(2023-06-21). 55 Years After the Launch of the Poor People's Campaign, Taking Stock of Interlocking Injustices. inequality.org Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders launched a Poor People's Campaign in 1968 to tackle what he called the "Triplets of Evil" — systemic racism, poverty, and militarism. Fifty years later, activists revived this multi-racial fusion movement to carry on the fight against these injustices, as well as the growing …
(2023-06-20). Connecticut group home workers end strike but continue struggle against poverty. peoplesworld.org 
HARTFORD, Conn.—While their struggle to end poverty continues, group home and day program members of SEIU 1199NE agreed to new contracts at six agencies, ending a weeks-long strike. The new contracts cover the next two years, starting on July 1, 2023, with an option to reopen negotiations after the first year. Direct care providers will …
(2023-06-21). Presidente Lula mantendrá un encuentro con el papa Francisco. telesurtv.net Brasil y el Vaticano convergen en temas de paz y seguridad internacional, derechos humanos, refugiados, combate al hambre y a la pobreza.
(2023-06-21). CPSU campaigns to restore the Commonwealth Employment Service. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-06-21). Capital in the 2020s (with Thomas Piketty). indybay.org Inequality is not an accident. It's not like the weather. It actually is being driven by the way capitalism is functioning. You know what we need? We need state intervention, we need government action, and we need that to be very, very, very big. That is when he proposes a policy that seems like it's common sense now, but at the time, the idea of a wealth tax of 2 percent sounds radical.
(2023-06-20). Raleigh, NC community members fight to save mosque, resist gentrification at Shaw University. liberationnews.org 
Raleigh, North Carolina residents have come together to protest the rezoning and development of Shaw University, speaking out at the April and May city council meetings and pushing back against the wealthy investors and realtors who stand to profit if the plan goes forward. | The public pressure campaign has already successfully forced Raleigh City Council to postpone their decision on the rezoning application a few times. Now, they are set to decide on Tuesday, June 20th.
(2023-06-21). Did The Debt Ceiling Deal Really Save The US From Bankruptcy? popularresistance.org So as far as the debt ceiling is concerned, there has been a pattern which has become a classic of sorts, with just days to go before the day that the Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the US would run out of cash to meet its obligations, President Biden and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy reached a bipartisan deal which is going to permit the government to keep borrowing in return for certain cuts in spending, social spending in particular, that the Republicans insisted on. | The catastrophic disaster predicted by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in the weeks leading up to the negotiations and the deadlin…
(2023-06-20). The Ultimate All-American Slush Fund. tomdispatch.com On June 3rd, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that lifted the government's debt ceiling and capped some categories of government spending. The big winner was — surprise, surprise! — the Pentagon. Congress spared military-related programs any cuts while freezing all other categories of discretionary spending at the fiscal year 2023 level (except support for veterans). Indeed, lawmakers set the budget for the Pentagon and for other national security programs like nuclear-related work developing nuclear warheads at the Department of Energy at the level requested in the administration's Fiscal Y…
(2023-06-20). If We Don't Rein In Pentagon Spending Now, It Will Keep Increasing in the Future. truthout.org On June 3rd, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that lifted the government's debt ceiling and capped some categories of government spending. The big winner was — surprise, surprise! — the Pentagon. Congress spared military-related programs any cuts while freezing all other categories of discretionary spending at the fiscal year 2023 level (except support for veterans). Indeed… |
(2023-06-20). Haiti: Stop the destruction of a Nation. mronline.org 
Ever since the Haitian people successfully overthrew slavery and colonialism in 1804, they have been subjected to interventions and policies by the French and U.S. governments—from devastating "debt" collection to brutal military occupation, from coups to neocolonial puppet dictatorships—designed to destroy their existence as sovereign people, as an independent nation.
(2023-06-20). Ruling elite regroups while Sri Lankans drown in debt and austerity. greenleft.org.au 
As Sri Lanka approaches the anniversary of former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa's resignation in July last year, following a popular uprising, the social struggle continues, reports Janaka Biyanwila.
(2023-06-21). The Clarios strike and its lessons for the working class. wsws.org The Holland, Ohio workers fought a 40-day strike against the world's largest auto battery maker and the treachery of the United Auto Workers bureaucracy.
