(2022-10-01). Cancer-Causing Pesticide exceeds State risk levels over the last decade at Monterey County. indybay.org Concerned about the use of the cancer-causing drift-prone pesticide 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D), more than pesticide reform advocates, including farmworkers, health professionals, teachers, and their allies held a news conference and rally at the Monterey County Government Center on Tuesday, September 27th — the 60th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. The group, organized by Safe Ag Safe Schools and the Monterey Bay Central Labor Council, called on the County Ag Commissioner to reduce 1,3-D use and web-post warnings. | The news conference can be seen in its entirety at: https…
(2022-10-01). Putin: The world has entered a period of revolutionary transformation. unitedworldint.com By Erkin Feyyaz E≈üli Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an agreement on the accession of a number of former Ukrainian regions to Russia: the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR), and the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. The signatures came as a result of referendums in these regions, in which the overwhelming …
(2022-10-01). For the independent mobilization of the working class against the threat of dictatorship in Brazil. wsws.org The Brazilian political crisis is one of the epicenters of a globally interconnected process of dissolution of democratic forms of rule by the ruling class in all countries.
(2022-10-01). French workers on one-day strike 29 September against inflation, war. wsws.org Around 2 ,000 workers demonstrated across France, according to trade unions, as working class anger mounts over the danger of hunger and cold this winter, linked to the war against Russia.
(2022-10-01). Xi meets C919 project team, urging more breakthroughs in high-end equipment manufacturing. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Friday commended the achievements made in the development of the C919 large passenger aircraft and called for more major breakthroughs in China's high-end equipment manufacturing.
(2022-10-01). Xi pays tribute to national heroes on Martyrs' Day. ecns.cn Xi Jinping and other leaders of the Communist Party of China and the state attended a ceremony on Friday morning in Tian'anmen Square in Beijing to present flower baskets to fallen national heroes.
(2022-10-01). Australia ends COVID isolation requirements: Business hails "freedom," medical experts warn of mass deaths. wsws.org The end of any infection control by the federal Labor government means that current COVID deaths, already at record levels, will be dwarfed by the mass casualties to come.
(2022-10-01). Death toll mounts from Hurricane Ian. wsws.org The storm's path northward through the Carolinas and Virginia follows the devasting havoc it wrought on Florida this week. Rescue workers are uncovering deaths found in the storm's wake.
(2022-10-01). Do You Hear Us? UAL Flight Attendants March Against Union Busting & Join SFO Unite Here. indybay.org Hundreds of UAL Association of Flight Attendants AFA flight attendants joined with 1,000 striking SFO Unite Here food service workers at the airport. The UAL AFA leaders charged that UAL is engaged in union busting practices and refuse to negotiate with the union over changes effecting passengers and the workers. SFO Unite Here workers have been without a wage increase since 2018 at the airport and cannot survive on their wages…
(2022-10-01). Apple Toxic Is It Above The Law? With Whistleblower Ashley M. Gjà∏vik. indybay.org Ashley M. Gjà∏vik an Apple employee discovers that her office is sitting on a super-fund dump site in Sunnyvale. She tries to get it tested by the EPA and is retaliated against and fired. She also discover that Apple has captured the agencies she is trying to get to protect her and her fellow worker.
(2022-10-01). [Comment] Coloniality and racism impacts the health of young people. thelancet.com As Indigenous Māori health researchers, our vision is for all young people to thrive and flourish as our leaders of today and to live free from all forms of discrimination. Yet, in the nation state currently known as New Zealand, it is clear this experience is not shared by all. In The Lancet, Rachel Simon-Kumar, Sonia Lewycka, and colleagues1 examine experiences of racism and their effects in terms of socioeconomic inequities, interpersonal discrimination, and health inequities between and among the privileged majority and Indigenous Māori and ethnic minority young people in New Zealand.
(2022-10-01). Candidate for UAW President Will Lehman: Defend the fired workers at GM Silao in Mexico! wsws.org Three years ago, about twenty workers were fired at General Motors in Silao, Mexico, for organizing to drive out a gangster-ridden union and for supporting the U.S. national strike at GM.
(2022-10-01). Australia: Knauf locks out plasterboard workers in Melbourne. wsws.org The Construction Forestry Maritime Mining and Energy Union is ensuring that the lockout will financially cripple workers, leaving them with no choice but to accept whatever rotten deal the company puts before them.
