Daily Archives: August 24, 2022

2022-08-24: News Headlines

Anonymous (2022-08-24). Same Thing Happened in Fiji. indybay.org Australian establishment in cover up mode over former PM's secret ministerial positions In the days since it was revealed that former Prime Minister Scott Morrison secretly appointed himself to five key ministerial portfolios in 2020 and 2021, the Australian political and media establishment has desperately sought to cover up the political significance of the measures, which amounted to nothing less than the preparations for a prime ministerial dictatorship.

John Catalinotto (2022-08-24). WW commentary: A Marxist view of the search at Mar-a-Lago. workers.org Aug. 21 — The most recent conflict among U.S. ruling institutions displays the depth of the crises wracking U.S. imperialism. As U.S. worldwide dominance declines and the government at home fails to stem growing inequality or resolve health and climate disasters, internal conflicts are sharpening. Credit: Tony Murphy U.S. ruling-class . . . |

WSWS (2022-08-23). Spanish-Russian journalist Pablo Gonzalez held six months in Polish jail on bogus spying charge. wsws.org His arrest was coordinated between NATO states, including Spain's Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government, and has met with silence by European and US media.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-23). Ghost Stories of Capitalism: Mental Health is a Class Issue. libya360.wordpress.com Danny Haiphong We can't fight capitalism or imperialism without confronting the psychic suffering that these systems have spread far and wide among us In addition to producing socialist and anti-imperialist independent media, I've been in social work for nine years. Before this, I moved from childhood to adulthood within a household that struggled with mental…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-23). Totalitarianism and the Descent into Collective Madness. libya360.wordpress.com Alastair Crooke "The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness,…

TeleSUR (2022-08-23). Intl. Leaders Support the Approval of New Chilean Referendum. telesurenglish.net An international group of intellectuals and social leaders signed a letter in support of the inclusion of the right to housing and the city in the upcoming Chilean referendum on a new constitution and called for approval of the said constitution. | RELATED: | In the declaration, which includes prominent personalities from around the world related to the right to housing and the city, said they value "leaving behind a constitution imposed in a dictatorship" and…

____ (2022-08-22). (W.E. Talk) Founder of 'Hidden Champion' theory: China has become the best test field for innovation. ecns.cn What can Chinese enterprises learn from German "hidden champions"? And will they become the toughest future competitors of German "hidden champions"?

WSWS (2022-08-23). Video: UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman on the lessons of the 1932 Ford Hunger March and the transformation of the UAW. wsws.org "The Ford Hunger March," Lehman said, "was part of many struggles led by socialist workers during the Great Depression of the 1930s, which established the UAW as a mass industrial union."

WSWS (2022-08-23). No to another school year of mass infection, death and austerity! wsws.org The breakdown of public education and the policies of mass infection are symptoms of the crisis of capitalism and must be opposed through the building of rank-and-file committees in every school and neighborhood.

WSWS (2022-08-23). South Korean workers take action against assault on working conditions. wsws.org Not only do workers face the companies and the government of President Yoon Suk-yeol, but the trade unions that are isolating workers' struggles and blocking a political fight against capitalism.

WSWS (2022-08-23). "The entire union machine needs to be wiped out": Growing rank-and-file support for Will Lehman's campaign for UAW president. wsws.org The Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate for UAW president spoke with Ford and Chrysler (Stellantis) workers at Detroit-area plants on Sunday and Monday.

WSWS (2022-08-23). Brooklyn teacher speaks out after year of COVID and budget cuts. wsws.org A teacher in Brooklyn discussed the last school year, including COVID, budget cuts, and the Educators Rank-and-File Committees, with the World Socialist Web Site.

Editor (2022-08-22). Fighting fire with solidarity. workers.org These are especially bitter days to be living in the United States for those of us who are communists, socialists, progressives, even those remotely left of center. The killing of Roe v. Wade and the state subjection of women and anyone who can get pregnant to the role of breeding . . . |

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