2023-04-30: News Headlines

channelnewsasia (2023-04-30). Commentary: Why menstrual leave could be bad for women. channelnewsasia.com Period leave policies not only fail to address the problems they set out to solve, but have also resulted in discrimination against female workers, says a King's College London researcher.

Malik Miah (2023-04-30). Harry Belafonte (1927-2023): A life of fighting racism and oppression. greenleft.org.au The remarkable and outstanding Harry Belafonte died on April 25 at the age of 96. He lived a full life as a political activist and in his later years encouraged young people to be more angry and rebellious, writes Malik Miah.

Shireen J Jejeebhoy (2023-04-29). Correspondence] Gender inclusivity in India's National Family Health Survey. thelancet.com India's National Family Health Surveys (NFHSs), the most recent of which was done in 2019—21 (NFHS-5),1 have provided rich insights into women's wellbeing and agency and the progress made in enabling women to claim their rights. The NFHSs have allowed policy makers, programme implementers, and researchers to track over time women's nutritional status, access to institutional delivery services, educational status, and agency—namely, participation in household decision making, freedom of movement, control over resources, freedom from spousal violence, and other indicators reflecting voice and choice.

Eleanor J. Bader (2023-04-29). Amid Attacks From Right, Racial Justice Curricula Gain Momentum in Blue States. truthout.org "The far right and MAGA adherents are stoking fear and diminishing our students' freedom to learn and our teachers' freedom to teach," says Becky Pringle, the president of the 3 million-member National Education Association (NEA). But Pringle emphasizes that these right-wing attacks are just one part of what is happening in the field of education. Teachers, administrators and students, she says… |

Fight Back (2023-04-29). FSU SDS statement on the administration's silence on HB 999. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from Florida State University Students for a Democratic Society. | On February 28th, House Bill 999 (HB999) was introduced in the Florida Legislature. Officially titled "Postsecondary Educational Institutions", this bill would drastically change the state of public education in Florida. HB999 explicitly attacks ethnic studies, multicultural student groups, tenured faculty, and more. Ethnic and multicultural studies were only instituted after hard-fought victories by student organizations in the 60's and 70s'. The bill's proposals will preve…

Olivia Wood, Left Voice. (2023-04-29). State Bills Would Eliminate Long-Term Job Security In Higher Education. popularresistance.org Last Tuesday, Republican legislators in the North Carolina state house of representatives proposed H.B. 715, the so-called "Higher Ed Modernization and Affordability Act." Its actual purpose is to destabilize academic jobs and exert political surveillance over North Carolina's sixteen public universities and 58 public community colleges. Last Thursday, the Texas state senate passed a similar bill, S.B. 18. | The North Carolina bill has several provisions, but the prospective elimination of tenure is getting the most attention. Under this provision, the tenure system would be eliminated for all new hires from July…




Tes Welborn (2023-04-30). Thursday 5/11: The City Budget: More Money for Police is certain but what about Transit and Health Care. indybay.org This will be a hybrid meeting. ‚Ä¢ Join us in person at Flywheel Coffee Roasters, 672 Stanyan Street (between Haight and Page) or join us online. Please note that seating is limited. | ‚Ä¢ To join the meeting online, copy this link: | zoom.us/j/97001985280?pwd=Nkx2UVFPSTRVWGVXUVZEbFRk | b0xwQT09 | ‚Ä¢ Or, with the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 970 0198 5280 | Passcode: 333544 | ‚Ä¢ Zoom also provides telephone numbers. These are NOT toll-free. | Check with your phone company before you incur charges. | ‚Ä¢ The closest number is: +1 66…

Speak Out Now (2023-04-30). Saturday 5/6: May Day 2023: International Workers Day, An Online Celebration. indybay.org Online meeting, see website for details…

ERA Coalition (2023-04-30). Thursday 4/27: #ERANow: Historic Senate Vote on Equal Rights Amendment & Press Conference Livestreams. indybay.org Online via livestream…

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-04-30). Saturday 5/20: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: "Debt" by David Graeber. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

