2021-12-25: News Headlines

Brett Wilkins (2021-12-25). Apple Workers Held Christmas Eve Walkout for Their Safety Amid Holiday Shopping. truthout.org A group of Apple employees organized a Christmas Eve walkout, demanding better working conditions and calling on customers to not shop in the tech giant's retail or online stores. | "We are Apple," Apple Together, the group organizing the walkout, The worke…

Sarah Anderson (2021-12-24). Rev. Barber: 'Our Deadline is Victory'. inequality.org

Shawgi Tell (2021-12-24). Will Charter Schools Improve Education in France? dissidentvoice.org Charter by definition means contract, a legally binding agreement between two or more parties to do or not do something within a specified period of time. Typically, contracts also enshrine a set of rewards and punishments. Contracts are the quintessential market category. They govern how relations work in the marketplace and ensure exchange relations occupy …

WSWS (2021-12-24). What the resumption of student loan repayments will mean for millions of young people. wsws.org Students are outraged at scheduled resumption of loan payment as US Department of Education tells them to prepare for loan repayment restart.

Editor (2021-12-24). Omicron: It didn't have to be Groundhog Day. mronline.org Standing at the precipice of another major, acute coronavirus crisis, the country is rightly asking how the Tories have let this happen again.

Vijay Prashad (2021-12-24). I want to get our rights from the Americans who harmed us: The fifty-first newsletter (2021). mronline.org The persecution of Julian Assange is a fundamental assault on journalism, press freedom, and freedom of expression.

A. Kent MacDougall (2021-12-24). Boring From Within the Bourgeois Press: Part One. mronline.org Eugene V. Debs may be my all-time favorite American and Karl Marx my all-time favorite journalist. But my employer for a decade was The Wall Street Journal, and for another decade it was the Los Angeles Times.

Editor (2021-12-24). Climate litigation up in 2021, with private sector now exposed. mronline.org This year's successes include Shell becoming the first company in history to be held legally liable for contributing to climate change.

Editor (2021-12-24). Salvador Allende's Grandson Responds to Boric: The Human Rights Double Standard and 'Chic' Leftism. mronline.org Doctor Sepúlveda Allende's open letter to Boric is translated and reproduced.

WSWS (2021-12-24). Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia. wsws.org India: Delhi school teachers suspend online classes over unpaid salaries; Sri Lankan public sector doctors take national walkout; Australia: Rail workers and bus drivers continue industrial action in NSW.

Craig Murray (2021-12-24). Protecting the Nazis: The extraordinary vote of Ukraine and the USA. mronline.org The Ukrainian vote against the U.N. resolution against Nazism was motivated by sympathy for the ideology of historic, genocidal active Nazis. It is as simple as that, writes Craig Murray.

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