(2022-04-18). University of Illinois at Chicago grad student workers strike against poverty wages. wsws.org UIC graduate student workers are opposing the university's efforts to use them as a cheap labor force.
(2022-04-18). Monday 5/16: Gira de movilización de la campaña para los pobres de California – marcha y protesta. indybay.org EN PERSONA: Los Angeles City Hall, 200 N. Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 | EN LÂNEA: www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream/…
(2022-04-18). How can Sri Lanka's economy be turned around? peoplesdispatch.org In the second part of this interview, Ahilan Kadirgamar, senior lecturer at the University of Jaffna, explains how strengthening the public distribution system, a wealth tax, and focusing on agriculture, the rural economy and the food system are vital.
(2022-04-18). Saturday 5/21: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the the online invite.
(2022-04-18). Australian elections: Behind mudslinging and diversion, Labor and Liberals pledge stepped-up attacks on the working class. wsws.org Alongside the banalities of the official campaign, the major parties are waging a parallel campaign aimed at convincing the ruling elite that they are best placed to enforce sweeping attacks on the working class.
(2022-04-18). Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE to hold picket and public meeting to fight for socialist perspective in the mass anti-government protests. wsws.org The SEP supports the demand that the president resigns but goes further in advancing a socialist program of action for the working class to defend its social and democratic rights.
(2022-04-18). Online events with Peter Gelderloos, Modibo Kadalie, Winona LaDuke, Debbie Bookchin, etc. indybay.org Here are some 17 online events taking place over the next week (and starting at 2 pm today, April 18th), featuring people such as Peter Gelderloos, Kathy Spillar, Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), Darcia Narvaez, Modibo Kadalie, Hannah Appel, Winona LaDuke, Debbie Bookchin, and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada and the UK (however, the listed times are all for our "Pacific time zone"). Of course, feel free to share this info with others who might be interested in it.
(2022-04-18). Social consequences of the Corona crisis in Austria. indybay.org Two million Austrians suffer income losses from the Corona crisis. Good news comes today from New Zealand (half-price transit), Finland (affordable apartments for the homeless) and Great Britain (four-day work with five-day pay). This good news is reported by Scoop.me.
(2022-04-18). Dr. Vandana Shiva: 'The Evolved Mind Sees Earth as One Family'. transcend.org 6 Apr 2022 – Environmental champion shares her perspective on how the degradation of the planet can be reversed by returning to traditional organic farming practices and compassionate community organization.
(2022-04-17). Lockdown parties, tax dodging and war mongering: Tory blitz on British working class continues. peoplesdispatch.org People in the UK are facing a severe cost of living crisis marked by skyrocketing energy and food prices, along with a crisis of governance marked by cronyism, incompetence and duplicity…
(2022-04-17). 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.
(2022-04-17). Shanghai improves care for those left homeless by virus. ecns.cn Shanghai authorities will improve care for homeless people facing difficulties during the latest COVID-19 outbreak and cooperate with social assistance agencies to keep them safe, officials said at a news briefing on Friday.
(2022-04-17). Georges Abdallah joins one-day hunger strike for political prisoners in Turkey. samidoun.net 
On Saturday, 16 April, Georges Abdallah, the Lebanese Arab Communist struggler for Palestine imprisoned in France for over 37 years despite being eligible for release since 1999, announced a one-day hunger strike in support of Sibel Balaàß and Gà∂khan Yildirim, two political prisoners in Turkish jails. Both have been on an open-ended hunger strike — …
(2022-04-17). Egypt Decides to Save Itself from Hunger on its Own. journal-neo.org 
Video reports on national TV channels and the Internet about half-empty supermarket shelves in the US and Western Europe are causing widespread nervousness about the world's food security prospects. Despite warnings from Moscow, no one in Europe took into account that with the introduction of provocative Russophobic sanctions, designed to cripple the Russian economy, essential …