(2024-05-15). French Rail Workers Share Their Struggle For Better Conditions. popularresistance.org The French railway workers have been under constant all-round attack for the past two decades, as has the entire French working class. The ruling class has been on the offensive to try to destroy everything French labour has fought to win with the CGT union since the aftermath of the Second World War. In the crosshairs of our class enemies is our social security system, our right to benefit from pensions at a decent age, our right to job security and protection against unfair dismissal, and our capacity to forge collective agreements that currently cover 95% of the workforce, both in the private and public sector…
(2024-05-15). Banks Financed Fossil Fuels By $6.9 Trillion Since The Paris Agreement. popularresistance.org The 15th annual Banking on Climate Chaos (BOCC) report employs a new, expanded data set that credits each bank making financial contributions to a deal instead of only crediting banks in leading roles. It cuts through greenwash, covering the world's top 60 banks' lending and underwriting to over 4,200 fossil fuel companies and the financing of companies causing the degradation of the Amazon and Arctic. Backgrounder of the report's key findings can be found here. | Since the Paris Agreement in 2016, the world's 60 largest private banks financed fossil fuels with USD $6.9 trillion. Nearly half — $3.3 trillion…
(2024-05-15). As strike vote against police crackdown continues, students and educators oppose UAW stalling. wsws.org Only through the mobilization of the working class, which creates all of society's wealth, can the genocide in Gaza and other criminal wars be stopped. At the same time, the broadening of the struggle will also give grad students the strongest possible position to resist attempts by the UAW bureaucracy to limit or prevent a strike.
(2024-05-15). Hunger striking royal reform activist dies in custody in Thailand. aljazeera.com Netiporn Sanesangkhom had been in jail since her arrest in January under Thailand's strict royal defamation laws.
(2024-05-15). Deposed former Gabonese president declares hunger strike. plenglish.com Libreville, May 15 (Prensa Latina) The deposed former Gabonese president, Ali Bongo, announced the start of a hunger strike in protest against the alleged acts of torture and kidnapping against him and his family, by the military authorities that govern his country.
(2024-05-15). Southeast Asian Financial Scams Can Begin with a "Simple" Text. indybay.org It may start out ubiquitous, but those innocent or inquiring text messages from unknown numbers that suddenly appear on your phone saying "Hello" or "Is this Stephanie's phone number?" are a disaster lurking in disguise. Not to be left out of the equation, too, are Facebook, LinkedIn and other social media platforms that offer ads promising jobs working from home and investment opportunities, along with access to online gambling that are all part of scams run by Southeast Asian transnational crime syndicates.
(2024-05-15). Wednesday 9/18: Justin Pearson: No Justice Without Climate Justice. indybay.org The Commonwealth Club of California | 110 The Embarcadero | Taube Family Auditorium | San Francisco, CA 94105 | Or join the event online…
(2024-05-15). Student Debt Crisis Would Likely Worsen Under a Second Trump Administration. cepr.net The crisis of student debt has reached proportions never before seen in the United States. Collectively, students owed $1.6 trillion in federal student loans at the end of 2023. However, that total is slightly lower than it was two years prior, thanks to some proactive actions from the Biden administration. The administration has pursued a …
(2024-05-15). In OtherWords: May 15, 2024. otherwords.org Not long ago, the government barred former Pioneer Oil CEO Scott Sheffield from joining the board of ExxonMobil because Sheffield had allegedly colluded with OPEC to fix oil prices — and squeeze working Americans at the pump. | But Big Oil isn't the only industry that's been gouging consumers since the pandemic,
(2024-05-15). UN experts on people of African descent visit Colombia. plenglish.com Bogota, May 15 (Prensa Latina) The United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent is on a second day of work visit in Colombia on Wednesday until May 24.
(2024-05-15). Tunisia discusses integrated computer applications for agricultural processes. tvbrics.com 
The joint ministerial working session is devoted to the supply of chemical fertilisers for a smooth agricultural season…
(2024-05-15). Oppose imperialist War! SEP/IYSSE public meeting in Sri Lanka. wsws.org The only social force capable of halting the drive to world war is the international working class which is coming into struggle in Sri Lanka and around the world.
