(2023-06-12). Stop the Campaign of Smears and Censorship Targeting Anti-War Meetings on Canadian University Campuses! strategic-culture.org By James CLAYTON | Are you a student at a Canadian university? Help defeat the attempts to censor anti-war actions on university campuses by contacting the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) and joining its struggle to build an international anti-war movement led by the working class. Email iyssecanada@gmail.com and
(2023-06-11). U.S. anti-imperialist delegation meets with Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League. iacenter.org By Arjae Red June 6, 2023 Beijing, China Workers World Party and International Action Center delegates traveled to the People's Republic of China in May as part of an educational and political exchange organized by the China-U.S. Solidarity Network. The purpose of the delegation was multifold: to conduct research that brings truth to expose the lies of the U.S. empire, as well as to strengthen international friendships and forge a more resilient global anti-imperialist movement. Among the many stops on this tour was a meeting in Beijing with representatives of the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League (Taimeng…
(2023-06-12). Company pays for Qomolangma rescue, takes blame. ecns.cn A mountaineering company has covered the costs of the rescue of a climber on Mount Qomolangma and has called on netizens to stop bullying her online after she was accused of refusing to pay the full cost of her rescue, which took place some 8,000 meters up the mountain.
(2023-06-12). Saturday 6/24: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Poverty by America, by Matthew Desmond. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.
(2023-06-12). Australian health union's online meetings present no way forward for workers. wsws.org Wednesday's meetings made even more clear the bureaucracy's real aim—to ensure that workers' opposition to Labor's deepening assault on their pay and conditions remains isolated and constrained within the framework of sporadic, isolated stoppages and minor work bans.
(2023-06-12). Radio New Zealand removes references to 2014 Ukraine coup from online articles. wsws.org The New Zealand media and political establishment has launched an hysterical witch-hunt against a Radio NZ employee who is falsely accused of publishing "Russian propaganda."
(2023-06-11). Thursday 6/8: #SchoolSafety: Ending Gun Violence & Protecting LGBTQIA+ Kids. indybay.org Online panel discussion…
(2023-06-12). China's first power channel for transmitting new energy from desert begins construction. ecns.cn An ultra-high voltage direct current transmission line connecting northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region with central China's Hunan Province began construction on Sunday.
(2023-06-12). Mega undersea tunnel connected in China's Greater Bay Area. ecns.cn The final piece of the undersea tunnel of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area was attached on Sunday, marking the closure of the world's longest and widest undersea tunnel after five years of construction.
(2023-06-12). Shenzhen-Zhongshan undersea tunnel connected. ecns.cn The final joint of the undersea tunnel was docked with the E24 tube on the east side on Sunday, marking the closure of the world's longest and widest undersea tunnel after five years of construction.
(2023-06-12). Ox Sam Camp Being Raided, Arrests Underway of Defenders of Paiute Massacre Site. indybay.org The first arrests are underway and Ox Sam Camp is being raided after land defenders halted an excavator this morning at Thacker Pass in northern Nevada. This morning, a group of Native American water protectors and allies used their bodies to non-violently block the construction of the controversial Thacker Pass lithium mine in Nevada, turning back bulldozers and heavy equipment. The dramatic scene unfolded this morning as workers attempting to dig trenches near Sentinel Rock were turned back by land defenders who ran and put their bodies between heavy equipment and the land. Now they are being arrested and the c…
(2023-06-11). Xi urges Inner Mongolia to pursue green development, advance Chinese modernization. ecns.cn From June 7 to 8, after the inspection tour in Bayannur City and presiding over a symposium on strengthening comprehensive prevention and control of desertification and promoting the construction of such key ecological projects as the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program, Xi went on a fact-finding mission to Hohhot, accompanied by Sun Shaocheng, secretary of Party committee of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and Wang Lixia, the autonomous region's chairwoman.
(2023-06-12). Mega undersea tunnel connected in China's Greater Bay Area. ecns.cn The final piece of the undersea tunnel of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area was attached on Sunday, marking the closure of the world's longest and widest undersea tunnel after five years of construction.
