2023-10-01: News Headlines

Editor (2023-09-30). 'Systemic racism' rampant in U.S. police, judiciary: UN. mronline.org The UN International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the Context of Law Enforcement calls on authorities to amp up efforts of reform.

midwesternmarx (2023-09-30). Venezuela: Gov't to Launch China-Backed Anti-Poverty Program. By: Andreína Chávez Alava. midwesternmarx.com The Social Equality and Happiness Mission will adapt the Chinese experience to the Caribbean country's reality to alleviate poverty and inequality. Caracas, September 21, 2023 (venezuelanalysis.com) — The Venezuelan government has announced a new social program focused on fighting poverty and inequality, which will be supported by China's International Poverty Reduction Center.​On Monday, during his weekly TV program, President Nicolás Maduro said&nbsp …

Gavin OReilly (2023-10-01). No Jab. No Education? Lockdowns and QR codes Worldwide. Big Pharma's Stranglehold on Schools. globalresearch.ca

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-01). Michael Chong: US' Point Man for Canada-China Policy. libya360.wordpress.com Truth Bomb Media In the political sphere, Canadian civic education emphasizes placing trust in our elected officials, anticipating that they will prioritize the collective good, embody unyielding integrity, and advocate for transparency. Foremost, the welfare of our nation should be their guiding concern. However, the embodiment of this ideal is not always observed, even in…

Christos Tsagkaris, Andreas S Papazoglou, Dimitrios V Moysidis, Stavros P Papadakos, Marios Papadakis (2023-09-30). Correspondence] Striving to afford free health care in Greece during COVID-19. thelancet.com Greece is fortunate to have a public health-care system that provides free access to highly expensive investigations and treatments. However, the reality of understaffing and underfunding within the health-care system means that patients' relatives often have to accompany them day and night to assist with practical needs, such as dressing, eating, and the use of the lavatory. These dedicated, informal caregivers provide these services without any compensation or formal education, sacrificing their own physical, emotional, and social wellbeing.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-30). Malcolm X Academy: Reviving the Panthers' Legacy in 2023. libya360.wordpress.com Hanna Eid Drawing on inspiration from the Black Panther Party, PAIGC of Guinea-Bissau, and the Zapatistas' Chiapas school, the Malcolm X Academy is a welcome addition to the history of African struggle in the United States. Revolutionaries across America are reviving the legacy of the Black Panther Party (BPP) through education. I had a chance…

WSWS (2023-10-01). University and College Union sabotages UK national higher education strike. wsws.org Just 10 days before the action started, the UCU told local branches they could decide individually whether to withdraw from the walkout. This resulted in workers at less than one third of universities (42) being involved.

Areeba Shah (2023-09-30). GOP Waging Coordinated Effort to Undermine US Elections, Says Leading Official. truthout.org Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat viewed as a national leader in voting rights, has received 67 death threats and over 900 threats of online abuse within just three weeks, according to a system used by her office that tracks harassment and threats against election workers. In 2020, Griswold's office launched a "rapid response" election security unit, a team of election security… |

Dominic Alexander (2023-09-30). "Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income" — book review. mronline.org "Welfare for Markets" exposes the neoliberal links of basic income, and helps to explain why it is not a useful demand for the left, argues Dominic Alexander…

Editor (2023-09-30). Lacking moral, political and representative legitimacy: the election of Kasselakis. mronline.org Americans and Tsipras are murdering SYRIZA.

Editor (2023-09-30). The perilous path from Western domination to de-dollarisation. mronline.org One of the major problems faced by Global South countries is that they are saddled with immense debts in dollars, and Western corporations claim ownership over their resources.

Vijay Prashad (2023-09-30). Shouldn't the United Kingdom and France relinquish their permanent seats at the United Nations?: The Thirty-Ninth Newsletter (2023). mronline.org At its fifteenth summit in August 2023, the BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) group adopted the Johannesburg II Declaration, which, amongst other issues, raised the question of reforming the United Nations, particularly its security council. To make the UN Security Council (UNSC) 'more democratic, representative, effective, and efficient, and to increase the representation of developing countries', BRICS urged the expansion of the council's membership to include countries from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Keating Zelenke, . (2023-10-01). Student-Loan Debtors Weigh Options As Debt-Payment Moratorium Expires. popularresistance.org "I'm thinking about the interest that's going to be accruing, on top of each loan, and I'm like, okay, that's going to total maybe $1,000 a month," says Rachel Jerome of the upcoming federal student-loan payment ≠resumption. | After Jerome earned her bachelor's degree, she realized that her career goals were much different than when she was 18 years old. She wanted to switch gears and go back to school for a master's in strategic communications, so she attended an online program at Syracuse University while working full-time at a nonprofit and living with her parents. | COVID-19 induced a federal moratorium on…

Pavel López Lazo (2023-10-01). Cuba present at the Latin American Cultural Festival in Bucharest. plenglish.com At the headquarters of the National Museum of Romanian Literature, an important cultural institution, Cuba was presented with an online conference given by the National Literature Prize-winner Reynaldo Gonzalez. | The exhibition dealt with the origins of Cuban literature as a manifestation of national independence, an exhibition by Cuban photographer Sonia Almaguer Darna and Romanian photographer Miki Puran. | Plus, the film "Nido de Mantis", by Cuban director Arturo Sotto, was screened. There was also a reading of a chapter from a novel by author Vladimir Perez Casal as well as debates on elements of 19th centur…

teleSUR (2023-09-30). Kenya: Progress To Boosting Child Online Safety, Unicef. telesurenglish.net On Friday, a United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) official said that Kenya is making progress in enhancing child online safety amid the rapid proliferation of the internet. | Related: | According to Eri Mathers Suzuki, chief of child protection at the UNICEF Kenya office, the East African nation has established a multi-sectoral technical working group comprising UN agencies, government bodies and civil society to lea…

Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes. (2023-10-01). With No Reform Caucus, Auto Workers Would Not Be On Strike. popularresistance.org One lesson is that member power does not have to start from a supermajority; that's unlikely. UAW members are on strike today, with inspiring levels of rank-and-file energy, because four years ago a small group of activists founded a new reform caucus. That caucus, Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), boldly took advantage of an unexpected opportunity, organized like crazy, and won elections. Its candidates are now leading the union. | If UAWD had not existed and organized hard, this current fight that has potential to change the stakes for the entire labor movement would not be happening.

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-09-30). Ethiopia and China sign agreement for technology center of excellence. plenglish.com Addis Ababa, Sep 30 (Prensa Latina) The construction of a technological center of excellence with workshops for professional training and research, is the objective of a contract signed by the Ethiopian Electric Utility (EEU) and a corporation from China, it was announced today.

midwesternmarx (2023-09-30). Petro to Travel to China to Discuss Transportation Projects. By: TeleSur. midwesternmarx.com President Petro hopes the Asian nation can help Colombia with transportation projects based on the use of trains and electric technologies. On Thursday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced that he will travel to Beijing, where he will meet with President Xi Jinping to discuss the future of Bogota's subway. Its construction is currently being handled by a Chinese consortium."I have an interview with the Chinese president on October 25," he said, adding that he hopes the Asian nati …

Staff (2023-09-30). 30 September, Berlin: Demonstration in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners and against anti-Palestinian repression. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is organizing a demonstration on Saturday, 30 September at 1 pm in Berlin, Germany, in Hermannplatz, in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, the resistance in occupied Palestine, and as part of the

Nick Engelfried, Waging Nonviolence. (2023-09-30). A Major Win Against Factory Farming In Oregon. popularresistance.org In July, Gov. Tina Kotek signed Oregon Senate Bill 85, which places a moratorium on factory farms' ability to use unlimited amounts of groundwater. While some advocates consider the bill to be a diluted compromise, it has potential to significantly limit the destructive activities of CAFOs in a state where a healthy remnant of the family farming economy still thrives. On a national level, it represents the first major state legislative victory against factory farming in the U.S. in years. | SB 85 is the product of a years-long organizing effort, whose ultimate goal is to pass a full moratorium on new factory farm…

Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles (2023-10-01). Saturday 12/9: Creative Workshop: Collaborative Collage. indybay.org 901 E 3rd Street | Los Angeles, CA 90013…

Jacob Andrewartha, Jordan AK (2023-10-01). Victoria's housing plan — a win for developers, a loss for public housing. greenleft.org.au The Victorian state Labor government's Housing Statement allows for residential developments valued at more than $50 million to be fast-tracked, proposes the demolition of all public housing towers for public-private development and sells off public land to developers, report Jacob Andrewartha and Jordan AK.

Jacob Andrewartha, Jordan AK (2023-10-01). Victoria's housing plan — a win for developers, a loss for public housing. greenleft.org.au The Victorian state Labor government's Housing Statement allows for residential developments valued at more than $50 million to be fast-tracked, proposes the demolition of all public housing towers for public-private development and sells off public land to developers, report Jacob Andrewrtha and Jordan AK.

Labor Video Project (2023-10-01). SF Labor Community Rally To Defend Community Space at Redstone Labor Temple. indybay.org

Labor Video Project (2023-10-01). Government Shutdown: An Attack On All Workers! Gilbert Galam AFGE1230 TSA Worker & Leader. indybay.org The government is shutting down and millions of workers and the public will be affected. Gilbert Galam who is with AFGE Local 1230 where he Is legislative & political director and is a TSA worker talks about the last shut down and why this is an attack on the entire working class.

United Front Committee for A Labor Party (2023-10-01). All Out Support Striking UAW Members! 32 hours Work for 40 Hours Pay, No Two Tiers, & COLA. indybay.org The United Front Committee For A Labor Party UFCCLP supports the demands of the UAW for 32 hours work for 40 hours pay, an end to tiers and a COLA. It also supports uniting the entire working class for a general strike especially connected to the attack on the working class by the government shutdown. It also calls for workers to control and benefit from AI but that requires a mass workers party that will run the country for the working class.

Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles (2023-09-30). Saturday 12/9: Creative Workshop: Collaborative Collage. indybay.org 901 E 3rd Street | Los Angeles, CA 90013…

Jeremy Fuster, Portside. (2023-09-30). Negotiating With Hollywood: Writers' Representatives Tell The Story. popularresistance.org Writers are finally back to work in Hollywood after the WGA and studios reached a deal, which has left many in the industry asking, "What took so long?" | Chris Keyser and David A. Goodman, the co-chairs of WGA's negotiating committee, pin the blame on the stall tactics that the studios used alongside the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, one that was rendered ineffective by the solidarity built between the WGA and other unions throughout the summer. | "The AMPTP was created in the 80s during the Reagan era, a very anti-labor time. Now, labor is reasserting itself over the last few years, and t…

Labor Video Project (2023-09-30). SF Labor Community Rally To Defend Community Space at Redstone Labor Temple. indybay.org

Labor Video Project (2023-09-30). Government Shutdown: An Attack On All Workers! Gilbert Galam AFGE1230 TSA Worker & Leader. indybay.org The government is shutting down and millions of workers and the public will be affected. Gilbert Galam who is with AFGE Local 1230 where he Is legislative & political director and is a TSA worker talks about the last shut down and why this is an attack on the entire working class.

teleSUR, lfb, DRL (2023-09-30). Cuba aprueba legislación contra discriminación y acoso laboral. telesurtv.net Esta herramienta legal permitirá la identificación, prevención y control, así como la capacitación de los trabajadores y empleadores ante escenarios discriminación, violencia y acoso laboral.

