2023-05-14: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2023-05-14). Comicomment: U.S.' crazy fiscal cliff maneuvers. ecns.cn The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday that a U.S. debt default prompted by failure to raise the country's debt ceiling would have "very serious repercussions" for the U.S. economy as well as the global economy.

Global Times, Friends of Socialist China. (2023-05-13). China Is Governed In The Interests Of Working People. popularresistance.org In this interview with Global Times, Sara Flounders — a contributing editor to Workers World and a member of our advisory group — shares her analysis of the escalating New Cold War and the US's global hegemonic project. Comparing the West's approach of war, sanctions, coercion and destabilisation with China's vision of a human community with a shared future, Sara observes: | "The very concept of shared future and cooperation has a profound impact. It's not threatening to other countries, and it has the win-win idea, meaning if your economy is growing and our economy is growing, that's better for both…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-05-14). Biggest Lie in World History: There Never Was A Pandemic. The Data Base is Flawed. The Covid Mandates including the Vaccine are Invalid. globalresearch.ca Fake science was supportive of this devastating agenda. The lies were sustained by a massive media disinformation campaign. The historic March 11, 2020 lockdown triggered economic and social chaos Worldwide. It was an act of "economic warfare": a war against humanity.

teleSUR (2023-05-14). Gaza Returns to Normal After Israeli Military Onslaught. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, daily life returned to normal in Gaza after five days of incessant Israeli attacks on the Palestinian population, which left 33 dead, over 150 injured, and economic losses valued at more than 45 million euros. | RELATED: | On Saturday night, the mediation carried out by Egypt managed to get the Israeli Army and Palestinian militants to declare a ceasefire and agree to a truce. | In the morning, most businesses, companies, and…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-14). Nucleus RadioPharma to open manufacturing facility in Rochester, Minnesota. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Facility aims to manufacture next generation of radiopharmaceuticals ROCHESTER, Minn. — Nucleus RadioPharma, a radiopharmaceutical company founded by Eclipse and Mayo Clinic, announced today it has received approval from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) for its economic incentive request to support a facility in Rochester. The facility will be based in the Two Discovery Square building within Destination Medical Center's Discovery Square District. Nucleus was established to address the acute manufacturing…

ecns.cn (2023-05-14). Resumption of high-level economic talks sends encouraging signs on thaw of China-Australia relations. ecns.cn Australian Trade Minister Don Farrell's visit to Beijing witnessed multiple encouraging signs in the stabilized recovery of China-Australia cooperation, including the resumption of a landmark high-level economic meeting and the minister's tour of Beijing's iconic Forbidden City.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-13). Macron's Democracy: Repression and Austerity. libya360.wordpress.com Jeremy Loffredo reports from Paris for The Grayzone, covering the national uprising against French President Emmanuel Macron's plans to impose neoliberal austerity measures through unpopular pension reforms. Hear from the protest rank-and-file as they describe repression at the hands of militarized police, arbitrary jailing, and their fight against the billionaire president's aggressive rollback of economic…

WSWS (2023-05-13). Coup prospects overshadow Thailand elections. wsws.org Declining economic conditions and attacks on democratic rights are driving mass anger among Thai workers and young people.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-13). Nucleus RadioPharma to open manufacturing facility in Rochester, Minnesota. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Facility aims to manufacture next generation of radiopharmaceuticals ROCHESTER, Minn. — Nucleus RadioPharma, a radiopharmaceutical company founded by Eclipse and Mayo Clinic, announced today it has received approval from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) for its economic incentive request to support a facility in Rochester. The facility will be based in the Two Discovery Square building within Destination Medical Center's Discovery Square District. Nucleus was established to address the acute manufacturing…

Staff (2023-05-13). Díaz-Canel evalúa en Pinar del Río estrategias adoptadas ante la actual situación económica. cubadebate.cu Miguel Díaz-Canel, Primer Secretario del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (PCC) y presidente de la República, evalúa hoy en Pinar del Río las estrategias adoptadas en enero último para enfrentar la actual situación económica del país e impulsar el desarrollo de la provincia, en pos del bienestar de la población.

