(2023-03-27). Peoria library workers don't want to live in poverty. peoplesworld.org 
PEORIA, Ill. — "We have a city that says its library system has to be predicated on working-class people living in poverty." said Anthony Walraven, Vice President of AFSCME Local 3464 in a crowd of union workers and community supporters on March 21. "There's hope…When working people get together in solidarity with each other there …
(2023-03-28). Rusia mantiene plan sobre armas nucleares en Belarús. telesurtv.net La razón de tal medida fue la declaración del Reino Unido sobre el suministro de munición de uranio empobrecido a Ucrania.
(2023-03-27). Banco Mundial alerta sobre desaceleración y riesgo de década perdida en la economía global. cubadebate.cu El crecimiento potencial promedio de la economía global caerá al 2.2% anual hasta 2030, el desempeño más bajo en los últimos tres decenios. La desaceleración tendría profundas repercusiones en la capacidad de las naciones para hacer frente al cambio climático y reducir la pobreza, advirtió el Banco Mundial en un informe publicado este lunes.
(2023-03-28). Saturday 4/15: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Debt, by David Graeber. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.
(2023-03-27). Report: Trump, Bush Tax Cuts Have Largely Driven National Debt Issues Since 2001. truthout.org Republicans' major tax cuts for corporations and the rich are overwhelmingly the drivers of current issues over the national debt, which the GOP is using as an excuse to force through cuts to welfare and government spending that are not contributing nearly as much to the debt, a new report reveals. Over the past two decades, increases in the U.S.'s debt ratio, or the proportion of the national… |
(2023-03-28). Major 1-day strike in Germany leaves all public transportation closed. mronline.org 
The ver.di trade union is demanding a 10.5% pay raise as a result of inflation, and requesting higher remuneration for overtime and night shifts, alongside improvements to working conditions.
(2023-03-28). Long live the working class of France: Vive la classe ouvrière de la France! workers.org 
The working class of France is in the streets, with millions of people striking and demonstrating. The proverbial straw — more like a whole big bundle of straw — was French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. Macron, who imposed this attack on . . . |
(2023-03-28). Autoworkers resolve to establish network of rank-and-file committees at powerful IWA-RFC meeting in Detroit Sunday. wsws.org Worker delegates at the meeting described harrowing conditions at their workplaces, recounted the deadly and ongoing impact of COVID-19, denounced the indifference and complicity of the pro-corporate UAW bureaucracy, and spoke passionately in support of the construction of a worldwide movement of the working class.
(2023-03-27). Report: Trump, Bush Tax Cuts Have Largely Driven National Debt Issues Since 2001. truthout.org Republicans' major tax cuts for corporations and the rich are overwhelmingly the drivers of current issues over the national debt, which the GOP is using as an excuse to force through cuts to welfare and government spending that are not contributing nearly as much to the debt, a new report reveals. Over the past two decades, increases in the U.S.'s debt ratio, or the proportion of the national… |
(2023-03-28). Major 1-day strike in Germany leaves all public transportation closed. mronline.org The ver.di trade union is demanding a 10.5% pay raise as a result of inflation, and requesting higher remuneration for overtime and night shifts, alongside improvements to working conditions.
(2023-03-28). Long live the working class of France: Vive la classe ouvrière de la France! workers.org The working class of France is in the streets, with millions of people striking and demonstrating. The proverbial straw — more like a whole big bundle of straw — was French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. Macron, who imposed this attack on . . . |
(2023-03-28). Autoworkers resolve to establish network of rank-and-file committees at powerful IWA-RFC meeting in Detroit Sunday. wsws.org Worker delegates at the meeting described harrowing conditions at their workplaces, recounted the deadly and ongoing impact of COVID-19, denounced the indifference and complicity of the pro-corporate UAW bureaucracy, and spoke passionately in support of the construction of a worldwide movement of the working class.
(2023-03-28). Defend Sri Lankan teachers' right to strike! wsws.org The president accuses teachers and principals of taking students hostage, but in reality, the working masses have been made hostages to the IMF with the Wickremesinghe government acting as its policeman.
