(2023-03-08). Black History Month: Dr. Michele Halyard on a lifetime commitment to health equity, inclusion and diversity. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Dr. Michele Halyard Black History Month is commemorated every February. It's a month for all people to celebrate and learn about diverse and important contributions of African Americans to American society and culture, as well as to reflect on the ongoing fight against racism, inequity and discrimination. Mayo Clinic News Network is highlighting Mayo Clinic physicians who are focused every day on achieving health equity, inclusion and diversity through their work. Meet Dr. Michele Halyard,…
(2023-03-07). The US Government Wanted Pras From Fugees To Become A Rat: He Refused And Now His Trial Starts. moguldom.com Pras Michél, a member of the groundbreaking hip-hop 1990s group the Fugees, is facing felony charges for his role in an alleged multimillion-dollar international financial conspiracy. At the center of the scandal is Low Taek Jho, CEO of Hong Kong-based private equity investment and advisory firm Jynwel Capital. Low is a Malaysian national at the …
(2023-03-07). Sunday 3/12: Men 4 Equity & Rep Justice: Free Screening + Panel Disc: "The Business of Birth Control" indybay.org Zoom Panel Discussion: 11-12: 15 Pacific Time — + from March 9-12 – Free Viewing of The Documentary Film: "The Business of Birth Control" – Men (especially) Welcome – Caring People Desired!
(2023-03-07). Health Equity Measures and Hospital Rankings—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply In response to our recent Viewpoint about hospital rankings and health equity, Dr Bai and colleagues note that certain hospitals may attract patients from a broader geographic base outside of the hospital service area for various reasons, including providing specialized care. To address this, US News & World Report's measures that examine racial and ethnic representation were limited to individuals who reside within each hospital's service area. That is, persons who did not reside in a hospital's service area were excluded from both the numerator and denominator.
(2023-03-07). Health Equity Measures and Hospital Rankings. jamanetwork.com To the Editor In a recent Viewpoint, authors from US News & World Report described several health equity measures to be used to evaluate hospitals' performance on 3 dimensions: access, outcome, and social determinants of health. While we applaud the effort to promote health equity and ensure hospital accountability, in this Letter, we highlight some potential limitations of the effectiveness of these measures for evaluating hospitals' health equity performance.
(2023-03-08). Black History Month: Dr. Michele Halyard on a lifetime commitment to health equity, inclusion and diversity. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Dr. Michele Halyard Black History Month is commemorated every February. It's a month for all people to celebrate and learn about diverse and important contributions of African Americans to American society and culture, as well as to reflect on the ongoing fight against racism, inequity and discrimination. Mayo Clinic News Network is highlighting Mayo Clinic physicians who are focused every day on achieving health equity, inclusion and diversity through their work. Meet Dr. Michele Halyard,…
(2023-03-07). The US Government Wanted Pras From Fugees To Become A Rat: He Refused And Now His Trial Starts. moguldom.com Pras Michél, a member of the groundbreaking hip-hop 1990s group the Fugees, is facing felony charges for his role in an alleged multimillion-dollar international financial conspiracy. At the center of the scandal is Low Taek Jho, CEO of Hong Kong-based private equity investment and advisory firm Jynwel Capital. Low is a Malaysian national at the …
(2023-03-07). Sunday 3/12: Men 4 Equity & Rep Justice: Free Screening + Panel Disc: "The Business of Birth Control" indybay.org Zoom Panel Discussion: 11-12: 15 Pacific Time — + from March 9-12 – Free Viewing of The Documentary Film: "The Business of Birth Control" – Men (especially) Welcome – Caring People Desired!
(2023-03-07). Health Equity Measures and Hospital Rankings—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply In response to our recent Viewpoint about hospital rankings and health equity, Dr Bai and colleagues note that certain hospitals may attract patients from a broader geographic base outside of the hospital service area for various reasons, including providing specialized care. To address this, US News & World Report's measures that examine racial and ethnic representation were limited to individuals who reside within each hospital's service area. That is, persons who did not reside in a hospital's service area were excluded from both the numerator and denominator.
(2023-03-07). Health Equity Measures and Hospital Rankings. jamanetwork.com To the Editor In a recent Viewpoint, authors from US News & World Report described several health equity measures to be used to evaluate hospitals' performance on 3 dimensions: access, outcome, and social determinants of health. While we applaud the effort to promote health equity and ensure hospital accountability, in this Letter, we highlight some potential limitations of the effectiveness of these measures for evaluating hospitals' health equity performance.
