(2023-12-18). World is bigger than the FIVE. muslimmirror.com By Kashmala Ishfaq Elahi "The campaign launched by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the UN General Assembly emphasizes that 'The world is bigger than five.' As ordinary individuals, we share a common passion for rights and equality, as well as a fervent interest in diplomacy, supporting democratization. The assertion that the world is more …
(2023-12-18). The lioness, the oak tree, the matron: In loving memory of my mother, Helen Halyard. wsws.org We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard given by her son, Jamal, to a memorial meeting for Comrade Helen held by the Socialist Equality Party (US) and the International Committee of the Fourth International on December 3.
(2023-12-18). Jewish man expelled by Labour claims discrimination over antisemitism accusation. middleeasteye.net 
Jewish man expelled by Labour claims discrimination over antisemitism accusation | Stephen Marks, a Labour member for more than 40 years, says accusation of antisemitism is 'repellent' and ignored his Jewishness and anti-Zionist beliefs | Mon, 12/18/2023 – 09: 54 | Stephen Marks warned that Labour leader Keir Starmer's refusal to support a ceasefire in Gaza would have political consequences for…
(2023-12-18). CHEPTEGEI: Parents are key in sports success. independent.co.ug 
Kapchorwa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Long-distance champion Joshua Cheptegei, has urged parents in Sebei sub-region to support and nurture their children's talent in sports and education, emphasizing the role of parental empowerment in securing their offspring's future. The three-time world champion in the 10,000 meters highlighted the pivotal role parents play in aiding their …
(2023-12-18). (W.E. Talk) Confucius in American Supreme Court and Contemporary Culture. ecns.cn What's a sculpture of Confucius doing there? Bryan W. Van Norden explains why, as well as the influence of Chinese philosophy on the United States and Sino-U.S. relations. According to him, philosophical education should move away from the Western-centered perspective and abandon prejudice and misunderstanding.
newarab.com (2023-12-18). Half of US voters aged 18-24 back Hamas over Israel in Gaza warThe poll, published by the Center for American Political Studies (CAPS) at Harvard University and Harris Insights and Analytics, was carried out online on Wednesday and Thursday. | | It also found 60 percent of voters believe the long-term answer to the "Israeli-Palestinian dispute" was a two-state solution
(2023-12-18). The list of shame. Countries supporting the genocide of Palestinians. mronline.org 
Who voted against ceasefire in UN?>
(2023-12-18). Urgent int'l investigation needed to probe Israeli war crimes after Palestinian civilians buried alive at Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital. mronline.org 
Euro-Med Monitor teams are continuing to document what happened at Kamal Adwan Hospital today, and emphasized the need to open an international investigation into the horrific violations that the facility witnessed over the past several days against patients, displaced people, and medical staff as part of Israeli's deliberate and systematic targeting of health facilities in the Gaza Strip since 7 October.
(2023-12-18). Africa's new online foreign exchange system will enable cross-border payments in local currencies. independent.co.ug 
What you need to know INTERVIEW | CHRISTOPHER ADAM | The high cost of making cross border payments on the African continent has driven governments on the continent to seek options of settling trade and other transactions in local currencies. This has given birth to the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System which is scheduled to …
(2023-12-18). A master of terror. mronline.org The murky background of the likely next President of Indonesia may come to haunt Indonesia, and Australia.
(2023-12-18). CAIR seeks investigation over teen's expulsion from Florida school. mronline.org 
This comes after the school fired his mother Dr. Maha Almasri, a Palestinian-American, for her posts in support of Palestine.
(2023-12-18). U.S. troops are occupying Syria's oil fields. Congress refuses to withdraw them. mronline.org The U.S. military has illegally occupied Syrian sovereign territory since 2014, preventing Damascus from accessing its own oil and wheat fields. The Senate voted 13-84, rejecting a resolution to withdraw U.S. troops.
(2023-12-18). Work on Antarctic research station advancing well. ecns.cn Construction of China's fifth and latest Antarctic science research station is advancing at full speed, after workers began to assemble the tallest steel columns in the station's main structure at the site on Saturday.
(2023-12-18). USW imposes rotten contract, ends four-month strike by New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson nurses. wsws.org Having isolated and starved out 1,700 nurses at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, the USW has coerced them into accepting a contract that does not meet their most fundamental demands.
