(2022-01-05). Wet'suwet'en Water Protectors Evade RCMP as Police Mobilize For Raid. itsgoingdown.org Report on current situation on Wet'suwet'en territory from the Gidimt'en Camp, as RCMP troops again begin to mobilize for a raid. Two weeks after Wet'suwet'en water protectors evicted Coastal GasLink workers and occupied a key pipeline drill site, water protectors executed a strategic retreat to avoid arrest and violence at the hands of dozens of…
(2022-01-05). Our New Year's Resolution for 2022: To Rise Up and Fight Back. zcomm.org Corporate greed and class warfare are crushing working people. No one is going to save us — we need to rise up together…
(2022-01-05). Eric Adams takes office as Mayor of New York City, pledging to keep schools open amidst record COVID-19 infections. wsws.org New York's second African American mayor is continuing the ruling class policy of herd immunity, while preparing repression against the working class.
(2022-01-05). Starbucks union drive erupts across the country. workers.org 
Buffalo, N.Y. The spark that started in this city last August, when Starbucks workers announced their intent to unionize, has turned into a wildfire of righteous working-class ambition, with new locations across the country filing for union elections. Stores in Mesa, Arizona; Boston; Seattle; Knoxville, Tennessee; Chicago; and Bloomfield, Colorado, . . . |
(2022-01-05). Sri Lankan president blames COVID-19 for economic crisis. wsws.org Rajapakse was seeking to enlist the media in deflecting surging anger among workers and the poor over rising prices and shortages of essentials, and preparing the ground for more austerity measures.
(2022-01-05). Australian health workers warn of hospital system collapse. wsws.org Nurses in New South Wales have been ordered back to work despite testing positive for COVID-19.
(2022-01-05). Cruise ship workers must form committees to protect the lives, health of passengers and crew! wsws.org Urgent action is needed by cruise ship workers to protect health and safety as the Omicron variant spreads across the globe.
(2022-01-05). Infections and hospitalizations skyrocket as Canadian governments facilitate rampant Omicron spread. wsws.org The federal and provincial governments have openly embraced the fascistic policy of "herd immunity," cutting quarantine periods to ensure big business has a ready supply of workers and restricting COVID-19 testing to conceal the scale of mass infection from the public.
(2022-01-05). German government looks to shorten quarantine time despite Omicron and rising infections. wsws.org Instead of taking the necessary measures to protect the health and lives of hundreds of thousands, the ruling class is responding with regulations that do everything to keep workers on the job, enabling the maximising of profits.
(2022-01-05). New legal filing in Mumia's case. workers.org 
The following statement was issued Jan. 4 regarding new legal filings by attorneys for Mumia Abu-Jamal. Mumia Abu-Jamal By Johanna Fernández Campaign to Bring Mumia Home In her novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," Zora Neale Hurston wrote, "There are years that ask questions, and years that answer." With continued . . . |
(2022-01-05). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Between 97 — 100 percent of workers at 87 King Soopers stores in Colorado voted in favor strike action while state sanitation workers in Touluca, Mexico occupied buildings to press demands for back wages.
(2022-01-05). Sudan Prime Minister resigns as revolutionaries push to end military rule. liberationnews.org 
Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok resigned on Sunday amid widespread protests demanding an end to military rule that have faced deadly repression.
(2022-01-05). European Union funds Greece's fascistic anti-refugee offensive—Part 2. wsws.org The camps being built in Greece, with the fulsome praise of bourgeois politicians across the continent, are prisons, enforcing total surveillance and control over detainees.
(2022-01-05). Michigan teachers discuss collective action to close schools. wsws.org Michigan teachers took part in an emergency meeting Tuesday afternoon to organize collective action to close schools and stop the spread of COVID-19.
(2022-01-05). Longest nurses strike in Massachusetts history ends with concessions contract. wsws.org After 301 days on strike, during which they received no strike pay from the Massachusetts Nurses Association, and facing threats of being permanently replaced by management, nurses voted Monday by a margin of 487 to 9 in favor of the agreement.
