Editor2 (2022-06-19). Russian MoD: Fever-Carrying Mosquitoes Studied in Ukrainian Labs May Have Been Used by US in Cuba. orinocotribune.com The Russian Defence Ministry earlier reported discovering files in seized bio laboratories in Ukraine which indicated that scientists were carrying out tests on dangerous pathogens with the presumed intent to use them as components in biological weapons. The ministry said these laboratories were funded by the US for over a decade. | The Ukrainian biological laboratories studied fever-carrying mosquitoes Aedes &#1 ; the same genus of insects that was presumably used by the US to spark a pandemic of type 2 dengue in Cuba in the 1970s and 1980s, head of the Russian Armed Forces' Radiation, Chemical and Biological Pr…

____ (2022-06-19). Horn of Africa could face 'unprecedented' food insecurity in 2023, WFP warns. ecns.cn The Horn of Africa could face "unprecedented food unavailability problems" in 2023 due to ongoing drought and food supply shortages caused by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, David Beasley Executive Director of the UN World Food Program (WFP) has warned.

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2022-06-19). Thursday 6/23: Pride Month Film Screening: Pride (2014). indybay.org In-person: 2969 Mission St, SF | Virtual: bit.ly/pride-sf…

Staff (2022-06-19). Cuadrando la Caja: Este domingo, sobre las empresas con pérdidas. cubadebate.cu Cuadrando la Caja, nueva propuesta televisiva para debatir, cuestionar y llegar a consensos desde el socialismo cubano sobre temas económicos, tendrá su segunda emisión este domingo a las 7: 00 p.m. por el canal Caribe. øEn la lógica del socialismo cubano, cómo procedemos ante empresas con pérdidas? øSe cierran? øQué le pasa a sus trabajadores?

____ (2022-06-19). Xi underscores improved capability in fighting corruption to ensure full victory. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, urged coordinated improvement to guarantee that officials do not have the audacity, opportunity, or desire to engage in corruption.

LEPAIO (2022-06-19). The Israeli Histadrut, The AFL-CIO, Zionism & Labor Imperialism With Carol Lang. indybay.org The role of the Israeli Histadrut and the AFL-CIO was the focus of a presentation by CUNY professor Carol Lang. She spoke at a conference of the Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO International Operations. The AFL-CIO is tied to the racist Israeli Histadrut and has blocked solidarity resolutions for Palestinian people and workers. | AFL-CIO president Liz Schuler and AFT president Randi Weingarten also met with the leadership of the Israeli Labor Party which is in the Israeli government and supported the murder of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The Israeli minister of Interior is a member of th…

Frank Hammer (2022-06-19). Open Letter To Labor Notes About Relationship To US NED Funded AFL-CIO "Solidarity Center" indybay.org Retired UAW Local 909 president Frank Hammer challenges Labor Notes about their relationship with the US NED funded "Solidarity Center" in Mexico and the US. The AFL-CIO International Departmen AIFLD t was involved in the attack and murder of Mexico City Ford workers yet Labor Notes has refused to cover this issue and the fact that the "Solidarity Center" is now receiving $75 million a year from the National Endowment for Democracy which was set up by the US government and CIA.

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2022-06-19). Saturday 6/18: Pride Month Film Screening: MAJOR! (2015). indybay.org In-person: 2969 Mission St, SF | Virtual: bit.ly/major-sf…

____ (2022-06-19). Chinese president addresses 25th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday attended and addressed the plenary session of the 25th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in virtual format upon invitation.

____ (2022-06-19). Xinjiang expands investment in energy sector. ecns.cn Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China has been expanding investment in the energy sector in a bid to reinforce its status as a key energy base of the country.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-19). Mayo Clinic expert speaks of significance of Lyme disease uptick. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Lyme disease has infected more than 14% of the world's population, according to a new study. "It's significant," says Dr. Bobbi Pritt, director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic. "If you look at the numbers and how it breaks down in regions across the United States, in some areas, that exceeds 50% seropositivity. That means people are walking around with antibodies in their blood that are detectable. That shows they've been exposed to Lyme disease at some…

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2022-06-19). Friday 6/17: Forum: Pride Month & Revolutionary LGBTQ Struggle. indybay.org In-person: 2969 Mission St, SF | Virtual: bit.ly/pride-means-resist…

____ (2022-06-19). China sees progress in stabilizing employment. ecns.cn China is steadily carrying out measures to keep jobs stable and has helped 1.96 million unemployed people return to the workforce in the first five months of the year, an official said Friday.

_____ (2022-06-18). Ukraine — The US Is Moving Towards Escalation. popularresistance.org The catastrophic economic consequences of the 'western' proxy war with Russia are setting in. As a result the high inflation, caused by supply side constrains due to sanctions and far too much spending, will ruin the middle classes of many countries. | To those who did not wear blinders and who knew of the real economies of the 'west' and Russia this was very predictable and predicted: | The U.S. is pushing its European 'allies' to commit economic suicide by sanctioning everything Russia. The U.S. should be more careful. It is one of the biggest buyers of Russian oil and its aircraft industry depends on titanium…

_____ (2022-06-18). The Chris Hedges Report: Struggle Makes Us Human. popularresistance.org The neofascist movements currently rising around the globe differ from the fascist movements of the 20th century. Fascism in the last century arose to break radical workers' movements, many organized by the Communist Party. But the current neofascists, figures such as Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and Narendra Modi in India, do not need to focus on destroying unions, which have already been decimated by globalization. Instead, they can directly channel the anger of the unemployed and underemployed towards minorities and the vulnerable. | Vijay Prashad addresses these deformations—and explains how we can fight ba…

Staff (2022-06-18). U.S. military in Europe and NATO "synchronized" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com U.S. European CommandJune 10, 2022 USEUCOM, NATO Staff Talks Reinforce Collaboration and Synchronization U.S. European Command and NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Command Europe leaders met this week for staff talks, reinforcing the strong collaboration and synchronization between the two organizations.During this critical time, our ability to align and synchronize our efforts has never been more …

Scorinoco (2022-06-18). Cuba Denounces the Harm Inflicted by the US Blockade at WTO Meeting. orinocotribune.com Cuban Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade and Investment Déborah Rivas denounced the economic and social impact of the US blockade on Cuba, on Monday, June 13, at the 12th Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization held in Geneva. | Addressing the delegates present, the Cuban official stated that over the past six decades, the US siege has inflicted damage calculated at more than $1 .4 billion. | "The Cuban economy is small and vulnerable," said Deputy Minister Rivas, "not only for its tiny participation in world trade and its condition of a developing insular state, but also for the grave consequences der…

Amarynth (2022-06-18). Economic Rent and Exploitation: Michael Hudson, Shepheard Walwyn. thesaker.is Michael Hudson, Shepheard Walwyn recording May 23, 2022 Part one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDo7HykYN9k Part two here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-xWgLertkg Jonathan Brown Michael, welcome to the podcast. Michael Hudson It's good to be here. I'm looking forward…

Amarynth (2022-06-18). President Putin: St Petersburg International Economic Forum Plenary session. thesaker.is Ed Note: This transcript is not fully complete but we post it because of the renewed DDoS attacks on Russian infrastructure. When it is complete, we will do an update.

Anonymous349 (2022-06-18). Meet the New Boss; Putin Reroutes Critical Hydrocarbons Eastward Leaving Europe High-and-Dry. southfront.org ILLUSTRATION IMAGE | Written by Michael Whitney | "Rejection of Russian energy resources means that Europe will become the region with the highest energy costs in the world. This will seriously undermine the competitiveness of European industry which is already losing the competition to companies in other parts of the world…. Our Western colleagues seem to have forgotten the elementary laws of economics, or simply prefer to ignore them." Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation | On Tuesday, Russia…

Ron Ridenour (2022-06-18). Could Icelanders Herald Path to Economic Equality with Prosperity and Peace? covertactionmagazine.com Part II of CAM Correspondent Ron Ridenour's Perspective on Near-Pristine Island-Nation (Part 1 here) Little Crime, Murder, Violence—But They Are …

_____ (2022-06-18). The Problem With Juneteenth. popularresistance.org "The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere." General Order Number 3, June 19, 1…

Editor (2022-06-18). The necessity of ecosocialist degrowth. mronline.org We need degrowth in industries ranging from armaments and advertising to fast fashion and fossil fuels, together with a dramatic reduction in consumption of the richest 1% who are responsible for 15% of emissions.

Editor (2022-06-18). How Our Consumption is Killing Poor Kids in Los Angeles. scheerpost.com By Joshua Frank / CounterPunch It's a gorgeous evening in San Pedro, California. I'm standing on the outskirts of a Little League ballpark that sits atop a knoll overlooking the sprawling Port of Los Angeles and the arching Vincent St. Thomas Bridge. Below is a sea of shipping containers, stacked high like Lego blocks, forming …

Maxbrichta (2022-06-18). The European Central Bank is Trapped. Here's Why. scheerpost.com By Lyn Alden / Several of the major central banks are stuck in a trap of their own making. | This includes the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, and others. | The credit-based global financial system we have constructed and participated in over the past century has to continually grow or die. It's like a game of musical chairs that we have to keep adding people and chairs to in order for it to never stop. | This is because cumulative debts are far larger than the total currency supply, meaning there are more clai…

_____ (2022-06-18). We Need A National Organization To Energize The Fight For Single Payer. popularresistance.org There is a need for a national group of grassroots activists advocating, mobilizing, and organizing exclusively for national single payer. | In the early days of 2021, when it became clear no member of Congress would champion the cause of Medicare for All, a group of long-time health care activists, unionists, grassroots organizers, and progressives met to discuss the need for a national organization to unite activists across the country and rally the movement for national single payer health care free from corporate profits. The activists were frustrated. After all, the Democrats held power in the House, in the…

_____ (2022-06-18). New Global Movement Against Capitalism And For Socialism. popularresistance.org Working class communities around the world are organizing against capitalism. They are also forging a new international movement of solidarity and cooperation in the International People's Assembly. How can organizers build international unity, and oppose the tools used by the ruling class to divide and defeat the popular movements that are expanding democracy while fighting to save the planet? | Brian is joined at the People's Summit for Democracy by Stephanie Weatherbee Brito with the International Peoples' Assembly.

_____ (2022-06-18). Ecuadorian Indigenous Peoples Say National Strike Continues. popularresistance.org On Friday, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) President Leonidas Iza ratified that his organization will maintain the national strike as long as President Guillermo Lasso does not repeal his neoliberal policies and measures. | He also announced that more Indigenous communities will undertake a march from the province of Cotopaxi to Quito City in the next 48 hours, for which his organization is making arrangements to guarantee some food for the thousands of protesters. | In response to what Lasso said during a national television channel on Thursday night, Iza recalled that Ecuadoria…

John Bachtell (2022-06-18). Juneteenth 2022: Demanding a Third Radical Reconstruction of U.S. capitalism. peoplesworld.org Tens of thousands are descending on Washington, D.C. for the historic, multiracial "Moral March on Washington and to the Polls." The march occurs during the Juneteenth Holiday weekend and the growing battle to preserve and extend U.S. constitutional democracy. The march, called by the Poor People's Campaign, aims to mobilize the nation's 140 million Black, …

Richard Eskow (2022-06-18). US For-Profit Health System Is a Mass Killer. commondreams.org We could stop murdering our own population en masse by adopting a single-payer healthcare.

Richard Heinberg (2022-06-18). Oil Crisis! Surging Inflation! Is This the 1970s Again? commondreams.org If our problems now were on the same scale as they were then, we would have a much better chance of solving them.

____ (2022-06-18). State-owned companies backbones of China's high-quality growth: official. ecns.cn China's state-owned companies have become backbones in the country's pursuit of high-quality economic development over the past decade, an official said Friday.

Ian Vandewalker (2022-06-18). Big Money Behind 'Big Lie' Insurrection Now Flowing Into Midterm Election. commondreams.org Big donors who supported the insurrection and the election denial that inspired it are spending to influence this year's races.

Labor Video Project (2022-06-18). Democracy, General Strikes & Fascism At AFL-CIO With Van Deusen Pres Vermont AFL-CIO. indybay.org Vermont AFL-CIO president David Van Deusen reports on the refusal of the AFL-CIO Executive Council to allow his state's resolution for democracy in the AFL-CIO with direct election of the national officers by the rank and file as well as preparing for a general strike against any attempted coup or insurrection.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-06-17). President Putin's Speech at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum Plenary Session. libya360.wordpress.com The President attended the plenary session of the 25th St Petersburg International Economic Forum. President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev also took part in the session. President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping and President of the Arab Republic of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi addressed the session via videoconference. The theme…

John Bachtell (2022-06-17). In Democratic states, climate justice victories push toward net zero carbon. peoplesworld.org Despite fierce efforts by fossil fuel corporations and Congressional Republicans to block President Joe Biden's environmental agenda, climate policies embedded in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, executive orders, and action by the Environmental Protection Agency are advancing progress toward achieving net-zero carbon emissions. In addition, Biden froze tariffs on imported panels and, at …

____ (2022-06-18). Horn of Africa could face 'unprecedented' food insecurity in 2023, WFP warns. ecns.cn The Horn of Africa could face "unprecedented food unavailability problems" in 2023 due to ongoing drought and food supply shortages caused by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, David Beasley Executive Director of the UN World Food Program (WFP) has warned.

Staff (2022-06-18). U.S. military in Europe and NATO "synchronized" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com U.S. European CommandJune 10, 2022 USEUCOM, NATO Staff Talks Reinforce Collaboration and Synchronization U.S. European Command and NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Command Europe leaders met this week for staff talks, reinforcing the strong collaboration and synchronization between the two organizations.During this critical time, our ability to align and synchronize our efforts has never been more …

Amarynth (2022-06-18). President Putin: St Petersburg International Economic Forum Plenary session. thesaker.is Ed Note: This transcript is not fully complete but we post it because of the renewed DDoS attacks on Russian infrastructure. When it is complete, we will do an update.

Editor (2022-06-18). The necessity of ecosocialist degrowth. mronline.org We need degrowth in industries ranging from armaments and advertising to fast fashion and fossil fuels, together with a dramatic reduction in consumption of the richest 1% who are responsible for 15% of emissions.

Editor (2022-06-18). How Our Consumption is Killing Poor Kids in Los Angeles. scheerpost.com By Joshua Frank / CounterPunch It's a gorgeous evening in San Pedro, California. I'm standing on the outskirts of a Little League ballpark that sits atop a knoll overlooking the sprawling Port of Los Angeles and the arching Vincent St. Thomas Bridge. Below is a sea of shipping containers, stacked high like Lego blocks, forming …

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2022-06-18). Thursday 6/23: Pride Month Film Screening: Pride (2014). indybay.org In-person: 2969 Mission St, SF | Virtual: bit.ly/pride-sf…

Richard Heinberg (2022-06-18). Oil Crisis! Surging Inflation! Is This the 1970s Again? commondreams.org If our problems now were on the same scale as they were then, we would have a much better chance of solving them.

____ (2022-06-18). Chinese president addresses 25th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday attended and addressed the plenary session of the 25th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in virtual format upon invitation.

John Bachtell (2022-06-18). Juneteenth 2022: Demanding a Third Radical Reconstruction of U.S. capitalism. peoplesworld.org Tens of thousands are descending on Washington, D.C. for the historic, multiracial "Moral March on Washington and to the Polls." The march occurs during the Juneteenth Holiday weekend and the growing battle to preserve and extend U.S. constitutional democracy. The march, called by the Poor People's Campaign, aims to mobilize the nation's 140 million Black, …

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2022-06-18). Saturday 6/18: Pride Month Film Screening: MAJOR! (2015). indybay.org In-person: 2969 Mission St, SF | Virtual: bit.ly/major-sf…

____ (2022-06-18). China sees progress in stabilizing employment. ecns.cn China is steadily carrying out measures to keep jobs stable and has helped 1.96 million unemployed people return to the workforce in the first five months of the year, an official said Friday.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-18). Mayo Clinic expert speaks of significance of Lyme disease uptick. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Lyme disease has infected more than 14% of the world's population, according to a new study. "It's significant," says Dr. Bobbi Pritt, director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic. "If you look at the numbers and how it breaks down in regions across the United States, in some areas, that exceeds 50% seropositivity. That means people are walking around with antibodies in their blood that are detectable. That shows they've been exposed to Lyme disease at some…

____ (2022-06-18). State-owned companies backbones of China's high-quality growth: official. ecns.cn China's state-owned companies have become backbones in the country's pursuit of high-quality economic development over the past decade, an official said Friday.

LEPAIO (2022-06-18). The Israeli Histadrut, The AFL-CIO, Zionism & Labor Imperialism With Carol Lang. indybay.org The role of the Israeli Histadrut and the AFL-CIO was the focus of a presentation by CUNY professor Carol Lang. She spoke at a conference of the Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO International Operations. The AFL-CIO is tied to the racist Israeli Histadrut and has blocked solidarity resolutions for Palestinian people and workers. | AFL-CIO president Liz Schuler and AFT president Randi Weingarten also met with the leadership of the Israeli Labor Party which is in the Israeli government and supported the murder of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The Israeli minister of Interior is a member of th…

Richard Eskow (2022-06-18). US For-Profit Health System Is a Mass Killer. commondreams.org We could stop murdering our own population en masse by adopting a single-payer healthcare.

Ian Vandewalker (2022-06-18). Big Money Behind 'Big Lie' Insurrection Now Flowing Into Midterm Election. commondreams.org Big donors who supported the insurrection and the election denial that inspired it are spending to influence this year's races.

____ (2022-06-18). Xinjiang expands investment in energy sector. ecns.cn Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China has been expanding investment in the energy sector in a bid to reinforce its status as a key energy base of the country.

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2022-06-18). Friday 6/17: Forum: Pride Month & Revolutionary LGBTQ Struggle. indybay.org In-person: 2969 Mission St, SF | Virtual: bit.ly/pride-means-resist…

Frank Hammer (2022-06-18). Open Letter To Labor Notes About Relationship To US NED Funded AFL-CIO "Solidarity Center" indybay.org Retired UAW Local 909 president Frank Hammer challenges Labor Notes about their relationship with the US NED funded "Solidarity Center" in Mexico and the US. The AFL-CIO International Departmen AIFLD t was involved in the attack and murder of Mexico City Ford workers yet Labor Notes has refused to cover this issue and the fact that the "Solidarity Center" is now receiving $75 million a year from the National Endowment for Democracy which was set up by the US government and CIA.

____ (2022-06-18). Xi underscores improved capability in fighting corruption to ensure full victory. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, urged coordinated improvement to guarantee that officials do not have the audacity, opportunity, or desire to engage in corruption.

Labor Video Project (2022-06-18). Democracy, General Strikes & Fascism At AFL-CIO With Van Deusen Pres Vermont AFL-CIO. indybay.org Vermont AFL-CIO president David Van Deusen reports on the refusal of the AFL-CIO Executive Council to allow his state's resolution for democracy in the AFL-CIO with direct election of the national officers by the rank and file as well as preparing for a general strike against any attempted coup or insurrection.

Staff (2022-06-17). Post-WWII shift: invoking Russia, Japan moves to NATO-level military spending. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Kyodo NewsJune 16, 2022 Japan ruling party vows to boost nation's defense in election pledges Japan's ruling party pledged Thursday ahead of a House of Councillors election to "fundamentally" reinforce the country's defense capability and increase relevant spending in the next five years, as Russia's war against Ukraine has raised calls for a more robust …

Anonymous767 (2022-06-17). War In Ukraine Day 114: Defense Of Kyiv's Forces Trapped In Severodonetsk Crumbles. southfront.org Severodonetsk | The defense of Kyiv's garrison trapped in the industrial area of the town of Severodonetsk is crumbling under strikes of Russian forces. | On June 17, LPR media center reported that parts of Kyiv's units there already started to surrender."During the conduct of a special military operation on the territory of the Azot enterprise in the city of Severodonetsk, indeed, some Ukrainian troops made the right decision and began to surrender," LPR media quoted Alexander Marochko as saying. | Pro-Kyiv tro…

Staff (2022-06-17). World's 6th-largest military, 10th-largest economy: S. Korea can shift global balance of forces to NATO. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com HankyorehJune 17, 2022 A weighty NATO summit invitation in the hands of president joking about inexperience Special "partner nations" have been invited to the NATO summit to be held in Madrid, Spain, from June 29-30. In addition to the leaders of the 30 NATO member states, the leaders of South Korea, Japan, Australia, and New …

Staff (2022-06-17). NATO HQ: Poland to more than double army, calls for increased NATO military spending. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Polish News AgencyJune 16, 2022 Poland advocates for bigger Nato budget Mariusz Blaszczak, Poland's defence minister, presented his country's stance at a meeting with his Nato peers in Brussels on Thursday. "…Poland advocated for increasing the Nato budget in undertakings that we will finance together," Blaszczak went on to say. *** Poland has recently revealed …

Fight Back (2022-06-17). Cryptocurrency meltdown topples digital asset businesses. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – With Bitcoin now down 70% from its record price in April of 2021, businesses based on cryptocurrencies have started to fold. The latest victim was Celsius, a crypto "bank" which stopped withdrawals from its accounts on Sunday, June 12. Celsius had more than $20 billion in assets at its peak in August 2021, drawing investors with yields of more than 18%. But Celsius is looking more and more like a high-tech Ponzi scheme that only lasted as long as new investors kept buying in. | The collapse of Celsius followed the collapse of the "stablecoin" Terra just last month. "Stablecoins" are digital currenc…

Staff (2022-06-17). Russian Mir Payment System to be Operational in Venezuela this Year. orinocotribune.com According to information that the president of the Central Bank of Venezuelan, Calixto José Ortega Sánchez, shared with Sputnik News, Venezuelan officials expect the Russian Mir payment system to be operational in the South American country as early as this year. | "We have the will for this system to be working this year if possible. I think that the most important thing is to have the will, that is what at this moment is determining the speed with which the project is being reviewed," said Ortega Sánchez during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). | He specified that tomorrow, on Friday, Jun…

Maxbrichta (2022-06-17). If Poverty Is a Moral Issue, Then the U.S. Is Bankrupt. scheerpost.com By Sonali Kolhatkar / Newspaper headlines are warning of

Mumia Abu-Jamal (2022-06-17). Mumia Abu-Jamal: When the Empire Calls. orinocotribune.com By Mumia Abu-Jamal &#1 ; Jun 6, 2022 | The following message from political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal was prepared for the Workers' Summit in Tijuana, Mexico, June 10-12, which is being held in response to President Joe Biden's Summit of the Americas. | My brothers, sisters and comrades in Tijuana, I welcome you, delegates of the excluded. People from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and beyond. | Many of you come from poor nations, countries with relatively low GDP, like Cuba, for example, which has a GDP roughly equal to Ghana. As I write from the richest nation on earth, I have to add that I also write from a nation…

Matt Sedlar (2022-06-17). Private Equity Funds' Claims of Strong Performance Are Based on a Mirage. cepr.net Investors should not be fooled by the myth that private equity investments provided outsized returns over the last 13 years.

