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2022-03-11: News Headlines

Dave DeCamp (2022-03-11). President Biden Blames Inflation on 'Putin's Price Hike'. news.antiwar.com On Thursday, President Biden released a statement on the Labor Department's consumer price index for February, which found consumer prices rose 0.8% in February and increased by 7.9% over the past 12 months, putting inflation at a fresh 40-year high. In his statement, Biden blamed the increase in inflation on Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Today's …

WSWS (2022-03-11). The NATO campaign against Russia will drive escalating class struggle across the world. wsws.org The disastrous global impact of the sanctions regime against Russia and the gutting of social spending to pay for the military will drive explosive struggles, in which mass anger will intersect with the growing radicalization which is already underway as a consequence of the pandemic.

WSWS (2022-03-11). US educators call for building a mass movement to prevent World War III and end the pandemic. wsws.org Rank-and-file committees of educators, parents and students met across the US last weekend to adopt a resolution opposing the drive to World War III and calling for a mass movement of the working class to stop the pandemic.

WSWS (2022-03-11). As inflation surges, Spanish unions and Podemos slash real wages. wsws.org The union bureaucracies and the Socialist Party-Podemos government in Spain are carrying out the impoverishment of the working class via inflation.

Milos Raickovich (2022-03-11). Serbian activist speaks out: Stop the war on Russia. workers.org The author is a Serbian composer living in the U.S. who actively opposed the U.S.-NATO war against Yugoslavia in 1999. On March 24, 1999, NATO crossed its own redline, when it bombed Serbia and Montenegro, the last two republics still remaining at that time in a union of the South-Slavic . . . |

G. Dunkel (2022-03-11). Student-community-labor coalition grows in New York City. workers.org New York City A growing student-community-labor coalition held a large rally March 6 on demands related to New York City educational institutions. After gathering at Brooklyn Borough Hall, participants marched over the Brooklyn Bridge to Foley Square in Manhattan. Brooklyn Borough Hall, March 6 WW Photo: G. Dunkel Key organizers . . . |

Mark Gruenberg (2022-03-11). Baseball's back, as tentative pact ends lockout of workers/players. peoplesworld.org

WSWS (2022-03-11). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Thousands of South African dairy food workers continuing four-month strike over jobs and pay amidst media blackout are joined by South African Sibanye-Stillwater gold miners on pay strike; strikes continue throughout French healthcare system over low staffing levels and poor pay, joined by transport workers in Lyons opposed to restructuring; Iraqi oil production graduates in Basra and workers in oil field area demand jobs, while public sector workers walk out over wage arrears in Kurdistan…

WSWS (2022-03-11). Australia: Flight attendants' union orchestrating sell out of Qantas workers. wsws.org The Flight Attendants Association of Australia has declared its support for a cost-cutting enterprise agreement previously rejected by 97 percent of workers, after the airline threatened to tear up the existing deal.

A Guest Author (2022-03-11). Starbucks Workers United Zindabad! workers.org By Padma Padma gave this lightly edited talk at the Boston Workers Power Day demonstration Feb. 26. Workers Power Day, Boston, Feb. 26. WW Photo: Steve Kirschbaum I am a health care worker in the Boston area. At the outset let me express my solidarity and deep admiration for the . . . |

GIWUSA (2022-03-11). South African Striking Clover Workers Occupy IDC Offices. indybay.org South African striking Clover workers today occupied the IDC offices to call for the removal of the billionaire Israeli Wertheim family from control of the largest dairy in South Africa and for it to be run by the workers under workers control…

Fight Back (2022-03-11). Grand Rapids, MI: FRSO rallies for reproductive rights on International Women's Day. fightbacknews.org Grand Rapids, MI – On March 8, International Women's Day, Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) in Michigan organized a rally attended by 20 community members in defense of reproductive rights. Assembling in downtown Grand Rapids, speakers included Olivia Lashley in FRSO; Aly the Activist, chairwoman of the Royal Black Panther Party of Grand Rapids and Charli Karnstein, a member of the local Socialist Alternative chapter. | The rally was hosted by Barbara Howard, a member of FRSO, who began with a call for a united front to combat the attacks on abortion rights by the far right in Texas, Mississippi and Flo…

WSWS (2022-03-11). SEP (Australia) deregistered under anti-democratic electoral laws. wsws.org Despite this blatant political censorship, the SEP will stand candidates in the federal election, if and when it is called, and conduct the broadest possible campaign for a genuine socialist alternative.

WSWS (2022-03-11). Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates line up behind war drive, denounce DSA. wsws.org All the claims of the DSA that the Democratic Party can be reformed through a pressure campaign are exposed in the entire course of events around the war drive against Russia.

Editor2 (2022-03-11). Cuba, Nicaragua & Mexico Lead World Gender Parity in Parliaments. orinocotribune.com Latin America continues to lead over the rest of the world in parliamentary gender parity. | Cuba, Nicaragua and Mexico have been ranked 2nd, 3rd and 4th in the world, having achieved the highest proportion of women in parliament out of 189 countries. What's more, these three along with Rwanda and the United Arab Emirates are the only five countries in the world to have achieved gender parity in their lower or single legislative house (National Assembly, Congress, or Parliament) as of February 2022. | The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) released its 2021 Women in Parliament report of countries with the best gende…

Giorgio Manfredi (2022-03-11). The AFL-CIO's Nazi Friendly Union in Ukraine. covertactionmagazine.com The AFL-CIO recently hosted a fundraiser by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) which aimed to support labor organizations in …

Fight Back (2022-03-11). Day two of Minneapolis teachers strike. fightbacknews.org St. Paul, MN – Thousands of striking Minneapolis teachers, education support professionals, along with supporters rallied at the Capitol Building in Saint Paul, March 9. Educators are firm in demanding a decent contract, and state they are ready to stay on strike until their demands are met. There has been widespread support from other trade unions and the community.

WSWS (2022-03-11). German trade unions support military build-up and declare an industrial truce. wsws.org Just days after Chancellor Olaf Schulz announced a gigantic increase in military spending to frenetic applause, the trade unions signalled their approval.

National Organization of Women (2022-03-11). Thursday 3/31: 2022 Feminist State of the Union w/ NOW. indybay.org Virtual event…

Slingshot collective (2022-03-11). Sunday 3/13: 34th birthday party for Slingshot collective. indybay.org Long Haul infoshop – 3124 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, CA 94705 – 510 540 0751 – 2 blocks from Ashby BART – corner of Shattuck and Woolsey across from La Pena…

WSWS (2022-03-11). Striking Minneapolis teachers denounce increased military funding while schools starve: "War fills the capitalists' coffers" wsws.org The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers has already dropped its call for a 20 percent raise in the first year of the contract, bowing before the Democratic Party's demands for austerity as the war drive accelerates.

WSWS (2022-03-11). Chicago-area teachers and staff strike over pay, class sizes. wsws.org After working without a contract since the start of the school year, Proviso Township teachers, just outside Chicago, launch strike action.

MCYC, Pomo Land Back, FFF, more (2022-03-11). Friday 3/25: Sacramento: Global Climate Strike – Rally for Climate Crisis & Indigenous Justice. indybay.org West Steps of California State Capitol, 1315 10th St, Sacramento, CA 95814. | This is a peaceful rally for climate justice and racial justice.

Patrick Gallegos (2022-03-11). Indigenous pueblos, environmentalists fight back against Los Alamos intrusion into sacred land. liberationnews.org To date, no environmental studies have been conducted for the Los Alamos upgrade project, and no Pueblo ceremonial kivas, petroglyphs, and prayer sites have been considered. This unnecessary, wasteful project is designed to build a larger power grid for the Laboratory's nuclear projects — sacrificing the sanctity of essential cultural resources attached to tribal communities.

Staff (2022-03-11). Inder e Icap firman acuerdo de colaboración. cubadebate.cu Un convenio de colaboración concebido como paso superior en el propósito de afianzar sus vínculos fue firmado este jueves por el Instituto Nacional de Deportes, Educación Física y Recreación y el Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos. Fue rubricado por sus presidentes, Osvaldo Vento Montiller y Fernando González Llort.

WSWS (2022-03-11). New Zealand police end borehole drilling at Pike River mine after finding more human remains. wsws.org The Labour Party-led government permanently sealed Pike River mine last year, preventing the recovery of the bodies of 29 men who perished in the 2010 underground disaster, and locking away vital evidence of what caused the explosions.

Fidencio Aldama Solidarity Group (2022-03-11). Audio: Message From Yaqui Political Prisoner Fidencio Aldama. indybay.org "I ask everyone to show solidarity with my case." -Fidencio Aldama…

Thomas Piketty (2022-03-11). Sanction the oligarchs, not the people! indybay.org It is time to develop a new kind of sanctions. They must be targeted specifically at the oligarchs who have become wealthy as a result of the regime. This would require the establishment of an international financial registry, a measure that will not please the Western wealthy.

Anonymous103 (2022-03-10). Biolabs In Ukraine, A Smoking Gun That White House Dubbed As Fake News. southfront.org Written by Piero Messina | Someone in Washington is telling lies. Is Jen Psaki a liar? The White House spokesperson has branded the existence of chemical and biological research laboratories in Ukraine, also run by the US State Department, as fake news. Jen Psaki, then summoned the press to define the absurd allegations and an obvious ploy to try to justify further future attacks: "We took note of Russia's false claims about alleged US biological weapons laboratories and chemical weapons development in Ukraine. We have also seen Chinese officials echo these conspiracy theories ". | And again: "They are an obvi…

WSWS (2022-03-10). Pseudo-left International Marxist Tendency provides cover for imperialist powers in conflict with Russia. wsws.org The IMT's role amid the current war drive is to repackage with "Marxist" phraseology the propaganda of the US State Department and other NATO countries that they have no intention of militarily intervening against Russia.

Max Blumenthal (2022-03-10). VIDEO: Congress screws American workers to escalate war on Russia. thegrayzone.com As gas prices and inflation surge, Max Blumenthal questions members of Congress on the economic toll American workers face from escalating sanctions on Russia, and on their support for escalating the war in Ukraine.

Vijay Prashad (2022-03-10). The life of a great marxist: Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022). peoplesdispatch.org Born in Muzaffarnagar, in British India, Aijaz read extensively from an early age and allowed his mind to drift out of the qasba of his childhood. His father shared some radical books with him, which helped him to understand the world outside the doab region of the Indo-Gangetic Plain and the world beyond the confines of the capitalist system. From an early age, Aijaz Ahmad began to dream of internationalism and socialism. He studied in Lahore, Pakistan, where his family had migrated after the Partition in 1947-48, but these studies took place as much in the college classrooms as they did in the cafés and in the…

_____ (2022-03-10). US Sanctions: An Act Of War Against Workers. popularresistance.org Mass media in the United States and throughout the countries of Western Europe are exhaustively and intensely depicting the suffering of the Ukrainian people as Ukraine confronts the Russian army. | It is the U.S. and its NATO proxy who have now broadened the war being fought in Ukraine. | What the media is not covering is the impact of this war on the working and poor people inside Russia. | In an alliance with the most economically powerful capitalist governments and their central banks, the U.S. has managed to cut the Russian economy off from many of the world's financial arteries. According to the conservativ…

_____ (2022-03-10). Pew Survey: Workers Who Quit A Job In 2021. popularresistance.org The COVID-19 Pandemic Set Off Nearly Unprecedented Churn In The U.S. Labor Market. Widespread Job Losses In The Early Months Of The Pandemic Gave Way To Tight Labor Markets In 2021, Driven In Part By What's Come To Be Known As The Great Resignation. The Nation's "Quit Rate" Reached A 20-Year High Last November. | A New Pew Research Center Survey Finds That Low Pay, A Lack Of Opportunities For Advancement And Feeling Disrespected At Work Are The Top Reasons Why Americans Quit Their Jobs Last Year. The Survey Also Finds That Those Who Quit And Are Now Employed Elsewhere Are More Likely Than Not To Say Their Current…

_____ (2022-03-10). Wexner Center For The Arts Workers Want To Unionize. popularresistance.org taff at the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University have announced plans to form a union with the hope of making the museum an "equitable, transparent and sustainable workplace." | Wex Workers United sent a letter to Wexner Center and university leaders Friday asking them to recognize their new union, formed in collaboration with AFSCME Ohio Council 8, according to a news release. | "We believe our endeavor is inextricably linked to the center's stated mission and ongoing commitment to social justice and institutional transformation," according to Wex Workers United's letter to leadership. "These goal…

John Logan (2022-03-10). Starbucks's Multimillion-Dollar Anti-Union Effort May Have Backfired. truthout.org The last two months have seen a veritable whirlwind of labor activism at Starbucks. Workers at

Ana Vraƒçar (2022-03-10). 40,000 education workers in Slovenia go on strike. peoplesdispatch.org Forty thousand workers from the education sector in Slovenia went on strike on March 9, after the Ministry of Education failed to act on repeated requests to bring salaries in line with inflation and recognize the contribution of education workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Trade Union of Education, Science and Culture of Slovenia (SVIZ), the strike spread over 652 education institutions, including kindergartens, schools, students' homes, and universities, affecting more than half a million people. | SVIZ has been calling on Simona Kustec, the Minister of Education, to begin collective negotia…

WSWS (2022-03-10). USW says its sellout contract was passed at key naval shipyard in Newport News, Virginia. wsws.org Even if its claims were true—and there is widespread skepticism over the accuracy of the vote count—the United Steelworkers (USW) pushed its deal through with the votes of barely a third of its 10,000 members in the shipyard.

WSWS (2022-03-10). Eaton aerospace workers in Iowa reject second contract offer, after company threatens to hire permanent replacements. wsws.org The strike by Eaton workers no doubt is seen by the American government as an impediment to the military supply production needed to ramp up the war drive.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-03-10). N.Y. Times tech workers vote in landslide for New York News Guild. peoplesworld.org NEW YORK —By a landslide margin of 404-88, tech and software workers at The New York Times voted to unionize with the New York News Guild. When certified and after gaining a first contract, they'll join the current 1,300 regular Times staffers who are already New York Guild members. "We did it, y'all," the tech …

Sharon Zhang (2022-03-10). Three More Starbucks Stores in Buffalo Area Vote to Form Union. truthout.org Starbucks workers have voted to form a union in three more stores in the Buffalo region, marking a major triumph for the union, which is facing fierce pushback from the company. | Workers at the Sheridan & Bailey, French & Transit and Walden & Anderson stores are now unionized, voting 15 to 12, 15 to 12 and 8 to 7 in favor of the union, respectively. Six stores have now voted to unionize, with five stores total in Buffalo and one in Mesa, Arizona. Only one location that has had a union election so far has…

WSWS (2022-03-10). Live updates: American workers and youth speak out against US imperialism and Russian militarism in Ukraine. wsws.org In the hours and days ahead, the World Socialist Web Site will be posting statements against war from workers and young people across the United States. Anti-war sentiment is censored from the corporate media. Post your statements on social media to show the world that the US population does not want war using the hashtag #SpeakOutAgainstWW3.

ILWU Local 10 Presiden Farless Dailey (2022-03-10). What the A's stadium plan will do to Oakland's port, its workers and the CA supply chain. indybay.org Farless Dailey, ILWU Local 10 President in an opinion contribution in the SF Chronicle talks about the privatization of he port of Oakland and it's connection to charters and the privatization of the schools by the billionaire A's and GAP owner John Fisher. He also controls the KIPP and Rocketship charter school chain…

The Socialist Program (2022-03-10). Lee Camp — CENSORED. liberationnews.org Brian is joined by Lee Camp, a writer, comedian, activist and journalist. For eight years Lee hosted the television show "Redacted Tonight", but this anti-war, anti-imperialist program has now been shut down along with all the shows on RT America amid the anti-Russia frenzy sweeping the country.

Fight Back (2022-03-10). Tampa: International Women's Day protest opposes attacks on reproductive freedom. fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – In light of the continuing attacks on reproductive and women's rights, both here in Florida and across the country, members of Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), and other organizations in the Tampa area held a rally this past Saturday, March 5 on the corner of Bearss and Florida Avenues. | Florida's abortion ban, just passed by the legislature, would ban people from seeking abortions after 15 weeks, and makes no exception for survivors of assault, incest or trafficking. Protesters shouted chants of, "Racist, sexist, anti-gay: GOP go away" and, "Pro-life, that's a lie, they don't care if peo…

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-03-10). New Vietnamese amb. submits credentials to Amir-Abdollahian. en.mehrnews.com The newly-appointed ambassador of Socialist Republic of Vietnam submitted a copy of his credential to Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Thursday.

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-03-10). Colombia's Media Reacts to Venezuela-US Talks. orinocotribune.com Four days after the announcement of a meeting between President Nicolás Maduro and a high-ranking US delegation in Venezuela, shock waves are being felt across the Latin American political landscape, particularly in Colombia. | In recent hours, Colombian media went so far as expressing the need for President Iván Duque to dialogue with the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution. Duque has led a prolonged conspiracy to overthrow President Maduro, following the script directed by the White House, that now has apparently evaporated into thin air. | All this occurs at a time when the entire globe has its eyes on the pos…

WSWS (2022-03-10). Amsterdam Hermitage ends "Russian avant-garde: Revolution in art" exhibit. wsws.org The reactionary cancellation of a Russian art exhibit falls in line with prevailing anti-Russian hysteria in Europe after the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine.

Barbara Ransby (2022-03-10). On a Grim and Bloody International Women's Day, Let's Build Feminist Solidarity. zcomm.org Looking ahead, we need a revolution of values, systems and cultures…

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-03-10). Iran has upper hand on battlefield against enemy: Gen. Salami. en.mehrnews.com Commander-in-Chief of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said that Iran has the upper hand against enemies, adding today's grandeur of Islamic Iran is the result of obedience to leadership, unity and amity of people.

