(2022-01-17). One island becoming a Mecca for crypto millionaires. rt.com 
Bitcoin enthusiasts are flocking to Puerto Rico, thanks to tax breaks and an island lifestyle | The US territory of Puerto Rico has become the new hot destination for cryptocurrency entrepreneurs as it has crypto-friendly policies, including huge tax breaks to those who spend at least 183 days on the island each year. | US citizens can hold on to their American passports while not having to pay any taxes on capital gains. | "That's where all my friends are. I don't have one friend left in New York, and maybe the pandemic accelerated this, but every single one of them has moved to Puerto Rico," crypto entrepren…
(2022-01-17). Whole Foods Protest on Bezos' Birthday. indybay.org On a national day of action to Support Amazon Workers, Raging Grannies, Vigil for Democracy, and Dance of Peace protested in the street in front of Whole Foods in Palo Alto.
(2022-01-17). Tuesday 2/15: Voting Rights Speaker: Activist LaTosha Brown, Black Voters Matter. indybay.org Online event…
(2022-01-17). Doctor discusses desperate situation at Sri Lankan COVID-19 treatment hospital. wsws.org "Health workers held protests demanding a lockdown, as well as more tests and health facilities. The government only declared a second lockdown because this opposition was developing." — Sri Lanka doctor…
(2022-01-17). Thousands of airline workers out due to COVID-19 infections in the US. wsws.org Airlines cut thousands of flights due to worker illness and severe winter weather over the past two months.
(2022-01-17). Germany's health care workers' bonus—another insult to employees. wsws.org While companies have been handed tens of billions since the start of the pandemic, those in the medical wards who have risked their lives and health every day for more than two years get only pittances.
(2022-01-17). Management-union collaboration ends àáimsata≈ü wildcat strike in Turkey. wsws.org The wildcat strike of metalworkers at the àáimsata≈ü factory in Mersin has been ended as a result of management-union collaboration.
(2022-01-17). 32-year-old Ford Chicago Assembly Plant worker dies of COVID-19. wsws.org Caleb Dye's death was a preventable tragedy, under conditions in which management, the unions and the political establishment have allowed COVID to spread uncontrolled in workplaces and schools.
(2022-01-17). Australian childcare centres hit by COVID outbreaks. wsws.org Child care workers are among those confronting the highest risk of infection in their workplace.
(2022-01-17). How can we combat far-right pandemic populism? greenleft.org.au Given the shit show from government in response to the pandemic, it's little wonder the far right is trying to capitalise on the widespread and growing discontent. Felix Dance argues that workers, those who have kept people safe over the last two years, have to take a lead.
(2022-01-17). Spanish scientists oppose PSOE-Podemos call to treat COVID-19 like the flu. wsws.org The Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government plans to ignore mass COVID-19 infections and deaths by treating it as an "endemic disease" similar to influenza.
(2022-01-17). "A Radical Revolution Of Values" dailyposter.com 
(2022-01-17). Tuesday 1/25: Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert. indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…
(2022-01-17). Boston students walk out to demand remote learning & stronger COVID safety. liberationnews.org 
Students across Boston walked out of their schools at 10: 30 a.m. on Jan. 14 in protest against unsafe learning conditions. Their demands align with the Boston Teachers Union — that state officials strengthen COVID-19 safety protocols and make remote learning an option.
(2022-01-17). North Macedonia's Parliament Elects New Prime Minister, Approves New Coalition Government. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Members of North Macedonian Parliament late Sunday voted for a new coalition government, with Dimitar Kovacevski, leader of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM), elected as a new prime minister, national media reported on Monday.
(2022-01-17). Redondo Beach, California high school students walk out amid mass COVID-19 infections. wsws.org Redondo Union High School senior Michael Lee-Chang spoke with the WSWS on the students' courageous actions and the deepening spread of COVID-19 within schools.
