(2023-06-23). Insights | China's poverty reduction experience instructive for Latin America: Honduran official. ecns.cn One of the main things that Latin America could learn from China is the strategy used for poverty elimination, said Marcela Arias, minister at the Permanent Mission of Honduras to the UN and Other International Organizations based in Geneva, on Thursday in an interview with China News Network.
(2023-06-22). 55 Years After the Launch of the Poor People's Campaign, Taking Stock of Interlocking Injustices. ips-dc.org 
New fact sheets by the Poor People's Campaign and the Institute for Policy Studies reveal disturbing data on systemic racism, poverty and inequality, ecological devastation, and militarism in every U.S. state.
(2023-06-22). Poor People's campaigners bring call to end poverty to Congress. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—Poor People's Campaign members and their allies descended on Congress advocating an end to poverty in the U.S. But on that issue and others like workers' rights and slashing the military budge, they got a mixed reaction. Several hundred of the campaigners and allies then rallied after a day of lobbying to hear colleagues describe …
(2023-06-23). CPSU campaigns to restore the Commonwealth Employment Service. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-06-22). The Unlimited Campaign Spending by Corporations and Billionaires Has Destroyed Democracy. scheerpost.com 
When corporations use their vast wealth to distort or seize control of the political process, they have ceased to operate within the constraints established at their creation. They are in violation of their own corporate charters and should be shuttered or sold off.
(2023-06-23). How Students Jumpstarted A Bold New Campaign For Debt Abolition. popularresistance.org The historic movement victory to forgive student debt won last summer is under relentless attack. At the beginning of June, the Senate passed a bill blocking President Biden's debt cancellation plan, which he subsequently vetoed. However, the plan remains on hold as the Supreme Court considers dubious challenges to it. Another blow came with the signing of the bipartisan debt ceiling deal that will restart student loan payments at the end of August. | In response to these ongoing threats, students are once again taking action — rallying outside the Supreme Court in February and organizing a sit-in at House…
(2023-06-22). Do Unjust Systems Want Student Debts to Continue Forever? globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-22). How students jump started a bold new campaign for debt abolition. nationofchange.org In response to these ongoing threats, students are once again taking action.
(2023-06-22). A new Third World debt crisis? The need for system change. geopoliticaleconomy.com Political economists Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson, and Ann Pettifor discuss the growing debt crisis in the Global South and the urgent need for forgiveness and system change.
(2023-06-22). Fight for Student Debt Relief Won't End With Supreme Court Ruling, AOC Vows. truthout.org With the Supreme Court expected to hand down its ruling on student debt forgiveness any week now, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) is vowing to continue fighting for relief for borrowers even if the Supreme Court strikes it down. In a press conference with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on Wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez said that lawmakers in the caucus, as well as the Congressional Black… |
(2023-06-23). Week Of Action Demands Stop Cop City! popularresistance.org Within a day of the massive community turnout at the June 5 Atlanta City Council meeting — where, despite 16 1/2 hours of public comment opposing the over $67 million of taxpayer money to build the militarized police training center in the Weelaunee Forest, the Council approved the expenditure — a new strategy to stop "Cop City" was announced on the steps of City Hall. | Representatives of multiple organizations, including Community Movement Builders, the NAACP Legal Fund, Movement for Black Lives, Working Families Party and Black Voters Matter, described the referendum process to allow the people of…
(2023-06-23). Sri Lankan government intensifies witch-hunting of Ceylon Petroleum Corporation union leaders and activists. wsws.org The ongoing persecution CPC workers, along with the victimisation of two Insurance General Employees Union officials is part of a wider crackdown on the working class by the Wickremesinghe government.
(2023-06-23). The economic, political and military logic behind the sellout contract for West Coast dockworkers. wsws.org After nearly a year of working without a contract, dockworkers are being told to stop any slowdown on the ports since an undisclosed agreement has been reached.
(2023-06-22). The Need to Reform American Labor Laws. scheerpost.com 
By Bernie Sanders / CounterPunch We are living in a moment where corporate America and the 1% have more economic and political power than they have ever had in the history of our country. The time is long overdue for Congress to stand up for the working families of our country, 60% of whom live …
(2023-06-22). FRSO fund drive surpasses $70,000. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – The Freedom Road Socialist Organization Fund Drive has now surpassed $70,000 and more money is coming in every day. | FRSO Organizational Secretary Tom Burke states, "The FRSO online fundraiser was a grand success. Now we need a push to achieve our final goal. The money we spend will make us bigger, badder and bolder in advancing the cause of the American working class." | Burke also urged local FRSO groups to follow up on folks who have made pledges. | To contribute to the fundraising drive, go to FRSO.org and hit the donate button. You can also donate by mailing a check made out to "Lucy Parso…
(2023-06-23). Week Of Action Demands Stop Cop City! popularresistance.org Within a day of the massive community turnout at the June 5 Atlanta City Council meeting — where, despite 16 1/2 hours of public comment opposing the over $67 million of taxpayer money to build the militarized police training center in the Weelaunee Forest, the Council approved the expenditure — a new strategy to stop "Cop City" was announced on the steps of City Hall. | Representatives of multiple organizations, including Community Movement Builders, the NAACP Legal Fund, Movement for Black Lives, Working Families Party and Black Voters Matter, described the referendum process to allow the people of…
(2023-06-23). Sri Lankan government intensifies witch-hunting of Ceylon Petroleum Corporation union leaders and activists. wsws.org The ongoing persecution CPC workers, along with the victimisation of two Insurance General Employees Union officials is part of a wider crackdown on the working class by the Wickremesinghe government.