teleSUR (2023-05-14). Chinese FM Proposes Three Principles for China-Europe Relations. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Qin Gang, the State Councilor and Foreign Minister of China, presented three fundamental principles aimed at preserving the stable development of China-European relations amidst the current backdrop of interlaced and tumultuous international circumstances. | Related: | "China and Europe are two globally influential powers, two vast markets, and two great civilizations. I deeply felt, through the visit, a strong willingness of the E…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-14). Breaking barriers: Helping Native Americans in need get the gift of life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Robert Monroe and Jackie Johnson stand near their home on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona For many American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on an Indian reservation provides a sense of pride, independence, and the ability to maintain cultural and social traditions important to their heritage. Life on the Indian reservation can also mean high rates of poverty, lack of access to food, transportation, communication and health care. Complex medical procedures like an organ…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-13). Nicaragua: What We Learned About Agroecology. libya360.wordpress.com Rick Kohn As part of a seminar course at the University of Maryland, students travel to Nicaragua to see firsthand how the country has confronted the challenges of hunger and poverty and achieved food self-sufficiency. At the University of Maryland's College of Agriculture, we have developed a seminar course titled "Sustainable Agriculture and Environment in Nicaragua" offered…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-13). Breaking barriers: Helping Native Americans in need get the gift of life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Robert Monroe and Jackie Johnson stand near their home on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona For many American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on an Indian reservation provides a sense of pride, independence, and the ability to maintain cultural and social traditions important to their heritage. Life on the Indian reservation can also mean high rates of poverty, lack of access to food, transportation, communication and health care. Complex medical procedures like an organ…

WSWS (2023-05-13). New York Congressman and serial liar George Santos indicted on 13 federal charges. wsws.org The 34 year-old freshman Republican is accused of several financial crimes, including embezzling money from campaign contributors and fraudulently obtaining unemployment benefits for over a year.

Lynda Carson (2023-05-14). The myth of affordable housing is demolished by "minimum income requirements" indybay.org 2008 Protest In Front Of The California Hotel By Tenants Facing Illegal Evictions By The John Stewart Company & the dissolved Oakland Community Housing, Inc. Photo by Lydia Gans.

Lynda Carson (2023-05-13). The myth of affordable housing is demolished by "minimum income requirements" indybay.org 2008 Protest In Front Of The California Hotel By Tenants Facing Illegal Evictions By The John Stewart Company & the dissolved Oakland Community Housing, Inc. Photo by Lydia Gans.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-14). Save lives this Take Back Day; safely dispose of unused medications. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Dispose of unneeded medications safely during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22. Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Olmsted Medical Center, Zumbro Valley Medical Society and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will host a community drop-off event to collect unused or expired medications. "The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Violent Crimes Enforcement Team (VCET) are proud to team up with Mayo Clinic and other…

Derek Seidman, Truthout. (2023-05-14). Labor Organizers Launch New Model For The Fight Against Private Equity. popularresistance.org On May Day, a small group of labor advocates and workers weaved through midtown Manhattan, stopping at the shiny corporate headquarters of several firms with names like KKR, Sycamore Partners, Apollo Global Management, BC Partners and Roark Capital Group. | Most people don't recognize these names, or if they do, know very little about them. But these are some of the wealthiest and most influential firms on Wall Street, behemoths within the ultra-powerful but opaque financial sector known as private equity — the arm of Wall Street that oversees trillions in assets and specializes in buying out, restructuring…

ecns.cn (2023-05-14). Senior officials of China, U.S. hold candid, in-depth talks in Vienna. ecns.cn Director Wang fully elaborated on China's serious position on the Taiwan question. The two sides also exchanged views on the situation in the Asia-Pacific region, Ukraine and other international and regional issues of mutual interest, Wang added.

Labor Video Project (2023-05-14). OEA Claremont Middle School Strike Picket to Stop Building Trades Workers from Crossing Lines. indybay.org Dozens of OEA striking teachers and community supporters picketed to shut down a construction project at the Claremont Middle School. Most unions walked but the UBC Carpenters worked behind the picket lines…

Labor Video Project (2023-05-14). Striking Writers Guild Member Boots Riley Shout Out To Striking OEA Teachers. indybay.org Oakland film maker and musician Boots Riley gave a shout out to striking OEA teachers supporting their struggle.

teleSUR, JDO (2023-05-14). Vicepresidente de Brasil respalda labor del MST. telesurtv.net Visita la Feria Nacional de la Reforma Agraria, organizada por el Movimiento de los Trabajadores Rurales Sin Tierra (MST).

