(2022-12-02). Biden & Republicrats Union Busting Bill Against Railway Workers & Their Fight For Sick Pay. indybay.org The Biden administration with the support of most of the Democrats and Republicans in Congress pushed a bill that imposes a reactionary contract that severely limits sick pay and benefits BNSF railroad owner Warren Buffet and the other railroad corporations.
(2022-12-02). Lockdown light – Corona crisis and capitalism. indybay.org The pandemic and countermeasures have effects shaped by the neoliberal form of capitalism[6] that has dominated since the 1980s. Three aspects are worth mentioning: 1.the independence of the financial sphere,2.the fragmentation of the labor markets, and | 3.the weakening of social systems. In the financialized economy, measures to cushion the crisis strengthen the haves.
(2022-12-02). Sunday 12/11: Speaker: Fight the Far Right to Win Reproductive Justice! indybay.org In person in San Francisco (or via ZOOM link below) | New Valencia Hall | 747 Polk Street (at Ellis), San Francisco | (7 blocks from Civic Center BART, on/near #5, 19, 27, 31, 38 Muni bus lines)…
(2022-12-01). How Transphobia Built a Coalition of Eco-Radicals, White Nationalists and Right-Wing Think Tanks. itsgoingdown.org 
Last month, antifascists and members of the LGBTQ+ community, mobilized against a group of TERFs (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists), holding events across the US, under the banner of "Let Women Speak." While these rallies were small, drawing only a few dozen and opposed by much larger crowds, they also brought out far-Right anti-trans activists and members…
(2022-12-01). UN Resolution 181: 75 Years of Myth Making and False Israeli Legitimacy. mintpressnews.com 
Seventy-Five years after the United Nations' fatal decision to partition Palestine, the carnage and oppression of Palestinians by those who would claim they represent the Jewish people continues — and it promises to get much worse. | Some claim that Zionism came to save the Jewish people from another Holocaust, that they speak for defenseless Jews so that they will never again have to endure a genocide the likes of the Nazi genocide of the Jews in Europe. But these assertions are merely excuses to allow the Zionist regime to exercise its cruelty and brutality without interruption. | The United Nations Parti…
(2022-12-01). German parliament declares 1930s famine in Ukraine a genocide: Falsification of history in the service of war propaganda. wsws.org The German parliament explicitly places the "Holodomor" on par with the Holocaust and the Nazi crimes against the Soviet Union. With this line of argument, the Bundestag places itself squarely in the tradition of the Ukrainian and international far right.
(2022-12-01). Ways of seeing Australia through capitalist and Aboriginal eyes. greenleft.org.au Barry Healy reviews two Perth art exhibitions exploring the Australian landscape as seen through the eyes of invading capitalism and surviving Aboriginality.
(2022-12-01). Dallas celebrates People's Thanksgiving. fightbacknews.org Dallas, TX – On Saturday, November 26, more than 60 activists gathered at the Pan-African Connection bookstore in Dallas to celebrate People's Thanksgiving, a celebration honoring those who struggle against imperialism, capitalism and national oppression. | The event was emceed by Ammar Hussein of Freedom Road Socialist Organization, who gave an opening speech welcoming the many organizations and participants to the event as well as praising the struggle of indigenous peoples for whom Thanksgiving is a national day of mourning. | "We reject the colonialist myth of Thanksgiving, and we stand in unwavering sol…
(2022-12-01). Farewell to the unipolar world and Disaster capitalism: back to Marx! indybay.org The sanctions have already proved to be a dangerous boomerang because they hit Europe harder than Russia… It is a suicidal illusion to try to win a war against the raw materials giant Russia – which possesses more than a third of all fossil energies and raw materials on earth – and the world's largest high-tech workshop, China, which is united with it.
(2022-12-01). Ruben àñstlund's Triangle of Sadness: Today's "master class" and "subject class" wsws.org The English-language film is uneven, but its skewering of capitalism is certainly welcome.
