WSWS (2023-03-30). Tentative agreement would leave tens of thousands of Disney World workers in poverty. wsws.org The starting wage would increase under the new deal from $15 to $20 by 2025.

WSWS (2023-03-30). Los Angeles area high school students express support for education workers continuing struggle against sellout tentative agreement. wsws.org Students said they supported teachers getting regular hours and more than "poverty" wages.

The Lancet (2023-04-01). [Editorial] Nigeria: health as a political prerequisite. thelancet.com 1 year ago, we published The Lancet Nigeria Commission: investing in health and the future of the nation, which carefully laid out how investing in health would enable Nigeria to fulfil its immense potential and power—in the region, the continent, and on the world stage. The report was led by Professor Ibrahim Abubakar (UCL, London) and written by Nigerians, for Nigerians. The Commission called for health to be placed at the centre of a new social contract, to energise engagement in society, to generate wealth, and ultimately to help inspire a new generation of Nigerians, as the country becomes one of the m…

Staff (2023-03-31). President Maduro: Half of PDVSA-Crypto Corruption Detainees Confessing, New Detainees in CVG & PDVSA. orinocotribune.com The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, demanded that the investigatory bodies of the state were to find all resources and assets held by the mafias and groups involved in the recently unveiled corruption network, in order for it to be reinvested into the state and in attention to the Venezuelan population. "They have to guarantee it," he said, "that all the wealth stolen from the people will be found and reinvested." | Maduro called for the resources to be redistributed so that "we can put them into social programs for our people." The announcement was made this Wednesday, March 29, during the opening of the…

WSWS (2023-03-31). Australian Rich List: Skyrocketing wealth for billionaires amid social misery. wsws.org The ultra-wealthy continue to amass billions as workers face a social catastrophe.

ecns.cn (2023-03-31). Comicomment: U.S. summit makes a mockery of democracy. ecns.cn The United States, with its tattered version of "American-style democracy," hosted the second so-called "Summit for Democracy" this week. However, the country is plagued by chronic issues such as money in politics, racial discrimination, gun and police violence, and wealth polarization. Human rights legislation and justice have suffered an extreme regression, further undermining the basic rights and freedoms of the American people.

WSWS (2023-03-30). University of Michigan graduate student workers strike for living wage. wsws.org The plea by the university, that there is no money, for the kind of raise the graduate students are demanding is a lie. The University of Michigan is one of the wealthiest universities in the US.

ecns.cn (2023-03-31). Hong Kong's offshore renminbi debt market's new issuance surges in 2022. ecns.cn The offshore renminbi debt market in Hong Kong continued to expand in 2022, with total new issuance increasing by 24 percent year on year to 688 billion yuan, data released by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) have showed.

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-03-30). Saturday 4/15: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Debt, by David Graeber. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

Aarathi Prasad (2023-04-01). [Perspectives] Annabel Sowemimo: countering inequities in health care. thelancet.com Annabel Sowemimo is a community sexual and reproductive health (CSRH) registrar in Leicester, UK, working at the Haymarket Health clinic and Leicester Royal Infirmary and Leicester General Hospital. She was born in London to a father who came to England from Nigeria as a medical graduate hoping to become a surgeon, and a mother Sowemimo describes as "an advocate for people", who was a special educational needs teacher and had been raised in 1960s' London in a family of working-class Nigerian migrants.

Kazuo Komamura (2023-04-01). [Correspondence] Japanese medical workers' sacrifice for universal health coverage. thelancet.com As a Japanese clinician working under universal health coverage in Japan, I feel great discomfort with regard to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Comment.1…

_____ (2023-03-31). How Africa is facilitating Multipolar World. journal-neo.org The military conflict between Russia and Ukraine (as also Ukraine's NATO allies) has brought some very interesting changes to the international political economy. Whereas this conflict has led Europe — working under immense pressure from the US — to stop its purchase of oil and gas from Russia, it has also allowed Russia to divert […] | –°–æ–æ–±—â–µ–Ω–∏–µ

WSWS (2023-03-31). IYSSE holds first meeting in Canada on the war in Ukraine and how to stop it. wsws.org The IYSSE meeting—part of a series being organized around the world to develop a global working class-led movement against war—went ahead despite the University of Waterloo's attempt to censor it and Ukrainian-Canadian nationalists' attempt to disrupt it.

Editor (2023-03-31). The European Union's Digital Trade Rules: Undermining European Policy to Rein in Big Tech. scheerpost.com By Deborah James / Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Executive Summary This report shows how Big Tech companies are working to constrain the ability of EU democratic bodies to regulate their activities in the public interest through "trade" agreements, which are binding and permanent. Digitalization is the defining economic transformation of our time. …

Staff (2023-03-30). Ex-Starbucks Worker Jaysin Saxton Describes Being Fired After He Helped Organize Union. democracynow.org We speak with Jaysin Saxton, one of the witnesses who testified at the Senate hearing Wednesday on Starbucks' union-busting record. Saxton was a former Starbucks shift manager, fired after leading the union drive at a store in Augusta, Georgia. He tells Democracy Now! he and fellow workers were motivated to organize their store to address the "insane" working conditions, including understaffing and inconsistent schedules. "There's no stability in how much you're earning and how many hours you're getting, so you can't afford to pay your bills, and you have to choose…

Amy Goodman (2023-03-30). Former Starbucks Worker Describes Being Fired After He Helped Organize Union. truthout.org We speak with Jaysin Saxton, one of the witnesses who testified at the Senate hearing Wednesday on Starbucks' union-busting record. Saxton was a former Starbucks shift manager, fired after leading the union drive at a store in Augusta, Georgia. He tells Democracy Now! he and fellow workers were motivated to organize their store to address the "insane" working conditions… |

Ann Brown (2023-03-30). The Black American Intelligence Report on Reparations-Focused Liberation Ventures: Who Are They And Where Is The $6 Million Going? moguldom.com There are multiple groups jumping into the reparations movement. One of the latest is a Black-led organization called Liberation Ventures. It's working to be a support resource for various reparations groups. The philanthropic group has raised $6 million so far to give away through grants to those involved in the reparations movement. But who is …

ecns.cn (2023-03-30). Chinese premier urges working together to promote solid, sustained people-to-people exchanges. ecns.cn Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Thursday called for working together to promote solid and sustained people-to-people exchanges and inject more certainty into the convergence of different civilizations.

Muhammed Shabeer, People's Dispatch. (2023-03-30). Pension Reform Or Revolution! popularresistance.org Major trade unions in France estimate that two million people hit the streets across France on Tuesday, March 28, denouncing the controversial pension reforms pushed by Emmanuel Macron's government. The reforms were forcibly passed in the National Assembly on March 16 using Article 49.3 to bypass the parliamentary vote. The move has further weakened the legitimacy of the reforms, already detested by the majority of the French working class. While the government, headed by President Macron and Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, narrowly survived a no-confidence vote on March 20, the approval rating of the president h…

WSWS (2023-03-30). New Zealand high school teachers hold second one-day strike. wsws.org The unions are seeking to divide teachers and block the development of a mass working class movement against the Labour Party government's austerity agenda.

WSWS (2023-03-30). Australia: Labor win in NSW election will not end wage cuts or dire conditions for public sector workers. wsws.org Labor's victory will mean continuing massive cuts to real wages, with tiny nominal increases that the government and the union bureaucracy hope will subdue mounting anger in the working class.

ecns.cn (2023-03-30). AI may reduce human working hours to one day per week: expert. ecns.cn Artificial Intelligence (AI) may reduce human working hours to one day per week, said Justin Yifu Lin, dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University, on Wednesday at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2023.

Homeless Garden Project (2023-03-31). Saturday 4/15: Cesar Chavez Day of Service and Plant Sale. indybay.org Homeless Garden Project Farm | 100-198 Shaffer Rd, Santa Cruz…

Keith McHenry (2023-03-31). April Fools Day March to End Homelessness. indybay.org One of the agenda items at the weekly Food Not Bombs meeting was that morning's Lookout story "In the Public Interest: A new law-and-order approach to homelessness in Santa Cruz?"

_____ (2023-03-30). The Capital of the Multipolar World: A Moscow Diary. strategic-culture.org In Moscow you feel no crisis. No effects of sanctions. No unemployment. No homeless people in the streets. Minimal inflation. | How sharp was good ol' Lenin, prime modernist, when he mused, "there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen". This global nomad now addressing you has enjoyed the privilege of spending four astonishing weeks in Moscow at the heart of an historical crossroads — culminating with the Putin-Xi geopolitical game-changing summit at the Kremlin. | To quote Xi, "changes that haven't been seen in 100 years" do have a knack of affecting us all in more way…

Uniting for Peace (2023-03-31). Thursday 5/18: Inequality and Instability — Peace Based Approach. indybay.org Online event…

rebekah (2023-03-30). Unionized Starbucks Workers Roast Billionaire Howard Schultz. inequality.org Unionized Starbucks Workers Take on Billionaire Howard Schultz A long-awaited Senate hearing drew laughter from observers as the outgoing Starbucks CEO claimed he's no union-buster, despite dozens of complaints from the nation's top labor board. Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, under threat of subpoena, has finally appeared before the United States Senate to answer for …

rebekah (2023-03-30). Pushing Back Against Platform Giants: Labor Power and Solidarity at Amazon. inequality.org In recent weeks and months, Amazon warehouse workers walked off the job in protest and staged strikes across the globe. These actions are unfolding at a time in which Amazon has announced yet another round of layoffs — now amounting to 27,000 workers across different roles in this year alone. These two developments have come …

_____ (2023-03-30). The Capital of the Multipolar World: A Moscow Diary. strategic-culture.org In Moscow you feel no crisis. No effects of sanctions. No unemployment. No homeless people in the streets. Minimal inflation. | How sharp was good ol' Lenin, prime modernist, when he mused, "there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen". This global nomad now addressing you has enjoyed the privilege of spending four astonishing weeks in Moscow at the heart of an historical crossroads — culminating with the Putin-Xi geopolitical game-changing summit at the Kremlin. | To quote Xi, "changes that haven't been seen in 100 years" do have a knack of affecting us all in more way…

Uniting for Peace (2023-03-31). Thursday 5/18: Inequality and Instability — Peace Based Approach. indybay.org Online event…

rebekah (2023-03-30). Unionized Starbucks Workers Roast Billionaire Howard Schultz. inequality.org Unionized Starbucks Workers Take on Billionaire Howard Schultz A long-awaited Senate hearing drew laughter from observers as the outgoing Starbucks CEO claimed he's no union-buster, despite dozens of complaints from the nation's top labor board. Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, under threat of subpoena, has finally appeared before the United States Senate to answer for …

rebekah (2023-03-30). Pushing Back Against Platform Giants: Labor Power and Solidarity at Amazon. inequality.org In recent weeks and months, Amazon warehouse workers walked off the job in protest and staged strikes across the globe. These actions are unfolding at a time in which Amazon has announced yet another round of layoffs — now amounting to 27,000 workers across different roles in this year alone. These two developments have come …

Sarah Anderson (2023-03-30). Wall Street Bonuses Decline But Still Dwarf Worker Pay Increases Since 2008 Crash. inequality.org After a historic 22 percent spike in 2021, the average annual bonus for New York City-based securities industry employees fell 26 percent in 2022, according to just-released New York State Comptroller data. But the rate of increase in average Wall Street bonuses since the 2008 crash is still far higher than wage increases for ordinary …

Eleanor J. Bader (2023-03-30). Food Banks Fear "New and Growing Crisis" of Hunger as COVID-Era Benefits End. truthout.org For three years, Sarah Wilson, a disabled 60-year-old living in rural Maryland, received $281 a month from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), better known as food stamps. Coupled with a $1,700 monthly Social Security disability check, the former social worker made do. "My finances were manageable," she told Truthout. "Then they notified me during the second week of February… |

WSWS (2023-03-30). Tentative agreement would leave tens of thousands of Disney World workers in poverty. wsws.org The starting wage would increase under the new deal from $15 to $20 by 2025.

