(2022-04-04). New witness testimony about Mariupol maternity hospital 'airstrike' follows pattern of Ukrainian deceptions, media malpractice. thegrayzone.com A key witness to the widely publicized incident at the Mariupol maternity hospital has punctured the official narrative of a Russian airstrike on the facility, and raised serious questions about Western media ethics. Meanwhile, news of a massacre in the city of Bucha contains suspicious elements. On March 9th, shocking news of a deliberate Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, began spreading widely via social media and news outlets. Fiery condemnation from Western officials, pundits, and …
(2022-04-04). Make Peace, Not War, in Ukraine. transcend.org 31 Mar 2022 – There were a series of provocations by NATO that aroused security concerns in Moscow, including the expansion of NATO after the Cold War was over, the threat from the Soviet Union had disappeared, and promises were made by Western leaders to Gorbachev of no further NATO expansion. Such geopolitical behavior amounted to imprudent statecraft by the West,…
(2022-04-04). The Alarming Rise of Ukraine's Neo-Nazi MPs Since the 2014 "Pro-democracy Revolution" globalresearch.ca Over elapsing time from the February 2014 US-instituted "pro-democracy revolution", an ever expanding group of neo-Nazis has been elected to office in the Ukrainian parliament. Over the past five years of what the Washington Post calls "fledgling democracy"
(2022-04-04). Oliver Stone Documents the Past to Illuminate the Present. transcend.org 29 Mar 2022 – While Kennedy was the last U.S. president to genuinely seek peace at the cost of his life, his successors have all been lackeys in love with war and in full awareness that the promotion of war and the military industrial complex were at the top of their job description. They have gladly served the god of war and ravaged countries around the world with the glee of sadists and madmen.
(2022-04-04). Fortieth anniversary of Malvinas/Falklands war exploited to protect Johnson and sanction NATO aggression against Russia. wsws.org Now an attempt to play the same political trick is being made under conditions in which the working class stands on the edge of an economic abyss and the world faces the prospect of a military confrontation between nuclear powers. The price for any let-up in the class struggle would be far higher.
(2022-04-04). Massive social protests erupt in Sri Lanka: A critical development in the global class struggle. wsws.org Immense social anger over the soaring price of food and petrol, hours-long electricity power cuts, an acute shortage of medical supplies and the ever more intolerable conditions of life for working people has erupted in mass protests across Sri Lanka.
(2022-04-04). "Look to the health care system for being at fault"—Health care workers continue to voice support for victimized nurse, RaDonda Vaught. wsws.org The WSWS is organizing the working class to defend RaDonda Vaught and all health care workers against victimization for the crisis of the for-profit health care system.
(2022-04-04). 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…
(2022-04-04). One year since the start of Warrior Met Coal strike in Alabama. wsws.org On its one-year anniversary, the Warrior Met miners' strike shed light on the escalating struggle between workers and the ruling class, as well as the irreconcilable conflict between rank-and-file workers and the corporatist unions.
(2022-04-04). On eve of contract expiration, thousands of Los Angeles County workers march to demand improved wages, working conditions. wsws.org Last Thursday, with their labor contract expiring at midnight, over 2,000 Los Angeles County workers gathered in downtown Los Angeles to protest the county's new proposed contract that further attacked their wages, working conditions and jobs.
(2022-04-04). UK workers oppose Facebook's censoring of German Socialist Equality Party's anti-war video. wsws.org "The WSWS provides a lone voice against the pro-war propaganda in the majority of the world's media and, as such, must be defended by all conscious workers and youth."
(2022-04-04). Young Amazon workers on Staten Island rattle the halls of power. peoplesdispatch.org A closer look at the organizing efforts of the Amazon workers in Staten Island that made history by winning the first ever union in the US at the multi-billion dollar corporation…
(2022-04-04). Thousands of medical workers nationwide rushing to aid Shanghai in COVID-19 response. ecns.cn Around 10,000 medical workers from several regions across China have arrived in Shanghai in recent days to help the fight against COVID-19 as the city has seen surging infections, local health authorities said Sunday.
(2022-04-04). 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.
(2022-04-04). Dutch DockersTake Solidarity Action For UK P&O RMT Seafarers With Niek Stam of FNV-NL. indybay.org Dutch dockworkers took solidarity action against the ferry line P&O to support the 800 fired seafarers. Niek Stam of FNV-NL, who is the president of the Dockworkers union reported on their action.
