(2023-09-12). Minneapolis: UFCW 663 workers fighting for better pay, respect at Seward Co-op; management walks out of bargaining. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – United Food and Commercial Workers 663 workers at Seward Community Co-op have been working without a contract since their previous one expired on August 20 of this year, and in bargaining for a new agreement, management has fought against workers' demands on nearly every issue. | The key demands from workers in bargaining have included increased pay, an additional week of paid parental leave, wage equity and cost of living raises, and pushing against automation, such as self-checkout lanes. A tentative agreement was reached only on one demand so far in bargaining, that being increased autonomy o…
(2023-09-11). Finnish Left slams government's decommunization attempts in the name of anti-discrimination. peoplesdispatch.org The government has been widely criticized for defending two ministers in the right-wing coalition with a history of making racist comments and for trying to use a recently announced anti-discrimination drive to ban communist symbols…
(2023-09-12). Cybersecurity week to raise awareness. ecns.cn Great efforts should be made in education and innovation around cybersecurity to help the country strengthen its security system and governance capability, an official from China's top internet regulator said.
(2023-09-12). Education Ministry warns off-campus training institutes. ecns.cn The Ministry of Education has tightened the supervision of off-campus training agencies to create a healthier environment for students' development.
(2023-09-12). Grassroots Organizing In Red States Is At The Heart Of Abolitionist Struggle. popularresistance.org In Republican-controlled regions across the country, people are engaged in abolitionist organizing: Even though conditions vary, people are organizing for freedom virtually everywhere. This is nothing new. The South, for example, has been a site for abolitionist organizing for centuries, and it continues to be one, despite the attacks on long-settled civil rights being organized by Republican supermajorities in statehouses. | Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson is the first Black woman to codirect the Highlander Research and Education Center, a century-old nexus for abolitionist and labor organizing in Tennessee and beyond…
(2023-09-12). Teach-In on the 50th Anniversary of the Brutal Chilean Coup & The AFL-CIO. indybay.org At and educational conference sponsored by the Labor Education Project on The AFL-CIO International Operations reports were made about the US AFL-CIO supported and organized coup in Chile on 9/11/73.
(2023-09-11). Experts from nine countries discuss international education and urban development. ecns.cn On Sept. 9, international education and urban development exchanges organized by Dalian Art College and the China-France Educational Exchange Association were held in the Jinpu New Area of Dalian.
(2023-09-12). Wednesday 9/13: Learn How to Bust Book Bans Virtual Training. indybay.org Online via Zoom: www.mobilize.us/momsrising/event/579576/ | Join from anywhere…
(2023-09-12). Wednesday 9/13: Let's Talk, Let's Learn Community Series: Shotspotter Gunshot Detection System. indybay.org Online via Zoom (Register: forms.gle/3ndS1aHkPnudEXSHA)…
(2023-09-12). Thursday 9/14: District Elections – The Case for Them. indybay.org Please join us on Thursday, Septem ≠ber 14, at 7: 00 pm. This will be a hybrid meeting. | ‚Ä¢ Join us in person at Flywheel Coffee Roasters, 672 Stanyan Street (between Haight and Page) or join us online. Please note that seating is limited. | ‚Ä¢ To join the meeting online, copy this link: zoom.us/j/970019 85280?pwd=Nkx2UVFPSTRVWG VXUVZEbFRkb0xwQT09 | ‚Ä¢ Or, with the Zoom app: Meet ≠ing ID: 970 0198 5280 Passcode: 333544 | ‚Ä¢ Zoom also provides telephone numbers. These are NOT toll-free numbers. Check with your phone company before yo…
(2023-09-12). "The rank-and-file workforce needs to unite globally": Big Three autoworkers in US and Mexico give voice to growing militancy in meeting Sunday. wsws.org Autoworkers from the US and Mexico expressed their determination to unite and ensure their needs are met in an online meeting hosted Sunday afternoon by the Autoworkers Rank-and-File Committee Network and the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter.
