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2022-02-07: News Headlines

_____ (2022-02-07). The Untold History Of NATO And Case For Its Abolition. popularresistance.org NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is moving ever closer to Russia's border. Russia views this as an existential threat — and a historic betrayal of key guarantees it was given by the west as the Soviet Union disintegrated. As Biden sends thousands of additional troops to Eastern Europe, the threat of war is growing by the day.

WSWS (2022-02-07). Portugal's Socialist Party wins legislative election as Left Bloc collapses. wsws.org The Left Bloc and the Portuguese Communist Party are deeply discredited after years of openly supporting the right-wing policies of the Socialist Party (PS) government.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-07). Rights group urge Qatar and FIFA to ensure fair trial for former World Cup employee. peoplesdispatch.org Abdullah Ibhais, was convicted on bribery and other related charges soon after he spoke up against the Qatari authorities' repression of a migrant workers strike…

Labor Video Project (2022-02-07). ILWU Local 6 California Waste Solutions Workers Demand Justice At Oakland Education Rally. indybay.org ILWU Local 6 California Waste Solutions workers spoke out for justice on the job at the Oakland City hall rally against education cuts.

WSWS (2022-02-07). US oil refinery workers face two-front war against energy companies and USW. wsws.org Although workers voted overwhelmingly last summer to sanction a walkout, the United Steelworkers bureaucracy has unilaterally agreed to "rolling" 24-hour contract extensions, allowing the oil companies to recruit replacements to keep operations going in the event of a strike.

In Defense of Liberation! (2022-02-07). Morning Commute: 2-7-2022 #FREELEONARDPELTIER. anchor.fm In this episode I go over a few things that are on my mind like the continuous encirclement and harassment of Russia and China, as well as how we can learn from the ongoing peoples movements in socialist revolution of the past and the present in order to inform and help organize for our future. Let's get Organizing y'all!

Green Party (2022-02-07). Sunday 2/13: Green Sunday: How We Really Create a Political Revolution. indybay.org Online, on Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/89559844652 | Meeting ID: 895 5984 4652 | Dial by your location | +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) | +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) | .

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-07). Netherlands: Struggle for affordable housing intensifies with protests in multiple cities. peoplesdispatch.org Activists from various youth & student groups, feminist groups, trade unions and political parties marched for housing rights on the call of #Woonrevolte Amersfoort, a housing rights coalition.

WSWS (2022-02-07). Vote No to Australian Education Union wage cutting agreement with Victorian Labor government! wsws.org The AEU bureaucracy is attempting to quickly ram through the deal by mid-March under conditions of an unprecedented explosion of COVID-19 infections within the schools.

WSWS (2022-02-07). Sydney University meeting highlights union's role in blocking opposition to reopening of Australian campuses. wsws.org There are real fears among staff members about being exposed, along with students, to the potentially fatal or long-term health consequences of COVID-19.

slingshot collective (2022-02-07). Sunday 2/13: A discussion with Dr. Detroit and Friends. indybay.org Long Haul infoshop 3124 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley — 510-540-0751 – 2 blocks from Ashby BART – Shattuck and Woolsey across from La Pena…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-07). Farmers protest in Pakistan over fertilizer shortage and other issues, rally announced for February 14. peoplesdispatch.org The Pakistan Kissan Ittehad, which has been spearheading the farmers' protests since November, has announced a Punjab State-wide strike action by farmers if the government fails to act upon their demands till February 20…

Steve Sweeney (2022-02-07). Iraq: Western powers accused of complicity in Turkish airstrike on Kurdish refugee camp. greenleft.org.au Steve Sweeney writes that Kurdish officials have accused Western powers of complicity in Turkish airstrikes that killed two people and injured many more at the United Nations-administered Makhmour Refugee Camp in northern Iraq.

WSWS (2022-02-07). Vote "No" to First Manchester/Unite pay offer: No more concessions! Build a rank-and-file strike committee! wsws.org But drivers have reacted angrily, telling WSWS reporters the deal is merely a "recycled" company offer that does nothing to address their concerns.

imperial.ac.uk (2022-02-07). Apprenticeship boost for Imperial as new schemes welcome first trainees. imperial.ac.uk The Laboratory Technician and Maintenance Apprenticeship Schemes are up and running, with apprentices in Estates, Bioengineering and Chemistry.

Labor Video Project (2022-02-07). IT'S WAR! The Fight To Stop School Closures In Oakland As Hundreds Rally and March. indybay.org Hundreds of teachers, students and parents rallied and marched against the proposal to shut and merge many schools in the Flatlands in Oakland. These schools have large number of Black and Brown students and this is taking place as the state has a budget surplus of 45.7 billion dollars.

Editorial La Jornada (2022-02-07). La presencia china en América Latina. globalizacion.ca El presidente argentino, Alberto Fernández, firmó ayer en Pekín la incorporación de su país a la iniciativa Nueva ruta de la seda, un ambicioso proyecto de comercio, transporte, comunicaciones e infraestructura que China ha venido desarrollando en colaboración con otros…

Martin Rizzo-Martinez & Daniel Stonebloom (2022-02-07). Challenging Colonialism s01e03: Weapons of Mass Destruction (p.I). indybay.org Part I: Dams and Colonization | In part one of a four part episode, we examine the negative environmental and cultural impact of dams, and the Indigenous-led movement to remove them. These dams, deemed Weapons of Mass Destruction by Chief Caleen Sisk, have devastated Salmon populations and the communities whose histories have been in relationship with Salmon since time immemorial.

Tom Engelhardt (2022-02-07). Tomgram: Nan Levinson, How (Not) to Stop America's Wars. warisacrime.org This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Think of the U.S. military-industrial-congressional complex as a remarkably self-contained system. It's capable of funding itself at staggering levels, producing weaponry (however inefficient, ineffective, and anything but inexpensive) largely without oversight, and fighting wars (however disastrous) in a …

Staff (2022-02-07). Is the NFL Run Like a Plantation? Ex-Player Donté Stallworth Responds to Bombshell Racism Lawsuit. democracynow.org Ahead of the Super Bowl this weekend, we speak to former National Football League player Donté Stallworth about racism and anti-Blackness in the league. Last week, former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores sued the NFL, as well as three teams — the Dolphins, Broncos and Giants — for discriminating against him as a Black candidate during his interview process. In his complaint, Flores says the NFL is "racially segregated and is managed much like a plantation," with wealthy white owners and head coaches at the top while the majority of players who risk bodily injury are Black. "Hop…

Editor (2022-02-06). Chris Hedges and Louis Hyman on the Harmful Gig Economy. scheerpost.com After the end of World War II two generations of workers in the United States were blessed with a period of unprecedented prosperity. Wages for the working class were high. Jobs were stable and came with benefits and health insurance. Unions protected workers from abuse by the business elites. Taxes on the wealthiest individuals and corporations was as high as 91 percent. The public school system provided a quality education to the poor and the rich. The nation's infrastructure and technology were cutting edge and unrivaled. But by the 1970s it all began to go south. Wages stagnated. Income inequality grew,…

_____ (2022-02-06). Mexican GM Workers Vote In An Independent Union. popularresistance.org Auto workers at a General Motors plant in central Mexico delivered a landslide victory to an independent union in a vote held February 1-2. It's a major breakthrough for workers and labor activists seeking to break the vice grip of the employer-friendly unions that have long dominated Mexico's labor movement.

Staff (2022-02-06). Video: Remembering Samah Idriss: An Organic Intellectual and his Literary and Socio-Political Paths. samidoun.net On Saturday, 5 February, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement (Masar Badil) organized a webinar to remember the Lebanese revolutionary intellectual Samah Idriss. "Remembering Samah Idriss: An Organic Intellectual and his Subversive Literary and Socio-Political Paths" included analysis of his literary and political contributions, memories of his life in struggle, and visions for future organizing …

_____ (2022-02-06). Student Granted Bail After Protesters Threaten To Render Kingdom 'Ungovernable'. popularresistance.org A court in the city of Manzini granted bail to Colani Maseko, the president of Swaziland National Union of Students (SNUS) on Friday, February 4. The student leader had been arrested on January 31 and charged with sedition. | His bail came a day after the SNUS marched to the Manzini regional police headquarters and held a demonstration on February 3. A cross section of Swaziland's pro-democracy forces, including the banned political parties, trade unions, and youth organizations, attended the action. | Outside the police headquarters, protesters at the demonstration openly threatened to render the kingdom "ungove…

Rick Rozoff (2022-02-06). War of Soviet succession: Ukraine, Azerbaijan back each other's territorial demands. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Feature from Azeri Press Agency follows. To introduce the pertinent proper names/toponyms, Ukraine supports Azerbaijan (and Turkey) conquering what remains of Nagorno-Karabakh after the war launched against it in 2020, and Azerbaijan returns the favor by backing Ukraine's projected subjugation of Crimea and the Donbass. The war against Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia (Russia's Collective Security Treaty …

Rick Rozoff (2022-02-06). Bosnian DM calls for deployment of U.S., NATO troops against Russian, Chinese ally. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Excerpts from a CBS News report via Yahoo News follows. The first several paragraphs and indeed the bulk of the entire long piece is an unsparing one-sided diatribe against ethnic Serbs of the sort that has permeated all Western news reportage on the former Yugoslavia for the past thirty years. Serbs, individually, collectively and unanimously, …

_____ (2022-02-06). News Flash: Billionaires Don't Like Socialism. popularresistance.org In response to a rising progressive tide in the United States, a new genre of stories has emerged in corporate media: rich guys warning against taxing them, or really changing anything about the system at all. Just as the press are keen for you to know that Medicare for All is a very bad idea (FAIR.org, 4/29/19), they are equally anxious to make sure that the voices of beleaguered, unheard plutocrats are given as much of a boost as possible. | A case in point is CNBC's recent article (1/22/20) headlined, "BP's CEO Chides AOC and Bernie Sanders for Their 'Completely Unrealistic' Green New Deal Ideas." Reporter Jes…

Anonymous103 (2022-02-06). Military Situation In Yemen On February 6, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The Liaison and Coordination Officers' Operations Room (loyal to Ansar Allah) reported 109 ceasefire violations in al-Hudaydah in the past 24 hours; | On February 5, warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition conducted 3 airstrikes on the Haradh district; | On February 5, warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition conducted 6 airstrikes on the Sanaa province; | On February 5, warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition conducted 3 airstrikes on the Wadi district; | On February 5, warplanes o…

Anonymous669 (2022-02-06). Turkish Drones Target Two Positions Of Syrian Democratic Forces In Northeastern Aleppo. southfront.org File image. | On February 6, Turkish combat drones targeted two positions of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) near the village of Arab Hassan in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo. | Arab Hassan is located to the northwest of the town of Manbij. The is town one of the SDF's two main strongholds in the northeastern Aleppo countryside with the other being the town of Kobane. | No casualties were reported as a result of the Turkish drone strikes. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that…

William Briggs (2022-02-06). Taiwan and Ukraine: How United States foreign policy operates in the service of capitalism. greenleft.org.au The sabre rattling of the United States and its allies grows as capitalism's crisis sharpens, writes William Briggs.

In Defense of Liberation! (2022-02-06). Morning Commute: 2-6-2022. anchor.fm In this episode I discuss more about George Jackson's "blood in my eye" as well as some other incredible works and articles I've read such as those from hoodcommunist.org, Black Alliance for Peace and Black Agenda Report. I discuss a bit about the liberal attempt to appear woke by co-opting black history month for white interests and white ideas. I also discuss the necessity to organize, arm yourself (if legal üòâ) And get building relationships with ongoing people movements wherever you can find them!

Fight Back (2022-02-06). Baltimore: Protest demands: 'No U.S., NATO war on Russia and Donbass'. fightbacknews.org Baltimore, MD — Dozens of protesters gathered on February 5 in downtown Baltimore to speak out against a possible U.S./NATO war on Russia and Donbass. Speakers called on the U.S. government to fight COVID and poverty instead of Russia. | Protesters chanted demands for money for social investments in healthcare, housing and jobs instead of the military budget and war. Cars honked their horns in solidarity as they drove by the picket. A caravan of protesters drove throughout the city after the initial picket, before meeting up with another group for a joint closing rally at a different intersection. | A coali…

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2022-02-06: News Headlines

Labor Video Project (2022-02-06). IT'S WAR! The Fight To Stop School Closures In Oakland As Hundreds Rally and March. indybay.org Hundreds of teachers, students and parents rallied and marched against the proposal to shut and merge many schools in the Flatlands in Oakland. These schools have large number of Black and Brown students and this is taking place as the state has a budget surplus of 45.7 billion dollars.

Martin Rizzo-Martinez & Daniel Stonebloom (2022-02-06). Challenging Colonialism s01e03: Weapons of Mass Destruction (p.I). indybay.org Part I: Dams and Colonization | In part one of a four part episode, we examine the negative environmental and cultural impact of dams, and the Indigenous-led movement to remove them. These dams, deemed Weapons of Mass Destruction by Chief Caleen Sisk, have devastated Salmon populations and the communities whose histories have been in relationship with Salmon since time immemorial.

WSWS (2022-02-05). Canadian workers need a socialist program to defeat the threat of far-right political violence, end the pandemic and oppose war. wsws.org With the support and encouragement of a significant faction of the ruling class, far-right thugs have besieged Canada's parliament for the past week to demand all COVID-19 public health measures be abolished. These extraordinary events underscore the urgent necessity of the independent political mobilization of the working class.

WSWS (2022-02-05). With Ôªøre-election of ÔªøMattarella, Italian government will seek to enforce "EU recovery plan" wsws.org The anti-working class offensive of the Draghi government and the rise of the Fratelli d'Italia make clear how urgently necessary an independent working class movement is, a party that resolutely leads the struggle against mass infection, social impoverishment and war.

WSWS (2022-02-05). Widespread contract violations at Mack Trucks in Pennsylvania. wsws.org Mack Trucks workers report that management has been using non-union contract workers to clear up a backlog in violation of the UAW contract.

Fight Back (2022-02-05). UPS Teamsters fight against wage cuts. fightbacknews.org Lansing, MI – As UPS moves out from its peak season, the company is ending market rate adjustments (MRAs) and bonus programs designed to attract workers and boost part-time employees' pay. The negotiated part-time pay rate for workers hired since August 1, 2018 is $15.33 per hour, with a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) included. Teamsters Local 623 reports that UPS paid its members $19 an hour as part of an MRA and the workers are taking a 27% pay cut as the adjustments expire. | While higher pay is a good thing, these MRAs and similar weekly attendance bonus programs have had a divisive effect on workers and ha…

WSWS (2022-02-05). Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia. wsws.org Indian power distribution workers protest nationally against privatisation; Pakistan: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government workers demand pay rise; New South Wales commuter rail workers resume limited industrial action…

WSWS (2022-02-05). US-backed SINTTIA union wins representation as workers at Silao, Mexico GM plant vote out CTM. wsws.org The claim that the victory of SINTTIA in the vote by Silao workers represents at step forward is belied by the support it received from the corrupt, pro-management US union bureaucracy and the Biden administration.

