(2022-09-13). South Africa: Brics Urged to Work Collectively in Global Food, Fuel Crisis. infobrics.org The Speaker of the National Assembly, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, has emphasised the need for a collective solution from the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) bloc to mitigate the global food, fuel and financial crisis…
(2022-09-13). Socialism 2022 Conference: The pseudo-left promote imperialist war. wsws.org The primary aim of the Socialism 2022 Conference was to promote the US-NATO war against Russia, in line with the policy of the Biden administration, while seeking to bolster the trade unions as instruments for the suppression of the class struggle.
(2022-09-13). Socialism 2022 Conference: The pseudo-left promotes imperialist war. wsws.org The primary aim of the Socialism 2022 Conference was to promote the US-NATO war against Russia, in line with the policy of the Biden administration, while seeking to bolster the trade unions as instruments for the suppression of the class struggle.
(2022-09-13). Sri Lanka: Stop the repression of anti-government protesters! Release all political prisoners! wsws.org President Wickremesinghe is stepping up the arrest of anti-government protesters in preparation for state repression against the working class.
(2022-09-13). Spanish Morenoites back Podemos government's moves to suppress struggles against inflation. wsws.org The CRT is terrified of growing working class struggles against massive price hikes being used to pass costs of the US-NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine onto workers.
(2022-09-13). BRICS Ties Seen As Key to Global Recovery. infobrics.org China is willing to continuously enhance practical cooperation with other four BRICS countriesÔºçBrazil, Russia, India, and South AfricaÔºçto jointly benefit from the New Industrial Revolution…
(2022-09-13). 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…
(2022-09-13). 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.
(2022-09-13). Attack on Carnegie Mellon professor over criticism of British imperialism. wsws.org After Nigerian-born Uju Anya tweeted her hatred of British imperialism in response to the dying of Queen Elizabeth, she was denounced by billionaire Jeff Bezos and censored by Twitter.
(2022-09-13). Minnesota Nurses support call for open-ended strike: "I don't think they're going to budge until we do it" wsws.org 15,000 nurses began a strike in Minnesota yesterday against inadequate staffing , overwhelming workloads, shrinking pay amid inflation and ongoing safety issues.
(2022-09-13). Minnesota Nurses support call for open-ended strike: "I don't think they're going to budge until we do it." wsws.org 15,000 nurses began a strike in Minnesota yesterday against inadequate staffing levels, overwhelming workloads, shrinking pay exacerbated by inflation, and ongoing safety issues confronting nurses and their patients.
(2022-09-13). Seattle educators: Expand the strike to join workers across the US! For adequate staffing, support staff and pay! wsws.org Seattle educators are in a powerful position to carry forward their struggle, expand and concretize their demands, and draw behind them the active support of broad sections of the working class.
(2022-09-13). 15,000 Minnesota nurses launch historic strike to put 'patients before profits'Ôøº. nationofchange.org "We feel like this is the only thing we can do," said one nurse. "Hospitals tell us it's our fault, but we've been actively involved and getting nowhere."
(2022-09-13). The Jackson Water System Has Been Failing For Decades Due To Racism. popularresistance.org Residents of West Jackson are in the midst of a severe water crisis due to the failure of a water treatment facility and don't know when they will have clean water in their homes again. The state is failing to get water to everyone, so many local groups are organizing mutual aid efforts. The governor refuses to access federal funds to fully repair the city's water infrastructure, which has been failing for decades. Clearing the FOG speaks with Kali Akuno, a co-founder of Cooperation Jackson, about the current crisis, including how the wealthy residents were spared, how it fits into the bigger picture of systemic…
(2022-09-13). Australia: Chris O'Brien Lifehouse nurse endorses "Open Letter" call to reject management enterprise offer. wsws.org "There's huge anger and disappointment about the offer and the union's stance. The nurses I've spoken to have said that they are voting no" — Jayne…
(2022-09-13). UAW ends three-day "Hollywood strike" at Stellantis Kokomo casting plant. wsws.org The brief strike was a stage-managed affair by the UAW apparatus, which was designed to have little or no impact on the corporation…
(2022-09-13). UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman launches new campaign website: "Put rank-and-file workers in power!" wsws.org Collected on the new site are a wide range of statements that Lehman has issued since launching his campaign in June which elaborate his program and perspective.
