Amiad Horowitz (2023-03-30). Useful Nazis? The rehabilitation of fascists is happening again. peoplesworld.org In April 1945, the Soviet Army invaded Berlin, the then-capital of Nazi Germany. After weeks of battle, the German government surrendered, and Germany was divided into four occupation zones, (American, British, French, and Soviet). In the Soviet Zone, which was situated in eastern Germany, a program of "de-Nazification" immediately began. Members of Hitler's Nazi Party …

John Wojcik (2023-03-30). April 4 Wisconsin court race critical for abortion rights and 2024 election nationwide. peoplesworld.org There has never been a judicial election anything like the one underway now in Wisconsin. The candidate who wins the swing seat in the race is expected to determine the future of abortion rights in Wisconsin and very possibly whether the fascist Republican right is able to win the presidential election in 2024. The candidates, …

Munther Khalaf Mufleh, Orinoco Tribune. (2023-03-30). Palestinian Prisoners' Movement Victory. popularresistance.org After the escalation of Zionist attacks against the achievements gained by the prisoners' movement over the years, and the attempts of the fascist Ben Gvir to seize our rights by enacting laws and policies such as the laws for the execution of prisoners, revocation of nationality, and deportation of prisoners and former prisoners, as well as the attacks on the achievements of daily life of the prisoners' movement, such as cutting access to water, setting brief times for bathing and the imposition of dozens of punitive measures, such as repeated transfer and isolation, led the prisoners' movement to take action.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-03-31). Ukraine's "Neo-Nazi Summer Camp". Military Training for Young Children, Para-military Recruits. globalresearch.ca The Azov battalion supported by its Western partners is not only involved in para-military operations in Donbass, it is also running a Summer Camp military training project for young children.

WSWS (2023-03-31). Factory explosions, tainted water and derailments: The cost of doing business for US capitalism. wsws.org The horrific explosion at a factory in West Reading, Pennsylvania, which killed at least seven workers, is part of an unending series of workplace tragedies in the US.

Amanda Yee (2023-03-30). TikTok on trial: The latest front in the US tech war on China. peoplesdispatch.org Make no mistake: the TikTok hearings had nothing to do with the baseless threat of Chinese surveillance and everything to do with maintaining the dominance of US capitalism.

Monica Moorehead (2023-03-30). Women activists meeting in Bronx, New York. workers.org Bronx, New York, March 25, 2023 Although a rainy, windy day forced the cancellation of an outdoor march, 50 activists packed a room in the basement of an apartment building in the Bronx, New York, to hold a three-hour discussion on issues rooted in capitalism and imperialism impacting women of . . . |

Gabriel Valkov (2023-03-30). Bulgaria heads to the polls, again. peoplesdispatch.org Bulgaria is heading for general elections on April 2, 2023—the fifth in the last two years—marking the depth of the political crisis in the country. Back-to-back snap elections have resulted due to failures to form a stable government since April 2021. Along with the political crisis, people are also reeling under an acute cost of living crisis marked by soaring inflation. | Gabriel Valkov, chairperson of the Youth Union of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), highlights the major factors responsible for the present crises and explains the views of the BSP and the role it can play to restore democrac…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-03-31). Science Saturday: Understanding the speed of brain communication. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org It often was thought that the speed of information transmitted among regions of the brain stabilized during early adolescence. A new study in Nature Neuroscience by Mayo Clinic researchers and colleagues from the Netherlands found transmission speeds continue to increase into early adulthood. Because problems such as anxiety, depression and bipolar disorders can emerge in late adolescence and early adulthood, a better understanding of brain development may help clinicians offer therapies to treat these disorders. "A fundamental understanding…

Peter Koenig (2023-03-30). Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC): The Weaponization of Money? WHO's Health Tyranny: Towards a Totalitarian World Government? No Way! globalresearch.ca

Teri Mattson, WtF is Going on in Latin America, the Caribbean. (2023-03-31). Argentina Celebrates 40 Years Of Democracy And Human Rights. popularresistance.org Last week, Argentina celebrated 40 years of democracy and human rights by hosting the Third World Forum of Human Rights (March 20-24) scheduled in tandem with its National Day of Remembrance for Truth & Justice. The Forum closed with a march and rally on March 24 which marked 47 years since the US-backed military coup that overthrew the democratically elected government on March 24, 1976, and installed the bloodiest dictatorship in the history of #Argentina remained in power until 1983.

Clau O'Brien Moscoso, Black Agenda Report. (2023-03-30). Peru: Rosalino Flores's Death And Comuneros Win Land Struggle. popularresistance.org Perú continues to face crises upon crises over 100 days since the coup regime ousted democratically elected President Pedro Castillo. The masses have remained mobilized in the streets and delegations from various regions throughout the country continue coming to the capital city to overturn this dictatorship, as well as to reinforce their local struggles and blockades. Despite a long battle in the hospital, a young person lost his life at the hands of this regime. This past Friday also marked the victory of an indigenous campesino community in Cusco from being evicted from their ancestral lands.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-03-31). Science Saturday: Understanding the speed of brain communication. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org It often was thought that the speed of information transmitted among regions of the brain stabilized during early adolescence. A new study in Nature Neuroscience by Mayo Clinic researchers and colleagues from the Netherlands found transmission speeds continue to increase into early adulthood. Because problems such as anxiety, depression and bipolar disorders can emerge in late adolescence and early adulthood, a better understanding of brain development may help clinicians offer therapies to treat these disorders. "A fundamental understanding…

Peter Koenig (2023-03-30). Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC): The Weaponization of Money? WHO's Health Tyranny: Towards a Totalitarian World Government? No Way! globalresearch.ca

Teri Mattson, WtF is Going on in Latin America, the Caribbean. (2023-03-31). Argentina Celebrates 40 Years Of Democracy And Human Rights. popularresistance.org Last week, Argentina celebrated 40 years of democracy and human rights by hosting the Third World Forum of Human Rights (March 20-24) scheduled in tandem with its National Day of Remembrance for Truth & Justice. The Forum closed with a march and rally on March 24 which marked 47 years since the US-backed military coup that overthrew the democratically elected government on March 24, 1976, and installed the bloodiest dictatorship in the history of #Argentina remained in power until 1983.

Clau O'Brien Moscoso, Black Agenda Report. (2023-03-30). Peru: Rosalino Flores's Death And Comuneros Win Land Struggle. popularresistance.org Perú continues to face crises upon crises over 100 days since the coup regime ousted democratically elected President Pedro Castillo. The masses have remained mobilized in the streets and delegations from various regions throughout the country continue coming to the capital city to overturn this dictatorship, as well as to reinforce their local struggles and blockades. Despite a long battle in the hospital, a young person lost his life at the hands of this regime. This past Friday also marked the victory of an indigenous campesino community in Cusco from being evicted from their ancestral lands.

WSWS (2023-03-31). German government sends battle tanks against Russia and multiplies military aid to Ukraine. wsws.org Earlier this week, the first German battle tanks arrived in Ukraine. This has far-reaching historical and political implications. 82 years after Hitler's war of annihilation against the Soviet Union, German tanks are again rolling against Russia.

WSWS (2023-03-30). Congress Party leader Rahul Gandhi expelled from Indian parliament after trumped-up criminal conviction. wsws.org Gandhi's expulsion was the culmination of a weeks-long campaign by the governing far-right BJP to denigrate and silence him after he raised pointed questions about Modi's connections to the billionaire Adani and his troubled corporate empire.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-03-30). India: Long march by farmers succeeds after gov't accepts demands. greenleft.org.au Indian farmers held a successful march to demand crop price guarantees, land ownership rights for tribal farmers, immediate financial relief and loan waivers, reports Peoples Dispatch.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-03-30). India: Long march by farmers in Maharashtra succeeds after gov't accepts demands. greenleft.org.au Thousands of Indian farmers in the state of Maharashtra held a successfu long march to demand crop price guarantees, land ownership rights for tribal farmers, immediate financial relief and loan waivers, reports Peoples Dispatch/Globetrotter News Service.

Jonathan Cook (2023-03-31). Israel's Crisis Is About Who Gets to Play Tyrant: The Generals or Religious Thugs. globalresearch.ca

Peoples Dispatch (2023-03-30). India: People will have easier access to tuberculosis treatment after patent extension rejected. greenleft.org.au The Indian Patent Office rejected pharmaceutical company Janssen's application for an extension of its patent on a drug used in the treatment of tuberculosis, reports Peoples Dispatch.

Larry Holmes (2023-03-29). The banking crisis: Will it push the working class or fascism to rise up? — a WW commentary. workers.org The capitalist ruling class is worried that the banking crisis, which began less than a month ago with the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank and quickly spread, could ultimately mushroom into a global financial crisis bigger than the crash of 2008. All talk of a "soft landing" has ended. . . . |

Larry Holmes (2023-03-29). The banking crisis: Will it push the working class or fascism to rise up? workers.org The capitalist ruling class is worried that the banking crisis, which began less than a month ago with the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank and quickly spread, could ultimately mushroom into a global financial crisis bigger than the crash of 2008. All talk of a "soft landing" has ended. . . . |

Gilbert Mercier (2023-03-29). Radical Protests in France, A Province of the Global Orwellian Empire. Can Fascism be Overcome? globalresearch.ca

scorinoco (2023-03-29). Palestinian Prisoners' Movement Victory is an Implementation of Unity and True Partnership. orinocotribune.com Munther Khalaf Mufleh — Mar 24, 2023 | After the escalation of Zionist attacks against the achievements gained by the prisoners' movement over the years, and the attempts of the fascist Ben Gvir to seize our rights by enacting laws and policies such as the laws for the execution of prisoners, revocation of nationality, and deportation of prisoners and former prisoners, as well as the attacks on the achievements of daily life of the prisoners' movement, such as cutting access to water, setting brief times for bathing and the imposition of dozens of punitive measures, such as repeated transfer and isolation, l…

Monica Moorehead (2023-03-30). Women activists meeting in Bronx, New York. workers.org Bronx, New York, March 25, 2023 Although a rainy, windy day forced the cancellation of an outdoor march, 50 activists packed a room in the basement of an apartment building in the Bronx, New York, to hold a three-hour discussion on issues rooted in capitalism and imperialism impacting women of . . . |

Amanda Yee (2023-03-29). TikTok on trial: The latest front in the U.S. tech war on China. liberationnews.org Make no mistake: the TikTok hearings had nothing to do with the baseless threat of Chinese surveillance and everything to do with maintaining the dominance of American capitalism.

