(2023-11-20). Reparations Advocacy Group NAASD LA Rebrands As Lineage Equity & Advancement Project (LEAP). moguldom.com The grassroots organization formerly National Assembly of American Slavery Descendants (NAASD) LA announced its rebranding as the Lineage Equity & Advancement Project (LEAP). This transformation reflects a refined mission aimed at achieving lineage-based equity through policy initiatives, a renewed commitment to serving the community with valuable resources and information, and the relaunch of the impactful …
(2023-11-20). Revealing the True Cost of Billionaire Philanthropy. inequality.org
(2023-11-20). Richest 1 Percent Produced as Many Emissions as Poorest Two-Thirds of Humanity. truthout.org The richest 1% of the global population produced 16% of the world's carbon dioxide in 2019, generating as much planet-warming pollution as the poorest two-thirds of humanity, according to a report released Monday by Oxfam International. Climate Equality: A Planet for the 99% describes the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency and runaway inequality as "twin crises" that are leaving those least… |
(2023-11-20). Palestinian Activist Remembers Vivian Silver, Israeli Canadian Peace Activist Killed in Hamas Attack. democracynow.org 
Israeli and Palestinian peace activists are mourning 74-year-old Canadian Israeli peace activist Vivian Silver after she was confirmed killed on October 7 during the Hamas attack on Kibbutz Be'eri, where she lived. She was previously thought to be held hostage. Silver co-founded the Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation, sat on the board for the human rights group B'Tselem and was an active member of Women Wage Peace. Silver's friend and colleague Samah Salaime, a Palestinian feminist activist, says Silver would have pushed for dialogue to find a peaceful solution to the c…
(2023-11-20). Muslim countries should cut political ties with Israel : Ayatollah Khamenei. muslimmirror.com Tehran : Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has described the Zionist regime as a manifestation of racial discrimination, urging Muslim countries to cut the lifeline of the Zionist regime of Israel. Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei made these remarks during his visit to the IRGC Aerospace Forces exhibition on Sunday. Ayatollah …
(2023-11-20). Gaza's education system is being erased. electronicintifada.net Aspirations have been stifled by Israel's bombs.
(2023-11-21). Dangers only multiply: Could Israel's war on Gaza go nuclear? mronline.org 
Israel's robust military, the fourth-strongest in the world, is ravaging Gaza and, along with armed settlers, terrorizing Palestinians in the West Bank following the brutal Hamas massacres of October 7th.
(2023-11-21). Lies surrounding Al-Shifa hospital recall those preceding the Iraq invasion. mronline.org The evidence-free claims that have flooded media regarding Hamas using Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital as a military headquarters recall similarly devastating intelligence lies preceding the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
(2023-11-21). The food police. mronline.org Food theft isn't an indicator of criminality, but of a failing social system.
(2023-11-21). 'We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba,' Israeli Minister announces. mronline.org 
Denying the Nakba is normally a central tenet of Zionism.
(2023-11-21). Saturday 12/9: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: The Feminist Subversion of the Economy. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.
(2023-11-20). Why are Chinese web novels so attractive to global readers?>. ecns.cn China Literature launched its global online reading platform WebNovel in 2017, which has become one of the biggest global reading platforms for online Chinese literature.
(2023-11-20). A paradigm shift in the hundred years' war on Palestine? mronline.org Since October 7, there have been five elements that indicate we may be seeing a paradigm shift in the hundred years' war waged against the Palestinian people.
(2023-11-20). After a long defeat, Labor is rising from the ashes. mronline.org Stephen Franklin on labor's losses—and explosive resurgence.
(2023-11-20). German Constitutional Court rules climate change fund is unconstitutional—A signal for further social cuts. mronline.org 
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court's ruling on the federal government's Climate Change Fund is not a legal, but a political decision. It reduces the previously agreed budget by €60 billion in one fell swoop and is a signal for further social spending cuts.
(2023-11-20). Israel-Palestine war: This is not about Hamas. It's a 75-year colonial war. mronline.org 
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine is inseparable from the racialised structures of Zionism, which receives unbridled support from Europe and the US…
(2023-11-20). Time to stop settler colonialism under cloak of 'victimhood'. mronline.org 
Israel has become a classic example of settler colonialism in contemporary times, as also a model picture of apartheid.