(2022-09-13). DHL strikers pepper sprayed, arrested on picket line in Rhode Island. wsws.org A DHL worker described one of the five arrests on the Pawtucket picket line to a local TV channel: "She got pushed to the ground, knee to her face, head on her back, another person was literally pepper sprayed in the face. I was in the mix, I got pulled out, it was horrible."
(2022-09-13). Saturday 9/10: Stop the Violence — Solidarity Now! Forum 1. indybay.org Pacific Renaissance Plaza | 388 Ninth Street, Suite 290 | Oakland, California 94607…
(2022-09-13). Millionaires' Congress threatens to intervene against potential US railroad strike. wsws.org While not unexpected, Hoyer's remarks are a significant escalation of the state's efforts to impose a pro-company contract on railroaders, who are determined to strike as early as Friday morning.
(2022-09-13). Chile's 9/11 & The Rise Of US Fascism. indybay.org Labor Historian & Professor Ruth Needleman talks about the lessons of Chile's coup in relation to the growing fascist movement in the US.
(2022-09-13). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Tradesmen at Seaspan shipyard operations in North Vancouver and Victoria have stopped work in support of Seaspan tugboat captains and engineers, who have been without a contract since 2019.
(2022-09-13). WW CNA Kaiser Nurses/Patients In Danger. PG&E Newsom Leg Corruption & UPS Oven In Trucks. indybay.org WorkWeek covers CNA Kaiser Nurses & Patients In Danger & PG&E Newsom Legislature Corruption & UPS "Oven In The Trucks" IBT Workers Heat & Labor Poet Tongo Issac-Martin…
(2022-09-13). Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee public meeting: Organize to prepare for a national strike! wsws.org The Committee is holding this meeting at 7pm Eastern to serve as a democratic forum for railroaders to discuss their independent strategy and prepare in advance of Friday night's strike deadline.
(2022-09-13). Amid corruption charges and cabinet resignations, President Pedro Castillo's government on the brink in Peru. wsws.org Castillo survived his first year as president because his left-populist guise as a rural teacher and union leader was of use to the ruling class in containing an emerging movement of the working class.
(2022-09-13). New Zealand government ends COVID mask mandates. wsws.org New Zealand's Labour Party-led government has embraced the demands of the far-right, anti-vax protesters, removing almost all mask mandates, all vaccine mandates, and promoting the lie that the pandemic is over.
(2022-09-13). CWA Officials Censored Report Criticising Microsoft's Military Contracts. indybay.org CWA Officials Doing Damage Control For US Imperialism | The Communications Union Of America national leadership prevented their international affiliate UNI Global Union from publishing a document exposing the role of Microsoft in supporting US-military and intelligence agencies…
(2022-09-13). Apple workers organise to fight for a fair enterprise agreement. greenleft.org.au Retail workers at Apple stores across the country have applied to the Fair Work Commission to take industrial action for a fair enterprise agreement. Isaac Nellist reports.
(2022-09-13). Saturday 9/17: How the end of Roe created 2 Americas-Fault Lines Documentary. indybay.org 2444 Durant Ave | Berkeley…
(2022-09-13). Cuadrando la caja: øOtra empresa estatal socialista es posible? (II) (+Video). cubadebate.cu Este domingo 11 de septiembre conversamos sobre la empresa estatal socialista en Cuba… øHan condicionado las decisiones tomadas hasta ahora, una mejor gestión y un incremento de la eficiencia y la productividad? øQué frena las transformaciones necesarias: preparación de los directivos, tradición verticalista, falta de liderazgo?