Seth Galinsky (2022-02-05). Join Socialist Workers Party, 'Militant' in campaigning. themilitant.com The international In California the fight for ballot status for SWP candidates Eleanor García for U.S. Senate and Joel Britton for governor is underway. García and Britton explain why working people need ou…

WSWS (2022-02-05). Australian government in disarray as workers' anger grows over pandemic disaster. wsws.org While polls show collapsing popular support for Prime Minister Scott Morrison's government, the Labor Party has offered bipartisan backing throughout the pandemic.

WSWS (2022-02-05). Chilean and international capital praise Boric's cabinet picks. wsws.org Like SYRIZA in Greece and Podemos in Spain, the Chilean pseudo-left and Stalinist front has the task of dissipating seething opposition among workers and young people to capitalism.

Peoples Health Dispatch (2022-02-05). No pause in health workers' struggles in Nigeria. peoplesdispatch.org As health workers' trade unions in Nigeria call their membership to continue strike action over bad working conditions and missed payments, attempts to limit the space for industrial action persist…

Bruce, Barbara MacLean-Lerro (2022-02-05). Renaissance Woman Sylvia Pankhurst: Feminist, Artist, Council Communist, Anti-Imperialist. dissidentvoice.org Why Sylvia Matters How many of you about to read this have heard of Sylvia Pankhurst? Our guess is, not many. She seems to have fallen through the cracks of socialist and suffragette movement literature. Her mother, Emmeline Pankhurst and sister, Christabel Pankhurst are still looked up to as leaders in the suffragette movement. What …

Revolution Books (2022-02-05). Sunday 2/27: Online Reading and discussion with Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise. indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

Cascadia Survivalist (2022-02-05). Readings on Martial Law and Citizens in a Revolution. indybay.org Governments, law enforcement agencies and corporations all have vested interests in criminalizing, disrupting and suppressing survivalist and activist groups of all persuasions. Security is needed to ensure our continued success. We also have a basic right to protect your privacy and anonymity from unwarranted intrusion…

WSWS (2022-02-05). Oakland, California educators and students protest planned budget cuts and school closures. wsws.org Immediately following their agreement with the teachers union to maintain in-person instruction throughout the pandemic, Oakland Unified School District is pushing ahead with plans to close or merge 16 schools.

Fight Back (2022-02-05). Chicago protest demands federal charges against killer cop Jason Van Dyke. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – A delegation of activists demanding Justice for Laquan McDonald met with an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago's Federal Building. They presented a letter signed by 38 organizations and unions, as well as five elected officials, demanding federal charges against killer cop Jason Van Dyke. | A statement released before the protest explained, "VanDyke was given a 'slap on the wrist' by the Cook County Criminal Court after being convicted of McDonald's murder and 16 counts of aggravated assault and is being released from prison after less than 3 1/2 years, when Black and brown and other working-class…

Staff (2022-02-05). Young Communists in France mobilize for Georges Abdallah and a free Palestine. samidoun.net On Saturday, 22 January, the Jeunes Communistes 13 (Young Communists of Bouches-du-Rhone, France, with the central city of Marseille) organized a screening of "Fedayin: Georges Abdallah's Fight" with a presentation by a member of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra, a member organization of the Samidoun Network that plays a leading role in organizing for the liberation …

sputniknews (2022-02-05). Aim of 5 February Rallies in US to Show Americans Do Not Seek War With Russia, Activist Says. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) Ekaterina Chukaeva – The aim of the upcoming rallies which are scheduled across the US on Saturday is to inform the public that the majority of US people are not seeking a conflict with Russia, Dan Gilman, who is on the organizing team of Seattle Anti-War Coalition and a member and past president of Veterans For Peace, said.

Alexandre I R White (2022-02-05). [Perspectives] Xenophobia, prejudice, and blame in pandemic times. thelancet.com The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us time and time again, through deeply painful lessons, that epidemics of infectious diseases may be biological in origin but our collective understandings of them and their impacts are social. From US Supreme Court rulings on mask and vaccine mandates in December, 2020, and as recently as January, 2022, to xenophobia, racism, and the blaming of disease spread on those marginalised within society, COVID-19 has laid bare what historians of epidemics have long understood—that epidemics expose, reproduce, and harden existing prejudices and inequalities within societies.

Udani Samarasekera (2022-02-05). [Perspectives] Ayoade Alakija: advancing equity in the COVID-19 response. thelancet.com Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija is running late for our video call because of back-to-back meetings in Geneva as the newly appointed WHO Special Envoy and Co-Chair of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-Accelerator), a global collaboration to accelerate equitable access to COVID-19 health tools. Her Geneva visit will help her "join the dots to help move us from working in silos to working better collectively to overcome COVID-19", she tells me in between her last meeting and catching a flight back home to Abuja, Nigeria.

Michael Daly, Eric Robinson (2022-02-05). [Correspondence] Depression and anxiety during COVID-19. thelancet.com The COVID-19 Mental Disorders Collaborators conclude that, throughout 2020, the pandemic led to a 27 ∑6% increase in cases of major depressive disorders and 25 ∑6% increase in cases of anxiety disorders globally.1 However, we propose that these prevalence estimates are likely to be substantially inflated. Decades of trauma research has shown that, for most people, negative life events such as bereavement or disaster exposure are typically followed by resilience (minimal effect on symptoms of anxiety, or depression, or both) or recovery (initial short-term increase in symptoms of anxiety, or depression, or…

WSWS (2022-02-05). Virginia police officials accused of human sex trafficking, intimidation. wsws.org A civil rights lawsuit filed late last year alleges that Northern Virginia police officers collaborated with human sex traffickers in exchange for sexually assaulting the victims.

WSWS (2022-02-05). In New Zealand, rising inflation, inequality intensify social crisis. wsws.org The Labour-Green Party government's pro-business policies, imposed since it assumed office in 2017, have produced an unprecedented explosion in social inequality since the onset of COVID-19.

Author Blank (2022-02-05). Thomas Sankara spoke for the oppressed all over the world. themilitant.com Kwame Brathwaite"Freedom must be conquered in struggle," Thomas Sankara told the United Nations Oct. 4, 1984. Speaking for the Burkinabe people and also the "great disinherited people of the world," he explained this is "the reason for our revolt" and "special relations of solidarity." |

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-02-05). Indefinite "Political Quarantine" for Justin Trudeau: Freedom Convoy 2022. In Solidarity with the Truck Drivers. globalresearch.ca A mass movement against the Covid mandate is unfolding coast to coast across Canada in solidarity with cross-border truck drivers. Tens of thousands of people will be joining the truck drivers in Ottawa.

scorinoco (2022-02-05). The Beijing Winter Olympics are a Symbol of Multipolarity and International Friendship. orinocotribune.com By Carlos Martinez — Feb 2, 2022 | With over 30 heads of state and government gathered in Beijing to attend the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, in spite of the pandemic which is still raging in most parts of the world, the Games will prove to be a symbol of a deepening multipolarity and global solidarity. | A tiny handful of imperialist countries, led by the United States, tried and failed to coordinate a so-called "diplomatic boycott," based on absurd and debunked fabrications about the treatment of Xinjiang's Uygur population. | When Joe Biden announced a year ago that "diplomacy is back," mo…

Michael Welch (2022-02-05). Freedom Convoy 2022: The Rising of Unity and International Solidarity. globalresearch.ca These of the words of a duly elected head of government, who claims to represent Canadians: | "The small fringe minority who are on their way to Ottawa who are holding unacceptable views that they're expressing do not represent the views …

In Defense of Liberation! (2022-02-05). Morning Commute: 2-5-2022. anchor.fm In this episode I discussed the fascist origin of the United States of America as well as its colonial and imperial past, present, and fearful future. We are the ones who will stop the coming of the ongoing fascist and reactionary movement as well as its ability to further capture power. We must organize now!!

Paul Kelly (2022-02-05). [Correspondence] A just memory. thelancet.com Richard Horton's Offline1 makes for thought-provoking reading but gives a cynical and unbalanced view of the enterprise of tropical medicine. To portray tropical medicine as merely a service to the White colonialists and therefore fundamentally racist, even in the early days of the British empire in Africa, is to ignore the selflessness of many of its practitioners. Many of the great figures of tropical medicine were motivated by a desire to solve the health problems of African people, not merely to provide health care for the governing elite.

WSWS (2022-02-05). Another death in Los Angeles Harbor. wsws.org On Tuesday, January 18, Edgar Ruiz died on the job from what appears to have been an avoidable industrial accident at the Port of Los Angeles's Maersk Terminal.

Colin Todhunter (2022-02-05). An Inconvenient Truth: The Peasant Food Web Feeds the World. dissidentvoice.org In October 2020, CropLife International said that its new strategic partnership with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) would contribute to sustainable food systems. It added that it was a first for the industry and the FAO and demonstrates the determination of the plant science sector to work constructively in a partnership where …

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2022-02-05: News Headlines

Revolution Books (2022-02-05). Sunday 2/27: Online Reading and discussion with Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise. indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

Labor Video Project (2022-02-05). IT'S WAR! The Fight To Stop School Closures In Oakland As Hundreds Rally and March. indybay.org Hundreds of teachers, students and parents rallied and marched against the proposal to shut and merge many schools in the Flatlands in Oakland. These schools have large number of Black and Brown students and this is taking place as the state has a budget surplus of 45.7 billion dollars.

Martin Rizzo-Martinez & Daniel Stonebloom (2022-02-05). Challenging Colonialism s01e03: Weapons of Mass Destruction (p.I). indybay.org Part I: Dams and Colonization | In part one of a four part episode, we examine the negative environmental and cultural impact of dams, and the Indigenous-led movement to remove them. These dams, deemed Weapons of Mass Destruction by Chief Caleen Sisk, have devastated Salmon populations and the communities whose histories have been in relationship with Salmon since time immemorial.

Danny Shaw (2022-02-04). Book Review: 'Cancel This Book' Asks for a Return to Revolutionary Class Analysis. towardfreedom.org Academic and activist Dan Kovalik's new book, "Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture," was written on the frontlines of the twin struggles of our time, the class struggle and the fight for Black liberation, writes Danny Shaw.

WSWS (2022-02-04). An open letter to workers in New Zealand: Join the fight to stop the pandemic and save lives in 2022! wsws.org The Labour Party-led government, backed by the trade unions, insists that schools and businesses must remain open, allowing Omicron to spread. The working class cannot accept this policy of mass infection and death.

Marie Kelly (2022-02-04). Pandemic exposes U.S. health care crisis. workers.org In the book "The Great Influenza: The Deadliest Pandemic in History" by John Barry, written in 2005 about the so-called Spanish Flu of 1918, we learn that pandemic actually started in the U.S. The army barracks in the Midwest were the breeding ground for the deadly virus. World War I . . . |

Marilyn Bechtel (2022-02-04). Fast Food Sector Council advances in California, but CalCare health bill on hold. peoplesworld.org SACRAMENTO—Legislation to create a first-in-the-nation Fast Food Sector Council charged with regulating wages, working hours, and conditions affecting over half-a-million California fast food workers passed the state Assembly Jan. 31 and is on its way to the state Senate. The measure, Assembly Bill 257, the Fast Food Accountability and Standards (FAST) Recovery Act, by Assemblymember …

Mark Gruenberg (2022-02-04). Landmark landslide win for independent union at big GM Mexico plant. peoplesworld.org SILAO, Mexico—The landmark landslide win for an independent union at the big General Motors plant in Silao, Mexico, may well be a precursor of the future of Mexican organized labor—a precursor that augurs well for their U.S. colleagues, too. That's because the 4,192-932 February 3 victory by SINTTIA, The National Independent Union for Workers in …

Mumia Abu-Jamal (2022-02-04). Mumia Abu-Jamal: Un Nuevo Movimiento por la Libertad ahora. workers.org El gran revolucionario caribeño Frantz Fanon escribió en su ya clásica obra, The Wretched of the Earth (Los condenados de la tierra), el siguiente llamado a acción: "Cada generación debe, desde la relativa oscuridad, descubrir su misión, cumplirla o traicionarla en relativa opacidad. Esa misión la tenemos nosotros." øCuál misión? . . . |

rebekah (2022-02-04). After Amazon Tragedy, Workers Come Together to Demand Safe Working Conditions. inequality.org

Richard Duluth (2022-02-04). Connecticut's Essential Worker Relief Fund a model other governments should follow. peoplesworld.org Connecticut is leading the way in building back better. The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the lives of many working-class families, but some relief is in sight. Recently, the Connecticut General Assembly, with a strong push from organized labor, passed the Connecticut Essential Worker COVID-19 Relief Fund. It' a $34 million program which will allow essential …

Karen Conner (2022-02-04). Strong Job Growth in January as Omicron Leads to Cuts in Hours, Not Jobs. cepr.net Employers responded to omicron by cutting hours rather than workers. | The economy added 467,000 jobs in January, in spite of the spread of the omicron variant. Even pandemic sensitive sectors such as hotels and restaurants were big job gainers. It appears that employers' main response was to reduce hours, with the average workweek falling by 0.2 hours, a decline of 0.6 percent. The unemployment rate was little changed at 4.0 percent. |

WSWS (2022-02-04). Unite refuses to oppose Coventry Labour council strikebreaking against bin workers. wsws.org There could be no clearer proof that the dispute must be taken out of the hands of Unite than its willingness to sit down with strike-breaking organisers.

WorkWeek (2022-02-04). WorkWeek Police Attack On KPFA Journalist Frank Sterling & Texas Professor Fired For Tweets. indybay.org WorkWeek covers the attack on police attack on KPFA journalist Frank Sterling, the firing of a Texas professor for tweets and a solidarity rally for 5,000 striking Clover Dairy workers in South Africa.

Jim McIlroy (2022-02-04). Essential food workers strike in NSW, Victoria. greenleft.org.au Members of the United Workers Union employed across six essential workplace sites in New South Wales and Victoria are on strike. Jim McIlroy reports.

WSWS (2022-02-04). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Strikes across France by healthcare, transport and employment agency workers over staff shortages, workload and pay; protests by teachers across Iran against wages and conditions following protests of retirees demanding a rise in pensions; 5,000 South African food workers on indefinite strike against pay and job cuts for eleventh week…

WSWS (2022-02-04). US health care workers speak out as COVID-19 continues to fill ICUs and overwhelm hospitals. wsws.org When ICU beds are full it affects every aspect of the hospital system, causing ambulance diversion, supply limitations, staffing shortages, delays in care and overcrowding.

