2023-06-29: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2023-06-29). China, EU eye win-win at biz, tech fair. ecns.cn The upcoming 17th EU-China Business and Technology Cooperation Fair is expected to create more growth points for companies on both sides amid multiple challenges facing the global economy.

ecns.cn (2023-06-29). Infrastructure project flurry helps spur economy amid headwinds. ecns.cn The nation's infrastructure-building rush is expected to remain in high gear this month as a market observer reported that nearly 20 high-priority projects worth over 1 billion yuan ($138.3 million) each have been approved in just the first two weeks of this month.

Jim McIlroy (2023-06-29). Venezuela shows Australia the way on housing. greenleft.org.au Four million low-cost homes were delivered to Venezuelan citizens in April last year, as part of a national social housing program, despite attempts by the United States to cripple the country's economy, reports Jim McIlroy.

ecns.cn (2023-06-29). MNC eyes great potential in China's data management market. ecns.cn As an increasing number of Chinese companies pursue data-centric decision-making at the heart of their business, cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies are expected to play a bigger role in today's data-driven economy in China.

ecns.cn (2023-06-29). The third China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo kicks off in Hunan. ecns.cn The third China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo (CAETE) kicked off on Thursday in Changsha, Central China's Hunan Province, an event which is expected to take China-Africa trade to a new level.

teleSUR (2023-06-29). Greek PM Mitsotakis Outlines New Government's Priorities. telesurenglish.net Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis outlined the priorities of the new government at the first cabinet meeting on Wednesday. | RELATED: | "Our four general directions are better wages, a better public health system, a better state, a better life in a strong Greece," he said, according to Greek national broadcaster ERT. | "Without a fast-growing economy, there is no prosperous society, and growth is also the s…

Ben Norton (2023-06-28). US owes Nicaragua reparations, must implement 1986 Int'l Court of Justice ruling. geopoliticaleconomy.com 37 years after a 1986 International Court of Justice ruling, the United States still refuses to pay Nicaragua the reparations it legally owes. Today, the Nicaraguan government is demanding that the United Nations take action.

Mark Niu (2023-06-28). San Francisco faces challenges as it prepares for APEC. america.cgtn.com In November, San Francisco will host a major international trade meeting, APEC. As the city prepares, it's also facing serious challenges with its economy and once-iconic image.

Paulo Cabral (2023-06-28). Car sales spiking, boosting Brazil's economy. america.cgtn.com Brazil's program to boost the auto-industry has proven very successful. The government slashed taxes to get consumers to buy new cars.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-06-28). Video: The Engineered Destabilization of the Global Economy. Prof. Michel Chossudovsky. globalresearch.ca

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2023-06-28). Corporate Profits Were Biggest Driver Of Inflation In Europe. popularresistance.org Corporate profits have been the biggest contributor to inflation in Europe since 2021. | This is according to a study published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). | "Rising corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe's inflation over the past two years as companies increased prices by more than spiking costs of imported energy", wrote IMF economists this June. | The IMF said "companies may have to accept a smaller profit share if inflation is to remain on track to reach the European Central Bank's 2-percent target in 2025". | IMF economists Niels-Jakob Hansen, Frederik Toscani, and Jin…

ecns.cn (2023-06-28). China's industrial enterprises profit declines by 18.8% in Jan-May. ecns.cn Profit of China's industrial enterprises above a designated scale hit 2.67 trillion yuan ($369.37 billion) from January to May in 2023, declining by 18.8 percent year-on-year.

ecns.cn (2023-06-29). Role of manufacturing in recovery hailed. ecns.cn Manufacturing is playing an increasingly important role in bolstering economic recovery in Asia, creating a wide range of jobs and ensuring the stability and prosperity of society.

Rhoda Wilson (2023-06-29). Klaus Schwab says he is eager to learn from China their vision for the world. expose-news.com At the World Economic Forum's Summer Davos on Tuesday, Klaus Schwab expressed his admiration for Chinese officials saying that "we" appreciate the long-term support from "our Chinese friends." He also praised China's …

WSWS (2023-06-29). Biden and Modi sign "ground breaking" military-technology agreements, hail enhanced Indo-US alliance. wsws.org Washington is integrating India ever more fully into its incendiary all-sided, diplomatic, economic, strategic and military offensive against China.