(2023-11-20). Saturday 12/9: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: The Feminist Subversion of the Economy. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.
(2023-11-20). Union focuses striking New Jersey nurses on fruitless appeals to multimillionaire governor. wsws.org Notwithstanding his empty expressions of sympathy for the nurses, Murphy has shown through his inaction that he sides with the executives of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.
(2023-11-20). Philippines workers denounce police killing of Jude Fernandez, labor leader. therealnews.com 
On Sept 29, union leader Jude Thaddeus Fernandez was killed in his home by Philippine National Police during a labor campaign to raise wages and end government corruption and abuses. Fernandez is the 72nd victim of labor-related killings in the Philippines since July 2016. The Real News reports from Manila. | Producer: Mayday Multimedia, Brian Sulicipan | Videographers: Aly Suico, Bane Vicente, Francis Manaog, Kat Catalan, Tel Delvo | Video Editor: Mervine Aquino | Narrator: Kate Calimag |
| Transcript: | Jerome Adonis, Secretary General, Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU): Our call: Justice for Comrade J…
(2023-11-21). Palm Oil in Common Household Products Is Destroying the World's 'Orangutan Capital'. counterpunch.org Picture a rhinoceros in the rainforest. Add a herd of elephants, families of orangutans swinging through the treetops, and tigers prowling the understory, and there is only one place in the world you could be. Indonesia's Leuser Ecosystem is one of Earth's most ancient forest ecosystems, a laboratory of life's potential where the alchemy of
(2023-11-21). Aumentan a 24 los muertos por lluvias en República Dominicana. telesurtv.net Algunos de los muertos no aun han sido identificados, y se espera para que el Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Forenses (Inacif) termine la labor.
(2023-11-20). On The Perpetration Of Mass-Death Events. popularresistance.org The holocaust now visited on Palestine by US/Israel is unique in many ways. Rates of killing and maiming exceed those of previous Israeli assaults on Gaza, the perpetrators announce their genocidal intent with unusual frankness, and Western media and official apologists are especially shameless. | But in a world under centuries of West European domination, this particular intentional genocide/mass-death event ought to seem familiar. These mass killings have always been necessary for the global system to function, providing land for settlement, cultivation and resource extraction, labor for hyper-exploitation, and…
(2023-11-20). Gobierno de Nicaragua felicita a joven seleccionada Miss Universo. telesurtv.net Ejecutivo expresa que Nicaragua está de fiesta. Atribuye el reconocimiento a "la hermosura y el talento de nuestras mujeres y de nuestras laboriosas y humildes comunidades".
(2023-11-20). Australian government gives David McBride no choice but to plead guilty after exposing war crimes. wsws.org Three chilling steps by the Albanese Labor government, clearly acting in concert with the US and other allies, demonstrate its determination to make McBride's fate a warning to all whistleblowers.
(2023-11-20). Rita Roberts: Girl with flower tattoo, murdered 31 years ago, identified. geo.tv 
Rita Roberts was identified through 'Operation Identify Me', a collaborative effort led by Belgian, Dutch, and German police in partnership with Interpol…
(2023-11-21). SEP speakouts in Sydney and Melbourne: "Mobilise workers to end the Gaza genocide!" wsws.org In key working-class suburbs, the SEP speakers raised the need for independent action by workers to stop the genocide and fight militarism.
(2023-11-21). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Panamá continues to be roiled by protests over First Quantum Minerals mine deal while rural mail carriers in Bemidji, Minnesota are staging daily informational pickets over deluge of work.
(2023-11-21). MGM Grand Detroit casino workers reject contract betrayal, continue strike. wsws.org Striking MGM Grand casino workers have voted down a supposed "historic" agreement that would have kept workers locked into poverty rates of pay as gaming profits surge.
(2023-11-21). UAW announces ratification of sellout contracts at the Big Three: The way forward for autoworkers. wsws.org Despite the claims of UAW President Fain and the Biden administration that the contracts are "historic," there was widespread opposition among workers, which will only grow in the weeks and months ahead.
(2023-11-21). Globe and Mail defends Canadian businesses' "right" to use scabs to break strikes. wsws.org The traditional mouthpiece of Canada's business elite has denounced the Trudeau government's proposed "anti-scab" law and defended the use of replacement workers as employers' "best lever" in countering strikes.