(2023-09-11). 12 Facts About The Current Economics And Science Of Podcasting: Spotify And Industry Trends. moguldom.com Contrary to popular belief, podcasting is experiencing robust growth. However, several myths and misconceptions are holding the industry back from reaching its full growth potential, according to marketing and technology insight provider Mar Tech Series. The portion of Americans who listen to online audio and podcasts has reached record highs, Edison Research said in its …
(2023-09-11). Top online sales host apologizes for insensitive comments. ecns.cn China's top online sales host Li Jiaqi apologized on Monday after he blamed viewers who found the price of an eyebrow pen expensive, that they were not working hard enough to make more money during a live-streaming session.
(2023-09-11). Chile: This is how they killed Allende. mronline.org For the 50th anniversary of the coup d'état in Chile against the then president, Salvador Allende, analysis and publications are flourishing.
(2023-09-11). Cuban soldiers in the Russian army? mronline.org The "news" that Cuban troops are participating in combat actions on the Russian side in Ukraine, that comes well seasoned with melodramatic stagings, is grabbing headlines in the main counterrevolutionary media and their affinities in the world.
(2023-09-11). Review: "Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Fuel Capitalism" mronline.org Nicolas Graham's book on forces of production and fossil-fuel capitalism gives an important analysis of why fundamental change is needed to solve the climate crisis, finds John Clarke…
(2023-09-11). The U.S. announces 1 billion in new aid for Ukraine. mronline.org Washington also provided a US$203-million funding for support to transparency and accountability of institutions.
(2023-09-11). Washington's expanding military footprint on China's doorsteps. mronline.org A series of announcements by the US reflect its large and still growing military presence across Asia-Pacific, particularly in East and Southeast Asia. Together, they reflect a continued and increasingly desperate desire by Washington to encircle and contain China.
(2023-09-11). Wednesday 9/13: Learn How to Bust Book Bans Virtual Training. indybay.org Online via Zoom: www.mobilize.us/momsrising/event/579576/ | Join from anywhere…
(2023-09-11). Wednesday 9/13: Let's Talk, Let's Learn Community Series: Shotspotter Gunshot Detection System. indybay.org Online via Zoom (Register: forms.gle/3ndS1aHkPnudEXSHA)…
(2023-09-11). Salvador Allende's last words to the nation. mronline.org "History is ours, and people make history." | Salvador Allende…
(2023-09-11). Thursday 9/14: District Elections – The Case for Them. indybay.org Please join us on Thursday, Septem ≠ber 14, at 7: 00 pm. This will be a hybrid meeting. | ‚Ä¢ Join us in person at Flywheel Coffee Roasters, 672 Stanyan Street (between Haight and Page) or join us online. Please note that seating is limited. | ‚Ä¢ To join the meeting online, copy this link: zoom.us/j/970019 85280?pwd=Nkx2UVFPSTRVWG VXUVZEbFRkb0xwQT09 | ‚Ä¢ Or, with the Zoom app: Meet ≠ing ID: 970 0198 5280 Passcode: 333544 | ‚Ä¢ Zoom also provides telephone numbers. These are NOT toll-free numbers. Check with your phone company before yo…
(2023-09-11). Othello and the war: Berlin Bulletin, September 11, 2023. mronline.org The war in Ukraine, a horrific tragedy for the people of that unhappy country, fateful as well for many young Russians and potentially menacing for all the world, with burnished weapons of every size and destructive power waiting in silos or submarines for a slip, a blunder, a provocation.
(2023-09-12). Elevate Your Earnings: Online Opportunities in Pakistan. indybay.org Online shopping, sometimes known as e-commerce, has completely changed how individuals acquire goods and services. It entails making online purchases from the convenience of one's home or from any location with an internet connection. Online shopping offers convenience, a large selection of options, and the chance to read reviews and compare costs before making a purchase. The use of online platforms and marketplaces by customers to fulfill their purchasing needs has grown in popularity in recent years. The ease of browsing and purchasing, the availability of safe payment methods, and doorstep delivery are some o…
(2023-09-12). President Maduro Continues China Tour, Meets With BRICS Bank Chief and CPC Authorities. orinocotribune.com The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, met with the president of the New Development Bank (NBD) of the BRICS, Dilma Rousseff, as part of his official visit to China. | The meeting took place at the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) headquarters in Shanghai, on Sunday, September 10. | Maduro and Rousseff discussed NDB's impact in the construction of a new world economic system. | @N…
(2023-09-12). World's first alpine canyon landscape cable-stayed bridge under construction in Guizhou. ecns.cn The 1,260-meter bridge is equipped with sightseeing tour glass trails, sightseeing elevators and aerial viewing platforms and the world's first alpine canyon landscape bridge with a roadway and a glass walkway sharing the same deck.