(2023-06-23). The economic, political and military logic behind the sellout contract for West Coast dockworkers. wsws.org After nearly a year of working without a contract, dockworkers are being told to stop any slowdown on the ports since an undisclosed agreement has been reached.
(2023-06-22). The Need to Reform American Labor Laws. scheerpost.com By Bernie Sanders / CounterPunch We are living in a moment where corporate America and the 1% have more economic and political power than they have ever had in the history of our country. The time is long overdue for Congress to stand up for the working families of our country, 60% of whom live …
(2023-06-22). FRSO fund drive surpasses $70,000. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – The Freedom Road Socialist Organization Fund Drive has now surpassed $70,000 and more money is coming in every day. | FRSO Organizational Secretary Tom Burke states, "The FRSO online fundraiser was a grand success. Now we need a push to achieve our final goal. The money we spend will make us bigger, badder and bolder in advancing the cause of the American working class." | Burke also urged local FRSO groups to follow up on folks who have made pledges. | To contribute to the fundraising drive, go to FRSO.org and hit the donate button. You can also donate by mailing a check made out to "Lucy Parso…
(2023-06-22). "If You Challenge the FBI, they Will Crush You," Says Whistleblower at Congressional Hearing. covertactionmagazine.com Being an FBI agent was Stephen Friend's dream job. For eight and a half years working there, the Notre Dame graduate and Iraq War veteran investigated around 200 violent crimes, including human and sex-trafficking cases, and served five years as part of an FBI SWAT team. Friend did his job so well that he won …
(2023-06-23). Who's Unhoused In California? popularresistance.org Nearly half of all unhoused adults in California are over the age of 50, with Black residents dramatically overrepresented, according to the largest study of the state's homeless population in decades. | University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) research released on Tuesday also revealed that 90% of the state's homeless population lost their housing in California, with 75% of them now living in the same county where they were last housed. The study further found that nearly nine out of 10 people reported that the cost of housing was the main barrier to leaving homelessness.
(2023-06-23). Podemos electoral debacle in Spain exposes bankruptcy of Revolutionary Left (IR) group. wsws.org IR's complaint that "the 'progressive' management of capitalism has gone very wrong" amounts to an exposure of this party's decade-long support for the anti-worker Podemos party.
(2023-06-22). North Korea Slams Blinken's Recent China Visit as 'Begging Trip'. orinocotribune.com North Korea has ridiculed US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's recent visit to China as a "disgraceful begging trip," further slamming it as a failure of policy aimed at exerting pressure on Beijing. | The rare visit was aimed at begging for the relaxation of tensions as the "attempt to press and restrain China may become a boomerang striking a fatal blow to the US economy," said North Korean international affairs analyst Jong Yong in a column published by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Wednesday. | "In a word, the US state secretary's recent junket can never be judged otherwise than a disgra…
(2023-06-23). Detainees at Northwest Detention Center launch a hunger strike. fightbacknews.org Tacoma, WA – A small crowd gathered outside of the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) at 6 p.m. June 19 in solidarity with the detainees inside protesting inhumane conditions. The NWDC is a privately owned ICE detention center built on the Tacoma tide flats. The rally was called after a group of detainees launched a hunger strike early in the day. | The rally was hosted by La Resistencia, a grassroots organization led by undocumented immigrants that has been protesting the NWDC and supporting detainees since March 2014. | Activists kicked off the rally with a series of chants including, "Chinga la Migra!" and "How…
(2023-06-22). Hunger strike threat by Palestinian prisoners forces concessions. iacenter.org By Ted Kelly June 21, 2023 Over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, who had been held without charges by Israeli authorities, were poised to launch a mass hunger strike beginning on June 18. But in a statement by The Administrative Detainees' Committee of the Palestinian prisoners' movement, the strike has been postponed. Credit: Samidoun.net Why? Because the organized and coordinated efforts of the incarcerated Palestinian workers have already managed to win some concessions from the Israeli occupation forces. A statement signed by the Administrative Detainees' Committee in Occupation Prisons dated June 17, 2023, reads…