(2023-11-21). Healthcare workers speak out against the genocide in Gaza as Palestinian healthcare system crumbles. wsws.org As the US medical establishment largely justifies the genocide in Gaza, healthcare workers voice their opposition and join the mass movement of workers against the war on Palestine.
(2023-11-20). Can Israel Withstand Growing Diplomatic Pressure and Isolation? sonar21.com 
Israel is caught between the proverbial dog and the fireplug. It has vowed to destroy Hamas militarily but has committed to a grinding war that is causing massive civilian casualties, which in turn is galvanizing the Arab and Muslim world to support a Palestinian state. Israel's economy is being battered as a consequence of the war, now deprived of Palestinian workers and Israeli reservists who were called to active duty. With the majority of the Palestinian citizens of Gaza now hunkered down in southern Gaza, Israel confronts a dilemma — if it escalates attacks on the south it will increase dramatica…
(2023-11-20). The Sting is Stung. counterpunch.org 
The sting is stung. United Auto Workers" piecard Shawn Fain, the Big Three Auto Bosses, and Democrats like the war criminal Joe Biden, touched noses, shared grins and a wink, declared the fraudulent UAW contracts ratified by the rank and file. Now they go back to harsh exploitation as usual. The mainstream huzzahs for the United
(2023-11-20). Fast Fashion Is Antithetical to Workers' Rights. counterpunch.org 
'Tis the season for holiday shopping, and as American consumers ready their spending dollars, few of us are likely to link our gift buying to the high cost of low prices on the other side of the planet. This is especially true for what has come to be known as "fast fashion," the clothing equivalent
(2023-11-20). Palestinian Death Toll in Gaza Tops 13,000 as Israel Repeatedly Strikes U.N. Schools Housing Refugees. democracynow.org 
Over the weekend, at least 82 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on Jabaliya refugee camp, including multiple United Nations schools sheltering Palestinians. At least 85 incidents of Israeli bombing have impacted 67 facilities run by the United Nations relief agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) in the last two months. We speak with Tamara Alrifai, spokesperson for UNRWA, about the organization sheltering close to a million Palestinians from Israel's assault, which has killed 104 of her colleagues since the beginning of the war — the highest number of United Nations aid workers killed in a c…
(2023-11-20). Adidas Exposed By Impostors At Tech Conference. popularresistance.org This Wednesday, an "adidas executive" named "Aristide Feldholt" (actually Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men) announced to a huge, standing-room-only crowd at Web Summit — the self-described "largest tech conference in the world" — that adidas would reward tens of thousands of underpaid sweatshop workers, many of whom are owed significant backpay and severance by letting them frolic in a deeply weird VR world called the "adiVerse," paying for it with a cryptocurrency generated by a tiny chip implanted into their bodies. | "Aristide" was joined onstage by the multi-platinum "DJ Marshmello" (actually Mike Bo…
(2023-11-20). Retired Spanish generals call for coup, back right-wing protests vs PSOE-Sumar government. wsws.org The police-state machine's response to mass protests in Spain and internationally against genocide in Gaza is to accelerate plans for a coup to install a far-right regime aiming to crush the workers.
(2023-11-21). Far-Right Libertarian Javier Milei Is The Next President Of Argentina. popularresistance.org Javier Milei, the candidate of the Liberty Advances far-right libertarian party, was victorious in the second round presidential elections in Argentina held on November 19. With 99.3% of the votes counted, Milei had scored 55.7% of the vote, while his opponent, center-left peronist Sergio Massa of the Union for the Homeland coalition, trailed behind with 44.3%. Milei will take office as president on December 10. | In his victory speech, Milei told supporters, "The situation in Argentina is critical. There is no space for gradualisms nor for lukewarmness or ambiguities…If we don't advance rapidly with the struct…
(2023-11-21). The four-day week as a transformation project. indybay.org The pandemic, environmental disasters and the current wars have ushered in a new era, a kind of "turning point". As the demand for a reduction in working hours is shared by a broad majority of employees across generations (Lott/Windscheid 2023), this offers the opportunity to produce a conflict that has the potential to have an impact and contribute to renewing the trade union movement.
