(2021-10-25). Israeli Warplanes Hit SAA, Hezbollah's Facilities In Syria's Al-Quneitra — Report. southfront.org 
Illustrative Image | Warplanes of the Israeli Air Force reportedly hit several targets in southern Syria in the early hours of October 25th. | Several facilities linked to the Hezbollah and the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) were reportedly targeted on the outskirts of the city of Al-Baath and the village of Al-Krum in the al-Quneitra governorate in southern Syria. | According to the London-based monitoring group The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the attack was carried out by an Israeli plane that fired two missiles. Some other sources claimed that the attack was carried out by Israeli helicopters that fire…
(2021-10-25). Sudan: Military coup feared as Hamdok and other civilian leaders detained. middleeasteye.net 
Sudan: Military coup feared as Hamdok and other civilian leaders detained | Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok tells Sudanese to defend the revolution peacefully as reports of a military coup emerge
| Mon, 10/25/2021 – 06: 00 | A protester against the prospect of military rule pictured in Khartoum just days before reports of a military coup emerged (Reuters) | Sudanese Prime Minister Abdall…
(2021-10-25). Sudan: Urgent appeal for international solidarity after military coup and campaign of arrests. greenleft.org.au The Sudanese Communist Party issued an urgent appeal for international solidarity after a military coup took place in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on October 25, reports Susan Price.
(2021-10-25). Evo Morales: Plurinational America Not Compatible With Imperialism. orinocotribune.com 
On Saturday, October 23, the former president of Bolivia and current president of the Movement towards Socialism (MAS) party, Evo Morales, in an exclusive interview for the international TV station teleSUR, discussed the role of indigenous movements to recover territories and fight against colonialism. | "The invasion of 1492 was under an alliance between the monarchy and the Catholic Church," said Morales. "Pope Francis apologized to the indigenous movement, but not the Europeans… From Bolivia, from South America, we are proclaiming plurinational states." | The former president reiterated that to refer to the…
(2021-10-25). AFL-CIO leadership tries to block affiliate's vote on endorsing BDS. zcomm.org AFL-CIO leadership cited a procedural rule to tell the San Francisco Labor Council it couldn't even debate a resolution on BDS…
(2021-10-25). Activistas exigen en EE.UU. liberación de diplomático Alex Saab. telesurtv.net En Miami, la agrupación Círculo Bolivariano "Negra Hipólita" convocó a la concentración en la Antorcha de la Amistad.
(2021-10-25). Philadelphia transit workers vote to strike by the end of the month. wsws.org The vote of over 5,000 Philadelphia transit workers to strike comes amid a far broader strike wave among the international working class as the pandemic has laid bare the class fault lines that exist in capitalist society.
(2021-10-25). Striking Kellogg workers describe the issues in their fight. wsws.org In the third week on strike, 1,400 Kellogg's cereal workers in the US are continuing their fight against the hated two-tier wage system and the inhuman 16-hour mandated work schedule. Kellogg workers have worked through the pandemic. Classified as 'essential workers,' they have risked their health for private profit.
(2021-10-25). Film and television workers expose oppressive conditions in entertainment industry. wsws.org Film and television workers denounced the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) for blocking a strike and pushing a contract that maintains low pay and exhausting and dangerous schedules.
(2021-10-25). Workers furious as voting at Dana auto parts proceeds under threats from unions. wsws.org In campaigning for the contract's passage, the strategy of the United Auto Workers and United Steelworkers has never been to convince workers but to threaten and discourage them.
(2021-10-25). Australia: 3,000 FedEx drivers hold 24-hour national strike. wsws.org After union-management "crisis talks" last Thursday workers were offered a deal they have rejected on multiple occasions.
(2021-10-25). What striking Deere workers are fighting: A profile of the global corporation. wsws.org The expansion and integration of Deere's operations around the world over the last 65 years has linked workers up in an international web of production, which, if successfully leveraged, would be a source of immense strength.
(2021-10-25). Historian Enrique Rivera says the history of capitalism needs a fresh narrative. peoplesworld.org 
International Publishers in New York has recently issued The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution by the young scholar Enrique S. Rivera. As a fellow student of Latin American history (a long time ago!) I read his book with awe at his scholarship and at the daring conclusions he draws. I …
(2021-10-25). 38 Years After a Triple Assassination, Grenada's Short-Lived Revolution Still Inspires. towardfreedom.org Almost four decades after the U.S. invasion of Grenada, the tiny Caribbean island's revolution is an example the colonized and silenced can stand up, organize and win.