(2023-03-07). Equity requires revenue, says panel at 49th Black history celebration. peoplesworld.org 
NEW HAVEN, Conn — The New Haven Peoples Center which serves as a home for social justice, labor organizing, education, culture, and peace, was filled to capacity on a cold windy February afternoon as attendees of all ages and walks of life arrived for the 49th annual Peoples World African American Celebration, rightfully titled, The …
(2023-03-07). Canadian women fight to make government's $10-per-day childcare promise a reality. peoplesworld.org 
TORONTO—Ask anyone in the women's movement what they believe is the most important program to ensure women's equality, and they more often than not will reply, "childcare." That's why the Canadian federal government's announcement that it will introduce $10-per-day childcare almost two years ago delighted those who have been fighting for a Canada-wide childcare policy …
(2023-03-08). Community rallies against environmental racism, opposes Roof Depot demolition. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On Sunday, March 5, residents of the south Minneapolis neighborhood of East Phillips and supporters marched to celebrate community and fight against an environmentally racist project. | The city of Minneapolis, with support from Mayor Jacob Frey, plans to expand its existing public works yard in the neighborhood by demolishing the Roof Depot building. The Roof Depot is a former EPA Superfund site and within the Minneapolis Southside Green Zone, an area identified by the city as having "high levels of environmental pollution" and "racial, political, and economic marginalization." | The city's pro…
(2023-03-08). Denuncian racismo en represión contra mujeres indígenas en Perú. telesurtv.net El lanzamiento de gas lacrimógeno por parte de la Policía Nacional a mujeres aimaras y sus bebés ha generado indignación.
(2023-03-07). Tunisia: World Says No To Saied's Racism, And The IMF Loan Is Stopped. southfront.org 
Illustrative Image | Written by Piero Messina | The World Bank has suspended relations with Tunisia. The $1.9 billion loan needed to save the country led by Kais Saied from default is now a mirage. Without that money, Tunisia will fail and a scenario of chaos will open up, with the suspension of essential public services and a new diaspora towards Europe. | The World Bank took this decision after President Saied's statements on the racial issue. In recent weeks, the Tunisian leader had hypothesized the exist…
(2023-03-08). Gender wage gap narrows, but work discrimination remains. ecns.cn Despite progress being made in narrowing the income gap between men and women in the past few years, many women still face impediments to their career development based on factors such as gender discrimination and marital status, according to a recent report.
(2023-03-08). Over 30 Years: Pre-Oslo Prisoners — Profiles of Juma'a Adam, Raed al-Sa'adi, Ibrahim and Mohammed Ighbariya. samidoun.net 
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is providing the materials for the third week of the educational campaign, Over 30 Years: Pre-Oslo Prisoners. Read the previous two sets of materials: Week 3: Mohammed Adel Daoud, Mahmoud Abu Kharabish and Bashir Abdullah al-Khatib Week 2: Ibrahim Bayadseh, Ahmad Abu Jaber, Samir Abu Nima Week 1: Mohammed Al-Tus, …
(2023-03-07). Cop City Aims To Transform Police Into A Paramilitary Force. popularresistance.org Atlanta, Georgia, with the support of the police force, banks and corporations, is trying to build a paramilitary police base in the Weelaunie Forest on 300 acres that was promised as a recreation space to the majority-black community living nearby. The base will be used to house police from across the nation and internationally to train them in urban warfare. The local community is largely opposed to it. They have been using traditional tactics of education, demonstrations and holding space through an occupation of the forest. This has all been met with state repression – violence, the murder of a 26-year old fo…
(2023-03-08). Black Alliance for Peace supports National Day of Action Against Police Terror. mronline.org 
Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) member organization Community Movement Builders (CMB) is calling all organizations, organizers and community members to a National Day of Action Against Police Terror on March 9, 2023.
(2023-03-08). The crisis of trans health care in Canada. mronline.org 
Public health coverage in Canada needs to expand to include a wider range of interventions and gender affirming procedures.
(2023-03-08). Show us the full Caterpillar-UAW contract! Workers have a right to know what's in the agreement! wsws.org The Caterpillar Rank-and-File Committee is demanding that the full contract be released online and workers given another week to study it.