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-05-14). Thursday 5/18: Rally To Stop The San Francisco Laguna Honda Discharges Defend Laguna Honda Hospital. indybay.org 375 Laguna Honda Blvd across from Forrest Hill Muni Station | San Francisco…

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-05-14). Friday 5/19: SF Speak Out At SF Chinese Consulate- Hands Off Namibian Labor Lawyer Beukes & Miners. indybay.org San Francisco Chinese Consulate | Laguna and Geary St. | San Francisco…

Jim McMahan (2023-05-13). Seattle unionists defend the right to strike. workers.org Seattle On May 5, 150 young unionists rallied at the federal courthouse in Seattle supporting labor's right to strike. Credit: Jim McMahan The anti-labor U.S. Supreme Court will soon take up the case of Glacier Northwest vs. Teamsters Local 174, filed in retaliation for a Teamsters strike in 2017. Glacier, . . . |

Fight Back (2023-05-13). Big online FRSO fundraiser set for May 25. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — A major online fundraising evert featuring Frank Chapman – of the FRSO Central Committee and Executive Director of National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression – will take place on the evening of May 25. The event, which will also feature Labor Commission Chair Cherrene Horazuk and Standing Committee member Fern Figueroa is part of the $130,000 fund drive that will help FRSO expand its national office and put more full-time organizers in the field. | The event is set for Thursday May 25, 5 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Mountain, 7 p.m. Central and d 8 p.m. Eastern Time. Register for Zo…

Jeremy Kuzmarov, Covert Action Magazine. (2023-05-13). The Pentagon Has Been Recolonizing University Campuses. popularresistance.org Once upon a time getting a college degree meant reading classic literature and philosophy, learning about history and politics, studying mathematics and science, learning new languages, and debating the great issues of the day in student forums. | The billionaire class and Pentagon, however, do not want young people to think critically, or to be worldly and idealistic. | They want the university to function as a breeding ground for creation of a docile, technically skilled workforce that they can control, and as a laboratory for the development of new weapons systems and testing ground for those weapons that can…

WSWS (2023-05-13). Australian Labor budget outlines record military spending. wsws.org Labor is presiding over the largest military build-up since World War II. While this week's budget allocated record defence spending, far more is to come.

Fight Back (2023-05-13). Big online FRSO fundraiser set for May 25. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — A major online fundraising evert featuring Frank Chapman – of the FRSO Central Committee and Executive Director of National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression – will take place on the evening of May 25. The event, which will also feature Labor Commission Chair Cherrene Horazuk and Standing Committee member Fern Figueroa is part of the $130,000 fund drive that will help FRSO expand its national office and put more full-time organizers in the field. | The event is set for Thursday May 25, 5 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Mountain, 7 p.m. Central and d 8 p.m. Eastern Time. Register for Zo…

Labor Video Project (2023-05-13). OEA Claremont Middle School Strike Picket to Stop Building Trades Workers from Crossing Lines. indybay.org Dozens of OEA striking teachers and community supporters picketed to shut down a construction project at the Claremont Middle School. Most unions walked but the UBC Carpenters worked behind the picket lines…

Labor Video Project (2023-05-13). Striking Writers Guild Member Boots Riley Shout Out To Striking OEA Teachers. indybay.org Oakland film maker and musician Boots Riley gave a shout out to striking OEA teachers supporting their struggle.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-13). Save lives this Take Back Day; safely dispose of unused medications. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Dispose of unneeded medications safely during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22. Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Olmsted Medical Center, Zumbro Valley Medical Society and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will host a community drop-off event to collect unused or expired medications. "The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Violent Crimes Enforcement Team (VCET) are proud to team up with Mayo Clinic and other…

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-05-13). Thursday 5/18: Rally To Stop The San Francisco Laguna Honda Discharges Defend Laguna Honda Hospital. indybay.org 375 Laguna Honda Blvd across from Forrest Hill Muni Station | San Francisco…

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-05-13). Friday 5/19: SF Speak Out At SF Chinese Consulate- Hands Off Namibian Labor Lawyer Beukes & Miners. indybay.org San Francisco Chinese Consulate | Laguna and Geary St. | San Francisco…

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-05-13). Fuel prices unchanged next week in Nicaragua. plenglish.com Managua, May 13 (Prensa Latina) The Government of Nicaragua will keep fuel prices unchanged next week and will once again assume one hundred percent of the increase in fuel prices, according to a report published in the local press.