_____ (2022-06-17). How Serbians Provoked Violence To Push Regime Change. popularresistance.org When Serbia's government was overthrown in 2000, it was the first example of a successful US-backed neoliberal color revolution. | The tactics used in this regime-change operation were subsequently repeated in countries around the world. | Journalist Brian Mier spoke with Serbian activist Ivan Zlatiƒá, a member of the presidency of the Party of the Radical Left, about this foundational experience. | Zlatiƒá explained how regime-change operatives intentionally "provoke violence" and then capitalize on the response of the government to discredit it and demand that it be toppled. "Serbia was…

John Bachtell (2022-06-17). In Democratic states, climate justice victories push toward net zero carbon. peoplesworld.org Despite fierce efforts by fossil fuel corporations and Congressional Republicans to block President Joe Biden's environmental agenda, climate policies embedded in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, executive orders, and action by the Environmental Protection Agency are advancing progress toward achieving net-zero carbon emissions. In addition, Biden froze tariffs on imported panels and, at …

Ediz Tiyansan (2022-06-17). California's Palm Springs expected to face more days with extreme heat. america.cgtn.com Palm Springs, often referred to as California's playground for the wealthy, could become uninhabitable by the end of the century, as the number of extreme heat days is projected to increase as much as 1 percent. One meteorologist said the increasing frequency and intensity …

Alasdair Baverstock (2022-06-17). Salvadorans remain cautious to embrace Bitcoin. america.cgtn.com The global cryptocurrency crash has seen Bitcoin and other alt-coins lose half or more of their value from the highs seen last year. You would think that would be sounding alarm bells in El Salvador, the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. Outside …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-06-16). US Biowarfare: Fever-Carrying Mosquitoes Studied in Ukrainian Labs May Have Been Used Against Cuba. libya360.wordpress.com The Russian Defence Ministry earlier reported discovering files in seized bio laboratories in Ukraine which indicated that scientists were carrying out tests on dangerous pathogens with the presumed intent to use them as components in biological weapons. The ministry said these laboratories were funded by the US for over a decade. The Ukrainian biological laboratories…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-06-16). The Trend Toward a Multipolar World is Defined by Class Struggle. libya360.wordpress.com Danny Haiphong These edited remarks were given by the author at an event held on June 11th by Friends of Socialist China titled The Empire Strikes Back: Imperialism's Global War on Multipolarity. The emerging multipolar world is the result of struggles for national sovereignty and self-determination, which are connected with the world wide class struggle….

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-06-16). Why Does the United States Have a Military Base in Ghana? libya360.wordpress.com Vijay Prashad U.S. soldiers train for "jungle warfare" in Ghana. An interview with Kwesi Pratt Jr., a journalist and leader of the Socialist Movement of Ghana In April 2018, the president of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, said that Ghana has "not offered a military base, and will not offer a military base to the…

Dean Baker (2022-06-16). Will CNN Put Donald Trump Back in the White House? cepr.net The network's coverage of the economy has been inflation, inflation, inflation 24-7. But inflation is not the whole story of the economy. We also have unemployment that is near 50-year low. That is a really big deal, because the vast majority of families work for most of their income.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-06-16). Ecuador: CONAIE and Unions to Maintain National Strike. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News CONAIE President Leonidas Iza addresses indigenous movement bases after being released from police and military custody. June 15, 2022. Mobilizations will continue and key roads remain blocked as the indefinite Ecuador-wide protests against the neoliberal policies of Guillermo Lasso's administration head into a fourth day. Security forces have been unsuccessful in trying to lift 24…

Fight Back (2022-06-16). Philippines: "Terrorist designation" of Ka Louie et al is outrageous. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following June 15 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). | The improperly named "Anti-Terrorism Council" today announced that it issued a resolution last May 25 (Resolution No. 31) which "designated" the former chief negotiator of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) Ka Louie Jalandoni and five other people being associated with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) as "terrorist individuals." | The Party and the revolutionary movement firmly denounces the ATC for…

Staff (2022-06-17). Post-WWII shift: invoking Russia, Japan moves to NATO-level military spending. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Kyodo NewsJune 16, 2022 Japan ruling party vows to boost nation's defense in election pledges Japan's ruling party pledged Thursday ahead of a House of Councillors election to "fundamentally" reinforce the country's defense capability and increase relevant spending in the next five years, as Russia's war against Ukraine has raised calls for a more robust …

____ (2022-06-16). Experts call for more cooperation with China to revitalize Pakistan's agriculture sector. ecns.cn As Pakistan's agriculture sector remained crucial for the country's economic growth, experts and scientists said that enhanced cooperation with China under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) can help revitalize the country's agriculture sector and combat the challenge of food insecurity.

Labor Video Project (2022-06-17). Democracy, General Strikes & Fascism At AFL-CIO With Van Deusen Pres Vermont AFL-CIO. indybay.org Vermont AFL-CIO president David Van Deusen reports on the refusal of the AFL-CIO Executive Council to allow his state's resolution for democracy in the AFL-CIO with direct election of the national officers by the rank and file as well as preparing for a general strike against any attempted coup or insurrection.

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2022-06-17). Saturday 6/18: Pride Month Film Screening: MAJOR! (2015). indybay.org In-person: 2969 Mission St, SF | Virtual: bit.ly/major-sf…

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2022-06-17). Thursday 6/23: Pride Month Film Screening: Pride (2014). indybay.org In-person: 2969 Mission St, SF | Virtual: bit.ly/pride-sf…

LEPAIO (2022-06-17). The Israeli Histadrut, The AFL-CIO, Zionism & Labor Imperialism With Carol Lang. indybay.org The role of the Israeli Histadrut and the AFL-CIO was the focus of a presentation by CUNY professor Carol Lang. She spoke at a conference of the Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO International Operations. The AFL-CIO is tied to the racist Israeli Histadrut and has blocked solidarity resolutions for Palestinian people and workers. | AFL-CIO president Liz Schuler and AFT president Randi Weingarten also met with the leadership of the Israeli Labor Party which is in the Israeli government and supported the murder of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The Israeli minister of Interior is a member of th…

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2022-06-17). Friday 6/17: Forum: Pride Month & Revolutionary LGBTQ Struggle. indybay.org In-person: 2969 Mission St, SF | Virtual: bit.ly/pride-means-resist…

Anonymous767 (2022-06-16). Russia Steadily Purges Kyiv's Forces Around Severodonetsk And Slavyansk. southfront.org As of June 16, the most active military developments in the region of Donbass are focused around Slavyansk and the Severodonetsk-Lysichansk area. | In Severodonetsk, Kyiv's units remain in a tactical encirclements in the industrial area of the 'Azot plant'. According to reports, up to 2,500 members of Kyiv's forces are stuck there. They are not able to retreat to thee sector of Lysichansk controlled by their counterparts because all roads there are under fire control of Russians. This sit…

Peter Koenig (2022-06-16). Kissinger y la guerra en Ucrania: El mensajero y el amo. globalizacion.ca Cuando Henry Kissinger sorprendió al mundo con su discurso en el reciente Foro Económico Mundial (FEM) en Davos (22-26 de mayo de 2022), diciéndole al presidente de Ucrania, Zelenskyy, que tenía que hacer alguna concesión a cambio de la paz,…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-06-16). US Biowarfare: Fever-Carrying Mosquitoes Studied in Ukrainian Labs May Have Been Used Against Cuba. libya360.wordpress.com The Russian Defence Ministry earlier reported discovering files in seized bio laboratories in Ukraine which indicated that scientists were carrying out tests on dangerous pathogens with the presumed intent to use them as components in biological weapons. The ministry said these laboratories were funded by the US for over a decade. The Ukrainian biological laboratories…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-06-16). Leftist youth groups in Austria launch Youth Against War campaign. peoplesdispatch.org Austrian youth groups including the Communist Youth of Austria (KJO) and the Young Left initiated the Youth Against War campaign last week demanding peace, freedom, neutrality, and protesting the center-right coalition government's plan to allot more funds for military upgrades in the backdrop of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. The youth groups called on the government to instead allot more funds for social spending, including free public transport, housing and health. Demonstrations were organized in the cities of Vienna, Graz, Linz, Innviertel, Salzburg, St. Pà∂lten, Innsbruck, Feldkirch and Klagenfurt, am…

Ben Norton (2022-06-16). US Federal Reserve says its goal is 'to get wages down'. canadiandimension.com Construction workers assemble bleacher scaffolding. Photo by Rob Aylward/US Navy/ The chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, said his goal is "to get wages down." | In a press conference on May 4, Powell announced that the Fed would be raising interest rates by half a percentage and implementing policies aimed at reducing inflation in the United States, which is at its highest level in 40 years. | According to a transcript of th…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-06-16). Why Does the United States Have a Military Base in Ghana? libya360.wordpress.com Vijay Prashad U.S. soldiers train for "jungle warfare" in Ghana. An interview with Kwesi Pratt Jr., a journalist and leader of the Socialist Movement of Ghana In April 2018, the president of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, said that Ghana has "not offered a military base, and will not offer a military base to the…

_____ (2022-06-16). The World Doesn't Work That Way Anymore. popularresistance.org The First World War signaled the end to a mercantilist order that had evolved under the aegis of European powers. One hundred years later, a very different economic order was in place (neoliberal cosmopolitanism). Believed by its architects to be universal and everlasting, globalization transfixed the world for an extended moment, but then started the subsidence from its zenith — precisely at the moment the West was giving vent to its triumphalism at the fall of the Berlin Wall. NATO — as the order's regulatory system — addressed its attendant 'identity crisis' by pushing for eastward expansion…

Dave DeCamp (2022-06-16). Senators Bring Biden's 2023 Military Budget Request to $857 Billion. news.antiwar.com The Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday released its version of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would authorize $857.6 billion in military spending for the 2023 fiscal year, a massive increase from the $813 billion President Biden requested. Out of the $857.6 billion, about $817.3 billion will go to the Pentagon, $29.7 …

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-16). Updated Mayo Clinic recommendations for infant formula shortage. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there have been significant shortages of infant formulas in some stores, largely caused by supply chain issues, as well as a recent recall of several contaminated baby formula products. While this unfortunate crisis continues to impact thousands of caregivers needing to feed their babies, Mayo Clinic continues to offer advice on safe alternatives in the short term to patients. Alternative formula options For most infants, it is OK to switch…

_____ (2022-06-16). US Tries to Open a "Second Front" in Syria. journal-neo.org It is well known that US politics, and American politicians themselves, have long thrived not on "diplomatic successes", but on considerable cash profits from the unleashing of numerous armed conflicts in one part of the world or another. And this is particularly evidenced by the recent allocation by the US Congress of $40 billion to …

Ola Mousa (2022-06-16). Danger doesn't stop children from working in Gaza's dumps. electronicintifada.net Waste collectors rely on meager incomes to avoid starvation.

_____ (2022-06-16). 3 Anti-Inflation Alternatives to Raising Interest Rates. popularresistance.org A deafening silence defines "debates" among U.S. leaders about stopping or slowing today's inflation. Alternatives to the Federal Reserve's raising of interest rates and curtailing money supply growth are ignored. It's as if there were no other ways to rein in price increases except to add more interest costs to the already excess debts of workers and small and medium businesses. Were the last two and a half years of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, plus the economic crash of 2020, not sufficient enough burdens on Americans without piling on the additional burden of inflation that has been imposed by U.S. capitalism…

_____ (2022-06-16). Final Declaration Of The Workers' Summit Of The Americas. popularresistance.org We, representatives of Trade Union, Peasant, Political and Social organizations, gathered in Tijuana — Mexico, June 10-12, 2022, on the occasion of the realization of the Summit of the Americas of the Working Men and Women Workers, in immediate response to the exclusion of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua imposed by the Government of the United States. | There is a systemic and structural crisis of capitalism in its imperialist phase. It is in itself a civilizational crisis. The capitalist economic model and its political arm neoliberalism, as well as its modern cultural foundation, have put the planet's life…

_____ (2022-06-16). AFL-CIO Blocks Debate On Union Democracy Reforms. popularresistance.org Earlier today, many were unexpectedly locked out of the AFL-CIO convention after the Secret Service closed the doors for the arrival of President Joe Biden. The lockout infuriated activists and delegates who had arrived early to see Biden, but many also saw it as a metaphor for how people are being excluded from the convention as a whole. | Shockingly, the AFL-CIO did not invite the Amazon Labor Union, since it's an independent union and doesn't belong to the AFL-CIO. Nor did the convention invite members of the SEIU-affiliated Starbucks Workers United. | "It's just petty," one senior union official told Payday R…

_____ (2022-06-16). Rural Europe Takes Action. popularresistance.org We feel like we are sandwiched between unfair market competition at the bottom and unfair production regulations at the top. The industrial baking industry has all the comparative advantages of size, it uses standardized raw materials and many types of additives. We have all the disadvantages of standards tailored to industrial production. These rules have not been adapted to the possible risks of our small-scale artisanal production methods. | With lower production volumes and higher labor costs, we are disproportionately burdened by these over-regulations, which hardly help to fulfil the goals they are supposed…

_____ (2022-06-16). Truckers' Strike In South Korea Ends In Victory. popularresistance.org The formidable truckers' strike in South Korea came to an end after a tentative agreement was struck after late-night negotiations on Tuesday, June 14. Truck drivers returned to work on Wednesday after the deal approving the key demands put forward by the union was approved by the nation's transport ministry. | Organized by Cargo Truckers Solidarity Union, thousands of truck drivers were on an indefinite strike from June 7, bringing all ports and movement of crucial industrial goods and major exports to a standstill. | Truckers were demanding government intervention to arrest the rising fuel prices and inflation.

_____ (2022-06-16). Truckers' strike in South Korea ends in victory as government agrees to demands. popularresistance.org The formidable truckers' strike in South Korea came to an end after a tentative agreement was struck after late-night negotiations on Tuesday, June 14. Truck drivers returned to work on Wednesday after the deal approving the key demands put forward by the union was approved by the nation's transport ministry. | Organized by Cargo Truckers Solidarity Union, thousands of truck drivers were on an indefinite strike from June 7, bringing all ports and movement of crucial industrial goods and major exports to a standstill.

_____ (2022-06-16). Ecuador: CONAIE and Unions to Maintain National Strike. popularresistance.org Mobilizations will continue and key roads remain blocked as the indefinite Ecuador-wide protests against the neoliberal policies of Guillermo Lasso's administration head into a fourth day. | Security forces have been unsuccessful in trying to lift 24 hour roadblocks, which have now been reinforced by communities. | The government's attempt to quell protests by sweeping up alleged leaders not only failed, it backfired. News of the arrest of Leonidas Iza, president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), mobilized thousands of people to the Latacunga prison where he was taken and promp…

Grace Woods (2022-06-16). Horrific conditions at NYC Rikers jail expose criminalization of poverty, capitalist greed. liberationnews.org The system of mass incarceration can be depicted no better than at Rikers Island—it is a manifestation of capital's drive toward maximizing profit that thrives and relies on racism, brutality, and the criminalization of poverty.

C.P. Chandrasekhar (2022-06-16). Why are global wheat prices rising so much? mronline.org The global food crisis has now grown to such proportions that everyone is talking about it (even though world leaders are doing relatively little about it).

Dean Baker (2022-06-16). Will CNN Put Donald Trump Back in the White House? cepr.net The network's coverage of the economy has been inflation, inflation, inflation 24-7. But inflation is not the whole story of the economy. We also have unemployment that is near 50-year low. That is a really big deal, because the vast majority of families work for most of their income.

Ana Perdigón (2022-06-16). Sergey Lavrov to Meet Venezuela's Vice President in Saint Petersburg. orinocotribune.com Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will meet with Executive Vice President of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez, the Prime Minister of Cuba Manuel Marrero, and a special representative of Nicaragua, during the International Economic Forum in Saint Petersburg, that started on Wednesday. | During the forum, which ends Saturday, a conference dedicated to relations between Russia and Latin America will be held. Rodríguez, the Nicaraguan Finance Minister Iván Adolfo Acosta Montalván, and the president of the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN), Daniel Ortega Reyes, will participate in this conference. | As part of the…

SAM (2022-06-16). The Climate Case for Taxing Wealth. inequality.org

Fight Back (2022-06-16). Philippines: "Terrorist designation" of Ka Louie et al is outrageous. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following June 15 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). | The improperly named "Anti-Terrorism Council" today announced that it issued a resolution last May 25 (Resolution No. 31) which "designated" the former chief negotiator of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) Ka Louie Jalandoni and five other people being associated with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) as "terrorist individuals." | The Party and the revolutionary movement firmly denounces the ATC for…

TeleSUR, DRL (2022-06-16). Denuncian pérdida millonaria en El Salvador por uso del bitcóin. telesurtv.net El bitcóin perdió un 66% respecto al máximo de su valor alcanzado en noviembre de 2021, cuando superó los 66.000 dólares.

United We Dream (2022-06-16). Wednesday 6/15: DACA Tenth Anniversary: Then, Now and Beyond! Celebration & Action Rally. indybay.org Virtual celebration & action rally…

____ (2022-06-16). So-called 'forced labor' in Xinjiang is a big lie made by anti-China forces: FM. ecns.cn

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2022-06-16). 2022 California Juneteenth – National Freedom Day. indybay.org In the coming years over 100 California cities with @100,000+ residents will begin to discover our unique California Juneteenth Legacy, helping manifest equity and greater inclusion throughout the 5th largest economy in the world. Today, "Mining for Freedom" or the authentic "Golden Legacy" of our California USCT who fought, bleed and died for freedom is a fierce debate impacting future generation.

Bernardo Esteves (2022-06-16). Chamber of disinformation? Brazilian deforestation according to Bolsonaro. peoplesworld.org Last week the Brazilian government established a group of bureaucrats whose mission is to survey the numbers regarding deforestation and burn-offs undertaken by INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais), the National Institute of Spatial Studies. This Thematic Consultative Chamber is going to "review the data" and determine which areas were deforested legally and illegally, according …

____ (2022-06-16). （W.E. Talk）Facts and Truths Show Workers of All Ethnic Groups in Xinjiang Enjoy Decent Work. ecns.cn The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has actively practiced the international concept of decent work, followed the relevant conventions and initiatives of the International Labour Organization, and strictly implemented national laws, policies, and regulations.

WSWS (2022-06-16). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org National public sector strike in Tunisia over pay and conditions; Second Belgium national strike this year called over cost-of-living crisis; Czech public sector unions declare strike alert over wages; EasyJet cabin crew strike at Berlin airport, Germany; Pilots at Scandinavian airline SAS strike threat over wages; Ryanair cabin crew in Spain to strike over pay and conditions; Ballot of 40,000 UK telecom workers begins over pay deal; Further Education lecturers in 33 colleges in England ballot over pay and working conditions; Stoppages by bus drivers in Palestinian West Bank over working conditions…

La Peña (2022-06-16). Friday 6/17: Baila Community Dance Party. indybay.org La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705…

WSWS (2022-06-16). Fed hikes interest rate to crush wage demands. wsws.org The overriding fear of the central bank, the guardian of finance capital, is that the inflation surge accelerates the drive by workers across the economy to undertake an independent struggle for wage demands to compensate for the daily deepening cuts in their living standards.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-16). Mayo Clinic expert speaks of significance of Lyme disease uptick. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Lyme disease has infected more than 14% of the world's population, according to a new study. "It's significant," says Dr. Bobbi Pritt, director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic. "If you look at the numbers and how it breaks down in regions across the United States, in some areas, that exceeds 50% seropositivity. That means people are walking around with antibodies in their blood that are detectable. That shows they've been exposed to Lyme disease at some…

W. T. Whitney Jr. (2022-06-16). The U.S. Constitution: Bad for public health. peoplesworld.org Public health is about curative, rehabilitative, and especially preventative healthcare for everybody, no exclusions. Failed public health was on display during the coronavirus pandemic. "The United States has the highest rate of COVID-19 deaths per capita" among 11 high-income countries, according to one infectious disease specialist. Similarly, local authorities allowed dangerous levels of lead to …

____ (2022-06-16). Iran-India economic ties gathering steam. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 16 (MNA) — The trade and economic relations between Iran and India is on upward trajectory.

____ (2022-06-16). China welcomes overseas investment in R&D: ministry. ecns.cn China welcomes foreign companies to ramp up spending on research and development (R&D) and set up R&D centers in the country, Shu Jueting, spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce, said Thursday.