(2023-06-20). Canada's labor movement faces an uphill climb. therealnews.com 
From May 8-12, the 30th Constitutional Convention of the Canadian Labour Congress took place in Montréal. Reporting for Working People and The Real News Network, Max attended the convention and spoke with a number of rank-and-file workers, organizers, and union officers about the state of the labor movement in Canada. | In Part 2 of our two-part dispatch from the CLC, we talk to: Nora Loreto, writer, editor, organizer, podcaster, co-host of Sandy and Nora Talk Politics with Sandy Hudson, and author of numerous books, including Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic, and T…
(2023-06-20). Britain's pseudo-left groups mount phoney "rank-and-file" initiatives in defence of trade union bureaucracy. wsws.org The situation demands the creation of a genuine rank-and-file movement in the working class, not of groups seeking to pressurise the existing bureaucratic leaderships, tasked with organising an insurgent movement of union members against the bureaucracy.
(2023-06-20). Sri Lankan SEP demonstrates in Colombo against privatisation and government repression. wsws.org The protest was part of the SEP's campaign to mobilise the working class against the government's austerity measures on the basis of a socialist program.
(2023-06-20). Ruling elite regroups while Sri Lankans drown in debt and austerity. greenleft.org.au As Sri Lanka approaches the anniversary of former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa's resignation in July last year, following a popular uprising, the social struggle continues, reports Janaka Biyanwila.
(2023-06-21). The Clarios strike and its lessons for the working class. wsws.org The Holland, Ohio workers fought a 40-day strike against the world's largest auto battery maker and the treachery of the United Auto Workers bureaucracy.
(2023-06-20). Canada's labor movement faces an uphill climb. therealnews.com From May 8-12, the 30th Constitutional Convention of the Canadian Labour Congress took place in Montréal. Reporting for Working People and The Real News Network, Max attended the convention and spoke with a number of rank-and-file workers, organizers, and union officers about the state of the labor movement in Canada. | In Part 2 of our two-part dispatch from the CLC, we talk to: Nora Loreto, writer, editor, organizer, podcaster, co-host of Sandy and Nora Talk Politics with Sandy Hudson, and author of numerous books, including Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic, and T…
(2023-06-20). Britain's pseudo-left groups mount phoney "rank-and-file" initiatives in defence of trade union bureaucracy. wsws.org The situation demands the creation of a genuine rank-and-file movement in the working class, not of groups seeking to pressurise the existing bureaucratic leaderships, tasked with organising an insurgent movement of union members against the bureaucracy.
(2023-06-20). Sri Lankan SEP demonstrates in Colombo against privatisation and government repression. wsws.org The protest was part of the SEP's campaign to mobilise the working class against the government's austerity measures on the basis of a socialist program.
(2023-06-20). Event on FRSO program held in Orlando. fightbacknews.org Orlando, FL – On July 3, the Orlando District of Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) held a Political Program release discussion at a meeting attended by over 30 people representing other progressive forces in the area. | In an effort to build a unified progressive base in Orlando, FRSO Orlando members Jacob Muldoon, Edmund Anglero and Diego Gonzalez discussed the history of struggle in the United States, FRSO and their goal of building a new communist party, and the united front against monopoly capitalism. | "FRSO believes that only through a strategic alliance of the oppressed nations and working clas…
(2023-06-20). "The Doomsday Machine": Confessions of Daniel Ellsberg, Former Nuclear War Planner. democracynow.org 
Daniel Ellsberg was best known for leaking the Pentagon Papers, but he was also a lifelong anti-nuclear activist, stemming from his time working as a nuclear planner for the U.S. government. In December 2017, he joined us to discuss his memoir, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. "This was an actual war plan for how we would use the existing weapons," he noted, "many of which I had seen already that time."…
(2023-06-20). RIP Daniel Ellsberg: "Most Dangerous Man in America" on Leaking Pentagon Papers, Exposing Gov't Lies. democracynow.org 
We remember the life and legacy of Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who died Friday at the age of 92, just months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, then a top military strategist working for the RAND Corporation, risked life in prison by secretly copying and then leaking 7,000 pages of top-secret documents outlining the secret history of the U.S. War in Vietnam. The leak would end up helping to take down President Nixon, accelerate the end of the War in Vietnam and lead to a major victory for press freedom. Henry Kissinger once called Ellsberg "the most da…
(2023-06-20). Socialist Eugene V. Debs celebrated in a graphic biography. peoplesworld.org 
Bernie Sanders called him "the most effective and popular leader that the American working class has ever had… one of the most important Americans of the 20th century." Yet his face has never appeared on a U.S. postage stamp, an achievement emblematic of having "made it" in the American history books. We speak of the …
(2023-06-21). UN: 20 Million USD for Urgent Food Aid Campaign in NE Nigeria. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres, said that the UN allocated 20 million U.S. dollars for an urgent food security and nutrition campaign for hunger-hit northeast Nigeria. | Related: | With $9 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund and $11 million from the Nigeria Humanitarian Fund, "we will support the government-led response efforts across B…