(2022-04-02). China rejects EU calls to cut ties with Russia over Ukraine war. wsws.org Hostile official remarks after yesterday's virtual European Union-China summit point to escalating global tensions provoked by NATO's war against Russia in Ukraine.
(2022-04-02). Global food crisis fuels international class struggle. wsws.org Significant strikes and demonstrations are breaking out across the world in the largest wave of social protest since before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The working class is the social force capable of stopping world war.
(2022-04-02). Growing outrage over victimization of Nashville nurse RaDonda Vaught. wsws.org The WSWS is organizing the working class to defend RaDonda Vaught and all health care workers against victimization for the crisis of the for-profit health system.
(2022-04-02). Strikes sweep Brazil as prices soar. wsws.org A wave of strikes is spreading among different sections of the working class in response to the explosive inflation rates accumulated in the two years of COVID-19 pandemic.
(2022-04-02). MPS Students Launch Campaign For Fresher Food, More Options, Better Pay For Cafeteria Workers. popularresistance.org Calling attention to the lack of fresh food in their lunches at Milwaukee Public Schools, student leaders have launched a "school lunch justice" campaign outside the district's central offices.The students are part of Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES), the multiracial youth arm of Voces de La Frontera, an advocacy organization for the rights of immigrants and workers. Villanueva said YES surveyed more than 1,000 MPS students and found that the quality of school lunch was the "most pressing issue" with the school environment.
(2022-04-02). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand. wsws.org India: Tamil Nadu mini-clinic doctors protest sackings; Australia: Age care workers strike in North Queensland and Tasmania; New Zealand rail union holds strike ballot…
(2022-04-02). WorkWeek: SF City Workers & Outsourcing/USW 5 Chevron Strike, Blum/Feinstein Crime Couple. indybay.org WorkWeek covers SF City Workers Angry Over Outsourcing/USW 5 Chevron Refinery Workers Strike/ The History Of Hedge Fund Speculator UC Regent Richard Blum & Senator Dianne Feinstein…
(2022-04-02). Dutch DockersTake Solidarity Action For UK P&O RMT Seafarers With Niek Stam of FNV-NL. indybay.org Dutch dockworkers took solidarity action against the ferry line P&O to support the 800 fired seafarers. Niek Stam of FNV-NL, who is the president of the Dockworkers union reported on their action.
(2022-04-02). Sri Lankan president declares state of emergency to suppress mass protests over austerity. wsws.org Workers must recognise that they are facing a political fight not only against the government but the entire political establishment that defends capitalism and supports austerity measures.
(2022-04-02). German unions agree to below inflation "wage rise" for airport security workers. wsws.org The imposition of a two-year no-strike clause in the deal is aimed at suppressing the growing opposition among airport workers.
(2022-04-02). Canada's Transport Safety Board presents damning report on 2019 CP Rail train derailment. wsws.org The findings lead to only one possible conclusion: CP Rail bears responsibility for the tragic deaths of three workers in the disaster.
(2022-04-02). On The Line In The Fight For Justice: USW 5 Chevron Richmond Refinery Workers Strike. indybay.org Striking USW 5 Chevron refinery oil workers picketed at the plant and were joined by community and labor supporters. They talked about the health and safety conditions including dangerous hours and attacks on their healthcare benefits.
(2022-04-02). US corporate profits, CEO pay surged in 2021 while inflation slashed real wages. wsws.org US corporate profits rose 25 percent in 2021 and CEO pay shot up 9 percent, while workers' wage gains were eclipsed by rising prices.
(2022-04-02). Workers and students in Australia call for international anti-war movement. wsws.org "A lot of people oppose this war, but others get sucked into anti-Russia and anti-China hate… We need to unite Russian and Ukrainian workers, and workers everywhere, against the war."
(2022-04-02). United States Colored Troops Congressional Gold Medal Act. indybay.org The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate shall make appropriate arrangements for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal of appropriate design to the African Americans who served with Union forces during the Civil War, collectively, in recognition of their bravery and outstanding service during the Civil War.
