(2022-05-02). Sunday 5/1: May Day March in Santa Cruz. indybay.org Town Clock, Pacific Avenue and Water Street, Downtown Santa Cruz…
(2022-05-02). Putin, Zelensky both invited to G20: Indonesian president. ecns.cn The G20, he said, plays a catalyst role in the recovery of the world economy, adding that he had telephone conversations with both leaders of Russia and Ukraine this week.
(2022-05-02). Nazis and The Beast: The Arrest of Gonzalo Lira. covertactionmagazine.com Are American journalists collaborating with Nazi terrorists to silence dissent? There is another war going on in Ukraine. A war …
(2022-05-02). U.S. Fed's closely watched inflation measure continues to surge in March. ecns.cn U.S. personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price indexes, the Federal Reserve (Fed)'s preferred inflation measure, continued to surge by 6.6 percent in March over the past year, the Commerce Department reported on Friday.
(2022-05-02). Australian Labor Party's election launch pitches for corporate backing on restructuring and war. wsws.org Labor leader Albanese declared that Labor governments were the only ones that "reshape the economy," while accusing the Coalition government of committing a "foreign policy failure" by allowing Solomon Islands to sign a security treaty with China.
(2022-05-02). Analysts divided on U.S. economic prospect. ecns.cn "The underlying fact is this – Americans are spending, businesses are investing," although companies are not able to invest in inventories as much due in part to lingering supply chain issues, Baumohl said.
(2022-05-02). East Timor's presidential election won by Jose Ramos-Horta. wsws.org Ramos-Horta becomes head of state amid an escalating economic crisis wracking the impoverished country, and sharpening geo-strategic tensions in the region fuelled by US imperialism's preparations for war against China.
(2022-05-02). Shut It Down! OEA Strikes & ILWU Shuts Docks In Fight Against Privatization. indybay.org Oakland Education Association members went on strike against the closures of 11 schools in the Black and Brown community. Schools and Labor Against Privatization SLAP initiated a rally at Oscar Grant Plaza next to Oakland City Hall. Following the rally and a march Action Committee Against Privatization organized picketing of the port to protest the privatization of the port and schools.
(2022-05-02). Oakland Sees Day of Action to Stop Privatization. indybay.org Oakland teachers, ILWU labor union and supporters demand stop to Howard Terminal Stadium and end to School closures…
(2022-05-02). Friday 5/6: Recognizing Invisible Labor in the University: Ways Forward. indybay.org Register Here: ucsc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_s-BLvUG0StS7ErSqa07VdQ…
(2022-05-02). WorkWeek 4-28-22 Protest At AFL-CIO On Gov Funding & El Golpe,US Labor, the CIA, & Coup. indybay.org WorkWeek covers the collaboration of the AFL-CIO with the CIA and National Endowment For Democracy NED in the attacks on trade unionists at the Mexico City Ford assembly plant and also against South African BTR workers who were on strike. The AFL-CIO gave millions to Zulu Chief Buthelezi who then organized thugs to attack and murder union strikers and their families.
(2022-05-02). Corporate Capture Of OSHA & US Gov Corruption Cover-up With OSHA Lawyer Darrel Whitman. indybay.org WorkWeek interviews Darrell Whitman, former Federal OSHA Whistleblower Protection Program lawyer and investigator about the take-over of the agency and US Labor Department by the corporations that they are supposed to regulate and do oversight over.
(2022-05-02). Beijing ups restrictions to contain latest COVID-19 flare-ups. ecns.cn The Chinese capital city of Beijing intensified restrictive measures against COVID-19 on Saturday to best reduce cross-infection as high mobility is expected during the five-day Labor Day holiday starting from Saturday.
(2022-05-02). A revealing interview with Australian Labor leader Albanese. wsws.org The interview underscored that Labor is not advancing a program to meet the needs of working people but is presenting itself as the best option for imposing the ruling class's agenda of austerity and war.
(2022-05-02). U.S. gov't spending package fuels historical inflation: report. ecns.cn Inflation rose to 8.54 percent in March from 7.57 percent in February, having skyrocketed throughout President Joe Biden's first year in office, his signature multi-trillion dollar spending package was blamed as one of the drivers of inflation, Fox Business has reported.
(2022-05-02). Sellout contract at Vigor Marine shipyards passes amid widespread opposition from workers. wsws.org The Metal Trades Council of the AFL-CIO announced the passage of the third proposed contract for 900 shipyard workers at Vigor Marine, against massive opposition among workers, who recognize the "pay raise" as an effective pay cut in the face of skyrocketing inflation.
