2022-07-19: News Headlines

The Socialist Program (2022-07-19). Biden's Colossal Failure in the Middle East: How the U.S. Position Is Weakening in Global Politics. liberationnews.org Biden just landed from a multi-day tour in the Middle East where he spectacularly failed at his goals, including bringing more Arab countries into an alliance with Israel and bringing the price of oil down.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-07-19). Rights groups and trade unions protest UK government's Rwanda deportation policy. peoplesdispatch.org Despite…

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-07-19). 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…

Editor2 (2022-07-19). A Tactic Not a Trademark: How the BDS National Committee Supports the Liberal Zionist Agenda. orinocotribune.com By Naji Handallah &#1 ; Jul 5, 2022 | When they mention "red lines" to me, I lose my mind. I know one "red line" | It is not the right of the biggest ego to sign a document of recognition or surrender to "Israel" | ―Naji AlAli | On June 24, 2022, under pressure from zionist demands for an FBI investigation, the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions National Committee (BNC) announced that it does

Staff (2022-07-19). Egyptian alliance calls for Arab unity and action to confront imperialism and liberate Palestine. samidoun.net Egyptian organizations gathered together in a conference for Palestine on Saturday, 16 July, held at the headquarters of the Karama Party in Cairo, Egypt's capital. Jaldia Abubakra of Samidoun España spoke on behalf of the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement (Masar Badil), where she called for an "Arab and international alliance to support the Palestinian …

Fight Back (2022-07-19). A Marxist view of the Asian American National Questions. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – Over the last two years, hundreds of thousands of Asian Americans and their supporters have taken to the streets to protest the wave of violence against Asian Americans. From the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when a Burmese family was assaulted in Texas; to the Atlanta Spa killing in April 2021, where six of the eight people killed were Asian American women, this wave of violence against Asian Americans inspired protests across the country, even including middle-school students. | These protests were the largest ever to draw together Asian Americans of different nationalities. This was in pa…

Staff (2022-07-19). Diosdado Cabello: Washington Sends Mercenaries to Attack Venezuela's Pipelines. orinocotribune.com On Monday, July 18, the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, denounced the US government for sending mercenaries to Venezuela "to attack oil facilities." | During a press conference given by the ruling party, Cabello spoke about the attack perpetrated this Sunday on a pipeline in eastern Venezuela. | "The attacks against the electrical system and against the oil system come from the United States through mercenaries," said Cabello. "All attacks on the electrical system are transversal. In the end, they affect the water as well, but they look for places to do da…

Kite Line (2022-07-19). Kite Line: Echoes of the 2018 Prison Strike. itsgoingdown.org Long-running abolitionist podcast and radio show Kite Line presents their 300th consecutive episode looking back on the 2018 prison strike. Listen and Download HERE We recently marked our 300th consecutive episode, and in honor of that we have been airing our favorite selections from previous shows. As we approach the upcoming 4 year anniversary of…

Yanis Iqbal (2022-07-19). Six Theses on Imperialism. orinocotribune.com By Yanis Iqbal &#1 ; Jul 16, 2022 | 1.- During the Middle Ages and early modern period, the West occupied a marginal position in the world-system. In the Middle East, China, Japan and India, productive forces were equally or more developed. The emergence of capitalism in Europe was driven by intensifying class antagonisms between the feudal ruling classes and peasants and artisans, which resulted in the victory of the latter. Similar conflicts in China, Japan, India and the Middle East could not create a bourgeois rupture due to the entrenched power of landed elites and state bureaucracies, which discouraged merc…

Labor Video Project (2022-07-19). UAW 2022 Convention Issues With Scott Houldieson UAW 551 Convention Delegate. indybay.org UAW 551 convention delegate Scott Houldieson talks about the issues facing the UAW Constitutional convention. For the first time there will be a direct election of the international officers. He discusses two tier contracts, labor management partnerships and also the refusal of the UAW International to invite Mexican GM workers to the convention. Most of the former UAW International officials have been charged with corruption and taking money from the auto companies through their joint company union projects in return for two tier and concession contracts.

WSWS (2022-07-19). IAM calls for contract rejection after anger erupts over Boeing offer. wsws.org The IAM has called for the rejection of a contract offer by aircraft maker Boeing to workers at its St. Louis military aircraft operation that provided for a 5 percent raise, far below the current 9.1 percent annual rate.

