(2023-03-07). Wednesday 3/8: International Women's Day: End Women's Poverty – Invest in Caring, Not Killing w/ PPC. indybay.org Online rally for women's rights…
(2023-03-07). Subsidized Employment Can Help Fight Poverty in Good Times & Bad. cepr.net Nearly 15 million people in the U.S. who would like to work are unable to find a job right now—despite a historically low national unemployment rate.[1] This joblessness is not uniformly distributed across the country but concentrated in the most disadvantaged communities, particularly Black and Brown communities. A targeted, large-scale subsidized employment program can help …
(2023-03-07). Rally In Solidarity With Resistance To Cop City In Avon, Massachusetts. popularresistance.org The Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta is the proposed site of a massive police training facility, known to most as "Cop City." Cop City is the logical outgrowth of violent, racialized capitalism in the United States. Corporations and wealthy Atlantans believe that they need a large and well-equipped police force to tamp down "crime" in the city they are working to gentrify, and have thus contributed financially to this project. As landlords and cops push Black residents out, wealthy, mostly white neighborhoods like Buckhead demand ever more police intervention to keep them and their ill-gotten wealth "safe." With all t…
(2023-03-07). Economist Joseph Stiglitz on How War, COVID & Climate Crisis Cause Economic Crises Around the World. democracynow.org 
As the U.N. secretary-general blasts wealthy nations for rigging the global economy for their benefit, we speak with economist Joseph Stiglitz about how war, the pandemic and the climate emergency are causing economic crises across the globe. He also says interest rate hikes by the U.S. Federal Reserve are making things worse for the Global South, as the cost of borrowing rises for many countries already struggling with debt. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize-winning economist, Columbia University professor and former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. He is also currently the chief economist of the Roosevelt Ins…
(2023-03-07). Analysis shows major US oil companies raked in $290 billion in profits last year. nationofchange.org "With $290 billion in profits, Big Oil made enough money in 2022 to end world hunger, pay off U.S. medical debt, and build 10 Disney Worlds, but instead used their record profits to shower $163 billion on shareholders."
(2023-03-07). Wednesday 3/8: International Women's Day: End Women's Poverty – Invest in Caring, Not Killing w/ PPC. indybay.org Online rally for women's rights…
(2023-03-07). Subsidized Employment Can Help Fight Poverty in Good Times & Bad. cepr.net Nearly 15 million people in the U.S. who would like to work are unable to find a job right now—despite a historically low national unemployment rate.[1] This joblessness is not uniformly distributed across the country but concentrated in the most disadvantaged communities, particularly Black and Brown communities. A targeted, large-scale subsidized employment program can help …
(2023-03-07). Rally In Solidarity With Resistance To Cop City In Avon, Massachusetts. popularresistance.org The Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta is the proposed site of a massive police training facility, known to most as "Cop City." Cop City is the logical outgrowth of violent, racialized capitalism in the United States. Corporations and wealthy Atlantans believe that they need a large and well-equipped police force to tamp down "crime" in the city they are working to gentrify, and have thus contributed financially to this project. As landlords and cops push Black residents out, wealthy, mostly white neighborhoods like Buckhead demand ever more police intervention to keep them and their ill-gotten wealth "safe." With all t…
(2023-03-07). Economist Joseph Stiglitz on How War, COVID & Climate Crisis Cause Economic Crises Around the World. democracynow.org As the U.N. secretary-general blasts wealthy nations for rigging the global economy for their benefit, we speak with economist Joseph Stiglitz about how war, the pandemic and the climate emergency are causing economic crises across the globe. He also says interest rate hikes by the U.S. Federal Reserve are making things worse for the Global South, as the cost of borrowing rises for many countries already struggling with debt. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize-winning economist, Columbia University professor and former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. He is also currently the chief economist of the Roosevelt Ins…
(2023-03-07). Analysis shows major US oil companies raked in $290 billion in profits last year. nationofchange.org "With $290 billion in profits, Big Oil made enough money in 2022 to end world hunger, pay off U.S. medical debt, and build 10 Disney Worlds, but instead used their record profits to shower $163 billion on shareholders."
(2023-03-07). Why Student Debt Cancellation Is Reasonable, Not Radical. independentmediainstitute.org "Nobody's telling the person who is trying to set up the lawn service business that he doesn't have to pay his loan," said U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts during oral arguments about President Joe Biden's student debt forgiveness plan. Roberts continued his logic on behalf of this hypothetical lawn service operator, saying, "he …
(2023-03-07). Chinese FM denies BRI caused 'debt trap'. ecns.cn Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang rejected claims that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has resulted in debt traps, saying that the initiative has evolved from vision into reality, boosted development in partner countries and delivered tangible benefits to their people.
(2023-03-07). GOP's Debt Limit Plan Would Cost 2.6 Million Jobs, Report Finds. truthout.org House Republicans' plan to majorly slash federal spending over the next decade as a supposed "solution" to the national debt would likely cost millions of jobs and trigger a recession next year, a new report by Moody's Analytics economists finds. With Republicans in charge of only one chamber of Congress, the party has turned to the debt limit as a vehicle for their policy priorities… |
(2023-03-07). Australian "robodebt" lies expose how governments work. wsws.org Ex-minister Stuart Robert's extraordinary admission to the robodebt inquiry laid bare the reality that all governments, Labor and Liberal-National, lie and deceive the population on every front.
