(2023-02-01). 2023 California Rosa Parks Day – Transit Equity Day. indybay.org Honoring the lifetime of service of Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, we align with the movement for affordable, accessible public transportation – for everyone.
(2023-02-01). Minneapolis climate justice rally engages community to fight environmental racism. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — On January 29, 70 activists, community members and supporters held a rally and healing circle in response to the Minneapolis city council's recent vote in favor of continuing their legacy of environmental racism in the city of Minneapolis. The East Phillips Neighborhood Institute and the Climate Justice Committee organized the rally. | The city council voted on Thursday, January 26 to demolish a former industrial site, the Roof Depot building, against the demands of the community. The building is currently trapping arsenic below the soil and keeping it out of the lungs of East Phillips, a…
(2023-02-01). Exit from bloc takes toll on overseas students. ecns.cn The number of students from the European Union studying in the United Kingdom has fallen by half since Brexit, newly published figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, or HESA, have revealed.
(2023-02-01). Airfare prices from China to SE Asia slashed after Spring Festival. ecns.cn Airfare prices from China to Southeast Asia have decreased about 30 percent after the Spring Festival, according to data released Tuesday by Chinese online travel platform Qunar.
(2023-02-01). 2023 California Rosa Parks Day – Transit Equity Day. indybay.org Honoring the lifetime of service of Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, we align with the movement for affordable, accessible public transportation – for everyone.
(2023-02-01). Minneapolis climate justice rally engages community to fight environmental racism. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — On January 29, 70 activists, community members and supporters held a rally and healing circle in response to the Minneapolis city council's recent vote in favor of continuing their legacy of environmental racism in the city of Minneapolis. The East Phillips Neighborhood Institute and the Climate Justice Committee organized the rally. | The city council voted on Thursday, January 26 to demolish a former industrial site, the Roof Depot building, against the demands of the community. The building is currently trapping arsenic below the soil and keeping it out of the lungs of East Phillips, a…
(2023-02-01). Exit from bloc takes toll on overseas students. ecns.cn The number of students from the European Union studying in the United Kingdom has fallen by half since Brexit, newly published figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, or HESA, have revealed.
(2023-02-01). Airfare prices from China to SE Asia slashed after Spring Festival. ecns.cn Airfare prices from China to Southeast Asia have decreased about 30 percent after the Spring Festival, according to data released Tuesday by Chinese online travel platform Qunar.
(2023-02-01). Wednesday 2/1: Learn about Free Tax Prep Help, Flood & Disaster Tax Rules, Low-Income Credits & more. indybay.org Online via Zoom (FREE) | Workshop is for both individuals and businesses…
(2023-01-31). Nicaragua Is Run By Women With A Distinctive Type Of Feminism. popularresistance.org As the Sandinista Revolution is finally able to make its platform a reality, Nicaragua has made significant achievements in healthcare, education, housing, renewable energy and food sovereignty, to name a few. One achievement that is starting to get more attention is the gain in equality for women. The Global Gender Gap Report for 2022 ranked Nicaragua 7th in the world for gender parity. Clearing the FOG spoke with Jill Clark-Gollub, who recently returned from a delegation to Nicaragua that focused on conditions for women. She describes the country as "run by women" who connect their feminism to the struggles aga…
(2023-01-31). Nicaragua Is Run By Women With A Revolutionary Feminism. popularresistance.org As the Sandinista Revolution is finally able to make its platform a reality, Nicaragua has made significant achievements in healthcare, education, housing, renewable energy and food sovereignty, to name a few. One achievement that is starting to get more attention is the gain in equality for women. The Global Gender Gap Report for 2022 ranked Nicaragua 7th in the world for gender parity. Clearing the FOG spoke with Jill Clark-Gollub, who recently returned from a delegation to Nicaragua that focused on conditions for women. She describes the country as "run by women" who connect their feminism to the struggles aga…
(2023-01-31). Minneapolis city council majority votes for environmental racism. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – Over 100 protesters rallied at a Minneapolis City Council meeting on Thursday, January 26, where the city council members voted 7 to 6 to demolish the Roof Depot building. Protesters, called to action by East Phillips Neighborhood Institute and Climate Justice Committee, demanded a "no" vote on the demolition of the building, as it is currently trapping an arsenic plume underground, keeping it out of the air of the East Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis. | The city has no publicly stated remediation plan for managing any arsenic release by demolition. This would render previous efforts by the…
(2023-01-31). Raided by the FBI for Being Socialist, With Omali Yeshitela. orinocotribune.com Today, "Behind The Headlines" host Lee Camp speaks to Omali Yeshitela, a man raided by the FBI for the crime of being a black socialist. Together, the two discuss the revolutionary black liberation movement, U.S. imperialism, racism, and the corruption of the two-party system. | In August of last year, the FBI raided the offices of the African People's Socialist Party ( | Yeshitela helped found the APSP in 1972, at a time when the Black…
(2023-01-31). Race, class and the police killing of Tyre Nichols. wsws.org In the aftermath of the release of the video showing the horrendous beating of Tyre Nichols by at least five black Memphis cops, the American media and Democratic political establishment have contorted themselves trying to present the killing as an expression of "systemic racism" in order to mystify the class character of police violence and divide the working class.