United Front Committee for A Labor Party (2023-09-30). All Out Support Striking UAW Members! 32 hours Work for 40 Hours Pay, No Two Tiers, & COLA. indybay.org The United Front Committee For A Labor Party UFCCLP supports the demands of the UAW for 32 hours work for 40 hours pay, an end to tiers and a COLA. It also supports uniting the entire working class for a general strike especially connected to the attack on the working class by the government shutdown. It also calls for workers to control and benefit from AI but that requires a mass workers party that will run the country for the working class.

Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. (2023-10-01). Canada, Ukraine, And Nazis. popularresistance.org There is something especially satisfying when one's opponents help make a case for something they have denied. Recently the Canadian government did just that. Their effort to prop up the failing Ukraine proxy war instead exposed that country's Nazi past and present. | Ukraine has been a divided nation ever since its founding as a state after World War I. Its population is divided by language with Ukrainian and Russian speakers, with some favoring its status as a Soviet republic while others were vehemently opposed. So strong was that faction that there were many Ukrainians who actively collaborated with German oc…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-01). On the road again – thanks to collaborative cancer care. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org In a matter of months, Bill McDermott went from having abdominal pain and learning he had lymphoma to being told it was time for hospice care. What his family did next would steer him in an entirely different direction. Although he doesn't remember all of the details, Bill McDermott says he began having abdominal issues and pain in mid-2021. He went in for some tests at a local hospital, where he got a diagnosis…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-01). Mayo Clinic and GE HealthCare enter strategic collaboration to advance innovation in medical imaging and theranostics. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Combining the world-class clinical and research expertise of Mayo Clinic with the deep research, engineering, and product development expertise of GE HealthCare, this new collaboration aims to forge an integrated innovation engine to advance the practice of radiology and care to patients worldwide. ROCHESTER, Minn. ‚Äï Today, Mayo Clinic and GE HealthCare announce a strategic healthcare collaboration for research and product development programs aimed to transform the experience of patients and clinicians in the practice…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-01). At-home COVID-19 tests: A Mayo Clinic expert answers questions on expiration dates and the new variants. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org COVID-19 at-home antigen test At-home COVID-19 tests allow you to collect your sample and detect active COVID-19 infections. But what if you have at-home COVID-19 tests nearing expiration or expired on your shelf? Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic, says companies set the original test dates arbitrarily due to these diagnostic at-home tests being developed rapidly. So, check your boxes before you toss them. "Now that we are 3 1/2 years into…

teleSUR (2023-09-30). Kenya: Land & Funds Allocated, Public Health Emergencies, WHO. telesurenglish.net "This strategic initiative, falling under the Operations Support and Logistics (OSL) pillar, addresses a critical gap in managing the numerous public health emergencies faced by WHO-AFRO, totaling over 142 ongoing crises encompassing disease outbreaks and humanitarian challenges." | WHO's Regional Emergency Hub reflects Kenya's commitment to global health collaboration. Sep. 30, 2023.

krish-rad_ind (2023-09-30). Twenty-Five Thousand Auto Workers Are Now on Strike at the Big 3. labornotes.org

greenleft.org.au (2023-10-01). After a five day strike, Inghams Chickens' workers win better pay and conditions. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-10-01). Inghams Chickens workers strike for a decent pay rise. greenleft.org.au

Susan Price (2023-10-01). Building ties between workers & the climate justice movement. greenleft.org.au The Global Ecosocialist Network brought together labour and climate justice activists from Africa, Asia, the United States and Europe, in June, to discuss how to build stronger links, reports Susan Price.

Alexis Moncada (2023-09-30). Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers set to strike. liberationnews.org More than 60,000 California healthcare workers have authorized a strike at Kaiser Permanente — signaling the possibility of the largest healthcare strike in United States history.

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-30). After a five day strike, Inghams Chickens' workers win better pay and conditions. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-30). Inghams Chickens workers strike for a decent pay rise. greenleft.org.au

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-30). Parliamentary Investigation of MST Ends with the Movement Strengthened. libya360.wordpress.com Brasil de Fato Ricardo Salles was the commission's rapporteur. Photo: Vinicius Loures/Câmara dos Deputados The movement was facing attacks from the MVPs of Bolsonarism and the agribusiness sector, but it has emerged victorious On Wednesday September 27, the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (also known as CPI) that investigated the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) came…

Luis Feliz Leon (2023-09-30). Twenty-Five Thousand Auto Workers Are Now Striking Against the Big 3 Automakers. truthout.org Seven thousand Auto Workers at two more assembly plants walked off the job on Friday, UAW President Shawn Fain announced in a Facebook Live appearance this morning. Joining the strike are Ford's Chicago Assembly Plant and General Motors' Lansing Delta Township Assembly in Michigan. Fain announced that Stellantis would be spared this time. The union had been expected to expand the strike today at… |

Marjorie Cohn (2023-09-30). Right-Dominated Supreme Court Is Poised to Do Grave Harm in Upcoming Term. truthout.org The 2023-2024 Supreme Court term will begin on Monday, October 2. Dominated by six right-wingers, the court has agreed to review cases in which voting rights, consumer protection, and the regulation of health and safety, workers' rights and the environment are in jeopardy. The cases present the issues of gerrymandering and the power of administrative agencies. In light of its recent conservative… |

Revolutionary Workers Front (2023-09-30). Monday 10/2: SF Speak Out-Stop Attacks On Civil Service &. Outsourcing/Privatization Using Non-Profits. indybay.org San Francisco City Hall | Room 400 | San Francisco…

WSWS (2023-09-30). Maui wildfire survivors plea for increased aid and insurance payouts as Hawaiian Electric deflects responsibility. wsws.org Through multiple hearings and townhalls across the island and in Wasington D.C., politicians have sought to suppress enormous opposition boiling over among workers and youth through feigned concern for those desperate for relief.

WSWS (2023-09-30). Enough is enough! For an all-out strike of all Big Three autoworkers! wsws.org Workers want to join the walkout, but we have to develop the means to overrule the biggest strikebreakers of all—Fain and the rest of the UAW bureaucracy.

WSWS (2023-09-30). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific. wsws.org India: 20,000 ASHA Accredited Social Health Activist workers continue strike Haryana; Sri Lankan academic educators protest nationally over tax increases and excessive workloads; Australia: Firefighters in Victoria demonstrate for improved work agreement…

dzorinoco (2023-10-01). Nicaragua: Putting People First. orinocotribune.com By Roger McKenzie — Aug 29, 2023 | Estelí, the eighth-largest city of the Central American nation, the de facto capital of the north, is also the country's main tobacco production region. The land around Estelí is ideal for growing cigar tobacco and the city became a conclave for Cuban cigar makers who left the Caribbean island after the revolution in 1959. Since that time Estelí has become one of the most important cigar producing cities anywhere in the world. | Tobacco and the health problems that arise from it for the workers who produce it and the smokers that use it seemed to me a good place to look at…

Lucy Dean Stockton, The Lever. (2023-10-01). Automakers' Electric Vehicle Lie. popularresistance.org The United Auto Workers are entering their third week of the first-ever simultaneous strike against the three big automakers, and for the first time, a sitting US president, Joe Biden, joined them on the picket line. Executives at General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis are pushing back on worker demands by invoking the climate crisis. They say it is impossible to give workers what they want while also making a swift transition to manufacturing electric vehicles. | On September 14, Ford's CEO Jim Farley said that the union's demands — higher wages, better hours, an end to tiered employment, and guaranteed job…

Pete Dolack (2023-10-01). It's a Capitalist World. counterpunch.org Image by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona. | Conditions for working people continue to get worse. The right to strike, or to join a union, is denied by increasing numbers of the world's governments. The 2023 Global Rights Index report issued by the International Trade Union Confederation makes for grim reading, as has consistently been the case for the decade that the ITUC has issued its yearly reports. | Once again, there is no country on Earth that fully protects workers' rights, the

presstv.ir (2023-10-01). UK retailers urge government action amid rising crime rates. presstv.ir UK retailers raise the alarm about rising crime levels, urging government to take action.

A Guest Author (2023-09-30). Zionists will always call us antisemitic. workers.org By Nicki Kattoura The author is a Palestinian editor, writer, and organizer based in Philadelphia. Ask any Palestinian or accomplice to the movement, and it is almost a guarantee that they were called antisemitic for expressing their anti-Zionist politics. The Zionist accusation has become so commonplace that it is to . . . |

guest author (2023-09-30). 'Wuthering Heights' at four summits. workers.org A Venezuelan international relations expert, Rodriguez Gelfenstein was previously Director of the International Relations of the Presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, his country's ambassador to Nicaragua and an adviser for international politics for TeleSUR. X: @sergioro0701 Translation: John Catalinotto. The title of this article alludes to an extraordinary . . . |

krish-rad_ind (2023-09-30). Workers Win Big After Months Long Strike. youtu.be

Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. (2023-10-01). Before His Assassination, JFK Sought Peace With The Soviet Union. popularresistance.org We will never know the world that could have been had President John F. Kennedy's assassination never taken place, but an inkling of how things could have been different can be found in the final months of his life. In his new book, To Move the World: JFK's Quest for Peace, Jeffrey Sachs unearths JFK's final political campaign—to establish a secure and lasting peace with the Soviet Union. How far did JFK's efforts go? What sort of progress was made on ending the Cold War, not through the collapse of the Soviet Union, but rather through mutual cooperation and understanding? To answer these questions and more…

repost (2023-10-01). DiFiFoYum: Feinstein For Sale. indybay.org Diane Feinstein has a long record of conflicts of interest, war mongering, corruption and pushing privatization and union busting.

infobrics (2023-09-30). Is Pashinyan the new Saakashvili?>. infobrics.org The unflattering fate of Saakashvili should serve as a stark warning to Pashinyan. Perhaps he should take some lessons from one of Saakashvili's more successful successors, namely Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili who correctly understood that NATO expansion in the former Soviet Union is invariably aimed against Russia and that the countries the political West uses against Moscow in this process are seen as acceptable collateral damage (that is, mere pawns).

People's Dispatch. (2023-09-30). Protests Against Mining Concession Given To Company Intensify In Panama. popularresistance.org Since early August, Panamanian trade unions, Indigenous groups, and people's movements have been taking to the streets in different parts of the country in rejection of a concession contract signed in March between the government of President Laurentino Cortizo and Minera Panamá S.A., a subsidiary of the Canadian multinational mining company First Quantum Minerals Limited. | The contract allows the mining company to continue operations at one of Central America's largest open-pit copper mines, Cobre Panamá, for 20 years, with the possibility of extending the period for another 20 years. It also authorizes the com…

WSWS (2023-09-30). Sri Lankan SEP celebrates comrade R.M. Gunathilake's 85th birthday. wsws.org Jayasekera said that Gunathilake had not wavered one iota from his struggle for revolutionary principles, despite immense difficulties, including state witch-hunts, the thuggery of goons and the treachery of the trade union bureaucracies.