(2022-10-01). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand. wsws.org India: Tripura police attack teachers demanding reinstatement; Tamil Nadu district cooperative workers demand higher pay; Australia: Tasmanian public school teachers strike; BHP mine workers in Queensland to vote on strike action…
(2022-10-01). [Perspectives] Rhea Boyd: paediatrician advocating for health equity. thelancet.com Rhea Boyd describes herself as a paediatrician, a public health advocate, and a scholar who works at a paediatric clinic, as the Director of Equity and Justice for The California Children's Trust, and as a co-developer of The Conversation: Between Us About Us, a campaign that provides credible information about COVID-19 vaccines to Black and Latinx communities across the USA.
(2022-10-01). Sunday 10/2: Support the Courageous Uprising in Iran. indybay.org Revolution Books | 2444 Durant Avenue | Berkeley…
(2022-10-01). Saturday 10/8: The California Propositions Demystified. indybay.org
(2022-10-01). Twitter reverses account lock on Will Lehman, rank-and-file candidate for UAW president, without explanation. wsws.org There can be little doubt that the lock was not "in error," but rather a deliberate act of censorship against a campaign which has given voice to the sentiments and aspirations of rank-and-file workers.
(2022-10-01). Continúan labores para el restablecimiento del sistema eléctrico en Cuba tras huracán Ian. telesurtv.net Las principales acciones se centran en recuperar el servicio eléctrico el cual quedó con serias afectaciones.
(2022-09-30). US announces plans to expand "industrial base" for war with Russia. wsws.org Amid claims that the United States has sent so many weapons to Ukraine that it verges on depleting the capabilities of the US military, the US and its allies have announced a major new initiative to expand arms production.
(2022-09-30). Nicaragua's President Ortega Calls Chile's President Boric a White House 'Lapdog'. orinocotribune.com Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega calls his Chilean counterpart a US "lapdog" after Boric attacked Nicaragua at the United Nations (UN). | "The government that wants to receive applause from the Yankee empire and from some governments of the European Union goes out there, like a lapdog, to talk about the need to release the political prisoners in Nicaragua, and they forget about the political prisoners that they have in their country in Chile," Ortega said on Wednesday, September 28, during a ceremony on the occasion of the 43rd anniversary of the founding of Nicaragua's National Police. | The Sandinista leader…
(2022-09-30). Statement and Response by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at the UN Security Council Meeting on Sabotage of the Nord Stream Pipeline. libya360.wordpress.com Mr. Chairman, We thank the representatives of the UN Secretariat and Gazprom for the information provided. We also thank Mr. Marc-Antoine Eil-Mazzegg. I will not comment on his interesting but in my opinion not always objective presentation of what has happened and is happening in the gas market. We have a representative from Gazprom with…
(2022-09-30). Russian Pipeline Sabotage: Beneficiaries and Possible Escalation of the Conflict. libya360.wordpress.com Yoselina Guevara López The Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, the energy infrastructure that connects Russia with Europe under the waters of the Baltic Sea, suffered unprecedented damage this September 27, which all experts agree in affirming that they were the product of a "deliberate act", that is to say, a vile sabotage. Danish…
(2022-09-30). Russia Puts an End to the Sovereignty of Westphalia. libya360.wordpress.com Franco Vielma Head of the Kherson Region Vladimir Saldo, Head of the Zaporozhye Region Evgeny Balitsky, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Head of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin and Head of the Lugansk People's Republic Leonid Pasechnik | © Mikhail Metzel/TASS Through referendums held in recent days, the former Ukrainian regions of Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhie…
(2022-09-30). Signing of Treaties on Accession of Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics and Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions to Russia. libya360.wordpress.com During the address by Vladimir Putin at the ceremony for signing the treaties on the accession of the Donetsk People's Republic, the Lugansk People's Republic, the Zaporozhye Region and the Kherson Region to the Russian Federation. Photo: Grigoriy Sisoev, RIA Novosti A ceremony for signing the treaties on the accession of the Donetsk People's Republic,…
(2022-09-30). Movements in NATO countries mobilize against war. workers.org 
With an avalanche of anti-Russian propaganda in NATO-member and other European Union countries — and in the U.S. — the corporate media has created an obstacle to mobilizing antiwar actions. Nevertheless, the high economic cost of the war, including much higher prices for basic goods and shortages of energy sources, . . . |
(2022-09-30). 20 Militants Reportedly Killed In New Wave Of Russian Airstrikes On Syria's Greater Idlib. southfront.org 
A Russian Su-24 takes off on a combat mission at Hemeimeem airbase, Syria, on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. IMAGE: AP PHOTO/VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | On September 30, warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out at least 12 airstrikes on the northwestern region of Greater Idlib. | The airstrikes targeted positions of al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the de-facto ruler of Greater Idlib, and its allies near the towns of Mseibin and Ruweiha in the southern Idlib countryside. Syrian pro-government news so…
(2022-09-30). America's Neo-Imperialist Pressure on Sudan Exposes its True Intentions Towards Africa. libya360.wordpress.com Andrew Korybko The planned Russian naval base in Port Sudan would unprecedentedly deepen military relations between Moscow and Khartoum, thus helping the host state more confidently resist Washington's pressure in all respects, especially when it comes to being manipulated into a mutually detrimental war with Ethiopia. The "Strategy Towards Sub-Saharan Africa" that the US unveiled…
(2022-09-30). Xi pays tribute to national heroes in Beijing. ecns.cn Xi Jinping and other leaders of the Communist Party of China and the State attended a ceremony to present flower baskets to deceased national heroes at Tian'anmen Square in Beijing on Friday morning.