Anonymous669 (2022-06-16). Protests Continue In Ecuador Despite Release Of Indigenous Leader (Videos). southfront.org File image. The official logo of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador. | Protests continue throughout Ecuador despite the release of Leonidas Iza, leader of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE). | Indigenous people, who make up over a million of Ecuador's 17.7 million citizens, took to the streets on June 13 to protest against fuel prices and living costs. Despite being an oil producer, the prices of fuel almost doubled in Ecuador over the last two years. The price of…

____ (2022-06-16). RCEP offers broader room for China-ROK cooperation: official. ecns.cn The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement offers broader room for China and the Republic of Korea (ROK) to deepen economic and trade cooperation, a Chinese official said Thursday."ÄÄ…

WSWS (2022-06-16). Australian Labor government backs ruling that further cuts real wages. wsws.org Claims by the government, the unions and the corporate media that the Fair Work Commission decision to grant sub-inflation pay rises represents a victory for workers are a complete sham.

WSWS (2022-06-16). Socialist Equality Party meeting discusses crisis of Australia's two-party system and the way forward for the working class. wsws.org The livestreamed event provided a much-appreciated forum for democratic discussion about the election result, Labor's right-wing program, and the class battles now unfolding in Australia and internationally.

WSWS (2022-06-16). Gross safety violations at Russian paper plant where five workers died. wsws.org Five men and women perished at a Siberian carton factory known for ignoring workplace safety and environmental regulations.

David Giesen (2022-06-16). Sunday 7/3: Fulfilling the Promise of America, a symposium. indybay.org ZOOM video meet: | zoom.us/j/94131824284?pwd=RzI0ZEY1eEkrbkxFemNOMHFHbUZXZz09…

Brett Wilkins (2022-06-16). House Dems Urge Biden to Work With Cuba to Vaccinate the World. commondreams.org "Cuba's goal of vaccinating people in low-income countries offers an important opportunity… for our nations to work together once again on urgent healthcare issues facing the world."

United We Dream (2022-06-16). Wednesday 6/15: DACA Décimo Aniversario – °Antes, Ahora y Más Allá! Celebración y Reuinon para la Acción. indybay.org Virtual celebration & action rally…

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-06-16). Wednesday 6/15: Labor History: A key to unlocking workers' power today. indybay.org Online via Zoom | To register: bit.ly/FSFD-Labor…

____ (2022-06-16). China capable of meeting 3-percent CPI target: official. ecns.cn China will see its consumer price index (CPI) continue to run within a reasonable range and is capable of attaining the 3-percent annual target amid the global inflation surge, an official said Thursday.

TeleSUR, JDO (2022-06-16). Pdte. Maduro convoca a consolidar el modelo económico diversificado de Venezuela. telesurtv.net El jefe de Estado, de visita en Azerbaiyán, resumió los principales resulTados de su gira euroasiática.

____ (2022-06-16). Xinjiang attracts over 200 bln yuan of investment in Jan.-May. ecns.cn The commerce department of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region said investment from outside the region has seen robust growth in the January-May period.

TeleSUR, JDO (2022-06-16). Realizan foro sobre independentismo de Manuela Sáez en Venezuela. telesurtv.net El Foro Mujeres, Historia y Revolución profundiza en la labor de Manuelita y destaca su importancia para la independencia de Nuestra América.

____ (2022-06-16). China confident on keeping foreign trade within reasonable range in 2022. ecns.cn China is confident to keep its foreign trade running within a reasonable range for the whole year, making more contributions to the economic fundamentals, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Thursday.

____ (2022-06-16). China's national lawmakers to mull laws on wire fraud, civil enforcement, monopoly. ecns.cn China's national lawmakers will deliberate draft laws regarding issues such as anti-telecom and cyber fraud, civil compulsory enforcement, and anti-monopoly during a forthcoming session by the country's top legislature.

WSWS (2022-06-16). Australia: NSW Teachers Federation complains of no government concessions, after its Term Two strike ban. wsws.org The union bureaucrats want the state Liberal government to come to the "negotiating table" in order to devise yet another sellout industrial agreement.

TeleSUR, ysm, MER (2022-06-16). Trabajadores se movilizan en Uruguay por mejoras salariales. telesurtv.net En los últimos dos años, los trabajadores públicos y de la salud uruguayos han experimentado una pérdida del 6 por ciento del salario real.

_____ (2022-06-15). China Bolsters Cooperation with Central Asian Nations. journal-neo.org Amidst the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, on June 8, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held the third "China+Central Asia" Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. Although similar meetings have taken place before, this summit has become urgent due to the recent depreciation of national currencies in the former Soviet republics, soaring food prices and …

Brian Mier (2022-06-15). Behind the original neoliberal 'color revolution': How Serbians provoked violence to push regime change. multipolarista.com Left-wing Serbian activist Ivan Zlatić explains how his country was ground zero for US-backed neoliberal "color revolutions," and how operatives intentionally provoke violence from the government to push regime change.

_____ (2022-06-15). Algeria To Suspend Friendship Treaty, Imports From Spain. popularresistance.org Algeria announced suspension of its two decade-old-treaty of friendship with Spain on Wednesday, June 8. It also announced the suspension of all imports from the European country over its decision to support Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara. | The Algerian President's office said in a statement on Wednesday that it is suspending the long-term treaty with Spain, called the "treaty of friendship, good neighborliness and cooperation," signed in 2002. | A statement issued by the Algerian Banking Association later declared that the government had also decided to suspend imports of all goods and services from Spa…

Contributing Writers (2022-06-15). Economic Fallout of COVID Vax Fraud/ Edward Dowd. marktaliano.net READ MORE:

Editor (2022-06-15). What is Celsius and why is it crashing? mronline.org The crypto lending platform paused withdrawals as Bitcoin spiraled downwards, sending its own token plummeting. Here's what happened.

Ann Brown (2022-06-15). Chicago Residents Are Still Protesting Displacement By Obama Presidential Center. moguldom.com Not everyone in Chicago is happy about former President Barack Obama opening his presidential library in the city's South Side. Construction of the massive library began more than four years after Obama left office in September 2021 in the Woodlawn and South Shore communities. The construction has raised fears that low-income Black residents will be displaced. The …

Alasdair Baverstock (2022-06-15). Challenges for the return migration in El Salvador. america.cgtn.com Over ,000 migrants returned to El Salvador last year and most of them never reaching the U.S. But without local solutions to the root causes of unemployment, poverty and violence the majority start back on the migrant trail.

Deweylaura (2022-06-15). Hello Comrade project travels to Chile. cpusa.org "Hello Comrade" is a new project that works under CPUSA's International Department. The goal is to travel to countries around the world and not only document important advances made by Marxist parties but also try to capture how it feels, tastes, and smells to be a party activist working at the most grassroots level. …

David Sirota (2022-06-15). LISTEN: The Fed Is Trying To Crush You. levernews.com On this week's Lever Time, host David Sirota is joined by The Lever's Julia Rock and Roosevelt Institute economist JW Mason for a deep dive into the Federal Reserve's move to address inflation by trying to crush workers' wages. Mason argues that such a decision isn't dispassionate, but instead a highly ideological move that sides with the wealthy and corporations. He also reviews alternative ways to combat inflation that would shield workers from the most acute pain.   | Listen to the podcast here.

____ (2022-06-16). Experts call for more cooperation with China to revitalize Pakistan's agriculture sector. ecns.cn As Pakistan's agriculture sector remained crucial for the country's economic growth, experts and scientists said that enhanced cooperation with China under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) can help revitalize the country's agriculture sector and combat the challenge of food insecurity.

Anonymous767 (2022-06-16). Russia Steadily Purges Kyiv's Forces Around Severodonetsk And Slavyansk. southfront.org As of June 16, the most active military developments in the region of Donbass are focused around Slavyansk and the Severodonetsk-Lysichansk area. | In Severodonetsk, Kyiv's units remain in a tactical encirclements in the industrial area of the 'Azot plant'. According to reports, up to 2,500 members of Kyiv's forces are stuck there. They are not able to retreat to thee sector of Lysichansk controlled by their counterparts because all roads there are under fire control of Russians. This sit…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-06-16). US Biowarfare: Fever-Carrying Mosquitoes Studied in Ukrainian Labs May Have Been Used Against Cuba. libya360.wordpress.com The Russian Defence Ministry earlier reported discovering files in seized bio laboratories in Ukraine which indicated that scientists were carrying out tests on dangerous pathogens with the presumed intent to use them as components in biological weapons. The ministry said these laboratories were funded by the US for over a decade. The Ukrainian biological laboratories…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-06-16). Leftist youth groups in Austria launch Youth Against War campaign. peoplesdispatch.org Austrian youth groups including the Communist Youth of Austria (KJO) and the Young Left initiated the Youth Against War campaign last week demanding peace, freedom, neutrality, and protesting the center-right coalition government's plan to allot more funds for military upgrades in the backdrop of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. The youth groups called on the government to instead allot more funds for social spending, including free public transport, housing and health. Demonstrations were organized in the cities of Vienna, Graz, Linz, Innviertel, Salzburg, St. Pà∂lten, Innsbruck, Feldkirch and Klagenfurt, am…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-06-16). Why Does the United States Have a Military Base in Ghana? libya360.wordpress.com Vijay Prashad U.S. soldiers train for "jungle warfare" in Ghana. An interview with Kwesi Pratt Jr., a journalist and leader of the Socialist Movement of Ghana In April 2018, the president of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, said that Ghana has "not offered a military base, and will not offer a military base to the…

_____ (2022-06-16). The World Doesn't Work That Way Anymore. popularresistance.org The First World War signaled the end to a mercantilist order that had evolved under the aegis of European powers. One hundred years later, a very different economic order was in place (neoliberal cosmopolitanism). Believed by its architects to be universal and everlasting, globalization transfixed the world for an extended moment, but then started the subsidence from its zenith — precisely at the moment the West was giving vent to its triumphalism at the fall of the Berlin Wall. NATO — as the order's regulatory system — addressed its attendant 'identity crisis' by pushing for eastward expansion…

Dave DeCamp (2022-06-16). Senators Bring Biden's 2023 Military Budget Request to $857 Billion. news.antiwar.com The Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday released its version of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would authorize $857.6 billion in military spending for the 2023 fiscal year, a massive increase from the $813 billion President Biden requested. Out of the $857.6 billion, about $817.3 billion will go to the Pentagon, $29.7 …

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-16). Updated Mayo Clinic recommendations for infant formula shortage. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there have been significant shortages of infant formulas in some stores, largely caused by supply chain issues, as well as a recent recall of several contaminated baby formula products. While this unfortunate crisis continues to impact thousands of caregivers needing to feed their babies, Mayo Clinic continues to offer advice on safe alternatives in the short term to patients. Alternative formula options For most infants, it is OK to switch…

Ola Mousa (2022-06-16). Danger doesn't stop children from working in Gaza's dumps. electronicintifada.net Waste collectors rely on meager incomes to avoid starvation.

_____ (2022-06-16). 3 Anti-Inflation Alternatives to Raising Interest Rates. popularresistance.org A deafening silence defines "debates" among U.S. leaders about stopping or slowing today's inflation. Alternatives to the Federal Reserve's raising of interest rates and curtailing money supply growth are ignored. It's as if there were no other ways to rein in price increases except to add more interest costs to the already excess debts of workers and small and medium businesses. Were the last two and a half years of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, plus the economic crash of 2020, not sufficient enough burdens on Americans without piling on the additional burden of inflation that has been imposed by U.S. capitalism…

_____ (2022-06-16). Final Declaration of the Workers' Summit of the Americas. popularresistance.org We, representatives of Trade Union, Peasant, Political and Social organizations, gathered in Tijuana — Mexico, June 10-12, 2022, on the occasion of the realization of the Summit of the Americas of the Working Men and Women Workers, in immediate response to the exclusion of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua imposed by the Government of the United States. | There is a systemic and structural crisis of capitalism in its imperialist phase. It is in itself a civilizational crisis. The capitalist economic model and its political arm neoliberalism, as well as its modern cultural foundation, have put the planet's life…

_____ (2022-06-16). AFL-CIO Blocks Debate on Union Democracy Reforms. popularresistance.org Earlier today, many were unexpectedly locked out of the AFL-CIO convention after the Secret Service closed the doors for the arrival of President Joe Biden. The lockout infuriated activists and delegates who had arrived early to see Biden, but many also saw it as a metaphor for how people are being excluded from the convention as a whole. | Shockingly, the AFL-CIO did not invite the Amazon Labor Union, since it's an independent union and doesn't belong to the AFL-CIO. Nor did the convention invite members of the SEIU-affiliated Starbucks Workers United. | "It's just petty," one senior union official told Payday R…

_____ (2022-06-16). Truckers' strike in South Korea ends in victory as government agrees to demands. popularresistance.org The formidable truckers' strike in South Korea came to an end after a tentative agreement was struck after late-night negotiations on Tuesday, June 14. Truck drivers returned to work on Wednesday after the deal approving the key demands put forward by the union was approved by the nation's transport ministry. | Organized by Cargo Truckers Solidarity Union, thousands of truck drivers were on an indefinite strike from June 7, bringing all ports and movement of crucial industrial goods and major exports to a standstill.

_____ (2022-06-16). Ecuador: CONAIE and Unions to Maintain National Strike. popularresistance.org Mobilizations will continue and key roads remain blocked as the indefinite Ecuador-wide protests against the neoliberal policies of Guillermo Lasso's administration head into a fourth day. | Security forces have been unsuccessful in trying to lift 24 hour roadblocks, which have now been reinforced by communities. | The government's attempt to quell protests by sweeping up alleged leaders not only failed, it backfired. News of the arrest of Leonidas Iza, president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), mobilized thousands of people to the Latacunga prison where he was taken and promp…

C.P. Chandrasekhar (2022-06-16). Why are global wheat prices rising so much? mronline.org The global food crisis has now grown to such proportions that everyone is talking about it (even though world leaders are doing relatively little about it).

Dean Baker (2022-06-16). Will CNN Put Donald Trump Back in the White House? cepr.net The network's coverage of the economy has been inflation, inflation, inflation 24-7. But inflation is not the whole story of the economy. We also have unemployment that is near 50-year low. That is a really big deal, because the vast majority of families work for most of their income.

Ana Perdigón (2022-06-16). Sergey Lavrov to Meet Venezuela's Vice President in Saint Petersburg. orinocotribune.com Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will meet with Executive Vice President of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez, the Prime Minister of Cuba Manuel Marrero, and a special representative of Nicaragua, during the International Economic Forum in Saint Petersburg, that started on Wednesday. | During the forum, which ends Saturday, a conference dedicated to relations between Russia and Latin America will be held. Rodríguez, the Nicaraguan Finance Minister Iván Adolfo Acosta Montalván, and the president of the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN), Daniel Ortega Reyes, will participate in this conference. | As part of the…

SAM (2022-06-16). The Climate Case for Taxing Wealth. inequality.org

United We Dream (2022-06-16). Wednesday 6/15: DACA Décimo Aniversario – °Antes, Ahora y Más Allá! Celebración y Reuinon para la Acción. indybay.org Virtual celebration & action rally…

Anonymous669 (2022-06-16). Protests Continue In Ecuador Despite Release Of Indigenous Leader (Videos). southfront.org File image. The official logo of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador. | Protests continue throughout Ecuador despite the release of Leonidas Iza, leader of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE). | Indigenous people, who make up over a million of Ecuador's 17.7 million citizens, took to the streets on June 13 to protest against fuel prices and living costs. Despite being an oil producer, the prices of fuel almost doubled in Ecuador over the last two years. The price of…

____ (2022-06-16). China capable of meeting 3-percent CPI target: official. ecns.cn China will see its consumer price index (CPI) continue to run within a reasonable range and is capable of attaining the 3-percent annual target amid the global inflation surge, an official said Thursday.

____ (2022-06-16). So-called 'forced labor' in Xinjiang is a big lie made by anti-China forces: FM. ecns.cn

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2022-06-16). 2022 California Juneteenth – National Freedom Day. indybay.org In the coming years over 100 California cities with @100,000+ residents will begin to discover our unique California Juneteenth Legacy, helping manifest equity and greater inclusion throughout the 5th largest economy in the world. Today, "Mining for Freedom" or the authentic "Golden Legacy" of our California USCT who fought, bleed and died for freedom is a fierce debate impacting future generation.

WSWS (2022-06-16). Gross safety violations at Russian paper plant where five workers died. wsws.org Five men and women perished at a Siberian carton factory known for ignoring workplace safety and environmental regulations.

WSWS (2022-06-16). Fed hikes interest rate to crush wage demands. wsws.org The overriding fear of the central bank, the guardian of finance capital, is that the inflation surge accelerates the drive by workers across the economy to undertake an independent struggle for wage demands to compensate for the daily deepening cuts in their living standards.

W. T. Whitney Jr. (2022-06-16). The U.S. Constitution: Bad for public health. peoplesworld.org Public health is about curative, rehabilitative, and especially preventative healthcare for everybody, no exclusions. Failed public health was on display during the coronavirus pandemic. "The United States has the highest rate of COVID-19 deaths per capita" among 11 high-income countries, according to one infectious disease specialist. Similarly, local authorities allowed dangerous levels of lead to …

Labor Video Project (2022-06-16). Democracy, General Strikes & Fascism At AFL-CIO With Van Deusen Pres Vermont AFL-CIO. indybay.org Vermont AFL-CIO president David Van Deusen reports on the refusal of the AFL-CIO Executive Council to allow his state's resolution for democracy in the AFL-CIO with direct election of the national officers by the rank and file as well as preparing for a general strike against any attempted coup or insurrection.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-16). Mayo Clinic expert speaks of significance of Lyme disease uptick. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Lyme disease has infected more than 14% of the world's population, according to a new study. "It's significant," says Dr. Bobbi Pritt, director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic. "If you look at the numbers and how it breaks down in regions across the United States, in some areas, that exceeds 50% seropositivity. That means people are walking around with antibodies in their blood that are detectable. That shows they've been exposed to Lyme disease at some…

____ (2022-06-16). RCEP offers broader room for China-ROK cooperation: official. ecns.cn The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement offers broader room for China and the Republic of Korea (ROK) to deepen economic and trade cooperation, a Chinese official said Thursday."ÄÄ…

Brett Wilkins (2022-06-16). House Dems Urge Biden to Work With Cuba to Vaccinate the World. commondreams.org "Cuba's goal of vaccinating people in low-income countries offers an important opportunity… for our nations to work together once again on urgent healthcare issues facing the world."

LEPAIO (2022-06-16). The Israeli Histadrut, The AFL-CIO, Zionism & Labor Imperialism With Carol Lang. indybay.org The role of the Israeli Histadrut and the AFL-CIO was the focus of a presentation by CUNY professor Carol Lang. She spoke at a conference of the Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO International Operations. The AFL-CIO is tied to the racist Israeli Histadrut and has blocked solidarity resolutions for Palestinian people and workers. | AFL-CIO president Liz Schuler and AFT president Randi Weingarten also met with the leadership of the Israeli Labor Party which is in the Israeli government and supported the murder of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The Israeli minister of Interior is a member of th…

TeleSUR, JDO (2022-06-16). Pdte. Maduro convoca a consolidar el modelo económico diversificado de Venezuela. telesurtv.net El jefe de Estado, de visita en Azerbaiyán, resumió los principales resulTados de su gira euroasiática.

____ (2022-06-16). Iran-India economic ties gathering steam. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 16 (MNA) — The trade and economic relations between Iran and India is on upward trajectory.

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2022-06-16). Thursday 6/23: Pride Month Film Screening: Pride (2014). indybay.org In-person: 2969 Mission St, SF | Virtual: bit.ly/pride-sf…

WSWS (2022-06-16). Socialist Equality Party meeting discusses crisis of Australia's two-party system and the way forward for the working class. wsws.org The livestreamed event provided a much-appreciated forum for democratic discussion about the election result, Labor's right-wing program, and the class battles now unfolding in Australia and internationally.

United We Dream (2022-06-16). Wednesday 6/15: DACA Tenth Anniversary: Then, Now and Beyond! Celebration & Action Rally. indybay.org Virtual celebration & action rally…

La Peña (2022-06-16). Friday 6/17: Baila Community Dance Party. indybay.org La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705…

____ (2022-06-16). Xinjiang attracts over 200 bln yuan of investment in Jan.-May. ecns.cn The commerce department of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region said investment from outside the region has seen robust growth in the January-May period.

WSWS (2022-06-16). Australia: NSW Teachers Federation complains of no government concessions, after its Term Two strike ban. wsws.org The union bureaucrats want the state Liberal government to come to the "negotiating table" in order to devise yet another sellout industrial agreement.

David Giesen (2022-06-16). Sunday 7/3: Fulfilling the Promise of America, a symposium. indybay.org ZOOM video meet: | zoom.us/j/94131824284?pwd=RzI0ZEY1eEkrbkxFemNOMHFHbUZXZz09…

____ (2022-06-16). China welcomes overseas investment in R&D: ministry. ecns.cn China welcomes foreign companies to ramp up spending on research and development (R&D) and set up R&D centers in the country, Shu Jueting, spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce, said Thursday.

____ (2022-06-16). China confident on keeping foreign trade within reasonable range in 2022. ecns.cn China is confident to keep its foreign trade running within a reasonable range for the whole year, making more contributions to the economic fundamentals, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Thursday.

WSWS (2022-06-16). Australian Labor government backs ruling that further cuts real wages. wsws.org Claims by the government, the unions and the corporate media that the Fair Work Commission decision to grant sub-inflation pay rises represents a victory for workers are a complete sham.

____ (2022-06-16). （W.E. Talk）Facts and Truths Show Workers of All Ethnic Groups in Xinjiang Enjoy Decent Work. ecns.cn The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has actively practiced the international concept of decent work, followed the relevant conventions and initiatives of the International Labour Organization, and strictly implemented national laws, policies, and regulations.