(2022-01-17). SEIU Members On Death Of Ludwig Leota,Chicago Teachers/ Zero Covid vs Permanent Covid. indybay.org WorkWeek covers SEIU 1021 Members On Death Of Ludwig Leota, Chicago Teachers & Zero Covid vs Permanent Covid 19, Vermont AFL-CIO On Rise Of Fascism, Journalist Jeremy Portjo's Assault & Argentina General Strike Against A Mining Company.
(2022-01-17). 'Drone attack' kills three at Abu Dhabi airport. rt.com 
Yemen's Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for the strike | Three people were killed and six wounded in an apparent drone attack on Abu Dhabi on Monday, UAE police have said. Yemen's Houthi rebels have announced a strike "deep" in Emirati territory. | Three fuel trucks exploded in the industrial Mussafah area near storage facilities used by oil firm ADNOC, after which a "minor fire" broke out at a construction site at Abu Dhabi International Airport, the Emirati WAM news agency reported, citing police. | Preliminary investigation suggests that the blast and the fire were caused by a drone attack. | Poli…
(2022-01-17). Journalists Under Attack,The CA Shield Act & The Cases Of Brian Carmody & Jeremy Portje. indybay.org David Snyder, the executive director of the First Amendment Coalition talks about the cases of independent journalists Bryan Carmody and Jeremy Portje who have both been illegally assaulted by police and had their equipment seized despite the California Shield Act which is supposed to protect them. He also discusses the judges who have issued warrants to take this action.
(2022-01-17). Starmer and Corbyn try to prop up UK government as Johnson flounders. wsws.org Labour's contortions excusing their refusal to call a vote of no confidence are a cover for the party's real agenda—preventing a popular struggle against the hated Johnson government.
(2022-01-17). Xi calls for int'l solidarity, cooperation amid global crisis. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday called for solidarity and cooperation of the international community amid a global crisis, saying that "small boats may not survive a storm, but a giant ship is strong enough to brave a storm."
(2022-01-17). Cuba shows an alternative to Big Pharma hegemony through global solidarity. greenleft.org.au Cuba puts people before profits — showing the world an alternative to the monopolistic practices of Big Pharma. It promotes a public health system, state-funded research and shows global solidarity through tech transfer and vaccine delivery to developing countries, writes Richa Chintan.
(2022-01-17). Wednesday 1/19: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts w/ author Rebecca Hall. indybay.org Online via Zoom or YouTube livestream…
(2022-01-17). Fire ravages chemical plant in Passaic, New Jersey. wsws.org More than 200 firefighters responded to the city's second major industrial fire in less than a year, narrowly averting an environmental disaster.
(2022-01-16). Kazakhstan Chaos: An Opportunity, But for Who? newatlas.report January 17, 2022 (Brian Berletic — NEO) — Kazakhstan has suffered severe nationwide violence allegedly prompted by fuel price concerns. However, it quickly became clear that it was instead actually foreign-sponsored destabilization which was, at best, using legitimate public concerns as cover for attempted regime change. A Russian-led deployment of Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) …
(2022-01-16). Whole Foods Protest on Bezos' Birthday. indybay.org On a national day of action to Support Amazon Workers, Raging Grannies, Vigil for Democracy, and Dance of Peace protested in the street in front of Whole Foods in Palo Alto.
(2022-01-16). Tuesday 2/15: Voting Rights Speaker: Activist LaTosha Brown, Black Voters Matter. indybay.org Online event…
(2022-01-16). Rentier capitalism and class warfare in Kazakhstan. zcomm.org Blame 'free' market reforms that benefit the rich and powerful at the expense of the working class for the country's recent protests…
(2022-01-16). For a mass movement to halt in-person classes across Canada and save lives! wsws.org The decision by provincial governments across the country to reopen schools to in-person learning amid a tsunami of Omicron infections is criminally reckless. It must be resisted through walkouts and other forms of working class struggle.