(2022-05-02). Non-profit affordable housing developers and property managers operating illegally. indybay.org Property Managers Operating Illegally:…
(2022-05-02). UAW extends CNH contract "hour by hour," provoking growing discontent among workers. wsws.org Shortly after the midnight expiration of the previous six-year contract for approximately 1,000 CNH Industrial workers in Wisconsin and Iowa, the UAW announced that it would be extending the prior agreement.
(2022-05-02). "Enough is enough!" Statements of sympathy pour in from nurses in response to suicide of a California nurse. wsws.org The World Socialist WebSite has received an outpouring of messages from nurses which paint a picture of the impossible conditions nurses and healthcare workers face on a daily basis.
(2022-05-02). Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE meeting discusses socialist program needed to advance mass anti-government struggle. wsws.org Speakers explained the SEP's international socialist perspective and how it was the only way to address the desperate situation facing masses of people demanding resignation of the Rajapakse government.
(2022-05-02). Chavismo Commemorates 3 Years since Failed Coup Led by Guaidó and López (Photos). orinocotribune.com 
This Saturday, April 30, three years after the People's Victory Day against the failed coup, which took place on the same day in 2019, was commemorated. From the Altamira bridge, Diosdado Cabello, first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), pointed out that, "today we can shout to the world that traitors will never return to Venezuela again." | During his speech, from the same place where the extreme right, led by former deputy Juan Guaidó and fugitive Leopoldo López, tried to carry out a coup against President Nicolás Maduro Moros, Cabello warned that "if today the Venezuelan oppositi…
(2022-05-02). Xi stresses healthy development of capital in China. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Friday called for efforts to regulate and guide the healthy development of capital in China in accordance with the law and give play to the positive role of capital as an important factor of production.
(2022-05-01). Peace Policy and Every military solution leads to disaster. indybay.org "Our Common Security" (April 21, 1982) called the Palme Report revealed a new way of thinking that helped make German unity and the overcoming of the European divide possible in 1989. Willy Brandt's North-South report "Ensuring Survival" (1980) described the need for a socially just world economic order and the equal inclusion of the global South.
(2022-05-01). May Day—Workers In India Feel Increasing Need For Unity. popularresistance.org This year May Day is being observed at a time of increasing need for wider unity by workers in the wake of adverse government policies leading to increasing burden of unemployment and inflation at the same time. Policies relating to demonetization, poorly conceived tax reform in the form of GST, privatization, excessively stringent and poorly planned lock-downs have led to massive job losses and reduced income across vast areas of economic activity, while policies which favor big business interests contribute at least partly to rise of price of several essential commodities. | At a time of adverse external factor…
(2022-05-01). May Day: Worker's Struggle Celebration Is Well-Deserved. popularresistance.org Working people across the globe are gearing up celebrate International Worker's Day this May 1. Workers have been participating in monumental struggles since the previous year's May Day, making this year's celebration well-deserved. Peoples Dispatch looks back on some of the most important labor struggles of this past year: | In Colombia, the National Strike Committee (CNP), which brought together diverse groups of social movements, organizations and trade unions, presented ten bills in Congress, which included measures to alleviate the worsening socio-economic conditions, protection and security for social leade…
(2022-05-01). Ralph Nader: The Dems Are Totally Useless Against the Trumpian GOP Onslaught. scheerpost.com 
Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), who is in charge of the Senate November campaigns, wants to tax 100 million low-income Americans and sunset Social Security and Medicare. [ By Ralph Nader | There is something about entrenched bureaucracies that transcend nations and cultures. When bureaucracies are confronted with unanticipated or new challenges, they freeze — like a deer facing headlights. | Sears, Roebuck and Company saw Walmart coming out of Arkansas for years and spreading all over the country, but the Sears bosses could…
(2022-05-01). 55,000 SEIU Members May Strike In Los Angeles. popularresistance.org A majority vote of yes for the strike would mean that our union's bargaining committee can call a strike if the LA County Board of Supervisors refuses to meet union demands in the continuing negotiations. The strike is our most powerful weapon. It's a refusal to work until our demands are met, insisting that we have the right to protect ourselves, feed our families, be respected, and improve our working conditions to provide a better service to the community. It's absurd that many of us are working for low-income homeless folks, and we qualify for those same services because our pay is so low. | During the surge…
(2022-05-01). The Jackson-Kush Plan And The Struggle For Land. popularresistance.org While the land relationships that dominate this society have implications for every relation in society, the recent crisis of gentrification and forced removal in low income Black communities, along with the volatile boom-bust real estate cycles, has made the struggle for adequate housing the most pronounced battleground in an increasingly intense war over the vision for the future of how we relate, prioritize and manage access to land. | The current regime of land relationships renders housing and community development fatally flawed in at least two respects: first, houses serve dual social functions in this soc…
(2022-05-01). Open session of Iranian Parliament. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 01 (MNA) — Chaired by Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Iranian parliament held an open session on Sunday with the participation of the Iranian Minister of Cooperatives, Labour, and Social Welfare Hojjat Abdolmaleki.
