(2022-08-04). China's non-CPC political parties make joint statement on Pelosi visit. ecns.cn China's eight non-Communist Party of China (CPC) political parties on Thursday released a joint statement expressing their strong opposition to, indignation at and condemnation of the recent visit of Nancy Pelosi.
(2022-08-05). Statement condemning Nancy Pelosi's reckless visit to China's Taiwan. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement issued by Friends of Socialist China. Freedom Road Socialist Organization is one of the organizational signatories. | We condemn in the strongest possible terms the provocative and war-mongering visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to China's territory of Taiwan. | Pelosi is a reactionary, anti-working-class imperialist politician with a long record of inveterate hostility to Socialist China and the Chinese people. Her visit to Taiwan is a major political provocation that carries with it a grave danger of leading to regional and even world war. It…
(2022-08-05). UAW Convention/Militants open struggle against business unionism. workers.org 
Detroit February 11, 1937, marks the victory of the 44-day Flint Sit-down Strike that forced General Motors to recognize the United Auto Workers. After the victory, however, a factional fight divided the fledgling union. Within a few years' time, UAW-CIO — militants affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations — . . . |
(2022-08-05). COVID-Period Mass Vaccination Campaign and Public Health Disaster in the USA/By Prof Denis Rancourt, Dr. Marine Baudin, and Dr. Jérémie Mercier. marktaliano.net From age/state-resolved all-cause mortality by time, age-resolved vaccine delivery by time, and socio-geo-economic data By Prof Denis Rancourt, Dr. Marine Baudin, and Dr. Jérémie Mercier Global Research, August 03, 2022 To receive …
(2022-08-05). Australia: NSW rail workers step up industrial action over wages, unsafe trains. wsws.org Throughout August, the workers will carry out a range of limited work bans and four six-hour stoppages, each of which will be restricted to a different geographic region within the state-owned network.
(2022-08-04). China to help stabilize global supply chain. ecns.cn China will play a key role in underpinning the global supply chain in the second half of the year amid government policy measures to stabilize the economy while tackling the impact of COVID-19 via targeted means, experts said.
(2022-08-05). The social physiognomy of an American trade union executive: The case of Connor M. Lewis. wsws.org A trade union bureaucrat named Connor M. Lewis attacked the World Socialist Web Site earlier this week in response to Mack Trucks autoworker Will Lehman's nomination for UAW president at the union's recent convention in Detroit. WSWS writer Eric London responded with a Twitter thread that we republish below:…
(2022-08-05). Cuba y Serbia ratifican voluntad de ampliar cooperación. telesurtv.net Los cancilleres de Cuba y Serbia debatieron temas de interés común, como la colaboración en áreas de biotecnología, deporte, turismo y cultura.
(2022-08-04). EU Economy Grows for Second Quarter, Recession Fears Linger. telesurenglish.net The eurozone's GDP increased by 0.7 percent, while the European Union's GDP grew 0.6 percent in the second quarter of 2022, according to a preliminary flash estimate published by Europe's statistics office Eurostat. | RELATED: | Despite the growth achieved in the second quarter, some experts believe that the triple pressure of the energy crisis, high inflation and tightening of monetary policy may plunge Europe into a…
(2022-08-04). Italy: 17-Bln-euro Aid Package to Combat Inflation, Drought. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi announced an aid package worth an estimated 17 billion euros (17.3 billion U.S. dollars) to combat surging inflation and drought. | RELATED: | As head of a caretaker government, Draghi announced that the Council of Ministers had just approved the latest aid package at his first press briefing after his official resignation as prime minister on July 21. He agreed to stay on as hea…
(2022-08-04). US intentionally spilling over its inflation to the rest of the world — expert. infobrics.org This leaves the world with a very clear choice; either make sure economic and financial independence is guarded at all costs, or remain in perpetual slavery for the benefit of a distant thalassocracy.
(2022-08-04). Argentina's new economy minister to implement measures to stabilize economy. america.cgtn.com Argentina has one of the highest inflation rates in the world, but slowing inflation is just one of the challenges facing the new Economy Minister Sergio Massa, who took office on Wednesday and immediately announced a series of measures to restore fiscal order.
(2022-08-04). Buffalo Veteran Affairs nurses walk out as Kaiser mental health clinicians set August 15 strike deadline. wsws.org The walkout is the latest struggle by health care workers against surging inflation, short staffing and intolerable working conditions, which have been worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic.
