(2023-09-25). Protesters use equity week to demand Upfield Line duplication. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-09-24). Protesters use equity week to demand Upfield Line duplication. greenleft.org.au
(2023-09-24). 'Silent Coup': How Capitalism Defeated Decolonization. popularresistance.org The 20th Century saw a great global uprising against European imperialism as the former colonial countries shook off their shackles and rose up for independence. More than a half century later, global inequality is sharper than ever before. To understand the current predicament of the vast majority of the world's people, we must understand the intervening decades. Matt Kennard and Claire Provost's book, Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy, looks inside the international architecture of global corporate governance that exists to flout and crush any attempts by the former colonial world to enact devel…
(2023-09-25). Victor Yeimo released from Indonesian prison, unites West Papuans in the fight against racism and colonialism. greenleft.org.au 
Prominent West Papuan independence activist Victor Yeimo was released from prison in Indonesia's occupied capital of West Papua on September 23, sparking celebration among Papuans, reports Yamin Kogoya.
(2023-09-25). Two Australian referenda on indigenous people: 1967 and 2023. wsws.org Millions of people voted yes for the 1967 referendum, believing it to be a step towards ending the decades of political and social discrimination imposed on Aboriginal people.
(2023-09-25). Students Occupy Brighton University Campus In Solidarity With Staff. popularresistance.org Throughout the summer, Canary has documented this ongoing crisis within universities and higher education. Now, as the new academic year gets underway, it appears that the recurring theme of chaos within British universities at the hands of incompetent senior management teams (SMT) will continue. The abhorrent treatment of staff and students at my home institution, Brighton University (UOB), is a prime example of this. In fact, students have started an occupation due to the situation. | Across higher education, the University and College Union (UCU) has been fighting back against management imposing pay cuts, as…
(2023-09-24). Comicomment: Increasing grim milestones, but no solution amid gun violence in U.S. ecns.cn In 2021-22 school year, U.S. schools experienced a record 327 shootings, with 57 resulting in fatalities, marking a historic high for the second year in a row. This data, from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), highlights another grim milestone.
(2023-09-25). Comicomment: Increasing grim milestones, but no solution amid gun violence in U.S. ecns.cn In 2021-22 school year, U.S. schools experienced a record 327 shootings, with 57 resulting in fatalities, marking a historic high for the second year in a row. This data, from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), highlights another grim milestone.
(2023-09-25). Monday 10/9: Book Talk: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States w/ author R. Dunbar-Ortiz. indybay.org Online via Zoom…
(2023-09-25). Tuesday 12/5: Deep Care: Book Talk w/ A. Hume – Radical Abortion Activists Who Provided Care in Oakland. indybay.org Online event…
(2023-09-25). Tuesday 10/3: From Howl to Now: Book Bans in the U.S. indybay.org Online via Zoom | FREE…
(2023-09-25). Wednesday 9/27: Challenging Antisemitism from a Framework of Collective Liberation. indybay.org Online panel discussion…
(2023-09-24). Monday 10/9: Book Talk: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States w/ author R. Dunbar-Ortiz. indybay.org Online via Zoom…
(2023-09-24). Tuesday 10/3: From Howl to Now: Book Bans in the U.S. indybay.org Online via Zoom | FREE…
(2023-09-24). Wednesday 9/27: Challenging Antisemitism from a Framework of Collective Liberation. indybay.org Online panel discussion…
(2023-09-24). This is the Sign You Have Been Waiting For — This is Now Tyranny. expose-news.com If you are still waiting for a sign that you need to act against the corrupt government agenda, then the newly passed into law, Online Safety Bill surely has to be it. …
(2023-09-25). John Kiriakou: Never forget America's torture legacy. mronline.org 
CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou joins Robert Scheer to discuss the dark history of America's torture program, and the normalization of the Espionage Act to attack those that expose the secrets of the state.
(2023-09-25). Dominican opposition parties in favor of dialogue with Haiti. plenglish.com Santo Domingo, September 25 (Prensa Latina) While the Dominican-Haitian border remains closed, opposition parties see the possibility of a solution to the conflict over the construction of a canal on the Dajabon River in the dialogue between both governments.