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2022-03-10: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-03-10). Britain's trade unions demand stepped-up sanctions against Russia: beating the drum for World War III. wsws.org Unite and Unison have organised boycotts this past week against the unloading of Russian oil and gas from foreign-flagged ships.

National Organization of Women (2022-03-10). Thursday 3/31: 2022 Feminist State of the Union w/ NOW. indybay.org Virtual event…

Slingshot collective (2022-03-10). Sunday 3/13: 34th birthday party for Slingshot collective. indybay.org Long Haul infoshop – 3124 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, CA 94705 – 510 540 0751 – 2 blocks from Ashby BART – corner of Shattuck and Woolsey across from La Pena…

_____ (2022-03-10). On the Ethics of Preemptive Strikes. journal-neo.org The South Korean presidential candidate Yoon Suk-yeol recently stated that he thought a preemptive strike against the DPRK would be justified, since, if the latter were to launch a rocket armed with a nuclear warhead against Seoul, it would be almost impossible to intercept it—é The only option would be to forestall the attack. This statement …

MCYC, Pomo Land Back, FFF, more (2022-03-10). Friday 3/25: Sacramento: Global Climate Strike – Rally for Climate Crisis & Indigenous Justice. indybay.org West Steps of California State Capitol, 1315 10th St, Sacramento, CA 95814. | This is a peaceful rally for climate justice and racial justice.

Dan Cohen (2022-03-10). US Admits to Funding Biological Laboratories in Ukraine, with Dilyana Gaytandzhieva. mintpressnews.com State Department official Victoria Nuland admitted that the US government is funding biological laboratories in Ukraine, confirming what Washington has long dismissed as "Russian propaganda." Correspondent Dan Cohen interviews journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva, who has investigated these facilities in Eastern Europe.

Fidencio Aldama Solidarity Group (2022-03-10). Audio: Message From Yaqui Political Prisoner Fidencio Aldama. indybay.org "I ask everyone to show solidarity with my case." -Fidencio Aldama…

Martin Rizzo-Martinez & Daniel Stonebloom (2022-03-10). Challenging Colonialism s01e03 Full Episode (+p.iv). indybay.org s01e03 Weapons of Mass Destruction Full Episode: Removing Dams and Restoring Salmon Duration 1: 47: 56 | Challenging Colonialism amplifies Indigenous perspectives on issues of concern to native Californian communities.

Thomas Piketty (2022-03-10). Sanction the oligarchs, not the people! indybay.org It is time to develop a new kind of sanctions. They must be targeted specifically at the oligarchs who have become wealthy as a result of the regime. This would require the establishment of an international financial registry, a measure that will not please the Western wealthy.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-09). "You strike a woman, you strike a rock!" peoplesdispatch.org Over the past several years, working class movements across the world have taken to the streets and plazas on March 8, International Working Women's Day in recognition of the day as an important day of struggle and resistance and to further the cause of women's liberation. The day which corporations and NGOs have attempted to dilute into a day to give presents to women and recognize their achievements has radical roots. It was established by socialist women in the heat of militant labor and internationalist organizing in order to highlight women's centrality in the struggle to overthrow class based oppression, as…

Kathy Durkin (2022-03-09). Despite U.S. blockade, Socialist Cuba combats COVID-19. workers.org Juan Antonio Quintanilla, permanent Cuban envoy to the United Nations, adamantly stated that this Caribbean nation will stay on its socialist path, despite continual U.S. aggression via the blockade. In a speech to the U.N. in Geneva March 3, he emphasized that this is the Cuban people's will and that . . . |

Frances Madeson (2022-03-09). 'We Are Not Slaves!': Haitian Garment Workers Strike for a Fair Wage. towardfreedom.org Buoyed by international union solidarity and hearkening to the revolutionary legacy of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian strikers facing state violence and lowball concessions remain undeterred, reports Frances Madeson.

Payal Sinha (2022-03-09). The Federal Backlog That's Hurting Immigrants — and Our Economy. otherwords.org Why are so many employers struggling to find workers right now? One reason is the unprecedented federal backlog of work permits for immigrants. | U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency that issues these permits, is sitting on U.S. employers are required to ensure their employees — regardless of citizenship or national origin — are allowed to work legally. For native-born Americans, that…

Betsey Piette (2022-03-09). Global South rejects U.S./NATO aggression. workers.org As the U.S. and NATO work to advance their war against Russia now breaking out in Ukraine, many countries who have experienced imperialist aggression — by the U.S., France, Britain and other NATO members — are speaking out. They are denouncing the impact of U.S. sanctions as acts of war . . . |

JANET (2022-03-09). International Working Women's Day means solidarity. iacenter.org By Kathy Durkin March 8, 2022 International Working Women's Day is commemorated around the world on March 8. Two words signify its essence: solidarity and struggle. Ontario Federation of Labor Established in 1910 at an International Women's Socialist Conference in Copenhagen, this special day was intended to broaden global solidarity and strengthen ties among women workers. IWWD's socialist founders deplored the terrible working conditions faced by women workers, as they poured into factories in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere. They noted the strikes and massive demonstrations held by women immigrants in New York…

Mark Gruenberg (2022-03-09). Senate sends comprehensive postal reform bill to Biden. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—After years of work, and a lot of squabbling over details, Congress passed a comprehensive postal reform bill that will eliminate the yearly tide of red ink that has engulfed—and endangered—the U.S. Postal Service for more than a decade. Postal union leaders hailed the measure, which is expected to save rank-and-file workers' jobs while ending …

WSWS (2022-03-09). Reactions in Germany to the webinar: "Fight Covid! Save Lives! Stop the Drive to World War III!" wsws.org Workers from Germany comment on the February 26 international online webinar of the World Socialist Web Site, "Fight Covid! Save Lives! Stop the Drive to World War III!" and draw political conclusions.

WSWS (2022-03-09). Unite agrees de facto pay cut to end Serco health workers strike at Barts NHS Trust. wsws.org Unite has agreed to end the dispute on the promissory note from the Trust that all "soft facilities management" services will be brought in-house from May 2023.

WSWS (2022-03-09). Backing Biden's war drive, USW boasts its deal for 30,000 oil workers "does not add to inflationary pressures" wsws.org In a war-mongering statement calling for a ban on Russian oil imports, the United Steelworkers president praised the agreement, which will impose a deep cut in real wages for refinery workers and their families.

WSWS (2022-03-09). Report on California's Amazon warehouses reveals massive COVID-19 cover-up. wsws.org The Markup's report states "hundreds of workers … tested positive for COVID-19 over the past two and a half months" at a single warehouse in Rialto.

_____ (2022-03-09). Black Alliance For Peace Statement On International Women's Day. popularresistance.org As the world's eyes are on Ukraine on this International Women's Day, March 8, 2022, we are reminded of the disproportionate impact that war and militarism have on women. This is a reality that the women of the global South are acutely aware of because of the steady assaults on the humanity of peoples in the South executed by the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination. The militarized terror of the Axis of Domination in the service of their economic elites have been even more intensely felt by the women of Africa and the African Diaspora. | The socialist groundings of the day were expressed in its early unfolding. Indee…

Tanya Wadhwa (2022-03-09). Maduro announces reactivation of dialogue with the opposition after meeting with US government. peoplesdispatch.org The dialogue process between the socialist government of President Nicolas Maduro and the opposition had been suspended since October 2021. Meanwhile, the diplomatic relations between Venezuela and the US had been suspended since January 2019…

WSWS (2022-03-09). Australia's Socialist Alliance lines up behind imperialist war drive against Russia. wsws.org A politically insidious role is being played by the pseudo-left groups such as Socialist Alliance that falsely claim to be socialist but, despite token criticisms of the US, align themselves with the NATO war drive against Russia.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-09). Reclaiming the radical roots of International Working Women's Day. peoplesdispatch.org The day was established by socialist women in order to highlight women's centrality in the struggle to overthrow class based oppression, as well as to end the unique oppression faced by women.

JANET (2022-03-09). U.S.-NATO imperialism pushes Ukraine to the front line. iacenter.org March 8, 2022 By Manuel Raposo Raposo is the editor of the Portuguese Marxist web magazine jornalmudardevida.net and was a key organizer of the 2004 Portuguese session of the People's Tribunal on the crimes of imperialism during the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Translation: John Catalinotto. Italy, 2018. March 4 — In the deluge of propaganda regarding Russia's military intervention in Ukraine, the people of the U.S. and the European Union have the opportunity to see, in a mirror, the actions of their governments during the last few decades. The same goes for the Portuguese authorities and each of the Eu…

Moderator (2022-03-09). Ralph Nader: Biden's SOTU Speech Neglects to Make a Crucial Request to the Citizenry. scheerpost.com By Ralph Nader | The President's State of the Union speech before a joint session of Congress is the media event of the year for the occupant of the Oval Office. Joe Biden spoke for an hour, covered lots of predictable policy ground, and also praised, promised, and reassured "the people." | But, as President Biden has done many times in public speeches and addresses, he failed to engage the people as his allies to confront his policy opponents in Congress. | All his priorities — social safety net protections, rebuilding community infrastructure or public works, more aggressive action against climate c…

WSWS (2022-03-09). US ramps up "financial war" on Russia as generals call for no-fly zone. wsws.org The United States and European Union ramped up their "financial war" against Russia Tuesday, announcing major measures to restrict Russian oil and gas imports.

WSWS (2022-03-09). US ramps up "financial war" on Russia as retired generals call for no-fly zone. wsws.org The United States and European Union ramped up their "financial war" against Russia Tuesday, announcing major measures to restrict Russian oil and gas imports.

JANET (2022-03-09). Fight xenophobia ‚àí a form of war. iacenter.org March 8, 2022 The U.S.- and NATO-instigated conflict in Ukraine is rooted in the quest to plunder and profit off Russia's vast wealth in natural gas and oil. This has been a major pillar of U.S. imperialism's quest to rebuild its global empire since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The imperialists will do whatever it takes to gain new markets to make profits, even with the global threat of nuclear war. Russia has had the right to protect its borders as the rise of neofascist elements inside Ukraine has been a constant threat to its sovereignty since 2014, resulting in the breakaway of the People's Repu…

WSWS (2022-03-09). European Union employs double standards on refugees from Ukraine, discriminates against non-Ukrainians. wsws.org The discrimination based on skin colour and national origin of refugees from Ukraine shows the hypocrisy of European refugee policy.

WSWS (2022-03-09). Australia: Sydney rail shutdown planned by multiple government departments. wsws.org As the provocation unravelled, the Rail Tram and Bus Union immediately came to the government's rescue, ensuring service resumed and the dispute was once again confined to backroom union-management talks.

Staff (2022-03-09). French government officially dissolves the Collectif Palestine Vaincra — Collectif launching its appeal. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network republishes the below statement from our member association, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra, under severe attack in France, where Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has just announced the "administrative dissolution" — essentially banning — of the collective. Please share this statement widely and take action to defend Palestinian rights and liberation, from …

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-09). Black Sea: U.S. warplanes integrate with German, Italian, Romanian counterparts. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATOAllied Air CommandMarch 8, 2022 U.S. 480th Expeditionary fighter squadron bolsters NATO's collective defence on Eastern Flank The American's 480th Air Expeditionary Fighter Squadron (480th EFS), working out of Fetesti Air Base, Romania since February 11, continues to enhance NATO's collective defence posture, supporting NATO's enhanced Air Policing mission with F-16 Fighting Falcons…. The 480th …

Fight Back (2022-03-09). Minneapolis teachers and education support specialists begin open-ended strike with no deal in sight. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – Teachers and education support professionals in Minneapolis began striking at 7: 30 a.m., March 8, with pickets held at public schools all over the city. | At Lyndale Community School in South Minneapolis spirits were high on the first day of the strike. MFT members said that 100% of the teachers at the school had signed in and were out on their picket line. The line marched back and forth around the two street sides of the school for about an hour before they began moving and the crowd of around 100 people marched over to Lyndale Avenue, a major street in the area. There they proceeded up and do…

_____ (2022-03-09). On Speculations about the Similarities between Taiwan and Ukraine. journal-neo.org There is a growing discourse about the striking parallels in the situations around Taiwan and Ukraine. Proponents of geopolitics revive the basic tenet of its modern edition, which was originated by Alfred Thayer Mahan and Halford Mackinder. With certain variations, both of them had, over a hundred years ago, proposed the hypothesis of an irreducible …

WSWS (2022-03-09). Striking Minneapolis teachers express support for united struggle across Twin Cities. wsws.org Picketing teachers on Tuesday described the intolerable conditions in the schools, saying, "This is how the district treats our kids?"

ecns.cn (2022-03-09). Xilan Kapu's catcher in the 'Peach Blossom Wonderland'. ecns.cn Peace and tranquility permeates Youyang Taohuayuan (Peach Blossom Wonderland) Scenic Area in southwest China's Chongqing. Under sunrise, the sound of sewing strikes up a symphony, with knitting needles and yarn dancing in a weaver's hands.

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-09). Riga: NATO, Canadian, Spanish leaders strike bold pose on eastern flank. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Baltic TimesMarch 8, 2022 War started by Putin in Ukraine ended peace in Europe but NATO does not want war with Russia — NATO secretary-general The war started by Putin in Ukraine ended peace in Europe, still, NATO does not want a war with Russia, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said while visiting the Adazi military …

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-09). Albania: NATO upgrades air base in city once named after Stalin. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Balkan InsightFebruary 28, 2022 In Albanian City Once Named 'Stalin', a Base for NATO Developed under Italian fascist occupation, renamed 'Stalin City' under communism, and condemned to poverty with the transition to capitalism, the central Albanian city of Kucova is now set to become synonymous with NATO. Three years after the Western military alliance announced …

WSWS (2022-03-09). Oppose the arrest of Ukrainian Communist Youth leaders! wsws.org The WSWS unequivocally opposes the arrests of Mikhail and Alexander Kononovich of the Ukrainian Communist Youth and demands their immediate release.

_____ (2022-03-09). The Unity Of Theory And Practice. popularresistance.org In 1969, Fred Hampton — chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party — said: "we saying that theory's cool, but theory with no practice ain't shit." He elaborated this statement in another speech that he gave in the same year: "I don't care how much theory you got, if it don't have any practice applied to it, then that theory happens to be irrelevant. Right? Any theory you get, practice it. And when you practice it you make some mistakes. When you make a mistake, you correct that theory, and then it will be corrected theory that will be able to be applied and used in any situation. That…

Saheli Chowdhury (2022-03-09). Restoration of Archaeological Structures Continues in Palmyra, Syria (+Russia). orinocotribune.com Restoration work of the archaeological site in the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria, is on going within the framework of a collaboration between Syria and Russia, with the support of UNESCO. The project started in October last year after UNESCO approved the 3-D models of the structures and monuments of the UNESCO World Heritage site that were prepared by experts from the Russian Academy of Sciences. | Palmyra, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, located in the Syrian province of Homs, was taken over by the Islamic State in 2015, which then carried out massacres, and damaged, demolished, or…

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2022-03-09: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-03-09). Storming Heaven (1987): Meeting the responsibilities of historical fiction. wsws.org Giardina's novel takes as its subject the rapacious conquest by coal mining companies of southern West Virginia and the courageous battles waged by miners and their families in defense of their land, their labor and their lives.

Editor2 (2022-03-09). Honduras: 'We, the Social Organizations, Must Remain Active'. orinocotribune.com On January 27th of this year, Xiomara Castro assumed the presidency of Honduras. Within a coalition of parties, organizations, and social movements, the president faces a seemingly unmanageable number of challenges; among them, to stop the plundering of the nation and to fulfill the demands that the indigenous peoples and peasants of the Central American nation have issued for decades. | Castro must also face a far-right opposition that, together with the Armed Forces and the United States, were the architects of the overthrow of her husband, Manuel Zelaya, who served as president between 2006 and 2009. | To delv…

Staff (2022-03-09). President Maduro: Russia-Ukraine Conflict Could Spread to Other Regions. orinocotribune.com Monday, March 7, 2022, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, met at night with members of the nation's high political and military command, the Council of Vice Presidents, and the Superior General Staff of the Bolivarian National Armed Force, to carry out an analysis of the world geopolitical situation in response to the operation that Russia is carrying out in Ukraine. He also confirmed the meeting between his administration and US government officials, providing some initial details. | In a televised broadcast on Monday night after 10: 30 p.m., Venezuela's president said that, according to intelligence rep…

_____ (2022-03-08). Ukraine Is A Pawn In The United States' Fight To Prevent A Multipolar World. popularresistance.org This week, Clearing the FOG speaks with Brian Becker, a leader of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the host of The Socialist Program, for a socialist perspective of the war in Ukraine. Becker discusses why it was a mistake for Russia to invade and how it has shored up support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) even though Russia has legitimate security concerns and the United States did not appear to be willing to stop provoking an invasion. He also talks about the real racism exposed by this war, the impact of the media misinformation campaign on people on the left and the current state…

Workers World New York bureau (2022-03-08). World says 'No NATO war!'. workers.org Over 80 actions — in the U.S., around the world and in cyberspace — have been held or will be held in March to oppose U.S./NATO aggression in Russia and Ukraine. (unacpeace.org) These actions are taking place amidst an overwhelming barrage of pro-U.S./NATO and anti-Russian propaganda. The role of the . . . |

Madison Johnson (2022-03-08). Portland: 'Abolish NATO! Resist U.S. imperialism!'. workers.org Portland, Oregon Cries of "Abolish NATO!" and "Resist U.S. imperialism!" echoed around Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Oregon, March 6. These were the phrases that garnered the loudest cheers from the nearly 160 protesters gathered to protest NATO encroachment on Eastern Europe. A coalition of groups organized the "Stop NATO . . . |

_____ (2022-03-08). US is Abandoning its "Helpers" in Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Everywhere! journal-neo.org The dismissive attitude of the US political and military establishment towards its foreign "helpers" is well known. This attitude became even more apparent after Joe Biden's recent appearance before the House of Representatives and Senate with his annual State of the Union Address, in which he described the people of Ukraine as Iranians. One could hardly attribute …

Editor2 (2022-03-08). Costa Rica: A Paradise for the Few After First Round of Elections. orinocotribune.com By Giovanni Beluche V. — Mar 3, 2022 | It seems that hard times indeed are coming for the working class, micro- and small-business owners, and small-scale farmers of Costa Rica after the first round of presidential voting on February 6. The two candidates that will go on to the runoff, José María Figueres Olsen and Rodrigo Chaves, have clearly neoliberal proposals: more free trade, more taxes on wage earners, and more cuts to university budgets and social spending. They offer no specific proposals to address the serious crisis of tax evasion and tax avoidance, nor anything to curtail the use of tax havens to…

Ana Santoyo (2022-03-08). Celebrating International Women's Day. liberationnews.org IWD means acknowledging the root cause of women's oppression—class society—and its centrality to the system that oppresses our working class today—capitalism.

