(2022-01-30). Bridge collapses in Pittsburgh same day that Biden visits to tout infrastructure bill. liberationnews.org 
Infrastructure in the United States is falling apart, and it's working people who have to suffer the fallout.
(2022-01-29). China is helping Nicaragua's Sandinista gov't build houses for poor people. multipolarista.com 
China signed an agreement with Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government to build thousands of homes for poor and working families, expanding the already existing Bismarck Martínez public housing program.
(2022-01-29). China ayuda al gobierno sandinista de Nicaragua a construir viviendas para el pueblo. multipolarista.com China firmó un acuerdo con el gobierno sandinista de Nicaragua para construir miles de viviendas para familias pobres y trabajadoras, expandiendo el Programa Bismarck Martínez de casas dignas.
(2022-01-29). Honduras Resumes Diplomatic Relations with Venezuela. orinocotribune.com 
With the start of the mandate of President Xiomara Castro de Zelaya in Honduras, the Republic of Honduras normalized diplomatic relations with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The Honduran leader took office this Thursday, January 27, with the announcement of very innovative measures to address the crisis of extreme poverty in her country, as well as a number of progressive measures in domestic and foreign policies. | The political, economic and cultural exchange and cooperation between Venezuela and Honduras was interrupted since 2019 when former President Juan Orlando Hernández terminated relations with th…
(2022-01-29). COVID-19 pandemic led to increase in extreme poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean, reports ECLAC. peoplesdispatch.org According to ECLAC's annual report, extreme poverty rate in the region rose from 13.1% in 2020 to 13.8% in 2021, a setback of 27 years…
(2022-01-29). Thursday 1/27: #Cancel Student Debt! Town Hall on Ending Student Debt Across the Nation. indybay.org Virtual town hall via Zoom…
(2022-01-29). Bridge collapses in Pittsburgh ahead of Biden's visit touting scaled-back infrastructure bill. wsws.org Rescue workers working with ropes and creating a human chain were able to get the two passengers and driver off the bus as well as the other people who were in their cars.
(2022-01-29). The 13th Amendment's Fatal Flaw Created Modern-Day Slavery. scheerpost.com 
In this rare photograph taken in 2000, prisoners at the Ferguson Unit in Texas are seen working in the prison's cotton fields. By Kwasi Konadu and Clifford C. Campbell / The 13th Amendment is having a moment of reckoning. Considered one of the crowning achievements of American…
(2022-01-29). Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee joins with autoworkers to demand the shutdown of schools and nonessential businesses. wsws.org As Michigan's largest school district, Detroit, plans to resume face-to-face schooling, teachers, school workers, students and autoworkers map out the fight to unify the working class against the deadly school reopenings.
(2022-01-29). Black farmers in Illinois fight for improved conditions. themilitant.com HOPKINS PARK, Ill. — "Black farmers in rural Pembroke Township protest Nicor plan to build gas pipeline through their community," read a headline in the Dec. 7 Chicago Tribune. It reported on a rally in downtown Chicago opposing the installation of natural gas service lines here, 65 miles south of the city. | But most Black farmers favor the chance to get natural gas, which can make their working and living conditions better. "The farmers aren't against the gas line. We've been fighting for it for 30 years," Pam Basu told the Militant. Her family owns the organic Basu Natural Farms. "We don't have natural g…
(2022-01-29). American Trotskyist and retired General Motors worker Jim Lawrence dies at age 83 (February 18, 1938—January 25, 2022). wsws.org Lawrence made an immense contribution to bringing the Trotskyist perspective to a key section of the American working class.
(2022-01-29). American Trotskyist and retired General Motors worker Jim Lawrence dies at age 84 (January 18, 1938—January 25, 2022). wsws.org Lawrence made an immense contribution to bringing the Trotskyist perspective to a key section of the American working class.
(2022-01-29). Socialist Workers Party conference launches 2022 California campaign. themilitant.com 
LOS ANGELES — Socialist Workers Party members in California met in a statewide convention here Jan. 23 and voted to run Eleanor García, a retired aerospace worker and party leader with long experience in working-class struggles, for U.S. Senate and Joel Britton, a longtime SWP campaigner, unionist, and member of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 125, for governor. | As part of the party's bold national campaign in 2022, the candidates will present the need for the working class to fight today's attacks by the bosses and their political parties, and to chart a course to take poli…
(2022-01-29). Iran, S Korea set for working-level talks over frozen assets. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — Informed sources say that South Korea and Iran plan to hold working-level consultations next month in Seoul to discuss ways to untangle years-long disputes over Tehran's assets frozen under US sanctions.
(2022-01-29). 'Cuba's socialist revolution sets an example for working people'. themilitant.com 
Halfway through the Jan. 1 to Feb. 15 international "I worked in hospitals for decades," Militant reader Jannie Jackson told SWP members Kaitlin Estill and Jacquie Henderson when they stopped by her home in Cincinnati Jan. 18…
(2022-01-29). New York nurses arrested after making staggering amount from fake vaccine cards. rt.com 
The scheme allegedly brought in more than $1.5 million | Two New York nurses have been arrested for allegedly selling fake Covid-19 vaccination cards, and making more than $1.5 million in the process. | The Suffolk County district attorney's office announced the two nurses working in Long Island, 49-year-old Julie Devuono and 44-year-old Marissa Urraro, had forged vaccine cards from last November into January of 2022. The pair reportedly charged $220 to $440 for vaccine cards for adults, but offered a discount for children, only charging $85. | After faking the actual physical vaccine cards, the two would then…
(2022-01-29). COVID-19 Test Delivery Leaves Out Houseless and Multigenerational Households. truthout.org 
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