(2022-01-05). How American capitalism profits on death. wsws.org Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the correspondence between mass infection and stock prices is well established. The markets fall when they suspect measures will be taken to stop the spread of COVID-19, and they rise when the disease is allowed to spread unchecked.
(2022-01-05). Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes found guilty of criminal fraud. wsws.org Elizabeth Holmes, the former billionaire CEO of Theranos, was convicted by a 12-person jury on Tuesday of defrauding investors in the firm that she founded in 2003 with lies about a "lab-on-a-chip" blood testing technology that never worked.
(2022-01-05). Preview: What to Look for in the December Jobs Report. cepr.net There is much good news in the labor market, which is likely to continue with the December jobs report. But, we are still not over the pandemic, nor its influence on the labor market.
(2022-01-05). Capitalists Are Dispensable, Laborers Are Not. dissidentvoice.org 
If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things. — Lewis Carroll1 Capitalists—qua owners of capital—are dispensable, but laborers are not. This thesis flows from a neglected asymmetry between capitalists and …
(2022-01-04). Military's internal 'collateral damage' documents make excuses for war crimes. peoplesworld.org 
The fact that the countless numbers of drone strikes the United States military has conducted in the past few decades have resulted in the deaths of civilians is no surprise to anyone. Since the invasion of Iraq in 1991, up until the end of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, it has become far too common …
(2022-01-04). Newcastle seeks to hijack Lyon transfer for Zenit's Azmoun. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 04 (MNA) — An English media announced that Newcastle has been looking for Sardar Azmoun to make a contract with the Iranian national team striker in winter transfers.
(2022-01-04). Book Review: The St. Louis Commune of 1877: Communism in the Heartland by Mark Kruger. wsws.org Kruger's book is a rebuke to the most basic lie of American history: that there has been no class struggle or socialism in the United States.
(2022-01-04). 2022: Year Three of the pandemic and the emerging global class struggle. wsws.org The pandemic is both a catastrophe of historic dimensions and a monumental crime. Its impact is the result of decisions made by capitalist governments to deliberately prioritize profits over lives and adopt policies that have allowed the virus to spread wildly throughout the global population.
(2022-01-04). CRD Workers' Struggles in Southern Africa Pacifica's Covid Race & Democracy. indybay.org Pacifica's Covid, Race and Democracy covers the growing working class struggles in South Africa from Namibia to South Africa.
(2022-01-04). Marching to Biden's House on New Year's Day. zcomm.org People and the planet need action now, and working class people of all colors and cultures need to be given reasons to come out and vote…
(2022-01-04). A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a friend of Palestine — WW commentary. workers.org 
Our beloved global elder, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, became an ancestor on December 26, passing peacefully amongst his family the day after Christmas at the age of 90. A Nobel Laureate, moral giant and practitioner of radical love, Tutu was integral to the liberation of South Africa from the racist clutches . . . |
(2022-01-04). Venezuela Begins Booster Campaign Prioritizing Healthcare Workers. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's COVID-19 booster vaccination campaign began with healthcare workers this Monday, January 3, reported Vice President Delcy Rodríguez. | The announcement was made from the Miguel àÅngel Rángel University Hospital in Coche, Caracas, where the staff of 1,068 workers began to receive the reinforcement earlier today. | "This week we are going to vaccinate healthcare personnel, those in the front line, those who are fighting the battle," said Rodríguez, explaining that the vaccination booster is for people who received their second dose six months ago or more. | "As of this week, Monday, January 3, all…
(2022-01-04). Bernie to Biden: Dump DeJoy before he harms anti-virus fight. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., has finally had it up to here with Trumpite Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. The senator, a longtime supporter of the U.S. Postal Service and its workers, wants Democratic President Joe Biden to dump DeJoy before the exec's destruction at the USPS endangers the nation's fight against the coronavirus. In a December …
(2022-01-04). Research into rare neurological disorder gives Lisa Miller a new lease on life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The changes were subtle at first. "Almost unnoticeable," says Lisa Miller, remembering the symptoms that seemed to appear suddenly in 2017. At a holiday celebration, the Front Royal, Virginia, project engineer remembers falling out of her shoes. "My left heel kept coming out from my shoes," she says. She chalked it up to too much merriment. A few months later, a co-worker told Lisa her gait was off and that she was dragging her left…
