(2022-12-07). Red Theory: Socialism and patriarchy, women's liberation and LGBTQ liberation. fightbacknews.org The historic task of the working class in the socialist revolution is to eliminate all oppression. This includes the oppression of women and LGBTQ people from the shackles of patriarchy. | In her 1949 article "We Seek Full Equality for Women," Claudia Jones states, "Marxism-Leninism exposes the core of the woman question and shows that the position of women in society is not always and everywhere the same, but derives from woman's relation to the mode of production." | In The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, Friedrich Engels gives us a historical materialist analysis of patriarchy's foundat…
(2022-12-07). STOP Concession Bargaining! No COLA, No Contract! COLA & Housing for All Unions & Workers. indybay.org The United Front Committee For A Labor Party UFCLP opposes Concession bargaining No COLA/No Contract | COLA & Housing for All Unions & Working People | Time To Shut It Down With Mass Labor/Community Solidarity…
(2022-12-07). Sri Lankan workers need action committees to fight IMF austerity measures. wsws.org The trade unions have called limited and scattered protests in a bid to defuse the mounting anger in the working class over the government's ruthless budget attacks on jobs, conditions and essential services.
(2022-12-07). Australia: Pseudo-left "Victorian Socialists" seek to divert working-class discontent. wsws.org Amid a deepening crisis of the political establishment, VS is seeking to deflect the growing disaffection in the working class, particularly toward Labor and the unions.
(2022-12-07). Australia: Supermarket cleaner Malerato Harrison dies in workplace accident. wsws.org Harrison, a migrant worker from South Africa, had been working for a third-party cleaning service contracted to Woolworths Jesmond for ten months. She leaves behind a husband, two stepchildren, and an international list of loving family and friends.
(2022-12-07). Dominica acude a las urnas para elegir a nuevo parlamento. telesurtv.net Observadores de la Commonwealth y Caricom han ratificado su participación antes, durante y después de los comicios.
(2022-12-06). The WEF Reveals the Agenda for Davos 2023. "Cooperation in a Fragmented World". Triggering Economic Chaos, Debt, Poverty and Social Tyranny Worldwide… globalresearch.ca
(2022-12-06). 13 Things To Know About The History Of Race And Structural Racism In Life Insurance Policies. moguldom.com Life insurance is an American institution that Black families have utilized for centuries to secure financial stability for descendants. Many have touted the benefits for Black Americans in having life insurance as a way to build wealth. However, like most longstanding American institutions, the life insurance industry is not exempt from the structural racism embedded …
(2022-12-06). Number Of Immigrants Under Punitive Surveillance Quadrupled Under Biden. popularresistance.org Over the past two years, despite President Joe Biden's campaign promises to bring fairness to the immigration system, the current administration has quadrupled the number of people enrolled in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) so-called "alternatives to detention" (ATD) surveillance program, and has doubled the number of people held in immigration jails. | There is no acceptable justification for this rapidly growing surveillance dragnet. As advocates working toward the abolition of immigration detention, we are outraged that the Biden administration is increasingly turning immigrants' homes and co…
(2022-12-06). Argentina's President Clamps Down on Lago Escondido Scandal. orinocotribune.com The president ordered an investigation of the purpose of the trip, its participants, and sources of financing. | This Monday, the president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, ordered a criminal investigation into the trip to the Patagonian region of Lago Escondido and the subsequent exchange of chats and audios between a group of judges, prosecutors, former public officials and former agents of the Federal Intelligence Agency working for the company Cambiemos. | Through a national television address, the president warned about the negative influence exerted by powerful figures in the structure of the state, and sai…
(2022-12-06). NYC Advocates Fear More Police Violence, Homeless Criminalization Amid Forced Hospitalizations. scheerpost.com 
New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued a directive this week that puts police at the center of renewed efforts to remove people exhibiting signs of mental illness from public spaces.
(2022-12-06). Adal and Ahmad Musa relaunch hunger strike after their administrative detention is renewed. samidoun.net 
Adal and Ahmad Musa, two Palestinian prisoners and brothers jailed without charge or trial by the Israeli occupation regime, have relaunched their hunger strike on 5 December 2022 after both of their detention orders were renewed, despite both brothers concluding agreements for their release in order to end their prior hunger strikes. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner …
(2022-12-05). USAID Boosts Funding To NGO's And Media In CIS countries to reduce Russian influence. southfront.org 
It is unlikely that Washington will be able to decouple Central Asia from Russia, even though it will falsely paint some trade initiatives as major successes or game changing. | Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher | The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded so-called "democracy support" to the tune of $248 million in the second half of 2022 in countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). In comparison, the "humanitaria…
(2022-12-05). New Colombian government seeks to end educational deficits. america.cgtn.com Colombia's new left-wing government under Gustavo Petro, has promised to tackle long-standing issues of inequality and poverty; however, the country has a long way to go to reverse decades of educational deficits while tackling new issues. CGTN's correspondent Michelle Begue has this story from Bogota.