(2023-09-11). Dominicans to build dam on Dajabon river ahead of border conflict. plenglish.com Santo Domingo, Sep 11 (Prensa Latina) Dominican President Luis Abinader ordered Monday the start of Don Miguel dam construction over the Dajabon River, which delimits part of the border with Haiti.
(2023-09-12). As A Working Class-Led Global Movement Rises, Elites Are Panicking. popularresistance.org Around the world, a major organizing effort is underway, led by civil society and unions with the International People's Assembly, to build a working class movement for alternative systems that address the many crises we face. A series of regional conferences called the Dilemmas of Humanity are taking place in preparation for an international conference in South Africa in mid October. Clearing the FOG speaks with Eugene Puryear of BreakThrough News about the recent meeting in Atlanta, which is part of this process. Puryear speaks about the significance of the Stop Cop City movement and the necessity of leadership…
(2023-09-12). Learning From Chile: Navigating Complexities Of Political Crises. popularresistance.org Twenty years of grassroots organizing by Black and Latinx community organizations, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), and the broad Left propelled CTU organizer Brandon Johnson to victory in the April 2023 Chicago mayoral race. Similarly, across the country, progressive and left organizations are focusing on electoral politics as a central arena of struggle. These campaigns are part of a larger motion—a new generation of social movements, union organizing, and Black-led uprisings against racist state violence—provoked by intertwined political, economic, social, and ecological crises in the US and globa…
(2023-09-12). Labor needs to step up support for Palestine, meeting hears. greenleft.org.au
(2023-09-12). Socialists slam Queensland Labor for locking up children indefinitely. greenleft.org.au
(2023-09-12). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Educators from across Argentina staged National Day of Educators' Struggle to highlight their issues including pay while more than 1,000 Hormel meatpackers rallied on Labor Day as their contract deadline neared.
(2023-09-12). Australia's Labor government and its phony Voice referendum in deepening crisis. wsws.org The crisis of the Voice, a proposed indigenous advisory body to parliament, is directly connected to growing popular hostility to the cost of living crisis and the entire political establishment.
(2023-09-11). Labor needs to step up support for Palestine, meeting hears. greenleft.org.au
(2023-09-11). Socialists slam Queensland Labor for locking up children indefinitely. greenleft.org.au
(2023-09-11). 50 Years After Chile's Coup, Salvador Allende's Grandson Speaks About Britain's Role in the Rise of Pinochet. libya360.wordpress.com John McEvoy and Pablo Navarrete Pablo Sepúlveda Allende speaks to Declassified UK in Santiago, Chile, 2023 In Santiago, Declassified spoke with Pablo Sepúlveda Allende about Margaret Thatcher's friendship with Chile's dictator and how Labour helped him evade justice for crimes against humanity. "The colonialist countries in general have collaborated so that the decolonised countries can't become independent",…
(2023-09-11). Boric and former Chilean presidents sign commitment for democracy on 50th anniversary of coup. peoplesdispatch.org The leaders committed to always take care of and defend democracy, face the challenges of democracy, defend and promote human rights, and strengthen spaces for collaboration among states…
(2023-09-11). Australia: Qantas CEO resigns early amid public anger. wsws.org The move came after multiple scandals emerged, involving not just Australia's largest airline and "national flag carrier," which Joyce had led since 2008, but the Labor government.
(2023-09-11). New York school bus workers kept on the job despite strike authorization. wsws.org The union is collaborating with the Adams administration to sabotage the struggle by thousands of school bus workers.
(2023-09-11). Pseudo-left Socialist Alternative promotes Australian Labor government's Voice referendum. wsws.org Socialist Alternative is lining up with a pro-war, pro-business Labor government, while slandering the majority of the population as "racist" for opposing its right-wing policy of establishing an indigenous Voice to parliament.
(2023-09-12). Sunday 9/10: Show Solidarity w/ United Auto Workers Union Virtual Rally. indybay.org Virtual rally to support UAW: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event/578744/…
(2023-09-12). Unifor maintains information blackout as strike deadlines approach for Canadian and US autoworkers. wsws.org The union bureaucracy is providing workers with as little information as possible in the hopes of tamping down militant demands for a significant increase in wages and benefits amid surging inflation across Canada, the elimination of multi-tier employment, and the preservation of jobs in the transition to the manufacture of EVs.