(2023-03-07). Wednesday 3/8: International Women's Day: End Women's Poverty – Invest in Caring, Not Killing w/ PPC. indybay.org Online rally for women's rights…
(2023-03-07). Portuguese scholar: Fake news tries to forget China's contribution to battling COVID-19. ecns.cn "My view on China's contribution to fighting COVID-19 globally in the past three years is very positive," said Professor Rui Lourido, president of the Observatory for China in Portugal during an online interview with China News Network.
(2023-03-07). Major U.S. outlets found Hersh's Nord Stream scoop too hot to handle. mronline.org 
Scores of hits from publications across the globe pop up from an internet search for veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh's claim that the US destroyed Russia's Nord Stream gas pipeline.
(2023-03-07). Making Tunisia non-African again — Saied's anti-Black campaign. mronline.org 
On 21 February 2023, President Kais Saied called a meeting with the National Security Council to take urgent measures "to address the phenomenon of the influx of large numbers of irregular migrants from sub-Saharan Africa to Tunisia."
(2023-03-07). State-sanctioned violence in Peru and the role of Canadian mining. mronline.org 
Canadian firms benefit from state-sanctioned police protection and impunity at the expense of human rights and the environment.
(2023-03-07). Starmer is paving the way for the triumph of dark politics. mronline.org 
By waging an all-out war on the left and its ideas, the Labour leader is strangling hope of change in a time of crisis—and risks driving voters towards right-wing authoritarians…
(2023-03-07). Biggest threat from Ukraine war: Last Nuclear Agreement suspended. mronline.org 
War rarely stays within the boundaries set or desired for it. That makes returning to arms control crucial for the survival of humanity.
(2023-03-07). Caterpillar Rank-and-File Committee announces online meeting Wednesday: "Vote NO on the UAW-Caterpillar concessions contract!" wsws.org The Caterpillar Workers Rank-and-File Committee and the WSWS for a democratic forum to analyze the UAW's sellout tentative agreement, and outlining the strategy to mobilize workers in the US and internationally in a common fight back.
(2023-03-07). Nearly lost: "History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Volume 11, The Great Depression, 1929-1932", by Philip Foner. fightbacknews.org When legendary and prolific labor history researcher and author Phil Foner died in 1994, he left behind more than 100 meticulously researched and detailed histories of the U.S. labor movement. But Foner was not merely an historian in the usual university mold; he was a partisan, a lifetime communist, and he saw his work as not just chronicles of past events but serious guides to action for those still on the labor battlefront. His books in many ways became the untold stories of our class struggle. | Probably his most accomplished and massive work is the 11-volume History of the Labor Movement in the United State…
(2023-03-08). Protesters charged with terrorism in Atlanta. peoplesdispatch.org At least 23 protesters have been charged with domestic terrorism amid a week of action against the construction of
(2023-03-07). Domestic Terrorism Charges Against Cop City Demonstrators Spur Further Protests. truthout.org In the early evening of March 5, a noxious plume of black smoke wafted over the proposed site of the unpopular Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, known as "Cop City." Construction equipment and vehicles were reportedly set on fire, igniting an incendiary response by police on the second day of the Week of Action called by the Defenders of the Atlanta Forest. It was the fifth such week-long… |
(2023-03-07). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Over the weekend hundreds of nurses in Toronto, Canada marched to demand improved wages, better working conditions and staffing.
(2023-03-08). PSL Statement — 50 years after Roe, mass resistance the key in abortion struggle. liberationnews.org 
To win back and extend the right to abortion requires continuous grassroots organizing and a return to powerful, large-scale mobilizations…
(2023-03-07). On The Long Road To Organizing A Starbucks Union. shadowproof.com In a word, the ongoing union organizing drive that has swept the coffee giant Starbucks can be described as 'unprecedented.' Never before has a mass unionization effort of this magnitude gripped a fast food company in the United States. The humble origins of the barista-led Starbucks Workers United can be found in the Rust Belt city of Buffalo. It is there where the nation-wide unionization effort was publicly launched in August 2021. | As Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) expands from shop to shop, workers face an onslaught of union busting tactics from the company. But union fever is spreading rapidly nonethel…
(2023-03-07). NLRB rules severance pay can't be used to silence workers. peoplesworld.org 
MT. CLEMENS, Mich.—The National Labor Relations Board has outlawed yet another employer tactic during a union organizing drive: Offering high severance pay to pro-union workers if they would, in plain English, quit, sit down and shut up. Letting firms make such conditional offers would coerce workers into ceding their rights, and that's illegal, the board …
(2023-03-07). He Tried To Organize Home Depot's First Union; Now He's Unemployed. popularresistance.org A wave of grassroots labor struggles is sweeping the country, with more and more workers bringing union organizing to their workplaces for the first time. Among the rank-and-file workers leading shopfloor struggles is Vince Quiles of Philadelphia, a longtime Home Depot employee. Although he had formerly been identified and groomed to move up the ranks of management, Quiles opted instead to try and join his coworkers in organizing the home improvement retail chain's first unionized store. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez travels to Philadelphia to speak with Quiles about his experiences.
