(2023-07-19). Tampa 5 solidarity rally in Dallas. fightbacknews.org Dallas, TX — On July 12, 30 organizers, activists and community members beat the 105-degree heat and joined in solidarity to seek justice for the Tampa 5, rallying at Dealey Plaza, on the day of the Five's court appearance. | In March, the Tampa 5, namely Gia Davila, Lauren Pineiro, Chrisley Carpio, Laura Rodriguez and Jeanie Kida, all members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), were protesting to keep diversity equity and inclusion programs alive at the University of South Florida. They were met with brutality from the campus police, and now face felony charges. | Several organizations – includ…
(2023-07-19). Tell Your Senators: Tax Private Jets. inequality.org
(2023-07-19). What Decades of Social Work Taught Me About Poverty. inequality.org
(2023-07-19). Tax the Fat Cat Private Jet Class, Invest in Green Transit. inequality.org 
Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) has just introduced legislation to significantly boost excise taxes on private jet fuel. Representative Nydia Velasquez (D-NY) has introduced complimentary legislation in the House. The colorfully named "FATCAT Act" (standing for Fueling Alternative Transportation with a Carbon Aviation Tax) would hike fuel taxes on private jets from the current 22 cents …
(2023-07-19). The Most Ludicrous Argument Ever Against Taxing the Rich? inequality.org
(2023-07-19). Mayo Clinic named a 'Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion'. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic has been named one of the best places to work for people with disabilities by the American Association of People with Disabilities, the nation's largest disability rights organization, and Disability: IN, the global business disability inclusion network. Mayo Clinic received a score of 100 — the highest score possible — on the Disability Equality Index to achieve the recognition. The Disability Equality Index survey includes new questions each year to evaluate whether companies are adopting emerging…
(2023-07-18). 7 in 10 Americans Support Passage of Pro-Union PRO Act, Poll Finds. truthout.org With labor activity making headlines across the U.S. and wealth inequality at all-time highs, new polling finds overwhelming support among the public for a slate of pro-worker bills advanced by Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I-Vermont) Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee last month. According to polling by Data for Progress released Tuesday, all three bills passed by the committee last… |
(2023-07-19). Missing Links in Textbook History: Racism and Race. scheerpost.com 
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost Race is the child of racism, not the father. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me In 1963, James Baldwin wrote in "The Fire Next Time," "You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were Black and for no other …
(2023-07-19). Patriarchy and the origins of women's oppression. mronline.org 
Any vision of a world beyond capitalism involves the liberation of women from oppression, exploitation and discrimination. But just because we might have been able to win revolutionary social change, it does not mean that equal economic, social and cultural rights will be automatic for women.
(2023-07-19). Vote No to the UK education unions' pay deal sell-out! wsws.org The offer represents a wage cut for 2022-23 of near 7 percent and a likely further cut for 2023-24, depending on the rate of inflation. Teachers have already suffered a wage loss of over 17 percent since 2010.
(2023-07-19). Mandatory Media Literacy Education Could Be Coming to California Schools Soon. projectcensored.org By Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff California is currently considering two media literacy bills, both of which have sailed through the California State Assembly and are being reviewed by the…
(2023-07-18). Catching heat from Big Brother: Education and climate in MAGAland. mronline.org 
"In Real Time" is a monthly series on our blog by Stan Cox, author of The Path to a Livable Future and The Green New Deal and Beyond. The series follows the climate, voting rights, and justice movements as they navigate America's unfolding crisis of democracy. Read previous "In Real Time" dispatches here. Listen to the "In Real Time" …
(2023-07-18). Debt is grinding down developing countries but there is no plan for relief. peoplesdispatch.org Two reports which came out last week point out that a large number of developing countries are spending more on repayment of debt than on the development of social sectors such as health and education…
(2023-07-19). The war in Ukraine: Towards the collapse of the West's reputation. mronline.org 
After the bipolar world that existed from the end of the Second World War until the implosion of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the current conflict on the territory of Ukraine is the point of gravity in the process of transition between two great eras of contemporary history: the old—unipolar—that has lasted for the last 30 years and the new—multipolar—post-hegemonic, that came into being at the end of February 2022.
(2023-07-19). The history of affirmative action exposes its reactionary weaknesses. mronline.org 
Affirmative action began as a reparations program but ends as a "diversity" project which barely benefits Black people.
(2023-07-19). Everybody should see "Every Body" mronline.org 
A wave of exclusion is sweeping the nation, in state legislatures and federal courts, including the Supreme Court.