(2023-12-18). Inside The Youth-Led Fight For A Demilitarized Future. popularresistance.org In January 2020, Dissenters — a grassroots, youth-led antiwar movement — began with the mission to connect violence against Black and brown communities in the U.S. to the systems of oppression that fund, arm and enable global militarism. While born from the legacy of the U.S. antiwar movement, Dissenters takes an intersectional approach that connects global wars with corporate elites, local police, border walls, surveillance and prisons. Operating across the country through campus chapters, training fellowships and a strong social media presence, Dissenters has been organizing for college divestment f…
(2023-12-18). Australian protesters: "We need a general strike to stop the Gaza genocide!" wsws.org "The union leadership in this country is all led by the Labor Party, they all benefit from ties with Israel, they don't want to do anything that harms that."
(2023-12-18). Australian Labor government hails US passage of AUKUS legislation. wsws.org Beyond the issue of Australia's acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines, the legislation seeks to consolidate a military block clearly aimed at preparing for war against China.
(2023-12-18). Closer global collaboration urged to reach UN goals. ecns.cn Prospects of achieving the United Nations' 2030 sustainable development goals are bleak, and countries need to make a much more concerted effort if progress is to be made, a top United Nations official says.
(2023-12-18). Starbucks Ordered To Reopen 23 Stores. popularresistance.org Like its alleged intimidation tactics and firing of workers who have led unionization efforts, Starbucks' closure of at least 23 stores amid a nationwide workers' rights push last year did not go unnoticed by federal regulators, who ordered the global coffee chain to reopen the locations on Wednesday. | The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a complaint saying that eight of the shuttered stores were among the more than 360 Starbucks locations that have voted to unionize, and that executives did not notify the union, Starbucks Workers United, about the closures ahead of time—robbing organizers of a…
(2023-12-18). Australian government tries to thwart High Court challenges to new detention laws. wsws.org The Labor government's manoeuvre underscores how far it is prepared to go, hand-in-hand with the Liberal-National Coalition, to override even the limited protections in the Australian Constitution against arbitrary detention by executive decree.
(2023-12-18). teleSUR y Green Zone Foundation de Qatar firman convenio. telesurtv.net En días anteriores, teleSUR y la televisión pública brasileña EBC, así como el Instituto de Radiodifusión del Estado de Bahía, anunciaron un acuerdo de producción.
(2023-12-18). Flirting With Nuclear Energy Down Under. counterpunch.org 
It was a policy that was bound to send a shiver through the policymaking community. The issue of nuclear energy in Australia has always been a contentious one. Currently, the country hosts a modest nuclear industry, centred on the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), nuclear medicine and laboratory products. But even this has created headaches in terms
(2023-12-18). Labor's new punitive refugee laws criticised. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-12-18). Bay Area Unions & Thousands of Workers Rally & March for Palestine in Oakland. indybay.org Thousands of workers and unionists from throughout the Bay Area rallied in Oakland against the US supported Israel war on Gaza and the Palestinians. A growing number of unions are breaking from the pro-Zionist leadership including AFL-CIO president Liz Schuler and many of other union heads…
(2023-12-18). Al Jazeera's Marwan Bishara on IDF Killing AJ Journalist, the 3 Hostages & U.S. Support for Israel. democracynow.org 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing growing calls for another ceasefire in Gaza after Israeli troops mistakenly shot dead three Israeli hostages who were shirtless and waving a white flag. This comes as Israel continues to target hospitals, refugee camps and journalists in Gaza. On Friday, Samer Abudaqa, a reporter from Al Jazeera, bled to death after being injured in an Israeli drone strike on a U.N. school. Israeli forces prevented ambulances and rescue workers from reaching him for five hours. "This is not the first time we've gone through this," says Al Jazeera senior politic…
(2023-12-18). Toronto Picketers at Pratt and Whitney. socialistproject.ca 
On Tuesday morning of December 12, more than two hundred workers and union members from across the Toronto area picketed the Mississauga manufacturing plant of defence contractor Pratt & Whitney Canada. As Israel pursues its deadly assault on Gaza for a third month, the picket lines interrupted business as usual at an aerospace giant that makes engines for aircrafts that the Israeli military is using to carry out its bombing campaign against Palestinian lives and infrastructure. Encountering banners that read "Stop Arming Apartheid" and "Arms Embargo on Israel Now" as they arrived for morning shift, cars were…
(2023-12-18). Heating and eating: the impoverishment of British workers. thecommunists.org It is clear to everyone that the standard of life for the vast majority of workers in Britain has been falling dramatically in recent years. What is not so clear is what is driving this decline. Variously attributed to the Covid pandemic, to wars abroad, to immigration, or to the activities of this or that …
(2023-12-18). Grangemouth refinery workers' jobs at risk. thecommunists.org On the morning of Wednesday 22 November, 500 Grangemouth oil refinery workers received an email informing them that the nature of business at the site would change from refining and supplying 80 percent of Scotland's oil to simply being an import hub for finished fuel products. The email further informed them that this change would …
(2023-12-18). After decisive contract rejection, Southwest Airlines flight attendant union calls for revote, based on unsubstantiated claims of fraud. wsws.org The Transport Workers Union is trying to use minor voting anomalies to ram through a sellout contract on flight attendants at Southwest.