WSWS (2023-03-30). Los Angeles area high school students express support for education workers continuing struggle against sellout tentative agreement. wsws.org Students said they supported teachers getting regular hours and more than "poverty" wages.

Abayomi Azikiwe (2023-03-29). Detroit Remains Mired in Poverty as City Council Approves $800 Million Tax Giveaway to the Rich. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-03-30). University of Michigan graduate student workers strike for living wage. wsws.org The plea by the university, that there is no money, for the kind of raise the graduate students are demanding is a lie. The University of Michigan is one of the wealthiest universities in the US.

Jake Johnson (2023-03-29). Credit Suisse Helped Ultra Rich Americans Hide Over $700 Million From IRS. truthout.org The Senate Finance Committee on Thursday published the results of a two-year investigation showing that the scandal-plagued Swiss bank Credit Suisse has been complicit in a "massive, ongoing conspiracy" to help wealthy U.S. citizens dodge taxes. Spearheaded by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the chair of the Senate panel, the probe found that Credit Suisse violated the terms of a 2014 plea agreement with… |

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-03-30). Saturday 4/15: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Debt, by David Graeber. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

ecns.cn (2023-03-29). Chinese FM denounces 'debt trap' accusation. ecns.cn A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson on Tuesday hit back at criticism that loans related to China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) are a "debt trap", saying that China does not accept this.

G. Dunkel, Workers World. (2023-03-30). Despite Government Attacks: Workers, Students In France Stay Strong. popularresistance.org Since President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Élizabeth Borne rammed through the "reform" of France's pension system March 16 — an attack which will require workers to work longer to obtain a full pension — the class struggle has grown more intense. | Millions of workers struck on March 23 to protest this new law, which extends their retirement age to 64 from 62. The law must still be reviewed by the Constitutional Council, which can reject or modify it. | The new pension law provides fewer protections for workers who have arduous jobs and/or dangerous working conditions.

ecns.cn (2023-03-30). Chinese premier urges working together to promote solid, sustained people-to-people exchanges. ecns.cn Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Thursday called for working together to promote solid and sustained people-to-people exchanges and inject more certainty into the convergence of different civilizations.

WSWS (2023-03-30). New Zealand high school teachers hold second one-day strike. wsws.org The unions are seeking to divide teachers and block the development of a mass working class movement against the Labour Party government's austerity agenda.

WSWS (2023-03-30). Australia: Labor win in NSW election will not end wage cuts or dire conditions for public sector workers. wsws.org Labor's victory will mean continuing massive cuts to real wages, with tiny nominal increases that the government and the union bureaucracy hope will subdue mounting anger in the working class.

Muhammed Shabeer (2023-03-29). Pension reform or Revolution! Crisis for the French Fifth Republic? peoplesdispatch.org The controversial pension reforms, which will increase the retirement age in the country from 62 to 64, are detested by the French working class and have led to widespread protests…

WSWS (2023-03-30). New Zealand high school teachers hold second one-day strike. wsws.org The unions are seeking to divide teachers and block the development of a mass working class movement against the Labour Party government's austerity agenda.

WSWS (2023-03-30). Australia: Labor win in NSW election will not end wage cuts or dire conditions for public sector workers. wsws.org Labor's victory will mean continuing massive cuts to real wages, with tiny nominal increases that the government and the union bureaucracy hope will subdue mounting anger in the working class.

Muhammed Shabeer (2023-03-29). Pension reform or Revolution! Crisis for the French Fifth Republic? peoplesdispatch.org The controversial pension reforms, which will increase the retirement age in the country from 62 to 64, are detested by the French working class and have led to widespread protests…

Larry Holmes (2023-03-29). The banking crisis: Will it push the working class or fascism to rise up? — a WW commentary. workers.org The capitalist ruling class is worried that the banking crisis, which began less than a month ago with the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank and quickly spread, could ultimately mushroom into a global financial crisis bigger than the crash of 2008. All talk of a "soft landing" has ended. . . . |

Larry Holmes (2023-03-29). The banking crisis: Will it push the working class or fascism to rise up? workers.org The capitalist ruling class is worried that the banking crisis, which began less than a month ago with the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank and quickly spread, could ultimately mushroom into a global financial crisis bigger than the crash of 2008. All talk of a "soft landing" has ended. . . . |

WSWS (2023-03-29). Parti de l'égalité socialiste intervenes in Paris student meeting to call to bring down Macron. wsws.org The PES proposed to the Paris inter-university coordinating committee to adopt a resolution calling to bring down Macron and build a movement in the working class for a general strike.

WSWS (2023-03-29). As millions march against Macron, French unions call for "mediation" wsws.org There is nothing to negotiate with Macron, the president of the rich who must be brought down by the escalating mass movement in the working class and the youth.

WSWS (2023-03-29). The three lies of the Brandon Johnson campaign for Chicago mayor. wsws.org The Cook County commissioner, Brandon Johnson, is seeking to use his affiliation with the Chicago Teachers Union to suggest that he will defend the working class. Actually, his role as a CTU official means the direct opposite.

WSWS (2023-03-29). NSW election: Australian workers and youth speak about COVID, war and social crisis. wsws.org One worker said: "I think it's a good idea to have an international movement for the working class against war and for democratic rights, for workers to unite, it makes sense."

WSWS (2023-03-29). The social and political issues raised in the strike by graduate employees at the University of Michigan. wsws.org Students and young people need to take a hard look at the society in which we live. The orientation must not be to the Democratic Party or any faction of the ruling class but to the international working class.

Staff (2023-03-29). "Bootstrapped": Alissa Quart on Liberating Ourselves from the Myth of the American Dream. democracynow.org We speak with journalist Alissa Quart, executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, about her new book, Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, which examines myths about individualism and self-reliance that underpin the U.S. economy and the inequality it fosters. She says a focus on succeeding through hard work obscures the degree to which many rich and powerful people have benefited from social support, resulting in a cycle of "shame and blame" for those who fall short.

WSWS (2023-03-29). UK life expectancy growth lags behind all other G7 states besides US. wsws.org Life expectancy in the UK has grown at a slower rate than comparable countries over the past seven decades. The researchers conclude that this is due to widening social inequality.

Abayomi Azikiwe (2023-03-29). Detroit Remains Mired in Poverty as City Council Approves $800 Million Tax Giveaway to the Rich. globalresearch.ca

teleSUR, dcdc, JCM (2023-03-28). Rusia mantiene plan sobre armas nucleares en Belarús. telesurtv.net La razón de tal medida fue la declaración del Reino Unido sobre el suministro de munición de uranio empobrecido a Ucrania.

ecns.cn (2023-03-29). Chinese FM denounces 'debt trap' accusation. ecns.cn A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson on Tuesday hit back at criticism that loans related to China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) are a "debt trap", saying that China does not accept this.

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-03-29). Saturday 4/15: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Debt, by David Graeber. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

Staff (2023-03-28). Randall Robinson (1941-2023) on Haiti's Unbroken Agony, from U.S. Coups to Haiti's "Debt" to France. democracynow.org We continue to remember the lawyer and human rights activist Randall Robinson, the founder of the racial justice group TransAfrica, who died last week at age 81. Robinson was a leader in the U.S. movement against South African apartheid and was a prominent critic of U.S. policy in Haiti, including the U.S.-backed coup against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004. Democracy Now! spoke to Robinson in 2007 about that episode and how foreign powers have interfered in Haiti throughout the country's history, beginning with the slave revolt against France that established Haiti as the first free republic in th…

Larry Holmes (2023-03-29). The banking crisis: Will it push the working class or fascism to rise up? — a WW commentary. workers.org The capitalist ruling class is worried that the banking crisis, which began less than a month ago with the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank and quickly spread, could ultimately mushroom into a global financial crisis bigger than the crash of 2008. All talk of a "soft landing" has ended. . . . |

WSWS (2023-03-29). Parti de l'égalité socialiste intervenes in Paris student meeting to call to bring down Macron. wsws.org The PES proposed to the Paris inter-university coordinating committee to adopt a resolution calling to bring down Macron and build a movement in the working class for a general strike.

WSWS (2023-03-29). As millions march against Macron, French unions call for "mediation" wsws.org There is nothing to negotiate with Macron, the president of the rich who must be brought down by the escalating mass movement in the working class and the youth.

Staff (2023-03-28). Randall Robinson (1941-2023) on Haiti's Unbroken Agony, from U.S. Coups to Haiti's "Debt" to France. democracynow.org We continue to remember the lawyer and human rights activist Randall Robinson, the founder of the racial justice group TransAfrica, who died last week at age 81. Robinson was a leader in the U.S. movement against South African apartheid and was a prominent critic of U.S. policy in Haiti, including the U.S.-backed coup against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004. Democracy Now! spoke to Robinson in 2007 about that episode and how foreign powers have interfered in Haiti throughout the country's history, beginning with the slave revolt against France that established Haiti as the first free republic in th…

Larry Holmes (2023-03-29). The banking crisis: Will it push the working class or fascism to rise up? — a WW commentary. workers.org The capitalist ruling class is worried that the banking crisis, which began less than a month ago with the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank and quickly spread, could ultimately mushroom into a global financial crisis bigger than the crash of 2008. All talk of a "soft landing" has ended. . . . |

WSWS (2023-03-29). Parti de l'égalité socialiste intervenes in Paris student meeting to call to bring down Macron. wsws.org The PES proposed to the Paris inter-university coordinating committee to adopt a resolution calling to bring down Macron and build a movement in the working class for a general strike.

WSWS (2023-03-29). As millions march against Macron, French unions call for "mediation" wsws.org There is nothing to negotiate with Macron, the president of the rich who must be brought down by the escalating mass movement in the working class and the youth.

