2022-05-04: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-05-04). Quebec Court of Appeal covers up violent activities of far-right. wsws.org Although the Quebec Court of Appeal overturned the acquittal of the notorious neo-Nazi Raphaà´l Lévesque for a 2018 assault, it did so on narrow legal grounds, trivializing and covering up the increasingly violent activities of the far-right in Quebec and across Canada.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-05-04). ALBA Movements vow to strengthen work against capitalism and imperialism. peoplesdispatch.org 260 delegates from 23 countries participated in the 3rd Continental Assembly of the ALBA Movements in Buenos Aires and addressed the platforms 6 key principles of work and unity.

Staff (2022-05-04). Interior Minister of Venezuela: Civic-Military Union Defeated Operation Gideon. orinocotribune.com On Tuesday, May 3, the two year anniversary of Operation Negro Primero, which defeated the coup and assassination attempt Operation Gideon, was commemorated in La Guaira state, Venezuela. A ceremony was held in La Guaira, attended by the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, as well as local civil and military authorities and members of the PSUV National Directorate. | During the ceremony, Cabello said, "This Revolution will live as long as we remain united in our struggles. Unity is the greatest guarantee of victories." | La estrategia Bolivariana al mando del…

Fight Back (2022-05-04). West Michigan unions and immigrants rally for May 1, International Workers Day. fightbacknews.org Grand Rapids, MI – West Michigan labor unions, politicians and socialist groups rallied and marched for International Workers Day on May 1 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. More than 70 union members and Asian-American, Chicano/Mexicano, and Black community activists and politicians gathered. The local unions also expressed solidarity for immigrant rights and justice for Patrick Lyoya, the young African man executed by Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr. | "Solidarity and the need to organize and win power for workers has to be the focus of unions in the aftermath of the COVID pandemic. Work is being redefi…

teleSUR, JGN (2022-05-04). Venezuela recuerda triunfo sobre fallido intento de invasión. telesurtv.net El primer vicepresidente del Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, afirmó que la revolución bolivariana "tendrá larga vida, si nos mantenemos unidos".

WSWS (2022-05-04). Sri Lankan SEP discusses socialist program with Colombo protesters on May Day. wsws.org "Although I do not have much political knowledge, I feel that we will face the same problems with any government that will come to power through the parliamentary system," a carpenter explained.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-05-04). The "Killer Vaccine" Worldwide. 7.9 Billion People. globalresearch.ca The stated objective is to enforce the Worldwide vaccination of 7.9 billion people in more than 190 countries, to be followed by the imposition of a digitized "vaccine passport". The evidence of mortality and morbidity resulting from the vaccine is overwhelming. Needless to say this is a multi-billion dollar operation for Big Pharma.

Contributing Writers (2022-05-03). She's exposing the TRUTH in Ukraine and they don't like it | Redacted Conversation with Eva Bartlett. marktaliano.net READ MORE: They're trying to hide the Nazi truth in Ukraine/Redacted with Natali and Clayton — Mark Taliano Photos From Syria Show White Helmets And Nusra/Qaeda Are The Same Organization (activistpost.com) White Helmets Archives — Mark Taliano Ukraine Hunts Down "Traitors Helping Russia" — CovertAction Magazine…

The Socialist Program (2022-05-03). Ukraine: The Danger of a Wider War. liberationnews.org With hardly any debate, Congress is ready to approve sending $20 billion of weapons to Ukraine on top of $13 billion in additional financial support for the government — a point driven home by Nancy Pelosi's surprise trip to Kiev.

WSWS (2022-05-03). United Steelworkers solicits aid for fascist-linked "union" in Ukraine. wsws.org In an appeal on the official USW website, the union calls for support to Trade Union of the Metalworkers and Miners of Ukraine, an organization with ties to the far right and fascists.

teleSUR, JCM (2022-05-03). ONU acoge con satisfacción evacuación de civiles de Azovstal. telesurtv.net Rusia acusó a los nacionalistas ucranianos del batallón neonazi Azov de reagruparse durante el cese al fuego, que permitió la evacuación.