Susan Abulhawa (2022-03-08). The West has lost all credibility. workers.org Last year, an elementary school in Birmingham, Alabama, forbade their students from discussing the occupation of Palestine, due to the political nature of the topic. They said it was not appropriate to mix education with politics. Last week, that same elementary school held a fundraiser for Ukrainian refugees. Susan Abulhawa . . . |

Alan Horner (2022-03-08). Hershey factory workers organize to challenge two-tier pay, brutal conditions. liberationnews.org Workers at a Hershey candy manufacturing plant in Stuarts Draft, VA are now voting in an election to unionize and join the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union, with the results to be counted on March 24.

Brittani Banks (2022-03-08). How Union Workers Safeguard American Democracy. independentmediainstitute.org The guard shacks, razor-wire fences and gun-toting soldiers struck fear into Cynthia Overby when she traveled with an American university group behind the Iron Curtain in 1971. Even worse was the utter despair she witnessed in people living under the weight of authoritarianism, a memory that inspired her lifelong commitment to safeguarding liberty at home. …

JANET (2022-03-08). Anti-imperialist voice from the Spanish State on the crisis in Ukraine. iacenter.org March 7, 2022 In view of the intense international crisis exacerbating the confrontation between U.S.-NATO imperialism and Russia, and in light of the upcoming NATO Summit in Madrid this June, we in Workers World publish this Statement of the Coordinating Committee of Communist Nuclei* in the Spanish State, which is a NATO member. Some of the terms and acronyms are explained at the end. Translation: John Catalinotto. Zaragoza, Spain, Oct. 3, 2015. Credit: Pablo Ibáñez Once again we must confront confusion. Once again the media owned by the international oligarchy and the big Spanish banks and multinationals [mdas…

Fight Back (2022-03-08). Philippines: Women and toiling people, rise up amid grave crises. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following March 8 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines | The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) extends its revolutionary greetings to women in the country and across the world on the occasion of the International Working Women's Day. Let us recall the heroism of women from the ranks of workers, peasants and other progressive classes and sectors who broke through imposed gender, cultural and economic barriers and took their place as cadres and fighters of the Philippine revolution. | It is significant that in ten days, we are set to mark the 50th a…

WSWS (2022-03-08). UK pallet workers at Chep, Manchester speak on three month strike. wsws.org Around 70 workers at Chep UK in Trafford Park, Greater Manchester, are continuing their indefinite pay strike, begun on December 17.

Sharon Zhang (2022-03-08). Starbucks Loses Bid to Delay Union Election Count Again as It Cuts Worker Hours. truthout.org The labor board has denied another Starbucks bid to delay union ballot counts as workers say that the company has started slashing hours without prior warning, endangering employees' finances. | The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that the

In Defense of Liberation! (2022-03-08). My LAST (for now) Morning Commute 3-8-22: Happy Women's Liberation Day! Saying goodbye, for Now! anchor.fm This is going to be my last podcast for a while! I recently began my candidacy for the PSL. I am going to take this time to learn, to organize, to experience, and to try to bill not only myself and my own understanding but also a movement. We must build a socialist revolution if we believe that any of the issues facing the masses today will ever be resolved. No war, no form of capitalism, no imperialism, no empire can or ever will be able to overcome these issues. It is only the people-the masses themselves- that will be able to eradicate exploitation and oppression from this world. It has been awesome getting to…

Fight Back (2022-03-08). Dallas rallies against war with Russia. fightbacknews.org Dallas, Texas – On March 6, over 30 anti-war protesters showed up at the Grassy Knoll in downtown Dallas to condemn NATO's involvement in Ukraine, its hostility to Russia, and to call for the disbanding of NATO. The protest was called by the Dallas Anti-War Committee, CODEPINK Dallas, Dallas Peace and Justice Center, Communist Party USA, Democratic Socialist of America, and Party for Socialism and Liberation. Signs present at the protest included "Peace in Ukraine! No to NATO!" "No to NATO expansion" and "Abolish NATO!" | "Over the past couple of weeks, a war has broken out between Russia and Ukraine. The Am…

Fight Back (2022-03-08). Eyewitness report from Venezuela: Second day of PSUV Congress. fightbacknews.org Caracas, Venezuela – The second day of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) 5th Congress, March 6, featured speeches and workshops about building the party among working people, while strengthening the role of women and youth. Facts and figures played an important part in educating the PSUV militants, with data and explanations appearing on giant video walls. However, it was the speaker's analysis of problems, and proposed solutions that kept everyone talking. | For example, there are 8 million registered to vote for the PSUV, but until now, no way to check how people participate in the party. There is…

_____ (2022-03-08). Twin Cities Takes To The Streets For International Women's Day. popularresistance.org Minneapolis, MN – Around 60 people gathered in Mayday Plaza on Sunday, March 6, for an International Women's Day protest organized by the Twin Cities district of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. Demands for reproductive rights and healthcare for all, justice for missing and murdered indigenous women and two-spirit people, an end to gender-based violence, queer and trans liberation, and justice for all stolen lives were raised. The demonstrators also stood in solidarity with Twin Cities educators preparing to strike, signs reading "Victory to the educators!" dotted the crowd gathered in the square, and sim…

WSWS (2022-03-08). The German state tries to cover its tracks in latest far-right trial. wsws.org Between August 2018 and March 2021, hundreds of threatening letters were sent to artists, lawyers and politicians under the acronym NSU 2.0, which is a reference to the neo-Nazi terrorist group National Socialist Underground responsible for the murder of nine immigrants and a policewoman.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-08). Women Take on the Empire: The Revolutionary Women of Palestine. libya360.wordpress.com Sumedha Chatterjee This women's day let us remember the contribution of women who have been fighting the settler colonial Israeli regime. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! Seldom has a gun wielding female soldier not been sexualized in pop culture or otherwise. Instagram is filled with accounts dedicated to conventionally attractive…

_____ (2022-03-08). Cuba, Nicaragua And Mexico Lead World Gender Parity In Parliaments. popularresistance.org Cuba, Nicaragua and Mexico have been ranked 2nd, 3rd and 4th in the world, having achieved the highest proportion of women in parliament out of 189 countries. What's more, these three along with Rwanda and the United Arab Emirates are the only five countries in the world to have achieved gender parity in their lower or single legislative house (National Assembly, Congress, or Parliament) as of February 2022. | The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) released its 2021 Women in Parliament report of countries with the best gender balance in parliament this week. Cuba, with 53.4% of women holding seats in the National As…

Fight Back (2022-03-08). Milwaukee: New International Women's Day Coalition hosts first action. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI — On the afternoon of March 6, over a dozen organizations joined together under the banner of the new Milwaukee International Women's Day Coalition to host a march and rally in commemoration of the working-class holiday. A crowd of more than 50 people turned out to celebrate the occasion. | The Coalition united community, campus and labor organizations under one umbrella with a platform that included points about reproductive rights, trans women's rights, compensation for domestic laborers, expanded union rights, paid parental leave, and community control of the police. | The action started at…

WSWS (2022-03-08). Minneapolis educators launch first strike since 1970, as St. Paul teachers union blocks joint walkout. wsws.org The decision to call off one of the two walkouts is a betrayal of educators' desire for a joint struggle and is aimed at weakening the position of teachers in both cities.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-08). The Danger of a World Ruled by NATO: Interview with àÅngeles Maestro. libya360.wordpress.com Carlos Aznarez àÅngeles Maestro is a leading figure in Spain when it comes to internationalist and solidarity activism. A former communist deputy, today she is not only highly critical of the positions of that party but also denounces its permanent ideological retreats. She has denounced with all her might the Psoe-Podemos compromise, and now that…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-08). Fascists from Europe and Terrorists from the Middle East Support the Bandera Nazis: Russian Communist Party Statement. libya360.wordpress.com The CPRF resolutely condemns the attempt to internationalize the military conflict in Ukraine and the involvement in the hostilities of outright Nazis and terrorists from Europe and the Middle East. The CPRF initially assessed the military conflict in Ukraine as a struggle against the neo-Nazis who seized power in a coup d'état in February 2014….

Karen Conner (2022-03-08). PREVIEW: What to Look for in the February Consumer Price Index. cepr.net (The monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) is scheduled for release by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday, March 10 at 8: 30 AM Eastern Time.) | Both the overall and core CPI rose by 0.6 percent in January. This brought the year-over-year inflation to 7.5 percent and 6.0 percent in the overall and core CPI, respectively. | While this continued the pattern of high monthly inflation rates, there is a reason for expecting some moderation in February. Most notably, we may finally be seeing vehicle prices beginning to level off and come down. In January, new vehicles prices were flat for the first time since March…

Manlio Dinucci (2022-03-08). Ucraina, era tutto scritto nel piano della Rand Corp. globalresearch.ca Il piano strategico degli Stati uniti contro la Russia è stato elaborato tre anni fa dalla Rand Corporation (il manifesto, Rand Corp: come abbattere la Russia, 21 maggio 2019). La Rand Corporation, il cui quartier generale ha sede a …

Barbara Ransby (2022-03-08). On a Grim and Bloody International Women's Day, Let's Build Feminist Solidarity. truthout.org On this International Women's Day, as the world watches a historic and bloody war unfold in Europe — while people in the United States and Europe largely continue to ignore the suffering of the millions of Black and Brown people who have been rendered stateless by war, corruption and the climate crisis, many of them women — we need to fortify ourselves, pump up our optimism and bolster our resolve to fight for a better world. | Women are always vulnerable to sexual violence and ab…

KWORINOCO (2022-03-08). Colombian Military Supplies Discovered at Encampments in Zulia & Apure. orinocotribune.com This Sunday, March 6, the Venezuelan Operation known as Escudo Bolivariano [Bolivarian Shield], intended to expel TANCOL (armed drug-trafficking Colombian terrorists) and other criminal organizations from Venezuela, confiscated weapons of various calibers and uniforms belonging to the Colombian military in the state of Apure. | The following objects were seized in the state of Apure by the División Fluvial 352 of the Bolivarian National Guard of Venezuela: | One US-made shotgun | One Motorola DGR 6157 signal repeater with an antenna and cables | One universal UB 12V car battery | Two Aico brand radio chargers wit…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-08). Russia's Judo Kick to the Western Financial Gut. libya360.wordpress.com Pepe Escobar Washington's sanctions on Moscow will destroy Europe, not Russia. The battlefield is drawn. The official Russian blacklist of hostile sanctioning nations includes the US, the EU, Canada and, in Asia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore (the only one from Southeast Asia). Notice how that 'international community' keeps shrinking. The Global South should be aware…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-08). The American Empire Self-Destructs. libya360.wordpress.com Michael Hudson But nobody thought that it would happen this fast. Empires often follow the course of a Greek tragedy, bringing about precisely the fate that they sought to avoid. That certainly is the case with the American Empire as it dismantles itself in not-so-slow motion. The basic assumption of economic and diplomatic forecasting is…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-08). President Maduro Alerts That War Could Extend Throughout the World. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News President Nicolas Maduro expresses grave concern that the conflict in Ukraine could expand and could turn into a Third World War. He warns of a media campaign and economic measures that aim to aggravate conditions and extend the scenario of war beyond Ukraine, to Europe, and beyond Europe to other regions of the…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-08). 450 Arab and Foreign Extremists from Idlib Arrive in Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Al Mayadeen Almost 450 extremists from various nationalities arrive to Idlib to fight against Russian troops, after leaving Syria and passing through Turkey. Close to 450 extremist Arab and foreign nationals have arrived in Ukraine from Idlib to fight against Russia's forces, less than only three days after they left Syria, passing through Turkey. Relatives of…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-08). French Withdrawal from Mali Will Redraw the Political Map of West Africa. libya360.wordpress.com Ramzy Baroud Finally, France will be leaving Mali, nearly a decade after the original military intervention in 2013. The repercussions of this decision will hardly be confined to this West African nation, but will likely spread to the entirety of the Sahel Region; in fact, the whole of Africa. France's decision to end its military presence in…

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2022-03-08: News Headlines

Fight Back (2022-03-07). Minnesota Workers United organizes support for upcoming teachers' strike. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On Saturday March 5 rank-and-file union members along with parents, teachers and students held a press conference in support of the teachers, education support professionals (ESPs) and education assistants who will begin a strike Tuesday in Minneapolis and Saint Paul public schools. | More than 93% of the Minneapolis educators voted to authorize the upcoming open-ended strike, along with a 78% strike vote from Saint Paul educators. In the week after the educators' votes, food service workers in the Minneapolis school system also authorized a strike by a 98% vote. The food service workers' strike…

WSWS (2022-03-07). 300 workers locked out at Troy, Ohio aeronautics plant. wsws.org The lockout of the aerospace workers comes in the midst of an accelerating war drive of the US and its NATO allies against Russia.

Ted Kelly (2022-03-07). War-fueled racism and xenophobia rising 80 years after 'Internment'. workers.org People who knew about this sordid anniversary in the history of the United States empire marked it Feb. 19. On that infamous day in 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which resulted in the mass incarceration of nearly everyone of Japanese ancestry who resided within the United . . . |

Fight Back (2022-03-07). Leninism: The Marxism of the current era. fightbacknews.org So far in our series on theory, we've looked at the historical emergence of Marxism. But by the time Marx finished writing Capital, capitalism was still developing and changing. The fundamental characteristics of the capitalist mode of production haven't changed. Commodity production and exploitation of workers' surplus value by the capitalists remain the driving force of the capitalist system. And it remains a system plagued by regular cycles of crises of overproduction, pushing poor and working-class people further down while the rich get richer and richer. But by the beginning of the 20th century the internal…

Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam (2022-03-07). NSSF commences receiving applications for midterm benefits. plusnews.ug A couple of hundreds of people has today Monday March 7 thronged National Social Security Fund (NSSF) premises to apply for access to midterm benefits of their contributions. | In January, President Yoweri Museveni assented to the NSSF Bill, allowing 20 percent midterm access to the contributors who have saved for over 10 years and are 45 years old. | The bill also streamlined the supervision of the 15 trillion-shilling fund between the Ministries of Gender and of Finance. The workers, government, and the Gender committee agreed to have the Ministry of Gender supervise the social security aspect, while the Min…

Pavan Kulkarni (2022-03-07). Amid looming retrenchments, unions demand transparency in sale of South Africa's national airline. peoplesdispatch.org The sale of the restructured South Africa Airways (SAA) to a private consortium at an undisclosed price may provoke further labor unrest. The workers are already angry at the impending dismissal of 225 more workers…

repost (2022-03-07). Wednesday 3/23: SF City Workers Rally & March Over Understaffing. indybay.org SF City Hall…

_____ (2022-03-07). Socialist Planning Could Reverse Sober Findings In New UN Climate Report. popularresistance.org The latest UN Climate Report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability released Feb. 28 once again urges immediate action and outlines the catastrophic effects that humanity faces with the continued lack of meaningful action. Compiled by 270 researchers from 67 countries, it outlines the impacts that are already unfolding and how these disasters will increase even if warming is limited to the 1.5 Celsius temperature threshold above pre-industrial levels. | The world is currently at around 1.1 C warming and we are already experiencing unprecedented heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, floods, and extreme weather events…

Staff (2022-03-07). PSUV Congress Emphasizes Ethics & Fight Against Corruption. orinocotribune.com "Zero tolerance for corruption and the moral rottenness of a few," Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro said at the Fifth Congress of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) on Saturday. "If they are involved in acts of corruption, in criminal acts, wherever they are, whatever they have been," added the head of state, "they will be taken to court and to prison, and punished with the greatest penalties." | PSUV President Maduro recalled that the Venezuelan government, in recent months, has detained mayors, deputies, and other public officials involved in gasoline trafficking, and others implicated in drug t…

teleSUR (2022-03-07). Congress of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela Begins. telesurenglish.net Several delegates filled the largest theater in the city of Caracas to participate in the inaugural session of the Congress of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), the largest political party in Latin America, founded by former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. | RELATED: | The Congress aims to update the party line to the new objectives outlined by the Venezuelan President, Nicolás Maduro, for the next 8 years, summarized i…

Fight Back (2022-03-07). Twin Cities takes to the streets for International Women's Day. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – Around 60 people gathered in Mayday Plaza on Sunday, March 6, for an International Women's Day protest organized by the Twin Cities district of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. Demands for reproductive rights and healthcare for all, justice for missing and murdered indigenous women and two-spirit people, an end to gender-based violence, queer and trans liberation, and justice for all stolen lives were raised. The demonstrators also stood in solidarity with Twin Cities educators preparing to strike, signs reading "Victory to the educators!" dotted the crowd gathered in the square, and sim…

WSWS (2022-03-07). Australia's floods: An indictment of capitalism. wsws.org The floods have laid bare the failure of governments—Coalition and Labor—to protect the population from such disasters and the necessity for the socialist transformation of society.

