(2023-04-13). Victoria: la reincorporación del legislador negro Justin Jones es una derrota para el fascismo. peoplesworld.org NASHVILLE—Por voto unánime, el legislador negro exiliado Justin Jones fue reelegido a la Cámara de Representantes del Estado de Tennessee por una sesión de emergencia del Consejo Metropolitano de Nashville el 10 de abril. Su regreso a la legislatura se produjo pocos días después de su expulsión por parte del organismo controlado por los republicanos …
(2023-04-12). People's victory: Reinstatement of Black lawmaker Justin Jones a defeat for fascism. peoplesworld.org NASHVILLE—By a unanimous vote, exiled Black lawmaker Justin Jones was reappointed to the Tennessee State House of Representatives by an emergency session of Metro Nashville Council on April 10. His return to the legislature came just a scant few days after his expulsion by the Republican-controlled body on April 6 for so-called "disorderly behavior." The behavior deemed disorderly …
(2023-04-12). Protest Song Of The Week: 'Go As Free Companions' By Dawn Ray'd. shadowproof.com Dawn Ray'd is a UK anarchist black metal band that draws from the folk traditions of rebel music. On their latest album "To Know The Light," the trio conveys a rousing anti-fascist message that balances the bleakness that black metal is known for with a sense of optimism.
(2023-04-12). Is the GOP becoming the American fascist party? nationofchange.org What occurred in Nashville last week is a frightening reminder of the fragility of American democracy when Republicans obtain supermajorities and no longer need to work with Democratic lawmakers.
(2023-04-13). The 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: After 80 years, new photographs emerge. peoplesworld.org For four weeks, from April 19 to May 16, 1943, during World War II, residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe. This year marks the 80th anniversary of …
(2023-04-12). Arsonist Ex-Ukrainian Government Minister Assisted Canadian Government-Funded Nazi Propaganda Bus Tour. libya360.wordpress.com Christian Shingiro and Aidan Jonah The Trade Unions Building in Odessa burning in 2014, after neo-Nazis and other right-wing forces, counting Stepan Kubiv among them, set it on fire. 42 Ukrainians opposed to the Maidan coup were killed in the fire. (Source) ATIP requests and an interview with Ukrainian economist Roman Gubriienko have revealed that…
(2023-04-13). Victoria: la reincorporación del legislador negro Justin Jones es una derrota para el fascismo. peoplesworld.org NASHVILLE—Por voto unánime, el legislador negro exiliado Justin Jones fue reelegido a la Cámara de Representantes del Estado de Tennessee por una sesión de emergencia del Consejo Metropolitano de Nashville el 10 de abril. Su regreso a la legislatura se produjo pocos días después de su expulsión por parte del organismo controlado por los republicanos …
(2023-04-12). People's victory: Reinstatement of Black lawmaker Justin Jones a defeat for fascism. peoplesworld.org NASHVILLE—By a unanimous vote, exiled Black lawmaker Justin Jones was reappointed to the Tennessee State House of Representatives by an emergency session of Metro Nashville Council on April 10. His return to the legislature came just a scant few days after his expulsion by the Republican-controlled body on April 6 for so-called "disorderly behavior." The behavior deemed disorderly …
(2023-04-12). Protest Song Of The Week: 'Go As Free Companions' By Dawn Ray'd. shadowproof.com Dawn Ray'd is a UK anarchist black metal band that draws from the folk traditions of rebel music. On their latest album "To Know The Light," the trio conveys a rousing anti-fascist message that balances the bleakness that black metal is known for with a sense of optimism.
(2023-04-12). Is the GOP becoming the American fascist party? nationofchange.org What occurred in Nashville last week is a frightening reminder of the fragility of American democracy when Republicans obtain supermajorities and no longer need to work with Democratic lawmakers.