Anonymous669 (2023-04-30). Russian Lancet Drones Decimate Five More Howitzers Of Kiev Forces (Videos). southfront.org MOSCOW REGION, RUSSIA — JUNE 25, 2019: A ZALA Lancet-3 attack drone developed by Kalashnikov Concern on display at the Army 2019 International Military Technical Forum at Patriot Park. Marina Lystseva/TASS | The Russian military continues to hunt down Ukrainian howitzers in the special operation zone with Lancet loitering munitions. | Between April 28 and 30, videos surfaced online showing recent Lancet strikes against an American-made M777 towed 155 mm howitzer, a Soviet-made 2A36 Giatsint-B to…

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-04-30). Saturday 5/13: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: "Debt," by David Graeber. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

Tes Welborn (2023-04-30). Thursday 5/11: The City Budget: More Money for Police is certain but what about Transit and Health Care. indybay.org This will be a hybrid meeting. ‚Ä¢ Join us in person at Flywheel Coffee Roasters, 672 Stanyan Street (between Haight and Page) or join us online. Please note that seating is limited. | ‚Ä¢ To join the meeting online, copy this link: | zoom.us/j/97001985280?pwd=Nkx2UVFPSTRVWGVXUVZEbFRk | b0xwQT09 | ‚Ä¢ Or, with the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 970 0198 5280 | Passcode: 333544 | ‚Ä¢ Zoom also provides telephone numbers. These are NOT toll-free. | Check with your phone company before you incur charges. | ‚Ä¢ The closest number is: +1 66…

Speak Out Now (2023-04-30). Saturday 5/6: May Day 2023: International Workers Day, An Online Celebration. indybay.org Online meeting, see website for details…

ERA Coalition (2023-04-30). Thursday 4/27: #ERANow: Historic Senate Vote on Equal Rights Amendment & Press Conference Livestreams. indybay.org Online via livestream…

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-04-30). Saturday 5/20: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: "Debt" by David Graeber. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

Anonymous669 (2023-04-30). Russian Lancet Drones Decimate Five More Howitzers Of Kiev Forces (Videos). southfront.org MOSCOW REGION, RUSSIA — JUNE 25, 2019: A ZALA Lancet-3 attack drone developed by Kalashnikov Concern on display at the Army 2019 International Military Technical Forum at Patriot Park. Marina Lystseva/TASS | The Russian military continues to hunt down Ukrainian howitzers in the special operation zone with Lancet loitering munitions. | Between April 28 and 30, videos surfaced online showing recent Lancet strikes against an American-made M777 towed 155 mm howitzer, a Soviet-made 2A36 Giatsint-B to…

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-04-30). Saturday 5/13: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: "Debt," by David Graeber. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

Editor (2023-04-29). Xi Jinping speaks with Zelensky about China's peace plan for Ukraine. mronline.org The president of China, Xi Jinping, and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, held their first contact since the beginning of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia in February 2022, as reported by the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

Editor (2023-04-29). Taiwan—A Pawn for U.S. War on China. mronline.org While the U.S.-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine continues unabated, the U.S. is preparing at breakneck speed for war with China, using Taiwan as the excuse. Taiwan, like Ukraine, is a pawn. The military and economic threats on both China and Russia are a desperate bid to quash the emergence of a multipolar world.

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2023-04-29). Who gains from a forever war in Ukraine? mronline.org The newly elected president of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel is an unusual European politician. He is the second president in his country with a military background but the first without political experience.

Anonymous669 (2023-04-29). In Video: Russian Helicopters Attack Ukrainian Positions With LMUR Missiles. southfront.org The LMUR missile. © Dmitry Litovkin/TASS | On April 28, video footage surfaced online showing Russian strikes against five fortified positions of Kiev forces in the special operation zone from the last few months. | The strikes were carried out by Mi-28NM attack helicopters armed with advanced Lightweight Multifunction Missile (LMUR), which is also known as the Izdeliye 305. The footage indicates that all five positions were hit with pinpoint accuracy. | The LMUR was especially developed by t…

Brenda Norrell (2023-04-30). Paiute Blocking Lithium Mine on Paiute Massacre Site in Nevada. indybay.org Fort McDermitt and Pyramid Lake Paiute are offering prayers, and blocking lithium mine construction by Lithium Americas of Canada, at the Paiute Massacre Site in northern Nevada. "They are digging right into the massacre site."

