(2022-04-06). Debunking the New York Times' Lazy Ukraine "Satellite Investigation" thealtworld.com The New York Times claims satellite images it has obtained "prove" Russia is lying about a supposed "massacre" northwest of Kiev. | However, their own evidence together with videos produced by Ukraine's own military suggests heavy artillery and mortar strikes most likely killed the majority of those found on the streets. Another video suggests a Russian armored vehicle may have accidentally shot at least one civilian from around a corner in the middle of tense combat. | Together, it is clear there was no deliberate "massacre" — at least not until Russian forces left the area. Bound and executed civilians app…
(2022-04-06). US workers and poor suffer widely disproportionate death toll from COVID-19, study finds. wsws.org As in all aspects of social life, it is the working class that has been the main target of SARS-CoV-2, driven by the criminal policies of the ruling elite.
(2022-04-06). CANTV Investigates Irregular Internet Service Charges—Orinoco Tribune Affected. orinocotribune.com The National Telephone Company of Venezuela (CANTV) is conducting an investigation into irregular service charges to clients of the state-owned Telecom company. They invite users to report irregularities. | During the first quarter of 2022, CANTV carried out 447 investigations against company workers for allegedly receiving irregular payments for their work, such as repair of breakdowns, changes in ABA (broadband service) plans, phone landline changes, and changes in the names of account holders. | Due to these procedures, CANTV took punitive measures against 52 company workers, whom they were able to identify th…
(2022-04-06). India: 'Massive' Participation Seen Across Sectors as 2-Day Nationwide Strike Call by CTUs Ends. orinocotribune.com Anger is growing among the workforce across public and private sectors as well as scheme workers over the Modi government's policies, said the Joint Forum. | New Delhi: The two-day nationwide strike on March 28-29, called by 10 central trade unions (CTUs), saw widespread participation across sectors "despite the threats of victimisation and intimidation by the employers as well as the governments." | From banks and insurance to railways, ports, telecom, coal mines, refineries to transport, tea gardens to scheme workers — all sections of the working population came out on the streets to express their anger a…
(2022-04-06). Chinese, Belgians mourn Chinese workers killed in WWI. ecns.cn Chinese diplomats and Belgian officials on Tuesday paid tribute to the Chinese workers who fought and died during the war in a ceremony in Poperinge, Belgium, next to the French border.
(2022-04-06). How the Supreme Court Could Make Your Life More Dangerous. commondreams.org If Republican appointees on the Supreme Court succeed in gutting regulatory agencies, we all lose. This agenda is anti-worker, anti-consumer, and anti-environment. The only thing it's good for is corporate profits.
(2022-04-06). 'Tile-tapping' test conducted at the Sydney Opera House. ecns.cn Workers carry out the "tile-tapping' test" at the Sydney Opera House, April 5, 2022, Sydney, Australia. Every five years maintenance workers spend six weeks inspecting a tap test on each tile on the sails of the Sydney Opera House.
(2022-04-06). Sacramento teachers: Vote "NO" on the sellout deal! Form rank-and-file committees to carry the struggle forward! wsws.org The SCTA and SEIU ended the strike of over 5,000 teachers and school workers Sunday and are attempting to rush through an austerity agreement before they have adequate time to review.
(2022-04-06). Profiting off of the pandemic, CEO pay increased to record levels in 2021 while workers' wages fell. wsws.org Data filed by top US corporations to the Securities and Exchange Commission shows that CEOs dramatically increased their compensation in the second year of the pandemic.
(2022-04-06). Sri Lankan plantation workers strike and demonstrate for overthrow of Rajapakse government. wsws.org The stoppage was called by the Glenugie Estate Workers Action Committee, which was formed with the support of the Socialist Equality Party.
(2022-04-06). Health and wellbeing guidance for care workers needed in UK social care reform. imperial.ac.uk The health and wellbeing needs of social care workers must be brought in line with standards set for NHS workers as part of UK social care reform.
(2022-04-06). Australia: NSW health workers need to break union isolation and fight for unified struggle. wsws.org In a comment revealing the union's role in suppressing opposition among workers to the decades-long assault on jobs, pay and conditions, HSU state secretary Gerard Hayes said he was letting workers "off the leash."
