(2023-04-26). We Must Not Dance, Harry Belafonte Understood, to a Billionaire Beat. inequality.org
(2023-04-25). Black Youth Education Advocate King Randall Sparks Debate Over Victimology and Structural Racism. moguldom.com Black youth education advocate King Randall, the founder of the Life Preparatory School for Boys in Albany, Georgia, recently commented about victimology and structural racism, setting off a fiery Twitter debate. Randall is a 24-year-old "community shifter," according to his LinkedIn profile. The Life Preparatory School for Boys is a 501(c)3 charitable organization, whose mission it is …
(2023-04-26). Bill banning caste discrimination in California clears first major hurdle. trtworld.com Proposed by Senator Aisha Wahab, the bill, which would outlaw caste discrimination against Dalits in the US state, is approved by state's Senate Judiciary Committee by 8-0 votes. | Bill banning caste discrimination in California clears first major hurdle…
(2023-04-26). NYC May Day May 1 — 2 PM — Union Square. iacenter.org MAY DAY 2023 NYC! /DÂA INTERNACIONAL DE LOS TRABAJADORES 2023 NYC! Union Square Monday May 1st 2pm, March at 5pm Lunes 1 de mayo 2pm, La marcha a las 5pm COME OUT ON INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY TO SAY: Solidarity with workers everywhere ! Workers rights are moral rights ! We support the struggles of migrant workers The working class has no boundaries. STOP UNION BUSTING and negotiate fair contracts at Amazon, Starbucks, Trader Joes, Rutgers, & EVERYWHERE! Hands Off Medicare and Medicaid! Healthcare is a Human Right! End Evictions ! Housing is a Human Right! Money for healthcare, housing, education, not for imperial…
(2023-04-26). From Military to Policing, Say No to a Federal Budget That Prioritizes Violence. truthout.org The Biden administration recently released an astronomical spending request for the military, in addition to large requests for police and other forces of state violence. Now, Republicans are pushing back by calling for even more state-violence-related dollars, even as they propose legislation that would severely slash survival-level necessities like food assistance, education, child care… |
(2023-04-26). Stop the War on LGBTQ Teachers. otherwords.org Messages keep coming in to me from LGBTQ teachers throughout the South who have been fired or threatened with firing. These teachers have years of experience and exemplary records. Many have advanced degrees. | LGBTQ teachers are increasingly fearful. The Stonewall National Education Project, which educates teachers about inclusive classroom practices, reports that its annual symposium was
(2023-04-26). UK: National Education Union leadership drives dispute into "negotiations" dead end. wsws.org Although there is no agreement on ballots and unified strike action across the education sector, all the unions are agreed that the threat of strike action will be suspended at the drop of a hat if the Education Secretary Gillian Keegan agrees to further negotiations.
(2023-04-26). Senate Labor Committee approves Su on party-line vote, but final confirmation uncertain. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON (PAI)—By an 11-10 party-line vote, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee approved Democratic President Joe Biden's nomination of Julie Su to be the next Secretary of Labor. Speechifying by the Republican minority, who accused Su, now the Acting Secretary, of being anti-business, too pro-union, a bad administrator, and an inexperienced negotiator, consumed …
(2023-04-26). Paraguay: Leftist Candidate Alegre Presents Government Program. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, left-wing politician Efrain Alegre promised to fight the "mafia" entrenched in the Paraguayan state if he wins the April 30 elections. | RELATED: | Alegre presented his government program, in which he pledged to promote energy for development, inclusive economic growth, health, social protection, and the right to education. | This 148-page program "represents the plurality of realities and ideas of the country and will be impl…
(2023-04-26). Hainan releases plan to attract foreign universities. ecns.cn Foreign higher education institutions and those from the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan will be permitted to independently set up and run universities and higher vocational schools in the Hainan Free Trade Zone.
(2023-04-25). International Monetary Fund demands cuts as Egypt faces bankruptcy. wsws.org As Egypt's debt has risen, government's expenditure has gone on debt servicing rather than health, education and welfare.
(2023-04-26). Review: 'I Know Who Caused COVID-19': Pandemics and Xenophobia. mronline.org 
A critical review of a Lacanian individualist approach by a fan of Rob Wallace, and chief of infectious disease at Mount Sinai in NY.
