(2022-03-28). Millions of Indian workers to join two-day general strike against Modi's ruinous pro-investor policies. wsws.org Across India there is immense social anger over mass joblessness, endemic poverty, the lack of basic public services and the ruling elite's "profits before lives" pandemic policy.
(2022-03-28). Millions of Indian workers to join 2-day general strike against Modi's ruinous pro-investor policies. wsws.org Across India there is immense social anger over mass joblessness, endemic poverty, the lack of basic public services and the ruling elite's "profits before lives" pandemic policy.
(2022-03-28). War on Syria: Eleven Years of Carnage. transcend.org 22 Mar 2022 — "Hundreds of thousands have been killed, more than half of the pre-war population has been displaced. More than 100,000 are missing or forcibly disappeared. Syria's cities and infrastructure have been destroyed. The poverty rate is 90 percent; 14.6 million people depend on humanitarian aid."
(2022-03-28). Anana Sutta — Debtlessness. transcend.org There are these four kinds of bliss that can be attained in the proper season, on the proper occasions, by a householder enjoying the pleasures of the senses. Which four?>
(2022-03-28). Kazakhstan demonstrates "gratitude" to Armenia, Russia for CSTO deployment in January. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Azeri Press AgencyMarch 28, 2022 Chair of Azerbaijan's Milli Majlis meets chairman of Kazakhstan Parliament's Senate Chair of the [Azerbaijani] Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova had a meeting with Chairman of the Senate of the Kazakh Parliament Maulen Ashimbayev on 28 March as part of the current working trip to the Republic of Kazakhstan, APA reports. …
(2022-03-28). China to pilot innovative trade secret protection. ecns.cn Trade secret protection and innovation are to be piloted in China, according to a working plan released on March 7 by the State Administration for Market Regulation.
(2022-03-28). Boris Romanchenko, 96-year-old concentration camp survivor, killed in Kharkiv bombing. wsws.org The only way to appropriately commemorate Romanchenko is through the struggle to build a socialist movement in the international working class to put an end to imperialist war, fascism, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
(2022-03-28). Suspected Turkana warriors kill one, burn 50 houses in Kaabong. plusnews.ug A total of 800 people in Locheker East village, Kurao Parish, Kalapata Sub-county in Kaabong district are currently homeless after their homes were burnt to ashes by suspected armed Turkana warrior. The incident took place on Sunday morning by around 7am. Peter Chegem, secretary of defence in Locheker village said the Turkana armed with guns …
(2022-03-28). The US Should Remember that Israel's Squatter-Settlements in Palestine are War Crimes. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — US Ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides, engaged in further diplomatic contradictions, as he fluctuated between asserting the Biden administration's stance purportedly against Israeli settlement expansion, yet making concessions for earlier encroachment upon Palestinian land. "We can't do stupid things that impede us from a two-state solution," Nides reportedly told …
(2022-03-27). The War Of The Wheat And The Famine To Come. southfront.org 
Children look for food scraps in a pile of trash in the Rukban camp in Syria, Nov, 2018 | Written by Piero Messina | Famine will come. 100 million tons of wheat will be missing from the world food market. 26 are those produced by Ukraine, the remainder is that relating to Russian production, even that blocked for international exports. The conflict being fought in Ukraine risks causing thousands of deaths in Africa and the Middle East. They are the collateral damage of the conflict. The specter of famine emerges from the stop…
(2022-03-27). Working class sections across Spain protest cost of living crisis. peoplesdispatch.org The ongoing war in Ukraine has resulted in skyrocketing oil prices across Europe, including in Spain which was already witnessing high inflation, reportedly the highest in the last three decades…
(2022-03-27). The United States Is Exceptional — Just Not in the Ways Any of Us Should Want. truthout.org Three years after the end of World War II, diplomat George Kennan "We have about 50% of the world's wealth, but only 6.3% of its population. In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security." | That, in a n…
(2022-03-27). Billionaires Would Pay Nearly 100 Times More in Taxes Under New Biden Proposal. truthout.org Economic experts and progressives opposed to the outrageous levels of inequality in the United States celebrated Saturday evening and into Sunday after reporting revealed that President Joe Biden plans to unveil "a 20 percent minimum tax rate on all American households worth more than $100 million" — a so-called "Billionaire's Tax" that will specifically target approximately 700 of the nation's wealthiest people. | First
(2022-03-27). Sanders introduces legislation to impose a 95 percent windfall tax on excess profits of major companies. nationofchange.org "The time has come for Congress to work for working families and demand that large, profitable corporations make a little bit less money and pay their fair share of taxes."
(2022-03-27). As Sacramento teachers strike enters second week, state superintendent begins negotiating sellout contract. wsws.org California Superintendent of Education Tony Thurmond is now working with the unions and the district to negotiate sellout contracts to impose on striking educators.
(2022-03-27). Dutch dockers refuse to load freight onto P&O's Pride of Rotterdam in solidarity with UK's sacked ferry workers. wsws.org The international solidarity at the Port of Rotterdam, the largest seaport in Europe, demonstrates the enormous collective strength of the working class that could be mobilised based on a struggle for socialist internationalism.