(2023-04-01). [Perspectives] Equity for women in science: the role of gatekeepers. thelancet.com A new book by Cassidy Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière, Equity for Women in Science: Dismantling Systemic Barriers to Advancement, is aptly timed given concerns about the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic damaged women's productivity, visibility, and recognition within the research—publishing ecosystem. Equality within systems of knowledge production is not only right, as this book shows, denying such equality is also harmful.
(2023-04-01). [Correspondence] No climate change justice in lieu of global authorship equity — Authors' reply. thelancet.com Climate change is the biggest threat to individual and public health of this century.1 But although no country is immune, people living in low-income settings (which historically contributed the least to the climate crisis) are disproportionately affected.2 Through its annual reports, the Lancet Countdown has exposed the low prioritisation of climate change and health in countries' political agendas and how the failure of high-income countries to deliver a robust response and international climate finance has so far undermined timely action.
(2023-04-01). [Correspondence] No climate change justice in lieu of global authorship equity. thelancet.com The 2022 Countdown on health and climate change1 highlighted the impacts of climate change due to human-made disasters on the overall physical and socioeconomic fabric of human life. This Countdown aims to highlight the global experiences but fails to translate the global point of view in terms of the report's authorship.
(2023-03-31). Women in science: Q&A with Martha Grogan, M.D. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Dr. Martha Grogan March is Women's History Month and an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women in science and research. Women make up just 33% of the world's researchers, according to the United Nations. That's changing according to Felicity Enders, Ph.D., director of the Office of Research Equity, Inclusion and Diversity. As is their role in the field. Today, there are "more women not only entering the field but also moving into leadership," she says. Among them…
(2023-03-30). Students at two New Orleans universities drop banners to protest attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion. fightbacknews.org New Orleans, LA – On Tuesday March 28, dozens of students at Loyola University of New Orleans and the University of New Orleans hung banners at their respective schools displaying the slogans: "Defend diversity, equity and inclusion," "Protect student multicultural organizations" and "Increase Black enrollment!" | The two actions protested Florida House Bill 999. If enacted into law, this bill would attack diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, staff jobs, faculty positions, and multicultural student groups. The students showed their solidarity with students in Florida and demanded that their schools ta…
(2023-04-01). [Correspondence] Intersectional inequities in academia. thelancet.com Gender equality in academia still faces enduring challenges globally, with under-representation of women in leadership and decision-making positions. However, most universities and research institutions actively implement gender equality plans and undertake activities aimed at increasing it. Despite this remarkable progress, intersectionality lags behind. This term, first coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw, corresponds to the "lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects".
(2023-03-31). Thursday 5/18: Inequality and Instability — Peace Based Approach. indybay.org Online event…
(2023-03-30). Mexico's AMLO calls out US 'oligarchy' at Biden's 'democracy' summit. geopoliticaleconomy.com Mexico's leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador used the US government's "Summit for Democracy" to indirectly call out Washington's hypocrisy: "The oligarchy reigns with the faàßade of democracy", he said, calling for "greater equality" and "separation of economic and political power".
(2023-03-30). Students at two New Orleans universities drop banners to protest attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion. fightbacknews.org New Orleans, LA – On Tuesday March 28, dozens of students at Loyola University of New Orleans and the University of New Orleans hung banners at their respective schools displaying the slogans: "Defend diversity, equity and inclusion," "Protect student multicultural organizations" and "Increase Black enrollment!" | The two actions protested Florida House Bill 999. If enacted into law, this bill would attack diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, staff jobs, faculty positions, and multicultural student groups. The students showed their solidarity with students in Florida and demanded that their schools ta…
(2023-04-01). [Correspondence] Intersectional inequities in academia. thelancet.com Gender equality in academia still faces enduring challenges globally, with under-representation of women in leadership and decision-making positions. However, most universities and research institutions actively implement gender equality plans and undertake activities aimed at increasing it. Despite this remarkable progress, intersectionality lags behind. This term, first coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw, corresponds to the "lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects".
(2023-03-31). Thursday 5/18: Inequality and Instability — Peace Based Approach. indybay.org Online event…
(2023-03-30). Mexico's AMLO calls out US 'oligarchy' at Biden's 'democracy' summit. geopoliticaleconomy.com Mexico's leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador used the US government's "Summit for Democracy" to indirectly call out Washington's hypocrisy: "The oligarchy reigns with the faàßade of democracy", he said, calling for "greater equality" and "separation of economic and political power".