Editor (2023-09-30). A Major Win Against Factory Farming Points to a Powerful New Direction for the Climate Movement. scheerpost.com

JANET (2023-09-30). Cash, cars and gold bars — and the crooks who slander Cuba. iacenter.org September 27, 2023 Senator Bob Menendez, in the news recently, is nothing but a front man for the Cuban right-wing Gusanos, those worms who left Cuba after the 1959 revolution stopped their exploitation and theft. The Democrat from New Jersey is notorious for his furious rants against Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and any country that dares to pursue a socialist path. Menendez has taken up other despicable causes, such as backing the "Israel Anti-Boycott Act" that would criminalize free speech in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). As recently as May 11, Menendez sent a vicious message…

JANET (2023-09-30). Zionists will always call us antisemitic. iacenter.org By Nicki Kattoura The author is a Palestinian editor, writer, and organizer based in Philadelphia. Ask any Palestinian or accomplice to the movement, and it is almost a guarantee that they were called antisemitic for expressing their anti-Zionist politics. The Zionist accusation has become so commonplace that it is to be expected in response to any vocal support for Palestine. Nevertheless, as much as it can be anticipated, it can still be reputationally devastating and traumatizing for the people going through it. Banner welcoming participants to Palestine Writes Festival on UPenn campus, Philadelphia, Sept. 22-…

Staff (2023-09-30). 6 October, NYC: Holy Land 5 Film Screening and Discussion with Nida Abu Baker and Stop Cop City Activists. samidoun.net Join Samidoun NY/NJ, together with Within Our Lifetime and Dare to Struggle, for a screening of Holy Land 5 on Friday October 6th at 7: 00pm! Screening will be followed by a discussion with Nida Abu Baker, daughter of co-founder Shukri Abu Baker, and activists from the Stop Cop City movement. Holy Land 5 is an …

Staff (2023-09-30). #StandWithZaid campaign grows with international and German events, 230+ endorsers. samidoun.net The campaign is growing in Germany and around the world to #StandWithZaid: Zaid Abdulnasser, a Palestinian refugee from Syria, coordinator of the Samidoun Network in Germany and active with the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement. Dozens of additional organizations have signed on to the statement, while postering campaigns, actions and events are …

Nitza Soledad Perez (2023-10-01). U.S. grants work permits to nearly half a million Venezuelans. america.cgtn.com The U.S. government gave legal migrant status and work permits to almost half a million Venezuelans amid a surge in illegal crossings at the southern border. | The policy, though welcomed by city leaders strained by the wave of new migrants, has others fearing that this will attract more undocumented migrants to the country. | CGTN's Nitza Soledad Perez reports.

ecns.cn (2023-10-01). Consultation helps take ties 'step forward'. ecns.cn Analysts said Beijing and Washington "made one step forward" this week in advancing working-level pragmatic discussions on managing differences, as senior diplomats from both sides convened in Washington DC for a China-US consultation on Asia-Pacific affairs, which was the first of its kind.

ecns.cn (2023-09-30). Consultation helps take ties 'step forward'. ecns.cn Analysts said Beijing and Washington "made one step forward" this week in advancing working-level pragmatic discussions on managing differences, as senior diplomats from both sides convened in Washington DC for a China-US consultation on Asia-Pacific affairs, which was the first of its kind.

WSWS (2023-09-30). Looming US government shutdown targets the working class. wsws.org The budget impasse at the center of world imperialism takes the form of a savage intensification of the attack on the working class.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-01). Mayo Clinic Minute: Red flags for heart failure during pregnancy. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the U.S. Deaths from heart disease in women who are pregnant or delivered a baby within one year has increased over the previous 30 years. Dr. Demilade (Demi-lad-ay) Adedinsewo (Ah-ded-in-shay-woah), a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, explains the red flags for heart failure during pregnancy and how healthcare professionals are working to detect the condition earlier. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/DCgDX2yvUc0 Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg…

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2023-09-29: News Headlines

Dave Zirin (2023-09-28). DeSantis is using sports scholarships to 'purge' a Florida college. therealnews.com The New College of Florida has become a testing ground for Governor Ron DeSantis's war on "wokeness" in education. The state government has shut down entire departments, gutted the office of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and fired allegedly left-wing faculty en masse. And the student body itself is also in the crosshairs. As many students look for the exits in the face of these institutional attacks, the New College of Florida is replacing them by doling out sports scholarships, recruiting a whopping 150 student athletes from primarily Christian private schools since this spring (the school's entire stu…

Andreína Chávez Alava, Venezuelanalysis. (2023-09-29). Venezuela To Launch China-Backed Poverty Elimination Program. popularresistance.org Caracas, September 21, 2023 (venezuelanalysis.com) — The Venezuelan government has announced a new social program focused on fighting poverty and inequality, which will be supported by China's International Poverty Reduction Center. | On Monday, during his weekly TV program, President Nicolás Maduro said that the "Social Equality and Happiness Mission" was "almost ready" to be launched and its main purpose is to "optimize the fight against inequality, against poverty and to build a more harmonious country." | Although Maduro did not give details, he stressed that the social program will work alongside the C…

SAM (2023-09-29). How About a General Strike Against Dollar General? inequality.org

Amy Goodman (2023-09-28). Ralph Nader: GOP Debate Was "Pretty Embarrassing" truthout.org Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader responds to Wednesday's second Republican debate, saying, "It's pretty embarrassing that this is what they put forward to become the president of the most powerful country in the world." Nader discusses the debate's topics of social media, former President Donald Trump and wealth inequality in America. Nader also calls for the Democratic Party to "stop… |

Kelly Hayes (2023-09-28). To Fight Big Tech, We Must Seize the Means of Computation. truthout.org "If you've never tried to organize a movement without the internet, I'm here to tell you, it's really hard. We need to seize the means of computation, because while the internet isn't the most important thing that we have to worry about right now, all the things that are more important, gender and racial justice, inequality, the climate emergency, those are struggles that we're going to win or… |

Staff (2023-09-28). Ralph Nader: Why Is GOP Not Debating Corporate Crime Wave & the Weakening of Our Democratic Society? democracynow.org Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader responds to Wednesday's second Republican debate, saying, "It's pretty embarrassing that this is what they put forward to become the president of the most powerful country in the world." Nader discusses the debate's topics of social media, former President Donald Trump and wealth inequality in America. Nader also calls for the Democratic Party to "stop engaging in candidate suppression" and respect third-party candidates such as Cornel West to run for public office as a constitutional right.

WSWS (2023-09-28). 1982: Marxism, the revolutionary party, and the critique of Healy's Studies in Dialectics. wsws.org The following lecture was delivered by Christoph Vandreier, the national secretary of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party) of Germany to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.

A Guest Author (2023-09-29). It's time to put Virginia's prisons on trial! workers.org News release from the tribunal's organizers. On Oct. 7, 2023, the Virginia Prison Justice Network and The Virginia Defenders For Freedom, Justice & Equality will co-sponsor the People's Tribunal on Virginia's Prisons, Jails & Detention Centers, an all-day hearing to be held at the Greater Richmond Convention Center. Testimony about . . . |

teleSUR (2023-09-29). UN Report Reveals Systemic Racism in US Police & Justice System. telesurenglish.net A new United Nations report said that systemic racism against people of African descent pervades America's police forces and criminal justice system, and U.S. authorities must urgently step up efforts for reform. | RELATED: | The report was issued by the UN International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the context of Law Enforcement on Thursday. | The UN experts heard testimonies…

Editor (2023-09-29). Is Ibram X Kendi's 'Anti-Racism' a Scam? (w/ Norm Finkelstein). scheerpost.com By Briahna Joy Gray / Bad Faith This week, Briahna spoke to writer and professor Norman Finkelstein about the latest scandal involving famed "anti-racism" advocate Ibram X Kendi. Financial mismanagement at BU is just the tip of the iceberg as Finkelstein applies his close reading of Kendi's work to the current crisis. As interesting as …

Christian Collins (2023-09-28). Keeping Affirmative Action for the Military Won't Guarantee Diversity. progressive.org The U.S. Supreme Court's exemption—leaving aside its hypocrisy and racism—won't achieve the goal of creating a diverse, equitable, or inclusive military.

Bruce C.T. Wright (2023-09-28). George Floyd's Uncle Rips Denny's For Refusing To Serve Black Men In Viral Incident: 'Racism Is Still Very Real'. newsone.com George Floyd's uncle Selwyn Jones said Denny's refusing to serve Black men in South Dakota was "a disgrace" that underscores the lack of progress being made along racial lines in America.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-28). Rights groups denounce Israel's entry into US visa waiver program. peoplesdispatch.org Many have pointed to the continuing Israeli discrimination against Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims with regard to travel and called the US decision tantamount to an endorsement of Israeli policies…

Christos Tsagkaris, Andreas S Papazoglou, Dimitrios V Moysidis, Stavros P Papadakos, Marios Papadakis (2023-09-30). Correspondence] Striving to afford free health care in Greece during COVID-19. thelancet.com Greece is fortunate to have a public health-care system that provides free access to highly expensive investigations and treatments. However, the reality of understaffing and underfunding within the health-care system means that patients' relatives often have to accompany them day and night to assist with practical needs, such as dressing, eating, and the use of the lavatory. These dedicated, informal caregivers provide these services without any compensation or formal education, sacrificing their own physical, emotional, and social wellbeing.

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. (2023-09-29). Students Across The US Launch Green New Deal For Schools. popularresistance.org Students at more than 50 high schools across the United States are launching a Green New Deal for Schools campaign, with the hope of getting climate policies enacted that will require school districts to add climate education to their curriculums and plan for climate disasters. | The ultimate goal of the initiative, organized by the youth climate justice organization Sunrise Movement, is for federal legislation to be enacted to implement climate education policies in schools nationwide. | "The Green New Deal for Schools will transform public schools in America to face the climate crisis and ensure all students re…

ecns.cn (2023-09-29). Hong Kong delegation forges educational and cultural bonds in Beijing. ecns.cn A delegation comprising 27 young talents from leading Hong Kong universities embarked on a journey of exploration and collaboration in Beijing from Sept 18 to 22. This exchange program encompassed various facets of education, science, technology, and culture.

ecns.cn (2023-09-29). Chinese universities continue to climb. ecns.cn Two Chinese universities, Tsinghua University and Peking University, are steadily approaching the top 10 of the Times Higher Education, or THE's World University Rankings.

ecns.cn (2023-09-28). Hong Kong delegation forges educational and cultural bonds in Beijing. ecns.cn A delegation comprising 27 young talents from leading Hong Kong universities embarked on a journey of exploration and collaboration in Beijing from Sept 18 to 22. This exchange program encompassed various facets of education, science, technology, and culture.

ecns.cn (2023-09-28). Chinese universities continue to climb. ecns.cn Two Chinese universities, Tsinghua University and Peking University, are steadily approaching the top 10 of the Times Higher Education, or THE's World University Rankings.

Kristin Collier (2023-09-28). Thousands of Borrowers File Appeals as Student Loan Payments Loom. truthout.org In 1972 the U.S. government reauthorized the Higher Education Act with new amendments that not only increased access to college for women and people of color but also left these same students at the "mercy of bankers." As a result, they were forced to debt-finance their education, as scholar Elizabeth Tandy Shermer wrote in Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations… |

WSWS (2023-09-29). UK government and education unions leave life threatening RAAC crisis unaddressed. wsws.org Educators and children face years in substandard buildings only fit for demolition, with schools neither structurally sound nor safe from the spread of COVID.

ELEL (2023-09-30). Department of Error] Department of Error. thelancet.com Livingston G, Huntley J, Sommerlad A, et al. Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission. Lancet 2020; 396: 413—46—In table 1 of this Commission, data for risk factor prevalence, communality, and unweighted PAF of social isolation and physical inactivity dementia risk factors have been corrected. These corrections have been made to the online version as of Sept 28, 2023.

ELEL (2023-09-30). Department of Error] Department of Error. thelancet.com GBD 2021 Diabetes Collaborators. Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Lancet 2023; 402: 203—34—In this Article, institutional affiliations have been amended for Bing-Fang Hwang, Made Ary Sarasmita, and Ming-Chieh Li. These corrections have been made to the online version as of Sept 28, 2023.

ELEL (2023-09-30). Department of Error] Department of Error. thelancet.com Wilkoff BL, Filippatos G, Leclercq C, et al. Adaptive versus conventional cardiac resynchronisation therapy in patients with heart failure (AdaptResponse): a global, prospective, randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2023; 402: 1147—57—In figure 4 of this Article, the colours representing the Conventional CRT group (dark blue) and the Adaptive CRT, LVp ‚â•85% group (light blue) have been transposed in the line graph so that they now match the correct legend label. This correction has been made to the online version as of Sept 28, 2023, and the printed version is correct.

