(2023-06-27). Highlights of Chinese premier's speech at 2023 Summer Davos in Tianjin. ecns.cn Chinese Premier Li Qiang delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum's (WEF) 14th Annual Meeting of the New Champions, also known as Summer Davos Forum, in north China's Tianjin Municipality on Tuesday.
(2023-06-27). China's strong economic recovery helps boost confidence in global economy. ecns.cn China has maintained a steady economic recovery this year against the backdrop of multiple global challenges, and the growth is set to accelerate in the second quarter, the country's top regulator for State-owned assets said on Tuesday.
(2023-06-27). US Woos India's Far-Right PM Modi To Help Wage New Cold War on China. orinocotribune.com 
By Ben Norton — Jun 24, 2023 | The US government is trying to divide the BRICS bloc and recruit India for its new cold war on China. Biden doesn't care that far-right Prime Minister Modi is closely linked to fascistic Hindu-supremacist groups that violently oppress minorities. | India's far-right Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a historic trip to the United States this June. | President Joe Biden rolled out the proverbial
(2023-06-27). Late night thoughts from a dialectical transfeminist. mronline.org 
An economy of representation has done folks like Jordan Neely and Banko Brown an incredible disservice. TERFs have seized upon their deaths to justify carceral deputization among non-police actors, triangulating their respective forms of manhood and their overall embodiments with a threat to public safety and to asset protection.
(2023-06-27). US Anticipated More Bloodshed In Wagner's Mutiny. southfront.org 
Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher | The US expected the mutiny attempt by the private military company Wagner to be "a great deal more violent and bloody" than it actually was. Unfortunately for Washington, a Bolshevik-like revolution was not repeated to usurp Russia's war effort. At the same time, the head of EU Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, incorrectly espouses that the Russian military will soon crack. | According to US media reports…
(2023-06-26). Premier stresses strong global growth. ecns.cn Premier Li Qiang has stressed the importance of making concerted efforts in resuming world economic growth and addressing global challenges, ahead of the 14th Annual Meeting of the New Champions, also known as the Summer Davos Forum.
(2023-06-26). Summer Davos welcomes guests offline after 4 years. ecns.cn About 1,500 participants from business, government, civil society, international organizations and academia are to gather in North China's Tianjin for the World Economic Forum's (WEF) 14th Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC).
(2023-06-27). Argentina Recovers the Dictatorship's 'Death Plane'. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernandez-Kirchner and the Minister of Economy and presidential pre-candidate for the Union for the Homeland Sergio Massa led a ceremony where the Skyvan PA-51 plane, used during the "death flights," was presented. | RELATED: | During the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983), this plane threw twelve illegally detained citizens into the water in 1977, including three of…
(2023-06-26). Corporate profits were biggest driver of inflation in Europe, IMF admits. geopoliticaleconomy.com 
Rising corporate profits have caused 45% of inflation in Europe, compared to 40% for rising import prices and just 15% for workers' wages, according to research by IMF economists.
(2023-06-27). Forum promotes development of SMEs in Asia-Pacific. ecns.cn Economies in the Asia-Pacific region should work together to promote the sustainable development of small and medium-sized enterprises, given the unstable and unbalanced trend of the global economic recovery.
(2023-06-27). Premier Li meets with Executive Chairman of World Economic Forum. ecns.cn Premier Li Qiang meets with Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Klaus Schwab in Tianjin, June 26, 2023.