Bill Scheuerman, Sid Plotkin (2023-03-29). Playing with Financial Fire. dissidentvoice.org Capitalism, Marx said, is unceasingly prone to crisis. His observation applies as much to financial capital as to industrial capital, as the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank of New York attest. In their pursuit of profits, banks make loans that borrowers cannot repay or back the loans with assets that lose …

teleSUR (2023-03-29). Maduro Denounces Use Of Anti-Values To Defeat The Revolution. telesurenglish.net Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro denounced on Wednesday the use of anti-values and vices of capitalism to defeat the Bolivarian Revolution. | RELATED: | "What they have not been able to defeat with criminal sanctions, they intend to do it with anti-values and vices of capitalism," said the President through his official Twitter account. | Maduro referred to the recent corruption cases involving executives of the state-owned o…

WSWS (2023-03-29). Parti de l'égalité socialiste intervenes in Paris student meeting to call to bring down Macron. wsws.org The PES proposed to the Paris inter-university coordinating committee to adopt a resolution calling to bring down Macron and build a movement in the working class for a general strike.

Bill Scheuerman, Sid Plotkin (2023-03-29). Playing with Financial Fire. dissidentvoice.org Capitalism, Marx said, is unceasingly prone to crisis. His observation applies as much to financial capital as to industrial capital, as the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank of New York attest. In their pursuit of profits, banks make loans that borrowers cannot repay or back the loans with assets that lose …

teleSUR (2023-03-29). Maduro Denounces Use Of Anti-Values To Defeat The Revolution. telesurenglish.net Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro denounced on Wednesday the use of anti-values and vices of capitalism to defeat the Bolivarian Revolution. | RELATED: | "What they have not been able to defeat with criminal sanctions, they intend to do it with anti-values and vices of capitalism," said the President through his official Twitter account. | Maduro referred to the recent corruption cases involving executives of the state-owned o…

WSWS (2023-03-29). Parti de l'égalité socialiste intervenes in Paris student meeting to call to bring down Macron. wsws.org The PES proposed to the Paris inter-university coordinating committee to adopt a resolution calling to bring down Macron and build a movement in the working class for a general strike.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-03-30). Science Saturday: Understanding the speed of brain communication. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org It often was thought that the speed of information transmitted among regions of the brain stabilized during early adolescence. A new study in Nature Neuroscience by Mayo Clinic researchers and colleagues from the Netherlands found transmission speeds continue to increase into early adulthood. Because problems such as anxiety, depression and bipolar disorders can emerge in late adolescence and early adulthood, a better understanding of brain development may help clinicians offer therapies to treat these disorders. "A fundamental understanding…

WSWS (2023-03-29). Anti-AUKUS meeting seeks to divert anti-war concern in reactionary nationalist direction. wsws.org The speakers' central criticism of the AUKUS military pact was that it undermines Australia's "national interests"—that is, economic and strategic interests of Australian imperialism, including in the South Pacific and other parts of the region.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-29). Bloodshed, Tear Gas Bombs and Mudslides: 100 Days of Dictatorship. libya360.wordpress.com Clau O'Brien Moscoso Cyclone Yaku recently devastated Peru with flooding and mudslides. (Photo: AFP 2023 / Jao Yamunaque) Clau O'Brien Moscoso continues her dispatches from Peru in the wake of a natural disaster and the ongoing coup against President Castillo. A Spanish translation follows. National Strike, Day 75 Perú has plunged into chaos since the…

John Feffer (2023-03-29). Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. fpif.org The prospect of a nuclear holocaust has always been terrifying. But in the last years of the Cold War and the three decades that followed its end, the existential challenge of nuclear weapons became less of a clear and present danger. | Sure, in…

WSWS (2023-03-30). Congress Party leader Rahul Gandhi expelled from Indian parliament after trumped-up criminal conviction. wsws.org Gandhi's expulsion was the culmination of a weeks-long campaign by the governing far-right BJP to denigrate and silence him after he raised pointed questions about Modi's connections to the billionaire Adani and his troubled corporate empire.

ecns.cn (2023-03-29). Watchdog aims to protect firms online. ecns.cn China's top cyberspace regulator announced a series of special operations targeting cyberspace governance, and pledged to protect the lawful online rights of enterprises on Tuesday.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-03-30). India: Long march by farmers in Maharashtra succeeds after gov't accepts demands. greenleft.org.au Thousands of Indian farmers in the state of Maharashtra held a successfu long march to demand crop price guarantees, land ownership rights for tribal farmers, immediate financial relief and loan waivers, reports Peoples Dispatch/Globetrotter News Service.

Jonathan Cook (2023-03-30). Israel's crisis is about who gets to play tyrant: the generals or religious thugs. mronline.org In pushing through his 'judicial overhaul', Netanyahu wasn't destroying 'Israeli democracy'. He was richly exploiting the lack of it.

_____ (2023-03-29). The New York Times Is A Disgusting Militarist Smut Rag. strategic-culture.org By Caitlin JOHNSTONE | The "paper of record" for the most murderous and tyrannical nation on earth, The New York Times has been

Brandon Smith (2023-03-29). Global Governance by Artificial Intelligence: The Ultimate Unaccountable Tyranny. globalresearch.ca

infobrics (2023-03-29). Serbia and Hungary form Strategic Council despite EU opposition. infobrics.org Orbán advances Hungary's interests out with Western alliances.

Larry Holmes (2023-03-29). The banking crisis: Will it push the working class or fascism to rise up? — a WW commentary. workers.org The capitalist ruling class is worried that the banking crisis, which began less than a month ago with the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank and quickly spread, could ultimately mushroom into a global financial crisis bigger than the crash of 2008. All talk of a "soft landing" has ended. . . . |

Juan Cole (2023-03-28). Rallies, Clashes Roil Israel as Netanyahu "Pauses" Gutting of Judiciary, and Far Right urges use of "Gasoline and Guns" on Protesters. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that clashed broke out Monday evening between centrist protesters against the Netanyahu government and far right thugs. Some 10,000 fascists gathered in front of the courthouse in Jerusalem to support Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's plan to weaken the judiciary. Some got into shouting matches …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-28). The Preparation of a New World War: Reconstituting the Nazi-Nippon Axis. libya360.wordpress.com Thierry Meyssan Japan's PM Kishida offers support to Kyiv The United States is pushing its European Union allies to prepare for a Third World War. They have no choice but to fight it if they want to emerge victorious from the "Thucydides trap". Unless all this commotion is just a staging to "keep" the allies…

Sharon Zhang (2023-03-28). House Republican's Vow After School Shooting: "We're Not Going to Fix It" truthout.org As the country reels from news of yet another school shooting at an elementary school in Tennessee this week, one Tennessee Republican has vowed that Congress will never solve the U.S.'s mass shooting epidemic, and that only Christian nationalism can stop the violence. "We're not going to fix it." This was Rep. Tim Burchett's response when asked by reporters about the U.S. |

Bill Scheuerman, Sid Plotkin (2023-03-29). Playing with Financial Fire. dissidentvoice.org Capitalism, Marx said, is unceasingly prone to crisis. His observation applies as much to financial capital as to industrial capital, as the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank of New York attest. In their pursuit of profits, banks make loans that borrowers cannot repay or back the loans with assets that lose …

David Sirota (2023-03-28). üéß MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: Judas and the Black Messiah (w/ Ryan Christian). levernews.com

Larry Holmes (2023-03-28). On one-year anniversary of ALU's historic victory, New York Times does hit job on the union. workers.org A year ago, the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) surprised and excited the labor movement and shocked the ruling class with the first union victory at Amazon. The New York Times, one of U.S. capitalism's foremost mouthpieces, has marked the anniversary with a front-page hit job on the union, entitled "Strains . . . |

WSWS (2023-03-28). General strike and mass protests stagger Israeli regime. wsws.org The political explosion in Israel is another expression of a widening global revolutionary crisis of capitalism.

Fight Back (2023-03-28). FRSO Spring $130,000 Fund Drive: Contribute to building revolutionary organization! fightbacknews.org Times have changed and change is coming. Capitalism is a failed system. It needs to go, the sooner the better. A revolutionary solution is needed, and for that we need organization. Revolutionary organization – the kind of organization that Freedom Road Socialist Organization is all about building. To do this, we need you to step up and contribute. We have set of goal of raising $130,000 this year. Together we can make this happen. | Freedom Road Socialist Organization has grown rapidly over the past year. And the rate of growth is picking up. Every six to eight weeks, we are developing work in a new city. Our o…

WSWS (2023-03-29). Parti de l'égalité socialiste intervenes in Paris student meeting to call to bring down Macron. wsws.org The PES proposed to the Paris inter-university coordinating committee to adopt a resolution calling to bring down Macron and build a movement in the working class for a general strike.

WSWS (2023-03-28). Democratic Socialists of America, in control of both school board and teachers union, keeps teachers on the job without a contract in Los Angeles. wsws.org The concessions heaped upon LA teachers and school workers may as well have been worked out in the local leadership of the DSA's Los Angeles Branch.

WSWS (2023-03-28). Democratic Socialists of America, in control of school board and teachers union, keeps Los Angeles teachers on the job without a contract. wsws.org The concessions heaped upon LA teachers and school workers may as well have been worked out in the local leadership of the DSA's Los Angeles Branch.