(2022-09-13). Reconocen labor de Venezuela en campaña de vacunación. telesurtv.net Durante los próximos meses la campaña de vacunación asegurará una cobertura del 95 por ciento en niños de Venezuela.
(2022-09-12). Ukraine's Offensives: Tactical Victories Can Contribute to Strategic Defeat. libya360.wordpress.com Update for Russian military operations in Ukraine for September 12, 2022  ; Ukraine has committed what is left of its best troops and equipment to multiple and expensive offensives  ; both around Kherson and in Kharkov, and rumors of offensives being prepared elsewhere;  ; The Kherson offensive has failed, costing Ukraine multiple brigades' worth of…
(2022-09-12). Russian Regrouping in Kharkov Will Speed Up Battle of Donbass. libya360.wordpress.com M. K. BHADRAKUMAR The New York Times has disclosed that the US shared vital intelligence with the Ukrainian military and took part in the preparation of the latter's current "counteroffensive" near Kharkov. No matter the Biden Administration's motivations in publicising its role in what western media is celebrating as a success story — presumably, with…
(2022-09-12). Urgent: Witch Hunt by Neo-Nazis in Kharkov, Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Borotba Borotba banner at a rally outside the Kharkov Regional Administration building in May 2014. Photo: Svetlana Licht. Borotba (Struggle) is a revolutionary Marxist organization based in Ukraine and the Donbass people's republics. It has been outlawed by the Kiev regime since the U.S.-backed coup in 2014. Sept. 10 — Very disturbing news comes from…
(2022-09-12). Russia Retaliates For Ukrainian Strikes On Electricity Networks. popularresistance.org A typical U.S. attack on a foreign country begins with a swarm of cruise missiles which will disable the countries basic infrastructure. The U.S. attack on Iraq and other countries demonstrated that electricity and water supply will be gone in first days of a U.S. waged war. | Over more than 200 days the Russian special military operation in Ukraine had never attacked the basic infrastructure of the country. When the Ukraine used its electrified railway network to bring in weapons from the 'west' the Russian forces only took out electric substations that supplied the railway. But it never attacked the general ele…
(2022-09-12). Ukraine's Counteroffensive is a Propaganda "Victory" libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea The propaganda campaign that the imperialists are carrying out around Ukraine is a way of covering up how decrepit and discredited imperialism has truly become. When the imperialists portray Ukraine's recent counteroffensive as a crushing blow against Washington's challengers, they aren't just leaving out how the territories Ukraine took back were of little…
(2022-09-12). Ukraine: About Scythian Tactics. libya360.wordpress.com Dmitry Vinnik In our case, it is important to answer the question whether the logic of the special military operation has exhausted itself and we should move on to the logic of war Our army withdrew from most of the Kharkov region, leaving only a part to the east of the Oskol River. We even…
(2022-09-12). Ukraine: The CIA's 75-Year-Old Proxy. libya360.wordpress.com Gerald Sussman Friedrichstrasse, bisected by the Berlin Wall, in 1961. Operation Red Sox dropped 85 CIA agents into Soviet-controlled territory to gather intelligence about Moscow's plans. [Source: politico.com] Joe Biden "is fueling the fire in the Ukraine." — Roger Waters of Pink Floyd It takes a musical artist to cut through the morass of propaganda to…
(2022-09-12). Richard Wolff: Sanctions Against Russia, Inflation and Class War. scheerpost.com Economist Dr. Richard Wolff joins Lowkey where he exposes ways economic policy can be a code term used by the political establishment for class war. Wolff explains how the cost of enmity with Russia is being placed on the shoulders of the working class in the West, whom recently experienced one of the worst crashes of capitalism in its history.