(2023-06-27). Saturday 7/1: Non-binary economics: the walking tour. indybay.org meet in the lobby of the American Youth Hostel | 312 Mason Street | San Francisco…
(2023-06-27). President Maduro Calls on CELAC to Build a Latin American Bloc With 'Its Own Identity'. orinocotribune.com 
This Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro called for the construction of a political, economic and social power bloc to unite the region and achieve a long-awaited Latin American identity. | "The construction of a Latin American and Caribbean identity positioned in the spirit of the continent's peoples will be a great opportunity to build a large block of political, social, cultural, economic and integral power in the region that will put us in the rhythm and at the level we need to be able to move forward in this 21st century and the centuries to come," said President Maduro on Monday, June 26, during his…
(2023-06-27). The US Lacks Credibility, But All Is Not Lost. southfront.org 
Written by James M. Dorsey | A recent poll of Arab public opinion suggests US credibility has taken a hit, but all is not lost. | That is if the United States realizes that Middle Easterners judge the US on glaring inconsistencies in its domestic and foreign policies rather than on its cultural, technological, and economic attributes. | The discrepancy between US policies and professed values has always existed. However, it's become more evident and relevant and more of a liabili…
(2023-06-27). Negotiations stall between UPS and Teamsters as bargaining moves to economic issues. fightbacknews.org Washington, DC – The International Brotherhood of Teamsters and United Parcel Service wrapped up bargaining on all non-economic issues on Tuesday, June 20. The following day, economic proposals were shared, marking a new phase in negotiations. | The union and the company have been negotiating a new national contract. The existing five-year agreement will expire on July 31. The Teamsters' new General President Sean O'Brien has promised to deliver the best UPS contract in the union's history. On a UPS Teamsters member update webinar, Sean O'Brien spoke on the progress of the contract negotiations. Tentative agreeme…
(2023-06-27). New York City Council calls for ending U.S. blockade of Cuba. peoplesworld.org 
NEW YORK—The New York City Council has passed a resolution calling for an end to the U.S. political and economic blockade on Cuba. The resolution, passing with a vote of 25 out of 51 members, represents a toward ending the U.S.-led blockade and removing Cuba from the "State Sponsor of Terrorism" list. From D.C. to …
(2023-06-27). Sergei Lavrov on western imperialism, nazism and the rise of the global south. thecommunists.org The following interview with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov was conducted by RT at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (Spief) in June. It is reproduced here with thanks. ***** RT: Hello, Mr Lavrov, thank you for agreeing to speak with us. Hello. RT: Let's start with Ukraine. As we all know, the western countries …
(2023-06-27). In Historic First, Workers Unionize at 2 Major Farmers' Market Nonprofits. truthout.org This year, workers from GrowNYC and FRESHFARM, two sustainable food access nonprofits in New York City and the Washington, D.C. metro area respectively, formed unions. Workers who support and organize farmers markets, compost programs, and other initiatives will begin collectively bargaining for higher wages and job security in the coming months for the first time in the history of the industry. |
(2023-06-27). President Maduro Calls on CELAC to Build a Latin American Bloc With 'Its Own Identity'. orinocotribune.com This Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro called for the construction of a political, economic and social power bloc to unite the region and achieve a long-awaited Latin American identity. | "The construction of a Latin American and Caribbean identity positioned in the spirit of the continent's peoples will be a great opportunity to build a large block of political, social, cultural, economic and integral power in the region that will put us in the rhythm and at the level we need to be able to move forward in this 21st century and the centuries to come," said President Maduro on Monday, June 26, during his…
(2023-06-27). The US Lacks Credibility, But All Is Not Lost. southfront.org Written by James M. Dorsey | A recent poll of Arab public opinion suggests US credibility has taken a hit, but all is not lost. | That is if the United States realizes that Middle Easterners judge the US on glaring inconsistencies in its domestic and foreign policies rather than on its cultural, technological, and economic attributes. | The discrepancy between US policies and professed values has always existed. However, it's become more evident and relevant and more of a liabili…