(2023-03-30). Unionized Starbucks Workers Roast Billionaire Howard Schultz. inequality.org Unionized Starbucks Workers Take on Billionaire Howard Schultz A long-awaited Senate hearing drew laughter from observers as the outgoing Starbucks CEO claimed he's no union-buster, despite dozens of complaints from the nation's top labor board. Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, under threat of subpoena, has finally appeared before the United States Senate to answer for …
(2023-03-30). Pushing Back Against Platform Giants: Labor Power and Solidarity at Amazon. inequality.org In recent weeks and months, Amazon warehouse workers walked off the job in protest and staged strikes across the globe. These actions are unfolding at a time in which Amazon has announced yet another round of layoffs — now amounting to 27,000 workers across different roles in this year alone. These two developments have come …
(2023-03-30). Wall Street Bonuses Decline But Still Dwarf Worker Pay Increases Since 2008 Crash. inequality.org After a historic 22 percent spike in 2021, the average annual bonus for New York City-based securities industry employees fell 26 percent in 2022, according to just-released New York State Comptroller data. But the rate of increase in average Wall Street bonuses since the 2008 crash is still far higher than wage increases for ordinary …
(2023-03-30). Today's Tibet evinces path to modernization. ecns.cn The development of Tibet and ethnic groups has always been one of the priorities for the central government. Based on equality, China's ethnic policy is aimed at realizing common prosperity and improving the lives and livelihoods of all ethnic groups. As such, the modernization of Tibet reflects Chinese-style modernization.
(2023-04-01). [Correspondence] Geography education to help understand discrimination in climate change and health. thelancet.com Thilagawathi A Deivanayagam and colleagues1 have highlighted that the effects of climate change are not equally distributed around the world, creating discrimination related to climate change and health. The authors mentioned briefly that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recognises education as one way to address this issue.2 However, the problem is so large and multidimensional that it should be answered with cross-disciplinary solutions. The effects of climate change vary across countries and regions due to differences in geography, history, and economic development.
(2023-03-31). Comicomment: U.S. summit makes a mockery of democracy. ecns.cn The United States, with its tattered version of "American-style democracy," hosted the second so-called "Summit for Democracy" this week. However, the country is plagued by chronic issues such as money in politics, racial discrimination, gun and police violence, and wealth polarization. Human rights legislation and justice have suffered an extreme regression, further undermining the basic rights and freedoms of the American people.
(2023-03-30). The slanderous campaign of "Our Harvard Can Do Better" against Professor John Comaroff. wsws.org The group doesn't document any of its sweeping claims. What "sexual violence crisis"? What administration complicity in "harassment, misogyny, and discrimination"?
(2023-04-01). [Perspectives] Annabel Sowemimo: countering inequities in health care. thelancet.com Annabel Sowemimo is a community sexual and reproductive health (CSRH) registrar in Leicester, UK, working at the Haymarket Health clinic and Leicester Royal Infirmary and Leicester General Hospital. She was born in London to a father who came to England from Nigeria as a medical graduate hoping to become a surgeon, and a mother Sowemimo describes as "an advocate for people", who was a special educational needs teacher and had been raised in 1960s' London in a family of working-class Nigerian migrants.
(2023-03-31). Educational Methods Encouraging Critical Thinking Versus Covert Methods of Inducing Obedience to "Authority" globalresearch.ca
(2023-03-30). Call for June 3 action for prison reform. workers.org 
Credit: by Kevin Caplicki for Justseeds.org Calling all activists, protesters and supporters to join us in refusing to move on June 3, until prison and education reform has been accomplished. This is a call to action for all Pennsylvania prisoners and supporters. We encourage every person incarcerated throughout the country . . . |
(2023-03-30). Starbucks' Howard Schultz Called Before Senate. scheerpost.com 
By Jenny Brown / Labor Notes Starbucks projects the image of an employee-friendly company, but its workers have been exposing the contradiction between the company's words and its actions. On March 29, they'll get some help from the U.S. Senate's HELP Committee, chaired by Bernie Sanders. The Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee has called …
(2023-03-30). Education workers in Los Angeles and Oakland strike for a fair contract. workers.org 
Oakland, California When education workers are under attack, what do they do? They rise up and go on strike! And that's exactly what these workers in both Los Angeles and Oakland did. Oakland teachers, students and supporters rally in front of the OUSD building, March 24. PHOTO: Craig Gordon On . . . |
(2023-03-30). We've Had Enough! Oakland OEA Teachers Wildcat in Fight for Public Education. indybay.org Hundreds of teachers, community members and unionists joined together on March 24, 2023 to rally and march for public education and for a contract that will protect the schools in Oakland. The wildcat was a challenge to the union busting tactics of the district management.
(2023-03-30). Sydney University staff votes to continue strike action at historic meeting. greenleft.org.au At the biggest National Tertiary Education Union meeting ever held at Sydney University, union members voted for two days of strikes to be held on March 31 and April 5. Markela Panegyres reports.