Anonymous Contributor (2022-02-04). Update on Antifascists Facing Repression from Opposing the NSM in Newnan, Georgia. itsgoingdown.org Report and update from the International Anti-Fascist Defense Fund on those facing charges stemming from protests in Newnan, GA against the NSM. Back in April 2018, full-on nazis from the National Socialist Movement held a rally in Newnan, GA. Anti-fascists showed up to defend the community from that threat and were attacked — by Georgia…

Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza (2022-02-04). Recent Polls Show Venezuelans Expect Economic and Political Improvements. orinocotribune.com Caracas, February 4, 2022 (OrinocoTribune.com)—According to the last Hinterlaces national survey, carried out this January, 29% of voters sympathize with the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and 1% with other organizations that are grouped around the Great Simón Bolívar Patriotic Pole (GPP), which places partisan support for the government of President Nicolás Maduro at 30%. | Last May, 2021, Orinoco Tribune

Liberation Staff (2022-02-04). University of Illinois students walk out to protest Jeff Sessions. liberationnews.org "Jeff Sessions and his class have put our society into crisis," said Reuben, "and we are here to show the community there is an alternative future and it is socialist."

Staff (2022-02-04). Diosdado Cabello: Spirit of February 4 will Never Die. orinocotribune.com A few hours before the 30th anniversary of February 4, 1992—the day when Hugo Chavez and several other brave Venezuelan military officials shook Venezuela while trying to oust the neoliberal government of Democratic Action politician Carlos Andres Perez—the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, assured the nation that the spirit of that day will never die. | "February 4 (4F) was well worth it to liberate the homeland, that's why the spirit of February 4 will never die," he said during the inauguration ceremony of the 4F Plaza, at the General Command…

Editor (2022-02-04). The struggle to decolonise the mind: Frantz Fanon and his Irish translator, Constance Farrington. mronline.org Last month marked 70 years since the passing of psychiatrist, political radical, Marxist and philosopher of the Algerian Revolution, Frantz Fanon, at the young age of 36.

Staff (2022-02-04). Webinar Saturday February 12: Iran & Cuba Promoting Multipolarity. orinocotribune.com This webinar takes place on the 43rd Anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, and celebrates the release of the Farsi Translation of Arnold August's Cuba-US Relations: Obama and Beyond. | The webinar will take place 12 February 2022 at 9: 00AM EST New York & Toronto time, 5: 30PM Tehran time, 10: 00PM Beijing time and 2: 00PM London time over Zoom and YouTube Live. | About this event | Every February 11-12 since the 1979 Islamic Revolution is a cause to celeb…

teleSUR (2022-02-04). Chavez Ignited the Bolivarian Revolution with the 4F Rebellion. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Venezuelans remember the 30th anniversary of the anti-imperialist rebellion that Colonel Hugo Chavez led against President Carlos Perez (1989-1993), a corrupt politician who implemented neoliberal policies that worsened the people's living conditions. | RELATED: | On Feb. 4, 1992, five army units under Chavez's command moved into Caracas to seize key military and communications installations throughout…

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2022-02-04: News Headlines

William D. Hartung (2022-02-04). What a Waste, and You're Paying for it: $778 Billion for the Pentagon and Still Counting. juancole.com ( Tomdispatch.com) — 2021 was another banner year for the military-industrial complex, as Congress signed off on a near-record $778 billion in spending for the Pentagon and related work on nuclear warheads at the Department of Energy. That was $25 billion more than the Pentagon had even asked for. It can't be emphasized enough just …

Andrew Emett (2022-02-04). Former Louisville cop sentenced to prison for using excessive force. nationofchange.org Recorded on police body cam video striking a kneeling protester in the head with a riot stick, a former Kentucky police officer was recently sentenced to two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to use of excessive force. During a protest against police brutality on May 31, 2020, the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) …

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2022-02-04). Friday 2/4: Capitalism shows its true colors: Money for war, but not for people's needs. indybay.org Virtual event. Register at bit.ly/stop-nato-war…

Jason Ditz (2022-02-04). Saudi Airstrikes Kill Seven Houthis in Yemen's Taiz. news.antiwar.com Saudi forces carried out a series of airstrikes in Taiz Province in SW Yemen on Thursday, The attacks hit western Taiz, reportedly striking a weapons cache belonging to the Houthis, and setting off a substantial explosion. | Exactly why Taiz came under attack is unclear. The city has been contested for the entire seven years of the Yemen War. The Saudi invasion force was never able to take the city, one of the fi…

rebekah (2022-02-04). After Amazon Tragedy, Workers Come Together to Demand Safe Working Conditions. inequality.org

Cascadia Survivalist (2022-02-04). Readings on Martial Law and Citizens in a Revolution. indybay.org Governments, law enforcement agencies and corporations all have vested interests in criminalizing, disrupting and suppressing survivalist and activist groups of all persuasions. Security is needed to ensure our continued success. We also have a basic right to protect your privacy and anonymity from unwarranted intrusion…

Revolution Books (2022-02-04). Sunday 2/27: Online Reading and discussion with Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise. indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

Liberation Staff (2022-02-04). New Hampshire teachers unions fight state censorship of anti-racist education. liberationnews.org A new bill in the New Hampshire state legislature, HB 1255, would all but explicitly ban the mention of indigenous genocide and race-based chattel slavery in New Hampshire class rooms.

Plus News (2022-02-04). Uganda elected to the Peace and Security Council of African Union. plusnews.ug On February 3, 2022, the Republic of Uganda was elected as a member of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union at its 40th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council that was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on February 2 and 3. Uganda obtained 34 votes in the third round of voting, in …

Suds Snacks, Socialism forum Committee (2022-02-04). Saturday 2/5: Building an Independent campaign to Put the Public in Public Education. indybay.org

Rick Rozoff (2022-02-04). NATO-U.S. carrier strike group exercise includes JTAC training in seven Eastern European nations. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Neptune Strike 2022 is conducted with the assignment of command and control of the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group from U.S. Navy's Sixth Fleet to Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO, the first time such a transfer has happened in…

deweylaura (2022-02-04). Dimitrov on the ideological struggle against fascism. cpusa.org The following excerpt, "The Ideological Struggle against Fascism," is from Georgi Dimitrov's report at the 7th Communist International on August 2, 1935. One of the weakest aspects of the anti-fascist struggle of our Parties is that they react inadequately and too slowly to the demagogy of fascism, and to this day continue to neglect …

SAM (2022-02-04). A Labor Stunner in Mexico Augurs Greater Equality — on Both Sides of the Border. inequality.org

Staff (2022-02-04). Super-mutant HIV strain discovered in Europe. rt.com The new variant is said to be more transmissible and dangerous | A new highly transmissible and dangerous HIV variant has been discovered in the Netherlands, confirming scientists' worst expectations. | An international collaborative study, led by researchers from the University of Oxford's Big Data Institute, identified 109 cases of the new 'virulent subtype B' (VB) variant after analyzing more than 6,700 positive samples. | The research revealed significant genome differences between the VB strain and other HIV variants. | "Individuals with the VB variant had a viral load (the level of the virus in the blood…

Rick Rozoff (2022-02-04). France plans to head Baltic-style NATO battle groups in Black Sea region. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com France wants to Lead a New Multinational NATO Contingent in the Balkans French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, who is in Bucharest, met virtually today with nine of his Eastern European counterparts to discuss the crisis over Ukraine…. In a speech to the Romanian parliament yesterday, Le Drian said Paris wanted to show its solidarity …

WSWS (2022-02-04). New Dutch government lifts COVID-19 measures as infections skyrocket. wsws.org The reactionary and unscientific policy of the European bourgeoisie is going from "living with Covid" to "working with Covid."

Derek Royden (2022-02-04). The 'Freedom' convoy: Canada's far right revolt. nationofchange.org Unfortunately, some of those involved in the convoy and on online forums dedicated to it have called for a January 6th style event in Ottawa…

teleSUR (2022-02-04). The Anti-Imperialist Rebellion Square Honors Chavez Legacy. telesurenglish.net Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro inaugurated the Anti-Imperialist Rebellion Square in Caracas City on Thursday, on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the revolt led by Colonel Hugo Chavez. | RELATED: | "In the early hours of February 4, 1992, Venezuela experienced the greatest political and spiritual upheaval that has been known since the time of Independence," Maduro said, recalling that that revolt marked the begin…

Benjamin Norton (2022-02-03). How Israel is an apartheid regime, with Ali Abunimah. multipolarista.com Mainstream human rights organization Amnesty International admitted Israel is committing apartheid against Palestinians, a crime against humanity. Journalist Ali Abunimah discusses the parallels to South Africa and roots in settler-colonialism.

Vijay Prashad (2022-02-03). Make Noise about the Silent Crisis of Global Illiteracy. dissidentvoice.org Amadou Sanogo (Mali), Je pense de ma tête, 2016. In October 2021, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) held a seminar on the pandemic and education systems. Strikingly, 99% of the students in the region spent an entire academic year with total or partial interruption of face-to-face classes, while …

_____ (2022-02-03). Rail Unions Are Bargaining Over A Good Job Made Miserable. popularresistance.org Contract negotiations covering 115,000 rail workers in the U.S. are expected to heat up in 2022. | Workers are seething over the impact of extreme cost-cutting measures. Rail unions are escalating through the slow steps of negotiations under the Railway Labor Act—toward a resolution, a strike, or a lockout. | Rail remains one of the most heavily unionized industries in the country, and rail workers maintain the arteries of the economic system. | In 2018, U.S. railroads moved 1.73 trillion ton-miles of freight, while trucks moved 2.03 trillion. (One ton-mile is one ton of freight moved one mile.) A slim majo…

Mark Gruenberg (2022-02-03). Potential SCOTUS nominee Jackson gives workers another win over Trump. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON —Potential U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has given the nation's two million federal workers a legal win over their nemesis, former GOP Oval Office occupant Donald Trump—again. This time Jackson threw out an anti-worker scheme the Trump-named majority on the Federal Labor Relations Authority concocted in the waning days of the …

Minnie Bruce Pratt (2022-02-03). Amazon worker organizing accelerates with union voting. workers.org Worker organizing at Amazon received international coverage when the Associated Press used a photo of this Workers Assembly Against Racism rally for the Amazon Labor Union, on Oct. 25, 2021, to announce upcoming union elections in February 2022. Headlines screamed alarm Jan. 26 in capitalist business media like the Wall . . . |

WSWS (2022-02-03). Portland city workers authorize strike action for February 10. wsws.org Workers voted by 86 percent on January 20 to go on strike which, barring a tentative contract settlement under ongoing negotiations with a mediator, would be their first since 2001.

WSWS (2022-02-03). SunRice grain processing and packing workers strike for two days at six facilities in Australia. wsws.org The company is demanding workers must submit to an attack on conditions and a retrograde pay offer, while continuing to risk their health and lives amid the raging COVID-19 pandemic.

WSWS (2022-02-03). As oil giants announce massive profits, BP oil refinery worker in Indiana declares: "We're ready to strike" wsws.org Oil workers are angered over being kept in the dark by the United Steelworkers (USW) and are ready to fight the highly profitable oil giants.

teleSUR (2022-02-03). WHO: Changes Aimed To Protect Workers' Health. telesurenglish.net According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labor Organization (ILO), a change to protect workers' health with the implementation of telework is a demand they consider crucial. | RELATED: | The technical report released by both organizations underlined the benefits and risks of this alternative. It appealed to establish similar measures, to fit the different forms of work that the curr…

Fight Back (2022-02-03). Florida: Students demand justice for Aramark Starbucks workers. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – On February 2, around 80 Florida State University (FSU) students, representing FSU Against Aramark, FSU Students for a Democratic Society, FSUDems, and JStreet, marched across campus from Strozier Library to Dirac Library protesting Starbucks working conditions and standing in solidarity with Aramark workers on campus. | Aramark, a multibillion-dollar corporation, is known for consistently underpaying its workers at universities around the country. The protest, spearheaded by FSU Against Aramark, was the culmination of a three-day boycott of all campus Starbucks locations. The essence of this s…

WSWS (2022-02-03). US autoworkers support European Ford workers' fight against concessions: "We are all behind you in the United States" wsws.org Ford workers in Europe recently formed a rank-and-file committee to organize against attempts to roll back wages and working conditions.

WSWS (2022-02-03). Spanish government bails out "bad bank" Sareb as workers' living conditions plummet. wsws.org While the banks were protected from the fallout of their speculation by the state, workers are paying for multi-billion-euro state bailouts with deep austerity.

Brittani Banks (2022-02-03). Why Young Workers Are Driving a Wave of Unionization. independentmediainstitute.org Sarah Broad was 14 years old and just several months into her job at a McDonald's in southwestern Canada when a customer berated her about cold fries, started swearing and threw a hamburger at her. No matter how often she encountered that kind of cruelty there, or in jobs at Walmart or Starbucks over the …

WorkWeek (2022-02-03). WorkWeek Police Attack On KPFA Journalist Frank Sterling &Texas Professor Fired For Tweets. indybay.org WorkWeek covers the attack on police attack on KPFA journalist Frank Sterling, the firing of a Texas professor for tweets and a solidarity rally for 5,000 striking Clover Dairy workers in South Africa.

WSWS (2022-02-03). Australian Education Union shuts down Victorian work bans as it enforces COVID-hit school reopening. wsws.org As the schools are forced to reopen amid dangerously high levels of COVID-19 infection in the community, the union bureaucracy will do everything within its power to suppress opposition among teachers and school workers.

WSWS (2022-02-03). Berlin Administrative Court declares criticism of capitalism unconstitutional. wsws.org The German court judgement and its written grounds represent a fundamental attack on democratic rights. The aim is to ban socialist ideas and any criticism of capitalism.

WSWS (2022-02-03). Governor Ron DeSantis refuses to denounce Florida Nazis, attacks Democrats instead. wsws.org The Florida governor's refusal to condemn members of the National Socialist Movement is another example of the transformation of the Republican Party into a fascist movement.

teleSUR (2022-02-03). The US Blockade Against Cuba Reaches Six Decades. telesurenglish.net On the 60th anniversary of the U.S. blockade enactment, Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Thursday demanded the end of this unilateral coercive measure, which is sought to overthrow the Cuban Revolution. | RELATED: | Adopted under the 2017 Trading with the Enemy Act (TWEA), the blockade initially only prohibited Americans from importing Cuban goods because President John F. Kennedy's administration clai…

Fight Back (2022-02-03). Read Mao's article on battle of Stalingrad. fightbacknews.org Feb. 2 marks the 79th anniversary of victory over fascism at Stalingrad | | To mark the victory of the Soviet Union at Stalingrad, Fight Back News Service is reprinting the following article by Mao Zedong, that was first published October 12, 1942, in Liberation Daily. | | The Turning point in World War 2 | | The Battle of Stalingrad has been compared by the British and American press to the Battle of Verdun, and the "Red Verdun" is now famous all over the world. This comparison is not altogether appropriate. The Battle of Stalingrad is different in nature from the Battle of Verdun in World War I. But they…

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2022-02-03: News Headlines

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2022-02-03). Friday 2/4: Capitalism shows its true colors: Money for war, but not for people's needs. indybay.org Virtual event. Register at bit.ly/stop-nato-war…

WSWS (2022-02-03). Deepening crisis of American capitalism as national debt hits $30 trillion. wsws.org The endless rise of the national debt, now $7 trillion more than the size of the entire US economy, is the outcome of deeply rooted processes whereby profits are increasingly obtained through stock market and other financial operations.