Fight Back (2023-03-28). FRSO Spring $130,000 Fund Drive: Contribute to building revolutionary organization! fightbacknews.org Times have changed and change is coming. Capitalism is a failed system. It needs to go, the sooner the better. A revolutionary solution is needed, and for that we need organization. Revolutionary organization – the kind of organization that Freedom Road Socialist Organization is all about building. To do this, we need you to step up and contribute. We have set of goal of raising $130,000 this year. Together we can make this happen. | Freedom Road Socialist Organization has grown rapidly over the past year. And the rate of growth is picking up. Every six to eight weeks, we are developing work in a new city. Our o…

WSWS (2023-03-29). Parti de l'égalité socialiste intervenes in Paris student meeting to call to bring down Macron. wsws.org The PES proposed to the Paris inter-university coordinating committee to adopt a resolution calling to bring down Macron and build a movement in the working class for a general strike.

WSWS (2023-03-28). Democratic Socialists of America, in control of both school board and teachers union, keeps teachers on the job without a contract in Los Angeles. wsws.org The concessions heaped upon LA teachers and school workers may as well have been worked out in the local leadership of the DSA's Los Angeles Branch.

WSWS (2023-03-28). Democratic Socialists of America, in control of school board and teachers union, keeps Los Angeles teachers on the job without a contract. wsws.org The concessions heaped upon LA teachers and school workers may as well have been worked out in the local leadership of the DSA's Los Angeles Branch.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-03-29). Science Saturday: Understanding the speed of brain communication. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org It often was thought that the speed of information transmitted among regions of the brain stabilized during early adolescence. A new study in Nature Neuroscience by Mayo Clinic researchers and colleagues from the Netherlands found transmission speeds continue to increase into early adulthood. Because problems such as anxiety, depression and bipolar disorders can emerge in late adolescence and early adulthood, a better understanding of brain development may help clinicians offer therapies to treat these disorders. "A fundamental understanding…

WSWS (2023-03-29). Anti-AUKUS meeting seeks to divert anti-war concern in reactionary nationalist direction. wsws.org The speakers' central criticism of the AUKUS military pact was that it undermines Australia's "national interests"—that is, economic and strategic interests of Australian imperialism, including in the South Pacific and other parts of the region.

WSWS (2023-03-28). Australian government unveils "tweaked" Voice referendum proposal. wsws.org Albanese's Labor government is desperate to use the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to put a progressive, even humanitarian, gloss to its reactionary, pro-business and militarist agenda.

Benoit Breville, Serge Halimi (2023-03-28). War poker and Imperial moralism. indybay.org After the fall of the Soviet Union, the "war on terrorism" began, which, according to George W. Bush, would end "tyranny in the world." Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq – the U.S. democratic crusades not only cost several million lives, they also brought the restriction of freedoms, McCarthyism, the hunt for whistleblowers. And a series of alliances with dictators…

El Faro English (2023-03-28). Guatemala: Electoral Officials Clear Path for Conservative Candidate, Daughter of Ex-Dictator. latinorebels.com After candidate registration for Guatemala's June elections closed this weekend, electoral authorities, toeing the line for far-right political operatives, have spuriously excluded two presidential tickets, clearing the way for conservative Zury Ríos.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-03-28). Daily Round-up | Millions march to protest 8 years of Yemen war & other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode of the Daily Round-up we look at eight years of Yemen war, Argentines commemorate victims of military dictatorship, 29 dead off Tunisia coast as boat sinkings spike, and rights groups condemn US-Canada border pact.

WSWS (2023-03-28). Israel protests to continue despite Netanyahu's "pause" of dictatorial legislation. wsws.org Netanyahu announced that the legislation would be "paused" to prevent "civil war". But only after negotiations with the far-right parties in his government, granting them a National Guard led by Jewish supremacistItamar Ben-Gvir.

Anonymous767 (2023-03-28). 'Unfriendly' West Triggers Consolidation Of Russian Elite. southfront.org Click to see the full-size image | The claim that sanctions, the ICC arrest warrant against President Putin, and other unfriendly actions by the West have had no effect on Russian political reality is fundamentally false. | After the collapse of the USSR, the new economic elites of Russia aligned themselves firmly with the West. Flattering themselves that they would be whole-heartedly embraced by the Western global aristocracy, they felt little solidarity with their less-fortunate compatriots, and were happy to enable the…

ecns.cn (2023-03-29). Watchdog aims to protect firms online. ecns.cn China's top cyberspace regulator announced a series of special operations targeting cyberspace governance, and pledged to protect the lawful online rights of enterprises on Tuesday.

_____ (2023-03-28). High Stakes as Uncle Sam's Days of Impunity Are Finally Over. strategic-culture.org The edifice of American imperial power has never been challenged at its foundation. It is now. | Russia and China are determined to hold the American perpetrators of the Nord Stream sabotage to account. Uncle Sam's days — indeed decades — of wanton criminality are over. There's going to be hell to pay as the imperialist tyranny in Washington hits a wall of reality. | Several weeks have gone by with the United States and its Western lackeys stonewalling at the United Nations Security Council, squirming and resisting calls from Moscow and Beijing for an international criminal investigation into the sabo…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-03-27). U.S. War for Oil Turned 20! transcend.org Fascism?! What?!

Editor (2023-03-27). Anti-war protests in Deutschland and the need to change course on Kiev. mronline.org Or a continent and a country that has already borne the brunt of fascism, providing arms to Ukraine lacks wisdom and hints at strategic implosion.

Juan Cole (2023-03-28). Rallies, Clashes Roil Israel as Netanyahu "Pauses" Gutting of Judiciary, and Far Right urges use of "Gasoline and Guns" on Protesters. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that clashed broke out Monday evening between centrist protesters against the Netanyahu government and far right thugs. Some 10,000 fascists gathered in front of the courthouse in Jerusalem to support Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's plan to weaken the judiciary. Some got into shouting matches …

WSWS (2023-03-27). Trump kicks off 2024 presidential campaign in Waco, Texas embracing January 6 fascist foot soldiers. wsws.org The Republican front-runner began the rally playing a fascist anthem featuring himself and the "January 6 choir" comprised of Trump acolytes currently incarcerated for their role in the former president's failed coup.

Anonymous103 (2023-03-27). BREAKING: Ukrainian Soldiers Fired At Car Of Young Muslim Woman With Baby. southfront.org

Larry Holmes (2023-03-28). On one-year anniversary of ALU's historic victory, New York Times does hit job on the union. workers.org A year ago, the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) surprised and excited the labor movement and shocked the ruling class with the first union victory at Amazon. The New York Times, one of U.S. capitalism's foremost mouthpieces, has marked the anniversary with a front-page hit job on the union, entitled "Strains . . . |

WSWS (2023-03-28). General strike and mass protests stagger Israeli regime. wsws.org The political explosion in Israel is another expression of a widening global revolutionary crisis of capitalism.

Robert Reich (2023-03-27). What connects Trump's likely arrest with the bank bailouts? nationofchange.org Let's start with multi-billionaire Peter Thiel, and follow the money.

WSWS (2023-03-28). Democratic Socialists of America, in control of both school board and teachers union, keeps teachers on the job without a contract in Los Angeles. wsws.org The concessions heaped upon LA teachers and school workers may as well have been worked out in the local leadership of the DSA's Los Angeles Branch.

WSWS (2023-03-27). Chicago Democrats promote racialist politics during mayoral election. wsws.org Brandon Johnson's campaign for mayor has almost exclusively employed the language of identity politics, while he and others, including Jeannette Taylor, an alderman who is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have expressed xenophobic attitudes towards immigrants.

WSWS (2023-03-27). Communist Party of Turkey, Left Party support for Kƒ±lƒ±àßdaroƒülu in presidential election exposes bankruptcy of pseudo-left. wsws.org These parties' support for the Nation Alliance candidate, who is as anti-worker and pro-imperialist as Erdogan, vindicates the Socialist Equality Group's analysis of these pseudo-left forces.

WSWS (2023-03-27). Australian workers and young people speak out against war and austerity in NSW election. wsws.org Voters in the working-class southwest Sydney electorate of Bankstown told Socialist Equality Party campaigners the state election would do nothing to resolve the escalating social crisis or stop the threat of war.

WSWS (2023-03-28). Democratic Socialists of America, in control of both school board and teachers union, keeps teachers on the job without a contract in Los Angeles. wsws.org The concessions heaped upon LA teachers and school workers may as well have been worked out in the local leadership of the DSA's Los Angeles Branch.

WSWS (2023-03-27). Chicago Democrats promote racialist politics during mayoral election. wsws.org Brandon Johnson's campaign for mayor has almost exclusively employed the language of identity politics, while he and others, including Jeannette Taylor, an alderman who is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have expressed xenophobic attitudes towards immigrants.

WSWS (2023-03-27). Communist Party of Turkey, Left Party support for Kƒ±lƒ±àßdaroƒülu in presidential election exposes bankruptcy of pseudo-left. wsws.org These parties' support for the Nation Alliance candidate, who is as anti-worker and pro-imperialist as Erdogan, vindicates the Socialist Equality Group's analysis of these pseudo-left forces.

WSWS (2023-03-27). Australian workers and young people speak out against war and austerity in NSW election. wsws.org Voters in the working-class southwest Sydney electorate of Bankstown told Socialist Equality Party campaigners the state election would do nothing to resolve the escalating social crisis or stop the threat of war.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-03-28). Science Saturday: Understanding the speed of brain communication. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org It often was thought that the speed of information transmitted among regions of the brain stabilized during early adolescence. A new study in Nature Neuroscience by Mayo Clinic researchers and colleagues from the Netherlands found transmission speeds continue to increase into early adulthood. Because problems such as anxiety, depression and bipolar disorders can emerge in late adolescence and early adulthood, a better understanding of brain development may help clinicians offer therapies to treat these disorders. "A fundamental understanding…

Global Research News (2023-03-27). Selected Articles: Video: Towards WHO Totalitarianism? Dr. Reiner Fuellmich with Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, James Roguski and Matthew Ehret. globalresearch.ca

Rick Rozoff (2023-03-27). This is rich: U.S. coup mistress decries "narrowing media environment" in…Georgia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The former advisor to a NATO combat unit in Afghanistan is truly expecting Georgians to swallow a camel on this one, while her own nation is suffering under the incubus of an FBI/CIA/Operation Mockingbird/one-party totalitarian news blackout and propaganda total war. ==== Civil GeorgiaMarch 25, 2023 Ambassador Degnan: We see the Narrowing of Media Environment …

WSWS (2023-03-28). Australian government unveils "tweaked" Voice referendum proposal. wsws.org Albanese's Labor government is desperate to use the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to put a progressive, even humanitarian, gloss to its reactionary, pro-business and militarist agenda.