Editor (2023-09-29). For an inverted theatre. mronline.org The majority of theatre broadly falls under the umbrella of dramatic theatre. It will have a linear plotline, actors who wholly inhabit well-developed characters, structured, thought-out themes, etc. Bertolt Brecht, the German Marxist playwright, would call it escapism.

Editor (2023-09-29). How Canada helped whitewash the Nazi SS Galicia Division. mronline.org How a 1986 commission came to be accused of whitewashing Nazi war crimes.

Editor (2023-09-29). In the AI of the Beholder: Discussing Artificial Intelligence — Part 1. mronline.org In an introductory article discussing artificial intelligence, Memet Uludaƒü looks at the historical context around technological advancement and takes stock of some of the hype around AI. Will AI be the gamechanger it is being heralded as? To what extent will it change our societies? How will it affect work practices and workers?>

Editor (2023-09-29). Poverty is growing in Puerto Rico, under U.S. colonialism. mronline.org Poverty is rising in one of the world's oldest colonies: In Puerto Rico, 41.7% of people, including 57.6% of children, live in poverty. This is nearly four times the U.S. rate. And Puerto Rican workers are getting poorer even while unemployment falls.

Editor (2023-09-29). Scolding striking auto workers in advance for wrecking economy. mronline.org The first person quoted in the New York Times' rundown (9/19/23) on the United Auto Workers strike was a lawyer representing management from Littler Mendelson, the go-to firm for big corporations' union avoidance.

Erica Caines, Black Agenda Report. (2023-09-29). All Black Feminisms Ain't Created Equal. popularresistance.org My initial introduction to radical feminist politics was through convoluted, often antagonistic online discourses, where past works of radical feminists are engaged, discussed, and ultimately flattened. Audre Lorde has always been among the most popularly referenced Black feminists cited online, for example, but always for her gender critical analysis (which could be used as fodder in heated discourse) and never for her anti-imperialist analysis. It's much easier for one to gain attention and retweets through cherrypicking her words on gender and sexuality, but much less popular to dive into her works on the impe…

Amanda Brown (2023-09-28). Canada Launches UN Declaration Targeting Online 'Disinformation'. globalresearch.ca

Editor (2023-09-28). Capitalism: an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. mronline.org Ah, money, the driving force behind life in the modern world.

Editor (2023-09-28). Everybody knows the reef is dying. mronline.org Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek last week welcomed a UNESCO World Heritage Committee decision not to list the Great Barrier Reef as "in danger". But what is "great news" to Plibersek is not great news for the reef.

Editor (2023-09-28). Hersh reveals U.S. motive for destruction of Nord Stream pipelines. mronline.org Seymour Hersh just published a new piece about the bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines.

Editor (2023-09-28). "This fight is Global": Workers around the World are standing with striking U.S. autoworkers. mronline.org From Brazil and Mexico to South Africa and Malaysia, international labor solidarity is aiding the UAW's fight to reverse the global race to the bottom.

Homeless Romantic (2023-09-28). The World's Most Dangerous Marxist | John Bellamy Foster | #182 HR. mronline.org Foster explains Marx's ecological critique of capitalism and how the concept of "metabolic rift" highlights the alienation between humans and nature caused by capitalism's focus on profit over sustainability.

Kit Klarenberg (2023-09-28). Files expose Syrian 'revolution' as Western regime change. mronline.org Throughout August and September, anti-government protests have rocked Syrian cities. While the crowds are typically small, numbering only a few hundred, they show little sign of abating.

Anonymous (2023-09-29). Breaking: Ex-LACCD Trustee Promised Fraud Investigation in 2020! indybay.org The Los Angeles Times broke the story about the Valley Academic and Cultural Center being a massive racketeering scheme to defraud Pinner Construction. New documents reveal that an ex-LACCD Trustee promised an investigation that never materialized.

Anonymous (2023-09-28). Breaking: Ex-LACCD Trustee Promised Fraud Investigation in 2020! indybay.org The Los Angeles Times broke the story about the Valley Academic and Cultural Center being a massive racketeering scheme to defraud Pinner Construction. New documents reveal that an ex-LACCD Trustee promised an investigation that never materialized.

sputnikglobe (2023-09-28). Ancient Mayan Grave Uncovered During Rail Project Construction in Mexico. sputnikglobe.com The grave, which could be more than 1,000 years old, was unearthed alongside the construction of the multibillion-dollar Maya Train project in southern Mexico.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-09-29). DPRK strengthens fishing industry. plenglish.com KCNA reported on Friday that the modernization of fishing boats and gears, as well as the construction of fish farms and expansion of the existing ones, are progressing nationwide. | The Fishing Research Institute has developed a mathematical model to determine the areas where there are more fish for a rational exploitation of resources. | According to the Ministry of Fisheries, this work is part of a program to increase productivity in the sector to achieve self-sufficiency and food security. | Fish is one of the leading products in the diet of DPRK citizens.

sputnikglobe (2023-09-29). Finland: Newest NATO Member Strikes Land Deals to Build Fortifications Near Russian Border — Reports. sputnikglobe.com According to Finland's largest newspaper, the Finnish Defense Forces have initiated the signing of agreements with landowners along the Russian border. These agreements grant permission for the construction of fortifications on these territories with only a day's notice.

TASS (2023-09-28). Russian Air Defense Troops down Ukrainian drone near village where Kursk-2 NPP being built. tass.com A construction site of the Kursk-2 Nuclear Power Plant is located in Makarovka…

teleSUR (2023-09-29). Petro to Travel to China to Discuss Transportation Projects. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced that he will travel to Beijing, where he will meet with President Xi Jinping to discuss the future of Bogota's subway. Its construction is currently being handled by a Chinese consortium. | RELATED: | "I have an interview with the Chinese president on October 25," he said, adding that he hopes the Asian nation can help Colombia with transportation projects bas…

TASS (2023-09-29). China opposes US decision not to invite Russia to APEC summit, envoy says. tass.com "As the host country, the US is organizing these events and, under generally accepted international practice, it needs to send invitations to all full and equal APEC members," Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui stressed…

PNW Street Medics (2023-09-28). Safety While Protesting: Protesting & Supporting Protests Safely. indybay.org The modern surveillance state is unparalleled. Many people are legitimately afraid of state repression. But this fear can easily become paranoia and paralysis. As a result, some people will not get involved in radical organizing at all. By developing a security culture we can be safe while protesting & supporting protests.

Editor (2023-09-29). UN Report Urges End to Forced US Prison Labor—a 'Contemporary Form of Slavery'. scheerpost.com

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-29). Naarm/Melbourne forum discusses right wing character of Albanese's Labor. greenleft.org.au

Labor Video Project (2023-09-29). SF Labor Community Rally To Defend Community Space at Redstone Labor Temple. indybay.org

Luis Feliz Leon, Labor Notes. (2023-09-29). Twenty-Five Thousand Auto Workers Are Now On Strike At The Big Three. popularresistance.org Seven thousand Auto Workers at two more assembly plants will walk off the job at noon ET today, UAW President Shawn Fain announced in a Facebook Live appearance this morning. Joining the strike are Ford's Chicago Assembly Plant and General Motors' Lansing Delta Township Assembly in Michigan. | Fain announced that Stellantis would be spared this time. The union had been expected to expand the strike today at all three companies, but, said Region 1 Director LaShawn English, three minutes before Fain was scheduled to go on Facebook Live, the UAW received frantic emails from company representatives.

Staff (2023-09-29). Nazi Veteran Honored in Canada Was Part of Wave of Collaborators Harbored in West: Lev Golinkin. democracynow.org Poland says it's preparing to seek the extradition of a 98-year-old Ukrainian Nazi after he received a standing ovation in the Canadian House of Commons last week following a speech by visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Yaroslav Hunka was invited by the speaker of the House, who has since resigned his post, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally apologized for the episode on Wednesday. Hunka fought during World War II with a Nazi unit composed of Ukrainian volunteers who were involved in numerous atrocities, including massacres of Jewish civilians. But Hunka is not an outlier, acc…

Tikender Panwar (2023-09-29). Market principles will not help in mitigating the problems of the elderly. peoplesdispatch.org The universal coverage of social security schemes for all elderly must be the immediate intervention point. Apart from this, the tendency to consider the elderly as a non-progressive labor entity and burden on the society must be shed…

United Front Committee for A Labor Party (2023-09-29). All Out Support Striking UAW Members! 32 hours Work for 40 Hours Pay, No Two Tiers, & COLA. indybay.org The United Front Committee For A Labor Party UFCCLP supports the demands of the UAW for 32 hours work for 40 hours pay, an end to tiers and a COLA. It also supports uniting the entire working class for a general strike especially connected to the attack on the working class by the government shutdown. It also calls for workers to control and benefit from AI but that requires a mass workers party that will run the country for the working class.

WSWS (2023-09-29). Australian workers and youth express their support for the SEP active boycott campaign against Labor's Voice referendum. wsws.org In opposing the Voice a student remarked, "Why doesn't the population get a say on the housing crisis, or the cost-of-living crisis?"

Dan Lieberman (2023-09-28). Democratic Socialism Will Prevent the Catastrophes. dissidentvoice.org Capitalism gathered resources — land, labor, and capital to start an industrial revolution that brought prosperity and elevated standards of living to much of the earth's inhabitants. Once in motion, it generated additional capital that gathered more labor and more resources in a perpetual cycle of increased production that constantly benefitted populations. The achievements did …

Finley Williams, Labor Notes. (2023-09-28). First Tire Workers To Organize In 40 Years Win First Contract. popularresistance.org It was late summer 2017 at the Overtyme Bar and Grill, a hotspot off a busy highway in Macon, Georgia, and Kumho Tire plant worker Mario Smith had important questions for local United Steelworkers (USW) president Alex Perkins: he wanted to know how he could bring a union to the one-year-old factory. | Now six years later—after two elections, many National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) cases, a virulent union-busting campaign, and the triumphant solidarity of the factory workers—that union has gained its first-ever collective bargaining agreement with Kumho Tire management, the first tire workers to uni…

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-28). Housing activists say NSW Labor's budget fails the test. greenleft.org.au

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-28). Nazigate: Canada's Top General Won't Apologize for Applauding Ukrainian Waffen-SS Vet. libya360.wordpress.com Wyatt Reed As Canada's top officials express embarrassment for honoring a WWII Nazi collaborator in parliament, the leader of the country's military, Gen. Wayne Eyre, refuses to apologize for his standing ovation. The Canadian military has trained Ukraine's notorious neo-Nazi Azov Battalion for years. Canadian politicians have been in frantic damage control mode since feting a…

Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes. (2023-09-28). Ford And GM Agree To End At Least One Tier; Stellantis Still Holding Out. popularresistance.org The Auto Workers announced encouraging progress in their negotiations with Ford and General Motors September 22, including an end to one of the many concessionary tiers in the union's contract. | In 2015 workers at Chrysler (now Stellantis) voted down a tentative agreement 2 to 1 because it continued an onerous two-tier wage system—and even introduced new tiers. UAW President Dennis Williams (later jailed for corruption) was pissed. At a meeting of local officials called to present that deal, Williams spluttered, "Ending two-tier is bullshit." | The UAW still has other tiers to address, but it looks like Wi…

WSWS (2023-09-28). Video: For an active boycott of Australian Labor's Voice referendum! wsws.org In this video, SEP National Secretary Cheryl Crisp explains why the party is calling for an active boycott of the Voice referendum.