(2022-01-16). On Contact: 'Foregone' — The Power Of Fiction. popularresistance.org Russell Banks in books such as 'Continental Drift', 'Affliction' and 'The Sweet Hereafter' has long chronicled the struggles and inner torment that come with being a member of our dispossessed working class. In his new novel, 'Foregone', he turns his lens on the inner life of artists, in this case a well-known documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife. Fife, who fled to Canada, supposedly to avoid the draft, is dying from the ravages of cancer. He is confined to a wheelchair, wracked by pain, pumped full of medications, and unable to eat solid food. His final desire, in front of a camera, is to expose to his wife of 40…
(2022-01-16). Starbucks workers hold unionization drive at Cleveland shop. liberationnews.org 
"If you have each others' backs there is nothing that Starbucks can do to stop you."
(2022-01-16). Striking Columbia-U workers built a more democratic union and won big gains. zcomm.org After striking for 10 weeks, student workers at Columbia University have a tentative agreement that members will vote on, but they also have a stronger, more democratic union.
(2022-01-16). Wednesday 1/19: Care is Essential Telephone Town Hall w/ National Domestic Workers Alliance & SEIU. indybay.org
(2022-01-16). William Scheuerman's "A New American Labor Movement" (SUNY Press). zcomm.org During 2021, there were signs of growing militancy in America's beleaguered union movement, as thousands of workers went out on strike at John Deere, Kellogg's, Nabisco, Frito-Lay, Volvo, Frontier Communications, New York University, and Columbia University, as did thousands more from the ranks of union carpenters, hospital workers, airport workers, and coal miners. Even so,
(2022-01-16). Unions allege petrol bombs, intimidation as strike intensifies at South African Dairy giant. mronline.org 
Amid threats and intimidation, the workers' action at Clover has been strengthened by worker solidarity as well as the increasing support of civil society for its boycott campaign.
(2022-01-16). Democrat group hides comments accusing Nike of slave labor after praising company. rt.com 
Occupy Democrats scrubbed its page of references to slave labor and child workers after celebrating Nike's decision to threaten unvaccinated employees with dismissal | Occupy Democrats, a popular left-wing political advocacy group which supports the US Democratic Party, was caught hiding comments expressing concern about slave labor after it praised sportswear company Nike. | The group praised Nike on social media after the multi-billion-dollar company threatened to fire employees who remained unvaccinated against Covid-19. | "Nike sends a defiant letter to its remaining unvaccinated employees that they will b…
(2022-01-16). Wednesday 1/19: Socially Responsible Investing: Funding Retirement that Benefits Worker, Nature & Society. indybay.org Online webinar…
(2022-01-16). An In-Depth Analysis of the Barinas Elections. orinocotribune.com According to a National Electoral Council (CNE) bulletin issued at 11: 20 p.m. on election night (January 9) in Barinas, Venezuela, Sergio Garrido obtained 172,497 votes (55.36% of the total vote count), while Jorge Arreaza, candidate of the Great Patriotic Pole and United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) obtained 128,583 votes (41.27%). | Another opponent, Claudio Fermín received 5,528 votes (1.6%). General voter turnout was 51.8%. | Thus, regarding the result of this election, it is important to specify some key points. | 1. The Preceding Inertia | In strictly mathematical terms, by combining the opposition v…
(2022-01-16). We Need to Build, Join, and Connect Internationalist Organizations, Today! anchor.fm In this episode I go over the importance of developing and connecting struggles all across the world. There are already ongoing resistance struggles, national liberation struggles, and other fights for freedom. We need to find ways to join, support one another, aid in the success of one another, and build solidarity together. We need a mass movement, now, and it's not gonna come out of thin air. We have to build it ourselves. Long live the People's revolution!
(2022-01-16). Tuesday 1/25: Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert. indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…
(2022-01-16). As Omicron rages, teachers and students fight for safety measures in Chicago and elsewhere. mronline.org 
Chicago Teachers Union members voted by 77 percent on January 4 to go fully remote until effective Covid mitigations to protect educators and students were approved by members and enacted, or until the current Covid surge subsided.