(2023-01-31). Running a Charter School for Profit Should Be Illegal. progressive.org The charter industry downplays the prevalence of charter schools being run for profit because the mission of for-profit companies is to maximize profits, not education.
(2023-01-31). Ralph Nader: Drug Price Showdown Time for Chairman Bernie Sanders. scheerpost.com 
By Ralph Nader It is showdown time. Senator Bernie Sanders, new chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee versus Big Pharma. The self-described "democratic socialist" from a safe seat in Vermont has long been a Big Pharma nemesis. He has issued detailed critiques of what others have called a "Pay or Die" …
(2023-01-31). Lessons of the Montgomery, Alabama teachers' fight against COVID deaths in 2020. wsws.org Independently of the Alabama Education Association, Montgomery teachers waged a courageous struggle to save lives. The lessons of this struggle remain of critical significance as teachers face a fourth year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
(2023-01-31). Hardly anyone is thinking logically about the risk of nuclear war. mronline.org 
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved its symbolic Doomsday Clock to ninety seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been set since its founding after the second world war. Chief among their reasons for doing so is the increasingly dangerous war in Ukraine.
(2023-01-31). China logs increasing online retail sales of agricultural products in 2022. ecns.cn Online sales of China's farm produce rose 9.2 percent year on year to 531.38 billion yuan (about 78.58 billion U.S. dollars) in 2022, data from the Ministry of Commerce showed on Monday.
(2023-01-31). Chinese tax authorities uncover six tax evasion cases by entertainers, online influencers in 2022. ecns.cn The State Taxation Administration of China on Tuesday said it has revealed six cases of tax evasion cases by entertainers and online influencers in 2022.
(2023-01-31). Southern Girls: Theater Review. mronline.org 
Would Florida's Fascistic Governor Ban This Play and Burn the Script?>
(2023-01-31). "The Conformist Rebellion: Marxist Critiques of the Contemporary Left" mronline.org 
Already a century ago, political thinkers and philosophers were confronted with an apparent paradox: the failure of revolution.
(2023-01-31). U.S. public opinion shifting sides about Ukraine. mronline.org 
The U.S./NATO war on Russia via its proxy Ukraine has awakened significant opposition here in the U.S.
(2023-01-31). Why the western media is afraid of Julian Assange. mronline.org 
The shared desire of the security services and the corporate media is to disappear Assange in the hope that his revolutionary model of journalism is abandoned or forgotten for good.
(2023-01-31). Russia's gas union eyes Pakistan, India. mronline.org 
Pakistan's acute energy crisis is the immediate backdrop against which Foreign Minister Bilawal Zardari's forthcoming talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow today need to be understood.
(2023-01-31). Progressive groups launch ad campaign vs Republican Social Security, Medicare cut plans. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—A coalition of progressive groups, led by More Perfect Union and Social Security Works, launched an online petition and ad campaign against the House's ruling Republicans' plans to force Social Security and Medicare cuts on millions of seniors. The Jan. 30 announcement urges constituents to call or e-mail their lawmakers, regardless of party, to sign …
(2023-01-31). 4 February, Online: Zimbabwe country hearing, International People's Tribunal on US Imperialism. samidoun.net 
Saturday, 4 February 10: 30 AM EST (7: 30 AM PST, 4: 30 PM central Europe, 5: 30 PM Palestine Register: bit.ly/zimbabwehearing Join the International People's Tribunal on US Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades, Coercive Economic Measures for a hearing on the effects and impacts of these policies and practices on the people of Zimbabwe. We will hear testimony and reports …