(2023-01-15). RMT union directly colluding with UK rail companies to sell-out strikes. wsws.org The RMT and train operating companies issued a joint tight-lipped two-line statement reading, "We have had detailed discussions and we are working jointly towards a revised offer."
(2023-01-14). President Maduro Announces 6 Lines of Work for 2023 in Annual Address to the Nation. orinocotribune.com 
On Thursday, January 12, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, in his Annual Address to the Nation, announced the six lines of work his government will implement in 2023. | The lines are: | 1- Consolidate economic growth, diversification of the economy and generation of wealth with equality. | The president stated that progress must be made in "healing the wounds" and "the inequalities that have been created as a result of the economic war and illegal sanctions." | 2- Expand protection and social security to all the Venezuelan people, especially the victims of the economic blockade. | Misiones and Grandes M…
(2023-01-14). The Fun Way to Deal with the Debt Ceiling. cepr.net Like all good Keynesian economists, I'm a big fan of the platinum coin. The law explicitly allows the Treasury to print platinum coins in any denomination. That means it absolutely could deal with the debt ceiling by printing a platinum coin denominated for $1 trillion and selling it to the Fed. This would not count …
(2023-01-14). What is cardiac arrest? A Mayo Clinic heart expert explains. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Cardiac arrest, or sudden cardiac arrest as it is more formally known, is a medical emergency. It happens when an event, usually an electrical disturbance, quickly and unexpectedly causes your heart to stop working. It's not the same as a heart attack and is called sudden because it seems to happen without warning. Dr. Christopher DeSimone, a Mayo cardiac electrophysiologist specializing in abnormal cardiac rhythm, answers questions about cardiac arrest, the differences between cardiac arrest…
(2023-01-14). The French working class organizes to defeat Macron's pension reforms. mronline.org 
The Macron-led government is making a new bid to push controversial pension reforms, calling to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64.
(2023-01-14). Teachers union pushes through sellout contract to avert a strike in Akron, Ohio. wsws.org The concessions contract agreed to by the union effectively cuts teachers' pay and meets none of their demands for safe working conditions.
(2023-01-14). Australian rank-and-file health workers support Pampas pastry workers. wsws.org "We urge Pampas workers to vote 'no' to the UWU-management agreement and form a rank-and-file committee to discuss and develop a campaign for secure jobs, a real wage increase and improved working conditions."
(2023-01-14). Allied Community And Co-operative Shared Services (ACCESS). popularresistance.org So basically, ACCESS is a shared services platform and it provides a collective of professional services that are aligned with co-ops, nonprofits and other social purpose organizations. And we just have been working on this for the last year and a half. And the kind of the backstory to ACCESS — I was approached by the ED at ACCA, the Alberta Community Cooperative Association, and I was asked if I would be interested in writing a grant. And I think I was a month into the job there, and I wasn't quite sure what I knew about co-ops and, you know, even writing a grant application at that level. But once I saw w…
(2023-01-14). The Supreme Court Could Gut The Right To Strike. popularresistance.org The Supreme Court heard oral arguments January 10 in Glacier Northwest Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union No. 174, a court case that labor advocates say threatens the right to strike. | "The ability to withhold your labor is the one powerful tool throughout the history of unionization that has ensured workers can improve their working conditions," Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien offered in a statement issued the same day. "This right is now on trial at the Supreme Court," O'Brien said, calling on the court to affirm the rulings of lower courts. Noel J. Francisco, the Jones Day…
(2023-01-14). Monday 2/20: MLK Day of Service at the Farm. indybay.org Homeless Garden Project Farm | 100-198 Shaffer Rd, Santa Cruz…
(2023-01-14). Democrat Barbara Lee Wants Millions of Gov Funds For Billionaire Fisher's A's Stadium. indybay.org Democratic Party politician Congresswomen Barbara Lee is supporting spending $182 million of US DOT funds for GAP A's billionaire owner John Fisher's stadium project. While thousands are homeless in Oakland, she wants to spend millions on Fisher's privately owned stadium project.
(2023-01-14). DADA NEW YEAR: Tristan Tzara's Boom, Boom, Boom. mronline.org 
I know I'm not the only one thinking that our world has lost its mind. It's not easy being some relatively sane person nowadays. At the best of times, politics is bankrupt. At its worst, it's toxic, dominated by demagogues, liars and cheats. Their falsehoods fly wholesale, rarely disgruntling masses of people, let alone damaging a demagogue's political career.
(2023-01-14). What It Means for Hunger to Burn Through the Pentagon's Ranks. scheerpost.com 
Co-creator of the Costs of War Project and military spouse Andrea Mazzarino describes in all-too-devastating detail that a staggeringly over-funded military-industrial complex is, to use Eisenhower's phrasing, indeed stealing from "those who hunger and are not fed."