JANET (2022-05-03). Webinar builds Workers Summit of the Americas. iacenter.org May 2, 2022 The Tijuana Workers Summit of the Americas is scheduled for June 10-12. Organizers held a April 29 webinar to promote the Summit, which included the speakers below. Steve Kirschbaum, Vice President, Steelworkers (USW) Local 8751, Boston School Bus Drivers: We are honored to be a part of this timely and historic launch for this Workers Summit, a class answer to the summit of the thieves. Our union, since we founded it 48 years ago, has always felt that an injury to one is an injury to all. It's a global concept: internationalism. Our enemy is a common enemy. We were proud to work with many of you aroun…

WSWS (2022-05-03). Sri Lanka: Opposition JVP seeks to divert mass struggle into dead-end of parliamentary politics. wsws.org The JVP is promoting a fantasy—that an election and a new bourgeois government will be able to wave away the immense crisis of global and Sri Lankan capitalism and thus solve all the social ills facing working people.

Editor (2022-05-03). Labor organizing in the U.S. in 2022: the anti-worker, anti-union corporate agenda. mronline.org Late capitalism has exposed the drastic inequalities inherent to our neoliberal economy.

Fight Back (2022-05-03). Keep abortion legal! Defend women's and reproductive rights! fightbacknews.org May 2, 2022 | A leak of a draft majority opinion overturning the historic Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade is circulating in the press. Written by Justice Samuel Alito, the leak confirms what many have suspected: the Supreme Court is poised to overturn federal constitutional protections of abortion rights. If Roe is overturned, 26 U.S. states will likely enact bans on abortion. Freedom Road Socialist Organization condemns in the strongest possible terms this attack on reproductive freedom. | We call on all working class, oppressed, and progressive people to take to the streets and fight for our lives — in…

WSWS (2022-05-03). Nurses describe intolerable conditions in hospitals in response to suicide of emergency room nurse. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site is continuing to publish statements and messages from nurses in response to last week's tragic suicide of a nurse at Kaiser Permanente's Santa Clara Medical Center in Northern California.

WSWS (2022-05-03). May Day 2022: The map of the class struggle vs. the map of war. wsws.org This is the report delivered by Eric London to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. London is a writer for the WSWS and a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (US).

WSWS (2022-05-03). May Day 2022: Canadian imperialism, Hitler's Ukrainian accomplices, and the NATO-Russia war. wsws.org This is the report delivered by Keith Jones to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Jones is the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in Canada.

WSWS (2022-05-03). Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE to hold a May 4 demonstration in Gampaha. wsws.org The SEP supports bringing down the Rajapakse government but advances an independent socialist perspective for the working class as the alternative to any future pro-IMF interim regime.

Slomski A. (2022-05-03). Antidepressant Combinations Compared With Monotherapy. jamanetwork.com In a recent meta-analysis, combination antidepressant therapy was associated with superior outcomes to monotherapy for treatment of acute depression.

amarynth (2022-05-03). Queen and king set out on the chessboard. thesaker.is When a broken empire warns that "geopolitics is back", we all know what means Translated for the Saker Blog from the original text in Portuguese from Geopol.pt It is clear…

WSWS (2022-05-03). New York grand jury, impaneled to consider charges against Trump, expires without issuing indictment. wsws.org While District Attorney Alvin Bragg has stated the investigation is ongoing, Trump will not face any criminal charges related to his business empire in the near future.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-05-03). From Douma to Xinjiang to Bucha, the U.S. Empire's Atrocity Propaganda is the Same. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea "Humanitarianism" is the weapon that modern U.S. imperialism uses as the cornerstone in its campaigns to destabilize countries and regions. By presenting its violence as a selfless effort to save the people it targets, the empire can not just claim its hands are clean, but pose as heroic. It's a natural evolution from…

ecns.cn (2022-05-03). Shanghai enterprises on track to resume operations. ecns.cn Enterprises in Shanghai are on a steady track to resume operations and the city's smaller businesses stand to receive more government support to withstand this round of COVID-induced lockdown.

2022-05-04 22:14 | 18:14 EST | jz | 26 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 0