(2022-09-10). EU Backs Off Russian Energy Price Cap. news.antiwar.com The European Union is backing off its sharply divisive plan to implement a price cap on Russian gas, according to Reuters. There were major concerns leading up to an emergency meeting of EU energy ministers in Brussels on Friday, but the overriding fear was Moscow would respond by cutting all gas exports to the continent. …
(2022-09-10). China automobile sector maintains rapid growth momentum. ecns.cn China's automobile industry continued to see robust growth in production and sales in August despite COVID-19 outbreaks, industrial data showed Friday.
(2022-09-10). Documents to be discussed at upcoming CPC Central Committee plenary session deliberated. ecns.cn The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Friday held a meeting to deliberate documents to be submitted for discussion at the seventh plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee.
(2022-09-10). Google & Tech Workers With Community Demand No Tech For Apartheid! Cancel Project Nimbus. indybay.org Google workers who were members of CWA Alphabet Workers Union joined with other tech workers and community members rallied at San Francisco Google and Amazonn to protest the retaliation against Google worker Ariel Koren for speaking out against the Project Nimbus which uses Google technology to spy on Palestinian people for the apartheid regime.
(2022-09-10). Google and Amazon Workers Push Back on Tech Work for Israeli Apartheid. indybay.org Hundreds in march and demonstrations at SF Google and Amazon offices…
(2022-09-10). Sri Lankan unions mount phony campaign against state repression. wsws.org The Trade Union and Mass Organisation held a seminar to cement a pro-capitalist front with opposition parties aimed at blocking any independent action by workers and the poor that threatens capitalist rule.
(2022-09-10). "Working In An Oven" IBT UPS Teamsters Speak Out On Deadly Heatwave, Life and Death. indybay.org IBT UPS drivers and warehouse workers speak out about the dangerous temperature conditions that workers must operate in. Additionally many UPS trucks do not even have a fan.
(2022-09-10). We Need a World Without Borders on Our Increasingly Warming Planet. zcomm.org Mass migration is the outcome of the actual crises of capitalism, conquest and climate change…
(2022-09-10). Saturday 9/10: Stop the Violence — Solidarity Now! Forum 1. indybay.org Pacific Renaissance Plaza | 388 Ninth Street, Suite 290 | Oakland, California 94607…
(2022-09-10). A Farmworker Speaks Truth to Power in Washington. commondreams.org Labor Secretary Marty Walsh got an earful from essential workers before inducting them into the agency's Hall of Honor.
(2022-09-10). GM Flint Assembly workers denounce UAW efforts at intimidation in election campaign. wsws.org Autoworkers from GM Flint Assembly reacted angrily to attempts by United Auto Workers officials to block their discussions with UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman.
(2022-09-10). With one week left before potential national rail strike, showdown building between US railroaders and Biden administration. wsws.org All of the institutions, which the ruling class has relied upon for so long to suppress the class struggle, are now mired in crisis, while the working class is being thrust into struggle by the deepest crisis of American and world capitalism in a century.
(2022-09-10). Caterpillar workers: Build rank-and-file committees to unite with Deere, CNH and autoworkers in a fightback! wsws.org For many years, "Caterpillar" has been a word synonymous with corporate ruthlessness and strikebreaking, as well as the bitter betrayals by the organization which claimed to represent workers, the UAW.
(2022-09-10). Homelessness worsens dramatically in New Zealand under Labour. wsws.org The Labour Party-led government of Jacinda Ardern, which promised to fix the housing crisis in its 2017 election campaign, is now seeing its support plummet as the social crisis becomes even more severe.
(2022-09-10). Sunday 9/11: Biden's Imperialist Climate Bill: The Devil Lies in the Big Picture. indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley…
(2022-09-10). Video emerges showing Georgia Republican Party officials giving Trump-operatives access to voting machines. wsws.org The video further confirms that Trump was aided in his efforts to establish a dictatorship by Republicans throughout the country.
(2022-09-10). Thursday 9/22: Renowned Local Poets Shurin And Gluck Celebrate 75th Birthdays With Collective Reading. indybay.org McRoskey Mattress Company | 1687 Market Street | SF, CA 94103…
(2022-09-10). How the West betrayed Mikhail Gorbatchev. indybay.org Gorbachev wanted to transform the Soviet Union from a closed, repressive system into an open, communicative socialist system that would be part of the European family. This effort was called glasnost (openness) and was advanced through the reform movement called perestroika.
