(2022-07-17). On Marxism and decolonisation. mronline.org 
IN 1959, one of the revolutionary leaders in Cuba, Haydée Santamaria, a hundred years old this year, arrived at a cultural centre in the heart of Havana, Cuba.
(2022-07-17). Science Saturday: Leveraging technology to transform Anatomic Pathology. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org In January, as part of Mayo Clinic's Digital Pathology Program, the Division of Anatomic Pathology in Mayo's Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology in Rochester, Minnesota, transitioned a significant portion of its clinical practice, including both surgical and biopsy cases, into digital workflows. The transition means all surgical — or frozen section — biopsy slides will be scanned into digital images prior to a pathologist's review. Historically, patient tissue has been evaluated by generating glass slides, applying stains, and evaluating…
(2022-07-17). Heat waves tied to Big Energy capitalism. mronline.org 
The population of the world is enduring crises from climate change that, until recently, climatologists thought may only happen decades from now.
(2022-07-17). Monday 7/25: Dockers Rebellion and Betrayal, The Lessons For Today of the Liverpool Dockers Strike. indybay.org LaborFest On Line Event with link on laborfest.net…
(2022-07-17). Stop Privatization Of Education, Port & Public Services: SLAP Educational Conf Intros Pt 1. indybay.org The Schools and Labor Against Privatization SLAP had an educational conference on July 9, 2022 and these were the first two presentations…
(2022-07-17). Congress urged to boost appropriations for Biden's Defense Production Act orders. indybay.org In June Biden invoked the Defense Production Act to manufacture panels, insulation and heat pumps. Biden's plan encourages high labor standards tied to increased manufacturing. It also calls for boosting community-based clean energy and distributed generation. But more funding than $100 million needs to be invested to make the difference we need to become energy independent from fossil fuels.
(2022-07-17). Xi stresses implementing Party's policies on Xinjiang, highlights stability, security. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping has stressed efforts to fully and faithfully implement the policies of the Communist Party of China (CPC) for the governance of Xinjiang in the new era, highlighting social stability and lasting security as the overarching goal.
(2022-07-17). WorkWeek California Class Struggle & The Life of Elaine Black Yoneda & The SF Mime Troupe. indybay.org WorkWeek covers California Class Struggle & The Life of Elaine Black Yoneda and The SF Mime Troupe's "Back to the Way Things Were" With Michael Sullivan…
(2022-07-17). Grassroots Organizing Should Dump Biden. indybay.org Clear the Path for a Better Democratic Nominee in 2024…
(2022-07-17). Saturday 7/16: Author Event About a *Real* Political Revolution. indybay.org Book Passage Bookstore & Cafe, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., | Corte Madera 94925…
(2022-07-17). California United States Colored Troops Help Save the Union. indybay.org Rev. Thomas Starr King helped keep the thin margin of Union California vs Confederate California. US Colored Troops from California helped preserve the Union and begin the ending of legal slavery in America. Today, we honor National Buffalo Soldiers Day and share our unique California Journey from Slavery to Freedom.