(2022-09-12). Crimea: The Peninsula of Discord. libya360.wordpress.com Oleg Yasinsky (Image by Oleg Yasinsky) In the 1970s, long before perestroika, the Soviet dissident writer Vasily Aksyonov wrote the most famous of his novels, "The Crimean Island". It is a historical fiction, where Crimea was transformed from a peninsula to an island. In the Russian civil war of the early 20th century, the White…
(2022-09-12). Economist Richard Wolff: Sanctions Against Russia, Inflation & Class War. mintpressnews.com Economist Dr. Richard Wolff joins Lowkey where he exposes ways economic policy can be a code term used by the political establishment for class war. Wolff explains how the cost of enmity with Russia is being placed on the shoulders of the working class in the West, whom recently experienced one of the worst crashes of capitalism in its history.
(2022-09-12). 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.
(2022-09-12). Controversial Trump-era policy exacerbates U.S.-China tensions in academia. america.cgtn.com U.S.-China tensions may be bleeding into the academic sector, and specifically scientific collaboration, as Chinese American scientists feel the ugly legacy of the Trump-era China tensions.
(2022-09-12). Florida Democrat Charlie Crist taps Miami/Dade teachers' union head as running mate in gubernatorial election. wsws.org In naming Hernandez-Mats, Crist is boosting a union bureaucrat who carried out the demands of Biden, the NEA and the AFT that schools be reopened at the height of the Delta and Omicron surges of COVID-19.
(2022-09-12). AAR Report: Nationwide Rail Shutdown Could Cost $2 Billion Per Day. popularresistance.org According to the report, if negotiations between the remaining rail unions and the National Carrier Conference Committee (NCCC), which represents most Class I railroads and many smaller ones, remain unsettled by Friday, Sept. 16 at 12: 01 a.m., "Congress must act to prevent a service interruption that would immediately harm every economic sector served by rail." Failure to act, AAR says, could idle more than 7,000 trains daily and trigger retail product shortages, widespread manufacturing shutdowns, job losses and disruptions to hundreds of thousands of passenger rail customers. | Specifically, the report updates…
(2022-09-12). Billionaires Jay-Z And Jack Dorsey Airdrop $1000 Worth Of Bitcoin Each To Residents Of Marcy Projects. moguldom.com Billionaires Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter and Jack Dorsey have shared some of their wealth — their bitcoin wealth that is — with residents of Marcy Houses, the Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn-based public housing complex where Jay-Z grew up. The duo granted $1,000 in bitcoin to each adult Marcy resident who completed their Bitcoin Academy's inaugural cohort, a free …
(2022-09-12). The Widening Gap between Rich and Poor is Hastening the Transition to a Multipolar World. libya360.wordpress.com Veniamin Popov According to the charity Oxfam, which fights against poverty throughout the world, the ten wealthiest people in the world have seen their combined assets double in the last two years, from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion. In its briefing on inequality, Oxfam points out that "central banks pumped trillions of dollars into financial…
(2022-09-12). Following train collision which killed two, US railroad unions try to orchestrate surrender in advance of strike deadline. wsws.org Workers in all 12 unions overwhelmingly want to strike, and responded with fury on social media in response to more deals announced this weekend by smaller craft unions.
(2022-09-12). Australian retail lobby calls for working age to be lowered to 13. wsws.org Amid spiralling inflation and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the ruling class is intent on destroying the hard-won rights gained by workers over a whole historical period, including restrictions on child labour.
(2022-09-12). 15,000 Minnesota nurses begin statewide strike: Build rank-and-file committees to unite with health care workers in Wisconsin, Michigan, New York and California! wsws.org Health care workers everywhere want to end intolerable working conditions, the eating up of their meager paychecks by inflation, and the subordination of health care to corporate profit.
(2022-09-12). Sri Lankan farmers speak out over catastrophic conditions. wsws.org SEP members have been campaigning among farmers in northern parts of Sri Lanka as part of the party's struggle for the establishment of action committees and for a Democratic and Socialist Congress of Workers and Rural Masses.