(2023-12-18). How OSHA's Walkaround Rule Would Save Lives. counterpunch.org 
Kyle Downour, unit chair for United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1-346, threw himself into consoling fellow union members after a fire and explosion killed two co-workers at the BP-Husky refinery in Oregon, Ohio in 2022. But Downour, overwhelmed and stretched thin, realized that he was the one who needed support when federal investigators carried out a painstaking
(2023-12-18). 470 Levi's Workers In Turkey Need Support. indybay.org Workers in Turkey who make Levis are fighting against union busting and need international solidarity…
(2023-12-18). The JFK Assassination Was Good For Zionist Israel. popularresistance.org President John F. Kennedy was assassinated sixty years ago. If he had lived and won a second term, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would have evolved differently. Possibly, the path toward Israeli apartheid and genocide in Gaza could have been avoided. | In his short time in office, Kennedy significantly changed U.S. foreign policy. As documented in the book "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Still Matters," JFK resisted the CIA and military-industrial complex in the policies he set regarding the Third World and the Soviet Union. The Vietnam War, the assassination of Indonesia's President Sukarno,…
(2023-12-18). Gaza and Ukraine leave Europe divided. independent.co.ug 
BRUSSELS | Xinhua | More than two months into the Israel-Hamas conflict, violence in the Middle East has no end in sight and Europe as a neighbor is still struggling to unify around a call for ceasefire in Gaza. The European Union (EU) summit ended December 15 without a much-expected tougher stance on the conflict …
(2023-12-18). Somali troops now in charge of State House as ATMIS exits. independent.co.ug 
Somali security forces take over key installations from ATMIS troops MOGADISHU | Xinhua | Somali security forces have officially taken over security responsibilities for the presidential palace, State House, and Parliament from the African Union Transition Mission (ATMIS) troops. ATMIS said the handover took place Sunday afternoon in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, marking the …
(2023-12-18). 'Lifting of Somalia arms embargo will aid fight against terrorism'. independent.co.ug 
Mogadishu, Somalia | THE INDEPENDENT | The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) and the Federal Government of Somalia have said the lifting of the 31-year UN arms embargo on Somalia would give fresh impetus to the fight against the Al Shabaab and other armed groups in Somalia. The African Union Special Representative …
(2023-12-18). US city letter carriers union holds national meeting in New Orleans amid months-long silence on contract talks. wsws.org Contract negotiations remain stagnant for city carriers as reassignments and job cuts accelerate under Delivering for America.
(2023-12-18). When People are Occupied, Is Resistance Justified? thealtworld.com Four days into the genocidal bombing and siege of Gaza, with a massive ground invasion pending, the West's most prominent left-liberal intellectuals stood up and spoke out against … the leftists on the streets for Palestine. But three months later, a mass anti-war movement in solidarity with Palestine has rocked the US, leaving liberals who condemn Palestinian resistance, isolated. | Ben Becker, Editor-in-Chief of BreakThrough News, discusses the remarkable transformation of the US political environment in response to the global movement for Palestine. | "Is the US Left trying to build an abstract and pure poli…
(2023-12-18). Chicago Fraternal Order Of Police Dealt Third Political Defeat For 2023. popularresistance.org Chicago, IL — "How do you spell racist? FOP!" The crowd of 50 protesters on the LaSalle Street side of Chicago City Hall were loud and determined, December 13. As usual when there is a vote in city council that the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) cares about, there were extra cops on hand for intimidation. But the movement for police accountability had been standing up to the Chicago Police Department for decades. | Among the protesters was Anjanette Young, a medical social worker. In 2019, the Chicago Police mistakenly raided her West Side home. Young, a Black woman, had just stepped out of the shower when…
(2023-12-18). How can we build the movement for the liberation of Palestine? greenleft.org.au 