(2022-01-14). Inflation inequality: Poorest Americans are hit hardest by soaring prices on necessities. nationofchange.org The fastest rate of inflation in 40 years is hurting families across the U.S. who are seeing ever-higher prices for everything from meat and potatoes to housing and gasoline. But behind the headline number that's been widely reported is something that often gets overlooked: Inflation affects different households in different ways — and sometimes hurts …
(2022-01-14). A Program For A Future Society That We Will Build In The Present. popularresistance.org In October 2021, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released a report that received barely any attention: the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021, notably subtitled Unmasking disparities by ethnicity, caste, and gender. 'Multidimensional poverty' is a much more precise measurement of poverty than the international poverty line of $1.90 per day. It looks at ten indicators divided along three axes: health (nutrition, child mortality), education (years of schooling, school attendance), and standard of living (cooking fuel, sanitation, drinking water, electricity, housing, assets). The team studie…
(2022-01-14). We Know The Silver Bullet To Ending Poverty And Destitution. popularresistance.org Here's how the world should operate in simple terms: A certain country or region or city or township or Hobbit hole tries something in order to help their society or group or hovel — if it works, other places then do it. If it doesn't work, other places don't do it. It's like when you were a kid and you saw your brother slide down the banister and rack himself on the newel post — You then thought, "Maybe that activity is not for me." But if he didn't nail himself in the jewels, you probably thought, "I think I'll try that." | That's how the United States government should work, but it doesn't. For-pro…
(2022-01-14). A Programme for a future society that we will build in the present: The Second Newsletter (2022). mronline.org 
In October 2021, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released a report that received barely any attention: 'the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021', notably subtitled Unmasking disparities by ethnicity, caste, and gender.
(2022-01-14). "Bastille 2022": Building a Worldwide Movement Against "Corona Tyranny" globalresearch.ca Bastille 2022 pertains to the restoration of fundamental rights. It seeks to reverse the criminal COVID-19 agenda which in the course of the last two years has triggered economic, social and political chaos Worldwide, coupled with bankruptcies, unemployment, mass poverty and despair.
(2022-01-14). Are Western Wealthy Countries Determined to Starve the People of Afghanistan? independentmediainstitute.org On January 11, 2022, the United Nations (UN) Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths appealed to the international community to help raise $4.4 billion for Afghanistan in humanitarian aid, calling this effort, "the largest ever appeal for a single country for humanitarian assistance." This amount is required "in the hope of shoring up collapsing basic services …
(2022-01-14). Fact Check: 40% Of Credit Card Debt Holders Don't Know Their Interest Rate. moguldom.com Do you know the interest rate on your credit cards? If you don't, you're not alone. Some 40 percent of Americans with credit card debt do not know what interest rate they are paying on that debt, according to a new Bankrate report. "As much as we have heard about record-low rates on other products, credit card …
(2022-01-14). Navient To Cancel Student Debt Of Over 400,000 Borrowers In $1.7B Deal With States. moguldom.com Student loan servicer Navient will provide debt cancellation and relief to over 400,000 borrowers after years of being embroiled in lawsuits. One of the country's largest student loan servicing companies, Navient agreed to a $1.85 billion settlement after being sued by 39 states' attorneys general for unfair, deceptive and predatory lending practices. According to a Jan. …
(2022-01-14). Nurses In US Protest COVID-19 Working Conditions. popularresistance.org The protests were held under the banner of National Nurses United (NNU), a labor union with more than 175,000 members nationwide, which called on the hospital industry to "invest in safe staffing." | Hospitals in the US, the worst-hit country in the world, have been struggling to cope up with the new tide of COVID-19 cases in recent weeks, as well as worker shortages and burnout. | Nurses are furious over sheer callousness and indifference shown by the government as well as their employers, blaming them for caring about their businesses, not the public health. | The protests took place across 11 US states and Was…
(2022-01-14). Signal Warning?: Why Moxie's Departure is Not the End of Signal. itsgoingdown.org Technical discourse almost always generates an odd sort of distortion when it collides with life outside of disciplinary separations. This is very much the case when it comes to radicals and information security. Communications, computer science and cryptography are highly complex, to the point that even people working in the security industry full time have…
(2022-01-14). U.S. working class — on the edge of historic unionization drive? workers.org 
This article was written for an international end-of-year collection and published in French and Spanish translations on lapluma.net and tlaxcala-int.blogspot.com. Times Square, New York City, Dec. 22, 2021.WW Photo: Tony Murphy Workers at three Amazon locations have opened drives to form a union in this mammoth corporation that employs over . . . |
(2022-01-14). Try Harder: Biden Makes His Case For Voting Rights. moguldom.com I remember sitting in a meeting many years ago when I was serving in a counselor role for a school. I and a few other staff members were called into a meeting by the principal to discuss how to support students who were "at-risk" for failing for the year. When working for another school as …
(2022-01-14). Why I'm hoping Corbyn launches a new party. mronline.org 
After the damage Starmer has done, the left would need decades to rebuild from within the party — and we don't have decades. The crises facing working people are already urgent, argues CHELLEY RYAN…
(2022-01-14). Striking àáimsata≈ü workers appeal for support against Turkish police repression. wsws.org The wildcat strike of àáimsata≈ü metalworkers is part of a working class movement developing globally against rising costs of living and deadly pandemic policies.