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2022-06-16). Friday 6/17: Forum: Pride Month & Revolutionary LGBTQ Struggle. indybay.org In-person: 2969 Mission St, SF | Virtual: bit.ly/pride-means-resist…

TeleSUR, JDO (2022-06-16). Realizan foro sobre independentismo de Manuela Sáez en Venezuela. telesurtv.net El Foro Mujeres, Historia y Revolución profundiza en la labor de Manuelita y destaca su importancia para la independencia de Nuestra América.

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-06-16). Wednesday 6/15: Labor History: A key to unlocking workers' power today. indybay.org Online via Zoom | To register: bit.ly/FSFD-Labor…

TeleSUR, ysm, MER (2022-06-16). Trabajadores se movilizan en Uruguay por mejoras salariales. telesurtv.net En los últimos dos años, los trabajadores públicos y de la salud uruguayos han experimentado una pérdida del 6 por ciento del salario real.

TeleSUR, DRL (2022-06-16). Denuncian pérdida millonaria en El Salvador por uso del bitcóin. telesurtv.net El bitcóin perdió un 66% respecto al máximo de su valor alcanzado en noviembre de 2021, cuando superó los 66.000 dólares.

____ (2022-06-16). China's national lawmakers to mull laws on wire fraud, civil enforcement, monopoly. ecns.cn China's national lawmakers will deliberate draft laws regarding issues such as anti-telecom and cyber fraud, civil compulsory enforcement, and anti-monopoly during a forthcoming session by the country's top legislature.

WSWS (2022-06-15). Amid strike wave across France, Macron calls to rearm against Russia. wsws.org Citing NATO's war on Russia, the French government is preparing a massive increase in military spending, social cuts, and laws to impose speed-up in industry.

Dave DeCamp (2022-06-15). Biden Officials Concerned Russia Sanctions Hurting Ordinary People More Than Putin. news.antiwar.com Bloomberg History has shown that US sanctions and other economic pressure do little to change the targeted government and

Labor Video Project (2022-06-15). WCCUSD Union Busting Attack On Adult School Teachers United Leadership. indybay.org The WCCUSD school district terminated the president and vice president of the Adult School Teachers United in a union busting attack. The president Ken Ryan and vice president Kristen Pursley discuss their termination, the reason behind it and the attack on adult education and ESL by not only the District by the Democrats in the legislature and governor.

Labor Video Project (2022-06-15). Democracy, General Strikes & Fascism At AFL-CIO With David Van Deusen Pres Vermont AFL-CIO. indybay.org WorkWeek interviews Vermont AFL-CIO president David Van Deusen about the two resolutions that they submitted for democracy in the AFL-CIO and the need to prepare to organize a general strike against the rise of fascism an another insurrection and attempted coup. The AFL-CIO executive council tabled both.

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2022-06-15). 2022 California Juneteenth – National Freedom Day. indybay.org In the coming years over 100 California cities with @100,000+ residents will begin to discover our unique California Juneteenth Legacy, helping manifest equity and greater inclusion throughout the 5th largest economy in the world. Today, "Mining for Freedom" or the authentic "Golden Legacy" of our California USCT who fought, bleed and died for freedom is a fierce debate impacting future generation.

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-06-15). Wednesday 6/15: Labor History: A key to unlocking workers' power today. indybay.org Online via Zoom | To register: bit.ly/FSFD-Labor…

____ (2022-06-14). Green BRI to push global low-carbon drive. ecns.cn China will mount consistent efforts to tap the potential of a green Belt and Road Initiative in helping drive the transition to a global low-carbon economy, said Zhao Yingmin, the vice-minister of ecology and environment.

____ (2022-06-15). China's surveyed urban unemployment rate down to 5.9 pct in May. ecns.cn China's surveyed urban unemployment rate stood at 5.9 percent in May, down 0.2 percentage points from April, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Wednesday.

____ (2022-06-14). Alert for spillover effects of U.S. economic recession. ecns.cn The consumer price index rose 8.6 percent year-on-year in May, the highest since December 1981, and the month-on-month growth was 1.0 percent. The core CPI rose 6.0 percent year-on-year and 0.6 percent month-on-month.

____ (2022-06-14). China to step up stress testing for CPTPP, DEPA in Nansha, plan says. ecns.cn China's State Council on Tuesday released a sweeping plan to build Nansha in South China's Guangdong Province into a "major strategic platform" for global cooperation.

Staff (2022-06-15). Díaz-Canel analiza con los gobernadores difícil situación económica que atraviesa el país (+ Video). cubadebate.cu El mandatario cubano se refirió a la inflación, al desabastecimiento, a problemas de producción y al trabajo que está costando que las navieras pongan en tiempo los recursos que han sido contratados y pagados. A eso que está afectando al mundo entero luego de la pandemia, se suma en Cuba la situación electroenergética y los efectos de las intensas lluvias de las últimas semanas que han provocado daños en viviendas y viales.

Staff (2022-06-15). Malmierca en la clausura de la II Jornada Económica-Productiva: Debemos continuar buscando soluciones creativas (+ Video). cubadebate.cu Debemos continuar buscando soluciones creativas que permitan incrementar los ingresos por exportaciones y el ahorro por la sustitución efectiva de las importaciones, afirmó Rodrigo Malmierca Díaz, titular del Comercio Exterior y la Inversión Extranjera, desde la Cámara de Comercio durante la clausura de la II Jornada Económica- Productiva.

____ (2022-06-15). China's industrial output picks up 0.7 pct in May. ecns.cn China's value-added industrial output, an important economic indicator, went up 0.7 percent year on year in May, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Wednesday.

WSWS (2022-06-15). 100,000 Turkish doctors strike amid growing global movement of health care workers. wsws.org Amid unprecedented inflation and falls in living standards due to the pandemic and war, Turkish doctors have organized one day national strike for better wages and benefits.

____ (2022-06-15). China's first national-level urban gas flow metering station built in Beijing. ecns.cn China's first national-level urban gas flow metering station has been officially built in Beijing to carry out gas measurement and evaluation across the country, according to Beijing Municipal Administration for Market Regulation on Tuesday.

____ (2022-06-15). China's fixed-asset investment up 6.2 pct in January-May. ecns.cn China's fixed-asset investment went up 6.2 percent year on year in the first five months of this year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Wednesday.

____ (2022-06-15). Tehran, Ashgabat to set up trade center for enhancing ties. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) — Iran and Turkmenistan will establish a joint trade center for the invigoration of economic activities.

____ (2022-06-15). China's property investment down 4 pct in January-May. ecns.cn China's investment in property development went down 4 percent year on year in the first five months of 2022, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Wednesday.

____ (2022-06-14). Experts see foreign capital rising in China. ecns.cn China's huge economy, its bright prospects and the government's unwavering efforts to open the domestic market wider to the rest of the world make the country increasingly attractive to foreign investors, despite the impact of COVID-19 resurgence and rising protectionism in some countries.

____ (2022-06-14). Country's policies seen helping cool high inflation around world. ecns.cn China's prudent and responsible monetary policy will help tame global price pressures and further propel growth when necessary as sustained high inflation emerged as a major concern of the global economy…

WSWS (2022-06-15). Pandemic profiteers prey on the crisis in education, while US schools are increasingly riven by class divide. wsws.org A bullseye has been placed on the American public education system. Edubusinesses have seized on the pandemic and the crisis within schools to extract record profits and deepen the drive to privatize schooling.

____ (2022-06-14). China's industrial economy grows leaps and bounds in past decade. ecns.cn China's resolute efforts over the past decade to make its industrial economy grow huge and robust have resulted in this sector being more competitive and resilient in a world fraught with uncertainties and risks.

____ (2022-06-15). China's economy shows good recovery momentum in May: statistics bureau. ecns.cn China's economy has gradually overcome the negative impacts of the epidemic, with main indicators showing marginal improvement in May, Fu Linghui, spokesperson for the National Bureau of Statistics, said Wednesday.

Anonymous103 (2022-06-14). Russian Side To Secure Humanitarian Corridor From Azot Plant In Severodonetsk. southfront.org The Russian Defense Ministry announced the opening of a humanitarian corridor from the industrial zone of Severodonetsk to the city of Svatovo, which is under control of the in the Luhansk People's Republic, on June 15. The strategy of the Ukrainian military in the city of Severodonetsk is very similar to the one used at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. | According to the Russian Defence Ministry, the decision was made in response to the request of the Ukrainian side to organize…

Dave DeCamp (2022-06-14). Ukraine Says It Needs $5 Billion in Monthly External Aid To Avoid Budget Cut. news.antiwar.com The head of the Ukrainian parliament's financial committee "We have to borrow $5 billion monthly. If we do not get it, we will have to cut spending," Danylo Hetmantsev said, according to Reuters. | Hetmantsev said the Ukrainian government's revenues cover less than half of its expenses due to the war. He said the government spent about 2 billion…

Fight Back (2022-06-14). Interview with Venezuelan trade union leader Jacobo Torres de Leon. fightbacknews.org Fight Back! interviewed Venezuelan trade union leader Jacobo Torres de Leon, the international coordinator for the Bolivarian Socialist Council of Workers at the Workers' Summit of the Americas which took place June 10-12 in Tijuana, Mexico. | Fight Back!: Why are you here at the Workers Summit of the Americas? | Jacobo Torres de Leon: We are here as a general response to the exclusion of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua from the USA's Summit of the Americas, on the part of the U.S. administration. They don't have the right to exclude any country. We question this and how they treat the countries of the Americas. Th…

Sverre LeRoy, Richard Wiles (2022-06-14). How Fossil Fuel Executives Overheated US Public Classrooms. commondreams.org While the oil industry rakes in record profits—nearly $100 billion in the first quarter of this year—public schools are paying the price for their climate pollution and disinformation.

_____ (2022-06-14). Afghans are Coming to the St Petersburg Economic Forum. journal-neo.org Representatives of Afghanistan have been invited to this year's St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). Their delegation will be represented by Jamal Nasir Garwa, Chargé d'Affaires a.i. of Kabul in Moscow. That being said, Russia shows it is not cooperating with the Taliban, who are still banned by both the UN and the Russian Federation, but with …

_____ (2022-06-14). Universal Health Care Could Have Saved US Lives During COVID. popularresistance.org Americans spend more on health care than people in any other nation. Yet in any given year, the piecemeal nature of the American medical insurance system causes many preventable deaths and unnecessary costs. Not surprisingly, COVID-19 only exacerbated this already dire public health issue, as evidenced by the U.S.'s elevated mortality, compared with that of other high-income countries. | A new study quantifies the severity of the impact of the pandemic on Americans who did not have access to health insurance. According to findings published on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, from th…

Editor2 (2022-06-14). 2 Years Since Diplomat Alex Saab Was Abducted for Defying US Sanctions. orinocotribune.com Today, June 12, marks two years since the kidnapping of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Nain Saab, while on a humanitarian mission to Iran, his third mission to the country, to try to alleviate the effects of the U.S. economic warfare against Venezuela. | Saab, an accredited diplomat protected under the Vienna Convention, was abducted in Cape Verde without an arrest warrant or Interpol alert, and was

Martin Hart-Landsberg (2022-06-14). Slip slidin' away—the disappearing practice of overtime pay. mronline.org Slip slidin' away—that is what tends to happen to pro-worker reforms in our economic system. Things are structured so that without constant vigilance and struggle on our part, gains are gradually undone. A case in point: overtime pay.

The Mapping Project (2022-06-14). Massachusetts' Imperialist Landscape. mronline.org "Cannibalism," as writer Jack Forbes (Powhatan-Renapé/Delaware-Lenápe) defined it, "is the consuming of another's life for one's own private purpose or profit."

Ann Brown (2022-06-14). Crypto Markets Are Crashing Fast: 7 Things For Black America To Know. moguldom.com Crypto skeptics predicted that the downfall of crypto markets was inevitable and the current state might be proving them right. Cryptocurrency prices continue to crash and Bitcoin dropped this week to its lowest level since December 2020, falling below $21,000 to $20,9 .82. Crypto has been attractive to Black investors, at least up until now. About …

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-06-14). Dr. Sandy Darity Makes It Plain With The Science: Class Doesn't Explain Black-White Wealth Gap. moguldom.com Renowned reparations scholar and Duke University professor Dr. William "Sandy" Darity used statistics to prove his point on why people shouldn't use class to explain the Black-white wealth gap. "At some point those who persist in claiming that inequality in the US is primarily a matter of class need to address the following three data …

Andrew Medhurst (2022-06-14). Why I Quit Being a Banker to Join Extinction Rebellion. commondreams.org At the age of 56, I know more about money and wealth than I ever did as a banker. Here's what I've learned.

_____ (2022-06-14). London Rail Workers Speak Out Ahead Of National Strike. popularresistance.org Rail workers across London spoke to campaign teams from the World Socialist Web Site ahead of the largest national rail strike since 1989. | 50,000 members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union will strike on June 21, 23 and 25, against wage, job and pension cuts. The government is planning an historic attack on the industry under its "Great British Railways" scheme. RMT and Unite members on the London Underground and train drivers represented by the ASLEF union are also due to walk out. | Reporters found a widening demand for united strike action to confront this threat in transport and throughout the…

Mark Gruenberg (2022-06-14). Labor's 2022 election work to be driven from the bottom up. peoplesworld.org PHILADELPHIA—Organized labor's political campaign this year will be driven from the bottom up, emphasizing issues, as state federations and central labor councils make the key political decisions and then fit candidates into the issue matrix for endorsement decisions. So says Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten, chair of the federation's committee on relations with and responsibilities …

____ (2022-06-14). Iran, Croatia to expand coop. in intl. trade fairs. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — Iran and Croatia will enhance bilateral cooperation in the field of trade and economy particularly in the area of international exhibitions.

Staff (2022-06-14). North-South corridor to boost Tehran-Yerevan economic ties. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — Saying that Armenia has good relations with the friendly country of Iran, the Armenian Prime Minister expressed hope that Armenia's economic relations with Iran will increase with the construction of the North-South corridor.

WSWS (2022-06-14). "The unions work together with the managers": UK rail workers speak out ahead of national strike. wsws.org World Socialist Web Site reporters have been speaking to rail workers across the country ahead of next week's planned national rail strike.

Anonymous103 (2022-06-14). Reflections On The Dispute Over The South China/ East Vietnam/ West Philippines/ North Indonesia Sea. southfront.org Written by Daniel Edgar, exclusively for South Front | It has finally happened, growing from slow beginnings to become a major strategic factor in the geopolitical calculations in the Asia-Pacific region, one of the worst nightmares of Chinese geopoliticists and super-Patriots. India has joined and copied the US containment strategy against its arch foe in the Asia Pacific region, launching a belated 'diplomatic' charm offensive and industrial/ commercial marketing campaign in an…

____ (2022-06-14). Iran, Turkmenistan ink MoU to strengthen bilateral coop. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — A joint Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was inked between Iran's Caretaker Minister of Labor, Cooperatives and Social Welfare and Turkmen Minister of Labor and Social Protection in Tehran on Tuesday to bolster cooperation.

____ (2022-06-14). Turkmenistan president arrives in Iran for bilateral talks. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — President of Turkmenistan Serdar GurbangulyàΩewiàß Berdimuhamedow arrived in Iranian capital of Tehran on Tuesday evening at the head of a high-ranking political and economic delegation.

Jacob Buckner (2022-06-14). Amazon fires Staten Island organizer in what workers see as anti-union retaliation. peoplesworld.org STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.—On June 9, Pasquale "Pat" Cioffi, a worker and lead organizer with the Amazon Labor Union, was fired by Amazon from his job at the company's JFK8 warehouse. The attack is part of a larger campaign of worker repression since JFK8's successful unionization on April 1, 2022. The company has continued to terminate …

C.J. Atkins (2022-06-14). Manuel Tiago's 'The Slackers': A conversation with the translator. peoplesworld.org International Publishers has just released The Slackers and Other Stories, the fifth volume of fiction by Manuel Tiago, the pen name for àÅlvaro Cunhal, the longtime leader of the Portuguese Communist Party. People's World sat down with our staff writer Eric A. Gordon, who created the translation from Portuguese into English. C.J. Atkins: First of …

____ (2022-06-13). African Union Leaders Meet with Russian Government amid Escalating Food Crisis. transcend.org 3 Jun 2022 – The Russian special military operations in neighboring Ukraine have brought to the surface a number of persistent economic problems which have plagued the world since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic that emerged during the early months of 2020.

_____ (2022-06-13). Bolivian Court Sentences Jeanine àÅñez To 10 Years In Prison. popularresistance.org The First Anti-Corruption Sentencing Court of La Paz sentenced former de-facto Bolivian President Jeanine àÅñez to 10 years in prison in the 'Coup d'état II' case on Friday, June 10. In the case, àÅñez stood accused of crimes of acting against the constitution and illegally assuming the presidency of the country in November 2019, following a right-wing civic-military coup that overthrew democratically elected socialist President Evo Morales. The court found her guilty of "breach of duties" and "resolutions contrary to the Constitution and the Law" in her capacity as the former second Vice President of…

Dana Sanchez (2022-06-13). Popular DeFi Crypto Celsius Network (CEL) Halts Withdrawals, Crashes %, BTC Falls Below $25K. moguldom.com Citing "extreme market conditions," cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network announced on June 12 that it was freezing withdrawals and transfers, a move that resulted in sending its price down almost 70 percent and triggering a slide among other crypto coins. Turbulence in the financial markets is causing distress in the cryptosphere as rising interest rates and …

Ann Brown (2022-06-13). Is Life Insurance Investment Better For Black Than White? 13 Facts And Numbers On The Black-White Mortality Rate Gap. moguldom.com Black Americans lag behind whites in the amount of investment they make in life insurance policies and this can have consequences such as people dying in debt and passing that debt on to their relatives. But given the Black-white mortality rate gap, it would seem that investing in reasonably priced life insurance policies could be …

____ (2022-06-13). The Food Shortage Solution in Your Own Backyard. transcend.org 9 Jun 2022 – A confluence of crises—lockdowns and business closures, mandates and worker shortages, supply chain disruptions and inflation, sanctions and war—have compounded to trigger food shortages; and we have been warned that they may last longer than the food stored in our pantries. What to do?

Leslie Feinberg (2022-06-13). PRIDE in Cuba: 'Bringing revolution's humanity to all aspects of life'. workers.org The following is one installment of Feinberg's "Lavender & Red" series on the intersection of LGBTQ+ and socialist history; this installment appeared Aug. 18, 2007, in Workers World newspaper. The 120-part series was published between 2004 and 2008 and can be downloaded free at workers.org/books. Some of the language that . . . |

____ (2022-06-13). Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (14 Jun 1928 — 9 Oct 1967). transcend.org Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, theoretician and tactician of guerrilla warfare, prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution (1956—59), and guerrilla leader in South America, Guevara was a medical doctor specialized in leprosy. Traveling around South America, he observed conditions that spurred his revolt against poverty and capitalist exploitation, adopting Marxist ideology, theory and practices. He is revered by many as a martyred cultural hero, having become an iconic cult figure as a symbol of anti-imperialist struggles everywhere.

Joel Wendland-Liu (2022-06-13). New study investigates plunder of Native American land. peoplesworld.org In its first six decades of existence, the U.S. created a trail of treaties that led to a massive transfer of Indigenous wealth. Michael John Witgen's second book, Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America, published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and …

____ (2022-06-13). Peace Education: An Alternative to War Education. transcend.org War is considered essential for peace and progress. This has also been the ancient concept of attaining peace, and we know that the ancient wars were for the most parts waged to achieve peace. "Even in our modern civilization", if we may believe Mary Stuart and E.C. Oakden, "war proves the most valuable stimulus to progress."

WSWS (2022-06-14). The economic and geostrategic significance of the Black Sea region and the imperialist proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. wsws.org Gaining direct access to the resources of the former Soviet Union, which had been closed off to imperialism for seven decades following the 1917 October Revolution, has been a major goal of the imperialist powers for decades.

Fight Back (2022-06-14). Interview with Venezuelan trade union leader Jacobo Torres de Leon. fightbacknews.org Fight Back! interviewed Venezuelan trade union leader Jacobo Torres de Leon, the international coordinator for the Bolivarian Socialist Council of Workers at the Workers' Summit of the Americas which took place June 10-12 in Tijuana, Mexico. | Fight Back!: Why are you here at the Workers Summit of the Americas? | Jacobo Torres de Leon: We are here as a general response to the exclusion of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua from the USA's Summit of the Americas, on the part of the U.S. administration. They don't have the right to exclude any country. We question this and how they treat the countries of the Americas. Th…

____ (2022-06-14). China's FDI inflow up 17.3 pct in first five months. ecns.cn Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the Chinese mainland, in actual use, expanded 17.3 percent year on year to 564.2 billion yuan in the first five months of the year, the Ministry of Commerce said Tuesday.

Editor2 (2022-06-14). 2 Years Since Diplomat Alex Saab Was Abducted for Defying US Sanctions. orinocotribune.com Today, June 12, marks two years since the kidnapping of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Nain Saab, while on a humanitarian mission to Iran, his third mission to the country, to try to alleviate the effects of the U.S. economic warfare against Venezuela. | Saab, an accredited diplomat protected under the Vienna Convention, was abducted in Cape Verde without an arrest warrant or Interpol alert, and was

Annelise Whitley (2022-06-14). My Pandemic in Three Acts. tomdispatch.com On New Years' Eve 2019, Americans celebrated the advent of the roaring '20s with fireworks and champagne, amid ominous news alerts from China. Surely that virus would stay on the other side of the planet. I cringe at how entitled we felt then. Covid-19 has now wiped out more than a million of us (by far the worst record on Earth when it comes to wealthy countries). Up to a third of all survivors suffer the sometimes disabling effects of long Covid, with implications for society that will outlast the pandemic — if it ever ends. I'd like to believe we've learned a lesson about our species-wide vulnerability,…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-06-14). French Left-led NUPES coalition surges in French assembly polls. peoplesdispatch.org In the first round of French National Assembly elections on Sunday, June 12, the New Ecologic and Social Peoples Union (NUPES), led by leftist leader Jean-Luc Melenchon, achieved a major breakthrough. NUPES secured 25.7% of votes, giving a genuine challenge to the neoliberal Ensemble coalition, led by the French president Emmanuel Macron, which won 25.8% of votes. | Four candidates from NUPES have already won in the first round, with the Macronists securing one seat. Around 417 candidates front the Ensemble and 380 candidates from NUPES will contest run-offs. The far-right National Rally (RN) led by Marine Le Pen…

Martin Hart-Landsberg (2022-06-14). Slip slidin' away—the disappearing practice of overtime pay. mronline.org Slip slidin' away—that is what tends to happen to pro-worker reforms in our economic system. Things are structured so that without constant vigilance and struggle on our part, gains are gradually undone. A case in point: overtime pay.

