(2024-12-24). A Global Minimum Wage Would Reduce Poverty and Corporate Power. fpif.org In today's world of widespread poverty and unprecedented wealth, how about raising the wages of the most poorly-paid workers? | This October, the In early 2024, the charit…
(2024-12-24). Organizaciones argentinas celebran Nochebuena con necesitados. radiohc.cu La Habana, 24 dic (RHC) Agrupaciones sociales argentinas realizarán hoy una cena de Nochebuena frente al Congreso para miles de personas pobres y en situación de calle.
(2024-12-24). Pabloite NPA hails pro-business Umbrella for Democratic Change's election victory in Botswana. wsws.org Amid growing protests and political dissatisfaction across southern Africa, the NPA is intervening to promote right-wing bourgeois parties and thus block a broader, united offensive in the working class for socialism.
(2024-12-24). Work/life balance for mothers. america.cgtn.com 
Working mothers around the world know all-too-well the struggle of achieving a work/life balance. And in the U.S., there's new data shedding light on just how tough their juggling act has become, and its toll on their mental health. | CGTN'S Poppie Mphuthing shares the story.
(2024-12-24). Firefighters Battle Overnight Fire on Mosley Drive. urbancny.com 
Syracuse, NY- On December 24, 2024 at 2: 46 a.m., Syracuse Firefighters were alerted by the Onondaga County 911 Center to a reported house on fire at 243 Mosley Drive. Firefighters from Station 17 on Burnet Ave arrived at the scene five minutes later and found a two-story wood frame structure with fire visible on the second floor in the back left corner. The Incident commander transmitted a signal '99', indicating a working fire. As teams of firefighters moved hoses through the front door and upstairs in search of the fire, other teams of firefighters prepared to methodically search the entire building. The caller…
(2024-12-24). Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to three years in prison. wsws.org The sentencing of the former head of state on charges of corrupting the judiciary exposes the degeneracy of the French Fifth Republic and the bankruptcy of the capitalist regime.
(2024-12-23). Ghastly Glimpses Of America's Most Rich-People-Friendly Year. popularresistance.org The good times — for America's super wealthy — are now rolling way past good. Our richest have in 2024 enjoyed their best year ever. No other nation's deepest pockets have watched their fortunes grow as large or as fast. | Elon Musk, of course, perfectly embodies this unprecedented surge in the personal wealth of America's wealthiest. Musk has entered 2024's last two weeks with a net worth spilling past $450 billion, nearly half a trillion dollars. Over the last 12 months, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index neatly notes, Musk's wealth has doubled.
(2024-12-23). Report: UAW made secret deal for unionization of EV company Rivian based on profitability. wsws.org The Rivian deal explicitly ties the interests of the UAW apparatus to the profit interests of the company's wealthy shareholders.
(2024-12-23). War Industry Destroys Our Lives. Manlio Dinucci. globalresearch.ca While the car crisis, aggravated by further US protectionist measures, puts 40,000 jobs at risk in Italy, and Italy's public debt has climbed to 139% of GDP and is still rising, Italy's military spending continues to grow: according to official …
(2024-12-23). Elon Musk's Opposition to Gov't Spending Bill a "Smokescreen" for His Business Interests: Robert Kuttner. democracynow.org 
After the Republican-led Congress passes a government spending bill but rejects a last-minute demand for a debt limit suspension from President-elect Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk, we look at the richest man in the world's growing influence, with The American Prospect editor Robert Kuttner. "At the end of the day, Musk got exactly what he wanted," says Kuttner, referring to Musk's influence in the removal of an anti-China trade provision in the bill. "It's a classic case of Musk rolling Trump. … I don't think this is going to end well."…
(2024-12-23). Trump's Debt Ceiling Power Play Is a Prelude to the Congressional Chaos to Come. truthout.org With hours left before the U.S. government was slated to run out of money last week, Elon Musk and Donald Trump took to social media to strong-arm the House GOP into abandoning a bipartisan deal to keep the government open. Musk — who has taken to behaving like an unelected potentate — aimed a barrage of postings at GOP Congress members who were thinking of voting for the short-term spending… |
(2024-12-23). Wisconsin judge strikes down Act 10, the law behind mass 2011 protests. wsws.org Act 10 stripped public sector employees in the state of their collective bargaining rights, allowing them to bargain only over wages—with increases capped at the rate of inflation—while prohibiting negotiations for improved safety, benefits, and working conditions.