WSWS (2023-03-29). The three lies of the Brandon Johnson campaign for Chicago mayor. wsws.org The Cook County commissioner, Brandon Johnson, is seeking to use his affiliation with the Chicago Teachers Union to suggest that he will defend the working class. Actually, his role as a CTU official means the direct opposite.

WSWS (2023-03-29). NSW election: Australian workers and youth speak about COVID, war and social crisis. wsws.org One worker said: "I think it's a good idea to have an international movement for the working class against war and for democratic rights, for workers to unite, it makes sense."

WSWS (2023-03-29). The social and political issues raised in the strike by graduate employees at the University of Michigan. wsws.org Students and young people need to take a hard look at the society in which we live. The orientation must not be to the Democratic Party or any faction of the ruling class but to the international working class.

Ann Brown (2023-03-28). 'Kept' Gay Partner Of Billionaire Peter Thiel Dies Suddenly, Was Working on Story With Democrats About Thiel. moguldom.com Social media influencer Jeff Thomas, a 35-year-old actor and model, was found dead on March 8 in Miami. Thomas' death is being investigated as a possible suicide. His family insisted there must be foul play. Why all the media attention? Thomas was the "kept" gay partner of PayPal billionaire Peter Thiel, a high-profile GOP donor. …

Anonymous103 (2023-03-28). US And Taiwan Plan To Equip Kiev Regime Forces With 'Swarms-Of-Swarms' Drones. southfront.org Illustrative ImageTaipei is working with the US on developing and manufacturing advanced UAVs, including on the ostensible ability of these drones to autonomously coordinate their attacks and act as a swarm, or more precisely, "swarms-of-swarms", as the program's name clearly indicates. | Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst | There's very little doubt that warfare has changed dramatically in recent decades, with the tactical gap between leading militaries and those of local powers…

Editor (2023-03-28). Major 1-day strike in Germany leaves all public transportation closed. mronline.org The ver.di trade union is demanding a 10.5% pay raise as a result of inflation, and requesting higher remuneration for overtime and night shifts, alongside improvements to working conditions.

Editor (2023-03-28). Long live the working class of France: Vive la classe ouvrière de la France! workers.org The working class of France is in the streets, with millions of people striking and demonstrating. The proverbial straw — more like a whole big bundle of straw — was French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. Macron, who imposed this attack on . . . |

WSWS (2023-03-28). Autoworkers resolve to establish network of rank-and-file committees at powerful IWA-RFC meeting in Detroit Sunday. wsws.org Worker delegates at the meeting described harrowing conditions at their workplaces, recounted the deadly and ongoing impact of COVID-19, denounced the indifference and complicity of the pro-corporate UAW bureaucracy, and spoke passionately in support of the construction of a worldwide movement of the working class.

WSWS (2023-03-28). Defend Sri Lankan teachers' right to strike! wsws.org The president accuses teachers and principals of taking students hostage, but in reality, the working masses have been made hostages to the IMF with the Wickremesinghe government acting as its policeman.

manager (2023-03-28). Punitive Work Tests in SNAP and Medicaid Would Harm Workers with Unstable Jobs. cepr.net Even near full employment, today's economy does not provide stable, decently compensated jobs for much of the diverse working class. This is one reason why the basic floor of security provided by Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is crucial. These in-kind benefits help ensure that all working-class people, including ones in poorly …

Maximillian Alvarez (2023-03-28). The media amplifies bigotry but ignores working class organizing. That's by design. therealnews.com

Staff (2023-03-29). "Bootstrapped": Alissa Quart on Liberating Ourselves from the Myth of the American Dream. democracynow.org We speak with journalist Alissa Quart, executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, about her new book, Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, which examines myths about individualism and self-reliance that underpin the U.S. economy and the inequality it fosters. She says a focus on succeeding through hard work obscures the degree to which many rich and powerful people have benefited from social support, resulting in a cycle of "shame and blame" for those who fall short.

ecns.cn (2023-03-28). Racial discrimination, inequality getting worse in U.S.: report. ecns.cn Racial discrimination and inequality are worsening in the United States, said a report released by China's State Council Information Office on Tuesday.

Anonymous103 (2023-03-28). Bellies of the Rich Swell Further on the Back of Hunger. southfront.org

Noah Palm (2023-03-27). Peoria library workers don't want to live in poverty. peoplesworld.org PEORIA, Ill. — "We have a city that says its library system has to be predicated on working-class people living in poverty." said Anthony Walraven, Vice President of AFSCME Local 3464 in a crowd of union workers and community supporters on March 21. "There's hope…When working people get together in solidarity with each other there …

teleSUR, dcdc, JCM (2023-03-28). Rusia mantiene plan sobre armas nucleares en Belarús. telesurtv.net La razón de tal medida fue la declaración del Reino Unido sobre el suministro de munición de uranio empobrecido a Ucrania.

Staff (2023-03-27). Banco Mundial alerta sobre desaceleración y riesgo de década perdida en la economía global. cubadebate.cu El crecimiento potencial promedio de la economía global caerá al 2.2% anual hasta 2030, el desempeño más bajo en los últimos tres decenios. La desaceleración tendría profundas repercusiones en la capacidad de las naciones para hacer frente al cambio climático y reducir la pobreza, advirtió el Banco Mundial en un informe publicado este lunes.

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-03-28). Saturday 4/15: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Debt, by David Graeber. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

Sharon Zhang (2023-03-27). Report: Trump, Bush Tax Cuts Have Largely Driven National Debt Issues Since 2001. truthout.org Republicans' major tax cuts for corporations and the rich are overwhelmingly the drivers of current issues over the national debt, which the GOP is using as an excuse to force through cuts to welfare and government spending that are not contributing nearly as much to the debt, a new report reveals. Over the past two decades, increases in the U.S.'s debt ratio, or the proportion of the national… |

Editor (2023-03-28). Major 1-day strike in Germany leaves all public transportation closed. mronline.org The ver.di trade union is demanding a 10.5% pay raise as a result of inflation, and requesting higher remuneration for overtime and night shifts, alongside improvements to working conditions.

Editor (2023-03-28). Long live the working class of France: Vive la classe ouvrière de la France! workers.org The working class of France is in the streets, with millions of people striking and demonstrating. The proverbial straw — more like a whole big bundle of straw — was French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. Macron, who imposed this attack on . . . |

WSWS (2023-03-28). Autoworkers resolve to establish network of rank-and-file committees at powerful IWA-RFC meeting in Detroit Sunday. wsws.org Worker delegates at the meeting described harrowing conditions at their workplaces, recounted the deadly and ongoing impact of COVID-19, denounced the indifference and complicity of the pro-corporate UAW bureaucracy, and spoke passionately in support of the construction of a worldwide movement of the working class.

Sharon Zhang (2023-03-27). Report: Trump, Bush Tax Cuts Have Largely Driven National Debt Issues Since 2001. truthout.org Republicans' major tax cuts for corporations and the rich are overwhelmingly the drivers of current issues over the national debt, which the GOP is using as an excuse to force through cuts to welfare and government spending that are not contributing nearly as much to the debt, a new report reveals. Over the past two decades, increases in the U.S.'s debt ratio, or the proportion of the national… |

Editor (2023-03-28). Major 1-day strike in Germany leaves all public transportation closed. mronline.org The ver.di trade union is demanding a 10.5% pay raise as a result of inflation, and requesting higher remuneration for overtime and night shifts, alongside improvements to working conditions.

Editor (2023-03-28). Long live the working class of France: Vive la classe ouvrière de la France! workers.org The working class of France is in the streets, with millions of people striking and demonstrating. The proverbial straw — more like a whole big bundle of straw — was French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. Macron, who imposed this attack on . . . |

WSWS (2023-03-28). Autoworkers resolve to establish network of rank-and-file committees at powerful IWA-RFC meeting in Detroit Sunday. wsws.org Worker delegates at the meeting described harrowing conditions at their workplaces, recounted the deadly and ongoing impact of COVID-19, denounced the indifference and complicity of the pro-corporate UAW bureaucracy, and spoke passionately in support of the construction of a worldwide movement of the working class.

WSWS (2023-03-28). Defend Sri Lankan teachers' right to strike! wsws.org The president accuses teachers and principals of taking students hostage, but in reality, the working masses have been made hostages to the IMF with the Wickremesinghe government acting as its policeman.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-03-27). Rural employee guarantee scheme workers continue sit-in in India amid government apathy, police repression. peoplesdispatch.org Hundreds of people working under the Indian government's rural employment guarantee scheme are carrying out a 100-day protest in Delhi over unpaid wages, an exclusionary digital payments and attendance system, and budget cuts…

Sam Gindin, The Bullet. (2023-03-27). Beyond Fatalism: Renewing Working-Class Politics. popularresistance.org "We need to ask ourselves," Leo Panitch and Donald Swartz stated in the third edition of From Consent to Coercion, "whether free pertains to those who do business or whether it pertains also to the majority of Canadians who do not do business." Their book, now a classic, focused on a critical expression of the tension between liberal democratic principles and capitalist realities: the substantive right of workers to strike. Canadian workers were officially granted the basic democratic right to form unions, but the substance of that right — the withdrawal by workers of their labour power — was regularl…

Tara Behroozian, Daniel Goldshtein, Julie Ryan Wolf, Corina van den Hurk, Samuel Finkelstein, Henry Lam, Partha Patel, Lauren Kanee, Shing Fung Lee, Adrian Wai Chan, Henry Chun Yip Wong, Saverio Caini, Simran Mahal, Samantha Kennedy, Edward Chow, Pierluigi Bonomo, Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer Oncodermatology Study Group Radiation Dermatitis Guidelines Working Group (2023-03-27). [Review] MASCC clinical practice guidelines for the prevention and management of acute radiation dermatitis: part 1) systematic review. thelancet.com Acute radiation dermatitis (ARD) commonly develops in cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy and is often characterized by erythema, desquamation, and pain. A systematic review was conducted to summarize the current evidence on interventions for the prevention and management of ARD. Databases were searched from 1946 to September 2020 to identify all original studies that evaluated an intervention for the prevention or management of ARD, with an updated search conducted in January 2023. A total of 235 original studies were included in this review, including 149 randomized controlled trials (RCTs).

WSWS (2023-03-27). 67 families homeless after massive landslide at Poonagala Estate in Sri Lanka. wsws.org Sri Lankan plantation companies, working with the government and the estate unions, have ignored countless landslide warnings and calls for the relocation of estate workers to safe areas.

WSWS (2023-03-27). US workers speak out in support of last week's Los Angeles schools strike, urge rejection of tentative agreement. wsws.org Workers need "social disobedience on a massive scale, like a general strike," one Michigan teacher said. "The important thing is unifying all the different groups of working people and not isolating them like the union bureaucrats tend to do."

