On the other is the forces of empire and conquest spearheaded by the U.S. and its allies. The conflict between these two "camps" is about much more than competing visions for planetary development. World politics have transitioned from a war between socialism and capitalism to a protracted struggle for the survival of humanity itself. | The forces of Empire have reached the following conclusion:…

Dave DeCamp (2022-01-29). US Naval Presence in Black Sea More Than Doubled in 2021 Compared to 2020. news.antiwar.com According to data compiled in The report said US warships spent about 182 collective days in the Black Sea in 2021. Last year, Stars & Stripes reported that While the 2021 numbers were significantly higher than the previous year, they were still lower than 2014, when the US-backed coup in Kyiv led Russia to take Crimea. In 2014, US warships spent about…

TASS (2022-01-29). Putin orders to consider ways to remove organizations from foreign agent list. tass.com Russian President also ordered to analyze provisions regulating the activities of media outlets acting as foreign agents, together with Roskomnadzor, the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights and the all-Russia public organization The Union of Journalists of Russia"

Anonymous103 (2022-01-29). Navy Confirms Newly Emerged Video Shows F-35 Crash In South China Sea. southfront.org F-35C Lightning II carrier variant joint strike fighter Source: U.S. Navy | Originally published on The US Navy has confirmed that an image and video that emerged in social media this week showing the crash landing of an advanced F-35C stealth fighter is authentic. It crashed and apparently rolled off the USS Vinson aircraft carrier and landed in the South China Sea on Monday. | The US Navy is re…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-01-29). Honduras Resumes Diplomatic Relations with Venezuela. orinocotribune.com With the start of the mandate of President Xiomara Castro de Zelaya in Honduras, the Republic of Honduras normalized diplomatic relations with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The Honduran leader took office this Thursday, January 27, with the announcement of very innovative measures to address the crisis of extreme poverty in her country, as well as a number of progressive measures in domestic and foreign policies. | The political, economic and cultural exchange and cooperation between Venezuela and Honduras was interrupted since 2019 when former President Juan Orlando Hernández terminated relations with th…

Betsey Stone (2022-01-29). Socialist Workers Party conference launches 2022 California campaign. themilitant.com LOS ANGELES — Socialist Workers Party members in California met in a statewide convention here Jan. 23 and voted to run Eleanor García, a retired aerospace worker and party leader with long experience in working-class struggles, for U.S. Senate and Joel Britton, a longtime SWP campaigner, unionist, and member of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 125, for governor. | As part of the party's bold national campaign in 2022, the candidates will present the need for the working class to fight today's attacks by the bosses and their political parties, and to chart a course to take poli…

WSWS (2022-01-29). American Trotskyist and retired General Motors worker Jim Lawrence dies at age 83 (February 18, 1938—January 25, 2022). wsws.org Lawrence made an immense contribution to bringing the Trotskyist perspective to a key section of the American working class.

WSWS (2022-01-29). American Trotskyist and retired General Motors worker Jim Lawrence dies at age 84 (January 18, 1938—January 25, 2022). wsws.org Lawrence made an immense contribution to bringing the Trotskyist perspective to a key section of the American working class.

WSWS (2022-01-29). Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee joins with autoworkers to demand the shutdown of schools and nonessential businesses. wsws.org As Michigan's largest school district, Detroit, plans to resume face-to-face schooling, teachers, school workers, students and autoworkers map out the fight to unify the working class against the deadly school reopenings.

_____ (2022-01-29). The Life Of Clyde Bellecourt (1936—2022). popularresistance.org I had short hair the first time I met Clyde Bellecourt. It was Native American Heritage Month in 2005. Native students had invited him and fellow members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) to the University of South Dakota after police plastered posters on campus depicting a poorly drawn "Native American male" who had allegedly attacked a woman. The description was vague enough to implicate just about anyone; several students and university workers were called in for questioning.

Bryant Arroyo (2022-01-29). Time for justice / Urgent need for change in PA sentencing system. workers.org The writer is currently incarcerated at Pennsylvania's SCI Coal Township. The Families Against Mandatory Minimum (FAMM) report points out the "irrational and ineffective" sentencing laws in Pennsylvania, which send too many people to prison for far longer than necessary. Sentencing laws that severely limit pathways to relief from excessive and . . . |

G. Dunkel (2022-01-29). Cuban doctor kidnapped in Haiti — her community protests. workers.org Jan. 23 — Dr. Daymara Pérez is a Cuban doctor who has worked in Haiti since 2019, currently at the Notre Dame Hospital in Petit-Goâve, south of Port-au-Prince. Ten days ago she was on a public bus traveling through the Martissant neighborhood, on the southern edge of Port-au-Prince, when the . . . |

WSWS (2022-01-29). Bridge collapses in Pittsburgh ahead of Biden's visit touting scaled-back infrastructure bill. wsws.org Rescue workers working with ropes and creating a human chain were able to get the two passengers and driver off the bus as well as the other people who were in their cars.

A Guest Author (2022-01-29). The 'next Cuba' will not be colonized. workers.org The following, lightly edited article first appeared in Resumen Latinoamericano — English Jan. 18, 2022. By Pedro Jorge Velázquez There are failures that I guess you get a taste for, or how can it be possible for the defeated to regenerate into new forms of failure? Are they guided by . . . |

WSWS (2022-01-29). Ford Kansas City Assembly workers speak out against mass infections and deaths in the plant. wsws.org More information continues to emerge about deaths at KCAP, including the death of Lamar Taylor, a worker who collapsed in the plant and subsequently died shortly before Thanksgiving.

WSWS (2022-01-29). An open letter from Detroit teachers to autoworkers: Close the schools and plants to save lives, not profits! wsws.org Our committee calls for joint action between educators, autoworkers and all workers to close schools and nonessential workplaces, with full social supports for all affected workers, as part of a broader strategy to stop the pandemic worldwide.

Valerie Johnson (2022-01-29). After 10-day strike, Colorado grocery workers make gains. themilitant.com DENVER — After a solid and lively 10-day strike against King Soopers grocery-store bosses by 8,400 United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 members from Boulder to Parker, Colorado, and the greater metro area here, a majority voted in big union meetings to approve a new three-year contract Jan. 24. | It will also be presented to thousands more union members at King Soopers in Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Grand Junction and northern Colorado whose contracts run out over the next couple weeks. | King Soopers is owned by Kroger, the country's largest grocery store chain. | While all the details of the contract…

WSWS (2022-01-29). Amazon worker denied sick leave during holiday peak. wsws.org Amazon and other companies have cut the amount of time workers can receive sick pay due to COVID-19 infection.

Fight Back (2022-01-29). Minnesota: Hennepin County blinks, makes better contract offer to AFSCME. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis MN – A looming strike was averted when AFSCME Local 2822 came to a mediated settlement with Hennepin County, January 27. The agreement comes one day after Local 34 also reached a tentative deal. Workers represented by these two locals will begin voting on the contract February 2, the first day workers were poised to walk out. The bargaining committees of both locals are unanimously recommending a yes vote on the new contract offer. | This comes after a mediation session on January 18, where Hennepin County made a worse offer than members previously rejected in December. After that mediation session, L…

Seth Galinsky (2022-01-29). 'Cuba's socialist revolution sets an example for working people'. themilitant.com Halfway through the Jan. 1 to Feb. 15 international "I worked in hospitals for decades," Militant reader Jannie Jackson told SWP members Kaitlin Estill and Jacquie Henderson when they stopped by her home in Cincinnati Jan. 18…

WSWS (2022-01-29). An interview with Mark Kruger, author of The St. Louis Commune of 1877: Communism in the Heartland. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke with Mark Kruger about his new book, the 1619 Project, and the current state of American politics.

_____ (2022-01-29). Anti-Fascism At The Intersection Of Ella Baker And Clara Zetkin. popularresistance.org This article is a continuation of a previous one titled "Rethinking Revolution for an Age of Resurgent Fascism." Ella Baker's work leading the Young Negroes' Cooperative League (YNCL) from 1930-1933 is here used to further inform today's anti-fascism. Overall, this article relates Baker's work to the dissenting views of German Communist Party (KPD) co-founder Clara Zetkin, specifically her views on fascism and the systemic alternative she referred to as a "Soviet Congress for a Soviet Germany." This was a federation of autonomous councils formed in neighborhoods and workplaces for mutual aid, self-defense, and as…

_____ (2022-01-29). Michael Ratner Was A Revolutionary Lawyer Like No Other. popularresistance.org When Michael Ratner died in 2016, the world lost one of the great human rights lawyers of the past century. A descendant of holocaust survivors, Ratner embodied the courage and integrity that is often sorely lacking among his peers in the legal field, taking on cases that seemed impossible to win, but were always essential to protecting human rights. He served as president of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) as well as the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), and spent much of his life advocating for the protection of civil liberties and civil rights. | One of his greatest achiev…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-01-29). To the People of Cuba: Is Washington Preparing a "Soft Coup"? The Co-optation of Cuban Intellectuals. globalresearch.ca The Cuban Revolution constitutes a fundamental landmark in the history of humanity, which challenges the legitimacy of global capitalism. In all major regions of the World, the Cuban revolution has been a source of inspiration and struggle…

Pratyush Chandra (2022-01-29). On the significance of the polemical in Marxism. mronline.org A polemic for revolutionaries is a militant dialogic practice to reveal the contradictions of a position, hammering it down to break open its hardened crust in order to rescue life from the stifle of the canon.

Plus News (2022-01-29). Parliamentarians Challenged on Global Peace. plusnews.ug Members of Parliament globally have been tasked on the need to promote Peace, Unity and co-existence. Opening the 8th Plenary Session of the International Parliament for Tolerance and Peace organized by Global Council for Tolerance and Peace under the stewardship of H.E Ahmed Bin Mohamed Al Jarwan in collaboration with the Union of Comoros recently, …

WSWS (2022-01-29). Tesla-Berlin: Build an independent rank-and-file committee instead of electing a union-led works council! wsws.org The Tesla Gigafactory 4 in Gràºnheide, north of Berlin, is to start production in March. Tesla wants a works council elected on February 28.

Black Lives Matter, Demand Justice (2022-01-29). Thursday 1/27: Call to Action: Ensuring a First Black Woman SCOTUS Justice Organizing Call. indybay.org Online event…

Editor (2022-01-29). Brazil Elections 2022: Greenwald debates Mier. mronline.org On January 24, Brasil Wire editor Brian Mier appeared on Eoin Higgins podcast, Flashpoint, to present his analysis of Brazilian Congressman David Miranda and his husband Glenn Greenwald's abandonment of the PSOL (Socialism and Liberty Party) for the moderate PDT.

WSWS (2022-01-29). Southern US educators and students meet to discuss campaign for remote learning. wsws.org On Sunday, the Southern Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committees held a meeting to discuss the dangerous conditions in schools and the international strike wave by students and educators.

Ssebunya David (2022-01-29). AFCON 2021: Cameroon defeat underdogs Gambia to grace semis. plusnews.ug Cameroon are through to the semi-finals of their Africa Cup of Nations after Karl Toko-Ekambi's double fired them to a 2-0 win over Gambia on Saturday in the hosts' first game at the tournament since the deadly crush in Yaounde. French-born Lyon striker Toko-Ekambi scored two goals in the space of eight minutes at the …

Anonymous669 (2022-01-29). Houthis Claim 40 UAE-Backed Fighters Were Killed OR Wounded In Missile Strike On Shabwah (Photos). southfront.org Click to see full-size image. Source: the Houthis media wing | Early on January 29, the Houthis (Ansar Allah) announced that they had targeted a large gathering of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-backed Giants Brigades in the district of Usaylan in the Yemeni province of Shabwah with a ballistic missile. | In a brief statement, Brig. Gen. Yahya Sari, a spokesman for the group, said that the missile strike killed or wounded 40 fighters and commanders of the Giants Brigades. Several military vehicles wer…

Staff (2022-01-29). Pentagon reacts to problem of civilians dying in US drone strikes. rt.com A 'civilian protection center' will address the longstanding issue of so-called 'collateral damage' | US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin plans to establish a "civilian protection center of excellence" in order to monitor and respond to "drone strike lessons learned" and standardize both the reporting of strikes and the compensation of victims, he revealed in a memo to Pentagon staffers on Thursday. | The undersecretary of defense for policy, the comptroller, and other offices received the memo, with instructions to respond within 90 days with their ideas on how to reduce civilian deaths going forward. They'v…

Anonymous103 (2022-01-29). Military Situation In Yemen On January 29, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The Liaison and Coordination Officers' Operations Room (loyal to Ansar Allah) reported 100 ceasefire violations in al-Hudaydah in the past 24 hours; | On January 28, warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition conducted 7 airstrikes on the Jubah district; | On January 28, warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition conducted 14 airstrikes on the Wadi district; | On January 28, warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition conducted 3 airstrikes on the Khab and Shaaf district; | On January 29, cl…

WSWS (2022-01-29). With 900,000 dead from COVID-19, US capitalism doubles down on mass infection. wsws.org Even as thousands die each day, the Biden administration and US media are demanding the end of any remaining restrictions on the spread of COVID-19.