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-03-07). Experience of US fleeing Afghanistan to be repeated in Syria. en.mehrnews.com Turning to the disgraceful US fleeing Afghanistan, an advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution said that this fleeing will be repeated in Iraq and eastern Syria as well.

Editor (2022-03-07). What is the Fetishism of Commodities? mronline.org Towards the end of the first chapter of Das Kapital, after having established the validity of the labor theory of value, Marx has a section on the "Fetishism of Commodities".

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-07). (Franàßais) La Chute de Poutine — Un Déjà -vu. transcend.org J'ai travaillé par intermittence en Union Soviétique dans les années 1970 et 1980 et j'ai observé le crash de l'Empire Soviétique — de l'intérieur. Il y avait trois causes principales: la perte de valeur du rouble, la perte de la guerre en Afghanistan et la perte de confiance du peuple.

_____ (2022-03-07). Venezuela: Communard Union Holds Founding Congress, Elects Leadership. popularresistance.org Caracas ‚Äí Venezuelan communards gathered on March 3 and 4 to officially launch a national organization. | More than 450 delegates were present in El Maizal Commune, Lara State, for the founding congress of the Communard Union. The collective aims to build a network of social organizations throughout the country. | The delegates, representing 48 communes and 12 other social movements, approved the organization's political program and internal statutes, which include a political structure and mechanisms for new organizations to join. The founding documents were collated by a provisional leadersh…

_____ (2022-03-07). Ukrainian Security Services Arrest Young Communist Leaders. popularresistance.org On Sunday, March 6, the Ukrainian security services arrested Mikhail Kononovich and his brother Aleksandr Kononovich. Both are from the leadership of the Leninist Communist Youth Union of Ukraine (LKSMU). The press service of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) stated on Sunday that the Kononovich brothers were arrested from capital Kiev and put in jail. The SBU has accused them of being propagandists with pro-Russian and pro-Belarusian views with the goal of destabilizing the internal situation in Ukraine and create the "necessary information picture" for Russian and Belarusian channels. The World Federation o…

teleSUR (2022-03-07). LIVE: EU Starts Accession Process for Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia. telesurenglish.net As the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues to intensify, international efforts to evacuate the civilian population to other countries continue. Below are the main developments of this conflict as they happen. | RELATED: | . | MARCH 7: | The EU agrees to start the accession process for Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. The presidency of the European Union (EU) announced that the 27 member countries agreed to start a process so…

Brian Terrell (2022-03-07). "Let them kill as many as possible"- United States Policy Toward Russia and its Neighbors. mronline.org In April 1941, four years before he was to become President and eight months before the United States entered World War II, Senator Harry Truman of Missouri reacted to the news that Germany had invaded the Soviet Union: "If we see that Germany is winning the war, we ought to help Russia; and if that Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and in that way let them kill as many as possible."

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-07). The Risk of Nuclear Disaster in Ukraine. transcend.org Of all the obvious dangers that come with war, one of the most far-reaching in the current Russia-Ukraine conflict has been woefully underappreciated. Even if commanders took pains to avoid striking Ukraine's 15 nuclear power reactors, that might not be enough to avoid a catastrophe.

WSWS (2022-03-07). 8,000 Minneapolis, St. Paul educators set to strike Tuesday: What's at stake. wsws.org Teachers and school employees have been asked to make significant sacrifices throughout the pandemic, and now they are being told once again that there is not enough money to meet their most basic needs, let alone the needs of their students.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-07). School teachers across Hungary gear up for major protests. peoplesdispatch.org The conservative government in Hungary led by Viktor Orban is trying to restrict teachers' strikes by issuing a special decree calling for mandatory teaching services in schools citing the COVID-19 crisis…

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-07). Two aircraft carrier strike groups to participate in NATO war games off Russia's northwest coast. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Barents ObserverMarch 4, 2022 Russia will not observe Cold Response NATO exercise The 30,000 troops from 27 countries that have signed up for Cold Response 2022 will test winter combat in air, sea and land elements. The first personnel from countries like the United States and the United Kingdom have already arrived at military camps …

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-07). Vandana Shiva on the Dangers of Philanthrocapitalism. transcend.org 28 Feb 2022 – Physicist, ecologist and prolific author Vandana Shiva discusses her new book, "Philanthrocapitalism and the Erosion of Democracy," which identifies a new form of colonialism turning us away from each other and the Earth.

deweylaura (2022-03-07). Defending Black history and making "good trouble" cpusa.org The following remarks were given at the People's World African American History Month event in Connecticut in Feb. 2022. Thank you for inviting me to join you today. My name is Eric Brooks, Co-Chair of the African American Equality Commission of the Communist Party USA, along with comrade Zenobia Thompson. I am honored to …

teleSUR (2022-03-07). China Calls for Rationality in Resolving Ukraine Crisis. telesurenglish.net Calmness and rationality, instead of moves that pour oil on the flame and escalate tensions, are needed to resolve complex problems, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Monday while elaborating on China's position on resolving the Ukraine crisis. | RELATED: | RESOLVING UKRAINE CRISIS: | Wang stressed the need to remain committed to the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and respect and protect the sover…

teleSUR (2022-03-07). Wang Urges Bringing China-U.S. Relations Back On Right Track. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged the United States to return its China policy to the right track guided by reason and pragmatism, and bring bilateral relations back on the right path of healthy and stable development. | RELATED: | The U.S. must replace the "competitive-collaborative-adversarial" trichotomy with the three principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation, he…

JANET (2022-03-07). Alex Saab's case — U.S. Political and Legal Damage. iacenter.org Please add your support for freedom for Alex Saab. Urge others to support this campaign and to spread Alex Saab's words of resolute resistance to U.S. demands. Tens of thousands of people in the U.S. and internationally have called on the U.S. government to release this Venezuelan diplomat. Sign Now — Click here to add your name The International Action Center, along with solidarity, human rights and social justice organizations in the U.S. and around the world, calls upon the U.S. State Department and Department of Justice to end their witch hunt of Alex Saab and end the illegal unilateral sanctions against…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-07). Imperial, Colonial Thieves: The Long Odysseys of Goddess Annapurna and Treasures of India (Part 2). transcend.org The Ungodly Thievery of Godly Treasures from India…

teleSUR (2022-03-07). Venezuela Gets 69 Tons of Drugs & Medical Equipment From China. telesurenglish.net On Saturday, Venezuela's Health Ministry received a 69-ton shipment of drugs and equipment for surgery and medical protection from the Chinese government. | RELATED: | "This shipment will allow health personnel to enhance its care for COVID-19 and other chronic non-communicable diseases patients," Venezuelan Institute of Social Security President Magaly Gutierrez stated. | In 2020, the Bolivarian government opened an air…

Staff (2022-03-07). Cuba planea producir a escala industrial componentes semafóricos en 2022. cubadebate.cu La producción a escala industrial del primer lote de producción nacional de gabinetes semafóricos, cajas de control y tarjetas semafóricas, que permitan alcanzar la soberanía tecnológica en este renglón, se encuentra entre lo previsto para el segundo semestre de 2022 por la Comisión Nacional de Seguridad Vial (CNSV).

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2022-03-07: News Headlines

repost (2022-03-07). Wednesday 3/23: SF City Workers Rally & March Over Understaffing. indybay.org SF City Hall…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-07). Imperial, Colonial Thieves: The Long Odysseys of Goddess Annapurna and Treasures of India (Part 2). transcend.org The Ungodly Thievery of Godly Treasures from India…

_____ (2022-03-06). Costa Rica: A Paradise For The Few After First Round Of Elections. popularresistance.org It seems that hard times indeed are coming for the working class, micro- and small-business owners, and small-scale farmers of Costa Rica after the first round of presidential voting on February 6. The two candidates that will go on to the runoff, José María Figueres Olsen and Rodrigo Chaves, have clearly neoliberal proposals: more free trade, more taxes on wage earners, and more cuts to university budgets and social spending. They offer no specific proposals to address the serious crisis of tax evasion and tax avoidance, nor anything to curtail the use of tax havens to hide people's fortunes. The new Legislative…

_____ (2022-03-06). Workers Say They Breathe Polluted Air At 'Green' Insulation Facility. popularresistance.org As the acceptance of climate change becomes increasingly commonplace, more and more companies will be created or adapted to "fight" or "solve" it — or, at the very least, minimize its effects. Kingspan Group, which began as an engineering and contracting business in 1965 in Ireland, has since grown into a global company with more than 15,000 employees focused on green insulation and other sustainable building materials. Its mission is to "accelerate a zero emissions future with the wellbeing of people and planet at its heart." | But workers at the Kingspan Light + Air factory in Santa Ana, Calif. don't feel…

JANET (2022-03-06). In Haiti, misery breeds resistance. iacenter.org By G. Dunkel March 3, 2022 Thousands of Haitian garment workers, mainly women, have hit the streets in February demanding that the government raise their minimum wage to 1,500 gourdes (about $14) for a 9-hour day. They currently make 500 gourdes (about $4.80) a day. The workers, mostly women who spend over half their salaries on transportation to and from the factories, are demanding a raise. credit: Konbit Journalis These low wages, and a bourgeoisie more than willing to intensely exploit workers, are what has drawn big companies like Gap, Old Navy, H&M, JCPenney and Zara to hire Haitian companies in duty-free "

Fight Back (2022-03-06). PSUV 5th Congress held in Venezuela: Resistance, Rebirth, Revolution! fightbacknews.org Caracas, Venezuela – The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) opened their 5th Congress, March 5, with music and a cheering crowd, followed by serious speeches of the PSUV leaders. The international delegation, including the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, with ambassadors from People's Korea, China, South Africa, Cuba, Russia, Bolivia, Palestine and Nicaragua, were welcomed by every speaker. | Diosdado Cabello, first vice-president of the PSUV, described the 1572-plus delegates representing the workers, indigenous, Afro-Venezuelan, women and youth sectors participating. Women are more than half the de…

teleSUR (2022-03-06). World Leaders Pay Tribute to Comandante Hugo Chavez. telesurenglish.net Heads of State, foreign ministers and popular leaders from all over the world remember this Saturday the historical legacy of the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela, Commander Hugo Chávez, in commemoration of the ninth anniversary of his physical disappearance. | RELATED: | "A leading, brave and humble man who knew how to lead the reins of the Bolivarian Revolution with gallantry and firm step; today…

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-03-06). Developing non-fossil energies must be taken serious. en.mehrnews.com On the occasion of March 6, National Day of Arbor Day, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution said that the development of non-fossil energies must be taken into serious consideration like nuclear energy.

Ricardo Vaz (2022-03-06). Venezuela: Communard Union Holds Founding Congress, Elects Leadership. venezuelanalysis.com The growing grassroots network vows to expand popular power and move forward in the construction of socialism.

_____ (2022-03-06). Educators In St. Paul And Minneapolis May Go On Strike Soon — Here's Why. popularresistance.org In a Feb. 24 announcement, teachers with the Saint Paul Federation of Educators (SPFE) and the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT), which includes both teachers and Education Support Professionals, announced an intent to strike. Filed with the state of Minnesota's Bureau of Mediation, the intent to strike was authorized by the board in a vote counted Feb. 17 and provides a legally-mandated, 10-day warning to the school districts about a possible strike. | The demands from both unions to their districts have been similar. They are asking for limits on class sizes, wage increases, and better mental health supp…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-03-06). Sleeping With The Third Reich: America's Unspoken "Alliance" with Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union. globalresearch.ca Without US support to Nazi Germany, the Third Reich would not have been able to wage war on the Soviet Union. Germany's oil production was insufficient to wage a major military campaign. Throughout the war, the Third Reich relied on regular shipments of crude oil from US Standard Oil owned by the Rockefeller family.

Staff (2022-03-06). EU comments on warplanes for Kiev. rt.com Ukraine insists it needs jet fighters to repel the Russian attack | European Council President Charles Michel has said that the bloc's military aid to Ukraine will not include jet fighters, which Kiev has insisted it badly needs to fend off the ongoing Russian invasion. | "The European Union is definitely not at war with Russia. A war is what Russia has launched against Ukraine, a country very friendly and very close to the EU. That is why we support Ukraine on all levels," Michel said in an interview with several European newspapers on Saturday. | The chief of the EU's top political body confirmed that the EU…

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-06). European conflict broadens as France sends warplanes, EU troops to Bosnia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com ReutersMarch 5, 2022 France to conduct fast-jet training flights over Bosnia The European Union peacekeeping force in Bosnia (EUFOR) said on Saturday that France would conduct fast-jet training flights over Bosnia in light of the deteriorating security situation internationally. The EU last week decided to increase its EUFOR force to 1,100 troops from 600 by …

Staff (2022-03-06). Russian banks may issue cards with China's UnionPay. en.mehrnews.com Russian banks to switch to China's UnionPay as Visa, Mastercard cut links, media have reported.

Staff (2022-03-06). Video: Resisting Anti-Palestinian Repression — Fighting for Liberation. samidoun.net This webinar was organized by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network on Sunday, 6 March, highlighting organizers challenging anti-Palestinian repression internationally. In late February, French interior minister Gerald Darmanin announced his intention to dissolve, or ban, two collectives organizing for justice in Palestine in France, including the Collectif Palestine Vaincra, a member of the Samidoun Network. …

_____ (2022-03-06). Furtherfield: The Power Of Art And Play In Imagining New Worlds. popularresistance.org Here's a fanciful but almost-real scenario: the bees, squirrels, geese, bugs, trees, and other species of your local park have decided that they've had enough of human aggression and abuse. They're not going to take it anymore, and rise up and demand equal rights with humans. Through a series of interspecies assemblies, a treaty is negotiated to ensure that every living being in the local ecosystem can flourish. | This scenario is a "live action role-playing" (LARP) game devised by Furtherfield, a London-based arts collective as part of its stewardship of part of the Victorian-era Finsbury Park. Over the next thr…

_____ (2022-03-06). Another Casualty Of The Ukraine Conflict: The Truth. popularresistance.org War and conflict are the enemies of truth. Accurate perception, precise language and objectivity are its first victims. For good reason. Emotion eclipses reason. The 'we/they' prism refracts and distorts our thoughts. The individual is swept up into the mass mood. Frenzy roils just below the surface. | Experiences of war and conflict, though, are not uniform. They vary. Whose blood is being shed, in what quantities? Are we the direct protagonist or just the empathetic supporters of certain combatants? How closely and why do we identify with one side? How much do we hate the other side? Is our collective self ging…

_____ (2022-03-06). Ukrainian Extremists Prevent People From Leaving Mariupol City. popularresistance.org Donetsk, Kiev, SANA – Ukrainian extremist battalions are preventing civilians from leaving the Ukrainian city of Mariupol through a humanitarian corridor, and took them as human shields, Deputy Head of the People's Militia of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Eduard Basurin said on Thursday, March 3. | Quoted by Sputnik, Basurin added that the city is suffering from lack of water in addition to the deteriorated humanitarian situation due to the practices of the Ukrainian extremists. | He warned that the Ukrainian army personnel will be exposed to strict strikes if they don't hand over their weapons. | Ukrainia…

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-06). Video of NATO's 40,000-troop intercontinental strike force. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com From what promotes itself as a strictly defensive alliance of democratic nations. NATOMarch 5, 2022 Video: Why is rapid deployment important for NATO? Rapid deployment is very important for NATO. It demonstrates NATO Allies' ability to react quickly and to defend each other against any threat from any direction.

Gretchen Fournier (2022-03-06). Las criptomonedas, haciendo de Puerto Rico un paraíso perdido. peoplesworld.org En su libro La Batalla por el paraíso, Puerto Rico y el Capitalismo del Desastre (2018) Naomi Klein, una reconocida periodista, dice "entre los escombros del huracán María, los puertorriqueños y los puertopians ultra ricos están enfrascados en una lucha irreconciliable por cómo rehacer la Isla". Hoy en el 2022 esas palabras resuenan más que …

ecns.cn (2022-03-06). Xi Jinping attends deliberation of Inner Mongolia delegation at Fifth Session of 13th National People's Congress. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), President of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, participated in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region delegation's deliberation at the Fifth Session of the 13th National People's Congress on Saturday.

Staff (2022-03-06). Embajada de Rusia informa sobre los primeros turistas rusos evacuados en Cuba. cubadebate.cu En un mensaje publicado en Twitter, la sede diplomática rusa en La Habana confirmó que los 300 turistas volaron a su país en una aeronave de Aeroflot, que arribó a La Habana para colaborar en la evacuación de los turistas de su país.

Staff (2022-03-06). Video: Mohammed Khatib of Samidoun on "Dictators and Fascist Regimes" samidoun.net Mohammed Khatib, Europe coordinator of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, joined the International League of Peoples' Struggle for an international online event on "Dictators and Fascist Regimes" on Saturday, 5 March 2022. "Fascism is on the rise. To fight this, we must link all the peoples' struggles against fascism all over the world." Speakers: …

Shiyam Galyon (2022-03-06). Why It's Hard for Most People in the US to Talk About War. truthout.org When former U.S. President George W. Bush released a statement on Ukraine — "condemning Vladimir Putin's unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine," and calling on the American people to "stand in solidarity with Ukraine and the Ukrainian people as they seek freedom and the right to choose their own future" — I thought to myself, Not now, man. You're hurting more than you're helping. And that's because, as very few Americans will need reminding, the Bush administration took advantage of the publ…

South Bay Indigenous Solidarity (2022-03-06). Thursday 3/3: Protect Juristac! South Bay Indigenous Solidarity March 2022 General Meeting. indybay.org Zoom Meeting. Registration at: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkd-2sqDsvGdClUcdqf4WClcddg_NN9dkg…

Mirna Wabi-Sabi (2022-03-06). Immigrant's Lynching in Brazil Forces Us to Confront Xenophobia and Colonialism. truthout.org On February 5, protesters took to the streets of major Brazilian cities asking for justice. A young African man, MoàØse Kabagambe, was lynched — tortured to death — on a beach in Rio de Janeiro in January.