WSWS (2023-03-27). Australian workers and young people speak out against war and austerity in NSW election. wsws.org Voters in the working-class southwest Sydney electorate of Bankstown told Socialist Equality Party campaigners the state election would do nothing to resolve the escalating social crisis or stop the threat of war.

Julia Rock (2023-03-27). "Everyone Wants A Raise When The Minimum Wage Goes Up" levernews.com

Space City Anarchist Organization (2023-03-27). Report Back from Sweep Defense in Houston, TX. itsgoingdown.org Report back from resistance to sweeps in so-called Houston, Texas from Space City Anarchist Organization. On Thursday, March 9, a coalition of around 20 Houston anarchists and abolitionists mobilized to oppose a sweep by the City of Houston, Houston Police Department, Harris County Sheriff's Department, TXDOT and Coalition for the Homeless. This sweep was part of a…

Staff (2023-03-27). Over $100 Billion Withdrawn From US Banks in a Week Amid Bankruptcies and Closures. orinocotribune.com US authorities continue to affirm that the banking system remains "sound and resilient" despite decreases in deposits, the bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the closure of Signature Bank, and the crisis in the First Republic Bank, not to mention the crises in European banking conglomerates Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank. | Recent data published by the US Federal Reserve reports that between March 8 and 15, during the period surrounding the bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and the closure of Signature Bank, US banking customers withdrew $98.4 billion. | The data shows that the largest withdrawals, t…

WSWS (2023-03-27). Communist Party of Turkey, Left Party support for Kƒ±lƒ±àßdaroƒülu in presidential election exposes bankruptcy of pseudo-left. wsws.org These parties' support for the Nation Alliance candidate, who is as anti-worker and pro-imperialist as Erdogan, vindicates the Socialist Equality Group's analysis of these pseudo-left forces.

ecns.cn (2023-03-28). Racial discrimination, inequality getting worse in U.S.: report. ecns.cn Racial discrimination and inequality are worsening in the United States, said a report released by China's State Council Information Office on Tuesday.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-03-27). The 'Pernicious Evil' of Racism, Discrimination, Hatred, Inequality. transcend.org 17 Mar 2023 – Three-quarters of a century ago, the world adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, emphasising that all human beings are born equal in dignity and rights. The 2023 theme of its 75th anniversary focuses on the urgency of combating racism and racial discrimination.

WSWS (2023-03-26). Strike wave erupts in Portugal against inflation and soaring poverty. wsws.org The strikes in Portugal take place against the backdrop of a wave of strikes against austerity and inflation by millions of workers across Europe, including the objectively revolutionary confrontation between the working class and the Macron government.

Staff (2023-03-27). Banco Mundial alerta sobre desaceleración y riesgo de década perdida en la economía global. cubadebate.cu El crecimiento potencial promedio de la economía global caerá al 2.2% anual hasta 2030, el desempeño más bajo en los últimos tres decenios. La desaceleración tendría profundas repercusiones en la capacidad de las naciones para hacer frente al cambio climático y reducir la pobreza, advirtió el Banco Mundial en un informe publicado este lunes.

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-03-27). Saturday 4/15: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Debt, by David Graeber. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

Sam Gindin, The Bullet. (2023-03-27). Beyond Fatalism: Renewing Working-Class Politics. popularresistance.org "We need to ask ourselves," Leo Panitch and Donald Swartz stated in the third edition of From Consent to Coercion, "whether free pertains to those who do business or whether it pertains also to the majority of Canadians who do not do business." Their book, now a classic, focused on a critical expression of the tension between liberal democratic principles and capitalist realities: the substantive right of workers to strike. Canadian workers were officially granted the basic democratic right to form unions, but the substance of that right — the withdrawal by workers of their labour power — was regularl…

WSWS (2023-03-27). 67 families homeless after massive landslide at Poonagala Estate in Sri Lanka. wsws.org Sri Lankan plantation companies, working with the government and the estate unions, have ignored countless landslide warnings and calls for the relocation of estate workers to safe areas.

WSWS (2023-03-27). US workers speak out in support of last week's Los Angeles schools strike, urge rejection of tentative agreement. wsws.org Workers need "social disobedience on a massive scale, like a general strike," one Michigan teacher said. "The important thing is unifying all the different groups of working people and not isolating them like the union bureaucrats tend to do."

WSWS (2023-03-27). Australian workers and young people speak out against war and austerity in NSW election. wsws.org Voters in the working-class southwest Sydney electorate of Bankstown told Socialist Equality Party campaigners the state election would do nothing to resolve the escalating social crisis or stop the threat of war.

_____ (2023-03-26). Daniel Ellsberg Calling on Us to Stop Nuclear War. strategic-culture.org The legendary Daniel Ellsberg has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. In a March 1 email to friends, Dan wrote, "I'm sorry to report to you that my doctors have given me three to six months to live … it might be more, or less." He will turn 92 on April 7. Dan displayed uncommon courage in 1971 when he publicized the 7,000-page top-secret Pentagon Papers while working at the Rand Corporation. As a consultant to the Department of Defense, Dan drafted Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's plans for nuclear war.

Duaa Eldeib (2023-03-26). Federal Study Calls US Stillbirth Rate "Unacceptably High" and Recommends Action. truthout.org Federal officials have released a bleak assessment of the country's progress in understanding and preventing stillbirths, calling the rate "unacceptably high" and issuing a series of recommendations to reduce it through research and prevention. The National Institutes of Health report, titled "Working to Address the Tragedy of Stillbirth," mirrored findings of an investigation by ProPublica last… |

WSWS (2023-03-26). Sinn Féin backs NATO's war against Russia ahead of Biden's planned visit to Ireland. wsws.org By supporting the geopolitical aims of Biden's administration and its proxy imperialist war against Russia, Sinn Féin is offering itself as a safe pair of hands in both parts of Ireland against the working class.

WSWS (2023-03-26). What filmmaker Ken Loach makes of The Spirit of '45. wsws.org Loach's conception of the working class is closely bound up with the nationalist straitjacket imposed for so many decades by the Labour and trade union bureaucracy.

Julia Rock (2023-03-27). "Everyone Wants A Raise When The Minimum Wage Goes Up" levernews.com

WSWS (2023-03-27). Australian workers and young people speak out against war and austerity in NSW election. wsws.org Voters in the working-class southwest Sydney electorate of Bankstown told Socialist Equality Party campaigners the state election would do nothing to resolve the escalating social crisis or stop the threat of war.

_____ (2023-03-26). Daniel Ellsberg Calling on Us to Stop Nuclear War. strategic-culture.org The legendary Daniel Ellsberg has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. In a March 1 email to friends, Dan wrote, "I'm sorry to report to you that my doctors have given me three to six months to live … it might be more, or less." He will turn 92 on April 7. Dan displayed uncommon courage in 1971 when he publicized the 7,000-page top-secret Pentagon Papers while working at the Rand Corporation. As a consultant to the Department of Defense, Dan drafted Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's plans for nuclear war.

Duaa Eldeib (2023-03-26). Federal Study Calls US Stillbirth Rate "Unacceptably High" and Recommends Action. truthout.org Federal officials have released a bleak assessment of the country's progress in understanding and preventing stillbirths, calling the rate "unacceptably high" and issuing a series of recommendations to reduce it through research and prevention. The National Institutes of Health report, titled "Working to Address the Tragedy of Stillbirth," mirrored findings of an investigation by ProPublica last… |

WSWS (2023-03-26). Sinn Féin backs NATO's war against Russia ahead of Biden's planned visit to Ireland. wsws.org By supporting the geopolitical aims of Biden's administration and its proxy imperialist war against Russia, Sinn Féin is offering itself as a safe pair of hands in both parts of Ireland against the working class.

WSWS (2023-03-26). What filmmaker Ken Loach makes of The Spirit of '45. wsws.org Loach's conception of the working class is closely bound up with the nationalist straitjacket imposed for so many decades by the Labour and trade union bureaucracy.

Julia Rock (2023-03-27). "Everyone Wants A Raise When The Minimum Wage Goes Up" levernews.com

Emanuel Pastreich (2023-03-26). Bankrupt Banks, Food Crisis, Mandatory Vaccine and Our Grim Future. "This Time, the Virus has Infected Money Itself" globalresearch.ca

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-03-27). The 'Pernicious Evil' of Racism, Discrimination, Hatred, Inequality. transcend.org 17 Mar 2023 – Three-quarters of a century ago, the world adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, emphasising that all human beings are born equal in dignity and rights. The 2023 theme of its 75th anniversary focuses on the urgency of combating racism and racial discrimination.

ecns.cn (2023-03-25). Insights | Rana Mitter: China's poverty reduction achievement an inspiration to global south countries. ecns.cn The just-concluded "Two Sessions" have chartered the future plan for China's development. Amid mounting economic pressures globally, how will China's economy maintain steady growth with resilience and vitality? Rana Mitter, a professor of modern Chinese history and politics at the University of Oxford, shares his views during an exclusive interview with China News Network.

JANET (2023-03-25). Cyclone Freddy underscores inequalities: Reparations for Africa! iacenter.org March 20, 2023 The United States has 5% of the world's population but is responsible for 28% of annual carbon emissions in the world — about 15 tons per capita per year. For the wealthiest 10%, it is closer to 55 tons per capita! In contrast, the second-largest and second-most populous continent — Africa — produces just 4% of the world's greenhouse gasses. But Africa suffers disproportionately from climate-driven disasters. With a death toll over 500 and rising, Cyclone Freddy has devastated Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique. Lasting over a month, it is believed by the World Meteorological Assoc…

JANET (2023-03-25). SVB: 'The bank is now insolvent'. iacenter.org March 13, 2023 It is often the case that, when the capitalist system is on the verge of a crisis, the period leading up to it is marked by buoyant explosions of optimism. On Oct. 25, 1929, President Herbert Hoover proclaimed that the U.S. economy was "on a sound and prosperous basis." Four days later the stock market crashed. (billofrightsinstitute.org) This old cartoon depicts wild economic fluctuations ending with the 1929 Wall St. crash. It's not much different almost a century later. Typically before a recession, the working class (along with uneasy wealth-holders) is reassured that the economy is "robust" or…

WSWS (2023-03-25). Treasury secretary Yellen twists to the power of money. wsws.org Over the course of three days this week, Yellen flip flopped on the question of guarantees for ultra wealthy bank depositors before predictably falling into line with the demands of Wall Street.