(2023-09-12). Trump pledges to stop EVs, issues ultra-nationalist appeal to autoworkers. wsws.org In the run-up to the contract deadlines for 170,000 autoworkers in the US and Canada, Trump is appealing directly to autoworkers, grotesquely posturing as their champion.
(2023-09-12). Sri Lankan government begins looting workers' pension funds. wsws.org The Employee Provident Fund holds the superannuation savings of hundreds of thousands of low-paid free trade zone workers, apparel factories employees and plantation workers.
(2023-09-11). Thursday 9/14: Grannies Stand with Workers! Starbucks Palo Alto. indybay.org Starbucks | 2000 El Camino Real (x-street Stanford Ave) | Palo Alto 94306…
(2023-09-11). Venezuelan Socialist Party Activist Calls for Scrap Metal Corruption Investigation. venezuelanalysis.com Workers' organizations have repeatedly denounced the dismantling of factories to be sold as scrap.
(2023-09-11). Sunday 9/10: Show Solidarity w/ United Auto Workers Union Virtual Rally. indybay.org Virtual rally to support UAW: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event/578744/…
(2023-09-11). Democratic Socialists of America debates two ways to remain within Democratic Party. wsws.org Jacobin magazine, which is affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America, published two articles illustrating the debate within the upper-echelons of the DSA as to how best to continue to channel the growing movement of workers behind the pro-imperialist Democratic Party.
(2023-09-11). Sri Lankan government moves to impose draconian media laws and Anti-Terrorism Bill. wsws.org When enacted, the main target of these repressive measures, will be workers, youth and the rural masses seeking a way to defeat Wickremesinghe's IMF-dictated austerity measures.
(2023-09-11). The UAW bureaucracy is making massive concessions behind autoworkers' backs. wsws.org Statements from the UAW, Biden administration and Big Three auto corporations make clear that a massive sellout is being worked out behind the backs of 150,000 autoworkers in the US and 18,000 in Canada whose contracts expire over the next week.
(2023-09-11). "Oppose the system designed to steal our wages": US Postal Service workers found rank-and-file committee. wsws.org The following the founding statement of the USPS Rank-and-File Committee, which was established in a meeting held September 3 to organize a fight against…
(2023-09-11). Lessons from Chile, 1973. workers.org Fifty years ago, on Sept. 11, 1973, the generals and admirals in the Chilean armed forces led a coup against the elected Popular Unity government. They murdered President Salvador Allende and the world-famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and songwriter Victor Jara. In the following months, the coup makers massacred 3,000 . . . |
(2023-09-11). Filadelfia: °Justicia para Junito (Eddie Irizarry Jr.)! workers.org Por D Sólo pasaron cinco segundos entre el momento en que el agente de policía Mark Dial salió de su coche y el momento en que disparó y asesinó a Eddie Irizarry Jr. la tarde del 14 de agosto, en el barrio de East Kensington de Filadelfia. Otro asesinato sancionado . . . |
(2023-09-12). Colombian President: West's Economic Blockade Against Venezuela is Reason Behind Migration Crisis. orinocotribune.com Colombian President Gustavo Petro stated that the migration crisis in the region originated because of the economic blockade against Venezuela imposed by the United States and the European Union. | Making a joint statement with his Mexican counterpart Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador during the Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Life, Peace and Decelopment, held in Cali, Colombia, on Saturday, September 9, Petro stated that the US blockade against Venezuela started a series of migratory waves. | "In the case of migration, it was the economic blockade that began waves of exodus, first from Venezuela to Colombi…
(2023-09-12). Wednesday 10/25: A Conversation with Paul Hawken: An Evening of Hope. indybay.org Otter Student Union at CSU Monterey Bay. 3118 Inter-Garrison Rd, Seaside, CA, Building #552. | Map and Directions: csumb.edu/map/ | Parking Permits: pmb.csustan.edu/dailypermits/#!/…
(2023-09-12). Presidente de Venezuela sostiene reunión con autoridades del Comité Provincial de Shandong. telesurtv.net El presidente resaltó que el oriente de Venezuela tiene un inmenso potencial para unir inversiones, producción y comercio con Shandong.