Benoit Breville, Serge Halimi (2023-03-28). War poker and Imperial moralism. indybay.org After the fall of the Soviet Union, the "war on terrorism" began, which, according to George W. Bush, would end "tyranny in the world." Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq – the U.S. democratic crusades not only cost several million lives, they also brought the restriction of freedoms, McCarthyism, the hunt for whistleblowers. And a series of alliances with dictators…

Editor (2023-03-27). 'No one can deny it now': death flight plane to be returned to Argentina. mronline.org Flight logs revealed how 12 people were thrown out to their deaths into the Atlantic during the years of dictatorship.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-03-27). Argentinians on the streets at 47 years since the US-backed coup. peoplesdispatch.org March 24 marked 47 years since the US-backed civic-military coup overthrew the left-wing government of President Isabel Martínez de Perón in Argentina. The coup installed the bloodiest dictatorship in the history of the country.

Tanya Wadhwa (2023-03-27). Argentina commemorates victims of military dictatorship on the 47th anniversary of US-backed coup. peoplesdispatch.org March 24 marked 47 years since the US-backed military coup overthrew the left-wing government of President Isabel Martínez de Perón in Argentina (July 1974-March 1976), and installed the bloodiest dictatorship in the history of the country. The dictatorship period was marked by state terrorism and human rights violations. During the seven years and nine months of military dictatorship (March 1976-December 1983), Argentine security forces, along with right-wing death squads, hunted down and silenced anyone believed to be resisting the military junta, or associated with socialism, left-wing Peronism, the Montoneros…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-03-27). The World's Largest CBDC Trial: A Preview of the Elite's Cashless Vision for You. transcend.org 23 Mar 2023 – The eNaira is Africa's first central bank digital currency (CBDC). Central bankers, academics, politicians and elites from over 100 countries have closely followed the eNaira. They used Nigeria—Africa's largest country by population and economy—as a trial balloon to test their nefarious plans to eliminate cash in North America, Europe, and beyond.

Editor (2023-03-27). 20 Years of Iraq Denialism: The New York Times Continues to Get it Wrong on US Empire. scheerpost.com By Anthony DiMaggio / CounterPunch Marking the twentieth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, The New York Times ran a feature-length article titled, "20 Years On, a Question Lingers About Iraq: Why Did the U.S. Invade?" The piece acknowledges some harsh realities about the war, while dodging questions about its legality and the imperial motivations that …

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-27). Hungary's Parliament Ratifies Finland's NATO Membership. news.antiwar.com Hungary's parliament on Monday voted to ratify Finland's NATO membership, bringing the alliance one step closer to significantly expanding on Russia's border. Hungary's National Assembly approved Finland's NATO bid in a vote of 182 to 6. Finland has already amended its laws to join NATO and now only needs the approval of Turkey's parliament. A …

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-03-27). U.S. War for Oil Turned 20! transcend.org Fascism?! What?!

WSWS (2023-03-27). Trump kicks off 2024 presidential campaign in Waco, Texas embracing January 6 fascist foot soldiers. wsws.org The Republican front-runner began the rally playing a fascist anthem featuring himself and the "January 6 choir" comprised of Trump acolytes currently incarcerated for their role in the former president's failed coup.

Emanuel Pastreich (2023-03-26). Bankrupt Banks, Food Crisis, Mandatory Vaccine and Our Grim Future. "This Time, the Virus has Infected Money Itself" globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-03-27). Chicago Democrats promote racialist politics during mayoral election. wsws.org Brandon Johnson's campaign for mayor has almost exclusively employed the language of identity politics, while he and others, including Jeannette Taylor, an alderman who is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have expressed xenophobic attitudes towards immigrants.

WSWS (2023-03-27). Australian workers and young people speak out against war and austerity in NSW election. wsws.org Voters in the working-class southwest Sydney electorate of Bankstown told Socialist Equality Party campaigners the state election would do nothing to resolve the escalating social crisis or stop the threat of war.

WSWS (2023-03-26). More UK postal workers write in to describe impact of Royal Mail cost-cutting exercise. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site is publishing further correspondence from postal workers exposing the brutal exploitative regime being imposed by Royal Mail. The latest comes from Coventry, Ipswich, Grimsby, Leicester, Milton Keynes, Rushden, Paignton, Fakenham, Crumlin in Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland.

Global Research News (2023-03-27). Selected Articles: Video: Towards WHO Totalitarianism? Dr. Reiner Fuellmich with Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, James Roguski and Matthew Ehret. globalresearch.ca

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-03-26). Video: Towards WHO Totalitarianism? Dr. Reiner Fuellmich with Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, James Roguski and Matthew Ehret. globalresearch.ca

Benoit Breville, Serge Halimi (2023-03-27). War poker and Imperial moralism. indybay.org After the fall of the Soviet Union, the "war on terrorism" began, which, according to George W. Bush, would end "tyranny in the world." Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq – the U.S. democratic crusades not only cost several million lives, they also brought the restriction of freedoms, McCarthyism, the hunt for whistleblowers. And a series of alliances with dictators…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-03-27). The World's Largest CBDC Trial: A Preview of the Elite's Cashless Vision for You. transcend.org 23 Mar 2023 – The eNaira is Africa's first central bank digital currency (CBDC). Central bankers, academics, politicians and elites from over 100 countries have closely followed the eNaira. They used Nigeria—Africa's largest country by population and economy—as a trial balloon to test their nefarious plans to eliminate cash in North America, Europe, and beyond.

_____ (2023-03-26). 20 Years of Iraq Denialism: The New York Times Continues to Get It Wrong on U.S. Empire. strategic-culture.org By Anthony DIMAGGIO | Marking the twentieth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, The New York Times ran a feature-length article titled, " To provide some conte…

ecns.cn (2023-03-26). Chinese sports brands see bumper 2022. ecns.cn Major Chinese sports enterprises such as Anta, Xtep and Li-Ning enjoyed considerable growth in 2022, according to annual financial results released in recent days.

_____ (2023-03-25). Minsk, Moscow & The Moral Olympics. strategic-culture.org Lofty ideals that were an integral part of the ancient Olympics and that underwrite the founding of the modern Olympic games are not for NATO. | In assessing NATO's ongoing efforts to terrorise Russian and Belarusian athletes, we must include Minsk sparrows, Muscovite goalkeepers, Nazi paratroopers, African Americans and many more in our calculus to make sense of this latest bout of naked NATO fascism. | Let's start with the late POTUS Nixon, who had the singular honour of

JANET (2023-03-25). Socialist Cuba and mosquitos: humanity calls, Cuba answers. iacenter.org By Stephanie Hedgecoke March 17, 2023 Mosquito-carried disease vectors have plagued humanity for millennia. Mosquitos carry dengue, yellow fever, malaria, West Nile fever, Zika fever, several varieties of encephalitis, Rift Valley fever, Chikungunya and Lymphatic filariasis, as well as Dog heartworm. Aedes mosquitos transmit dengue fever to cause 96 million symptomatic cases a year, resulting in around 40,000 deaths. Malaria, carried by Anopheline mosquitos, killed 619,000 people in 2021, according to the World Health Organization. (Dec. 8, 2022) Worldwide, malaria-bearing mosquitos caused 247 million cases in 20…

WSWS (2023-03-25). Los Angeles teacher: Pay for school workers "is not enough to support a family" wsws.org On the first day of the Los Angeles schools strike, the World Socialist Web Site spoke with Max, a fifth grade teacher who has been teaching for 24 years in LAUSD.

Benoit Breville, Serge Halimi (2023-03-26). War poker and Imperial moralism. indybay.org After the fall of the Soviet Union, the "war on terrorism" began, which, according to George W. Bush, would end "tyranny in the world." Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq – the U.S. democratic crusades not only cost several million lives, they also brought the restriction of freedoms, McCarthyism, the hunt for whistleblowers. And a series of alliances with dictators…

WSWS (2023-03-25). Bring down the Macron government! wsws.org This week's tumultuous events in France have torn the "democratic" mask off the capitalist state, exposing it as a dictatorship of the financial oligarchy.

_____ (2023-03-25). The Two Faces of Emmanuel Macron in Africa. strategic-culture.org How France's president anoints himself in lies, treachery and smear campaigns in the African continent. | African elites can no longer fake it for Macron or the French. The days of when they were obliged to humour French presidents that France still wielded its power across the continent in…

ecns.cn (2023-03-26). Chinese sports brands see bumper 2022. ecns.cn Major Chinese sports enterprises such as Anta, Xtep and Li-Ning enjoyed considerable growth in 2022, according to annual financial results released in recent days.

Sharon Zhang (2023-03-24). AOC Slams GOP for Banning Children's Book "Life of Rosa Parks" for Being "Woke" truthout.org As the House debated a Republican bill that would unleash a flood of racist, far right abuse on schools and children across the U.S., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) delivered a fiery speech on Thursday condemning Republicans for their clear embrace of fascism. The bill, which passed the House largely on party lines on Friday morning, would force schools to disclose their curriculum and… |

Staff (2023-03-24). Munther Khalaf Mufleh: Prisoners' movement victory is an implementation of unity and true partnership. samidoun.net The following article, by Palestinian prisoner leader Munther Khalaf Mufleh, is republished from the original Arabic, from the Handala Center. After the escalation of Zionist attacks against the achievements gained by the prisoners' movement over the years, and the attempts of the fascist Ben Gvir to seize our rights by enacting laws and policies such …

WSWS (2023-03-24). Bankstown: A microcosm of Australia's social crisis. wsws.org The social situation in Bankstown, with soaring rents and mortgages, stagnant or declining incomes and mounting social distress, shows that capitalism offers no future for the working class.