(2022-09-30). The drums of war grow ever louder: Declaration of constitution of the Madrid Platform Against NATO and the Bases. workers.org 
By Madrid Platform Madrid, Sept. 20. Madrid Platform Against NATO and Bases. Translation: John Catalinotto The centers of power of Euro-U.S. imperialism have decided to resolve this deep capitalist crisis by applying the updated version of the same procedures they used in other times: massive destruction of capital and war. . . . |
(2022-09-30). Military Occupy Strategic Areas of Burkina Faso's Capital City. telesurenglish.net On Friday morning, soldiers occupied several strategic areas of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, generating confusion at a time when the country is in "a transition process" after the January 24 coup. | RELATED: | Currently, the soldiers are stationed around the national television station, the United Nations roundabout, and on Kwame Nkrumah Avenue, where the European Union headquarters are located. | Sporadic det…
(2022-09-30). "EU Harakiri"on Behalf of Washington. The Nord Stream Destruction, Is the EC Planning to Destroy the European Union? globalresearch.ca
(2022-09-30). Employers' Productivity Standards Are Not Real Science. popularresistance.org Whether you're working in a warehouse or piano factory, processing insurance claims, or taking care of patients, the use of worker productivity monitoring continues to expand. | Workplaces where jobs are monitored and measured—and workers required to meet certain performance metrics—pose a particular set of challenges for stewards. | Most historians recognize Fredrick Winslow Taylor and his 1911 book The Principles of Scientific Management as the genesis of these schemes. Taylor's technology was basic by today's standards: clipboards and stopwatches. | Frank and Lillian Gilbreth (of Cheaper by the Doz…
(2022-09-30). US Hybrid War Against Venezuela Goes To Court. popularresistance.org Ambassador Alex Saab, a victim of the US economic war to achieve regime change in Venezuela, has been under arrest for over two years. This article recounts the developments in the diplomat's court case. Saab is fighting against his illegal detention and extradition before the 8th District Court in Miami. | As Venezuela's special envoy and a deputy ambassador to the African Union, Saab has diplomatic immunity from arrest and detention under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. Although a party to the convention, the US has flouted this principle of international law. Alex Saab was targeted by the U…
(2022-09-30). Prison Strike Spreads In Alabama As Incarcerated Individuals Demand DOJ Protect Their Human Rights. thedissenter.org 
Jared Ware, journalist and co-host of "Millennials Are Killing Capitalism" | Jared Ware, journalist and co-host of the "Millennials Are Killing Capitalism" We begin with an overview of the strike, which was on its fifth day when the interview was recorded. Jared describes why the work stoppages were organized now and what the response of the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) has been to the organized prisoners.
(2022-09-30). Bolsonaro Hides Behind Allies to Attack Lula Da Silva in Debate. telesurenglish.net During the presidential debate on Thursday, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and other right-wing candidates staged a political spectacle full of aggressions whose objective became obvious: to take votes away from the Workers' Party candidate Lula da Silva, who has already passed percent of voting intentions according to the most recent polls. | RELATED: | To avoid direct confrontation with Lula, Bolsonaro enlisted the…
(2022-09-30). How Wall Street Profits Off Of The Sick And Elderly. levernews.com
(2022-09-30). Growing solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on sixth day of hunger strike to #EndAdministrativeDetention. samidoun.net 
30 Palestinian prisoners are on hunger strike for the sixth day to demand an end to their administrative detention without charge or trial. As they have continued their strike, the occupation prison authorities have imposed new sanctions upon them: their rooms have been turned into isolation sections and fines were imposed on the hunger strikers, …
(2022-09-30). PSL Editorial: We stand with the people of Brazil vs. Bolsonaro's coup plots. liberationnews.org 
Brazilians will go to the polls in a pivotal election on Sunday to choose a new president. Support for former president Lula da Silva of the Workers Party, the main candidate of the left, is surging.