(2024-05-15). UPDATE: UAW calls off strike at University of Washington after less than one day. wsws.org The eruption of a strike by 6,000 UW workers points to the immense potential for the growing movement against war with the massive opposition in the working class to exploitation and inequality.
(2024-05-15). Australian Labor government's budget benefits the corporate elite behind token "cost-of-living relief" wsws.org Facing an election within 12 months, the Labor administration is desperately trying to head off working-class disaffection over the intensifying cost-of-living crisis.
(2024-05-15). India's income inequality widens, should wealth be redistributed? aljazeera.com Rising income inequality is a hot topic dominating the national elections.
(2024-05-15). Croydon Woods has earned awards for environmental stewardship. It's a toxic Superfund site. whyy.org 
From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? For more than 30 years, Connie Storz has kept an eye on an 88-acre parcel of woods next to the Keystone Elementary School in Croydon, Bucks County. As a school administrator, she had an interest in what was going on in Croydon Woods. | "This used to be a complete trash dump," Storz said, walking through Croydon Woods Nature Preserve recently when its bare trees were beginning to emerge from winter. | "A lot of homeless, a lot of kids partying back here, and there was a lot o…
(2024-05-15). Uganda mulls nuclear energy generation to address rising power demand. independent.co.ug 
KAMPALA, Uganda | Xinhua | Uganda's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development said Tuesday that it is working with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in efforts to develop nuclear energy in the East African country amid increasing demand for power. Irene Batebe, permanent secretary of the ministry, said the government with support from IAEA …
(2024-05-15). SATIRE: Former Trump Aide Claims To Give Fake Money To Unhoused People. theonion.com 
Johnny McEntee, a former aide in the Trump White House, recently bragged on social media about giving fake money to unhoused people to ensure their eventual arrest, claiming on TikTok that "when a homeless person asks for money, then I give them like a fake $5 bill. So I feel good about myself. They feel good. And…
(2024-05-15). India 'deeply saddened' by Gaza killing of ex-army officer working for UN. aljazeera.com Waibhav Anil Kale is the first international UN staff killed since October 7 in the besieged Palestinian territory.
(2024-05-15). INEI: 29% de los peruanos alcanza condición de pobreza en 2023. telesurtv.net "Comparando con el año 2022, la pobreza se incrementó en el área urbana en 2,3 puntos porcentuales siendo altamente significativas las diferencias", recalcó el INEI.
(2024-05-15). The World Bank and the IMF: the creditors' bailiffs. cadtm.org In July 2024, the World Bank and the IMF will be 80 years old. 80 years of financial neo-colonialism and the imposition of austerity policies in the name of debt repayment. 80 years is enough! The Bretton Woods institutions must be abolished and replaced by democratic institutions serving an ecological, feminist and anti-racist bifurcation. To mark these 80 years, we are republishing a series of articles every Wednesday until July, looking in detail at the history and damage caused by these (…) | – | / |
(2024-05-15). The Mexican debt crisis and the World Bank. cadtm.org
(2024-05-15). Norway aims to quadruple aid to Palestinians as famine looms. newarab.com 
The Norwegian government Tuesday proposed 1 billion kroner ($92.5 million) in aid to Palestinians this year as humanitarian agencies warn of a Figures in the revised budget presented on Tuesday, show a roughly quadrupling of the 258 million kroner provided in the initial finance bill adopted last year. | "The urgent need of aid in Gaza is enormous after seven months of war," Norway's Minister of International Development, Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, said in a statement. | "The f…
(2024-05-15). 7 million face 'acute' food insecurity in South Sudan: UN. newarab.com 
More than seven million people in fragile "An estimated 7.1 million people will likely be experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity between April and July 2024," the
(2024-05-15). Gaza aid operations at risk of imminent shutdown, UN agencies warn. presstv.ir Dwindling food and fuel stocks could force aid operations to grind to a halt within days in Gaza as vital crossings remain shut, forcing hospitals to close and leading to more children dying of hunger, United Nations aid agencies warned on Friday.