(2023-07-19). Politics of hedging in the Indo-Pacific. mronline.org 
New Zealand's estimation matters because it is a small country in Southern Pacific heavily dependent on trade with China for preserving its prosperity and yet one of the Five Eyes (along with the U.S., UK, Australia and Canada), the exclusive secretive security grouping of Anglo-Saxon countries.
(2023-07-19). Saturday 8/19: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: 'End Times' by Peter Turchin. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.
(2023-07-18). Debt is grinding down developing countries but there is no plan for relief. peoplesdispatch.org Two reports which came out last week point out that a large number of developing countries are spending more on repayment of debt than on the development of social sectors such as health and education…
(2023-07-19). The war in Ukraine: Towards the collapse of the West's reputation. mronline.org After the bipolar world that existed from the end of the Second World War until the implosion of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the current conflict on the territory of Ukraine is the point of gravity in the process of transition between two great eras of contemporary history: the old—unipolar—that has lasted for the last 30 years and the new—multipolar—post-hegemonic, that came into being at the end of February 2022.
(2023-07-19). The history of affirmative action exposes its reactionary weaknesses. mronline.org Affirmative action began as a reparations program but ends as a "diversity" project which barely benefits Black people.
(2023-07-19). Everybody should see "Every Body" mronline.org A wave of exclusion is sweeping the nation, in state legislatures and federal courts, including the Supreme Court.
(2023-07-19). Politics of hedging in the Indo-Pacific. mronline.org New Zealand's estimation matters because it is a small country in Southern Pacific heavily dependent on trade with China for preserving its prosperity and yet one of the Five Eyes (along with the U.S., UK, Australia and Canada), the exclusive secretive security grouping of Anglo-Saxon countries.
(2023-07-19). Saturday 8/19: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: 'End Times' by Peter Turchin. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.
(2023-07-19). Wednesday 7/19: History of Planned Parenthood and Racial Justice Teach-in. indybay.org Online event | ACCESSIBILITY: Closed captioning will be available.
(2023-07-19). Wednesday 7/19: Reproductive Freedom Advocate Training w/ NARAL CA. indybay.org Virtual/online training workshop…
(2023-07-19). Monday 7/17: Full Disclosure brain storming session: holding public persons and entities accountable. indybay.org Google Meet (online video conference): | meet.google.com/yqb-ndmw-vng…
(2023-07-19). Monday 7/17: #PlasticPollution: How Plastic Threatens Human and Planetary Health. indybay.org Online event…
(2023-07-19). Safe, healthy cyberspace key for young people. ecns.cn Young people in China have shown greater respect for the code of conduct in cyberspace as internet companies and platforms have made more efforts to effectively regulate online behavior.
(2023-07-19). Thursday 9/7: Reclaiming Curanderismo: Pre-colonial Indigenous Healing Practices Across the Americas. indybay.org In-Person: The Commons room | KQED Headquarters | 2601 Mariposa Street | San Francisco CA 94110 | Online via livestream…
(2023-07-18). Thousands of actors join picket lines in Los Angeles and New York. mronline.org 
The strike by tens of thousands of U.S. film and television actors officially began Friday.
(2023-07-18). U.S. using Ukraine as disposal ground for banned cluster bombs: Colonel, Karen Kwiatkowski. mronline.org 
Former Pentagon analyst and Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, Karen Kwiatkowski, points out the double standards in Western media's portrayal of cluster bomb usage.
(2023-07-18). Cannabis laws are changing. Drug testing must change too. mronline.org 
Adults who consume alcohol legally and responsibly outside of work aren't penalized by employers. It should be no different for marijuana.
(2023-07-19). Labor activists discuss how to excite voters in advance of 2024. peoplesworld.org 
ST. LOUIS—How do you excite voters about an election 18 months in advance? That's the problem facing the labor movement as it mobilizes its troops all-out to re-elect Democratic President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in November 2024. After all, the old saw is voters care about the presidential race until summer turns …
(2023-07-19). New-generation satellites and facility to hunt for high-energy cosmic rays expected to go onboard China Space Station. ecns.cn Steady progress has been made in a number of important scientific research equipment and construction projects, which will allow China to achieve technological breakthroughs and produce significant outcomes in some cutting-edge scientific fields.
(2023-07-19). Fossilized human skull fragment discovered at Peking Man site. ecns.cn The fossil was identified among the mammal fossils in Location 15 at the Zhoukoudian site, with the aid of technologies including CT scanning and 3D reconstruction. It is the first Pleistocene human fossil discovered at the site since 1973.