(2023-09-24). Zelensky Says He Met BlackRock CEO and Other Finance Leaders in US Trip. news.antiwar.com Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that during his recent trip to the US, he met with BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and other US business and finance leaders to discuss investment in Ukraine's reconstruction. "The American entrepreneurs and financiers confirmed their readiness to make large-scale investments in our country immediately after the end of the …
(2023-09-24). 80% of funds allocated for Xinjiang used for people's livelihoods: statistics. ecns.cn According to official statistics, since 2013, nearly 170 billion yuan （$233 million）has been invested in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (including the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps) and eighty percent of the funds were utilized at the county level and below for improving people's livelihood.
(2023-09-25). Cornejo gana elecciones para gobernador en Mendoza, Argentina. telesurtv.net Este domingo se celebraron las elecciones en Mendoza, en las que fueron elegidos gobernador, vicegobernador, senadores, diputados provinciales, intendentes y concejales en 11 municipios.
(2023-09-25). Saturday 9/23: CalCare Statewide Day of Action Teach-in (South Bay). indybay.org Congregational Church of Sunnyvale | 1112 S Bernardo Ave | Sunnyvale, CA 94087 | Weather permitting, we will be gathering outside in the courtyard area to the south of the sanctuary, in the corridor between the east and west parking lots.
(2023-09-24). Saturday 9/23: CalCare Statewide Day of Action Teach-in (South Bay). indybay.org Congregational Church of Sunnyvale | 1112 S Bernardo Ave | Sunnyvale, CA 94087 | Weather permitting, we will be gathering outside in the courtyard area to the south of the sanctuary, in the corridor between the east and west parking lots.
(2023-09-24). NYC Rally and March to End the U.S./NATO Proxy War in Ukraine! iacenter.org Sunday, October 1st, 2: 00pm Rally begins at W 58th St & 8th Avenue (CNN Studios) March to W 41st St. & 8th Ave. (NY Times Building) New York City, [Sept 24] — A majority of people in the U.S. oppose additional U.S. funding for the war in Ukraine, according to a CNN poll. In a united effort to call for peace and an end to the U.S./NATO proxy war in Ukraine, an emerging coalition of organizations is organizing a strong rally and march in the heart of New York City. This action aims to raise awareness about the U.S./NATO's role in provoking the war against Russia in Ukraine, demand an end to U.S. weapons and fu…
(2023-09-25). Amnesty International Pushes Regime Change in Eritrea with Dubious, Unverifiable Report. orinocotribune.com 
Amnesty's new report accusing Eritrea's government of gruesome war crimes relies heavily on anonymous testimony, grainy satellite images, and zero field investigation. It is the latest salvo in the West's campaign to topple the country's independent government. | Eritrea is a small country with a geostrategically significant coast on the Red Sea. Fiercely independent, it is one of only two African nations that refuse to collaborate with AFRICOM, the US Africa Command. Committed to an incremental, self-reliant development strategy, it has chosen not to saddle itself with IMF or World Bank debt. It was also the onl…
(2023-09-25). Housing activists say NSW Labor's budget fails the test. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-09-25). Prensa Latina and VNA agencies assess progress and renew cooperation. plenglish.com Hanoi, Sep 25 (Prensa Latina) The press agencies VNA, from Vietnam, and Prensa Latina, from Cuba, reviewed the progress in bilateral collaboration and renewed the existing agreement in the editorial area.
(2023-09-25). Continúa protestas en contra de reforma laboral en Grecia. telesurtv.net Por otro lado, la ley prohíbe a los huelguistas impedir a un colega que vaya a trabajar durante un paro.
(2023-09-25). Auto Bargaining In Canada—Stuck In The Past? popularresistance.org Bargaining with the Detroit 3 auto corporations is happening in Canada and the United States at the same time this year—the first time that bargaining has aligned since the disastrous bankruptcy negotiations and forced concessions of 2009. Unifor just reached a tentative agreement with Ford earlier this week, while the United Auto Workers' strike against selected Ford, Stellantis and General Motors plants is ongoing. | This is indicative of the major differences in the strategies of the two unions. The UAW, under new leadership, is doing things dramatically differently—raising bold demands, mobilizing…
(2023-09-25). Canadian parliament and prime minister give standing ovation to Ukrainian Nazi war criminal. wsws.org The Trudeau Liberal government and Canada's political establishment as a whole are in damage-control mode after Ottawa's longstanding ties to the Nazis' Ukrainian fascist collaborators and their political descendants were brought too far into the limelight.