(2022-08-04). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Aviation workers including cabin crew and pilots continue fight over pay and conditions throughout Europe, in Spain, Belgium, Holland and Portugal; pensioners arrested as protests continue in Iran as food inflation hits 82 percent, driving many to suicide; public sector strike continues in Lebanon as poverty levels hit 74 percent; protests in Gaza against cost-of-living crisis with electricity supplies running short, undrinkable tap water and collapsing health care; Nigerian university and college workers' strike continues over pay and to demand resources to "save" education; four shot dead by police in South Afr…
(2022-08-04). AMLO Proposes a Five-Year Global Truce to Work for Development. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) proposed a five-year truce to the international community to avoid military and economic wars. | RELATED: | "Our country's stance is that wars and armed confrontations do not exist and agreements be sought through dialogue. Nations can agree on a truce of at least five years to be able to face the crisis affecting the peoples. A truce that ends war, confrontation, and provoca…
(2022-08-04). IYSSE establishes club at Australia's La Trobe University in meeting defending zero-COVID campaigner Dr David Berger. wsws.org The third IYSSE club in Melbourne was built after months of campaigning among students for a socialist, anti-war perspective and in defence of democratic rights.
(2022-08-04). SF Protest Against Nancy Pelosi For Pushing War Drive Against China. indybay.org There is growing anger against Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi for pushing for war in Asia and massive expansion of the military encirclement.Her trip to Taiwan has been strongly supported by the Republicans and she is supporting the Asian Pivot.
(2022-08-04). How China is Countering US Sanctions. libya360.wordpress.com Petr KonovalovFor many years there has been a rivalry between two world superpowers, namely, the United States and China. In recent years, it has developed into an outright struggle, during which the parties use various political and economic instruments against each other. Usually, the sanctions imposed by Washington against its rivals attract the most attention…
(2022-08-04). Citizens' Pole of Panamá: An indisputable victory for the Panamanian people in a united struggle. workers.org 
Panamá City, Panamá. WW Photo: Deborah Rodriguez Statement of Polo Ciudadano (Citizens' Pole) Note from Workers World: Following huge price rises in Panamá for necessities during the first part of the year, including a 50% increase in energy prices, a mass movement erupted in July. The masses blocked the main . . . |
(2022-08-04). Nicaragua Accuses the US of Violating WTO Rules in Sugar Trade. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Nicaragua's Ministry of Development, Industry, and Trade (MIFIC) denounced that the United States violated rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) by canceling a purchase of 22,114 tons of Nicaraguan sugar. | RELATED: | "For this 2022-2023 production cycle, Nicaragua was assigned the marketing of 22,114 tons of sugar to the U.S. through a quota established with the WTO," Minister Jesus Bermudez said. | "
(2022-08-04). CSX railroad records strong second-quarter profit on the backs of hyper-exploited workers. wsws.org Pressing rail workers to limits of human endurance, the Class I railroads have been making record or near-record profits.
(2022-08-04). Rank & File Threaten UAW Bureaucracy's Agenda At 2022 Convention: Report By Frank Hammer. indybay.org The rank and file at the 2022 UAW Constitutional Convention were able to challenge the UAW Administration Caucus which has been enveloped in a massive corruption scandal. They were able to push for $ 0 a week with a successful vote on the third day of the convention and the next day the bureaucracy overturned it. There will also be elections in October with 4 candidates.
(2022-08-04). Svitzer Australia continues attack on tug boat workers' wages and conditions. wsws.org The maritime unions have worked from the start to contain and undermine opposition to the company's global offensive, including its threat to tear up the existing enterprise agreement covering Australian workers.
(2022-08-04). China's service trade up 21.6% in H1. ecns.cn China's service trade value grew 21.6 percent year on year in the first half of 2022, data from the Ministry of Commerce showed on Wednesday.
(2022-08-04). Monday 8/1: Promoting socio-economic reciprocity throughout fall election campaigns. indybay.org ZOOM: | zoom.us/j/92884047862?pwd=RTFBcVRYNHFoQWN1cmY1aG5vcllLZz09…
(2022-08-04). Products expo lifts purchasing spirits among consumers. ecns.cn China's consumption of imported wines and spirits like whisky and cognac has continuously expanded, fueled by a growing high-income group and increasingly sophisticated tastes, and global wine and spirits retailers are investing more in China to meet growing demand.
(2022-08-04). A Q&A with a Mayo Clinic expert on monkeypox testing, more… newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Health officials continue to monitor and track increasing cases of monkeypox, a rare disease caused by the monkeypox virus. "Monkeypox is a virus that has mainly caused outbreaks in the continent of Africa. There have been over the last decade or two isolated outbreaks in countries outside of Africa, but this is the largest outbreak occurring in what we call nonendemic countries," says Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic. The World Health Organization declared monkeypox…
(2022-08-04). UK: Unite ends Coventry bin dispute on strikebreaking Labour authority's terms. wsws.org The ability of Unite to contain the dispute and renew its relationship with the Labour authority has been made possible by the Socialist Workers Party and the Socialist Party.