WSWS (2023-03-24). The value American capitalism places on workers' lives: BP fined $156,250 for the deaths of two refinery operators in Ohio explosion. wsws.org Ben and Max Morrissey were burned to death in an explosion and fire at the BP Husky oil refinery in Oregon, Ohio, just outside of Toledo. For American capitalism, the life of a worker is very cheap.

Emanuel Pastreich (2023-03-24). U.S. Politics and the "Ugly Truth of 9/11". Richard Gage Interviews Emanuel Pastreich, Independent Candidate for President of the U.S. (2000). globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-03-25). Los Angeles teacher: Pay for school workers "is not enough to support a family" wsws.org On the first day of the Los Angeles schools strike, the World Socialist Web Site spoke with Max, a fifth grade teacher who has been teaching for 24 years in LAUSD.

Sharon Zhang (2023-03-24). AOC Slams GOP for Banning Children's Book "Life of Rosa Parks" for Being "Woke" truthout.org As the House debated a Republican bill that would unleash a flood of racist, far right abuse on schools and children across the U.S., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) delivered a fiery speech on Thursday condemning Republicans for their clear embrace of fascism. The bill, which passed the House largely on party lines on Friday morning, would force schools to disclose their curriculum and… |

Staff (2023-03-24). Munther Khalaf Mufleh: Prisoners' movement victory is an implementation of unity and true partnership. samidoun.net The following article, by Palestinian prisoner leader Munther Khalaf Mufleh, is republished from the original Arabic, from the Handala Center. After the escalation of Zionist attacks against the achievements gained by the prisoners' movement over the years, and the attempts of the fascist Ben Gvir to seize our rights by enacting laws and policies such …

WSWS (2023-03-24). Bankstown: A microcosm of Australia's social crisis. wsws.org The social situation in Bankstown, with soaring rents and mortgages, stagnant or declining incomes and mounting social distress, shows that capitalism offers no future for the working class.

WSWS (2023-03-24). The value American capitalism places on workers' lives: BP fined $156,250 for the deaths of two refinery operators in Ohio explosion. wsws.org Ben and Max Morrissey were burned to death in an explosion and fire at the BP Husky oil refinery in Oregon, Ohio, just outside of Toledo. For American capitalism, the life of a worker is very cheap.

Emanuel Pastreich (2023-03-24). U.S. Politics and the "Ugly Truth of 9/11". Richard Gage Interviews Emanuel Pastreich, Independent Candidate for President of the U.S. (2000). globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-03-25). Los Angeles teacher: Pay for school workers "is not enough to support a family" wsws.org On the first day of the Los Angeles schools strike, the World Socialist Web Site spoke with Max, a fifth grade teacher who has been teaching for 24 years in LAUSD.

Rick Rozoff (2023-03-24). NATO pushes European Socialists for thirty more years, eternity of new wars. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com From Bosnia to Ukraine, NATO has been waging war — on three continents — for thirty years. Evidently permanently, "for the long term." It could be argued that NATO has presented the world with its first Socialist/Social Democratic wars. (Think of Blair, Schroeder, Jospin, Solana, etc. in 1999.) And a plethora of them at that. …

WSWS (2023-03-24). Teachers around the world send in support for striking Los Angeles school workers. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site has received numerous statements from educators involved in independent rank-and-file committees across the world supporting the three-day strike by Los Angeles school workers this week.

WSWS (2023-03-24). UK postal workers expose back breaking working conditions at Royal Mail. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site is publishing further correspondence from postal workers exposing the brutal exploitative regime being imposed by Royal Mail. The latest comes from London, Cheshunt, Luton, Chatham, Houghton Regis, Stalham and Blackburn.

Benoit Breville, Serge Halimi (2023-03-25). War poker and Imperial moralism. indybay.org After the fall of the Soviet Union, the "war on terrorism" began, which, according to George W. Bush, would end "tyranny in the world." Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq – the U.S. democratic crusades not only cost several million lives, they also brought the restriction of freedoms, McCarthyism, the hunt for whistleblowers. And a series of alliances with dictators…

WSWS (2023-03-25). Bring down the Macron government! wsws.org This week's tumultuous events in France have torn the "democratic" mask off the capitalist state, exposing it as a dictatorship of the financial oligarchy.

_____ (2023-03-24). Operation Enmity: A Holding Action. journal-neo.org My country is failing, falling into the same dismal slough all dying empires are swallowed by. The Senators and Caesars of America have one last hope of holding onto their gain. If they can sew hatred and bitterness between brothers on the Russian steppe, the old western world order can buy time. They can hang […] | –°–æ–æ–±—â–µ–Ω–∏–µ

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-03-24). The Pentagon's "Ides of March 2021": Best Month to Go to War? globalresearch.ca or the Romans, the month of March (Martius) marked "the time to start new military campaigns." As in the heyday of the Roman Empire, the Pentagon has a mandate to plan and implement a precise "timeline" of military operations.

ecns.cn (2023-03-25). Chinese sports brands see bumper 2022. ecns.cn Major Chinese sports enterprises such as Anta, Xtep and Li-Ning enjoyed considerable growth in 2022, according to annual financial results released in recent days.

ecns.cn (2023-03-24). China vows green future for oil and gas works. ecns.cn China has vowed to vigorously promote the integrated growth of oil and gas exploration and development with new energy, while actively expanding the scale of green electricity utilization by oil and gas enterprises.

WSWS (2023-03-24). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Hungarian teachers begin indefinite strike over pay in year-long dispute; strike across West Bank in response to killings by Israeli military as teachers' stoppage continues; Nigerian public sector workers to begin general strike over cost of living…

Sharon Zhang (2023-03-23). GOP Is Seeking Rich, Self-Funding Candidates as Party Is Outraised by Democrats. truthout.org As the Republican Party veers further into fascism, the party is facing an election fundraising problem: Democrats in competitive Senate races are consistently outraising Republican candidates, and the party has lost control of the chamber. The party's solution? Turning to ultra-rich candidates who can afford to fund their own campaigns, according to new reporting from Politico… |

_____ (2023-03-23). The Eight-Year-Old's Iraq. strategic-culture.org Twenty years after the Iraq invasion: It was the last period of true optimism, with a sense that somewhere in the unknown unknowns we would meet destiny. | By Jude RUSSO | Iwas an avid supporter of the Iraq invasion in 2003. I believed that Saddam Hussein was a tyrant and a danger to American interests; I believed that, as a civilization, we had a God-given mission to the world, helping those we've subdued and warring down the still-arrogant. We beat Nazism; we beat communism; now it was time to beat radical Islam (although the "radical" got left out as often as not in those heady days), or, as the real connoisse…

infobrics (2023-03-23). UK violates new red lines by sending depleted uranium weapons to Kiev's neo-Nazi regime. infobrics.org The situation could lead to a major escalation, possibly having nuclear impacts.

WSWS (2023-03-23). Anti-AUKUS demonstration in Australia promotes nationalism, "effective" military spending. wsws.org "Truth Not War" organisers express the sentiments of that wing of Australia's ruling elite that has tactical differences with AUKUS and its submarine program and want a more effective and "independent" Australian imperialism.

WSWS (2023-03-24). Bankstown: A microcosm of Australia's social crisis. wsws.org The social situation in Bankstown, with soaring rents and mortgages, stagnant or declining incomes and mounting social distress, shows that capitalism offers no future for the working class.

WSWS (2023-03-24). The value American capitalism places on workers' lives: BP fined $156,250 for the deaths of two refinery operators in Ohio explosion. wsws.org Ben and Max Morrissey were burned to death in an explosion and fire at the BP Husky oil refinery in Oregon, Ohio, just outside of Toledo. For American capitalism, the life of a worker is very cheap.

Sharon Zhang (2023-03-23). GOP Is Seeking Rich, Self-Funding Candidates as Party Is Outraised by Democrats. truthout.org As the Republican Party veers further into fascism, the party is facing an election fundraising problem: Democrats in competitive Senate races are consistently outraising Republican candidates, and the party has lost control of the chamber. The party's solution? Turning to ultra-rich candidates who can afford to fund their own campaigns, according to new reporting from Politico… |

_____ (2023-03-23). The Eight-Year-Old's Iraq. strategic-culture.org Twenty years after the Iraq invasion: It was the last period of true optimism, with a sense that somewhere in the unknown unknowns we would meet destiny. | By Jude RUSSO | Iwas an avid supporter of the Iraq invasion in 2003. I believed that Saddam Hussein was a tyrant and a danger to American interests; I believed that, as a civilization, we had a God-given mission to the world, helping those we've subdued and warring down the still-arrogant. We beat Nazism; we beat communism; now it was time to beat radical Islam (although the "radical" got left out as often as not in those heady days), or, as the real connoisse…

infobrics (2023-03-23). UK violates new red lines by sending depleted uranium weapons to Kiev's neo-Nazi regime. infobrics.org The situation could lead to a major escalation, possibly having nuclear impacts.

WSWS (2023-03-23). Anti-AUKUS demonstration in Australia promotes nationalism, "effective" military spending. wsws.org "Truth Not War" organisers express the sentiments of that wing of Australia's ruling elite that has tactical differences with AUKUS and its submarine program and want a more effective and "independent" Australian imperialism.

WSWS (2023-03-24). Bankstown: A microcosm of Australia's social crisis. wsws.org The social situation in Bankstown, with soaring rents and mortgages, stagnant or declining incomes and mounting social distress, shows that capitalism offers no future for the working class.

WSWS (2023-03-24). The value American capitalism places on workers' lives: BP fined $156,250 for the deaths of two refinery operators in Ohio explosion. wsws.org Ben and Max Morrissey were burned to death in an explosion and fire at the BP Husky oil refinery in Oregon, Ohio, just outside of Toledo. For American capitalism, the life of a worker is very cheap.