(2023-06-12). Shenzhen-Zhongshan undersea tunnel connected. ecns.cn The final joint of the undersea tunnel was docked with the E24 tube on the east side on Sunday, marking the closure of the world's longest and widest undersea tunnel after five years of construction.
(2023-06-12). Ox Sam Camp Being Raided, Arrests Underway of Defenders of Paiute Massacre Site. indybay.org The first arrests are underway and Ox Sam Camp is being raided after land defenders halted an excavator this morning at Thacker Pass in northern Nevada. This morning, a group of Native American water protectors and allies used their bodies to non-violently block the construction of the controversial Thacker Pass lithium mine in Nevada, turning back bulldozers and heavy equipment. The dramatic scene unfolded this morning as workers attempting to dig trenches near Sentinel Rock were turned back by land defenders who ran and put their bodies between heavy equipment and the land. Now they are being arrested and the c…
(2023-06-11). Xi urges Inner Mongolia to pursue green development, advance Chinese modernization. ecns.cn From June 7 to 8, after the inspection tour in Bayannur City and presiding over a symposium on strengthening comprehensive prevention and control of desertification and promoting the construction of such key ecological projects as the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program, Xi went on a fact-finding mission to Hohhot, accompanied by Sun Shaocheng, secretary of Party committee of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and Wang Lixia, the autonomous region's chairwoman.
(2023-06-11). Dengue threatens children in Peru. america.cgtn.com 
Due to the dengue outbreak in Peru, doctors and nurses are dealing with a steady stream of patients with the virus. See more.
(2023-06-11). California Set Minimum Staffing Levels For Overworked Nurses. popularresistance.org When Catherine Kennedy began her career as a registered nurse in California in 1980, staffing situations often resembled the Wild West. On some overnight shifts in San Francisco, Kennedy said, she and one other RN shared responsibility for a 48-bed facility. Their only help was four aides. | "It was unmanageable," Kennedy remembered. "You would work as a team, get through the night, and pray nobody would code [i.e. suffer a cardiac or respiratory arrest]." | It took years of prodding, much of it coming from union-organized RNs, to get state legislation passed that mandated far stricter nurse-to-patient ratios tha…
(2023-06-11). Hurting the Democratic Party is Essential for Revolutionaries, and Voting Cornel West is Our Best Way to Do This. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Jun 9, 2023 | At this moment, the best thing we can do to weaken the Democratic Party's monopoly over organizing spaces is back Cornel West. Communists should vote for him not because he's a communist, which he isn't, but because voting for him will have an impact that advances our cause. What it will do is greatly expand the fissure that's long been developing within the country's left, the fissure that makes the communist movement better able to grow outside the DNC's influence. | This fissure first became visible during recent decades when, in reaction to the Democratic Party's reactionar…
(2023-06-11). Behind the sharp rise in US resident physicians organizing into unions. wsws.org There is a growing militancy among physician-residents in the US who face crushing debts and are paid minimum wages while they carry the main burden of caring for hospital-based patients.
(2023-06-11). Behind the sharp rise in resident physicians organizing into unions. wsws.org There is a growing militancy among physician-residents in the US who face crushing debts and are paid minimum wages while they carry the main burden of caring for hospital-based patients.
(2023-06-12). New York Legislature Extends Session, Vote on Debt Relief Bill Pending. indybay.org Religion, Development and Labor Coalition Pushes Passage of New York Taxpayer and International Debt Crises Protection Act…
(2023-06-12). Unions step up push for 'same job, same pay' rule. greenleft.org.au Unions want Labor to change the law to stop bosses from misusing labour hire clauses to reduce pay rates, and have launched a campaign to get it done. Jim McIlroy reports.
(2023-06-12). AI Ground Zero In SF As Tech, Auto Bosses & Politicians Destroy Taxi/Uber Worker Jobs. indybay.org Governor Newsom and Mayor London Breed and her MTA and police are allowing remote taxis unregulated entry into San Franciscoo streets destroying the jobs for all taxi workers and UBER/LYFT drivers. The AI technology is still in development and these remote vehicles violate the California Vehicular code but Newsom and London Breed and her police refuse to enforce the law against these tech and auto companies that control these remote vehicles.