(2022-09-12). Ten Years Ago, Chicago Teachers Gave Us All A Jolt Of Hope. popularresistance.org If you feel like your union needs a jump-start—whether you're a longtime shop steward or just started your first union job—this book is for you. | The impulse you have ("This union could be stronger and better, and I want to help change it") makes you part of a long tradition—what we at Labor Notes affectionately call the trouble-making wing of the labor movement. | One basic principle unites us troublemakers. We believe democracy, meaning broad member participation at every level of the union, is the heart of union power. | The Chicago Teachers Union's 2012 strike didn't just put the union on t…
(2022-09-12). Pakistan: Climate catastrophe caused by Global North. workers.org 
Following months of intense humidity and a catastrophic heat wave — temperatures reaching upwards of 124 F — Pakistan is once again bearing the brunt of the Global North-induced climate crisis. Members of Women's Democratic Front and Progressive Students Federation set up a solidarity, donation relief camp. Credit: Awami Workers . . . |
(2022-09-12). Joint Statement On Rail Embargo. popularresistance.org Move announced by the nation's largest railroads today to further abuse shippers and gridlock the supply chain in order to extort a contract settlement from rail unions | Late on Friday, September 9, the nation's largest railroads began warning major shippers that they are declaring an embargo on certain types of new shipments five days in advance of the end of the federally mandated cooling-off period at 12: 00 AM EDT September 16. They further advised that all rail shippers could be blocked from making any rail shipments well in advance of next Friday's deadline for a lockout or strike. This completely unnecessa…
(2022-09-12). Let's Stop Pretending America Is a Functioning Democracy. transcend.org 4 Sep 2022 – The U.S. posits itself as a champion of opportunity, freedom, human rights and civil liberties, even as half the country struggles at subsistence level, militarized police gun down and imprison the poor with impunity, and the primary business of the state is war. This collective self-delusion masks who we have become. Under inverted totalitarianism, there is no attempt, unlike fascism and state socialism, to address the needs of the poor.
(2022-09-12). "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.
(2022-09-12). 'The Haitian People Need a Socialist State,' Says Journalist Jean Waltès Bien-Aimé. orinocotribune.com 
By Tanya Wadhwa — Sep 8, 2022 | Tens of thousands of Haitians have been taking to the streets, demanding the resignation of Ariel Henry. To understand the situation on the ground, we spoke with Haitian journalist Jean Waltès Bien-Aimé | Since August 22, under the banner of "Rise Up for Another Independence," tens of thousands of Haitians have been repeatedly taking to the streets in different parts of the country, demanding the resignation of de-facto Prime Minister and acting President Ariel Henry. Protesters have criticized that during the past year of his governance, the economic, political, and social c…
(2022-09-12). Declassified Mossad Document Reveals Military Collaboration With Lebanese Christian Militias. orinocotribune.com The report establishes 1958 as the year when contact between Lebanese officials and the Israeli military establishment was first initiated | Almost a week before the 40th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, a document submitted to the Israeli High Court of Justice has revealed Israel's role in Lebanon's bloody conflicts, dating back to the 19 's. | The report establishes 1958 as the year when contact was first made between Lebanese Christian leaders and the Israeli military establishment. | Then-Lebanese President Camille Chamoun requested armed assistance from the Israeli army to counter the 1958 powe…
(2022-09-12). The Millionaire CEOs Trying To Crush Nurses. levernews.com In what is likely the largest nurses strike in American history, 15,000 Minnesota nurses today went on strike for better pay and benefits after working short-staffed through the pandemic. Hospital CEOs insist they can't afford the increases: "They left with wage demands at 29 percent to 30 percent, which we've told them repeatedly is unreasonable and is unaffordable," their chief negotiator
(2022-09-12). Monarchs Belong In The Dustbin Of History. popularresistance.org The fawning adulation of Queen Elizabeth in the United States, which fought a revolution to get rid of the monarchy, and in Great Britain, is in direct proportion to the fear gripping a discredited, incompetent and corrupt global ruling elite. | The global oligarchs are not sure the next generation of royal sock puppets — mediocrities that include a pedophile prince and his brother, a cranky and eccentric king who accepted suitcases and bags stuffed with $3.2 million in cash from the former prime minister of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, and who has millions stashed in offshore accounts…