ecns.cn (2023-06-29). WeChat Pay to accept overseas Visa cards, facilitate foreign tourism in China. ecns.cn Visa and other international bank cards will be accepted by WeChat Pay to facilitate the payments by overseas tourists in the Chinese mainland starting from mid-July, said Royal Chen Qiru, vice-president of Tencent Financial Technology, at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions on Wednesday in Tianjin…

Staff (2023-06-28). Hondurans Fight Private Cities Run by U.S. Companies as Gov't Sued for Outlawing "Neocolonial Project" democracynow.org In Honduras, communities are fighting back against privatization and foreign exploitation after Honduran President Xiomara Castro and Congress repealed a law that established so-called Economic Development and Employment Zones, where private companies have "functional and administrative autonomy" from the national government. Now a Delaware-based company called Próspera has launched a case to challenge the repeal of the law under the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement and is seeking almost $11 billion, which amounts to nearly two-thirds of the country's entire…

_____ (2023-06-28). Turkey is placed in an "economic vice" by the West. journal-neo.org

Amy Goodman (2023-06-28). Hondurans Fight Private Cities Run by US Companies Amid Legal Battle. truthout.org In Honduras, communities are fighting back against privatization and foreign exploitation after Honduran President Xiomara Castro and Congress repealed a law that established so-called Economic Development and Employment Zones, where private companies have "functional and administrative autonomy" from the national government. Now a Delaware-based company called Próspera has launched a case to… |

Editor (2023-06-28). Climate collapse threatens slide to fascism and war. mronline.org More and more, desperate people seeking refuge in Europe are not just fleeing from economic disaster and war. Many are also refugees from climate collapse.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-06-28). Uncapped China-Russian Cooperation. libya360.wordpress.com Wang Wen Deepening comprehensive China-Russia economic and trade cooperation is actually a puzzle, as the two countries learn from each other's strengths and make up for each other's weaknesses, writes Valdai Club expert Wang Wen. 1) China-Russia cooperation, under the impetus of internal and external factors For many years, China-Russian cooperation has not been seen favourably…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-06-28). "Strike imminent" Teamsters leaders say as they walk out of negotiations with UPS. peoplesdispatch.org In response to UPS' lowball economic proposals, Teamsters challenged the company to provide a proposal that meets worker's demands by June 30…

Sharon Zhang (2023-06-28). Just 29 Percent of Student Debtors Are Confident in Ability to Restart Payments. truthout.org Ending the student loan payment freeze may push millions of people into economic precarity, as almost 7 in 10 student debtors either won't be able to make student debt payments or will have to cut back spending in other areas when payments resume this year, a new survey found. The survey results were included in Morgan Stanley's latest consumer pulse survey of roughly 2,000 people, per Insider. |

ecns.cn (2023-06-28). Downward pressure on yuan seen temporary. ecns.cn The current downward pressure on the Chinese yuan in foreign exchange markets will be short-lived, as the country's on-track economic recovery and more economic stimulus packages in the pipeline will help support the currency's valuation.

Staff (2023-06-28). Poverty 4th Leading Cause of Death in U.S. as Calls Grow for Third Reconstruction: Bishop Barber. democracynow.org Bishop William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, says it's "grotesque and immoral" that poverty is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, higher than homicide and respiratory illness, citing recent findings published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "Why do we hear so much about crime rates and opioids and gun violence in America, but poverty kills more people than all of those things?" asks Barber. He joins us to talk about the intensifying efforts of the Poor People's Campaign to end poverty and empower poor and low-wage…

WSWS (2023-06-28). UK slips down child height ranking as a result of austerity. wsws.org Austerity has devastated health generally. Height reflects diet and medical care but is also a good indicator of general living conditions such as stress, poverty and sleep quality.

greenleft.org.au (2023-06-29). Labor breaks election promise with new income management card. greenleft.org.au

WSWS (2023-06-28). Revealing accolades for ex-Australian Labor Party leader Simon Crean. wsws.org Former Liberal-National Coalition prime ministers, as well as Labor Party and trade union leaders, have lionised Crean as a "giant" of the "labour movement" and a "servant" of the nation.

ecns.cn (2023-06-28). MNCs keen on green ties in transport, logistics. ecns.cn Multinational companies in the transportation and logistics sectors are keen to deepen green collaboration with China and thus drive positive change in the energy-intensive sectors, said experts and business executives on Wednesday.

Karla Correa (2023-06-29). Immigrants resist DeSantis's attacks, force businesses across Florida to close. liberationnews.org On June 1, hundreds of Florida businesses were forced to shut their doors due to an immigrant labor strike dubbed "A Day Without Immigrants".