JANET (2023-03-25). Health emergency! Free Alex Saab now! iacenter.org March 22, 2023 The #FreeAlexSaab Movement issued the following statement on March 17. On March 17, 2023, Camilla Saab, spouse of Alex Saab, reports on the dire health emergency facing the Venezuelan diplomat imprisoned in the U.S. Photo: #FreeAlexSaab On Friday, March 17, 2023, Camilla Saab made an urgent call to the world to denounce the dire health condition of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, which endangers his life. In July 2021, the Working Group against Torture and several United Nations rapporteurs expressed their concern about the irreparable deterioration of Alex Saab's health condition. Let us recall tha…

Omar Ocampo (2023-03-25). Corporate Real Estate Investors Are Accelerating the Affordable Housing Crisis. truthout.org With billions of dollars of cash on hand, and millions of working-class families unable to find affordable housing, corporations are increasing their share of the housing stock and expanding their portfolios. A 2021 report co-authored by the Institute for Policy Studies, Bargaining for the Common Good, and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund demonstrated how corporate and institutional… |

Arturo Dominguez, Unicorn Riot. (2023-03-25). Ahead Of The Final Four, Houston Criminalizes Homelessness. popularresistance.org In Houston, TX., where the NCAA Final Four (college basketball tournament championship games) will take place March 31 — April 3, the mayor's office has taken it a step beyond displacing the unhoused. Mayor Sylvester Turner's office has ordered police to target people feeding those in need. | After opening a facility to move people miles from downtown from a homeless encampment near Minute Maid Park and the Toyota Center, Mayor Turner began invoking old city ordinances to ticket Food Not Bombs Houston (FNBH) food-sharing volunteers and trying to discourage them from doing what they've done for decades: feed…

Marco De Ambrogi (2023-03-25). [Perspectives] Love and inequality. thelancet.com Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare's story of the two star-crossed lovers written in 1597 and set in Verona, Italy, has fascinated audiences for centuries. The appeal of the tragic fate of two adolescent lovers driven to a dramatic end by the opposition of their families continues to resonate among young generations. There have been many modern adaptations of Romeo and Juliet, including the musical West Side Story and Baz Luhrmann's movie Romeo + Juliet. Welsh playwright Gary Owen has now created his own adaptation, Romeo and Julie, set in modern day Splott, a suburb of Cardiff, in Wales, UK.

Gustavo A. Maranges (2023-03-25). Colombia: 'The Most Ambitious Labor Reform of the Century'. orinocotribune.com By Gustavo A Maranges — Mar 21, 2023 | This is how Colombia's Labor Minister Gloria Ines Ramirez described the labor reform bill introduced to Congress on March 17. Improving workers' conditions and rights is a major part of President Gustavo Petro's plan to reduce inequality. | The reform is the first of two planned this year by the Ministry of Labor. According to the legislative calendar, the Pension Reform will be presented on March 22, so both discussions will take place almost simultaneously. It is expected that the documents will undergo changes in Congress, but if the President's legislative force re…

Colin Todhunter (2023-03-25). Bellies of the Rich Swell Further on the Back of Hunger. globalresearch.ca

Arturo Dominguez, Unicorn Riot. (2023-03-25). Ahead Of The Final Four, Houston Criminalizes Homelessness. popularresistance.org In Houston, TX., where the NCAA Final Four (college basketball tournament championship games) will take place March 31 — April 3, the mayor's office has taken it a step beyond displacing the unhoused. Mayor Sylvester Turner's office has ordered police to target people feeding those in need. | After opening a facility to move people miles from downtown from a homeless encampment near Minute Maid Park and the Toyota Center, Mayor Turner began invoking old city ordinances to ticket Food Not Bombs Houston (FNBH) food-sharing volunteers and trying to discourage them from doing what they've done for decades: feed…

Marco De Ambrogi (2023-03-25). [Perspectives] Love and inequality. thelancet.com Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare's story of the two star-crossed lovers written in 1597 and set in Verona, Italy, has fascinated audiences for centuries. The appeal of the tragic fate of two adolescent lovers driven to a dramatic end by the opposition of their families continues to resonate among young generations. There have been many modern adaptations of Romeo and Juliet, including the musical West Side Story and Baz Luhrmann's movie Romeo + Juliet. Welsh playwright Gary Owen has now created his own adaptation, Romeo and Julie, set in modern day Splott, a suburb of Cardiff, in Wales, UK.

Gustavo A. Maranges (2023-03-25). Colombia: 'The Most Ambitious Labor Reform of the Century'. orinocotribune.com By Gustavo A Maranges — Mar 21, 2023 | This is how Colombia's Labor Minister Gloria Ines Ramirez described the labor reform bill introduced to Congress on March 17. Improving workers' conditions and rights is a major part of President Gustavo Petro's plan to reduce inequality. | The reform is the first of two planned this year by the Ministry of Labor. According to the legislative calendar, the Pension Reform will be presented on March 22, so both discussions will take place almost simultaneously. It is expected that the documents will undergo changes in Congress, but if the President's legislative force re…

Colin Todhunter (2023-03-25). Bellies of the Rich Swell Further on the Back of Hunger. globalresearch.ca

ecns.cn (2023-03-25). Insights | Rana Mitter: China's poverty reduction achievement an inspiration to global south countries. ecns.cn The just-concluded "Two Sessions" have chartered the future plan for China's development. Amid mounting economic pressures globally, how will China's economy maintain steady growth with resilience and vitality? Rana Mitter, a professor of modern Chinese history and politics at the University of Oxford, shares his views during an exclusive interview with China News Network.

Staff (2023-03-24). Archivo CD: Monseñor Romero: La opción por los pobres. cubadebate.cu Monseñor àìscar Arnulfo Romero fue asesinado el 24 de marzo de 1980 en la capital de El Salvador mientras oficiaba una misa, siendo nombrado mártir de la Iglesia en 2015. En este nuevo aniversario de su muerte, Cubadebate comparte en su homenaje el texto Monseñor Romero: La opción por los pobres.

WSWS (2023-03-25). Treasury secretary Yellen twists to the power of money. wsws.org Over the course of three days this week, Yellen flip flopped on the question of guarantees for ultra wealthy bank depositors before predictably falling into line with the demands of Wall Street.

Ann Brown (2023-03-24). Does The Congressional Black Caucus Have A Problem With The Silicon Valley Industry Bailout? moguldom.com The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank on March 10 has had broad ramifications. It was the largest bank by deposits in Silicon Valley, holding the money of some of the country's wealthiest individuals. Silicon Valley's aggregate household wealth is nearly $1.1 trillion, Cal Matters reported. Because they are SVB depositors, Silicon Valley billionaires and millionaires were indirectly …

Michael Welch (2023-03-24). IRAQ 20 Years after "Shock and Awe." The Wealthy Prevail at the Expense of World Safety and Freedom. globalresearch.ca

Alex Koplos (2023-03-24). International Working Women's Day in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez: "Down with patriarchy!" workers.org El Paso, Texas Young "feministxs" organizers held a rally and cross-border march in El Paso on International Working Women's Day, March 8, calling for the end to "machismo," transphobia and state violence against femme and trans migrants. Representative of La Via Campesina speaks on International Working Women's Day, El Paso, . . . |

ecns.cn (2023-03-25). Insights | Rana Mitter: China's poverty reduction achievement an inspiration to global south countries. ecns.cn The just-concluded "Two Sessions" have chartered the future plan for China's development. Amid mounting economic pressures globally, how will China's economy maintain steady growth with resilience and vitality? Rana Mitter, a professor of modern Chinese history and politics at the University of Oxford, shares his views during an exclusive interview with China News Network.

Staff (2023-03-24). Archivo CD: Monseñor Romero: La opción por los pobres. cubadebate.cu Monseñor àìscar Arnulfo Romero fue asesinado el 24 de marzo de 1980 en la capital de El Salvador mientras oficiaba una misa, siendo nombrado mártir de la Iglesia en 2015. En este nuevo aniversario de su muerte, Cubadebate comparte en su homenaje el texto Monseñor Romero: La opción por los pobres.

WSWS (2023-03-25). Treasury secretary Yellen twists to the power of money. wsws.org Over the course of three days this week, Yellen flip flopped on the question of guarantees for ultra wealthy bank depositors before predictably falling into line with the demands of Wall Street.

Ann Brown (2023-03-24). Does The Congressional Black Caucus Have A Problem With The Silicon Valley Industry Bailout? moguldom.com The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank on March 10 has had broad ramifications. It was the largest bank by deposits in Silicon Valley, holding the money of some of the country's wealthiest individuals. Silicon Valley's aggregate household wealth is nearly $1.1 trillion, Cal Matters reported. Because they are SVB depositors, Silicon Valley billionaires and millionaires were indirectly …

Michael Welch (2023-03-24). IRAQ 20 Years after "Shock and Awe." The Wealthy Prevail at the Expense of World Safety and Freedom. globalresearch.ca

Alex Koplos (2023-03-24). International Working Women's Day in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez: "Down with patriarchy!" workers.org El Paso, Texas Young "feministxs" organizers held a rally and cross-border march in El Paso on International Working Women's Day, March 8, calling for the end to "machismo," transphobia and state violence against femme and trans migrants. Representative of La Via Campesina speaks on International Working Women's Day, El Paso, . . . |

Brittani Banks (2023-03-24). LA Schools' Lowest-Paid Workers Walk Out, With Teachers by Their Side. independentmediainstitute.org Tens of thousands of Los Angeles teachers went on strike March 21-23, 2023, for the first time in four years, shutting down the nation's second-largest school district for three rain-soaked days. But this time the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) did not walk out in order to demand better working conditions for educators. Rather, …

Lee Camp, Mintpress News. (2023-03-24). The Banking Collapse, Housing Insecurity And More. popularresistance.org The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the 50 billion dollar injection to Credit Suisse highlights the precarious state of the banking system. While the banks claim that they are too big to fail, the reality is that the people who suffer the most when banks collapse are ordinary Americans. The rich can protect themselves by moving their money into offshore accounts or investing in other assets. But the poor and working-class Americans who have their savings in these banks will lose everything if banks collapse. | On this episode of Behind the Headlines, Lee Camp interviews James Fauntleroy, a regular contributor…

WSWS (2023-03-24). Clashes erupt across France as police assault record protests to defend pensions. wsws.org As 3.5 million people marched against Macron's overwhelmingly unpopular cuts, a revolutionary confrontation is emerging between the working class and the capitalist state.

WSWS (2023-03-24). Bankstown: A microcosm of Australia's social crisis. wsws.org The social situation in Bankstown, with soaring rents and mortgages, stagnant or declining incomes and mounting social distress, shows that capitalism offers no future for the working class.

WSWS (2023-03-24). UK postal workers expose back breaking working conditions at Royal Mail. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site is publishing further correspondence from postal workers exposing the brutal exploitative regime being imposed by Royal Mail. The latest comes from London, Cheshunt, Luton, Chatham, Houghton Regis, Stalham and Blackburn.

