(2023-08-14). (Português) Ela Canta, Pobre Ceifeira. transcend.org Ela canta, pobre ceifeira, | Julgando-se feliz talvez; | Canta, e ceifa, e a sua voz, cheia | De alegre e anónima viuvez,…
(2023-08-14). Can We Measure Inequality without Tallying the Wealth of the Wealthiest? transcend.org 31 Jul 2023 – Hundreds of prestigious economists don't think so. The World Bank, unfortunately, does.
(2023-08-14). Nuclear Now—What Is Nuclear Power (Documentary). transcend.org June 2023 – Whether you're a seasoned environmentalist or a curious newcomer, Nuclear Now offers a thought-provoking look at the challenges and opportunities presented by nuclear energy. With director Oliver Stone's signature, style, and a wealth of expert insights, this is a must-see for anyone concerned about the future of our planet. And its present.
(2023-08-13). The Tesla Take on 'Sharing' the Wealth. inequality.org
(2023-08-14). US-Based Organizations Demand Blackrock Cancel Zambia's Debt. popularresistance.org On August 14, progressive organizations, led by the ANSWER Coalition and the Peoples Forum, will rally outside of the BlackRock global headquarters in New York City to demand that the multinational investment company cancel Zambia's debt. BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, holds the largest privately-owned share of Zambia's debt at a staggering USD 220 million. BlackRock is not starved for funds, owning USD 10 trillion in assets and dividends and investing in industries such as private prisons, fossil fuels, and pharmaceutical giants. | "[BlackRock's] refusal to cancel or negotiate a restructuring of t…
(2023-08-14). Is America Financially Sick? Credit Card Balances Hit $1 Trillion For First Time Ever. moguldom.com The financial health of the U.S. isn't looking too good, judging from Americans' growing dependency on credit cards. Americans have been increasingly turning to their credit cards to make ends meet. The result s that credit card debt has soared. Credit card balances have soared to unprecedented levels, surpassing the $1 trillion threshold for the …
(2023-08-14). Spain's capitalist parties all pledge austerity following July general election. wsws.org Whatever government is eventually formed in Spain, it will be committed to waging war on the working class.
(2023-08-14). UPS workers in Chicago and New York speak out: "Sean O'Brien talks out of both sides of his mouth and insults us with this garbage contract" wsws.org UPS workers in Chicago and New York spoke to the World Socialist Web Site over the weekend about the national tentative agreement, as well as the low pay and poor working conditions they face daily.
(2023-08-14). New Zealand intelligence report targets China over "foreign interference" wsws.org New Zealand's state agencies and military are gearing up for war with China, coupled with an authoritarian crackdown on struggles by the working class over declining living standards.
(2023-08-14). US Postal Service city letter carriers face cuts under next contract. wsws.org The "Delivering for America" program aimed ultimately to privatize the USPS is step by step implementing devastating cuts in postal workers' pay and working conditions.
(2023-08-14). Far-right Temecula school board in California sued over critical race theory ban. wsws.org The WSWS condemns the attempts of the far right to censor school curricula. The working class and youth must come to reject both the racialist narrative of the Democratic Party and the false pretenses of the far right to be defending unity and equality.
(2023-08-14). Buffalo: Starbucks Workers, Volunteers Hold City-Wide Pickets. popularresistance.org Buffalo, New York – As part of the Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) Bus Tour, Starbucks workers and volunteers in Buffalo, New York, demonstrated the power of the Starbucks unionization campaign in the face of corporate resistance. | To bolster their efforts, dozens of Starbucks workers traveled to Buffalo on July 26, to spread information concerning the company's egregious union busting and breaking of labor laws. The Bus Tour displayed working-class power in a united front for fair compensation and protection from Starbucks' actions. | Informational pickets were dispersed around Buffalo. Customers and passersby…
(2023-08-14). China denounces terrorist attack on Chinese engineers in Pakistan. ecns.cn The Chinese Embassy in Pakistan and the Chinese Consulate General in Karachi have strongly denounced an attack targeting a convoy of Chinese engineers working on a project at Gwadar port, Pakistan on Sunday morning.
(2023-08-14). Driven by family, fueled by hope: Mayo Clinic researcher fights against Type 1 diabetes. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Quinn Peterson, Ph.D., was a graduate student working on a team to develop new chemotherapy drugs when a life-changing phone call reset the course of his career. His daughter, Clarissa, had been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Neither he nor his wife had any known family history of the disease. "Given my background as a scientist, I felt a responsibility and an obligation to use my skills in research to address this complex disease — not only…
(2023-08-13). Chinese embassy condemns terrorist attack targeting Chinese engineers in Pakistan. ecns.cn The Chinese Embassy in Pakistan and the Chinese Consulate General in Karachi have strongly condemned an attack on a convoy of Chinese engineers working on a project at Gwadar port, Pakistan on Sunday morning.