The Mapping Project (2022-06-14). Massachusetts' Imperialist Landscape. mronline.org "Cannibalism," as writer Jack Forbes (Powhatan-Renapé/Delaware-Lenápe) defined it, "is the consuming of another's life for one's own private purpose or profit."

Ann Brown (2022-06-14). Crypto Markets Are Crashing Fast: 7 Things For Black America To Know. moguldom.com Crypto skeptics predicted that the downfall of crypto markets was inevitable and the current state might be proving them right. Cryptocurrency prices continue to crash and Bitcoin dropped this week to its lowest level since December 2020, falling below $21,000 to $20,9 .82. Crypto has been attractive to Black investors, at least up until now. About …

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-06-14). Dr. Sandy Darity Makes It Plain With The Science: Class Doesn't Explain Black-White Wealth Gap. moguldom.com Renowned reparations scholar and Duke University professor Dr. William "Sandy" Darity used statistics to prove his point on why people shouldn't use class to explain the Black-white wealth gap. "At some point those who persist in claiming that inequality in the US is primarily a matter of class need to address the following three data …

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-06-14). Wednesday 6/15: Labor History: A key to unlocking workers' power today. indybay.org Online via Zoom | To register: bit.ly/FSFD-Labor…

____ (2022-06-14). China provides 4.3 mln USD from LMC Special Fund 2022 to Cambodia. ecns.cn China on Monday provided over 4.3 million U.S. dollars from the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Special Fund 2022 to Cambodia for carrying out 13 projects in the kingdom.

____ (2022-06-14). Iran, Turkmenistan ink MoU to strengthen bilateral coop. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — A joint Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was inked between Iran's Caretaker Minister of Labor, Cooperatives and Social Welfare and Turkmen Minister of Labor and Social Protection in Tehran on Tuesday to bolster cooperation.

Labor Video Project (2022-06-14). WCCUSD Union Busting Attack On Adult School Teachers United Leadership. indybay.org The WCCUSD school district terminated the president and vice president of the Adult School Teachers United in a union busting attack. The president Ken Ryan and vice president Kristen Pursley discuss their termination, the reason behind it and the attack on adult education and ESL by not only the District by the Democrats in the legislature and governor.

Staff (2022-06-14). Ruta crítica de la vigencia: El socialismo y el hombre en Cuba 57 años después. cubadebate.cu Un tema recurrente en los debates historiográficos y de pensamiento tiene que ver con la vigencia de las ideas, personalidades y procesos revolucionarios; con las relaciones entre experiencias precedentes y la contemporaneidad. Es precisamente por el veleidoso asunto de la "vigencia" que comienzo esta aproximación a El socialismo y el hombre en Cuba.

WSWS (2022-06-14). The trade unions in Germany act as wages police. wsws.org Although the cost of living is skyrocketing, the head of the IG Metall union has pledged to demand a wage increase of no more than 7 percent for the 4 million workers in the metal industry, spread over two years. That would be the biggest real wage cut since the 1930s.

____ (2022-06-14). China's deep space exploration laboratory starts operation. ecns.cn China's deep space exploration laboratory has started operation, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said Tuesday.

WSWS (2022-06-14). South Korean truckers continue indefinite strike against soaring fuel prices. wsws.org Drivers not only face opposition from the government and the companies, but from the pro-corporate trade unions that posture as working class organizations.

____ (2022-06-14). China industrial output sees annual growth of 6.3 pct in 2012-2021. ecns.cn China's industrial output logged an average annual growth of 6.3 percent in the 2012-2021 period as the country's manufacturing sector gained strength, an official said Tuesday.

Staff (2022-06-14). Iran Labour Minister resigns, Raeisi accepts. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — Iranian Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Hojjatollah Abdolmaleki in a message announced his resignation on Tuesday.

____ (2022-06-14). Night market boosts local economy in Guangxi. ecns.cn Aerial view of a night market in Nanning, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, June 13, 2022.

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2022-06-14). 2022 California Juneteenth – National Freedom Day. indybay.org In the coming years over 100 California cities with @100,000+ residents will begin to discover our unique California Juneteenth Legacy, helping manifest equity and greater inclusion throughout the 5th largest economy in the world. Today, "Mining for Freedom" or the authentic "Golden Legacy" of our California USCT who fought, bleed and died for freedom is a fierce debate impacting future generation.

____ (2022-06-14). Iran, Croatia to expand coop. in intl. trade fairs. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — Iran and Croatia will enhance bilateral cooperation in the field of trade and economy particularly in the area of international exhibitions.

Staff (2022-06-14). North-South corridor to boost Tehran-Yerevan economic ties. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — Saying that Armenia has good relations with the friendly country of Iran, the Armenian Prime Minister expressed hope that Armenia's economic relations with Iran will increase with the construction of the North-South corridor.

TeleSUR- lvm, JL (2022-06-14). Confirman caída del 10 % de la criptomoneda Bitcóin. telesurtv.net La segunda criptomoneda más conocida del mercado, el Ethereum, se desplomó este lunes un 19,47 por ciento.

____ (2022-06-14). Turkmenistan president arrives in Iran for bilateral talks. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — President of Turkmenistan Serdar GurbangulyàΩewiàß Berdimuhamedow arrived in Iranian capital of Tehran on Tuesday evening at the head of a high-ranking political and economic delegation.

____ (2022-06-14). Continued efforts in VAT credit refunds to bear fruit. ecns.cn China's sustained efforts in tax breaks and value-added tax credit refunds are bringing concrete benefits to market players and this is expected to generate strong growth momentum for economic recovery for the rest of the year.

WSWS (2022-06-14). Australian High Court overturns citizenship-stripping law but backs government power to do so. wsws.org While striking down one of the laws imposed by the previous Liberal-National government with the Labor Party's support, the court left the way open for an ongoing attack on the fundamental right to citizenship.

_____ (2022-06-14). London rail workers speak out ahead of national strike. popularresistance.org Rail workers across London spoke to campaign teams from the World Socialist Web Site ahead of the largest national rail strike since 1989. | 50,000 members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union will strike on June 21, 23 and 25, against wage, job and pension cuts. The government is planning an historic attack on the industry under its "Great British Railways" scheme. RMT and Unite members on the London Underground and train drivers represented by the ASLEF union are also due to walk out. | Reporters found a widening demand for united strike action to confront this threat in transport and throughout the…

Newsclick (2022-06-13). Mapping Faultlines: The real reasons for the global food crisis. peoplesdispatch.org In this episode of Mapping Faultlines, NewsClick's Prabir Purkayastha explains the reasons behind the Global food crisis and inflation. He talks about the Ukrainian mining of the port of Odessa, the sanctions on Russia and the logistical difficulties in exporting wheat and other commodities. He also talks about the impact of fertilizer crisis.

Anonymous103 (2022-06-13). Battle For Severodonetsk: Ukrainian Forces Doomed To Defeat In Industrial Area (Videos). southfront.org As of June 13, the fierce battle for the city of Severodonetsk continues. The recent days were marked by several incidents which confirmed the deplorable situation for the Armed Forces Of Ukraine in the city. | The AFU confirmed the loss of control over the center of Severodonetsk | Advisor to the Minister Yuri Sak in an interview with Deutsche Welle said that the situation in the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Severodonetsk is very difficult, but events are developing more intensively. The Minis…

Staff (2022-06-13). China Saves Millions by Buying Cheap Oil from Russia. orinocotribune.com With the war in Ukraine and the blockade against Russia, China is buying oil cheaper than any country in the West. | After the oil embargo was imposed on Russia, the Chinese government increased its oil purchases from Russia. "Between January and May, sales of Russian crude oil to Beijing increased by approximately 40%," reported

____ (2022-06-13). African Union Leaders Meet with Russian Government amid Escalating Food Crisis. transcend.org 3 Jun 2022 – The Russian special military operations in neighboring Ukraine have brought to the surface a number of persistent economic problems which have plagued the world since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic that emerged during the early months of 2020.

WSWS (2022-06-13). UN warns war in Ukraine could amplify cost-of-living crisis. wsws.org The consequences of the war, amid the pandemic and current financial crisis, could further escalate the cost of living.

Dave DeCamp (2022-06-13). US Quietly Encouraging More Russian Fertilizer Deals to Ease Food Costs. news.antiwar.com The US is quietly encouraging shipping companies and agricultural companies to purchase and transport more Russian fertilizer to lower global food costs as Western sanctions have disrupted supplies, US and EU sanctions on Russia technically have exemptions for fertilizer, but the sanctions discourage shipping firms, insurance companies, and banks from doing business with Russia altogether. As a result, Russia's fertilizer exports are down 24% this year. | Citing people familiar with the matter, the Bloomberg report said the US officials wer…

_____ (2022-06-13). Education reparation: UC tuition scholarships for Natives are just, overdue. popularresistance.org The University of California system is one of the largest and most prestigious post-secondary educational institutions in the country. Its beginnings 170 years ago were as fraught as they were humble. The Morrill Act enabled the creation of land-grant colleges, which were resourced by the sale of federal lands. These lands were, in many cases, stewarded by tribes, and they ended up in the hands of the federal government sometimes by treaty and often through seizure. Although a critical driving force behind California's continued economic and technological successes, UC has not been sufficiently accessible to the…

_____ (2022-06-13). New Revelations Confirm Illegality Of The Extradition And Arrest Of Saab. popularresistance.org In his new memoir, Sacred Oath, former US Defense Secretary, Mark Esper, who served under President Donald Trump at the time of the arrest of Alex Saab in Cape Verde, effectively admits that the White House was quite aware of the fact that Saab was a diplomat at the time of his capture. | As Esper writes, "At Maduro's direction, Saab was reportedly on special assignment to negotiate a deal with Iran for Venezuela to receive more fuel, food, and medical supplies. Saab was Maduro's long standing point man when it came to crafting the economic deals and other transactions that were keeping the regime afloat*.*" Espe…

_____ (2022-06-13). Ecuadorian Indigenous Organizations Start Strike Against Lasso. popularresistance.org From the early hours of Monday, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) began a national strike against the government of Guillermo Lasso by blocking highways in provinces such as Pastaza, Napo, and Guayas. | CONAIE President Leonidas Iza said that the social mobilization, which will continue for an indefinite period of time, emerges as a result of the reluctance of the Lasso administration to continue the dialogue process, the last meeting of which took place on November 10, 2021. | Since then, Indigenous communities and farmers have been requested the reduction of fuel prices, the rene…

_____ (2022-06-13). Transit Is The New Frontline Of The War On The Unhoused. popularresistance.org On June 9, Winnipeg's public works committee voted to remove the glass, seating, and doors from two bus shelters outside Kildonan Place mall as a means of displacing unhoused people who have been living or spending time in them. While far from the first time this has happened‚Å —the city has removed doors and heated benches from at least 11 bus shelters to discourage their use as "temporary homeless shelter[s]"‚Å —it's one of the most visible and contentious instances of the trend. | Councilor Shawn Nason, who represents the Transcona ward where the two bus shelters are located…

_____ (2022-06-13). Trucker Strike Disrupts Key Industries, Threatens Automaking. popularresistance.org Hyundai Motor is struggling to move finished cars so it can make more cars, while more than half of the country's ready-mix concrete factories have suspended operations due to a halt in the shipment of cement. | Unionized truck drivers have been on a strike since Tuesday demanding higher wages and an extension of support measures, which expire at the end of this year. They blocked gates at distribution centers and refused to transport cargo. Cargo Truckers Solidarity, a union, is leading of strike, and more than 7,000 people are participating, according to local media reports. | About one-third of all unionized t…

_____ (2022-06-13). Unions Making A Green New Deal From Below. popularresistance.org Somerville, MA is an inner suburb of Boston and the most densely populated city in New England with 81,000 residents. It was long an industrial center inhabited by repeated waves of immigrants, but it has increasingly become a bedroom community for Boston and Cambridge. | Somerville is currently being transformed by the extension of the Boston Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) subway system's Green Line throughout the city, bringing transit access to 80% of Somerville residents. Over five million square feet of new development is in the works. | Somerville's long-term mayor supported development but not union…

_____ (2022-06-13). Bolivian Court Sentences Jeanine àÅñez To 10 Years In Prison. popularresistance.org The First Anti-Corruption Sentencing Court of La Paz sentenced former de-facto Bolivian President Jeanine àÅñez to 10 years in prison in the 'Coup d'état II' case on Friday, June 10. In the case, àÅñez stood accused of crimes of acting against the constitution and illegally assuming the presidency of the country in November 2019, following a right-wing civic-military coup that overthrew democratically elected socialist President Evo Morales. The court found her guilty of "breach of duties" and "resolutions contrary to the Constitution and the Law" in her capacity as the former second Vice President of…

Kawsachun News (2022-06-13). 2 Years Since Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab Was Abducted for Defying U.S. Sanctions. towardfreedom.org June 12 marked two years since the kidnapping of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Nain Saab, while on a humanitarian mission to Iran—his third mission to the country—to try to alleviate the effects of the U.S. economic warfare against Venezuela, reports Kawsachun News.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-06-13). Venezuelan workers march in support of govt. and reject exclusion from Summit of the Americas. peoplesdispatch.org The workers thanked the socialist government for the economic protection policies for workers, and reiterated their support for President Maduro in the face of US attacks…

Fight Back (2022-06-13). Red Theory: The contradiction between town and country. fightbacknews.org Much is made of what is often referred to as the urban/rural divide. There is a fundamental disconnect, we are told, between the people from the cities and the rural population. Marx and Engels called this contradiction the division between town and country. Marxism-Leninism can help us understand this contradiction, how it arose historically, and how it can be overcome. | When we think of this contradiction, a lot of things come to mind. We may think of the distinction between more conservative "red states" and more liberal "blue states." We think of disparities in terms of education and infrastructure. We may t…

Rqorinoco (2022-06-13). Marcello Musto's Anthology of Karl Marx's Writings on Alienation (Book Review). orinocotribune.com By Carlos L. Garrido | Marcello Musto's anthology of Karl Marx's Writings on Alienation

Fight Back (2022-06-13). FRSO Summer Fund Drive: Help us keep up our party-building momentum! fightbacknews.org Donate now by the following methods: | At Checks can be made out to "Lucy Parsons Institute" and mailed to 2942 Oakland Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55407 | Freedom Road Socialist Organization is serious about building for revolution in this country, and we need your help to continue building. We have some serious momentum. Our membership has gro…

Dana Sanchez (2022-06-13). Popular DeFi Crypto Celsius Network (CEL) Halts Withdrawals, Crashes %, BTC Falls Below $25K. moguldom.com Citing "extreme market conditions," cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network announced on June 12 that it was freezing withdrawals and transfers, a move that resulted in sending its price down almost 70 percent and triggering a slide among other crypto coins. Turbulence in the financial markets is causing distress in the cryptosphere as rising interest rates and …

Kevin Mwanza (2022-06-13). Bank Records Show Haiti Is Broke Because Of Ransom Payments To France To Prevent Another War: 5 Things To Know. moguldom.com Haitians paid a steep price to France for independence and were forced to make reparations for their own freedom that historians now refer to as "the greatest heist in history". The Caribbean nation has one of the most dismal economies in the world, with a per capita income of $2,916 in 2022 that ranks it …

Fight Back (2022-06-13). Prices for workers rise by more than 9%. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – On Friday, June 10, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that prices for workers' families, the so-called Consumer Price Index-Wage or CPI-W rose by 9.3% as compared to prices a year ago. This rate of inflation is near a 40-year high, only exceeded by the 9.4% increase in March. The last time that prices rose so quickly was in November of 1981. | The headline number that the corporate media reported was a smaller 8.6%. This was the number for the CPI-Urban or CPI-U that includes households with managers and professionals as well as wage workers. The CPI-W inflation is higher than the CPI-U becau…

Ann Brown (2022-06-13). Is Life Insurance Investment Better For Black Than White? 13 Facts And Numbers On The Black-White Mortality Rate Gap. moguldom.com Black Americans lag behind whites in the amount of investment they make in life insurance policies and this can have consequences such as people dying in debt and passing that debt on to their relatives. But given the Black-white mortality rate gap, it would seem that investing in reasonably priced life insurance policies could be …

Mark Gruenberg (2022-06-13). AFL-CIO President Shuler's goal: "More than one million new" unionists. peoplesworld.org PHILADELPHIA—AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, formally elected to her first full term in office, has set a goal to "grow our movement by more than one million working people" in a decade. If it succeeds—and she admits it won't be easy—that would mark a substantial increase in organized labor's density, especially in the private sector, where …

Staff (2022-06-13). Hearing for Dr. Issam Hijjawi Bassalat continued: Solidarity against anti-Palestinian repression! samidoun.net On Friday, 10 June, Palestinian-Scottish doctor Issam Hijjawi Bassalat appeared before the Supreme Court of Scotland in a case seeking to reclaim his medical license after it was suspended by the medical board due to his political arrest in 2020. Dr. Bassalat was released on bail in December 2021 after spending 16 months — and …

Shea Leibow (2022-06-13). Setting the Precedent for a Peace Industrial Policy. commondreams.org There is a massive amount of resources, funding, and infrastructure that we can invest in peace, sustainability, and human needs—it is just a matter of shifting our priorities.

TeleSUR, SH (2022-06-13). Presidente Castillo asegura que cooperará con la Fiscalía. telesurtv.net El fiscal peruano reprogramo para el 17 de junio el interrogatorio al presidente Pedro Castillo.

Leslie Feinberg (2022-06-13). PRIDE in Cuba: 'Bringing revolution's humanity to all aspects of life'. workers.org The following is one installment of Feinberg's "Lavender & Red" series on the intersection of LGBTQ+ and socialist history; this installment appeared Aug. 18, 2007, in Workers World newspaper. The 120-part series was published between 2004 and 2008 and can be downloaded free at workers.org/books. Some of the language that . . . |

____ (2022-06-13). The Food Shortage Solution in Your Own Backyard. transcend.org 9 Jun 2022 – A confluence of crises—lockdowns and business closures, mandates and worker shortages, supply chain disruptions and inflation, sanctions and war—have compounded to trigger food shortages; and we have been warned that they may last longer than the food stored in our pantries. What to do?

____ (2022-06-13). Chinese scientists decompose ozone without energy consumption at extreme low temperature. ecns.cn Chinese scientists for the first time realized super-low-temperature ozone decomposition without energy consumption on a ternary oxide catalyst mullite YMn2O5, according to Nankai University on Sunday.

Staff (2022-06-13). Iran, Pakistan to launch joint border markets. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) — Trade Promotion Organization of Iran, the Government of Pakistan, and the Governorate of Sistan and Baluchestan province are pursuing the launching of border markets on Iran-Pakistan common borders, the TPOI head noted.

____ (2022-06-13). China's pickup truck sales record month-on-month surge in May. ecns.cn China's pickup truck sales logged robust month-on-month growth in May with the epidemic situation improved and production rebounded, data from the China Passenger Car Association shows.

____ (2022-06-13). Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (14 Jun 1928 — 9 Oct 1967). transcend.org Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, theoretician and tactician of guerrilla warfare, prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution (1956—59), and guerrilla leader in South America, Guevara was a medical doctor specialized in leprosy. Traveling around South America, he observed conditions that spurred his revolt against poverty and capitalist exploitation, adopting Marxist ideology, theory and practices. He is revered by many as a martyred cultural hero, having become an iconic cult figure as a symbol of anti-imperialist struggles everywhere.

WSWS (2022-06-13). Australian Labor government stonewalls demands to free Assange. wsws.org Labor's position is identical to that of the previous conservative government—it refuses to defend Assange because it is fully committed to militarism and the suppression of anti-war opposition.

TeleSUR, JDO (2022-06-13). Pdte. de Venezuela sostiene encuentro con ministro de Petróleo de Irán. telesurtv.net En el marco de su visita a Irán, el presidente Nicolás Maduro dialogó sobre la colaboración energética con el ministro de Petróleo de esa nación, Javad Owji.

Sven Rohleder, Dr. Diogo Costa, Prof Kayvan Bozorgmehr (2022-06-13). [Articles] Area-level socioeconomic deprivation, non-national residency, and Covid-19 incidence: A longitudinal spatiotemporal analysis in Germany. thelancet.com Socioeconomic deprivation, and proportion of non-nationals are independently associated with the incidence of Covid-19. Regional planning of non-pharmaceutical interventions and vaccination strategies would benefit from consideration of area-level deprivation and non-national residency.

Cameron Orr (2022-06-13). Today's Poor People's Campaign carries on MLK's fight for economic justice. peoplesworld.org Co-chaired by Rev. William J. Barber II and Liz Theoharis, the Poor People's Campaign began in May 2018 with 40 days of coordinated action at statehouses across the U.S. to confront systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism, and the war economy. Now mobilizing for a massive June 18th "Mass Poor People's and Low Wage Workers' …

Staff (2022-06-13). High level of cooperation with Qatar in Iran's 13th govt. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 12 (MNA) — Ever since the 13th government has taken office in Iran, the country has witnessed a high level of trade and economic cooperation with Qatar.