Santa Cruz News (2023-03-24). Mayor Keeley Targets the Homeless with Surprise Traffic Median Motion. indybay.org At the March 14th meeting of the Santa Cruz City Council, Mayor Fred Keeley introduced a surprise motion targeting homeless residents who panhandle on traffic medians (watch video below). Keeley's motion was not included anywhere in the meeting's agenda packet, he spontaneously inserted it into an unrelated vote on item #15, which concerned bicycle safety improvements and the removal of automobile parking on Laurel Street. Keeley stated the motion as follows: "Add additional direction that the City Manager return at budget hearings with a plan for installing safety devices that prohibit remaining on traffic islan…

Unicorn Riot (2023-03-24). Ahead of the Final Four, Houston Criminalizes Homelessness. unicornriot.ninja

_____ (2023-03-24). Iraq War 20 Years On… Collective Western Amnesia Over Anglo-American Crime of Century. strategic-culture.org The morally bankrupt Western media lied to start the Iraq War as they did dutifully about starting other wars for their imperial masters. Twenty years after, the Western media are at it again. | This week, March 20, saw the 20th anniversary of the U.S.-British war launched on Iraq. The war resulted in over one million deaths and a decade of brutal military occupation. It spawned sectarian civil war, millions of displaced and destitute, and terrorism that engulfed the entire Middle East, as well as large swathes of Africa and Asia. Iraq and several other ancient nations have been destroyed because of the Anglo-Ame…

Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute For Social Research. (2023-03-24). Strike The Women, You Strike The Rock, You Will Be Crushed. popularresistance.org What constitutes a crisis worthy of global attention? When a regional bank in the United States falls victim to the inversion of the yield curve (i.e., when short-term bond interest rates become higher than long-term rates), the Earth nearly stops spinning. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) — one of the most important financiers of technology start-ups in the United States — on 10 March presaged wider chaos in the Western financial world. In the days after the SVB debacle, Signature Bank, one of the few banks to accept cryptocurrency deposits, faced bankruptcy, and then Credit Suisse, an estab…

Marco De Ambrogi (2023-03-25). [Perspectives] Love and inequality. thelancet.com Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare's story of the two star-crossed lovers written in 1597 and set in Verona, Italy, has fascinated audiences for centuries. The appeal of the tragic fate of two adolescent lovers driven to a dramatic end by the opposition of their families continues to resonate among young generations. There have been many modern adaptations of Romeo and Juliet, including the musical West Side Story and Baz Luhrmann's movie Romeo + Juliet. Welsh playwright Gary Owen has now created his own adaptation, Romeo and Julie, set in modern day Splott, a suburb of Cardiff, in Wales, UK.

Brittani Banks (2023-03-24). The Long Arm of Washington Extends Into Africa's Sahel. independentmediainstitute.org On March 16, 2023, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced—during his visit to Niger—that the United States government will provide $150 million in aid to the Sahel region of Africa. This money, Blinken said, "will help provide life-saving support to refugees, asylum seekers, and others impacted by conflict and food insecurity in the region." …

Colin Todhunter (2023-03-25). Bellies of the Rich Swell Further on the Back of Hunger. globalresearch.ca

Peoples Dispatch (2023-03-24). Over 10 million in Pakistan lack access to safe drinking water. peoplesdispatch.org Six months after catastrophic floods devastated one-third of Pakistan, a large number of people have no alternative but to use and drink potentially disease-ridden water. Tens of thousands of impoverished, hungry children are fighting a losing battle against acute malnutrition and water-borne diseases, says UNICEF…

ecns.cn (2023-03-24). Insights | Rana Mitter: China's poverty reduction achievement an inspiration to global south countries. ecns.cn The just-concluded "Two Sessions" have chartered the future plan for China's development. Amid mounting economic pressures globally, how will China's economy maintain steady growth with resilience and vitality? Rana Mitter, a professor of modern Chinese history and politics at the University of Oxford, shares his views during an exclusive interview with China News Network.

WSWS (2023-03-23). Striking Los Angeles education workers speak out on second day of strike. wsws.org Unable to continue slaving away for poverty wages in one of the most expensive cities in the world, thousands of education workers, including janitors, cafeteria workers, maintenance staff and teachers continued to publicly demonstrate on Wednesday.

Staff (2023-03-24). Archivo CD: Monseñor Romero: La opción por los pobres. cubadebate.cu Monseñor àìscar Arnulfo Romero fue asesinado el 24 de marzo de 1980 en la capital de El Salvador mientras oficiaba una misa, siendo nombrado mártir de la Iglesia en 2015. En este nuevo aniversario de su muerte, Cubadebate comparte en su homenaje el texto Monseñor Romero: La opción por los pobres.

teleSUR, dcdc, JCM (2023-03-23). Rusia tomará represalias si Ucrania recibe municiones con uranio. telesurtv.net La viceministra de Defensa británica, Annabel Goldie, declaró que Londres transferirá munición de uranio empobrecido a Ucrania.

teleSUR, JDO (2023-03-23). Gobierno de Colombia presenta proyecto de ley de reforma pensional. telesurtv.net Busca ampliar la cobertura pensional y beneficiar a cerca de tres millones de adultos mayores que hoy permanecen sin posibilidad de pensión y enfrentan pobreza.

ecns.cn (2023-03-23). Hurun Global Rich List sees drastic changes. ecns.cn The world's billionaires with a personal wealth of at least $1 billion reported the biggest slump in record last year, with the total number down by 8 percent to come at 3,112.

ecns.cn (2023-03-24). Insights | Rana Mitter: China's poverty reduction achievement an inspiration to global south countries. ecns.cn The just-concluded "Two Sessions" have chartered the future plan for China's development. Amid mounting economic pressures globally, how will China's economy maintain steady growth with resilience and vitality? Rana Mitter, a professor of modern Chinese history and politics at the University of Oxford, shares his views during an exclusive interview with China News Network.

WSWS (2023-03-23). Striking Los Angeles education workers speak out on second day of strike. wsws.org Unable to continue slaving away for poverty wages in one of the most expensive cities in the world, thousands of education workers, including janitors, cafeteria workers, maintenance staff and teachers continued to publicly demonstrate on Wednesday.

Staff (2023-03-24). Archivo CD: Monseñor Romero: La opción por los pobres. cubadebate.cu Monseñor àìscar Arnulfo Romero fue asesinado el 24 de marzo de 1980 en la capital de El Salvador mientras oficiaba una misa, siendo nombrado mártir de la Iglesia en 2015. En este nuevo aniversario de su muerte, Cubadebate comparte en su homenaje el texto Monseñor Romero: La opción por los pobres.

teleSUR, dcdc, JCM (2023-03-23). Rusia tomará represalias si Ucrania recibe municiones con uranio. telesurtv.net La viceministra de Defensa británica, Annabel Goldie, declaró que Londres transferirá munición de uranio empobrecido a Ucrania.

teleSUR, JDO (2023-03-23). Gobierno de Colombia presenta proyecto de ley de reforma pensional. telesurtv.net Busca ampliar la cobertura pensional y beneficiar a cerca de tres millones de adultos mayores que hoy permanecen sin posibilidad de pensión y enfrentan pobreza.

ecns.cn (2023-03-23). Hurun Global Rich List sees drastic changes. ecns.cn The world's billionaires with a personal wealth of at least $1 billion reported the biggest slump in record last year, with the total number down by 8 percent to come at 3,112.

Sharon Zhang (2023-03-23). Republican Who Rails Against Student Loan "Bailout" Got $1.5M of Loans Forgiven. truthout.org On Thursday, Republican Rep. Burgess Owens (Utah), who has declared personal bankruptcy five times and had $1.5 million of his debt discharged, held a hearing aimed at attacking President Joe Biden's student debt forgiveness plan to forgive up to $20,000 of debt for borrowers. In the hearing by the House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, Owens railed against the concept… |

Alex Koplos (2023-03-24). International Working Women's Day in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez: "Down with patriarchy!" workers.org El Paso, Texas Young "feministxs" organizers held a rally and cross-border march in El Paso on International Working Women's Day, March 8, calling for the end to "machismo," transphobia and state violence against femme and trans migrants. Representative of La Via Campesina speaks on International Working Women's Day, El Paso, . . . |

WSWS (2023-03-24). Clashes erupt across France as police assault record protests to defend pensions. wsws.org As 3.5 million people marched against Macron's overwhelmingly unpopular cuts, a revolutionary confrontation is emerging between the working class and the capitalist state.

WSWS (2023-03-24). Bankstown: A microcosm of Australia's social crisis. wsws.org The social situation in Bankstown, with soaring rents and mortgages, stagnant or declining incomes and mounting social distress, shows that capitalism offers no future for the working class.

Nazz Aboutabl (2023-03-23). People's Action Proudly Endorses Brandon Johnson for Mayor of Chicago. peoplesaction.org Organization Adds Johnson to its People's Slate WASHINGTON, D.C.—People's Action today endorsed Brandon Johnson to represent Chicago as mayor. Johnson is running a movement politics, people-powered campaign and will work to govern alongside People's Action's member groups to advance wins for the multiracial working class. Johnson is also endorsed by People's Action affiliates The People's …

Rick Rozoff (2023-03-23). NATO commander inspects NATO-Georgia Joint Training and Evaluation Centers, plans joint war games. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Georgian Ministry of DefenseMarch 23, 2023 Major General Norbert Wagner was on a working visit to Georgia Commander of the NATO Joint Forces Training Center (JFTC), Major General Norbert Wagner was on a working visit to Georgia. The JFTC Commander was hosted by the Deputy Commanders of the Defense Forces of Georgia — Major General …

WSWS (2023-03-23). The global significance of the Los Angeles school workers' strike. wsws.org The three-day strike by 65,000 public school workers and teachers in Los Angeles, the largest strike in the US since 2019, is the latest manifestation of the growing wave of international working class struggles.

Santa Cruz News (2023-03-24). Mayor Keeley Targets the Homeless with Surprise Traffic Median Motion. indybay.org At the March 14th meeting of the Santa Cruz City Council, Mayor Fred Keeley introduced a surprise motion targeting homeless residents who panhandle on traffic medians (watch video below). Keeley's motion was not included anywhere in the meeting's agenda packet, he spontaneously inserted it into an unrelated vote on item #15, which concerned bicycle safety improvements and the removal of automobile parking on Laurel Street. Keeley stated the motion as follows: "Add additional direction that the City Manager return at budget hearings with a plan for installing safety devices that prohibit remaining on traffic islan…

Julia Conley (2023-03-23). Democrats Introduce Housing Is a Human Right Act. truthout.org Declaring that homelessness and housing insecurity is the result of "a structural failure of a country that has refused to make safe and affordable housing a priority," U.S. Reps. Pramila Jayapal and Grace Meng on Wednesday reintroduced the Housing is a Human Right Act and called on the federal government to provide $300 billion to end the crisis facing unhoused people. |

Marco De Ambrogi (2023-03-25). [Perspectives] Love and inequality. thelancet.com Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare's story of the two star-crossed lovers written in 1597 and set in Verona, Italy, has fascinated audiences for centuries. The appeal of the tragic fate of two adolescent lovers driven to a dramatic end by the opposition of their families continues to resonate among young generations. There have been many modern adaptations of Romeo and Juliet, including the musical West Side Story and Baz Luhrmann's movie Romeo + Juliet. Welsh playwright Gary Owen has now created his own adaptation, Romeo and Julie, set in modern day Splott, a suburb of Cardiff, in Wales, UK.