Julia Conley (2022-01-29). Manchin Got Huge Donation From GOP Megadonor After Tanking Build Back Better. truthout.org After he announced in December he would not be supporting President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Act, Sen. Joe Manchin's political action committee received the maximum allowable contribution from billionaire Republican donor Ken Langone. | The Hill

Fight Back (2022-01-29). Philippines: Condemn cold-blooded murder of NDFP Peace Consultant Pedro Codaste. fightbacknews.org The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns in the strongest terms the Armed Forces of the Philippines, particularly its Eastern Mindanao Command, the 4th Infantry Division and its fascist troops, for the abduction and murder of National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) Peace Consultant Pedro Codaste (Ka Gonyong/Ka Serv) and his companion Ka Globe/Sandro (also recovering from battle wounds) which happened sometime between January 19 and January 25. | According to initial reports, Ka Gonyong was detached from the NPA since August 2021 to convalesce from various ailments and was staying in a hou…

James O'Neill (2022-01-29). Australians Look in Vain for Signs of an Independent Foreign Policy. dissidentvoice.org One of the most disturbing features of the contemporary political scene is the almost complete absence of any difference in the foreign policy stance of the Coalition and Labor parties. It was not always so. The Whitlam government of 19 72—75 tried very hard to demonstrate a foreign policy that distinguished them from that of …

The Lancet (2022-01-29). [Editorial] Neglected tropical diseases: ending the neglect of populations. thelancet.com 2022 sees the tenth anniversary of the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), a pivotal event at which governments, pharmaceutical companies, foundations, and NGOs committed to collaborate in their efforts to stop NTDs. This initiative was inspired by the WHO NTD Roadmap 2012—2020, a plan for the control, elimination, and eradication of 17 neglected tropical diseases by 2020. Not all of the targets were met, but much progress has been made. In 2020, 600 million fewer people required interventions against NTDs than in 2010, and 42 countries eliminated at least one NTD.

Anonymous Contributor (2022-01-29). Indigenous Prisoner in Struggle Marcelino Ruíz Gómez Shows Solidarity with Journalists Under Attack in Mexico. itsgoingdown.org Statement from Indigenous prisoner in struggle Marcelino Ruíz Gómez showing solidarity with journalists in Mexico after three journalists have already been killed just this year To the Zapatista Army of National Liberation To the Human Rights Defenders To the National and International Sixth To the National Indigenous Congress To the Indigenous Governing Council To the…

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2022-01-29: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-01-29). Amazon worker denied sick leave during holiday peak. wsws.org Amazon and other companies have cut the amount of time workers can receive sick pay due to COVID-19 infection.

WSWS (2022-01-29). With 900,000 dead from COVID-19, US capitalism doubles down on mass infection. wsws.org Even as thousands die each day, the Biden administration and US media demand the end of any remaining restrictions on the spread of COVID-19.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-01-29). Freedom Convoy 2022 in Solidarity with the Truck Drivers: What Canada Needs Is the "Political Quarantine" of Justin Trudeau. globalresearch.ca A mass movement against the Covid mandate is unfolding coast to coast across Canada in solidarity with cross-border truck drivers. Tens of thousands of people will be joining the truck drivers in Ottawa.

Rainer Shea (2022-01-29). Haiti's Migrant Crisis & the Blind Eye to Imperialism's Sins. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Jan 27, 2022 | Last year, when photos came out of Texas border patrols riding on horseback to use whip-like reins for intimidating Black Haitian migrants, the United States was confronted with an uncomfortable reality about how our society is set up. | Images like these were supposed to be confined to America's era of slavery, yet here they were today. What factors had led to the situation revealed in these photos? Why had these migrants fled their homes? How much was the United States to blame? Beyond the unnerving optics, how many parallels were there between the context behind the border…

Editor (2022-01-29). The 13th Amendment's Fatal Flaw Created Modern-Day Slavery. scheerpost.com In this rare photograph taken in 2000, prisoners at the Ferguson Unit in Texas are seen working in the prison's cotton fields. By Kwasi Konadu and Clifford C. Campbell / The 13th Amendment is having a moment of reckoning. Considered one of the crowning achievements of American…

Workers World Party (2022-01-28). People who use drugs demand harm-reduction strategies. workers.org By AEzra El, Devin Cole and Princess Harmony Roughly five-and-a-half minutes. Statistically speaking, that's the interval between every life lost in the United States to a fatal overdose. Science March, Boston, March 2017.WW Photo: Steve Kirschbaum. In the past several years, we have seen a radical increase in the rate . . . |

WSWS (2022-01-28). "I want to just be treated like a human!"—BNSF workers voice opposition to punishing schedules. wsws.org Opposition is continuing to build among workers at the railway BNSF to a punitive new attendance policy which exposes workers to discipline and termination.

Staff (2022-01-28). U.S.-Backed Drug War Fuels Murders of Journalists in Mexico, Most Dangerous Country for Media Workers. democracynow.org We go to Tijuana, Mexico, where a wave of murdered journalists has raised international alarm and prompted nationwide protests. The three most recently murdered are José Luis Gamboa Arenas, Alfonso Margarito Martínez Esquivel and Lourdes Maldonado López. We speak with Jan-Albert Hootsen, Mexico correspondent at the Committee to Protect Journalists, who attended López's funeral on Thursday in Tijuana and says Mexican authorities' investigations and security measures have proven "woefully insufficient." He adds that violence against journalists exploded after the Mexican government launched its U.S.-backed war on d…

WSWS (2022-01-28). Workers at Trinity-Mercy Hospital in Muskegon, Michigan demand new contract by January 31. wsws.org Health care workers at Trinity Health-Mercy hospital in Muskegon held a rally on January 17 to demand that the hospital chain negotiate a new contract by January 31 that includes wage increases and improved working conditions.

Kathy Durkin (2022-01-28). 49 years after Roe v. Wade: Fight for reproductive justice! workers.org The right to access safe, legal abortions is in grave danger. On the 49th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling allowing access to the procedure in the case of Roe v. Wade, on Jan. 22, 1973, this fundamental human right is being challenged as never before. This landmark ruling, . . . |

WSWS (2022-01-28). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org One-day national strike across public sector in France over pay and pensions as wave of strikes continues in healthcare; South African Clover dairy workers' strike against job and pay cuts continues into tenth week, joined by other affected sectors; Lebanese teachers begin indefinite walkout against deteriorating conditions and for higher pay…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-01-28). South Africa: Unions, Palestine solidarity groups escalate demand to nationalize Clover. peoplesdispatch.org On January 27, pickets and rallies were held in several cities of South Africa in support of the workers' demand to nationalize the dairy company Clover…

WSWS (2022-01-28). RMT union suppresses action by London Underground workers as Johnson government in meltdown. wsws.org With Boris Johnson's premiership hanging by a thread amid the deepest political crisis since the 1930s, the RMT union has thrown the Tories a lifeline.

WSWS (2022-01-28). Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin removes last remaining pandemic safety measures, declares state "open for business" wsws.org Youngkin has eliminated worker, student, and patient COVID-19 protections, while also making Virginia the latest Republican-led state to begin the process of banning "divisive concepts" in the classroom.

WSWS (2022-01-28). Hospital employees at Mercy Hospital in Muskegon, Michigan demand new contract by January 31. wsws.org Health care workers at Trinity Health-Mercy hospital in Muskegon held a rally on January 17 to demand that the hospital chain negotiate a new contract by January 31 that includes wage increases and improved working conditions.

Orion Rummler (2022-01-28). Trans Workers Face a Significant Wage Gap, Poll Finds. truthout.org Originally published by Transgender and gender-nonconforming people are among the lowest paid LGBTQ+ people working full time in the United States, according to a The HRC found that trans men an…

Benjamin Norton (2022-01-28). Russia strengthens 'military-technical cooperation' with Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba amid US threats. multipolarista.com Russia said it is expanding "military-technical cooperation" with Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, after Putin had phone calls with the presidents of the three socialist governments, which have been targeted by illegal US sanctions and coup attempts.

Alex Bainbridge (2022-01-28). Kuku Yalanji woman Pat O'Shane: 'I'm fired up about education, injustice and sovereignty'. greenleft.org.au Distinguished Kuku Yalanji woman Pat O'Shane is running for Socialist Alliance in the seat of Leichhardt. A retired barrister and a former New South Wales magistrate, she spoke to Alex Bainbridge about what fires her up and why she decided to contest the federal election.

Editor (2022-01-28). Mike Taber (ed) — Under the Socialist Banner: Resolutions of the Second International, 1889-1912. mronline.org Mike Taber has edited for the first time the resolutions adopted between 1889 and 1912 by the nine congresses celebrated by the Socialist International, which is also known as the Second International.

Staff (2022-01-28). Honduras hacia una refundación socialista y democrática. cubadebate.cu Junto a Bolivia y Venezuela, Cuba estuvo entre las naciones hermanas de Honduras que más fue vitoreada por los miles y miles de personas que desde la noche del miércoles hicieron filas en las entradas del principal estadio de fútbol de Tegucigalpa para participar en la toma de posesión de la primera mujer en asumir ese cargo en la historia local.

W. T. Whitney, Jr. (2022-01-28). U.S. government pays big money for bad news about Cuba. mronline.org The cruder U.S. methods for destroying Cuba's revolutionary government—military attacks, bombings of hotels and a fully-loaded airplane, violent attacks on officials, biological warfare—did not work. Nor has economic blockade, which of course continues. A more subtle approach also exists. Like the blockade, its purpose is to cause despair and then dissent.

Editor (2022-01-28). Michael Smith and Zachary Sklar: Michael Ratner Was a Revolutionary Lawyer Like No Other. scheerpost.com Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington DC, 11th January 2006. [Photo by Jonathan McIntosh] | Click to subscribe on: When Michael Ratner died in 2016, the world lost one of the great human rights lawyers of the past century. A descendant of holocaust survivors, Ratner embodied the courage an…

Brittani Banks (2022-01-28). Theranos Verdict: In the U.S., It Is Fine to Lie to Consumers but Not to Investors. independentmediainstitute.org The verdict on Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes, who was tried for fraud in a U.S. court, was guilty. Theranos was a company set up by Holmes and her former partner Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani and had promised to revolutionize blood testing. Their advanced biotech equipment—they claimed—would provide results for a whole battery of …

Revolution Books (2022-01-28). Sunday 1/30: America's Torture Chamber: 20 Years of Guantanamo… It Must Be Closed NOW! indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

Editor (2022-01-28). 'Das Kapital' in Kiswahili. mronline.org Joachim Mwami on translating Marx—and Marxism—into the vocabulary of East Africa…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-28). Conversations on the Sudan Coup. libya360.wordpress.com Kribsoo Diallo This interview was originally published on Toward Freedom. It's part of a 2 of a two-part series on the Sudan coup. The first part can be read here. Certain interviewees chose to use their first name or initials because of security risks. Muzan Alneel, Marxist Political Activist and Blogger___ Krisboo Diallo: What is your opinion about the…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-28). Marxism and the Black Caribbean. libya360.wordpress.com Transcript Onye: The main impact of anti-communism and online left discourse has been serious strikes to principled anti imperialism, particularly in Western nations like the United Snakes. You get to the point where China, for example, or Cuba or Vietnam have clearly managed the pandemic much better: have prioritized the health and well-being of their populations,…

WSWS (2022-01-28). Australian university union tries to stifle opposition to unsafe campus reopenings. wsws.org Far from opposing the government-management "return to campus" drive, the NTEU is appealing to the employers to develop "risk assessment" plans.