WorkWeek (2022-07-19). 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…

Edited by Michael Harris (2022-07-19). 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.

WSWS (2022-07-19). "Our brothers and sisters are being worked to death": UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman backs Ventra Evart workers' fight against sweatshop conditions. wsws.org Will Lehman denounced the UAW bureaucracy for blocking a strike and helping Ventra management stockpile parts even as COVID-19 spreads through the plant and workers are hospitalized for heat exhaustion.

WSWS (2022-07-19). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Argentina's Health Professionals Association held a 72-hour strike starting July 12 over pay and working conditions while tow truck drivers and motorists staged a protest in Santiago over high fuel prices.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-07-19). 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…

Schools & Labor Against Privatization (2022-07-19). Connecting Dots: Privatization of Community Colleges & Public Services With Non-profits. indybay.org The Schools and Labor Against Privatization SLAP had a day long educational conference on the privatization of education, the Port of Oakland and public services with non-profits. | This was part 2 of the meeting.

Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area (2022-07-19). Wednesday 7/20: Labor History Online Discussion Group – Regaining Labor's Mojo. indybay.org Zoom (Register: bit.ly/FSFD-Labor)…

Staff (2022-07-19). Cuadrando la Caja: Evasión fiscal, causas y consecuencias (+ Video). cubadebate.cu El 17 de julio conversamos sobre la evasión fiscal en Cuba. | øCuáles son las principales causas de la evasión fiscal en nuestro país? øA quiénes afecta? øQué acciones podemos realizar desde el socialismo para evitar este delito?

WSWS (2022-07-19). Dockworker crushed to death by straddle carrier in Newark, New Jersey. wsws.org Uriel Matamoros was killed in the first hours of July 13 when his straddle carrier turned over.

LaborFest (2022-07-19). 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

WSWS (2022-07-19). Europe's "apocalypse of heat" highlights capitalism's climate crisis. wsws.org Thousands are dying, vast swaths of land are burning, and harvests are being destroyed as global warming makes heat waves and droughts ever more frequent and severe.

Caoimhghin àì Croidheáin (2022-07-19). Against Romanticism: From Enlightenment to Enfrightenment and the Culture of Slavery: Caoimhghin àì Croidheáin. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2022-07-19). CFPE members interviewed over Australian Education Union's wage-cutting industrial agreement. wsws.org EducationHQ and 3CR Radio recently spoke with members of the Committee for Public Education, Sue Phillips and Patrick O'Connor, who spoke about the AEU's sell-out deal and its disastrous implications for teachers.

Ramon du Houx (2022-07-19). 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.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-18). Breaking the Map with the Machete's Edge: The Internationalism of the Landless. libya360.wordpress.com Joà£o Pedro Stedile Landless, but with a lot of history, the peasants of Brazil's MST have been practicing internationalism as a principle since 1984. As in their own flag, the machete overflows the borders and traces the itinerary of new possible maps. For the Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil (MST), the dialectic between nationalism…

Anonymous103 (2022-07-18). UPDATED: Overview Of Russian Missile Strikes In Odessa Region On July 16 &#1 ; July 19. southfront.org In recent days, the number of Russian missile attacks in the Ukrainian region of Odessa increased. At night on July…

Anonymous103 (2022-07-18). Military And Political Victims Reveal Secrets Of Russian Strike In Vinnytsia. southfront.org On July 13th, Russian missiles hit the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia. The Russian Ministry of Defence reported that "at the time of the strike, a meeting of the command of the Ukrainian a…

Anonymous103 (2022-07-18). Military Situation In Ukraine On July 18, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org Up to 2 foreign mercenaries killed as a result of the Russian missile strike in Konstantinovka, according to the Russian MoD; | Russian missiles hit the area of the Udachnoye railway station in the DPR, destroying echelons with military equipment; | 2 Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopters were destroyed and two others were damaged by Russian artillery fire near Noviy Donbass, DPR; | Up to 60 servicemen killed as a result of the Russian missile strike on the AFU 118th brigade of terri…

Anonymous103 (2022-07-18). Ukrainian Military Hit Hydropower Plant In Novaya Kakhovka In Kherson Region. southfront.org On July 18, the Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled again the town of Kakhovka in the Kherson region which is under control of the Russian military. As a result of the attack, the gas pipeline in the area of the local hydropower plant was damaged. | According to local reports, infrastructure facilities of the plant were not affected by the strike. The energy supply of the area was not interrupted. | The town of Raiskoe in the Kherson region was also hit by Ukrainian forces. | As a result o…

