(2023-06-12). Saturday 6/24: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Poverty by America, by Matthew Desmond. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.
(2023-06-11). England To Trial A Basic Income For The First Time. popularresistance.org England is about to pilot a basic income scheme for the first time. Thirty people will receive £1600 a month for two years. The trial, which will take place in central Jarrow and East Finchley, seeks to find out what effects this will have on the lives of the participants. | Will Stronge, director of research from thinktank Autonomy, said: | All the evidence shows that it would directly alleviate poverty and boost millions of people's wellbeing: the potential benefits are just too large to ignore. | Indeed, this seems like an interesting and positive scheme to tackle the hardship millions of people face in…
(2023-06-12). New York Legislature Extends Session, Vote on Debt Relief Bill Pending. indybay.org Religion, Development and Labor Coalition Pushes Passage of New York Taxpayer and International Debt Crises Protection Act…
(2023-06-12). NY State Senate, Assembly Fail to Pass Taxpayer and Debt Crises Protection Legislation. indybay.org S4747/A2970 Bill Champions Vow to Pass Debt Relief Legislation Within Next Year…
(2023-06-12). United States: Rich, corporations win, environment, people lose in 'debt ceiling' deal. greenleft.org.au The "debt-ceiling crisis" provided the pretext for the rolling back environmental, economic and social policies, while corporations and the rich benefitted the most from the deal struck between the Democrats and Republicans, reports Barry Sheppard.
(2023-06-11). Republicans Follow Debt Limit Fight by Pushing More Corporate Tax Cuts. truthout.org After threatening to force the government into default over the debt ceiling, Republican lawmakers Friday introduced new tax cuts that could add at least $21 billion to the national deficit over the next decade. Three new GOP-backed bills would cut taxes for large companies, small businesses, and individual families while reducing clean energy tax incentives to pay for it. |
(2023-06-11). Behind the sharp rise in US resident physicians organizing into unions. wsws.org There is a growing militancy among physician-residents in the US who face crushing debts and are paid minimum wages while they carry the main burden of caring for hospital-based patients.
(2023-06-11). WSJ Celebrates Making It Harder For Poor People To Access Food. popularresistance.org After holding the economy hostage for months, some Republicans are going through a bit of a depressive slump. "We got rolled," is how one Republican congressmember (Roll Call, 6/6/23) described the outcome of the debt ceiling negotiations. "It was a bad deal." | But don't cry too much, guys! The Wall Street Journal is here to cheer you up, and remind you that, though you didn't get all the austerity you wanted, you did get to hurt the poor a bit. Maybe not as much as you wanted, but life's not always fair, is it? | As the Journal's editorial board (5/30/23) recently wrote: "One reason the deal is worth passing: T…
(2023-06-11). Behind the sharp rise in resident physicians organizing into unions. wsws.org There is a growing militancy among physician-residents in the US who face crushing debts and are paid minimum wages while they carry the main burden of caring for hospital-based patients.
(2023-06-12). Used car market set for shakeup. ecns.cn China's used car sector is expected to see growth as authorities are working to remove limits that have been impeding the sector's healthy development.
(2023-06-12). Dr. Thomas Binder: The entire modified RNA platform must be banned immediately. expose-news.com Thomas Binder, a Swedish medical doctor, warned in a video he tweeted yesterday that the pharmaceutical is currently working on transferring all vaccinations onto using the mRNA platform. "Even having a trace …
(2023-06-12). Clarios workers call for joint action to defeat strikebreaking by auto battery company: "All UAW members should be on strike" wsws.org Workers on the picket lines in Ohio and those working at a Missouri plant told the World Socialist Web Site that Clarios was deliberately mislabeling batteries to conceal that they were being manufactured by strikebreakers.
(2023-06-11). Behind the sharp rise in resident physicians organizing into unions. wsws.org There is a growing militancy among physician-residents in the US who face crushing debts and are paid minimum wages while they carry the main burden of caring for hospital-based patients.
(2023-06-12). Used car market set for shakeup. ecns.cn China's used car sector is expected to see growth as authorities are working to remove limits that have been impeding the sector's healthy development.
(2023-06-12). Dr. Thomas Binder: The entire modified RNA platform must be banned immediately. expose-news.com Thomas Binder, a Swedish medical doctor, warned in a video he tweeted yesterday that the pharmaceutical is currently working on transferring all vaccinations onto using the mRNA platform. "Even having a trace …
(2023-06-12). Clarios workers call for joint action to defeat strikebreaking by auto battery company: "All UAW members should be on strike" wsws.org Workers on the picket lines in Ohio and those working at a Missouri plant told the World Socialist Web Site that Clarios was deliberately mislabeling batteries to conceal that they were being manufactured by strikebreakers.
(2023-06-12). Stop the Campaign of Smears and Censorship Targeting Anti-War Meetings on Canadian University Campuses! strategic-culture.org By James CLAYTON | Are you a student at a Canadian university? Help defeat the attempts to censor anti-war actions on university campuses by contacting the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) and joining its struggle to build an international anti-war movement led by the working class. Email iyssecanada@gmail.com and
(2023-06-11). Migrant Workers in Minnesota Win Landmark Safety Protections. truthout.org On May 16, Minnesota lawmakers passed the nation's strongest Amazon warehouse worker protection legislation with the Warehouse Worker Protection Act, which ensures that workers can take breaks during the workday and have access to relevant quota and performance standards and data on how fast they're working. The bill's passage marks a significant victory for migrant workers — especially Minnesota'… |
(2023-06-11). Lula To Launch Social Programs; Part Of Stopping Amazon Deforestation. popularresistance.org The government of leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will launch a social program with economic aid to vulnerable families working in the conservation of the Amazon rainforest that is a similar program that was repealed by the previous president, the far-right Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022). | The program, called 'Bolsa Verde', an environmental version of the popular 'Bolsa Familia', will be implemented in 30,000 families in the Brazilian Amazon, but the government's intention is to expand it to other biomes, such as the Cerrado (the Brazilian savannah) or the Atlantic Forest, all threatened by deforestation and other…
(2023-06-11). Documentary: Unsustainable — The UN's Agenda for World Domination. expose-news.com Globalists in the power elite — working through the United Nations — are waging war against property rights, gun rights and capitalism to usher in a Marxist World Order. This war is …
(2023-06-11). Boris Johnson resigns from parliament after being found to have lied about COVID pandemic parties. wsws.org Divisions within the ruling elite are only the harbinger and an accelerant of the more fundamental conflict between the working class and capitalist regimes promoting austerity and war internationally.