Tim Donaghy, Greenpeace. (2023-04-30). Report: US Liquefied Gas Flooding Europe. popularresistance.org The oil and gas industry has moved quickly to take advantage of the disruptions caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In 2022, a surge of shipments of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States was redirected to Europe in order to replace Russian pipeline gas and secure supplies for the European winter. By taking advantage of this short-term energy crisis, the industry has also secured financing and begun construction on numerous LNG terminals on both sides of the Atlantic that are designed to operate for decades to come.

Franco Turigliatto (2023-04-30). "Fascism is likely to return under the most innocent appearances" internationalviewpoint.org "For its part, the alternative left does not find itself in an easy situation either: the social context is very complicated and, despite a few positive social demonstrations, the reconstruction of strong movements of struggle remains somewhat uncertain." | – | / |

Richard Horton (2023-04-29). Comment] Offline: The aftermath of crisis. thelancet.com Although history might never repeat itself, crises do come along with alarming regularity. After a crisis, such as a pandemic, we understandably focus on how to prevent that particular calamity from recurring. But the next pandemic may not be for some years yet. It seems equally important that we examine what might happen in the quiet aftermath of crisis. After a shock like COVID-19, we should expect a different future to the one we would have had without the pandemic. There may be risks we wish to mitigate in this uncertain period of reconstruction.

teleSUR, SH (2023-04-30). Paraguayos celebran elecciones para definir el rumbo político del país. telesurtv.net Además del presidente, los paraguayos elegirán a 45 senadores, 80 diputados, 17 gobernadores, y las autoridades locales.

teleSUR, SH, JCM (2023-04-30). Avanzan con normalidad elecciones presidenciales en Paraguay. telesurtv.net Además del presidente, los paraguayos elegirán a 45 senadores, 80 diputados, 17 gobernadores, y las autoridades locales.

Staff (2023-04-29). Iniciará visita a Cuba el presidente de la Duma Estatal de Rusia. cubadebate.cu El presidente de la Duma Estatal (Cámara Baja del Parlamento de Rusia), Viacheslav Volodin, inicia este sábado una visita oficial a Cuba. Volodin, junto a diputados y representantes de varios departamentos, llegará a La Habana, donde se celebrará la primera reunión de la comisión de cooperación con la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular de Cuba.

teleSUR, dcdc, JDO (2023-04-29). Presidente de Argentina oficializa convocatoria a elecciones. telesurtv.net Este año se eligen en Argentina presidente y vice presidente, así como 130 diputados y senadores.

Rhoda Wilson (2023-04-30). No-one except the Globalists Will be allowed to Grow Old. expose-news.com The well-documented global slaughter of the elderly has shocked millions. In care homes, nursing homes and hospitals, the elderly were deliberately and cold-bloodedly murdered by doctors and nurses acting under "orders" from …

Derek Seidman (2023-04-30). Undercover Salting Isn't Just a Labor Strategy. It Has an Anti-War History Too. truthout.org The tactic of "salting" — getting a job with the specific intention of organizing your workplace — has recently been grabbing news headlines. In a recent Bloomberg story, labor journalist Josh Eidelson showed how the Starbucks union drive, which began in Western New York and continues across the country, was started by salts. Eidelson, as well as labor journalist Luis Feliz Leon and scholar Mie… |

Rising Tide North America, Popular Resistance. (2023-04-29). Organize A Stop Cop City Solidarity Action. popularresistance.org The organizing against Cop City continues. Over 70% of Atlanta residents do not want it. For years, the city residents have been outspoken in opposition, filling city halls, organizing tree sits, contacting every level of government. In response the Georgia State Police murdered a land defender, Tortuguita in January, and have since charged over 40 people with domestic terrorism. | Georgia police have responded with overwhelming and disproportionate violence. We know that this state repression will only grow with a huge influx of police into the majority Black city, and that cops from all over will be trained at…

ecns.cn (2023-04-30). Workers honored with May 1 Labor Medals. ecns.cn China honored 1,035 workers with National May 1 Labor Medals on Thursday for their outstanding work performance and contributions to the nation's manufacturing and industrial development.