(2023-04-26). Is this man a Russian agent operating in the Black community of St. Louis? mronline.org 
The Justice Department has just indicted him and three other members of the African People's Socialist Party for advancing Russian propaganda—though it looks more like the Biden administration was looking for a scapegoat to justify its anti-Russia offensive and found one in a familiar place.
(2023-04-26). Pivotal moment in India-Russia relations. mronline.org 
Most relationships undergo transition with the passage of time from appreciation of each other to a "state of having," a desire to possess or even to control the other. But the present pivotal moment in the Russian-Indian relationship shows that an equal relationship does not fall into that trap.
(2023-04-26). The State and the future of socialism. mronline.org 
In his recent book, The Communist Hypothesis, Alain Badiou describes the past defeats of May 1968, the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Paris Commune as well as those of factory occupations and other such struggles as defeats 'covered with glory'.
(2023-04-26). Who is Behind "Fake News"? Mainstream Media Use Fake Videos and Images. globalresearch.ca The mainstream corporate media is desperate. They want to suppress independent and alternative online media, which they categorize as "fake news". Readers on social media are warned not to go onto certain sites. Our analysis confirms that the mainstream media are routinely involved in distorting the facts and turning realities upside down.
(2023-04-26). Ruy Mauro Marini's Contribution to the Political Economy of Imperialism. mronline.org 
In "The Dialectics of Dependency," Ruy Mauro Marini developed a theory of dependency and unequal exchange that is still invaluable today.
(2023-04-26). Stop the strikebreaking against U-M grad student instructors! Mobilize the students! Build a rank-and-file strike committee! wsws.org The potential for expanding the U-M strike and defeating the university's strikebreaking efforts was demonstrated Monday when faculty members issued an online open letter denouncing the U-M administration's tactics and supporting the strikers' demand for a living wage.
(2023-04-26). Saturday 5/13: 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.
(2023-04-26). Matt Hancock admits he should be in Prison after demanding Jail Time for Vaccine Misinfo & "Anti-Vaxxers" in Orwellian Online Safety Bill. expose-news.com In a world where power is increasingly consolidated among a select few individuals and colossal corporations, critical thinkers who question the establishment face growing threats. With one of those threats being the …
(2023-04-26). Steps being made to ensure rare characters survive in digital era. ecns.cn Chinese authorities and tech companies are working together to speed up the digitalization of rarely used Chinese characters, which will allow them to be recognized by computers as the country's banks, hospitals and government departments move transactions online.
(2023-04-26). Wednesday 5/3: #AbortionRights: Organizing Call to Strategize & Fight for Mifepristone Access. indybay.org Online organizing call…
(2023-04-25). Global military spending reaches record $2,240 billion: SIPRI. mronline.org 
According to SIPRI, global military spending will reach a new record high of $2,240 billion in 2022.
(2023-04-25). Indictment of African People's Socialist Party is a racist assault on the Black Liberation Movement. mronline.org 
The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally condemns and opposes the recent indictment of four members of the African People's Socialist Party (APSP), alongside three Russian nationals.
(2023-04-25). U.S. pregnancy-related deaths skyrocket, capitalism is to blame. mronline.org 
A new report out from the National Center for Health Statistics finds that U.S. maternal deaths have increased by an alarming 40% since 2020.
(2023-04-25). An Interview with Michael A. Lebowitz on 'Capital', "Real Socialism," and Venezuela. mronline.org 
"While socialists need to begin with the existing concepts of fairness as reflected in the moral economy of the working class, to the extent that those concepts of fairness are contrary to the principle advanced in the Communist Manifesto that 'the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all,' they must be rejected." —Michael Lebowitz…
(2023-04-26). Paiute Blocking Lithium Mine on Paiute Massacre Site in Nevada. indybay.org Fort McDermitt and Pyramid Lake Paiute are offering prayers, and blocking lithium mine construction by Lithium Americas of Canada, at the Paiute Massacre Site in northern Nevada. "They are digging right into the massacre site."
(2023-04-26). China maintains lead in nuclear power units under construction. ecns.cn China continues to lead the world in number of nuclear power units under construction, according to a blue book issued by the China Nuclear Energy Association on Wednesday.
(2023-04-26). Nuclear power plant in Fujian under construction. ecns.cn Unit 1 and 2, the first two of China's self-developed Hualong One at the Zhangzhou nuclear power plant are scheduled to operate in 2024 and 2025 respectively, with expected power output of 72 billion kilowatt-hours annually.