(2023-06-12). Forbidden Stories: The Bruno and Dom Amazon Project. transcend.org 1 Jun 2023 – "This story must be told." A collaborative investigation coordinated by Forbidden Stories, which involves over 50 journalists from 16 media organisations to continue the work of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips. We pursued their work because our future depends on it.
(2023-06-12). New York transit workers speak out as TWU pushes sellout deal. wsws.org As hazardous air quality conditions threaten transit workers health, the Transport Workers Union and transit agency are pushing cuts to real wages and reduced time off.
(2023-06-12). Clarios workers call for joint action to defeat strikebreaking by auto battery company: "All UAW members should be on strike" wsws.org Workers on the picket lines in Ohio and those working at a Missouri plant told the World Socialist Web Site that Clarios was deliberately mislabeling batteries to conceal that they were being manufactured by strikebreakers.
(2023-06-11). Migrant Workers in Minnesota Win Landmark Safety Protections. truthout.org On May 16, Minnesota lawmakers passed the nation's strongest Amazon warehouse worker protection legislation with the Warehouse Worker Protection Act, which ensures that workers can take breaks during the workday and have access to relevant quota and performance standards and data on how fast they're working. The bill's passage marks a significant victory for migrant workers — especially Minnesota'… |
(2023-06-11). Winning Is Only The Start: Jane McAlevey On Building Worker Power. popularresistance.org In April 2022, Amazon workers in Staten Island voted to form a union. But a year after that historic victory, union members at the JFK8 warehouse still don't have a contract, thanks largely to Amazon spending $14 million on union avoidance consultants. That may be shocking but it's not unusual. When workers vote to form a union, it takes an average of 465 additional days to sign a contract with their employer. Meanwhile this spring in Buffalo, where the first Starbucks Workers United election was won in 2021, a new decertification petition attempted to extinguish the spark that inspired hundreds of other location…
(2023-06-12). 10 years after the assassination of Clément Méric: a successful week of tribute and struggle. samidoun.net 
Between Thursday, 1 June and Tuesday, 6 June, events and activities were organized throughout France to mark the 10th anniversary of the assassination of trade unionist and anti-fascist Clément Méric by neo-Nazis. Organized by different organisations, several events took place in àéle-de-France, beginning with the launch of the book "Clément Méric, une vie, desbates" at the …
(2023-06-12). Solidarity with Georges Abdallah and Walid Daqqah at Toulouse mobilization against French pension reforms. samidoun.net 
During a new broad labour union demonstration against the French pension reform in Toulouse which brought together nearly 50,000 people, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra was present alongside all the people mobilized, reaffirming that defending the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea is inseparable from the global struggle for social justice! Underlining this …
(2023-06-12). Volkswagen plans a radical program of cuts aimed at boosting profits. wsws.org The VW board has been in intensive talks with the IG Metall trade union and its works councils in Germany on how to enforce this programme of cuts against the workforce.
(2023-06-12). African Union Advances Peace Plan for Sudan after the Failure of U.S.-Saudi Mediation. transcend.org 6 Jun 2023 – Fighting Reportedly Has Intensified after the Armed Forces Withdrew from Talks in Jeddah…
(2023-06-11). Honduras inaugura su primera embajada en China. telesurtv.net El canciller hondureño destacó las reuniones al más alto nivel que la presidenta Castro ha mantenido desde que comenzó su visita oficial a China.
(2023-06-12). 'Stop Cop City' Domestic Terror Charges Echo Past Repression Of Activism. popularresistance.org The movement to Stop Cop City in Atlanta has brought environmental defenders and police abolitionists together to fight a mega-project that would demolish the historic Weelaunee Forest to create a massive urban warfare training facility. For standing up for people and the planet, more than 40 Cop City activists have been struck with domestic terrorism charges. Will Potter, author of Green Is the New Red, joins The Chris Hedges Report to place the repression of Cop City activists in a longer history of labeling environmental activists as 'domestic terrorists.' | Will Potter is an investigative journalist whose wor…
(2023-06-11). Black Brazilian Movement Leaders Lead Delegation To The US. popularresistance.org From May 29 to June 8, 19 Brazilian Black movement leaders traveled to the US to meet with major international organizations to fight for an end to racist violence. These leaders, all of whom are women or people with diverse gender identities, have over 30 years of experience in Brazilian social movements. The delegates are all part of various groups within the Black Women Alliance to End Violence (Alianàßa Negra Pelo Fim da Violência), which aims to support "the strengthening of the national and international actions of cis and transgender Black women in their fight to end violence towards Black people."