(2023-07-19). Tijuana Groups Protest Border Wall Construction at Friendship Park. unicornriot.ninja
(2023-07-19). Venezuelan FM holds successful talks with opposition. plenglish.com In a phone conversation with Venezolana de Television news channel, Yvan Gil made a balance of such meeting and of the 3rd Summit of the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (EU-CELAC). | Gil pointed out that the first issue cleared up was the pernicious effect of sanctions imposed on Venezuela, assuring that he saw how "unanimously" the European Union (EU) and the Latin American and Caribbean countries requested to progress in eliminating sanctions. | The foreign minister added they would start working on the construction of a political dialogue among Venezuelans, who are the o…
(2023-07-19). Austin, Texas and Wichita, Kansas nurses go on one-day strike against Ascension. wsws.org Strikers who walked out at Ascension hospitals in two states last month were then hit with a three-day lockout by management.
(2023-07-19). New Jersey: 1700-plus nurses vote to authorize strike at Robert Woods Johnson New Brunswick. fightbacknews.org Pittsburgh, PA – United Steelworkers Local 4-200 announced today that 1700 members who work as nurses at Robert Woods Johnson New Brunswick have voted to grant the union the authority to call a strike. | The local's original contract expired on June 30 after several months of bargaining. They have signed a 14-day extension, with their new expiration date approaching on July 21. | "Health care workers are experiencing record levels of burnout, and we urge our employer to come to the table with an offer that acknowledges the hard work we put in every day for our patients," said Local 4-200 President Judy Danella.
(2023-07-19). Leaked files suggest hidden British hand in latest Kerch Bridge strike. thegrayzone.com A coterie of British intelligence freelancers has collaborated with Ukraine's Security Service on plans to destroy the newly-attacked Kerch Bridge, and to target accused collaborators who Kiev is "shooting…like pigs" On July 16, a predawn assault on the Kerch Bridge connecting Crimea with mainland Russia left two civilians dead and a 14-year-old injured. As advisors to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hinted at Ukraine's culpability, Russian President Vladimir Putin pointed his finger at Kiev and vowed revenge. The attack was the …
(2023-07-19). Refugee rights activsts to Jim Chalmers: '10 years too long!'. greenleft.org.au 
Refugee rights activists held a protest outside Jim Chalmers' electoral office, calling on Labor to deliver better policy for refugees and asylum seekers. Alex Bainbridge reports.
(2023-07-19). Does fear of US intervention explain Labor's support for AUKUS? greenleft.org.au 
(2023-07-19). In Heat and Smoke, Workers Fight Negligent Bosses. scheerpost.com 
By Caitlyn Clark / Labor Notes On June 29, the air quality in Detroit was among the worst in the world. "Outside it smelled like burnt plastic, almost like trash," said UAW member Cody Zaremba, who works at a General Motors plant in Lansing, Michigan. He and his co-workers were experiencing coughing, runny noses, watery …
(2023-07-19). Employers can't use your 'passions' as an excuse not to pay you. therealnews.com 
The Philadelphia Art Museum is an icon of the City of Brotherly Love, and there's no shortage of art lovers who wouldn't consider a chance to work there to be a dream job. But passion and prestige don't pay the bills, as many museum workers have found while being severely undercompensated for their labor. After a public spreadsheet displaying the vast disparities in salaries at the museum was circulated in 2019 by a group called Art Museum and Transparency, workers at the PMA began to organize for a union. In summer 2022, the
(2023-07-19). U.S. threatens global collaboration in semiconductor industry. ecns.cn The China Semiconductor Industry Association said in a statement on Wednesday that "Any damage to the current global supply chain, which developed over the past decades alongside the process of globalization, could create inevitable and irreparable harm to the global economy."
(2023-07-19). Tuesday 7/18: Labor Report on Argentina With High School Teacher Luciana Alterleib, member of ADEMYS tra. indybay.org Labor Report on Argentina With High School Teacher Luciana Alterleib, member of ADEMYS trade union and a member of the workers organization Tribuna Docente, Partido Obrero in the Left Workers Front in Argentina…
(2023-07-19). Science Saturday: Mayo Clinic discovery leads to diagnoses of 9 people with rare form of muscular dystrophy. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Nine people around the world who have been living with unexplained, muscular dystrophy-like symptoms may now have an answer for what is causing the progressive muscle weakness in their body's mid-section, arms and legs. In a new discovery, a collaborative team of scientists led by researchers at Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine has pinpointed alterations in a single gene deep inside these people's genetic blueprint as the root cause of their ultra-rare disorder, known as limb-girdle muscular…
(2023-07-19). Siria condena ingreso ilegal de delegación diplomática francesa. telesurtv.net La cancillería destacó que ese país "recuerda al gobierno francés que la lucha contra el terrorismo debe ser en colaboración con el Estado sirio".