(2023-04-26). Scientist lays out plans for international lunar station. ecns.cn China is proposing to establish a multinational organization to take charge of the construction and operation of the International Lunar Research Station.
(2023-04-26). China proposes building lunar research station with partners. ecns.cn China is proposing to establish a multinational organization to take charge of the construction and operation of the International Lunar Research Station, an ambitious venture led by China.
(2023-04-26). British Health Workers To Intensify Protests Against Meager Pay Hikes. popularresistance.org Health workers in the UK are taking a stand against the policies of the Conservative (Tory) government which has refused to heed their demands for pay restoration and essential resources for National Health Service (NHS) staff. Nurses, support staff, ambulance drivers, and other workers of NHS England have strongly opposed the latest, below-inflation pay offer made by the authorities in March. In response, Unite the Union and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) have called for strike actions before and after the upcoming International Workers' Day on May 1. Fom April 11, around 60,000 junior doctors in England wen…
(2023-04-26). Russia to Host International Conference on AI for Business. telesurenglish.net From August 17 to 18, the city of Innopolis in the Republic of Tatarstan will host the Artificial Intelligence for Business Conference (AI IN 2023), an international event in which experts from 19 countries will discuss AI applications in activities related to oil, drug development, energy, and other industries. | RELATED: | The Innopolis University is in charge of organizing the AI IN 2023 conference, which will have TV BR…
(2023-04-25). UFCW Convention: Reformers In Motion. popularresistance.org The United Food and Commercial Workers is one of the country's largest unions, with 1.2 million members in the U.S. and Canada, two-thirds of whom work in grocery stores. Like other unions, it has lost membership over the last decade, but it has managed to double its assets. | Reformers in the union are asking why. The UFCW caucus Essential Workers for Democracy has proposed a slate of amendments to expand rank and file power in the union and put resources into organizing and strike action. The proposals will be considered at the union's convention starting today in Las Vegas. The convention is held every five ye…
(2023-04-25). Workers Fighting Union-Busting Have A New Legal Tool. popularresistance.org A company accused of lying about retirement benefits to stop workers from organizing can be sued in a class-action lawsuit, a federal judge ruled. | The decision came on April 7 after the defendant, the California-based grocery retailer Save Mart Supermarkets, asked the judge to dismiss the case, which experts are calling a creative use of labor law against union-busting. | The suit hinges on promises made by managers about retirement benefits to undercut the appeal of union membership to employees, a common tactic in campaigns against labor organizing. A ruling against Save Mart could haunt companies that have u…
(2023-04-26). A's/GAP Billionaire Owner Fisher's Failed Howard Terminal Privatization Deal With ILWU. indybay.org Billionaire A's owner John Fisher who also owns the GAP has said that they will build a new stadium in La Vegas.
(2023-04-26). Science Saturday: COVID-19 — the pandemic that's forever changed laboratory testing. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Like many people throughout the world, Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., remembers exactly where he was and what he was doing when COVID-19 was classified as a pandemic. "Those first few months of the pandemic will be forever ingrained in my memory," he says. For Dr. Binnicker, director of Mayo Clinic's Clinical Virology Laboratory, two important dates stand out above the rest. "One was Feb. 17, 2020, when Dr. (William) Morice and I were talking about whether the department should…
(2023-04-26). Save lives this Take Back Day; safely dispose of unused medications. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Dispose of unneeded medications safely during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22. Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Olmsted Medical Center, Zumbro Valley Medical Society and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will host a community drop-off event to collect unused or expired medications. "The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Violent Crimes Enforcement Team (VCET) are proud to team up with Mayo Clinic and other…
(2023-04-26). South Korea, US set for new collaboration to deter North's nuclear threat. channelnewsasia.com
(2023-04-26). Hoy en la Mesa Redonda: Cuba, Estados Unidos y los 200 años de la teoría de la "fruta madura" mesaredonda.cubadebate.cu El 28 de abril de 1823, hace 200 años, John Quincy Adams, entonces Secretario de Estado de los Estados Unidos, elaboró la famosa teoría de la "fruta madura" que definía la existencia de las leyes "de gravitación política" y el carácter no natural de los lazos entre Cuba y España. La isla "sólo podía gravitar alrededor de la Unión Norteamericana" sentenciaba.
