Daily Archives: September 7, 2022

2022-09-07: News Headlines

UFCLP (2022-09-07). Sunday 9/18: Ukaine, The Working Class, Russia, China & US Imperialism-A Global Working Class Panel. indybay.org To register: | us02web.zoom.us/j/89698353349?pwd=VmhPNWpiZXMwdGU4L3JKc1Z5WkRydz09 | 996012…

UFCLPufclp (2022-09-07). Friday 9/9: Ukaine, The Working Class, Russia, China & US Imperialism-A Global Working Class Panel. indybay.org To register: | us02web.zoom.us/j/89698353349?pwd=VmhPNWpiZXMwdGU4L3JKc1Z5WkRydz09 | 996012…

WSWS (2022-09-07). IMF announces preliminary bailout loan agreement with Sri Lanka. wsws.org Working class must prepare its counteroffensive against the government's austerity drive relying on its own class methods and rallying the rural poor.

Labor Video Project (2022-09-07). "Working In An Oven" IBT UPS Teamsters Speak Out On Deadly Heatwave, Life and Death. indybay.org IBT UPS drivers and warehouse workers speak out about the dangerous temperature conditions that workers must operate in. Additionally many UPS trucks do not even have a fan.

In Modesto (2022-09-07). Anti-Fascists Fight Back at "Straight Pride" Rally. indybay.org Saturday August 27 was Straight Pride's 4th annual appearance in the Central Valley town of Modesto, California. This far right group is on the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate list.

WSWS (2022-09-07). Build rank-and-file committees, the organs of 21st century working class struggle! wsws.org This report was given by Eric London to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled "Build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees! For a global counteroffensive of the working class!"

Isaac Nellist (2022-09-07). Readings workers fight for better pay, conditions. greenleft.org.au Workers at Readings bookshops in Victoria are taking industrial action for a living wage, secure jobs and better working conditions. Isaac Nellist reports.

WSWS (2022-09-07). NZ government's "Working with Survivors" continues cover-up of Pike River mine disaster. wsws.org The Labour Party government's promises to "be upfront" and "empower" the survivors of catastrophic events are a fraud, as the experience of the Pike River victims' families makes clear.

WSWS (2022-09-07). Why UAW university employees should vote for Will Lehman for UAW president. wsws.org "To those of you who do not come from working class backgrounds, you must understand that it is both necessary and possible to build a socialist movement in the American working class," Lehman said.

The Lever (2022-09-06). Dark Brandon's Dark Side On Student Debt. levernews.com

Dana Sanchez (2022-09-06). Report: Trucking And Imports At American Ports Showing 1st Signs Of Weakness. moguldom.com Covid pandemic shortages led to post-pandemic oversupply, and retail giants are now cutting or cancelling billions of dollars worth of orders and pricing down their inventory. The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates to slow the economy and ease inflation. "It seems to be working," Barrons reported. "Freight volumes across many modes of transportation have been shrinking." The Los Angeles …

Kwjorinoco (2022-09-06). Venezuelan Authorities Make Biggest Drug Bust in Decade. orinocotribune.com The biggest marijuana bust of the decade was made three days ago in the Puerto Escondido area in Cabo San Román, Falcón, said General Domingo Hernández Lárez, the leader of the Strategic Command of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (CEOFANB). | Hernández Lara commented on the bust from the coasts of Falcón, just a few steps from Aruba and the Venezuelan waters where the Working Force (a civilian and military body) detected the suspicious shipment. When the authorities went to investigate the vessel, the crew threw heavy objects into the water. They were presumably firearms. | According to Hernández Lara, who co…

_____ (2022-09-06). Let's Stop Pretending America Is A Functioning Democracy. popularresistance.org There is a fatal disconnect between a political system that promises democratic equality and freedom while carrying out socioeconomic injustices that result in grotesque income inequality and political stagnation. | Decades in the making, this disconnect has extinguished American democracy. The steady stripping away of economic and political power was ignored by a hyperventilating press that thundered against the barbarians at the gate — Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, the Taliban, ISIS, Vladimir Putin — while ignoring the barbarians in our midst. The slow-motion coup is over. Corporations and the bi…

Kwjorinoco (2022-09-06). Iran Rejects Accusations Against Venezuelan—Iranian Crew. orinocotribune.com Once again, Iran has rejected the accusations leveled at the Iranian-Venezuelan crew detained in Argentina since June 8. | The five Iranian crew members and the fourteen Venezuelans have been confined to the Plaza Canning Desing hotel in Argentina, without any justification from the Argentinian justice system. They were working aboard a plane which belongs to EMTRASUR, a Conviasa subsidiary. | Iran has emphasized that it continues with its diplomatic efforts t…

_____ (2022-09-06). The Pending Railroad Worker Strike Is A Fight For All Workers. popularresistance.org Railroad workers voted overwhelmingly this year to go on strike after more than two years of contract negotiations. The Biden administration prevented a strike by appointing a Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) to hold hearings. That board released its recommendations recently. Clearing the FOG speaks with Michael "Paul" Lindsey, a railroad engineer and member of Railroad Workers United, about the deterioration of working conditions, workers' response to the PEB and the high likelihood of a national strike this Fall. Lindsey explains why the railroad worker's plight is similar to that of many workers in the Unite…

Special to People's World (2022-09-06). Bea Lumpkin, still going strong at 104, leads Chicago Labor Day parade. peoplesworld.org Longtime People's World contributor and supporter Bea Lumpkin served as Grand Marshall for the Chicago Labor Day Parade. She got her start as an activist with the Young Communist League in the 1930s, fighting against rising tuition fees, fascism, and militarism. She organized hunger strikes for unemployment relief during the Great Depression and protested the …

Mark Gruenberg (2022-09-06). Newsom signs big legislative win for California fast-food workers. peoplesworld.org SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Now here's a real way to celebrate Labor Day: A big win in your state legislature—in this case, California. That day, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB257, a landmark labor measure establishing a state board, with enforcement powers, to impose minimum wages and working conditions for the state's 5 ,000 fast food workers. Fight For …

WSWS (2022-09-06). "A vote for anyone else is a vote for more inequality in our workplace": Toledo Jeep supplemental employee backs Will Lehman's campaign for UAW president. wsws.org Describing the conditions of extreme exploitation faced by supplemental employees, the worker wrote, "The UAW likes it for the dues, and Stellantis likes it for the cheap labor."

WSWS (2022-09-06). UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman interviewed on popular US podcast. wsws.org On Sunday, September 4, socialist rank-and-file UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman spoke to Chris Richards, host of the Eclectic Radical podcast, about his campaign to build a unified movement of the working class against the corporations, pro-management union executives and the capitalist system.

Chris Hedges (2022-09-06). Collective Self-Delusion: Let's Stop Pretending America Is a Functioning Democracy. commondreams.org A functioning democracy could easily dispatch Donald Trump and his doppelgà§ngers. A failed democracy and bankrupt liberalism assures their ascendancy.

Anonymous103 (2022-09-05). Lapid Says Israel's Pressure on the US Against Iran Nuclear Deal Is Working. southfront.org

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