Dave DeCamp (2022-07-18). Russia Orders Troops to Target Ukraine's Western-Provided Long-Range Weapons. news.antiwar.com On Monday, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu "Army General Sergey Shoigu … instructed the commander to use surgical strikes and crush the enemy's long-range missile and artillery means," the Russian Defense Ministry said, Last week, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrain…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-18). Ukrainian Plane Crash Reveals US Deals of US-Sanctioned Serbian Arms Dealer. libya360.wordpress.com Dilyana Gaytandzhieva "White", according to the Greek authorities, can be seen at the site where the Ukrainian An-12 crashed on Saturday loaded with 11.5 tons of Serbian weapons en-route to Bangladesh with two scheduled technical landings in Amman (Jordan) and Riyadh (Saudi Arabia). Photo: AP The Serbian arms company Valir DOO which exported weapons on…

A Guest Author (2022-07-18). NATO exploits Picasso's anti-war 'Guernica'. workers.org By Renán Vega Cantor This article from El Colectivo, July 7, edited by María Piedad Ossaba of lapluma.net and translated by John Catalinotto, refers to events at the June 28-30 NATO Summit in Spain. The photo is outrageous, although at first glance it appears harmless: A group of women are . . . |

_____ (2022-07-18). Political 'Lame Ducks' are Fleeing the European Union. journal-neo.org The West, in its intention to hurt Russia with sanctions, has shot itself in the foot, many media outlets have been writing for a while now. The result is high inflation, energy and food shortages, recession, and many political and social problems that Europeans don't know how to deal with. The IMF itself admits that …

____ (2022-07-18). Hundreds of Millions of Human Workers Treated Worse than Robots. transcend.org 14 Jul 2022 – While big private business pours billions of dollars in producing automatic machines, barely no money has been invested in the human workers who are left unprotected, treated like cheap robots, or even worse.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-18). Staged Incidents as the Western Approach to Doing Politics. libya360.wordpress.com Sergey Lavrov The staged incidents, no matter how long they go on, will not work. It is time for fair play based on the international law rather than cheating. The sooner everyone realises that there are no alternatives to objective historical processes where a multipolar world is formed based on respect for the principle of…

Staff (2022-07-18). Anthony Blair: Estamos llegando al final del dominio político y económico de Occidente. cubadebate.cu El expremier de Gran Bretaña, el laborista Tony Blair, advirtió que el mundo está "llegando al final del dominio político y económico de Occidente", que se encuentra en camino hacia la multipolaridad y que que China "ya es la segunda superpotencia del mundo".

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-18). Imran Khan Rewrites Pakistan's Political History. libya360.wordpress.com MK Bhadrakumar Pakistan's ousted president Imran Khan trounces his opponents by a wide margin in their own stronghold of Punjab. Against the odds and powerful rivals pitted against him, former PM Khan's win in Punjab elections is a victory for democracy and Pakistan's sovereignty It is an unsavoury proposition always, be it in India or Pakistan,…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-18). The Assassination of Shinzo Abe and Japan's Military Expansion. libya360.wordpress.com Gary Wilson Shinzo Abe promoted the racist, ultra-nationalist organization Zaitokukai. Above, Zaitokukai members wave imperialist "rising sun" flags (a red ball with 16 red rays) during a rally in Tokyo. This is similar to waving Confederate battle flags in the U.S. The placard says 'Koreans should be massacred.' The assassination of Shinzo Abe, the former…

_____ (2022-07-18). America Is Breaking The Bargain It Made For Labor Peace. popularresistance.org The American labor movement finds itself in a "good news, bad news" situation‚Äâ—‚Äâwhich is better than the standard "bad news, bad news" situation, but just as perilous. This week, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced that in the past nine months, petitions that workers have filed to unionize with the agency have risen by 56% over the previous year. This is a clear and tangible sign of what public opinion polls have already told us: In the aftermath of the pandemic, with a union-friendly president in the White House, workers are more enthusiastic to form un…

_____ (2022-07-18). Biden Announces Emergency Board, Blocking Nationwide Railroad Strike. popularresistance.org The announcement of the PEB, a form of federal mediation, blocks a potential strike by over 100,000 railroaders, which could have legally taken place as early as 12: 01 AM on July 18, at the expiration of a 30-day "cooling off" period. Last week, railroaders in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen voted by 99.5 percent to authorize strike action. | Workers have been without a contract for nearly three years, and conditions in the railroads are atrocious. Tens of thousands of workers have resigned in recent years, particularly due to the punishing work schedule, in which 70+ hours a week are not unc…

