Daily Archives: September 24, 2022

2022-09-24: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-09-24). "My turn is to workers on the factory floor": Highlights from UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman's debate with the union bureaucracy. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site is publishing excerpts from the historic debate for UAW president, in which rank-and-file worker Will Lehman challenged the entire union apparatus.

Editor (2022-09-24). 'Operación Estrella Solitaria': una estratagema de los supremacistas blancos. workers.org El gobernador protofascista de Texas, Greg Abbott, está recibiendo mucha publicidad estos días por enviar en autobús a los migrantes que solicitan asilo y que han entrado en Estados Unidos desde la frontera mexicana, hacia el norte, a Washington, D.C., y a la ciudad de Nueva York. Ahora se le . . . |

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-23). To Be or Not to Be: One With Russia. libya360.wordpress.com Deborah L. Armstrong "REFERENDUM" sign taped to car windshield. Photo: Eva K. Bartlett The right to hold free elections is one of the fundamentals of a democratic society, but it's a freedom which has been outlawed in Nazi-controlled Ukraine where eleven opposition parties have been banned. In August, the Kiev regime warned that anyone who promotes or…

The Socialist Program (2022-09-23). Ukraine War Escalates—And Nuclear War Threats Grow. liberationnews.org The Ukraine war is escalating—dramatically…

WSWS (2022-09-23). "Through this brutality, Sri Lanka's government is imposing IMF burdens on the people": Support builds for SEP meeting against state repression. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) is holding a meeting this Sunday to outline a revolutionary socialist program to mobilize the working class and and oppressed masses against the wave of repression unleashed by the newly installed government of President Ranil Wickremesinghe.

_____ (2022-09-23). Filipinos In The US Protest Far-Right President Marcos At His UN-Debut. popularresistance.org As Filipino government officials participate in events across New York City over the course of the UN General Assembly, US-based Filipino activists have been determined to raise awareness about dictatorship in the Philippines. | Actions have been organized in New York City by organizations such as Anakbayan, the youth wing of larger US-based progressive Filipino organization Bayan, Kabataan Alliance Northeast, an alliance of Filipino youth and student organizations, and the International League of People's Struggle (ILPS). | On September 19, over 70 activists attended a protest and rally at the Dag Hammarskjà&par…

____ (2022-09-23). Report: Chinese enterprises banking on digitalization for global expansion. ecns.cn Despite external uncertainties, Chinese enterprises are actively expanding their overseas footprint, with investments mainly focusing on advanced manufacturing and technology.

WSWS (2022-09-23). In historic debate, UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman calls for abolition of union bureaucracy, power to the rank and file. wsws.org The debate largely took the form of efforts by the various representatives of the apparatus to defend themselves against Lehman, who combined a fight for rank-and-file power with a call for a socialist and internationalist perspective.

WSWS (2022-09-23). Arriva London North bus drivers to strike indefinitely from October as Unite prevents city-wide pay fight. wsws.org The role of the Unite leader Sharon Graham as British capitalism's chief industrial fire fighter is coming into sharp focus.

Margie Mason, Robin McDowell (2022-09-23). Prison labor helped build U.S. capitalists' business empires. peoplesworld.org More than 1 years ago, a prison complex known as the Lone Rock stockade operated at one of the biggest coal mines in Tennessee. It was powered largely by African American men who had been arrested for minor offenses—like stealing a hog—if they committed any crime at all. Women and children, some as young as …

Sonali Kolhatkar (2022-09-23). Working-class tribune Barbara Ehrenreich exposed inequality and capitalism's positive thinking cult. peoplesworld.org The late Barbara Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 bestseller Nickel and Dimed, which showed that hard-working people simply weren't making it in America. But Ehrenreich, who passed away this September at 81, made an equally great contribution to economic justice with her subsequent book, Bright-Sided. It argued that the cult of "positive thinking" was putting …

Infobrics (2022-09-22). How could joining Russia help parts of former Ukraine. infobrics.org Goals of the special military operation will need to be met and they include areas far beyond the Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, as there are tens of millions of other people still living under the jackboot of the Neo-Nazi junta in Kiev.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-22). Statement by Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, at the UN Security Council Meeting on Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Madam President, Excellencies, Colleagues, As I understand, today's meeting was motivated by the desire of some delegations to discuss the topic of "impunity" in Ukraine. I think this is very timely. It is a term that fully reflects what has been happening in this country since 2014. National-radical forces, outright Russophobes and neo-Nazis then came…

A guest author (2022-09-22). Statement condemns OHCHR's 'Assessment of human rights concerns' in China's Uyghur Autonomous Region. workers.org As this map illustrates, U.S. imperialism menaces China with over 400 military bases. The following statement has been initiated by Friends of Socialist China. You can add your name as an individual signatory using the form at socialistchina.org. Once you do so, your name will appear on this page within . . . |

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-22). Western Threats to the Peoples of Abya Yala in Times of Multipolarity. libya360.wordpress.com Jorge Capelán We are living in truly historic times in the world: the times of the collapse of the greatest empire humanity has ever known. The West (the United States, Europe and a few other allies) still possesses considerable power, but in practice the world in many respects is now multipolar. What challenges does this…

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