Union City Community & Recreation Services (2022-02-03). Friday 2/4: Celebrating Black History Month & CommUNITY. indybay.org Studio 11 | 34626 Eleventh Street | Union City, CA 94587…

WSWS (2022-02-03). Australian government in meltdown months out from federal election. wsws.org Morrison's hated government could not have survived this long without the bipartisan assistance of Labor and its associated trade unions.

Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam (2022-02-03). Ethiopia hosts 40th Ordinary Session of AU Executive Council. plusnews.ug The 40th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council (Ministerial Session) now happening in Ethiopia, will today close after two days of successful deliberations. The session of the African Ministers of Foreign Affairs kicked off on Wednesday at the Headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, convening physically for the first time since the …

Suds Snacks, Socialism forum Committee (2022-02-03). Saturday 2/5: Building an Independent campaign to Put the Public in Public Education. indybay.org

Staff (2022-02-03). Díaz-Canel se reúne con expertos cubanos: Por una respuesta más integral y culta hacia los jóvenes. cubadebate.cu Díaz-Canel sostuvo un encuentro con expertos de la Academia de Ciencias de Cuba, donde se abordó el tema del desafío generacional para el desarrollo del proyecto de la Revolución. Elaborar una política de atención integral hacia las juventudes y crear un grupo de trabajo gubernamental para ello, fueron dos de las propuestas de los investigadores.

Labor Video Project (2022-02-03). The Antioch Police Attack On KPFA Journalist Frank Sterling. indybay.org KPFA journalist Frank Sterling was attacked and arrested by Antioch police on September 18, 2021. He continues to face charges and is fighting for the charges to be dropped.

Juan Cole (2022-02-03). The Boosted are 97 times less likely to die of Covid, as Republican Party Death Cult Kills Tens of Thousands. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The United States has failed Covid. Compared to most other industrialized countries, its per capita rate of infection and death is much higher. Despite having plenty of vaccines, there has been a lag in getting them into people's arms, especially into the arms of the most at-risk group, of those …

A Guest Author (2022-02-02). At Russia-Ukraine border NO U.S.-NATO WAR! workers.org An ad-hoc coalition of anti-imperialist organizations located in the United States has published the following call for protests in the following week of U.S. and NATO's aggressive actions directed at Russia, building up to demonstrations and a webinar on Feb. 5: We must act now to stop the war with . . . |

Dave DeCamp (2022-02-02). US, Allies Wondering If They Can Count on Germany Against Russia. news.antiwar.com Germany's refusal to arm Ukraine and its trade relationship with Russia continues to irk the US and other NATO allies. Germany's new coalition government has adopted a policy of not sending weapons to potential conflict zones. Berlin has also cited history as a reason not to participate in the military buildup in the region, referring to Nazi war crimes in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union. | Germany's reasoning is…

Rick Rozoff (2022-02-02). NATO absorbing Ukraine, all of Europe, into cyber warfare network. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com All of Europe excepting Belarus and Russia. See final sentence. (Odd that Ireland isn't included, as it's a member of the Partnership for Peace along with the four nations listed.) === Ukraine seeks closer ties with NATO on cyber defense Ukrainian government officials want closer collaboration with NATO's cyber center of excellence…. Ukraine has found …

WSWS (2022-02-02). International Viewpoint supports war propaganda against Russia. wsws.org Under the misleading title "Time for International Anti-War Solidarity," unnamed "Ukrainian socialists" called on the "international left" to "condemn the imperialist policies of the Russian government."

Dana Sanchez (2022-02-02). Billionaire Macro Trader George Soros: China Is Facing An Economic Crisis. moguldom.com China's real estate industry has been hit by a series of defaulting developers and prices are falling on homes and land. The country is facing an economic crisis and its president may not be able to restore confidence in the troubled industry, says billionaire George Soros, a critic of Xi Jinping in recent years. Soros joined …

_____ (2022-02-02). In A Single Year, $1.78 Trillion Was Taken From The Working Class. popularresistance.org The fate of the Build Back Better Act is currently unknown. The bill would be the largest social spending achievement in decades and provide needed services and support to millions of families‚Äâ—‚Äâwith more than half of the proposed $1.75 trillion in spending going to child care, preschool, affordable housing, higher education and healthcare. | But this proposed spending, over 10 years, is barely noticeable compared with the wages workers have lost over the past 40 years. In terms of productivity, wages should be significantly higher than they are, and the average worker…

_____ (2022-02-02). Investing In Infrastructure And Rebalancing Trade Can Create Good Jobs For All. popularresistance.org The mismanaged integration of the United States into the global economy has devastated U.S. manufacturing workers and their communities. Globalization of our economy, driven by unfair trade, failed trade and investment deals, and, most importantly, currency manipulation and systematic overvaluation of the U.S. dollar over the past two decades has resulted in growing trade deficits—the U.S. importing more than we export—that have eliminated more than five million U.S. manufacturing jobs and nearly 70,000 factories. These losses were accompanied by a shift toward lower-wage service-sector jobs with fewe…

_____ (2022-02-02). Workers At Two Philly Starbucks Stores Want To Unionize. popularresistance.org Starbucks workers at two Philadelphia stores took a key step in forming a union last Friday, accelerating a budding labor movement at the coffee giant that has seen employees at dozens of the chain's locations nationwide try to organize. | Baristas at the 1945 Callowhill St. and 600 South Ninth St. stores filed petitions to hold elections on union representation with the National Labor Relations Board, a first step in the process. The unionizing effort took root in December when two Starbucks stores in Buffalo, N.Y., voted to join Workers United, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union. | So far…

Editor (2022-02-02). What's at stake with SCOTUS nomination — an editorial. workers.org On the eve of Black History Month — February — President Joe Biden announced his intentions of nominating an African American woman to replace the soon-to-be-retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Sitting on the court now are six men and three women. All justices have life tenure, until either . . . |

Rosalío Muñoz (2022-02-02). Bakery Workers Local 37 strike in L.A. enters third month with growing solidarity. peoplesworld.org LOS ANGELES—The three-month strike of predominantly female Latina workers at the Jon Donaire ice cream cake production plant in Santa Fe Springs, an industrial area of greater Los Angeles County, has generated an impressive amount of labor, community, and political solidarity. The strikers demand better pay, respect, and improvement of injurious job conditions that have …

VINS (2022-02-02). Federal Safety Agency Underreporting Deaths of Offshore Drilling Industry Workers. projectcensored.org According to an August 2021 article by the Energy News Network, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Agency (BSEE) underreported offshore oil and gas worker fatalities from 2005 to…

WSWS (2022-02-02). SEP (Australia) electoral members support Global Workers' Inquest. wsws.org "The lack of COVID testing is because of the criminality of the government. They are murderers."

WSWS (2022-02-02). USW blocks strike, extends contract for 30,000 US oil workers. wsws.org Marathon, which is leading the negotiations for the massively profitable oil giants, has made a "final" offer of between 2 and 3 percent annual raises, a deep cut in real wages given the yearly inflation rate of 7 percent.

WSWS (2022-02-02). An open letter to all Brazilian workers: The pandemic must be ended and lives saved in 2022! wsws.org The year 2022 is already marked by a new COVID-19 surge. Workers in Brazil and around the world must decide to act collectively and finally put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fight Back (2022-02-02). USW rejects Marathon's proposal, offers 24-hour rolling extensions of current oil agreements. fightbacknews.org Pittsburgh, PA – The United Steelworkers union (USW) announced today that it rejected Marathon Petroleum's most recent proposal for a pattern settlement on wages, benefits and working conditions for approximately 30,000 USW members in the oil and petrochemical industry. The union then offered rolling 24-hour extensions of the current labor agreements. | The USW has been in talks with Marathon, which represents industry as its lead negotiator, since January 13. The current national agreement expired at midnight on February 1. | "Our members remain strong and united in their commitment to reaching a deal that meets…

WSWS (2022-02-02). Jim Lawrence, American autoworker and longtime Trotskyist, dies at age 83: A life dedicated to the fight for socialism. wsws.org Jim dedicated the greater part of his adult life to the fight for socialism. He was won to the program of Trotskyism in the early 1970s, and he played an important role in developing a base of support for the movement among a key section of industrial workers.

WSWS (2022-02-02). As shift to electric vehicles accelerates, unions collaborate with automakers to slash jobs and labor costs. wsws.org General Motors has announced a major investment in electric vehicle production in Michigan, which will be predicated on low-wage, subcontract workers.

A Guest Author (2022-02-02). Puerto Rican organizations rally against crypto colonizers. workers.org This article was based on a leaflet issued by the New York City organizing coalition of Puerto Rican and anti-imperialist groups sponsoring the Jan. 28 rally. New York City, Jan. 28 A coalition of Puerto Rican and global anti-imperialist groups rallied Jan. 28 at the New York City Housing Authority. . . . |

Fight Back (2022-02-02). Tallahassee: AFSCME at FAMU demands raises. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – On February 1 from 8 to 11 a.m., around 20 people showed up to AFSCME 3343's informational picket line to demand Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) raise the wages of workers on campus. | Members of the AFSCME Local 3343, the Tallahassee Community Action Committee, Graduate Students United and City Commissioner Jack Porter all stood on the roundabout between FAMU and Wahnish Way, with signs insisting that FAMU's leadership come to the bargaining table ready to pay up. | "It's time that we start negotiating in black and white and take care of employees on campus," said Andre Cr…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-02-02). PSUV is Against Corrupt Officials, There will be No Impunity, Says Diosdado Cabello. orinocotribune.com Diosdado Cabello, first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), declared the resounding condemnation of the party against any act of corruption committed by officials in public posts, and stated that the full weight of justice should fall on those who get involved in criminal activities. | Cabello emphasized that there should be no impunity in cases such as the ones that recently led to the detention of a mayor and a deputy in the state of Zulia, who had been linked to drug trafficking; and a mayor in Anzoátegui state linked to fuel mafias. | At the press conference, the PSUV leader stat…

Editor (2022-02-02). Non-capitalist mixed economies: what makes a socialist? mronline.org In this paper I attempt to provide a short overview of the subject. Words like democracy, freedom, anarchist, Marxist, communist are used in so many different meanings that they become meaningless. One such word is "socialist." — László Tàºt≈ë…

Eric A. Gordon (2022-02-02). Europop musical 'Singing Revolution' treats leadup to Estonian independence from Soviets. peoplesworld.org LOS ANGELES — "Lift it up, lift it up: we can sing our country free!" A cast of 20 all-singing, all-dancing performers and a five-piece band brought Singing Revolution: The Musical to the stage here for its world premiere on Sunday, January 30. It's intended as "an inspirational new musical based on historical events" involving …

Staff (2022-02-02). 6 February, Online Event: Film Screening of Revolution Selfie: The Red Battalion. samidoun.net Film Screening of Revolution Selfie: The Red Battalion Sunday, February 6 at 7 PM Pacific time (10 pm Eastern time), on Zoom *RSVP to friendsinstruggle@gmail.com for the Zoom link* Hosted by Friends of the Filipino People in Struggle — Vancouver, CST REVOLUTION SELFIE expands the horizons of documentary storytelling while broadening our understanding of the …

Staff (2022-02-02). February 2022 screenings: "Fedayin: Georges Abdallah's Fight" samidoun.net The busy schedule of "Fedayin: Georges Abdallah's Fight" is continuing in February 2022, with Collectif Vacarme(s) Films participating in 14 screenings already planned. The film traces the life story and struggle of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a tireless struggler for Palestine and an Arab Communist revolutionary, imprisoned in France for over 37 years. "Fedayin" travels with …

WSWS (2022-02-02). Teachers union in Contra Costa, California prevents strike over COVID-19 safety measures. wsws.org Last Saturday, United Teachers of Richmond announced a tentative agreement to avert a strike of Bay Area teachers.

Maxximilian Seijo (2022-02-02). Historicizing Inflation and Price Controls with Andrew Elrod. mronline.org Andrew Elrod joins Money on the Left to discuss the political economy of inflation and price controls, past and present. Elrod holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara and is presently Research Specialist at United Teachers Los Angeles, a 36,000-member labor union. In our conversation, Elrod overturns one of the …

Moderator (2022-02-02). Teachers Union Warns Pandemic Burnout Destroying Schools. scheerpost.com By Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams New polling out Tuesday reveals pervasive burnout among the nation's educators as pandemic-related staffing shortages and other difficulties drive a potential exodus from the teaching profession. Released by the National Education Association, the nation's largest union of any profession, the member survey shows, according to NEA president Becky Pringle, that "after persevering …

_____ (2022-02-02). Cubans Begin Collective Discussion Of New Family Code. popularresistance.org On Tuesday, almost 7 million Cubans will start attending around 78,000 meeting points to discuss the Family Code approved by the Cuban Parliament (ANPP) in December. | They will carry out the discussions in 12,513 constituency electoral commissions, where the citizens will debate the contents of code's articles. These debates will be recorded in physical and electronic records that will be sent to the electoral authorities so that they can aggregate and count citizen opinions according to specific issues. | Then the compilation made by the electoral authorities will be sent to Congress so that the lawmakers can s…

Editor2 (2022-02-02). Sabbagh: Western Coercive Measures Escalate Suffering of Millions of Syrians. orinocotribune.com Syria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations stressed that the US and EU illegitimate unilateral coercive measures escalated the suffering of millions of Syrians. | Ambassador Bassam Sabbagh made his remarks in a session of the Security Council on Friday on the humanitarian situation in Syria. | "The economic terrorism and the collective punishment policies represented by the illegitimate unilateral coercive measures imposed by the US and the EU have escalated the suffering of millions of Syrians who bear big burden to obtain their basic needs, in flagrant violation of all international legal standards…

Chris Slee (2022-02-02). Immigration minister's 'God' powers criticised. greenleft.org.au The Refugee Action Collective (Victoria) discussed the "God" powers of the immigration minister, so named because of their unlimited nature. Chris Slee reports.

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2022-02-02: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-02-02). SEP (Australia) electoral members support Global Workers' Inquest. wsws.org "The lack of COVID testing is because of the criminality of the government. They are murderers."

Union City Community & Recreation Services (2022-02-02). Friday 2/4: Celebrating Black History Month & CommUNITY. indybay.org Studio 11 | 34626 Eleventh Street | Union City, CA 94587…

Catherine Henchek, Alexander Swart (2022-02-02). Minneapolis/St. Paul teachers prepare to strike. liberationnews.org Teachers and support staff in Minneapolis and St. Paul could be headed for a strike if their respective school boards continue to stall on key issues such as pay and benefits, smaller class sizes and COVID-19 safety.

