2021-11-03: News Headlines

Martin Hart-Landsberg (2021-11-03). Economic inequality means retirement insecurity for most U.S. households. mronline.org This is far from a "hot take": financial wealth in the United States is highly concentrated, with most households, especially Black and Hispanic households, owning few financial assets…

WSWS (2021-11-03). Over 700 University of Michigan faculty sign open letter protesting administration witch hunt against composer and Professor Bright Sheng. wsws.org The open letter from UM faculty takes a principled stand in defense of Sheng, demanding that the university reinstate Sheng to his undergraduate course in composition and make a public apology both for the sanctions taken against him and the outrageous charges of racism.

Ann Brown (2021-11-03). MAGA Ain't Playin': New Poll Shows 30 Percent Of Republicans Say Violence May Be Necessary To Save United States. moguldom.com Almost one in three Republicans polled in a recent study agree with this statement, "Because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence to save our country." The findings come from the Public Religion Research Institute, a nonprofit research and education organization that studies political issues as they …

Prabhat Patnaik (2021-11-03). The homogenisation of education. mronline.org Education in post-independence India was supposed not just to provide knowledge and skills to students, but also to facilitate the process of "nation-building" (to use a clumsy word).

WSWS (2021-11-03). Rank-and-file Canadian educators discuss "How to end the pandemic" webinar, vow support for John Deere strike. wsws.org At the latest meeting of the Cross-Canada Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee, education workers drew the connection between the fight to stop the pandemic and the need to unify their struggles with other sections of workers battling low wages and punishing working conditions.

Patrick Bond (2021-11-03). COP 26: End the Cynicism and Denial — Pt1. zcomm.org Governments and corporations around the world are fully aware of the danger of the climate crisis. They are not lacking information or education; it's all out there…

Editor (2021-11-03). What to expect from COP26: climate action, climate justice or greenwashing? mronline.org If Karl Marx and Frederick Engels were writing the Communist Manifesto today, it is not inconceivable that they would begin with the sentence: "A spectre is haunting humanity—the spectre of extinction."

Janine Jackson (2021-11-03). 'Every turn in this case has been another brick wall, and behind it is Chevron'. mronline.org CounterSpin interview with Paul Paz y Miño on Chevron vs. Steven Donziger.

Editor (2021-11-03). Cuban Leader: The U.S. Government is the true organizer and promoter of the provocation planned for November in Cuba (+video). mronline.org Polanco Fuentes drew attention to how as soon as the march was announced, it received public support from U.S. legislators, political operators and the media that encourage actions against the Cuban people, try to destabilize the country and urge military intervention.

Rachel Evans (2021-11-03). Forum discusses defending public housing in NSW. greenleft.org.au Hands off Glebe and Action for Public Housing hosted an online forum to discuss how best to defend New South Wales public housing from the state government's plan to sell it off. Rachel Evans reports.

Isheka N. Harrison (2021-11-02). Philly Becomes First City To Ban Police From Stopping Drivers For Low-Level Offenses. moguldom.com A new law will ban police from stopping drivers for low-level offenses in the city of Philadelphia, making it less likely that motorists get pulled over for "driving while Black." Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney is preparing to sign the Driving Equality Bill into law on Wednesday. The legislation was passed 14-2 by the Philadelphia City …

Kim Petersen (2021-11-02). Should One Stand up for Western Values? dissidentvoice.org What are western values? One often hears a representative of a western country praising its western values. In a 2017 statement Canada's prime minister Justin Trudeau adumbrated Canadian values as "openness, compassion, equality, and inclusion." Given the psychological torture that Julian Assange has been subjected to over the years at the hands of western nations …

WSWS (2021-11-02). SEP holds online meeting to fight Australia's new anti-democratic election laws. wsws.org Speakers called on workers and youth to join and build the Socialist Equality Party in order to reject government dictates to "live with the virus" and embrace the promotion of militarism and war.

Special to Workers World (2021-11-02). International Tribunal finds U.S. guilty of crimes against humanity. workers.org The International Tribunal on Human Rights Abuses Against Black, Brown and Indigenous Peoples was held Oct. 23-25 at The Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center in Washington Heights, New York City, aka Turtle Island, Lenape land. The main theme of the Tribunal was "We Still Charge . . . |

WSWS (2021-11-02). Right-wing New Brunswick government locks out 3,000 education workers amid public sector strike. wsws.org Premier Blaine Higgs has threatened to criminalize the public sector strike with back-to-work legislation, which could be tabled in the provincial legislature this week.

jamanetwork (2021-11-02). Author Surname Correction. jamanetwork.com In the Letter to the Editor titled "Therapeutic Drug Monitoring vs Standard Therapy During Infliximab Induction in Patients With Chronic Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases," published in the September 21, 2021, issue of JAMA, the first author's surname should have been listed as "Papamichael." This article was corrected online.

The Tricontinental (2021-11-02). Dossier No. 46: Big Tech and the current challenges facing the class struggle. mronline.org We cannot give ourselves the luxury of being technophobic, of negating the importance of technologies and their potential in the struggle. At the same time, we cannot believe in the idea that technology in itself will result in advances for the organised working class.

ecns.cn (2021-11-02). G20 urged to provide more COVID-19 vaccines to poor nations: report. ecns.cn Group of 20 (G20) nations faces growing pressure on offering poor nations more COVID-19 vaccines, said a news report on India's Wion News' online portal Sunday.

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