(2022-04-02). Amazon Labor Union wins election at Amazon warehouse in New York City. wsws.org While the ALU claims to be independent, its orientation is to the trade union apparatus, a section of which sees such initiatives as a means to somehow revive support for thoroughly discredited organizations.
(2022-04-02). Arriva London South bus drivers' strike becomes focus of broader opposition. wsws.org If it were not for the trade unions, the cost-of-living crisis fuelled by thirty-year high inflation of 8.2 percent would already have resulted in a strike wave across all sectors of the economy.
(2022-04-02). 2022 California Armed Service Day – Tribute to United States Colored Troops. indybay.org AB 1655, is on the way to an official California Juneteenth Holiday to begin sharing our authentic contribution toward saving the Union while fighting for freedom. In July of 1862, Congress passed the Militia Act of 1862. It had become an "indispensable military necessity" to call on America's African descent population to help save the Union.
(2022-04-02). Rights or Power: TANC Organizing Committee on SF's 'Right to Organize'. indybay.org 'Right to organize' legislation limits its nominal goal and solidifies conditions unfavorable to mass tenant power.
(2022-04-02). Sunday 4/3: Help mail Slingshot issuse #135. indybay.org Long Haul Infoshop – 3124 Shattuck Ave Berkeley – corner of Woolsey and Shattuck – 2 blocks from Ashby BART…
(2022-04-02). The "exceptional" economics of the Australian budget. wsws.org The opening sentence of the Treasury's budget analysis sets the tone for the rest of the document, by promoting the fiction that Australian capitalism is going to plough through the storms of global turbulence virtually unscathed.
(2022-04-02). Arizona couple donates Collaborative Research Building to Mayo Clinic. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Scottsdale, Ariz. — Thomas R. and Ruth Ann Hornaday of Paradise Valley, Arizona, have donated the Collaborative Research Building to Mayo Clinic. The 110,000-square-foot biomedical research facility, which opened on Mayo Clinic's Scottsdale campus in 2005, is valued at $64.4 million. The Collaborative Research Building houses laboratory-based research activity at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. Mayo Clinic researchers, physicians and other investigators are leading the scientific discovery of the mechanisms of human disease, as well as…
(2022-04-02). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Diagnostic testing, precision medicine and what it means for patients. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Precision medicine aims to customize health care by tailoring medications and treatments to each patient. An important step in being able to personalize treatments is diagnostic testing. Mayo Clinic BioPharma Diagnostics collaborates with biopharmaceutical, diagnostic, and other biotech companies to enable precision medicine through advanced diagnostics. Diagnostic testing can help find the right answers for each individual patient. "A laboratory test can either help in making a diagnosis for a disease, or it can help…
(2022-04-02). Science Saturday: Improving diagnosis of rare congenital disorders. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org When a child falls ill, two questions quickly come front and center for parents: What's the problem, and what can be done to fix it? For families whose children have certain congenital disorders, the answers to those questions can be maddeningly elusive. Laboratory tests to diagnose congenital disorders of methylation, such as Beckwith-Wiedemann, Silver-Russell, Prader-Willi, and Angelman syndromes, often come back without a definitive result. "We can have up to 25% of our results be equivocal for these conditions, and that's…
(2022-04-02). [Perspectives] A fortunate man? thelancet.com In 1966, the writer John Berger and his regular collaborator the photographer Jean Mohr spent about 6 weeks living with and observing the daily work of a general practitioner called John Eskell, who practised in the village of St Briavels in Gloucestershire's Forest of Dean in the UK. Berger was already well known as a novelist and art critic, and he went on to win the Booker Prize in 1972. Mohr was a Swiss photojournalist noted for his work highlighting humanitarian issues, such as the plight of refugees.