(2022-04-06). Tuesday 4/19: Revolution, She Wrote — Online Reading/Discussion Group. indybay.org Online via Zoom | To register: bit.ly/RevSheWrote…
(2022-04-06). Eurasianism, Eurasian Economic Union and Multipolarity: Assessments of Foreign Experts. thealtworld.com Leonid Savin, Konstantin Kurylev, Sergey Bazavluk | Eurasianism, in its various interpretations, from ideology to the implementation of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) programs, is regarded as one of the strategies of creating a multipolar world order. This article analyzes the views and assessments of foreign authors regarding the relationship between Eurasianism and the EAEU amid the changing international context. | The authors present both critical and positive opinions on Eurasianism, Eurasian integration and its political and economic interlinkages with other countries and associations (China, Vietnam, t…
(2022-04-06). Pak journalist' union raises alarm over TTP's warning to scribes. aninews.in Islamabad [Pakistan], September 8 (ANI): A union of Pakistan journalists has expressed concern over the threat issued by the banned Tehreeki-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to the media and urged the government to ensure the safety and security of journalists.
(2022-04-06). Canada commits to purchase F-35 fighter jets, vows massive defence spending hike in April 7 budget. wsws.org The minority Liberal government is assured of parliamentary support for its plans to rapidly expand the Canadian military's war-making capabilities, thanks to the "confidence-and-supply" agreement it recently struck with the trade union-sponsored NDP.
(2022-04-06). India largest troop contributor to UN peacekeeping in cumulative terms: Meenakashi Lekhi. aninews.in New York [US], September 8 (ANI): Highlighting the importance of the UN peacekeeping missions, Union Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs Meenakashi Lekhi on Wednesday informed the member states that India is the largest troop contributor to the peacekeeping operations since their inception.
(2022-04-06). Cabinet approves Agreement between India, Portugal on recruitment of Indian citizens to work in the Portuguese Republic. aninews.in New Delhi, [India], September 8 (ANI): The Union Cabinet approved the signing of an agreement on the recruitment of Indian citizens to work in Portugal between the Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the Republic of Portugal, on Wednesday.
(2022-04-06). India, EU strategic convergence reflects 'our positions' on Afghanistan: Jaishankar. aninews.in New Delhi [India], September 8 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday said that the strategic convergence between India and the European Union (EU) is reflected in "our positions" on key regional and global issues, including on Afghanistan and the Indo-Pacific.
(2022-04-06). The Fossil Fuels Era Must End. Collective Transformation Must Start Now. commondreams.org Entrenching fossil fuel dependence is the wrong choice. This moment is critical, and the stakes are high.
(2022-04-06). Spanish trucker on suspending the strike: "Fuel prices will keep rising as the war goes on" wsws.org Truckers have said that the suspension of the nationwide truckers strike is only temporary, so they can recover financially before striking in the summer.
(2022-04-06). Saturday 4/16: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber et al. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the the online invite.
(2022-04-06). Spanish truckers "temporarily suspend" 3-week strike against high fuel prices. wsws.org Spain's truck drivers agreed Saturday to "temporarily suspend" a 20-day strike over crippling fuel prices amid the NATO war drive targeting Russia and its energy exports.
(2022-04-06). What the UAW 2021 financial report shows: Assets rise, membership falls. wsws.org Despite a 6 percent drop in membership in 2021, the UAW saw its total assets increase, as it hoarded its strike fund by isolating or blocking a series of walkouts and other struggles.
(2022-04-06). Iran devises strategy for industrialized nuclear program. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 06 (MNA) — In the latest sign of Iran's determination to advance its nuclear program, the Ebrahim Raeisi administration announced that it will soon unveil a comprehensive document for boosting the country's nuclear development.
(2022-04-06). SNB 61: Gallos se escapan y Leones siguen imbatibles. cubadebate.cu Muy productiva fue la jornada de este martes para los Gallos de Sancti Spíritus, al combinar una victoria con las derrotas de sus más cercanos perseguidores, para aumentar su ventaja en la primera posición del torneo. La calurosa tarde fue beneficiosa también para aumentar la temperatura de los maderos en varios estadios, y para que los Industriales de la capital extendieran a golpe de jonrones su racha ganadora a ocho partidos.