(2023-03-08). NLRB decision justifies all workers' demands at Starbucks. workers.org 
Buffalo, New York Administrative Law Judge Michael Rosas ruled March 1 that Starbucks is guilty of violating labor laws on hundreds of occasions, vindicating what workers have been alleging all along. (tinyurl.com/bd8dbfp4) Striking Starbucks workers in Buffalo, New York, walk thepicket line. The ruling by Rosas, a judge for the . . . |
(2023-03-08). Biological lab funded by U.S. sparks alarm. ecns.cn A controversial biological laboratory in Kazakhstan has caused concerns among local residents. The laboratory used to be controlled by the Soviet Union, but now it is funded and built by the U.S.
(2023-03-08). Saturday 3/11: ILWU 10 Meeting On Mumia & Report From Trip To South Africa. indybay.org ILWU Local 10 Henry Schmidt Room | 400 North Point St. | San Francisco…
(2023-03-08). CA AG Bonta Prosecute SF Police Killer Say Speakers At SF State Building. indybay.org
(2023-03-08). The Fukushima Catastrophe Continues 12 Years After The Meltdowns. indybay.org March 11 is the 12th anniversary of the Fukushima earthquake and meltdown of three reactors. The disaster continues and the melted nuclear rods still remain in the broken reactors and have to be cooled by water which then becomes radiated. Two activists talk about the present situation after 12 years.
(2023-03-08). Science Saturday: Could antidepressants cause treatment-emergent mania? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org In a study published in Molecular Psychiatry, Mark Frye, M.D., a Mayo Clinic researcher and collaborators, investigated the risk of treatment-emergent mania in bipolar disorder when treated with antidepressants. "We found that antidepressants that increase mitochondrial energetics (cells that extract energy from nutrients for sustaining life) may elevate the risk of treatment-emergent mania," says Dr. Frye. The increased energy expenditure of mania associated with impulsivity, poor judgment, psychosis and loss of insight can drive high-risk behaviors, often…
(2023-03-08). Cómo el presidente de Perú fue "removido" por "fuerzas externas". Klaus Schwab en su mejor momento. globalizacion.ca 
La entrevista fue publicada por primera vez en español por "El Salto Diario". Fue organizado por Julioa Zamarrón en Lima, Perú, con la colaboración de Irene Zugasti He Zugasti Hervás y Pablo Elorduy en Madrid. La traducción al alemán fue…
(2023-03-08). Tapia Fonseca chequea la labor de las agencias transitarias. cubadebate.cu
(2023-03-08). Monday 3/13: From Hunters Point To E. Palestine Prosecute & Jail Tetra Tech & Norfolk Southern CEOs. indybay.org San Francisco Federal Building | 450 Golden Gate | San Francisco, CA…
(2023-03-07). Puerto Rico Senators Slam Governor After Court Rejects Labor Reform. latinorebels.com Last week a federal judge nullified Puerto Rico's Labor Reform Law approved only months ago, saying that Gov. Pedro Pierluisi did not provide evidence that the law would not impact the oversight board's fiscal plan.