Labor Video Project (2023-06-29). 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.

Luis Feliz Leon, Labor Notes. (2023-06-29). Six Thousand Machinists Strike Aircraft Parts Giant In Kansas. popularresistance.org Six thousand Machinists at a key Boeing supplier, Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, Kansas, went on strike June 24 after voting down the company's "best and final offer." | "We could all go somewhere else and make similar pay," said one worker who has been at the company for 15 years and asked to be anonymous to speak freely. The average pay is around $20 hourly. | "We are fighting for insurance and language involving mandatory overtime," he said. "We really want to be able to work a reasonable amount of time and afford to pay our bills without having to work 60 to 70 hours a week. Overtime should be for a new boat…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-06-29). 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…

Rainer Shea (2023-06-29). If Marxists Try to Appeal to Radical Liberals, We'll Never Win the People's Support. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Jun 23, 2023 | Communism used to be a mainstream force in the United States. The state saw communists as capable of replicating the Russian revolution, so it orchestrated mass raids against them simply for being involved in the movement. Communists were a pivotal force in labor organizing. Communists were able to pose big enough of a threat to American capitalism's future that FDR got intimidated into implementing the New Deal. | Then the efforts to force them out of public life scared the movement's major representatives (too easily) into ceasing their operations. And when the Black libera…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-06-29). Mayo Clinic researchers pioneer AI method to predict how cells are organized in disease microenvironments. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Cells in the human body, the building blocks of life, are arranged in a precise way. That's necessary because pathways and spaces provide a means for cells to communicate, collaborate and function within the specific tissue or organ. Changes in cell arrangement can lead to uncontrolled cell growth, cell death and diseases, including cancer. Scientists at the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine and Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed an artificial intelligence method, called Spatially Informed Artificial…

Kenny Stancil (2023-06-29). Unions furious after Democratic Maine Gov. vetoes offshore wind bill over fair labor rules. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills on Monday vetoed an offshore wind development bill because she opposed an amendment requiring collective bargaining agreements for future projects, drawing condemnation from the state's largest federation of unions. | "Maine's climate motto has been 'Maine Won't Wait.' With this veto, Gov. Mill…

Maximillian Alvarez (2023-06-28). Unions must embrace migrant workers for the future of the labor movement. therealnews.com Most wealthy nations in the west have turned to migrant workers to keep a variety of industries afloat. But while the cheap labor of immigrants is welcomed, the migrants themselves are not. Canada is no exception. From the agricultural industry to the service sector, migrants can be found working under dangerous conditions for less than the minimum wage. And in many cases, unions simply aren't doing their part to organize this vital section of the workforce. Elizabeth Ha joins The Real News to discuss the plight of migrant workers in Canada and why the labor movement must embrace them for its own survival.

Pavel López Lazo (2023-06-28). Inequality is the source of child labor, claims ECLAC. plenglish.com Santiago de Chile, Jun 28 (Prensa Latina) Child labor is the result of inequality in the region, but it is also a reproducer of this scourge, according to participants at the 3rd Seminar on Social Integration held in Chile.

WSWS (2023-06-28). In Nazi diatribe, Trump calls for mass deportations of socialists and communists. wsws.org Trump speaks not just for himself. A substantial section of the ruling class is convinced that it confronts a massive social movement of workers that poses the greatest danger to its wealth and privileges.

Ana Perdigón (2023-06-29). Dan Cohen Confronts Iván Duque for Drug Trafficking Links. orinocotribune.com US journalist and activist, Dan Cohen, confronted far-right former president of Colombia, Iván Duque, over the course of a brief walk through the streets of Washington DC, in the United States, questioning the former president about his alleged links to drug traffickers and their financial support to his presidential campaign. | What Duque initially thought would be just a selfie, when Cohen greeted him this Monday, June 26, ended with an interrogation for his alleged ties to drug trafficker José Hernández, alias "àëeñe Hernández." | "He [àëeñe Hernández] paid for your campaign," the journalist told Duq…

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-06-29). India calls for concrete BRICS action against climate change. plenglish.com New Delhi, Jun 29 (Prensa Latina) The Indian Environment Minister, Bhupender Yadav, urged the BRICS nations to create financial and technological associations to tackle climate change which is affecting the world.

teleSUR (2023-06-29). 11 Homes Destroyed by Fire in Displaced Yemeni Camp. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported that A fire broke out in a camp for displaced people in western Yemen; it destroyed 11 houses. | Related: | According to the report, the fire was caused by fireworks used in the Eid al-Adha celebration in the Al-Qanawis district of Hodeida province. | Furniture, food, and livestock were consumed by the flames, but no one was injured. | The report also stated that financial aid was provided to support th…

Dana Drugmand (2023-06-28). Public pension funds have lost billions on their fossil fuel investments: New analysis. nationofchange.org "[Fossil fuel] divestments are able to create a win-win situation with higher financial returns and lower carbon footprints."