(2022-09-12). Activists get reproductive justice, voter access on Michigan ballot. workers.org 
Michigan's progressive movement scored a victory, when the Michigan Supreme Court ruled Sept. 8 to allow two progressive initiatives to appear on the ballot in November. Detroit protest after the Supreme Court overturn of Roe v. Wade, June 24. The Reproductive Freedom for All proposal enshrines in the state constitution . . . |
(2022-09-12). The Big Myth About Inequality: It Just Happened! scheerpost.com 
By Dean Baker / Beat the Press/CEPR 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 …
(2022-09-12). After 37 days of hunger strike, Adal Musa secures his freedom in victory. samidoun.net 
On 12 September, after 37 days of hunger strike, Adal Musa has suspended his strike with another defeat for the colonial jailers. He will be released from administrative detention (Israeli imprisonment without charge or trial) on 6 November 2022, as confirmed by Muhja al-Quds. He joined his brother, Ahmad Musa, on a hunger strike (which …
(2022-09-12). PSL Editorial — Every worker should support the historic Minnesota nurses' strike. liberationnews.org 
15,000 nurses are on strike across 16 hospitals in Minnesota. Every worker has a stake in the success of their struggle.
(2022-09-12). My 70 years and the departed GDR. iacenter.org By Victor Grossman September 9, 2022 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 in still-occupied Austria, divided the U.S. Zone from the USSR Zone. Although very wet at this short sector, it was part of the long Iron Curtain. And I was swimming across it in what most [U.S.] Americans would consider a very wrong direction! Author Victor Grossman (left) greets Pete Seeger at…
(2022-09-12). US Labor Department Sues Texas Newspaper For Firing Reporter Who Complained About Bugs. thedissenter.org Killeen Daily Herald, a Texas newspaper, was sued by the US Labor Department for allegedly firing a reporter who complained about bugs…
(2022-09-12). 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…
(2022-09-12). Electoral Conflicts and Political Polarization: What Can Mediators Do? transcend.org In conflict, our options ultimately boil down to two: go it alone or face it together. We make these choices every day, as individuals and neighbors, as organizations, societies, and nations. With the development of mediation, dialogue facilitation, collaborative negotiation, consensus building, and similar skills, we are better able to face our problems together and collaboratively.
(2022-09-12). "We should be striking too": Former Allina nurse says small hospitals should join walkout. wsws.org A former nurse at Regina Medical Center in Hastings, Minnesota, reviews the issues confronting nurses and details how the Minnesota Nurses Association has divided different sections of health care workers.
(2022-09-12). Saturday 9/10: Housing: Commodity or Human Right? indybay.org
(2022-09-12). A turning point in American corrections. workers.org 
first posted September 9, 2021 The following lightly edited commentary by Mumia Abu-Jamal aired as part of the "50 Years of Resistance: Black August and Attica" live broadcast, hosted by the Prisoners Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party, Sept. 2, 2021. In my mind, Attica was a turning point in . . . |
(2022-09-12). Architects design a pro-union future at one Brooklyn firm. peoplesworld.org 
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PAI)—Add architects to the list of low-paid workers who've gone union—in the case of the 22 workers at Bernheimer Architecture of Brooklyn, N.Y., through card-check recognition on September 1. The move means they'll be part of the Machinists through their own from-the-ground-up union, Architectural Workers United. The principal of the firm, Andrew Bernheimer, …
(2022-09-12). "They're trying to ram the same thing down our throats": US Steel worker in Gary, Indiana, denounces USW-Cliffs sellout deal. wsws.org A US Steel worker speaks out against union-management collaboration to deepen exploitation of the working class and plans to push through a concessions contract.
(2022-09-12). UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman discusses socialism with libertarian worker (and other correspondence). wsws.org Every week, UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman, a socialist rank-and-file Mack Trucks worker from Macungie, Pennsylvania, receives letters from workers in the UAW and in other industries on his campaign to abolish the bureaucracy and give power to the workers on the shop floor.