Joseph Essertier (2022-02-02). Annihilating the Virus Enemy in Japan. dissidentvoice.org According to Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, 18,515 people had lost their lives to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) by 24 January 2022. Of those deaths, four were minors, i.e., 19 years of age or younger. At this point, nobody can say exactly why the Archipelago of Japan has emerged …

Labor Video Project (2022-02-02). The Antioch Police Attack On KPFA Journalist Frank Sterling. indybay.org KPFA journalist Frank Sterling was attacked and arrested by Antioch police on September 18, 2021. He continues to face charges and is fighting for the charges to be dropped.

teleSUR, hvh, JCM (2022-02-02). Desempleo impacta más en las mujeres en Latinoamérica, según la OIT. telesurtv.net América Latina ha tenido históricamente una situación laboral desfavorable, la cual es aún más difícil para las mujeres.

Anonymous (2022-02-02). Palestine in Pictures: January 2022. electronicintifada.net A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine.

Peter Koenig (2022-02-02). The Philosophy of "Venceremos!": Case in Point, Canadian Freedom Caravan. dissidentvoice.org "Venceremos" is a concept. It's a philosophy. It's a lifestyle. It's a conviction — a conviction in solidarity with masses of other people. Venceremos is more than "we shall overcome". Venceremos is enduring. Venceremos is a movement. Venceremos is persevering against all odds — and Venceremos, finally is dynamics. It's a concept that adapts to …

Staff (2022-02-02). The Silencing of Black & Queer Voices: George M. Johnson on 15-State Ban of "All Boys Aren't Blue" democracynow.org School districts and Republican-controlled state legislatures are rapidly intensifying efforts to ban certain books about race, colonialism, sex and gender identity from public classrooms and libraries. The wave of book bans — with more than 70 educational gag order bills being introduced in legislatures over the past month alone — have been largely led by right-wing groups funded by Charles Koch. We're joined by author George M. Johnson to talk about their award-winning memoir-manifesto "All Boys Aren't Blue," which deals with homophobia, transphobia and racism and has been targeted for removal in at…

Matt Sedlar (2022-02-02). The Historic Opportunities for Racial Equity in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. cepr.net The IIJA has provided a historic opportunity for advancing racial equity in infrastructure investments. Only if state and local activists force their elected officials to take advantage of it will its full potential be realized.

teleSUR- jaa, JL (2022-02-01). Unión Africana suspende a Burkina Faso tras golpe de Estado. telesurtv.net La suspensión de Burkina Faso de la Unión Africana llega una semana después de que se consumara el golpe de Estado.

Staff (2022-02-01). Germany Refuses to Send Arms to Ukraine Despite Pressure from U.S. & NATO. democracynow.org Germany's new coalition government is refusing to send lethal weapons to Ukraine but has offered to send over 5,000 combat helmets to protect Ukrainian soldiers in case of a Russian attack. The move has been ridiculed as the U.S. and other NATO countries continue to send military support to Ukraine. In response, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has promised his country will stay in tune with European Union and NATO policies toward Russia. To speak more about Germany's stance toward Ukraine, we're joined by German peace activist and executive director of the International Peace Bureau Reiner Braun, who calls on the E…

Benjamin Norton (2022-02-01). Ex VP Dick Cheney confirmed US goal is to break up Russia, not just USSR. multipolarista.com Former Vice President and Iraq War architect Dick Cheney wasn't content only breaking up the Soviet Union. Balkanizing Russia (and China) is a bipartisan foreign-policy goal among top US national security state officials.

WSWS (2022-02-01). US wants war in Ukraine, Russia charges at UN debate. wsws.org A debate at the Security Council included the harshest exchanges since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.

WSWS (2022-02-01). US wants war in Ukraine, charges Russia at UN debate. wsws.org A debate at the Security Council included the harshest exchanges since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.

Staff (2022-02-01). Role of Workers' Productive Councils in Venezuela's Economic Recovery—Interview with Manuel Páez. orinocotribune.com On February 19, 2020, President Nicolás Maduro decreed an energy emergency and a state of exception in the country's hydrocarbon industry, which led to the creation of the General Staff of the Workers' Productive Councils (CPTT). Manuel Páez, who belongs to the presidential commission of the CPTT for the hydrocarbon sector, in an interview with àöltimas Noticias, explained that there are "71 colleagues who were assigned (by the president and the working class itself) the task of directing the transformation of the industry… presenting a new management model, which is basically collective management." | Páe…

_____ (2022-02-01). Another California Minimum Wage Earthquake? popularresistance.org California is the epicenter for a nationwide grassroots movement to raise the wage floor for American workers. On January 1st, the state set $15 an hour as the floor for large employers and $14 an hour for small ones (rising to $15 for all in 2023). Meanwhile, thirty-nine California cities and counties have established higher rates, with Emeryville the highest at $17.13 an hour and most well above $15. | The Fight for Fifteen movement has reshaped public opinion, pushing local and state officials around the country to approve a $15 per hour minimum wage. Eleven states and fifty-four cities and counties have $15 m…

Editor2 (2022-02-01). Nicaraguan Farmers Seek Compensation from Chemical Corporations. orinocotribune.com The lawsuit is filed before the French Justice because the United States courts refused to execute the sentences issued by Nicaraguan courts in 2002 and 2007. | On behalf of the families of 1,234 Nicaraguan farmers, lawyers Pierre-Olivier Sur and Clara Gerard-Rodriguez began on Monday a legal process in the Paris Court to claim compensation of US$1 billion from Shell Oil, Dow Chemical, and Occidental Chemical. | This unprecedented process accuses the world's largest chemical groups for the damage caused by their pesticides to Nicaraguan workers during the last decades of the 20th century. | The lawsuit is file…

Liberation Staff (2022-02-01). Railroad workers fighting for right to strike against 'lifetime point' policy. liberationnews.org New rule would jeopardize worker safety with patronizing punishments…

Mark Gruenberg (2022-02-01). Group of Google workers seeks union recognition vote in Kansas City. peoplesworld.org KANSAS CITY, Mo. (PAI)—When the nation thinks "Google," and its renamed parent firm, Alphabet, the location that comes to mind is Silicon Valley, not the U.S. heartland. But not for Communications Workers Local 1400, the 800-person-and-counting nationwide Alphabet Workers Union. Its first formal union recognition vote filing with the National Labor Relations Board occurred Jan. …

Matt Sedlar (2022-02-01). Private Equity in Healthcare: Profits before Patients and Workers. cepr.net This was originally published in the magazine — Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), Perspectives on Work. | On March 25, 2021, U.S Representative Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), Chairman of the House Ways and Means subcommittee on Oversight, held hearings into the growing power of Wall Street firms in the healthcare industry. The hearings focused on recent research documenting higher than average death rates in private equity (PE) owned nursing homes. A rigorous study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), found that mortality rates in PE-owned nursing homes were 10 percen…

WSWS (2022-02-01). Open letter to New Zealand rail workers: Form rank-and-file committees to fight for safe working conditions. wsws.org Commuter rail operator Transdev, assisted by the Rail and Maritime Transport Union, is imposing conditions that will allow Omicron to spread and infect rail workers and passengers.

WSWS (2022-02-01). Growing opposition to City University of New York push to cripple remote learning options for spring semester. wsws.org Students, workers and parents denounce moves by the country's biggest urban university system to limit remote learning in the midst of a deadly global pandemic.

Sarah Hathway (2022-02-01). Socialist: 'Government neglect to blame for COVID-19 crisis in aged care'. greenleft.org.au Socialist Alliance candidate Sue Bull says the federal government hand-out to aged care workers won't solve the mounting pandemic death toll among the aged. Sarah Hathway reports.

Fight Back (2022-02-01). Texas A&M University students push for COVID safety measures. fightbacknews.org College Station, TX – Students at Texas A&M University gathered in a silent sit-in on January 28 for improved COVID-19 policies on campus. The coalition, consisting of individuals and organizations such as Grad Aggies for Worker Safety (GAWS), Feminism4Aggies and TAMU Students for a Democratic Society, organized the protest in solidarity with the students of the University of North Texas, who were also calling for improved COVID-19 policies at universities across Texas. | Participating students held signs with demands, statements about the TAMU student who died of COVID-19 complications, and a QR code linked to…

WSWS (2022-02-01). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Longshore workers are battling attacks on jobs, working conditions and pay, with inflation rampaging across South America.

Fight Back (2022-02-01). Tallahassee: Starbucks workers organize union. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL- On January 12, Starbucks workers at 2264 North Monroe Street filed to unionize their store. Employees across the country have been filing to unionize at a remarkable rate, with locations in Oregon, Cleveland, Chicago and New Jersey having submitted petitions as well. | This wave of union activity is especially remarkable in a city like Tallahassee, which has low union density. Right to work laws make it difficult to organize. | While the struggle at North Monroe Street has just started, union organizers have suggested creating a strike fund to receive financial support from other organizations a…

WSWS (2022-02-01). Growing opposition to CUNY push to cripple remote learning options for spring semester. wsws.org Students, workers and parents denounce moves by the country's biggest urban university system to limit remote learning in the midst of a deadly global pandemic.

WSWS (2022-02-01). Unions help BNSF railway clamp down on workers' dissent in aftermath of anti-strike injunction. wsws.org As part of the ruling, a federal judge instructed the unions to order workers to "refrain from self help," and "immediately cease and desist all exhortations and communications encouraging same upon pain of fine, suspension or other sanction" by the unions.

Alan Johnstone (2022-02-01). Solidarity Forged from Slave Chains. dissidentvoice.org February is black history month and with conservatives challenging Critical Race Theory, there's one thing when studying history, we have to always remember and it is the victors that write the history. It is the duty, therefore, of every socialist to tell it like it was, and is, at every opportunity. In the battle of ideas that we wage against the ruling class, we must …

Tequesta Black Star (2022-02-01). Antifascists Confront Neo-Nazis in Orlando; Police Offer Racists Protection. itsgoingdown.org Report back from Tequesta Black Star, about antifascists opposing recent neo-Nazi rally in so-called Orlando. Antifascists resisted the presence of the National Socialist Movement in two separate instances in the Orlando area, counter-protesting and redecorating the sites in which they rallied. On the 29th of January, 15-20 neo-Nazis representing the National Socialist Movement held a…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-01). Socialist Party wins parliamentary elections in Portugal. peoplesdispatch.org In the general elections held to the Assembly of the Republic in Portugal on Sunday, January 30, the Socialist Party (PS) led by incumbent prime minister Antonio Costa secured a comprehensive victory by winning 41.7% of the votes and 117 out of 230 seats. The Social Democratic Party (PSD) emerged as the major opposition party, winning 76 seats and 29.3% votes. The elections saw a rise in the popularity of the far-right Chega (Enough) party which increased its tally to 12 seats from its previous score of one by securing 7.2% of the votes. Left-wing groups including the Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU) led by the…

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2022-02-01: News Headlines

Sarah Hathway (2022-02-01). Socialist: 'Government neglect to blame for COVID-19 crisis in aged care'. greenleft.org.au The Socialist Alliance candidate Sue Bull said said the federal government hand-out to aged care workers won't solve the mounting pandemic death toll among the aged. Sarah Hathway reports.

WSWS (2022-02-01). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Longshore workers are battling attacks on jobs, working conditions and pay, with inflation rampaging across South America.

Alex Miller (2022-02-01). Socialist Green New Deal — Scottish style. greenleft.org.au Alex Miller reviews a new booklet from the Scottish Socialist Party that makes the case for a socialist green new deal.

WSWS (2022-02-01). The fight for Trotskyism and the political foundations of the World Socialist Web Site. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site is publishing today the text of a report delivered by David North 25 years ago, on February 1, 1997, motivating a decision to end publication of the SEP's printed newspaper and replace it with an international website.

deweylaura (2022-02-01). Marxist IQ: Black History Month. cpusa.org February is Black History Month. This month is of great importance, as the forces of racism and reaction, led by the Republican Party, are attempting to make Black history once more invisible in the history of the United States. Today we see in Republican-controlled states legislation banning the teaching of critical race theory in …

Fra Hughes (2022-02-01). Yemen: How Many Must die Before the World Intervenes? orinocotribune.com By Fra Hughes — Jan 26, 2022 | A beautiful historic country of poetry and art, of ancient buildings and centuries-old culture, has been devastated, destroyed, and bankrupted by fierce aggression led by imperialist forces. | As the death toll rises and nearly 20 million civilians face starvation… When will the international community intervene to end this suffering? Needless slaughters, bombs, regional politicking, airstrikes, the imposed siege, weapons of mass starvation targeting the infrastructure, including hospitals, prisons, and the fabric of civil society that holds a nation together in Yemen. | As I…

WSWS (2022-02-01). Serco ancillary staff at St Barts NHS Trust begin two-week pay strike. wsws.org Barts Health NHS Trust is the largest in England and serves a population of over 2.5 million people in the capital.

Jessie de Waal (2022-02-01). OXFAM: Pandemic exposes systemic inequality. greenleft.org.au Since the pandemic began a new billionaire has been created every 26 hours, according to OXFAM. Jessie de Waal reports.

WSWS (2022-02-01). Omicron disaster intensifies political instability in Australia. wsws.org With little popular support for the Labor Party, except in the negative sense of wanting to oust the Coalition, there are mounting fears in the ruling class that any election will result in an unstable, minority government.

Anonymous Contributor (2022-02-01). Indigenous Prisoner in Struggle Marcelino Ruíz Gómez Demands Freedom for Yaqui Political Prisoner Fidencio Aldama. itsgoingdown.org Communique from Indigenous Tzotzil prisoner in struggle Marcelino Ruíz Gómez showing solidarity with Yaqui political prisoner Fidencio Aldama To the Zapatista Army of National Liberation To the Human Rights Defenders To the National and International Sixth To the National Indigenous Congress To the Indigenous Governing Council To the Media To the Believers To the Organized…

WSWS (2022-02-01). Expand and unite the global student and teacher walkouts into a mass movement against COVID-19! wsws.org The Southern Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committees stand in solidarity with students and teachers across the US and Europe, and call for a unified mass movement to stop school reopenings.

Oliver Wing, Carolyn Kousky, Jeremy Porter, Paul Bates (2022-02-01). New flood maps show US damage rising 26% in next 30 years due to climate change alone, and the inequity is stark. nationofchange.org Climate change is raising flood risks in neighborhoods across the U.S. much faster than many people realize. Over the next three decades, the cost of flood damage is on pace to rise 26% due to climate change alone, an analysis of our new flood risk maps shows. That's only part of the risk. Despite recent …

Staff (2022-01-31). Headlines for January 31, 2022. democracynow.org U.N. Security Council Meets over Russia-Ukraine Tensions as Ukraine Calls Out Western "Panic", U.N.: 2,000 Children Died Since 2020 After Being Forced into Combat in Yemen, Taliban Killed Dozens of Former Gov't and Allied Forces Workers Since Takeover, Sudanese Security Forces Kill Another Demonstrator as Protests Continue 3 Months After Coup, North Korea Tests Most Powerful Ballistic Missile Since 2017, Pipeline Bursts on Indigenous Land in Ecuadorian Amazon; Thailand Rushes to Contain Coastal Oil Spill, Spotify Adds Advisory to Podcasts About COVID; Joni Mitchell Removes Music from App, Ahmaud Arbery's Family,…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-01-31). Progressive sections in Czech Republic protest plans to dispatch ammunition to Ukraine. peoplesdispatch.org The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) and other left-wing groups have condemned the pro-war policy of the Czech government and demanded de-escalation of tensions in Europe…

WSWS (2022-01-31). Spanish Morenoites attack China's "Zero COVID" strategy. wsws.org The Revolutionary Workers' Current (CRT) is denouncing essential public health measures that allowed China to rapidly bring the pandemic under control.