_____ (2022-07-18). How Universities Are Taught To Union-Bust: An Undercover Report. popularresistance.org Support for unionization is at an all-time high, with 68% of all Americans and 77% of those ages 18-34 in favor of unions, according to a Gallup poll. While most recent NLRB filings are from Starbucks workers, higher education unions are on the rise as well. Since the NLRB withdrew a proposed rule that would restrict graduate student workers at private universities from unionizing in 2021, there has been an explosion of new activity among that sector, as well as among adjunct faculty. Among undergraduates, the Union of Grinnell Student Dining Workers won an election earlier this year to expand their bargaining un…

_____ (2022-07-18). Mossad False Flag On The Way — Another 9/11? popularresistance.org Wednesday's report by corporate media outlet Yahoo News, outlining alleged plans by Iran to assassinate senior US officials, including former President Donald Trump, in retaliation for the January 2020 drone strike killing of Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp's elite Quds Force unit, should come as little surprise to onlookers. | Indeed, following the assassination of the Iranian General, the Islamic Republic responded by firing a barrage of ballistic missiles at the US Ain al-Asad airbase in neighbouring Iraq, leaving 110 US servicemen with 'traumatic brain injuries' according to…

Princess Harmony (2022-07-18). Safe consumption sites: End the war on people who use drugs! workers.org New York City 2020. In the shadow of the COVID-19 epidemic are two others: the opioid and overdose epidemics. Since the start of epidemics, there have been thousands of deaths from overdoses, even when the people who OD don't even know they've consumed opioids. What is the difference between the . . . |

Martha Grevatt (2022-07-18). Tamir Rice remembered, struggle continues. workers.org Cleveland Tamir Rice would have been 20 years old June 25. But on November 22, 2014, the 12-year-old was murdered by racist Cleveland police. His mother, Samaria Rice, has spent the past eight years fighting for justice for Tamir and finding ways to keep his memory alive. Tasheona, Tajai and . . . |

Editor (2022-07-18). Purchasing power of workers' wages take biggest tumble in 40 years. mronline.org 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.

Liberation Staff (2022-07-18). Left Unity slate wins big in California primary elections. liberationnews.org Hundreds of thousands vote for Left Unity slate, socialist candidates in California. The final results of California's June 7 primary election show Left Unity Slate and socialist candidates receiving hundreds of thousands of votes.

Prabhat Patnaik (2022-07-18). Scandinavia and imperialism. mronline.org There are many misconceptions about Scandinavian capitalism. A very common one is the belief that since the Scandinavian countries developed vigorous capitalist economies, without ever having acquired any colonies of their own, they constitute a clear refutation of the claim that capitalist development necessarily requires imperialism.

Fight Back (2022-07-18). Collective statement: Biden in occupied Palestine and the 'Jerusalem Declaration'. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement on Biden in Palestine and the Jerusalem Declaration, signed by 80 organizations, including Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). | 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 the sea. This strategic partnership of violence, warmongering, repression…

Marie Kelly (2022-07-18). Reproductive rights vs. rightwing Federalist Society. workers.org Protesters gathered outside the Mellon Bank building in Center City Philadelphia July 13 to denounce the Federalist Society meeting there. Society members include the ultraconservative members of the U.S. Supreme Court, many Republican members of Congress and Amy Wax, a University of Pennsylvania law professor who spouts white-supremacist rhetoric. Philadelphia, . . . |

Dean Baker (2022-07-18). Structuring the Economy to Give Money to the Rich Is Inflationary. cepr.net Today's inflation should show us very directly how attacking the policies that redistribute so much income upward would help the working class.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-07-18). Turkish attack inside Iraqi Kurdistan kills five civilians, injures two. peoplesdispatch.org Scores of Iraqis have been killed since Turkish forces launched their so-called Operation Claw Lock in Iraqi Kurdistan in April, allegedly to fight the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK)…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-07-18). Nepalese student union launches hunger strike at Tribhuvan University to demand educational reform. peoplesdispatch.org The students, who began their hunger strike on July 12, have demanded reforms from the University administration regarding policy, infrastructure, management, courses and more…

WSWS (2022-07-18). South Korean Hyundai workers to vote on wage agreement. wsws.org The latest deal is part of ongoing efforts by the unions to suppress class struggle in South Korea.

