(2022-09-29). Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE to hold online public meeting against nuclear war. wsws.org The online public meeting "Build an international working class movement to stop nuclear war danger" will be held at 4 p.m. on Sunday, October 16.
(2022-09-29). Indo-Russian Trade Up 120% This Year So Far. infobrics.org According to Ushakov, the two nations are currently working on bilateral measures to expand the use of national currencies, the ruble and the rupee, in mutual settlements…
(2022-09-29). Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE meeting discusses a socialist program to fight state repression. wsws.org Speakers explained that the fight against state repression, and for the release of all political prisoners, had to be based on mobilising the working class against capitalism.
(2022-09-29). Youth join global strike for climate justice. workers.org 
Climate strikers in Bengaluru, India, Sept. 23. Climate strikers in Bengaluru, India, one of 450 global locations, were among hundreds of thousands demanding "climate reparations and justice" Sept. 23. Young people in Asia, Africa and Europe joined a coordinated Global Climate Strike that called for wealthy countries to pay reparations . . . |
(2022-09-29). 2 October, Vancouver: End Administrative Detention! Outreach and rally for justice in Palestine. samidoun.net 
Sunday, 2 October 2 pm Vancouver Art Gallery (Howe Side/Robson Square) Vancouver Facebook Join us on Sunday, October 2 outside the Vancouver Art Gallery (Howe Street Side) to support 30 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike for freedom. They are putting their bodies and lives on the lines to demand an end to administrative detention, Israeli …
(2022-09-29). White House hunger conference offers only token "solutions" to a mounting social crisis. wsws.org The conference was the first in more than a half century to discuss the ongoing scandal of hunger and malnutrition in the richest country in the world.
(2022-09-29). Santa Cruz Dismantles Camp of Hundreds of the Houseless. indybay.org The City of Santa Cruz, CA, in a county with the second highest rent in the country, is evicting an estimated 300 people living in wall-to-wall tents running along a riverbed right next to this largely wealthy city's downtown. The camp, in existence for about three years, was sanctioned by the City; houseless people were directed to go there because the City didn't have enough beds. Now, the City cites sanitation, drug use and complaints as reasons for closing the Benchlands camp. "This never needed to become a crisis for the hundreds of houseless people driven to the Benchlands by police and social service agenc…
(2022-09-29). Winding roads benefit locals in Guizhou. ecns.cn A web of roads connecting settlements scattered in Guizhou's mountain area has been built and played an indispensable role in poverty eradication.
(2022-09-28). Report: Billionaire Enabler States. ips-dc.org 
Billionaire Enabler States: How U.S. States Captured by the Trust Industry Help the World's Wealthy Hide Their Fortunes: | Kalena Thomhave | Chuck Collins: | Introduction: : | After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's allies zeroed in on a possible weak spot for the attacking country: the hidden fortunes of Russian elites. Russian wealth has been parked in assets such as homes, apartments, art, yachts, and more — from oligarch Igor Makarov's private trust company in Wyoming to Igor Sechin's superyacht docked in France. | Oligarchy, however, is not confined to Russia. The clandestine world…
(2022-09-28). Amazon hires a former prison manager. workers.org 
Amazon, with its notorious multibillionaire owner Jeff Bezos, is universally known as one of the world's largest union-busting conglomerates. It is well documented that workers there have passed out due to heat and suffered physical injuries, mental anguish and other horrific working conditions that accompany the frenzied pace of packing, . . . |
(2022-09-28). British pound collapse at centre of global currency and financial storm. wsws.org The turmoil reached a new level of intensity this week, sparked by the reaction of financial markets to the UK mini-budget, which handed out £45 billion in tax cuts to the wealthy while increasing government debt by £72 billion.