(2023-07-19). Irán y Rusia buscan fecha de reunión cuatripartita sobre Siria. telesurtv.net En mayo ocurrió primer encuentro de estos cancilleres para elaborar hoja de ruta que normalice los lazos turco-sirios.
(2023-07-18). Historian John Womack: Unions Need to Exploit "Choke Points" in Economy to Grow Working-Class Power. democracynow.org 
As Hollywood actors enter their fifth day on the picket lines and some 340,000 Teamsters working at UPS prepare to carry out one of the largest single-employer strikes in U.S. history, we speak with historian and labor organizer John Womack Jr. about his new book, Labor Power and Strategy, focused on how to seize and build labor power and solidarity. Labor actions around the world are gaining headlines this week. In Italy, over 1,000 flights were disrupted as airport and airline workers went on a two-day strike for higher wages and better benefits. Members of the Union of Southern Service Workers at a South Carol…
(2023-07-18). Michigan Amazon Workers Stage Largest Delivery Station Strike Yet. popularresistance.org In the middle of Amazon's Prime Day promotional sales rush, 60 warehouse workers walked out for more than three hours at its delivery station in Pontiac, Michigan—bringing the facility to the brink of a total shutdown. | A delivery station is the last warehouse an Amazon package passes through before it is loaded into a truck or van en route to the customer. | This year's "Prime Day" shopping bonanza July 11 and 12 set a record for the largest sales day in Amazon's history. The crush of Prime Day puts even more pressure on workers to keep up with conveyor belts overflowing with boxes that can weigh as much…
(2023-07-19). UAW quietly reinstated rule limiting strike pay for workers with second jobs. wsws.org It has come to light that the UAW has reinstated an earnings limit placed on workers receiving strike pay, which was temporarily lifted during the 2019 GM strike.
(2023-07-19). Film and television strikers in Los Angeles call for mass action: "I think we need a general strike in this country" wsws.org Bolstered by the support of their fellow film, television, music and entertainment workers, striking actors and writers called for an expansion of the struggle in the face of reports that federal mediators with the Biden administration have been working "in the shadows" with the studios for weeks to shut down their powerful strike.
(2023-07-19). Former Amazon worker Christina Brown campaigns among UPS workers to seek justice for her sister Poushawn Brown. wsws.org Christina Brown, a former Amazon worker, visited a UPS hub with a team of World Socialist Web Site reporters to share the story of how her sister, Poushawn Brown, fell ill and died while working as a COVID-19 tester at a nearby Amazon facility.
(2023-07-19). Canada's West Coast dockers resume strike after rejection of sellout tentative contract. wsws.org With the resumption of the strike, the dockworkers face a head on clash with the federal Liberal government, which, with the connivance of the union apparatus, last week sought to break the dockers' strike by invoking a seldom used provision of Canada's pro-employer Labour Code…
(2023-07-19). West Virginia Rally Condemns Jail Deaths. popularresistance.org Beckley, West Virginia – Nearly 100 prison abolitionists and family members of jailhouse murder victims rallied in Beckley on July 15 to raise awareness of the growing number of deaths in jails throughout West Virginia. In the last couple of years, the deaths have become epidemic, with dozens of incarcerated workers murdered at the hands of guards throughout the state. | Appropriately dubbed "Handcuffs Shouldn't Kill You," the event was organized by the West Virginia Poor People's Campaign and co-sponsored by the West Virginia American Civil Liberties Union and the Beckley chapter of the NAACP. Community and unio…
(2023-07-19). Finance union urges NAB workers to vote up improved agreement. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-07-19). Canada: Dock workers back on strike as union rejects gov't mediated deal. greenleft.org.au 
The picket lines are back up and dock workers in ports along the coast of British Columbia are again on strike after rejecting a deal mediated by the federal government, reports Jeff Shantz.