(2022-09-10). Educators' strikes spread across Pacific Northwest led by 6,000 Seattle teachers. wsws.org Educators in Seattle, Eatonville and Tumwater, Washington as well as Ridgefield, Oregon have gone on strike this week as part of a growing educators' strike wave.
(2022-09-10). Protesting Australian childcare workers speak out: "We're paid an absolute pittance for what we do" wsws.org "I most certainly think the action should be united, especially with teachers."
(2022-09-10). Saturday 9/24: Abort the "Walk for Life" organizing meeting. indybay.org 17th and Folsom St in SF (it will be in the park, outside, come masked)…
(2022-09-10). Saturday 9/10: Housing: Commodity or Human Right? indybay.org
(2022-09-10). Mineros del cobre van a huelga por inseguridad laboral en Chile. telesurtv.net Fue convocada por el sindicato de los trabajadores chilenos de la minera de cobre más productiva del mundo.
(2022-09-09). Ukraine's Offensive Coincides with US $3 Billion+ Aid Package  ; Russian Ops in Ukraine Sep. 9, 2022. libya360.wordpress.com Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for September 9, 2022  ; Kherson offensive appears to have ended;  ; The Western media admits to the massive losses suffered by Ukraine outside Kherson owed to the inferiority of Ukrainian forces versus Russian capabilities;  ; Ukraine has launched an offensive in Kharkov toward Izium;  ; The offensives…
(2022-09-09). N. Korea to launch nuclear strike if leader, state threatened. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 09 (MNA) — The authorities of North Korea have adopted a new law, reserving the right to carry out a preventive nuclear strike if the government sees an inevitable threat for the state or its leader Kim Jong-un, Korean media reported.
(2022-09-09). Economist Michael Hudson on debt relief, inflation, Ukraine disaster capitalism, petrodollar crisis. multipolarista.com 
Economist Michael Hudson discusses partial student debt relief in the US, inflation and the Fed, disaster capitalism in Ukraine, and China's challenge to the petrodollar.
(2022-09-09). Fact Finding Mission To Donbass Part Three. popularresistance.org From May 1 to May 12, I traveled to both Russia and the Lugansk People's Republic, an independent republic in the Donbass region, formerly part of eastern Ukraine. The purpose of this fact-finding mission initiated by the Socialist Unity Party and Struggle-La-Lucha.org was to report the suppressed information challenging the narrative of NATO and its member states, led by the U.S., in this proxy war in Ukraine against Russia. | My visit to Lugansk was made possible with the assistance of Borotba (Struggle), a socialist political organization in Ukraine and Donbass that we have worked with for many years. Alexey A…
(2022-09-09). Zelensky Rings New York Stock Exchange Bell as Euro Dips Below Dollar. scheerpost.com 
By Alexander Rubinstein / Ukrainian President and part-time celebrity endorsement-provider Volodymyr Zelensky rang the bell at the opening ceremony for the New York Stock Exchange on September 6. | Zelensky's virtual arrival to Wall Street was intended as an opportunity to pitch his government's newly-launched #AdvantageUkraine campaign to investors. The appeal represents a collaboration between the Ukrainian government and
(2022-09-09). Zelensky Rings New York Stock Exchange Bell; Euro Dips Below $1. popularresistance.org Ukrainian President and part-time celebrity endorsement-provider Volodymyr Zelensky rang the bell at the opening ceremony for the New York Stock Exchange on September 6. | Zelensky's virtual arrival to Wall Street was intended as an opportunity to pitch his government's newly-launched #AdvantageUkraine campaign to investors. The appeal represents a collaboration between the Ukrainian government and WPP, the largest advertising firm in the world. | The president's Wall Street event coincided with an impending economic collapse in Western Europe, where the European Investment Bank has admitted the Ukraine proxy war…
(2022-09-09). Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC Meeting on Western Arms Supplies to Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Mr. President, First of all, let me express my sincere condolences to the United Kingdom and the people of this country following the passing of the monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. We thank Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu and Ms. Dragana Trifkoviƒá for their briefings. Unfortunately, we couldn't hear part of Ms. Dragana Trifkoviƒá's statement, but we hope that she will…
(2022-09-09). Russia Makes Grain Promise to Poorest Nations. libya360.wordpress.com Moscow will also supply fertilizers to such countries free of charge, the Russian president said. Russia is set to ramp up grain exports, seeking to supply some 30 million tons of grain, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. The supplies will prioritize poor and food-insecure nations. "We believe it to be right to ramp up…
(2022-09-09). Key Chinese components in F-35s show vulnerabilities of US military industrial complex. infobrics.org The F-35 is a premier ISR platform that allows the US unprecedented access to other countries' intelligence, which is aimed against Russia and China.