(2023-06-27). Negotiations stall between UPS and Teamsters as bargaining moves to economic issues. fightbacknews.org Washington, DC – The International Brotherhood of Teamsters and United Parcel Service wrapped up bargaining on all non-economic issues on Tuesday, June 20. The following day, economic proposals were shared, marking a new phase in negotiations. | The union and the company have been negotiating a new national contract. The existing five-year agreement will expire on July 31. The Teamsters' new General President Sean O'Brien has promised to deliver the best UPS contract in the union's history. On a UPS Teamsters member update webinar, Sean O'Brien spoke on the progress of the contract negotiations. Tentative agreeme…
(2023-06-27). New York City Council calls for ending U.S. blockade of Cuba. peoplesworld.org NEW YORK—The New York City Council has passed a resolution calling for an end to the U.S. political and economic blockade on Cuba. The resolution, passing with a vote of 25 out of 51 members, represents a toward ending the U.S.-led blockade and removing Cuba from the "State Sponsor of Terrorism" list. From D.C. to …
(2023-06-27). Sergei Lavrov on western imperialism, nazism and the rise of the global south. thecommunists.org The following interview with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov was conducted by RT at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (Spief) in June. It is reproduced here with thanks. ***** RT: Hello, Mr Lavrov, thank you for agreeing to speak with us. Hello. RT: Let's start with Ukraine. As we all know, the western countries …
(2023-06-27). In Historic First, Workers Unionize at 2 Major Farmers' Market Nonprofits. truthout.org This year, workers from GrowNYC and FRESHFARM, two sustainable food access nonprofits in New York City and the Washington, D.C. metro area respectively, formed unions. Workers who support and organize farmers markets, compost programs, and other initiatives will begin collectively bargaining for higher wages and job security in the coming months for the first time in the history of the industry. |
(2023-06-27). Saturday 7/15: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Poverty by America, by Matthew Desmond. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.
(2023-06-27). The Battle Against Poverty: An Alternative Revolutionary Practice in China's Post-Revolutionary Era. dongshengnews.org 
The end of an era of radical revolution does not mean that revolution becomes relegated to memory. As globalisation continues to expand, countries governed by revolutionary parties face the challenge of completing unfinished revolutionary missions. Since 2012, the Communist Party of China has elevated poverty alleviation to a central task for the whole party and society, as part of its efforts to revitalise revolutionary practice and symbolism in…
(2023-06-27). How Targeted Poverty Alleviation Has Changed the Structure of Rural Governance in China. dongshengnews.org 
Unlike the Chinese government's conventional poverty alleviation efforts, the targeted poverty alleviation program has exhibited the distinct characteristics of campaign-style governance. From the central to local governments, massive amounts of human and material resources have been mobilised and a number of exceptional measures have been implemented. Due to the success of targeted poverty alleviation in addressing weaknesses in rural governance and achieving its objectives, the campaign has the potential to effect long-term changes through institutionalisation of its practices and methodologies.
(2023-06-27). Why the way we measure poverty matters. nationofchange.org
(2023-06-27). Labor breaks election promise with new income management card. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-06-26). The Unfolding Medicaid Disaster. popularresistance.org As states have begun clearing out their Medicaid rolls for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly three quarters of the Americans who've lost coverage have been terminated not because they're ineligible for the low-income health insurance program, but due to administrative reasons, such as failing to quickly respond to a piece of mail. | In February, President Joe Biden bragged in his State of the Union speech that "more Americans have health insurance now than ever in history." Biden made that comment six weeks after he set the stage to massively increase the United States' uninsured pop…
(2023-06-27). Podcast: Artificial Intelligence and capitalism. greenleft.org.au Green Left's Jacob Andrewartha spoke to Aishik Saha, an activist with All India Students Association and a researcher on digital and algorithmic labour, about the development of artificial intelligence under capitalism.
(2023-06-27). SF Castro Starbucks Workers Strike On PRIDE Day "No Contract No Coffee" Fight For Justice. indybay.org Over 150 Starbucks stores were struck on PRIDE day around the country. In San Francisco Starbucks workers at the Castro store talked about their issues.
(2023-06-27). Ian Masters CIA Operative Protested At KPFA In Berkeley. indybay.org
(2023-06-27). Italian unions call for a strike of employees at US military bases. plenglish.com Rome, Jun 27 (Prensa Latina) Italian unions called for a strike of employees at U.S. military bases in this country, for June 29 and 30, to demand their labor rights, according to a press release.