(2023-03-30). Afghan activist Matiullah Wesa's arrest invokes widespread condemnation. peoplesdispatch.org On Monday, March 27, Taliban authorities detained Matiullah Wesa, a prominent activist who has been advocating for the education of Afghan children since 2009. | His arrest has invoked widespread condemnation from activists and human rights defenders, with UN Special Rapporteur Richard Bennett calling for his "immediate release." | "Alarmed by reports that [Matiullah Wesa] famous educator esp. for [girls], leading civil society member & founder of [Pen Path], has been arrested in Kabul by the Taliban dfA (de facto administration). His safety is paramount & all his legal rights must be respected," Richard Bennett…
(2023-03-30). Bernie Sanders vs. Howard Schultz: Longtime Starbucks CEO Grilled on Company's Union-Busting Tactics. democracynow.org 
Just weeks after the National Labor Relations Board accused Starbucks of engaging in "egregious and widespread misconduct" to prevent employees from unionizing, the company's longtime CEO Howard Schultz appeared before the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Wednesday to answer questions. Committee Chair Bernie Sanders of Vermont grilled Schultz on the company's union-busting record and demanded an end to retaliation against workers. Since 2021, nearly 300 Starbucks locations have voted to unionize, but the company has responded by firing many organizers and s…
(2023-03-30). Los Angeles area high school students express support for education workers continuing struggle against sellout tentative agreement. wsws.org Students said they supported teachers getting regular hours and more than "poverty" wages.
(2023-03-30). Higher education employers begin imposing pay cut as University and College Union steps up moves to sell out UK national strike. wsws.org Higher education workers entered into this fight determined to defend their living standards and defeat a concerted offensive by the employers and government. To prevent another UCU sellout, they must take leadership of the dispute out of the hands of the union bureaucracy.
(2023-03-30). China and Honduras cooperate on education. america.cgtn.com 
Cooperation in the field of education is one of the important aspects of the newly established relations between Honduras and China. Paulo Cabral visited one of the main Honduran universities to talk to teachers as students about what they expect from this partnership.
(2023-03-31). Thursday 3/30: #End Plastic Pollution: Creating a Waste Free World. indybay.org Online via livestream…
(2023-03-31). Auto Workers convention lurches towards reversing concessions. mronline.org 
At the union's Detroit convention this week, hundreds of delegates—often local leaders—signaled they were less ready than the members to welcome the reform leadership. But there was unanimity that it's time to finally recoup the divisive contract concessions granted in the 2007-2009 recession.
(2023-03-31). Thursday 4/6: Debunking the Parents Bill of Rights Teach-in. indybay.org Online teach-in…
(2023-03-31). The 'Chinese interference' story is rooted in xenophobia, economic decline. mronline.org 
Ottawa's anxieties about a power to the East are neuralgic, irrational, and grimly familiar.
(2023-03-31). Sweden Supplied BILL 2 Anti-Tank Missiles To Ukraine In Secret. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image. Via Twitter. | Sweden has supplied unknown quantities of its RBS 56B BILL 2 anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) to Kiev forces in secret. | On March 28, a photo showing a Ukrainian service member with a BILL 2 launcher surfaced online. It is still unclear where or when the photo was taken. | The BILL 2 is an upgraded version of the original RBS 56 ATGM that was developed by Sweden Saab Bofors Dynamics. The missile has a semi-automatic command to line-of-sight guidance…
(2023-03-30). New Footage Of Russian Drone Strikes Against Kiev Forces Surface Online. southfront.org 
ZALA Lancet attack drone. © Marina Lystseva/TASS | On March 29, the Russian The video shows a number of previously seen attacks as well as never seen before strikes that destroyed several targets, including a 5P85S transporter erector launcher (TEL) of the S-300PS long-range air defense system and a Polish-made Krab self-p…
(2023-03-30). Alfred de Zayas on the arrest warrant for Putin. mronline.org 
The arrest warrant for the President of Russia, issued by the International Criminal Court is, on one side, a rather ridiculous affair.
(2023-03-30). Killing in the name of precision. mronline.org 
The Technoscientific Origins of Drone Warfare.
(2023-03-30). The Indigenous People, again. mronline.org 
It is not strange that the US, Canada, and Australia do not sympathize with the Palestinians because they themselves were settlers too who wiped out whole cultures and confiscated their land.
(2023-03-30). The Puzzle of Financialization. mronline.org 
In this reprise from October 1993, Henry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy ask: "Isn't there anyone around here who understands how this capitalist system works?"