WSWS (2022-06-13). Inflation to fuel long, hot summer of workers struggles in the US. wsws.org While inflation has become the focal point of workers' anger, it is among a whole series of social grievances building up in the working class.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-13). Mayo Clinic, NAACP to welcome inaugural RISE for Youth cohort on June 6. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic and NAACP Rochester Branch will welcome 40 promising high school and college students to RISE for Youth, on Monday, June 6. This program, which is in its inaugural year, is designed to help Black and underrepresented students find pathways to success in education and employment. RISE stands for Reflect, Inspire, Strengthen and Empower, and is an approach developed by Anjali Bhagra, M.D., medical director of Mayo Clinic's Office of Equity,…

____ (2022-06-13). World's tallest transmission towers linked across Yangtze River. ecns.cn Two power-transmission towers measuring 385 meters high each, the tallest of their kind in the world, were linked with electricity cables spanning the Yangtze River on Monday.

____ (2022-06-13). Peace Education: An Alternative to War Education. transcend.org War is considered essential for peace and progress. This has also been the ancient concept of attaining peace, and we know that the ancient wars were for the most parts waged to achieve peace. "Even in our modern civilization", if we may believe Mary Stuart and E.C. Oakden, "war proves the most valuable stimulus to progress."

WSWS (2022-06-13). A class strategy to defeat TfL's cuts to London bus routes! wsws.org TfL's cuts must be met by a combined industrial and political offensive uniting bus, London Underground and rail workers to defeat the plans of the Johnson government and Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan.

WSWS (2022-06-13). Facing an international outcry, India's Hindu supremacist government cynically distances itself from top BJP officials' anti-Muslim incitement. wsws.org Modi and his BJP have ratcheted up their communalist offensive as the social crisis has deepened and opposition among India's workers and rural toilers to mass joblessness and soaring prices, the government's ruinous response to the pandemic, and its "pro-investor" policies has swelled.

Staff (2022-06-13). El bitcóin registra una caída de casi 14% en el mercado. cubadebate.cu El bitcóin se desplomó este lunes un 13.61%, hasta los 23 623.23 dólares, su valor más bajo desde diciembre de 2020, de acuerdo con datos de Bloomberg. Desde el viernes 10 de junio, la criptomoneda ha experimentado un descenso de su valor en el mercado de alrededor del 21%. En lo que va del 2022, el bitcóin se ha reducido en un 49%.

Staff (2022-06-13). Fire reported in big warehouse in northern Israel. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) — In continuation of suspicious fires and explosions in occupied Palestinian territories, an Israeli engineering equipment warehouse caught fire in an industrial zone on Monday.

____ (2022-06-13). Street markets boom in east China's Nanjing. ecns.cn Recently in east China's Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, street stall clusters have sprouted, drawing curious young people.

Joel Wendland-Liu (2022-06-13). New study investigates plunder of Native American land. peoplesworld.org In its first six decades of existence, the U.S. created a trail of treaties that led to a massive transfer of Indigenous wealth. Michael John Witgen's second book, Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America, published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and …

WSWS (2022-06-13). The pandemic, the global crisis of capitalism, the resurgence of class struggles and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 3. wsws.org The SEP is based on the strategy of permanent revolution that animated the 1917 October Revolution. Only through the revolutionary mobilization of the working class, leading the rural and urban toilers, can the democratic and social aspirations of the oppressed masses be realized as part of the world socialist revolution.

Staff (2022-06-13). Cuadrando la Caja: øEmpresas con utilidades excesivas? cubadebate.cu La primera emisión del programa, dedicada a las utilidades excesivas en el sistema empresarial, contó con la presencia del Dr.C. Agustín Lage, el economista y Héroe de la República, Ramón Labañino, y la Ing. y empresaria Ariadne Placencia. El programa es una coproducción del Sistema Informativo de la TV cubana, la Pupila Insomne y Cubadebate, y es conducido por Marxlenin Pérez Valdés, Doctora en Ciencias Filosóficas y Profesora Titular de la Universidad de La Habana.

Staff (2022-06-13). VIDEO: Massive Iranian-made oil tanker "Aframax 2" en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) — "Aframax 2" Oceangoing Tanker was constructed at Iran Marine Industrial Company (SADRA) in Bushehr in south of the country for a period of two years and left the port of Bushehr last Wednesday for the Persian Gulf.

_____ (2022-06-12). Model-Based Net-Zero Scenarios Aren't Worth The Paper They're Written On. popularresistance.org In a new paper, Sir Nicholas Stern, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz and Charlotte Taylor conclude that climate-energy-economy Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), which are the key tool in producing emission-reduction scenarios, "have very limited value in answering the two critical questions" of the speed and nature of emissions reductions and "fail to provide much in the way of useful guidance, either for the intensity of action, or for the policies that deliver the desired outcomes". The research paper is The economics of immense risk, urgent action and radical change: towards new approaches to the economics…

_____ (2022-06-12). Model-based net-zero scenarios, including those of the IPCC, aren't worth the paper they are written on. popularresistance.org World-leading economists have blown a hole right through the middle of the main tool used to produce the net-zero scenarios embraced by climate policymakers. | In a new paper, Sir Nicholas Stern, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz and Charlotte Taylor conclude that climate-energy-economy Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), which are the key tool in producing emission-reduction scenarios, "have very limited value in answering the two critical questions" of the speed and nature of emissions reductions and "fail to provide much in the way of useful guidance, either for the intensity of action, or for the policies th…

_____ (2022-06-12). Venezuela And Iran Sign 20-year Cooperation Plan. popularresistance.org Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro took a historic trip to Iran and announced a 20-year cooperation agreement, pledging to more closely integrate the countries' economies and work together in a joint "anti-imperialist struggle for a better world, of international respect and peace, without hegemonies." | Maduro signed the pact with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran on June 11. It was described by the Venezuelan and Iranian governments as a "partnership agreement" and "cooperation agreement." | The deal involves collaboration in science, technology, agriculture, oil and gas, petrochemicals, tourism, and…

Rqorinoco (2022-06-13). Marcello Musto's Anthology of Karl Marx's Writings on Alienation (Book Review). orinocotribune.com By Carlos L. Garrido | Marcello Musto's anthology of Karl Marx's Writings on Alienation

Fight Back (2022-06-13). Red Theory: The contradiction between town and country. fightbacknews.org Much is made of what is often referred to as the urban/rural divide. There is a fundamental disconnect, we are told, between the people from the cities and the rural population. Marx and Engels called this contradiction the division between town and country. Marxism-Leninism can help us understand this contradiction, how it arose historically, and how it can be overcome. | When we think of this contradiction, a lot of things come to mind. We may think of the distinction between more conservative "red states" and more liberal "blue states." We think of disparities in terms of education and infrastructure. We may t…

Fight Back (2022-06-13). Prices for workers rise by more than 9%. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – On Friday, June 10, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that prices for workers' families, the so-called Consumer Price Index-Wage or CPI-W rose by 9.3% as compared to prices a year ago. This rate of inflation is near a 40-year high, only exceeded by the 9.4% increase in March. The last time that prices rose so quickly was in November of 1981. | The headline number that the corporate media reported was a smaller 8.6%. This was the number for the CPI-Urban or CPI-U that includes households with managers and professionals as well as wage workers. The CPI-W inflation is higher than the CPI-U becau…

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-13). Mayo Clinic, NAACP to welcome inaugural RISE for Youth cohort on June 6. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic and NAACP Rochester Branch will welcome 40 promising high school and college students to RISE for Youth, on Monday, June 6. This program, which is in its inaugural year, is designed to help Black and underrepresented students find pathways to success in education and employment. RISE stands for Reflect, Inspire, Strengthen and Empower, and is an approach developed by Anjali Bhagra, M.D., medical director of Mayo Clinic's Office of Equity,…

Staff (2022-06-13). Hearing for Dr. Issam Hijjawi Bassalat continued: Solidarity against anti-Palestinian repression! samidoun.net On Friday, 10 June, Palestinian-Scottish doctor Issam Hijjawi Bassalat appeared before the Supreme Court of Scotland in a case seeking to reclaim his medical license after it was suspended by the medical board due to his political arrest in 2020. Dr. Bassalat was released on bail in December 2021 after spending 16 months — and …

____ (2022-06-12). Two in three Americans expect inflation to get worse: poll. ecns.cn Despite the U.S. Federal Reserve hiking interest rates in hopes of taming the country's rampant inflation, 66 percent of Americans expect inflation to get worse in the coming year, a recent poll showed.

Anonymous587 (2022-06-12). Economic Trends After Outbreak Of War. Is Recovery Possible? southfront.org SPIEF will be organized in an era of great change | Despite the increasing influence of the military agenda on the information background in the world, business still plays the main role. It is the monetary component that determines the agenda, contrary to emotions and political gestures. | It should be noted that a situation similar to the one in which Russia is currently trapped has been occurring periodically lately. Economic sanctions have become the m…

JANET (2022-06-12). Capitalism and baby formula. iacenter.org By Margaret Kimberley June 10, 2022 The following article was posted on Black Agenda Report on May 29. The baby formula shortage is not a glitch in the system. It actually exemplifies everything that goes wrong when the profit motive rules. Capitalism can't ensure a food supply or anything else that humans need. "Socialism doesn't work" is repeated like a mantra. We're told endlessly that capitalism provides jobs, housing, food and health care in this country, when it does a very bad job of doing all these things. The United States is said to be "the richest country in the world," a strange statement which implie…

Silke Otsch, Boris Ginner (2022-06-12). Tax evasion and avoidance and Democracy at a tipping point. indybay.org The biggest losses from tax evasion and avoidance are caused by multinational corporations, followed by wealthy individuals. Sums in the triple-digit billions of up to one trillion. Euros are evaded annually in the EU. Of the global private wealth of around 160 trillion. US dollars, between 21-32 trillion US dollars are undeclared via tax havens…

Dean Baker (2022-06-12). How Do We Get a Wage-Price Spiral When Wage Growth Is Slowing? cepr.net That's the question millions are asking, or hopefully at least the folks at the Fed making decisions on interest rates. Ostensibly, the Fed is concerned that the economy is too strong and that we are either on the edge, or already stuck in, the sort of wage-price spiral that led to double digit inflation back …

JANET (2022-06-12). Mass opposition to Biden's Summit gains momentum. iacenter.org By Lyn Neeley June 10, 2022 President Joe Biden's Summit of the Americas is being boycotted by most countries in the Western hemisphere, and it is opposed by two large coalitions protesting Biden's refusal to invite Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua to this year's event. ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America), a coalition of 11 anti-imperialist Latin American countries, opposes Biden's unilateral actions against Venezuela and Nicaragua and the economic blockade against Cuba. What if the United States held a summit and nobody came? Credit: Carlos Latuff ALBA just held its 21st Summit of Heads of Sta…

_____ (2022-06-12). Model-Based Net-Zero Scenarios Aren't Worth The Paper They're Written On. popularresistance.org In a new paper, Sir Nicholas Stern, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz and Charlotte Taylor conclude that climate-energy-economy Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), which are the key tool in producing emission-reduction scenarios, "have very limited value in answering the two critical questions" of the speed and nature of emissions reductions and "fail to provide much in the way of useful guidance, either for the intensity of action, or for the policies that deliver the desired outcomes". The research paper is The economics of immense risk, urgent action and radical change: towards new approaches to the economics…

_____ (2022-06-12). Model-based net-zero scenarios, including those of the IPCC, aren't worth the paper they are written on. popularresistance.org World-leading economists have blown a hole right through the middle of the main tool used to produce the net-zero scenarios embraced by climate policymakers. | In a new paper, Sir Nicholas Stern, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz and Charlotte Taylor conclude that climate-energy-economy Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), which are the key tool in producing emission-reduction scenarios, "have very limited value in answering the two critical questions" of the speed and nature of emissions reductions and "fail to provide much in the way of useful guidance, either for the intensity of action, or for the policies th…

JANET (2022-06-12). AFL-CIO convention must unconditionally support Puerto Rico's unions. iacenter.org June 9, 2022 This article is by a member of the construction trades and a member of the AFL-CIO. The 2022 convention of the AFL-CIO will be held in Philadelphia June 12-15. Every four years the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations meets in a convention to talk about its achievements and what must be accomplished in the near future. You will hear many speakers from the building trades, teachers unions, service workers, etc., in consonance when it comes to who they support politically, trade deals that affect them, infrastructure projects that they think are warranted and so on. What yo…

____ (2022-06-12). One year on, Hainan FTP law secures wider opening-up. ecns.cn Since the implementation of the Hainan free trade port (FTP) law on June 10, 2021, Hainan has issued 17 related regulations, with the new law speeding up local legislation to guarantee better development and wider opening-up of the Hainan FTP.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-06-12). Iran seeks to strengthen economy through interaction. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 12 (MNA) — Economy Minister Ehsan Khanduzi attended the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) meeting in Egypt Sunday during which he said that the most important priority for the Iranian government is to strengthen the economy.

Norcalintcom (2022-06-12). Saturday 6/11: Northern California Communist Bulletin Group Public Meeting. indybay.org The Long Haul Bookshop, 3124 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley…

TeleSUR, ldp, SH (2022-06-12). Indígenas anuncian protestas por crisis económica en Ecuador. telesurtv.net El presidente de la Conaie, Leonidas Iza, expresó que las protestas serán por tiempo indefinido.

JANET (2022-06-12). Western colonizers imposed anti-gay laws throughout world — Lavender & Red, Part 112. iacenter.org By Leslie Feinberg June 10, 2022 The following is one installment of Feinberg's "Lavender & Red" series on the intersection of LGBTQ2S+ and socialist history, which appeared Sept. 27, 2007, in Workers World newspaper. The 120-part series was published between 2004 and 2008 and can be downloaded for free at workers.org/books. Sodomy laws, imposed on India in 1861 by British colonizers, were still in force at the time of this 2013 protest. Wherever class-divided societies overturned matrilineal-communal groupings, laws began to punish sexualities, gender expressions and bodies that did not fit the new patriarchal f…

_____ (2022-06-12). Venezuela And Iran Sign 20-year Cooperation Plan. popularresistance.org Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro took a historic trip to Iran and announced a 20-year cooperation agreement, pledging to more closely integrate the countries' economies and work together in a joint "anti-imperialist struggle for a better world, of international respect and peace, without hegemonies." | Maduro signed the pact with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran on June 11. It was described by the Venezuelan and Iranian governments as a "partnership agreement" and "cooperation agreement." | The deal involves collaboration in science, technology, agriculture, oil and gas, petrochemicals, tourism, and…

Staff (2022-06-12). Casualidad y/o causalidad de un video viral. cubadebate.cu Poco después de concluir la Cumbre, el sistema de laboratotrios de guerra psicológica contra Cuba en las redes digitales, operado desde Estados Unidos, convierte en viral un video que culpa al gobierno cubano de los efectos del bloqueo en la vida de los habitantes de la Isla, acudiendo a algo tan sensible como el testimonio de una madre de tres hijos que, de manera muy emotiva, coloca en primer plano esas carencias sin aludir a la política estadounidense que busca provocarlas. y llama a "salir a la calle".

Labor Video Project (2022-06-12). War On Public Education, Oakland OEA Teachers Speak Out On School Closures, Privatization. indybay.org Two teachers spoke out about Oakland public school closures, privatization, the Parker Elementary School occupation and the role of the OEA/CTA leadership in their struggle.

Prabhat Patnaik (2022-06-11). The Indian economy is heading for a stationary state. mronline.org ADAM Smith and David Ricardo had been haunted by the idea of capitalism ending up in a "stationary state", by which they meant a stable state of zero growth.

David Ruccio (2022-06-11). Inflation, wages, and profits. mronline.org Inflation continues to run hot—and now, finally, the debate about inflation is heating up.

Editor (2022-06-11). 'Karl Marx's Writings on Alienation' by: Marcello Musto, reviewed by: Carlos L. Garrido. mronline.org Marcello Musto's anthology of 'Karl Marx's Writings on Alienation' is both comprehensive and concise, containing within the span of 100 pages the three decades long development of the theory through more than a dozen published works and posthumously published manuscripts.

Common Dreams staff (2022-06-11). Sanders and Gillibrand Call on Amazon to Recognize Historic Union Victory. commondreams.org "It is time for Amazon to end its blatant disregard of labor law and treat workers with the respect and dignity they deserve."

____ (2022-06-12). Two in three Americans expect inflation to get worse: poll. ecns.cn Despite the U.S. Federal Reserve hiking interest rates in hopes of taming the country's rampant inflation, 66 percent of Americans expect inflation to get worse in the coming year, a recent poll showed.

Anonymous587 (2022-06-12). Economic Trends After Outbreak Of War. Is Recovery Possible? southfront.org SPIEF will be organized in an era of great change | Despite the increasing influence of the military agenda on the information background in the world, business still plays the main role. It is the monetary component that determines the agenda, contrary to emotions and political gestures. | It should be noted that a situation similar to the one in which Russia is currently trapped has been occurring periodically lately. Economic sanctions have become the m…

WSWS (2022-06-11). Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov visits Turkey as NATO escalates war in Ukraine. wsws.org Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited Ankara for talks to create a "safe grain corridor" from Ukrainian ports to world markets.

Scorinoco (2022-06-11). China, Ukraine, and the Belt and Road Initiative. orinocotribune.com On May 21, Friends of Socialist China joined the Belt and Road Initiative Quarterly (BRIQ) journal, the Russian Cultural House in Ankara, the Turkish Students Union in China, and the Istanbul Kent University as a co-organizer of a conference themed on "The Challenges and Opportunities for BRI Under the Background of the Ukraine Crisis." It was a hybrid event, held both online and physically at Kent University. | Friends of Socialist China co-editors Danny Haiphong and Keith Bennett both presented papers, and those are reproduced here, slightly edited for publication, below. The other speakers were Adnan Akfirat,…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-06-10). From the Global South to Ukraine, America's Faux Left "Socialists" Do the CIA's Work. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea As Imperialism's Spoils Dry Up, the Imperial Center & its "Left" Further Embrace Fantasy The core imperialist countries are being confronted with the reality that when you build an entire civilization off of theft from other civilizations, your society can't sustain itself. It goes straight from its rise, made possible by parasitic extraction…

JANET (2022-06-12). Capitalism and baby formula. iacenter.org By Margaret Kimberley June 10, 2022 The following article was posted on Black Agenda Report on May 29. The baby formula shortage is not a glitch in the system. It actually exemplifies everything that goes wrong when the profit motive rules. Capitalism can't ensure a food supply or anything else that humans need. "Socialism doesn't work" is repeated like a mantra. We're told endlessly that capitalism provides jobs, housing, food and health care in this country, when it does a very bad job of doing all these things. The United States is said to be "the richest country in the world," a strange statement which implie…

Contributing Writers (2022-06-11). WATCH: Bashar al-Assad: Russia Restored Lost International Balance (English subtitles). marktaliano.net Damascus, SANA— President Bashar al-Assad said that Russia is facing a war that cannot be linked to the issue of NATO expansion, but rather it is an ongoing war that did not stop even before communism or before World War I, affirming that Russia's power today constitutes a restoration of international equilibrium. "So, we can …

Editor (2022-06-10). 'Either you join NATO or we will make the canaries independent'. mronline.org A recent interview with former Spanish politician José Manuel Otero has revealed further details regarding his country's entry into NATO and attests to the double-dealing politics of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).

Silke Otsch, Boris Ginner (2022-06-12). Tax evasion and avoidance and Democracy at a tipping point. indybay.org The biggest losses from tax evasion and avoidance are caused by multinational corporations, followed by wealthy individuals. Sums in the triple-digit billions of up to one trillion. Euros are evaded annually in the EU. Of the global private wealth of around 160 trillion. US dollars, between 21-32 trillion US dollars are undeclared via tax havens…

WSWS (2022-06-11). Australia's Aspen Medical: A case study of healthcare privatisation. wsws.org Aspen's more than $1 billion in pandemic contracts followed decades of promotion of the company by Liberal-National Coalition and Labor Party governments alike.

Jason Ditz (2022-06-10). Sadr Threatens Mass Resignations of MPs as Iraq Deadlock Fuels Unrest. news.antiwar.com Iraq is in a bad way at the moment, eight months out from an October 10 election and having exhausted the deadlines for forming a new government. There is an irrevocable That's bad for many Iraqis, as economic strife and corruption are leading to calls for government action, and the remnants of the outgoing government lack a mandate to do anything. Iraqis were hoping the new government would do something about food prices, but if there is no new government…

JANET (2022-06-12). Mass opposition to Biden's Summit gains momentum. iacenter.org By Lyn Neeley June 10, 2022 President Joe Biden's Summit of the Americas is being boycotted by most countries in the Western hemisphere, and it is opposed by two large coalitions protesting Biden's refusal to invite Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua to this year's event. ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America), a coalition of 11 anti-imperialist Latin American countries, opposes Biden's unilateral actions against Venezuela and Nicaragua and the economic blockade against Cuba. What if the United States held a summit and nobody came? Credit: Carlos Latuff ALBA just held its 21st Summit of Heads of Sta…

_____ (2022-06-12). Model-based net-zero scenarios, including those of the IPCC, aren't worth the paper they are written on. popularresistance.org World-leading economists have blown a hole right through the middle of the main tool used to produce the net-zero scenarios embraced by climate policymakers. | In a new paper, Sir Nicholas Stern, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz and Charlotte Taylor conclude that climate-energy-economy Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), which are the key tool in producing emission-reduction scenarios, "have very limited value in answering the two critical questions" of the speed and nature of emissions reductions and "fail to provide much in the way of useful guidance, either for the intensity of action, or for the policies th…

Dean Baker (2022-06-12). How Do We Get a Wage-Price Spiral When Wage Growth Is Slowing? cepr.net That's the question millions are asking, or hopefully at least the folks at the Fed making decisions on interest rates. Ostensibly, the Fed is concerned that the economy is too strong and that we are either on the edge, or already stuck in, the sort of wage-price spiral that led to double digit inflation back …

JANET (2022-06-12). AFL-CIO convention must unconditionally support Puerto Rico's unions. iacenter.org June 9, 2022 This article is by a member of the construction trades and a member of the AFL-CIO. The 2022 convention of the AFL-CIO will be held in Philadelphia June 12-15. Every four years the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations meets in a convention to talk about its achievements and what must be accomplished in the near future. You will hear many speakers from the building trades, teachers unions, service workers, etc., in consonance when it comes to who they support politically, trade deals that affect them, infrastructure projects that they think are warranted and so on. What yo…

____ (2022-06-12). One year on, Hainan FTP law secures wider opening-up. ecns.cn Since the implementation of the Hainan free trade port (FTP) law on June 10, 2021, Hainan has issued 17 related regulations, with the new law speeding up local legislation to guarantee better development and wider opening-up of the Hainan FTP.