(2023-06-27). World Forum on Cities and Territories of Peace begins in Bogota. plenglish.com It is a scenario for dialogue and collaborative work focused on building solutions and institutional and social tools, which may contribute to the construction of sustained peace in cities, territories and communities. | This will be a space for the meeting of local governments, international organizations, civil society, academia and the private sector to advance in a conversation about the conditions that must be in place for peace, based on social justice, environmental justice and human security. | The event will be developed along five thematic axes: Territorial peace, Environmental peace, Women, peace and…
(2023-06-27). ECLAC seminar in Chile to analyze labor inclusion. plenglish.com Santiago de Chile, Jun 27 (Prensa Latina) The Third Regional Seminar on Social Integration will be held in Chile from Tuesday to Friday with the purpose of discussing options to achieve labor inclusion, as a way to overcome inequalities and informality.
(2023-06-27). Mayo Clinic and University of Minnesota announce new pathway program for training nurse-midwives. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences and the University of Minnesota School of Nursing are collaborating to create a new academic pathway for nurse-midwives that will expand the nurse-midwifery workforce in the Upper Midwest. The collaboration creates a pathway for students admitted to the University of Minnesota School of Nursing's Doctor of Nursing Practice program to complete the approximately 1,000 hours of required clinical training at Mayo Clinic hospitals in Minnesota and…
(2023-06-27). Australian union shuts down industrial action by New South Wales health workers. wsws.org The Health Services Union has given workers no information about what, if any, concessions Labor has offered, but they have been told to stand aside while the union bureaucracy continues to hold backroom meetings with the government.
(2023-06-26). Chinese-American Worker and Activist Arrested for Advocating for Peace Between US and China. orinocotribune.com By Natalia Marques — Jun 22, 2023 | Li Tang "Henry" Liang, a hotel worker active in his Boston local union, was suspended from his job after being indicted on federal charges | Labor leaders and organizers are banding together to demand justice for Chinese-American unionized worker and activist Li Tang "Henry" Liang. Liang was indicted and then arrested in early May in Boston in retaliation for exercising his free speech rights. "The federal government has targeted Liang for advocating peaceful relations between the US and China,"
(2023-06-27). CPSU campaigns to restore the Commonwealth Employment Service. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-06-27). Oxfam reveals how rich nations are helping for-profit health industry exploit poor patients. nationofchange.org Development finance institutions run by wealthy countries have fueled "a free-for-all of private greed over public good," the humanitarian group shows in a new report.
(2023-06-26). Food Is Not a Commodity, It's a Human Right: Pueblo a Pueblo Builds Food Sovereignty. libya360.wordpress.com Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert Pueblo a Pueblo is a grassroots plan for organizing the production, distribution, and consumption of food that connects agricultural producers with urban dwellers. In so doing, the project breaks with the despotic dictates of the capitalist market. In the first of this three-part piece in the Communal Resistance Series,…
(2023-06-27). Car Plants Are Making Medical Equipment – And Things Should Stay That Way. indybay.org The time has come for progressive nationalization and socialization. This includes the financial sector, because only if we gain control over the financing of socially necessary areas of production will it be possible to ensure that we as a society can plan our future and the future of our finite planet democratically and thus avert the impending climate catastrophe.
(2023-06-27). Cuban President Describes Today ¥s Financial Order Unfair, Exclusive. orinocotribune.com Paris, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Thursday urged for an international financial order that helps stop countries of the South plunging into underdevelopment and subjecting them to domination of outdated institutions. | At the Summit, called by France for a New World Financial Pact, the Cuban leader who is attending as G-77+China Chairman described present financial order as unfair, anti-democratic, speculative and exclusive. | Díaz…
(2023-06-27). FEC Complaint: DeSantis Campaigns Received Illegal Donations From Canadian Firm. truthout.org The Canadian financial services company ECN Capital was hit with a Federal Election Commission complaint on Monday for allegedly donating to the state political committees of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in violation of U.S. campaign finance laws. The complaint filed by the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is the second in recent weeks involving DeSantis, who CLC says violated federal law by transferring… |
(2023-06-27). Bank for International Settlements report charts a financial system in crisis. wsws.org A key feature of the analysis is that measures taken by governments and central banks at one point in time, which appeared to be a rational response to overcome dangers to financial stability, only created the conditions for the eruption of even more severe turbulence.