(2022-01-04). "Essential But Excluded": Pandemic Aid Left Out Undocumented Immigrants & Their U.S. Citizen Kids. democracynow.org 
Pandemic relief programs have helped millions of families get through the economic shocks of COVID-19, but undocumented immigrants — many of whom are essential workers — have been largely shut out of such federal aid. Those undocumented workers who have received limited assistance are now losing the pandemic aid they had only started receiving in August through the Biden administration's expanded child tax credit program, which expired and is being blocked from further implementation into Build Back Better legislation. "These families, in spite of the fact that they were essential workers, endured thi…
(2022-01-04). No return to schools! Children's lives matter! wsws.org The UK unions' contempt for their members health and lives could not be clearer. Their statement acknowledges, "last term education staff were more likely than other workers to test positive", only to complain that this was "inevitably leading to disruption of education."
(2022-01-04). After years of setbacks, U.S. labor demonstrates its power. mronline.org 
2021 marked a historic year in labor organizing for workers in the US, with tens of thousands of workers in partaking in union votes and strike actions.
(2022-01-04). Cambodia's NagaWorld workers continue strike despite arrests and crackdown. peoplesdispatch.org Union organizers and striking workers at Cambodia's largest casino and luxury resort have been arrested in recent crackdowns. The workers are demanding the reinstatement of those fired last year and negotiations on wages…
(2022-01-04). Colombia: 3 Construction Workers Killed In Jamundi Municipality. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the Colombian Institute for Development and Peace Studies (INDEPAZ) denounced that three Venezuelan construction workers were murdered in the Jamundi municipality for opposing the behavior patterns imposed by paramilitary groups. This crime constitutes the first massacre of the year in Colombia. | RELATED: | Although the Colombian State and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia signed a Peace Agreement in 201…
(2022-01-04). Facing public outrage and Omicron catastrophe, Ontario government reluctantly delays school reopening. wsws.org While briefly delaying the resumption of in-class teaching, the government is not instituting a single meaningful safety measure to protect school workers or children from the virus once classes resume on January 17.
(2022-01-04). Airline CEOs dictate COVID-19 policy. workers.org 
On Dec. 27, the United States reported a record-breaking number of new COVID-19 cases, with 441,278 infections. On the same day, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued surprising new guidelines shortening the recommended time for isolation for people exposed to or infected with COVID-19 from 10 days to . . . |
(2022-01-04). Betty White's anti-racist act ‚àí an appreciation. workers.org 
There have been many accolades showered on the trailblazing and multiple Emmy-winning comedian Betty White, who died in her sleep Dec. 31, just shy of her 100th birthday Jan. 17. For one, she was one of the first women who starred in her own sitcom TV show, "Life With Elizabeth" . . . |
(2022-01-04). WorkWeek:Homeless/Journalist Attacked, South Africa Clover Strike & UAW Columbia Grads. indybay.org WorkWeek covers the attack on Sausalito Homeless & Journalist Jeremy Porje, Next we cover the South African GIWUSA Clover Workers Strike & UAW Columbia Graduate Students Strike. We also program the SF Mime Troupe's "Red Carol"
(2022-01-04). "There's No Social Distancing": Immigrants Held in ICE Jails at Risk Amid New Omicron Surge. democracynow.org 
As the Omicron variant sets record-high COVID-19 infection rates across the United States, we look at the conditions in the sprawling network of jails run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement where the Biden administration is holding more than 22,000 people. "There's still a lot of people detained. There's no social distancing. People are still facing COVID," says longtime immigrant activist Maru Mora Villalpando, who adds that most COVID infections are coming from unvaccinated workers who are coming from outside of the jails. She describes how people held in GEO Group's Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacom…
(2022-01-04). Worker-Run Union Keeps Up the Fight Against Amazon. zcomm.org Both traditional top-down unions and employee-led organizations are experimenting with how to crack Amazon…
(2022-01-04). Ecosocialist strategy: industrial restructuring as a joint project of the climate movement. indybay.org The findings of international climate research and the IPCC are clear. World society is heading for tipping points that will abruptly change the earth and climate system. As a result, several billion people will lose their previous livelihoods in a few decades.