(2022-05-01). Place-Based Narrative Labor with Sonia Ivancic. mronline.org 
Money on the Left speaks with Dr. Sonia Ivancic about the importance of regionally sensitive and affirmative storytelling in provisioning processes. Assistant Professor in organizational communication at University of South Florida, Dr. Ivancic is a community-engaged researcher, whose work on "place-based narrative labor" offers essential new tools for displacing prevailing scarcity logics and rhetorics of austerity with more capacious ways of thinking, arguing, and narrating.
(2022-05-01). Detienen a responsables del derrumbe de un edificio en China. telesurtv.net Aunque se mantienen las labores de rescate, las autoridades chinas no conservan muchas esperanzas de encontrar sobrevivientes.
(2022-05-01). COVID-19 shines a spotlight on laboratory professionals' vital role in health care. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week, April 24—30, honors and recognizes the dedication, innovation, and expertise that clinical lab professionals bring to patient care. Over the last two years, clinical laboratory professionals have shown extraordinary dedication in the fight against COVID-19. Their commitment and hard work during this difficult time has made a difference in the lives of people across the globe. "Throughout the pandemic, we have seen the power of teamwork in health care. And…
(2022-05-01). Mayo Clinic invests in laboratory expansion to enhance patient care. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — To support the ongoing investment in patient care, Mayo Clinic is investing in a major laboratory expansion project at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. The expansion includes a $49 million investment in the laboratory. Construction for the project has started and will continue through 2025. The expansion project will increase laboratory space at Mayo Clinic's Superior Drive Support Center in Rochester. The new laboratory space will house several clinical laboratories that reside in…
(2022-05-01). May Day: From workers' resistance to workers' revolution. liberationnews.org 
Over the past year, workers across the United States have demonstrated a deep determination to fight back on the job, amounting to a major surge in the labor movement that is having profound effects on society.
(2022-05-01). ILWU 10 Backs OEA Strike Against Closure of Oakland Schools & Privatization of Port. indybay.org ILWU Local 10 at a press conference supported the OEA teachers strike against the closures of public schools in Oakland. They were joined by parents of students and also other unions. | SEIU 1021 leaders supported the teachers and also adamantly opposed the privatization of Howard Terminal in the Port of Oakland which they said would destroy the working port of Oakland. They were also supported by USW Local 5 president PK White from the striking Chevron Richmond refinery workers.
(2022-05-01). UK: University and College Union shelves national strikes for a year. wsws.org With RPI inflation at 9 percent and the employers' association offering only a 2.75 percent pay rise for most HE workers, the "new strategy" of the UCU is to tell its members to stand down and suffer.
(2022-05-01). Oil Above All: Paraguay Joins New 'Friends of Venezuela' Club Despite Multi-Million Dollar Debt and Refusal to Recognize Maduro. orinocotribune.com The President of the Senate of Paraguay, àìscar Salomón, informed the press that next Tuesday, May 3, a delegation of Venezuelan National Assembly deputies will discuss with their Paraguayan colleagues the possibility of resuming the purchase of Venezuelan fuel by Paraguay. | The meeting will take place between a team of Paraguayan senators and four Venezuelan deputies who are currently in Paraguay, discussing the reinstatement of Venezuela in the Mercosur Parliament (Parlasur). | "Paraguay today needs cheaper fuel and Venezuela can give us that possibility to buy," said Senator Salomón. | He added that th…
(2022-05-01). Socialist Equality Party campaigns at Sri Lanka solidarity rally in London. wsws.org Around 3,000 people protested, carrying homemade placards. SEP members distributed hundreds of copies of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) statement "