(2022-12-13). Chinese envoy rebuts 'debt trap' charge on Africa. ecns.cn Beijing's top envoy in Washington has rejected charges that China has used a "debt trap" to secure influence in Africa, a continent that he said should be a venue for international cooperation rather than competition for geopolitical gains.
(2022-12-13). STOP Concession Bargaining! No COLA, No Contract! COLA & Housing for All Unions & Workers. indybay.org The United Front Committee For A Labor Party UFCLP opposes Concession bargaining No COLA/No Contract | COLA & Housing for All Unions & Working People | Time To Shut It Down With Mass Labor/Community Solidarity…
(2022-12-13). Railroad workers visit Baltimore Amazon fulfillment center workers to explain their struggle and appeal for support. wsws.org The railroad workers' experience has significant lessons for Amazon workers, who suffer intense working conditions like their railway peers.
(2022-12-13). Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin dies. wsws.org Jiang presided over the acceleration of capitalist restoration following the crushing of the Tiananmen Square protests in June 1989, with devastating consequences for the working class.
(2022-12-13). Australian election surveys point to "fracturing" political establishment. wsws.org Two reviews shed further light on the breakup of voting support for both Labor and the Liberal-National Coalition, especially among working-class and younger voters.
(2022-12-13). Karen Bass sworn in as Los Angeles mayor, plans crackdown on homeless. wsws.org The new Los Angeles mayor has already hit the ground running, declaring a state of emergency to attack the homeless while pledging to significantly expand the size of the Los Angeles Police Department.
(2022-12-12). British empire killed 165 million Indians in 40 years: How colonialism inspired fascism. multipolarista.com 
A scholarly study found that British colonialism caused approximately 165 million deaths in India from 1880 to 1920, while stealing trillions of dollars of wealth. The global capitalist system was founded on European imperial genocides, which inspired Adolf Hitler and led to fascism.
(2022-12-12). Dakar Manifesto: Africa: From Resistance to Alternatives, 2001. orinocotribune.com By Black Agenda Report Nov 9, 2022 | The 2001 Dakar Manifesto had a simple but unassailable claim: the total and unconditional cancellation of the odious African debt. | Two recent incidents demonstrate in unembellished and unambiguous fashion how capitalism, to paraphrase the great Walter Rodney, continues to exploit and under-develop Africa. First, the UK's Serious Fraud Office convicted a subsidiary of the Anglo-Swiss multinational corporation Glencore of paying millions of dollars in bribes to state-owned companies in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and South Sudan, in order to buy pri…
(2022-12-12). BIS warns of dollar debt "black hole" wsws.org The Bank for International Settlements has described the unseen borrowing used in foreign exchange markets as "huge, missing and growing."
(2022-12-12). BIS warns of dollar debt 'black hole'. wsws.org The Bank for International Settlements has described the unseen borrowing used in foreign exchange markets as "huge, missing and growing."
(2022-12-12). Kyeretwie Opoku: 'We Must Unite Our Continent'. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch Kyeretwie Opoku, Convener of the Socialist Movement of Ghana addresses the West African People For A New World conference. Photo: WAPO conference In his opening address at the West African People For A New World conference in Ghana, Opoku discussed the necessity of building working class unity in the region Last week, members…
(2022-12-12). As Long As We Are Here, We Will Keep Fighting. popularresistance.org On June 30, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, son of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, was elected in the presidential election in the Philippines. His coming to power raised concerns about the status of human rights in the country, especially when it comes to red-tagging and other forms of repression of human rights activists. | Viva Salud, a Belgian organization working to protect and promote the right to health, met with Tinay Palabay, secretary-general of Karapatan, an alliance that conducts research and advocacy of human rights, to discuss what the new government will bring to health activists. I fear that Marcos wi…
(2022-12-12). As long as we are here, we will keep fighting: Filipino health activists brave repression. popularresistance.org On June 30, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, son of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, was elected in the presidential election in the Philippines. His coming to power raised concerns about the status of human rights in the country, especially when it comes to red-tagging and other forms of repression of human rights activists. | Viva Salud, a Belgian organization working to protect and promote the right to health, met with Tinay Palabay, secretary-general of Karapatan, an alliance that conducts research and advocacy of human rights, to discuss what the new government will bring to health activists.