(2023-04-13). The 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: After 80 years, new photographs emerge. peoplesworld.org For four weeks, from April 19 to May 16, 1943, during World War II, residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe. This year marks the 80th anniversary of …
(2023-04-12). Arsonist Ex-Ukrainian Government Minister Assisted Canadian Government-Funded Nazi Propaganda Bus Tour. libya360.wordpress.com Christian Shingiro and Aidan Jonah The Trade Unions Building in Odessa burning in 2014, after neo-Nazis and other right-wing forces, counting Stepan Kubiv among them, set it on fire. 42 Ukrainians opposed to the Maidan coup were killed in the fire. (Source) ATIP requests and an interview with Ukrainian economist Roman Gubriienko have revealed that…
(2023-04-12). The 1st Amendment, Defense Security Cooperation Agency & the Henry A. Kissinger Connection. indybay.org Attached please find the article, "Kissinger's Culpability," published this month in The Progressive magazine. The story admirably fleshes out the already decorated U.S. federal national security and human rights whistleblower's arguably most important disclosures regarding a far-right and/or neo-Nazi cabal and a systemic pattern of self-protecting reprisal running through National Defense University (NDU) and Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) decisions against an already decorated national security whistleblower; efforts sustained by collaborationist kapos of the U.S. Merit System Protection Board (MSPB…
(2023-04-13). Black unionists link expulsion of lawmakers to billionaire racists. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON —The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists linked the white right Republican majority's expulsion of two Black Tennessee state legislators to white nationalism and its billionaire backers. The two state reps have since been reinstated. CBTU's strong statement came just after the AFL-CIO also condemned the expulsion of State Reps. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, and Justin …
(2023-04-12). Mexico: Is AMLO's Resource Nationalism Raising the Odds of a Coup? libya360.wordpress.com Owen Schalk Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Photo courtesy Presidencia de la República Washington and Ottawa are not only attempting to weaken AMLO's government—they are attempting to weaken Mexican democracy One of the key tenets of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's "fourth transformation" government is state sovereignty over Mexico's energy resources. This transformation…
(2023-04-12). Great progress: FRSO fund drive nets $25,000 so far. fightbacknews.org In the two weeks since the announcement of Freedom Road Socialist Organization's $130,000 Spring Fundraising Drive, more than $25,000 has come in. More contributions are coming in every day. | FRSO Political Secretary Mick Kelly states, "We are off to a great start. FRSO is experiencing a period of unprecedented growth. We need to expand our capacity. This means we will be expanding our national office and bringing on more full-time staff. We will have more publications. And we will continue to send out organizers to build new districts of FRSO." | Kelly continued, "The decline of monopoly capitalism is accelerat…
(2023-04-12). AI will fail… but not why you think | With Aunindyo Chakravarty. peoplesdispatch.org Artificial intelligence tools have been in the news in recent times due to a vast variety of creative tasks they seem capable of. Yet, AI is bound to fail and the reason is one word – Capitalism. Economic analyst and journalist Aunindyo Chakravarty explains the logic…
(2023-04-12). CovertAction Bulletin: Racist Attacks on Democracy in Tennessee. covertactionmagazine.com The expulsion of two Black elected Representatives from Tennessee's state government continues a long, racist tradition of the removal of Black people in political power in the United States. From the founding of the country through the Reconstruction era and to the modern day, white supremacy and capitalism have used every weapon at their disposal to disenfranchise Black voters and legislators…
(2023-04-13). Why are there fees on everything? nationofchange.org They hide the true cost when you buy a good or service.
(2023-04-13). Sri Lankan police attack rally to mark start of last year's popular uprising. wsws.org Notwithstanding the Socialist Equality Party's principled opposition to the pro-capitalist policies of protest organisers, we strongly condemn the violent government-ordered assault.
(2023-04-13). Why is Britain's Socialist Workers Party downplaying the no-confidence petition against the RCN nurses' union leadership? wsws.org SWP members on Unison's national executive are playing a central role in blocking a rank-and-file insurgency against the health unions' pay deal with the Tory government.
(2023-04-12). The late East Germany, a new (distorted) history in review. peoplesworld.org The German Democratic Republic (1949-1990) has long been a subject neglected by many historians—or, if it is given attention, it's been portrayed simply as a totalitarian country ruled by Stalinists who oppressed the population. Katja Hoyer's new book on the GDR, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990, in its British edition, soon to be published …
(2023-04-13). US Media Denounce Twitter's 'State Media' Label When It Affects NPR. popularresistance.org As part of an ongoing, impulsive and reactionary legacy news outlets, Elon Musk's added to its list of "state-affiliated media"—a label from which all US media had, until recently, been exempt (FAIR.org, 1/6/23). | NPR (4/5/23) rebuked the label, and major media rushed to the public broadcaster's defense. "Twitter Slaps NPR With a Dubious New Tag: 'State-Affiliated Media,'" read a Washington Post headline (4/5/23). Vanity Fair (4/5/23) lambasted the "false equivalence between NPR and state propaganda agencies." CBS News (4/5/23), AP (4/5/23) and CNN (4/5/23) emphatically quoted NPR's self-description as a p…
(2023-04-12). War, the Separation of the World, or the End of an Empire? libya360.wordpress.com Thierry Meyssan All empires are mortal. So is the "American Empire .Painting by Alexandre Granger Many are those who predict a World War. Indeed, some groups are preparing for it. But the States are reasonable and, in fact, consider rather an amicable separation, a division of the world into two different worlds, one unipolar and…
(2023-04-13). WA nurses and midwives still face huge fines, deregistration. greenleft.org.au The WA Industrial Relations Commission is still considering fining the Australian Nursing Federation WA $350,000 for taking strike action last November as part of its enterprise bargaining campaign. Chris Jenkins reports.
(2023-04-12). Freddie Ponton Interview — What Is Happening In France & Is The US Government Involved? thelastamericanvagabond.com Joining me today is Freddie Ponton, here to discuss the major protests — and the subsequent tyrannical police violence — taking place in France, and what may be truly driving it. The narrative on the surface, which no doubt plays a factor, is that this began due to President Macron's proposed pension reforms. However, when
(2023-04-12). US Slaps Sanctions on Hungary Bank Over Russia Ties. news.antiwar.com The US on Wednesday imposed sanctions on a bank based in Hungary over its ties to Russia, a move that further strains ties between Washington and Budapest. According to Reuters, the sanctions targeted three top officials in the International Investment Bank in Budapest, two Russian nationals, and one Hungarian national. US Ambassador to Hungary David …
(2023-04-12). French Authorities, FBI Raid Art Museum in Old San Juan. latinorebels.com French authorities, with the help of the FBI, raided the offices of the Michèle Vasarely Foundation in Old San Juan on Tuesday. The raid reportedly concerned the whereabouts of $40 million worth of art created by Hungarian-French artist Victor Vasarely.