Teresa Ghilarducci, Christopher D. Cook, Economic Policy Institute. (2023-04-30). More Older Workers Are Trapped In Crummy Jobs, Unable To Retire. popularresistance.org Over the past two decades, older workers have become an increasingly significant share of the labor force. In the economic recovery after the Great Recession of 2008—2009, four in 10 Americans ages 55 or older were in the labor force—the highest participation rate in half a century. As of 2020, these older workers made up 23.6% of the total U.S. workforce, the highest portion on record. | Why are so many older Americans unable to retire and so many working into old age to survive? For many, the answer isn't "because they want to." Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 50% of low-income older ho…

David Lassen, Trains. (2023-04-30). Unions Say Share Buybacks Should Stop Until Safety Improves. popularresistance.org Washington — A coalition of railroad labor unions today called on the Class I systems to pause their stock buyback programs and abandon the low-cost Precision Scheduled Railroading operating model until safety improves. | The 14 unions, which combined represent more than 100,000 railroad workers, claim that since 2015 the six publicly-traded freight railroads spent more than $165 billion in stock buybacks, which is $46 billion more than they invested in safety. | "For years, rail workers have been sounding the alarm about safety issues. It's time to listen to rail workers, not rail CEOs," the union coalitio…

John Perry, Jill Clark-Gollub, Council on Hemispheric Affairs. (2023-04-30). Nicaragua: A History Of US Intervention And Resistance. popularresistance.org The latest book by labor and human rights attorney, Daniel Kovalik, Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention and Resistance (2023, Clarity Press, 292 pages), is a worthy addition to the author's collection of works on countries targeted by US imperialism, such as Venezuela, Russia, and Iran. While giving readers a thoughtful and much fuller picture than one can glean from the corporate media, this volume tells an engaging tale based on personal experience and extensive research. | Dan Kovalik's love for Nicaragua is not only palpable, but very important in the telling of his story from a perspective shared by many…

the Odessa Solidarity Campaign, Popular Resistance. (2023-04-30). Statement On The Ninth Anniversary Of The Odessa Massacre. popularresistance.org Each year, the Odessa Solidarity Campaign has promoted actions on May 2 to mark the date in 2014 when a right-wing mob led by openly fascist organizations murdered at least 42 anti-fascists at the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine. | The Odessa Massacre took place just a few months after the violent coup that replaced a pro-Russian president with a pro-U.S. one. Not surprisingly, the U.S. was heavily involved in promoting the coup. | Today Ukraine has an authoritarian government that openly collaborates with neo-Nazi organizations, incorporating them into its military and promoting the memory of Ukrainian…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-04-30). Science Saturday: COVID-19 — the pandemic that's forever changed laboratory testing. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Like many people throughout the world, Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., remembers exactly where he was and what he was doing when COVID-19 was classified as a pandemic. "Those first few months of the pandemic will be forever ingrained in my memory," he says. For Dr. Binnicker, director of Mayo Clinic's Clinical Virology Laboratory, two important dates stand out above the rest. "One was Feb. 17, 2020, when Dr. (William) Morice and I were talking about whether the department should…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-04-30). Save lives this Take Back Day; safely dispose of unused medications. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Dispose of unneeded medications safely during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22. Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Olmsted Medical Center, Zumbro Valley Medical Society and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will host a community drop-off event to collect unused or expired medications. "The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Violent Crimes Enforcement Team (VCET) are proud to team up with Mayo Clinic and other…

WSWS (2023-04-29). One year since Amazon Labor Union's victory at Staten Island. wsws.org The ALU claimed that it was building a new rank and file-led, militant union. But its orientation was not to building an international movement of the working class against capitalism but to building a new union apparatus.