(2023-04-26). OMS advierte de riesgo biológico tras toma de laboratorio en Sudán. telesurtv.net Los técnicos "no pueden acceder al centro sanitario para controlar la situación", agregó el representante de la OMS en Sudán, Nima Saeed Abid.
(2023-04-25). "Those he inspired will rise up, and like him, use their talents and their passions for good"—Minamata director Andrew Levitas marks the passing of composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. wsws.org The death late last month of the multi-talented Ryuichi Sakamoto has seen an outpouring of tributes on social media from his artistic collaborators and fans.
(2023-04-25). Australian defence review outlines massive military build-up for war with China. wsws.org The Labor government's review calls for a "whole-of-nation" mobilisation, aimed at "projecting" aggressive military power throughout the region, clearly targeting China.
(2023-04-26). Global News Dispatches: 4 Stories. independentmediainstitute.org Headlines in This News Package: U.S. And NATO Allies Accounted for Over Half of Global Military Expenditure in 2022 Chile's President Announces Plan to Nationalize Lithium Industry Ecuador: Prosecutors Request Preventive Detention of Former President Lenín Moreno App Delivery Workers in India Strike Against Increasing Exploitation [NEWS ITEM TEXT] U.S. And NATO Allies Accounted …
(2023-04-26). Belgium city of Liege becomes latest European city to sever ties with Israel. peoplesdispatch.org The resolution in the Liege city council, introduced by the left-wing Workers' Party, calls for the suspension of ties with Israel until its apartheid regime puts an "end to the system of violations of the rights of the Palestinian people and fully respects the obligations imposed by international law and various United Nations resolutions"
(2023-04-26). 1,300 workers strike North Sea oil and gas companies. wsws.org Unite are not making any concrete demands to mobilise workers throughout the industry, in which the main players are making staggering profits.
(2023-04-26). Sentiment for strike grows at Clarios Toledo battery plant as UAW withholds contract details. wsws.org On Thursday, nearly 1,000 workers at Clarios's flagship US electric vehicle (EV) battery plant outside Toledo, Ohio, will be voting on a contract that the UAW has not allowed them to see. | Anger is mounting among the rank and file, who voted 99.9 percent to ratify a strike last week.
(2023-04-26). Canada's pseudo-left Fightback group upholds authority of unions and NDP as they sabotage federal government workers' strike. wsws.org Fightback's injunction workers confine themselves to a militant "collective bargaining" struggle—and leave the politics to the right-wing, Liberal government-allied trade union and NDP leaders—is a recipe for defeat.
(2023-04-26). Pentagon's Ukraine war leaks expose Spain's Podemos and its pseudo-left rival, Sumar. wsws.org The entire corrupt pseudo-left political milieu in Spain and beyond has lied to the public and hidden from workers the imminent danger of all-out NATO-Russia war.
(2023-04-26). Celebration for Mumia's birthday in Philadelphia. workers.org 
Philadelphia Mumia supporters at One Art in Philadelphia, April 23, 2023. (WW Photo: Joe Piette) Mumia Abu-Jamal's 69th birthday was celebrated in his hometown of Philadelphia on April 23, with a march starting at 52nd and Market streets. Participants came from Philadelphia, New York, Boston and New Jersey. The march . . . |
(2023-04-26). Abortion is health care! Health care is a right! workers.org 
Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk could be described as a xenophobic, white-supremacist, science-loathing, male chauvinist pig. Even that characterization might be too generous! This Trump-appointed judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled April 7 to nullify the approval by the Food and Drug Administration — in . . . |
(2023-04-26). Houston activists say: "Free Mumia Now!" workers.org 
Houston A multinational crowd of activists gathered at the SHAPE Community Center on April 23 to celebrate Mumia Abu-Jamal's 69th birthday. After a militant talk and a prayer by Nation of Islam Minister Abdul Haleem Muhammad, who condemned the rich, white elite for the ills of the vast majority in . . . |
(2023-04-26). Lessons from Lenin for International Workers Day. workers.org 
International Workers Day, also known as May Day, reminds us of an anecdote about the 1917 Russian Revolution regarding the working class. At the time, the Bolshevik Party, trained and led by V.I. Lenin was in the process of seizing power. An anti-Bolshevik intellectual was arguing with a Bolshevik worker . . . |
(2023-04-26). Panel On The CIA AFL-CIO Murderous Attack On Mexico City Ford Assembly Worker In 1980. indybay.org There will be a panel on the CIA AFL-CIO attack on Mexico City Ford Assembly workers on January 8, 1980. It injured many workers and killed one auto worker. It has been covered up by the AFL-CIO and UAW leadership since it took place.