(2023-03-27). Rural employee guarantee scheme workers continue sit-in in India amid government apathy, police repression. peoplesdispatch.org Hundreds of people working under the Indian government's rural employment guarantee scheme are carrying out a 100-day protest in Delhi over unpaid wages, an exclusionary digital payments and attendance system, and budget cuts…
(2023-03-27). Beyond Fatalism: Renewing Working-Class Politics. popularresistance.org "We need to ask ourselves," Leo Panitch and Donald Swartz stated in the third edition of From Consent to Coercion, "whether free pertains to those who do business or whether it pertains also to the majority of Canadians who do not do business." Their book, now a classic, focused on a critical expression of the tension between liberal democratic principles and capitalist realities: the substantive right of workers to strike. Canadian workers were officially granted the basic democratic right to form unions, but the substance of that right — the withdrawal by workers of their labour power — was regularl…
(2023-03-27). [Review] MASCC clinical practice guidelines for the prevention and management of acute radiation dermatitis: part 1) systematic review. thelancet.com Acute radiation dermatitis (ARD) commonly develops in cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy and is often characterized by erythema, desquamation, and pain. A systematic review was conducted to summarize the current evidence on interventions for the prevention and management of ARD. Databases were searched from 1946 to September 2020 to identify all original studies that evaluated an intervention for the prevention or management of ARD, with an updated search conducted in January 2023. A total of 235 original studies were included in this review, including 149 randomized controlled trials (RCTs).
(2023-03-27). 67 families homeless after massive landslide at Poonagala Estate in Sri Lanka. wsws.org Sri Lankan plantation companies, working with the government and the estate unions, have ignored countless landslide warnings and calls for the relocation of estate workers to safe areas.
(2023-03-27). US workers speak out in support of last week's Los Angeles schools strike, urge rejection of tentative agreement. wsws.org Workers need "social disobedience on a massive scale, like a general strike," one Michigan teacher said. "The important thing is unifying all the different groups of working people and not isolating them like the union bureaucrats tend to do."
(2023-03-27). Australian workers and young people speak out against war and austerity in NSW election. wsws.org Voters in the working-class southwest Sydney electorate of Bankstown told Socialist Equality Party campaigners the state election would do nothing to resolve the escalating social crisis or stop the threat of war.
(2023-03-27). "Everyone Wants A Raise When The Minimum Wage Goes Up" levernews.com 
(2023-03-27). Report Back from Sweep Defense in Houston, TX. itsgoingdown.org Report back from resistance to sweeps in so-called Houston, Texas from Space City Anarchist Organization. On Thursday, March 9, a coalition of around 20 Houston anarchists and abolitionists mobilized to oppose a sweep by the City of Houston, Houston Police Department, Harris County Sheriff's Department, TXDOT and Coalition for the Homeless. This sweep was part of a…
(2023-03-27). Over $100 Billion Withdrawn From US Banks in a Week Amid Bankruptcies and Closures. orinocotribune.com US authorities continue to affirm that the banking system remains "sound and resilient" despite decreases in deposits, the bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the closure of Signature Bank, and the crisis in the First Republic Bank, not to mention the crises in European banking conglomerates Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank. | Recent data published by the US Federal Reserve reports that between March 8 and 15, during the period surrounding the bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and the closure of Signature Bank, US banking customers withdrew $98.4 billion. | The data shows that the largest withdrawals, t…
(2023-03-27). Communist Party of Turkey, Left Party support for Kƒ±lƒ±àßdaroƒülu in presidential election exposes bankruptcy of pseudo-left. wsws.org These parties' support for the Nation Alliance candidate, who is as anti-worker and pro-imperialist as Erdogan, vindicates the Socialist Equality Group's analysis of these pseudo-left forces.
(2023-03-28). Racial discrimination, inequality getting worse in U.S.: report. ecns.cn Racial discrimination and inequality are worsening in the United States, said a report released by China's State Council Information Office on Tuesday.
(2023-03-27). The 'Pernicious Evil' of Racism, Discrimination, Hatred, Inequality. transcend.org 17 Mar 2023 – Three-quarters of a century ago, the world adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, emphasising that all human beings are born equal in dignity and rights. The 2023 theme of its 75th anniversary focuses on the urgency of combating racism and racial discrimination.