(2022-04-05). Controversial Hijab ban in India a form of "religious apartheid" peoplesdispatch.org The verdict by a court in the Indian State of Karnataka in mid-March against the wearing of headscarves or the Hijab across colleges, preventing Muslim girls from entering educational premises with a certain dress code, has created a political furor in the country. | Since the verdict was announced on March 15, several protest actions have been carried out such as a complete strike in the State of Karnataka on March 17. | For many women activists the verdict is seen as a major disappointment and betrayal by the judicial system. Many fear that the "headscarf ban" will only add to the growing hostility against the…
(2022-04-05). World hunger and the war in Ukraine. iacenter.org By Vijay Prashad April 5, 2022 During this war on Ukraine, No Cold War launched a new publication called Briefings, which will be factual texts on matters of global concern. Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research shared this first briefing: Billions of people around the world will suffer from this hunger crisis. The war in Ukraine, along with sanctions imposed by the United States and Western countries against Russia, have caused global food, fertilizer and fuel prices to skyrocket and endanger the world food supply. This conflict is exacerbating the existing crisis of global hunger and imperils the living…
(2022-04-05). Workers Used Amazon's Captive Audience Meetings Against Amazon. popularresistance.org Amazon workers in Staten Island, N.Y., astonished the world last week when they voted to form the first-ever U.S. union at the e‚Äëcommerce behemoth, which is known for ferociously opposing its workers' efforts to organize. The Amazon Labor Union (ALU), which won the effort at the JFK8 fulfillment center, had been targeted by such anti-union efforts, and its co-founder, Chris Smalls, had been called "not smart or articulate" by Amazon officials. (Smalls co-founded the union after he was fired for organizing for safer conditions during the pandemic.) | Workers and organizers across the country are…
(2022-04-05). Higher Ed Labor Unites For Equity For All: Faculty, Staff And Students. popularresistance.org Students swell the picket lines of dining service workers. Staff fight for cancellation of exorbitant graduate student workers' fees. Undergraduate student workers learn about the precarity and low pay behind the title "adjunct" and demand their university administrations do better. Tenured faculty insist that part-time instructors receive benefits. Across higher education, workers are realizing that they depend on each other to get work done, from faculty, academic staff, graduate and undergraduate student workers, to janitors and clerical and technical workers—and the landscape of organizing is changing.
(2022-04-05). Labor King Chris Smalls Takes On AOC After Legendary Amazon Victory: 3 Things To Know. moguldom.com The Amazon Labor Union movement spearheaded by fired New York City Amazon worker Chris Smalls had a legendary victory on April 2 when employees at the Staten Island warehouse voted to join the upstart labor union. The move marked the union's first entry into the e-commerce giant's U.S. operations. But it was a victory void …
(2022-04-05). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Heavy cargo truckers in Peru blocked highways over surging fuel prices while a threatened walkout by 1,300 workers at the Kennecott Copper Mine in Utah was averted after union rammed through a last-minute deal.
(2022-04-05). 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…
(2022-04-05). English language instructor who lived through China's Zero COVID program speaks to the Global Workers Inquest. wsws.org "We were united in a common sense driven determination to keep ourselves and others safe in the face of a sudden, novel, and terrifying virus outbreak. Among friends, colleagues, and neighbors, the sense that we were working collectively for the safety of the whole community was universal," she said.
(2022-04-05). Sacramento teachers' strike called off. wsws.org Late Sunday night SCTA and SEIU called off an eight-day strike of teachers and school workers in Sacramento, reaching a sellout deal with the district and leaving workers in the dark about contract details.
(2022-04-05). D.C. hit by mass student debt protest before payments resume in May. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON, D.C.—On Monday, April 4 at noon, student debtors and allies from across the United States came to the Department of Education to demand that the Biden administration cancel all federally-held student loan debt. The rally and march was held by the Debt Collective, which is a union for debtors. "Just like workers need to …
(2022-04-05). Amazon Workers In Staten Island Clinch A Historic Victory. popularresistance.org It's the magical stuff of Disney movies. But yesterday, the improbable became the most probable when the scrappy band of workers who make up the Amazon Labor Union took the lead in a union election at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York, putting within reach a historic labor win at the corporate behemoth. | Before the vote count most reporters had dismissed the independent union's chances, treating the organizing as a curiosity at best. "I think we have been overlooked," said ALU Treasurer Madeline Wesley Thursday night. "And I think that that ends tomorrow when we are victorious." | The ALU clinched a decisiv…
(2022-04-05). CEO Howard Schultz Ripped for Saying Starbucks 'Being Assaulted' by Unionization. commondreams.org "Newsflash: Our union isn't trying to take Starbucks' people—our union is Starbucks' people!" said Starbucks Workers United.