_____ (2022-03-06). Putin, Lenin, Imperialism And The (Real) History Of Ukraine. popularresistance.org The people of this country suffer, I've always thought, from a general ignorance of history. This is because with vast oceans for borders, and ever-friendly neighbors, and no experience of being invaded, living in a country that has always urged assimilation including the acceptance of "American exceptionalism," schooled through an educational system that avoids teaching U.S. history with any degree of credibility so as not to upset anybody, they've never been encouraged to think critically about the past. To ask questions. To raise objections—not necessarily about what happened, but about how to interpret…

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2022-03-06: News Headlines

repost (2022-03-06). Wednesday 3/23: SF City Workers Rally & March Over Understaffing. indybay.org SF City Hall…

Toby Blomé (2022-03-06). MARCH for PEACE in UKRAINE; Global Day of Action. indybay.org Co-sponsored by CODEPINK & Democratic Socialists of America, and other allies. | Join us in a march through the streets of San Francisco to Stand in Solidarity for Peace in Ukraine. Our shared demands are:…

Staff (2022-03-06). Russian banks switch to Chinese UnionPay. rt.com Move supposed to soften effect on Russian card holders due to Visa and MasterCard withdrawal | On Sunday, several Russian banks announced plans to start issuing cards using the Chinese UnionPay card operator system. | The step, which came shortly after Mastercard and Visa pledged to cease operations in Russia and disconnect all the country's banks from their payment systems, will enable the holders of new cards to use them for paying and withdrawing cash abroad. | On Saturday, international financial service providers Visa and Mastercard said they would suspend operations in Russia within the next several days…

Peter Byrne (2022-03-06). Corrupt Privatizing UC Regent Richard C. Blum is Dead, but not (yet) Forgotten. indybay.org The corrupt privatizing UC regent Richard Blum who is married to Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein died and was give accolades by the Hearst owned San Francisco education reporter Nanette Asimov. Asimov has herself has done damage control for the privatizers and Democratic Party who are selling off and destroying SFUSD and San Francisco City College. The Hearst owned Chronicle has also been involved in union busting destroying the printers union and pushing the Pelosi, Willie Brown, Breed, Newsom Hunters Point/Treasure Island development plans by corrupt Lennar on a radioactive dump site. They are also developer…

Staff (2022-03-06). Pakistan strikes key deal with Russia to buy gas and wheat — reports. rt.com The reported agreement comes as Western countries cut ties with Moscow | Pakistan has signed a major agreement with Russia on the import of natural gas and wheat, media outlets reported this week, citing Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. | Khan reportedly said that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin had "great discussions" during his visit to Moscow last week, where the leaders signed a bilateral agreement. He noted that Pakistan plans to import some two million tons of wheat from Russia in the near future. | The two leaders reportedly also discussed the long-delayed Pakistan Stream gas pipeline, which…

Staff (2022-03-06). Ukraine appears to confirm death of negotiator dubbed 'traitor' by media. rt.com The former banker participated in peace talks with Russia from Kiev's side | Kiev has said that Denis Kireev, a secret agent on a mission from Ukraine's Defense Ministry, has died. Earlier reports claimed that a man with the same name was killed by Ukrainian secret services as a suspected traitor. | Ukraine's Chief Directorate of Intelligence said on Saturday that Kireev was among three agents killed in the line of duty. "They have died, protecting Ukraine," the military intelligence agency wrote on social media, without elaborating. | News of Kireev's death has caused some confusion after Ukrainian media init…

_____ (2022-03-05). Ukraine War: Who's To Blame And What's The Solution? A Socialist View. popularresistance.org Intense bombing and fighting continues throughout Ukraine as Russia's war enters its second week. Western countries have imposed a sanctions regime on Russia that is battering the economy and hitting workers the hardest. Eugene Puryear and Brian Becker discuss the latest on the war and explore the essential historical context, establishing five basic principles and points of unity for progressive forces in the West. They also discuss how the question of war and imperialism has served as an essential litmus test for socialists in the past.

John Studer (2022-03-05). Join 'Militant' drive! Fight Moscow's war on Ukraine! themilitant.com In response to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, the Militant has launched a timely and needed international drive to expand the reach of the paper, win 1,600 new subscribers, sell 1,600 books by Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionary leaders presenting a communist program and marking the lessons from past working-class struggles, and to raise $165,000 for a Militant Fighting Fund for the paper. The campaign is already off and running and goes through May 17. We're asking our readers to join in! | In response to the first major war on the European continent in decades, with consequences for the toilers world…

WSWS (2022-03-05). New Zealand court bans strike by 10,000 health workers. wsws.org The decision to ban the health workers' strike points to the increasingly anti-democratic measures being used against the working class, as COVID spreads out of control and the cost of living soars.

_____ (2022-03-05). How Greensboro Massacre Survivor Taught The Next Generation To Fight. popularresistance.org On November 3, 1979, Marty Nathan, Mike Nathan, and other members and supporters of the Communist Workers' Party were stationed along the route of a "Death to the Klan" march in Greensboro, North Carolina. This multiracial working-class movement's success organizing textile and hospital workers had attracted the attention of the Ku Klux Klan; "not surprisingly," Marty explained, "the Klan began to rise in 1979 … [in places] where hard-hitting union organizing and strikes were occurring." Not only were workers and organizers faced with resistance and threats from employers — they were also confronted with…

Mark Niu (2022-03-05). How electric vehicles are helping farmworkers in California. america.cgtn.com See how one rural California town is using electric vehicles to meet the needs of the community. #California #electricvehicles…

Saleyha Ahsan (2022-03-05). [World Report] Ukrainian health workers respond to war. thelancet.com Ukraine's civilian health workers are having to postpone usual care and focus instead on treating casualties following Russia's invasion. Salehya Ahsan reports.

Seth Galinsky (2022-03-05). NY meeting: Defend Ukraine, Cuba's socialist revolution! themilitant.com NEW YORK — "Tens of thousands of workers and others in Ukraine are throwing themselves into defending the sovereignty of their country. They are putting up a fierce resistance, against a murderous invasion by Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia aimed at conquering and obliterating their nation," Militant editor John Studer told a special meeting of over 100 people in New York City Feb. 27. "We want to join their defense, using the Militant and the Socialist Workers Party campaigns to tell the truth about what is unfolding there and the need for Putin's forces to be defeated." | Studer participated in three…

Fight Back (2022-03-05). Milwaukee: First Starbucks in Wisconsin files for union election. fightbacknews.org Oak Creek, WI – On February 17, over 50 people gathered in front of Starbucks in Oak Creek, a suburb of Milwaukee, for an announcement that the workers at that location filed for a union election. Shortly after, it was announced that an additional Wisconsin Starbucks filed for a union election, this one in the tiny community of Plover. The election filing is one of at least 100 across the country where Starbucks workers demanded a union at their workplace. Except for the first few weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, Starbucks workers have worked through it all. | The workers at Starbucks are beset on all sides. While…

WSWS (2022-03-05). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand. wsws.org India: Delhi childcare workers still on strike; Jammu water conservation workers walkout; 25,000 Bangladeshi public servants strike; Australian train maintenance workers strike for job security in NSW; New Zealand pallet workers on indefinite strike…

WSWS (2022-03-05). Australian workers face closure of Eraring coal-fired power plant by 2025. wsws.org Origin Energy's plan to bring forward the shutdown is motivated by flagging profits from fossil fuel energy, not concern for the environment.

Editor (2022-03-05). The unknown paths of the late Marx. mronline.org An interview with Marcello Musto about the last decade of Marx's life.

Editor2 (2022-03-05). For African and Colonized Peoples, to Understand Ukraine: De-Center Europe and Focus on Imperialism (Statement). orinocotribune.com The Black Alliance for Peace emphatically declares that the conflict in the Ukraine emerges from the ceaseless and single-minded drive of the U.S., NATO, and the European Union for global economic and political dominance. The genesis of the current crisis,

WSWS (2022-03-05). Australian Education Union uses anti-democratic delegates' meetings to promote sellout agreement. wsws.org High school teacher and Committee For Public Education member Will Marshall exposed the union's claims on workload, wages, and provisions covering Education Support staff.

WSWS (2022-03-05). APWU postal union claims contract ratification despite widespread ballot problems. wsws.org Only 18 percent, or 36,032 of 200,000 APWU members, voted to ratify the 2021—2024 Tentative Agreement with USPS, according to the official count released by the union.

Anonymous103 (2022-03-05). Military Situation In Yemen On March 5, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The Liaison and Coordination Officers' Operations Room (loyal to Ansar Allah) reported 140 ceasefire violations in al-Hudaydah in the past 24 hours; | On March 4, warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition conducted 10 airstrikes on the Haradh district; | On March 4, warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition conducted 3 airstrikes on the Wadi district; | On March 4, warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition conducted 3 airstrikes on the Sarwah district; | On March 5, clashes between Ansar Al…

sputniknews (2022-03-05). MoD: Russian Forces Destroy Ammo Depot in Zhitomir Hosting Javelins & NLAWs in High-Precision Strike. sputniknews.com The Defence Ministry's briefing comes as Russia has declared a ceasefire in Ukraine starting from 07: 00 GMT in order to open humanitarian corridors for civilians from Mariupol and Volnovakha.

Mohamad Zreik (2022-03-05). Daniel H. Rosen's Argument Revisited on Post-Covid China. moderndiplomacy.eu According to Daniel H. Rosen's article "Xi Is Running Out of Time: China's Economy Heads for a Hard Landing," China's economy is on the verge of a "hard landing" and the Chinese Communist Party is in danger of losing its power. Some people are worried that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has missed an opportunity …

ecns.cn (2022-03-05). Xi takes part in deliberation of Inner Mongolia delegation at annual legislative session. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, on Saturday afternoon took part in a deliberation with his fellow deputies from the delegation of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, at the fifth session of the 13th National People's Congress, China's top legislature.

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-03-05). US Ambassador James Story Causes More Fractures in Venezuelan Opposition. orinocotribune.com The recent meeting in Bogota between three Venezuelan opposition governors and the fake "US ambassador" to Venezuela James Story seems to be enlarging the fractures of the already divided right-wing political groups in Venezuela. The meeting has unleashed a series of criticism and hesitations amongst the opposition factions themselves. | For example, statements of José Ignacio Hernández, one of Juan Guaidó's close collaborators and "special attorney" of the so-called interim government, highlighted the discrepancies amongst right-wing sectors. Hernández dismissed the meeting between James Story and the governors…

Margaret McCartney (2022-03-05). [Perspectives] The modern medical memoir. thelancet.com This Is Going To Hurt, and so it did. Adam Kay's book of the same name with its snappy writing, drama, and vicious humour has done so well that it has been adapted into a BBC television series, starring Ben Wishaw, handsome in scrubs, but also often covered in blood and desperate with fatigue. The series seems to have divided opinion. Some viewers have objected to the misogynistic language and demeaning way that women in labour are often treated and portrayed. Others find the series darkly funny, making public those things previously confined to the doctors' mess.

IGD Worldwide (2022-03-05). Claim of Responsibility for Incendiary Attacks Against Police and Industry in Solo, Indonesia. itsgoingdown.org The following communique takes responsibility for incendiary attacks against police and industry in Solo, Indonesia Communique: Claim Action! In Solidarity With The Anarchist Prisoners! "For the one who carries the wolf of praxis in him, you are not alone" On March 2nd, a police post was set on fire which is located beside the…

Editor (2022-03-05). Understanding Ukrainian Nazism. mronline.org In the West, media outlets are claiming that Russia's agenda to "denazify" Ukraine is unfounded. At the same time, public opinion in Western countries is totally alienated from the Ukrainian reality, tending to believe only what is reported by the hegemonic media.

Codepink (2022-03-05). Solidarity with Russian anti-war protestors. zcomm.org Join us as we stand with the people of Ukraine and the protestors inside Russia to say: Stop the War…

teleSUR -HIM (2022-03-05). Venezuela condena orden de EE.UU. que la tilda de amenaza. telesurtv.net El Gobierno de la República Bolivariana insiste en potenciar relaciones diplomáticas bilaterales sobre bases de respeto y autodeterminación.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-05). Russia Warns Washington is Sending ISIS Fighters to Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com The Cradle Over the past two weeks Ukrainian officials have been calling for the formation of an 'international legion' of mercenaries The Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia (SVR RF) warned on 4 March that the US, along with NATO countries, are sending ISIS fighters from Syria to Ukraine. The ISIS members who are reportedly headed…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-05). How Russia Will Counterpunch the U.S.- EU Declaration of War. libya360.wordpress.com Pepe Escobar The unelected, uber-Kafkaesque EU machine in Brussels has chosen to commit a triple hara-kiri by grandstanding as abject vassals of the Empire, destroying any remaining French and German sovereignty impulses and imposing alienation from Russia-China. Only self-sufficiency affords total independence. And the Big Picture has also been keenly understood by the Global South….

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2022-03-05: News Headlines

Ben Norton (2022-03-04). US Sanctions on Russia Over Ukraine Also Target Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba. orinocotribune.com By Benjamin Norton — Feb 28, 2022 | President Joe Biden's top Latin America advisor, Juan S. Gonzalez, admitted that US sanctions against Russia aim to hurt Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba as well. The three socialist governments condemned NATO aggression for creating the crisis in Ukraine. | President Joe Biden's top Latin America advisor has admitted that US sanctions against Russia over Ukraine intentionally seek to hurt Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba as well. | The United States imposed a series of harsh sanctions on Russia following Moscow's recognition of the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk Peop…

Sara Flounders (2022-03-04). Guerra de EE.UU. contra Rusia: una estampida hacia el precipicio. workers.org Boletín: Desde el 22 de febrero, Rusia ha reconocido las dos repúblicas populares de la región de Donbass, en el este de Ucrania, la República Popular de Donetsk y la República Popular de Lugansk, establecidas en 2014. Rusia ha dicho que enviará tropas para proteger a las dos repúblicas si . . . |

Michael F. Brown (2022-03-04). Democrats deepen embrace of Israeli apartheid. electronicintifada.net Israel visits showcase bipartisan support for colonial violence and racism against Palestinians.

WSWS (2022-03-04). Sri Lankan action committee holds a successful online meeting in defence of Julian Assange. wsws.org Speakers insisted that the fight to release Julian Assange depends on a political movement of the working class based on socialist policies and in opposition to the capitalist system and all its institutions.

Staff (2022-03-04). Venezuela to Increase Minimum Wage and Consider Bonuses as Part of Wage. orinocotribune.com On March 3, Venezuela announced an increase in the minimum wage to half a petro, and determined that bonuses delivered to public workers through the Patria System will be considered as salary. The increased minimum wage will impact the wage scales of public employees, those under collective bargaining agreements, and pensioners. | In addition, food bonuses will increase to Bs. 45 ($10.30 USD). With the price of the petro currently at $57.81, and the official dollar at Bs. 4.37, the minimum wage would be Bs. 126 per month (or $28.90). Adding the food bonuses, it would be Bs. 171 per month, equivalent to $39.20.

WSWS (2022-03-04). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org South African Clover Foods workers to continue strike over wages and job cuts until their demands are met, while gold miners closer to strike action; strikes and protests in health care sector across Spain and France over jobs and conditions; two 24-hour strikes over jobs and pensions bring London underground to halt…

WSWS (2022-03-04). UK attendees speak on WSWS webinar "Fight Covid! Save lives! Stop the drive to World War III!" wsws.org Workers and youth in Britain who attended Saturday's World Socialist Web Site international online webinar, "Fight Covid! Save lives! Stop the drive to World War III!", have spoken to the WSWS about their thoughts on the important event. We publish further responses here.

WSWS (2022-03-04). UK university workers speak on higher education dispute. wsws.org WSWS reporters spoke to strikers and students at universities nationwide this week, including in London.

deweylaura (2022-03-04). Marxist IQ: Women in history. cpusa.org The Marxist IQ for Women's History Month is dedicated to women who struggle for democracy, socialism, and peace. 1. International Women's Day was first established by the Socialist International (Second International) in solidarity with an early twentieth-century strike of women workers in a. London. b. Berlin. c. New York. d. Paris. 2. Women …

WSWS (2022-03-04). Vanuatu inquiry into Australia's exploitative seasonal worker scheme. wsws.org The seasonal worker schemes established by Australia and New Zealand continue to exploit impoverished Pacific peoples as a source of cheap labour, despite repeated complaints and media exposures over the years.

Sarah Anderson (2022-03-04). Restaurant Workers Need a Bill of Rights. inequality.org

Anonymous349 (2022-03-04). Russian Forces Secure Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Expand Control Zone Near Kyiv (Video). southfront.org In the morning of March 4, the Ukrainian authorities that remain in Zaporizhzhia Region confirmed that Russian forces have established control of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant located at the town of Enerdogdar. The Ukrainian side added that the plant is manned by local workers and the facility works without incidents. | Russian troops established control of the facility and secured it after a series of clashes with the Ukrainian Army and so-called territorial defense units. These units had positions just in the vicinity of the plant. This allowed Zelensky government to speculate that the Russian advance may en…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-04). London Tube workers continue protests against mass layoffs. peoplesdispatch.org Transport for London has decided to make cuts worth millions in the transport sector in London, including in the underground rail network (Tube) where it has decided to cut 600 jobs…

WSWS (2022-03-04). USW tries to blackmail oil workers to accept sellout agreement. wsws.org In a series of "informational" meetings this week, United Steelworkers union officials have used lies and intimidation to push through a concessions-laden contract covering 30,000 oil refinery and petrochemical workers.