(2024-12-23). The Strike at Kaiser Permanente: California Mental Healthcare Workers Demand Parity. counterpunch.org 
The extraordinary thing about this strike is that it really is a strike for patients and for the public's health, a strike for mental health care parity, a strike in a time of acute mental healthcare crisis in this country. Perhaps never before has depression and anxiety and increasingly suicide reached into the lives of so many people and their families. This strike is about equity in behavioral health care. The strikers have told me this time and again. They insist they would rather be with their patients, not on a picket line, but they can't keep working in a system that treats mental health workers like autom…
(2024-12-23). Netanyahu's defense's plan to exhaust the judges is working. haaretz.com The prime minister's legal team has successfully stretched the proceedings, forcing an irregular hearing to examine key questions about Netanyahu's awareness of alleged bribery in media coverage demands…
(2024-12-23). Resident physicians protest conditions at Detroit Medical Center. wsws.org Resident physicians who recently voted to unionized are battling Tenet Healthcare to win better wages and working conditions…
(2024-12-23). Residents working hard to help secure water ecology in Xizang. ecns.cn Thousands of local residents have been making contributions to the water ecology protection and restoration work in Nagchu, Xizang autonomous region, guided by efficient official governance.
(2024-12-23). The socialist attitude to the tragedy of Luigi Mangione. wsws.org The basic task of our time is the expropriation of United Healthcare and other major corporations by the working class in a socialist revolution, not "vengeance" against individual executives. Marxists oppose individual violence because it runs directly counter to this, replacing the action of the class with the action of desperate, angry individuals.
(2024-12-23). Rallies in Paris, Berlin and Cologne show growing opposition to the war in Ukraine. wsws.org It is necessary to focus this opposition on the working class and to arm it with an international socialist perspective, independent of the imperialist powers of NATO as well as the capitalist regimes in Ukraine and Russia.
(2024-12-23). Exclusive: Unite union staff branch passes unanimous motion condemning union's abuse of striking workers. skwawkbox.org 
Members of Unite LE 128 branch, which represents staff working in other unions, condemn their own union for its anti-worker tactics The Unite union and its general secretary Sharon Graham are embroiled in an industrial dispute with staff who claim her husband, who was promoted to a senior position shortly after she took over the …
(2024-12-23). Vandalism of Western Cape court condemned. sanews.gov.za Vandalism of Western Cape court condemned | The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DJCOD) has condemned acts of vandalism during a protest that caused extensive damage to the Bishop Lavis Magistrate Court in the Western Cape. | According to the department, protestors on Saturday vandalised the court, "set parts of it on fire and stole essential court equipment". | "We are working closely with the South African Police Service (SAPS) to secure the premises and prevent further damage. Additional security measures have been implemented, including the deployment of extra security guards and a 24-ho…
(2024-12-23). Trump's HUD Secretary Pick Has a History of Fighting Housing Assistance. truthout.org As Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Scott Turner may soon oversee the nation's efforts to build affordable apartments, protect poor tenants and aid the homeless. As a lawmaker in the Texas House of Representatives, Turner voted against those very initiatives. Turner supported a bill ensuring landlords could refuse apartments to applicants… |
(2024-12-23). Besieged and Bombed Amid Famine, Hundreds of Thousands of IDPs Struggle to Survive in Darfur. counterpunch.org 
The lives of hundreds of thousands in the famine-struck Zamzam camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) hang in the balance as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have intensified attacks on North Darfur state's capital El Fasher. Having overrun the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in the other four states of Darfur, the RSF has besieged this
(2024-12-23). A Quick Note on Trade and Inequality. cepr.net Oren Cass, the head economist of Compass, had a column in the New York Times today touting Donald Trump's proposed tariffs. The gist of the piece is that "free trade" has not worked out as economists' textbooks promised and we should look to take a different path. As someone who was very critical of the …
(2024-12-23). Why Are 14 Million Children Hungry in America: The World's Richest Country with the Biggest Economic Advantages. globalresearch.ca There are nearly 14 million children in the USA who suffer from food insecurity and hunger, or about one in five. During the peak of the COVID crisis this had come close to about 18 million (see The Conversation discussion …