2021-11-25: News Headlines

Leonardo Flores (2021-11-25). Five reasons the left won in Venezuela. canadiandimension.com A man casts his vote in front of a mural of late president Hugo Chávez in Caracas. Photo by LavraPalavra. | For the first time in four years, every major opposition party in Venezuela participated in elections. For the fifth time in four years, the left won in a landslide. Voters elected 23 governors, 335 mayors, 253 state legislators and 2,471 municipal councilors. The governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won at least 19 of 23 governorships (one race remains too close to call) and the Caracas mayoralty in the November 21 "mega-elections." Of the 335 mayoral races, the vote count has been c…

In Defense of Liberation! (2021-11-25). Revolutionary Resistance Across the World. anchor.fm In this episode I go over a few different things; starting out with the true history of Amerikkka and "Thanksgiving". Settler-Colonialism, Capitalism and Imperialism are rampant everywhere, the world is dying and the only ones truly organized and fighting for an end to that system is Indigenous people. But people are standing up all over the world. The masses are never stopping their fight for liberation, it's time you and I join with them.

Ajamu Baraka (2021-11-25). The Delusional Commitment to the Doctrine of "Full Spectrum Dominance" is leading the U.S. and the World to Disaster. dissidentvoice.org The 21st Century was supposed to be the century of continued and unchallenged global dominance by the U.S., at least that was the plan advanced by the right-wing political hacks at the Project for a New American Century (PNAC). Their optimism was understandable. With the dismantling of the Soviet Union, it was reasonable that the …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-11-25). Padre Melo: "Hondurans Want Their Vote to Be Respected in the Historic Elections" libya360.wordpress.com Ismael Moreno or Padre Melo, is a Jesuit priest and the general director of Radio Progreso and a member of the Team of Reflection, Research and Communication (ERIC) part of the platform of the Social Apostolate of the Jesuits in Honduras. He spoke to Peoples Dispatch ahead of the general elections to be held in…

Indigo Olivier (2021-11-25). With Reformers Victorious, It's a New Day for the Teamsters. zcomm.org The rank-and-file reform slate Teamsters United has secured victory in the union's internal election. Its agenda is modest: bargain hard against UPS, organize Amazon, push the PRO Act, and revitalize the labor movement…

WSWS (2021-11-25). The public hospitals crisis and Australia's anti-democratic electoral laws. wsws.org Nurses and other health workers are fed up with operating at breaking point as governments, both Labor and Liberal-National Coalition, rush to lift international and state borders for the sake of corporate profit.

Dick Nichols (2021-11-25). Is worker struggle reviving in Spain? greenleft.org.au Spain is experiencing a wave of industrial unrest, as workers fight for secure jobs and to regain lost wages and conditions, reports Dick Nichols.

WSWS (2021-11-25). Kellogg's threatens to permanently replace striking workers. wsws.org The cereal giant announced plans to permanently replace workers as their strike enters its 8th week and as the AFL-CIO federation works to shut down strikes across the US.

Jon Queally (2021-11-25). Biden Raises Minimum Wage for All Federal Contract Workers to $15. zcomm.org Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal says "30 million workers deserve a much-needed and well-deserved raise."

Paul Dobson (2021-11-25). Venezuela: Socialists sweep 'mega-elections'. greenleft.org.au The United Socialist Party has landed a comprehensive victory in Venezuela's regional and local elections, winning 83% of the governorships, reports Paul Dobson.

Editor2 (2021-11-25). Venezuela: Chavismo Triumphs Electorally Despite Difficulties. orinocotribune.com By Yoselina Guevara — Nov 22, 2021 | On Sunday, November 21, the candidates of the Gran Polo Patriotico coalition and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), representing the political force of the current Venezuelan government, managed to defeat the opposition parties, which, although divided, participated again in the voting after they had successively withdrawn since 2017 in an effort to boycott the presidential and legislative elections. According to the first bulletin issued by the Venezuelan National Electoral Council the participation of voters was 41.8%, with an approximate of 8.1 million vot…

Caleb Nichols (2021-11-25). Public-Private Partnerships Are Quietly Hollowing Out Our Public Libraries. zcomm.org he for-profit, private company Library Systems and Services is a major threat to one of our most beloved, democratic and socialistic institutions…

Fidel Castro Ruz (2021-11-25). Fidel Castro Ruz. His Legacy Will Live Forever. Truth as A Revolutionary Instrument. globalresearch.ca Fidel Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution has passed. The Cuban Revolution constitutes a fundamental landmark in the history of humanity, which challenges the legitimacy of global capitalism.