(2022-09-09). More Than 120 Terrorists Were Killed In Recent Airstrikes On Syria's Greater Idlib: Russian MoD. southfront.org 
2712070 10/04/2015 Russian servicemen attach a Kh-25 high-precision missile to a Su-24 aircraft at the Khmeimim airbase in Syria. Dmitriy Vinogradov/RIA Novosti | Dozens of terrorists of al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front were killed in the recent Russian airstrikes on the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib, Major General Oleg Yegorov, deputy chief of the Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria, revealed on September 8. "The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed a camp belonging to the terroris…
(2022-09-09). What To Expect at the Arab League Summit in Algiers. orinocotribune.com By Amin Qammouria  ; Sep 6, 2022 | Algeria's strong anti-colonial stance and ties to Russia, Syria and Iran ensures that the upcoming Arab League Summit in Algiers will be anything but business-as-usual | Algeria will be taking the political centre stage in the Arab world when it hosts the 31st Arab League Summit on 2 November, the first after a three-year pandemic hiatus. | As a former revolutionary state — once at the forefront of resistance against the western settler-colonialism of the twentieth century, and still today a champion of Arab resistance — it is no surprise that majority-Sunni Alger…
(2022-09-09). Xi exchanges congratulations with AU chair on 20th anniversary of AU's founding, diplomatic ties. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping exchanged congratulatory messages on Friday with Chairperson of the African Union (AU) and Senegalese President Macky Sall on the 20th anniversary of AU's founding and the establishment of China-AU diplomatic relations.
(2022-09-09). Durham Employees Call On Google And Amazon To Cut Ties With Israel. popularresistance.org Google employees in Durham protested outside of their office Thursday afternoon, calling on Google and Amazon to stop working with the Israeli government and military. | The protest, which included around 40 employees, was part of the national #NoTechforApartheid campaign, a movement based around a $1.22 billion project contract that Google and Amazon signed with the Israeli government in May 2021. Known as "Nimbus," the project intends to provide cloud support for Israel's military and government. | Google and Amazon signed the deal while Israel was conducting airstrikes in civilian areas of the Gaza Strip and f…
(2022-09-09). An indictment of modern capitalism — a WW editorial. workers.org 
Just imagine if the Joe Biden administration and Congress had agreed to spend $54 billion to advance health care in the U.S. as COVID-19 variants continued to claim more lives. Instead of life expectancy dropping for the second year in a row, more lives would have been saved. That $54 . . . |
(2022-09-09). Jeff Bezos Attacks Professor Over Queen Elizabeth Death Comments: Black America Responds. moguldom.com 
Amazon founder, billionaire Jeff Bezos, got into a Twitter fight with a professor of Nigerian descent over the linguistics professor's tweet calling for Queen Elizabeth II to "die in agony." The tweet was posted shortly after news that Queen Elizabeth died at the age of 96 on Sept. 8, ending Britain's longest-reigning monarch. Bezos, who is worth $153 billion, …
(2022-09-09). Antiwar Criticism and the Formation of Collective Opinion. globalresearch.ca
(2022-09-09). Sri Lankan plantation workers protest to demand reinstatement of sacked colleagues. wsws.org The protest, organised by the Socialist Equality Party and workers' action committees on the plantations, won significant support.