(2023-03-30). Banking crisis: is it all over? mronline.org 
Bank stock prices have stabilized at the start of this week. And all the key officials at the Federal Reserve, the U.S. Treasury and the European Central Bank are reassuring investors that the crisis is over.
(2023-03-30). Saturday 4/15: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Debt, by David Graeber. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.
(2023-03-30). Hospital Lenin comenzó a brindar entrevistas online a familiares de pacientes. cubadebate.cu Con el propósito facilitar la comunicación e interacción oportuna médico-familiares de pacientes, en el hospital provincial universitario Vladimir Ilich Lenin, de Holguín, comenzó, esta semana, un novedoso servicio de entrevista por videoconferencia entre especialistas y representantes de enfermos ingresados en la institución.
(2023-03-30). How Rank-And-File Labor Organizers Can Transform Unions. popularresistance.org For the past five years, Tevita Uhatafe of TWU Local 567 has dedicated himself to advancing the labor movement. Known affectionately as "Mic Guy," Uhatafe has traveled from coast to coast to rally in solidarity with striking workers in multiple states. Uhatafe entered the union movement as an outsider without family connections, but has nevertheless risen as a rank-and-file leader. He is now the Vice President of the Texas AFL-CIO. Vince Quiles, lead organizer of Home Depot Workers United, sits down with Tefita Uhatafe for an organizer-to-organizer conversation on their respective stories, the barriers impeding d…
(2023-03-31). Construction of new high-speed rail gains traction. ecns.cn State contractors have once again showcased their edge in infrastructure construction with the recent completion of a tunneling project on a major railway under construction.
(2023-03-31). Las 3 del Día: Tenemos 470 diputados, el Día de las trabajadoras del hogar y las noticias del 30 de marzo (+ Podcast). cubadebate.cu Casi finalizando el mes nos acompaña la periodista Thalía Fuentes Puebla que hará un resumen de lo más importante acontecido en la jornada. Comenzamos con declaraciones de Magela Romero, socióloga y coordinadora de la Red Cubana de Estudios sobre Cuidados. Además comentamos sobre los resultados finales de las elecciones nacionales desarrolladas el pasado domingo.
(2023-03-30). Darán resultados finales de Elecciones hoy a las 4:00 pm. cubadebate.cu Hoy 30 de marzo, a las 4: 00pm la presidenta del Consejo Electoral Nacional Alina Balseiro Gutiérrez, en conferencia de prensa, informará los resultados finales de la elección de los diputados que conformarán la X Legislatura de la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular.
(2023-03-30). °Cuba ganó!: Prevaleció el voto por todos los candidatos. cubadebate.cu Los resultados finales de las elecciones nacionales desarrolladas este domingo 26 de marzo validan la elección de los 470 candidatos propuestos como diputados al máximo órgano de poder del Estado, con más del 50% de votos válidos emitidos por los electores según el padrón electoral. Así lo informó hoy en conferencia de prensa Alina Balseiro Gutiérrez, presidenta del Consejo Electoral Nacional (CEN).
(2023-03-30). WATCH: Sanders rips Schultz over 'unforgivable' efforts to crush worker organizing. nationofchange.org "That union-busting campaign has been led by Howard Schultz."
(2023-03-31). Labor reintroduces cashless welfare card, despite promises not to. greenleft.org.au Federal Labor has reneged on its pre-election promise to end compulsory income management by introducing the new Indue SmartCard. Isaac Nellist reports.
(2023-03-31). Pajaro Farmworkers, Class, Climate & Justice With Pamela Sexton & Elon Ortez. indybay.org Thousands of farmworkers and their families are fighting for survival after a flood and dangerous health and safety conditions.
(2023-03-31). $41 million federal grant to help Mayo Clinic, collaborators advance multiethnic Alzheimer's research. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Alzheimer's disease affects people of all ethnic groups. Armed with $41 million in new federal funding, Mayo Clinic researchers and colleagues from 13 other institutions around the country are pursuing three multiethnic projects to identify targets for treatment. Alzheimer's disease robs victims of their memories and families of quality time with their loved ones. Deaths from Alzheimer's more than doubled from 2000 to 2019, and the number of people living with the…
(2023-03-31). Labor, Coalition sink war power reform bill. greenleft.org.au Labor and the Coalition voted together to block a bill that would mandate parliament to vote on whether or not to go to war, reports Pip Hinman.
(2023-03-31). Make Australia part of the solution. greenleft.org.au The latest IPCC report sends another strong call for governments to leave carbon in the ground. But, as Susan Price reports, Labor is weighing up 116 new coal, oil and gas projects — the equivalent of starting up 215 new coal-fired power stations.