(2023-09-12). Kim Jong-un llega en tren a Rusia para reunión con Putin. telesurtv.net Fuentes oficiales de Corea del Norte y Rusia siguen sin confirmar la hora y lugar del encuentro entre ambos presidentes.
(2023-09-12). "Socialism 2023" conference: Imperialist warmongering and Democratic Party politics. wsws.org The "Socialism 2023" conference was dominated by the self-absorption and reactionary politics of the upper middle class milieu populating the DSA, the fraudulent "reformists" of the trade union bureaucracy and pro-imperialist state operatives.
(2023-09-11). Nigerian Trade Unions Stage Two-day Strike Amid Economic Crisis. globalresearch.ca
(2023-09-11). New At 6:30: Anti-Union Propaganda. levernews.com
(2023-09-11). Wednesday 10/25: A Conversation with Paul Hawken: An Evening of Hope. indybay.org Otter Student Union at CSU Monterey Bay. 3118 Inter-Garrison Rd, Seaside, CA, Building #552. | Map and Directions: csumb.edu/map/ | Parking Permits: pmb.csustan.edu/dailypermits/#!/…
(2023-09-11). G20 and African Union (AU) Membership: Implications for Africa. globalresearch.ca
(2023-09-11). Biden Announces Deal Connecting Europe And West And South Asia. popularresistance.org US President Joe Biden announced a multinational rail and ports deal linking Europe, West Asia, and South Asia on 9 September at a gathering on the sidelines of the G20 summit in New Delhi. | The deal, known as the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), comes as the White House seeks to counter China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Russia and Iran's North-South Transportation Corridor (INSTC) by pitching Washington as an alternative partner and investor for developing countries. | A memorandum of understanding for the deal was signed by the European Union, India, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emi…
(2023-09-11). ITU Secretary General to attend G77+China Summit. plenglish.com Havana, Sep 11 (Prensa Latina) The Secretary General of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Doreen Bogdan-Martin on Monday confirmed to attend the upcoming G77+China Summit in Havana, the Cuban Foreign Ministry (MINREX) informed.
(2023-09-11). Headlines for September 11, 2023. democracynow.org 6.8-Magnitude Quake Kills 2,500+ in Morocco as Rescuers Struggle to Reach Remote Areas, African Union Joins G20; U.S., EU, India Unveil Alternative to China's "Belt and Road", In Vietnam, Biden Denies Strengthening Ties with Vietnam Is an Effort to "Contain" China, Dutch Police Detain 2,400, Unleash Water Cannons on Massive Climate Protest, Activists Confront Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer over Climate Crisis Hypocrisy, Airstrike in Khartoum Kills 40+ Civilians Amid Ongoing Fighting Between Sudanese Army and RSF, At Least 4 Die as Fighting Resumes Between Rival Groups in Palestinian Ref…
(2023-09-11). Presidente de Venezuela asiste a banco de los Brics en Shanghái. telesurtv.net El mandatario Maduro se entrevistó con la presidenta de la institución financiera y exjefa de Estado de Brasil, Dilma Rousseff, quien asumió el cargo desde marzo de 2023.
(2023-09-11). Presidente venezolano dialoga con secretario del PCCh de Shanghái. telesurtv.net La entrevista se llevó a cabo en el marco de la visita histórica que el jefe de Estado de Venezuela efectúa por la nación asiática.
(2023-09-12). Short-video app opens new horizons for rural residents. ecns.cn The effort has created a total 250,000 jobs in about 25,000 townships nationwide, Kuaishou said in a report released on Tuesday.
(2023-09-12). Monash NTEU calls for pay rises, secure jobs. greenleft.org.au
(2023-09-11). Monash NTEU calls for pay rises, secure jobs. greenleft.org.au
(2023-09-12). Sep 12, 2023. sitrepworld.info ‚ô´ Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris — Done With Bonaparte Remembering the 9/11 Truth Movement, by Ron Unz 9/11 After 22 Years, by Paul Craig Roberts Patrick Lawrence: Exceptionalism & Its Consequences If The US Really Was What It Pretends To Be, by Caitlin Johnstone The Mackinder Strategic 'Bible' Reconsidered, by Alastair Crooke A Day that Never Ended, by Matt Taibbi The Dogs of War Are Winning, by Bill Astore The Mills of the Gods, by James Howard Kunstler Chance Encounters as the Walls Close In, by Edward Curtin Greenwald: Was Musk's Refusal to Comply with All of Ukraine's Demands Treason…
(2023-09-11). 50 years after the coup against Allende: Lessons from the Chilean revolutionary movement. liberationnews.org September 11, 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of Salvador Allende's overthrow in a CIA-backed coup that ushered in a blood-soaked fascist dictatorship.