Dana Sanchez (2023-06-28). Billionaire Robert Smith Hits Cash Register Button, Sells Software Company For $4.6 Billion To IBM. moguldom.com Billionaire tech investor Robert Smith has sold software maker Apptio to IBM for $4.6 billion, more than doubling his initial $1.9 billion investment from 2019 through his buyout firm, Vista Equity Partners. Apptio is a cloud-based information technology financial planning platform. It sells online services that help companies — including the majority of the Fortune …

infobrics (2023-06-28). Saudi Arabia Reportedly in Talks to Join BRICS Bank to Enhance Financial Strength Amid De-dollarization. infobrics.org The New Development Bank (NDB), also known as the "BRICS bank," is in talks with Saudi Arabia on admitting the Middle Eastern nation as its ninth member, which would strengthen the NDB's funding options…

Pavel López Lazo (2023-06-28). Switzerland implements expanded EU sanctions against Russia. plenglish.com According to a governmental statement, Switzerland rejected, however, the sale of Leopard 1 tanks to Ukraine, while it subscribed to the sanctions approved on June 23 and effective as of Wednesday afternoon. | According to the document, the new restrictions include financial and travel restrictions on 71 individuals and 33 entities, including individuals, companies and organizations allegedly supporting the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. | In addition, the EU adopted some regulations such as asset freezes and a ban on entering or transiting Switzerland against members of the Eurasian nation's Armed…

WSWS (2023-06-28). IMF deputy chief outlines "uncomfortable truths" about inflation and financial instability. wsws.org Central bankers could be faced with a stark choice between lifting interest rates in the so-called fight against inflation and risking a financial crash in heavily indebted countries.

ecns.cn (2023-06-29). Digital euro aims to win over skeptics. ecns.cn The European Union unveiled plans on Wednesday for the bloc to join central banks around the world in the move toward a digital version of the euro, in response to changing public spending behavior.

Alliyah Lusuegro (2023-06-28). Clear the Air, Cut Military Spending. otherwords.org Just a few weeks ago, I couldn't step outside my home without pulling on my KN95 mask. | As the smoke from

Julie Conley (2023-06-28). Pension Funds Pay Huge Price for Fossil Fuel Investments, Study Shows. truthout.org Climate campaigners on Wednesday said the latest research on fossil fuel divestment should convince pension funds to pull their money out of the oil, gas, and coal sectors, as a new study found that six major U.S. funds have lost out on tens of billions of dollars by continuing to invest in fossil energy. The global campaign network Stand.earth joined the University of Waterloo in Canada in… |

ecns.cn (2023-06-29). Industrial firms' profit dip narrows on policy steps. ecns.cn China's policy efforts to alleviate the expense burden of manufacturers led to its industrial firms reporting narrowed profit declines for a third consecutive month in May, experts said on Wednesday.

Staff (2023-06-28). Headlines for June 28, 2023. democracynow.org Supreme Court Rejects GOP's Radical "Independent State Legislature Theory", Canadian Wildfire Smoke Brings Hazy Skies to Europe, "Very Unhealthy" Air Alerts in U.S. Cities, Russian Missile Strikes Restaurant in Ukraine's Kramatorsk, Killing 9 and Wounding Dozens, Belarusian President Says He Convinced Wagner Chief to Call Off Mutiny in Russia, U.S. Sanctions Companies Profiting from Wagner Group Mining Concessions in Africa, Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio Wins Reelection, Nurses in Texas and Kansas Hold One-Day Strike to Demand Safe Staffing Levels, DOJ Report Finds Mi…

Editor (2023-06-28). Replacing the capitalist dream of AI-driven profits. mronline.org The question we should be asking isn't whether AI can replace humans. It should be: why are some humans so intent on replacing the jobs that the rest of us hold, with AI?>