Wyatt Reed (2023-09-28). Nazigate: Canada's top general won't apologize for applauding Ukrainian Waffen-SS vet. thegrayzone.com As Canada's top officials express embarrassment for honoring a WWII Nazi collaborator in parliament, the leader of the country's military, Gen. Wayne Eyre, refuses to apologize for his standing ovation. The Canadian military has trained Ukraine's notorious neo-Nazi Azov Battalion for years. Canadian politicians have been in frantic damage control mode since feting a former member of the Waffen-SS during a parliamentary reception for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on September 22. The Speaker of Canada's House of Commons, Anthony Rota, …

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-09-28). Peruvian labor confederation demands US security for Cuban embassy. plenglish.com Lima, Sep 28 (Prensa Latina) The General Confederation of Peruvian Workers (CGTP) on Thursday demanded that the Government of the United States guarantee the security of the Cuban Embassy in that country, and condemned the recent terrorist attack on the diplomatic mission.

teleSUR, nbb, DRL (2023-09-28). México convoca una reunión para discutir sobre migración. telesurtv.net La Organización Internacional para las Migraciones advirtió este miércoles de que el flujo "sin precedentes" de personas atravesando las Américas requiere de una mayor colaboración entre los gobiernos de Centroamérica…

Jeffrey St. Clair (2023-09-29). Roaming Charges: Our Man in Jersey. counterpunch.org I've been re-reading with great pleasure John Le Carré's mid-80s novel A Perfect Spy, which is a kind of roman à clef about the writer's turbulent relationship with his father, Ronnie Cornwell, an extravagant trickster and confidence artist, who, in one of his most elaborate hoaxes, ended up running for Parliament. But Le Carré's twisty tale of fraud and duplicity among the English moneyed classes (and those who would exploit their greed) can't really hold up to the career of New Jersey's own apex con man, Robert Menendez, whose personal embellishments and political fictions have become so labyrinthine that now t…

Kim C. Domenico (2023-09-29). Fighting Banal Evil with the Truth of Trauma. counterpunch.org Few serve truth in truth because only a few have a pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the will to justice; and the most terrible sufferings have come upon man precisely from a drive to justice which lacks power of judgment. — Nietzsche Separated from the sphere of labor

Maximillian Alvarez (2023-09-29). If the government shuts down, so does the NLRB—that'll hurt the strikes. therealnews.com It is looking increasingly likely that Congressional Republicans will bring the federal government to a shutdown starting this weekend. "U.S. government services would be disrupted and hundreds of thousands of federal workers would be furloughed without pay if Congress fails to provide funding for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1," Reuters reports. "Workers deemed essential would remain on the job, but without pay." Among the many agencies that will be furloughing workers in the event of a shutdown is the National Labor Relations Board. Not only will unionized staff workers at the NLRB itself be hurt by the…

splcenter (2023-09-29). Artist collaborations with social justice organizations propel change. splcenter.org

Betsey Piette, Workers World. (2023-09-29). Philadelphia Youth React When Charges Are Dropped Against Killer Cop. popularresistance.org Reminiscent of the mass reaction in the aftermath of the George Floyd lynching in May 2020, angry youth reacted in a similar situation in Philadelphia in the wake of a Sept. 26 decision by Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge Wendy L. Pew to dismiss all charges against Philadelphia police officer Mark Dial, who fatally shot Eddie Irizarry, Jr on Aug. 14. | As the evening developed, large groups of youth were taking to the streets across the city. Reports are coming in of youth expropriating expensive items from high priced Center City stores and in multiple shopping corridors — beyond what the cops can contro…

Brasil de Fato (2023-09-29). Parliamentary investigation of MST ends with the movement strengthened and failure of far-right. peoplesdispatch.org On Wednesday September 27, the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (also known as CPI) that investigated the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) came to a close and confirmed the total flop of the pro-Bolsonaro far-right in the Chamber of Deputies, particularly the participation of the federal deputy Ricardo Salles (Liberal Party), the commission's rapporteur. | Salles was the minister of the environment in the Bolsonaro government. For many analysts, Salles seems to have used the CPI as an extension of his work in the ministry. Throughout the 130 days of the CPI, the commission presented data from when Salles…

Dianne Feeley (2023-09-29). Electric Vehicle Factories Are Overwhelmingly Nonunion. The UAW Strike Could Change That. internationalviewpoint.org A key conflict in the United Auto Workers strike [which began on September 14] is over the electric vehicle industry. The vast majority of EV plants are low-wage and nonunion despite being publicly subsidized — and the UAW is trying to fix that. | – | / |

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-29). After a five day strike, Inghams Chickens' workers win better pay and conditions. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-29). Inghams Chickens workers strike for a decent pay rise. greenleft.org.au

Malik Miah (2023-09-29). United States: Biden and Trump visit car plants as auto strike heats up. greenleft.org.au US President Joe Biden and former president Donal Trump both addressed autworkers in Michigan this week, as workers escalated their "stand up" strike at the "Big Three" car manufacturers, reports Malik Miah.

Natalia Marques (2023-09-29). "The workers are the liberators," declares UAW President, sending 7,000 more out on strike. peoplesdispatch.org United Auto Workers are expanding their strike to put additional pressure on General Motors and Ford, playing the three largest automakers against each other…

Revolutionary Workers Front (2023-09-29). Monday 10/2: SF Speak Out-Stop Attacks On Civil Service &. Outsourcing/Privatization Using Non-Profits. indybay.org San Francisco City Hall | Room 400 | San Francisco…

Tatiana Cozzarelli, Left Voice. (2023-09-29). Biden's Picket Line Visit Doesn't Mean He Is On Our Side. popularresistance.org Yesterday, Joe Biden became the first sitting president to visit a picket line of striking workers. It is historic. | A few hours later, Jacobin published an article entitled "The Militancy of the UAW Strike Forced Joe Biden to Take a Side and Walk the Picket Line," by Nick French. Jacobin is right that Biden's visit to the picket line results from the UAW strike's strength. But Jacobin is dead wrong in its assessment that Biden is "on the side of the working class." | Instead, Biden's visit is a product of the capitalist crisis in which both Trump and Biden are vying for influence over the working class in a tig…

WSWS (2023-09-29). Build a Kaiser Workers' Rank-and-File Committee to prepare an all-out strike! wsws.org To ensure victory in their struggle, Kaiser workers must take control out of the hands of the pro-corporate CKPU bureaucrats and assert their own independent interests by forming rank-and-file committees at every Kaiser facility.

WSWS (2023-09-29). Will Lehman issues letter to Mack Trucks coworkers on eve of UAW contract expiration: "We must seriously prepare for a major battle" wsws.org It's clear the UAW hasn't been negotiating anything at Mack all this time, they've just been keeping us in the dark to prevent us from preparing to fight back against the company's ruthless demands.

WSWS (2023-09-29). Michigan teachers support autoworkers' struggle against Big Three and UAW apparatus. wsws.org The Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee discussed with teachers the pivotal struggle of autoworkers, its connection to wider social and political issues, and the struggle against the UAW's efforts to limit the strike.

WSWS (2023-09-29). New York City school bus workers form rank-and-file committee. wsws.org After being kept on job nearly three months following a 97 percent strike vote, New York City school bus workers have launched a rank-and-file committee to fight for their needs.

WSWS (2023-09-29). Leaked results reveal Ford Oakville production and skilled trades workers voted down Unifor's sham contract. wsws.org Close to 60 percent of Unifor members across Ford's Canada operations either voted "No" or did not participate in the anti-democratic ratification process.

WSWS (2023-09-29). US postal workers march against job cuts in Charlotte, North Carolina. wsws.org More than 300 jobs are being cut in the city as part of the early stages of a sweeping restructuring program that threatens tens of thousands of jobs nationwide.

WSWS (2023-09-29). "We need to call everyone out," say GM CCA workers on picket lines in Burton, Michigan. wsws.org A WSWS reporting team visited the picket line of striking GM workers at the company's large Burton, Michigan parts distribution center Thursday…

WSWS (2023-09-29). Sri Lanka workers begin sit-in strike at government-owned company to defend jobs. wsws.org The CWE is the first state-owned enterprise to be destroyed and all its workers sacked under International Monetary Fund austerity measures being implemented by the Wickremesinghe government.

Chris Walker (2023-09-28). Trump Says No GOP Candidate Running Against Him Should Be His VP. truthout.org On Wednesday, former President Donald Trump said that none of the Republican candidates running against him to become the party's 2024 presidential nominee are worth considering for his vice presidential running mate. Trump, by far the frontrunner in the race, made the comments in a speech to auto workers on Wednesday evening about half an hour north of Detroit, Michigan. Although the event was… |

Chris Walker (2023-09-28). "Unions for Trump" Signholder at Trump Rally Admitted They're Not a Union Member. truthout.org At least a few people who attended former President Donald Trump's speech to auto workers on Wednesday evening were not who they purported to be, according to a report on the event, with some admitting they were neither union members nor auto workers. According to a report written by The Detroit News's Craig Mauger, around 400 to 500 Trump supporters attended the speech, which was given at a Drake… |

Dan La Botz (2023-09-28). Auto Workers Strike All of the Big Three Companies for the First Time. internationalviewpoint.org " I know that we're on the right side in this battle, because it's a battle of the working class against the rich, the halves versus the have nots, the billionaire class against everybody else." | – | / |

Dana Sanchez (2023-09-28). Can Artificial Intelligence Help Knock Out America's Inflation Problem? 5 Things To Know. moguldom.com Experts say the latest artificial intelligence technology, generative AI, will help reverse a prolonged slowdown in productivity growth that has kept costs high for businesses and made inflation harder to reign in. It could also lead to lower wages for company workers. Widespread use of generative AI could put productivity on steroids, and although it could be …

Dean Baker (2023-09-28). Washington Post Columnist Charles Lane Wants Auto Workers to Lose Their Jobs. cepr.net The Washington Post has a long history of hating on powerful unions, like the United Auto Workers (UAW), or any factor that allows blue-collar workers to earn a decent living. In keeping with that tradition, editorial writer and columnist Charles Lane argued that the UAW strike is highlighting the "contradictions" in Bidenomics. Lane's argument is …

Dianne Feeley (2023-09-28). Electric Vehicle Factories Are Overwhelmingly Nonunion. The UAW Strike Could Change That. internationalviewpoint.org A key conflict in the United Auto Workers strike [which began on September 14] is over the electric vehicle industry. The vast majority of EV plants are low-wage and nonunion despite being publicly subsidized — and the UAW is trying to fix that. | – | / |

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-28). After a five day strike, Inghams Chickens' workers win better pay and conditions. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-28). Inghams Chickens workers strike for a decent pay rise. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-28). United States: United Auto Workers strike against the 'Big Three'. greenleft.org.au

Jeff Shantz (2023-09-28). Canadian autoworkers ratify deal with Ford. greenleft.org.au While the United Auto Workers (UAW) "Stand Up Strike" in the US has received global attention, in Canada, unionists ratified a three-year deal with Ford on September 24 — the first target in their pattern bargaining with the Big Three, reports Jeff Shantz.

Jeff Shantz (2023-09-28). Canadian autoworkers ratify deal with Ford. greenleft.org.au While the United Auto Workers (UAW) "Stand Up Strike" in the US has received global attention, in Canada, unionists ratified a three-year deal with Ford on September 24 — the first target in their pattern bargaining with the Big Three, reports Jeff Shantz.