(2023-07-19). Korean Health and Medical Workers' Union achieves breakthrough with general strike. peoplesdispatch.org Korean health workers held a two-day general strike in order to bring the government to the negotiating table, asking for safe staffing and fair remuneration. The strike, the largest in the health sector since 2004, saw the participation of 60,000 members…
(2023-07-19). For US workers, capitalism brings the heat. peoplesdispatch.org
(2023-07-19). Pushing climate refugees into migrant worker programs. therealnews.com 
This story originally appeared in Briarpatch on July 6, 2023. It is shared here with permission. In 2017, wildfires in B.C. captured headlines around the world. Canadians from coast to coast donated generously to those whose homes and businesses were impacted. But there were some agricultural workers whose precarity rendered them nearly invisible, even as …
(2023-07-19). He tried to raise the alarm about railroad safety. Then he got fired. therealnews.com 
When we hear the term "whistleblower," we tend to think of names like Daniel Ellsberg, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange—people who have risked their freedom, even their lives, to expose government lies, abuses of power, and state secrets that the public needs to know about. But there are a range of federal statutes designed to protect those who blow the whistle on their employers, too, especially when those employers are breaking the law and/or endangering their workers and the public. | Michael Paul Lindsey II is a military veteran who has worked for Union Pacific as a trained locomoti…
(2023-07-19). 200 Members of Congress Pledge to Not Intervene in UPS Workers' Strike. truthout.org Two hundred members of Congress have expressed their backing of the impending UPS worker strike and have pledged not to support any potential effort by lawmakers to prevent the workers from striking. Lawmakers in the House and the Senate sent letters to Teamsters President Sean O'Brien and UPS CEO Carol Tomé this week stating their support for the workers, who are slated to go on strike as soon as… |
(2023-07-19). Friday 7/21: POA: Shut it Down! indybay.org On the sidewalk in front of the San Francisco Police Officers Association: 800 Bryant @ 6th Street in San Francisco…
(2023-07-19). New Video Examines How Amy's Kitchen Impacted the Lives of More Than 300 of Its Workers. indybay.org One year after the layoffs of more than 300 employees at the Amy's Kitchen factory in San José, California, Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.), a vegan food justice organization, has released a video on the lives that the company impacted.
(2023-07-19). Wednesday 7/19: Stop Union Busting UAW 2865 and 5810 academic workers rally outside the UC Regents UCSF. indybay.org Rutter Center in San Francisco | UCSF Mission Bay Campus…
(2023-07-19). 'Barbie' review: A sharp comedy that takes aim at the patriarchy and consumerism. peoplesworld.org 
This review was published during the historic SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes. People's World acknowledges that film and television would not be possible without the workers who make it happen. We stand in solidarity with the strike and the workers. The new film Barbie isn't a takedown or an exact subversion of the doll that is …
(2023-07-19). 'Oppenheimer' review: Masterful exploration of history, anti-communism, and the Atomic Age's legacy. peoplesworld.org 
This review was published during the historic SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes. People's World acknowledges that film and television would not be possible without the workers who make it happen. We stand in solidarity with the strike and the workers. The existence of a film like Oppenheimer shows just how necessary it is to teach history …
(2023-07-19). Peru: New March Towards Lima Advances in Tense Calm. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, thousands of Peruvians managed to arrive in Lima to demand the resignation of President Dina Boluarte, the closure of Congress, the advancement of general elections, and the establishment of a Constituent Assembly. | RELATED: | Without fear of the threats issued by the Bouluarte regime, Indigenous farmers, workers, and students are executing the "Third Takeover of Lima," which will include massive concentrations in em…
(2023-07-19). Peruvians to Carry Out a Great March Against Boluarte. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, the National Single Central of Peruvian Farmers Roundabouts (CUNARC) and the General Confederation of Peruvian Workers (CGP) called on citizens to carry out "The Third Takeover of Lima." | RELATED: | Some 30,000 people are expected to participate in a protest whose purpose is to demand the resignation of President Dina Boluarte, the closure of Congress, the advancement of general elections and the call fo…
(2023-07-19). UPM Blandin Paper Company workers begin strike. fightbacknews.org Grand Rapids, MN – At 6 a.m., July 15, around 200 members of Teamsters Local 346 walked off their jobs at the UPM Blandin Paper Company and began a strike. Grand Rapids gets its name because it sits along the Mississippi River in northern Minnesota. The UPM Blandin paper plant was built in its location on the edge of the river to use the river to power its paper mill. The plant has been an established feature of the town's economy since its founding in 1901. Now, for the first time in the history of the plant its workers have gone on strike. | When workers were asked why they decided to go on strike, some of the…
(2023-07-19). Unions to bosses: We won't take it anymore Actors, writers, shut down Hollywood. workers.org 
Members of the Writers Guild (WGA) have been on strike since May 2 against television and film studio giants like Netflix, Amazon, Sony, Disney, Fox and others. They were joined July 13 by actors in Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. This united strike has effectively shut . . . |
(2023-07-19). Centennial of Lenin's death, January 20-21, 2024 International Assembly against Imperialism. workers.org 
Workers World Party invites you to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Lenin on Jan. 21, 2024, with an International Assembly Against Imperialism. We encourage all those who view this as an important occasion to join us in building this assembly. Our hope is to devote this . . . |
(2023-07-19). Centenario de la muerte de Vladimir Lenin — 20 y 21 de enero de 2024 Asamblea Internacional Contra el Imperialismo. workers.org 
Larry Holmes es el primer secretario de Partido Mundo Obrero. Les invitamos a conmemorar el centenario de la muerte de Lenin, el 21 de enero de 2024, con una Asamblea Internacional contra el Imperialismo. Animamos a todos los que consideren que se trata de una ocasión importante a que se . . . |
(2023-07-18). "It's happening in France, now it's our turn": Chicago Ford workers speak on contract fight, growing strike wave in US and worldwide. wsws.org Ford workers at the Chicago assembly and stamping plants discussed their contract fight and broader issues, including the threat of war.