WSWS (2023-03-23). What is the struggle by workers at Deutsche Post about? wsws.org The struggles in France, Britain, Greece and here in Germany must be linked to the fight against war and its cause, capitalism. No social problem can be solved without breaking the power of the financial oligarchy.

Emanuel Pastreich (2023-03-24). U.S. Politics and the "Ugly Truth of 9/11". Richard Gage Interviews Emanuel Pastreich, Independent Candidate for President of the U.S. (2000). globalresearch.ca

Rick Rozoff (2023-03-24). NATO pushes European Socialists for thirty more years, eternity of new wars. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com From Bosnia to Ukraine, NATO has been waging war — on three continents — for thirty years. Evidently permanently, "for the long term." It could be argued that NATO has presented the world with its first Socialist/Social Democratic wars. (Think of Blair, Schroeder, Jospin, Solana, etc. in 1999.) And a plethora of them at that. …

WSWS (2023-03-24). Teachers around the world send in support for striking Los Angeles school workers. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site has received numerous statements from educators involved in independent rank-and-file committees across the world supporting the three-day strike by Los Angeles school workers this week.

Fight Back (2023-03-23). Massive anti-war rally held at White House on anniversary of Iraq War. fightbacknews.org Washington, DC – On Saturday, March 18, several thousand people gathered at Lafayette Plaza in front of the White House to protest ongoing U.S. wars and interventions. The rally was organized and attended by the Answer Coalition, United National Antiwar Coalition, Codepink, Veterans for Peace, Black Alliance for Peace, Students for a Democratic Society, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Workers World Party, and Socialist Unity Party, amongst many other organizations. First the crowd heard speeches from various organizers of the rally. | Christly Carpio of Students for a Democratic Society gave a speech condemn…

WSWS (2023-03-23). Vote for the Socialist Equality Party in NSW state election! Take up the fight against war, austerity and "let it rip" COVID policies! wsws.org Only the SEP has advanced a socialist program to reorganise society to meet the pressing social needs of the vast majority, not the private profits of the super-rich.

WSWS (2023-03-23). UK postal workers condemn corporate greed at Royal Mail and betrayal by Communication Workers Union. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) is publishing correspondence from postal workers exposing the systemic run down of the service by Royal Mail and the unbearable workloads imposed based on an agreement between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU).

Benoit Breville, Serge Halimi (2023-03-24). War poker and Imperial moralism. indybay.org After the fall of the Soviet Union, the "war on terrorism" began, which, according to George W. Bush, would end "tyranny in the world." Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq – the U.S. democratic crusades not only cost several million lives, they also brought the restriction of freedoms, McCarthyism, the hunt for whistleblowers. And a series of alliances with dictators…

Clau O'Brien Moscoso, Black Agenda Report. (2023-03-23). Bloodshed, Tear Gas Bombs And Mudslides: 100 Days Of Dictatorship. popularresistance.org Perú has plunged into chaos since the December 7th congressional coup that ousted President Pedro Castillo. This past Friday the 17th of March marked 100 days of terror from the Peruvian coup regime, with deaths topping 80 , severely injured over 1000 and political prisoners also over 1000 taken. Protesters from the various provinces and Lima marked the day with vigils to honor the 3 months of the massacre in Ayacucho on March 15th, a march to Barbadillo where President Castillo is held as a political prisoner and demonstrations throughout the capital city and country. We caught up with a delegation from Asillo,…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-03-23). Peru Dictatorship Denies Castillo Right to Phone Calls. orinocotribune.com Pedro Castillo is being denied his right to a phone call by Peru's dictatorship, led by Dina Boluarte. Since the December 7 US-backed coup, Castillo has been detained without charge and without direct contact with his wife and children who are currently exiled in Mexico. | This was denounced by Castillo's wife, Lilia Paredes, and his daughter, Yenifer Castillo, on Saturday in a joint interview with

Staff (2023-03-23). "Disaster": Iraqi Journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on U.S. Invasion, Sanctions, Occupation & What's Next. democracynow.org As we continue to mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we are joined by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, an award-winning Baghdad-born Iraqi journalist and author. Abdul-Ahad has received the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, the British Press Awards' Foreign Reporter of the Year and the Orwell Prize. His new book is A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War. "I want the history to be told properly," says Abdul-Ahad about his hopes for the future of Iraqi society after decades of dictatorship, sanctions, war, occupation and corruption.

_____ (2023-03-24). Operation Enmity: A Holding Action. journal-neo.org My country is failing, falling into the same dismal slough all dying empires are swallowed by. The Senators and Caesars of America have one last hope of holding onto their gain. If they can sew hatred and bitterness between brothers on the Russian steppe, the old western world order can buy time. They can hang […] | –°–æ–æ–±—â–µ–Ω–∏–µ

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-03-24). The Pentagon's "Ides of March 2021": Best Month to Go to War? globalresearch.ca or the Romans, the month of March (Martius) marked "the time to start new military campaigns." As in the heyday of the Roman Empire, the Pentagon has a mandate to plan and implement a precise "timeline" of military operations.

In Defense of Liberation! (2023-03-23). Global War: The 101s of US Empire – the USA is a WAR MACHINE! podcasters.spotify.com Welcome to a (possible) new series – Global War – where we will focus on the developing conflicts, events, wars and regime change efforts of the US Empire and its NATO and other allies. In this episode we discuss, very very briefly, how the US came into existence, Spanish, English, Dutch and other European "exploration", corporations, and colonization. We talk about the many many wars the US has and is fighting since it's "founding" as a "Constitutional Republic" in 1787, before then, after then, and today. We bring up WW1 and WW2, Korea, Vietnam, China and the Opium Wars, Iraq, Iran, Guatemala, Venezuela, Peru,…

Andrew Murray (2023-03-23). The British Empire: Culture War and Actual War. globalresearch.ca

ecns.cn (2023-03-24). China vows green future for oil and gas works. ecns.cn China has vowed to vigorously promote the integrated growth of oil and gas exploration and development with new energy, while actively expanding the scale of green electricity utilization by oil and gas enterprises.

Dave Welsh (2023-03-23). San Francisco labor opposes racist land ownership bill in Texas. workers.org San Francisco Recalling California's shameful history of prohibiting Chinese and Japanese residents from owning land in the state, the San Francisco Labor Council voted March 13 to condemn a similarly racist bill currently before the Texas state Senate. The vote by SFLC delegates was unanimous. Texas Senate Bill 147, if . . . |

WSWS (2023-03-24). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Hungarian teachers begin indefinite strike over pay in year-long dispute; strike across West Bank in response to killings by Israeli military as teachers' stoppage continues; Nigerian public sector workers to begin general strike over cost of living…

infobrics (2023-03-23). India-Russia Explore Market Access in Railways and Other Sectors. infobrics.org India-Russia trade and economic partnership across sectors including railways, agriculture and pharmaceuticals have received a boost with slew of meetings and arrangements held during the past week…

Anonymous Contributor (2023-03-22). Corvallis Against Fascism: Five Years of Nazi Tears. itsgoingdown.org Five year analysis and reflection on antifascist organizing and community self-defense by Corvallis Antifa. Download PDF HERE This October, Corvallis Antifa will turn five years old. While this pales in comparison to the decades-long tenures of some other Torch Network groups like CenTex-ARA and Rose City Antifa, we recognize that we have outlasted a lot…

Anonymous Contributor (2023-03-22). Community Defense Organizations Disrupt Transphobic Rally in Jefferson City, Missouri. itsgoingdown.org Report on counter-mobilization against a far-Right anti-trans rally in Jefferson City, Missouri. A coalition of Missouri and Kansas-based leftist organizations came together on Monday, March 20th, to intervene in an aggressive and genocidal rally to ban trans health care in Missouri. The rally was organized by various far-Right and fascist organizations dedicated to vilifying and…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-03-22). Ukraine's "Neo-Nazi Summer Camp". Military Training for Young Children, Para-military Recruits. globalresearch.ca The Azov battalion supported by its Western partners is not only involved in para-military operations in Donbass, it is also running a Summer Camp military training project for young children.

WSWS (2023-03-23). Anti-AUKUS demonstration in Australia promotes nationalism, "effective" military spending. wsws.org "Truth Not War" organisers express the sentiments of that wing of Australia's ruling elite that has tactical differences with AUKUS and its submarine program and want a more effective and "independent" Australian imperialism.

Juan Cole (2023-03-22). No, Mr. Smotrich, Palestinians are not New in History, and all Nationalisms are Modern, including the Israeli. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Bezalel Smotrich in a speech in Paris over the weekend maintained that there are no Palestinians and that the whole notion of Palestine is no older than a century. This cliocide, a form of genocide involving wiping out the history of a people, has been a common narrative among Zionists …

WSWS (2023-03-23). What is the struggle by workers at Deutsche Post about? wsws.org The struggles in France, Britain, Greece and here in Germany must be linked to the fight against war and its cause, capitalism. No social problem can be solved without breaking the power of the financial oligarchy.

_____ (2023-03-22). Anti-War Views Criminalized in Germany. strategic-culture.org On the purpose of NATO: "To keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down" — saying attributed to Lord Hastings Ismay, the secretary general of NATO 1952-1957. | By Diana JOHNSTONE | Divide and rule is the eternal law of Empire. | Above all, don't let other big guys get together. Keep them at each other's throats. Half a century ago, stuck in the unwinnable Vietnam war, President Richard M. Nixon heeded Henry Kissinger's advice to open relations with Beijing in order to deepen the split between the Soviet Union and China. | But which big guys, and when? Priorities have evidently shifted. Eig…

WSWS (2023-03-23). Vote for the Socialist Equality Party in NSW state election! Take up the fight against war, austerity and "let it rip" COVID policies! wsws.org Only the SEP has advanced a socialist program to reorganise society to meet the pressing social needs of the vast majority, not the private profits of the super-rich.