Nelson Aghogho Evaborhene (2023-04-29). Correspondence] The Pandemic Fund—towards equitable financing for pandemics. thelancet.com On Feb 3, 2023, the Secretariat of the newly established Pandemic Fund made a call for Expressions of Interest for the first round of funding for potential projects.1 The Pandemic Fund was created last year to provide additional streams of income to help low-income countries better prepare for and respond to future disease outbreaks. Therefore, the Pandemic Fund will be prioritising areas that build on surveillance for diseases, laboratory systems, and public health workforce capacities in eligible countries.

Mike Kramer (2023-04-29). UPS workers prepare for historic showdown with corporate giant. liberationnews.org In just a few months, the United States may experience a labor struggle the scale of which has not been seen in over 25 years.

Keith Brower Brown, Labor Notes. (2023-04-29). Whose Green Transition? Ours! popularresistance.org Huge changes are coming for our workplaces, quick as a heat wave. This month Joe Biden inked new rules to make all-electrics the majority of new cars sold in America within a decade. | To charge all those batteries, many of the largest states are pushing to power their grids with two-thirds clean energy by the same deadline. | These green shifts have put billion-dollar signs in the eyes of bosses. Public cash is pouring out to subsidize cleaner manufacturing and energy. Corporations aim to cash in double by cutting unions out.

teleSUR, odr, MER (2023-04-29). Protestan contra la siniestralidad laboral en Francia. telesurtv.net Los manifestantes expresaron que las políticas públicas "no están a la altura del desafío" ante los accidentes mortales en el ámbito laboral.

Rachell Sanchez-Smith, Olivia Paschal Labor Notes. (2023-04-29). As Arkansas Tyson Plant Closes, Workers Strike Over Treatment. popularresistance.org Striking workers gathered in front of a Tyson Foods poultry processing plant in Van Buren, Arkansas, earlier this month, holding protest signs reading "Justice for Workers" and chanting in Spanish "si se puede" ("yes we can") and "juntos venceremos" ("together we'll win"). A few weeks earlier, they received notice from Tyson—the multinational poultry and meat processing giant headquartered about an hour away in Springdale, Arkansas—that their plant would be shuttered on May 12. The Van Buren plant employs almost 1,000 workers, many of them immigrants from El Salvador, Mexico, and Laos, some of whom ha…

WSWS (2023-04-30). Workers' resistance grows in Germany amid layoffs, cuts in real wages and exploitation. wsws.org Discontent and a willingness to fight is spreading in the working class in Germany. However, success requires a perspective that can organise the struggles independently of the trade unions such as Verdi and IG Metall.

ecns.cn (2023-04-30). Xi sends greetings to working people nationwide ahead of Int'l Workers' Day. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday extended festive greetings and best wishes to the country's working people ahead of International Workers' Day, which falls on May 1.

Editor (2023-04-30). May Day: Workers' Struggles, International Solidarity, Political Aspirations. socialistproject.ca For more than 100 years, May Day has symbolized the common struggles of workers around the globe. Why is it largely ignored in North America? The answer lies in part in American labour's long repression of its own radical past, out of which international May Day was actually born a century ago.

Southern Workers Assembly. (2023-04-30). Southern Worker School Charts Path For Building Workers Movement. popularresistance.org "We heard from the rail workers. We heard from the truckers. We've got the longshoremen in the house, too," said Leonard Riley, a longshore worker with the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) Local 1422 and member of the SWA Coordinating Committee, addressing a packed house at the Teamsters Local 71 union hall during the opening program of the 2023 Southern Worker School. | "The reason I bring that up is because of the power that's in this room. We've got bus drivers over there, teachers over here. There's power in this room. It's going to take strategy, planning, coming together, and finding out where…

Ryan McCarty, Left Voice. (2023-04-30). Striking Workers At U. Michigan Are Building Powerful Solidarity. popularresistance.org The morning of April 28, I was stumbling around making coffee, checking the strike news on Twitter. It's been about a month now since my graduate student instructor colleagues voted overwhelmingly to strike, facing down the legal and financial powerhouses at the University of Michigan. I only had to scroll for a second, then I just sorta had to sit down. | There was a picture of about 20-30 people in a beer garden on a gray springy afternoon, fists raised and smiling. The message was from grad students, lecturers, and faculty from UC Santa-Cruz; they had held a fundraiser and were donating $600 to the University…