(2023-03-31). Saturday 4/1: All Out To Defend The French Workers General Strike-Their Fight Is Our Fight! indybay.org San Francisco French Consulate | 44 Montgomery St #3400, San Francisco, CA 94104…
(2023-03-30). NSW Labor wins 'battle of civility' in lacklustre campaign. greenleft.org.au Far from a groundswell, NSW Labor government received only a 3.6% swing, after 12 years of Coalition neoliberalism. James Wyner reports.
(2023-03-30). Seattle: Starbucks workers hold the line. workers.org 
Seattle Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) struck the coffee chain March 22 at numerous stores across the U.S. Outside corporate headquarters in Seattle that day, over 400 Starbucks workers and allies marched protesting the bosses' union busting. Representing a broad spectrum of labor in Seattle and beyond, they loudly chanted: "Baristas . . . |
(2023-03-30). Starbucks CEO Schultz raked over coals by Sanders in the Senate. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—In an often-contentious 4-1/2-hour Senate hearing, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz denied, ducked and stonewalled workers' reports and National Labor Relations Board findings of the monster coffee chain's constant, centrally-controlled and nationwide labor law-breaking. Senate Labor Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., led off the March 29 session by declaring of Schultz that "Even if he's a …
(2023-03-30). Duke University's ploy to ban graduate student unions at all private universities. therealnews.com 
At colleges and universities across the country, a heated battle is playing out right now over workers' right to organize and have a say over how the institutions they keep afloat with their labor are run. From graduate student-worker unionization efforts and strikes at Temple University, the University of California, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern University, Northeastern University, the University of Chicago, and Indiana University, to faculty strikes (and near-strikes) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, The New School, Howard University, etc., to workers across the higher ed sect…
(2023-03-30). La competencia, la colaboración y… la mecánica cuántica. cubadebate.cu Uno de los calificativos más llevados y traídos de los medios contemporáneos acerca de la ciencia y la tecnología es el de "cuántico". La característica cuántica del comportamiento de la materia forma parte, al menos formalmente y hace tiempo, de los programas de estudio de la educación general de casi todo el mundo.
(2023-03-30). Director del OIEA recorre central nuclear de Zaporiyia. telesurtv.net El Organismo Internacional de Energía Atómica (OIEA) elabora un concepto para la protección de la central nuclear de Zaporiyia.
(2023-03-30). Australia: Labor win in NSW election will not end wage cuts or dire conditions for public sector workers. wsws.org Labor's victory will mean continuing massive cuts to real wages, with tiny nominal increases that the government and the union bureaucracy hope will subdue mounting anger in the working class.
(2023-03-30). Will Lehman files official protest with Department of Labor over illegitimate UAW elections. wsws.org Lehman's complaint contains new and damning information on the close relationship between the Monitor and the auto companies, requiring the Monitor's removal from a re-vote.
(2023-03-30). Michigan labor defeats right to work (for less). cpusa.org 
In a historic win for labor unions and workers all across the state of Michigan, the Michigan Senate voted 20-17, along party lines, on Senate Bill 34, which officially ends the state's "right-to-work" laws. The State House previously passed their version of the bill, HB 4005, on March 8th. On Friday, March 24th, Gov. …
(2023-03-30). Making sustainable chocolate in Virginia. america.cgtn.com 
Chocolate is one of the most popular foods in the world, but it also has a dark side. The industry is considered one of the most detrimental to the environment and least sustainable because of deforestation and abusive labor practices. A couple in Virginia founded …
(2023-04-01). [Correspondence] Japanese medical workers' sacrifice for universal health coverage. thelancet.com As a Japanese clinician working under universal health coverage in Japan, I feel great discomfort with regard to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Comment.1…
(2023-03-31). Mélenchon quietly proposes a general strike to the French union bureaucracy. wsws.org Preparing a general strike cannot be left in the hands of a former capitalist minister like Mélenchon, but must be carried out by building a mass movement of rank-and-file workers.
(2023-03-31). 3 things Los Angeles school workers need to know about the sellout SEIU contract. wsws.org Workers should reject the contract by the widest possible margin, sending it into the trash can where it belongs.
(2023-03-31). Australian Rich List: Skyrocketing wealth for billionaires amid social misery. wsws.org The ultra-wealthy continue to amass billions as workers face a social catastrophe.
(2023-03-31). Factory explosions, tainted water and derailments: The cost of doing business for US capitalism. wsws.org The horrific explosion at a factory in West Reading, Pennsylvania, which killed at least seven workers, is part of an unending series of workplace tragedies in the US.
(2023-03-31). Sri Lankan cinnamon farmers and workers discuss worsening social conditions. wsws.org Sri Lanka has about 35,000 hectares of cinnamon, which is mainly grown in Galle and Matara districts, with about 60,000 farmers and 300,000 workers earning a living from the labour intensive low-paid industry.
