(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…
(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). 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.
(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.
(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…
(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.
(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…
(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.
(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…
(2022-01-24). Can Revolution Take Root In Rhode Island?>. dailyposter.com 
(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…
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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 …
(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.
(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.
(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…
(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.
(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…
(2022-01-24). Sunday 1/30: Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights: Organizing Conference for Reproductive Rights on Zoom. indybay.org Online via Zoom…
(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…
(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.
(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?>
(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…
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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…
(2022-01-24). Munich anti-BDS policy is illegal, German federal court rules. electronicintifada.net Meanwhile, Palestine solidarity supporters face lawsuit in Austria.
(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.
(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.
(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…
(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…
(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,…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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, …
(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…
(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.
(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). 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…
(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). 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…