(2022-02-06). Olympic Games 1936: How USA Supported Hitler Amid International Protest. strategic-culture.org The U.S. agitates against China as a host country for the Olympics. But in 1936, Hitler's Germany was able to stage glittering Winter and Summer Olympics — with U.S. help against international protests from Jewish and labor movements | Despite the worldwide boycott movement against awarding the 1936 Olympics to Berlin, they finally took place, bigger and more brilliant than ever before. Dictator Hitler stood with them in the summit of his international recognition. | The crimes of Hitler's government were internationally known since the beginning of 1933. They began immediately after the seizure of power i…
(2022-02-06). Baltimore: Protest demands: 'No U.S., NATO war on Russia and Donbass'. fightbacknews.org Baltimore, MD — Dozens of protesters gathered on February 5 in downtown Baltimore to speak out against a possible U.S./NATO war on Russia and Donbass. Speakers called on the U.S. government to fight COVID and poverty instead of Russia. | Protesters chanted demands for money for social investments in healthcare, housing and jobs instead of the military budget and war. Cars honked their horns in solidarity as they drove by the picket. A caravan of protesters drove throughout the city after the initial picket, before meeting up with another group for a joint closing rally at a different intersection. | A coali…
(2022-02-06). IT'S WAR! The Fight To Stop School Closures In Oakland As Hundreds Rally and March. indybay.org Hundreds of teachers, students and parents rallied and marched against the proposal to shut and merge many schools in the Flatlands in Oakland. These schools have large number of Black and Brown students and this is taking place as the state has a budget surplus of 45.7 billion dollars.
(2022-02-06). Argentina: An Agreement of More Submission. orinocotribune.com By Carlos Aznárez and Roberto Perdía — Jan 30, 2022 | On Friday last week, President Alberto Fernández announced the new agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by which he set the will of his government to extend the payment of the debts contracted by former right wing President Macri, and agreed to a series of commitments with the international financial organization where the US has the leading voice. | Since our incorporation into the IMF in 1956, this is the 22nd agreement, and in all of them there are mutual commitments to "lay the foundations for a sustained development". | In none of the…
(2022-02-06). Taiwan and Ukraine: How United States foreign policy operates in the service of capitalism. greenleft.org.au The sabre rattling of the United States and its allies grows as capitalism's crisis sharpens, writes William Briggs.
(2022-02-06). The Siege of El Estor: Resistance to the Continuation of an Extractive and Repressive Neoliberal Status Quo in Guatemala. orinocotribune.com By Ben Gutman — Feb 1, 2022 First-hand reporting and analysis of the Maya Q'eqchi' resistance movement against multinational corporate…
(2022-02-05). Europe's governments go all in for "herd immunity" wsws.org Mass infection is now the official policy of every European government. To keep the economy running and profits flowing, those in power are prepared to sacrifice countless lives and the health of the next generation.
(2022-02-05). US Sanctions On Afghanistan Could Be Deadlier Than 20 Years Of War. popularresistance.org Economic sanctions have, in recent years, become one of the most important tools of U.S. foreign policy. There are currently more than 20 countries subjected to various sanctions from the U.S. government. | But if more Americans knew how many innocent civilians actually die as a result of these sanctions, would the worst of them be permitted? | We may be about to find out in Afghanistan. Sanctions currently imposed on the country are on track to take the lives of more civilians in the coming year than have been killed by 20 years of warfare. There's no hiding it any more. | Projections through the winter estimate…
(2022-02-05). Costa Rica to hold presidential election on Sunday. america.cgtn.com 
Costa Rica heads to the polls Sunday to choose a president for the next four years, but with economic issues resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic dominating the campaign, the country's next president will have a big task in bringing the country back from the financial …
(2022-02-05). Cuba is helping vaccinate the world. peoplesdispatch.org Only 9.5% of people in low-income countries have received a single dose of the vaccine. Cuba has a comprehensive plan to support vaccine distribution in the global south to make sure none are left behind…
(2022-02-05). In New Zealand, rising inflation, inequality intensify social crisis. wsws.org The Labour-Green Party government's pro-business policies, imposed since it assumed office in 2017, have produced an unprecedented explosion in social inequality since the onset of COVID-19.
(2022-02-05). Australian government in disarray as workers' anger grows over pandemic disaster. wsws.org While polls show collapsing popular support for Prime Minister Scott Morrison's government, the Labor Party has offered bipartisan backing throughout the pandemic.
(2022-02-05). [Perspectives] Ayoade Alakija: advancing equity in the COVID-19 response. thelancet.com Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija is running late for our video call because of back-to-back meetings in Geneva as the newly appointed WHO Special Envoy and Co-Chair of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-Accelerator), a global collaboration to accelerate equitable access to COVID-19 health tools. Her Geneva visit will help her "join the dots to help move us from working in silos to working better collectively to overcome COVID-19", she tells me in between her last meeting and catching a flight back home to Abuja, Nigeria.