(2022-04-04). The U.S. empire uses engineered destabilization to delay its full demise. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Mar 30, 2022 | When it comes to the decline of U.S. hegemony, there are two sides to the story, one hopeful and the other bleak. One pertains to all of the ways that the empire's power is unambiguously diminishing, and to how this is opening the potential for workers democracy to spread to every part of the world. To how Washington has been unable to use its fascist Ukrainian proxy to crush the independence of the Donbass peoples, how Washington's subversion efforts in places like Hong Kong have failed, how the 2019 coup in Bolivia has been reversed, and other such positive developments. Th…
(2022-04-04). Sobre el proyecto de Ley del Proceso de amparo de los derechos constitucionales. cubadebate.cu No basta solo con la previsión de la posibilidad de disfrute o ejercicio del derecho, tanto en el plano de hacer, no hacer o impedir que otros hagan, sino que se requiere de la activa intervención del aparato de poder dado su importante rol en el aseguramiento de los mismos, más aún en un Estado socialista de derecho y justicia social (C.2019, art.1).
(2022-04-04). Tuesday 4/19: Revolution, She Wrote — Online Reading/Discussion Group. indybay.org Online via Zoom | To register: bit.ly/RevSheWrote…
(2022-04-04). Red theory: Dialectics or metaphysics, two methods of analysis. fightbacknews.org In our last article we saw that Marxism-Leninism bases itself on a materialist worldview. But we saw, at the same time, that materialism as it came to be understood with the rise of bourgeois society was still metaphysical in its method of analysis. At this point, let's look at the difference between the metaphysical and dialectical method. Then we can better understand how Karl Marx established the philosophical basis of revolutionary science, dialectical materialism. | Metaphysics is a subject of philosophy that really begins, at least in the West, with Aristotle in ancient Greece, and is intended to look at th…
(2022-04-04). Mélenchon aligns with NATO's war against Russia in Ukraine. wsws.org Repeating his role during NATO's Cold War against the Soviet Union, Mélenchon covers his support for imperialism with a few pacifist phrases.
(2022-04-04). United States Colored Troops Congressional Gold Medal Act. indybay.org The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate shall make appropriate arrangements for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal of appropriate design to the African Americans who served with Union forces during the Civil War, collectively, in recognition of their bravery and outstanding service during the Civil War.
(2022-04-04). 2022 California Armed Service Day – Tribute to United States Colored Troops. indybay.org AB 1655, is on the way to an official California Juneteenth Holiday to begin sharing our authentic contribution toward saving the Union while fighting for freedom. In July of 1862, Congress passed the Militia Act of 1862. It had become an "indispensable military necessity" to call on America's African descent population to help save the Union.
(2022-04-04). 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.
(2022-04-04). Rights or Power: TANC Organizing Committee on SF's 'Right to Organize'. indybay.org 'Right to organize' legislation limits its nominal goal and solidifies conditions unfavorable to mass tenant power.
(2022-04-04). 5,000 California nurses to take strike vote at Stanford and Lucile Packard Children's Hospitals. wsws.org Nurses at Stanford are confronting an increasingly untenable working environment more than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, combined with a skyrocketing cost of living in the Bay Area, already among the highest in the US.
(2022-04-04). Georges Abdallah's statement for 2 April day of action. samidoun.net 
The following statement was released by Georges Abdallah on 2 April 2022 as part of the international day of action for his release that coincided with his 71st birthday. Abdallah, the Lebanese Arab Communist struggler for Palestine, has been jailed in France since 1984 despite being eligible for release since 1999. Georges Abdallah is part …
(2022-04-04). International day of action mobilizes for freedom for Georges Abdallah. samidoun.net 
On Saturday, 2 April — Georges Abdallah's 71st birthday — people across France and around the world joined in an international day of action to demand the freedom of the Lebanese Arab Communist struggler for Palestine imprisoned in France for over 37 years. Abdallah, the longest-held political prisoner in Europe, has been eligible for release …
(2022-04-04). Over 100 protest outside Lannemezan prison to demand release of Georges Abdallah. samidoun.net 
At the call of Collectif 65 for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah, over 100 demonstrators gathered outside the gates of the Lannemezan prison in France to demand the release of the longest-held political prisoner in Europe. This initiative was organized as part of an international day of mobilization for the release of the imprisoned Lebanese communist. The …
(2022-04-04). U.S.-funded labs around Russia work to create bio-weapons: Kremlin. ecns.cn Moscow has information that an array of biological laboratories have been founded around Russia, which are engaged in developing bio-weapons, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Saturday.