Carlos L. Garrido (2023-03-22). The Significance of the Paris Commune 152 Years After. orinocotribune.com By Carlos L Garrido — Mar 18, 2023 | This is an elongated version of a speech for the I would like to thank the International Manifesto Group for hosting this event, and for inviting me to say a few words about the relevance of that heroic experiment in socialist democracy which took place 152 years ago. | My discussion of the Paris Commune's relevance, and of the relevance of Mar…

Danny O'Brien (2023-03-22). Starbucks workers keep up the fight in Portland. workers.org Portland, Oregon A March 19 community rally in downtown Portland hailed the unionization efforts and successes of Starbucks Workers United. SWU was joined by Workers World Party, Democratic Socialists of America and Jobs with Justice. The many members of SWU, some of whom gave speeches, came from the locations where . . . |

Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović (2023-03-22). "Market Socialism" and the Destruction of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. globalresearch.ca

Katie F., The Real News. (2023-03-22). The State Of East Palestine, Ohio From The Eyes Of A Local. popularresistance.org Timothea is a long-time resident of East Palestine, Ohio and a victim of the Norfolk Southern train derailment. The train transporting toxic chemicals was 150 cars-long, 20-25% longer than the average length of trains in 2017, and it was operated by three conductors, with only 4 paid sick days each— just half of the national average. Of course, the release of 100,000 gallons of chemicals into a town only 3 square miles in size might have been avoided had our so-called "socialist" leaders fought for the rights of the railroad workers to secure a more favorable contract that was already years overdue. Now, Ti…

Staff (2023-03-22). President Maduro Leads New Corruption Investigation, Special PSUV Meeting. orinocotribune.com On Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro chaired a meeting with the national leadership of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) from the Humboldt Hotel, at the Waraira Repano National Park in Caracas, to report on the events developing in recent hours in which the National Anti-Corruption Police arrested various officials, businesspersons, deputies, and presidents of institutions for their alleged involvement in corruption. President Maduro asked the Venezuelan people to give him their full support "in these difficult, bitter, but necessary, unavoidable hours of the fight against mafias and corrup…

Sue Bull (2023-03-22). No support for bigots, Socialist Alliance says. greenleft.org.au Attacks on LGBTIQ protesters outside a church where One Nation leader Mark Latham was speaking have alarmed many activists. Sue Bull reports.

WSWS (2023-03-22). Why health workers should support the SEP (Australia) in the NSW state election. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party is the only party in the NSW election offering workers an alternative to the ongoing slashing of wages and cuts to health, education and other social services.

WSWS (2023-03-22). UK postal workers expose grinding exploitation by Royal Mail, overseen by Communication Workers Union. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site is publishing correspondence from UK postal workers, angry over the endless drive to ratchet up exploitation by Royal Mail.

WSWS (2023-03-22). How to fight back at Royal Mail—A meeting for rank-and-file workers. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party (UK) and the World Socialist Web Site will be hosting an online meeting of rank-and-file postal workers next Monday, March 27, at 7pm to discuss taking forward the fight against attacks on living standards and working conditions, and the victimisation of their colleagues.

WSWS (2023-03-22). Oppose president's suppression of local election! Mobilise working class to defend democratic and social rights! wsws.org The SEP and the IYSSE advance a revolutionary socialist and internationalist program to defeat the threat of dictatorship, and defend social and democratic rights.

Fight Back (2023-03-22). Chicago mayoral election: Progressive Brandon Johnson against reactionary Paul Vallas. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – Brandon Johnson's campaign for mayor of Chicago held an event at Saint James Community Church on Chicago's South Side on Thursday, March 16. The event was organized by United Working Families, a movement group behind Johnson. | The purpose of the event was the launch of the offensive to win big on the South Side, the part of the city with the largest Black population. | Johnson was not well known across the city before he announced for mayor. The South and West Sides of the city were mainly won by outgoing Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Two weeks after the February 28 general election, in which Lightfoot cam…

Staff (2023-03-23). "Disaster": Iraqi Journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on U.S. Invasion, Sanctions, Occupation & What's Next. democracynow.org As we continue to mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we are joined by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, an award-winning Baghdad-born Iraqi journalist and author. Abdul-Ahad has received the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, the British Press Awards' Foreign Reporter of the Year and the Orwell Prize. His new book is A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War. "I want the history to be told properly," says Abdul-Ahad about his hopes for the future of Iraqi society after decades of dictatorship, sanctions, war, occupation and corruption.

William J. Astore, Tom Dispatch. (2023-03-22). A Highway To Peace Or A Highway To Hell? popularresistance.org In April 1953, newly elected President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a retired five-star Army general who had led the landings on D-Day in France in June 1944, gave his most powerful speech. It would become known as his "Cross of Iron" address. In it, Ike warned of the cost humanity would pay if Cold War competition led to a world dominated by wars and weaponry that couldn't be reined in. In the immediate aftermath of the death of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, Ike extended an olive branch to the new leaders of that empire. He sought, he said, to put America and the world on a "highway to peace." It was, of course, never…

Editor (2023-03-23). The British empire: culture war and actual war. mronline.org The flurry of criticism and counter-outrage over the classical colonial era is no mere academic matter, warns ANDREW MURRAY: what is being debated is whether fresh imperial slaughter can be sold to the public.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-22). Germans Down & Russians Out. libya360.wordpress.com Diana Johnstone NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Berlin, December 2022. (NATO) On the purpose of NATO: "To keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down" — saying attributed to Lord Hastings Ismay, the secretary general of NATO 1952-1957. Divide and rule is the eternal law of Empire. Above all, don't let other…

Staff (2023-03-22). Andrew Bacevich on China's Rise as Global Superpower & Decline of U.S. Empire After Iraq Invasion. democracynow.org Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have declared a "new era" in Chinese-Russian relations after meeting in Moscow earlier this week. The two leaders reportedly discussed China's 12-point proposal to end the war in Ukraine, with Putin stating that China's plan could be the basis for a peace agreement. Though he has not yet met with Xi himself, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has recently also expressed a willingness to consider China's peace plan. For more, we speak to Andrew Bacevich, co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft,…

The Good Citizen (2023-03-22). The Empire of Lies: ChatGPT's "Artificial Intelligence" Knows U.S. War Criminals. globalresearch.ca

Dave Welsh (2023-03-23). San Francisco labor opposes racist land ownership bill in Texas. workers.org San Francisco Recalling California's shameful history of prohibiting Chinese and Japanese residents from owning land in the state, the San Francisco Labor Council voted March 13 to condemn a similarly racist bill currently before the Texas state Senate. The vote by SFLC delegates was unanimous. Texas Senate Bill 147, if . . . |

ecns.cn (2023-03-22). Chinese-made 50-meter steel rails exported to Europe for first time. ecns.cn A total of 6,500 tons of Chinese-made 50-meter steel rails on Tuesday departed Northeast China's Tianjin for Europe, where they will be used in construction projects on the Hungarian-Serbian railway.

Matthew Cunningham-Cook (2023-03-22). Biden And Becerra Let Big Pharma Profiteer Off Cancer Drug. levernews.com

Anonymous Contributor (2023-03-22). Corvallis Against Fascism: Five Years of Nazi Tears. itsgoingdown.org Five year analysis and reflection on antifascist organizing and community self-defense by Corvallis Antifa. Download PDF HERE This October, Corvallis Antifa will turn five years old. While this pales in comparison to the decades-long tenures of some other Torch Network groups like CenTex-ARA and Rose City Antifa, we recognize that we have outlasted a lot…

Abigail Leibowitz (2023-03-21). My university is Hosting a Stalwart of the Israeli Settler movement. In response I am protesting Fascism. juancole.com This Sunday, as Israelis studying at Princeton gathered in front of Nassau gate to protest the proposed judicial overhaul act of the Israeli government slated to become law in the next few days, the following quote from Robin Wall Kimmerer's "Braiding Sweetgrass" came to mind: "All powers have two sides, the power to create and …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-21). Fascism Drove Ukraine to Civil War. It Could Soon Do the Same to America. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea What happens when a country's internal peace becomes impossible? When the interests of the different peoples within its borders grow so far removed from each other that the disadvantaged group must either fight or lose everything? Best case scenario for the oppressors, the oppressed section merely needs to wage a sustained campaign of…

WSWS (2023-03-21). Police protect Nazi march in Australia. wsws.org The blatant fascist display, assisted by the police, in the centre of the country's second most populous city, is a shocking political warning.

_____ (2023-03-21). South Korea at the Ukrainian Crossroads. journal-neo.org A year has passed since Russia launched a special military operation to denazify Ukraine's criminal regime. Against this backdrop, various parties continue to try to draw South Korea into the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. According to the British newspaper The Telegraph, the Republic of Korea is currently ranked 27th out of 57 countries providing […] | –°–æ–æ–±—â–µ–Ω–∏–µ

Juan Cole (2023-03-22). No, Mr. Smotrich, Palestinians are not New in History, and all Nationalisms are Modern, including the Israeli. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Bezalel Smotrich in a speech in Paris over the weekend maintained that there are no Palestinians and that the whole notion of Palestine is no older than a century. This cliocide, a form of genocide involving wiping out the history of a people, has been a common narrative among Zionists …

Anonymous Contributor (2023-03-22). Corvallis Against Fascism: Five Years of Nazi Tears. itsgoingdown.org Five year analysis and reflection on antifascist organizing and community self-defense by Corvallis Antifa. Download PDF HERE This October, Corvallis Antifa will turn five years old. While this pales in comparison to the decades-long tenures of some other Torch Network groups like CenTex-ARA and Rose City Antifa, we recognize that we have outlasted a lot…

Abigail Leibowitz (2023-03-21). My university is Hosting a Stalwart of the Israeli Settler movement. In response I am protesting Fascism. juancole.com This Sunday, as Israelis studying at Princeton gathered in front of Nassau gate to protest the proposed judicial overhaul act of the Israeli government slated to become law in the next few days, the following quote from Robin Wall Kimmerer's "Braiding Sweetgrass" came to mind: "All powers have two sides, the power to create and …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-21). Fascism Drove Ukraine to Civil War. It Could Soon Do the Same to America. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea What happens when a country's internal peace becomes impossible? When the interests of the different peoples within its borders grow so far removed from each other that the disadvantaged group must either fight or lose everything? Best case scenario for the oppressors, the oppressed section merely needs to wage a sustained campaign of…

WSWS (2023-03-21). Police protect Nazi march in Australia. wsws.org The blatant fascist display, assisted by the police, in the centre of the country's second most populous city, is a shocking political warning.