(2022-12-12). Australian "energy relief" plan to subsidise business while household bills continue to soar. wsws.org Even if the $230 "bill relief" eventuates—and that is by no means likely—it would make little difference to the cost-of-living crisis confronting the working class.
(2022-12-12). Notes on a Victory for D.C. Domestic Workers. inequality.org
(2022-12-12). Alertan sobre riesgo de violencia contra mujeres desplazadas. telesurtv.net Una elevada cantidad de mujeres, en especial de comunidades indígenas, sufre situaciones de pobreza extrema en el país de destino.
(2022-12-11). Making 'The Right To The City' Real For Urban Dwellers Worldwide. popularresistance.org This International Human Rights Day, as our mostly urban world is increasingly challenged by rising poverty, migration, inequality and climate risk, let us think about what it would mean to truly enjoy the "right to the city." | From the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the end of World War II to the ensuing drumbeat of further international rights covenants, conventions and declarations, the language of protection and universality of rights would seem to be ubiquitous and generally agreed. | Yet discrimination persists. In cities, it most often manifests itself against low-income families,…
(2022-12-11). UK postal workers speak on fight against Royal Mail and wider strike movement. wsws.org A postal worker from Tottenham said: "A group of billionaires want to have all the wealth and control the rest of us. That is what they want to do and we are saying no to it."
(2022-12-11). Biden Can Still Cancel Student Debt — Not Just Up to $20,000, But All of It. truthout.org I'm over $120,000 in student loan debt, but I've stopped lamenting. In fact, I've never felt more empowered. I won't be paying my student loan debt back and neither should you. Here's why: Not only should college be free, it actually used to be free in some states. The student debt crisis isn't about the personal failings of 44 million people who dreamed of advancing their lives through education… |
(2022-12-11). The Contra-Cocaine Drug Trade: America's Debt to Journalist Gary Webb. globalresearch.ca Today December 10, 2022 we commemorate assassination of San Jose Mercury News journalist Gary Webb. | This article by the late award winning journalist Robert Parry was first published on December 13, 2004 | *** | In 1996, journalist Gary Webb wrote …
(2022-12-11). Open Veins of Africa Bleeding Heavily. orinocotribune.com By Ndongo Samba Sylla and Jomo Kwame Sundaram — Dec 7, 2022 | The ongoing plunder of Africa's natural resources drained by capital flight is holding it back yet again. More African nations face protracted recessions amid mounting debt distress, rubbing salt into deep wounds from the past. | With much less foreign exchange, tax revenue, and policy space to face external shocks, many African governments believe they have little choice but to spend less, or borrow more in foreign currencies. | Most Africans are struggling to cope with food and energy crises, inflation, higher interest rates, adverse climate ev…
(2022-12-11). Rail Worker on Biden's Attack on the Right to Strike: 'They Declared War On Us'. thealtworld.com With Biden's urging, Congress voted to force rail workers to accept a pro-corporate contract, providing no solution to brutal work conditions and zero sick leave — a contract which the rank-and-file had already rejected. Their vote effectively denies their right to strike and collectively bargain. | Reese Murtagh, a CSX roadway mechanic and local chairman of Lodge 696, joins to explain the working conditions for rail workers and how the deal forced by Congress is an attack on all unionized workers' right to bargain collectively. He and other rank-and-file leaders are preparing a leadership challenge so next…
(2022-12-11). A Communiqué From The Liberated Dining Halls Of So-Called Santa Cruz. popularresistance.org Santa Cruz, California – The colonial capitalist university will never win. Union sell-outs and scabs will never win. | Here at so-called Santa Cruz, we declare and express our solidarity to all communities in struggle. Today, along with comrades across so-called California, we are engaging in a transterritorial attack on UC incorporated and what they call food insecurity, a condition created by their capitalist greed. These spaces, like the dining commons, are spaces we understand as battlegrounds of the ongoing war against subsistence, where proles take up the war against capital by expropriating dining halls a…
(2022-12-11). Acnur alerta sobre riesgo de violencia en mujeres desplazadas. telesurtv.net Una elevada cantidad de mujeres, en especial de comunidades indígenas, sufre situaciones de pobreza extrema en el país de destino.
(2022-12-11). ONU advierte sobre el aumento del hambre y la pobreza en el mundo. telesurtv.net El secretario general de la Organización de Naciones Unidas (ONU) denunció que están surgiendo nuevos desafíos a partir de lo que ha denominado "la triple crisis planetaria".