WSWS (2022-01-28). Union trying to cancel South Australian teachers' strike against dangerous school reopening. wsws.org The union is trying to prevent even a token one-day strike, on the basis of "progress" from the government that amounts to nothing.

David Giesen (2022-01-28). Saturday 1/29: A walking tour through the Tenderloin and Union Square neighborhoods. indybay.org American Youth Hostel | 312 Mason Street | San Francisco | (meet in the lobby)…

Pavan Kulkarni (2022-01-28). Global mobilizations mark two months of the strike at South Africa's dairy giant. peoplesdispatch.org Unions and Palestinian solidarity organizations have escalated actions calling for the South African government to divest from Clover the Milco consortium, which is majority-owned by an Israeli company operating in occupied territories of Palestine.

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2022-01-28: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-01-28). Israel's labour court bans teachers from striking in opposition to soaring Omicron infections. wsws.org Teachers and educators at all public kindergartens and schools, excluding special education schools, had been set to hold a protest strike yesterday.

Revolution Books (2022-01-28). Sunday 1/30: America's Torture Chamber: 20 Years of Guantanamo… It Must Be Closed NOW! indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

sputniknews (2022-01-28). US-UK Antagonism of Russia Threatens to Pull NATO Apart at the Seams. sputniknews.com The NATO alliance was formed by Western capitalist powers in 1949 as a deterrence to potential invasion by the Soviet Union. Dependent on the US for support, Western Europe had little other choice; however, in the 21st century, that they will have convergent interests can no longer be taken for granted.

Staff (2022-01-28). Ex-Russian president reveals Moscow's thinking on China. rt.com The Sino-Russian relationship is acting as a balance of power against the EU & the US, the former president said | The close relationship between China and Russia has been noticed by politicians in the US and the European Union and is therefore helping to balance power in the sphere of international diplomacy, the former Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, has claimed. | Speaking to news agency TASS, in comments published on Thursday, the former head of state said that Moscow's close relations with Beijing are positive for the world as a whole. Medvedev currently serves as deputy chairman of the Security Counc…

Labor rise for sustainability (2022-01-28). Friday 2/4: Transit Equity Day – Join Bay Area-wide lunchtime zoom event & action! indybay.org register for zoom meeting bit.ly/Transitequity…

Uhuru Solidarity with Juice for Justice (2022-01-28). Sunday 2/6: Wine Tasting for Reparations. indybay.org City Slicker Farms | 2847 Peralta St, Oakland, CA 94608…

Staff (2022-01-27). Russia warns of NATO nuclear threat. rt.com The military bloc is training its members to unleash atomic hellfire, the Foreign Ministry claimed | NATO is developing the capacity for devastating nuclear strikes against Russia — which includes involving members of the alliance who don't have such weapons in training operations — Moscow's top arms control official has claimed. | In an interview with TASS on Thursday, Vladimir Yermakov, Director of the Department of Arms Control and Nonproliferation in the Russian Foreign Ministry, said that the US was in the process of modernizing its atomic capabilities in Europe and had deployed missiles in the…

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-01-27). PSL Statement: No War on Russia! Abolish NATO! liberationnews.org The Party for Socialism and Liberation condemns the anti-Russia campaign and calls for an end to the imperialist NATO alliance.

_____ (2022-01-27). Indigenous Farmworkers Hold The Key To Healing Our Burning Planet. popularresistance.org Anayeli Guzman was born into a Mixtec-speaking Indigenous community in San Miguel Chicahua in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her family raised chickens on their land, and as a child she would help plant corn, squash and radishes. They ate handmade tortillas with beans, eggs and salsa. Her grandparents taught her to care for the land and to revere the rain. Few people worked for wages. Rather, families owned small plots and grew seasonal, drought-resistant crops, exchanged produce with nearby communities and helped each other with big projects. | After migrating to the United States to be with her husband, Anayeli (along with 11…

Editor (2022-01-27). Un año después del ataque fascista: El capital y el Capitolio. workers.org Los United Auto Workers hacen una huelga en Ford para que se reconozca el sindicato, 1941. Henry Ford se alió abiertamente con Hitler. Hoy, Ford financia a candidatos ultraderechistas para cargos políticos. 6 de enero de 2021. Esta fecha está grabada en nuestra psique colectiva como el día en que . . . |

Judy Greenspan (2022-01-27). Santa Rita prisoners conduct hunger strike. workers.org Protesters outside Alameda County Sheriff's Office call for release of Santa Rita Jail inmates during COVID-19 pandemic. Oakland In what has been a continuing struggle by Alameda county prisoners for decent food and sanitary conditions at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California, two dozen prisoners went on hunger strike Jan. . . . |

Madeline Patenaude, Noah Styzkgold (2022-01-27). Telecommunications workers secure gains through national strike. liberationnews.org The company even denied cost-of-living adjustment in 2020 to hourly workers while paying out $38 million in executive bonuses.

Marilyn Bechtel (2022-01-27). Nuke treaty anniversary observed with calls for U.S. ratification. peoplesworld.org LIVERMORE, Calif. — As workers entered the west gate of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on the morning of Jan. 21, they were greeted by protesters displaying 8-foot banners declaring, "World to U.S.: Nuclear Weapons are Illegal — Join the Treaty!" The demonstrators, from Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, Women's International League for Peace …

Mark Gruenberg (2022-01-27). Rail unions hit impasse with freight railroads, file for mediation. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—After two years of talks which went nowhere, especially on the key "crew consist" issue of how many workers should toil on each freight train, the nation's rail unions were forced to declare an impasse in bargaining. On January 20, the 14-union coalition filed for National Mediation Board involvement: Mediation followed by arbitration if needed. …

WSWS (2022-01-27). Victimized Indian autoworker speaks in support of Global Workers Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic. wsws.org "The corporations and the governments," explains Balakrishnan, "are only concerned about accumulating profit, not the well-being and safety of people."

WSWS (2022-01-27). JBS meatpacking worker killed in industrial accident in Grand Island, Nebraksa. wsws.org The worker was identified as Esteban Mantilla, a 48-year-old Cuban immigrant and Grand Island resident.

WSWS (2022-01-27). JBS meatpacking worker killed in industrial accident in Grand Island, Nebraska. wsws.org The worker was identified as Esteban Mantilla, a 48-year-old Cuban immigrant and Grand Island resident.

WSWS (2022-01-27). Victimized Indian auto worker speaks in support of Global Workers Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic. wsws.org "The corporations and the governments," explains Balakrishnan, "are only concerned about accumulating profit, not the well-being and safety of people."

WSWS (2022-01-27). Federal judge blocks strike by 17,000 BNSF railway workers. wsws.org The court order from the judge prohibits any action by workers to fight the railways' oppressive and dangerous attendance policy.

WSWS (2022-01-27). Australian school guidelines detail dangerous COVID-19 conditions. wsws.org The documents underscore the unsafe conditions that await school workers and students—unless opposed, the return to face to face teaching will inflict entirely preventable mass infection and serious illness and death.

WSWS (2022-01-27). Workers devastated as UK cost-of-living crisis worsens. wsws.org An economist at recruitment firm Indeed Hiring Lab said that despite increased demand in some job sectors as the economy opened up, "we're not seeing any signs of any real gains for the average worker, which is concerning given the squeeze on energy bills and the general cost of living."

WSWS (2022-01-27). Judge imposes strike ban on 17,000 BNSF railway workers. wsws.org While the United States never tires of lecturing other countries about their violation of "human rights" and "democracy," the US government regularly runs roughshod over the basic rights of workers, including their right to strike and their right to a safe and healthy work environment.

Tina Landis (2022-01-27). Overcoming climate nihilism and the duty of revolutionaries. liberationnews.org As revolutionaries, we are visionaries. How else could we fight for a socialist future without having a vision of a better world? Same goes for climate change. We must stop imagining the apocalypse and start imagining the eco-socialist future. It is key to getting there.

Steve Sweeney (2022-01-27). Vaccine internationalism: Cuba distributing 200 million doses to poor countries. peoplesworld.org Cuban plans to distribute 200 million doses of its homegrown COVID vaccine to lower-income countries were said to have reached a "historic turning point" on Tuesday. David Adler, who headed a Progressive International delegation to the socialist island, said the "lifesaving package" was an example of vaccine internationalism that saw public health "placed above private …

Nan McCurdy (2022-01-27). Nicaragua Once Again Inaugurates the "People as President" dissidentvoice.org Family in Bismarck Martinez Housing neighborhood watch the inauguration and swear to fight with all their strength to eliminate hunger, poverty and backwardness. [Photo by Jairo Cajina] On January 10, Daniel Ortega was inaugurated President and Rosario Murillo was inaugurated as Vice President. The central event in the Plaza of the Revolution was accompanied by …

Jipson John, Jitheesh P.M. (2022-01-27). Tariq Ali: 'Democracy is largely a set of rituals now'. canadiandimension.com Tariq Ali speaking at the 2013 Subversive Festival in Zagreb. Photo from Tariq Ali is an internationally known public intellectual, columnist and political activist. Born in pre-partition India in 1943, Ali studied at Oxford University and was elected as students' union president there. He has been involved in political activism since then. He was one of the most prominent figures of the civil society coalition against the United States' war in Vietnam. He was also there at the forefront of agitation against the war…

Kate Clark (2022-01-27). Tales of invasions past: The facts about Russia's 'annexation' of Crimea. peoplesworld.org Kate Clark is the former Moscow correspondent for Britain's Morning Star newspaper. She was stationed there from 1985-90, during the Soviet Union's final years. As part of her work, she spent time in Crimea, whose people voted in 2014 to return to Russian administration rather than Ukrainian. With the hype around a possible Russian "invasion" …

Misión Verdad (2022-01-27). TANCOL in Arauca-Apure: NATO Projection into Latin America? orinocotribune.com By Misión Verdad — Jan 24, 2022 | The violence that has recently occurred on the border between Venezuela and Colombia, specifically in the municipality of Paez, Apure state, should be regarded as a symptom of lines of tension being drawn with concrete geopolitical interests in mind. | There provide strong reasons to analyze these events as a projection of the tension created by the Atlanticist axis against Russia in Ukraine, into which the European Union has been drawn, due to the latest actions of Uribismo in the Colombian government, with respect to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). | Recent…

WSWS (2022-01-27). UCU university reballots confirm members' lack of confidence in the union. wsws.org The UCU's delaying tactics, limited action and constant appeals for university management to "see sense" are dispelling any illusions its members still have about the readiness of the union to fight.

_____ (2022-01-27). The Surveillance And Policing Of Looted Land. popularresistance.org The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition is a community group rooted in the Skid Row community on Tongva/Gabrielino land, stolen territory known as Los Angeles. Over the past decade, we have been working to build power to abolish LAPD surveillance. This report grew out of that organizing and examines the relationships of policing and surveillance to displacement, gentrification, and real estate development. We study those relationships with a focus on the process that has always bound policing and capitalism together: colonization. | We often hear that police are an occupying army in our communities. Throughout the history…

Black Lives Matter, Demand Justice (2022-01-27). Thursday 1/27: Call to Action: Ensuring a First Black Woman SCOTUS Justice Organizing Call. indybay.org Online event…

Ann Brown (2022-01-27). 7 Things To Know About Hereafter Farms: Black Americans Pull Resources To Collectively Buy And Develop Land In Georgia. moguldom.com Several Black families and individuals in 2021 teamed up to purchase land in Northern Georgia. In an effort spearheaded by two Nation of Islam members, the Hereafter Farms is getting underway. The goal of Hereafter Farms is for the families to live debt-free, to be collective landowners, learn to live off the farm to be …

Anonymous103 (2022-01-27). Military And Political Situation In Europe On January 27, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On January 26, Moscow was handed the U.S. and NATO response to its proposals concerning collective security in Europe; | The United Russia party proposed to support the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics and supply them with certain types of weapons; | On January 26, negotiations of political advisers of the leaders of the Normandy format (Russia, Germany, France, Ukraine) took place in Paris; | Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a telephone conversation wi…

WSWS (2022-01-27). Berlin justice system prosecutes anti-fascist artists. wsws.org The Berlin state public prosecutor's office is proceeding with house searches and substantial charges against the artists' collective Centre for Political Beauty (ZPS) for carrying out an art action against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).