(2022-12-01). Ukraine Demands Yet More NATO Weapons and Generators. strategic-culture.org Although Ukraine's power grid has been heavily hit, it is as nothing compared to what Syria is suffering this very day. | NATO's BBC outlet reports that their NATO masters have promised to supply the rump Ukrainian Reich with
(2022-12-01). Tallahassee FRSO hosts October Revolution event. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – On November 6, the Tallahassee District of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization held a celebratory meeting at Florida State University to honor the 105th anniversary of the October Revolution. | The October Revolution is the 1917 revolution that saw the overthrow of the czar, a Russian monarch, and the establishment of working-class power led by the Bolshevik party. | About a dozen or so students and community members gathered to learn about the October Revolution and the lessons it presents for today. | The event was facilitated by FRSO members Alex Carson, Regina Joseph and Delilah Pierre.
(2022-12-01). Interview with the Socialist Movement of Ghana: The IMF and the class struggle. liberationnews.org 
"We need to take control of our system, our resources, and distribute them for the benefit of the ordinary Ghanaian and the ordinary African."
(2022-12-01). Challenges for Malaysia's new 'national unity government'. greenleft.org.au Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj from the Socialist Party of Malaysia discusses the recent election result and the challenges facing the new government.
(2022-12-01). Socialist candidate Will Lehman on pace to win thousands of votes in UAW election with suppressed turnout. wsws.org Initial results from the first-ever direct election in UAW history show an important level of support for rank-and-file socialist candidate Will Lehman, as well as widespread alienation from the UAW apparatus, as reflected in the abysmal 10 percent turnout.
(2022-12-01). In the Netherlands, a Discriminatory Algorithm has Impoverished Thousands of Families. strategic-culture.org By Alexia EYCHENNE | Aided by an algorithm, the Dutch tax office has plunged into distress tens of thousands of families — in particular, foreign-born mothers, in wrongfully demanding from them staggering sums. The state is proving incapable of setting things right. | Rotterdam. Each day, Sabrina Sliep picks up her telephone to listen to the same despairing stories. There are families evicted from their residence, today camping with relatives or friends, mothers who work two jobs to keep their heads above water, parents who struggle with depression. Personal trajectories broken one day by a letter from the…
(2022-12-01). Experts say COVID stress can be eased. ecns.cn Putting down the mobile phone, talking about negative feelings with friends or seeking professional counseling are some of the methods to help tackle depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 outbreak, experts said.
(2022-12-01). "Economic Warfare" Directed against China? The Shanghai "Covid Zero Tolerance Mandate" Extends its Grip to Major Industrial Cities. globalresearch.ca "Covid Tolerance Zero" has contributed to destabilizing Shanghai's financial sector as well as China's buoyant export economy. It has created social havoc for millions of people, requiring the imposition of PCR tests, using the QR code as a means of social control.
(2022-11-30). Foreign firms flourishing in Shanghai. ecns.cn As a move to better enhance foreign-invested enterprises' role in the city's economic development, four ranking lists for 2021 foreign-invested enterprises were unveiled.
(2022-12-01). Hainan FTP exports first cross-border e-commerce goods using '9710' mode. ecns.cn A batch of commodities exported by cross-border e-commerce enterprises in Hainan Province went through customs at Hainan Free Trade Port on Wednesday.
(2022-11-30). Russia strengthens cooperation with its allies in the East. journal-neo.org 
The start of the special operation to denazify the Kiev regime was essentially a dividing line, revealing not only the true Russophobic attitude towards Russia of the current US political elite and their Western allies, but also clearly highlighting the outspoken defenders and sponsors of today's neo-Nazis. These circumstances have defined and deepened the sharp …
(2022-11-30). Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's Interview for the Film, Nazism on Trial, Moscow, November 26, 2022. libya360.wordpress.com Nothing would have happened without external forces, neither glorification of the Nazis, or the transformation of Nazism into the current Ukrainian government's theory & practice. Question: Today, we are being told (primarily by the Ukrainians) that the Russians have "made things up" and there are no Nazis in Ukraine and there have never been any. However, we remember…
(2022-11-30). DC Government's Racial Equity Plan Is Elite Capture By The State. popularresistance.org D.C. Mayor Bowser's "Draft Racial Equity Action Plan " (REAP) is a public relations document which reflects a continued commitment to the systemic foundations of racial inequities. As a follow-up to the empty gesture of painting the words "Black Lives Matter" on 800 16th Street Northwest, Washington, DC and declaring that space "Black Lives Matter Plaza ", the REAP suggests that the state structures which maintain settler colonialism and capitalism can be a remedy for racial inequity. | "It is our charge and our responsibility to put in place policies that are intentional about ending structural racism and revers…
(2022-11-30). Deep-sea mining: Capitalism's next destructive frontier. greenleft.org.au Mining companies argue that deep-sea mining is necessary to achieve the global transition to renewables, reports Ben Radford, but this is a lie.