(2021-10-25). Israel Designates 6 Palestinian Civil Society Organizations As "Terrorist" As It Expands Illegal Settlement Projects. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On October 19th, Israel's defense ministry issued a military order declaring six Palestinian civil society organizations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory to be "terrorist organizations." | The groups are Addameer, al-Haq, Defense for Children Palestine, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, Bisan Center for Research and Development, and the Union of Palestinian Women Committees. | The designation effectively outlaws the activities of these civil society groups. | It authorizes…
(2021-10-25). The State Of Turkish Air Defense As Of September 2021. southfront.org 
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(2021-10-25). IDF strike on AP tower during Gaza conflict was 'self-inflicted public relations terror attack,' former Israeli general says. rt.com 
An IDF airstrike, which demolished a building in Gaza that hosted the offices of the Associated Press news agency in May, was a mistake, according to a former Israeli general who led a probe into PR issues related to the conflict.
(2021-10-25). Leaflets Warning Of Cooperation With Hezbollah Dropped Over Syria's Al-Quneitra Following Israeli Airstrikes. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | Following the The text on the leaflets reads: 'As we have already warned earlier, the conrtinuation of your cooperation with Hezbollah and their presence in the south of Syria with your connivance — all this entails suffering and pain! | There are those among you who…
(2021-10-25). Kaiser's Outrageous Two-Tier Wage Proposal May Provoke a Massive Strike. zcomm.org "The two-tier system would be disastrous. It wouldn't just impact us and Kaiser. Kaiser is industry-leading."
(2021-10-25). Military Situation In Yemen On October 25, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | The Liaison and Coordination Officers' Operations Room (loyal to Ansar Allah) reported 252 ceasefire violations in al-Hudaydah during the past 24 hours | On October 24, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 25 airstrikes on the Jubah district | On October 24, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 3 airstrikes on the Sarwah district | On October 23, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 2 airstrikes on the Majazah area | On October 25, clashes between Ansar Allah and…
(2021-10-25). German billionaires' wealth hits new heights in the pandemic. wsws.org The total wealth of the 100 richest Germans included in the latest rich list by Manager Magazin increased from 606 billion euros in 2020 to a projected 722 billion in 2021—a more than 19 percent rise.
(2021-10-25). Xi calls for putting people front and center. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping Monday called on countries around the world to put their people front and center, and strive to realize development with a higher level of quality, efficiency, equity, sustainability and security.
(2021-10-24). Europe Should Avoid Being Drawn Into The US' Cold War On China. popularresistance.org The US administration is attempting to draw Europe into its cold war policy against China, which so far the European Union, in particular, has refused to participate in. This makes the region a key focal point in world politics today. | This threatening U.S agenda, which is completely against the interests of the people of Europe, China and the US, is unfortunately and persistently being advanced by the US administration. But significant opposition to this dangerous cold war approach is also growing across the world, including in Europe. | The opposing interest of the US proponents of the new Cold War and interes…
(2021-10-24). Environmental And Labor Groups Urge Canada To Support Just Transition. popularresistance.org Canada has not provided a transition pathway for its fossil fuel workers to move into other industries, and as global demand for oil and gas wanes, tens of thousands of workers could lose their jobs, say the authors of a new report. | Roughly 167,000 people are directly employed in Canada's oil and gas industry, but increased automation combined with the energy transition and climate policy mean that half of those jobs are slated to disappear by the end of the decade, according to a report published on October 13 by the Climate Action Network Canada and Blue Green Canada, which is a coalition of labor and environ…
(2021-10-24). Syrian Pilot Killed In Attack Helicopter Crash In Damascus Countryside. southfront.org 
Illustrative image. | On October 23, a Mi-25 attack helicopter of the Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) made a hard landing in the countryside of Damascus while returning from a mission around the ancient city of Palmyra in eastern Homs. | Syrian pro-government sources said that the Soviet-made helicopter experienced "mechanical program", without elaborating. | The helicopter pilot, Major Muhammad Taher Nadim Abdullah, was killed in the incident. Several service members were also wounded. | As a result of a mechanical failure,…
(2021-10-24). In collaboration with Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Army and Navy test hypersonic missiles. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com ==== From 2010: Prompt Global Strike: World Military Superiority Without Nuclear Weapons Commentary on the article by Fidel Castro: The origin of wars ==== Navy and Army Demonstrate Advanced Hypersonic Technologies The Navy Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) and the Army Hypersonic Program Office (AHPO) successfully conducted a High Operational Tempo for Hypersonics flight campaign on …
(2021-10-24). Amazon Labor Union to file for election in Brooklyn, N.Y., Oct. 25: NEW Location: 2 METROTECH BROOKLYN 2PM. workers.org 
Workers Assembly Against Racism news advisory After organzing to form an independent worker-led Amazon Labor Union (ALU) for the last six months, workers at Amazon's Staten Island JFK8 warehouse and the surrounding facilities (LDJ5, DYY6, DYX2) announced they would file for election Oct. 25 at 2 p.m., in downtown Brooklyn, . . . |
(2021-10-24). Mississippi Believes It Can Be Organized. Does Anyone Else? zcomm.org Under-resourced and overlooked, the South is tired of waiting for organized labor…
(2021-10-24). Amazon Labor Union to file for election in Brooklyn, N.Y., Oct. 25. workers.org Workers Assembly Against Racism news advisory After organzing to form an independent worker-led Amazon Labor Union (ALU) for the last six months, workers at Amazon's Staten Island JFK8 warehouse and the surrounding facilities (LDJ5, DYY6, DYX2) announced they would file for election Oct. 25 at 2 p.m., in downtown Brooklyn, . . . |
(2021-10-24). Austerity policies in England linked to 57,550 extra deaths in five years. wsws.org In the second decade of the 21st century, life expectancy growth has stalled, stagnated and is now falling precipitously among the working class, in the fifth richest country on the planet.