(2023-03-07). Superexploitation of migrant children/'The coining of children's blood into capital'. workers.org 
The horror portrayed in a recent New York Times exposé of migrant child labor shows how relevant what Karl Marx wrote 156 years ago is now. Marx's monumental work, "Capital," was a tremendous theoretical contribution, describing in meticulous detail how the capitalist system of exploitation operates. One class of toilers, . . . |
(2023-03-07). Still Looking for a Simple, Effective Prevention Measure for Neonatal Sepsis in High-Mortality Settings. jamanetwork.com The "Decade of Vaccines" contributed to notable global declines in mortality among children younger than 5 years, but mortality in the neonatal period remains a stubborn problem. Most neonatal deaths occur in the first week of life. The causes of such deaths are difficult to characterize. Evidence suggests complications of labor and delivery play a major role in deaths in the first hours after birth, and that preterm delivery and infections also each cause approximately one-third of deaths in the first week of life. Many neonatal deaths are a result of multiple conditions, such as preterm birth in combination wit…
(2023-03-07). Facebook Unite Here Local 19 Workers Demand Justice From Billionaire Owner Zuckerberg. indybay.org One hundred Facebook service food workers who are members of Unite HERE 19 were layed off at Facebook in Menlo Park. Although engineers and others are getting severance Facebook and it's owner Mark Zuckerberg refuse to give these benefits to these service workers. Workers rallied outside Facebook headquarters on March 1, 2023.
(2023-03-07). How to Destroy Russia. 2019 Rand Corporation Report: "Overextending and Unbalancing Russia" globalresearch.ca Force the adversary to expand recklessly in order to unbalance him, and then destroy him. This is not the description of a judo hold, but a plan against Russia elaborated by the Rand Corporation, the most influential think tank in the USA.
(2023-03-07). Más de 220 organizaciones piden a Gustavo Petro y Francia Márquez revisar los tratados de inversión internacional que permiten millonarias demandas contra el Estado colombiano. ips-dc.org "Es urgente la necesidad de impedir que la búsqueda de justicia ante abusos de multinacionales, daños y pasivos socioambientales, laborales, financiación del paramilitarismo, amenazas o asesinato de líderes sindicales se vea saboteada por este sistema."
(2023-03-07). Starbucks CEO Caves, Agrees to Testify in Senate After Sanders Subpoena Threat. truthout.org Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has agreed to testify before the Senate labor committee after committee chair Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) threatened to subpoena the executive to appear in a hearing on the company's rampant union busting later this month. Sanders announced the company's decision on Tuesday after weeks of demurring from the company, thanking members in the committee for being… |
(2023-03-07). Mediación y solución de conflictos, perspectiva cubana. cubadebate.cu La Mediación es el procedimiento estabilizador de la "contienda" a nivel particular y social; la relación familiar (de primera prioridad para la sociedad), conyugal, comunitaria, laboral, etc., encuentran en ella la solución pacífica de sus contradicciones.
(2023-03-07). Headlines for March 7, 2023. democracynow.org Biden Administration Mulls Return to Detention of Asylum-Seeking Families, Migrants in Tunisia Flee Hate Crimes and Violence Following President's Racist Remarks, Survivors of Forced Labor Under Japanese Occupation Condemn South Korean Compensation Plan, North Korea Warns U.S. Shootdown of Test-Fired Missiles Would Be "Declaration of War", Chinese Leaders Condemn U.S. Policy of "Containment, Encirclement and Suppression", Ukraine Holds Out in Defense of Bakhmut as Both Sides Inflict Heavy Losses, Belarus Sentences Opposition Leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to 15 Years for Treason, Do…
(2023-03-07). South Korean government demands "normalization" of labor unions. wsws.org The Yoon administration is reviving old police-state measures in an effort to silence unrest and opposition especially in the working class as social conditions deteriorate.
(2023-03-07). Australian "robodebt" lies expose how governments work. wsws.org Ex-minister Stuart Robert's extraordinary admission to the robodebt inquiry laid bare the reality that all governments, Labor and Liberal-National, lie and deceive the population on every front.
(2023-03-07). UAW runoff elections end in debacle for bureaucracy. wsws.org After decades of collaborating with the corporations and successive governments in the systematic destruction of workers' jobs, living standards and working conditions, the affluent upper-middle class executives who occupy the union's misnamed "Solidarity House" and its satellites are viewed with contempt by the rank and file.
(2023-03-08). Atlanta area police attack Music Festival, Stop Cop City battles on. workers.org 
Atlanta On March 7, Workers World writer Dianne Mathiowetz stated: "I was just at a press conference called by various local and national clergy that denounced the police action again as proof that there is nothing about Cop City that suggests de-escalation and protection of people's rights. There are a . . . |
(2023-03-08). From Vilnius to Kinshasa, Macron tries to puff up French imperialism. workers.org 
Lithuania, a new member of NATO on the Baltic Sea, doesn't have the air force its regime claims it needs. So the French government has sent a squadron of its armed forces' most advanced fighter planes to allegedly respond to Russian probes of NATO's air defenses, without any public limits . . . |
(2023-03-08). France: Macron plays "double or nothing" on pension attacks. greenleft.org.au After a three-week period of relative calm, all trade union federations in France called on workers "to bring France to a standstill" on March 7. Key workers' sectors promised ongoing strikes, reports John Mullen.