(2022-09-09). Possible Prisoner Exchange In US Hybrid War Against Venezuela. popularresistance.org US special presidential envoy for hostage affairs Roger Carstens is on a case which could lead to freeing Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. Pressure is building on the Biden administration to swap Saab for some American citizens currently incarcerated in Venezuela. | Alex Saab, who has been confined for over two years, is a victim of the US economic war calculated to achieve regime-change in Venezuela. He has been targeted because of his role in helping circumvent the sanctions imposed on Venezuela by the US. These measures, really collective punishment, are intended to make conditions so onerous there that the peop…
(2022-09-09). Cuba Breaks With LATAM Trend Towards Educational Setback. telesurenglish.net On Friday, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) presented "The Crossroads of Education in Latin America and the Caribbean", a report assessing progress towards compliance with the 2030 sustainable development agenda. | RELATED: | The UNESCO report found that most countries in the region have experienced a setback in terms of educational inclusion, equity, and quality. This situati…
(2022-09-09). Eastern Michigan University seeks injunction against striking faculty. wsws.org A warning must be issued that the complacent "wait and see" response of the EMU chapter of the American Association of University Professors (EMU-AAUP) leaves the faculty vulnerable to this strikebreaking threat.
(2022-09-09). AFL-CIO President Shuler: Pandemic awakened nation to value of workers. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—The ravages of the coronavirus pandemic and the dependence of all of us on "essential" workers such as grocery stockers, nurses, home health care workers and truckers woke the entire nation—including them—to their value, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler says. And it accelerated the awareness and activism among those workers, especially younger workers, of their power, …
(2022-09-09). US and Israel escalate covert war against Iran and its allies. wsws.org In the past weeks, the US and Israel have carried out a series of strikes on Iranian targets in Syria and elsewhere, setting the stage for a dangerous escalation of conflict in the Middle East.
(2022-09-09). Unite Michigan Medicine nurses with Minnesota and California health care workers! wsws.org Nurses must be warned that the MNA-UMPNC is preparing a sellout of their fight for safe staffing. The Michigan Medicine Rank-and-File Committee is fighting to unite with health care workers and nurses across the US and internationally.
(2022-09-09). Crisis in Iraq yet another US neocolonial policy failure. infobrics.org The folly of Washington's nation-building efforts in Iraq has been made abundantly clear.
(2022-09-09). USA: Hundreds in Congress, Law Enforcement and Military are Members of Fascist Groups. libya360.wordpress.com People's World  ; ^Sources A man wearing an Oath Keepers shirt stands outside the Kenosha County Courthouse, Nov. 19, 2021 in Kenosha, Wis. A new report says that the names of hundreds of U.S. law enforcement officers, elected officials, and military members appear on the leaked membership rolls of the far-right extremist group that played…
(2022-09-09). A revolutionary view of the 2022 midterm elections. fightbacknews.org We are quickly approaching the November 2022 midterm elections. These midterm elections represent an important political milestone for the people's struggles in the United States. Not only will there be a lot on the line for people to either win or lose, but the outcome seen this November will impact the next presidential election in 2024 and serve as an indication for what may happen. | The past has shown that the stance we take on elections can either prepare us for future struggles or leave us on the sidelines of history. There are four major questions we can ask about elections. Is there a special danger pres…
(2022-09-09). We Will March, Even If We Have To Wade Through The Pakistani Floodwaters. popularresistance.org Calamities are familiar to the people of Pakistan who have struggled through several catastrophic earthquakes, including those in 2005, 2013, and 2015 (to name the most damaging), as well as the horrendous floods of 2010. However, nothing could prepare the fifth most populated country in the world for this summer's devastating events, which began with high temperatures and political chaos followed by unimaginable flooding. | Cascading frustration with the Pakistani state defines the public mood. Taimur Rahman, the general secretary of the Mazdoor Kisan Party ('Workers and Peasants Party'), told Peoples Dispatch t…
(2022-09-09). UNSG Visits Pakistan, Calls for International Support. telesurenglish.net As part of his two-day visit to the country, which began on Friday, Guterres addressed a joint press conference with Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif in the capital, Islamabad. | RELATED: | "Pakistan needs massive international support. It is not just a message of solidarity but an international obligation and responsibility. Pakistan is at the front line of the impact of climate change," Guterres said. | He said this is "a matt…
(2022-09-09). No justice in this system — a WW commentary. workers.org 
The criminal justice system? NO! Never say this phrase again because there is no justice in this system! We must change our vocabulary and call it what it is — a criminal injustice system. Paul Storey with mother Marilyn Shankle-Grant during a visit on Texas death row Ôøº An example? . . . |
(2022-09-09). The Big Myth on Inequality: It Just Happened. cepr.net 
The standard line in policy circles about the soaring inequality of the last four decades is that it is just an unfortunate outcome of technological change. As a result of technological developments, education is much more highly valued and physical labor has much less value. The drop in relative income for workers without college degrees …
(2022-09-09). Columbus protests police killing of Donovan Lewis. fightbacknews.org Columbus, OH – Hundreds of Columbus area residents gathered over the Labor Day weekend to protest the murder of 20-year-old Donovan Lewis by Columbus police officer Ricky Anderson. The demonstrations called for the firing and conviction of Ricky Anderson. They also demanded an end to qualified immunity, criticized nighttime raids, and showed support for the Lewis family by collecting signatures and donations. | Demonstrations took place in front of the Columbus Police Department headquarters, the Ohio State House, and along a busy North High Street – where protesters chanted, "Out of the bars and into the street!