(2023-03-31). On eve of contract battle, Stellantis CEO escalates threat against Warren Truck workers. wsws.org Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares reportedly told UAW officials he should have closed the plant a year and a half ago.
(2023-03-31). Doctors in Croatia stand up for a better public health system. peoplesdispatch.org On March 18, thousands of physicians protested in Croatia's capital Zagreb, following years of misleading promises by the Ministry of Health. The doctors, supported by other health workers and patients, are asking for more investment in the public health system, better staffing policies, and responsible coordination of existing health resources. Urologist Mirjana Livojević and medical student Laura Mayer talk about the reasons behind the protest and the doctors' expectations.
(2023-03-30). Argentina: A 47 años del golpe criminal del 1976 siguen intactas la memoria y la lucha. workers.org 
Buenos Aires, decenas de miles de manifestantes llenaron las calles el 24 de marzo. Resumen Latinoamericano 24 de marzo de 2023 — Decenas de miles de manifestantes se concentraron en Plaza de Mayo este 24 de marzo por la tarde. La movilización independiente convocada por el Encuentro Memoria, Verdad y . . . |
(2023-03-30). New winds are blowing from China. workers.org 
New Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, one of those the imperialist media calls a 'Wolf Warrior.' By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein* March 21, 2023 — On March 7, during a press conference held within the framework of the first session of the 14th National People's Congress in Beijing, the recently appointed . . . |
(2023-03-30). Germany: Warning strike turns up the steam. workers.org 
By Arnold Schà∂lzel The author is a former editor of the German newspaper junge Welt, where this article was published March 27. Translation: John Catalinotto Railroad and Transport Workers rally by the main train station in Bremen, Germany, March 25, 2023, for strike action. A foretaste of the depth of . . . |
(2023-03-30). Former Starbucks Worker Describes Being Fired After He Helped Organize Union. truthout.org We speak with Jaysin Saxton, one of the witnesses who testified at the Senate hearing Wednesday on Starbucks' union-busting record. Saxton was a former Starbucks shift manager, fired after leading the union drive at a store in Augusta, Georgia. He tells Democracy Now! he and fellow workers were motivated to organize their store to address the "insane" working conditions… |
(2023-03-30). Massive anti-government protests sweep Greece after train crash kills 57 people. therealnews.com 
On Feb. 28, 2023, two trains traveling along the same track collided in Greece, killing 57 people—many of them students in their teens and 20s returning home from university in Athens. The deaths of 11 workers in the crash sparked two 24-hour strikes from the railway unions, followed by demonstrations across the country that have lasted for weeks and mobilized tens of thousands of people. Workers blame the crash on a lack of properly functioning safety and communication systems, as well as severe understaffing and underfunding of the railways—all originating from "Troika" (EU, IMF, and ECB) stru…
(2023-03-30). Indianapolis library workers and patrons demand Nichelle Hayes as library CEO. peoplesworld.org 
INDIANAPOLIS—Month after month, the Indianapolis Marion County Public Library Board of Trustees continues to ignore the will of the community and deny Nichelle Hayes the position as CEO of IMCPL, despite the strong backing she has from the community and workers at the library. On Monday, March 27, the board met yet again and denied …
(2023-03-30). Women activists meeting in Bronx, New York. workers.org 
Bronx, New York, March 25, 2023 Although a rainy, windy day forced the cancellation of an outdoor march, 50 activists packed a room in the basement of an apartment building in the Bronx, New York, to hold a three-hour discussion on issues rooted in capitalism and imperialism impacting women of . . . |
(2023-03-30). Daily Round-up | Brazil ex-president Rousseff elected to BRICS bank presidency & other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode, we look at Brazil's ex-president Rousseff being elected to BRICS bank presidency, Sri Lankan workers protesting privatization of government oil company, and more.
(2023-03-30). Paris sanitation workers suspend strike, will clear garbage to make protesting easier. peoplesworld.org 
Parisian sanitation workers returned to work Wednesday amid heaps of garbage that piled up over their strike in protest against French President Emmanuel Macron's unpopular pension bill. Mounds of trash weighing up to 10,000 tons along the French capital's streets—reportedly equal to the weight of the Eiffel Tower—have become a striking visual symbol of opposition …
(2023-03-30). Ex-Starbucks Worker Jaysin Saxton Describes Being Fired After He Helped Organize Union. democracynow.org 
We speak with Jaysin Saxton, one of the witnesses who testified at the Senate hearing Wednesday on Starbucks' union-busting record. Saxton was a former Starbucks shift manager, fired after leading the union drive at a store in Augusta, Georgia. He tells Democracy Now! he and fellow workers were motivated to organize their store to address the "insane" working conditions, including understaffing and inconsistent schedules. "There's no stability in how much you're earning and how many hours you're getting, so you can't afford to pay your bills, and you have to choose…
(2023-03-30). Why the repeal of anti-union laws in Michigan boosts workers nationwide. nationofchange.org Michigan's victory represents the latest in a string of victories for workers mobilizing to build strength across the country.