(2023-03-08). Workers need unions to take action over inflation, cost-of-living pressures. greenleft.org.au Given how many are being crunched by the cost-of-living crisis, public sentiment would be on the unions' side if they took united action for wage rises, argues Mary Merkenich.
(2023-03-08). Millions face 'hunger cliff' as food stamps cut. workers.org 
During the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused millions of people to either lose or be suspended from their jobs, Congress enacted an Emergency Allotment increase in federal funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). These additional food stamp benefits helped millions of people to get food and sustain themselves during . . . |
(2023-03-08). Deutsche Post strike ballot: Postal Workers Action Committee call for strike receives strong support. wsws.org The call by…
(2023-03-08). Six months without a contract: New York City educators must take the struggle into their own hands. wsws.org The rank-and-file educators' committee is fighting to mobilize teachers and all city workers against the Democrats' demands for austerity.
(2023-03-08). UAW tells Caterpillar workers it will not release the full contract at informational meetings: "It was a propaganda show mixed with passive-aggressive bullying" wsws.org Caterpillar workers are being met with an information brick wall when they inquire about the full details of the agreement at phony "informational meetings" held by the UAW.
(2023-03-08). A call to action to all autoworkers: Join the Dana Workers' Rank-and-File Committee. wsws.org To all workers at Dana and beyond: We have the right to abolish the UAW bureaucracy because it takes our dues money and is not representing us. Therefore we the rank-and-file must begin representing ourselves.
(2023-03-08). 300,000 federal workers confront Canada's union-backed Liberal government in struggle for real-terms pay increases. wsws.org Throughout the lengthy negotiations, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government have maintained a hardline stance. They are determined to make the workers pay for the cost of the war with Russia and the massive bailout given to the financial elite at the onset of the pandemic.
(2023-03-07). Bearing witness in the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. workers.org 
By Mumia United Nations Liaison Group The recently formed Mumia United Nations Liaison Group is hosting an event in Philadelphia on March 11 highlighting evidence of Mumia Abu-Jamal's innocence that was illegally withheld by prosecutors at his initial trial and subsequent appeals. The event is taking place shortly before an . . . |
(2023-03-07). Puerto Rico is Not for Sale activists confront Luis Miranda Jr. on his backing for PROMESA. workers.org 
By Puerto Rico is Not for Sale Contact Lorraine Liriano (347) 228-2214 prnosevende@gmail.com. Article from on a press release published March 2, 2023. Manhattan, New York — At a forum March 1 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), longtime political and nonprofit operative Luis . . . |
(2023-03-07). WFTU: Solidarity with the indefinite strike of workers in France on March 7! fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the World Federation of Trade Unions. | The World Federation of Trade Unions, representing 105 million workers in 135 countries, expresses its solidarity with the workers of France who will go on an indefinite strike, on Tuesday, March 7, against the pension, a reform project that President Macron wants to impose. | Indeed, after 5 days of strikes and demonstrations throughout the country since January 19, the class-oriented trade unionists of France have decided to launch a new strike in the strategic sectors of the country to make the governmen…
(2023-03-07). France: Protests Shut Down the Country. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch The controversial pension reform bill calling for an increase in the retirement age from 62 to 64 is currently being discussed in the French Senate but was passed over to the Senate before it could be voted on because of disagreements about raising the retirement age On Tuesday, March 7, the French workers…
(2023-03-07). La campaña de guerra de Biden aviva la resistencia. workers.org 
27 de febrero de 2023 — En la semana del primer aniversario de la guerra de Estados Unidos y la OTAN contra Rusia en Ucrania, la administración Biden ha tomado o anunciado medidas para prolongar la guerra y arriesgarse a una escalada. Los medios de comunicación corporativos han repetido como . . . |
(2023-03-07). Trump at CPAC reflects the clear and present danger facing America. peoplesworld.org 
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Donald Trump strode onto the stage on March 4 and gave the big right-wing crowd what it craved: Red meat. Lots of it. Call it a whole side of beef—or beefs. Communists, Socialists, Joe Biden, Democrats, the "fake news media," critical race theory, LBGTQ people, migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, federal workers—whom he …
(2023-03-07). Deutsche Post DHL workers: Take the strike into your own hands. wsws.org We have made it clear with our warning strikes and protests in recent weeks that we want to fight for our demands. But we must prepare ourselves for the fact that the Verdi union will do everything it can to prevent industrial action.