(2022-09-30). Lula Says South America Wants His Victory in Brazilian Elections. telesurenglish.net Former president and candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said today that South America wants to see him win the October 2 elections in Brazil to reorganize the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) once again. | Presidential candidate Luís Inácio Lula da Silva (c) participates in a campaign event today, in Fortaleza (Brazil)…
(2022-09-30). Non-Tenure-Track Skidmore College Faculty Votes To Unionize. popularresistance.org Saratoga Springs, New York – In a major milestone for an organizing effort that began in 2018, full-time and part-time, non-tenure-track faculty and other Skidmore College staff voted this month in favor of unionizing. | The National Labor Relations Board conducted two separate mail-in elections — one for full-time staff and one for part-time staff — and 65% of full-time staff voted to join with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 200United, while 67% of part-time employees voted in favor of joining the union, according to an SEIU news release. | The votes, announced Sept. 27, affe…
(2022-09-30). Saladin Muhammad Presente! popularresistance.org Our dear brother, leader, confidant, mentor and model servant of our people, Saladin Muhammad, joined our revolutionary ancestors on September 19, 2022 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Saladin was 76 and had been battling illness for a while. | When our revolutionary elders leave this material world, we often say another giant has fallen as a testament to their contribution and the love that we have for them. But sometimes, that characterization is just not enough. This is one of those times. Brother Saladin occupied a category that only a few have occupied. As one of only a handful of strategic thinkers and organ…
(2022-09-30). BRICS Countries Should Join Hands to Innovate Affordable Scientific Solutions. infobrics.org Union Minister of state for Science and Technology, Jitendra Singh called for a joint fight against common challenges…
(2022-09-30). Iran's Revolutionary Guards Say Operation Against Kurdish Insurgents In Northern Iraq Will Continue. southfront.org 
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has vowed to continue its operation against Kurdish-Iranian opposition groups in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. | In a statement released on September 29, the IRGC Ground Forces confirmed that the ongoing operation was launched in response to Kurdish-led protests in Iran. The guards accused opposition groups in Kurdistan of inciting and supporting the protests."In the wake of an uptick in the seditious acts of separatist and terrorist groups stationed in Iraq'
(2022-09-30). Murdoch media displays Australian Labor PM's close ties to business and dependence on the unions. wsws.org The Labor government is bringing together the country's top business chiefs and trade union bureaucrats against the working class.
(2022-09-30). Turkey hits 16 PKK targets in N Iraq. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 30 (MNA) — A total of 16 targets have been destroyed by the Turkish armed forces in a military operation against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Thursday.
(2022-09-30). No to another school year of mass infection and death! Mobilize Canada's education workers to fight for the global elimination of COVID-19! wsws.org Governments in every province, from John Horgan's New Democrats in British Columbia to the hard-right Ford Tories in Ontario, reopened schools at the beginning of this month after dismantling all remaining COVID public health measures.
(2022-09-30). Hundreds attend memorial service for two young workers killed at Ohio BP refinery. wsws.org The memorial service Thursday morning was an outpouring of sympathy and solidarity for Max and Ben Morrissey, two young workers tragically killed at the BP Husky refinery in Oregon, Ohio.
(2022-09-30). Ahead of strike vote: UK higher education workers must build rank-and-file committees. wsws.org Workers must draw an important conclusion from the past few decades' experience: that the unions respond to "pressure" by intensifying efforts to impose sellout deals on their members.
(2022-09-30). 'Time to Take to the Streets': Working Class Hold 'Enough Is Enough' Rallies Across UK. commondreams.org "Does a CEO need an extra zero at the end of their salary—or should nurses, posties, and teachers be able to heat their homes?" said one supporter ahead of the #EnoughIsEnough National Day of Action.
(2022-09-30). Devastation from Hurricane Ian: Another disaster inflicted by American capitalism. wsws.org The death toll and destruction in Florida are of immense dimensions and demonstrate the failure of capitalist society. Such disasters are not "natural," but the predictable result of the inability of the profit system to address climate change and its environmental consequences.
(2022-09-30). The IBEW contract vote was fraudulent: Demand a re-vote under rank-and-file oversight! wsws.org This statement was issued by the Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee (RWRFC), which has been established by railroad workers to organize and unify their struggle independently of the union apparatus.