(2023-04-26). UMich docks pay, calls cops on striking grad students. therealnews.com 
Graduate student-workers at the University of Michigan are still on strike after hitting the picket line for the second time in three years at the end of March. In the time between the Fall 2020 and Winter 2023 strikes, according to the union, the gap between graduate workers' average pay and the cost of living in Ann Arbor has tripled. Facing a cost-of-living crisis and fighting for a slate of core demands—from a living wage and affordable childcare to better protections for international students, access to gender-affirming healthcare, and the creation of an unarmed, non-police emergency response un…
(2023-04-26). Headlines for April 26, 2023. democracynow.org Dozens of Drowned Refugees Found Off Coasts of Libya, Tunisia After Attempting to Flee to Europe, Fighting Continues in Sudan Despite Ceasefire as U.N. Pleads for End to Conflict, Harry Belafonte, Pioneering Singer and Civil Rights Activist, Dies at Age 96, Neil Gorsuch Failed to Disclose Conflict of Interest in Property Sale After Confirmation to SCOTUS, Graduate Workers at University of Michigan on Strike, Report Retaliation from University President, Washington Bans Assault Weapons as Part of New Gun Control Legislation, Somali Fighters Kill 21 People, Including 18 Militants, Iran Charges Two Prominent Actress…
(2023-04-25). Canada's Largest-Ever Strike Against A Sole Employer Is Underway. popularresistance.org Canada is in the midst of the largest strike against a single employer in the country's history. On April 19, 155,000 public sector workers — who have been without a contract for more than two years — walked off the job, setting up 250 picket lines across Canada. Thus far, the government's approach to negotiations with the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) has been, at best, ham-fisted. | The bulk of the workers — 120,000 employees of various government departments who answer to the Treasury Board — are asking for an annual 4.5 percent wage increase retroactive to June 2021, when ne…
(2023-04-25). Can Iowa Meatpacking Workers Take On Tyson? popularresistance.org Gloria Ortiz's parents spotted a sign one day looming over the fields of strawberries in California's Central Coast. It was announcing $11-an-hour wages for meatpacking in Iowa. They had been picking strawberries for $35 a day. | "So we came from Santa Maria, California, to this town, for Tyson," Ortiz says. | Her parents took jobs at the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Columbus Junction, Iowa, in 1994, just as the meatpacking industry was in a race to the bottom. In the 1980s, meatpacking companies had begun vertically integrating their operations to control the whole supply chain, from the farmers who rais…
(2023-04-25). University Of Michigan Graduate Student Strike Continues. popularresistance.org Graduate student workers at the University of Michigan have been winning a series of small skirmishes in their strike against the huge billionaire institution. But the university administration has shown the darker side of their corporate-style approach to negotiating with their own students, turning increasingly to violence in the face of community support for strikers. | The strike, which began on March 29, came after several months of negotiations, and were often stalled by administration in moves to limit the format of bargaining meetings. When the roughly 2,400 graduate student workers overwhelmingly voted i…
(2023-04-25). Royal Mail workers oppose Communication Workers Union's sell-out deal: "This will never be forgiven." wsws.org Royal Mail workers in England, Scotland and Wales are continuing to send their views on the brutal work regime agreed between company executives and the CWU bureaucracy.
(2023-04-26). Reunión del G7: un llamado a la unidad y advertencias para China. globalizacion.ca Las declaraciones enfáticas del comunicado final de la cumbre presionan para volver a unir las partes allí donde parecieron mostrarse algunas fisuras en el sistema de alianzas que Estados Unidos intenta mantener bajo su conducción. | Reunidos en un centro turístico…
(2023-04-26). Oakland, California teachers authorize strike action, amid growing frustration with union bureaucracy. wsws.org As teachers across the country are fighting back against deteriorating conditions in public schools, the union's are seeking to channel discontent into dead end appeals to the same politicians cutting school budgets.