(2022-04-02). [Comment] DNA vaccines join the fight against COVID-19. thelancet.com As of March, 2022, just over 1 year has passed since the authorisation of first-generation vaccines against COVID-19. Since then, almost 10 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered globally.1 Although the delivery of this number of vaccines is a remarkable achievement, there is still a disparity in vaccine equity, access, and affordability between high-income and low-income countries. According to the Global Dashboard for Vaccine Equity (established by the UN Development Programme, WHO, and the University of Oxford), as of Jan 18, 2022, approximately 67 ∑6% of people in high-income countries…
(2022-04-02). US to Work With Allies to Send Soviet-Made Tanks to Ukraine. news.antiwar.com A US official told The New York Times on Friday that the Biden administration will work with allies in Europe The move marks an escalation in Western military aid to Ukraine. Until now, the US and its NATO allies have provided Ukraine with thousands of shoulder-fired anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles but have held off on sending more advanced weapons over concerns of provoking Russia. | The US official wouldn't specify how many tanks will be sent or what countries the…
(2022-04-02). US blacklists 120 organizations from Russia, Belarus. tass.com A document uploaded to the US Federal Register says those organizations were determined to be "acting contrary to the national security interests or foreign policy of the United States"
(2022-04-02). Turkish forces shell northern Syrian city of Ayn Issa, injuires reported – TV. tass.com Artillery and mortar fire was coming from the border security zone, created by the Turkish troops in 2019, Syria's Alikhbaria TV reported…
(2022-04-02). Europe has no robust alternative to paying for Russian gas in rubles – expert. tass.com Leonardo Paz Neves of the Fundacao Getulio Vargas foundation believes, the new payment rules for Russian gas will cause no turmoil on the global energy market…
(2022-04-01). The war in Ukraine and its effects on Latin America and the Caribbean. workers.org 
by Carlos Mauricio Ferolla and Marcelo Depieri March 23, 2022. On Feb. 24, war broke out in Ukraine after the invasion of the Russian army. The war has a global impact on a multipolar international system, hyperconnected and in a critical state, undergoing a process of hegemonic transition from the . . . |
(2022-04-01). Sanctions on Russia boomerang — Biden promises food shortages. workers.org 
March 27 "Food shortages — it's going to be real," President Joe Biden said in Brussels March 25. "The price of the sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia. It's imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country as well." This ominous warning, . . . |
(2022-04-01). Dock workers in Genoa protest transit of arms through their port. peoplesdispatch.org Working class formations in Italy have mobilized on numerous occasions to block the transit of arms through Italian ports and airstrips and protest the complicity of the Italian government in imperialist wars.
(2022-04-01). Health care workers denounce scapegoating of Nashville nurse RaDonda Vaught. wsws.org The WSWS is organizing the working class to defend RaDonda Vaught and all health care workers against victimization for the crisis of the for-profit health care system.
(2022-04-01). South Africa's Mineworkers Who Have Paid the Price. towardfreedom.org Paralysis, tuberculosis and silicosis are just some of the tragedies that befall miners in South Africa. But mine owners have denied healthcare and compensation, reports New Frame's Naledi Sikhakhane.
(2022-04-01). Millions Strike In India Against Modi Government's Policies. popularresistance.org The last two years have seen a further deterioration of the living standards of working people in India due to the pandemic and the lack of enough policy interventions by the Modi government. | Around 200 million industrial workers, employees, farmers and agricultural laborers observed a two-day general strike in India on March 28 and 29. The strike is a challenge by working people to the far-right Narendra Modi government as well as a fight to save the people's future and save the country.