(2023-07-18). Halt the "critical status" nightmare! Restore the 8-hour day! Prepare a national strike by all Stellantis, GM and Ford workers! wsws.org The Warren Truck Rank-And-File Committee is calling for the unity of all Stellantis autoworkers against the imposition of seven-day operations and shifts up to 12 hours.
(2023-07-18). Teamsters president holds UPS rally in New York with head of UAW, strikebreaking Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez. wsws.org Teamsters head Sean O'Brien admitted that the union would keep workers on the job past the August 1 deadline in the event of a last-minute deal, violating their own pledge to strike UPS by the end of the month.
(2023-07-18). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Professors, students and teachers are protesting illegal arrests of 22 students in Juyjuy Province while grocery workers in Metro Toronto are set to strike midnight Tuesday…
(2023-07-18). Peruvians To Hit The Streets For 'Third Takeover Of Lima'. popularresistance.org Thousands of workers, Indigenous people, students, artists, peasants, and left activists are preparing to take the streets on July 19 in Peru's capital Lima. The mobilization, called the "Third Takeover of Lima," has been called for by a broad coalition of trade unions, peasant and Indigenous organizations, left parties and organizations, and artistic groups in an effort to continue the struggle against the coup regime of Dina Boluarte. | Since the coup against President Pedro Castillo on December 7, 2022, the people of Peru have been on the streets in defense of their vote and have raised clear political demands…
(2023-07-18). üéß DECONSTRUCTED: An Inflation Solution That Doesn't Screw Workers. levernews.com Today, we're sharing an episode of the podcast Deconstructed from our friends over at
(2023-07-20). Soviet Union's Support For Black Liberation Earns Russia Grace With Africans. popularresistance.org On the first week of spring in 1931, at the nadir of the Great Depression, nine Black teenagers stowed away on a Memphis-bound train scuffled with a gaggle of white youths who took exception to their presence. The Black youths made quick work of their counterparts, heaving all but one, Orville Gilley, from the slow-moving railcars to the grassy knoll below. Gilley would have met the same fate as his friends but by the time the Black youths got to him, the train had picked up considerable speed, and he was hanging perilously from the gondola. Fearing Gilley might fall underneath one of the railcars, two Black teen…
(2023-07-19). Venezuela's VP Blasts Paraguay's President for Serving US Interests & Not Honoring Debts. orinocotribune.com This Tuesday, the vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, called on the president of Paraguay, Mario Abdo, to honor the debt that Paraguay has with Venezuela before continuing in an "empty monologue," after new fresh intervention in Venezuelan internal affairs during the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and European Union (EU) summit held in Brussels, Belgium. | Abdo supported the European Union's resolution to condemn the disqualification of Venezuelan opposition politician Maria Corina Machado from the presidential elections. Machado was disqualified from holding public office for…
(2023-07-19). Venezuela's VP Rodríguez Meets Gerardo Blyde & Presidents of France, Argentina, Colombia, and Brazil in Brussels. orinocotribune.com The vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, held a meeting in Brussels, Belgium, with the sector of the Venezuelan opposition represented by Gerardo Blyde, chief negotiator of the Unitary Platform (PU). The meeting was also attended by the presidents of France (Emmanuel Macron), Argentina (Alberto Fernández), Colombia (Gustavo Petro), and Brazil ("Lula" Da Silva). | The meeting took place on Monday, July 17, within the framework of the third Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union (EU). | Earlier, Colombian President Gust…
(2023-07-19). UPS Pilots Won't Fly If Teamsters Strike. popularresistance.org The union representing UPS pilots says they will not cross picket lines if Teamsters drivers and package sorters walk off the job when the current contract expires Aug. 1, resulting in the immediate shutdown of the express logistics company's global air operations. | UPS (NYSE: UPS) has 3,300 pilots who are represented by the Independent Pilots Association (IPA), a separate union from the Teamsters. | "If the Teamsters are on strike, we will honor that strike and we will not fly," IPA spokesman Brian Gaudet told FreightWaves. | UPS pilots are allowed under their collective bargaining agreement to honor primary pi…
(2023-07-19). American Airlines Flight Attendants Move Closer To Strike. popularresistance.org American Airlines flight attendants will hold a strike vote starting this month, their union announced Tuesday. | The vote will begin July 28 and end August 29, with the result announced the next day. More than 26,000 flight attendants are seeking wage increases in a new contract with the airline. | "Flight Attendants are ready for an agreement that respects our contributions to the success of this carrier," Association of Professional Flight Attendants President Julie Hedrick said in a statement. | "Our contract became amendable in 2019, and American's Flight Attendants have not received cost-of-living increases…
(2023-07-19). Bosses, Union Officials And Rank-And-Filers Debate Work From Home. popularresistance.org
(2023-07-19). LA Official: Universal Didn't Obtain Permit to Trim Trees Near Union Picket Line. truthout.org When Universal Pictures studios trimmed several trees lining a writers' picket line to bare bones this week amid a sweltering heat wave, they did so without obtaining a permit from the city, making the move potentially illegal, Los Angeles officials have found. On Monday, comedian and TV writer Chris Stephens noted on Twitter that, over the weekend, NBCUniversal corporation appeared to have… |