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2022-01-27: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-01-27). Victimized Indian auto worker speaks in support of Global Workers Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic. wsws.org "The corporations and the governments," explains Balakrishnan, "are only concerned about accumulating profit, not the well-being and safety of people."

WSWS (2022-01-27). Wall Street millionaire Jeff Zients directs Biden's policy of mass death. wsws.org In order to understand the catastrophic response of the Biden administration to the pandemic, it is necessary to examine the background and political career of the man quietly operating at the center of this response.

WSWS (2022-01-27). Australian Labor leader offers to use pandemic crisis to restructure economy. wsws.org Albanese, who as opposition leader has backed the profit-driven "live with the virus" drive, made no mention in his National Press Club speech to the huge wave of infections that it has unleashed.

WSWS (2022-01-27). Fed set to lift interest rates amid concerns over "very, very tight" labour market. wsws.org Two conflicting assessments of the direction of Fed policy—one that it will back down from monetary tightening if the market falls, the other that it will be forced to press ahead because of inflation and wage demands—were evidenced by the swings on Wall Street in response its meeting.

Kerry Smith (2022-01-27). Activists stage anti-'Australia Day' protest at Captain Cook statue in London. greenleft.org.au Activists in London gathered at Captain Cook's statue in solidarity with mass rallies and dawn services held to mark Invasion Day in Australian cities on January 26, reports Kerry Smith.

Staff (2022-01-27). President Maduro Swears In Historical Truth Commission to Uncover Colonial Atrocities. orinocotribune.com This Tuesday, January 26, a "Commission for the clarification of historical truth, justice and reparations regarding colonial rule and its consequences in Venezuela," was established. | Its objective will be to clarify historical truths regarding colonialism in Venezuela, Latin American and the Caribbean. | The commission was sworn in by President Nicolás Maduro during a meeting at the Miraflores Palace with traditional Venezuelan manifestations, recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. It will seek to expose the truth about colonialism and its atrocities towards indigenous peoples in the…

Moderator (2022-01-26). U.N. Officials Warn of 'Record-Shattering Month' for Civilian Deaths in Yemen. scheerpost.com By Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams As United Nations officials projected Tuesday that the civilian death toll from the Saudi-led coalition's strikes on Yemen will break records this month, Oxfam shared the group's difficulties providing aid in the war-torn country and urged action from the U.N. Security Council. "People are really struggling. Last night we had more airstrikes. …

WSWS (2022-01-26). What "endemic" COVID-19 really means: Mass infection and death forever. wsws.org Government officials and the corporate media want to declare COVID-19 "endemic," to enforce policies that will have disastrous consequences for the working class.

Sean Connolly (2022-01-26). Racist zoning is killing working class New Yorkers. liberationnews.org The recent Twin Parks fire in the Bronx, which killed 17 residents — including eight children — is a tragic example of a long history of neglect made possible by racist zoning laws.

WSWS (2022-01-26). Thousands of couriers at Turkey's largest e-commerce platform Trendyol launch wildcat strike for wages. wsws.org Skyrocketing living costs and the thousands of preventable deaths caused by the homicidal response of governments around the world to the COVID-19 pandemic are driving growing sections of the working class into struggle.

Dante Strobino (2022-01-26). In Virginia, workers honor Dr. King, rally for collective bargaining. workers.org On Jan. 18, the newly formed Virginia Beach City Workers Union, UE Local 111, and faith community supporters rallied before the city council demanding a real voice for safety, dignity, living wages and an end to institutional racism on the job. City workers from the Public Works, Public Utilities and . . . |

Editor (2022-01-26). Solution to global inequality is socialism! workers.org Around the globe, billions of people are suffering incredible losses resulting from capitalism's inability and refusal to seriously address the COVID-19 pandemic. Millions have lost lives or loved ones. Families are houseless. Workers have been forced to choose between risking their health at minimum wage jobs and feeding their families, . . . |

_____ (2022-01-26). Coalminers On Strike For 10 Months Vow Not To Be 'Starved Out'. popularresistance.org About 1,100 coalminers in Alabama have entered 2022 still on strike, more than 10 months since they walked out back in April last year, making it the longest strike in the US since the Covid-19 pandemic began and the longest in Alabama's history. | Workers started the unfair labor practice strike over claims of bad faith bargaining by Warrior Met Coal over a new union contract. In the previous contract settled in 2016, miners accepted several concessions, including a $6-an-hour pay cut and reductions in health insurance and other benefits as the mines switched employers in the wake of a bankruptcy. | The miners o…

_____ (2022-01-26). Striking Massachusetts Nurses Outwait Corporate Giant Tenet. popularresistance.org Last year's longest-running strike came to an end in early January when nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, overwhelmingly voted to ratify their new contract and return to work. | Seven hundred nurses had walked out over dangerous staffing conditions last March—ten months ago. (See previous Labor Notes coverage from last April and August.) | In a year of health care workers organizing amid Covid surges and staffing shortages, St. Vincent nurses stood out for their willingness to strike indefinitely and for the discipline the strikers showed. | Open-ended strikes are still a rarity in…

Jacob Buckner (2022-01-26). Amazon Labor Union rallies workers against corporate greed: 'We will win!'. peoplesworld.org STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.—The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) held a rally outside JFK8, the e-commerce giant's fulfillment center here Jan. 17, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. For several months, organizers have been collecting signatures for an upcoming union vote at the facility, where thousands of workers prepare and send out millions of packages to customers each …

Noor Lazkani (2022-01-26). Santa Cruz County workers force county to reach tentative agreement, avoiding ULP strike. liberationnews.org "This agreement is an important step towards meeting the critical recovery needs of our community and workers"

PAI (2022-01-26). OSHA kills emergency anti-COVID standard on order of right-wing Supreme Court. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON (PAI)—The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has permanently yanked its Emergency Temporary Standard requiring firms with at least 100 workers to develop and implement plans to protect employees against the coronavirus. But it'll keep working on a permanent standard to achieve that goal. OSHA's January 26 decision obeys the January 13 ruling by the …

Sue Bull (2022-01-26). What solutions for labour shortages? greenleft.org.au Labour shortages give unions a stronger bargaining position. Sue Bull argues they need to argue against racist and nationalistic tropes that migrant workers steal Australians' jobs, while defending workplace safety, wages and conditions.

WSWS (2022-01-26). Workers at the General Motors Corvette Assembly Plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky overwhelmingly reject UAW-backed local agreement. wsws.org Workers have been forced to remain on the job without a local agreement since 2019.

WSWS (2022-01-26). "We are striking for our very existence"—Maharashtra state transit worker tells WSWS in 12th week of militant job action. wsws.org More than 75,000 Maharashtra intercity transit workers are defying government threats, management reprisals, and their ostensible union representatives, and continuing their now almost three-month-long strike.

ecns.cn (2022-01-26). Aroma of cured meat fills SW China's Guizhou. ecns.cn Workers prepare preserved meat and sausages at a workshop in Guanzhuang Village, southwest China's Guizhou Province, as the Chinese New Year approaches.

WSWS (2022-01-26). Australian epidemiologists call for global action to eliminate COVID-19. wsws.org The urgent appeal by three distinguished epidemiologists reflects the growing opposition of principled medical scientists, doctors and health workers to the "let it rip" response of governments to the pandemic.

Staff (2022-01-26). Calls to boycott Starbucks brew as it scraps vaccine mandate. rt.com Coffee giant's decision to reverse vaccine requirement for employees sparks backlash from some patrons and workers | The world-famous coffee giant Starbucks has come under fire for scrapping the Covid-19 vaccine mandate, with calls to 'boycott Starbucks' flooding social media. | Both customers and Starbucks baristas say they refuse to support a place, no matter how iconic, which does not require employee vaccinations. | "Who wants unvaccinated people handling your food and drinks?"

A Guest Author (2022-01-26). U.S. puts Europe in the trenches against the invented enemy. workers.org By Manlio Dinucci Published Jan. 25 in Il Manifesto, in the author's "Art of War" column. "As a precautionary measure against a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine," the U.S. State Department ordered the evacuation of family members and part of the staff from the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, which with . . . |

WSWS (2022-01-26). Summary and highlights from Inquest testimony of Michigan autoworker Randall James. wsws.org Watch the powerful testimony and share these eight highlight clips.

Liberation Staff (2022-01-26). Fear Grips Wall Street: Is the Big Crash Coming? liberationnews.org Brian Becker and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the recently turbulent stock market. What does this mean for the economy and for us? Is this volatility a sign of something to come?>

WSWS (2022-01-26). UK: The sell-out of the Stagecoach Yorkshire pay strike and the pseudo-left accomplices of Unite. wsws.org There is nothing militant, let alone socialist about these tendencies. They are the most conservative political force imaginable, dedicated to preventing the very break with the trade union apparatus on which any successful fightback depends.

WSWS (2022-01-26). UK: The sellout of the Stagecoach Yorkshire pay strike and the pseudo-left accomplices of Unite. wsws.org There is nothing militant, let alone socialist about these tendencies. They are the most conservative political force imaginable, dedicated to preventing the very break with the trade union apparatus on which any successful fightback depends.

Federico Fuentes (2022-01-26). 'Millions have their hopes set on a Bolsonaro defeat': An interview with Brazilian socialist Roberto Robaina. greenleft.org.au Green Left speaks to Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL) leader Roberto Robaina about Jair Bolsonaro's extreme right project, the upcoming elections and how Brazil might fit into the new wave of left governments in the region.

Alex Bainbridge (2022-01-26). Socialist Alliance maintains electoral registration. greenleft.org.au The Socialist Alliance has managed to remain a registered political party, able to run in the federal elections with its party name and logo. Alex Bainbridge reports.

_____ (2022-01-26). Glen Ford: Legacy Of A Black Revolutionary. popularresistance.org As 2021 comes to an end, and the U.S. approaches the one-million mark of American lives lost to Covid-19, I would think holiday celebrations should include more somber notes than usual. Instead of seeing street behavior that would acknowledge grieving over 800,000 people in the U.S. who have died of Covid-19, we witness the convulsions for survival in a society and nation that is imploding as the wealth gap stretches far beyond our imaginations. In a nation inundated with death, whether from school shootings, the up-tick in crime rampages, fentanyl overdoses, alongside Covid-19 deaths, those who have passed may o…

_____ (2022-01-26). Sudan's Revolution Enters Its Second Phase: Disrupting The State. popularresistance.org A few hours after the military coup in Sudan on 25 October 2021, its leader, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, appeared on television to announce the dissolution of the Sovereign Council, the governmental body composed of military and civilian representatives, which had been formed in the wake of the 2018 revolution. In a typical justification for coups in the country, Al-Burhan declared a state of emergency, describing the takeover as a "corrective step". | The 2018 revolution was the third in Sudan's modern history. They have all followed a pattern of ousting a dictator, followed by a transitional period, elections, and…

Editor2 (2022-01-26). The Economics of The Sandinista Revolution in 2022 (Interview). orinocotribune.com Nicaragua ended 2021 with extraordinary results in the economy, highly positive results in production and is leading economic growth in the region after three difficult years during which it faced a coup attempt, two devastating hurricanes, Covid-19 and permanent attempts by the United States and big capital to destroy the country's economy. | In Managua, we interviewed Minister of Finance, Ivan Acosta, on Nicaragua's model, regional economic integration and new prospects as Nicaragua and China seek cooperation after reestablishing relations in December. Kawsachun News' Camila Escalante sat down with Minister Aco…

Staff (2022-01-26). Remembering Badran Jaber: A Life in Revolution. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes the revolutionary life of Badran Jaber, veteran of the Palestinian liberation struggle, upon his passing on 25 January 2022. Jaber, a leader and co-founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was a symbol of the Palestinian prisoners' movement. He was repeatedly arrested, interrogated and imprisoned in …

Rami Almeghari (2022-01-26). Saving seeds, counting cows: work of a "terror" group? electronicintifada.net Union of Agricultural Work Committees provides vital support to Gaza's farmers.