Revolutionary Workers Front (2023-09-28). Monday 10/2: SF Speak Out-Stop Attacks On Civil Service &. Outsourcing/Privatization Using Non-Profits. indybay.org San Francisco City Hall | Room 400 | San Francisco…

sputnikglobe (2023-09-28). 'Donald Duck' & Ukraine's 'Blank Check': Takeaways From GOP's Second Primary Debate. sputnikglobe.com The second debate yet again saw no participation from former US President Donald Trump, who instead opted to capitalize on the United Auto Workers' (UAW) strike in Michigan and blast his successor.

sputnikglobe (2023-09-28). Trump Slams Biden for Joining UAW Strike, Claims His 'Entire Career Union Destruction'. sputnikglobe.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Former US President Donald Trump on Wednesday slammed President Joe Biden for joining the United Auto Workers' (UAW) strike the day before, saying the incumbent president's "entire career" has been "an active economic treason and union destruction."

Staff (2023-09-28). Headlines for September 28, 2023. democracynow.org GOP Presidential Candidates Attack an Absent Trump, Each Other at Chaotic Debate, Trump Calls on Unions to Support Him in 2024 as He Addresses Nonunion Auto Plant, Las Vegas Hotel and Casino Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Authorize Strike, U.S. Gov't on Cusp of Shutdown Amid Republican House Dysfunction, Nagorno-Karabakh's Gov't to Self-Dissolve by Jan. 1 as 50,000 People Flee, Burkina Faso Military Coup Leaders Say They Thwarted Another Coup Attempt, North Korea Expels Soldier Travis King Back to the U.S., Palestinian Rights Advocates Condemn U.S. Visa Waiver for Israeli Travelers, Ethiopian Re…

WSWS (2023-09-28). Under new contract, former UPS air drivers in Northern Virginia working in record heat for nearly 50 percent less pay. wsws.org Since the new contract has gone into effect, the workers have been bumped up to $21.50 an hour, far less than the new top rate for air drivers of $36.69.

WSWS (2023-09-28). Unifor president seeks to steamroll growing opposition to sham Ford Canada ratification. wsws.org Workers at Ford have deluged Unifor officials with angry complaints, after learning that the union declared a sellout contract "ratified" in violation of a longstanding commitment that no Detroit Three contract would be adopted without the support of the majority of skilled trades workers.

WSWS (2023-09-28). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Teachers protest across Europe against lack of resources and poor conditions; daily protests at the border after Israeli authorities close the only pedestrian crossing from Gaza into Israel; Nigerian union bodies call for further action against removal of fuel subsidies, as other sectors pledge to join strike…

WSWS (2023-09-28). Verdi union supports German government's pro-war policies. wsws.org Verdi's federal congress fully supported the escalation of the war in Ukraine and the horrendous rearmament programme for Germany's armed forces. The union undertook to ensure that the billions this requires come at workers' expense.

WSWS (2023-09-28). Las Vegas-area hospitality workers vote by 95 percent to strike casinos at mass rally. wsws.org On Tuesday, thousands of workers gathered at the Thomas & Mack Center at UNLV to vote to strike major casino and resort operators, MGM, Caesars and Wynn/Encore.

WSWS (2023-09-29). UAW president again orders vast majority of Big Three autoworkers to continue working two weeks after contracts expired. wsws.org The UAW has refused to call out any production facilities in the Detroit metro area, which remains the center of the US auto industry, with tens of thousands employed in the auto and auto parts plants.

A Guest Author (2023-09-30). Zionists will always call us antisemitic. workers.org By Nicki Kattoura The author is a Palestinian editor, writer, and organizer based in Philadelphia. Ask any Palestinian or accomplice to the movement, and it is almost a guarantee that they were called antisemitic for expressing their anti-Zionist politics. The Zionist accusation has become so commonplace that it is to . . . |

guest author (2023-09-30). 'Wuthering Heights' at four summits. workers.org A Venezuelan international relations expert, Rodriguez Gelfenstein was previously Director of the International Relations of the Presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, his country's ambassador to Nicaragua and an adviser for international politics for TeleSUR. X: @sergioro0701 Translation: John Catalinotto. The title of this article alludes to an extraordinary . . . |

Eve Ottenberg (2023-09-29). More at Stake for Auto Workers Than Wages and Benefits. counterpunch.org The United Auto Workers have struck now for two weeks. Using a novel strategy to keep management on its toes, namely walking out at various plants at unexpected times, a new, different union leadership hopes to wrest some benefits from the claws of a monstrously greedy industry that has already raked in $21 billion this year. Its CEOs pull down millions of dollars annually, while the average worker's pay has long stagnated.

guest author (2023-09-29). Cuatro 'Cumbres borrascosas'. workers.org El autor es consultor y analista internacional venezolano, y fue Director de Relaciones Internacionales de la Presidencia de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela y Embajador de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela en Nicaragua. El título de este artículo alude a una extraordinaria novela escrita por Emily Brontà´ a mediados del . . . |

Jim McMahan (2023-09-29). Seattle city workers fight for wages. workers.org Over 1,000 city workers rallied on the steps of City Hall Sept. 20 to demand an improved union contract. Sixteen unions in the Coalition of City Unions (CCU), representing 6,000 workers, took part. It was a huge manifestation of the workers who keep the city running every day. These workers . . . |

Martha Grevatt (2023-09-29). Writers' strike wins gains in tentative agreement. workers.org On strike since May 2, the Writers Guild of America announced a tentative agreement between the union and major studios that could end the strike. WGA East and WGA West, in a Sept. 24 statement, said: "What we have won in this contract — most particularly, everything we have gained . . . |

Teddy Ostrow, Ruby Walsh (2023-09-29). 'This is history': UAW workers from the picket lines. therealnews.com

Alex Majumdar (2023-09-28). PDF of September 28 issue. workers.org Download the PDF. Auto strike spreads: 'No deal, no wheels!' Historic Palestine Writes Festival triumphs over opposition Download the PDF. More PDF back-issues here. |

Farooq Sulehria (2023-09-29). Anti-imperialism of fools: The case of Imran Khan. internationalviewpoint.org "The politics of Khan have not benefitted anti-imperialism by an iota in Pakistan. On the contrary, his politics have gravely undermined, for the years to come, the gains made by the women's movement, democracy activism and the trade union struggles." | – | / |

Misión Verdad (2023-09-29). Venezuela-Colombia Binational Trade Is Growing, La Union Bridge Reopens. orinocotribune.com Since Venezuela and Colombia resumed bilateral relations on September 26,2022, trade between the two countries through the border bridges has reached ‚Ǩ186.3 million (as of August 31, 2023) according to official sources. | One year has passed since the reopening of the Simón Bolívar and Francisco de Paula Santander border bridges; the Atanasio Girardot bridge also opened in January of this year. During a binational trade meeting in Caracas on Thursday, September 28, Colombian Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism Germán Umaña said "the situation is positive." The meeting will continue until…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-29). Educators in Serbia demand fair wages, dignity for work. peoplesdispatch.org Teachers and their unions have been demanding basic wages at par with the average wage in the country and reduction in non-academic work. Unions held a massive rally in Belgrade on September 24 to press these demands…

teleSUR, YSM (2023-09-29). Presidente de Venezuela destaca unión cívico-militar en la defensa de la Patria. telesurtv.net El mandatario aseguró que Venezuela es un país de paz y pidió llevar a todas las instancias militares los cuatro consensos de la Patria.

WSWS (2023-09-29). Writers' strike shut down as WGA attempts to ram through sell-out contract. wsws.org The WGA has functioned as the agent of the corporations and the government in this strike in precisely the same fashion as the UAW, Teamsters and every other section of the union officialdom in their respective industries.

Farooq Sulehria (2023-09-28). Anti-imperialism of fools: The case of Imran Khan. internationalviewpoint.org "The politics of Khan have not benefitted anti-imperialism by an iota in Pakistan. On the contrary, his politics have gravely undermined, for the years to come, the gains made by the women's movement, democracy activism and the trade union struggles." | – | / |

MEE staff (2023-09-28). EU-Tunisia migrant deal 'terrible for human rights', says HRW. middleeasteye.net EU-Tunisia migrant deal 'terrible for human rights', says HRW | Rights group condemns migration deal under which bloc paid Tunis more than $135m last week | Thu, 09/28/2023 – 12: 08 | Tunisia's President Kais Saied and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen agree a deal on migration in Tunis in July 2023 (Reuters) | The European Union's decision to release $135m in migrant control assistance…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-28). Protests against mining concession given to Canadian company intensify in Panama. peoplesdispatch.org Since early August, Panamanian trade unions, Indigenous groups, and people's movements have been taking to the streets in different parts of the country in rejection of a concession contract signed in March between the government of President Laurentino Cortizo and Minera Panamá S.A., a subsidiary of the Canadian multinational mining company First Quantum Minerals Limited. | The contract allows the mining company to continue operations at one of Central America's largest open-pit copper mines, Cobre Panamá, for 20 years, with the possibility of extending the period for another 20 years. It also authorizes the com…

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-09-29). Hungary opposes providing additional aid to Ukraine from EU budget. plenglish.com Budapest, Sep 29 (Prensa Latina) Hungary opposes providing additional financial aid to Ukraine from the European Union (EU) if the bloc will have to grant or accept loans for it, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday.

Chris Hedges (2023-09-29). Before his assassination, JFK sought peace with the Soviet Union. therealnews.com We will never know the world that could have been had President John F. Kennedy's assassination never taken place, but an inkling of how things could have been different can be found in the final months of his life. In his new book,

| Reuters | (2023-09-28). India imposes curfew in strife-hit areas of Manipur state. tribune.com.pk India imposed curfew in the capital and some areas of its restive state of Manipur on Thursday, after scores of students were injured in violence following protests against the alleged abduction and murder of two students, authorities said. | Ethnic violence has plunged the northeastern state bordering Myanmar into what many security experts describe as an intense civil war fought over land, jobs and political clout between its two largest local groups. | "Indefinite curfew had to be implemented in Imphal and in some other districts," L. Kailun, a senior police official based in the state capital, told Reuters…

imperial.ac.uk (2023-09-29). Climate awards and dangerous jobs: News from Imperial. imperial.ac.uk Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.

Eduardo Lucita (2023-09-29). After the primaries, the elections. internationalviewpoint.org "The labour and popular movement face an all-out offensive against historical social achievements and the expansion of rights achieved in recent decades, but the country has social and political reserves to face this offensive." | – | / |

Joseph Daher (2023-09-29). A breath of the 2011 resistance in Syrian protest movement. internationalviewpoint.org "While the resilience and courage of the Sweida demonstrators are to be welcomed, only an extension of the protest movement to other regions can allow it to continue and represent a real challenge to the regime." | – | / |

MEE staff (2023-09-29). Tunisia: Opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi begins hunger strike. middleeasteye.net Tunisia: Opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi begins hunger strike | Ghannouchi, who has been jailed since April, says he will not eat until restrictions on him and other prisoners are lifted | Fri, 09/29/2023 – 08: 14 | Ennahdha Rached Ghannouchi, the head of Tunisia's Islamist movement, greets supporters upon arriving at a police station in Tunis on 21 February 2023 (AFP) | Rached Ghannouchi, the leade…

Mi-hyang Pak (2023-09-29). We do not need "great symbols of authority" with double standards: expel patriarchal behavior and harassment from our social movements! internationalviewpoint.org "There is no future for a movement that turns its back on the changing times. And there will be no young next generation willing to take over such a movement." | – | / |

Mike Phipps (2023-09-29). "It feels like the apocalypse" internationalviewpoint.org "The Russian Socialist Movement statement called on Azerbaijan to immediately cease hostilities and open negotiations without any preconditions, and on the international community to immediately impose sanctions against the leadership of Azerbaijan." | – | / |

Omali Yeshitela (2023-09-29). Roots of today's Black reparations movement chronicled in new book on 1982 Tribunal. indybay.org "The Verdict Is In: Reparations Now!" is a collection of personal and empirical testimonies delivered at the first World Tribunal on Reparations for African People, held in 1982 in Brooklyn, New York.