Michael A. Lebowitz, The Bullet. (2023-04-30). The State And The Future Of Socialism. popularresistance.org We are in the midst of a class war. That's not unusual. There is always class war in capitalism — although sometimes it is hidden and sometimes there is the interlude of an apparent Carthaginian Peace. But the class war has intensified now because of the crisis in capitalism — a crisis rooted in the over-accumulation of capital. And, in this crisis, capital has intensified the class war against the working class. Austerity, cutbacks, the need to sacrifice — these are the demands of capital as it calls upon workers to bear the burden of capital's own failures. This is a war conducted by capitalis…

Conor Gallagher, Naked Capitalism. (2023-04-30). Workers Who Have Occupied An Italian Factory Are Close To Owning It. popularresistance.org The longest-ever factory in Italian history is taking place in Florence where the 300 workers are now making progress at turning it into a worker-owned non-profit that would pay the employees and produce products that would benefit the community. Should the workers succeed, it could provide an inspiration for others. | For three years workers at the former automotive parts factory, GKN Florence, were in limbo. According to Investigative Reporting Project Italy, in 2018 GKN was purchased by the British hedge fund Melrose, which went about enacting its motto of "buy, improve, sell."

Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. (2023-04-30). Why 340,000 UPS Workers Are Preparing To Strike In The US. popularresistance.org United Parcel Service (UPS) workers are gearing up for a potential strike as they hold contract negotiations with the company. Talks between the company and the union representing UPS workers, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, opened on April 17. Teamsters President Sean O'Brien says that workers are ready to walk off the job if UPS fails to reach a deal on a strong contract before the current one expires on July 31. | Workers are demanding better pay, more full-time work, better job security, and an end to the two-tier "22.4" job classification. The deeply unpopular "22.4" provision creates a lower-pai…

WSWS (2023-04-29). US jobs massacre accelerates, as ruling class confronts growing upsurge of class struggle. wsws.org Layoffs of tens of thousands of workers have been announced in recent weeks, the latest in an unfolding jobs bloodbath in the US.

WSWS (2023-04-29). Unions seek to impose sellout at University of Sydney. wsws.org In order to defeat this betrayal, university workers need to take the struggle into their own hands, starting with the formation of a rank-and-file committee to lead a "vote no" campaign.

WSWS (2023-04-29). Silicosis hits thousands of Australian workers. wsws.org The combined inaction of the federal and state governments has been condemned as "tantamount to industrial manslaughter."

WSWS (2023-04-29). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand. wsws.org India: Tamil Nadu childcare workers demand pay rise; Australia: Cleanaway garbage collectors in Queensland strike for pay rise; New Zealand teachers take further industrial action…

Jake Johnson (2023-04-29). NHS Workers to Resume Strike, Rejecting Tory Government Pay Offer as Inadequate. truthout.org A leading union that represents thousands of National Health Service workers in the U.K. announced Friday that its members voted to reject the right-wing Tory government's latest pay offer, setting the stage for large-scale strikes to resume next week. "Unite was clear from the start it was very unlikely this offer would be accepted," Sharon Graham, the union's general secretary… |

Fight Back (2023-04-29). Grad student workers at University of Minnesota win union election by 97% majority. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On Friday, April 28 over 4100 graduate student workers' votes were counted in a union election at the University of Minnesota. The vote was held over three days. When the votes were counted, the grad students turned out to have cast 2487 ballots in favor of forming a union and 70 ballots against, for a 97% majority. The grad students began signing union cards in February and turned in a strong majority on cards in March to trigger this vote. | The new bargaining unit will include graduate student workers at the Twin Cities and Duluth campuses of the university and will be represented by the Unit…

thecommunists (2023-04-29). Bank of England 'economist' to workers: accept poverty, stop asking for a pay rise. thecommunists.org The Bank of England's 'chief economist' Huw Pill announced recently that workers should stop seeking pay increases and pushing prices higher". (Britons 'need to accept' they're poorer, says Bank of England economist, The Guardian, 25 April 2023) For information to those who don't yet read Marx, this hoary old myth about high wages being the …

Sarah Hathway (2023-04-29). Community rallies against Geelong council job cuts. greenleft.org.au The Australian Services Union initiated a protest outside the City of Greater Geelong Council meeting to show support council workers facing redundancies. Sarah Hathway reports.