(2023-08-13). US, Finland Negotiating Defense Agreement That Would See Deployment of American Troops. news.antiwar.com Washington and Helsinki are working on a new deal to govern the military relationship between the two nations. Finland recently became the thirty-first member of NATO, doubling the alliance's border with Russia. According to YLE News, Finnish state media, Helsinki and Washington are negotiating a new Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA). YLE said the new deal …
(2023-08-13). President Maduro Instructs Armed Forces to Increase Operational Capacity to Eradicate Organized Crime. orinocotribune.com 
Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro instructed the Venezuelan armed forces to increase their presence and operative military capacity to eradicate organized crime. | President Maduro gave these instructions on Friday, August 11, during a working meeting with the expanded General High Command and the commanders of the Strategic Region of Integral Defense (REDI) and the Operational Zones of Integral Defense (ZODI) of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB). | He highlighted the operational deployment of the FANB throughout Venezuela to combat threats from organized criminal gangs and to guarantee Venezuelans' sec…
(2023-08-13). No Longer the "Lone" Superpower. tomdispatch.com I recall forty years ago, when I was a new professor working in the field of Chinese and Japanese international relations, that Edwin O. Reischauer once commented, "The great payoff from our victory of 1945 was a permanently disarmed Japan." Born in Japan and a Japanese historian at Harvard, Reischauer served as American ambassador to Tokyo in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Strange to say, since the end of the Cold War in 1991 and particularly under the administration of George W. Bush, the United States has been doing everything in its power to encourage and even accelerate Japanese rearmament. Such a…
(2023-08-14). China denounces terrorist attack on Chinese engineers in Pakistan. ecns.cn The Chinese Embassy in Pakistan and the Chinese Consulate General in Karachi have strongly denounced an attack targeting a convoy of Chinese engineers working on a project at Gwadar port, Pakistan on Sunday morning.
(2023-08-14). Driven by family, fueled by hope: Mayo Clinic researcher fights against Type 1 diabetes. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Quinn Peterson, Ph.D., was a graduate student working on a team to develop new chemotherapy drugs when a life-changing phone call reset the course of his career. His daughter, Clarissa, had been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Neither he nor his wife had any known family history of the disease. "Given my background as a scientist, I felt a responsibility and an obligation to use my skills in research to address this complex disease — not only…
(2023-08-13). Chinese embassy condemns terrorist attack targeting Chinese engineers in Pakistan. ecns.cn The Chinese Embassy in Pakistan and the Chinese Consulate General in Karachi have strongly condemned an attack on a convoy of Chinese engineers working on a project at Gwadar port, Pakistan on Sunday morning.
(2023-08-13). US, Finland Negotiating Defense Agreement That Would See Deployment of American Troops. news.antiwar.com Washington and Helsinki are working on a new deal to govern the military relationship between the two nations. Finland recently became the thirty-first member of NATO, doubling the alliance's border with Russia. According to YLE News, Finnish state media, Helsinki and Washington are negotiating a new Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA). YLE said the new deal …
(2023-08-13). President Maduro Instructs Armed Forces to Increase Operational Capacity to Eradicate Organized Crime. orinocotribune.com Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro instructed the Venezuelan armed forces to increase their presence and operative military capacity to eradicate organized crime. | President Maduro gave these instructions on Friday, August 11, during a working meeting with the expanded General High Command and the commanders of the Strategic Region of Integral Defense (REDI) and the Operational Zones of Integral Defense (ZODI) of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB). | He highlighted the operational deployment of the FANB throughout Venezuela to combat threats from organized criminal gangs and to guarantee Venezuelans' sec…
(2023-08-13). No Longer the "Lone" Superpower. tomdispatch.com I recall forty years ago, when I was a new professor working in the field of Chinese and Japanese international relations, that Edwin O. Reischauer once commented, "The great payoff from our victory of 1945 was a permanently disarmed Japan." Born in Japan and a Japanese historian at Harvard, Reischauer served as American ambassador to Tokyo in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Strange to say, since the end of the Cold War in 1991 and particularly under the administration of George W. Bush, the United States has been doing everything in its power to encourage and even accelerate Japanese rearmament. Such a…
(2023-08-13). New Book Edited by Incarcerated Writers Explores Oppression Beyond Prison Walls. truthout.org "The precariat is not the equivalent of what we used to call the working class," National Book Critics Circle award recipient Eula Biss writes in the introduction to American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion. "More common now is gig work, with no set hours, no potential for advancement, work done through the interface of an app by workers who don't know the people for whom they're working. |
(2023-08-13). 'The leading class in the Philippine Revolution is the proletariat'. iacenter.org By Phoebe De Padua August 9, 2023 This slightly edited talk was presented July 31 on the Workers World Party webinar titled "Lenin and the working class." Go to youtube.com/watch?v=bNLB1b3tFKY to view the entire webinar. Phoebe De Padua Warm and militant greetings, comrades! I am very glad to be part of this important and relevant webinar presented by Workers World Party, which is focused on advancing the struggle for workers' power in the United States and across the world. Without a doubt, the leading class in the Philippine Revolution is the proletariat, the working class. History has shown that the Filipino p…
(2023-08-14). Teamsters blast Yellow leadership as company declares bankruptcy. liberationnews.org 
On August 7, the freight trucking company Yellow announced it is filing for bankruptcy, putting 30,000 people out of work. Yellow is a major player in the small-freight logistics industry. Before ceasing operations on July 30, Yellow was the third-largest carrier of "less-than-truckload" freight. Yellow truck drivers carried goods from factories to distribution centers to stores all across the country, producing $5.2 billion in revenue last year.
(2023-08-13). 14 Palestinian prisoners now on hunger strike to confront administrative detention as movement grows in occupation jails. samidoun.net 
As the struggle continues inside occupation prisons for justice and liberation, there are currently 14 Palestinian prisoners engaged in an open hunger strike to demand freedom from administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. There are over 1100 Palestinians jailed without charge or trial under such orders, over one-fifth of all Palestinian prisoners (approximately 5,000) …