WSWS (2022-07-18). Demands to escalate war against Russia as Tories back their own confidence motion. wsws.org On Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was able to move a confidence motion in his own government because of Labour's refusal to move its own no-confidence vote.

Reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2022-07-18). Ecuador: Revista àëawpa. indybay.org Ecuador: Revista àëawpa | Espacio de reflexión plurinacional, intercultural y socialista…

WSWS (2022-07-18). Documents show Australian Labor government does not oppose Assange's extradition to the US. wsws.org The Labor government documents accept Assange's extradition to the US and his prosecution in a kangaroo court, as a fait accompli.

W. T. Whitney Jr. (2022-07-18). Prisoner Simón Trinidad is a victim of deadly U.S.-Colombia alliance. peoplesworld.org Simón Trinidad's 72nd birthday is July 30. Don't think about sending him a card. U.S. prison authorities have blocked his mail since 2004. He is lodged in a maximum-security federal prison in Colorado. Extradited from Colombia, he remained in solitary confinement until 2018. As a leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Trinidad …

Colin Todhunter (2022-07-18). øDe qué se trataba realmente el coronavirus? Desencadenar una crisis de deuda global ø"Acelerar una estrategia imperialista"? globalizacion.ca "Y así se vuelve cada vez más evidente el gran hecho central de que la causa de la condición miserable de la clase obrera debe buscarse, no en estos agravios menores, sino en el sistema capitalista mismo". Friedrich Engels ,…

WSWS (2022-07-18). Surging prices push US workers to the brink. wsws.org The rise of inflation is being used as deliberate policy by the ruling class to further impoverish workers, who are being made to pay the cost of the criminal and incompetent response by capitalist governments to the pandemic.

WSWS (2022-07-18). "We should be getting paid enough to live": Ford workers throughout the Midwest support Will Lehman for UAW president. wsws.org At the massive Ford Rouge complex in Dearborn Michigan, one worker said, "The union hasn't done anything for us. Why not put rank-and-file workers in power."

Staff (2022-07-18). Casi la mitad del territorio de la Unión Europea en "riesgo de sequía" cubadebate.cu Varios países de Europa occidental, entre ellos Francia y España, continuaron la lucha contra devastadores incendios forestales, desencadenados por una ola de calor que podría batir récords de temperatura en los próximos días.

TeleSUR, hvh, JCM (2022-07-18). Presidentes de Rusia, Tàºrkiye e Irán discutirán sobre situación en Siria. telesurtv.net El encuentro de integra el conjunto de negociaciones del proceso de paz de Astaná iniciado en el año 2017.

Hadas Thier (2022-07-18). The Federal Reserve Thinks the Answer to Inflation Is Imposing Class War. commondreams.org The conventional medicine for fighting inflation is to make workers pay. And that is what the Federal Reserve, with Joe Biden's approval, is planning to do.

____ (2022-07-18). 1980s US Central America Wars. transcend.org Updated January 2022 – Less than a decade after U.S. troops were withdrawn from Vietnam, the United States became deeply involved in Central America. The catalyst was a popularly supported leftist revolution in Nicaragua led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN).

WSWS (2022-07-18). 15,000 Minnesota nurses still working without contract as union continues to block strike. wsws.org It has been over a month since 12, 0 Minneapolis-St. Paul nurses' contracts expired on May 31, and over two weeks since 2, 0 nurses in Duluth, Hastings and other Minnesota cities saw their contracts expire on June 30.

WSWS (2022-07-18). UFCW claims passage of Indianapolis Kroger contract, deletes local's Facebook page in response to opposition. wsws.org One day after the contract vote totals were released by the UFCW, the union took down its Facebook page after workers flooded the page with comments in opposition to the sellout contract and accused the union of manipulating the vote.

WSWS (2022-07-18). Oppose union-sanctioned monitoring and speedups at Australia Post! wsws.org The Sustainable Delivery Model is a revised attempt to restructure Australia Post after the Alternative Delivery Model failed to deliver on the demands of management and the federal government.

WSWS (2022-07-18). Following appeal by unions, Biden announces Emergency Board, blocking nationwide railroad strike. wsws.org While the unions are attempting to present the Presidential Emergency Board as a "neutral arbiter," There is no question that the intervention will lead to a settlement which is favorable to the railroads.