(2023-09-11). The Pentagon Is The Elephant In The Climate Activist Room. popularresistance.org With nearly 10,000 people expected to take to the streets of New York City on September 17 for the March to End Fossil Fuels, the climate justice movement seems more organized than ever. But, there's a big elephant in the room, and it has the Pentagon written all over it. | The U.S. military is the world's largest institutional oil consumer. It causes more greenhouse gas emissions than 140 nations combined and accounts for about one-third of America's total fossil fuel consumption. The Department of Defense (DoD) also uses huge amounts of natural gas and coal, as well as nuclear power plants at its bases around t…
(2023-09-11). 'Pride Not Apartheid' — Activists Hold Symbolic Action During Netta Barzilai's Performance at EuroPride in Malta. bdsmovement.net
(2023-09-11). Manifiesta To Kick Off A New Political Year For The Left In Europe. popularresistance.org Left-wing forces in Belgium are unofficially kicking off a new political year as thousands of people pour into the coastal city of Ostend to participate in yet another edition of Manifiesta, the fest of solidarity, scheduled for the weekend of September 9-10. Launched for the first time in 2010, Manifiesta has evolved into a gathering of at least 15,000 people who convene not only for discussions and debates but also for bonding and evenings of music. | The festival provides passersby with a glimpse of the diversity of left-wing movements. The program is shaped to address pressing topics such as workplace rights…
(2023-09-11). Socialist "movement incubator" celebrates five year anniversary in the heart of NYC. peoplesdispatch.org The People's Forum in New York City, founded in 2018 as a "movement incubator" to unite working class movements in the US and abroad, celebrated its five year anniversary on Saturday, September 9. In its five years of existence, TPF has been able to support the strengthening of progressive and socialist organizations from the heart of world capitalism. | "Over the past five years, TPF has become a reference for people who are seeking to understand what's going on in the world around them, and who want a place where they can ask questions and exchange ideas, and where there's space for socialist and internationali…
(2023-09-11). Massacre in the DRC: 56 killed in protests against UN forces. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in Several roads in Goma in the DRC's eastern province of North Kivu were barricaded and commercial establishments shut down as part of a "dead city" protest organized by civil society movements on Monday, September 4. | The action was called in response to the killing of at least…
(2023-09-11). Monday 10/2: Oakland Day of Reparations to African People 2023: "No to FBI War on Black Liberation" indybay.org OakStop | 1721 Broadway | Oakland, CA 94612…
(2023-09-12). The social roots of the Moroccan earthquake disaster. wsws.org The Moroccan earthquake catastrophe is not primarily a natural but a social disaster, caused by the inability of the capitalist system to deliver earthquake-resistant housing and emergency services to the working population.
(2023-09-12). Public meeting: A socialist perspective against war and austerity in New Zealand's crisis election. wsws.org The SEG and IYSSE are holding a meeting in Wellington on October 4 to explain the socialist perspective needed to unite the working class against the agenda of war and austerity shared by Labour, National and all the parliamentary parties.
(2023-09-11). "E-Carceration" Is the Newest Surveillance Trend Spreading Across the Globe. truthout.org From the shanty town favelas of Rio de Janeiro, to working-class community housing estates in New Zealand, to the battle-weary streets of Chicago's South Side, electronic monitors — digital tracking devices that monitor the location and behaviors of people facing increased surveillance by police — have become normalized. Like police cars and bodegas, they are part of the social landscape. |
(2023-09-11). Zelensky government cracks down on conscription loopholes. wsws.org Amidst the failure of the counteroffensive and declarations by the US that it will fund the war for "as long as it takes," the Zelensky government is ramping up its attacks on draft dodgers and the Ukrainian working class as a whole.