_____ (2023-03-21). South Korea at the Ukrainian Crossroads. journal-neo.org A year has passed since Russia launched a special military operation to denazify Ukraine's criminal regime. Against this backdrop, various parties continue to try to draw South Korea into the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. According to the British newspaper The Telegraph, the Republic of Korea is currently ranked 27th out of 57 countries providing […] | –°–æ–æ–±—â–µ–Ω–∏–µ

Juan Cole (2023-03-22). No, Mr. Smotrich, Palestinians are not New in History, and all Nationalisms are Modern, including the Israeli. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Bezalel Smotrich in a speech in Paris over the weekend maintained that there are no Palestinians and that the whole notion of Palestine is no older than a century. This cliocide, a form of genocide involving wiping out the history of a people, has been a common narrative among Zionists …

Sato Díaz, María Artigas (2023-03-21). 60,000 strike in Barcelona for International Women's Day. therealnews.com The degradation of women's labor and social standing is a global feature of capitalism. In Barcelona, Catalonia, 60,000 women took to the streets for a one-day general strike called by Spanish union CGT on International Women's Day, March 8. Women workers united across sectors to demand fair pay, an end to workplace discrimination, and migrant justice—particularly for the case of Spain's domestic workers, more than half of whom are migrant women. In the latest installment of Workers of the World, Sato Díaz and María Artigas report from the streets of Barcelona. This video is part of a special Workers…

The Lever (2023-03-21). üéßMOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: Brazil (w/ Melanie Vesey). levernews.com

Staff (2023-03-22). President Maduro Leads New Corruption Investigation, Special PSUV Meeting. orinocotribune.com On Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro chaired a meeting with the national leadership of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) from the Humboldt Hotel, at the Waraira Repano National Park in Caracas, to report on the events developing in recent hours in which the National Anti-Corruption Police arrested various officials, businesspersons, deputies, and presidents of institutions for their alleged involvement in corruption. President Maduro asked the Venezuelan people to give him their full support "in these difficult, bitter, but necessary, unavoidable hours of the fight against mafias and corrup…

Sue Bull (2023-03-22). No support for bigots, Socialist Alliance says. greenleft.org.au Attacks on LGBTIQ protesters outside a church where One Nation leader Mark Latham was speaking have alarmed many activists. Sue Bull reports.

WSWS (2023-03-22). Why health workers should support the SEP (Australia) in the NSW state election. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party is the only party in the NSW election offering workers an alternative to the ongoing slashing of wages and cuts to health, education and other social services.

WSWS (2023-03-22). Oppose president's suppression of local election! Mobilise working class to defend democratic and social rights! wsws.org The SEP and the IYSSE advance a revolutionary socialist and internationalist program to defeat the threat of dictatorship, and defend social and democratic rights.

WSWS (2023-03-22). How to fight back at Royal Mail—A meeting for rank-and-file workers. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party (UK) and the World Socialist Web Site will be hosting an online meeting of rank-and-file postal workers next Monday, March 27, at 7pm to discuss taking forward the fight against attacks on living standards and working conditions, and the victimisation of their colleagues.

WSWS (2023-03-22). UK postal workers expose grinding exploitation by Royal Mail, overseen by Communication Workers Union. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site is publishing correspondence from UK postal workers, angry over the endless drive to ratchet up exploitation by Royal Mail.

Danny O'Brien (2023-03-22). Starbucks workers keep up the fight in Portland. workers.org Portland, Oregon A March 19 community rally in downtown Portland hailed the unionization efforts and successes of Starbucks Workers United. SWU was joined by Workers World Party, Democratic Socialists of America and Jobs with Justice. The many members of SWU, some of whom gave speeches, came from the locations where . . . |

Fight Back (2023-03-21). Milwaukee Anti-war Committee rallies for peace in Ukraine, against U.S. war machine. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – In solidarity with the protest in Washington D.C. on March 18 that saw organizers from all over the country descend on the capital, the Milwaukee Anti-War Committee (MAC) hosted a rally downtown to demand peace in Ukraine and reflect on the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Despite the frigid weather, members from the MAC, Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, and Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) came together to speak on the need to end imperialism and touched on the destructive history of U.S. economic and military interventions abroad. | The event o…

WSWS (2023-03-21). Striking LAUSD teacher: "All the issues we were fighting for in our 2019 strike are the same now" wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site interviewed Chelsea, an adult eduecation teacher in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) with over 20 years experience, on the eve of the citywide schools strike this week,…

WSWS (2023-03-21). Postal workers condemn sweatshop conditions at Royal Mail rubber stamped by Communication Workers Union. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site continues to receive correspondence from postal workers over the back-breaking increases in workloads demanded by Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) enforcing the cost cutting exercise.

WSWS (2023-03-21). What the SEP was prevented from asking at the anti-AUKUS meeting in Sydney. wsws.org The organisers promoted right-wing militarists, while suppressing discussion from the floor, including questions from the Socialist Equality Party.

Fight Back (2023-03-21). Against Trotskyism: The united front. fightbacknews.org Trotskyism disagrees with Marxism-Leninism on a number of important theoretical points. These disagreements aren't limited to the field of theory but have a real practical impact on the movements of working class and oppressed peoples. In our day-to-day struggles, we see them come up again and again. Practically, the question of the united front illustrates very clearly the glaring difference between Marxism-Leninism and Trotskyism. This is a question of extreme theoretical importance, with tremendous practical consequences, so we should examine it closely. | What is the united front? It is the organizational exp…

Michael Snyder (2023-03-21). 186 More Banks "Are at Risk of Failure", and That Could Push Us Into the Next Great Depression. globalresearch.ca

Arturo Domínguez (2023-03-21). What the Anti-Cuba Protest at the World Baseball Classic Was Really About (OPINION). latinorebels.com On Sunday the U.S. played Cuba in the World Baseball Classic to a crowd of fans of the game and protesters against the Cuban regime. The goal of the demonstrations was presumably to bring awareness to Cuba's totalitarian regime, but it was really about proximity to whiteness.

Fight Back (2023-03-22). Chicago mayoral election: Progressive Brandon Johnson against reactionary Paul Vallas. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – Brandon Johnson's campaign for mayor of Chicago held an event at Saint James Community Church on Chicago's South Side on Thursday, March 16. The event was organized by United Working Families, a movement group behind Johnson. | The purpose of the event was the launch of the offensive to win big on the South Side, the part of the city with the largest Black population. | Johnson was not well known across the city before he announced for mayor. The South and West Sides of the city were mainly won by outgoing Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Two weeks after the February 28 general election, in which Lightfoot cam…

WSWS (2023-03-21). Democrats push reactionary diversion in pending indictment of Trump over sex scandal. wsws.org While no arraignment date has been set, the Manhattan district attorney appears set to proceed with an indictment in a legally flimsy and politically reactionary case that is a diversion from Trump's real crimes.

Andy Kroll (2023-03-21). A Highway to Peace or a Highway to Hell? tomdispatch.com In April 1953, newly elected President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a retired five-star Army general who had led the landings on D-Day in France in June 1944, gave his most powerful speech. It would become known as his "Cross of Iron" address. In it, Ike warned of the cost humanity would pay if Cold War competition led to a world dominated by wars and weaponry that couldn't be reined in. In the immediate aftermath of the death of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, Ike extended an olive branch to the new leaders of that empire. He sought, he said, to put America and the world on a "highway to peace." It was, of course, never…

Staff (2023-03-22). Andrew Bacevich on China's Rise as Global Superpower & Decline of U.S. Empire After Iraq Invasion. democracynow.org Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have declared a "new era" in Chinese-Russian relations after meeting in Moscow earlier this week. The two leaders reportedly discussed China's 12-point proposal to end the war in Ukraine, with Putin stating that China's plan could be the basis for a peace agreement. Though he has not yet met with Xi himself, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has recently also expressed a willingness to consider China's peace plan. For more, we speak to Andrew Bacevich, co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft,…

Vanessa Phipps (2023-03-21). Thousands march in Washington, D.C. to launch new movement against U.S. empire. liberationnews.org Thousands of anti-war protesters gathered in Lafayette Park, in front of the White House.

Vanessa Phipps (2023-03-21). Thousands march in Washington, D.C., to launch new movement against U.S. empire. liberationnews.org Thousands of anti-war protesters gathered in Lafayette Park, in front of the White House.

ecns.cn (2023-03-21). COVID-19 oral meds market good pill to swallow. ecns.cn Eyeing the huge market potential, pharmaceutical enterprises are ramping up efforts to grab a share of the COVID-19 preventative oral medicine market in China and the rest of the world.

teleSUR (2023-03-21). International Agribusiness Fair Kicks Off in Cuba. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the 24th Cuba International Agribusiness Fair (FIAGROP 2023) kicked off in Havana with the participation of more than 20 international companies. | RELATED: | Twenty-four firms from countries including Mexico, Italy and Spain are present at the fair, along with 54 local companies. | For the first time, some micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) of Cuban private capital related to the agro-industri…

ecns.cn (2023-03-22). Chinese-made 50-meter steel rails exported to Europe for first time. ecns.cn A total of 6,500 tons of Chinese-made 50-meter steel rails on Tuesday departed Northeast China's Tianjin for Europe, where they will be used in construction projects on the Hungarian-Serbian railway.

Dr. Joseph Mercola (2023-03-21). Conflicts of Interest: Pfizer's Secret Collusion with the NIH. Big Pharma Endangers Public Health. globalresearch.ca