(2023-09-24). Housing activists say NSW Labor's budget fails the test. greenleft.org.au
(2023-09-24). Protesters call on Labor to protest Fukushima nuclear waste dumping. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-09-24). Auto Workers Strike Spreads To 38 Parts Depots. popularresistance.org The clock has ticked and tocked for two of the Big 3 automakers. At noon 5,000 more members of the Auto Workers (UAW) at 38 parts distribution centers for Stellantis and General Motors walked off the job. The facilities are spread across 20 states. They join 13,000 workers at assembly plants in Ohio, Michigan, and Missouri who have been out for a week—for a total of 18,000 Big 3 auto workers on picket lines nationwide. (See a map of all struck facilities here.) The escalation adds a new type of facility to the mix. Parts distribution centers (PDCs) supply after-sales spare parts and accessories to dealershi…
(2023-09-24). Collaboration, Not Confrontation. popularresistance.org The United States has articulated a policy that it wishes to continue this war to severely 'weaken Russia' — as US defence secretary Lloyd Austin and other high officials have been explicitly stating — and, it is claimed, to place Ukraine in a stronger bargaining position for eventual negotiations (or in a weaker position, if the Russian offensive makes an impact, a strong likelihood that is quietly ignored). The policy of trying to 'weaken Russia' through the escalation of the war in Ukraine is the position of the United States and the United Kingdom, and with some variation, their European allies (F…
(2023-09-24). Kim Jong Un thanks China for supporting DPRK. plenglish.com Pyongyang, Sep 24 (Prensa Latina) The general secretary of the Labor Party and president of State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Kim Jong Un, acknowledged China's support for his country's struggles in defense of socialism.
(2023-09-25). Boston March October 7 To Demand: Indigenous Peoples Day Now! popularresistance.org United American Indians of New England (UAINE), the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB) and other organizations have called for a march and rally on Oct. 7 to demand that the Massachusetts legislature forever replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day. | This decades-long struggle of Indigenous peoples in Massachusetts, where the Pilgrims carried out "first encounter" land thefts and genocide, aims to overturn centuries of entrenched racist mythology wrapped up in the triumphalist federal holiday known as Columbus Day. | The 2017 murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia, at the hands…
(2023-09-25). Inghams Chickens workers strike for a decent pay rise. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-09-25). United States: United Auto Workers strike against the 'Big Three'. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-09-25). Saturday 9/30: N. California UAW Solidarity Rally:Victory For UAW Auto Workers Your Fight Is Our Fight. indybay.org GM Cruise Lot | 530 10th St./Bryant, SF…
(2023-09-25). Autoworkers in Germany voice support for Big Three workers in US: "All workers have to pull together" wsws.org Although the German media have decided to stay silent about the conflict as much as possible, workers at Ford, Mercedes, Volkswagen or Stellantis/Opel are taking a lively interest in the struggle of their American colleagues.
(2023-09-25). Looming shutdown of federal government threatens workers with furloughs and missed paydays. wsws.org Infighting between ultra-right factions of the Republican Party is the immediate trigger for the failure to pass a budget.
(2023-09-25). Why won't Unifor release the Ford Canada vote totals? Workers should challenge Unifor's sham Ford contract ratification process! wsws.org The Unifor bureaucracy suppressed the terms of the proposed contract until just before the vote, prevented workers from meeting in-person to discuss its terms, and only under rank-and-file pressure revealed that just 54 percent of voters backed the agreement, and without saying how many workers voted.
(2023-09-25). Strike actions by 75,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers to begin in early October. wsws.org On October 4, 75,000 Kaiser healthcare workers are set to conduct a limited three-day strike, if Kaiser executives cannot reach agreement on the terms of new contracts.
(2023-09-25). Biden to visit picket lines to bolster UAW apparatus and its betrayal of auto strike. wsws.org Biden's tourist stop in Detroit is an effort to bolster an increasingly discredited UAW apparatus, lend credibility to its stay on the job "strike," and facilitate a sellout of the workers.