(2021-10-24). South Korean general strike challenges inequality. liberationnews.org 
On October 20, millions of workers across South Korea staged a general strike amid an intensifying battle for union rights and social rights.
(2021-10-24). Biden Threatens To Deploy National Guard To Move Cargo. popularresistance.org Baltimore, MD – At a CNN town hall event Thursday evening, President Joe Biden revealed that he is considering using National Guard troops to ease the bottleneck at Southern California ports. In response to questioning from moderator Anderson Cooper, Biden said the plans potentially include having soldiers drive trucks from the ports to warehouses and distribution centers. | This would mean the militarization of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which handle 40 percent of US imports. It would be a direct state attack on longshoremen, truck drivers and warehouse workers, with soldiers serving essentially as…
(2021-10-24). President Maduro Visits Central University of Venezuela, Inspects Renovation Works (Photos). orinocotribune.com 
On Thursday, October 21, President Nicolás Maduro visited the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) campus in Caracas, to inspect the ongoing renovation works at Venezuela's oldest institute of higher education. After his visit, President Maduro stressed that the renovation of this World Heritage Site will be a cause for reconciliation and educational and cultural benefit for Venezuela. In videos posted on his Twitter account this Friday, the president expressed his congratulations to "the entire Presidential Commission, the workers and the students involved for the coordinated work they are doing towards a recov…
(2021-10-24). Buffalo Health Care Workers Are on Strike for Better Wages and Patient Safety. truthout.org 
More than 2,000 health care workers — including nurses, technicians, clerical workers, and custodians — at Mercy Hospital in Buffalo, New York have been on strike since October 1. Similar to other
(2021-10-24). Germany: Dismissed airport worker reports on his lawsuit against WISAG. wsws.org Cemaleddin Benli is one of 232 Frankfurt Airport workers who were terminated by ground services company WISAG ten months ago, allegedly "due to the pandemic."
(2021-10-24). The Great Recoil Of Neoliberal Globalization. popularresistance.org The current political era is best understood as a "great recoil" of economic globalization. It is a moment when the coordinates of historical development seem to be inverting, upsetting many of the assumptions that dominated politics and economics over the last decades. This moment corresponds to the "second movement" socialist economic historian Karl Polanyi described in his book The Great Transformation, when phases of capitalist expansion recede and are met by "societal responses." | According to Polanyi, in phases of profound crisis like that opened by the 1929 Wall Street Crash, society tends to act defensiv…
(2021-10-24). The 1.5 target calls for an eco-socialist revolution. indybay.org The only responsible way forward is the IPCC's P1 scenario, which envisages rapid and radical interventions in existing production, transport and consumption structures, i.e. a massive industrial transformation and deconstruction in the main capitalist countries (15ff.). In the social struggle, the politically and culturally highly fragmented class of wage earners comes to class consciousness.