(2023-03-30). For an all-out strike in the public sector and beyond! Build independent rank-and-file committees. wsws.org The SGP calls on civil servants to form rank-and-file committees, independent of the trade unions, to take the strike into their own hands and to network with workers from other companies throughout Europe and internationally.
(2023-03-30). Tentative agreement would leave tens of thousands of Disney World workers in poverty. wsws.org The starting wage would increase under the new deal from $15 to $20 by 2025.
(2023-03-30). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Teachers in Portugal resume strikes over pay and career progression in the face of government minimum service requirements; Lebanese telecom workers on indefinite walkout over pay as currency plummets and inflation hits 124 percent; South African workers at Makro stores begin 10-day strike over pay and sackings in year-long dispute…
(2023-03-30). Fear of rank-and-file rebellion looms on last day of UAW convention. wsws.org In a report on the 2021 Deere strike, UAW Vice President Chuck Browning said officials had faced a "serpent" of opposition from workers.
(2023-03-30). Striking French rail workers call to bring down Macron regime. wsws.org WSWS reporters interviewed striking railway workers at the incinerator picket line in Ivry-sur-Seine during Tuesday's day of action against Macron.
(2023-03-30). University of Michigan graduate student workers strike for living wage. wsws.org The plea by the university, that there is no money, for the kind of raise the graduate students are demanding is a lie. The University of Michigan is one of the wealthiest universities in the US.
(2023-03-30). Aboriginal workers raise concerns about Australia's Voice to parliament. wsws.org "We often say, if it doesn't suit big business then it won't happen. They hold the purse strings, and they hold the power. Governments make the announcements but they're only puppets for big business."
(2023-03-30). No to French unions' "mediation" with the state! Mobilize workers to bring down Macron! wsws.org Workers must mobilize in strikes and protests—independently of the union bureaucracies, who are seeking "mediation" with the government to impose its pension cuts—and bring down Macron.
(2023-03-31). German government sends battle tanks against Russia and multiplies military aid to Ukraine. wsws.org Earlier this week, the first German battle tanks arrived in Ukraine. This has far-reaching historical and political implications. 82 years after Hitler's war of annihilation against the Soviet Union, German tanks are again rolling against Russia.
(2023-03-31). The European Union's Digital Trade Rules: Undermining European Policy to Rein in Big Tech. scheerpost.com 
By Deborah James / Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Executive Summary This report shows how Big Tech companies are working to constrain the ability of EU democratic bodies to regulate their activities in the public interest through "trade" agreements, which are binding and permanent. Digitalization is the defining economic transformation of our time. …
(2023-03-30). Trade unionists across U.S. demand University of South Florida not fire employee for protesting. fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – Almost 200 trade unionists and supporters signed an open letter to the University of South Florida demanding AFSCME member Chrisley Carpio keep her job. Carpio is one of the protesters the USF Police Department brutalized at a Students for a Democratic Society protest for diversity on March 6. She is one of four protesters arrested and facing felony charges for battery on a law enforcement officer. Carpio was placed on administrative leave on March 7. | USF human resources emailed Chrisley Carpio on Wednesday, March 22 with a notice of a Monday, March 27 hearing on a request for her termination. Carpi…
(2023-03-30). Bulgaria heads to the polls, again. peoplesdispatch.org Bulgaria is heading for general elections on April 2, 2023—the fifth in the last two years—marking the depth of the political crisis in the country. Back-to-back snap elections have resulted due to failures to form a stable government since April 2021. Along with the political crisis, people are also reeling under an acute cost of living crisis marked by soaring inflation. | Gabriel Valkov, chairperson of the Youth Union of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), highlights the major factors responsible for the present crises and explains the views of the BSP and the role it can play to restore democrac…
(2023-03-30). Pension Reform Or Revolution! popularresistance.org Major trade unions in France estimate that two million people hit the streets across France on Tuesday, March 28, denouncing the controversial pension reforms pushed by Emmanuel Macron's government. The reforms were forcibly passed in the National Assembly on March 16 using Article 49.3 to bypass the parliamentary vote. The move has further weakened the legitimacy of the reforms, already detested by the majority of the French working class. While the government, headed by President Macron and Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, narrowly survived a no-confidence vote on March 20, the approval rating of the president h…
(2023-03-30). ACTU, NSW Teachers Federation question AUKUS nuclear submarines. greenleft.org.au The Australian Council of Trade Unions and the NSW Teachers' Federation are concerned about the rise in militarism linked with the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal. Pip Hinman reports.