Shirin Shalkooi (2023-09-29). One year after the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini and the "Woman, Life, Freedom" uprising. internationalviewpoint.org A point of view from the feminist solidarity movement in Brussels | – | / |

sputnikglobe (2023-09-29). US Capitol Police Arrest 18 Climate Activists Occupying House Speaker's Office. sputnikglobe.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Eighteen members of the Sunrise Movement were arrested at House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's office during a climate funding demonstration, the activist group said in a statement.

Staff (2023-09-29). Headlines for September 29, 2023. democracynow.org Ahead of Shutdown, Biden Says GOP Extremists Are Trying to "Burn the Place Down", Biden Warns Trump & MAGA Movement Are a Threat to Democracy, Activist Disrupts Biden Speech, Urges Him to Declare Climate Emergency, 18 Youth Climate Activists Arrested for Occupying Speaker McCarthy's Office, GOP Witnesses Admit No Evidence Yet to Support Impeaching Biden, GOP Lawmakers Refuse to Say Trump Should Be Held Accountable If Convicted, NY Appeals Court Rejects Trump Effort to Delay Civil Fraud Trial, Dozens Killed in Two Blasts in Pakistan, U.N.: Over 2,500 Migrants Have Died or Gone Missing This Year T…

Eduardo Lucita (2023-09-28). After the primaries, the elections. internationalviewpoint.org "The labour and popular movement face an all-out offensive against historical social achievements and the expansion of rights achieved in recent decades, but the country has social and political reserves to face this offensive." | – | / |

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-09-28). Hamas calls for resistance, Israel threatens invasion. plenglish.com Ramallah, Sep 28 (Prensa Latina) The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) called Thursday for the intensification of the armed struggle against the Israeli occupation, shortly after that country threatened to launch a major military operation against the Gaza Strip.

Mi-hyang Pak (2023-09-28). We do not need "great symbols of authority" with double standards: expel patriarchal behavior and harassment from our social movements! internationalviewpoint.org "There is no future for a movement that turns its back on the changing times. And there will be no young next generation willing to take over such a movement." | – | / |

Mike Phipps (2023-09-28). "It feels like the apocalypse" internationalviewpoint.org "The Russian Socialist Movement statement called on Azerbaijan to immediately cease hostilities and open negotiations without any preconditions, and on the international community to immediately impose sanctions against the leadership of Azerbaijan." | – | / |

Omali Yeshitela (2023-09-28). Roots of today's Black reparations movement chronicled in new book on 1982 Tribunal. indybay.org "The Verdict Is In: Reparations Now!" is a collection of personal and empirical testimonies delivered at the first World Tribunal on Reparations for African People, held in 1982 in Brooklyn, New York.

Pierre Rousset, Sushovan Dhar (2023-09-28). Did India really win its independence through non-violence? internationalviewpoint.org Two years ago, Burma (Myanmar) saw a huge non-violent movement of civic disobedience in response to a military putsch. However, it was ultimately forced to engage in armed self-defense in the face of merciless repression. Was it any different in India? Was independence, the liberation from British colonial rule in 1947, effectively won through the civil disobedience movement embodied by Gandhi? We put this question to Sushovan Dhar. | – | / |

Shirin Shalkooi (2023-09-28). One year after the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini and the "Woman, Life, Freedom" uprising. internationalviewpoint.org A point of view from the feminist solidarity movement in Brussels | – | / |

Newswire Editor (2023-09-28). "The GOP Hates Gen Z:" Teenagers Occupy Majority Leader McCarthy's Office to Demand He Avoid a Government Shutdown and Fund Climate Action. commondreams.org This morning, over a hundred and fifty teenagers from around the country flooded into House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's office to demand he support bridge funding to keep the government open, including funding FEMA to respond to climate disasters. They held signs that said, "The GOP Hates Gen Z" and "McCarthy: Aren't you ashamed". Thirty young people are currently risking arrest blocking the entrance to his office until Speaker McCarthy agrees to a deal.

"We are fed up and we won't take it any more," said Adah Crandall, 17, a Sunrise Movement organizer currently inside the speaker's office. "As storms ra…

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2023-09-28). Poverty Is Growing In Puerto Rico Under US Colonialism. popularresistance.org Poverty in Puerto Rico, under US colonialism, is getting worse over time, not better. | More than two-fifths of Puerto Ricans suffer from poverty, and nearly three-fifths of Puerto Rican children live in poor households. | In 2022, the poverty rate in the colonized US "territory" grew from 40.5% to 41.7%, according to US Census Bureau data. | A staggering 57.6% of Puerto Rican children live in poverty. And 38.8% of families are below the poverty line. | Poverty has been growing in Puerto Rico even at a time when more people are working. The unemployment rate fell from 13.1% to 9.9% in 2022, while poverty got wors…

TASS (2023-09-28). Russia continues to develop relations with African countries — Kremlin spokesman. tass.com Dmitry Peskov specified that today Putin "will hold Russian-South Sudanese talks and then have a working luncheon with President Kiir"

WSWS (2023-09-28). Court rejects call for South Korean opposition leader's arrest. wsws.org The corruption case against Lee Jae-myung is another warning sign that the government is preparing to crack down on any opposition to its policies, above all by the working class.

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-09-29). Patrols against migrant trafficking agreed in Europe. plenglish.com In this sense, the German Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeser, highlighted in a statement the importance of detecting and preventing unauthorized entries at an early stage. | The joint working group formed by Faeser and his Czech counterparts, Vít Rakusan; and Polish, Mariusz Kaminski, will operate under the protection of the European Police (Europol) and Empac, the continental Multidisciplinary Platform against Criminal Threats, the text specified. | But analysts consider that the solution to the migration issue in the regional bloc involves establishing a common policy on the issue, which today constitutes a…

WSWS (2023-09-29). German media and politicians launch smear campaign against refugees. wsws.org Refugees are being targeted in a campaign by the ruling class to advance its war against the working class and to strengthen the most right-wing forces in doing so.

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2023-09-25: News Headlines

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-25). Protesters use equity week to demand Upfield Line duplication. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-24). Protesters use equity week to demand Upfield Line duplication. greenleft.org.au

Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. (2023-09-24). 'Silent Coup': How Capitalism Defeated Decolonization. popularresistance.org The 20th Century saw a great global uprising against European imperialism as the former colonial countries shook off their shackles and rose up for independence. More than a half century later, global inequality is sharper than ever before. To understand the current predicament of the vast majority of the world's people, we must understand the intervening decades. Matt Kennard and Claire Provost's book, Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy, looks inside the international architecture of global corporate governance that exists to flout and crush any attempts by the former colonial world to enact devel…

Yamin Kogoya (2023-09-25). Victor Yeimo released from Indonesian prison, unites West Papuans in the fight against racism and colonialism. greenleft.org.au Prominent West Papuan independence activist Victor Yeimo was released from prison in Indonesia's occupied capital of West Papua on September 23, sparking celebration among Papuans, reports Yamin Kogoya.

WSWS (2023-09-25). Two Australian referenda on indigenous people: 1967 and 2023. wsws.org Millions of people voted yes for the 1967 referendum, believing it to be a step towards ending the decades of political and social discrimination imposed on Aboriginal people.

Kathryn Zacharek, The Canary. (2023-09-25). Students Occupy Brighton University Campus In Solidarity With Staff. popularresistance.org Throughout the summer, Canary has documented this ongoing crisis within universities and higher education. Now, as the new academic year gets underway, it appears that the recurring theme of chaos within British universities at the hands of incompetent senior management teams (SMT) will continue. The abhorrent treatment of staff and students at my home institution, Brighton University (UOB), is a prime example of this. In fact, students have started an occupation due to the situation. | Across higher education, the University and College Union (UCU) has been fighting back against management imposing pay cuts, as…

ecns.cn (2023-09-24). Comicomment: Increasing grim milestones, but no solution amid gun violence in U.S. ecns.cn In 2021-22 school year, U.S. schools experienced a record 327 shootings, with 57 resulting in fatalities, marking a historic high for the second year in a row. This data, from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), highlights another grim milestone.

ecns.cn (2023-09-25). Comicomment: Increasing grim milestones, but no solution amid gun violence in U.S. ecns.cn In 2021-22 school year, U.S. schools experienced a record 327 shootings, with 57 resulting in fatalities, marking a historic high for the second year in a row. This data, from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), highlights another grim milestone.

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers (2023-09-25). Monday 10/9: Book Talk: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States w/ author R. Dunbar-Ortiz. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers (2023-09-25). Tuesday 12/5: Deep Care: Book Talk w/ A. Hume – Radical Abortion Activists Who Provided Care in Oakland. indybay.org Online event…

City Lights Bookstore & PEN America (2023-09-25). Tuesday 10/3: From Howl to Now: Book Bans in the U.S. indybay.org Online via Zoom | FREE…

PARCEO & Haymarket Books (2023-09-25). Wednesday 9/27: Challenging Antisemitism from a Framework of Collective Liberation. indybay.org Online panel discussion…

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers (2023-09-24). Monday 10/9: Book Talk: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States w/ author R. Dunbar-Ortiz. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

City Lights Bookstore & PEN America (2023-09-24). Tuesday 10/3: From Howl to Now: Book Bans in the U.S. indybay.org Online via Zoom | FREE…

PARCEO & Haymarket Books (2023-09-24). Wednesday 9/27: Challenging Antisemitism from a Framework of Collective Liberation. indybay.org Online panel discussion…

Patricia Harrity (2023-09-24). This is the Sign You Have Been Waiting For — This is Now Tyranny. expose-news.com If you are still waiting for a sign that you need to act against the corrupt government agenda, then the newly passed into law, Online Safety Bill surely has to be it. …

Editor (2023-09-25). John Kiriakou: Never forget America's torture legacy. mronline.org CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou joins Robert Scheer to discuss the dark history of America's torture program, and the normalization of the Espionage Act to attack those that expose the secrets of the state.

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-09-25). Dominican opposition parties in favor of dialogue with Haiti. plenglish.com Santo Domingo, September 25 (Prensa Latina) While the Dominican-Haitian border remains closed, opposition parties see the possibility of a solution to the conflict over the construction of a canal on the Dajabon River in the dialogue between both governments.

Dave DeCamp (2023-09-24). Zelensky Says He Met BlackRock CEO and Other Finance Leaders in US Trip. news.antiwar.com Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that during his recent trip to the US, he met with BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and other US business and finance leaders to discuss investment in Ukraine's reconstruction. "The American entrepreneurs and financiers confirmed their readiness to make large-scale investments in our country immediately after the end of the …

ecns.cn (2023-09-24). 80% of funds allocated for Xinjiang used for people's livelihoods: statistics. ecns.cn According to official statistics, since 2013, nearly 170 billion yuan ($233 million)has been invested in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (including the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps) and eighty percent of the funds were utilized at the county level and below for improving people's livelihood.

teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2023-09-25). Cornejo gana elecciones para gobernador en Mendoza, Argentina. telesurtv.net Este domingo se celebraron las elecciones en Mendoza, en las que fueron elegidos gobernador, vicegobernador, senadores, diputados provinciales, intendentes y concejales en 11 municipios.

National Nurses United (2023-09-25). Saturday 9/23: CalCare Statewide Day of Action Teach-in (South Bay). indybay.org Congregational Church of Sunnyvale | 1112 S Bernardo Ave | Sunnyvale, CA 94087 | Weather permitting, we will be gathering outside in the courtyard area to the south of the sanctuary, in the corridor between the east and west parking lots.