Michael Arney (2022-07-18). Working Families Party in N.Y. Assembly races: By the numbers. peoplesworld.org This is the second part of an analysis of the June 28 New York State primaries. Read part 1 here. NEW YORK—The greatest two victories for the Working Families Party in the June 28 primaries were in Assembly Districts 92 and 103 in which progressive challengers defeated incumbents. In the Hudson Valley, the Democratic Socialists …

____ (2022-07-18). The B61-12 Mini-Nukes "Made in America" Coming Soon to Italy, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands. transcend.org 15 Jul 2022 – To Be Used in "a Nuclear First Strike" – 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.

____ (2022-07-18). Frantz Fanon (20 Jul 1925 — 6 Dec 1961). transcend.org Born on the island of Martinique under French colonial rule, Frantz Omar Fanon was one of the most important writers in black Atlantic theory in an age of anti-colonial liberation struggle. His work drew on a wide array of poetry, psychology, philosophy, and political theory, and its influence across the global South has been wide, deep, and enduring.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-07-18). Sanders, Jayapal slam Manchin's 'sabotage' of progressive agenda. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., have finally had it with West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin's "sabotage"—Sanders' word—of the party's progressive agenda on Capitol Hill. And that sabotage, Sanders implied, could cost Democratic President Joe Biden and his allies, including workers, control—however tenuous—of Congress this fall. The two spoke out after …

TeleSUR, DRL (2022-07-18). Ministros iberoamericanos abordan el financiamiento climático. telesurtv.net República Dominicana es la sede para discutir sobre cómo llegar a un modelo de economía basada en la naturaleza.

SLAP (2022-07-18). 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…

A Guest Author (2022-07-18). U.S. Supreme Court attacks tribal sovereignty — again. workers.org By Will H., K. James and W. James On June 29, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) continued its centuries-long assault on Native Americans in its decision in the case of Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta. Sasafane (Euchee) protests the U.S. Supreme Court ruling against Native sovereignty in the Castro-Huerta . . . |

Rqorinoco (2022-07-18). One Year After July 11, 2021. orinocotribune.com By Ike Nahem — Jul 11, 2022 | "The heroism of normality in Cuba does not generate headlines." | -Cuban revolutionary journalist Rosa Miriam Elizalde | July 11, 2021 in Cuba quickly went from legitimate, valid, peaceful street protests to violent provocations and destructive acts directed by US clients in Cuba. Thousands of people in many cities, towns, and working-class neighborhoods took to the streets in response to harsh, deteriorating conditions — the worst of the Covid Delta infections, hospitalizations, and deaths on the island before the application of the Cuban-vaccines; the electricity blacko…

____ (2022-07-18). The Nitrogen Problem in Agriculture. transcend.org 7 Jul 2022 – Reduce the use of chemical fertilisers, make the chemical industry pay for pollution instead of criminalising farmers who were trapped by the chemical treadmill through industrial agriculture.

WSWS (2022-07-18). Bus drivers face 40+ degrees cabin heat: "We are so undervalued. We're treated worse than cattle" wsws.org Millions of key workers in Britain have been forced into dangerously overheated workplaces, in defiance of all public health warnings.

Colin Todhunter (2022-07-18). øDe qué se trata realmente el coronavirus? Desencadenar una crisis de deuda global ø"Acelerar una estrategia imperialista"? globalizacion.ca "Y así se vuelve cada vez más evidente el gran hecho central de que la causa de la condición miserable de la clase obrera debe buscarse, no en estos agravios menores, sino en el sistema capitalista mismo". Friedrich Engels ,…

Staff (2022-07-18). Persian Gulf security needs no foreign powers: IRGC navy. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 18 (MNA) — The Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri said Monday that the regional countries have the capabilities to maintain Persian Gulf region's security.

WSWS (2022-07-18). Third strike of dock workers at major German seaports. wsws.org On Thursday thousands of dock workers at Germany's major seaports in Hamburg, Emden, Bremerhaven, Bremen, Brake and Wilhelmshaven once again went on strike. It is the third and, at 48 hours, the longest warning strike in the current round of collective bargaining.

WSWS (2022-07-18). Australia: Union tells Queensland teachers to vote for government deal without seeing it. wsws.org The "offer" means keeping wages well below the soaring cost of living, and putting off any possible answer to the acute staffing, workloads and funding crisis until a promised review report in 2024.

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