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-05-13). Fuel prices unchanged next week in Nicaragua. plenglish.com Managua, May 13 (Prensa Latina) The Government of Nicaragua will keep fuel prices unchanged next week and will once again assume one hundred percent of the increase in fuel prices, according to a report published in the local press.

David Sirota (2023-05-14). Biden's Austerity Rhetoric Returns From The Memory Hole. levernews.com When President Joe Biden this week gave credence to Republicans' argument that America needs government spending cuts, he channeled the real-but-forgotten Joe Biden — the one that was memory-holed during the 2020 presidential campaign.During a speech in New York on Wednesday, Biden laudably slammed GOP leaders for demanding draconian spending cuts in exchange for passage of routine legislation to prevent the government from defaulting on its outstanding debts. But then he also declared that such austerity must be a long-term priority."We should be cutting spending and lowering the deficit," said Biden, l…

F. William Engdahl (2023-05-14). How Blackrock Investment Fund Triggered the Global Energy Crisis. globalresearch.ca The energy crisis is a long-planned strategy of western corporate capital to dismantle industrial economies in the name of a dystopian Green Agenda. That has its roots well before February 2022, when Russia launched its military action in Ukraine.

Ricardo Vaz (2023-05-13). Venezuela: Oil Output Reaches Three-Year High, Chevron Eyes Production Increase. venezuelanalysis.com Caracas is also looking to secure renewed investment and credit lines from China.

Bianca Graulau, Laura Quintero, The Real News. (2023-05-13). Puerto Ricans Occupy Land To Resist Displacement. popularresistance.org In front of a mural that reads "Only the people save the people," Marisel Robles Gutiérrez stood before a group of elderly adults, to make an announcement: the non-profit organization Comedores Sociales had gained ownership of the abandoned property that they occupied in 2017 by negotiating with a real estate investment company. | With a slightly cracked voice and smiling, she said: "We rescued this building… we gave it life, and thanks to all these years, to all the people who have participated," —she interrupted and placed her hands to her chest— "finally, we can announce today that it is ours."

Editor (2023-05-13). Big bad Canada pushes to protect profits from Mexico. mronline.org The Trudeau government is pressing Mexico to maintain its loosely regulated, pro-capitalist mining policies.

midwesternmarx (2023-05-13). Beware those who try to discredit Leninism from a "decolonial" angle By: Rainer Shea. midwesternmarx.com Capitalism will co-opt anything, so long as it can be used to make profits or to aid its narrative campaigns. It doesn't care about how "left" or "radical" an idea is, all it cares about is its potential utility within the class war. That's where the phenomenon I'm going to talk about comes from: a project by the narrative managers of bourgeois class power to create a controlled opposition. To cultivate a leftism, or even a "communism,&rdquo …

Tyler Walicek (2023-05-13). For-Profit Child Care Chains See Opportunity to Monopolize Imperiled Industry. truthout.org On April 18, the Biden administration announced a set of executive orders aimed at mitigating the ongoing crises that have wracked the U.S. child care industry. At first glance, it appeared that President Joe Biden was taking steps toward fulfilling a longtime promise of his campaign and revisiting a priority of his signature (and failed) "Build Back Better" (BBB) initiative. |

Peter Koenig (2023-05-14). WHO's Worldwide Power Grab: Beware of the New International Health Regulation and Pandemic Treaty, a Health Tyranny Never Heard of Before in Human History. globalresearch.ca

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-14). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…

ecns.cn (2023-05-14). Supervision tightened on cosmetic medicine. ecns.cn Eleven central departments including the State Administration for Market Regulation, the National Health Commission and the Ministry of Public Security recently released a guideline to strengthen supervision of the medical cosmetology industry to regulate the industry's development and protect consumers' rights.

Tony Kirby (2023-05-13). World Report] Australia to introduce sweeping e-cigarette regulations. thelancet.com Citing the risk of vaping in young people, Australia plans to make e-cigarettes available only with a prescription. Tony Kirby reports.

Adrian P Mundt, Carlos Ibáñez (2023-05-13). Correspondence] Beyond the dichotomy of drug regulations and prohibitions. thelancet.com Based on observations around the US opioid crisis and cannabis legalisation in Uruguay, Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch and Diederik Lohman made a call to the public health community to challenge drug prohibition.1 It remains unspecified whether the call suggests legalising all drugs internationally or refers to advocating for evidence-based drug policy. The US opioid epidemic, related to legal prescription drugs in a specific geopolitical context, has health outcomes which differ from those of cannabis or other drugs.

Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, Diederik Lohman (2023-05-13). Correspondence] Beyond the dichotomy of drug regulations and prohibitions — Authors' reply. thelancet.com In response to our Comment1 calling for a move from drug prohibition to regulation, Adrian Mundt and Carlos Ibáñez question whether a dichotomy between prohibition and regulation truly exists. They note that there are "forms of regulation that do not seem to contradict market prohibitions", including decriminalisation and regulation of opioid substitution therapies. They also argue that there is "not sufficient evidence supporting that countries should further legalise cannabis or other drugs".

Maya Miller, Pro Publica. (2023-05-13). Health Insurance Claim Denied? popularresistance.org When a health insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, the company generates a file around your claim. All the records associated with your case should be part of your file. This includes documents explaining the reasons your claim was denied. | You have a right to see this file. Federal regulations require most health insurance plans to give people an opportunity to review documents related to their claim for free. So if your insurer talks to your doctor, if a nurse takes notes, or if two people speak about it on the phone, all of those records should be available to you.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-13). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…

Adrian P Mundt, Carlos Ibáñez (2023-05-13). Correspondence] Beyond the dichotomy of drug regulations and prohibitions. thelancet.com Based on observations around the US opioid crisis and cannabis legalisation in Uruguay, Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch and Diederik Lohman made a call to the public health community to challenge drug prohibition.1 It remains unspecified whether the call suggests legalising all drugs internationally or refers to advocating for evidence-based drug policy. The US opioid epidemic, related to legal prescription drugs in a specific geopolitical context, has health outcomes which differ from those of cannabis or other drugs.

midwesternmarx (2023-05-13). April 15,2023 – Philosophy and the Struggle for a New Human Future By: Saturday Free School. midwesternmarx.com We are publishing a transcript of Dr. Anthony Monteiro's opening remarks from the Saturday Free School's April 15, 2023 session on Hegel's Science of Logic and Artificial Intelligence. The Free School meets every Saturday at 10: 30 AM, and is streamed live on Facebook and YouTube. Artwork by Serafina Harris ​I just wanted to say a few things about why Hegel, why we're reading Hegel and how we want to read Hegel and the context for our rea …

midwesternmarx (2023-05-13). We must speak up before the propagandists get their war with China By: John Pilger. midwesternmarx.com Where are the voices that speak up against fascism, war, and propaganda, asks renowned journalist John Pilger as he surveys the past decade of dirty tricks perpetrated by the United States and its allies The Congress of American Writers that was held in New York City took a firm stand against fascism and war. Photo: Daily Worker / People's World Archives Speak up. Now.In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They cal …

youtube (2023-05-13). David Harvey on capital, theory, and becoming a Marxist. youtube.com For fifty years David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world's foremost Marx scholars.

Mickey Z. (2023-05-13). Why Can't I Question Capitalism without Being Called a "Socialist"? dissidentvoice.org "The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital." (Michael Parenti) For as long as I've been writing, giving public talks, and all that, I have offered informed critiques of capitalism. For as long as I've been offering informed critiques of capitalism, I get replies like this: "I suppose you …

WSWS (2023-05-13). Jordan Neely's murder on the New York City subway and the terminal crisis of capitalism. wsws.org Daniel Penny was charged Friday with second-degree manslaughter ten days after he killed the 30-year-old homeless man with a chokehold.

Mickey Z. (2023-05-13). Why Can't I Question Capitalism without Being Called a "Socialist"? dissidentvoice.org "The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital." (Michael Parenti) For as long as I've been writing, giving public talks, and all that, I have offered informed critiques of capitalism. For as long as I've been offering informed critiques of capitalism, I get replies like this: "I suppose you …

Ben Norton (2023-05-14). US corporations in the wings for post-war Ukraine. indybay.org The IMF granted large loans to the invaded country and enforces the so-called neoliberal "Washington Consensus"[1]. In a major privatization campaign, the Ukrainian government is selling off state assets. U.S. corporations such as ExxonMobil, Chevron and Halliburton participate in negotiations to take over the oil and gas industry of the Eastern European country.