(2023-03-07). SEP (Australia) campaigners for NSW election speak to workers about cost of living crisis and war. wsws.org One young person said: "The working class are paying and giving money to the government and the government is giving it to the richer people so the richer people are going to get richer, and the people who are working have to work harder, longer, just to support that."
(2023-03-07). More Dana workers stand up to reveal rampant corporate-union abuse. wsws.org "It only takes one person to get the word out. Now other people want to join in and stand up because nobody wants to do it alone, and we have had enough."
(2023-03-08). End violence against women, say unionists on International Women's Day. greenleft.org.au "End violence against women" was the theme of the Geelong Women Unionists Network's 21st International Women's Day breakfast, reports Jacqueline Kriz.
(2023-03-08). Presidente venezolano recibe al canciller de Colombia. telesurtv.net El encuentro tuvo como objetivo afianzar las relaciones bilaterales y repasar la agenda de cooperación estratégica entre ambos países.
(2023-03-07). Biden Hands The Covid Response To The Private Market, Endangering Us All. popularresistance.org In this year's State of the Union address, President Joe Biden took care to portray the ongoing coronavirus pandemic as a trial that is behind us and a victory for the people. "Today, Covid no longer controls our lives," Biden said, adding that "while the virus is not gone, thanks to the resilience of the American people … we have broken Covid's grip on us … And soon we'll end the public health emergency." | This rosy depiction belies reality. Even by the official count, hundreds of people in the United States are dying of Covid-19 daily. In recent months, more than h…
(2023-03-07). Public Statement by Indian People's Movements, Trade Unions and Other Civil Society Groups on G20. asia-pacificresearch.com
(2023-03-07). United States: Behind the derailment in Ohio — anti-worker deregulation, corporate greed. greenleft.org.au The train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, highlighted safety regulation failures, indifference and anti-union bias, writes Malik Miah.
(2023-03-07). Women's rights at the heart of the fight over pensions in France. peoplesdispatch.org This year's International Working Women's Day in France holds special significance because of a nation-wide call by trade unions and people's movements to bring the country to a standstill from March 7…
(2023-03-07). Co-belligerents: Ukrainian defense chief to brief EU counterparts. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Interfax-UkraineMarch 6, 2023 EU defense ministers to listen to Reznikov about development of situation, discuss how to speed up supply of ammunition The Defense Ministers of the European Union member states will listen to the information of their Ukrainian counterpart Oleksiy Reznikov about the latest developments on the battlefield, about the needs of the Ukrainian …
(2023-03-08). Consumer Health: What's the difference between kidney cysts and polycystic kidney disease? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org March is National Kidney Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about the difference between two kidney disorders — kidney cysts and polycystic kidney disease. Your kidneys are situated in the back of your abdomen under your lower ribs, one on each side of your spine. One of the important jobs of the kidneys is to clean the blood. As blood moves through the body, it picks up extra fluid, chemicals and waste….
(2023-03-07). GOP's Debt Limit Plan Would Cost 2.6 Million Jobs, Report Finds. truthout.org House Republicans' plan to majorly slash federal spending over the next decade as a supposed "solution" to the national debt would likely cost millions of jobs and trigger a recession next year, a new report by Moody's Analytics economists finds. With Republicans in charge of only one chamber of Congress, the party has turned to the debt limit as a vehicle for their policy priorities… |
(2023-03-08). Why we need to protest transphobic hate speech. greenleft.org.au Counterprotests have been organised against transphobic agitator Kellie-Jay Keen, who wants her tour of Australia to be a galvanising force for the small far-right and trans-exclusionary movement. Nova Sobieralski reports.
(2023-03-08). The way forward after collapse of School Strike for Climate movement in Australia. wsws.org The perspective of appealing to governments has failed. The alternative is a turn to the growing struggles of the working class to overturn the profit system, the root cause of the climate crisis.
