(2023-06-17). Correspondence] Non-communicable diseases in Afghanistan: a silent tsunami. thelancet.com Afghanistan is experiencing an untypical humanitarian crisis resulting from a chronic 40-year conflict and political upheavals. This crisis has led to a rapid economic collapse, inflation, drastic rises in poverty, hunger, and risk of malnutrition.1 Afghanistan is suffering from the double burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases. Outbreaks of many communicable diseases such as acute watery diarrhoea, measles, dengue fever, pertussis, and Crimean—Congo haemorrhagic fever in addition to COVID-19 have worsened the situation.
(2023-06-16). 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.
(2023-06-16). Argentina's Main Problem is the IMF Debt: VP Fernandez. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Vice President Cristina Fernandez-Kirchner reiterated that Argentina's main problem is the US$45 billion debt contracted by former President Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). | RELATED: | "We need to conscientiously promote a dialogue between all political forces to address the issue of indebtedness with the IMF because that is Argentina's main problem, and we di…
(2023-06-16). Wall Street demands cuts at Yellow Corp as contract negotiations with Teamsters stall. wsws.org Yellow's investors are demanding further cuts to jobs and wages as the company faces bankruptcy with $1.6 billion in debt.
(2023-06-15). Biden Can Probably Forgive Student Debt Even If SCOTUS Rules Against Him. peoplespolicyproject.org In August of last year, Joe Biden After he announced the poli…
(2023-06-16). Communist message to Silk Mill rally: Ditch the Labour party! thecommunists.org Download a copy of this leaflet as a pdf. The Derby lock-out of 1833-4 is considered to be one of the key moments in the development of a working-class identity in Britain. Led by the trade unions, it was the first practical national example of the workers seeking to wrestle back a degree of control …
(2023-06-16). Cornel West's presidential candidacy is 'for the least of these'. therealnews.com 
Dr. Cornel West is running for president. In a wide-ranging conversation on The Chris Hedges Report, West lays out a political vision centering "the least of these." Rejecting the corporate duopoly and its two wings—a neofascist Republican party, and the neoliberal Democrats—West calls for a multiracial alliance of poor and working people against militarism, corporatism, racism, and all other forms of bigotry and oppression. | Editor's Note: Since the time this interview was recorded, Dr. Cornel West has announced his intention to seek the Green Party nomination for presidential candidate, rathe…
(2023-06-16). As Shippers Call for Biden to Intervene in Longshore Negotiations All Out on Juneteenth. indybay.org West Coast rank and file ILWU members and retirees are supporting a strike on Juneteenth June 19 until longshore workers get a contract. They have been working without a contract since last July.
(2023-06-16). Working Films and National Labor Leaders Announce Short Film Fund to Support Worker-Led Organizing. indybay.org Working Films, in collaboration with Amazon Labor Union, North Carolina AFL-CIO, Starbucks Workers United, Union of Southern Service Workers, and United Farm Workers, are issuing a call for short films to amplify workers seeking to have their voices heard.
(2023-06-16). Scotland: Social Movements Build Unity In The Struggle For Health Equity. popularresistance.org Health inequalities in Scotland are getting worse. The Scottish Government has an array of policies which suggest its apparent concern, but these have made little or no difference in practice. In the face of this, community groups and civil society organizations have been working hard to raise awareness about the causes of health iniquity and to identify solutions that could make a significant and lasting difference. While doing so, however, often they have been campaigning in isolation from one another. | Concerned about the apparent fragmentation of the vital work that is going on, the People's Health Movement…
(2023-06-16). WORKING FILMS AND NATIONAL LABOR LEADERS ANNOUNCE SHORT FILM FUND TO SUPPORT WORKER-LED OR. indybay.org Working Films, in collaboration with Amazon Labor Union, North Carolina AFL-CIO, Starbucks Workers United, Union of Southern Service Workers, and United Farm Workers, are issuing a call for short films to amplify workers seeking to have their voices heard.
(2023-06-16). Australian parliament dominated by recriminations over sexual misconduct. wsws.org The preoccupations of the parliamentarians, staffers, other members of the political elite and corporate journalists are a world away from the issues facing working people.
(2023-06-16). Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation boss cites WSWS article, warning union leaders not to give information to websites. wsws.org SLIC's disciplinary action against union officials for using the company's email service and for allegedly providing information to the media and the WSWS is a dire warning and must be opposed by all SOE workers and the entire working class.
(2023-06-15). Social movements in Scotland come together to build unity in the struggle for health equity. peoplesdispatch.org The recently concluded People's Health Assembly in Scotland brought together 20 organizations working on problems related to health inequities with the aim of furthering unity and fostering change…
(2023-06-15). In First, House Education and Workforce Committee Staff File to Unionize. truthout.org The Democratic staff on the House Education and the Workforce Committee announced on Thursday that they have filed a petition to form a union, the Congressional Workers Union (CWU), marking the first committee staff in congressional history to unionize. If the workers' union is approved, they will be able to collectively bargain for provisions like salary, sick leave and better working conditions. |
(2023-06-16). Homelessness: Structural Violence in a Rich Country. indybay.org The causes can be found in present social structures, prevailing property relations and mounting socio-economic crisis phenomena. Nowhere does the capitalist economic system fail so blatantly as in the supply of living space since apartments in Germany are treated like sausages, wall tapestries and throwaway handkerchiefs.
(2023-06-16). Tuesday 6/20: Seniors Are the Fastest-Growing Homeless Group. They Badly Need Services. indybay.org us02web.zoom.us/j/86465752525?pwdTzh1YVh5SE9mdWkzdjI2clZrVEczdz09; Meeting ID: 864 6575 2525; Passcode: 465295…
(2023-06-16). What It's Like Experiencing Homelessness in the Pacific Northwest. progressive.org
(2023-06-16). Properties of El Salvador's former president seized. plenglish.com Former president Cristiani (1989-1994) governed the country for the Nationalist Republican Alliance Party (ARENA) and according to his critics, he came to power bankrupt and left as a millionaire. | The former president is today the target of the anti-corruption campaign launched by President Nayib Bukele on June 1 during his message to the nation for his four years in office. | According to Bukele, the increase in the amount occupied is due to the fact that Droguería Santa Lucía was valued at what the building was worth, but it is a company that sells tens of millions of dollars a year, and also has inventories…