(2021-11-13). We need our own party, a labor party. themilitant.com Statement by John Studer, Socialist Workers Party national campaign director, Nov. 10. | The only party that told the truth in the 2021 elections about how working people can fight back against mounting attacks we face today was the Socialist Workers Party. | Our candidates explained the root cause of the crisis — the capitalist rulers, who put their profits above all the needs of land and labor — and how workers can chart a course to take political power into our own hands. They set an example by joining union struggles and building solidarity that is crucial to the outcome and to strengthen the enti…
(2021-11-13). [Comment] By any means necessary: why lowering insulin prices is relevant to racial health equity. thelancet.com When young revolutionaries in the 1960s sought to free Black people in the USA from lives of structured racism (ie, the differential access to opportunity, goods, and services by race) "by any means necessary",1 few people imagined this movement might one day include efforts to overcome exorbitant insulin prices. Yet organisations such as the Black Panther Party (BPP) understood long ago how poverty and other structural inequities lead to worse health, and were instrumental in creating a framework for cross-sector collaboration to address health disparities in low-income Black communities.
(2021-11-13). China And Solutions To Climate Change. popularresistance.org Last year, President Xi Jinping, pledged that China's CO2 emissions would peak before 2030, and China would become carbon neutral before 2060. | China has a track history of setting ambitious, nearly impossible goals and then achieving them–often before deadline–so this pledge is significant. Under the CPC, China has already created "an economic miracle" in transforming China into the largest economy in the world. It ended extreme poverty while creating the largest middle class in the world. It has virtually eradicated Covid through non-pharmaceutical methods, while vaccinating up to 20 million people daily, an…
(2021-11-13). Saturday 12/4: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Grp: "Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives. indybay.org
(2021-11-13). Over 40 killed by floods in South India and Sri Lanka. wsws.org Most affected are working people and the poor, in urban as well as rural areas, who have already been hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and hikes in the prices of essentials.
(2021-11-13). Cuba's 2020 Containment of COVID-19. orinocotribune.com 
By Charles McKelvey — Nov 5, 2021 | Cuba was as prepared for COVID-19 as any nation could be. It formulated a comprehensive plan, with various institutions working together to formulate and implement a plan, prior to the arrival of the virus on the island. As a result, the virus was effectively contained in 2020, with two relatively mild peaks. But in 2021, due to various external and internal factors, there occurred an explosion of cases. This high third peak reached its highest level in August 2021, which now appears to be under control. In both stages of the struggle against COVID, Cuba has demonstrated t…
(2021-11-13). Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia. wsws.org Thousands of Indonesian workers demonstrate for higher minimum wage; Bangladeshi private sector transport workers strike; South Australian health workers impose bans; Country Road warehouse workers strike in Melbourne…
(2021-11-13). Iran: Husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ends 21-day hunger strike. middleeasteye.net 
Iran: Husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ends 21-day hunger strike | Richard Ratcliffe ends latest attempt to persuade UK to secure wife's release, saying their daughter "needs two parents" | Sat, 11/13/2021 – 13: 55 | Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of jailed British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, ends his hunger strike outside the UK Foreign Office on 13 November, 2021 after 21 days (Reuters)…
(2021-11-12). Honduras: Social Forum Denounces Irregularities in Upcoming Elections. orinocotribune.com The Platform in Defense of Public Health and Education invited Hondurans to go en masse to the polls because a record-high turnover is one of the ways to avoid fraud attempts. | On Tuesday, Honduran Social Forum on External Debt and Development (FOSDEH) and other social organizations denounced the existence of irregularities in the Nov. 28 elections. | So far, the National Election Council (CNE) has not approved several important reforms for the proper conduct of transparent elections. Among them is the implementation of a second round in case no candidate reaches an absolute majority. Nor have the authorities pr…
(2021-11-12). The Media Discover Real Wages. cepr.net 
At the start of the pandemic, many of the lower paid workers lost their jobs, which raised the average wage for people who were still working. This year we are seeing this composition effect in reverse.
(2021-11-12). Why Are Moderna's Billionaires Airbrushing Scientists Out of the Vaccine Patent Picture? inequality.org
(2021-11-12). BLM could 'unleash the people' in New York — co-founder to RT. rt.com 
Black Lives Matter co-founder Chivona Newsome has warned that she has the power to "snap our fingers and unleash the people," should New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams resurrect controversial NYPD anti-crime units. | "Eric Adams is a man without a plan, so all he can conceive of is brute force," Newsome told RT America on Thursday. "That's how he wants to and plans to unleash law enforcement, NYPD, on black and brown people who live in … dire, dire poverty." | Read more | | Created to sto…
(2021-11-12). $250 Billion To $350 Billion? 10 Actual Facts About the Wealth Theft Against Black US Farmers. moguldom.com Black U.S. farmers have lost 90 percent of their land in the last century, amounting to an estimated $250 billion to $350 billion in accumulated wealth and income — 10 percent of the total wealth held by Black Americans currently, according to the Land Loss and Reparations Project. The number of Black farmers in the …
(2021-11-12). Student Strike Enters Second Week At Columbia University. popularresistance.org Over 3,000 Columbia graduate student workers have been on strike since November 3. This is the latest in a series of actions by graduate students workers in universities across the US, many of which are extremely wealthy.