(2023-06-26). Soaring inflation and interest rates is the final part of their plan. expose-news.com Dr. Vernon Coleman was right to warn about soaring inflation and interest rates in 2020. The politicians and bankers knew too. Here's the video. with a transcript, Dr. Vernon Coleman made about …
(2023-06-27). An Independent Audit of US Funding for Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Heather Kaiser, Anya Parampil, Max Blumenthal In the absence of official scrutiny of Washington's spending spree on Ukraine, The Grayzone conducted an independent audit of US funding for the country. We discovered a series of seemingly wasteful, highly unusual expenditures the Biden administration has yet to explain. During a recent discussion with New York Times columnist…
(2023-06-27). Is USA Defense Spending Closer to 1,400 Billion Dollars? globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-27). All aboard the gravy train: an independent audit of US funding for Ukraine. thegrayzone.com In the absence of official scrutiny of Washington's spending spree on Ukraine, The Grayzone conducted an independent audit of US funding for the country. We discovered a series of seemingly wasteful, unusual expenditures the Biden administration has yet to explain. During a recent discussion with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Samantha Power, touted her organization's push to guarantee transparency for US taxpayer funds sent to Ukraine. "We are involved …
(2023-06-27). People's Action Homes Guarantee Campaign Rallies at National Multifamily Housing Council for Tenant Protections. peoplesaction.org People's Action Members from Across the Country Called Out NMHC's Profiteering for Corporate Landlords WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Homes Guarantee campaign today hosted an 1000-person rally at the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) headquarters to expose the group's lobbying against federal tenant protections and rent regulations. NMHC represents some of the most notorious corporate landlords that rake …
(2023-06-27). People's Action Rallies 1000 at America's Health Insurance Plans to Demand Lobby Group Put Care Over Cost. peoplesaction.org People's Action Members from Across the Country Exposed AHIP's Profiteering for Corporate Health Insurers WASHINGTON, D.C. — People's Actions' Care Over Cost campaign today hosted a 1000-person rally at America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) headquarters to demand it and its members put people's health over corporate profit. AHIP's membership includes some of the biggest private health …
(2023-06-27). Pandemic Leaders Were Biodefense Puppets and Profiteers. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-27). Trump escalates fascistic rants against socialism and Marxism. wsws.org The ex-president has increasingly tied his return to power to an open embrace of McCarthyite anticommunism.
(2023-06-26). Learning from the barricade: Marx, Engels and the 1848 June Days uprising. mronline.org 
175 years on from the 1848 June Days insurrection, Katherine Connelly explores what Paris' working-class revolutionaries taught Marx and Engels.
(2023-06-27). NSW hospital workers strike over wages. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-06-27). International Mental Health. jamanetwork.com The World Congress on "Mental Health and World Citizenship" scheduled for August 1948 in London will discuss (1) problems of world citizenship and good group relationship; (2) the individual and society; (3) family problems and psychologic disturbances; (4) planning for mental health organization, training propaganda, and (5) mental health in industry and industrial relations. Committees and discussion groups have been established composed of psychologists, psychiatrists, sociologists, educators, anthropologists and members of other technical groups in the human sciences. The object of the Congress is to find are…
(2023-06-27). Socialism 3.0: The Practice and Prospects of Socialism in China. dongshengnews.org 
Discussions on socialism and its potential future forms, must place socialism in the context of existing historical processes, in the context of industrialised mass production, and analyse the complex interaction between the ideal of equality and the material realities of production. China's socialist project has passed through two phases, under Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping; today, it must construct a 'Socialism 3.0' that builds upon the previous eras and addresses their shortcomings, by advancing working-class interests and combating inequality.