WSWS (2023-04-30). Collapse of UK rail union/company talks forces additional strikes by RMT and ASLEF. wsws.org It now turns out that there was no "two-stage" deal leaving the possibility of renewed strike action on offer, and the RMT was engaged in either wishful thinking or wilful deception of its members.

Kerry Smith (2023-04-30). Palestinian trade unions call for worldwide action to end Israeli apartheid. greenleft.org.au Palestinian trade unions are urging the international labour movement to take action in support the Palestinian-led movement against Israeli occupation, colonisation and apartheid, reports Kerry Smith.

Staff (2023-04-30). Unión Eléctrica prevé afectaciones de 180 MW en el horario pico. cubadebate.cu Se estima para la hora pico una disponibilidad de 2640 MW y una demanda máxima de 2750 MW, para un déficit de 110 MW, por lo que de mantenerse las condiciones previstas se pronostica una afectación de 180 MW en este horario.

teleSUR, rzr, SH (2023-04-30). Presidente argentino se reunirá con Lula da Silva en Brasil. telesurtv.net La cancillería argentina afirmó que Alberto Fernández y Lula da Silva conversarán sobre la relación bilateral, comercial, de infraestructura y de integración regional.

WSWS (2023-04-29). Thousands of Brazilian teachers stage national strike against low wages, pro-corporate high school reform. wsws.org The unions have done everything they can to isolate and break a series of teacher strikes as they try to channel a growing movement of the Brazilian working class behind the Lula government.

Pranab Ghosh (2023-04-29). Is the Left Getting Increasingly Ignored in India? dissidentvoice.org The Indian Left holds the record of running an Indian state for long 34 years without a break. The Left Front formed the government in West Bengal, an eastern state of the Indian Union, in 1977 and ruled the state for 34 years at a stretch, winning all the Assembly elections in the process, before …

menasolidaritynetwork (2023-04-29). Sudanese organisations appeal for solidarity as rival military factions launch war. menasolidaritynetwork.com Resistance Committees, trade unions, womens' organisations and grassroots campaigns in Sudan are urgently appealing for solidarity and peace.

Rick Rozoff (2023-04-29). New pact mandates EU honor NATO's Article 5 collective war clause. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Daily SabahApril 27, 2023 Thriving NATO, EU ties amid shifting security dynamics in Europe Ryszard CzarneckiFormer minister of EU Affairs in Poland, member of the European Parliament The relationship between NATO and the European Union is essential for European security and defense. As the security environment becomes more complex and unpredictable, the two organizations must …

Pavel López Lazo (2023-04-29). Goyal: India should aim for trillion economy by 2047. plenglish.com New Delhi, Apr 29 (Prensa Latina) Union minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday called for a trillion economy by 2047 while delivering the inaugural address at 'India Calling Conference 2023' organized by the Indian Merchants Chamber in Mumbai.

Staff (2023-04-29). La Unión Eléctrica pronostica para el horario pico nocturno una afectación de 528 MW. cubadebate.cu La Unión Eléctrica pronostica para el horario pico nocturno de este sábado una disponibilidad de 2 462 MW y una demanda máxima de 2 920 MW, para un déficit de 458 MW, por lo que, de mantenerse las condiciones previstas, se estima una afectación de 528 MW en este horario.

teleSUR, dcdc, JDO (2023-04-29). Organizaciones campesinas acuerdan acciones de lucha en Perú. telesurtv.net Examinan situación actual del país. Prevén dar continuidad a estos debates durante la Asamblea de los Pueblos, el próximo domingo.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-04-30). Commission of Inquiry on MST aims to divert focus from crimes of agribusiness, says Joà£o Pedro Stedile. peoplesdispatch.org Joà£o Pedro Stedile, member of the MST's national leadership, said the parliamentary commission of inquiry that has been set up to look into the movement, is an effort by right-wing legislators to destabilize the Lula government and deter agrarian reform…

Shirley Winton (2023-04-30). Why we need an independent, peaceful foreign policy. greenleft.org.au Shirley Winton argues that we must build a long-term, sustainable people's mass movement for peace, justice and a safe environment that does not serve US imperialism or any other hegemon.