(2022-04-05). UK workers and youth speak out against war and NATO. wsws.org SEP campaign teams have been speaking to workers across the UK who want to record their opposition to Russia's war in Ukraine and to NATO's plans to utilize a conflict it deliberately provoked to bring about regime change in Moscow.
(2022-04-05). Over 38k medical workers deployed to aid Shanghai. ecns.cn At least 38,000 medical workers from across China have been deployed to aid Shanghai as of Monday in the fight against the Omicron variant, the largest number of nationwide medical aid since Wuhan in early 2020.
(2022-04-05). Inflation: Reframing the Narrative. socialistproject.ca 
Fighting inflation is on the public agenda today in a way not seen since the 1970s. The orthodox response — having central banks raise interest rates to slow the economy, and ultimately, prices — is already in play. Yet current price increases aren't the result of the traditional phantoms haunting central banks of overheated economies and the excessive power of unions. What we're facing today is an inflation of a particular kind — the knock-on effects of a unique non-economic shock. | Covid forced states to do something never done before in consciously placing major parts of the economy on ho…
(2022-04-05). Facebook overturns deletion of SGP anti-war video after widespread protest. wsws.org After thousands of people protested on social media for a week against Facebook's deletion of an anti-war video by the Socialist Equality Party (SGP), the tech company restored the video on Sunday.
(2022-04-05). Incumbent prime minister Viktor Orbán wins fourth term in Hungary. peoplesdispatch.org In the Hungarian parliamentary elections held on Sunday, April 3, the right-wing Fidesz-KDNP coalition led by incumbent prime minister Viktor Orbán secured a comprehensive victory by winning 53.29% votes and 135 seats in the 199-seat National Assembly. The voter turnout for the polls was reported to be 69.54%. The grand opposition coalition of diverse parties including the conservative Jobbik, center-left Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP), the Democratic Coalition (DK), Green Party (LMP), and Momentum managed to win only 56 seats with 34.89% of the votes. Meanwhile, the far-right Our Homeland Movement gained seven…
(2022-04-05). Is Russia an imperialist state? A letter from a Russian socialist to David North. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site has received this letter from a Russian socialist, commenting on a letter written by David North, posted on the WSWS on April 2.
(2022-04-05). New McCarthyism silences the Black and other Radical Left. mronline.org 
Socialists, anti-imperialists, anti-war activists, Black radicals, and other independent alternative voices who challenge mainstream media and its political culture are being explicitly targeted by Liberals and Big Tech in a censorship campaign akin to the McCarthy era.
(2022-04-05). The Coming Global Financial Revolution. popularresistance.org The first challenge by a major power to what became known as the petrodollar has come in 2022. In the month after the Ukraine conflict began, the U.S. and its European allies imposed heavy financial sanctions on Russia in response to the illegal military invasion. The Western measures included freezing nearly half of the Russian central bank's 640 billion U.S. dollars in financial reserves, expelling several of Russia's largest banks from the SWIFT global payment system, imposing export controls aimed at limiting Russia's access to advanced technologies, closing down their airspace and ports to Russian planes and…
(2022-04-05). From 'welfare queen' to 'Black girl magic': Neoliberalism and the rise of the Black bourgeoisie. therealnews.com 
In the 1970s and '80s, the image of the Black "welfare queen" was used as a racist scare tactic and a propaganda tool to justify gutting…
(2022-04-05). US Ousts Imran Khan But His Revolutionary Narrative Endures. libya360.wordpress.com MK Bhadrakumar The US may control a handful of Pakistani political and military officials, but PM Imran Khan owns the street. Washington has reactivated old cronies in Islamabad to unseat PM Imran Khan, but the latter has sown seeds of immense dissatisfaction with the old guard and their US backers within the Pakistani public. And Khan's…
(2022-04-05). Andreas Malm & the Zetkin Collective — 'White Skin, Black Fuel'. mronline.org 
As regular readers of this blog will be aware I think that Andreas Malm, even where I disagree with key points of his argument, is one of the most stimulating Marxist authors on environmental politics.
(2022-04-05). Sanctions imperil space cooperation, Russia says. ecns.cn The head of Russia's space program said on Saturday that the future of the International Space Station hangs in the balance after the space agencies of the United States, the European Union, and Canada missed a deadline to meet Russian demands for lifting sanctions on Russian enterprises and hardware.