(2022-09-09). 'Liberalism Is Counter-Revolutionary'. popularresistance.org Black faces in high places are dangerous because the masses get caught up in symbolism and style over substance. They become confused and fall for perceived power over real power. An example would be Plantation Manager Joe Biden. He has appointed close to two dozen African Americans (mostly women with European husbands and wives) to his cabinet and senior advisors—more than any other President (including the one he served under), and there has been no significant changes in the conditions we live under. Yet, because there is a Black Woman Vice President, a Black Woman Supreme Court Justice and Black Woman P…
(2022-09-09). The Italian Road to Fascism. libya360.wordpress.com Luca Tavan At the end of 2021, Italy was crowned "country of the year" by the Economist magazine. The new "national unity" government of former Goldman Sachs investor and European Central Bank President Mario Draghi was lauded. For once, Italy had "acquired a competent, internationally respected prime minister", and political parties from the centre-left to the…
(2022-09-09). Guest commentary/My 70 years and the departed GDR. workers.org 
Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin August 2022 — It's a momentous day! Not for the world — for which it's nothing special. But for me! Just 70 years ago, in nervous panic, I took off my U.S. Army jacket, shoes and sleeve insignia, and stepped into the swift Danube River which, at Linz . . . |
(2022-09-09). How UK Is a Dictatorship, Not a Democracy. southfront.org 
Written by UK's recent string of atrocious Prime Ministers have not represented a majority of UK subjects (subjects of the Queen, who is sovereign; they are not citizens of their country — a "subject" is the very opposite of "a citizen," who possesses sovereignty, there being no dictatorship, of any type, over citizens). (To call a mo…
(2022-09-09). Australia: Thousands of early childcare educators protest poverty-level conditions. wsws.org The poverty-level conditions faced by EC educators are the product of the privatisation of childcare services, implemented and overseen by both Labor and Liberal-National governments over decades.
(2022-09-09). Australian union seeks to bury New South Wales rail workers' struggle in industrial courts. wsws.org Rail workers have been consigned by the Rail, Tram and Bus Union to the sidelines of their own dispute, which both the government and the union intend to prosecute through the pro-business Fair Work Commission.
(2022-09-09). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand. wsws.org India: Madhya Pradesh power workers strike over unpaid wages; Indonesian workers and students protest higher fuel prices; Australia: Knorr-Bremse rail carriage parts workers national walkout.
(2022-09-09). Seattle school bosses force 6,000 teachers, staff to strike. peoplesworld.org 
SEATTLE —School system stubbornness and refusal to discuss key issues such as too-large classes, too few counselors and school nurses and too-low pay forced 6,000 Seattle teachers and staffers to strike on September 9. In being forced to take a hike, the workers, members of the Seattle Education Association, joined colleagues elsewhere in Washington state …
(2022-09-09). Gorbachev, Obama & U.S. Imperial legacy. indybay.org U.S. media exploitation of Mikhail Gorbachev began right after the Soviet Union imploded in December of 1991. But the latest torrent of "crocodile tears" eulogies after his recent passing simply serve to reinforce the NeoLiberal narrative that the Western Capitalist "rules-based" world order is here to stay, until the "end of History." Really? Is there an alternative, perhaps more apropos, analysis of the checkered Gorbachev legacy?>
(2022-09-09). Lack of affordable housing makes HUD vouchers useless. workers.org 
On Sept. 1 the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued its annual Fair Market Rents (FMR) report for 2023. This estimates the amount of money needed next year to cover gross rents (rents and utility expenses) on 40% of rental housing in any given area. Protest encampment . . . |
(2022-09-09). Decolonization: A Crucial Prerequisite for Environmental Justice in Africa. commondreams.org This does not mean leaving modern advancements behind, but rather being more audacious: to look into who we truly are and tapping into our traditional values of collaboration and respect for nature, so economic systems benefit the many and not just the few.
