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