(2022-04-01). Staten Island Amazon Workers Pull Into The Lead. popularresistance.org In initial vote tallies today, Amazon warehouse workers in New York are ahead by hundreds of votes in favor of forming a union, while in Alabama the election is too close to call, pending a court hearing. | The vote at Amazon's mammoth warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, was a rerun of the election last April that the union lost by more than 2 to 1. The results of that election were thrown out after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that Amazon had illegally interfered with the vote. | This time, out of 2,375 valid ballots, 993 workers at the fulfillment center voted against joining the Retail, Wholesal…
(2022-04-01). Opinion: Squeezing All The Daylight Out Of A Lemon, Senate Elects More Daylight Saving Time To Exploit Workers. moguldom.com The U.S. Senate passed a bill on March 15 called the Sunshine Protection Act to make daylight saving time the new, permanent standard time. DST was instituted in 1918 to save energy during World War I. During World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt instituted "war time," a year-round daylight-saving time, to save energy. After …
(2022-04-01). La guerra en Ucrania y sus efectos en América Latina y el Caribe. workers.org 
Por Carlos Mauricio Ferolla y Marcelo Depieri (OBSAL — Observatorio de Coyuntura de América Latina y el Caribe del Instituto Tricontinental) Resumen Latinoamericano el 23 de marzo, 2022 La pandemia y la guerra tendrán un efecto negativo para las economías de los países más desiguales El 24 de febrero inició . . . |
(2022-04-01). Striking Chevron workers denounce unpaid "standby" policy and other oppressive conditions at California oil refinery. wsws.org As industry analysts say they are "terrified" about slowing diesel and jet fuel production, Richmond oil workers are receiving an outpouring of support from other oil workers and workers in many industries in the US and internationally.
(2022-04-01). World wants peace, Biden threatens war. iacenter.org By John Catalinotto March 29, 2022 March 29 — Recent polls show that a majority of people in the U.S. fear that the current crisis might escalate to a war with Russia, a war they want no part of. (cbs42.com, March 28) Despite avalanche of anti-Russia propaganda, revulsion for wider war exists among workers in the U.S. Here, protest in South Bronx, New York, March 26. President Joe Biden's comments made March 26 in Warsaw — threatening regime change in Moscow — certainly did nothing to alleviate those fears. The taste of danger remained even after his cohorts immediately walked back Biden's comme…
(2022-04-01). Inflation slashes living standards and pushes millions of workers in the US to the brink. wsws.org A new economic estimate finds that the average US household will have to spend $5,200 more this year, $433 a month, just to buy the same goods and services as in 2021.
(2022-04-01). Labor and workers' rights are at the heart of Chile's new Constitutional Convention. peoplesdispatch.org On March 13, 2022, two days after Gabriel Boric was
(2022-04-01). Australia: Striking New South Wales nurses call for unified struggle by all health workers. wsws.org "I was working during the first strike, but nothing has changed since then. There should have been ambulance workers and other health workers here. We are all copping it the same way."
(2022-04-01). Workers and youth condemn Facebook censorship of Socialist Equality Party's anti-war video. wsws.org "This censorship is not only directed against us, but against the mass opposition to a world war," says Vandreier. The socialist anti-war perspective of the SGP "is to be banned and censored in the midst of deafening war propaganda for a third world war."
(2022-04-01). UK: Sacked P&O workers lose jobs in rout organised by trade unions and Labour Party. wsws.org This is not the failure of a campaign to defend jobs; it is proof that no such campaign was ever mounted.
(2022-04-01). Against all odds, workers win first Amazon union in US. peoplesdispatch.org 
On April 1, Amazon workers could be seen The union has been fighting to organize workers in the Staten Island warehouse since April 2021. After a year battling vicious union-busting on the part of Amazon and gathering support of agitated workers, union organizers won their union election…
(2022-04-01). Western imperialism faces its weaknesses. workers.org 
By Manuel Raposo March 28 The author is editor of the Portuguese web magazine, jornalmudardevida.net. Translation: John Catalinotto. The G7 is united. The rest of the world is trying to avoid being towed behind them. A key element of the West's propaganda war against Russia is the argument that what . . . |
(2022-04-01). National Endowment for the Arts report lifts the lid on the devastation of the US arts economy. wsws.org Between 2019 and 2020, the arts economy, according to the NEA study, "shed more than half a million jobs (604,000 workers)—not counting self-employed artists and other cultural workers."
(2022-04-01). Union wins at Staten Island Amazon, too close to call in Alabama. peoplesworld.org 
BROOKLYN, N.Y.—Workers at the Staten Island Amazon warehouse scored a historic victory today by winning their vote to unionize with the independent Amazon Labor Union. Meanwhile, the vote at the Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse is too close to call because of the large number of challenged ballots. The NLRB Brooklyn office covers elections at Amazon's JFK8 …