(2023-09-25). US Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee holds second national meeting. wsws.org The wide-ranging discussion dealt with the terrible conditions at…
(2023-09-24). Inghams Chickens workers strike for a decent pay rise. greenleft.org.au
(2023-09-24). United States: United Auto Workers strike against the 'Big Three'. greenleft.org.au
(2023-09-24). Historic auto strike hits Big Three at once. iacenter.org By Martha Grevatt September 15, 2023 Toledo, Ohio For the first time in its 88-year history, the United Auto Workers is striking Ford, General Motors and Stellantis (which includes Chrysler) simultaneously. When the 2019-23 contracts between the union and the corporations expired at midnight the night of Sept. 14, the selective strike targeting one assembly plant at each company was launched. Workers at GM's Wentzville, Missouri, plant; Ford's Wayne, Michigan, plant; and the Toledo, Ohio, Jeep plant are maintaining militant picket lines around the clock. First day of UAW strike at Toledo, Ohio, Jeep assembly plan…
(2023-09-24). New German study: mRNA covid injections make a third of healthcare workers sick. expose-news.com
(2023-09-25). Writers reach tentative deal with Hollywood studios after nearly 150 days on strike. nationofchange.org "It is the leverage generated by your strike, in concert with the extraordinary support of our union siblings, that finally brought the companies back to the table to make a deal."
(2023-09-24). Transport union calls for Qantas compensation after High Court ruling. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-09-24). Venezuela propone a Guyana reunión con Caricom sobre Esequibo. telesurtv.net El mandatario acotó que los pasos que está dando el gobierno de Guyana violan la legalidad internacional y ponen en riesgo la paz de la región.
(2023-09-25). They Halted A Pipeline; Now Can They Get Clean Drinking Water? popularresistance.org In 2019, energy companies announced a plan to route a major crude oil pipeline through Boxtown and other mostly Black communities in southwest Memphis. The location had been chosen, a company representative stated then, because it was the "point of least resistance." | But residents came together, proving the company wrong. In 2021, a powerful grassroots movement shut down the pipeline, which would have been built through a historic neighborhood founded by emancipated people and atop the world-famous Memphis Sand Aquifer. | Now, two years later, the same activists are working to get reliable, safe drinking water…
(2023-09-25). US-based organizations reject terrorist attack against Cuban embassy. plenglish.com Washington, Sep 25 (Prensa Latina) Several solidarity organizations and social movements continue to express their condemnation of the terrorist attack perpetrated against the Cuban embassy in Washington DC, the second in the last three years.
(2023-09-24). Avoiding the War on Terror Would Have Saved Over 10 Million Lives at Home and Abroad. scheerpost.com 
By Bharat Dogra / CounterCurrents The peace movement in various parts of the world has emphasized in various contexts that if the huge amounts spent on various wars had been spent instead on meeting essential civilian needs, then apart from avoiding the loss of lives caused in actual fighting and bombing or due to the …
(2023-09-24). People's movements in the US demand end to blockade against Cuba. peoplesdispatch.org On Friday, September 22, dozens of citizens belonging to different people's movements marched in New York City demanding an end to the US imposed blockade against Cuba. They also demanded that president Joe Biden take Cuba off the state sponsors of terrorism list, stating that it is not Cuba which has the largest military budget in the world. Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel also joined the rally and chanted along with the people, "Cuba, yes! Blockade, no!"
(2023-09-25). Cuba immediately informed the US about terrorist attack on embassy. plenglish.com "After last night's terrorist attack on our Embassy was perpetrated, we immediately contacted US authorities, who were given access to the Mission to take samples of the Molotov cocktails," Torres wrote in his account on X, formerly Twitter. | Several solidarity organizations and social movements immediately expressed their condemnation of this new act of aggression against the Cuban representation in Washington DC, the second in the last three years. | "It is an irony that Cuba is unfairly on a list of terrorist countries and at the same time, on American soil, terrorist acts are committed against the Cuban Emb…
(2023-09-24). Turkish government downplays danger as COVID-19 surge spreads. wsws.org Turkish officials and media have been forced to acknowledge that the pandemic is on the rise, but are working to suppress calls for necessary public health measures.