Staff (2022-01-26). Tomorrow January 27 Webinar with María Páez Victor: Venezuela's Recent Progress and Political Advances. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's Recent Progress and Political Advances | With María Páez Victor | Tomorrow Thursday January 27, 4: 00 pm PST / 7: 00 pm EST: | The webinar will be recorded and sent it out to all registrants following the event. We'll also be live streaming on Facebook. FB event page can be found Despite the US-Canada-European Union economic blockade and robbery of its overseas resources, Venezuela has made notable progress in economic…

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2022-01-26: News Headlines

Noor Lazkani (2022-01-26). Santa Cruz county workers force county to reach tentative agreement, avoiding ULP Strike. liberationnews.org "This agreement is an important step towards meeting the critical recovery needs of our community and workers"

WSWS (2022-01-26). Summary and highlights from Inquest testimony of Michigan autoworker Randall James. wsws.org Watch the powerful testimony and share these eight highlight clips.

David Giesen (2022-01-26). Saturday 1/29: A walking tour through the Tenderloin and Union Square neighborhoods. indybay.org American Youth Hostel | 312 Mason Street | San Francisco | (meet in the lobby)…

Plus News (2022-01-26). Ethiopia readies to host 35th AU Summit next month. plusnews.ug Preparations are in top gear as Ethiopia readies to host the African Union (AU) Ministerial and Heads of State and Government Sessions scheduled for early next month. The 40th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council (Ministerial Session) will be held on February 2 and 3, 2022, and the 35th ordinary Session of the AU Assembly …

Strike Debt Bay Area (2022-01-26). Saturday 2/12: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber et alv. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the the online invite.

WSWS (2022-01-26). Amid Ukraine crisis, US Navy stages war games in South China Sea. wsws.org These provocative exercises involving two US aircraft carrier strike groups clearly indicate that the Pentagon's war planners recognise that any conflict with Russia could quickly embroil China.

Lister (2022-01-26). Billionaires Invested In Animal Agony, Climate Extreme Causation & Human Disease. indybay.org More and more are getting out of cattle ranching as vegan product | sales skyrocket and animal flesh becomes more and more expensive. | Some are still invested in the animal suffering, human disease, | deforestation and climate extremes caused by raising animals for…

Labor rise for sustainability (2022-01-26). Friday 2/4: Transit Equity Day – Join Bay Area-wide lunchtime zoom event & action! indybay.org register for zoom meeting bit.ly/Transitequity…

Uhuru Solidarity with Juice for Justice (2022-01-26). Sunday 2/6: Wine Tasting for Reparations. indybay.org City Slicker Farms | 2847 Peralta St, Oakland, CA 94608…

Staff (2022-01-26). Will fears of 'Russian invasion' of Ukraine obliterate world financial markets? rt.com Global financial markets are pricing in geopolitical risk amid US claims of rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine | NATO announced this week it was putting forces on standby and reinforcing Eastern Europe with more ships and fighter jets, as the US continues to accuse Russia of gearing up to invade Ukraine. Moscow has repeatedly denied planning to attack its neighbor, with the Kremlin insisting Russian forces are not preparing for war. | How are global markets reacting to the crisis? | Volatility has gripped the global equity markets, which saw a widespread sell-off this week, as fears of conflict rattled…

Andy Kroll (2022-01-25). The Pentagon We Don't Think About. tomdispatch.com A relative of mine, who works for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) compiling data on foreigners entering the United States, recently posted a curious logo on his Facebook profile: a white Roman numeral three on a black background surrounded by 13 white stars. For those who don't know what this symbol stands for, it represents the "Three Percenters," a group that the Anti-Defamation League has identified as an anti-government militia. Its members have a record of violent criminal attacks and strikingly partisan activity, including arrests and guilty pleas in connection with the bombing of a Minnesota mosq…

Staff (2022-01-25). We Support Somaya: Take action for justice for Palestinian student and researcher Somaya Falah. samidoun.net Stand with Somaya! The following call to action is supported by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, the Palestinian Youth Movement and Within Our Lifetime — United for Palestine. Please join us to take action and stand with Somaya! Palestinian Ph.D. student, researcher and activist Somaya Falah is currently being held under house arrest, banned from …

_____ (2022-01-25). Let Us Turn Our Anger At Biden Into Organization. popularresistance.org We should take the examples of the Biden administration reversing course on unpopular decisions — refusing to extend the student loan moratorium, refusing to send masks, etc — as but a taste of the power we could have if we used our rage to get organized. Biden and his cronies are far more scared of our power as workers than they are of our tweets. So, what concessions have been given, have been given to stave off the birth of a social movement that could win a lot more.

Editor (2022-01-25). U.S. hands off Ukraine—a WW editorial. workers.org By ordering preparations to send 5,000 more U.S. troops to countries near the Russian border Jan. 23, President Joe Biden stepped up the risk of a war between the world's two most powerful nuclear-armed states. Once again, U.S. imperialism has threatened a new military adventure in pursuit of domination, this . . . |

Mark Gruenberg (2022-01-25). Walsh: Biden to push not just jobs, but good jobs. peoplesworld.org

WSWS (2022-01-25). Illinois locomotive engineer describes brutal scheduling, new attendance policy at BNSF. wsws.org Workers have voted by an overwhelming margin in favor of strike action against a new punitive attendance policy unilaterally imposed on them by the company.

WSWS (2022-01-25). Poverty surging so fast in UK that foodbanks unable to keep up with demand. wsws.org In the six months from April 2021, Trussell Trust foodbanks distributed 936,000 parcels, but as the new year sees many more workers thrust into poverty and desperation, this is expected to sharply increase.

WSWS (2022-01-25). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Workers at the Bowling Green Kentucky GM assembly plant overwhelmingly vote down a local agreement while 1,000 Teck Resources copper miners in British Columbia have accepted a new agreement.

Editor (2022-01-25). Kerala scheme shows how to create work opportunities while caring for the environment. mronline.org Environment and employment two fronts on which India has been besieged in recent years. Unemployment since 2011 has worsened in the aftermath of the COVID-19 lockdowns. About 100 million workers lost their jobs with women and the youth being more adversely impacted.

UFCLP (2022-01-25). Thursday 1/27: Defend 5,000 Striking South African Clover Workers. indybay.org San Francisco Israeli Consulate | 456 Montgomery St San Francisco, CA 94104…

WSWS (2022-01-25). Ford plants in Germany and Spain told to present their cutback plans. wsws.org If Ford workers in Saarlouis and Valencia do not ditch the trade unions and organise themselves independently to defend all jobs, thousands of positions will be lost at both plants.

Ana Perdigón (2022-01-25). PSUV Congress Convenes February 4 with Focus on Political Training. orinocotribune.com This Monday, January 24, the Vice President of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, announced that the Congress of the PSUV and the party's youth wing (JPSUV) will begin on February 4, in order to continue advancing in the training of its members. | During a press conference, Cabello said that the PSUV has made the training of party members a fundamental priority for this year, particularly those members who hold positions in the government, who pass through the training school. | "We hope that the Congress of the PSUV and the JPSUV will be very inclusive, we must continue along the p…

Staff (2022-01-25). Fiscalía General de la República informa sobre estado de los procesos penales derivados de los disturbios provocados el 11 de julio de 2021. cubadebate.cu Para la Fiscalía General de la República constituye un deber continuar informando al pueblo y a la opinión pública internacional sobre la respuesta legal dada a los graves hechos ocurridos el 11 de julio de 2021, que atentaron contra el orden constitucional y la estabilidad de nuestro Estado socialista.

IGD Worldwide (2022-01-25). Repression and History: an Interview with Belarus Anarchist Black Cross. itsgoingdown.org | It is essential that our revolutionary solidarity extend beyond borders and transcend the artificial East/West divide. The Belarusian anarchist and anti-fascist milieu, with its dozens of political prisoners (and likely more unknown to local support efforts) is in dire need of international solidarity. | This new interview with an anonymous member of the

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2022-01-25: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-01-25). What "endemic" COVID-19 really means: Mass infection and death forever. wsws.org Government officials and the corporate media want to declare COVID-19 "endemic," to enforce policies that will have disastrous consequences for the working class.

UFCLP (2022-01-25). Thursday 1/27: Defend 5,000 Striking South African Clover Workers. indybay.org San Francisco Israeli Consulate | 456 Montgomery St San Francisco, CA 94104…

Rebekah Entralgo (2022-01-25). Care Workers Are Not Giving up on Build Back Better. zcomm.org Over 35,000 people joined a recent telephone town hall to kick off a six-week campaign to protect investments in the care economy…

Geraldina Colotti (2022-01-25). NATO's Tentacles from Europe to Latin America. orinocotribune.com By Geraldina Colotti — Jan 21, 2022 | International analysts are often, and understandably, asked whether there will be a change in U.S. foreign policy depending on whether a Republican or Democratic president rules the White House. Since, for a Marxist, it is always a good idea to flee from Manichaeism and look at the concrete situation in its historically determined class relations, to point out that, at the international level, the essence of U.S. foreign policy presents no discontinuities, it is not an ideological position-taking. | "Everything changes so that nothing changes" is a scheme that fits well…

deweylaura (2022-01-25). "Upswing" authors look to history for signs of progress today. cpusa.org The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again By Robert D. Putnam with Shaylyn Romney Garrett (Simon & Schuster, 2020) Is social, economic, and political history repeating itself? Robert D. Putnam, best known for his 2000 book Bowling Alone, and his co-author argue here that the …

Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights (2022-01-25). Sunday 1/30: Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights: Organizing Conference for Reproductive Rights on Zoom. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

imperial.ac.uk (2022-01-25). 'Striking portraits' enhance College's art collection. imperial.ac.uk Artworks commissioned as part of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Portrait Prize have gone on initial display in the Blythe Gallery.

Strike Debt Bay Area (2022-01-25). Saturday 2/12: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber et alv. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the the online invite.

WSWS (2022-01-25). South Australian teachers vote for strike action against dangerous school reopenings. wsws.org The ballot demonstrates the intense hostility of teachers to the profit driven reopening of the schools amid surging COVID cases, not only in South Australia but across the country.

WSWS (2022-01-25). Network of Rank-and-File Committees for Safe Education discusses opposition to school reopenings in Germany. wsws.org The meeting took place amid an international wave of school strikes and teachers' protests—reaching from the US to France, Italy, Austria and Greece—and gave conscious political expression to this growing mass movement.

Staff (2022-01-25). Tesla fights back against JPMorgan over Musk tweet. rt.com US electric car manufacturer countersues banking giant over disputed bond contract | Tesla submitted a filing in Manhattan federal court on Monday, accusing JPMorgan of "bad faith and avarice" for demanding $162.2 million after the bank had unilaterally changed the terms of warrants it received when the electric carmaker sold convertible bonds back in 2014. | Warrants allow holders to purchase company stock at a set "strike" price and date. | "JPMorgan pressed its exorbitant demand as an act of retaliation against Tesla both for it having passed over JPMorgan in major business deals and out of senior JPMorgan…

WSWS (2022-01-25). Sinhala chauvinist JVP promotes itself as alternative Sri Lankan government. wsws.org JVP leader Dissanayake offers a government of technocrats, as if new faces will solve Sri Lanka's profound economic problems that are rooted in the worsening crisis of global capitalism.

Yanis Varoufakis (2022-01-25). Five conditions for a democratic workplace. zcomm.org An ongoing debate on postcapitalism…

Lister (2022-01-25). Billionaires Invested In Animal Agony, Climate Extreme Causation & Human Disease. indybay.org More and more are getting out of cattle ranching as vegan product | sales skyrocket and animal flesh becomes more and more expensive. | Some are still invested in the animal suffering, human disease, | deforestation and climate extremes caused by raising animals for…

Staff (2022-01-25). Video: Solidarity with Olivia Zémor, Free Georges Abdallah || Boycott TEVA, Support Struggles for Palestine in France. samidoun.net There are two important cases in France for the Palestine movement that will be heard on Thursday, 27 January. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network released this international video to support Georges Abdallah and Olivia Zémor, and to express our global solidarity with their ongoing struggles for justice and a liberated Palestine. TEVA and the case …

WSWS (2022-01-25). Newt Gingrich threatens January 6 committee members with imprisonment. wsws.org Speaking like the representative of a right-wing dictatorship, the former House Speaker vowed retribution if the Republican Party regains control of the House in the 2022 elections.

In Defense of Liberation! (2022-01-25). #AbolishNATO We Demand Internationalist Cooperation and Peace, Now! anchor.fm No war in Russia. No war in China. No war in Africa. No war in Asia. No war in Latin America. We demand a United front against imperialism, militarization, nuclear weapon proliferation between Imperialist nations and their allies, and we must also demand an abolition of NATO, and all military agreements between Capitalist governments, now! We need to organize, fight, and determine this struggle as a fiercely anti-Imperialist, anti-War movement for People's Liberation. All Power to the People!