(2022-12-05). The Fed's Response To Inflation Is Another Upward Transfer Of Wealth. popularresistance.org The Federal Reserve has responded to runaway inflation by hiking up interest rates at the same time that Americans are drowning in historic levels of personal debt. With interest rates up, prices will only rise faster than wages, hitting the vast majority of people with stagnant or declining wages in real terms. The result is yet another upward transfer of wealth to the minority of capitalists responsible for the crisis in the first place. Economist Richard Wolff joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the origins of the inflation crisis, the Fed's response, and what this all means for working people. | Richard…
(2022-12-05). Does Elon Musk have a right to destroy Twitter? nationofchange.org Do we really think that the super-wealthy should be allowed to control so much wealth and wield so much influence?>
(2022-12-05). World's Largest Radio Telescope to Be Built in Australia. telesurenglish.net After three decades of development, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) on Monday launched construction of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) in Western Australia (WA). | RELATED: | A collaboration among 16 countries, the SKA will initially consist of two telescope arrays, the SKA-Low in WA and the SKA-Mid in South Africa's Karoo region, operated by the SKA Observatory (SKAO). | When…
(2022-12-05). 'The Ax Always Falls on the Most Vulnerable': Pakistan Demands Debt Cancellation and Climate Justice. towardfreedom.org More than 1,700 people have been killed in floods that continue to submerge parts of Pakistan. Amid this crisis, activists are demanding debt cancellation and climate reparations, reports Tanupriya Singh for Peoples Dispatch.
(2022-12-05). Chris Hedges: Know Thine Enemy. scheerpost.com 
The expedited legislation passed by Congress to avert a strike by railroad unions dealt one more blow in the decades long war waged by the two ruling parties against the working class.
(2022-12-05). Engels and the second foundation of Marxism. mronline.org 
John Bellamy Foster, Editor of Monthly Review (New York, USA) gives our annual Engels Memorial Lecture, joint with the Working Class Movement Library.
(2022-12-05). U.K. postal worker: Royal Mail in a race to the bottom. peoplesworld.org 
Jon Tait is a former sports journalist and postal worker, now working for the U.K.'s largest public sector trade union. In this op-ed, he discusses the dispute between postal workers and the U.K.'s Royal Mail, which has been simmering since summer. If you've never read Charles Bukowski's classic novel Post Office, I'd highly recommend it. …
(2022-12-05). Resistance in Germany is growing to insolvencies, redundancies and wage dumping. wsws.org Resistance in the working class is increasingly international and directed against the sabotage of the trade union bureaucracies.
(2022-12-05). "All workers everywhere stand with railroad workers!": Workers denounce Washington's imposition of sellout contract on railroaders. wsws.org Democrats claimed the anti-strike law was needed to protect "working families," but workers have made clear they support railroaders, not Washington.
(2022-12-05). New York Mayor's Plan to Round Up Homeless People Is a Trauma-Inducing Horror. truthout.org The new mayor of New York City wants to use the police to clear the streets and subways of homeless people and send them straight to hospitals. No mental health teams, no offer of shelter, no medical evaluation to determine whether they pose a threat to anyone — just a bunch of police officers determining if they think someone has the capacity to think clearly. The decision to use police to round… |
(2022-12-05). New York City mayor attacks the civil rights of the homeless. wsws.org The administration of New York Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, is using new legislation to forcibly remove homeless people whom it decides are mentally ill from the streets.
(2022-12-05). After FTX Collapse, Closely Watched Analyst Says Don't Hold Bitcoin On Exchanges. moguldom.com Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the bankrupt FTX crypto exchange, is under investigation and could face years in prison if it's confirmed that he fraudulently misappropriated users' funds. Digital asset holders have been warned to explore other options to help safeguard their investments. FTX imploded over the course of a few days in November after SBF …
(2022-12-05). A Mining Lawsuit in Guatemala Shows How Trade Courts Put Big Corporations First. inequality.org
(2022-12-05). Marroquíes protestan contra la inflación y la pobreza. telesurtv.net La inflación en Marruecos subió en octubre pasado a 7,1 por ciento anual. Se reportan incrementos en precios de alimentos y transporte.