(2023-11-20). Libertarian Climate Denier Javier Milei Elected President of Argentina. orinocotribune.com The right-wing candidate of The Libertarian Party (La Libertad Avanza, LLA), Javier Milei, was elected president of Argentina on Sunday, defeating Sergio Massa, the candidate of the ruling Peronist party, Union for the Homeland (Unión por la Patria). | After 99.3% of the ballots were counted, Milei obtained 55.7% percent of the valid votes (14,476,462), compared to 11,516,142 obtained by Massa (44.3% percent). | Electoral authorities reported a turnout of 76.3% percent. The elections took place in a completely normal manner. | Milei's campaign was based on libertarian extreme right-wing positions that included re…
(2023-11-20). Libertarian Climate Denier Javier Milei Elected President of Argentina. orinocotribune.com The right-wing candidate of The Libertarian Party (La Libertad Avanza, LLA), Javier Milei, was elected president of Argentina on Sunday, defeating the candidate of the ruling Peronist party, Union for the Homeland (Unión por la Patria), Sergio Massa. | After 99.3% of the ballots were counted, Milei obtained 55.7% percent of the valid votes (14,476,462), compared to 11,516,142 obtained by Massa (44.3% percent). | Electoral authorities reported a turnout of 76.3% percent. The elections took place in a completely normal manner. | Milei's campaign was based on libertarian extreme right-wing positions that included re…
(2023-11-20). Friday's Global Temperature Breach Is a Canary in the Coal Mine, Scientists Say. truthout.org Global temperatures surpassed 2°C above preindustrial levels for the first time Friday, according to preliminary data from the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service. The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts' ERA5 data set showed global service air temperatures rising 2.07°C above the 1850-1900 average on Friday and 2.06°C above that average on Saturday, the service said. |
(2023-11-20). Pro-Palestine Student Group in Florida Sues University System to Prevent Deactivation. indybay.org University of Florida's Students for Justice in Palestine is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Florida, and Palestine Legal…
(2023-11-20). Far-right libertarian Javier Milei is the next president of Argentina. peoplesdispatch.org Javier Milei, the candidate of the Liberty Advances far-right libertarian party, was victorious in the second round presidential elections in Argentina held on November 19. With 99.3% of the votes counted, Milei had scored 55.7% of the vote, while his opponent, center-left peronist Sergio Massa of the Union for the Homeland coalition, trailed behind with 44.3%. Milei will take office as president on December 10. | In his victory speech, Milei told supporters, "The situation in Argentina is critical. There is no space for gradualisms nor for lukewarmness or ambiguities…If we don't advance rapidly with the struct…
(2023-11-20). New York City educators hold rally outside UFT headquarters to demand union call for ceasefire in Gaza. wsws.org The United Federation of Teachers completely disregarded the protest by New York City educators, instead backing the pro-war line of the AFL-CIO.
(2023-11-20). Portland teachers union prepares sellout of citywide strike. wsws.org As Portland teachers enter their third week on strike, the union and district are conspiring to end the strike with a sellout agreement.
(2023-11-20). Widespread resistance from actors to SAG-AFTRA betrayal on Artificial Intelligence, streaming residuals. wsws.org The deal is a thorough-going fraud, which the union is now attempting to perpetrate on the 65,000 striking actors.
(2023-11-20). India creates two Israels annually, Common Civil Code needs to be implemented: BJP Minister Giriraj Singh. muslimmirror.com The ongoing fast unto death at Ramlila Maidan in Lajpat Nagar concluded on its 22nd day, highlighting the 'need for a Population Control Act in India'. The fast, led by Anil Choudhary, President of Population Solution Foundation, saw the participation of Union Minister Giriraj Singh, District Magistrate Rakesh Singh, Meerut MP Rajendra Aggarwal, and Trans …
(2023-11-21). Australian protesters declare: "No human heart can accept the Gaza genocide" wsws.org "There's obviously a powerful movement of the people supporting those in Palestine. But the government isn't doing anything about it."
(2023-11-20). Ecuadorian movement reacts to election results in Argentina. plenglish.com Quito, Nov 20 (Prensa Latina) The November 15 Popular Committee in Ecuador regretted on Monday the elections' results in Argentina, after the victory of the far-right Javier Milei, which they described as a rise of fascism.