(2022-09-28). New Trend: Couples Ask Wedding Guests For Down Payment on Mortgage. moguldom.com With inflation on the rise and housing prices out of reach for many working Americans, some couples are opting for cash assistance with a housing down payment instead of tangible wedding gifts. Alexa Feneque and Silvio Tellez are among the group — and their ask netted them $30,000 in cash gifts from family and friends, …
(2022-09-28). Saturday 10/22: War, Inflation, Growth of the Far-Right … How Can the European Working Class Fight Back? indybay.org ZOOM Link: | us02web.zoom.us/j/82158800683?pwd=N2J6UjgxNWhNak1WRWdUdm9CUit4QT09 | Meeting ID: 821 5880 0683 | Passcode: 340756 | One tap mobile | +16699009128,,82158800683#,,,,340756# US (San Jose) +16694449171,,82158800683#,,,,340756# US | Dial by your location | +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) | +1 669 444 9171 US | +1 719 359 4580 US | +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) | +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) | +1 646 931 3860 US | +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) | +1 309 205 3325 US | +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) | +1 386 347 53 US | +1 564 217 2000 US…
(2022-09-28). In OtherWords: September 28, 2022. otherwords.org This week in OtherWords, Shailly Gupta Barnes explains the remarkable drop in U.S. poverty last year. | It's no miracle, she writes — it's the result of the federal government finally implementing common sense anti-poverty programs at scale. But with many of those programs winding down or already expired, she warns, poor people and their allies will have to pull together in the midterm elections to sustain this remarkable progress. | Also this week, Paul Armentano calls on leading Democrats to live up to their promises to reform U.S. marijuana laws, which he argues is good politics and even better policy. A…
(2022-09-28). Poor People Will Be Voting for Their Lives in the Midterms. ips-dc.org New poverty data reveals the effectiveness of pandemic aid programs that are now expired. Foor poor Americans, building on that success is a matter of life and death.
(2022-09-28). Cuba Makes Progress in Restoring Electricity After Hurricane. telesurenglish.net "Considerable progress is being made in the recovery of power lines affected by the hurricane to provide service to the capital of Cuba, an army of dedicated people is working uninterruptedly to restore in the shortest possible time," UNE reported on the social network Twitter. | RELATED: | UNE's technical director, Lázaro Guerra, added in the televised forum Mesa Redonda that the system is still fragile and tha…
(2022-09-28). Join the Social Media Storm to #EndAdministrativeDetention on Friday, 30 September. samidoun.net 
There are currently 30 Palestinian prisoners on an open hunger strike to bring an end to administrative detention, Israeli imprisonment without charge or trial. They are putting their bodies and lives on the line to take a stand for freedom and against this arbitrary form of detention used to routinely attack Palestinian community, student, farmer …
(2022-09-28). Hunger in Brazil Marks the Campaign and Gives Wings to Lula. telesurenglish.net
(2022-09-28). Desert control efforts shared with Arab states. ecns.cn Twenty-six people from seven Arab countries took part in an online technical training course with experts from the Ningxia Hui autonomous region recently, learning how to prevent the desertification of land, avoid the degradation of vegetation and stop the deterioration of grasslands.
(2022-09-28). UAW contract covering 48,000 University of California academic workers set to expire. wsws.org After September 30, all 48,000 UAW represented workers in the University of California system will be working under expired or extended contracts.
(2022-09-28). 'Obscene,' Says Sanders After CBO Reports Richest 1% Now Owns Over 1/3 of US Wealth. commondreams.org "In the richest country on Earth, the time is long overdue for us to create a government and an economy that works for all of us, not just the 1%."
(2022-09-28). Thanks to public programs, 20 million fewer Americans were poor in 2021. peoplesworld.org 
The U.S. Census Bureau recently reported that poverty dropped notably in 2021. Amid a pandemic and widespread economic pain, this is a significant accomplishment. There are three lessons here—about government programs, about how we measure poverty, and about how far we have left to go. First, these numbers show that government programs work. After Social Security, refundable tax credits …
(2022-09-27). Haiti: Anti-Government Protests in Enter Sixth Week. libya360.wordpress.com Tanya Wadhwa Since August 22, Haitians have been mobilizing against poverty, inflation, shortage of fuel, gang-related violence, and the devaluation of the national currency. (Photo: Radyo Rezistans/Facebook) Since August 22, Haitians have been mobilizing against poverty, food insecurity, soaring inflation, fuel shortages, and widespread kidnappings and killings Thousands hit the streets in Haiti once again…
(2022-09-27). Webinar: Where Has All the Money Gone? inequality.org
(2022-09-27). Our best chance for peace is worldwide working-class unity. cpusa.org 
These remarks were delivered by CPUSA Co-Chair Rossana Cambron at the opening of the CPUSA International Conference 2022: Dismantling Imperialism in the 21st Century, September 11—12. Good morning, Comrades, Lenin once said, "Capital is an international force. To vanquish it, an international workers' alliance, an international workers brotherhood, is needed." As Marx and Engels …