(2022-07-17). Ecuador: Revista àëawpa. indybay.org Ecuador: Revista àëawpa | Espacio de reflexión plurinacional, intercultural y socialista…
(2022-07-17). Mayo Clinic Laboratories launches monkeypox test to increase access, availability. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic Laboratories can now test for monkeypox, a rare viral infection, using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) orthopoxvirus test kit. This announcement comes shortly after the Department of Health and Human Services' news release naming Mayo Clinic Laboratories as a crucial resource to address monkeypox testing access in communities throughout the country. "Our teams have worked collaboratively with the CDC to validate this test to provide patients with accurate…
(2022-07-16). The West is Experiencing a Contraction of its Power. libya360.wordpress.com Boaventura de Sousa SantosUS troops are deployed to Europe amid escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine before the outbreak of war The strategists of the hegemonic country of the West, the US, without realizing the flagrant contraction, show unlimited ambition. What Westerners call the West or Western civilization is a geopolitical space that emerged in…
(2022-07-16). In Video: Russian Stealth Cruise Missile Confuses Ukrainian Air Defenses. southfront.org 
The Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bomber (Photo: Air Team Images / Artyom Anikeev) | On July 17, a video showing a Russian Kh-101 stealth cruise missile confusing Ukrainian air defenses surfaced online. | The video was taken a day earlier during a Russian missile strike on the southern Ukrainian city of Dnipro. The target of the missile strike was allegedly facilities of the Ukrainian state-owned aerospace manufacturer Yuzhmash. | In the video, a Ukrainian air defense missile, most likely a 9–ú38 launched from…
(2022-07-16). NYT Reports 'Strikes On Civilians' That Happen To Hit Military Targets. popularresistance.org Just last week the New York Times reported of a Russian strike 'on civilians' in Chasiv Yar even as its own reporter at the location acknowledged in a detailed separate report that the apartment complex that was hit was mostly housing military forces. | Yesterday a Russian missile strike hit the town of Vinnytsia in western Ukraine. | The New York Times is again lamenting about a damage to civilian buildings even as the main target was obviously a military one. | Strikes on Civilians Deep in Ukraine Show Russia's Lethal Reach | VINNYTSIA, Ukraine — A volley of missiles hit a shopping center, a dance studio…
(2022-07-16). Humanitarian crisis in England? iacenter.org By G. Dunkel July 13, 2022 Boris Johnson's hypocrisy plus anti-popular policies finally did him in. The resignation of Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party of Great Britain, which means he will be replaced as prime minister, was not just the comeuppance of a slapdash serial liar, forced out of office by 59 cabinet resignations in 40 hours. The leadership of the Conservative Party had come to the conclusion that Johnson, aka Mr. Brexit, didn't have the wherewithal to reach a new agreement with the European Union over the north of Ireland, to deal with the growing anger over the cost-of-living crisis i…
(2022-07-16). Swaziland: Regime Fears Upsurge in Resistance, Intensifies Persecution of Leaders. libya360.wordpress.com Pavan Kulkarni Protests by Communist Party of Swaziland activists. File Photo The police attempted to arrest CPS member Bongi Nkambule, who was abducted and tortured by the police in March. When they failed to capture him, they took his wife into custody and beat her up in the police station. There has been an upsurge…
(2022-07-16). Purchasing Power Of Workers' Wages Take Biggest Tumble In 40 Years. popularresistance.org San José, California – Real earnings, or workers' wages after adjusting for inflation, had their biggest drop in 40 years last month, as prices continued to rise faster than paychecks. Real average weekly earnings, which best reflect workers' paychecks after adjusting for changes in wages, prices and hours worked, fell 1% in June of 2022 according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Over the last year, real average weekly earnings fell 3.9% as inflation outpaced pay raises and average weekly hours fell by almost an hour. | Prices paid by production and non-supervisory workers (the CPI-W) rose 9.7% as compared…
(2022-07-16). Biden's Words Make War With Iran More Likely. popularresistance.org Joe Biden sat down for a wide-ranging interview with an Israeli television station. In it, there were two chilling statements regarding Iran. When asked if he was prepared to walk away from the Iran nuclear deal (or JCPOA) if the only way to close the deal was to remove the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) he said, simply, "Yes." And when asked if he was prepared to use military force against Iran, he responded, "As a last resort, yes." | That was not good enough for Acting Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, but it was a very grim assessment of the ch…