(2022-09-30). Dissenting union, Machinists District 19, negotiates new deal with railroads. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—The one rail union whose members rejected the proposed national contract between the nation's big freight railroads and unions representing their 115,000 workers has negotiated a newand it says, a betterdeal. And now those 4,900 members of Machinists District 19 will vote on it. Their agreement, announced September 26, follows the basic plan all 13 …
(2022-09-30). Democracy is on the line in November. cpusa.org 
The following is adapted from a talk given at the online Marxist School in 2022. People's life experience has a decisive influence on their reaction to events. But it is not always determinative. Someone influenced by progressive class-struggle ideas, racial and gender equality, and generally by mass democratic movements and who gains a relative …
(2022-09-30). Meet Hayley Wong, President of Imperial College Union. imperial.ac.uk Hayley Wong is the new president of Imperial's students' union.
(2022-09-30). Live Updates on the fight of rail workers: Evidence grows of widespread failure by IBEW to send ballots before TA vote. wsws.org Dozens of machinists at BNSF's Argentine Yard in Kansas City held a series of informational pickets Wednesday to call for a united fight of rank-and-file workers.
(2022-09-30). MN Cuba car caravan presses for an end to the blockade on Cuba. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – Twin Cities Cuba solidarity activists organized a car caravan, September 25, to "End the U.S. Blockade of Cuba." It is part of a campaign initiated by the Puentas de Amor (Bridges of Love) out of Miami. For over a year they have called on supporters of Cuba from around the world to hold car caravans on the fourth Sunday of the month. | This month, once again the Minnesota caravan drove along a busy street in a predominantly Latino neighborhood. Cars were decorated with Cuban flags and displayed signs that read, "Cuba si bloqueo no," "U.S. hands off Cuba" and "Let Cuba live!" Along the route, pe…
(2022-09-29). Who Profits from Pipeline Terror? libya360.wordpress.com Pepe Escobar Secret talks between Russia and Germany to resolve their Nord Stream 1 and 2 issues had to be averted at any cost The War of Economic Corridors has entered incandescent, uncharted territory: Pipeline Terror. A sophisticated military operation — that required exhaustive planning, possibly involving several actors — blew up four separate sections of…
(2022-09-29). EU parliamentarian calls to sanction Vanessa Beeley and all observers of Donbass referendums. thegrayzone.com MEP Nathalie Louiseau of France is lobbying for individual sanctions on all observers of the Russian-organized referendums in the Donbass region. She has singled out journalist Vanessa Beeley not only for her coverage of the vote, but for her reporting on the foreign-back war against Syria's government. A French Member of European Parliament (MEP), Natalie Louiseau, has delivered a letter to EU High Representative of Foreign Affairs, Joseph Borrell, demanding the European Union place personal sanctions on all international observers …
(2022-09-29). Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE to hold online public meeting against nuclear war. wsws.org The online public meeting "Build an international working class movement to stop nuclear war danger" will be held at 4 p.m. on Sunday, October 16.
(2022-09-29). PDF of September 29 issue. workers.org 
Download the PDF. Inclusive, expansive, revolutionary New Family Code approved by Cubans 2-to-1 Battling billionaire developers Saladin Muhammad remembered Editorial: U.S. hypocrisy and Iran Labor on the march At Philly's Home Depot California farmworkers Teamster women rally at Amazon HQ U.S. proxy war Western capital grabs Ukraine's farms Antiwar movement . . . |
(2022-09-29). United, Southwest flight attendants picket in US as airline workers reach breaking point. wsws.org United and Southwest airlines flight attendants picketed at airports in the US and other locations Tuesday to protest exhausting schedules, the lack of accommodation for stranded flight crews and the refusal of the carriers to increase pay in the face of surging inflation.
(2022-09-29). Youth join global strike for climate justice. workers.org 
Climate strikers in Bengaluru, India, Sept. 23. Climate strikers in Bengaluru, India, one of 450 global locations, were among hundreds of thousands demanding "climate reparations and justice" Sept. 23. Young people in Asia, Africa and Europe joined a coordinated Global Climate Strike that called for wealthy countries to pay reparations . . . |
(2022-09-29). 2 October, Vancouver: End Administrative Detention! Outreach and rally for justice in Palestine. samidoun.net 
Sunday, 2 October 2 pm Vancouver Art Gallery (Howe Side/Robson Square) Vancouver Facebook Join us on Sunday, October 2 outside the Vancouver Art Gallery (Howe Street Side) to support 30 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike for freedom. They are putting their bodies and lives on the lines to demand an end to administrative detention, Israeli …
(2022-09-29). The right-wing record of the "Quebec First" CAQ government. wsws.org The Coalition avenir Québec's (CAQ) first-ever term in office was marked by a disastrous response to the COVID-19 pandemic, brutal anti-worker measures and the promotion of virulent Quebec chauvinism.