Daniel Campione (2021-11-25). Karl Marx — Historia de un comunista. globalizacion.ca Toni Negri es un filósofo y militante político italiano con una trayectoria de décadas. Profesor universitario desde joven, y autor en sus primeros tiempos de atractivos trabajos sobre temas de teoría del estado y de crítica marxista. Se volcó asimismo…

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-25). NATO members, partners ready to "hurt" Russia: Ukrainian FM. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com World capitals working on measures that can "hurt" Russian economy — Kuleba The foreign minister noted that the tone of the signals the international community is sending the Kremlin has recently become much harsher. The European Union, NATO, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, the Baltic countries, Poland, and a number …

WSWS (2021-11-25). AFT president to Wall Street: Be thankful for the unions. wsws.org In a paid advertisement in the New York Times Sunday, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten made a sales pitch to the publication's well-heeled readers on the importance of unions "in these uneasy times."

Monica Toupin (2021-11-25). Stigmatization of Homelessness. indybay.org An opinion piece about how homeless is seen in society. The collective consciousness can determine how we interact with our community and it's members. Stigma is part of the collective consciousness. Stigma can determine how we decide to address and interact with individuals in our society and community.

Center for Biological Diversity (2021-11-25). California's Epic Traveling Wolf OR-93 is Dead After Vehicle Strike Along I-5. indybay.org SACRAMENTO, Calif., November 24, 2021 — State wildlife agency officials announced today that OR-93, a radio-collared male wolf from Oregon who first entered California on Jan. 30, has died after being struck by a vehicle along Interstate 5 in Kern County.

Eduardo Camín (2021-11-25). La OMC y la identidad oculta de los cuellos de botella: El capitalismo. globalizacion.ca El 10 de noviembre delegados de la Organización Mundial de Comercio (OMC) y representantes del mundo académico y el sector privado mantuvieron un intenso debate sobre las dificultades con que se enfrentan las economías debido al fuerte aumento registrado recientemente…

WSWS (2021-11-25). New Zealand: Auckland lockdown to end on December 3 even though Delta surge continues. wsws.org The Labour Party-led government's reopening of Auckland and abandonment of an elimination strategy, will lead to endemic COVID-19 and growing numbers of hospitalisations and deaths.

(A) (2021-11-25). Graffiti in Solidarity With Those Displaced by UC Development. indybay.org Graffiti in solidarity with tenants and community members displaced by UC Berkeley development and greed.

South Bay Indigenous Solidarity (2021-11-25). Thursday 11/25: Indigenous People's Solidarity Webinar. indybay.org Zoom Webinar event. Registration link: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BIqQjaCuRoiinsJKM_vtYw

Uhuru Solidarity Movement (2021-11-25). Sunday 12/5: Wine Tasting for Reparations. indybay.org City Slicker Farms | 2847 Peralta St | Oakland, CA 94608…

Kelly Hayes (2021-11-25). Enough Colonial Pageantry. Let's Rally Behind Criminalized Water Protectors. truthout.org Right-wing myths about stolen elections and vaccine conspiracies will no doubt complicate many dinners today, as families gather to celebrate a holiday grounded in its own harmful mythology: Thanksgiving. Among liberals and leftists, there will be countless posts debunking the lies children are taught about the holiday in school. But on this day it is equally important to amplify the stories of Native people living today who, much like their ancestors, are battling world-crushing forces. | In the p…

Staff (2021-11-25). Venezuela's 21N Elections: CNE and Operation Republic Still Deployed for Indigenous Vote. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB) along with National Electoral Council's (CNE) staff, remains deployed throughout the territory via Operation Republic, in order to secure the logistics to guarantee the vote on November 26 in the most remote Indigenous communities. | Operation Republic is the logistic and security program mandated by the Venezuelan Constitution and the legal system to the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB) that has made possible Venezuelan elections for at least five decades. | The information about the deployment was released by the FANB's Strategic Operational Commander, Do…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-11-25). Cuba: Five Years After Fidel Castro. libya360.wordpress.com Rosa Miriam Elizalde The Cuban leader has begun to exist in other ways. He is still there and will continue to be. Fidel Castro died five years ago, but I feel like decades have passed in Cuba since November 25, 2016. Donald Trump arrived and passed slowly with his string of sanctions that have felt…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-11-24). Elections in Honduras: The Challenge of Ending Twelve Years of Neoliberalism. libya360.wordpress.com Giorgio Trucchi Honduras is at the most important crossroads of its recent history On November 28, more than 5 million Hondurans will be asked to elect the President of the Republic, 128 deputies to the National Congress, 20 to the Central American Parliament, 298 mayors and more than 2 thousand municipal councillors. As the election…