Sarah Anderson (2023-03-23). Where are the Women CEOs? Should We Care? inequality.org For the first time ever, women CEOs now make up more than 10 percent of Fortune 500 leaders. But that's hardly a reason to celebrate. On every indicator, white men still dominate the upper rungs of the economy, while women — particularly women of color — continue to be overrepresented in low-paying jobs. And even …

Matt Sà∏yland (2023-03-23). Inmates go on hunger strike over conditions at Illinois jail. liberationnews.org Hunger strikers' mothers speak to Liberation News…

Staff (2023-03-23). Palestinian prisoners declare victory over the jailer in advance of planned hunger strike. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes the Palestinian people and the prisoners' movement as the prisoners declare their victory in the "Volcano of Freedom or Martyrdom." In the late night hours of Wednesday, 22 March, the leadership of the prisoners' movement announced that the Zionist prison service had backed down from all of the sanctions …

WSWS (2023-03-23). Striking Los Angeles education workers speak out on second day of strike. wsws.org Unable to continue slaving away for poverty wages in one of the most expensive cities in the world, thousands of education workers, including janitors, cafeteria workers, maintenance staff and teachers continued to publicly demonstrate on Wednesday.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-03-22). 65,000 Los Angeles education workers are on a historic three-day strike. peoplesdispatch.org Workers are fighting for salaries above their current poverty wages, a demand which the the school district with a surplus of USD 5 billion has refused to accept…

WSWS (2023-03-22). 65,000 school workers begin three-day strike in Los Angeles. wsws.org Workers in the America's second-largest district, which serves 420,000 students are demanding improvements on short staffing, high workloads and class sizes and poverty wages, made worse by skyrocketing inflation.

teleSUR, dcdc, JCM (2023-03-23). Rusia tomará represalias si Ucrania recibe municiones con uranio. telesurtv.net La viceministra de Defensa británica, Annabel Goldie, declaró que Londres transferirá munición de uranio empobrecido a Ucrania.

teleSUR, JDO (2023-03-23). Gobierno de Colombia presenta proyecto de ley de reforma pensional. telesurtv.net Busca ampliar la cobertura pensional y beneficiar a cerca de tres millones de adultos mayores que hoy permanecen sin posibilidad de pensión y enfrentan pobreza.

teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2023-03-22). Putin responde a envío de munición con uranio a Ucrania. telesurtv.net La viceministra de Defensa británica, Annabel Goldie, anunció que suministrarán a Ucrania munición incluyendo proyectiles perforantes con uranio empobrecido.

ecns.cn (2023-03-23). Hurun Global Rich List sees drastic changes. ecns.cn The world's billionaires with a personal wealth of at least $1 billion reported the biggest slump in record last year, with the total number down by 8 percent to come at 3,112.

WSWS (2023-03-22). US treasury secretary Yellen pledges more money for the ultra-wealthy if needed. wsws.org Such is the fragility of the financial system that the operations of the "free market," through which failed investments are purged, cannot continue to function because any problem threatens to set off a collapse requiring the intervention of the state and its agencies using their capacity to create more money.

WSWS (2023-03-23). The global significance of the Los Angeles school workers' strike. wsws.org The three-day strike by 65,000 public school workers and teachers in Los Angeles, the largest strike in the US since 2019, is the latest manifestation of the growing wave of international working class struggles.

Fight Back (2023-03-22). Chicago mayoral election: Progressive Brandon Johnson against reactionary Paul Vallas. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – Brandon Johnson's campaign for mayor of Chicago held an event at Saint James Community Church on Chicago's South Side on Thursday, March 16. The event was organized by United Working Families, a movement group behind Johnson. | The purpose of the event was the launch of the offensive to win big on the South Side, the part of the city with the largest Black population. | Johnson was not well known across the city before he announced for mayor. The South and West Sides of the city were mainly won by outgoing Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Two weeks after the February 28 general election, in which Lightfoot cam…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-22). How China's Iran-Saudi Deal Transforms Geopolitics. libya360.wordpress.com Scott Ritter Just a year ago, the US was in the ascendant when it came to Middle East politics, working to isolate Iran by helping to normalize relationships between Israel and the Mideast Gulf states. The reality just changed — literally overnight — after China successfully brokered a reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Iran which,…

Staff (2023-03-22). The U.S. Owes Iraq "Just Compensation": Muslim Peacemaker Sami Rasouli on 2003 Invasion & Aftermath. democracynow.org As we continue to look back on the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we're joined by Sami Rasouli, an Iraqi native who immigrated to the United States over 35 years ago and became a successful restaurateur and beloved member of the community in Minneapolis. After the U.S. invasion of his home country in 2003, he moved back to Iraq, where he founded the Muslim Peacemakers, a group that works to promote and practice nonviolent conflict resolution and intervention. Rasouli also founded the American Institute for English in Najaf, which was destroyed by a 2020 bombing. He is working on starting a n…

WSWS (2023-03-22). Boris Johnson appears before UK parliamentary committee over COVID "Partygate" scandal. wsws.org The issue is not whether the serial liar Johnson misled the house, inadvertently or otherwise. Johnson, the entire government and the main opposition parties lied to the British working class as they took decisions that resulted in the deaths of more than 208,000 people from COVID.

WSWS (2023-03-22). UAW Monitor denies Will Lehman protest, disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of rank-and-file members. wsws.org The Monitor's denial of Lehman's protest exemplifies the fraudulent character of the election and reveals the total contempt with which the UAW, the federal courts, and the Monitor view the democratic rights of the working class.

WSWS (2023-03-22). How to fight back at Royal Mail—A meeting for rank-and-file workers. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party (UK) and the World Socialist Web Site will be hosting an online meeting of rank-and-file postal workers next Monday, March 27, at 7pm to discuss taking forward the fight against attacks on living standards and working conditions, and the victimisation of their colleagues.

WSWS (2023-03-22). Oppose president's suppression of local election! Mobilise working class to defend democratic and social rights! wsws.org The SEP and the IYSSE advance a revolutionary socialist and internationalist program to defeat the threat of dictatorship, and defend social and democratic rights.

Nadra Nittle (2023-03-22). Workers in Second-Largest US School District Demand Raises During 3-Day Strike. truthout.org At the School of Social Justice, Julia Quiroz is one of a kind: She's the sole bilingual teaching assistant. Despite her unique role on the campus of more than 400 students — 35 percent of whom are English learners — Quiroz's hourly pay is $16.91, not much more than California's minimum wage of $15.50. The income she receives from the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)… |

Jim Hightower (2023-03-22). Ailing Seniors Deserve Dignity. otherwords.org What's wrong with us? Our nation's moral compass, I mean. | I don't like being a downer, just focusing on wrongs, but some wrongs stand out as morally abominable, such as this one. | It's about hundreds of thousands of our low-income elders who, toward the end of life — when they're frail and most vulnerable — find themselves cast into a part of the Medicaid system that has been deliberately structured by Congress to subject them to needless deprivations and daily indignities. | These are our loved ones with serious health problems who need long-term care in nursing homes, and two-thirds of them rely…

Santa Cruz News (2023-03-23). Mayor Keeley Targets the Homeless with Surprise Traffic Median Motion. indybay.org At the March 14th meeting of the Santa Cruz City Council, Mayor Fred Keeley introduced a surprise motion targeting homeless residents who panhandle on traffic medians (watch video below). Keeley's motion was not included anywhere in the meeting's agenda packet, he spontaneously inserted it into an unrelated vote on item #15, which concerned bicycle safety improvements and the removal of automobile parking on Laurel Street. Keeley stated the motion as follows: "Add additional direction that the City Manager return at budget hearings with a plan for installing safety devices that prohibit remaining on traffic islan…

WSWS (2023-03-22). Dana worker says he became homeless after being fired on pretense. wsws.org Montel Mickles says he took an emergency vacation day to visit his sick mother in the hospital. He was fired from Dana, got evicted, and is now fighting for his job back.

WSWS (2023-03-22). The March 18 anti-war rally and the dead end of "pressuring" the Democratic Party. wsws.org Behind the demagogy and bluster, the perspective advanced by the speakers was a thoroughly bankrupt one: placing pressure on the Democratic Party, which is spearheading the war.

Jack Thomas (2023-03-22). Forecasting future socioeconomic longevity inequalities: the impact of lifestyle factors. healtheuropa.com Fanny Janssen, a professor in mortality and longevity, introduces the Future Longevity Inequalities project and discusses how her research could help inform future health policies. In Europe, people with high educational attainment live on average six years longer than people with low educational attainment. This inequality is, in itself, already an important societal problem. Even …

Matt Sà∏yland (2023-03-23). Inmates go on hunger strike over conditions at Illinois jail. liberationnews.org Hunger strikers' mothers speak to Liberation News…

Staff (2023-03-22). Randa Musa, wife of Khader Adnan, urges popular action to free her husband and all Palestinian prisoners. samidoun.net As the Battle of Freedom or Martyrdom approaches, with seven leaders of the Palestinian prisoners' movement having launched a hunger strike in advance of the 2,000 prisoners scheduled to begin their strike Thursday, 23 March, Sheikh Khader Adnan is on his 46th day of hunger strike. In a press statement by Randa Musa, Adnan's wife, …

WSWS (2023-03-22). 65,000 school workers begin three-day strike in Los Angeles. wsws.org Workers in the America's second-largest district, which serves 420,000 students are demanding improvements on short staffing, high workloads and class sizes and poverty wages, made worse by skyrocketing inflation.

ecns.cn (2023-03-21). Forum shares poverty alleviation experiences. ecns.cn Diplomats, government officials and scholars from 20 countries and a myriad of international organizations gathered in subtropical Yunnan province on Sunday to discuss how China's expertise in poverty reduction is about to benefit rural areas beyond China's borders.

Staff (2023-03-21). Remembering Mozambican Rapper Azagaia: Police Crack Down on Protests After Death of Cultural Icon. democracynow.org We speak with Dipti Bhatnagar, climate justice activist based in Mozambique, about the recent death on March 9 of the popular rapper and cultural icon Azagaia. He was just 38 years old. He inspired many with his music and sang about injustice, including mistreatment of people by the authorities, as well as about poverty and social injustice. Azagaia's death has sparked protests in Mozambique which authorities have violently suppressed.

teleSUR, dcdc, JCM (2023-03-22). Rusia tomará represalias si Ucrania recibe municiones con uranio. telesurtv.net La viceministra de Defensa británica, Annabel Goldie, declaró que Londres transferirá munición de uranio empobrecido a Ucrania.

teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2023-03-22). Putin responde a envío de munición con uranio a Ucrania. telesurtv.net La viceministra de Defensa británica, Annabel Goldie, anunció que suministrarán a Ucrania munición incluyendo proyectiles perforantes con uranio empobrecido.