(2022-07-16). How Cuba Is Eradicating Child Mortality And Banishing Diseases. popularresistance.org Palpite, Cuba, is just a few miles away from Playa Girón, along the Bay of Pigs, where the United States attempted to overthrow the Cuban Revolution in 1961. Down a modest street in a small building with a Cuban flag and a large picture of Fidel Castro near the front door, Dr. Dayamis Gómez La Rosa sees patients from 8 AM to 5 PM. In fact, that is an inaccurate sentence. Dr. Dayamis, like most primary care doctors in Cuba, lives above the clinic that she runs. "I became a doctor," she told us as we sat in the clinic's waiting room, "because I wanted to make the world a better place." Her father was a bartender, a…
(2022-07-16). The West Is Experiencing A Power Contraction, Not Necessarily Decline. popularresistance.org What Westerners call the West or Western civilization is a geopolitical space that emerged in the 16th century and expanded continuously until the 20th century. On the eve of World War I, about 90 percent of the globe was Western or Western-dominated: Europe, Russia, the Americas, Africa, Oceania, and much of Asia (with the partial exceptions of Japan and China). From then on, the West began to contract: first with the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the emergence of the Soviet bloc, and then, from mid-century onward, with the decolonization movements. Terrestrial space, and soon after, extraterrestrial space, bec…
(2022-07-16). How Educators In Brookline, Massachusetts, Won An Illegal Strike. popularresistance.org Brookline, Massachusetts – Striking has been illegal for public employees in Massachusetts since 1919. But in Brookline, a small suburb of Boston, we did it anyway. | Out of a membership of 1,100, more than 900 signed in on the picket lines May 16. The strike culminated with a thousand educators descending on town hall for a rally with allies from around the state. | Our bargaining team negotiated into the early hours of the next morning. When the sun rose, we had won two back-to-back three-year contracts with guaranteed prep periods for all educators, a fair pay raise including important changes to longevity str…
(2022-07-16). Collective Statement: Biden in Occupied Palestine and the "Jerusalem Declaration"  ; Our Response is Struggle and Solidarity. samidoun.net 
The joint declaration of U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid reveals not only the fundamental bankruptcy of the imperialist and Zionist systems they represent but also underlines the necessity to act and stand now in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their resistance, to liberate their land from the river to …
(2022-07-16). Anti-Neoliberal Demonstrations Continue in Panama. orinocotribune.com Almost two weeks since the anti-neoliberal demonstrations began in Panama, protesters have declared that they will remain in the streets, and that they do not recognize the so-called dialogue that President Laurentino Cortizo is trying to hold. | On Friday, July 15, images and videos circulating in social media show pickets of workers, roadblocks and marches in provinces such as Colón, Chiriquí, Veraguas, as well as at various points in the country's capital. | There are reports of roadblocks on the Inter-American highway by indigenous and peasant groups in Bocas del Toro, Chiriquí and Veraguas, as well as in Azu…
(2022-07-16). Thousands vote for socialist for Congress in California's 51st district. liberationnews.org 
Revolutionary socialist congressional candidate Jose Cortes received 3,343 votes in the San Diego, California primary race.
(2022-07-16). BRICS Expanding: Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt Willing To Join The Group. southfront.org 
Putin takes part in the BRICS meeting | Purnima Anand, president of the BRICS international forum, said on July 14 that Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt are considering joining BRICS. The possibility of countries joining, as well as their potential admission to the ranks of the BRICS, could take place in 2023 when the next summit of the group will be held. The countries themselves have expressed a desire to join the union, but if approved, the application process will be lengthy. | South Africa will host th…
(2022-07-16). Neo-Cons: Genesis to Ascendency. scheerpost.com 
By Michael Brenner | The latest formulation of a binary world pits the so-called democracies against the so-called autocrats. The United States is the self-designated champion of the former while China and Russia lead the array of autocrats. In effect, it's a reversion to long-running democracy/capitalism vs Communism all-embracing conflict of the Cold War. Today's version has even less authenticity than did its…