(2022-01-14). Denver area King Soopers strike part of growing wave of opposition in the working class. wsws.org Workers are not just fighting King Soopers and its parent company Kroger, but also the United Food and Commercial Workers union.
(2022-01-14). How Joe Manchin Betrayed America's Working Families. independentmediainstitute.org Ed Barnette long ago realized that affordable child care and paid sick leave, among other resources, would be essential to helping West Virginians build better lives and save what's left of the middle class. He just never expected that when America was finally on the cusp of providing these essentials, West Virginia's Democratic senator would …
(2022-01-14). Labor leader promises strategic maritime fleet as part of Australia's preparations for war. wsws.org Albanese's union-backed plan has nothing to do with the provision of decent jobs and working conditions for merchant marine seafarers.
(2022-01-14). More than 8,000 Kroger grocery workers strike in Colorado. nationofchange.org On the heels of a new report showing significant financial insecurity, including homelessness, among workers at Kroger grocery stores, more than 8,000 of the chain's employees in Colorado went on strike Wednesday to demand fair wages and better healthcare benefits. Amid a recent wave of successful strikes at companies including John Deere and Kellogg's, the …
(2022-01-14). Afghanistan in Freefall: Deadly U.S. Sanctions Blamed for Shocking Humanitarian Crisis. democracynow.org 
As Afghanistan faces a dire humanitarian crisis, we look at how more Afghans may die from U.S. sanctions than at the hands of the Taliban. The U.S.'s attempts to block support for the new de facto government have prevented vital funding from flowing to the nation's civil servants, particularly in education and the health sector. Dr. Paul Spiegel says conditions in the hospitals he visited in Kabul as part of a World Health Organization emergency team are rapidly deteriorating, and he describes the lack of heat and basic amenities as winter descended. "There's been a drought. There's food insecurity. And all of th…
(2022-01-13). A Programme for a Future Society That We Will Build in the Present. dissidentvoice.org 
Chittaprosad, Indian Workers Read, n.d. In October 2021, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released a report that received barely any attention: the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021, notably subtitled Unmasking disparities by ethnicity, caste, and gender. 'Multidimensional poverty' is a much more precise measurement of poverty than the international poverty line of $1.90 per …
(2022-01-13). Debtors prisons: In Mississippi, judges can lock you up for owing money. peoplesworld.org 
JACKSON, Miss.—During her shifts at a Church's Chicken, Annita Husband looked like the other employees. She wore the same blue and red polo shirt, greeted the same customers, and slung the same fried chicken and biscuits. But after clocking out, Husband, a mother in her 40s, had to wait for a white van with barred …
(2022-01-13). Student Debt Cancellation Is a Racial Justice Issue. inequality.org
(2022-01-13). From the picket line: Denver grocery store workers demand better pay, conditions. liberationnews.org 
On Jan. 12, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 grocery store workers from across the Denver metro area went on strike to demand better pay and working conditions in King Soopers stores.
(2022-01-13). Immigration Reform Is Still Possible — With a Strong Social Movement. zcomm.org Throughout U.S. history, working people have been held down by their own prejudices, including xenophobia. It has plagued the country since colonial times, and it operates in tandem with racism…
(2022-01-13). After Nagorno-Karabakh model: Azerbaijan, Turkey, Ukraine form plans to "liberate" Crimea. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Azerbaijan's President Aliyev to visit Ukraine Jan 14 President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Friday, January 14, who will be paying a working visit to Ukraine. Earlier, at a meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Brussels in December last year, President Volodymyr Zelensky proposed holding a summit in Kyiv …
(2022-01-13). Thousands of Colorado grocery workers strike at King Soopers as opposition continues to build in the working class. wsws.org Roughly 8,400 workers walked off the job at 5 a.m. on Wednesday. Workers are prepared to fight back against a major corporation that has profited from their sacrifice during the pandemic.
(2022-01-13). Johnson government plunged into crisis, the working class must bring it down. wsws.org Getting rid of Johnson means striking out on an independent course of political and social struggle, in opposition to all the political representatives of big business.
(2022-01-13). French teachers launch one-day strike against Macron's COVID-19 policy. wsws.org An international mobilization of the working class is emerging against capitalist governments' subordination of health and life to profit during the pandemic.
(2022-01-13). From Paris to Chicago: The global fight to close schools and save lives. wsws.org Amid a record surge of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations due to the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, a growing movement of the working class is developing internationally to stop the pandemic and save lives.
(2022-01-13). Dr. King Remained Hopeful. So Can We. inequality.org
(2022-01-13). The Real "Doomsday Scenario": How Palestinian Hunger Striker, Abu Hawash, Forced Israeli Concession. dissidentvoice.org 
As soon as media reports emerged regarding a deal between Palestinian prisoner, Hisham Abu Hawash and the Israeli prison authorities, Israeli extremists, led by Knesset member Itamar Ben-Gvir, angrily raided the Assaf Harofeh Hospital where Abu Hawash was being held. A Palestinian political activist, Abu Hawash, 41, is a father of five. He was arrested by …