(2022-11-30). At Stake in Ukraine Is the Future of Globalized Capitalism. libya360.wordpress.com Samir Saul and Michel Seymour Photo by Dmytro Smolienko/Ukraine Territorial Defense Forces/Twitter Ukraine is only one front in an all-round confrontation The far-reaching war in Ukraine is only one phase of a world-wide conflict that began earlier. In international relations, the driving forces are often obscured by surface occurrences, such as immediate military events and the din…
(2022-11-30). Sunday 12/11: Conversation with an Australian Feminist: Fight the Far Right to Win Reproductive Justice. indybay.org New Valencia Hall | 747 Polk St (@ Ellis), SF | (7 blocks from Civic Center BART, on/near #5, 19, 27, 31, 38 Muni bus lines) | Also online (REGISTER: bit.ly/Dec11AussieFeminist)…
(2022-11-30). PSM's Jeyakumar on challenges for the Malaysia's new 'govt of national unity'. greenleft.org.au Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj from the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) spoke to Peter Boyle about the challenges for Malaysia's newly formed "government of national unity'" headed by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim from the Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope).
(2022-11-30). Video: PSM's Jeyakumar on challenges for the Malaysia's new 'govt of national unity'. greenleft.org.au Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj from the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) spoke to Peter Boyle about the challenges for Malaysia's newly formed "government of national unity'" headed by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim from the Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope).
(2022-11-30). Video: Socialist Party of Malaysia on challenges for the new 'government of national unity'. greenleft.org.au Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj from the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) discusses the challenges for Malaysia's newly formed "government of national unity", headed by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim from the Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope).
(2022-11-30). Zelensky's War Machine Is Running Out of Fuel. Expect More Panic Attacks Soon. strategic-culture.org Zelensky believes faking an attack or creating an environmental calamity will repeat history. But he is woefully misinformed as he is ignorant. | When the lights go out, the water no longer comes and there isn't even a scrap of wood to keep Ukrainians warm, Zelensky will need Sean Penn's Oscar for help. | How long has President Zelensky got, before his political support wains, given then it is widely known that he is often bullied by western elites out of talks with Russia? There is a certain panic setting in within the Zelensky cabal which is making him more and more capricious, to the point of being out of con…
(2022-11-30). Imperial and NTU Singapore form wide-ranging partnership to expand collaboration. imperial.ac.uk Imperial and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have formed a wide-ranging partnership in research, education, innovation and enterprise.
(2022-11-30). Census and WaPo at Odds Over Effect of Inflation on Low-Income Families. cepr.net 
It is getting almost as bad as propaganda from an authoritarian regime. We keep hearing major news outlets tell us that inflation is whacking lower-income families. The Washington Post did it yesterday in an editorial demanding more rate hikes from the Fed to throw people out of work. Lower-income people, like everyone else, are paying …
(2022-11-30). The Washington Post Tells Us Low Income Families Are Especially Hard Hit by Inflation but the Census Bureau Says Their Homeownership Rate is Up: Who to Believe? cepr.net It is getting almost as bad as propaganda from an authoritarian regime. We keep hearing major news outlets tell us that inflation is whacking lower-income families. The Washington Post did it yesterday in an editorial demanding more rate hikes from the Fed to throw people out of work. Lower-income people, like everyone else, are paying …
(2022-11-30). Hungarian FM warns NATO against turning into anti-China Bloc. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 30 (MNA) — Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto warned NATO against turning into an anti-China bloc as the global security situation is already tense.