_____ (2022-01-24). Xiomara Castro Denounces Hijack Of Legislative Power. popularresistance.org The elected president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro (Libertad y Refundación, Libre), denounced this Sunday, outside the National Congress, that a dictatorship is trying to hijack the Legislative Branch in a bid not to respond to the popular mandate. | Hundreds of people continue to mobilize in the vicinity of the Parliament in defense of democracy and respect for the popular vote. | Addressing the crowds of her supporters, Castro recalled that the elections of November 2021 were to remove from power the dictatorship of the current president, Juan Orlando Hernandez, and banish its unlawful practices. | She stressed…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-24). Tumult in Honduras as Libre Members Betray President-Elect Xiomara Castro. libya360.wordpress.com Steve Lalla Following the betrayal of 18 members of the Libre party, Luis Redondo and Jorge Cálix were sworn in as presidents of the National Congress of Honduras in two parallel events, leading to a complicated situation in the Central American nation. The betrayal by Libre Congress members and their selection of Cálix violated the political alliance agreed…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-24). Honduras: Two Congressional Presidents Appointed in Parallel Sessions Days Before Xiomara Castro's Inauguration. libya360.wordpress.com Congressmen Luis Redondo and Jorge Cálix appointed as heads of Honduran Congress On Sunday, in two parallel sessions, the Honduran Congress appointed deputies Luis Redondo and Jorge Cálix as heads of its Board of Directors for the period 2022-2026. In the Legislative building, which dawned without electricity service and which this Sunday was still guarded…

_____ (2022-01-24). Alabama Amazon Workers Are About To Rerun Their Union Election. popularresistance.org It's a moment of increased bargaining power for the US working class. Workers on the order of millions are quitting their jobs and finding new ones that will pay them better. Those with unions are more willing to fight to begin undoing prior concessions, their confidence bolstered by the realization that employers will have more trouble than usual replacing them should they strike; that these fights do not approach the level of struggle of the 1970s, much less the 1930s, do not make them insignificant. And the momentum is with reformers within unions: see recent efforts to transform the United Auto Workers and th…

Matt Sedlar (2022-01-24). All Workers Should Share the Benefits of Growth, Raise the Federal Minimum Wage. cepr.net It is time for Congress to say that employers in some states can't exploit their workers, even when the state's politicians want to preserve that option.

Dave Welsh (2022-01-24). Broken promise on MLK holiday—Civil rights strike at Kaiser Hospital. workers.org Oakland Somehow, I thought they made Martin Luther King Day a paid holiday for all workers. Well, it seems Kaiser Medical Center didn't get the word. That's why psychologists, social workers and therapists from Kaiser's Oakland and Richmond, California, clinics hit the bricks in a one-day strike on Jan. 17. . . . |

Jim McMahan (2022-01-24). Seattle MLK rally and march. workers.org Seattle Over 2,000 demonstrators participated in a multinational march Jan. 17 at the 40th Annual Martin Luther King Day March in Seattle. The marchers, including several families, protested at the new youth jail, which will be used to imprison youth in the community. Marching for support and respect for essential . . . |

Mark Gruenberg (2022-01-24). Biden gives 70K federal workers an immediate raise, to $15/hour. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Democratic President Joe Biden has apparently given some 70,000 federal workers—the lowest-paid ones—an immediate raise. The Government Employees (AFGE) reported the hike, to $15 an hour, is in a January 21 Biden executive order. The White House, as of 10 a.m. Eastern Time on January 25, had not posted a separate order, beyond a general …

Mark Gruenberg (2022-01-24). Lack of virus protection forces Santa Cruz workers to plan strike. peoplesworld.org SANTA CRUZ, Calif. —Refusal to invest more money in public health services to protect residents against the coronavirus pandemic forced the Santa Cruz County, Calif., workforce to plan an unfair labor practices strike, starting January 25, their union announced. The county's "last, best, and final offer" was completely inadequate on that issue and others affecting …

_____ (2022-01-24). How Tedros Violated UN Rules To Advance TPLF Interests In Ethiopia. popularresistance.org Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organization (WHO) Secretary-General and overseer of the UN's global coronavirus response, has established a shadow relief operation that sidesteps the authority of Ethiopia's sovereign government and directly coordinates with his political allies in the country's civil war. | The alleged actions by Tedros, which have come to light through leaked audio conversations of UN workers, constitute a violation of UN code, which stipulates staff maintain neutrality and refrain from intervening in the affairs of member states. A participant in the leaked discussion also states that…

Fight Back (2022-01-24). Hennepin County AFSCME members picket in leadup to strike. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis MN – Trails of frozen breath rose above hundreds of workers, January 19, as they chanted and picketed in subzero temperatures in front of county buildings throughout Hennepin County, the most populous county in Minnesota. The picketers are members of AFSCME Local 34 and AFSCME Local 2822 and work as library workers, social service workers and more. Earlier that morning the union members filed notice to go on strike February 2. | The AFSCME members have been in contract negotiations since spring of 2021 and are now working without a contract. They have been fighting for decent pay increases to keep up…

teleSUR (2022-01-24). Nicaraguan Farmers Seek Compensation from Chemical Corporations. telesurenglish.net On behalf of the families of 1,234 Nicaraguan farmers, lawyers Pierre-Olivier Sur and Clara Gerard-Rodriguez began on Monday a legal process in the Paris Court to claim compensation of US$1 billion from Shell Oil, Dow Chemical, and Occidental Chemical. | RELATED: | This unprecedented process accuses the world's largest chemical groups for the damage caused by their pesticides to Nicaraguan workers during the last decades of the 20t…

Labor Video Project (2022-01-24). MLK Day Strike By NUHW Kaiser Mental Healthcare Workers To Stop Systemic Racism. indybay.org A strike was held by National Union Of Healthcare Workers NUHW healthcare workers at Kaiser on MLK day. They were protesting the failure of Kaiser to honor their pledge to make it a holiday. They also talked about the systemic racism at Kaiser.

WSWS (2022-01-24). Portland, Oregon municipal workers vote to strike. wsws.org Over 1,100 workers in Portland, Oregon, rejected the city's "last, best and final offer" and voted to strike to improve pay and working conditions.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-01-24). Social security workers in Georgia win pay rise after five days of historic strike. peoplesdispatch.org Almost half of all the social security workers in Georgia were on strike to secure adequate pay and better living conditions…

WSWS (2022-01-24). Scores killed in Saudi-led airstrikes, highlighting US-Saudi war crimes. wsws.org On Friday, a Saudi airstrike on a detention center in Saada, northern Yemen, housing African migrant workers transiting through Yemen to Saudi Arabia, killed at least 82 people and wounded 266 more.

Sharon Zhang (2022-01-24). REI Retail Workers in Manhattan File to Form Company's First Union. truthout.org Workers at an REI store in New York City filed to form a union among the location's 116 employees on Friday. If the effort is successful, the store would be the first of The workers

Staff (2022-01-24). PCC y PSOE abogan por un mayor diálogo político bilateral. cubadebate.cu El vicejefe y coordinador del Departamento de Relaciones Internacionales del Comité Central del PCC, àÅngel Arzuaga Reyes, sostuvo un encuentro con el secretario adjunto de Organización del Partido Socialista Obrero Español y diputado al Congreso, Julio Navalpotro. Ambas partes se pronunciaron por mantener y desarrollar el diálogo político bilateral.

Colleen Wessel-McCoy (2022-01-24). Continuing King's 'Revolution of Values'. zcomm.org King spent his last birthday organizing poor people of all races against immoral spending priorities. We need that revolution today…

Julia Rock (2022-01-24). Can Revolution Take Root In Rhode Island?>. dailyposter.com

Alvaro Garcia Linera (2022-01-24). Behind the Extractivist Criticism of Progressive Governments Lies the Shadow of Conservative Restoration. orinocotribune.com Editorial note: As a rule Orinoco Tribune does not generally re-publish opinion pieces more than 10 days after their original publication, but in this case we are making an exception, because this is an issue that demands attention. OT does not necessary share Linera's comments about J.V. Stalin. | By Alvaro García Linera — Jan 20, 2022 (originally composed in 2013) | In the face of the naive leftism that thinks that a society can escape world domination by itself, Lenin and Marx remind us that capitalism is planetary, and that the only way to overcome it is also planetary. Therefore the struggles and effort…

sputniknews (2022-01-24). EU Diplomats Not Going to Leave Ukraine, Borrell Says. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The European Union will find out from US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken why the US has decided to evacuate some of its diplomats from Ukraine, foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday, adding that EU diplomats will not leave Ukraine.

Rick Rozoff (2022-01-24). Blinken, EU's 27 FMs coordinate actions against Russia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Ukraine-Russia crisis: EU foreign ministers meet to coordinate strategy with US Foreign ministers from the European Union's 27 member states met in Brussels on Monday in a bid to hammer out a response to a feared invasion of Ukraine by Russia. After the meeting, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said there is "unity" among …

Editor2 (2022-01-24). Ready for Another Game of Russian Roulette? orinocotribune.com By H. Bruce Franklin — Jan 19, 2022 | As the U.S. moves nuclear forces closer and closer to the border of Russia, and as our corporate media bang their war drums louder and louder, does anyone remember the Cuban missile crisis? | In June of 1961, just three months after the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba was defeated, the United States began the deployment of fifteen Jupiter nuclear missiles to Turkey, which shared a border with the Soviet Union. Each missile, armed with a W49 1.4 megaton thermonuclear warhead, was equivalent to 175 Hiroshima bombs. With their fifteen-hundred-mile range, the missiles were capa…

William Craig Cohen (2022-01-24). The Weekly Round-Up: Deprivations of citizenship, the state of the union and prison over Pride and Prejudice. ukhumanrightsblog.com In the news: On Friday, the Guardian reported on the earlier Freemovement.org quantitative analysis relating to deprivations of British citizenship. While it has been known and reported upon for some time, the analysis demonstrates a continued trend of increased deprivations, with a significant peak in 2017, when the number of people whose citizenship was removed …

WSWS (2022-01-24). Euclid Teachers Association files 10-day strike notice in Cleveland, Ohio suburb. wsws.org The teachers union filed a strike notice after keeping its members working without a contract since the start of the school year.

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2022-01-24: News Headlines

UFCLP (2022-01-24). Thursday 1/27: Defend 5,000 Striking South African Clover Workers. indybay.org San Francisco Israeli Consulate | 456 Montgomery St San Francisco, CA 94104…

Julia Rock (2022-01-24). Can Revolution Take Root In Rhode Island?>. dailyposter.com

WSWS (2022-01-24). Romanian bus drivers stage wildcat strike over pay and conditions. wsws.org Bus drivers in Bucharest are struggling over safety conditions and pay and face a concerted effort by the city administration and trade unions to end their strike.

Robynne Murphy (2022-01-24). Vale Fred Moore, 1922-2022. greenleft.org.au Fred Moore spent his life fighting for the underprivileged. He was proud that unions played an important role in pushing for rights for First Nations peoples, was concerned about women's rights and was an internationalist. Robynne Murphy bids him farewell.

WSWS (2022-01-24). Australian Labor and Coalition governments sending hundreds of thousands of children and teachers into COVID-infested schools. wsws.org The endorsement by the unions of the reckless return to face-to-face learning has been met with anger from teachers.

WSWS (2022-01-24). Oakland Education Association pursues farcical "safety" bargaining. wsws.org The union is attempting to disperse teacher and student opposition to unsafe schools with safety demands that will leave students and teachers infected.

Ralph Nader (2022-01-24). Lost Opportunities in Joe Biden News Conference. zcomm.org Calling himself a "union guy" for decades, Biden inexplicably did not give a shout-out for a higher federal minimum wage, now frozen at $7.25 an hour…

Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights (2022-01-24). Sunday 1/30: Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights: Organizing Conference for Reproductive Rights on Zoom. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

Staff (2022-01-24). "The Janes": Meet the Women Who Formed a Collective to Provide Safe Abortions Before Roe v. Wade. democracynow.org As conservative justices on the Supreme Court threaten to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortions nationwide, we speak to the filmmakers and a subject of "The Janes" about life before Roe, when a collective of women in Chicago built an underground service for women seeking an abortion. Heather Booth, who founded the Jane Collective as a college student, speaks about adopting lessons from the civil rights movement and antiwar sentiments of the time. "You have to stand up to illegitimate authority," says Booth. The directors of the film, Emma Pildes and Tia Lessin, speak about their m…

sputniknews (2022-01-24). Houthis Claim Ballistic Missile Strikes on UAE Military Base in Abu Dhabi. sputniknews.com DOHA (Sputnik) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Defence Ministry earlier said that the country's air defence systems had intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles launched by the Houthis.