National Nurses United (2023-09-24). Saturday 9/23: CalCare Statewide Day of Action Teach-in (South Bay). indybay.org Congregational Church of Sunnyvale | 1112 S Bernardo Ave | Sunnyvale, CA 94087 | Weather permitting, we will be gathering outside in the courtyard area to the south of the sanctuary, in the corridor between the east and west parking lots.

JANET (2023-09-24). NYC Rally and March to End the U.S./NATO Proxy War in Ukraine! iacenter.org Sunday, October 1st, 2: 00pm Rally begins at W 58th St & 8th Avenue (CNN Studios) March to W 41st St. & 8th Ave. (NY Times Building) New York City, [Sept 24] — A majority of people in the U.S. oppose additional U.S. funding for the war in Ukraine, according to a CNN poll. In a united effort to call for peace and an end to the U.S./NATO proxy war in Ukraine, an emerging coalition of organizations is organizing a strong rally and march in the heart of New York City. This action aims to raise awareness about the U.S./NATO's role in provoking the war against Russia in Ukraine, demand an end to U.S. weapons and fu…

ecsorinoco (2023-09-25). Amnesty International Pushes Regime Change in Eritrea with Dubious, Unverifiable Report. orinocotribune.com Amnesty's new report accusing Eritrea's government of gruesome war crimes relies heavily on anonymous testimony, grainy satellite images, and zero field investigation. It is the latest salvo in the West's campaign to topple the country's independent government. | Eritrea is a small country with a geostrategically significant coast on the Red Sea. Fiercely independent, it is one of only two African nations that refuse to collaborate with AFRICOM, the US Africa Command. Committed to an incremental, self-reliant development strategy, it has chosen not to saddle itself with IMF or World Bank debt. It was also the onl…

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-25). Housing activists say NSW Labor's budget fails the test. greenleft.org.au

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-09-25). Prensa Latina and VNA agencies assess progress and renew cooperation. plenglish.com Hanoi, Sep 25 (Prensa Latina) The press agencies VNA, from Vietnam, and Prensa Latina, from Cuba, reviewed the progress in bilateral collaboration and renewed the existing agreement in the editorial area.

teleSUR, JCM (2023-09-25). Continúa protestas en contra de reforma laboral en Grecia. telesurtv.net Por otro lado, la ley prohíbe a los huelguistas impedir a un colega que vaya a trabajar durante un paro.

Tony Leah, Labor Notes. (2023-09-25). Auto Bargaining In Canada—Stuck In The Past? popularresistance.org Bargaining with the Detroit 3 auto corporations is happening in Canada and the United States at the same time this year—the first time that bargaining has aligned since the disastrous bankruptcy negotiations and forced concessions of 2009. Unifor just reached a tentative agreement with Ford earlier this week, while the United Auto Workers' strike against selected Ford, Stellantis and General Motors plants is ongoing. | This is indicative of the major differences in the strategies of the two unions. The UAW, under new leadership, is doing things dramatically differently—raising bold demands, mobilizing…

WSWS (2023-09-25). Canadian parliament and prime minister give standing ovation to Ukrainian Nazi war criminal. wsws.org The Trudeau Liberal government and Canada's political establishment as a whole are in damage-control mode after Ottawa's longstanding ties to the Nazis' Ukrainian fascist collaborators and their political descendants were brought too far into the limelight.

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-24). Housing activists say NSW Labor's budget fails the test. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-24). Protesters call on Labor to protest Fukushima nuclear waste dumping. greenleft.org.au

Luis Feliz Leon, Lisa Xu, Labor Notes. (2023-09-24). Auto Workers Strike Spreads To 38 Parts Depots. popularresistance.org The clock has ticked and tocked for two of the Big 3 automakers. At noon 5,000 more members of the Auto Workers (UAW) at 38 parts distribution centers for Stellantis and General Motors walked off the job. The facilities are spread across 20 states. They join 13,000 workers at assembly plants in Ohio, Michigan, and Missouri who have been out for a week—for a total of 18,000 Big 3 auto workers on picket lines nationwide. (See a map of all struck facilities here.) The escalation adds a new type of facility to the mix. Parts distribution centers (PDCs) supply after-sales spare parts and accessories to dealershi…

Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad, Peoples Democracy. (2023-09-24). Collaboration, Not Confrontation. popularresistance.org The United States has articulated a policy that it wishes to continue this war to severely 'weaken Russia' — as US defence secretary Lloyd Austin and other high officials have been explicitly stating — and, it is claimed, to place Ukraine in a stronger bargaining position for eventual negotiations (or in a weaker position, if the Russian offensive makes an impact, a strong likelihood that is quietly ignored). The policy of trying to 'weaken Russia' through the escalation of the war in Ukraine is the position of the United States and the United Kingdom, and with some variation, their European allies (F…

Juan M. Garcia (2023-09-24). Kim Jong Un thanks China for supporting DPRK. plenglish.com Pyongyang, Sep 24 (Prensa Latina) The general secretary of the Labor Party and president of State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Kim Jong Un, acknowledged China's support for his country's struggles in defense of socialism.

Boston Branch, Workers World. (2023-09-25). Boston March October 7 To Demand: Indigenous Peoples Day Now! popularresistance.org United American Indians of New England (UAINE), the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB) and other organizations have called for a march and rally on Oct. 7 to demand that the Massachusetts legislature forever replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day. | This decades-long struggle of Indigenous peoples in Massachusetts, where the Pilgrims carried out "first encounter" land thefts and genocide, aims to overturn centuries of entrenched racist mythology wrapped up in the triumphalist federal holiday known as Columbus Day. | The 2017 murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia, at the hands…

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-25). Inghams Chickens workers strike for a decent pay rise. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-25). United States: United Auto Workers strike against the 'Big Three'. greenleft.org.au

UFCLP (2023-09-25). Saturday 9/30: N. California UAW Solidarity Rally:Victory For UAW Auto Workers Your Fight Is Our Fight. indybay.org GM Cruise Lot | 530 10th St./Bryant, SF…

WSWS (2023-09-25). Autoworkers in Germany voice support for Big Three workers in US: "All workers have to pull together" wsws.org Although the German media have decided to stay silent about the conflict as much as possible, workers at Ford, Mercedes, Volkswagen or Stellantis/Opel are taking a lively interest in the struggle of their American colleagues.

WSWS (2023-09-25). Looming shutdown of federal government threatens workers with furloughs and missed paydays. wsws.org Infighting between ultra-right factions of the Republican Party is the immediate trigger for the failure to pass a budget.

WSWS (2023-09-25). Why won't Unifor release the Ford Canada vote totals? Workers should challenge Unifor's sham Ford contract ratification process! wsws.org The Unifor bureaucracy suppressed the terms of the proposed contract until just before the vote, prevented workers from meeting in-person to discuss its terms, and only under rank-and-file pressure revealed that just 54 percent of voters backed the agreement, and without saying how many workers voted.

WSWS (2023-09-25). Strike actions by 75,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers to begin in early October. wsws.org On October 4, 75,000 Kaiser healthcare workers are set to conduct a limited three-day strike, if Kaiser executives cannot reach agreement on the terms of new contracts.

WSWS (2023-09-25). Biden to visit picket lines to bolster UAW apparatus and its betrayal of auto strike. wsws.org Biden's tourist stop in Detroit is an effort to bolster an increasingly discredited UAW apparatus, lend credibility to its stay on the job "strike," and facilitate a sellout of the workers.

WSWS (2023-09-25). US Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee holds second national meeting. wsws.org The wide-ranging discussion dealt with the terrible conditions at…

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-24). Inghams Chickens workers strike for a decent pay rise. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-24). United States: United Auto Workers strike against the 'Big Three'. greenleft.org.au

JANET (2023-09-24). Historic auto strike hits Big Three at once. iacenter.org By Martha Grevatt September 15, 2023 Toledo, Ohio For the first time in its 88-year history, the United Auto Workers is striking Ford, General Motors and Stellantis (which includes Chrysler) simultaneously. When the 2019-23 contracts between the union and the corporations expired at midnight the night of Sept. 14, the selective strike targeting one assembly plant at each company was launched. Workers at GM's Wentzville, Missouri, plant; Ford's Wayne, Michigan, plant; and the Toledo, Ohio, Jeep plant are maintaining militant picket lines around the clock. First day of UAW strike at Toledo, Ohio, Jeep assembly plan…

Rhoda Wilson (2023-09-24). New German study: mRNA covid injections make a third of healthcare workers sick. expose-news.com

Jake Johnson (2023-09-25). Writers reach tentative deal with Hollywood studios after nearly 150 days on strike. nationofchange.org "It is the leverage generated by your strike, in concert with the extraordinary support of our union siblings, that finally brought the companies back to the table to make a deal."

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-24). Transport union calls for Qantas compensation after High Court ruling. greenleft.org.au

teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2023-09-24). Venezuela propone a Guyana reunión con Caricom sobre Esequibo. telesurtv.net El mandatario acotó que los pasos que está dando el gobierno de Guyana violan la legalidad internacional y ponen en riesgo la paz de la región.

Ashli Blow, Next City. (2023-09-25). They Halted A Pipeline; Now Can They Get Clean Drinking Water? popularresistance.org In 2019, energy companies announced a plan to route a major crude oil pipeline through Boxtown and other mostly Black communities in southwest Memphis. The location had been chosen, a company representative stated then, because it was the "point of least resistance." | But residents came together, proving the company wrong. In 2021, a powerful grassroots movement shut down the pipeline, which would have been built through a historic neighborhood founded by emancipated people and atop the world-famous Memphis Sand Aquifer. | Now, two years later, the same activists are working to get reliable, safe drinking water…

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-09-25). US-based organizations reject terrorist attack against Cuban embassy. plenglish.com Washington, Sep 25 (Prensa Latina) Several solidarity organizations and social movements continue to express their condemnation of the terrorist attack perpetrated against the Cuban embassy in Washington DC, the second in the last three years.

Editor (2023-09-24). Avoiding the War on Terror Would Have Saved Over 10 Million Lives at Home and Abroad. scheerpost.com By Bharat Dogra / CounterCurrents The peace movement in various parts of the world has emphasized in various contexts that if the huge amounts spent on various wars had been spent instead on meeting essential civilian needs, then apart from avoiding the loss of lives caused in actual fighting and bombing or due to the …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-24). People's movements in the US demand end to blockade against Cuba. peoplesdispatch.org On Friday, September 22, dozens of citizens belonging to different people's movements marched in New York City demanding an end to the US imposed blockade against Cuba. They also demanded that president Joe Biden take Cuba off the state sponsors of terrorism list, stating that it is not Cuba which has the largest military budget in the world. Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel also joined the rally and chanted along with the people, "Cuba, yes! Blockade, no!"

Juan M. Garcia (2023-09-25). Cuba immediately informed the US about terrorist attack on embassy. plenglish.com "After last night's terrorist attack on our Embassy was perpetrated, we immediately contacted US authorities, who were given access to the Mission to take samples of the Molotov cocktails," Torres wrote in his account on X, formerly Twitter. | Several solidarity organizations and social movements immediately expressed their condemnation of this new act of aggression against the Cuban representation in Washington DC, the second in the last three years. | "It is an irony that Cuba is unfairly on a list of terrorist countries and at the same time, on American soil, terrorist acts are committed against the Cuban Emb…

WSWS (2023-09-24). Turkish government downplays danger as COVID-19 surge spreads. wsws.org Turkish officials and media have been forced to acknowledge that the pandemic is on the rise, but are working to suppress calls for necessary public health measures.

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