(2021-10-24). China's Winding Road Toward Capitalism. counterpunch.org 
Image by There is perhaps no bigger controversy among partisans of the Left than the nature of China and its economy. Is it socialist? Capitalist? State capitalist? A hybrid? That so much debate swirls around this issue is its own proof that the question doesn't have a definitive answer, at least not yet. | What can be agreed upon is that China has experienced decades of extraordinary economic growth. But the nature of that growth, and the base upon which it has been created, are also subject to intense debate, arguments that necessarily rest on how a…
(2021-10-24). Will this Conference that Celebrates the Palestinian Revolutionary Struggle Cut Through the Still Deafening Media Static of Israel's "Narrative?" globalresearch.ca
(2021-10-24). Biden Administration Is Undermining The Venezuela Dialogue. popularresistance.org The talks between the Venezuelan government and the extreme-right wing opposition had been going well. There are still outstanding issues to be resolved, like ending the economic war, but the discussions held in Mexico led to concrete electoral developments. The European Union agreed to send an electoral observation mission. The United Nations decided to send a panel of electoral experts. (Both institutions refused to observe the 2018 presidential and 2020 legislative elections, despite invitations from the government.) Thousands of opposition candidates registered to run in the mega-elections, which include voti…
(2021-10-24). Strike vote begins at UK universities in disputes over pay, conditions and pensions. wsws.org The union bureaucracy's main calculation is that a strike ballot now is the best way for its members to let off steam while it negotiates a backroom deal with employers.
(2021-10-24). Military Situation In Yemen On October 24, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | The Liaison and Coordination Officers' Operations Room (loyal to Ansar Allah) reported 212 ceasefire violations in al-Hudaydah during the past 24 hours | On October 23, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 16 airstrikes on the Jubah district | On October 23, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 3 airstrikes on the Sarwah district | On October 23, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 3 airstrikes on the Hazm district | On October 23, Saudi-led coalition warplanes c…
(2021-10-24). Russian Warplanes Hammer Greater Idlib For Second Day In Row (Videos, Photos). southfront.org 
2712070 10/04/2015 Russian servicemen attach a Kh-25 high-precision missile to a Su-24 aircraft at the Khmeimim airbase in Syria. Dmitriy Vinogradov/RIA Novosti | On October 24, a new wave of Russia airstrikes hit the northwestern Syrian region of Greater where several terrorists groups are present. | The airstrikes targeted the outskirts of the town of Jisr al-Shughur in the western countryside of Idlib. The town is an infamous stronghold of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Turkistan Islamic Party and Hay'at Ta…
(2021-10-24). Saudi-led Coalition Destroys Booby-Trapped Boat In Al-Hudaydah, Strikes Houthis In Ma'rib (Photos, Video). southfront.org 
Illustrative image. | On October 24, the Saudi-led coalition announced that its warplanes had destroyed a booby-trapped boat of the Houthis (Ansar Allah) off the coast of the western Yemeni province of al-Hudaydah. | In a statement shared by the Saudi Press Agency, the Saudi-led coalition said that the water-borne improvised explosive device (WBIED) was hidden in the Island of Kamaran. According to the coalition, the boat was being prepared for an "imminent attack"."The [Houthi] militia continues to violate the script…
(2021-10-24). Friday 10/29: Climate Walkout Strike in Santa Cruz. indybay.org Converge at Well's Fargo, River St., Santa Cruz at 2pm…
(2021-10-24). Russia Will Allow Israel to Attack Syria With Impunity. southfront.org 
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (C) speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) while accompanied by Housing Minister Ze'ev Elkin who acted as a translator at Putin's residence in Sochi, Russia on October 22, 2021 (Kobi Gidon/GPO) | Originally published on Israel likes to attack Syria, and while officials will mostly claim it's about Iran, such strikes continue with alarming regularity, the only pause being when Israel is unsure if Russia is still comfortable with them. | This summer Russia sug…
(2021-10-24). "Shrink the World's Population": Secret 2009 Meeting of Billionaires "Good Club" globalresearch.ca Revised version …
(2021-10-24). Tuesday 10/26: All Out! No More Tax Dollars for Billionaire Fisher's Stadium. indybay.org Alameda Board of Supervisors | 1221 Oak St. | Oakland, CA…
(2021-10-24). Over 1,000 people march in Lannemezan to demand the immediate release of Georges Abdallah. samidoun.net 
The following report is translated from the French at Collectif Palestine Vaincra: On Saturday, 23 October, over 1,000 people gathered to take the streets in Lannemezan, France, to demand the immediate release of Georges Abdallah, Lebanese Communist and Palestinian resistance fighter imprisoned in France since 1984. The march led from the Lannemezan train station to […] | The article
(2021-10-24). Wednesday 10/27: Solidarity Rally For Fired Namibian Rossing Miners. indybay.org San Francisco Chinese Consulate | 1450 Laguna St/Geary St. | San Francisco…