(2023-06-27). Challenges, benefits of AI examined. ecns.cn The two-day event attracted 400 people from international organizations, world-leading internet companies and industrial institutions.
(2023-06-27). Cuba produces effective radiopharmaceuticals for medical diagnosis. plenglish.com For the first time, the country produces positronic radiopharmaceuticals; labeled with a | radionuclide obtained in a cyclotron. Its introduction into the National Health System allows a qualitative leap in applying more precise oncological treatment techniques. | Its commercial name is F-Glutep, and the molecule has been recorded at the Cuban Industrial Property Office, Granma newspaper reports. | The Nuclear Energy and Advanced Technologies Agency awarded the work "Results of the introduction of the 18F-FDG molecule in the National Health System" with one of its 2022 prizes.
(2023-06-27). Victory in Peru as corporations denied right to exploit Indigenous lands. peoplesworld.org 
Activists welcomed on Saturday the decision by lawmakers to drop plans for a new law labelled a "Genocide Bill" by Peru's Indigenous people. The bill would have opened up Indigenous lands for industrial exploitation by domestic and foreign capital—particularly for the extraction of lithium, copper, and other precious minerals. In a dramatic reversal of fortune …
(2023-06-26). MintPress News Is Being Targeted: Join Us in Standing up to the War Machine. mintpressnews.com 
Stand up for truth. Stand up against war. Today, we invite you to join us in empowering MintPress News, the vanguard of fearless investigative journalism that unearths the hidden web of the military industrial complex.
(2023-06-26). Bitcoin Rises To $31,000: 2 Factors On Why. moguldom.com 
The price of Bitcoin hit a 12-month high on Friday and held above $30,000 over the weekend after briefly touching $31,000, fulfilling bullish expectations after weeks of sideways trading. Bitcoin gained 15.6 percent last week according to data from monitoring resource CoinGlass, before falling Monday as traders took stock after last week's rally. Bitcoin was trading at …
(2023-06-27). The Failed Coup in Russia: Preliminary Assessment [Brian Becker Seminar Preview]. soundcloud.com In this patrons-only Q&A seminar, Brian analyzes the attempted coup in Russia by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his troops from the mercenary Wagner group. Brian discusses who Prigozhin is, why mercenaries are working for Russia, how this happened, how this compares with Trump's efforts to stay in the White House after losing the 2020 election, and …
(2023-06-27). Putting the Squeeze on Hope: Ford Government Hacks Toronto School Budget. socialistproject.ca 
One hundred and twenty kids are sitting in the Toronto District School Board's (TDSB) Brookview Middle School auditorium listening to Mohamed Ahmed talk to them about possibility and hope. It's happened this way for a few years as his group, Success Beyond Limits (SBL), makes its pitch to students who are considering high schools in the area like Westview Centennial from which SBL operates its program to guide young people through the tough years of secondary school. It's a time — especially post-COVID, that's fraught with tough personal decisions and the likely realization that opportunity is written wi…
(2023-06-27). At the Stonewall Rebellion, crowd rage ignites. workers.org 
Originally published June 15, 2006, this column was part of Leslie Feinberg's series on the connections between LGBTQ2S and socialist history. The 120-part "Lavender & Red," which appeared in Workers World from 2004 to 2008, is available for free download at workers.org/book/lavender-red. A number of accounts of the confrontation between . . . |
(2023-06-27). Strikes erupt across Spain as snap general election campaign begins. wsws.org Mass strikes are erupting across Spain on the eve of the snap elections called by the Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government after its electoral debacle last month.
(2023-06-26). Xi lauds youths as hope of nation, CPC. ecns.cn Xi Jinping called on Monday for the new central leadership of the Communist Youth League of China to better rally the nation's younger generation around the Party and make persistent efforts toward national rejuvenation.
(2023-06-27). Cuba and Vietnam strengthen historic ties of brotherhood. plenglish.com Havana, Jun 27 (Prensa Latina) Cuba and Vietnam reaffirmed their historical and fraternal relations with the visit of Le Hoai Trung, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), to Havana.