WSWS (2022-01-31). Thousands of Sri Lankan health workers hold one-day strike in Western Province. wsws.org Repeated struggles in the health sector indicate that the working class will not accept the government's attack, and is determined to defend its living conditions and social rights.

WSWS (2022-01-31). NYC mayor Adams steps up law and order campaign after two police officers killed. wsws.org The city's new Democratic mayor, along with the entire political establishment and bourgeois media, is preparing increased police repression as a response to growing working class resistance to the pandemic and its consequences.

Judy Greenspan (2022-01-31). Free Leonard Peltier! COVID-19 inside prison. workers.org In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic currently raging through the jail, prison and detention centers of this country, Leonard Peltier (Turtle Mountain Band, Chippewa Nation), an Indigenous leader and political prisoner, has issued a cry for help. Leonard Peltier Peltier, 77 years old, who has been imprisoned for 45 . . . |

Mumia Abu-Jamal (2022-01-31). Mumia Abu-Jamal: 'A new Freedom Now Movement'. workers.org Mumia Abu-Jamal's commentaries are recorded by prisonradio.org/. The great Caribbean revolutionary Franz Fanon wrote in his now-classic work, "The Wretched of the Earth," the following call to action: "Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity. That mission is now . . . |

Jim McMahan (2022-01-31). Cement workers strike transnational corporations. workers.org Seattle A major strike by concrete mixer drivers and cement plant workers against cement company bosses has shut down much of Seattle's $23 billion construction industry. The workers are members of Teamsters Local 174. Concrete mixer drivers, dump truck drivers and cement plant workers walk off the job in Seattle . . . |

Mark Gruenberg (2022-01-31). Workers, allies push California fast food law. peoplesworld.org

_____ (2022-01-31). How Kroger Is Using DC Spin Doctors To Fight Their Unionized Workers. popularresistance.org In recent weeks, Kroger has faced a rash of negative news reports about its employees' working and living conditions, drawn new scrutiny from lawmakers, and seen thousands of workers go on strike in Colorado — all as the company lobbies on union rights legislation, and bankrolls corporate trade associations trying to kill it. | Now amid the potential for congressional hearings and a federal crackdown, the grocery giant did what so many other corporate behemoths do when they're feeling the heat: pay big bucks to run counter programming claiming it offers "great pay and great benefits" in a Beltway tip sheet…

_____ (2022-01-31). Union Membership Resumes Its Fall. popularresistance.org Union membership fell by almost 2% in 2021 as employment rose by over 3%. That took union density—the share of the workforce belonging to unions—down from 10.8% in 2020 to 10.3% last year, where it was in 2019. Density rose in 2020 because more nonunion workers lost their jobs in the covid crisis than their unionized counterparts, but 2021's return to employment undid that. | For the private sector, just 6.1% of workers were unionized last year, down from 6.3% in 2020, an all-time low for a series that goes back to 1900. (Official numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics began in 1983; I've assembl…

A Guest Author (2022-01-31). Cuba: La próxima no será colonizada. workers.org Por Pedro Jorge Velázquez. Resumen Latinoamericano, 18 de enero Hay fracasos a los que se le coge el gusto, digo yo; øo cómo puede ser posible que los derrotados se regeneren en formas nuevas de fracaso? øSerá como esa sensación de que algún día resultará, después de tanto intentarlo? Santiago . . . |

WSWS (2022-01-31). Labour run Coventry council mount strike breaking operation against bin workers. wsws.org Unite the union is doing everything to isolate and end a dispute that is the highest expression of an offensive by councils of all political stripes, allied with private company management, against workers throughout the sector.

WSWS (2022-01-31). Brazil's Workers Party lays out 2022 election program: austerity and corporatism. wsws.org Behind bombastic announcements that the party intends to "undo" the austerity imposed over the last five years, the PT is criticizing Bolsonaro's inability to control spending and attract foreign capital.

Sameena Rahman, Zach Farber (2022-01-31). The socialist case for CalCare. liberationnews.org Single-payer universal healthcare is within reach for Californians. On Jan. 20, Assembly Bill 1400, also known as CalCare, passed the California state assembly appropriations committee. If CalCare passes the assembly floor by Jan. 31 it will advance to the state senate.

Staff (2022-01-31). PSUV Training System to be Relaunched Within '3 Rs Dot Net' Strategy. orinocotribune.com The National Training System of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) will be reactivated throughout Venezuela within the framework of the "three Rs dot net" initiative carried out by the president of the party, Nicolás Maduro, to build the new era of transition to socialism. | Reading circles, courses, and diplomas, as well as the Institute of Higher Studies, will return to their activities "with more force," following the exceptional situation created by COVID-19. The pandemic will force them to adapt to a new work methodology, said PSUV Vice President for Training, Héctor Rodríguez, in this regard. Th…

WSWS (2022-01-31). SEP (Australia) files objection to party deregistration. wsws.org The SEP is demanding the basic democratic right to stand candidates in its name at the looming federal election in order to advance, in the broadest possible way, the necessary socialist perspective, based on the protection of health and lives, not private profit.

Editor (2022-01-31). Africa was at the centre of Lenin's work. mronline.org Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the father of Bolshevism, never stepped foot in Africa, but his influence upon the continent has been tremendous. Alongside the ideas of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Lenin's revolutionary theories provided the framework for an entire generation of African socialists during the twentieth century.

In Defense of Liberation! (2022-01-31). Revolutionary Hope, Kinship, and Community w/Elena from the Red Nation. anchor.fm In this episode me and Elena from Red Power Hour and the Red Nation, were able to go over some really fun and important conversations. We discussed what we've been doing to cope and deal with everything going on since not only the beginning of the pandemic, as well as how we've been trying find ways to get organized and built community while this pandemic is enduring. It's difficult, it's scary, and one of the things we desperately need to know how to overcome. We have a desperate need for organizing, we have a desperate need to come together and to build towards a new world! Many groups, organizations, and peopl…

Staff (2022-01-31). 5 February, Webinar: Remembering Samah Idriss. samidoun.net REMEMBERING SAMAH IDRISS: An Organic Intellectual and his Subversive Literary and Socio-Political Paths Speakers: RABAB ABDULHADI & RULA JURDI Saturday, February 5, 2022 11 am Pacific — 2 pm Eastern — 9 pm Palestine Register to join on Zoom: bit.ly/samahevent This webinar will take place in English. Organized by: Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement (Masar …

Cira Pascual Marquina (2022-01-31). Radical Land Reform in Venezuela: A Conversation with Juan Carlos Loyo (Part I). mronline.org Chávez's agriculture minister talks about the revolutionary changes in land tenure that took place under the former president.

_____ (2022-01-31). How Erosion of Social Cohesion Makes the World a More Dangerous Place. strategic-culture.org The main characters of the global game are dealing mostly unprepared with the contradictions of the future world, Claudio Gallo writes. | As the old joke says: capitalism's centuries are numbered. Everybody knows that Marx's millenarian predictions went wrong: the New Man didn't come, and we are still here in a world divided between the haves and have nots, as Hemingway titled his most social novel. But the Western economy's contradictions are indeed stronger than ever. Take the recent World Economic Forum Global Risks Report. It draws on the views of over 12000 country-level leaders: after two years of the pande…

Michael Arney (2022-01-31). Labor History: A brief history of the NYS Working Families Party. peoplesworld.org NEW YORK — Labor unions, leaders from the now defunct New Party, powerful non-profit advocacy groups, and community organizations formed the Working Families Party (WFP) of New York in 1998. It has always upheld this labor-community alliance though the strengths of its various pillars have changed. Every movement for social change experiences major and minor …

Minnal Kunnan (2022-01-31). Pasadena residents demand better housing. liberationnews.org Over the last five years, Pasadena residents have come together and organized the Pasadena Tenants Union to combat the city's rising housing costs. PTU was able to quickly mobilize during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to protect tenants by successfully campaigning for an eviction moratorium and are currently fighting for a city charter amendment that would establish rent control, just cause eviction, and a rental housing board.

WSWS (2022-01-31). National Labor Relations Board schedules new election at Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. wsws.org The RWDSU's campaign at Amazon has relied on unprecedented support from the Democratic Party, for whom the pro-corporate unions are a key element in their strategy to enforce labor discipline upon and increasingly restive workforce.

WSWS (2022-01-31). The NHS vaccine mandate: Corbyn, pseudo-left and trade unions join Tory and libertarian right. wsws.org Like the Tory right, the union bureaucracy, their spokesperson Corbyn and their backers in the pseudo-left see no sense in requiring vaccination against a disease which they have accepted will be widespread throughout society forever.

Staff (2022-01-31). Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors on Abolition & Imagining a Society Based on Care. democracynow.org We speak with Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors about her new book, "An Abolitionist's Handbook," which lays out her journey toward abolition and 12 principles activists can follow to practice abolition, which she describes as the elimination of police, prisons, jails, surveillance and the current court system. "We have to imagine what we would do with these dollars, with these budgets, and they have to really be an imagination that's grounded in care," says Cullors. She also speaks about her community organizing in Los Angeles, which fought $3.5 billion worth of jail expansion, and her multi-year co…

_____ (2022-01-31). US Military: a Civilian Killing Machine. journal-neo.org On August 29, 2021 when the US launched an air strike in Kabul supposedly on an ISIS hideout, it killed 10 innocent civilians. Victims included Zemari Ahmadi, who worked for a US-based aid organisation, and nine members of his family, including seven children. While the US officials back then were quick to affirm that the …

Editor2 (2022-01-31). Following "Unjustifiable" UAE Bombing of Saada Prison, US & UN Condemn Yemeni Retaliation. orinocotribune.com By Ahmed Abdulkareem — Jan 25, 2022 | "This is the latest in a long line of unjustifiable airstrikes carried out by the Saudi-led Coalition on places like schools, hospitals, markets, wedding parties, and prisons." — Ahmed Mahat, head of the Doctors Without Borders mission in Yemen | SAADA, YEMEN — In a scene rife with chaos and crying, volunteers and a rescue squad pulled the bodies of 91 prisoners from the rubble of the Sa'ada City Remand Prison in southern Yemen on Tuesday. Early last Friday morning, United Arab Emirates (UAE) warplanes supported by the United States targeted the overcrowded p…

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2022-01-31: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-01-31). Greater Manchester drivers escalate pay strike against First Bus: "It's modernised slavery" wsws.org First Bus insisted on a pay freeze last year due to the pandemic, and drivers say they have not had a real pay rise in three years.

William Briggs (2022-01-31). COVID-19 vaccines, a 'testament' to capitalism? greenleft.org.au There was no altruism in the speed in which pharmaceutical companies developed successful vaccines. The very future of capitalism relied on science's ability to keep the wheels turning, argues William Briggs.

Alexander Rubinstein (2022-01-31). New Gates Foundation trustee led plot to overthrow Zimbabwean leader alongside US gov't. thegrayzone.com Listed as a US asset while spearheading Zimbabwean regime change plans, billionaire Strive Masiyiwa joins a cast of technocratic zealots on Gates' new board of trustees. In a shake-up of an institution named for one of the world's wealthiest and most influential oligarchs, Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa was appointed to the Gates Foundation's board of trustees this January. He will be joined on the board by a seemingly diverse cast of corporate elites known for their embrace of technocratic and …

Sara Flounders (2022-01-30). Capitalist Russia: a target, not a superpower. workers.org This article, originally published July 12, 2017, by Workers World, remains timely in January 2022 as the U.S. threatens war at the Russian border with Ukraine and ramps up China-baiting in an attempt to break up agreements being forged between nations seeking to remain independent of U.S. imperialism. See also . . . |

Manuel Raposo (2022-01-30). Which side are you on? U.S.-EU vs. Russia-China. workers.org Raposo, editor of jornalmudardevida.net, in which this article was published Jan. 26, refutes the conclusions of another article titled, "Putin and Xi Jinping, imperialism's favorites," arguing they are enemies who serve the goals of imperialism by giving the imperialists a pretext for attack. Raposo's response serves to answer anyone on . . . |

Editor2 (2022-01-30). Sanctions in the New Cold War on China. orinocotribune.com By Carlos Martinez — Jan 27, 2022 | The following article by Carlos Martinez features as a chapter in the forthcoming book Sanctions Kill — The World Stands Up. The article provides a detailed analysis of the sanctions imposed by the US and its allies on the People's Republic of China and exposes the role they play within the escalating New Cold War. | Sanctions Kill — The World Stands Up will be published by World View Forum in early Spring 2022. | Background | The instinctive attitude of the United States towards the Chinese Revolution was of course one of hostility. In a protracted war between…

Claudia Drdul (2022-01-30). Columbia Student Workers win 10-week battle against greedy university. liberationnews.org Student workers "cannot educate unless we have everything we need to live outside our role as educators."

Labor Video Projecct (2022-01-30). Victory To South African Clover Workers & Smash Israeli Union Busting! For Workers Control. indybay.org As part of an international day of action on January 27, 2022 for the 5,000 South African Clover workers actions took place all over the world including in San Francisco at the Israeli consulate. The workers have been on strike since November 22, 2022.

Luis Feliz Leon (2022-01-30). Mexico Auto Workers Are Set for Landmark Union Vote at General Motors Plant. truthout.org This was first published at Workers at a massive General Motors plant in central Mexico will vote in a landmark election this week to decide which union will represent the plant's 6,500 workers. A victory by the independent union there would be a big step toward breaking the stranglehold of the employer-friendly unions that have long dominated Mexico's labor scene. | Employees at th…

In Defense of Liberation! (2022-01-30). Morning Commute w/In Defense of Liberation (1/30/2022). anchor.fm This is the very first officially titled "morning commute with in defense of liberation!" in this episode we talk about all sorts of ongoing movements, and how we must fight to defend the revolutionary potential and human right of people fighting for self-determination and liberation. We talk about also the need to build connections and community, and just other stuff that's on my mind. From now on all episodes titled morning commute will be without a necessary central focus, me talking on my drive to work. Let me know what you think!

