(2022-04-16). [Correspondence] Understanding the social determinants of health — Authors' reply. thelancet.com We thank Priya Vart for the critical reading of our study1 of the association of parental education and global mortality in children younger than 5 years. Our models accounted for study-level controls for the confounding effects of wealth or income, partner's years of schooling, and sex of the child. The key challenge of systematic reviews is that they are limited by the characteristics of the data from published studies, and this constrained our choice of covariates. This constraint brings us to a larger point—namely, in characterising the average effect of published studies, we had to choose an ideal stud…
(2022-04-16). Reinstate the fired strikers at Brazil's CSN! Unify the struggles of the working class! wsws.org The WSWS and the Socialist Equality Group in Brazil demand the immediate reinstatement of the rank-and-file commission and all fired workers at CSN.
(2022-04-16). Saturday 4/30: Dangerous Truths 3: Frederick Douglass And Other Black Transcendentalists. indybay.org Join us on ZOOM Saturday, April 30 from 1 to 3 PM Pacific Time zoom.us/j/99245067041?pwd=YUFGWE91SXZhUkdpZjNjNFVXVWpCZz09 | Dial by your location (+1 669 900 6833) Meeting ID: 992 4506 7041 Passcode: 460429…
(2022-04-16). Chinese mainland reports 3,867 new local COVID-19 cases on Friday. ecns.cn Shanghai officials said at a press conference on Friday that the city adheres to the dynamic zero-COVID strategy and would improve care for homeless people facing difficulties and cooperate with social assistance agencies to keep them safe.
(2022-04-15). The Venezuela Coup, 20 Years Later. popularresistance.org On April 11, 2002, Venezuela's democratically elected government, headed by Hugo Chávez Frías, was ousted in a military coup d'etat. Then, dramatically, two days later, the coup was overturned by a mass mobilization of Venezuelans. They demanded the restoration of democracy and the return of a government that appeared to be making good on its commitment to redistribute Venezuela's oil wealth to benefit the country's most marginalized sectors. These events led to lasting ramifications not just for Venezuela, but for Latin America and the Caribbean as a whole, paving the way for a "pink tide" of progressive movemen…
(2022-04-15). The Gendered Impacts of the IMF's Harmful Surcharges Policy. cepr.net Around the world, everyone from economic justice organizations, to Nobel Prize-winning economists, to members of Congress are calling for the elimination of a once little-known practice of the International Monetary Fund (IMF): the imposition of punitive, hidden fees on countries with high levels of outstanding IMF debt. In a report published last year, my coauthors …
(2022-04-15). Proposals for public banks move forward in several states. peoplesworld.org 
For too long a handful of corporate banks have controlled the financial destiny of the overwhelming majority of Americans. Throughout American history, a commercial oligarchy was responsible for feeding corporate greed and when markets collapsed from too much debt and not enough resources to adequately fund it, countless millions of workers and their families paid …
(2022-04-15). Striking Richmond, California refinery workers must turn to working class allies in fight against Chevron. wsws.org Five hundred Chevron workers are in their fourth week of striking, they must break through the isolation imposed on them by the United Steel Workers.
(2022-04-15). Auto Workers, Climate Groups Team Up to Demand Union-Made, Electric Postal Vehicles. inequality.org
(2022-04-15). Still Another Reason for Taxing the Rich. inequality.org
(2022-04-15). International Solidarity in Action: Lessons From a Path-Breaking US-Mexico Union Alliance. inequality.org