2024-05-16: News Headlines

Sara Flounders, Workers' World. (2024-05-16). Divest Now! A Revolutionary Demand. popularresistance.org Why have student encampments for Palestine ignited such an uproar of brutal repression, vicious police attacks, mass arrests, overwhelming condemnation in the corporate media and a new level of reactionary legislation in Congress? | The demand to divest, raised at almost every encampment, exposes the insidious inroads of the military-industrial complex into the heart of almost all higher education institutions in the U.S. today. | This demand to "divest" has revolutionary implications. Divestment is not just a threat to university boards, administrators and their alumni funders. It is a threat to the established…

Peter Hudis, Kevin B. Anderson, Heather Brown, Lyndon Porter, Fernando Baleia (2024-05-16). From the genocide in Palestine and Ukraine to the fascist threat: Working toward a revolutionary, Marxist-Humanist response. links.org.au Today's global capitalism is sinking into unimaginable levels of barbarism. Nowhere is this barbarism more glaring than in Israel's genocide in Gaza…

Encampment Report (2024-05-16). Stanford People's University Stands Strong Against Inter-Fascist Forces. indybay.org On May 12 Zionist and Hindu supremacist groups rallied on Stanford University campus. Students at the People's University encampment refused to be intimidated.

Rhoda Wilson (2024-05-16). A call for people worldwide to stand with Japan against WHO's public health dictatorship. expose-news.com On Monday, a press conference was held to launch a Japanese national movement against WHO's pandemic plans. Organisers also announced a protest against WHO's plans to take place on 31 May, the …

WSWS (2024-05-16). Port workers and an academic in Sri Lanka call for the immediate release of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk. wsws.org The Colombo Port Workers Action Committee urges all port workers and also youth and who value democratic rights come forward to campaign for the release of comrade Bogdan Syrotiuk.

WSWS (2024-05-16). Former Fijian PM Bainimarama jailed for 12 months. wsws.org Bainimarama's imprisonment over an abuse of office is bound up with the divisions within the country's ruling elites which confront a worsening economic and social crisis.

WSWS (2024-05-16). A lesson in "lesser-evil" politics: Democrats join forces with Republican Speaker Mike Johnson. wsws.org A week after House Democrats voted to retain Mike Johnson as Speaker, the Louisiana Republican appeared outside the Trump trial in Manhattan to fervently support the fascist ex-president.

Kate Yoder (2024-05-16). The American Climate Corps will get people into green jobs. Can it help their mental health too? grist.org In the depths of the Great Depression in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt

ecns.cn (2024-05-15). Premier: Foreign firms welcome. ecns.cn China welcomes foreign enterprises, including those from the United Kingdom, to continue investing in the country, Premier Li Qiang said on Wednesday, reiterating Beijing's commitment to further opening-up.

newleftreview (2024-05-16). Oliver Eagleton: Stakeholder Capitalism, Again. newleftreview.org Oliver Eagleton on Will Hutton, This Time No Mistakes. Lessons for the incoming Labour government on humanizing British capitalism, from a proselytizer of Blair's Third Way.

ecns.cn (2024-05-16). U.S. tariffs on PV imports 'to have limited impact' on Chinese firms. ecns.cn Major Chinese photovoltaic (PV) enterprises said that the U.S. move to double tariff rates on PV cell imports from China to 50 percent would have a limited impact on them, according to media reports.

ecns.cn (2024-05-15). U.S. tariffs on PV imports 'to have limited impact' on Chinese firms. ecns.cn Major Chinese photovoltaic (PV) enterprises said that the U.S. move to double tariff rates on PV cell imports from China to 50 percent would have a limited impact on them, according to media reports.

ecns.cn (2024-05-16). Made-in-Russia Goods Mall to open in Harbin. ecns.cn The Made-in-Russia Goods Mall opening on Thursday in Harbin, capital of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, has attracted over 80 Russian manufacturing enterprises.

Ben Radford (2024-05-16). 6th International Ecosocialist Encounter shows how Global South is leading anti-capitalist struggle. greenleft.org.au The 6th International Ecosocialist Encounter (VI Encuentro Ecosocialista), drawing together representatives from more than 50 organisations in 15 countries, was held from May 10—11 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Green Left's Ben Radford attended the event.

Eric Toussaint (2024-05-16). The singularity and importance of the 1st World Anti-Fascist Conference to be held in Porto Alegre from 17 to 19 May 2024. cadtm.org

Maria Elena Saludas (2024-05-16). Towards the 6th International Ecosocialist Meeting. cadtm.org

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