Betsey Piette (2022-03-04). Global supply chain: Rail industry prioritizes profits over safety. workers.org The global supply chain crisis, fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, has laid bare systemic problems within global capitalism — when and where goods are produced to how they are transported and the growing disparity between the bosses' wealth versus the wages and benefits paid to millions of workers throughout this . . . |

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-04). New Zealand Employment Court passes injunction to scuttle health workers' strike. peoplesdispatch.org Even though the allied health workers' unions in the capital Auckland postponed the strike owing to Omicron surge, the employment court forced a nationwide postponement…

WSWS (2022-03-04). Railroad workers at Canadian Pacific vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike action. wsws.org The strike vote is the latest indication of a growing mood of opposition and militancy among rail workers in North America.

Adriaan Alsema (2022-03-04). Colombia's war crimes tribunal: 5,700 killed in political extermination. colombiareports.com Attempts to exterminate Colombia's Patriotic Union (UP) party cost the lives of more than 5,700 people, according to the war crimes tribunal. The latest number of victims of the political…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-04). Sri Lankan unions begin campaign for minimum wage rise. peoplesdispatch.org 12 unions have launched a joint campaign to demand an increment in the minimum wage of private sector employees after the government decided to exclude them from a scheme granting a monthly increment of 5,000 LKR (USD 25) to pensioners and public sector employees…

Joe Sims (2022-03-04). What Biden didn't say in his State of the Union address. peoplesworld.org

WSWS (2022-03-04). International censorship mounted against Russian state-affiliated media outlets. wsws.org A campaign of censorship against Russian state-backed media sources has been led by the European Union and embraced by tech companies, social media platforms and cable television providers.

Staff (2022-03-04). Ukraine sanctions lead to $80bn loss for Russia's richest. rt.com A third of their net worth has been wiped out, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index | Russia's richest people have lost about a third of their wealth over the past week, due to Western sanctions over the war in Ukraine, according to the latest Bloomberg Billionaires Index. | The impact of US and EU sanctions against Russian oligarchs and the collapse of the ruble has seen their collective fortune shrink by $80 billion since the start of Moscow's military operation, according to the index. | The report says some saw their wealth halved, with the biggest loser in dollar terms being Gennady Timchenko, of…

Filler Collective (2022-03-04). Improvement of a Pro-Forced-Birth Billboard in Pittsburgh. itsgoingdown.org Action report from so-called Pittsburgh, originally posted to Filler Collective. Some time recently in the early hours, autonomous individuals improved a billboard in the Hazelwood neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The billboard promotes a pro-forced-birth ("pro-life") message and an organization that gives false medical information to pregnant people seeking abortions. It also moralizes this normal, beneficial,…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-03-04). Venezuela: Jorge Arreaza Appointed Minister for Communes. orinocotribune.com As he outlined the path for the new stage of rejuvenation in the construction of Bolivarian socialism, President Nicolás Maduro Moros announced this Thursday, March 3, the appointment of Jorge Arreaza to…

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-03-04). Declara»õia PSL privind interven»õia militarƒÉ a Rusiei àÆn Ucraina. liberationnews.org Amenin»õarea rƒÉzboiului poate fi àÆnvinsƒÉ doar prin solidaritatea interna»õionalƒÉ àÆntre popoarele lumii »ôi printr-o luptƒÉ hotƒÉrâtƒÉ àÆmpotriva imperialismului american, care trebuie sƒÉ impunƒÉ abolirea NATO. FƒÉrƒÉ rƒÉzboi cu Rusia!

Peoples Health Dispatch (2022-03-04). Enough of creeping privatization of health care, say striking Italian doctors. peoplesdispatch.org Primary healthcare physicians in Italy held a 48-hour strike on March 1-2, demanding adequate protection of their rights and warning against the creeping privatization of health…

_____ (2022-03-04). In These Days Of Great Tension, Peace Is A Priority. popularresistance.org It is impossible not to be moved by the outrageousness of warfare, the ugliness of aerial bombardment, the gruesome fears of civilians who are trapped between choices that are not their own. If you read this line and assume I am talking about Ukraine, then you are right, but of course, this is not just about Ukraine. In the same week that Russian forces entered Ukraine, the United States launched airstrikes in Somalia, Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen, and Israel struck Syria and Palestinians in Gaza. | War is an open sore on humanity's soul. It draws precious social wealth into destruction: 'The impact of war is self-e…

_____ (2022-03-04). Media Ignore Conflicts Around The World To Focus On Ukraine. popularresistance.org Kiev, Ukraine – We are living in dangerous times. All around the world, intense military actions are taking place. Last week alone, Russia launched a huge military invasion of Ukraine; Saudi Arabia carried out dozens of strikes on Yemen; Israel launched a wave of deadly missile attacks against Syria; and the United States restarted its bombing campaign in Somalia. | These four deadly incidents happened concurrently. Yet judging by media coverage, it is highly unlikely that many will even be aware of the final three. A MintPress News study of five leading Western media outlets found that overwhelming attention was…

IGD Worldwide (2022-03-04). Mapuche Political Prisoners José and Luis Tralcal Declare Hunger Strike. itsgoingdown.org The following is a communique from Mapuche political prisoners José Tralcal Coche and Luis Tralcal Quidel, who are currently imprisoned in CET Victoria (CET stands for "Center for Work and Education," a Chilean government euphemism for prison). On June 11, 2018, José and Luis were sentenced to 18 years in prison for the notorious Luchsinger-Mackay…

John Knefel (2022-03-04). Russia's Use of Cluster Bombs Should Spur a Global Recommitment to Banning Them. truthout.org The Russian military has used cluster bombs in at least two attacks on Ukraine, and likely a third, since its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, according to media and social media reports, and human rights groups. The strikes have resulted in civilian deaths. Their use in these instances may ultimately qualify as a

WSWS (2022-03-04). As Tube strikes throw London into chaos, Labour and Tory MPs denounce RMT as "Putin stooges" wsws.org The McCarthyite attacks are part of efforts to brand all industrial action as treason in time of war.

WSWS (2022-03-04). UK: Unite will not oppose Labour's strikebreaking operation in Coventry. wsws.org Unite has continued to meet with the council representatives throughout via the arbitration service ACAS, when the only principled position would have been to end all negotiations as soon as the first scab truck left the council yard.

Staff (2022-03-04). Headlines for March 4, 2022. democracynow.org Russia Accused of "Nuclear Terror" for Shelling Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Putin Says Russia's Invasion Is Going as Planned; Macron Says "Worst Is Yet to Come", Ukrainian Camera Operator Killed in Russian Strike on TV Tower ID'd as Yevhenii Sakun, Russia Forces Independent Radio and TV Broadcasters Off Air over Coverage of Ukraine, ICC Investigators Head to Ukraine as U.N. Rights Council Condemns Russian Invasion, Biden Admin Grants Protected Status to Ukrainian Immigrants, Halts Deportation Flights, Lawmakers Propose U.S. Ban on Imports of Russian Fossil Fuels, Youth Cl…

Staff (2022-03-04). Sanctions on tycoon's empire dropped except for yacht and jet. rt.com A special license has authorized transactions involving Alisher Usmanov's assets, except for his yacht and jet | The US Treasury has withdrawn businessman Alisher Usmanov's companies from sanctions lists, on the same day it imposed them, leaving only his superyacht and private aircraft blocked. | Announcing on March 3 that Usmanov had been put on the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)'s Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons list, the Treasury described Usmanov as an "affiliate" of Russian president Vladimir Putin and "one of Russia's wealthiest billionaires with vast holdings across multiple…

Dean Baker (2022-03-04). Six Million People Lose or Leave Their Job Every Month (that's 72 million a year for arithmetic fans). cepr.net I can't say how people form their views of the economy, but it is simply not true that the level of unemployment and the state of the labor market only affects a small minority of the population.

Staff (2022-03-04). Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País inició jornada conmemorativa por su 230 aniversario. cubadebate.cu El próximo 9 de enero de 2023 la Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País (SEAP), cumplirá 230 años de existencia comprometida con el lema que la ha identificado a través de los siglos XVIII al XXI: "Pro Patria". Sus integrantes han elaborado un amplio programa de actividades conmemorativas de marcado perfil científico.

WSWS (2022-03-04). John McDonnell and Diane Abbott pull out of Stop the War Coalition rally. wsws.org The Stop the War Coalition's entire political perspective is in ruins. The Labour Party is firmly in the hands of Starmer, more right-wing than ever, and not even one of its MPs will turn up to STWC events or sign their open letters.

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-03-04). Video: Tezlyn Figaro Goes Off On Biden And Democrats Over Ukraine And Neglect Of Black America. moguldom.com Political consultant Tezlyn Figaro did not mince words when asked whether Black Americans were doing enough to help Ukraine. Figaro said she supports standing in solidarity with Ukraine. However, she called out the Biden administration's willingness to send billions in aid to the war-torn country while hesitating to pass legislation to simply study reparations for …

_____ (2022-03-04). The Reincarnation Of The American Indian. popularresistance.org America's original sin of settler colonialism and indigenous genocide has left an indelible mark on the country to this day, especially on the remaining members of Native American tribes. Our revisionist retellings of this critical part of our history also continues to harm all of us and the land on which we live. Tribal leaders like Greg Sarris, who is serving his 15th term as Tribal Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria in California, however, understand that to chart a sustainable path forward, America needs not only to acknowledge its painful past but also root its future plans in indigenous k…

Editor (2022-03-04). Chairman Greg Sarris on the Reincarnation of the American Indian. scheerpost.com Greg Sarris, Tribal Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. [Photo courtesy of Greg Sarris] | Click to subscribe on: America's original sin of settler colonialism and indigenous genocide has left an indeible mark on the country to this day, especially on the remaining members of Native American tribes. Our revisionist retellings of this critical par…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-04). War, NATO and the New World Order. libya360.wordpress.com Fernando Rivero 1.- War and U.S. Military Doctrine: The armed conflict in Europe is directly related to U.S. military planning. The "Third Offset Strategy", the "Interim Strategic National Security Guidance" and the advent of the NATO "Strategic Concept" of 2022, outline the US military plan for global domination. The Third Offset Strategy, proposed by Secretary…

Staff (2022-03-04). UK could struggle to sanction Russian 'oligarchs' — media. rt.com Punitive measures could take "weeks and months," according to The Times | Russia's wealthiest tycoons may not be hit immediately by British embargos, a media report has claimed, alleging that the government has been unable to build a substantive case against them. | In a report published by The Times on Thursday, it was alleged that the Foreign Office and National Crime Agency have so far failed to mount "reasonable grounds" for targeting the most influential moguls, such as Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, with sanctions because "they have struggled to link their finances to" Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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2022-03-04: News Headlines

Michael F. Brown (2022-03-04). Democrats deepen embrace of Israeli apartheid. electronicintifada.net Israel visits showcase bipartisan support for colonial violence and racism against Palestinians.

WSWS (2022-03-04). UK university workers speak on higher education dispute. wsws.org WSWS reporters spoke to strikers and students at universities nationwide this week, including in London.

Joe Sims (2022-03-04). What Biden didn't say in his State of the Union address. peoplesworld.org

WSWS (2022-03-03). NATO floods Ukraine with weapons. wsws.org In a global weapons-running program without precedent in post-World War II history, more than 20 countries, including members of NATO and the European Union, are funneling weapons, such as aircraft and missiles, to Ukraine for use in NATO's proxy war with Russia.

_____ (2022-03-03). Russia Prevents Washington from Unleashing Biological Warfare. journal-neo.org In view of the unrest that US intelligence services have been actively initiating lately, whether in Central Asia, Transcaucasia or other areas bordering Russia and China, the risk of a biological disaster from multiple secret military biological laboratories deployed by the US in potentially politically and socially unstable regions is objectively increasing. In this regard, …

WSWS (2022-03-03). The lies and absurdities in Biden's State of the Union address. wsws.org Biden's speech was a vulgar attempt to paper over an immense domestic crisis by presenting the US as internally united against one man: Vladimir Putin.

WSWS (2022-03-03). Is the pandemic really over? wsws.org Biden's State of the Union speech marked the climax of a weeks-long effort of the entire political establishment and corporate media to force the American population to "live with the virus" and accept a "new normal" of unending mass infections, debilitation and deaths.

David Cavendish (2022-03-03). Where is Lenin when we need him? peoplesworld.org One can draw historical parallels only so far before they break down. No two time periods are exactly alike, but sometimes one can see striking similarities between them. That is true about the current war in Ukraine and World War I. Though much is different today than in the 1914-18 period, similarities exist. History teachers usually highlight …

WSWS (2022-03-03). Fed will move "aggressively" on interest rates if inflation persists. wsws.org Fed chair Powell made clear in testimony to Congress that decisions on interest rates will be determined by the extent to which workers push for higher wages in the face of rapidly rising inflation.

Peoples Health Dispatch (2022-03-03). Women rise up in France as March 8 approaches. peoplesdispatch.org Women workers in the health, care and social sectors in France are launching a campaign in the run-up to March 8, International Women's Day, to demand an end to austerity and violence against women. The trade union confederations, Union Syndicale Solidaires, General Confederation of Labour (CGT), and Unitary Trade Union Federation (FSU), have announced a strike in key sectors for March 8. | At the same time, workers' organizations from the health and social sectors — SUD Santé Sociaux, CGT, and French Confederation of Management — General Confederation of Executives (CFE/CGC), as well as the Associati…

Sharon Zhang (2022-03-03). New York REI Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form a Union. truthout.org Workers at a Manhattan REI location overwhelmingly voted to form a union on Wednesday, overcoming a fierce union-busting campaign waged by the company after workers filed for a union election in January. | The results of the in-person vote to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) on Wednesday were 88 to 14 in favor of the union, or an 86 percent "yes" vote. The store, located in SoHo, is the first of the company's 170 locations to unionize. | "As members of the RWDSU, we know we will be a…

WSWS (2022-03-03). The threat of world war looms: Take up the fight against imperialism and for international socialism! wsws.org The IYSSE (Australia) meeting at 4 p.m. (AEDT) Saturday, March 12 will discuss the urgent need to build an international anti-war movement of youth, students and workers as the danger of nuclear war heightens amid the escalating crisis in Ukraine.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-03-03). Amidst voter repression, progressive candidates gain in Texas primary. peoplesworld.org SAN ANTONIO, Texas—Amid voting problems across the state—due to both repressive Republican-engineered restrictions and mechanical glitches—progressive hopefuls picked up gains in the March 1 Texas primary elections. But they didn't get all they hoped for. In one marquee race, pro-worker immigration lawyer Jessica Cisneros narrowly trailed incumbent Rep. Henry Cuellar in South Texas's new 28th …

WSWS (2022-03-03). Stellantis CEO complains of worker "absenteeism" in US following massive 2021 profit report. wsws.org What was left unstated in Tavares's comments are the disastrous conditions which have driven absences from work, above all, the explosive spread of COVID-19 and the Omicron variant.

Tina Landis (2022-03-03). Socialist planning could reverse sober findings in new UN climate report. liberationnews.org Capitalist governments can only give incentives for corporations to implement emission-reduction technologies in hopes that profit-driven corporations will "do the right thing."

Brittani Banks (2022-03-03). The War-Profiteering Gangsters Will Kill Us All Unless We Unite Against Them. independentmediainstitute.org I figured something out after tossing and turning all night. We on the left often make the mistake of still looking upon Russia as a somewhat socialist enterprise. Of course, it isn't. The Soviet Union ended in 1991. Russia is an unadulterated neoliberal capitalist gangster's paradise, modeled during the time of its horrific restructuring under …

Editor (2022-03-03). "Cuba advocates a solution that guarantees the security and sovereignty of all" mronline.org Statement from Cuba's Revolutionary Government…

deweylaura (2022-03-03). The Young Communist League in Great Britain is growing — here's why. cpusa.org Over 30 years on from the dissolution of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), British communism has reached a new juncture, characterized by defiance of the anti-communist myths of the past and faith that Marxism-Leninism is the political path best suited to turning the looming contradictions in contemporary capitalism — climate collapse and …

_____ (2022-03-03). Capitalism, Nationalism, And Copaganda. popularresistance.org In a room filled with maskless war criminals and Ukrainian flags, President Joe Biden said, in perhaps the most obvious sentence ever spoken in that chamber, that he was a capitalist. That's not shocking to anyone, but it is a wonder that he had to say it, given that every other element of his speech was so focused on protecting American capitalism and imperialism. From defending NATO, to arguing for a more productive U.S. economy, to shouting out the CEO of Intel (who was, inexplicably, in the room for the speech), Biden doubled down on his campaign promise that "nothing would fundamentally change." | Biden took…

_____ (2022-03-03). Immigrant Youth Hold Rally Demanding Biden End All Deportations. popularresistance.org A day after President Joe Biden's State of the Union address, immigrant youth from across the U.S. rallied outside the White House on Wednesday, demanding an end to all deportations. | Organized by United We Dream—the largest immigrant youth-led group in the country—activists at the rally drew attention to the president's failed immigration policies and unveiled a banner acknowledging the over two million people who have been deported or expelled under the Biden administration. | "President Biden can praise his administration's purported achievements all he wants, but at the end of the day, young, Bla…

Walter Smolarek (2022-03-03). War and hollow promises: Biden's State of the Union address. liberationnews.org President Biden delivered his first State of the Union address last night, an hour-long speech mixing the war-mongering propaganda and empty promises of change that have become so typical of the Democratic Party establishment.