(2022-08-04). Machine that Ate People: Tech, Spying Emotions, AI, Algorythms & Worker's Dystopia. indybay.org Professor Peter Mantello talks about the use of technology to spy on workers and increase exploitation through empathetic surveillance and bio metric technologies…
(2022-08-04). Senado de Brasil aprueba medida sobre flexibilización laboral. telesurtv.net Esta medida ha sido catalogada por algunos senadores como una iniciativa más para la precarización laboral.
(2022-08-04). 2022 CA Fed Meeting, Internationalism, Fascism & A Workers Party With LA Roofers Local 36. indybay.org Cliff Smith, the business manager of Roofers Local 36 in Los Angeles was a delegate to the 2022 California AFL-CIO convention and raised issues about fascism and internationalism at the convention. The leadership opposed a resolution calling for the prosecution of people who participated in the insurrection and attempted coup on January 6, 2020. He also discussed the issue of the formation of a workers party.
(2022-08-04). Taken for a Ride: Saudi-led OPEC+ snubs Biden with tiny Oil Increase, Despite Arms Sales, Fist Bump. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment)  ; At its meeting in Vienna yesterday, the enlarged "+" version of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting States (OPEC+) decided to increase output by only 100,000 barrels per day, a vanishingly small amount that will have no impact on lowering gasoline prices and which does US President Joe Biden virtually no …
(2022-08-04). Economists stress policy aid to boost demand, stabilize growth. ecns.cn China should resolutely implement macroeconomic policies to stimulate demand and stabilize growth as social demand has not yet been fully unleashed in the short term, economists said.
(2022-08-04). RCEP members reap benefits at Hainan trade emporium. ecns.cn After the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement took effect in January, more companies from RCEP member countries have been enthusiastic about expanding new business opportunities in trade, investment and other fields in China.
(2022-08-04). Saturday 8/27: Rally/March to Defend DACA! indybay.org San Jose City Hall Plaza…
(2022-08-03). The Movement Sorely Misses Glen Ford. popularresistance.org It has been one year since the death of Black Agenda Report Executive Editor, Glen Ford. The turbulence of the past year has been as intense as Glen Ford's loss to the movement. President Joe Biden is facing a crisis of legitimacy. Inflation and recession loom over a flailing U.S. capitalist system. A U.S.-led imperialist war with Russia and China is closer than it has ever been and Black America is no better off with a Democrat controlling the White House. | Such conditions demand that we remember and emulate Glen Ford's tireless contributions to the Black liberation, peace, and socialist movement. Ford was a st…
(2022-08-03). Sri Lanka Democracy Movement At The Crossroads. popularresistance.org For several months the nation of Sri Lanka has been imperiled with the looming threat of complete economic collapse as fuel, food and other commodity prices skyrocketed. | Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa became the central focus of the youth-led democracy movement as the GotaGoGama encampment was established demanding the immediate resignation of Rajapaksa as president and the removal of his cabinet. | At its height the camp's activism attracted tens of thousands of people demanding an end to the former administration. Eventually the presidential compound was overrun by angry protesters necessitating the remo…
(2022-08-03). The History Of African American Cooperative Eco-Systems. popularresistance.org This session is the fourth installment of the Black Labor, Solidarity Economy, and Movement Lawyering Series, Co-organized by the Workers' Rights institute and Julian Hill and hosted in collaboration with Coalition for Racial Equity and Democratic Economies (CREDE), the Georgetown Law Socialist Students Union, ONE DC, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM), and Claudia Jones School for Political Education. | In this session, Jessica Gordon-Nembhard will discuss the history of African American mutual aid and cooperative economics, Black cooperative economic thought, the most prolific periods in the US African Americ…
(2022-08-03). Chinese Investors Acknowledge Venezuela's Special Economic Zones Law. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan National Assembly Deputy Nicolás Maduro Guerra, president of the Venezuela-China Parliamentary Friendship Group, has reported that the Organic Law of Special Economic Zones will be presented to Chinese private investors. | The presentation of the Special Economic Zones Law arises from China's interest in exchanging experience and knowledge and strengthening projects in Venezuela. | Deputy Maduro Guerra made these comments af…
(2022-08-03). Kaiser Permanente Therapists To Strike. popularresistance.org California – Mental health workers at Kaiser Permanente announced plans Tuesday for an open-ended strike that could lead as many as 2,000 Northern California mental health workers to curtail appointments beginning on Aug. 15. | The announcement came in response to frustration with the level of service provided to patients at the nation's largest nonprofit HMO, which Capital & Main reported on in a recent story. As a result of understaffing, patients who should receive weekly therapy are waiting months to start treatment and as long as two months between appointments in violation of clinical guidelines, accor…
(2022-08-03). Legacy of Shinzo Abe: Corruption and Hopeless Japanese Economy. globalresearch.ca