Revolution Books (2022-01-30). Sunday 1/30: America's Torture Chamber: 20 Years of Guantanamo… It Must Be Closed NOW! indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

_____ (2022-01-30). The Global Links Of The Recent Escalation In The Yemen Conflict. popularresistance.org The last month has seen a drastic escalation in the war in Yemen. According to the UN, January will most likely be the month with the highest ever casualties reported since the war began in 2014. The January 21 strike on a prison in Sa'ada which killed 91 people marked the highest death toll in a single strike in the last three years. The number of airstrikes carried out by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition last December was already the highest in years. In all likelihood, this figure will be even higher by the end of January. | On the other hand, the Houthis have demonstrated their capacity and willingness to retal…

Editor (2022-01-30). ACLU Demands 'Truly Systemic Overhaul' of U.S. Civilian Harm Policies. scheerpost.com By Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams After the Pentagon chief moved to improve how the U.S. mitigates and responds to civilian harm, the ACLU on Thursday urged more sweeping action in light of recent tragedies, including an August drone strike that killed 10 people in Afghanistan. "While a serious Defense Department focus on civilian harm is long overdue and welcome, it's …

_____ (2022-01-30). How Politicians Are Papering Over Social Problems Caused By Capitalism. popularresistance.org The declines of U.S. capitalism and of its imperial position provoke fear among its mainstream politicians. Their response, in large part, has been to deny that any such decline is happening. These politicians do this partly by acting as though the U.S. remains in the globally dominant position it occupied in the second half of the 20th century. Thus, to maintain this illusion, they start wars in the Middle East, maintain military bases in dozens of countries, intervene in other countries at will and describe the U.S. as the global guarantor of peace, security, and democracy. | Yet these U.S. politicians also sen…

Paul Haeder (2022-01-30). Requiem for a People-Centered World Dream. dissidentvoice.org My dream is to invite a reader into a room and pour a nice cup of tea . . . and then nail the door shut. — author Charles Bowden, 2010 NPR interview There is so much daily that expresses so much about the slippery slopes we are in globally because of predatory-penury-parasitic-pugilistic capitalism. In the …

Brenda Norrell (2022-01-30). Nevada and Canada: Laboratories for Genocide and Death. indybay.org The United States government left a trail of cancer and death for Western Shoshone during secret atomic bomb testing, Western Shoshone Ian Zabarte tells the White House. In Canada, the government and churches carried out the systematic kidnapping, starvation, torture and murder of Native children who were incarcerated in residential schools. As unmarked graves of children are discovered, the horrific abuse and medical experiments are described by The Tyee media. Mohawk Mothers are holding McGill responsible in Montreal for UKUltra torture and mind control experiments on Mohawk children conducted by the Canadian g…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-01-30). There are No Untouchables: Another Gasoline Mafia Dismantled in Venezuela. orinocotribune.com In another blow to the gasoline mafia in Venezuela, within the framework of the "Iron Hand" operation against fuel mafias, several officials from Anzoátegui state were captured for being involved in fuel smuggling. Among the arrested individuals is the mayor of Independencia municipality (Soledad), Carlos Rafael Vidal Bolívar; as well as the Superior Prosecutor of Bolívar state, Manuel Junior Gil da Silva. | This was reported by the Venezuelan Minister for Petroleum, Tareck El Aissami. He also informed about the arrest of a captain of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), Antonio José Barrios González, commander o…

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2022-01-30: News Headlines

Revolution Books (2022-01-30). Sunday 1/30: America's Torture Chamber: 20 Years of Guantanamo… It Must Be Closed NOW! indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-01-29). Independence, self-reliance salient achievements of IR. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — Deputy Coordinator of Army Ideological-Political Organization said that independence, self-credence and self-reliance are of the salient achievements of the Islamic Revolution of Iran.

Rick Rozoff (2022-01-29). Stoltenberg touts new French-led deployments to Black Sea, readiness of 40,000-troop strike force. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO Command of USS Harry S. Truman Sends Signal to Russia, Says Secretary General Stoltenberg Putting an American aircraft carrier strike group under alliance control should be a "clear message to Russia" that its 30 members are unwavering in their commitment to come to each other's defense if attacked, NATO's secretary general said Friday. Jens …

sputniknews (2022-01-29). US Turned NATO Into Force That Carries Out Washington's Military Agenda, Anti-War Group Says. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – NATO became an organisation devoid of a purpose after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the United States decided to continue building the alliance and turned it into a force that executes Washington's military agenda, United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) coordinator Joe Lombardo told Sputnik.

_____ (2022-01-29). Endless War Is The Empire's Last Dance. popularresistance.org This moment of history will be remembered for the massive shift in global relations currently underway. On one side stands the forces of peace and multipolarity led by China, Russia, and their allies in the Global South. On the other is the forces of empire and conquest spearheaded by the U.S. and its allies. The conflict between these two "camps" is about much more than competing visions for planetary development. World politics have transitioned from a war between socialism and capitalism to a protracted struggle for the survival of humanity itself. | The forces of Empire have reached the following conclusion:…

Dave DeCamp (2022-01-29). US Naval Presence in Black Sea More Than Doubled in 2021 Compared to 2020. news.antiwar.com According to data compiled in The report said US warships spent about 182 collective days in the Black Sea in 2021. Last year, Stars & Stripes reported that While the 2021 numbers were significantly higher than the previous year, they were still lower than 2014, when the US-backed coup in Kyiv led Russia to take Crimea. In 2014, US warships spent about…

TASS (2022-01-29). Putin orders to consider ways to remove organizations from foreign agent list. tass.com Russian President also ordered to analyze provisions regulating the activities of media outlets acting as foreign agents, together with Roskomnadzor, the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights and the all-Russia public organization The Union of Journalists of Russia"

Anonymous103 (2022-01-29). Navy Confirms Newly Emerged Video Shows F-35 Crash In South China Sea. southfront.org F-35C Lightning II carrier variant joint strike fighter Source: U.S. Navy | Originally published on The US Navy has confirmed that an image and video that emerged in social media this week showing the crash landing of an advanced F-35C stealth fighter is authentic. It crashed and apparently rolled off the USS Vinson aircraft carrier and landed in the South China Sea on Monday. | The US Navy is re…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-01-29). Honduras Resumes Diplomatic Relations with Venezuela. orinocotribune.com With the start of the mandate of President Xiomara Castro de Zelaya in Honduras, the Republic of Honduras normalized diplomatic relations with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The Honduran leader took office this Thursday, January 27, with the announcement of very innovative measures to address the crisis of extreme poverty in her country, as well as a number of progressive measures in domestic and foreign policies. | The political, economic and cultural exchange and cooperation between Venezuela and Honduras was interrupted since 2019 when former President Juan Orlando Hernández terminated relations with th…

Betsey Stone (2022-01-29). Socialist Workers Party conference launches 2022 California campaign. themilitant.com LOS ANGELES — Socialist Workers Party members in California met in a statewide convention here Jan. 23 and voted to run Eleanor García, a retired aerospace worker and party leader with long experience in working-class struggles, for U.S. Senate and Joel Britton, a longtime SWP campaigner, unionist, and member of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 125, for governor. | As part of the party's bold national campaign in 2022, the candidates will present the need for the working class to fight today's attacks by the bosses and their political parties, and to chart a course to take poli…

WSWS (2022-01-29). American Trotskyist and retired General Motors worker Jim Lawrence dies at age 83 (February 18, 1938—January 25, 2022). wsws.org Lawrence made an immense contribution to bringing the Trotskyist perspective to a key section of the American working class.

WSWS (2022-01-29). American Trotskyist and retired General Motors worker Jim Lawrence dies at age 84 (January 18, 1938—January 25, 2022). wsws.org Lawrence made an immense contribution to bringing the Trotskyist perspective to a key section of the American working class.

WSWS (2022-01-29). Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee joins with autoworkers to demand the shutdown of schools and nonessential businesses. wsws.org As Michigan's largest school district, Detroit, plans to resume face-to-face schooling, teachers, school workers, students and autoworkers map out the fight to unify the working class against the deadly school reopenings.

_____ (2022-01-29). The Life Of Clyde Bellecourt (1936—2022). popularresistance.org I had short hair the first time I met Clyde Bellecourt. It was Native American Heritage Month in 2005. Native students had invited him and fellow members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) to the University of South Dakota after police plastered posters on campus depicting a poorly drawn "Native American male" who had allegedly attacked a woman. The description was vague enough to implicate just about anyone; several students and university workers were called in for questioning.

Bryant Arroyo (2022-01-29). Time for justice / Urgent need for change in PA sentencing system. workers.org The writer is currently incarcerated at Pennsylvania's SCI Coal Township. The Families Against Mandatory Minimum (FAMM) report points out the "irrational and ineffective" sentencing laws in Pennsylvania, which send too many people to prison for far longer than necessary. Sentencing laws that severely limit pathways to relief from excessive and . . . |

G. Dunkel (2022-01-29). Cuban doctor kidnapped in Haiti — her community protests. workers.org Jan. 23 — Dr. Daymara Pérez is a Cuban doctor who has worked in Haiti since 2019, currently at the Notre Dame Hospital in Petit-Goâve, south of Port-au-Prince. Ten days ago she was on a public bus traveling through the Martissant neighborhood, on the southern edge of Port-au-Prince, when the . . . |

WSWS (2022-01-29). Bridge collapses in Pittsburgh ahead of Biden's visit touting scaled-back infrastructure bill. wsws.org Rescue workers working with ropes and creating a human chain were able to get the two passengers and driver off the bus as well as the other people who were in their cars.

A Guest Author (2022-01-29). The 'next Cuba' will not be colonized. workers.org The following, lightly edited article first appeared in Resumen Latinoamericano — English Jan. 18, 2022. By Pedro Jorge Velázquez There are failures that I guess you get a taste for, or how can it be possible for the defeated to regenerate into new forms of failure? Are they guided by . . . |

WSWS (2022-01-29). Ford Kansas City Assembly workers speak out against mass infections and deaths in the plant. wsws.org More information continues to emerge about deaths at KCAP, including the death of Lamar Taylor, a worker who collapsed in the plant and subsequently died shortly before Thanksgiving.

WSWS (2022-01-29). An open letter from Detroit teachers to autoworkers: Close the schools and plants to save lives, not profits! wsws.org Our committee calls for joint action between educators, autoworkers and all workers to close schools and nonessential workplaces, with full social supports for all affected workers, as part of a broader strategy to stop the pandemic worldwide.

Valerie Johnson (2022-01-29). After 10-day strike, Colorado grocery workers make gains. themilitant.com DENVER — After a solid and lively 10-day strike against King Soopers grocery-store bosses by 8,400 United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 members from Boulder to Parker, Colorado, and the greater metro area here, a majority voted in big union meetings to approve a new three-year contract Jan. 24. | It will also be presented to thousands more union members at King Soopers in Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Grand Junction and northern Colorado whose contracts run out over the next couple weeks. | King Soopers is owned by Kroger, the country's largest grocery store chain. | While all the details of the contract…

WSWS (2022-01-29). Amazon worker denied sick leave during holiday peak. wsws.org Amazon and other companies have cut the amount of time workers can receive sick pay due to COVID-19 infection.

Fight Back (2022-01-29). Minnesota: Hennepin County blinks, makes better contract offer to AFSCME. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis MN – A looming strike was averted when AFSCME Local 2822 came to a mediated settlement with Hennepin County, January 27. The agreement comes one day after Local 34 also reached a tentative deal. Workers represented by these two locals will begin voting on the contract February 2, the first day workers were poised to walk out. The bargaining committees of both locals are unanimously recommending a yes vote on the new contract offer. | This comes after a mediation session on January 18, where Hennepin County made a worse offer than members previously rejected in December. After that mediation session, L…

Seth Galinsky (2022-01-29). 'Cuba's socialist revolution sets an example for working people'. themilitant.com Halfway through the Jan. 1 to Feb. 15 international "I worked in hospitals for decades," Militant reader Jannie Jackson told SWP members Kaitlin Estill and Jacquie Henderson when they stopped by her home in Cincinnati Jan. 18…

WSWS (2022-01-29). An interview with Mark Kruger, author of The St. Louis Commune of 1877: Communism in the Heartland. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke with Mark Kruger about his new book, the 1619 Project, and the current state of American politics.

_____ (2022-01-29). Anti-Fascism At The Intersection Of Ella Baker And Clara Zetkin. popularresistance.org This article is a continuation of a previous one titled "Rethinking Revolution for an Age of Resurgent Fascism." Ella Baker's work leading the Young Negroes' Cooperative League (YNCL) from 1930-1933 is here used to further inform today's anti-fascism. Overall, this article relates Baker's work to the dissenting views of German Communist Party (KPD) co-founder Clara Zetkin, specifically her views on fascism and the systemic alternative she referred to as a "Soviet Congress for a Soviet Germany." This was a federation of autonomous councils formed in neighborhoods and workplaces for mutual aid, self-defense, and as…

_____ (2022-01-29). Michael Ratner Was A Revolutionary Lawyer Like No Other. popularresistance.org When Michael Ratner died in 2016, the world lost one of the great human rights lawyers of the past century. A descendant of holocaust survivors, Ratner embodied the courage and integrity that is often sorely lacking among his peers in the legal field, taking on cases that seemed impossible to win, but were always essential to protecting human rights. He served as president of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) as well as the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), and spent much of his life advocating for the protection of civil liberties and civil rights. | One of his greatest achiev…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-01-29). To the People of Cuba: Is Washington Preparing a "Soft Coup"? The Co-optation of Cuban Intellectuals. globalresearch.ca The Cuban Revolution constitutes a fundamental landmark in the history of humanity, which challenges the legitimacy of global capitalism. In all major regions of the World, the Cuban revolution has been a source of inspiration and struggle…

Pratyush Chandra (2022-01-29). On the significance of the polemical in Marxism. mronline.org A polemic for revolutionaries is a militant dialogic practice to reveal the contradictions of a position, hammering it down to break open its hardened crust in order to rescue life from the stifle of the canon.

Plus News (2022-01-29). Parliamentarians Challenged on Global Peace. plusnews.ug Members of Parliament globally have been tasked on the need to promote Peace, Unity and co-existence. Opening the 8th Plenary Session of the International Parliament for Tolerance and Peace organized by Global Council for Tolerance and Peace under the stewardship of H.E Ahmed Bin Mohamed Al Jarwan in collaboration with the Union of Comoros recently, …

WSWS (2022-01-29). Tesla-Berlin: Build an independent rank-and-file committee instead of electing a union-led works council! wsws.org The Tesla Gigafactory 4 in Gràºnheide, north of Berlin, is to start production in March. Tesla wants a works council elected on February 28.

Black Lives Matter, Demand Justice (2022-01-29). Thursday 1/27: Call to Action: Ensuring a First Black Woman SCOTUS Justice Organizing Call. indybay.org Online event…

Editor (2022-01-29). Brazil Elections 2022: Greenwald debates Mier. mronline.org On January 24, Brasil Wire editor Brian Mier appeared on Eoin Higgins podcast, Flashpoint, to present his analysis of Brazilian Congressman David Miranda and his husband Glenn Greenwald's abandonment of the PSOL (Socialism and Liberty Party) for the moderate PDT.