(2023-03-30). Sindicatos franceses aceptan invitación de Gobierno a reunirse. telesurtv.net Se reunirían entre el lunes 3 y el miércoles 5 de abril, antes de la próxima jornada de protestas contra la reforma de pensiones, convocada para el 6 de abril.
(2023-03-30). New Zealand high school teachers hold second one-day strike. wsws.org The unions are seeking to divide teachers and block the development of a mass working class movement against the Labour Party government's austerity agenda.
(2023-03-30). West Virginia Health Providers Plan New Clinic to Circumvent State Abortion Ban. truthout.org This week, the Women's Health Center of West Virginia — the lone abortion clinic in the state before Gov. Jim Justice (R) signed an abortion ban into law last September — announced that it will be opening a clinic roughly five miles from the state border in abortion-friendly Maryland. "This will save lives in West Virginia and beyond," said the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia… |
(2023-03-31). Hope Is Alive: Dutch Farmer-Citizen Movement Wins Historic Electoral Victory. globalresearch.ca
(2023-03-31). IYSSE holds first meeting in Canada on the war in Ukraine and how to stop it. wsws.org The IYSSE meeting—part of a series being organized around the world to develop a global working class-led movement against war—went ahead despite the University of Waterloo's attempt to censor it and Ukrainian-Canadian nationalists' attempt to disrupt it.
(2023-03-30). The Black American Intelligence Report on Reparations-Focused Liberation Ventures: Who Are They And Where Is The $6 Million Going? moguldom.com There are multiple groups jumping into the reparations movement. One of the latest is a Black-led organization called Liberation Ventures. It's working to be a support resource for various reparations groups. The philanthropic group has raised $6 million so far to give away through grants to those involved in the reparations movement. But who is …
(2023-03-30). The 47th Anniversary of Palestinian Land Day. bdsmovement.net 
(2023-03-30). Palestinian Prisoners' Movement Victory. popularresistance.org After the escalation of Zionist attacks against the achievements gained by the prisoners' movement over the years, and the attempts of the fascist Ben Gvir to seize our rights by enacting laws and policies such as the laws for the execution of prisoners, revocation of nationality, and deportation of prisoners and former prisoners, as well as the attacks on the achievements of daily life of the prisoners' movement, such as cutting access to water, setting brief times for bathing and the imposition of dozens of punitive measures, such as repeated transfer and isolation, led the prisoners' movement to take action.
(2023-03-30). Why the Main Players Behind the Israeli Protest Movement Are Bringing the Confrontation to a Head. globalresearch.ca
(2023-03-30). Masar Badil: We demand the cancellation and boycott of the "Israel Universities Festival" in Brazil! samidoun.net 
The Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, condemns the "Israel Universities Festival," a normalization fair being organized at Unicamp — Campinas State University in Brazil on April 3, 2023. This is a Zionist event hostile to the Palestinian people and their rights, and we urge those responsible at the university to cancel this …
(2023-03-30). California will respond to the Pan African Congress call for better seed movement. indybay.org Our California Pan African World Food and Ag Pavilion will offer proposed opportunities towards solutions that offer greater access to global seed research and development. 'We need to hear from farmers how we can continuously and sustainably bridge the gap between seed companies and the farming community, now more pronounced mainly by the negative impact of climate change. On our side, we will endeavor to work with the farmers to help increase the resilience and profitability of African farming in the face of climate change and other challenges,'
(2023-03-30). Spain's PSOE-Podemos government calls for "social peace" as mass protests sweep France. wsws.org While imposing pension cuts in Spain, the PSOE and Podemos are terrified of an eruption of class struggles in Spain like the current mass movement in France against Macron.
(2023-03-31). How Africa is facilitating Multipolar World. journal-neo.org 
The military conflict between Russia and Ukraine (as also Ukraine's NATO allies) has brought some very interesting changes to the international political economy. Whereas this conflict has led Europe — working under immense pressure from the US — to stop its purchase of oil and gas from Russia, it has also allowed Russia to divert […] | –°–æ–æ–±—â–µ–Ω–∏–µ
(2023-03-30). Chinese premier urges working together to promote solid, sustained people-to-people exchanges. ecns.cn Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Thursday called for working together to promote solid and sustained people-to-people exchanges and inject more certainty into the convergence of different civilizations.
(2023-03-30). AI may reduce human working hours to one day per week: expert. ecns.cn Artificial Intelligence (AI) may reduce human working hours to one day per week, said Justin Yifu Lin, dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University, on Wednesday at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2023.