(2022-09-09). After Queen's Death, Victims of British Imperialism Share Why 'We Will Not Mourn'. commondreams.org "This is Queen Elizabeth's legacy. A legacy of colonial violence and plunder. A legacy of racial segregation and institutionalized racism."
(2022-09-09). Video Statement from Will Lehman: Stop the UAW sabotage of CNH strike! wsws.org This video statement was issued by United Auto Workers presidential candidate Will Lehman in support of 1,000 striking workers and UAW members at CNH.
(2022-09-09). Labor Day rally marks Kaiser mental health clinicians' fourth week on strike. peoplesworld.org 
OAKLAND, Calif.—As over 2,000 Kaiser psychologists, social workers, and therapists entered the fourth week of the longest mental health strike in U.S. history, hundreds of clinicians, elected officials, patients, family members, union leaders, and community supporters rallied outside Kaiser Permanente's flagship Oakland Medical Center on Labor Day to demand the giant HMO staff up to …
(2022-09-09). Sunday 9/11: Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism — National Book Tour. indybay.org Peace & Justice Center | 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa…
(2022-09-09). "We can't go on like this": Striking Pennsylvania nursing home workers speak out on issues behind their strike. wsws.org Nursing home workers are angry that they risked their lives caring for patients during the pandemic and received nothing in return, despite being patronized as "essential." Most have seen a co-worker or a patient contract COVID-19 and pass away or have been infected themselves.
(2022-09-09). 'Great News' for Ball Players as MLB to Voluntarily Recognize Minor League Union Drive. commondreams.org "I hope the commissioner and MLB will move just as quickly to negotiate a fair first contract," said Sen. Bernie Sanders, who welcomed the move.
(2022-09-09). Ontario education workers speak out against union efforts to intimidate rank and file. wsws.org Workers are outraged at the unions' attempt to block a joint struggle by education workers and are turning to the newly established Ontario Education Workers Rank-and-File Committee (OEWRFC) to guide their struggle.
(2022-09-09). Business groups demand that Congress intervene to block national railroad strike. wsws.org In reality, the trade groups are worried not about the impact of a strike on the population, but on their profits, given that they have made a killing from rising commodity prices over the past two years.
(2022-09-09). Spanish home care workers continue strike after two-week stoppage. wsws.org 3, 0 home care workers are striking in Asturias over working conditions and low wages and against back-door talks between the unions and big business.
(2022-09-09). How the ruling class does it: 7 strategies to stay in power. cpusa.org 
The following is adapted from a talk given at the Marxist School in New York City in 2022. As we see the erosion of the rights that working people have won by a Supreme Court that wants to roll people's rights back to 1787 and that cavalierly disregards the will of the majority, it …
(2022-09-09). Housing activists crash developers' party. workers.org 
Philadelphia Residents of the University City Townhomes and their supporters, determined to save their homes from destruction by property developers, have taken their fight directly to the movers and shakers behind most gentrification in Philadelphia. Over 100 residents and supporters converged on the University of Pennsylvania convocation for the incoming . . . |
(2022-09-09). Lula Would Beat Bolsonaro in Runoff by 14 Points: Brazil Poll. telesurenglish.net Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2011) would beat President Jair Bolsonaro in an eventual runoff between the two by 14 points, according to a survey released Friday by the Datafolha polling institute. | The former president and current candidate for the presidency of Brazil for the Workers' Party (PT) Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, today attends a meeting with evangelicals in Sà£o Gonàßalo, Rio de Janeiro Brazil…
(2022-09-09). Lula Da Silva Commits to Transforming Rio De Janeiro. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, thousands of people gathered in Rio de Janeiro to listen to the Workers' Party (PT) presidential candidate Lula da Silva, who reaffirmed his commitment to the transformation of the world's best-known Brazilian city. | RELATED: | "I will invest again in Rio de Janeiro… All over the world, people know what Rio de Janeiro is. They already learned to sing garota de Ipanema. Christ the Redeemer received recognition to be declared the eight…