Editor (2022-01-24). How to overthrow a life-threatening capitalism? mronline.org Capitalism jeopardizes the survival of humanity on earth. It reduces the price of the labour of reproducing labour power when it cannot make women do it for free within the family. How can we overcome it while putting the defence of life at the centre of our concerns?>

Lister (2022-01-24). Billionaires Invested In Animal Agony, Climate Extreme Causation & Human Disease. indybay.org More and more are getting out of cattle ranching as vegan product | sales skyrocket and animal flesh becomes more and more expensive. | Some are still invested in the animal suffering, human disease, | deforestation and climate extremes caused by raising animals for…

ecns.cn (2022-01-24). Former senior banking regulatory official expelled from CPC for power abuse. ecns.cn Cai Esheng, former vice chairman of China's top banking regulatory body, has been expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) for grave violations of Party discipline and laws.

ecns.cn (2022-01-24). Former supreme court official expelled from CPC, office. ecns.cn Meng Xiang, former chief of the enforcement bureau of the Supreme People's Court, has been expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) and dismissed from public office over serious violations of Party discipline and laws.

imperial.ac.uk (2022-01-24). Imperial and The George Institute renew collaboration to drive health innovation. imperial.ac.uk Successful initial collaboration leads to‚ÄØa new‚ÄØfive-year commitment to drive health innovation, targeting LMICs and under-served communities in HICs.

imperial.ac.uk (2022-01-24). Laboratories move to White City: new opportunities and incredible views. imperial.ac.uk As four epidemiology teams settle into their new spaces, we check in with the researchers to find out what they are up to on the White City campus.

WSWS (2022-01-24). Omicron outbreak in New Zealand. wsws.org The Labour Party-led government is predicting thousands of daily cases in a matter of weeks. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirmed that its policy is to let the deadly virus spread.

Anonymous Contributor (2022-01-24). Community Stands in Solidarity with Encampment Demanding End to Police Harassment and Access to Housing. itsgoingdown.org Report on ongoing protest encampment at the Idaho state capitol in Boise demanding an end to police harassment of the houseless and access to housing and beyond. With housing costs skyrocketing, temperatures plummeting, and cops relentlessly harassing and ticketing people experiencing houselessness, folks sleeping on the streets in so-called Boise, Idaho have found themselves scrambling…

Adri Nieuwhof (2022-01-24). Munich anti-BDS policy is illegal, German federal court rules. electronicintifada.net Meanwhile, Palestine solidarity supporters face lawsuit in Austria.

Prabhat Patnaik (2022-01-24). Social sciences and the colonised mind. mronline.org A CRUCIAL component of the imperialist system is the colonisation of third world minds that helps to sustain it. This colonisation is pervasive, but here we shall discuss only academic colonisation and that too relating to the social sciences.

WSWS (2022-01-24). On eve of January 6 attack, Trump lawyers drafted order requiring military to seize ballots. wsws.org The draft order was a charter for presidential dictatorship. It would have declared a state of emergency, suspended the constitution, and placed the country under military rule.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-24). Tancol in Arauca-Apure: NATO's Projection into Latin America? libya360.wordpress.com Misión Verdad The border between Venezuela and Colombia at the Arauca River has been heating up again since the beginning of 2022 (Photo: Archive). The violence that has recently occurred on the border between Venezuela and Colombia, specifically in the municipality of Paez in the state of Apure, should be regarded as a symptom of…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-24). The Anaconda Loop: NATO's Strategy Against Russia. libya360.wordpress.com José Negrón Valera The year 2030 seems to be a horizon to which we should pay close attention. Three separate but complementary news items provide us with clues as to the configuration the world will take by that date. First, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology reports that, by that year, the global commercialization…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-24). The UN is Being Used as a Cover for Criminal Activity in Africa. libya360.wordpress.com Valery Kulikov Founded after the end of the Second World War, the United Nations Organization set itself a primary goal of defending peace and justice in all countries. In furtherance of this goal the UN has sent troops to armed conflicts of all kinds, mounting some 70 peacekeeping missions since 1945. Known as Blue Helmets,…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-24). Military Deployment in Ukraine: Is a War in Eastern Europe on the Horizon? libya360.wordpress.com Yoselina Guevara NATO member states began deploying more ships and fighter jets to Eastern Europe on Monday, January 24, in an effort to bolster the deterrence and defense of the Western military bloc as Russia continues to place troops along the Ukrainian border. In an official posting on the Atlantic Alliance website NATO Secretary General…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-24). Three Years Later, Guaidó Represents No One, Says Russian Ambassador to Caracas. libya360.wordpress.com Three years after proclaiming himself interim president of Venezuela, opposition figure Juan Guaidó does not represent anyone, Russian Ambassador to Caracas Sergey Melik-Bagdasárov told Sputnik News. "Today, he is a nobody and does not represent anyone. This figure exists only in virtual space and in the feverish minds of his American supporters," Melik-Bagdasarov said. In…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-24). Anti-Chinese Propaganda, Christian Nationalism, & the Foundations for a Right-Wing Terror Campaign. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer SheaUsing the USA's rising anti-Chinese sentiment as their ideological unifier, Christian nationalists are partnering with reactionary militias and imperialist agents to build a growing fascist movement. One that, if it doesn't fulfill its goals for regime change abroad, is still likely to carry out a successful version of its January 6th coup attempt at…

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-01-24). Fannie Lou Hamer Institute To Host Reparations Conference: Economist Julianne Malveaux, Kamm Howard, Ron Daniels And More Set As Speakers. moguldom.com The Fannie Lou Hamer Institute is hosting a virtual community meeting and townhall about reparations. Entitled "Reparations Beyond Equity," the town hall will be held on Saturday, Jan. 29 at 11 a.m. Some of the top economists, scholars, activists and reparations advocates are among the speakers and moderators. They include Dr. Tabatha L. Jones Jolivet, …

teleSUR (2022-01-23). Xiomara Castro Denounces Hijack Of Legislative Power. telesurenglish.net The elected president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro (Libertad y Refundación, Libre), denounced this Sunday, outside the National Congress, that a dictatorship is trying to hijack the Legislative Branch in a bid not to respond to the popular mandate. | RELATED: | Hundreds of people continue to mobilize in the vicinity of the Parliament in defense of democracy and respect for the popular vote. | Addressing the crowds of her…

_____ (2022-01-23). Latest Data On Unionization Is A Wake-Up Call To Lawmakers. popularresistance.org Workers essentially have two sources of potential power vis-à -vis their employers: a union or the implicit threat that they can quit and take another job. During the last year, employers have been forced to compete for workers in a way that has not happened since the end of the 1990s. Workers gained leverage because the American Rescue Plan Act has generated a strong recovery from the COVID-19 downturn with substantial demand for workers at the same time that millions of workers are out of the labor force due to health and safety concerns or pandemic-related care responsibilities. As a result of this increased l…

Audrey Huff (2022-01-23). Maine governor supports agribusiness, vetoes farmworkers' rights bill. liberationnews.org vetoing LD 1711, a bill that would have granted farmworkers the ability to bargain for better wages, hours, benefits, and working conditions.

UFCLP (2022-01-23). Thursday 1/27: Defend 5,000 Striking South African Clover Workers. indybay.org San Francisco Israeli Consulate | 456 Montgomery St San Francisco, CA 94104…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-23). This Socialist Island Has Saved the Lives of 97% of Covid-19 Patients. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News Minister of Public Health José Angel Portal Miranda and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz visit the Celia Sánchez Manduley Provincial Hospital in Granma where they held a meeting with health workers. January 13, 2022. Photo: MINSAP 97.4% of Cubans confirmed with Covid-19 have been saved over the last two years despite the extreme…

teleSUR, SH (2022-01-23). Socialistas venezolanos llaman a marchar por rebelión de 1958. telesurtv.net El diputado del PSUV, Pedro Infante aseveró que la concentración será propicia para ratificar el apoyo al presidente Nicolás Maduro.

Staff (2022-01-23). Week of action to free Ahmad Sa'adat: RCG responds to Samidoun call for action. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network received the following report from the Revolutionary Communist Group on their activities across Britain for the Week of Action to free Ahmad Sa'adat and all Palestinian Prisoners, including events in London, Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle and West London. Read the full report below: Supporting the call of the Samidoun network for action …

_____ (2022-01-23). Russian River Transport Revolution — A Project With Geopolitical Ramifications. strategic-culture.org If done properly, Russia's wide rivers and preexisting canals with some upgrades could have an impact on international trade and create some previously impossible shipping routes. | Recently the Russian government revealed a plan to radically change cargo transport within the nation that could even have an international geopolitical impact. There is a quest to revolutionize the transport of goods going on globally. As it stands today, looking back on the 20th century, technology still looks much like it did during the early Cold War. We have trucks on highways, trains, boats and jet airplanes. True, all of the…

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2022-01-23: News Headlines

sputniknews (2022-01-23). Death Toll From Airstrike in Yemen's Saada Rises to 82 – Doctors Without Borders. sputniknews.com UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) – The death toll from the airstrike that hit a prison in Yemen's Saada province has surpassed 80, the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF, or Doctors Without Borders) aid group said.

UFCLP (2022-01-23). Thursday 1/27: Defend 5,000 Striking South African Clover Workers. indybay.org San Francisco Israeli Consulate | 456 Montgomery St San Francisco, CA 94104…

Staff (2022-01-23). EU signals it's on an energy-buying spree. rt.com Soaring prices for fuel and low gas storage levels force Brussels to 'improve risk-preparedness' | The European Union is in talks with its trading partners in search of viable options to increase supplies of natural gas to its member states, according to the bloc's Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson. | "The gas storage levels in the EU are significantly lower than usual at this time of the year," Simson said, after a meeting with European energy ministers in France on Saturday. | The energy chief added that EU authorities need to remain "extremely vigilant" to make sure the bloc is ready for emergency situations…

sputniknews (2022-01-23). EU Designing Economic Sanctions Against Russia Over Ukraine, Austrian Foreign Minister. sputniknews.com VIENNA (Sputnik) – The European Union is working on a new extensive package of economic and financial sanctions against Russia in case the situation around Ukraine escalates, Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said.

Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights (2022-01-23). Sunday 1/30: Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights: Organizing Conference for Reproductive Rights on Zoom. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

Lister (2022-01-23). Billionaires Invested In Animal Agony, Climate Extreme Causation & Human Disease. indybay.org More and more are getting out of cattle ranching as vegan product | sales skyrocket and animal flesh becomes more and more expensive. | Some are still invested in the animal suffering, human disease, | deforestation and climate extremes caused by raising animals for…

Bloomington ABC (2022-01-23). Fire Ant #11: Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity. itsgoingdown.org Fire Ant returns with a new issue featuring original writing, artwork, and essays from anarchist prisoners. PDF for Printing Fire Ant is a quarterly publication focused on spreading the words of anarchist prisoners and generating material solidarity for our imprisoned friends. Begun as a collaboration between anarchist prisoners and anarchists in Maine, Fire Ant seeks…

teleSUR, HIM, JDO (2022-01-23). Incendio en la India deja al menos siete muertos y 16 heridos. telesurtv.net Para las labores de rescate se emplearon 21 camiones de bomberos y un centenar de efectivos.

teleSUR, JL (2022-01-23). Pdte. mexicano vuelve a labores tras someterse a un cateterismo. telesurtv.net "Hay presidente para rato", recalcó López Obrador, quien agrdeció al personal médico por el procedimiento.