(2023-03-08). This year, International Women's Day means building an anti-imperialist movement. liberationnews.org 
We can draw inspiration from socialist, anti-imperialist women around the world…
(2023-03-07). We Need A Climate Movement That Addresses The Trauma Of Fighting. popularresistance.org I used to think trauma was something that only applied to people exposed to extreme situations like war, genocide, abuse or crime. Yet, living on planet Earth pretty much guarantees you some trauma. | Trauma comes from the Greek "traumat," which means "wound." It is an emotional wounding that results from experiencing or witnessing a highly stressful, horrifying event or series of events where one feels a lack of control, powerlessness and threat of injury or death. This sounds disturbingly similar to what humans are increasingly living through with climate change.
(2023-03-07). Heading Into International Women's Day in Mexico: Let's Be Thousands in the Streets against Femicide and Violence. scheerpost.com 
In 2022, 3,754 women were killed in Mexico, but only 33.7 percent were investigated as femicides. We need to build a movement that fights against misogynist violence.
(2023-03-07). Judy Heumann, 'Mother of Disability Rights Movement,' Dies at 75. scheerpost.com 
"Disability only becomes a tragedy when society fails to provide the things we need to lead our lives—job opportunities or barrier-free buildings, for example," Heumann told one reporter.
(2023-03-07). FRSO and community organizations hold International Women's Day panel. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – On Saturday, March 4, around 20 community members and students attended an International Women's Day panel, hosted by the Tallahassee Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). The panelists included Delilah Pierre from the FRSO, Regina Joseph from Tallahassee Community Action Committee and Cas Casanovah from FSU Students for a Democratic Society. | The speakers covered a wide array of topics, ranging from combatting male chauvinism to the historic role women have played in working-class and revolutionary movements. | International Women's Day, originally International Working Women's Day, has…
(2023-03-07). Georgia: Saakashvili party rallies "color" thugs to "physically confront Russians inside the Parliament" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Rustavi2March 7, 2023 "A special force mobilized in the vicinity of the Parliament A special force mobilized in the vicinity of the Parliament. In particular, near the entrances of the legislature. There was a confrontation between the police and the protestors in the area. The Chairman of the United National Movement, Levan Khabeishvili, addressed the …
(2023-03-07). Israel's new far-right government: Analysis. bdsmovement.net 
(2023-03-08). Nina Turner On Dems' Working-Class Voter Problem. levernews.com 
(2023-03-07). Watchdog Files FEC Complaint That Fox News Broke Election Laws, Lied for Trump. truthout.org A number of bombshell revelations about the inner workings of Fox News have come to light as part of a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems against the network. Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News, has admitted under oath that many hosts on his network "endorsed" Donald Trump's false claims about the 2020 election for financial, not political, reasons, stating… |
(2023-03-07). In Video: In The CIA, We Didn't Give A Hoot About Democracy. southfront.org
(2023-03-07). Rally In Solidarity With Resistance To Cop City In Avon, Massachusetts. popularresistance.org The Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta is the proposed site of a massive police training facility, known to most as "Cop City." Cop City is the logical outgrowth of violent, racialized capitalism in the United States. Corporations and wealthy Atlantans believe that they need a large and well-equipped police force to tamp down "crime" in the city they are working to gentrify, and have thus contributed financially to this project. As landlords and cops push Black residents out, wealthy, mostly white neighborhoods like Buckhead demand ever more police intervention to keep them and their ill-gotten wealth "safe." With all t…
(2023-03-07). What is False Consciousness? libya360.wordpress.com Marx Memorial Library False consciousness is a term used to describe the way in which exploited, oppressed or disadvantaged groups in society accept, assimilate and indeed actively defend or promote ideas which ultimately act against their own interests. It can apply to individuals, to the working class as a whole, or to sections of it….
(2023-03-07). Protesting pension reforms, French working class shuts down the country. peoplesdispatch.org The controversial pension reform bill calling for an increase in the retirement age from 62 to 64 is currently being discussed in the French Senate but was passed over to the Senate before it could be voted on because of disagreements about raising the retirement age…
(2023-03-07). Florida's Fascist Legislative Agenda (OPINION). latinorebels.com The Florida Legislature has ceased to function as an independent body and instead serves as a rubber stamp for Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, the result of which is a slew of legislation that targets the vulnerable, diminishes civil liberties, and serves special interest groups at the expense of working people.