William Rivers Pitt (2022-03-03). Biden's SOTU Speech Channeled Reagan While Nearly Ignoring Climate. truthout.org It took me a day of watching and rewatching Joe Biden's first State of the Union address, but I was finally able to put my finger on what was troubling me: Reagan! Biden spent his hour before us on Tuesday doing his best Ronald Reagan imitation. It took a while to spot it because Biden lacks the performative chops Reagan brought wherever he went, and because I hadn't seen the real item in the flesh for thirty years. Once I saw it, though, it became impossible to miss. | Biden was at turns a national lig…

Benjamin Norton (2022-03-03). It's a jailable crime to support Russia's Ukraine war in EU members Slovakia and Czech Republic. multipolarista.com The European Union claims to represent freedom and democracy, but EU/NATO members Czech Republic and Slovakia made it a crime for citizens to support Russia's war in Ukraine, punishable with years in prison. Latvia has a police hotline and encourages people to report neighbors suspected of sympathizing with Moscow.

Michele de Mello (2022-03-03). Conflict between Russia and Ukraine may lead to global wheat shortage. peoplesdispatch.org The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has also shaken up the global commodities market. Russia is the world's largest exporter of wheat, with Ukraine in fourth place. Together, they account for 30 percent of global wheat exports, 19 percent of corn exports, and 80 percent of sunflower oil exports. | According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in 2021 alone the Russians produced 88.9 million tons of wheat, behind only the European Union, China, and India. Ukraine was the fifth largest producer of wheat in 2021, at 29 million tons. | Last Tuesday the price of wheat reached a 14…

WSWS (2022-03-03). Australian Education Union's record of agreement sell-outs. wsws.org Desperate to ram through its deal with the Victorian Labor government, the AEU has launched a misinformation campaign to bury the real details of its latest sell-out.

deweylaura (2022-03-03). What Biden didn't say at the State of the Union. cpusa.org The following is based on a report given by Joe Sims at the National Board meeting on March 2, 2022. Perhaps the most suprizing thing about Biden's State of the Union address the other night is that nary a word was said about the storming of the Capitol. How could that be? A scant …

Staff (2022-03-03). Benchmark Price for Venezuelan Oil Tops $80 (+Oil Production Increase). orinocotribune.com The benchmark price for Venezuelan oil climbed above $80 dollars per barrel yesterday, March 1, influenced by geopolitical tensions between Russia, the United States, and the European Union. Prices are also affected by problems in the supply chains of capital and consumer goods, by OPEC's decision to raise output by only 400,000 barrels per day, and by the demand for more fuel caused by the awakening of the economy of industrialized nations experiencing an easing in pandemic-related restrictions. | Prior to the closing of the markets, the Venezuelan Ministry for Petroleum displayed various prices of national crud…

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-03). Global Times: Biden fails to use Ukraine crisis to cover partisan struggles in U.S. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Full article at URL below. Global TimesMarch 3, 2022 Biden fails to use Ukraine crisis to cover partisan struggles in USState of the Union shuns provoking China, showing US limited ability: expertsBy Yang Sheng and Zhang Han US President Joe Biden finally made his delayed State of the Union address local time Tuesday night, devoting …

teleSUR, MER (2022-03-03). Pdta. de teleSUR condena censura de RT y Sputnik en la UE. telesurtv.net La periodista rechazó el bloqueo de Sputnik y RT en empresas tecnológicas como Google, Facebook, Youtube e Instagram.

_____ (2022-03-03). Tears For Ukraine, Sanctions For Russia, Yawns For Yemen, Arms For Saudis. popularresistance.org Hajjah, Yemen — "We're brutally bombed every day. So why doesn't the Western world care like it does about Ukraine?!!… Is it because we don't have blonde hair and blue eyes like Ukrainians?" Ahmed Tamri, a Yemeni father of four, asked with furrowed brows about the outpouring of international support and media coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the lack of such a reaction to the war in Yemen. | Over the weekend, a member of Tamri's family was killed and nine relatives injured when their family home was targeted in a Saudi-led Coalition airstrike in the remote al-Saqf area in Hajjah Governorate. T…

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-03). U.S. carrier strike group supports NATO Response Force, Black Sea air patrols. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com U.S. Sixth FleetMarch 3, 2022 Carrier Air Patrols Provide Support, Deterrence to NATO Response Force Naval aviators assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 1's strike fighter squadrons (VFA) 11, 211, 81, 34 and electronic attack squadron (VAQ) 137 conducted airborne patrols through a series of missions spanning enhanced vigilance, training and NATO enhanced Air Policing …

Anonymous103 (2022-03-03). Military Situation In Yemen On March 3, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The Liaison and Coordination Officers' Operations Room (loyal to Ansar Allah) reported 102 ceasefire violations in al-Hudaydah in the past 24 hours; | On March 2, warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition conducted 13 airstrikes on the Haradh district; | On March 2, warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition conducted 3 airstrikes on the Khab and Shaaf district; | On March 2, warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition conducted an airstrike on the Makiras district; | On March 2, warplanes of…

JANET (2022-03-03). The war on Donbass: why we must all stand against fascism. iacenter.org March 2, 2022 The people of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics celebrating Russia's recognition of the independence of their republics, Feb. 21. This lightly edited opinion piece by journalist, author and activist Fra Hughes first appeared in the Arab independent media satellite Al Mayadeen, Feb. 26. The Donbass people, much like the Palestinian people, continued to resist the dominance of global capitalism that supports fascism in Ukraine for eight years. For those who claim President [Vladimir] Putin is a megalomaniac sociopath, intent on drawing Europe and the U.S. into some kind of Machiavellian war…

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2022-03-03: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-03-03). Climate change is triggering a humanitarian crisis, UN report finds. wsws.org The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest report is an indictment of global capitalism's utter failure to address climate change.

Staff (2022-03-03). Chelsea boss Tuchel comments on Abramovich situation. rt.com Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel says it's 'very hard' to think of Chelsea without Roman Abramovich | Roman Abramovich's decision to sell Premier League team Chelsea will take some time to sink in, says the club's German boss Thomas Tuchel. | It was confirmed on Wednesday evening that the London team is officially on the market after Abramovich opted to sell the club some 19 years after he purchased it, a decision hastened by a wave of UK government sanctions being levied at Russian billionaires in the wake of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. | And speaking after Chelsea's 3-2 FA Cup win against Luton Town on Wednes…

Tanya Wadhwa (2022-03-02). Assassinations of Colombian social leaders shake communities. peoplesdispatch.org According to the Institute of Development and Peace Studies (INDEPAZ), during the past week, five social activists and two former combatants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerilla group were assassinated in the country…

Fight Back (2022-03-02). Seattle says 'No' to war with Russia! fightbacknews.org Seattle, WA — Braving the freezing cold and rain, around 70 to 80 people gathered at Westlake Park, February 26, to demand no more U.S. wars. The rally, hosted by Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) Seattle alongside several endorsing organizations, featured speakers calling for an end to U.S. intervention and military action in Ukraine as events in the region unfold at a breakneck pace. | The rally was endorsed Party for Socialism and Liberation, About Face Veterans, Serve the People Tacoma, Anakbayan Seattle, Cascadian Workers Association and Party of Communists USA. Along with FRSO, these organiza…

In Defense of Liberation! (2022-03-02). Morning Commute 3-2-2022: It's my birthday! #DefundthePentagon #DefundNATO #NoToImperialistWar. anchor.fm In this episode I discuss the hypocrisy of the United States, the European Union, and NATO who condemn the "Russian invasion" while also holding UN security council meetings to label Yemeni resistance movements as terrorists. The hypocrisy between funding and arming, training and supporting the Saudi Arabian and UAE Coalition committing war crimes in Yemen, Israel who continues to terrorize and occupy the Palestinian people's land, and much more! We talk about Bolivia, Nicaragua, revolution, struggle and how to organize. Check it out and let me know what you think!!!

Ann Brown (2022-03-02). Joe Biden Speech: 'Fund Them, Fund Them, Fund The Police', Fraternal Order Of Police Endorsed Judge Hon. Ketanji Brown Jackson. moguldom.com President Joe Biden's State of the Union address on March 1 evoked memories of his time as a tough-on-crime senator who crafted the 1994 crime bill. He said, "fund the police" several times during his speech, drawing bipartisan applause from politicians and criticism from community activists. Biden noted that his Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji …

JANET (2022-03-02). U.S.-instigated conflict threatens humanity. iacenter.org By Joe Piette March 1, 2022 Tens of thousands of essential workers lost their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many were exposed when they were put in harm's way to do the work providing the goods and services, so that corporate owners could continue to gather their billions of dollars in profits. Demonstration against NATO, Chicago, Jan. 24. The print press and online media reporting devoted to praising the nurses, postal workers, meat-packers, grocery and other workers, and the wage increases they were given, was fleeting. As the pandemic seems to be waning, companies are eliminating COVID-19 wage increases…

Staff (2022-03-02). As Biden Touts Anti-Russia Response in SOTU, U.S. Remains Addicted to Fossil Fuels That Drive War. democracynow.org We discuss President Biden's first State of the Union address with Jacobin magazine's Branko Marcetic, who says Biden should have focused more of his speech on laying out goals to reach renewable energy independence since the continued reliance by the U.S. on the oil and gas reserves of countries like Russia and Saudi Arabia gives those countries "relative freedom" to commit war crimes on the world stage. He says the task ahead is to "both avoid military escalation" and "try and get a ceasefire agreed to as soon as possible." Marcetic's latest piece is headlined "Fo…

Editor (2022-03-02). NATO and Africa: A relationship of colonial violence and structural White supremacy. mronline.org NATO is the means of continuing colonial aggressions against African countries.

Editor (2022-03-02). For African and Colonized Peoples, to understand Ukraine: De-center Europe and focus on imperialism. mronline.org The Black Alliance for Peace emphatically declares that the conflict in the Ukraine emerges from the ceaseless and single-minded drive of the U.S., NATO, and the European Union for global economic and political dominance.

WSWS (2022-03-02). NATO's proxy war on Russia and the death of the Corbynite "left" wsws.org The rump of the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs died on their knees, cowering before party leader Sir Keir Starmer's pro-NATO witch-hunt aimed at silencing anti-war sentiment in the working class.

TASS (2022-03-02). Biden: US sending additional troops to Europe only to defend NATO allies. tass.com Biden said he had sent a clear signal that the US and its European allies "will defend every inch of territory of NATO countries with the full force of our collective power"

JANET (2022-03-02). 10 Points Every Workers Should Know about NATO, Russia and Ukraine. iacenter.org By Danny O'Brien March 2, 2022 The U.S.-commanded NATO military alliance has spent 8 years funneling tons of advanced weapons and fascist armed groups into eastern Ukraine along the 1,200 mile border with Russia. The constant U.S./NATO backed attacks have resulted in over 14,000 deaths of civilians in Ukraine. These facts on the U.S./NATO military alliance's criminal and provocative role in Ukraine must be exposed. NATO expansion: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a military alliance under U.S. command. In 1990, U.S. Secretary of State James Baker promised leaders of the still-existing Soviet Union that N…

Anonymous103 (2022-03-02). Russia Bad, Qatar Good — FIFA's Hypocrisy. southfront.org (Photo by Matthew Ashton — AMA/Getty Images) | Written by Gavin O'Reilly | Since early last Thursday, in what has seemingly finally brought an end to the two-year long COVID-19 corporate media narrative, a Russian military intervention in neighbouring Ukraine, launched in response to almost nine years of NATO provocations following Kiev coming under the rule of the successive pro-Western governments of Petro Poroshenko and Voldymyr Zelensky since the 2014 Euromaidan colour revolution, has dominated media headlines worldw…

A Guest Author (2022-03-02). Letter to the Editor: Attacked for telling the truth on Ukraine. workers.org Dear Editors, Facebook banned me for a month. Why? Cause I posted two pictures of Ukraine Nazis, armed by the U.S. and NATO. (tinyurl.com/2p8uc3ee) They are part of the Ukraine army that has bombed and attacked the people of Donetsk and Donbass and Lugansk, just like we have fascists in . . . |

Staff (2022-03-02). Filipino Scholar Walden Bello on Why the Global South Is Suspicious of U.S. Motives in Ukraine War. democracynow.org We speak with acclaimed Filipino scholar and activist Walden Bello on the Global South's response to the unfolding crisis in Ukraine. Bello says there's hesitation from many world leaders to take an active role in the crisis, arguing that there is a lack of explicit national interests and a general suspicion the U.S. provoked the invasion to take advantage of the subsequent backlash against Russia. He says people in the Global South realize that ever since the Soviet Union fell apart, "NATO and the U.S. tried to take advantage of it in an aggressive eastward expansion of NATO right onto the coun…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-02). Over 200 academics from across Latin American call for boycott of Israel. peoplesdispatch.org Calling Israel an apartheid state, academics from over 15 countries in the Latin American region demanded that their governments and institutions end all collaboration with the government and institutions of Israel…

_____ (2022-03-02). A Labor Movement To Challenge The Billionaires. popularresistance.org Veteran union negotiator and labor lawyer Joe Burns has issued a bracing challenge to the U.S. labor movement in his new book, Class Struggle Unionism, one that should be read by everyone in the labor movement, and everyone who is concerned about the power that the billionaire class exercises over our society. | In less than 200 pages, and in clear, accessible language, Burns lays out a strong case that the reason the labor movement in the U.S. has been on the defensive for the past half-century is its abandonment of the type of unionism practiced by UE — what Burns calls "class struggle unionism" and what…

Zach Farber (2022-03-02). UFCW Local 135 inaugurates struggle for fair contract in San Diego. liberationnews.org United Food and Commercial Workers Local 135 rallied around 100 members and supporters in San Diego on Feb. 28 to kick off their fight for a new fair union contract.

Martha Grevatt (2022-03-02). °Disuelve la OTAN! Paren a los EE.UU./OTAN: °Provocador de la guerra en Ucrania! workers.org 28 de febrero de 2022 El Partido del Mundo Obrero se une a las muchas organizaciones anti-guerra y anti-imperialistas, aquí y en todo el mundo, urgiendo a exponer las provocaciones de guerra de la OTAN y de los Estados Unidos. Llamamos a movilizaciones internacionales de emergencia para acciones del 1 . . . |

Editor (2022-03-02). Misogyny again exposed in U.S. sports. workers.org Misogyny rooted in patriarchy has permeated every aspect of U.S. society from the time the butcher Christopher Columbus and his ilk arrived in the Americas hundreds of years ago. Women and gender-nonbinary people have been viewed as less than cisgender men, when it comes to economic and political equality. Sports . . . |

WSWS (2022-03-02). United Steelworkers president met with Biden to enforce sellout, block oil strike and back war drive against Russia. wsws.org Last Friday, the day after the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, the United Steelworkers union (USW) suddenly announced it had reached a tentative agreement for a new labor agreement to prevent a strike by 30,000 oil refinery and petrochemical workers.

Dianne Mathiowetz (2022-03-02). Unions rally for Alabama Amazon workers. workers.org Bessemer, Alabama The weather was cool in Alabama on Feb. 26, but the Amazon workers' spirits were hot! A crowd of hundreds gathered in front of a stage built by local International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) members. A banner with the faces of scores and scores of Amazon . . . |

WSWS (2022-03-02). Virginia preschool teacher shares her story with the Global Workers' Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic. wsws.org Jodie describes an uphill battle in her efforts to protect herself and the lives of her students, in opposition to the policies imposed by the state government, the CDC and powerful economic interests demanding parents return to work.

WSWS (2022-03-02). The way forward for the Sri Lankan health workers' struggle. wsws.org Facing growing anger among members over the continuous rejection of their demands, the unions have been compelled to call stoppages again, but only to beg for a deal with the government.

PAI (2022-03-02). 1,300 Hershey's workers in Virginia voting on unionization. peoplesworld.org STUART'S DRAFT, Va.—Despite rampant corporate labor law-breaking and insults to the union they seek to join, some 1,300 workers at the Hershey's chocolate plant in Stuart's Draft, Va., just southwest of Staunton, are voting on whether to join the Bakery, Confectionery and Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers. If the union wins, those workers, who make …

Mark Gruenberg (2022-03-02). Congressional staffers draw Dem, AFL-CIO support for unionizing drive. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON —Hours are long, often erratic. Sexism is rampant. Pay is low when compared to earnings of similarly talented and bright peers. Firings without cause are common. Depending on individual CEOs' preferences produces rampant racism. Many immediate supervisors, and some "CEOs," engage in sexual harassment on the job. Welcome to Capitol Hill, nicknamed "The Last …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-02). A Different "Fight for 15:" Haiti Garment Industry Workers Strike. libya360.wordpress.com Marymah Prosper Garment worker protesting in Port au Prince, February 17, 2022 Reuters: Ralph Tedy Erol The garment workers' strike in Haiti can't be separated from that nation's history. Continued US interference on behalf of oligarchic rule keeps workers in poverty. On February 16, 2021, thousands marched from the SONAPI park down the Toussaint Louverture Boulevard…

WSWS (2022-03-02). Care Ambulance drivers protest low wages in Southern California health care workers protest. wsws.org Three-quarters of Falck/Care Ambulance drivers in Orange and LA County get paid $15 per hour, which became the state minimum wage for California on January 1.

WSWS (2022-03-02). Thousands die in Spain as PSOE-Podemos declares pandemic measures over. wsws.org The death toll and the incalculable impact on the lives and health of Spain's population are a result of the criminal policy of "herd immunity" pursued by the Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government.