(2023-06-11). Protests continue in Israel against judicial reform. plenglish.com A crowd of settlers took to the streets last night for the 23rd consecutive week in rejection of the amendments promoted by the far-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. | According to experts, since January, there has been a day of protest every week in order to denounce the plan of the judicial system and Netanyahu's cabinet, which is accused of corruption in a series of cases. | On March 27, the Prime Minister suspended the legislative process to give dialogue a chance after the expansion of the protest movement and the beginning of a general strike. | According to analysts, political divisio…
(2023-06-11). The decisive importance of the alliance between Russia, Türkiye, Iran and China at the edge of entering the Eurasian Era. uwidata.com United World International continues publishing papers that were presented to the Global Multipolarity Confernce held on April 29. The conference was organized by Nova Resistência (Brazil), the New International Order Initiative (Türkiye), the International Eurasian Movement (Russia), the Thinkers' Forum (China) and the International Russophile Movement. The following speeches have been published until today: Video …
(2023-06-11). What's Next For Extinction Rebellion After A Disappointing Success? popularresistance.org It's been just over a month since 60,000 people gathered in London for Extinction Rebellion U.K.'s Big One. Despite being potentially the biggest climate demonstration in U.K. history, you might well have missed it. The press coverage was virtually non-existent and the event produced no noticeable change: The British government remains hell-bent on ecocide, its legislation increasingly draconian, its litany of scandals unrelenting. | Despite this silence — or, indeed, because of it — April 2023 could go down in history as a crucial moment for the U.K. climate movement. And one month on, XR U.K.'s big…
(2023-06-11). Movement That Built Puerto Rico's First Community-Owned Microgrid. popularresistance.org For two weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, Lucy's Pizza was the only restaurant open in the central mountain town of Adjuntas. The town's 18,000 residents, like those on the rest of the island, were entirely without electricity. | "No one has power, you can't get gas, it's difficult to make food, so everyone came here to eat," says owner Gustavo Irizarry. "The line," he gestured down the block along the town's central plaza, "endless." | Using a diesel generator, Lucy's was running at about 75% capacity. The generator was loud, emitted dangerous fumes and wasn't always reliable.
(2023-06-12). Used car market set for shakeup. ecns.cn China's used car sector is expected to see growth as authorities are working to remove limits that have been impeding the sector's healthy development.
(2023-06-12). Dr. Thomas Binder: The entire modified RNA platform must be banned immediately. expose-news.com Thomas Binder, a Swedish medical doctor, warned in a video he tweeted yesterday that the pharmaceutical is currently working on transferring all vaccinations onto using the mRNA platform. "Even having a trace …
(2023-06-11). Lula To Launch Social Programs; Part Of Stopping Amazon Deforestation. popularresistance.org The government of leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will launch a social program with economic aid to vulnerable families working in the conservation of the Amazon rainforest that is a similar program that was repealed by the previous president, the far-right Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022). | The program, called 'Bolsa Verde', an environmental version of the popular 'Bolsa Familia', will be implemented in 30,000 families in the Brazilian Amazon, but the government's intention is to expand it to other biomes, such as the Cerrado (the Brazilian savannah) or the Atlantic Forest, all threatened by deforestation and other…
(2023-06-11). Documentary: Unsustainable — The UN's Agenda for World Domination. expose-news.com Globalists in the power elite — working through the United Nations — are waging war against property rights, gun rights and capitalism to usher in a Marxist World Order. This war is …
(2023-06-11). Boris Johnson resigns from parliament after being found to have lied about COVID pandemic parties. wsws.org Divisions within the ruling elite are only the harbinger and an accelerant of the more fundamental conflict between the working class and capitalist regimes promoting austerity and war internationally.