WSWS (2023-03-22). US treasury secretary Yellen pledges more money for the ultra-wealthy if needed. wsws.org Such is the fragility of the financial system that the operations of the "free market," through which failed investments are purged, cannot continue to function because any problem threatens to set off a collapse requiring the intervention of the state and its agencies using their capacity to create more money.

WSWS (2023-03-22). 65,000 school workers begin three-day strike in Los Angeles. wsws.org Workers in the America's second-largest district, which serves 420,000 students are demanding improvements on short staffing, high workloads and class sizes and poverty wages, made worse by skyrocketing inflation.

ecns.cn (2023-03-21). Forum shares poverty alleviation experiences. ecns.cn Diplomats, government officials and scholars from 20 countries and a myriad of international organizations gathered in subtropical Yunnan province on Sunday to discuss how China's expertise in poverty reduction is about to benefit rural areas beyond China's borders.

Staff (2023-03-21). Remembering Mozambican Rapper Azagaia: Police Crack Down on Protests After Death of Cultural Icon. democracynow.org We speak with Dipti Bhatnagar, climate justice activist based in Mozambique, about the recent death on March 9 of the popular rapper and cultural icon Azagaia. He was just 38 years old. He inspired many with his music and sang about injustice, including mistreatment of people by the authorities, as well as about poverty and social injustice. Azagaia's death has sparked protests in Mozambique which authorities have violently suppressed.

teleSUR, dcdc, JCM (2023-03-22). Rusia tomará represalias si Ucrania recibe municiones con uranio. telesurtv.net La viceministra de Defensa británica, Annabel Goldie, declaró que Londres transferirá munición de uranio empobrecido a Ucrania.

teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2023-03-22). Putin responde a envío de munición con uranio a Ucrania. telesurtv.net La viceministra de Defensa británica, Annabel Goldie, anunció que suministrarán a Ucrania munición incluyendo proyectiles perforantes con uranio empobrecido.

WSWS (2023-03-22). US treasury secretary Yellen pledges more money for the ultra-wealthy if needed. wsws.org Such is the fragility of the financial system that the operations of the "free market," through which failed investments are purged, cannot continue to function because any problem threatens to set off a collapse requiring the intervention of the state and its agencies using their capacity to create more money.

Kester Kenn Klomegah (2023-03-21). Russia's Politics of Writing Off African Debts, Putin's Strategy of Economic Cooperation. globalresearch.ca

Peoples Dispatch (2023-03-21). Sri Lanka secures its 17th IMF bailout package of USD 3 billion. peoplesdispatch.org The bailout package for Sri Lanka under IMF's Extended Fund Facility (EFF) has been in the pipeline after the country defaulted on its foreign debt last April…

Fight Back (2023-03-22). Chicago mayoral election: Progressive Brandon Johnson against reactionary Paul Vallas. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – Brandon Johnson's campaign for mayor of Chicago held an event at Saint James Community Church on Chicago's South Side on Thursday, March 16. The event was organized by United Working Families, a movement group behind Johnson. | The purpose of the event was the launch of the offensive to win big on the South Side, the part of the city with the largest Black population. | Johnson was not well known across the city before he announced for mayor. The South and West Sides of the city were mainly won by outgoing Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Two weeks after the February 28 general election, in which Lightfoot cam…

Staff (2023-03-22). The U.S. Owes Iraq "Just Compensation": Muslim Peacemaker Sami Rasouli on 2003 Invasion & Aftermath. democracynow.org As we continue to look back on the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we're joined by Sami Rasouli, an Iraqi native who immigrated to the United States over 35 years ago and became a successful restaurateur and beloved member of the community in Minneapolis. After the U.S. invasion of his home country in 2003, he moved back to Iraq, where he founded the Muslim Peacemakers, a group that works to promote and practice nonviolent conflict resolution and intervention. Rasouli also founded the American Institute for English in Najaf, which was destroyed by a 2020 bombing. He is working on starting a n…

WSWS (2023-03-22). UAW Monitor denies Will Lehman protest, disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of rank-and-file members. wsws.org The Monitor's denial of Lehman's protest exemplifies the fraudulent character of the election and reveals the total contempt with which the UAW, the federal courts, and the Monitor view the democratic rights of the working class.

WSWS (2023-03-22). Oppose president's suppression of local election! Mobilise working class to defend democratic and social rights! wsws.org The SEP and the IYSSE advance a revolutionary socialist and internationalist program to defeat the threat of dictatorship, and defend social and democratic rights.

WSWS (2023-03-22). How to fight back at Royal Mail—A meeting for rank-and-file workers. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party (UK) and the World Socialist Web Site will be hosting an online meeting of rank-and-file postal workers next Monday, March 27, at 7pm to discuss taking forward the fight against attacks on living standards and working conditions, and the victimisation of their colleagues.

ecns.cn (2023-03-21). Scientists mull building underwater telescope to detect cosmic rays. ecns.cn Chinese scientists are working on a blueprint for a gigantic telescope to observe neutrinos, one of the most abundant particles in the universe, from deep within the seas or lakes.

Fight Back (2023-03-21). Against Trotskyism: The united front. fightbacknews.org Trotskyism disagrees with Marxism-Leninism on a number of important theoretical points. These disagreements aren't limited to the field of theory but have a real practical impact on the movements of working class and oppressed peoples. In our day-to-day struggles, we see them come up again and again. Practically, the question of the united front illustrates very clearly the glaring difference between Marxism-Leninism and Trotskyism. This is a question of extreme theoretical importance, with tremendous practical consequences, so we should examine it closely. | What is the united front? It is the organizational exp…

jamanetwork (2023-03-21). Preoperative Hemodialysis Timing and Postoperative Mortality in Patients With ESKD—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply The Letter from Dr Pal and colleagues about our recent study raises several important points. First, we agree that the ideal exposure would have been the number of hours between the last preoperative hemodialysis session and surgery. Unfortunately, this information was not available in our data set. In addition, our study included only outpatient hemodialysis treatments and nonemergent surgeries. Assuming these treatments and procedures occur during normal working hours, the estimated hourly ranges for the interval from hemodialysis to the surgical procedure are unlikely to overlap between different cale…

rebekah (2023-03-21). How Investors Accelerate the Affordable Housing Crisis. inequality.org With billions of dollars of cash on hand, and millions of working-class families unable to find affordable housing, corporations are increasing their share of the housing stock and expanding their portfolios. A 2021 report co-authored by the Institute for Policy Studies, Bargaining for the Common Good, and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund demonstrated how …

Rick Rozoff (2023-03-21). Georgian FM in Brussels to offer his country to EU, NATO. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Civil GeorgiaMarch 21, 2023 Ilia Darchiashvili Visits Brussels to Meet with EU and NATO Officials Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili is on a working visit to Brussels from 21 to 23 March. During his visit he will meet with the leaders of the European Union and NATO. According to the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs …

Tim Gooden (2023-03-21). Tim Gooden: 'The 8-hour day shows there's power in a union'. greenleft.org.au In his speech to a Labour Day dinner, Geelong Trades and Labour Council President Tim Gooden celebrated workers who won the 8-hour working day and proposed five campaigns the union movement must fight for today.

Santa Cruz News (2023-03-22). Mayor Keeley Targets the Homeless with Surprise Traffic Median Motion. indybay.org At the March 14th meeting of the Santa Cruz City Council, Mayor Fred Keeley introduced a surprise motion targeting homeless residents who panhandle on traffic medians (watch video below). Keeley's motion was not included anywhere in the meeting's agenda packet, he spontaneously inserted it into an unrelated vote on item #15, which concerned bicycle safety improvements and the removal of automobile parking on Laurel Street. Keeley stated the motion as follows: "Add additional direction that the City Manager return at budget hearings with a plan for installing safety devices that prohibit remaining on traffic islan…

WSWS (2023-03-22). Dana worker says he became homeless after being fired on pretense. wsws.org Montel Mickles says he took an emergency vacation day to visit his sick mother in the hospital. He was fired from Dana, got evicted, and is now fighting for his job back.

Sato Díaz, María Artigas (2023-03-21). 60,000 strike in Barcelona for International Women's Day. therealnews.com The degradation of women's labor and social standing is a global feature of capitalism. In Barcelona, Catalonia, 60,000 women took to the streets for a one-day general strike called by Spanish union CGT on International Women's Day, March 8. Women workers united across sectors to demand fair pay, an end to workplace discrimination, and migrant justice—particularly for the case of Spain's domestic workers, more than half of whom are migrant women. In the latest installment of Workers of the World, Sato Díaz and María Artigas report from the streets of Barcelona. This video is part of a special Workers…

WSWS (2023-03-22). The March 18 anti-war rally and the dead end of "pressuring" the Democratic Party. wsws.org Behind the demagogy and bluster, the perspective advanced by the speakers was a thoroughly bankrupt one: placing pressure on the Democratic Party, which is spearheading the war.

Binoy Kampmark (2023-03-21). Trashing asylum: Britain's 'illegal migration' bill. greenleft.org.au Britain's Illegal Migration Bill is bankrupt, unprincipled and modelled on Australia's cruel refugee policy, writes Binoy Kampmark.

WSWS (2023-03-21). Video: Workers speak out against war and inequality in NSW election. wsws.org One worker said: "The average person in China, or in America, or here, doesn't want a war. I'm glad this party is talking about it. Nobody else is."

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-21). Colonialism Created Food Insecurity in Haiti. libya360.wordpress.com Victoria Koski-Karell and Elio Dortilus Now Climate Change Compounds It. The U.S. must end its unfair trade practices and stop flooding Haiti's markets with food that can be grown locally. As the planet faces more climate-driven disasters, we must prioritize the safety and wellbeing of populations most vulnerable to their effects. Extreme heat, droughts, floods…

Staff (2023-03-21). Palestinian prisoner leaders launch hunger strike: Battle of Freedom or Martyrdom to begin Thursday, 23 March. samidoun.net Building on over 36 days of escalating protests, the leadership of the Palestinian prisoners' movement announced today, Tuesday 21 March, that they would begin the collective hunger strike today with up to 2,000 prisoners and more to come following on Thursday and the days to come. They are demanding not only an end to the …

Workers World. (2023-03-21). Phone Zap For Ohio State Penitentiary Hunger Strikers. popularresistance.org Ohio – People incarcerated at the Ohio State Penitentiary began a protest in mid-March and need our support to be successful in getting their demands met. Recently, guards at OSP have been forcing prisoners to stand in the showers for hours on end as a form of retaliation for speaking out. The protest seeks to end this form of punishment, as well as several other injustices inside the prison. | Without outside support and attention, protests like this one are much easier for the prison administration to sweep under the rug. It's imperative that the administration hear from as many people as possible, so that they…