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(2022-04-03). UPDATED: AFU Crimes In Bucha, Kiev Region. False Flag Propaganda Attack Against Russia Revealed (Photos, Video). southfront.org 
UPDATE : The European Union will tighten sanctions against Russia and strengthen Kiev's support in defense issues, according to German…
(2022-04-03). Russia-Ukraine Conflict Highlights Racist Double Standard in the West. orinocotribune.com By Wu Chaolan — Mar 21, 2022 | The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict has garnered widespread attention across the globe. The wall-to-wall coverage and outpouring of reactions to the Russia-Ukraine conflict from the West has raised eyebrows at its double standard toward other humanitarian crises, which has unsheathed flagrant racist and biased attitudes toward the value of non-white lives that also matter. | CBS News senior correspondent in Kyiv Charlie D'Agata, for instance, has faced a widespread backlash due to his discriminatory comments on the Ukraine crisis: "This isn't a place, with all due respect, like…
(2022-04-03). Nazis in Ukraine: Seeing Through the Fog of the Information War. libya360.wordpress.com Gabriel Rockhill Participants of an annual event in honor of Stepan Bandera march through Kyiv, Ukraine on Jan. 1, 2021. (Genya Savilou/AFP) On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin undertook what he referred to as a "special military operation … to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine." Western bourgeois media immediately decried these stated goals, regularly repeating that the allegations of…
(2022-04-03). CIA Trained the Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and Has Chosen Ukraine as the Birthplace of the New "Global White Supremacist" Terror Threat. libya360.wordpress.com Whitney Webb As the conflict between Ukraine and Russia continues to escalate and dominate the world's attention, the increasing evidence that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is and has been working to create and arm an insurgency in the country has received considerably little attention considering its likely consequences. This is particularly true given…
(2022-04-03). On The Line In The Fight For Justice: USW 5 Chevron Richmond Refinery Workers Strike. indybay.org Striking USW 5 Chevron refinery oil workers picketed at the plant and were joined by community and labor supporters. They talked about the health and safety conditions including dangerous hours and attacks on their healthcare benefits.
(2022-04-03). Amid Rolling Blackouts, Energy Workers Fight For Clean Public Power. popularresistance.org The lights went out around Johannesburg on a Monday morning in November 2021, not to flicker back on until early that Friday in some areas. It marked the last rolling blackout of a year troubled by more outages than any in recent memory. The fate of Eskom, the beleaguered power utility behind the crisis, is now at the center of South Africa's struggle for a just energy transition‚Äâ—‚Äâa break from fossil fuels without leaving behind frontline communities or energy workers. | As a public company, Eskom has a constitutional mandate to guarantee electricity as a basic right.
(2022-04-03). Deterioration Of Rights Sparks Month-Long Actions Among Health Workers. popularresistance.org Health workers in major public hospitals in Haiti have reasserted their intention to continue striking on 28 March, citing lack of action by the Ministry of Health (MoH) on their earlier demands. Nurses, physicians, lab workers and other health professionals at the Haitian State University Hospital and Justinien Hospital among other places, began to strike near the end of February. They intend to continue the action until demands are met. | The workers are asking for salary adjustments, improvements to working conditions, and payment of arrears in the form of debit cards, but remain dissatisfied by the approach t…
(2022-04-03). Forty years after the Malvinas/Falklands War: How the Workers Revolutionary Party Betrayed Trotskyism. wsws.org The WSWS is today republishing an excerpt from the 1986 statement How the Workers Revolutionary Party Betrayed Trotskyism to mark the 40th anniversary of the Malvinas/Falklands War.
(2022-04-03). Organizers protest Idaho anti-trans bill. liberationnews.org 
On March 16, members of the Idaho Party for Socialism and Liberation organized an event protesting Idaho house bill HB 675.