(2023-07-19). Lebanon Criticizes the European Resolution on Syrian Refugees. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Lebanese Foreign Affairs Minister Abdallah Bou Habib addressed a letter to Josep Borrell, the European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, rejecting the European Parliament's decision related to the permanence of Syrian refugees in Lebanese territory. | RELATED: | On July 12, the European Parliament adopted a resolution in which it spoke about the presence of 1.5 million…
(2023-07-19). President Maduro Urges Lifting Sanctions Against Venezuela. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro took stock of the work of Bolivarian diplomacy during the summit between the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union (EU) that took place in Brussels, Belgium. | RELATED: | Referring to Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, Maduro highlighted that she "took our truth" to the summit "so that Europe definitely understands that Venezuela does not…
(2023-07-19). Lula optimistic about possible conclusion of accord EU-Mercosur. plenglish.com Brussels, Jul 19 (Prensa Latina) Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva acknowledged here today that he feels very optimistic about the possibility of finalizing the agreement between the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and the European Union (EU) this year.
(2023-07-19). Costa Rica acogerá reunión de ministros de Agricultura de América. telesurtv.net El encuentro busca proponer medidas para enfrentar la crisis del agua y fortalecer la seguridad alimentaria.
(2023-07-19). Presidentes de Bolivia y Francia marcan agenda común en Bélgica. telesurtv.net El presidente de Bolivia valoró la reunión en Bruselas como "un espacio de diálogo que cobra una relevancia particular en medio de la construcción de nuevos enfoques de integración.
(2023-07-18). BRICS Is a Reflection of the Change in the Global Scale. infobrics.org For those who still wonder what the BRICS is, it simply stands for the five emerging economies — namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — and its goal is to promote peace, security, development and cooperation. Due to the potential of these countries in becoming major economic powers, their impact on the international arena based on their growing economic strength and relevance globally is a factor as to why the union was made in the first place, notwithstanding their sweeping population and substantial natural resources…
(2023-07-18). Hundreds of refugees missing near the Canary Islands. wsws.org The European Union is responsible for the mass death: its refugee policy deliberately aims to let people die of thirst or drown in order to prevent others from fleeing to Europe.
(2023-07-18). Israeli Forces Blindfold & Handcuff Palestinian Reporter Who Filmed Settler Attack in Masafer Yatta. democracynow.org 
On Saturday, Basel Adra, reporter for Local Call and +972 Magazine, was detained while covering an Israeli settler attack in the West Bank area of Masafer Yatta. After he refused to hand over his video footage, Israeli soldiers handcuffed and blindfolded him and then sat him in a chair in the blazing sun for hours. The Union of Journalists in Israel denounced Basel's detention, describing it as a "serious violation of freedom of the press." Adra joined the show to discuss the difficulty of witnessing the crimes of Israeli forces against Palestinians as a local journalist. "I'm a Pale…
(2023-07-18). Persecution of Protesters Intensifies in Argentina's Jujuy: Police Raid Homes, Break Into University, and Arrest Protesters. orinocotribune.com The police raids of activists' homes, the university, and arrests have been condemned by human rights organizations across Argentina which have raised concerns about respect for human rights in the Jujuy province. | On July 12, the judiciary of Argentina's Jujuy province, ordered the arrest of over 40 people, who participated in a massive march in the city of Humahuaca on June 30. The march was organized in rejection of the reforms to the Provincial Constitution, promoted by conservative Governor Gerardo Morales of the right-wing Radical Civic Union party. | According to reports from provincial human rights organ…
(2023-07-20). A Good Year's Pay For A Good Day's Work? popularresistance.org The just-released Good Jobs First analysis — Power Outrage: Will Heavily Subsidized Battery Factories Generate Substandard Jobs? — examines a little-known provision in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act that may end up costing U.S. taxpayers more than $200 billion over the next decade, a sum above and beyond the $13 billion that state and local governments have promised as battery incentives. | Lawmakers see all those billions of tax dollars as a generator of good wages, but nothing in the battery subsidy fine-print mandates — or even incentivizes — decent worker paychecks. Ford Motor, for i…
(2023-07-19). More Than 300 Israeli Apartheid Free Zones Across Italy. bdsmovement.net 
(2023-07-19). 6.8 Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Central American Countries. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 in the Pacific Ocean shook regions of El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, with no fatalities or important damages reported by the authorities. | Related: | The Salvadoran Ministry of Environment reported that the epicenter of the tremor was located 66 kilometers south of El Espino beach, in the department of Usulután. | It also indicated that the depth of the telluric movement was 5…
(2023-07-19). Venezuela:delegation to travel to Cuba for the Moncada's anniversary. plenglish.com Caracas, Jul 19 (Prensa Latina) A delegation of the National Movement of Friendship and Mutual Solidarity Venezuela-Cuba will travel to the island to participate in the commemorative days for the 70th anniversary of the attack to the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks.