WSWS (2022-01-29). Southern US educators and students meet to discuss campaign for remote learning. wsws.org On Sunday, the Southern Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committees held a meeting to discuss the dangerous conditions in schools and the international strike wave by students and educators.

Ssebunya David (2022-01-29). AFCON 2021: Cameroon defeat underdogs Gambia to grace semis. plusnews.ug Cameroon are through to the semi-finals of their Africa Cup of Nations after Karl Toko-Ekambi's double fired them to a 2-0 win over Gambia on Saturday in the hosts' first game at the tournament since the deadly crush in Yaounde. French-born Lyon striker Toko-Ekambi scored two goals in the space of eight minutes at the …

Anonymous669 (2022-01-29). Houthis Claim 40 UAE-Backed Fighters Were Killed OR Wounded In Missile Strike On Shabwah (Photos). southfront.org Click to see full-size image. Source: the Houthis media wing | Early on January 29, the Houthis (Ansar Allah) announced that they had targeted a large gathering of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-backed Giants Brigades in the district of Usaylan in the Yemeni province of Shabwah with a ballistic missile. | In a brief statement, Brig. Gen. Yahya Sari, a spokesman for the group, said that the missile strike killed or wounded 40 fighters and commanders of the Giants Brigades. Several military vehicles wer…

Staff (2022-01-29). Pentagon reacts to problem of civilians dying in US drone strikes. rt.com A 'civilian protection center' will address the longstanding issue of so-called 'collateral damage' | US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin plans to establish a "civilian protection center of excellence" in order to monitor and respond to "drone strike lessons learned" and standardize both the reporting of strikes and the compensation of victims, he revealed in a memo to Pentagon staffers on Thursday. | The undersecretary of defense for policy, the comptroller, and other offices received the memo, with instructions to respond within 90 days with their ideas on how to reduce civilian deaths going forward. They'v…

Anonymous103 (2022-01-29). Military Situation In Yemen On January 29, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The Liaison and Coordination Officers' Operations Room (loyal to Ansar Allah) reported 100 ceasefire violations in al-Hudaydah in the past 24 hours; | On January 28, warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition conducted 7 airstrikes on the Jubah district; | On January 28, warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition conducted 14 airstrikes on the Wadi district; | On January 28, warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition conducted 3 airstrikes on the Khab and Shaaf district; | On January 29, cl…

WSWS (2022-01-29). With 900,000 dead from COVID-19, US capitalism doubles down on mass infection. wsws.org Even as thousands die each day, the Biden administration and US media are demanding the end of any remaining restrictions on the spread of COVID-19.

Julia Conley (2022-01-29). Manchin Got Huge Donation From GOP Megadonor After Tanking Build Back Better. truthout.org After he announced in December he would not be supporting President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Act, Sen. Joe Manchin's political action committee received the maximum allowable contribution from billionaire Republican donor Ken Langone. | The Hill

Fight Back (2022-01-29). Philippines: Condemn cold-blooded murder of NDFP Peace Consultant Pedro Codaste. fightbacknews.org The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns in the strongest terms the Armed Forces of the Philippines, particularly its Eastern Mindanao Command, the 4th Infantry Division and its fascist troops, for the abduction and murder of National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) Peace Consultant Pedro Codaste (Ka Gonyong/Ka Serv) and his companion Ka Globe/Sandro (also recovering from battle wounds) which happened sometime between January 19 and January 25. | According to initial reports, Ka Gonyong was detached from the NPA since August 2021 to convalesce from various ailments and was staying in a hou…

James O'Neill (2022-01-29). Australians Look in Vain for Signs of an Independent Foreign Policy. dissidentvoice.org One of the most disturbing features of the contemporary political scene is the almost complete absence of any difference in the foreign policy stance of the Coalition and Labor parties. It was not always so. The Whitlam government of 19 72—75 tried very hard to demonstrate a foreign policy that distinguished them from that of …

The Lancet (2022-01-29). [Editorial] Neglected tropical diseases: ending the neglect of populations. thelancet.com 2022 sees the tenth anniversary of the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), a pivotal event at which governments, pharmaceutical companies, foundations, and NGOs committed to collaborate in their efforts to stop NTDs. This initiative was inspired by the WHO NTD Roadmap 2012—2020, a plan for the control, elimination, and eradication of 17 neglected tropical diseases by 2020. Not all of the targets were met, but much progress has been made. In 2020, 600 million fewer people required interventions against NTDs than in 2010, and 42 countries eliminated at least one NTD.

Anonymous Contributor (2022-01-29). Indigenous Prisoner in Struggle Marcelino Ruíz Gómez Shows Solidarity with Journalists Under Attack in Mexico. itsgoingdown.org Statement from Indigenous prisoner in struggle Marcelino Ruíz Gómez showing solidarity with journalists in Mexico after three journalists have already been killed just this year To the Zapatista Army of National Liberation To the Human Rights Defenders To the National and International Sixth To the National Indigenous Congress To the Indigenous Governing Council To the…

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2022-01-29: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-01-29). Amazon worker denied sick leave during holiday peak. wsws.org Amazon and other companies have cut the amount of time workers can receive sick pay due to COVID-19 infection.

WSWS (2022-01-29). With 900,000 dead from COVID-19, US capitalism doubles down on mass infection. wsws.org Even as thousands die each day, the Biden administration and US media demand the end of any remaining restrictions on the spread of COVID-19.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-01-29). Freedom Convoy 2022 in Solidarity with the Truck Drivers: What Canada Needs Is the "Political Quarantine" of Justin Trudeau. globalresearch.ca A mass movement against the Covid mandate is unfolding coast to coast across Canada in solidarity with cross-border truck drivers. Tens of thousands of people will be joining the truck drivers in Ottawa.

Rainer Shea (2022-01-29). Haiti's Migrant Crisis & the Blind Eye to Imperialism's Sins. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Jan 27, 2022 | Last year, when photos came out of Texas border patrols riding on horseback to use whip-like reins for intimidating Black Haitian migrants, the United States was confronted with an uncomfortable reality about how our society is set up. | Images like these were supposed to be confined to America's era of slavery, yet here they were today. What factors had led to the situation revealed in these photos? Why had these migrants fled their homes? How much was the United States to blame? Beyond the unnerving optics, how many parallels were there between the context behind the border…

Editor (2022-01-29). The 13th Amendment's Fatal Flaw Created Modern-Day Slavery. scheerpost.com In this rare photograph taken in 2000, prisoners at the Ferguson Unit in Texas are seen working in the prison's cotton fields. By Kwasi Konadu and Clifford C. Campbell / The 13th Amendment is having a moment of reckoning. Considered one of the crowning achievements of American…

Workers World Party (2022-01-28). People who use drugs demand harm-reduction strategies. workers.org By AEzra El, Devin Cole and Princess Harmony Roughly five-and-a-half minutes. Statistically speaking, that's the interval between every life lost in the United States to a fatal overdose. Science March, Boston, March 2017.WW Photo: Steve Kirschbaum. In the past several years, we have seen a radical increase in the rate . . . |

WSWS (2022-01-28). "I want to just be treated like a human!"—BNSF workers voice opposition to punishing schedules. wsws.org Opposition is continuing to build among workers at the railway BNSF to a punitive new attendance policy which exposes workers to discipline and termination.

Staff (2022-01-28). U.S.-Backed Drug War Fuels Murders of Journalists in Mexico, Most Dangerous Country for Media Workers. democracynow.org We go to Tijuana, Mexico, where a wave of murdered journalists has raised international alarm and prompted nationwide protests. The three most recently murdered are José Luis Gamboa Arenas, Alfonso Margarito Martínez Esquivel and Lourdes Maldonado López. We speak with Jan-Albert Hootsen, Mexico correspondent at the Committee to Protect Journalists, who attended López's funeral on Thursday in Tijuana and says Mexican authorities' investigations and security measures have proven "woefully insufficient." He adds that violence against journalists exploded after the Mexican government launched its U.S.-backed war on d…

WSWS (2022-01-28). Workers at Trinity-Mercy Hospital in Muskegon, Michigan demand new contract by January 31. wsws.org Health care workers at Trinity Health-Mercy hospital in Muskegon held a rally on January 17 to demand that the hospital chain negotiate a new contract by January 31 that includes wage increases and improved working conditions.

Kathy Durkin (2022-01-28). 49 years after Roe v. Wade: Fight for reproductive justice! workers.org The right to access safe, legal abortions is in grave danger. On the 49th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling allowing access to the procedure in the case of Roe v. Wade, on Jan. 22, 1973, this fundamental human right is being challenged as never before. This landmark ruling, . . . |

WSWS (2022-01-28). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org One-day national strike across public sector in France over pay and pensions as wave of strikes continues in healthcare; South African Clover dairy workers' strike against job and pay cuts continues into tenth week, joined by other affected sectors; Lebanese teachers begin indefinite walkout against deteriorating conditions and for higher pay…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-01-28). South Africa: Unions, Palestine solidarity groups escalate demand to nationalize Clover. peoplesdispatch.org On January 27, pickets and rallies were held in several cities of South Africa in support of the workers' demand to nationalize the dairy company Clover…

WSWS (2022-01-28). RMT union suppresses action by London Underground workers as Johnson government in meltdown. wsws.org With Boris Johnson's premiership hanging by a thread amid the deepest political crisis since the 1930s, the RMT union has thrown the Tories a lifeline.

WSWS (2022-01-28). Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin removes last remaining pandemic safety measures, declares state "open for business" wsws.org Youngkin has eliminated worker, student, and patient COVID-19 protections, while also making Virginia the latest Republican-led state to begin the process of banning "divisive concepts" in the classroom.

WSWS (2022-01-28). Hospital employees at Mercy Hospital in Muskegon, Michigan demand new contract by January 31. wsws.org Health care workers at Trinity Health-Mercy hospital in Muskegon held a rally on January 17 to demand that the hospital chain negotiate a new contract by January 31 that includes wage increases and improved working conditions.

Orion Rummler (2022-01-28). Trans Workers Face a Significant Wage Gap, Poll Finds. truthout.org Originally published by Transgender and gender-nonconforming people are among the lowest paid LGBTQ+ people working full time in the United States, according to a The HRC found that trans men an…

Benjamin Norton (2022-01-28). Russia strengthens 'military-technical cooperation' with Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba amid US threats. multipolarista.com Russia said it is expanding "military-technical cooperation" with Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, after Putin had phone calls with the presidents of the three socialist governments, which have been targeted by illegal US sanctions and coup attempts.

Alex Bainbridge (2022-01-28). Kuku Yalanji woman Pat O'Shane: 'I'm fired up about education, injustice and sovereignty'. greenleft.org.au Distinguished Kuku Yalanji woman Pat O'Shane is running for Socialist Alliance in the seat of Leichhardt. A retired barrister and a former New South Wales magistrate, she spoke to Alex Bainbridge about what fires her up and why she decided to contest the federal election.

Editor (2022-01-28). Mike Taber (ed) — Under the Socialist Banner: Resolutions of the Second International, 1889-1912. mronline.org Mike Taber has edited for the first time the resolutions adopted between 1889 and 1912 by the nine congresses celebrated by the Socialist International, which is also known as the Second International.

Staff (2022-01-28). Honduras hacia una refundación socialista y democrática. cubadebate.cu Junto a Bolivia y Venezuela, Cuba estuvo entre las naciones hermanas de Honduras que más fue vitoreada por los miles y miles de personas que desde la noche del miércoles hicieron filas en las entradas del principal estadio de fútbol de Tegucigalpa para participar en la toma de posesión de la primera mujer en asumir ese cargo en la historia local.

W. T. Whitney, Jr. (2022-01-28). U.S. government pays big money for bad news about Cuba. mronline.org The cruder U.S. methods for destroying Cuba's revolutionary government—military attacks, bombings of hotels and a fully-loaded airplane, violent attacks on officials, biological warfare—did not work. Nor has economic blockade, which of course continues. A more subtle approach also exists. Like the blockade, its purpose is to cause despair and then dissent.

Editor (2022-01-28). Michael Smith and Zachary Sklar: Michael Ratner Was a Revolutionary Lawyer Like No Other. scheerpost.com Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington DC, 11th January 2006. [Photo by Jonathan McIntosh] | Click to subscribe on: When Michael Ratner died in 2016, the world lost one of the great human rights lawyers of the past century. A descendant of holocaust survivors, Ratner embodied the courage an…

Brittani Banks (2022-01-28). Theranos Verdict: In the U.S., It Is Fine to Lie to Consumers but Not to Investors. independentmediainstitute.org The verdict on Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes, who was tried for fraud in a U.S. court, was guilty. Theranos was a company set up by Holmes and her former partner Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani and had promised to revolutionize blood testing. Their advanced biotech equipment—they claimed—would provide results for a whole battery of …

Revolution Books (2022-01-28). Sunday 1/30: America's Torture Chamber: 20 Years of Guantanamo… It Must Be Closed NOW! indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

Editor (2022-01-28). 'Das Kapital' in Kiswahili. mronline.org Joachim Mwami on translating Marx—and Marxism—into the vocabulary of East Africa…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-28). Conversations on the Sudan Coup. libya360.wordpress.com Kribsoo Diallo This interview was originally published on Toward Freedom. It's part of a 2 of a two-part series on the Sudan coup. The first part can be read here. Certain interviewees chose to use their first name or initials because of security risks. Muzan Alneel, Marxist Political Activist and Blogger___ Krisboo Diallo: What is your opinion about the…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-28). Marxism and the Black Caribbean. libya360.wordpress.com Transcript Onye: The main impact of anti-communism and online left discourse has been serious strikes to principled anti imperialism, particularly in Western nations like the United Snakes. You get to the point where China, for example, or Cuba or Vietnam have clearly managed the pandemic much better: have prioritized the health and well-being of their populations,…

WSWS (2022-01-28). Australian university union tries to stifle opposition to unsafe campus reopenings. wsws.org Far from opposing the government-management "return to campus" drive, the NTEU is appealing to the employers to develop "risk assessment" plans.

WSWS (2022-01-28). Union trying to cancel South Australian teachers' strike against dangerous school reopening. wsws.org The union is trying to prevent even a token one-day strike, on the basis of "progress" from the government that amounts to nothing.

David Giesen (2022-01-28). Saturday 1/29: A walking tour through the Tenderloin and Union Square neighborhoods. indybay.org American Youth Hostel | 312 Mason Street | San Francisco | (meet in the lobby)…

Pavan Kulkarni (2022-01-28). Global mobilizations mark two months of the strike at South Africa's dairy giant. peoplesdispatch.org Unions and Palestinian solidarity organizations have escalated actions calling for the South African government to divest from Clover the Milco consortium, which is majority-owned by an Israeli company operating in occupied territories of Palestine.

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