Reynard Loki (2022-03-02). How Artist Mel Chin's 'Constant Revolution' Is Tackling Humanity's Environmental Challenge. independentmediainstitute.org For this MacArthur fellow, art is a powerful tool for addressing complex environmental issues. By Rachel Gugelberger, Independent Media Institute 17 min read I began to grasp the breadth of Mel Chin's work in 2015 when I included his video document "S.O.S. (Straight off the Street) Reloaded" in the first exhibition that I curated for the art …

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-02). Caracazo- cornerstone of the Bolivarian Revolution. peoplesdispatch.org Hundreds of thousands of poor Venezuelans took to the streets of Caracas against neoliberalism and decades of social injustice in the country for a protest action in February 1989 known as Caracazo. The protests gave a big blow to the capitalist system and pseudo-democracy in the country as well as paved the way for the Bolivarian revolution.

_____ (2022-03-02). Biden's Silence Throws 30 Million Uninsured People Under The Bus. popularresistance.org In his State of the Union address tonight, 1 Mar 2022, Joe Biden stayed consistent with his campaign pledge to bury universal healthcare, throwing 30 million uninsured Americans under the bus along with at least 40 million under-insured. | In tonight's speech Biden used the simplest of expedients: silence. Amid all the easy applause lines, the leader of the world's wealthiest nation whispered not a word about healthcare as a human right… …Nor a word about addressing America's shameful performance contrasted with peer nations, a gap that is growing. Average life expectancy in comparable nations has now risen…

_____ (2022-03-02). Disarming Ukraine — Day Seven. popularresistance.org The crisis, and especially the reaction of the 'west' to it, is much worse than I had feared. The U.S. government and 'western' media claim that the World condemns Russia's invasion of Ukraine. That is however far from reality. It is only true if true if you believe 'the world' solely exists of the 5-eye spying cooperation (U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand), the European Union, Switzerland, Japan and Singapore. The view differs when you zoom out. The much bigger 'rest of the world' has not condemned Russia but understands how the conflict came about. They blame, like political scientist John Mearsheimer,…

_____ (2022-03-02). West Intensifies Economic Warfare Against Russia. popularresistance.org Delivering his annual state of union address, US president Joe Biden announced the decision to close its airspace for all Russian flights on Tuesday, March 1. He accused Russia of rejecting "efforts of diplomacy" and called president Vladimir Putin's decision to send armies to Ukraine a "badly miscalculated" move. However, Biden also announced that the US will not fight against Russia directly. | The announcements of sanctions against Russia and its boycott by various countries and individual corporations continued on Tuesday. Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, announced its withdrawal from the European market foll…

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-03-02). Biden: If You Test Positive For Covid, You Can Get Antiviral Pills For Free At CVS And Walgreens. moguldom.com During his State of the Union Address on Tuesday, March 1, U.S. President Joe Biden made some lofty promises. Among them was the announcement that anyone who tests positive for covid-19 will soon be able to get free antiviral pills from Walgreens, CVS, Kroger and other pharmacies and health centers across the country. "We're launching …

Johanna Kichton (2022-03-02). People's Action: The State of the Union Isn't Strong for All of UsÔøº. peoplesaction.org Contact: Johanna Kichton, press@peoplesaction.org, 202.660.0605 WASHINGTON, D.C.—People's Action today released a statement by Campaigns Director Sondra Youdelman in response to President Biden's State of the Union address: "Tonight, President Biden pushed to tax the rich, grow the economy, and get costs down for families, and we agree—this economy has been rigged against the people who …

Johanna Kichton (2022-03-02). People's Action: The State of the Union Isn't Strong for All of Us. peoplesaction.org Contact: Johanna Kichton, press@peoplesaction.org, 202.660.0605 WASHINGTON, D.C.—People's Action today released a statement by Campaigns Director Sondra Youdelman in response to President Biden's State of the Union address: "Tonight, President Biden pushed to tax the rich, grow the economy, and get costs down for families, and we agree—this economy has been rigged against the people who …

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-03-02). President Maduro Confirms Support for Putin During Phone Call. orinocotribune.com In a telephone conversation that took place this Tuesday, March 1, the Venezuelan head of state, Nicolás Maduro, ratified the support of the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for the Russian people and the administration of President Vladimir Putin, in the midst of the conflict with the Republic of Ukraine. | For this reason, the diplomatic services of the Eurasian nation reported on the phone call held by the president, as disclosed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, through social media platforms—at least those not censored by Washington and the European Union.

Kevin Mwanza (2022-03-02). Fact Check: Nukes Were Ordered By Soviet Union During Cold War But Famous Soviet Navy Officer Didn't Follow Orders. moguldom.com In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, history reminds us of the Cold War and how the Soviet Union came close 60 years ago to a nuclear strike that was averted by the actions of a Soviet Navy officer who refused to follow orders. Russia invaded Ukraine in a large-scale military invasion on …

Staff (2022-03-02). Russia's largest bank leaves EU. rt.com The announcement comes as a number of the country's financial institutions become subject to heavy sanctions | Russia's key state bank has revealed that it will pull out of the European Union's financial markets, citing threats to the safety of employees and its branches in the wake of Moscow's attack on Ukraine. | In a statement on Wednesday, Sberbank announced that the decision had been made as a result of its subsidiary banks facing "an abnormal outflow of funds." The financial giant also claimed that its employees and branches were under threat. | "Due to the instruction of Russia's Central Bank, Sberbank…

Staff (2022-03-02). 'Sports genocide' being waged against Russian athletes, says union. rt.com The Russian Union of Athletes pointed to a lack of punishment for others who have launched past military operations | The Russian Union of Athletes has released a scathing attack on the sanctions being imposed by global federations against Russian and Belarusian competitors, calling them a "sporting genocide." | The International Olympic Committee (IOC) recommended on Monday that Russian and Belarusian athletes be banned from international competition across all sports, or failing that perform as neutrals without their country's national anthem or flag. | A host of international sporting federations have sinc…

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Joe Piette (2022-03-02). U.S.-instigated conflict threatens humanity. workers.org Tens of thousands of essential workers lost their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many were exposed when they were put in harm's way to do the work providing the goods and services, so that corporate owners could continue to gather their billions of dollars in profits. Demonstration against NATO, Chicago, . . . |

Editor (2022-03-02). NATO and Africa: A relationship of colonial violence and structural White supremacy. mronline.org NATO is the means of continuing colonial aggressions against African countries.

teleSUR (2022-03-02). Lula Da Silva in Mexico to Meet With President López Obrador. telesurenglish.net Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the President of Mexico, will meet with Brazil former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who visits the country for a reunion of friends. | RELATED: | López Obrador remarked he was pleased to receive the Brazilian leader in Mexico. According to Mexican Foreign Ministry, Lula da Silva arrived on Monday and has had numerous activities in the country. He will meet with the Mexican President on W…

WSWS (2022-03-02). Biden's "State of the Union": Confronting internal crisis, the American ruling class turns to war. wsws.org What emerges from Biden's State of the Union speech above is that the campaign for war against Russia is being driven above all by the social and political crisis within the United States.

WSWS (2022-03-02). UK: Stagecoach West bus drivers to stage month-long strike over pay. wsws.org Stagecoach—the largest private bus and coach operator in the country—has been reliant on Unite to prevent national strike action, agreeing pay agreements below the rate of inflation.

WSWS (2022-03-02). More than 120,000 COVID cases in New Zealand. wsws.org Hospitals are under intense pressure as Omicron spreads throughout schools, universities and workplaces. The Labour Party-led government is responding by further easing public health restrictions.

imperial.ac.uk (2022-03-02). Imperial community shows solidarity with Ukraine. imperial.ac.uk Imperial has condemned the Russian Federation's "unjustified and inhumane invasion" of Ukraine.

Montreal Counter-Info (2022-03-02). Anti-Colonial Protesters Rally Outside Home of Bank President Against Financing of Coastal GasLink Pipeline. itsgoingdown.org Report on a recent noise demonstration and protest in so-called Montreal outside of the home of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) president for their role in financing the Coastal GasLink pipeline. Originally posted to Montreal Counter-Info. Around dinner time on the night of February 23rd, two dozen anticolonial militants paid a surprise visit to RBC…

Danny O'Brien (2022-03-01). Disband NATO — the U.S. war provocateur What the workers should know about NATO, Russia and Ukraine. workers.org What is NATO? NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is strictly a military alliance, commanded and mostly equipped by the U.S.; it was founded in 1949, in the aftermath of WWII, when hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops occupied Western Europe. NATO's purpose was to enforce capitalist control of Western . . . |

_____ (2022-03-01). For African And Colonized Peoples, To Understand Ukraine: De-Center Europe And Focus On Imperialism. popularresistance.org The Black Alliance for Peace emphatically declares that the conflict in the Ukraine emerges from the ceaseless and single-minded drive of the U.S., NATO, and the European Union for global economic and political dominance. The genesis of the current crisis, as BAP has previously asserted, is in the 2014 US-backed coup of Ukraine's democratically elected government — and in the determination of the U.S./EU/NATO "axis of domination" to convert Ukraine into a heavily-militarized NATO member nation, lurking on the border of the Russian Federation. NATO's expansion has been a well-known security concern for Russi…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-01). Follow the Money: How Russia Will Bypass Western Economic Warfare. libya360.wordpress.com Pepe Escobar The US and EU are over-reaching on Russian sanctions. The end result could be the de-dollarization of the global economy and massive commodity shortages worldwide. So a congregation of NATO's top brass ensconced in their echo chambers target the Russian Central Bank with sanctions and expect what? Cookies? What they got instead was Russia's…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-01). ALBA Secretary Rejects NATO Presence in Latin America. libya360.wordpress.com Executive Secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance (ALBA-TCP), Sacha Llorenti, spoke to RT en Español's Jessica Sosa in Caracas on regional integration, U.S. and NATO presence in the region, and Bolivia's search for justice for the 2019 coup. Llorenti served as Bolivian Ambassador to the United Nations under President Evo Morales and sat on the UN Security Council…

_____ (2022-03-01). US Rejects Ukrainian Call For No-Fly Zone. popularresistance.org On Monday, February 28, the US rejected the Ukrainian demand to impose a no-fly zone over the country to prevent Russian airstrikes. Replying to a specific question in an interview to an American news channel, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that the move would be escalatory as it will "potentially put us in a place in a military conflict with Russia." | A day earlier, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy had asked the US and other NATO countries to implement a no-fly zone policy over Ukraine to prevent Russian air strikes. | The talks which had started between Russian and Ukrainian delegates on Mon…

JANET (2022-03-01). Disband NATO — the U.S. war provocateur: What the workers should know about NATO, Russia and Ukraine. iacenter.org By Danny O'Brien February 28, 2022 What is NATO? NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is strictly a military alliance, commanded and mostly equipped by the U.S.; it was founded in 1949, in the aftermath of WWII, when hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops occupied Western Europe. NATO's purpose was to enforce capitalist control of Western Europe, which was challenged by workers' movements, and to confront the Soviet Union. NATO began with 12 member states. For their defense against NATO, the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries that had overthrown capitalism established the Warsaw Pact in 1955.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-01). Bolivia: NATO is a Threat to International Security. libya360.wordpress.com "NATO is not a guarantee of security. On the contrary, it is a threat to international security. We only have to remember the bombing of Yugoslavia.." Bolivia makes an appeal to the UN General Assembly "to avoid declarations or actions such as unilateral sanctions which, instead of promoting dialogue, undermine any possibility of a peaceful…

WSWS (2022-03-01). David North speaks on the NATO-Russia war on Turkey's Kƒ∞TABA DAƒ∞R. wsws.org David North, the Chairman of the International editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site, spoke with Turkey's Kƒ∞TABA DAƒ∞R on his book, The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished 20th Century, and the rapidly intensifying conflict between Russia and NATO over Ukraine.

Jason Ditz (2022-03-01). Finland Mulls NATO Rethink After Recent Poll Shows Support. news.antiwar.com With the longest border with Russia at 830 miles, Finland's history during the Cold War was defined by being close to NATO, cooperating with the alliance, but retaining enough neutrality to avoid being an immediate target for the Soviet Union. | That neutrality saw Finland through the Cold War, and became a time-honored position of ruling parties. At times NATO became a political issue, With hype around the Ukraine War, a new poll shows a re…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-01). Ukraine: Cuba Champions a Solution that Guarantees the Security and Sovereignty of All. libya360.wordpress.com Statement by the Revolutionary Government The U.S. determination to continue NATO's progressive expansion towards the Russian Federation borders has brought about a scenario with implications of unpredictable scope, which could have been avoided. United States' and NATO's military moves towards regions adjacent to the Russian Federation in recent months, preceded by the delivery of modern…

teleSUR (2022-03-01). US Activists Protest Against NATO Expansion in Eastern Europe. telesurenglish.net According to Wilayto's statements, U.S. activists have plans to make a rally in order to make it clear to Americans that NATO and the West are responsible for the ongoing crisis in Eastern Europe. | RELATED: | Phil Wilayto noted that NATO's expansion in Russia-Ukraine borders, as well as West's support of the 2014 coup in Kiev are the reasons behind the current crisis taking place in Ukraine. | He referred to the p…

WSWS (2022-03-01). Trudeau's deployment of emergency powers—a warning to workers across Canada. wsws.org History shows that whenever the powers of the capitalist state are strengthened in the name of combatting the far right and defending "democracy," they are invariably turned against the working class—and with far more speed, consistency and violence.

Ana Perdigón (2022-03-01). Venezuela Denounces EU Censorship of RT & Sputnik. orinocotribune.com The Venezuelan Minister of Communications, Freddy Alfred Nazareth àëáñez, has denounced the European Union's (EU) censorship of Russian media outlets such as RT and Sputnik, while expressing his solidarity with the employees of both companies. | Via a Twitter post, àëáñez questioned the freedom of expression and the press in Europe, suggesting these are illusions about the West that are crumbling in this era. "And what about freedoms of expression and of the press?" wrote àëáñez. "Another myth falls in the West during the 21st century. All of our solidarity is with the workers of RT and Sputnik. EU…

Jennifer Skinner (2022-03-01). Prep & Pastry workers strike twice against unfair labor practices. liberationnews.org The Prep & Pastry workers have escalated their struggle, holding two one-day unfair labor practice strikes against the company for union busting, and refusal to meet their demands for a safe, equitable work environment where workers are respected…

Joe Piette (2022-03-01). 'Say no to UPS pay cuts!'. workers.org Philadelphia On a cold morning Feb. 24, dozens of Teamsters union members and supporters rallied across the street from the Oregon Ave. United Parcel Service facility in Philadelphia to "Say no to UPS pay cuts!" During the pandemic, UPS was forced to raise bottom-level wages to $19 an hour, because . . . |

Madison Johnson (2022-03-01). In PortlandRacist murderer goes on shooting rampage. workers.org Portland, Oregon June Knightly, known as "T-Rex," was a dedicated anti-racist activist. When she wasn't assisting with progressive demonstrations, she was providing aid to many unhoused people of Portland, even while requiring the use of a cane to walk. She had a female spouse and a son and was beloved . . . |

Workers World Philadelphia bureau (2022-03-01). 'Día sin Inmigrantes' exige 'ciudadanía ya'. workers.org Workers World — Philadelphia Inmigrantes, refugiados y simpatizantes participaron en una marcha y concentración en Filadelfia en el "Día sin Inmigrantes" nacional el 14 de febrero, para exigir que el presidente Joe Biden cumpla sus promesas de campaña y les conceda la ciudadanía ya. A pesar de las gélidas temperaturas, . . . |

Speak Out Now (2022-03-01). Saturday 3/19: A Return to Normal? The Attacks on Workers and What Lies Ahead. indybay.org Online meeting; see website for details…

Sharon Zhang (2022-03-01). Starbucks Union Files 20 Complaints, Alleging Company Is Illegally Union Busting. truthout.org Starbucks Workers United has filed 20 complaints with federal labor officials over the last week, alleging that the company has engaged in multiple illegal union-busting activities, The union claims that the company threatened to shut down all of its stores in Buffalo, New York, where the union drive began. Starbucks Workers United also says tha…

Andrew Wright (2022-03-01). Organizing Detroit: Carrying on the struggle at Great Lakes Coffee. peoplesworld.org The workers from the Midtown location of Great Lakes Coffee — under the moniker Comrades in Coffee — have officially gone on strike. Earlier this year, the coffee shop shut its doors, laying off the staff indefinitely, after workers demanded stricter measures on COVID protections, PPE, and an increase in pay. While the coronavirus was …

WSWS (2022-03-01). USDAW and GMB unions secure below-inflation pay rise at ASDA supermarkets. wsws.org Workers are ready for a fight and understand they can place no faith in the trade unions.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-03-01). Poor People's Campaign leader, Rev. Barber, boosts unions in Buffalo talk. peoplesworld.org BUFFALO—Supporting organizing workers is a big plank in the Poor People's Campaign platform, and its co-chair the Rev. William Barber II really made that point in a talk with Starbucks baristas n Buffalo who have unionized. As voters go to the polls today in Texas, the first primary elections of the 2022 season, the significance …

WSWS (2022-03-01). Tower auto parts worker describes management harassment during COVID quarantine: "You're basically owned by Tower" wsws.org Isabella, an auto parts worker at Tower Automotive in Chicago, explained how management pressed her to return to work while she was experiencing COVID symptoms and still awaiting test results during the Omicron surge.

WSWS (2022-03-01). In war speech, German Chancellor Scholz triples defense budget to rearm against Russia. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party and the World Socialist Web Site condemn the war offensive announced yesterday by Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the German parliament (Bundestag) and supported by all Bundestag parties.

Brittani Banks (2022-03-01). How Storied Artist Mel Chin's 'Constant Revolution' Is Tackling Humanity's Environmental Challenges. independentmediainstitute.org Click here for video links and click here for photos that you may use to accompany the article (captions and credits can be found in each image's description field). I began to grasp the breadth of Mel Chin's work in 2015 when I included his video document "S.O.S. (Straight off the Street) Reloaded" in the …

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