Ben Norton (2023-05-13). US corporations in the wings for post-war Ukraine. indybay.org The IMF granted large loans to the invaded country and enforces the so-called neoliberal "Washington Consensus"[1]. In a major privatization campaign, the Ukrainian government is selling off state assets. U.S. corporations such as ExxonMobil, Chevron and Halliburton participate in negotiations to take over the oil and gas industry of the Eastern European country.

teleSUR (2023-05-14). Greek PM Rules Out Cooperation With Socialists After Elections. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis ruled out the prospect of cooperation with the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK-KINAL) to form a coalition government after the upcoming general elections. | RELATED: | "I don't believe that at this moment there is margin for any cooperation with PASOK after the May 21 elections, even if the numbers could lead to a government that would receive the confidence vote fro…

Julie Varughese, Toward Freedom. (2023-05-14). First Public Comments After African People's Socialist Party Members Indicted. popularresistance.org Saint Petersburg, Florida—Three of the four U.S.-based defendants in the U.S. government's case about a conspiracy with Russia to sow social discord spoke out May 10 for the first time since indictments dropped last month. | "It's important to note where there's some troubling aspects of this case, where the federal government is using federal criminal law to stifle dissenting voices," said Leonard Goodman, attorney for Penny Hess, chair of the African People's Solidarity Committee. The committee formed in 1976 in Saint Petersburg for white people to organize in the white community for reparations to Africa…

Suds, Snacks, Socialism Forum Committee (2023-05-14). Saturday 5/13: Climate Chaos: An Existential Crisis. indybay.org The Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705 | also by ZOOM Please register in advance at | bit.ly/ClimateChaos-230506 | to receive your personal link to participate in this event online…

Olujimi Alade (2023-05-13). When will they come for your job? workers.org First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because . . . |

Suds, Snacks, Socialism Forum Committee (2023-05-13). Saturday 5/13: Climate Chaos: An Existential Crisis. indybay.org The Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705 | also by ZOOM Please register in advance at | bit.ly/ClimateChaos-230506 | to receive your personal link to participate in this event online…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-13). Communist-backed student movement emerges as leading force in in Greek university elections. peoplesdispatch.org Panspoudastiki KS, which is backed by the Communist Youth of Greece, won 19,632 votes, securing over 35.04% of the total votes polled for the student unions of 266 universities across Greece on May 10…

Fight Back (2023-05-13). Philippines: U.S. builds secret military facilities in Ilocos Norte. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following article from the journal of the Communist party of the Philippines, Ang Bayan ("The People"). | American soldiers, together with the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), are rushing to build its military bases in Barangay Bobon, Burgos, Ilocos Norte. This location is not among those announced by the Marcos government where the US will build facilities under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA). | The U.S. claimed 30 hectares of land to position 40 howitzer cannons. There are buildings that American soldiers themselves admit are used for monitorin…

greenleft.org.au (2023-05-13). Austria: What's behind the historic Communist surge in Salzburg? greenleft.org.au The Communist Party of Austria (KPàñ) stunned many with its historic vote in the generally conservative Austrian state of Salzburg.

thecommunists (2023-05-13). Remembering the 1980 armed uprising against imperalism in Gwangju, Korea. thecommunists.org This article is reproduced from Platform News, with thanks. ***** The Gwangju people's uprising was a popular uprising of the people of Gwangju, Jeollanam-do, south Korea, in May 1980, to oppose the fascistic dictatorship and to achieve democratic freedoms and rights. This armed uprising founded a people's commune that lasted for ten days, from 18 …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-13). Communist-backed student movement emerges as leading force in in Greek university elections. peoplesdispatch.org Panspoudastiki KS, which is backed by the Communist Youth of Greece, won 19,632 votes, securing over 35.04% of the total votes polled for the student unions of 266 universities across Greece on May 10…

Fight Back (2023-05-13). Philippines: U.S. builds secret military facilities in Ilocos Norte. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following article from the journal of the Communist party of the Philippines, Ang Bayan ("The People"). | American soldiers, together with the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), are rushing to build its military bases in Barangay Bobon, Burgos, Ilocos Norte. This location is not among those announced by the Marcos government where the US will build facilities under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA). | The U.S. claimed 30 hectares of land to position 40 howitzer cannons. There are buildings that American soldiers themselves admit are used for monitorin…

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