(2023-07-18). On Nelson Mandela Day, 250 civil society organizations worldwide call on UN to investigate Israeli apartheid. bdsmovement.net 
(2023-07-18). During the Women's World Cup, Call Out FIFA and PUMA's Complicity in Israeli Apartheid. bdsmovement.net 
(2023-07-18). "There Can Be No Justice Until Capitalism is Removed from the Earth" libya360.wordpress.com Tanupriya Singh As the 'Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism' conference kicks off in South Africa, peoples' movements and organizations have convened to discuss concrete strategies for a united struggle against the violence of capitalism and imperialism "What is the path that we are going to chart towards socialism?" This is the question…
(2023-07-19). USPS rural letter carrier whose wages were cut by $20,000 speaks out on slashed pay, harsh working conditions. wsws.org The USPS' new compensation system has cut pay by tens of thousands of dollars while requiring rural letter carriers to work even longer hours.
(2023-07-19). We Need A Rights-Based Approach To Climate Displacement. popularresistance.org In 2015, the United Nations Member States agreed to 17 Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, that are rooted in three universal values including a human rights-based approach, ensuring that no one is left behind, and working to eliminate gender inequalities. At the center of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 SDGs is the principle of leave no one behind, or LNOB. | Although not legally enforceable, LNOB symbolizes a global commitment to reach out to the most marginalized and vulnerable, as we work towards a development that does not adversely affect our planet. It requires that we look for s…
(2023-07-19). Gathering The Facts and Factors on ATL's Gathering Spot: What Went So Wrong After Acquisition by Greenwood Bank? moguldom.com It seemed like a match made in heaven. A thriving Black-owned business and a blossoming Black-owned financial institution. In 2022, fintech firm Greenwood acquired the popular private membership club and co-working hub The Gathering Spot. The deal was to help The Gathering Spot, which was started in Atlanta and branched off into DC and Los …
(2023-07-19). Virginia Primary: Neither a disaster nor a triumph for the working class. peoplesworld.org 
On June 20, Virginia held primary elections for state, county, and local offices. As usual in this state's primaries, turnout was low—in single figures in some counties. For several years, many parts of the Southern states have been a "culture wars" target for the Republican ultra-right which has elected its people to…
(2023-07-19). We are spokespersons of the people's concerns, Cuban legislator says. plenglish.com Havana, Jul 19 (Prensa Latina) All of us, the deputies who are here today are the people, we are spokespersons for the concerns of the people, legislator Sandra Santamaría said during the debates of the permanent working commissions of the Cuban Parliament.
(2023-07-18). An NHS nurse speaks out on pay, privatisation and demoralisation. thecommunists.org The following article was written by a long-serving NHS nurse and party member. ***** A myth was perpetrated in the late 19th century that continues to this day. A new political party, the Labour party, had been born to represent the interests and needs of the urban working class — but, looking back, when has …
(2023-07-18). Activists Are Working to Give the People of Atlanta a Chance to Vote on Cop City. truthout.org When it comes to Atlanta's planned $90 million police training center, widely dubbed "Cop City," the project's nonprofit backer, the Atlanta Police Foundation, has long run a reality deficit, trading on political power to support factually improbable claims while keeping the public in the dark. In 2021, Atlanta City Council approved a lease of public Intrenchment Creek Park land… |