(2022-01-04). Venezuela: Arreaza Leads Massive Rallies In Barinas Campaign. telesurenglish.net The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) candidate to Barinas state governor Jorge Arreaza continues his political campaign for the elections to be held on Sunday. | RELATED: | On Monday, Arreaza took part in popular assemblies in Cruz Paredes, Obispos, and Barinas, where he listened to what citizens expect of him as governor and confirmed the effectiveness of government programs. | "Our policy proposals stem from suggestions made by citizens in these assemb…
(2022-01-04). Neoliberal Era Was Rich in Revolutionary Lessons. Movements Must Learn Them. truthout.org 
Colin Barker, a leading British Marxist intellectual, died in 2019 before the publication of his final work,
(2022-01-04). Theranos founder convicted of fraud & conspiracy. rt.com 
Elizabeth Holmes, once touted as the Steve Jobs of biotechnology, could now face a lengthy prison term | The founder and CEO of 'revolutionary' blood-testing health technology company Theranos, has been found guilty on four counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud investors, but not patients. | Elizabeth Holmes, 37, was found not guilty on four charges revolving around "wire fraud against Theranos paying patients," and the jury in California also remained deadlocked on three other charges on Monday. But with a partially guilty verdict she could still face up to 20 years in prison for each count, although…
(2022-01-04). General Soleimaní's Assassination: Between Failed Imperialist Obsession and Deterrence. libya360.wordpress.com Yoselina Guevara Two years ago, on January 3, 2020, in Baghdad, the Americans perpetrated the assassination of the legendary general of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Qassem Soleimani, also losing his life Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, former deputy chief of the Iraqi Hashd Shaabi. The reasons that led Washington to commit this…
(2022-01-04). Marxist IQ: Democracy hypocrisy. cpusa.org 
The Biden administration hypocritically portrays the U.S. as the leader of world forces advancing "democracy" against "authoritianism," holding global forums to propagate these ideas, yet targets the People's Republic of China with boycotts of the Olympics, Cuba with the continuation of a 60-year blockade, and other nations with covert and overt support for factions …
(2022-01-04). New Year's greetings from around the world. cpusa.org 
Enjoy a selection of festive greetings from international political parties, as we zigzag around the globe. Tudeh Party of Iran Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB) (video) Communist Party of the Russian Federation Kate≈ôina Koneƒçná, chair of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia Trade Union Association of Bohemia, Moravia & Silesia, Czech Republic …
(2022-01-04). Chicago Teachers Union stands up to Chicago Public School's COVID policy. liberationnews.org 
The union is demanding an "occupational pause" if the district can not provide an adequate safety plan as teachers and students return to buildings.
(2022-01-04). Amid record-breaking COVID infections, Pennsylvania governor and teacher unions call for in-person learning to continue. wsws.org The COVID catastrophe throughout the state is being fueled by unsafe school openings, which Pennsylvania Federation of Teachers president and Democratic Governor Tom Wolf are demanding begin January 4 so that parents can return to work.
(2022-01-04). Nurses to feds: Put people before profits in COVID fight. peoplesworld.org 
OAKLAND, Calif.—The nation's largest union of registered nurses, National Nurses United, urged the federal government, and specifically the Centers for Disease Control, not to put profits before people and to hold the line on its guidance for firms in the anti-coronavirus fight. But it lost. The union, citing the rapid spread of the coronavirus's Omicron …