Fight Back (2022-01-23). More signs of economic weakness showing up. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – On Thursday, January 20, the U.S. Department of Labor reported that the number of new claims for unemployment insurance rose for the second week in row, to more than 280,000 for the week of January 10-15. This is up almost 40% from the beginning of January. While much of this may be caused by the spike in COVID-19, there have been other signs of economic weakness that started to show up in December. | Signs of economic weakness and growing concerns about rising interest rates also slammed the stock market last week. For the second week in a row, stocks fell. The U.S. central bank, the Federal Reser…

Staff (2022-01-23). 1,000s of unvaccinated NHS staff may be fired later than expected. rt.com Prime Minister Boris Johnson allegedly fears a coup if he goes too far with his Covid-19 policies | The UK government's threat to fire unvaccinated National Health Service (NHS) staff is likely to be delayed amid fears of a Conservative Party revolt against Prime Minister Boris Johnson, according to The Telegraph. | The NHS vaccine mandate will probably be "kicked down the road" and delayed by six months, though not scrapped altogether, an unnamed government source

Editor2 (2022-01-23). Sheikh Jarrah is the Frontline of Israel's Colonialism. orinocotribune.com By Hamza Ali Shah — Jan 20, 2022 | Yesterday, the Palestinian Salhiya family was forcibly evicted from the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah — the destruction of their home was just the latest example of Israel's colonial violence. | Last May, Jerusalem's District Court

Next100 (2022-01-23). Tuesday 1/25: Coming Wave of Green Jobs: The Clean Energy Transition & Workforce Equity. indybay.org Online event…

_____ (2022-01-22). Restaurant Co-Ops Put Economic Justice On The Table. popularresistance.org Food service is not an industry that most would associate as a beacon of social or economic justice. In fact, the restaurant industry is notorious for providing paltry wages, for engaging in shocking levels of wage theft, and for generally being comprised of toxic work environments marked by sexual harassment and human trafficking. | In the face of horrendous work environments and staggering levels of worker exploitation, many restaurant workers and their advocates are advancing alternative models of management and ownership geared toward breaking the cycles of abuse and disempowerment that define much of the ind…

Dean Baker (2022-01-22). Washington Post Says Life Was Bleak for Workers on Eve of Pandemic. cepr.net Yes, that was the clear meaning of a front page article telling readers how bad things are for workers today. The piece told us: "In interviews with more than a dozen workers, many said that despite considerable pay raises — as much as 33 percent, in some cases — they were still struggling to cover …

G. Dunkel (2022-01-22). Haitian government collapsing — U.S. involved in MoàØse assassination? workers.org Conditions for most people in Haiti are dire. While the country has significant economic resources, the wages of Haitian workers are the lowest in the Western Hemisphere, the result of intense exploitation. Estimates from the U.N. are that 20% of Haitians live below the absolute poverty line of $1.23 a . . . |

IMEMC News (2022-01-22). Soldiers Abduct Three Construction Workers, Confiscate Car, Near Ramallah. imemc.org Israeli soldiers abducted, on Friday at night, three Palestinian construction workers in an under-construction school in the Tbeil area in Kafr Malek town, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and confiscated their car. Local sources said the soldiers invaded the Ein Samia area in Kafr Malek, before storming the construction site where …

WSWS (2022-01-22). Graduate students at University of Oregon walk out for safe working conditions. wsws.org Graduate workers at the University of Oregon staged a walkout to protest inadequate measures to protect them against the Omicron surge.

Jorg Muller-Muralt (2022-01-22). Education neoliberalism disguised as social policy. indybay.org The share of the workforce with a college, university or technical college education is rising. The ever-increasing demands on skilled workers and the needs of the labor market are also driving up the cost of education. It is right and necessary to ask questions about financing and affordability.

WSWS (2022-01-22). Qantas to slash wages and conditions of Australian cabin crew. wsws.org The airline is seeking to tear up the existing enterprise agreement after 97 percent of workers rejected a wage-cutting company proposal last month.

WSWS (2022-01-22). Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia. wsws.org India: Telangana teachers oppose forced transfers; Pakistani police attack health workers in Balochistan; South Korean parcel delivery workers strike; Sunbus drivers hold three-day strike in Queensland…

WSWS (2022-01-22). Two hundred autoworkers out due to COVID-19 at Ford's Louisville Assembly Plant. wsws.org Kentucky, with a population of 4.5 million, recently reached the grim milestone of over one million total cases, and 12,687 have died. On Friday, 15,864 new cases and 28 deaths were recorded in the state.

Elana Kessler (2022-01-22). Bay Area Transit Workers Organize. zcomm.org The rank-and-file organizers and newly engaged members are now looking ahead to flexing their muscle in Covid safety fights and contract campaigns in 2022…

WSWS (2022-01-22). UFCW shuts down King Soopers grocery store strike in Denver before workers vote on tentative agreement. wsws.org The strike was shut down by the union bureaucracy precisely at the point when support for 8,000 grocery store workers was strongest.

WSWS (2022-01-22). Australia's COVID explosion shows workers must fight for global elimination of the virus. wsws.org The shift in the world situation finds sharp expression in countries that previously suppressed transmission with public health measures, but have since adopted the "live with the virus" program with disastrous results.

Staff (2022-01-22). Lenin como organizador del Partido. cubadebate.cu Si queremos comprender a Lenin como organizador, hay que observar cómo edificó, piedra sobre piedra, la organización del partido. Examinemos su labor organizadora en Petersburgo, donde trabajó de 1893 a 1895. Sabemos que iba a enseñar a los círculos obreros. Leía a los obreros El Capital de Marx.

Staff (2022-01-22). Vienna talks on right track for final agreement: EU official. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 22 (MNA) — The Vienna talks are moving in the right direction and a final agreement may be within reach, a senior European Union official said on Friday.

WSWS (2022-01-22). Education secretary threatens UK schools opposing scrapping mask-wearing, unions complicit. wsws.org Zahawi's intervention is the latest in a series of vicious threats levelled against schools and parents for resisting the government's policy of mass infection.

Dan Yaseen (2022-01-22). Speaking Truth to Empire about Ukraine Crisis. warisacrime.org "Speaking Truth to Empire" on KFCF 88.1 independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Scott Ritter, a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and author of "Scorpion King: America's Suicidal Embrace of Nuclear Weapons from FDR to Trump" (2020). He served in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF …

Noam Chomsky (2022-01-22). COP26 Pledges Will Fail Unless Pushed by Mass Organizing. zcomm.org Crucially, there is widespread understanding of the measures that can be take, quite realistically, to avert impending disaster and move on to a much better world…

Fight Back (2022-01-22). WAMM still saying 'No to war' – 40th anniversary celebration. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) is still saying "No to war" as the group celebrates 40 years of organizing and fighting back. | On January 16, 2022, people gathered on the spot where WAMM held its first demonstration in 1982. They stuck signs in the snowbanks and fences, and their chants were heard for blocks around, "Money for jobs and education, not for war and occupation!" "Coups and sanctions cost lives, we don't believe the media lies!" | Back in January 1982, more than 100 women attended the WAMM's founding conference where they decided, "No meeting without action!" Kristin Dooley, W…

_____ (2022-01-22). An Interview with Kamau Franklin Of Community Movement Builders. popularresistance.org Well simply put I think his policies, as predicted by any serious left analysis, have continued the terrible predicament of Black life in america. Biden by his own admission was a moderate and was not destined to do anything particularly helpful for the larger collective Black community. His inability to direct his own party to pass his signature legislation, Build Back Better, is a clear indication of how weak he is politically. His refusal to challenge to do anything on voting rights, to extend the housing moratorium to expand healthcare, to cancel student loans, and lastly to have a coherent national policy on…

sputniknews (2022-01-22). How US Weaponises NATO to Maintain Its Own Space Dominance & Deter Russia and China. sputniknews.com NATO released its "overarching" space policy on 17 January, stipulating that any space-based attack on an ally could trigger the alliance's collective defence policy under the bloc's Article 5. What's behind the renewed US focus on space and expansion of NATO activities there?

The Lancet (2022-01-22). [Editorial] Antimicrobial resistance: time to repurpose the Global Fund. thelancet.com Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major cause of death globally, with a burden likely to be higher than that of HIV or malaria, according to the most comprehensive assessment of bacterial AMR to date published in The Lancet. The data presented in this analysis are striking: in 2019, the deaths of 4 ∑95 million people were associated with drug-resistant bacterial infections. 1 ∑27 million deaths were directly caused by AMR. For the first time, the study provides estimates for 204 countries and territories, as well as data for the regional impacts of AMR.

_____ (2022-01-22). Washington Pumping Up War Fever. popularresistance.org An American friend of mine, now living in Russia, has two sons in the US Army. One of them said to him today, "your two sons are going to be fighting your beloved Russia." So the troops are obviously being told to prepare for war. One of those sons, an Army Special Forces soldier has been sent to western Ukraine several times to train the Nazi death squads that have been brought into the Ukrainian Army since the US orchestrated coup d'état in 2014. | Russia has repeatedly stated that they have no intention of invading Ukraine – unless Ukraine first strikes Crimea or the Donbass (eastern Ukraine that borders Russi…

Pavan Kulkarni (2022-01-22). Seven More Killed and Over a Hundred Wounded as Anti-Coup Protests Continue in Sudan. orinocotribune.com By Pavan Kulkarni — Jan 19, 2022 | Mass strike and civil disobedience campaigns are underway in Sudan in rejection of the coup despite violent repression by security forces | More than a…

sputniknews (2022-01-22). 6.3-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Alaska, USGS Reports. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of the US state of Alaska, where a major fishing port is located, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported on Saturday.

Staff (2022-01-22). US carrier heads to surprise NATO wargames. rt.com USS Harry S. Truman joins Neptune Strike '22 wargames in the Mediterranean Sea amid tensions with Russia | The nuclear-powered fleet aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman will take part in next week's NATO exercise in the Mediterranean Sea dubbed "Neptune Strike '22," the Pentagon has The 12-day exercise kicks off Monday and is supposed to "demonstrate NATO's ability to integrate the high-end maritime strike capabilities of an aircraft carrie…

Staff (2022-01-22). Telegram CEO assesses impact of Russia's proposal to ban crypto. rt.com Russian tech billionaire Pavel Durov warns of major risks for high-tech economy | Pavel Durov, the executive director and founder of Telegram, one of the world's most popular messaging apps, has said a proposal to ban cryptocurrency mining and crypto-related transactions via Russian financial services would lead to an inevitable outflow of IT specialists. | The ban, which has been touted by Russia's central bank, would also destroy a number of sectors in the high-tech economy, the billionaire said, noting that no developed country has prohibited cryptocurrencies. | "Such a ban will inevitably slow down the dev…

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2022-01-22: News Headlines

Dean Baker (2022-01-21). Are Used Car Prices Bankrupting Workers? cepr.net The news media have been constantly hyping inflation in recent months. While everyone has been seeing the huge rise in gas prices over the last year (that's what happens when the world reopens after a pandemic), used car prices have risen almost as rapidly. From December 2020 to December 2021 they rose 37.3 percent. This accounted for 1.03 percentage points of the 7.0 percent overall inflation in the last year. | We know the story of these price increases. A fire in a semiconductor plant in Japan has created a worldwide shortage of semiconductors, which has slowed car production. With people unable to get new car…

ShaCamree Gowdy (2022-01-21). Morehouse College Launches Institute To Study Issues Impacting Black Men. bnc.tv Morehouse College has established the Black Men's Research Institute (BMRI) to investigate the economic, social, cultural and personal outcomes of issues affecting Black men, particularly where disparities exist in the United States and beyond. Through collaborative thought leadership, the institute hopes to counter conflicting narratives, distrust and ambiguity by bringing a clear, authoritative voice to bear on Black men's …

Matt Sedlar (2022-01-20). The "Great Resignation" is Hype. Workers Need More Benefits, Not Less. cepr.net The political fortunes of the Democratic Party look dim, but the current economy is not too damn bad. How to explain this seemingly contradictory economic news?

Emma York (2022-01-20). Saskatchewan's COVID-19 failure exposes the bankruptcy of neoliberalism. canadiandimension.com For many organizers and progressives, the pandemic did not reveal anything we did not already know about the way the Canadian economy is structured. It is not that many Canadians did not realize that inequality exists in Canada, or that the lives and labour of many are often treated as expendable, but that the pandemic has brought these existing fault lines into sharp, ugly relief. In Saskatchewan, the provincial government's pandemic response has exposed the failure of neoliberal policies in the face of crisis. | Despite the Omicron variant threatening to overrun the health care system and Premier Scott M…

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