(2021-11-12). How Wealth Inequality Fuels the Climate Emergency. zcomm.org "Everything we've been hearing here and at the previous 25 summits is basically distraction," says Monbiot, adding that global leaders could "fix" the worst impacts of the climate crisis "in no time at all if they wanted to."
(2021-11-12). 'Maid' on Netflix: Class struggle on the small screen. peoplesworld.org 
In the empty calorie candy store of American television entertainment, Netflix's new miniseries Maid does something different and does it very, very well. Maid breaks canon to show us actual working-class people on the job and at home. Not the doctors and detectives that seem to exclusively populate our screens. Not the cowboys or criminals. …
(2021-11-12). Aaron Maté: New Indictments Expose Democrats' Russiagate Obsession as a Historic Hoax. scheerpost.com Journalist, Aaron Maté. [Photo courtesy of Aaron Maté] | Click to subscribe on: After the 2016 general election, which saw Hillary Clinton defeated by Donald Trump, Democrats scrambled for someone to blame other than themselves. Rather than reflect on their many betrayals of the working class that once made up the core of their voting base, Democrats and their mos…
(2021-11-12). President Maduro Sets Subnational 'Rapid Action Fund'. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro announced that his administration will create a "rapid action fund" so that the 23 governors and 335 mayors to be chosen in the Nov. 21 elections can resolve problems the citizenry poses to them without any hindrance. | RELATED: | "All resources needed to develop this initiative have been already allocated. Vice President Delcy Rodriguez and I are working closely…
(2021-11-12). South Korea's KCTU union confederation to stage rally Saturday amid surge in working class anger. wsws.org The KCTU and its affiliated unions are working to prevent the outbreak of a larger working-class struggle, not lead it.
(2021-11-12). Maritime Union of Australia rams through sell-out deal at Qube Ports. wsws.org The new agreement maintains the same onerous working conditions that the Western Australian dock workers were fighting to change.
(2021-11-12). German science leaders commend public health innovation at White City Campus. imperial.ac.uk German science leaders visited Imperial's White City Campus to discover how researchers are working with the local community on health challenges.
(2021-11-12). UK teachers oppose attacks on working conditions. wsws.org Teachers are facing the terrible impact of the pandemic, attacks on their pay and conditions, the further marketisation of education, and victimisations.
(2021-11-12). A tribute to Lanz Priestley. greenleft.org.au Lanz Priestley was a force for good with a passion for helping those who were swept up by the scourge of homelessness. Larissa Payne pays tribute.
(2021-11-12). How China Is Addressing Education Inequality. independentmediainstitute.org In China, the educational pressure on children is intense, and it begins when they are very young. A mother living in Shanghai describes the demands of her six-year-old child's education, saying, "In kindergarten, children already need to spend the whole weekend learning pinyin." Pinyin is the system of romanization of the characters based on their …
(2021-11-12). With the Lights Out: A Discussion with Lobelia Commons on Mutual Aid, Climate Change, and Hurricane Ida. itsgoingdown.org What happens with the lights go out and the police guard stores filled with food? Will our networks be ready to sustain ourselves? Will we be able to help our neighbors or keep to ourselves? Can networks of mutual aid and autonomy form out of disasters, or will they only further entrench inequality and domination?…
(2021-11-12). NYC Taxi Drivers Took on Predatory Lenders — And Won. inequality.org
(2021-11-12). Victory for Palestinian hunger striker after 113 days without food. electronicintifada.net Israeli policies on hunger strikes push prisoners to the brink of death.
(2021-11-12). Palestinian administrative detainee ends 113-day hunger strike after agreement with Israeli authorities. peoplesdispatch.org Miqdad al-Qawasmeh will be released after his current administrative detention terms ends in February. Six other Palestinians continue to be on hunger strike to protest their illegal imprisonment by Israel…
(2021-11-12). Iran: Husband of jailed Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe calls British government 'negligent'. middleeasteye.net 
Iran: Husband of jailed Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe calls British government 'negligent' | Richard Ratcliffe tells MEE the UK government is 'good at gaslighting' and has not done enough to help free his wife | Fri, 11/12/2021 – 11: 44 | "> | Richard Ratcliffe outside the Foreign Office in London (MEE) | As Richard Ratcliffe enters his 20th day of a hunger strike outside the British Foreign…