Dana Sanchez (2021-11-24). Guilty Of Murder: 3 White Men Guilty In Ahmaud Arbery Death. moguldom.com All three white men have been found guilty of murder in the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man whose death triggered protests in 2020 against racial injustice. The three defendants, Gregory McMichael, 65; his son, Travis McMichael, 35, who fired the shots; and their neighbor William Bryan, 52, who shot the video …

Staff (2021-11-24). Can You Bankrupt White Supremacy? Jury Holds Charlottesville Organizers Liable for $26M in Damages. democracynow.org A federal jury has ordered a group of white supremacists to pay over $26 million in damages for their role in organizing the deadly 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. "Is bankrupting these organizations, is bankrupting these individuals enough to actually stop the growing threat … of white supremacy and Nazism in the United States?" asks Slate senior editor Nicole Lewis. "I don't think so." Lewis also discusses the Ahmaud Arbery murder case and why claims of self-defense from armed white people serve as a "racist dog whistle." She says it's inevitably a one-sided trial when "the McMichae…

Fight Back (2021-11-24). Tallahassee protest Rittenhouse verdict. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – Tallahassee Community Action Committee, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, and Students for A Democratic Society held a protest, November 20, against the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, who killed two protesters in Kenosha. TCAC called an emergency protest the night before, urging community members to come out and fight against the white supremacist vigilantism. | Regina Joseph, a member of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization denounced the acquittal, stating, "I am not surprised that this happened. That does not make my anger any less valid. Kyle Rittenhouse showed up to a protest, was met…

Editor2 (2021-11-24). The Acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse: A Judicial Travesty. orinocotribune.com By Tom Carter — Nov 23, 2021 | "If anyone had a right to self-defense, it was the protesters who collectively confronted a right-wing vigilante who appeared at their protest pointing a loaded military-style rifle at them." | KENOSHA, WISCONSON (

Brittani Banks (2021-11-24). How the Build Back Better Bill Will Help Millions of Americans With Hearing Impairments Lead Better Lives. independentmediainstitute.org Growing up, Tom Hay helped to raise hogs and crops on the family farm, never thinking to protect his ears from the din of tractors, combines and other machinery. And while his United Steelworkers (USW) contract provided safety controls and protective measures during his decades at Titan Tire, he wasn't surprised when hearing tests revealed …

teleSUR (2021-11-24). Israeli Attack Kills 4 Civilians In Syria. telesurenglish.net Four civilians were killed and seven others, including six soldiers, were wounded during a fresh Israeli missile strike against sites in central Syria earlier on Wednesday. | RELATED: | The civilians were critically wounded from the attack. Israel was targeting areas in the central region and launched the missiles from Lebanon, most of which were intercepted by the Syrian air defenses missiles before reaching thei…

_____ (2021-11-24). Let's Find Alternatives To Striking. popularresistance.org While the LO, TCO and Saco top officials suffer from consensus fundamentalism, opposition among the grassroots often suffers from a fixation on strikes. Among the grassroots labor movement in Sweden, a call for big strikes or even a general strike is often heard. Strikes were called in response to the current attack on the Swedish Employment Protection Act, low wages, and attacks on the right to strike. In 2019, an attempt was made to stage a symbolic strike to highlight the climate crisis. As far as we are aware, no workplace was shut down. It should be acknowledged that sometimes we SAC members also have gotten…

Teddy Grant (2021-11-24). Transgender Netflix Employee Quits After Dave Chappelle Comedy Special. bnc.tv One of the Netflix employees, who filed a labor claim against the company after it aired its Dave Chappelle comedy special, has resigned, the Associated Press reported. Terra Field, who was a senior software engineer at the company and who identifies as trans, announced the news on her website on Sunday. "This isn't how I thought things would end, but I am …

WSWS (2021-11-24). Labor Notes, DSA cover up UAW betrayal of Deere strike. wsws.org The conflict between rank-and-file workers and the UAW is being swept under the rug and deliberately concealed by organizations which have long functioned as apologists for the pro-corporate union bureaucracies.

Staff (2021-11-24). Pfizer employee 'stole vaccine secrets'. rt.com Pfizer has accused a departing employee of making off with a massive trove of confidential documents, including trade secrets related to its Covid-19 vaccine and other drugs, and then attempting an elaborate cover-up. | The Big Pharma firm

WSWS (2021-11-24). Colonia Dignidad: Nazi criminality exported to Chile. wsws.org The Netflix documentary addresses the evangelical cult, run by the German psychopath and pro-fascist Paul Schà§fer, that participated in the torture of political prisoners and used slave labor to produce weapons for Chile's Pinochet dictatorship in the 1970s .