(2023-11-20). Deadly diseases stalk millions in war-torn Sudan. peoplesdispatch.org As the war in Sudan, which has killed thousands, continues into its eighth month with no ceasefire in sight, cholera stalks millions in Africa's third-largest country whose already fragile healthcare system has all but collapsed due to attacks and shortages. | The most vulnerable to this deadly water-borne disease is the displaced population which is "surviving in overcrowded camps, schools, dormitories and mosques," said Rawia Kamal, an activist of People's Health Movement (PHM) and a medical lab technician by profession. | With little or no drinking water supply in these shelters, people have to buy water carri…
(2023-11-20). Report back from Running Down the Walls Event in Philadelphia. itsgoingdown.org Report back from Philadelphia Anarchist Black Cross (ABC) on their recent Running Down the Walls event in support of political prisoners. We're pleased to report the success from the sixth annual Philadelphia Running Down The Walls in support of political prisoners and prisoners of war, and the movement to #StopCopCity. Before we go any further,…
(2023-11-20). Hamas: Israel's claim about captives aimed at covering up its 'security, military failure'. presstv.ir Hamas dismisses Israel's allegation about the resistance movement using Gaza's al-Shifa Hospital to keep the regime's captives.
(2023-11-20). 'Al-Aqsa Storm Israel's greatest disgrace; regime's crimes in Gaza prelude to its collapse'. presstv.ir The appalling crimes committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip are a prelude to the regime's collapse, says the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement's envoy to Tehran.
(2023-11-20). Lebanon's Hezbollah targets Israeli military sites with missiles in fresh attacks. presstv.ir Hezbollah has launched a fresh round of retaliatory missile attacks on Israel's military sites in the occupied territories.
(2023-11-20). Four more Palestinian students detained in nightly raids for social media posts. mondoweiss.net 
Israeli police continue to detain students over social media posts in what critics say is a coordinated campaign to crush the Palestinian student movement.
(2023-11-21). Lebanon's Hezbollah targets Israeli military sites with missiles in fresh attacks. presstv.ir Hezbollah has launched a fresh round of retaliatory missile attacks on Israel's military sites in the occupied territories.
(2023-11-21). Yemeni Armed Forces Capture Israeli Ship in Red Sea: Exclusive. orinocotribune.com The Yemeni Armed Forces detain an Israeli cargo ship in the Red Sea in the latest escalation against the Israeli occupation in light of its genocide in Gaza. | The Yemeni Naval Forces managed to capture an Israeli ship in the depths of the Red Sea, sources familiar with the matter told Al Mayadeen on Sunday. | Reportedly, 52 people aboard the Israeli ship, presumably a vehicle carrier, were detained, Al Mayadeen's sources added, revealing that the Yemeni Armed Forces were working on revealing their identities and nationalities. | The ship is called the Galaxy Leader. It is Bahamian-flagged but owned by an Israeli…
(2023-11-21). French pseudo-left parties block struggle by the working class to stop Gaza genocide. wsws.org In order to initiate an international working class mobilization aimed at halting arms shipments to Israel, a political struggle against the nationalism of the petty-bourgeois pseudo-left parties is necessary.
(2023-11-21). Pro-business Democrat Cherelle Parker wins Philadelphia mayor's race. wsws.org Despite Parker presenting her agenda as catering to the "common sense" working person, the longtime Democratic Party official won't resolve the issues which plague the working class of Philadelphia.
(2023-11-20). Building BRICS in the Arctic. infobrics.org The Council's 2021-2030 Strategic Plan states that it is working towards making the Arctic a region of "peace, stability and constructive cooperation, that is a vibrant, prosperous, sustainable and secure home for all its inhabitants, including Indigenous Peoples, and where their rights and wellbeing are respected…
(2023-11-20). Meeting of Indian WSWS readers discusses how the working class can stop the imperialist-backed genocide in Gaza. wsws.org The meeting denounced Modi and the entire Indian ruling class for their direct complicity in the genocidal war that the Israeli state, with the backing of all the imperialist powers, is waging on the Palestinian people.
(2023-11-20). International hybrid meeting of Pressenza editorial offices in Athens. pressenza.com On November 18 and 19, [2023], an international meeting of Pressenza news agency editorial representatives from the different regions of our planet took place in Athens. It was a mixed meeting, attended by many representatives from Asia, Europe, North and South America. | During the meeting, time was initially used to discuss the thoughts and opinions of the agency's media partners, which were presented in eleven three-minute videos. The focus was on the role of alternative and independent media, today's challenges and the question of how networking can be strengthened. This was followed by an important exchange…