(2022-04-03). Striking distance of Black Sea: U.S. aircraft carrier, 12 anti-missile destroyers remain in Mediterranean. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Stars and StripesApril 1, 2022 USS Truman carrier strike group to remain in Mediterranean region for now The USS Harry S. Truman and at least some of the warships supporting the aircraft carrier will remain on deployment in the Mediterranean Sea region for the foreseeable future, the Pentagon announced. Officials wouldn't say Thursday how much …
(2022-04-03). N. Korea warns Seoul of 'serious threat' over missile remarks. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 03 (MNA) — North Korea has condemned the South Korean defense minister's remarks about its ability to strike against the North and warned it would destroy major targets in Seoul if the South takes any dangerous military action.
(2022-04-03). Pregnant Woman Photographed at Mariupol Maternity Hospital Breaks Silence. orinocotribune.com 
Marianna, the pregnant woman whose photos in the compound of a bombed maternity hospital in the city of Mariupol went viral around the world, has now recounted how she became the "face" of that fake news campaign in which Russia was accused of the war crime. | Marianna Vyshemirskaya, a beauty blogger and resident of Mariupol, denied the Russian airstrike on the maternity hospital in that Ukrainian city and stressed that it was instead shelled by artillery. "There was no [airstrike], no one heard anything, not even those outside," Marianna said on an Instagram post. | Vyshemirskaya also claimed that immediately af…
(2022-04-03). More Quick Thoughts on the March Jobs Report — Good News on Inflation. cepr.net Many of us have highlighted both the strong pace of job growth and the drop in unemployment in March. This is great news. We are now looking at a labor market that is as strong as at any point in the last fifty years. This should be cause for celebration, but all the Republicans have …
(2022-04-03). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Diagnostic testing, precision medicine and what it means for patients. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Precision medicine aims to customize health care by tailoring medications and treatments to each patient. An important step in being able to personalize treatments is diagnostic testing. Mayo Clinic BioPharma Diagnostics collaborates with biopharmaceutical, diagnostic, and other biotech companies to enable precision medicine through advanced diagnostics. Diagnostic testing can help find the right answers for each individual patient. "A laboratory test can either help in making a diagnosis for a disease, or it can help…
(2022-04-03). Russia makes new claims on U.S.-funded bioweapons labs. ecns.cn Moscow claims it has information that an array of biological laboratories engaged in developing bioweapons have been found, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Saturday.
(2022-04-03). Arizona couple donates Collaborative Research Building to Mayo Clinic. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Scottsdale, Ariz. — Thomas R. and Ruth Ann Hornaday of Paradise Valley, Arizona, have donated the Collaborative Research Building to Mayo Clinic. The 110,000-square-foot biomedical research facility, which opened on Mayo Clinic's Scottsdale campus in 2005, is valued at $64.4 million. The Collaborative Research Building houses laboratory-based research activity at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. Mayo Clinic researchers, physicians and other investigators are leading the scientific discovery of the mechanisms of human disease, as well as…
(2022-04-03). Palestine in Pictures: March 2022. electronicintifada.net A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine.
(2022-04-03). Building solidarity against Poland's two-faced refugee policy. roarmag.org Polish border guards and police at the border with Belarus. November 11, 2021. Photo: Irek Dorozanski / DWOT, via Russia's invasion of Ukraine has forced more than 10 million people to leave their homes in search of safety. The majority of those have sought refuge elsewhere within the country, but approximately 4.2 million people have fled abroad, as of early April, around 2.4 million of whom are currently in Poland. For those that have been received, we see the capacity for support in response t…
(2022-04-03). Colonial states continue to deny the impact of slavery. peoplesdispatch.org Historian Sumangala Damodaran and NewsClick's Prabir Purkayastha discuss the demands for reparations and justice that emerged in Jamaica when members of the British royal family arrived for a visit…
(2022-04-03). Malvinas 40 Years: It's Time To End Colonialism. popularresistance.org Every April 2, we Argentines pay tribute to the compatriots who fought valiantly for the recovery of the exercise of sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands, other archipelagos of the South Atlantic and their corresponding maritime spaces. | On the 40th anniversary of the heroic deed carried out by our young men and women, the memory and recognition of their dedication must go hand in hand with a firm commitment to continue fighting for the cause for which many of them gave their lives. The permanent increase of the military presence and the refusal during these four decades of the United Kingdom to resume the dial…