G. Dunkel (2021-11-24). Haiti: Desperation and Resistance. workers.org Protest against fuel shortages and to demand the resignation of President Jovenel Moise, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sept. 20, 2019. Nov. 21 — Nearly 4.4 million Haitians need immediate food assistance, and 1.2 million suffer from extreme hunger. Washington has recognized that conditions for the masses in Haiti are so dire that . . . |

IGD Worldwide (2021-11-24). Class war in Cadiz: Armored Vehicles try to Suppress a Strike. itsgoingdown.org It is the police fueling the tense situation with their violent attempts to crush the strike in Cadiz, with cops marching to the occupied plants and assaulting workers, not just with batons and teargas, but even with rubber bullets and armored vehicles. Despite these violent attacks the workers of Cadiz hold their line.

Minnie Bruce Pratt (2021-11-24). From Alabama to Australia: Solidarity for striking mine workers. workers.org Day of Solidarity with striking Alabama coal miners, Washington, D.C., Nov. 18. Global solidarity for striking Alabama coal miners ramped up with a Nov. 18 worldwide Day of Action. This kicked off early Nov. 16 when the Tonight Show featured a tribute to striking workers with Tom Morello of the . . . |

Stephanie Pavlick (2021-11-24). Pittsburgh medical workers fight for dignity and respect. liberationnews.org The workers, who are facing poor conditions and low wages, are fighting again to unionize their workplace, after a defeated attempt a few years ago.

A Guest Author (2021-11-24). The Cuban people have the right to defend themselves. workers.org Signs of pro-socialist sentiment in Havana, in the neighborhood where a U.S. sympathizer lived before opting for exile in Madrid after Nov. 15 actions flopped. By Yisell Rodríguez Milán This article was published in Granma Nov. 18 and republished in CubaNews after translation. The protest actions that U.S.-backed counterrevolutionaries attempted . . . |

WSWS (2021-11-24). Sparrow Health workers in Lansing, Michigan, vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike. wsws.org The demands of Sparrow workers include safe staffing levels, cost-of-living adjustments to wages, curtailing of ballooning health care costs, and sick time without fear of punishment.

_____ (2021-11-24). Tudor's Biscuit World Workers Seek A Rare Fast Food Union. popularresistance.org Despite the political successes of the "Fight For $15" movement, actual unionized fast food restaurants are rare. Burgerville workers in Portland, Oregon recently reached an agreement on a union contract after a years-long effort, and Starbucks workers in Buffalo and elsewhere have scheduled union elections at a number of stores. Now, 25 employees of a Tudor's in tiny Elkview, West Virginia are joining them in the vanguard of fast food organizing by seeking to unionize with UFCW Local 400. Yesterday, they filed for a union election with the NLRB.

WSWS (2021-11-24). Dana Fort Wayne workers voice growing opposition as USW stonewalls on local contract. wsws.org After workers voted to reject the local contract at both the Dana Fort Wayne, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky plants, the United Steelworkers is keeping them in the dark on the status of a possible renegotiation of the agreement.

Monica Cruz (2021-11-24). Amazon workers in 20 countries to strike and protest on Black Friday. peoplesdispatch.org On Friday, Amazon workers in at least 20 countries will

Staff (2021-11-24). Hundreds of Google employees respond to vaccine mandate. rt.com Hundreds of Google employees are opposing the company's extensive Covid-19 vaccine mandate, complicating its efforts to move back to in-office work. | A manifesto blasting the mandate has been signed by more than 600 employees, according to CNBC. In the document, the workers demand the tech firm present an alternate mandate that is "inclusive of all Googlers." They are also urging their colleagues to oppose getting vaccines out of "principle" in the face of looming deadlines. | While a US federal mandate for employers is currently tied up in litigation, Google has taken President Joe Biden's advice on board an…

Staff (2021-11-24). Automakers & union reach deal on vaccine mandates. rt.com Automakers Ford, General Motors and Chrysler have agreed with the United Auto Workers union to require masking in the workplace and encourage vaccination and boosters against Covid-19, but will not mandate the jabs yet. | Detroit's big three — with Chrysler represented by the parent company Stellantis — and the union

WSWS (2021-11-24). Planned strikes by DHL workers in UK as Unite seek to block national action. wsws.org Workers are determined to take on the largest logistics company in the world. But they face a determined opponent in the Unite union which is working to throttle this movement.

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