Léon Crémieux (2023-04-30). Making the movement a political force in France. internationalviewpoint.org Clearly, France is going through a social crisis and a democratic crisis. It can even reasonably be said that these two crises reflect a regime crisis, that is, an inability of the ruling class, the capitalist class, to continue to exercise power in a normal way by relying on the current political institutions. | – | / |

transform-network.net (2023-04-29). Movement TOGETHER Toward Social Change. transform-network.net The new left-wing party Movement Together is running in the local elections in Tirana on 14 May.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-04-29). Socialist Unity Party Condemns Indictment of Black Liberation Activists. orinocotribune.com By Struggle La Lucha — Apr 26, 2023 | The Socialist Unity Party and Struggle-La Lucha newspaper condemn the unjust indictment of three members of the African People's Socialist Party (APSP) and the Uhuru Movement along with three Russian nationals, announced by the U.S. Justice Department on April 18. | The indictment is a naked attempt by the Biden administration to criminalize criticism and resistance to the U.S./NATO proxy war in Ukraine. It is also a continuation of the FBI's decades-long racist war on the Black liberation movement. | The indictment accuses this long-standing movement based in the Black…

The Exposé (2023-04-29). Child Abuse?: The impact of pushing Transgender Ideology on Children in Schools instead of Scientific Facts. expose-news.com The transgender ideology has garnered significant attention and debate in recent years, with some groups advocating for a more inclusive understanding of gender, while others argue that the movement is rooted in …

Staff (2023-04-29). An Active, Growing, and Succeeding Movement to Abolish the Monroe Doctrine. davidswanson.org

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-04-29). Strengthening and expanding global solidarity with Cuba is a need. plenglish.com Mexico, Apr 29 (Prensa Latina) The need to strengthen and expand solidarity with Cuba to all friends, intellectuals, artists, and territorial and feminist movements is imperative, a veteran Argentinean fighter told Prensa Latina in Mexico.

Andrew Perez (2023-04-30). Coverage Without Compromise . levernews.com Following is a transcript of Andrew Perez's moving speech this week when he accepted the 2023 Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media on behalf of The Lever.I am honored to accept the Izzy award on behalf of The Lever. Thank you to the Park Center for Independent Media for recognizing our reporting and what we are working to build.I've worked as a journalist for the past nine years, mostly at smaller news outlets. Like most of my colleagues, I have been laid off a few times, but I've managed to mostly stay employed by developing a beat covering money and influence.I've been fortunate to wor…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-04-29). There's Nothing Conspiratorial About the Left & Right Working Together. libya360.wordpress.com Andrew Korybko This isn't due to the "horseshoe theory", which is discredited upon reconceptualizing the New Cold War's ideological dichotomy as being between unipolar liberal-globalists and multipolar conservative-sovereigntists instead of left and right like during the Old Cold War, nor is it attributable to the "red-brown alliance" and "Duginist" conspiracy theories either. It's simple patriotic…

Anonymous669 (2023-04-29). Syrian Security Forces Seized Loads Of Weapons From ISIS Hideouts In Daraa (Photos). southfront.org FILE IMAGE: Sputnik/ Iliya Pitalev. | Syrian government forces have seized loads of weapons and ammunition from ISIS hideouts in the southern governorate of Daraa, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported on April 29. | Citing a security source, the state-run news agency said that the weapons and ammunition were uncovered during recent combing operations thanks to information provided by the locals in Daraa city and its countryside."Authorities are still working to pursue terrorists and clear liberated areas from t…

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