(2022-02-05). [Correspondence] Depression and anxiety during COVID-19. thelancet.com The COVID-19 Mental Disorders Collaborators conclude that, throughout 2020, the pandemic led to a 27 ∑6% increase in cases of major depressive disorders and 25 ∑6% increase in cases of anxiety disorders globally.1 However, we propose that these prevalence estimates are likely to be substantially inflated. Decades of trauma research has shown that, for most people, negative life events such as bereavement or disaster exposure are typically followed by resilience (minimal effect on symptoms of anxiety, or depression, or both) or recovery (initial short-term increase in symptoms of anxiety, or depression, or…
(2022-02-05). Virginia police officials accused of human sex trafficking, intimidation. wsws.org A civil rights lawsuit filed late last year alleges that Northern Virginia police officers collaborated with human sex traffickers in exchange for sexually assaulting the victims.
(2022-02-05). Conceptual artist places gold cube in Central Park: Once again charlatanry meets extreme wealth. wsws.org Artnet News announced this week that "An Artist Placed a Cube Made From $11.7 Million Worth of Gold in Central Park—Protected By Its Own Security Detail."
(2022-02-05). Lee Camp and Adam McKay on Social Criticisms and Government Corruption. scheerpost.com 
This week on VIP Lee Camp looks back to a 2016 interview with the director of the Netflix smash-hit "Don't Look Up." Adam McKay is responsible for brilliant social criticisms in movies like "The Big Short" that took on the 2008 financial crisis and a satire of corporate media in "Anchorman." His latest movie skewers …
(2022-02-05). Health systems, pandemic response and social participation: lessons from Latin America. peoplesdispatch.org Latin America has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, following years of privatization and fragmentation of health systems, and low public investment in health…
(2022-02-05). The people of the world vs Pfizer Inc. peoplesdispatch.org During the Covid-19 pandemic, Pfizer has used every opportunity to maximize its profits, even if this meant reduced access to life-saving medical products for most of the world. The same is about to happen in the case of Paxlovid, the company's Covid-19 oral treatment…
(2022-02-05). Chilean and international capital praise Boric's cabinet picks. wsws.org Like SYRIZA in Greece and Podemos in Spain, the Chilean pseudo-left and Stalinist front has the task of dissipating seething opposition among workers and young people to capitalism.
(2022-02-05). [Correspondence] Depression and anxiety during COVID-19 — Authors' reply. thelancet.com We thank Michael Daly and Eric Robinson for their comments on our Article.1 We share Daly and Robinson's caution against generalising mental disorder prevalence estimates solely from the very early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our methods took this timing into account in several ways. Every estimate that informed our model had corresponding values of the impact of the pandemic (estimates of human mobility and SARS-CoV-2 infection rate) for the period in which the survey was done, whether it was early or later during the course of the pandemic.
(2022-02-05). No pause in health workers' struggles in Nigeria. peoplesdispatch.org As health workers' trade unions in Nigeria call their membership to continue strike action over bad working conditions and missed payments, attempts to limit the space for industrial action persist…
(2022-02-05). Another death in Los Angeles Harbor. wsws.org On Tuesday, January 18, Edgar Ruiz died on the job from what appears to have been an avoidable industrial accident at the Port of Los Angeles's Maersk Terminal.
(2022-02-05). Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia. wsws.org Indian power distribution workers protest nationally against privatisation; Pakistan: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government workers demand pay rise; New South Wales commuter rail workers resume limited industrial action…
(2022-02-05). Renaissance Woman Sylvia Pankhurst: Feminist, Artist, Council Communist, Anti-Imperialist. dissidentvoice.org 
Why Sylvia Matters How many of you about to read this have heard of Sylvia Pankhurst? Our guess is, not many. She seems to have fallen through the cracks of socialist and suffragette movement literature. Her mother, Emmeline Pankhurst and sister, Christabel Pankhurst are still looked up to as leaders in the suffragette movement. What …
(2022-02-05). Join Socialist Workers Party, 'Militant' in campaigning. themilitant.com 
The international In California the fight for ballot status for SWP candidates Eleanor García for U.S. Senate and Joel Britton for governor is underway. García and Britton explain why working people need ou…
(2022-02-05). Canadian workers need a socialist program to defeat the threat of far-right political violence, end the pandemic and oppose war. wsws.org With the support and encouragement of a significant faction of the ruling class, far-right thugs have besieged Canada's parliament for the past week to demand all COVID-19 public health measures be abolished. These extraordinary events underscore the urgent necessity of the independent political mobilization of the working class.
(2022-02-05). New trend/ U.S. workers strike and organize at a new pace. workers.org 
This lightly edited article, based on an interview with Workers World Managing Editor Martha Grevatt, was published Feb. 2 in the Danish Communist Party's newspaper, "Worker." In March 2021, protesters took to the streets in 50 cities across the U.S. to support workers in the state of Alabama who were . . . |
(2022-02-05). Young Communists in France mobilize for Georges Abdallah and a free Palestine. samidoun.net 
On Saturday, 22 January, the Jeunes Communistes 13 (Young Communists of Bouches-du-Rhone, France, with the central city of Marseille) organized a screening of "Fedayin: Georges Abdallah's Fight" with a presentation by a member of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra, a member organization of the Samidoun Network that plays a leading role in organizing for the liberation …