(2022-09-09). Labor, Groups Demand Transparency In Indo-Pacific Trade Negotiations. popularresistance.org Los Angeles, California – As trade ministers from fourteen countries meet in Los Angeles today for behind-closed-door negotiations on the new Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) trade agreement, labor and other civil society organizations rallied outside urging that proposals for the pact be released for public scrutiny and that the deal not be rigged in favor of Big Tech monopolies and other corporate interests. | "Our message today is very simple: the public deserves the right to know what IPEF negotiators are proposing in our names," said Will Jamil Wiltschko, director of the California Trade Justice Coalit…
(2022-09-08). President Vladimir Putin: Who Armed the Terrorists in Syria? Who Created the Islamic State (ISIS). marktaliano.net READ MORE: Russia Condemns Obama's Decision to Conduct Illegal Air Strikes against Syrian Forces, Washington's Objective was to Protect ISIS Terrorists, In Violation of Washington-Moscow Agreement The original source of this article is Global Research Copyright © Pres. Vladimir Putin, Global Research, 2015 Comment on Global Research Articles on our Facebook page Become a Member of …
(2022-09-08). Russian Warplanes Renew Airstrikes On Syria's Greater Idlib. southfront.org 
FILE PHOTO: Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft before departing for its permanent base in Russia from Khmeimim Air Base in Syria. © Vadim Grishankin / Sputnik | In the last hours of September 8, a new wave of Russian airstrikes targeted the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib. | The airstrikes targeted positions of al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the de-facto ruler of the region, in the outskirts of the town of Hafsarjah in the western Idlib countryside. The airstrikes caused damage. However, ao…
(2022-09-08). Reconstruction in Gaza Advances at Snail Pace. telesurenglish.net Ayman al-Rifi, a Gazan man who lost his home in the latest Israeli strikes in the Palestinian enclave, had to squeeze his nine children into a small house shared with other relatives. "My family and I miraculously escaped death," the 54-year-old man said, referring to the three-day conflict between the Israeli army and the Islamic Jihad movement (PIJ) in early August | RELATED: | The Israeli missile attacks had killed nearly…
(2022-09-08). 6,000 Seattle Teachers And Support Staff Strike. popularresistance.org Six thousand teachers and support staff in Seattle, Washington began a strike this morning, cancelling the first day of classes for 50,000 students in the state's largest school district. The walkout followed a 95 percent vote by teachers, paraprofessionals and office workers to authorize strike action. | The Seattle Education Association (SEA) did everything it could to reach a last-minute deal but was unable to prevent a strike. Union officials have pledged to continue talks to reach an agreement to bring teachers "back to the classrooms as fast as possible." The union also dropped its initial opposition to the…
(2022-09-08). UK is a Dictatorship, Not a Democracy. libya360.wordpress.com Eric Zuesse UK's recent string of atrocious Prime Ministers have not represented a majority of UK subjects (subjects of the Queen, who is sovereign; they are not citizens of their country — a "subject" is the very opposite of "a citizen," who possesses sovereignty, there being no dictatorship, of any type, over citizens). (To call…
(2022-09-08). Seattle teachers on strike for contract that meets students' and teachers' needs. liberationnews.org 
"We're out here because we want a contract that reflects the needs of our students and the effort and workload of our staff."
(2022-09-08). The Democratization of Money: A Revolutionary Dollar of the People, for the People, and by the People. globalresearch.ca
(2022-09-08). The people of Jackson, Mississippi, are in critical need. workers.org Jackson, Mississippi This statement from Cooperation Jackson on the current water crisis in the state capital of Jackson, Mississippi, and on the organization's goals, was posted Aug. 30 at cooperationjackson.org. Due to climate change and decades of neglect of our city's infrastructure, critical portions of Jackson have flooded and . . . |
(2022-09-08). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Schools strikes in France, Norway and Turkey over pay and conditions as new term begins; UK court workers walk out over conditions, joining criminal barristers on indefinite strike over cuts to legal aid and pay; South African bus drivers in Johannesburg and Pretoria in wildcat strike over pay face dismissal as public sector pay strike looms; Nigerian lecturers strike over pay and education funding continues over six months…