(2023-03-08). The way forward after collapse of School Strike for Climate movement in Australia. wsws.org The perspective of appealing to governments has failed. The alternative is a turn to the growing struggles of the working class to overturn the profit system, the root cause of the climate crisis.
(2023-03-08). Nina Turner On Dems' Working-Class Voter Problem. levernews.com 
(2023-03-07). Watchdog Files FEC Complaint That Fox News Broke Election Laws, Lied for Trump. truthout.org A number of bombshell revelations about the inner workings of Fox News have come to light as part of a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems against the network. Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News, has admitted under oath that many hosts on his network "endorsed" Donald Trump's false claims about the 2020 election for financial, not political, reasons, stating… |
(2023-03-07). In Video: In The CIA, We Didn't Give A Hoot About Democracy. southfront.org
(2023-03-07). FRSO and community organizations hold International Women's Day panel. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – On Saturday, March 4, around 20 community members and students attended an International Women's Day panel, hosted by the Tallahassee Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). The panelists included Delilah Pierre from the FRSO, Regina Joseph from Tallahassee Community Action Committee and Cas Casanovah from FSU Students for a Democratic Society. | The speakers covered a wide array of topics, ranging from combatting male chauvinism to the historic role women have played in working-class and revolutionary movements. | International Women's Day, originally International Working Women's Day, has…
(2023-03-07). What is False Consciousness? libya360.wordpress.com Marx Memorial Library False consciousness is a term used to describe the way in which exploited, oppressed or disadvantaged groups in society accept, assimilate and indeed actively defend or promote ideas which ultimately act against their own interests. It can apply to individuals, to the working class as a whole, or to sections of it….
(2023-03-07). Protesting pension reforms, French working class shuts down the country. peoplesdispatch.org The controversial pension reform bill calling for an increase in the retirement age from 62 to 64 is currently being discussed in the French Senate but was passed over to the Senate before it could be voted on because of disagreements about raising the retirement age…
(2023-03-07). Women's rights at the heart of the fight over pensions in France. peoplesdispatch.org This year's International Working Women's Day in France holds special significance because of a nation-wide call by trade unions and people's movements to bring the country to a standstill from March 7…
(2023-03-07). Florida's Fascist Legislative Agenda (OPINION). latinorebels.com The Florida Legislature has ceased to function as an independent body and instead serves as a rubber stamp for Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, the result of which is a slew of legislation that targets the vulnerable, diminishes civil liberties, and serves special interest groups at the expense of working people.
(2023-03-07). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Over the weekend hundreds of nurses in Toronto, Canada marched to demand improved wages, better working conditions and staffing.
(2023-03-07). South Korean government demands "normalization" of labor unions. wsws.org The Yoon administration is reviving old police-state measures in an effort to silence unrest and opposition especially in the working class as social conditions deteriorate.
(2023-03-07). UAW runoff elections end in debacle for bureaucracy. wsws.org After decades of collaborating with the corporations and successive governments in the systematic destruction of workers' jobs, living standards and working conditions, the affluent upper-middle class executives who occupy the union's misnamed "Solidarity House" and its satellites are viewed with contempt by the rank and file.
(2023-03-07). SEP (Australia) campaigners for NSW election speak to workers about cost of living crisis and war. wsws.org One young person said: "The working class are paying and giving money to the government and the government is giving it to the richer people so the richer people are going to get richer, and the people who are working have to work harder, longer, just to support that."
(2023-03-08). Interview with Houston activist fighting mayor's attacks on food programs for homeless. liberationnews.org 
Liberation News speaks with Shere Dore, an organizer with Food Not Bombs Houston. Dore has been advocating for the city's homeless for over a decade.
(2023-03-08). Three Women Discover the Americas' Best Kept Secret—Nicaragua! indybay.org Eyewitness account-inspiring trip Jan.2023. 50% of government is female. Met w/ Minister of Women, Sandinista legislators, peasant revolutionaries, agro-ecologists at women cooperatives, health pro's. Model of resilience, caring economy/society, alternative to capitalist corporatocracy. Preschool thru post doc free. Free health care. No hunger or homeless. Si se puede!
(2023-03-07). Thousands of Rohingya refugees rendered homeless in Bangladesh after massive fire. peoplesdispatch.org As many as 12,000 Rohingya refugees have been rendered homeless after a massive fire damaged more than The fire started in B-block of camp 11 of Balukhali at around 2: 30 pm local time, sending a huge plume of smoke into the air. According to the police, no casualties have been reported so far. The authorities, however, have said that they will not have accurate estimates regarding the extent of the damage for some time, the Dhaka Tribune has reporte…
(2023-03-08). Millions face 'hunger cliff' as food stamps cut. workers.org 
During the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused millions of people to either lose or be suspended from their jobs, Congress enacted an Emergency Allotment increase in federal funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). These additional food stamp benefits helped millions of people to get food and sustain themselves during . . . |
(2023-03-08). Khader Adnan enters 32nd day of hunger strike for freedom. samidoun.net 
Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan enters the 32nd day of his hunger strike for freedom on 8 March 2023. Adnan, 44, is married to Randa and the father of nine children, the youngest of which is one and a half years old and the oldest 14 years old. He is a former long-term hunger striker who …