(2022-07-16). Collective Statement: Biden in Occupied Palestine and the "Jerusalem Declaration" — Our Response is Struggle and Solidarity. iacenter.org 16 July 2022 Protesters hounded U.S. President Joe Biden in Palestine, including July 15 in Bethlehem where boys carried the photograph of Shireen Abu Akleh, Palestinian-American journalist murdered by Israeli Defense Force troops while on assignment in the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin. Credit: Abbas Momani The joint declaration of U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid reveals not only the fundamental bankruptcy of the imperialist and Zionist systems they represent but also underlines the necessity to act and stand now in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their resistance, t…
(2022-07-16). Venezuela's PSUV Participates in 15th Congress of South African Communist Party (Centenary Celebration). orinocotribune.com Members of the national leadership of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) are participating in the 15th Congress of the South African Communist Party (SACP), which is being held in the capital of South Africa, Johannesburg, on the occasion of 100 years of the foundation of SACP. | Jesús Faría, member of the vice-presidency of International Affairs of PSUV, and participant in the Congress highlighted his admiration for the South African Communist Party and the important role it has played in the struggle against imperialism. | Jesús Faría, intengrante de la Vicepresidencia de Asuntos Internacionales del…
(2022-07-16). The West is experiencing a contraction of its power, not necessarily its decline. peoplesdispatch.org What Westerners call the West or Western civilization is a geopolitical space that emerged in the 16th century and expanded continuously until the 20th century. On the eve of World War I, about 90 percent of the globe was Western or Western-dominated: Europe, Russia, the Americas, Africa, Oceania, and much of Asia (with the partial exceptions of Japan and China). From then on, the West began to contract: first with the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the emergence of the Soviet bloc, and then, from mid-century onward, with the decolonization movements. Terrestrial space, and soon after, extraterrestrial space, bec…
(2022-07-16). Communist Party of Swaziland organizer is attacked again as regime turns jittery. peoplesdispatch.org The police attempted to arrest CPS member Bongi Nkambule, who was abducted and tortured by the police in March. When they failed to capture him, they took his wife into custody and beat her up in the police station. There has been an upsurge of resistance in Swaziland recently…
(2022-07-16). We Need a Post-Roe Strategy for the Long Haul. Global Feminists Offer a Blueprint. commondreams.org Feminist political groups are organizing political pressure to end punitive abortion laws.
(2022-07-16). Thursday 7/14: KPOO WorkWeek Radio Focuses On Life of California Labor Communist Elaine Yoneda Black. indybay.org KPOO Radio 89.5 FM or www.kpoo.com…
(2022-07-16). La Unión Eléctrica prevé afectaciones al servicio en el horario diurno. cubadebate.cu La Unión Eléctrica informa que, a partir de los bajos niveles de inventario de combustible, se prevén afectaciones al servicio en el horario diurno. Se estima para el horario pico una disponibilidad de 2 705 MW y una demanda máxima de 2 650 MW, para una reserva 55 MW, por lo que también pudieran ocurrir afectaciones al servicio.
(2022-07-16). WorkWeek California Class Struggle & The Life of Elaine Black Yoneda & The SF Mime Troupe'. indybay.org WorkWeek covers California Class Struggle & The Life of Elaine Black Yoneda andThe SF Mime Troupe's "Back to the Way Things Were" With Michael Sullivan…
(2022-07-16). Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee (Australia) adopts resolution to defend Dr David Berger. wsws.org Health workers, including nurses, doctors, hospital admin staff members, and aged care and disability workers, launch a campaign to oppose official censure of Zero-COVID advocate.
(2022-07-16). When a Country That's Orchestrated Many Coups Has One of Its Own. commondreams.org The United States has a long history of organizing, funding, arming and actively perpetrating coups against democratically elected governments.
(2022-07-16). "All temps, once they reach 90 days, should be rolled over": Support for Will Lehman's campaign for UAW president at Warren Truck in Detroit. wsws.org Warren Truck workers, old and new, responded particularly enthusiastically to calls for the abolition of the tier system.
(2022-07-16). Jerani Ratnayake, intransigent fighter for Trotskyism, dies aged 72. wsws.org Jerani overcame social barriers to actively participate in politics and fight for the unity of the working class, regardless of race, language and gender.