(2022-01-16). Video of Indian Troops Dancing at Freezing Temperatures in Kashmir Goes Viral. sputniknews.com India's Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed heavy snowfall and temperatures dropping to -10 degress Celsius. Indian Army troops who are based in the region have reverted to age-old remedies to keep themselves warm in these seemingly harsh weather conditions.
(2022-01-16). As Omicron Rages, Teachers And Students Fight For Safety Measures. popularresistance.org Chicago Teachers Union members voted by 77 percent on January 4 to go fully remote until effective Covid mitigations to protect educators and students were approved by members and enacted, or until the current Covid surge subsided. | Within a week they had a tentative agreement on mitigation measures. Members ratified it January 12 by 56 percent and returned to in-person teaching. | With citywide positivity rates over 20 percent and hospitals overwhelmed, Chicago Public Schools had already faced staffing shortages the first few days of the year. When the district failed to implement adequate testing protocols, CT…
(2022-01-16). Freedom To Stay, Freedom To Move: An Interview With Harsha Walia. popularresistance.org Harsha Walia has been involved in anti-colonial and anti-capitalist migrant justice movements for the past two decades. Her first book, Undoing Border Imperialism, offered a movement analysis of the foundational connections between migration, borders and imperialism, with insights into the grassroots organizing her work comes out of. Building on this, her latest work, Border and Rule offers a crucial resource for going beyond nation-based thinking about border regimes around the world and building an internationalist movement for their abolition. | In Border and Rule, Walia avoids comparisons of one border regime…
(2022-01-16). Thousands of Students Stage Walkouts, Protest In-Person Classes Amid COVID Surge. truthout.org 
Thousands of U.S. students and teachers are organizing walkouts and work stoppages over their schools' lack of COVID-19 precautions — a development that comes amid an unprecedented upsurge in coronavirus cases as the the Omicron variant tears through the nation. | On Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of New York City school students
(2022-01-16). Corona Totalitarianism and the Masses. libya360.wordpress.com Carlos Fazio The massive acceptance of the draconian rules imposed by various governments in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic could lead to a new totalitarian system. A technocratic system of transhumanist ideology, with the eventual ensuing atrocities that would be justified under the banner of collective welfare. According to this hypothesis of Mattias Desmet,…
(2022-01-16). Following historic strike by French educators, government comes to the negotiating table. peoplesdispatch.org Thousands of teachers and education sector staff struck work across France on January 13 against the French government's erratic rules regarding testing at schools. They also sought better safety measures and working conditions…
(2022-01-16). SEIU Members On Death Of Ludwig Leota,Chicago Teachers/ Zero Covid vs Permanent Covid. indybay.org WorkWeek covers SEIU 1021 Members On Death Of Ludwig Leota, Chicago Teachers & Zero Covid vs Permanent Covid 19, Vermont AFL-CIO On Rise Of Fascism, Journalist Jeremy Portjo's Assault & Argentina General Strike Against A Mining Company.
(2022-01-16). Financial Markets under capitalism. mronline.org 
One of the most important arguments advanced by John Maynard Keynes, the renowned economist, was that the operation of financial markets under capitalism is deeply flawed.
(2022-01-16). Bank privatization isn't conducive for financial markets under capitalism. peoplesdispatch.org One of the most important arguments advanced by John Maynard Keynes, the renowned economist, was that the operation of financial markets under capitalism is deeply flawed. Such markets are intrinsically incapable of distinguishing between "enterprise" where an asset is held because of the stream of returns that its ownership yields over time, and "speculation" where an asset is held not for this yield but only because it can be sold at a higher price tomorrow to someone else who in turn would buy it because he believes that he can sell it at an even higher price the day after tomorrow. | The existence of speculat…