JANET (2022-06-12). Western colonizers imposed anti-gay laws throughout world — Lavender & Red, Part 112. iacenter.org By Leslie Feinberg June 10, 2022 The following is one installment of Feinberg's "Lavender & Red" series on the intersection of LGBTQ2S+ and socialist history, which appeared Sept. 27, 2007, in Workers World newspaper. The 120-part series was published between 2004 and 2008 and can be downloaded for free at workers.org/books. Sodomy laws, imposed on India in 1861 by British colonizers, were still in force at the time of this 2013 protest. Wherever class-divided societies overturned matrilineal-communal groupings, laws began to punish sexualities, gender expressions and bodies that did not fit the new patriarchal f…

Labor Video Project (2022-06-12). War On Public Education, Oakland OEA Teachers Speak Out On School Closures, Privatization. indybay.org Two teachers spoke out about Oakland public school closures, privatization, the Parker Elementary School occupation and the role of the OEA/CTA leadership in their struggle.

Norcalintcom (2022-06-12). Saturday 6/11: Northern California Communist Bulletin Group Public Meeting. indybay.org The Long Haul Bookshop, 3124 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley…

Staff (2022-06-12). Casualidad y/o causalidad de un video viral. cubadebate.cu Poco después de concluir la Cumbre, el sistema de laboratotrios de guerra psicológica contra Cuba en las redes digitales, operado desde Estados Unidos, convierte en viral un video que culpa al gobierno cubano de los efectos del bloqueo en la vida de los habitantes de la Isla, acudiendo a algo tan sensible como el testimonio de una madre de tres hijos que, de manera muy emotiva, coloca en primer plano esas carencias sin aludir a la política estadounidense que busca provocarlas. y llama a "salir a la calle".

TeleSUR, ldp, SH (2022-06-12). Indígenas anuncian protestas por crisis económica en Ecuador. telesurtv.net El presidente de la Conaie, Leonidas Iza, expresó que las protestas serán por tiempo indefinido.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-12). Mayo Clinic, NAACP to welcome inaugural RISE for Youth cohort on June 6. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic and NAACP Rochester Branch will welcome 40 promising high school and college students to RISE for Youth, on Monday, June 6. This program, which is in its inaugural year, is designed to help Black and underrepresented students find pathways to success in education and employment. RISE stands for Reflect, Inspire, Strengthen and Empower, and is an approach developed by Anjali Bhagra, M.D., medical director of Mayo Clinic's Office of Equity,…

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-06-12). Iran seeks to strengthen economy through interaction. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 12 (MNA) — Economy Minister Ehsan Khanduzi attended the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) meeting in Egypt Sunday during which he said that the most important priority for the Iranian government is to strengthen the economy.

Editor (2022-06-11). 'Karl Marx's Writings on Alienation' by: Marcello Musto, reviewed by: Carlos L. Garrido. mronline.org Marcello Musto's anthology of 'Karl Marx's Writings on Alienation' is both comprehensive and concise, containing within the span of 100 pages the three decades long development of the theory through more than a dozen published works and posthumously published manuscripts.

_____ (2022-06-11). Housing Rights Militants At The People's Summit. popularresistance.org The ninth Summit of the Americas is taking place in Los Angeles from June 6 to 10, organized by the US-influenced Organization of American States. | The White House, in announcing the US as the host of the Summit back in January, stated: "Working with the city of Los Angeles, Mayor of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti, and Governor of California Gavin Newsom, the United States looks forward to convening leaders and stakeholders across the hemisphere to advance our shared commitment to economic prosperity, security, human rights, and dignity." | The People's Summit is being organized concurrently in Los Angeles as a worki…

Prabhat Patnaik (2022-06-11). The Indian economy is heading for a stationary state. mronline.org ADAM Smith and David Ricardo had been haunted by the idea of capitalism ending up in a "stationary state", by which they meant a stable state of zero growth.

Editor2 (2022-06-11). Labor Activists Launch New Organization to Challenge AFL-CIO Foreign Policy. orinocotribune.com By Kim Scipes &#1 ; Jun 3, 2022 | Labor activists from across the country, members of a number of unions, publicly announced the creation of LEPAIO, the Labor Education Project on the AFL-CIO International Operations, over the weekend of April 8-9. They held a press conference outside AFL-CIO headquarters on 16th Street in Washington, D.C., on April 8th, and followed with a four-hour educational conference at the University of the District of Columbia the following day. | This is the first project to focus on AFL-CIO operations around the globe since efforts to pass the "Build Unity and Trust Among Workers World-…

Jim McMahan (2022-06-11). Museum workers hop on the union train. workers.org Seattle About 65 internal security guards in the wealthy Seattle Art Museum (SAM) just became the SAM VSO Union! VSO stands for Visitor Service Officers. The year-long organizing drive was victorious with 34-to-4 votes in the National Labor Relations Board election. The election covered workers at both the downtown Seattle . . . |

David Ruccio (2022-06-11). Inflation, wages, and profits. mronline.org Inflation continues to run hot—and now, finally, the debate about inflation is heating up.

WSWS (2022-06-11). Australian Treasury chief: Labor government must slash spending and suppress wages. wsws.org To meet the demands of the financial markets, the Albanese government is counting heavily on the trade unions to keep workers' wage demands way below the cost of living.

WSWS (2022-06-11). US workers speak out as May inflation hits 8.6 percent, rips household budgets. wsws.org Workers around the US are reacting to spikes in gasoline and food prices that pushed the inflation rate to 8.6 percent in May, the highest level since 1981.

Saheli Chowdhury (2022-06-11). Journalists Confront Antony Blinken and Luis Almagro at Summit of the Americas, Call Out Hypocrisy. orinocotribune.com June 10, 2022 ( The Tuesday, June 7 event at the Arizona State University California Center in Los Angeles, which was about media and democracy, will be remembered for a Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) activist calling Luis Almagro "

Jane E Hirst, Nicole Votruba, Ian M Bennett, J Jaime Miranda, Pallab K Maulik (2022-06-11). [Correspondence] Opportunities for women's health in the first postnatal year. thelancet.com The Lancet Commission on depression by Helen Herrman and colleagues1 highlights the importance of life stages for depression, the first of which is the perinatal period, defined as pregnancy and the first 6 weeks after birth. However, the Commission's recommendations miss the crucial importance of the first postnatal year and the need for specific research and policy actions.

Jacob Nordangard (2022-06-11). World Economic Forum's "Young Global Leaders" Revealed. globalresearch.ca For several decades, this program has nurtured compliant leaders acting as WEF agents in governments around the world. The consequences are far-reaching and may turn out to be devastating for humanity.

Staff (2022-06-11). Nuestra determinación tiene que ser, ahora y siempre, que saldremos adelante, nunca nos rendiremos. cubadebate.cu No dejemos que gerencien nuestra irritación para manipularnos de acuerdo con una agenda política bien trazada. Después del fracaso de la cumbrecita de Los àÅngeles están desesperados por lograr una explosión social que les justifique la infamia de habernos excluido. Esta es una operación de laboratorio, nada espontánea y detrás de ella, los sospechosos habituales.

Staff (2022-06-11). Desde este domingo, Cuadrando la Caja, nuevo programa televisivo para debatir sobre economía. cubadebate.cu Cuadrando la Caja, nueva propuesta televisiva para debatir, cuestionar y llegar a consensos desde el socialismo cubano sobre temas económicos, saldrá al aire este domingo a las 7: 00 p.m. por el canal Caribe. øQué son las utilidades? øCómo se planifican? øCuáles son las condiciones que han propiciado la obtención de algunas empresas de súper utilidades? øSon el resultado de una mayor eficiencia por parte de la Empresa Estatal Socialista?

Staff (2022-06-11). Iranian, Nigerian diplomats discuss economic, trade ties. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 11 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Saturday met with the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Nigeria Zubairu Dada in Tehran to dicuss Iran-Nigeria's bilateral ties.

Udani Samarasekera (2022-06-11). [Perspectives] Lola Kola: developing mHealth for mental health in west Africa. thelancet.com Lola Kola's passion is global mental health research that harnesses the potential "of psychological interventions for improving outcomes for patients when delivered by trained lay health-care workers" and "the use of technology to support the delivery of such interventions", she says. Based in Ibadan, Nigeria, Kola is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Ibadan's WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, Neurosciences and Drug and Alcohol Abuse in the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Psychology at th…

WSWS (2022-06-11). New Zealand hospitals inundated, healthcare system "imploding" wsws.org Hospitals are delaying thousands of operations due to being inundated with COVID cases and other winter illnesses, thanks to the Labour Party-led government's homicidal "let it rip" policy.

Manish Patel, Minal Patel (2022-06-11). [Comment] Increasing children's global access to COVID-19 vaccines. thelancet.com Expanding COVID-19 vaccination to children is an issue for parents and decision makers worldwide. Among nine vaccines with WHO Emergency Use Listing (EUL), only two are authorised for children: Pfizer-BioNTech's BNT162b2 and Moderna's mRNA-1273.1 The WHO EUL is required for vaccines purchased through the COVAX mechanism, but other vaccines without EUL for paediatric use, such as BBIBP-CorV (SinoPharm), CoronaVac (SinoVac), and Covaxin (Bharat Biotech), are used in children with local approvals.2 Because of lower rates of severe COVID-19 in children than in older adults, and inequities in vaccine supply, the WHO S…

Contributing Writers (2022-06-11). She's EXPOSING the truth in China, and they're furious/ Redacted Conversation with Vanessa Beeley. marktaliano.net READ MORE: "Admission Against Interest": The West Supports Uighurs To Destabilize/Destroy China. Is China a Communist or a Capitalist Country? &#1 ; Global ResearchGlobal Research &#1 ; Centre for Research on Globalization…

Poor People's Campaign (2022-06-11). Friday 6/17: National Memorial Service for Lives Lost to COVID, Gun Violence, War and Poverty w/ PPC. indybay.org Online via livestream: www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream/ | In-person at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C…

WSWS (2022-06-11). The pandemic, the global crisis of capitalism, the resurgence of class struggles and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 2. wsws.org As in every corner of the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic has sharply intensified the crisis of the Sri Lankan capitalist class and President Gotabhaya Rajapakse's government.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-06-11). Iran's railways, roads among safest routes. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 11 (MNA) — Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy Mehdi Safari held a meeting with TRACECA secretary general during which he stressed that Iran's railways and roads are among the most secured routes in the world.

WSWS (2022-06-11). Japanese cabinet approves policy to double military spending. wsws.org The drastic increase in funding is part of Tokyo's preparations for war with China alongside the United States.

Common Dreams staff (2022-06-11). Sanders and Gillibrand Call on Amazon to Recognize Historic Union Victory. commondreams.org "It is time for Amazon to end its blatant disregard of labor law and treat workers with the respect and dignity they deserve."

Elizabeth O'Brien, Miriam Rich (2022-06-11). [Perspectives] Obstetric violence in historical perspective. thelancet.com Although improvements in perinatal care have helped save many lives worldwide, reproductive health inequities remain rife. Racial, geographical, and class-based disparities shape divergent maternal and infant health outcomes, as well as unequal access to vital forms of health care such as abortion. Present-day reproductive injustices are contextualised by many factors, including the under-recognised history of obstetric violence. Obstetric violence refers to harm inflicted during or in relation to pregnancy, childbearing, and…

Zahra Mirzafarjouyan (2022-06-11). US may allow Iran's oil to market even without nuclear deal. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 11 (MNA) — Chairman of the London Energy Club says if the midterm election is dominated by the need to get gas prices lower in America, turning a somewhat greater blind eye to the sanctioned barrels flowing out is probably expected.

Editor (2022-06-10). There Are Better Ways for Societies to Address Inflation Than By Hiking Interest Rates. scheerpost.com By Richard D. Wolff / Economy for All A deafening silence defines "debates" among U.S. leaders about stopping or slowing today's inflation. Alternatives to the Federal Reserve's raising of interest rates and curtailing money supply growth are ignored. It's as if there were no other ways to rein in price increases except to add more …

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-06-10). Black Homeownership is At 45%: 5 Things To Know About Homeownership as a Factor in Wealth Gap. moguldom.com Black homeownership in America continues to lag behind that of other groups, thus increasing the racial wealth gap. HEre are 5 things to know about homeownership as a factor in the wealth gap. 1. Black homeownership is at 44.7 percent Recent statistics released by the National Association of Realtors show Black homeownership rates sit at …

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-06-10). Closely Watched CPI Inflation Reading Comes in Hotter Than Expected, Highest in 40 Years. moguldom.com The U.S. has been reeling from high inflation since last year, but now the core consumer price index (CPI) has reached levels even some financial experts didn't anticipate. The CPI hit 8.6 percent in May, marking the fastest pace since December 1981, The Wall Street Journal reported. The increased costs of goods and services across …

WSWS (2022-06-11). Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov visits Turkey as NATO escalates war in Ukraine. wsws.org Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited Ankara for talks to create a "safe grain corridor" from Ukrainian ports to world markets.

A Guest Author (2022-06-11). Capitalism and baby formula. workers.org By Margaret Kimberley The following article was posted on Black Agenda Report on May 29. The baby formula shortage is not a glitch in the system. It actually exemplifies everything that goes wrong when the profit motive rules. Capitalism can't ensure a food supply or anything else that humans need. . . . |

WSWS (2022-06-11). Australia's Aspen Medical: A case study of healthcare privatisation. wsws.org Aspen's more than $1 billion in pandemic contracts followed decades of promotion of the company by Liberal-National Coalition and Labor Party governments alike.

Silke Otsch, Boris Ginner (2022-06-11). Tax evasion and avoidance and Democracy at a tipping point. indybay.org The biggest losses from tax evasion and avoidance are caused by multinational corporations, followed by wealthy individuals. Sums in the triple-digit billions of up to one trillion. Euros are evaded annually in the EU. Of the global private wealth of around 160 trillion. US dollars, between 21-32 trillion US dollars are undeclared via tax havens…

WSWS (2022-06-11). The pandemic, the global crisis of capitalism, the resurgence of class struggles and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 2. wsws.org As in every corner of the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic has sharply intensified the crisis of the Sri Lankan capitalist class and President Gotabhaya Rajapakse's government.

WSWS (2022-06-11). New Zealand hospitals inundated, healthcare system "imploding" wsws.org Hospitals are delaying thousands of operations due to being inundated with COVID cases and other winter illnesses, thanks to the Labour Party-led government's homicidal "let it rip" policy.

Editor2 (2022-06-11). Labor Activists Launch New Organization to Challenge AFL-CIO Foreign Policy. orinocotribune.com By Kim Scipes &#1 ; Jun 3, 2022 | Labor activists from across the country, members of a number of unions, publicly announced the creation of LEPAIO, the Labor Education Project on the AFL-CIO International Operations, over the weekend of April 8-9. They held a press conference outside AFL-CIO headquarters on 16th Street in Washington, D.C., on April 8th, and followed with a four-hour educational conference at the University of the District of Columbia the following day. | This is the first project to focus on AFL-CIO operations around the globe since efforts to pass the "Build Unity and Trust Among Workers World-…

Jim McMahan (2022-06-11). Museum workers hop on the union train. workers.org Seattle About 65 internal security guards in the wealthy Seattle Art Museum (SAM) just became the SAM VSO Union! VSO stands for Visitor Service Officers. The year-long organizing drive was victorious with 34-to-4 votes in the National Labor Relations Board election. The election covered workers at both the downtown Seattle . . . |

WSWS (2022-06-11). Australian Treasury chief: Labor government must slash spending and suppress wages. wsws.org To meet the demands of the financial markets, the Albanese government is counting heavily on the trade unions to keep workers' wage demands way below the cost of living.

WSWS (2022-06-11). US workers speak out as May inflation hits 8.6 percent, rips household budgets. wsws.org Workers around the US are reacting to spikes in gasoline and food prices that pushed the inflation rate to 8.6 percent in May, the highest level since 1981.

____ (2022-06-11). One year on, Hainan FTP law secures wider opening-up. ecns.cn Since the implementation of the Hainan free trade port (FTP) law on June 10, 2021, Hainan has issued 17 related regulations, with the new law speeding up local legislation to guarantee better development and wider opening-up of the Hainan FTP.

WSWS (2022-06-11). Japanese cabinet approves policy to double military spending. wsws.org The drastic increase in funding is part of Tokyo's preparations for war with China alongside the United States.

Miranda Featherstone (2022-06-11). I've Been in School Mental Health for 10 Years. My Heart Is Breaking Right Now. zcomm.org As a culture, we have unceremoniously dumped the aftershocks of fear, loss, economic stress, uncertainty and isolation into the laps of thinly stretched professionals…

Labor Video Project (2022-06-11). War On Public Education, Oakland OEA Teachers Speak Out On School Closures, Privatization. indybay.org Two teachers spoke out about Oakland public school closures, privatization, the Parker Elementary School occupation and the role of the OEA/CTA leadership in their struggle.

Norcalintcom (2022-06-11). Saturday 6/11: Northern California Communist Bulletin Group Public Meeting. indybay.org The Long Haul Bookshop, 3124 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley…

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-11). Mayo Clinic, NAACP to welcome inaugural RISE for Youth cohort on June 6. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic and NAACP Rochester Branch will welcome 40 promising high school and college students to RISE for Youth, on Monday, June 6. This program, which is in its inaugural year, is designed to help Black and underrepresented students find pathways to success in education and employment. RISE stands for Reflect, Inspire, Strengthen and Empower, and is an approach developed by Anjali Bhagra, M.D., medical director of Mayo Clinic's Office of Equity,…

Socialist Alternative Bay Area (2022-06-11). Friday 6/10: Protest at Pelosi's Office: Do Not Surrender, Defend Abortion Rights! indybay.org On Mission St at 7th St in San Francisco, outside the courtyard of the Federal Building…

Poor People's Campaign (2022-06-11). Friday 6/17: National Memorial Service for Lives Lost to COVID, Gun Violence, War and Poverty w/ PPC. indybay.org Online via livestream: www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream/ | In-person at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C…

_____ (2022-06-10). Chad Declares Food Emergency, International Agencies Sound Alarm. popularresistance.org The World Food Program (WFP) and the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) have identified numerous states warranting immediate attention as the problems of climate change, internal conflict, economic downturns and the continuing war in Ukraine are exacerbating the current crisis. | In the Sahel region of Africa, the nation of Chad, is challenged by grain supplies which have dropped to dangerous lows forcing the transitional military-dominated government to declare a food emergency requesting that aid be sent into the country to avoid further food deficits. Chad has been severely impacted by drought leaving la…

Lucystock (2022-06-10). The Weekly Round-up: social care spending, Stafford statements and Ukraine's legal battle. ukhumanrightsblog.com In the news: The recent Health and Care Act 2022 has come under scrutiny for introducing a cap on social care spending. From October 2023, the government will introduce a cap of £86,000 on the amount anyone in England will need to spend on their care over their lifetime. The cap will no longer count …

Editor2 (2022-06-10). How China Strengthened Food Security and Fought Poverty with State-Funded Cooperatives. orinocotribune.com By Joe Scholten &#1 ; | The world faces a food crisis due to war, sanctions, and inflation. China has shown how to strengthen food sovereignty, while fighting poverty, with state-funded agricultural cooperatives, government crackdown on waste, and investment in technology. | The Covid-19 pandemic, the ensuing supply-chain crisis, and high rates of inflation around the world have led to rising food prices and fears of famine. | These cascading and interlocking problems have pushed governments to prioritize economic self-sufficiency and food security. | China is leading the way in this struggle. Beijin…

Editor (2022-06-10). 'Either you join NATO or we will make the canaries independent'. mronline.org A recent interview with former Spanish politician José Manuel Otero has revealed further details regarding his country's entry into NATO and attests to the double-dealing politics of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).

_____ (2022-06-10). US Effort To Hurt Russia Undermines Itself And The World. popularresistance.org The United States continues to shoot itself in the foot in its futile effort to damage the Russian economy. It is also asking other nations to do likewise and live with inflation, food scarcity, and rising energy prices. European countries have gone along with the sanctions which cut off their natural gas supplies from Russia when there is no logical alternative source for them. However, the rest of the world has refused to join in U.S. and EU condemnations or accept that they must live with privations caused by the reckless actions of other nations. | Of course, the ongoing state of delusion just continues the f…

_____ (2022-06-10). Twin Cities Nurses Picket, Demand Hospitals Put Patients Over Profits. popularresistance.org Registered nurses picketed outside 11 Twin Cities hospitals Wednesday, calling on health care executives to put patients over profits in contract negotiations with their union, the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA). | Talks covering 15,000 nurses in the metro and Duluth began in March. Twin Cities nurses, who work at Allina Health, Children's Hospital, M Health Fairview and North Memorial hospitals, saw their contracts expire Tuesday. | On a combined picket line outside United and Children's hospitals in St. Paul, nurses said the crisis facing their profession demands urgency and bold action to keep nurses from…

_____ (2022-06-10). Mounting Public Pressure Forces DA To Drop All Charges Against Queens Man. popularresistance.org On June 6 on the steps of Queens Criminal Courthouse, community members celebrated a hard-fought victory after nearly eight years of struggle: the dismissal of all murder charges against 22-year-old Prakash Churaman. Those celebrating with Churaman included his attorney, family members, members of the press as well as community organizations that have worked closely with Churaman over the years he had been fighting the charges, including Desis Rising Up and Moving, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, How Our Lives Link Altogether, Voices of Community Activists and Leaders New York, and the Free Prakash Allian…

Binoy Kampmark (2022-06-10). The Australian Labor Party and Julian Assange. greenleft.org.au Asked recently how he would act on his promise to help Julian Assange, Anthony Albanese implied he was working to bring the matter to a close. Binoy Kampmark wonders if he will.