(2022-07-16). Ventra Evart workers vote to strike by 98 percent. wsws.org The Ventra workers in central Michigan voted by 98 percent to authorize strike action, nearly three weeks after decisively rejecting a UAW-endorsed contract proposal.
(2022-07-16). How to Destroy Russia. 2019 Rand Corporation Report: "Overextending and Unbalancing Russia" globalresearch.ca Force the adversary to expand recklessly in order to unbalance him, and then destroy him. This is not the description of a judo hold, but a plan against Russia elaborated by the Rand Corporation, the most influential think tank in the USA.
(2022-07-16). [Comment] Complex relationship between health and moderate alcohol use. thelancet.com In The Lancet, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2020 Alcohol Collaborators1 provide a further study to systematically determine thresholds for low-risk alcohol consumption while considering background rates of disease. Overall, the authors estimated the amount of alcohol that minimises health risks to be between 0 (95% uncertainty interval 0—0) and 1 ∑87 (0 ∑50—3 ∑30) standard drinks per day. Levels of zero, or very close to zero, were observed among individuals aged 15—39 years (ranging from 0 to 0 ∑603 standard drinks per day), but higher le…
(2022-07-16). The B61-12 Mini-nukes "Made in America" to be Used in "A Nuclear First Strike". Coming Soon to Italy, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands./ By Manlio Dinucci. marktaliano.net Europe is thus being turned by the U.S. into the front line of a nuclear confrontation with Russia, even more dangerous than that of the Cold War. By Manlio Dinucci Global Research, July 15, 2022 ..]…
(2022-07-16). [Correspondence] Academic exploitation. thelancet.com We are delighted to see payment for peer reviewers proposed by Phaik Y Cheah and Jan Piasecki.1 This proposal reflects a broader problem in academia: exploitation of, and even mandating, free labour for career advancement. Publishing is only one example, extending beyond the peer review process. Of course, reviewers should be paid for their expertise, as should authors. No journals pay authors for creating the product they sell. Book publishing is similarly exploitative: royalties are trivial and typically only paid after publishers recover their costs, a process hindered by publishers' unwillingness to market bo…
(2022-07-16). Australian defence minister hails "unbreakable alliance" with the US in Washington. wsws.org The Labor government is deepening Australia's alignment with the aggressive US-led confrontations against Russia and China.
(2022-07-16). As Ford confirms closure of its Saarlouis plant: Lessons from years of car production. wsws.org Ford's decision to halt production at its Saarlouis plant in 2025 is part of the biggest international assault on the social gains and rights of the working class since the 1930s.
(2022-07-16). Ttra poco. In Italia le nuove bombe nucleari made in USA. globalresearch.ca "Inizia la produzione della bomba nucleare B61-12": lo annunciano dagli Stati Uniti i Sandia National Laboratories. La B61-12, che sostituisce la precedente B61 dislocata dagli USA ad Aviano e Ghedi e in altre basi europee, è un'arma di nuovo tipo. …
(2022-07-16). Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia. wsws.org Thousands of Myanmar garment workers strike over pay cuts; India: Outsourced municipal workers strike in Andhra Pradesh corporations; Pakistan: Garment workers demonstrate in Karachi for higher pay; Western Australia: Shell responds to workers' pay demands by shutting down offshore LNG platform.
(2022-07-16). "It's time to make the necessary changes": Railroaders speak out as Biden announces emergency board to block a nationwide strike. wsws.org The Biden administration's top domestic priority is curbing wage growth and imposing labor discipline, which it is seeking to accomplish with the help of the pro-corporate unions.
(2022-07-16). [Articles] Population-level risks of alcohol consumption by amount, geography, age, sex, and year: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2020. thelancet.com There is strong evidence to support recommendations on alcohol consumption varying by age and location. Stronger interventions, particularly those tailored towards younger individuals, are needed to reduce the substantial global health loss attributable to alcohol.