(2022-09-12). Seattle educators speak out on the consequences of understaffing, inadequate support and low pay. wsws.org Several teachers at Seattle Public Schools spoke with the World Socialist Web Site about the key issues they are fighting to address in their ongoing strike, which began on September 7.
(2022-09-12). Global South countries strive for vaccine independence. workers.org 
A radical cooperative of 15 countries in the Global South is trying to create the next generation of messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines and drugs. They are integrating medical technology, skills and knowledge, manufacturing practices, intellectual property and training from their respective universities and pharmaceutical companies. The cooperative is an mRNA . . . |
(2022-09-12). Caterpillar workers voice support for Will Lehman's campaign for UAW president: "The main issue for me is equality" wsws.org In discussing Lehman's program, many workers voiced strong agreement with his call to end the wage and benefit tier system, bring temporary workers up to full pay, and restore COLA and pensions, among other demands.
(2022-09-12). Nevada nurses refuse to clock-in due to understaffing. wsws.org Former Henderson Hospital ICU nurse, Diana, spoke with the World Socialist Web Site and described the terrible working conditions at the hospital.
(2022-09-12). First city in Southeast Los Angeles to win rent stabilization and just cause ordinance. liberationnews.org 
On August 22, the Bell Gardens City Council voted unanimously in favor of the first Rent Control and Just Cause ordinance in Southeast Los Angeles. This victory comes after 2.5 years of tireless organizing by the largely working class immigrant women and families that make up the Union de Vecinas of Bell Gardens, backed by non-profit California Latinas for Reproductive Justice. The ordinance still requires one more final vote of approval, but once passed will set an incredible precedent in a region of LA County that has been historically neglected, marginalized and victim to corruption scandals.
(2022-09-12). Golpe en Bolivia: Luis Almagro perdió el control en la reunión de la OEA. globalizacion.ca El secretario general de la OEA es "un individuo desprestigiado, carente de cualquier capacidad de interlocución y entregado a las directrices de Estados Unidos". | El secretario general de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA), Luis Almagro, perdió los estribos después…
(2022-09-12). Former Los Angeles teacher speaks out as unions and district impose horrifying conditions at school sites. wsws.org "I'm suffering from all the things the union never fought for. All they do is collect dues and travel to conferences. That's not what the unions are supposed to do. We need real organizations, real leaders."
(2022-09-11). Joe Biden, the US Military-Industrial Complex, and Arms Supplies to Ukraine and Taiwan. journal-neo.org 
It is an open secret that money plays a decisive role in US presidential election campaigns  ; all those advertisements and consultancy and PR services have to be paid for. Moreover, as the Democrats' strategy has made clear, organizing street protests and media and other Information campaigns is an expensive business  ; and a lot …
(2022-09-11). Difficulties in Venezuela-Colombia Reintegration After Years of Hostility. orinocotribune.com Colombia and Venezuela are two historically linked nations and for centuries they even constituted the same territory, first as the Viceroyalty of New Granada during the Spanish Empire and then as Gran Colombia in the early years of the independence of the Americas from Spanish colonial rule. | However, political events in the late 20th century and so far in the 21st century, particularly the coming to power of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, have distanced the two nations to the extent that they broke diplomatic relations in 2019, despite sharing more than 2,200 kilometers of border. | This rupture, going on for a lon…
(2022-09-11). Iraqi Airstrikes Kill 11 ISIS Terrorists In Diyala & Al-Anbar (Videos). southfront.org 
Iraqi Air Force F-16s during a training sortie on July 18, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Chris Drzazgowski) | On September 10, F-16 fighter jets of the Iraqi Air Force (IQAF) attacked hideouts of ISIS cells in the eastern province of Diyala and the western province of al-Anbar. | In Diyala, two airstrikes destroyed a hideout of the terrorist group located on the bank of Lake Hamrin. Three terrorists were killed in the airstrike. | Later, a joint force of the Iraqi military and intelligence killed a fourth…