____ (2022-06-10). President emphasizes stable socioeconomic development. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping has called for efforts to effectively coordinate the COVID-19 pandemic response and socioeconomic development and overcome difficulties in economic growth in order to ensure social stability.

____ (2022-06-10). China to stress reform of WTO. ecns.cn China will uphold reform and inclusive growth of the World Trade Organization, and champion the cause of legitimate rights of developing countries so that the multilateral trading system can play a bigger role in addressing global challenges and facilitating post-COVID economic recovery, the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-06-10). People's Summit for Democracy presents a new vision for the Americas. peoplesdispatch.org The People's Summit is a free, public summit that brings together organizers, educators, and regular people to discuss issues like labor rights, policing, healthcare, immigration, and housing.

A Guest Author (2022-06-10). AFL-CIO convention must unconditionally support Puerto Rico's unions — Commentary. workers.org This article is by a guest author who is a member of the construction trades and a member of the AFL-CIO. The 2022 convention of the AFL-CIO will be held in Philadelphia June 12-15. Every four years the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations meets in a convention to . . . |

Arjae Red (2022-06-10). Buffalo, New York: No more rainbow capitalism! workers.org Buffalo, New York Credit: Ellie Dorritie At the Buffalo corporate-sponsored Pride Parade June 5, members and friends of Workers World Party hit the streets to distribute literature on the radical history of Pride and the struggle of the LGBTQ+ community against police violence — especially against Black and Brown trans . . . |

Dennis Broe (2022-06-10). French legislative vote: With united left can the right be defeated? peoplesworld.org Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his party France Insoumise (France unbowed to the neoliberal turn), the socialists, communists, and others have pulled off the electoral stunner of this 2022 presidential campaign by uniting the various parties of the left to oppose the French president Emmanuel Macron. In so doing, they have instilled hope that five more years …

Caleb Maupin (2022-06-10). Debunking Noam Chomsky's Tirade Against Lenin. dissidentvoice.org "Mixed in with Chomsky's criticism of US foreign policy … he has the anti-Communism," says Caleb Maupin. Maupin also refutes Chomsky's "bullshit" criticism of Lenin.

Dean Baker (2022-06-10). The Not Very Good May Price Report. cepr.net It's pretty hard to be happy about the May CPI report. It means lower real wages for workers and is another big piece of uncertainty in an economy shaking from both the pandemic and the war.

____ (2022-06-10). China flies high on space science. ecns.cn Spending on scientific leadership and building international research partnerships and collaborations do not mean pouring money into a figurative black hole.

____ (2022-06-10). Miseries of U.S. child laborers are only tip of iceberg of U.S.'s systemic human rights violations. ecns.cn The miseries of US child laborers are only the tip of the iceberg of the US's systemic human rights violations.

Anonymous669 (2022-06-10). Hezbollah Leader Warns Israel Against Extracting Gas From Disputed Field, Says All Options On Table. southfront.org Energean Power FPSO &#1 ; Credit: Energean (via Israel's Energy Ministry) | On June 9, Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel against extracting gas from the disputed Karish naval gas field, saying that "all options are on the table" when it comes to protecting Lebanon's maritime wealth. | In a televised speech, Nasrallah said that Hezbollah is capable all levels of preventing Israel from extracting gas from the disputed field. | The Lebanese-Israeli dispute over Karish heated up e…

____ (2022-06-10). Yellen flags end for some China tariffs. ecns.cn U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Wednesday that Washington is looking to rescind some tariffs on Chinese imports "in the coming weeks", the first time the Biden administration has offered a timeline for the rollback of the duties to help rein in surging inflation.

Alasdair Baverstock (2022-06-10). Cryptocurrency takes root in El Salvador. america.cgtn.com In any discussion of financial matters at the Summit of the Americas, it may be hard to ignore the rise of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin. Notoriously volatile, these trading instruments, not controlled by any central bank, have sparked a range of government policies, from outright …

Chan Kung (2022-06-10). China's Imminent Precarious Era of High Inflation. moderndiplomacy.eu The study of economic growth is mandatory for those who pay attention to the economy, and that is precisely what we at ANBOUND are doing. As early as 2013, we conducted a study on China's economic growth through information analysis methods. The conclusion is that China's economic growth cannot continue to grow at a high …

____ (2022-06-10). Benefits seen in greenback's declining heft. ecns.cn Although the U.S. dollar may remain the dominant currency for the foreseeable future, its eventual declining clout could strengthen the international financial system, a forum has heard.

Poor People's Campaign (2022-06-10). Friday 6/17: National Memorial Service for Lives Lost to COVID, Gun Violence, War and Poverty w/ PPC. indybay.org Online via livestream: www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream/ | In-person at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C…

Ingo Schmidt (2022-06-10). From Reagan to Trump. indybay.org The 1960s, when incomes rose for almost all workers, ended with a massive wave of strikes. Since the 1980s, the incomes of most Americans have fallen, working hours have risen massively, and job security has become a foreign word. But strikes have been extremely rare.

Socialist Alternative Bay Area (2022-06-10). Friday 6/10: Protest at Pelosi's Office: Do Not Surrender, Defend Abortion Rights! indybay.org On Mission St at 7th St in San Francisco, outside the courtyard of the Federal Building…

_____ (2022-06-10). Chad Declares Food Emergency, International Agencies Sound Alarm. popularresistance.org The World Food Program (WFP) and the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) have identified numerous states warranting immediate attention as the problems of climate change, internal conflict, economic downturns and the continuing war in Ukraine are exacerbating the current crisis. | In the Sahel region of Africa, the nation of Chad, is challenged by grain supplies which have dropped to dangerous lows forcing the transitional military-dominated government to declare a food emergency requesting that aid be sent into the country to avoid further food deficits. Chad has been severely impacted by drought leaving la…

Editor2 (2022-06-10). How China Strengthened Food Security and Fought Poverty with State-Funded Cooperatives. orinocotribune.com By Joe Scholten &#1 ; | The world faces a food crisis due to war, sanctions, and inflation. China has shown how to strengthen food sovereignty, while fighting poverty, with state-funded agricultural cooperatives, government crackdown on waste, and investment in technology. | The Covid-19 pandemic, the ensuing supply-chain crisis, and high rates of inflation around the world have led to rising food prices and fears of famine. | These cascading and interlocking problems have pushed governments to prioritize economic self-sufficiency and food security. | China is leading the way in this struggle. Beijin…

____ (2022-06-10). Miseries of U.S. child laborers are only tip of iceberg of U.S.'s systemic human rights violations. ecns.cn The miseries of US child laborers are only the tip of the iceberg of the US's systemic human rights violations.

Lucystock (2022-06-10). The Weekly Round-up: social care spending, Stafford statements and Ukraine's legal battle. ukhumanrightsblog.com In the news: The recent Health and Care Act 2022 has come under scrutiny for introducing a cap on social care spending. From October 2023, the government will introduce a cap of £86,000 on the amount anyone in England will need to spend on their care over their lifetime. The cap will no longer count …

Silke Otsch, Boris Ginner (2022-06-10). Tax evasion and avoidance and Democracy at a tipping point. indybay.org The biggest losses from tax evasion and avoidance are caused by multinational corporations, followed by wealthy individuals. Sums in the triple-digit billions of up to one trillion. Euros are evaded annually in the EU. Of the global private wealth of around 160 trillion. US dollars, between 21-32 trillion US dollars are undeclared via tax havens…

Binoy Kampmark (2022-06-10). The Australian Labor Party and Julian Assange. greenleft.org.au Asked recently how he would act on his promise to help Julian Assange, Anthony Albanese implied he was working to bring the matter to a close. Binoy Kampmark wonders if he will.

____ (2022-06-10). President emphasizes stable socioeconomic development. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping has called for efforts to effectively coordinate the COVID-19 pandemic response and socioeconomic development and overcome difficulties in economic growth in order to ensure social stability.

____ (2022-06-10). China to stress reform of WTO. ecns.cn China will uphold reform and inclusive growth of the World Trade Organization, and champion the cause of legitimate rights of developing countries so that the multilateral trading system can play a bigger role in addressing global challenges and facilitating post-COVID economic recovery, the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-06-10). People's Summit for Democracy presents a new vision for the Americas. peoplesdispatch.org The People's Summit is a free, public summit that brings together organizers, educators, and regular people to discuss issues like labor rights, policing, healthcare, immigration, and housing.

Otis Grotewohl (2022-06-10). West Virginia steelworkers locked out by greedy war profiteers. workers.org Union, West Virginia Roughly 250 workers at the Collins Aerospace plant in Union, West Virginia, have been locked out of their jobs since May 23. Employees were unexpectedly met with heavy duty blockades all along the gates throughout the entrance area as they arrived to work that day. Locked-out steelworkers . . . |

G. Dunkel (2022-06-10). Hambre en àÅfrica Oriental: cientos de miles de personas amenazadas. workers.org Los precios de los alimentos se están disparando en todo el mundo. No sólo los precios del trigo y otros cereales, que es donde Estados Unidos y sus aliados de la Unión Europea han centrado su atención, sino también en productos como la mantequilla industrial y la leche en polvo, . . . |

Leslie Feinberg (2022-06-10). Western colonizers imposed anti-gay laws throughout world — Lavender & Red, Part 112. workers.org The following is one installment of Feinberg's "Lavender & Red" series on the intersection of LGBTQ2S+ and socialist history, which appeared Sept. 27, 2007, in Workers World newspaper. The 120-part series was published between 2004 and 2008 and can be downloaded for free at workers.org/books. Sodomy laws, imposed on India . . . |

A Guest Author (2022-06-10). AFL-CIO convention must unconditionally support Puerto Rico's unions — Commentary. workers.org This article is by a guest author who is a member of the construction trades and a member of the AFL-CIO. The 2022 convention of the AFL-CIO will be held in Philadelphia June 12-15. Every four years the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations meets in a convention to . . . |

Arjae Red (2022-06-10). Buffalo, New York: No more rainbow capitalism! workers.org Buffalo, New York Credit: Ellie Dorritie At the Buffalo corporate-sponsored Pride Parade June 5, members and friends of Workers World Party hit the streets to distribute literature on the radical history of Pride and the struggle of the LGBTQ+ community against police violence — especially against Black and Brown trans . . . |

WSWS (2022-06-10). The pandemic, the global crisis of capitalism, the resurgence of class struggles and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 1. wsws.org

Thomas Klikauer (2022-06-10). Democratic eco-socialism or climate catastrophe? greenleft.org.au Thomas Klikauer and Meg Young review Hans A Baer's latest book, Climate Change and Capitalism in Australia — An Eco-Socialist Vision for the Future, which invites readers to imagine a future beyond capitalism.

Jonathan Strauss (2022-06-10). Behind the good socialist vote in Far North Queensland. greenleft.org.au Socialist Alliance's Far North Queensland branch took up the challenge posed by the conservative strongholds of Warren Entsch and Bob Katter in Far North Queensland and helped increase the progressive vote. Jonathan Strauss reports.

WSWS (2022-06-10). Financial house of cards becoming increasingly shaky. wsws.org In raising interest rates central banks have entered uncharted waters as no one knows what the consequences will be for financial markets that have become totally addicted to the supply of ultra-cheap money over the past decade and a half.

WSWS (2022-06-10). Former Australian defence minister reveals plans for fast-tracked purchase of US nuclear-powered submarines. wsws.org The new Labor government has sought to outdo its Liberal-National predecessor in committing to a major military build-up in preparation for war with China.

WSWS (2022-06-10). Australian unions back Labor government's "productivity" agenda. wsws.org Under Labor, the unions will intensify their efforts to suppress wages struggles by workers, even more than they have over the past four decades.

WSWS (2022-06-10). Attend CFPE (Australia) meeting: "The crisis of public education, the betrayal of the teacher unions, and the need for independent rank-and-file committees" wsws.org The discussion will outline a political perspective, including the building of rank-and-file committees, to fight for decent wages and conditions for educators and for a properly resourced, universally accessible public education system.

WSWS (2022-06-10). Airport strikes hit Paris and spread across Europe. wsws.org The strike against pay cuts at Charles de Gaulle Airport is part of an international movement of airport workers against low wages, understaffing and unbearable working conditions.

Labor Video Project (2022-06-10). War On Public Education, Oakland OEA Teachers Speak Out On School Closures, Privatization. indybay.org Two teachers spoke out about Oakland public school closures, privatization, the Parker Elementary School occupation and the role of the OEA/CTA leadership in their struggle.

____ (2022-06-10). Yellen flags end for some China tariffs. ecns.cn U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Wednesday that Washington is looking to rescind some tariffs on Chinese imports "in the coming weeks", the first time the Biden administration has offered a timeline for the rollback of the duties to help rein in surging inflation.

WSWS (2022-06-10). Sri Lankan port workers speak out against union leadership. wsws.org Port workers disgusted with increasing union collaboration with management and the betrayal of general strike action have begun discussing the need to form an independent action committee.

Norcalintcom (2022-06-10). Saturday 6/11: Northern California Communist Bulletin Group Public Meeting. indybay.org The Long Haul Bookshop, 3124 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley…

Staff (2022-06-10). Progresa reparación del bloque dos de la termoeléctrica de Felton. cubadebate.cu Los puntos fundamentales por los que atraviesan estas acciones hasta la sincronización definitiva del bloque, previstos para los primeros días de julio, fueron evaluados hoy por el Comandante de la Revolución Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, vice primer ministro cubano, en visita a esta industria. Actualmente laboran en las acciones de mantenimiento de la "Felton" más de 1200 trabajadores.

____ (2022-06-10). Benefits seen in greenback's declining heft. ecns.cn Although the U.S. dollar may remain the dominant currency for the foreseeable future, its eventual declining clout could strengthen the international financial system, a forum has heard.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-10). Mayo Clinic, NAACP to welcome inaugural RISE for Youth cohort on June 6. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic and NAACP Rochester Branch will welcome 40 promising high school and college students to RISE for Youth, on Monday, June 6. This program, which is in its inaugural year, is designed to help Black and underrepresented students find pathways to success in education and employment. RISE stands for Reflect, Inspire, Strengthen and Empower, and is an approach developed by Anjali Bhagra, M.D., medical director of Mayo Clinic's Office of Equity,…

____ (2022-06-10). China flies high on space science. ecns.cn Spending on scientific leadership and building international research partnerships and collaborations do not mean pouring money into a figurative black hole.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-06-10). Iran started injecting gas into advanced centrifuges: AEOI. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 10 (MNA) — The top Iranian nuclear official said the Iranian nuclear agency has installed new centrifuges and started injecting gas into them in accordance with the IAEA regulations.

Jason Ditz (2022-06-10). Sadr Threatens Mass Resignations of MPs as Iraq Deadlock Fuels Unrest. news.antiwar.com Iraq is in a bad way at the moment, eight months out from an October 10 election and having exhausted the deadlines for forming a new government. There is an irrevocable That's bad for many Iraqis, as economic strife and corruption are leading to calls for government action, and the remnants of the outgoing government lacks a mandate to do anything. Iraqis are hoping the new government would do something about food prices, but if there is no new government…

Abdul Rahman (2022-06-09). Anti-Russia policies brew trouble for the West. peoplesdispatch.org The US, EU, and several of their allies continue to push policies prolonging the war in Ukraine despite domestic populations facing an unprecedented rise in prices of basic commodities and poorer nation staring at an imminent food crisis…

_____ (2022-06-09). Why does the Taliban Want to Move the Afghan Capital? journal-neo.org As evidenced by information coming from Afghanistan, the situation and socio-economic position in the country is deteriorating. Every second Afghan resident is now suffering from hunger, and in the near future the food situation in the country may worsen further, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said on May 27 during the fourth …

_____ (2022-06-09). Another World Is Possible, But We Have To Make It So. popularresistance.org The People's Summit for Democracy began in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 8. However, it is much more than just an alternative to the Biden administration's and the Organization of American States' Summit of the Americas. | The Summit of the Americas has historically been a place for the United States, which plays a central role in the OAS and which continues to exploit the Americas for resources and markets, to present its own agenda for the region. | But this year, beginning with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, many Latin American leaders across the continent decided to boycott the summit entirel…

_____ (2022-06-09). The Food Shortage Solution In Your Own Backyard. popularresistance.org A confluence of crises—lockdowns and business closures, mandates and worker shortages, supply chain disruptions and inflation, sanctions and war—have compounded to trigger food shortages; and we have been warned that they may last longer than the food stored in our pantries. What to do? | Jim Gale, founder of Food Forest Abundance, pointed out in a recent interview with Del Bigtree that in the United States there are 40 million acres of lawn. Lawns are the most destructive monoculture on the planet, absorbing more resources and pesticides than any other crop, without providing any yield. If we were to…

M.K. Bhadrakumar (2022-06-09). Creating Cold War conditions in Asia isn't easy. peoplesdispatch.org The Achilles heel of the US' Cold War strategy is that it lacks an inspiring economic agenda. The US' Cold War strategy is primarily in military terms, whereas what impresses Asian countries is economic clout…

WSWS (2022-06-09). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Thousands of metalworkers in Spain continue strikes for new collective agreements, joined by teacher walkouts over work conditions; thousands of German steelworkers and dockers at six ports join warning strikes over pay; construction workers building new Metro and transport workers in Thessaloniki, Greece demand protection from Covid-19 after outbreak; protests by workers in Palestinian West Bank as prices rise 30 percent since March; after isolating three-month strike at South African Sibanye-Stillwater gold, strike ends with unions pushing through sellout deal…

Amarynth (2022-06-09). Will the Global South break free from dollarized debt? thesaker.is In his latest book, economist Michael Hudson pits socialism against finance capitalism and tears apart the 'dream civilization' imposed by the 1 percent. By Pepe Escobar, posted with the author's…

Workers World Party (2022-06-09). PDF of June 9 issue. workers.org Download the PDF. Profit-hungry company lures youth to guns editorial: LGBTQ+ for socialism: 'We want to live!' PRIDE: Class roots of anti‚Äëtrans laws Events challenge police, corporate control, transphobia Labor fights back: Lockout by war profiteers Seattle museum union Boston baristas strike Tear down the walls: Palestine Freedom Tunnel Stop . . . |

Derrick Crowe (2022-06-09). People's Action and Citizen Action of Wisconsin Endorse Mandela Barnes for Senate. peoplesaction.org WASHINGTON, D.C.—People's Action and Citizen Action of Wisconsin today announced their endorsement of Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes to represent Wisconsin in the United States Senate. The groups cited Barnes as one of the top opportunities for progressive champions to win in Republican-held turf in 2022, cheering his strong positions on jobs, labor, and climate issues. …

Ann Brown (2022-06-09). Crypto Prices Fall as Big Crypto Regulation Bill Proposal Is Revealed for First Time: 7 Things to Know. moguldom.com Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) have introduced a pro-cryptocurrency regulatory bill. This is the first major bipartisan proposal for the regulation of the crypto space. The bill, which most note is friendly to the industry, was introduced on June 7. Here are 7 things to know. 1. Crypto as commodities not securities …

Andy Kroll (2022-06-09). Fewer Big (or Any Size) Men on Campus. tomdispatch.com In the last week of her life, my mother extracted a promise from me. "Make sure," she said, "that Orion goes to college." I swore that I would, although I wasn't at all sure how I'd make it happen. Even in the year 2000, average tuitions were almost 10 times what my own undergraduate school had charged 30 years earlier. I knew that sending my nephew to college would cost more money than I'd have when the time came. If he was going to college, like his aunt before him, he'd need financial help. The difference was that his "help" was likely to come not as a grant, but as life-defining loans. "Orion," by the way, is…

Ann Brown (2022-06-09). How America Saddles Families with Big Hospital Bills and Debt When A Family Member Dies There. moguldom.com When someone dies in the hospital the medical debt is often times passed down to the family. And this debt can be overwhelming. Families aren't only saddled with the medical debt of dying in the hospital, but a family can also inherit all of a deceased relative's medical bills. This is why financial advisors encourage …

Andrey Gubin (2022-06-09). A Little Britain's Reach Out To The Big Indo-Pacific. moderndiplomacy.eu As the ideological schism in today's world deepens, the leaders of the liberal camp are ramping up their activities in the regions they have not paid much attention to before. The main purpose of the military, diplomatic, and economic efforts of the Global West is to expand the sphere of influence, preventing their "non-democratic and …

Andrew Butler (2022-06-09). Who is Boris Johnson? thecanary.co Behind Boris Johnson's bumbling posh boy persona lies a nasty, ultra-privileged, self-serving, power-hungry political operative who will cling to power no matter the cost to us all. |
| Video transcript | By now, you know that Boris Johnson is a proven liar. Tory MPs may have decided to keep him in the top job, but in this video we want to show the main reasons why he is utterly unqualified to be prime minister, or to hold any kind of authority. | Born in New York in 1964 &#1 ; yes, New York &#1 ; Johnson's family was a wealthy and privileged one. He attended Eton with David Cameron and went on to study at &…