(2023-04-26). Biden sending nuclear ballistic missile subs to South Korea. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—Just days after President Joe Biden announced his re-election campaign and told union reps at a gathering in Washington about the variety of progressive bills he has passed and others he intends to support in a second term, he is now unrolling a dangerous and major escalation in his administration's militaristic foreign policy. Biden, meeting …
(2023-04-26). Unión Eléctrica estima una afectación de 303 MW para el horario pico nocturno de este 26 de abril. cubadebate.cu SE estima para la hora pico una disponibilidad de 2487 MW y una demanda máxima de 2720 MW, para un déficit de 233 MW, por lo que de mantenerse las condiciones previstas se pronostica una afectación de 303 MW en el horario nocturno.
(2023-04-26). When We Organized At My Trader Joe's. progressive.org With two more stores joining a wave of union elections, shoppers should know the fan-favorite grocery chain is not as progressive as its image.
(2023-04-26). Condenan nuevas sanciones de UE contra funcionarios de Siria. telesurtv.net Según la Cancillería de Siria, las políticas de la Unión Europea suponen amenaza para la vida y sustento de los sirios.
(2023-04-26). Presidente Lula se reúne con su par español, Pedro Sánchez. telesurtv.net La guerra de Ucrania fue uno de los puntos de discusión, en el que el presidente Lula ha reiterado su apuesta por un diálogo de paz.
(2023-04-26). European Union agrees binding green fuel targets for aviation. channelnewsasia.com
(2023-04-25). How German Chancellor Angela Merkel Subjected Germany to the U.S. strategic-culture.org For the preservation of peace, freedom and prosperity, one thing is needed: liberation of Europe from the USA, Werner Ràºgemer writes. | After the founding chancellor of the U.S.-enforced separate state of the Federal Republic of Germany, Konrad Adenauer, and the chancellor of reunification, Helmut Kohl, now on April 17, 2023 Angela Merkel has been awarded the highest honor of the German state: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit. Only chancellors of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) are honored in this way. Social Democratic chancellors such as Willy Brandt are considered dissenters: they may not be honore…
(2023-04-25). Amid mounting political crisis, Peru's de-facto president swears in four new ministers. peoplesdispatch.org Indigenous and social organizations, as well as trade unions, have decided to intensify protests against the government of de-facto president Dina Boluarte. They are demanding her resignation, the release of her predecessor Pedro Castillo, the dissolution of Congress, and fresh elections…
(2023-04-26). What Does Indigenous Reclamation Mean? popularresistance.org In the past year alone, the movement led by Native communities to reclaim lands and spaces — sometimes called the "Land Back" movement — saw huge gains in mainstream momentum. | Some of that has come from rallies, like those led by Indigneous activists fighting to close Mount Rushmore. Other conversations about Native lands have been sparked by major court decisions, like the Supreme Court's landmark decision in the McGirt case in which it ruled that a large portion of Oklahoma is still Native land. And with U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland now the country's first Native secretary of the interior, many Land Back…
(2023-04-26). "South Africa's freedom serves the interest of a few while the majority lives in deep poverty" peoplesdispatch.org S'bu Zikode, President of Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), South Africa's shack dwellers' movement, talks about UnFreedom Day which is marked by the organization in April every year.
(2023-04-26). "Sing Your Song": Remembering Harry Belafonte, Who Used His Stardom to Help MLK & Civil Rights Movement. democracynow.org 
We remember the remarkable life of Harry Belafonte, the pioneering actor, singer and civil rights activist, who died at his home on Tuesday in New York at the age of 96. The son of Jamaican immigrants, Belafonte rose to stardom in the 1950s and became the first artist to sell a million records with his album Calypso. He was also the first African American actor to win an Emmy. Along with his growing fame, Belafonte became deeply involved in the civil rights movement. One of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest confidants, he helped to organize the March on Washington in 1963 and frequently raised money to b…
(2023-04-26). Sri Lankan president threatens protesting teachers with draconian attacks. wsws.org Wickremesinghe's threat against teachers is a warning to the entire working class of the brutal methods his government will use to deal with any opposition to the government's IMF-dictated austerity measures.
(2023-04-26). Biden seeks reelection amid war, COVID and inflation. wsws.org The three-minute video announcement of the Democratic president's reelection campaign was silent on critical issues facing the working class.
(2023-04-25). Joe Manchin's Tax Hike On The Working Class. levernews.com 
