(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.
(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.
(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.
(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…
(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.
(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."
(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.
(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… |
(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.
(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.
(2023-03-27). "Everyone Wants A Raise When The Minimum Wage Goes Up" levernews.com 
(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.
(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… |
(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.
(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.
(2023-03-27). "Everyone Wants A Raise When The Minimum Wage Goes Up" levernews.com
(2023-03-26). Bankrupt Banks, Food Crisis, Mandatory Vaccine and Our Grim Future. "This Time, the Virus has Infected Money Itself" globalresearch.ca
(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.