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-06-28). UPS Teamsters Union Struggle Is Critical for All Workers. orinocotribune.com By Gavrielle Gemma — Jun 24, 2023 | Strengthen the union for this contract and the upcoming battle to save tens of thousands of jobs from automation. | 340,000 workers, members of the Teamsters Union, worked tirelessly during the worst of the COVID pandemic. Despite exhaustion from overwork, disease, and family tragedies, they saved lives by delivering packages to those quarantined. Meanwhile, bosses at UPS lived in luxury as profits soared to $56.3 billion from 2019 to 2023. In 2023 alone, UPS says it will spend $3 billion in stock buybacks and $5.4 billion in dividends. Every penny of that profit is due to…

greenleft.org.au (2023-06-29). NSW hospital workers strike over wages. greenleft.org.au

Ann Garrison, Black Agenda Report. (2023-06-29). Human Suffering Worsens In DRC, The Heart Of Africa. popularresistance.org It's easy to think that the human suffering in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) couldn't get worse until it does, and it always does. How much more Black life will have to be sacrificed to fuel the industrial world's hunger for Congolese resource riches, meaning most of all the minerals essential to high-tech manufacturing, including state of the art weaponry? Black Africans fight one another in DRC, but all those of us on our phones, sitting in front of our laptops or in the seats of commercial and military aircraft, and in every other way wired to modern technology should know that this is our war, our hi…

WSWS (2023-06-29). Australian Ballet dancers launch industrial action against attacks on pay. wsws.org The industrial action, the first by this section of performers in more than forty years, shines a spotlight on the huge attacks carried out against entertainment workers in the first years of the pandemic.

ecns.cn (2023-06-28). Industrial net to foster high-quality growth. ecns.cn China is strengthening efforts to develop the industrial internet and build more "lighthouse factories "as part of a broader drive to foster new growth engines and propel high-quality development of its manufacturing sector.

ecns.cn (2023-06-28). Experts say green transition boosting energy ties and affordable power. ecns.cn Further efforts are expected to strengthen global energy cooperation and accelerate the clean and secure transformation of the energy industry while ensuring affordable electricity for both residential and industrial consumers…

Ricardo Vaz (2023-06-28). Venezuela: Campesino Organization Welcomes Gov't Pledges to Support Production. venezuelanalysis.com President Maduro promised a new credit line and larger crop purchases from the state.

ecns.cn (2023-06-28). Chinese modernization breaks traditional development mold, provides global opportunity: Martin Jacques. ecns.cn "China's success in modernizing, in its own way, circumstances, and conditions, has had very strong Chinese characteristics. It's not an old colonial or old imperial model, but has got a purchase on reality and prospects for China," said Martin Jacques, a world-leading expert on China, on Wednesday via video at a conference hosted by China News Service. Chinese modernization is an opportunity for the world, he noticed.

Fight Back (2023-06-28). Conservative Minneapolis city council members kill rent control while Muslim councilmembers are out for Eid. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – At the June 28 Minneapolis city council meeting, rent control policy was on the agenda for a normally non-controversial procedural vote to refer the policy to the Business, Housing, Inspection and Zoning (BIHZ) Committee. With the June 28 meeting falling on Eid, a Muslim holy day, the three Muslim council members, all of whom support rent control, were not able to attend the city council meeting. These three included the two coauthors of the rent control policy, Aisha Chughtai and Jamal Osman, as well as Council Member Jeremiah Ellison. | With three rent control supporters away, the conservativ…

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-06-29). 26th edition of Sao Paulo Forum begins. plenglish.com The event will be in session in Brasilia until July 2nd, and according to the call "it will take place in the context of a change in the correlation of forces in the region, with leftist electoral victories in 10 countries." | For the organizers, the four days of activities will be a space of exchanges and articulation of progressive, democratic and left-wing forces, focusing on the discussion of challenges and directions of the continent. | "The need to build the integration of our countries, protect our nature, peoples and sovereignty, in addition to fighting against the effects of neoliberalism in our region,…

Phyllis Bennis (2023-06-28). A Tale of Two Tragedies at Sea. otherwords.org Recent weeks saw two terrible tragedies at sea. | In one, five explorers died when the Titan submersible imploded in the North Atlantic. In the other, over 600 refugees — most of them women and children — drowned in the Mediterranean when their fishing trawler sank. | Both voyages ended in a heartbreaking loss of life. But there were vast differences between the two tragedies in media attention and government response, highlighting just how unequal our world has become. | On board the Titan were two billionaires and one of their sons, along with a CEO and research director of companies tied to underse…

greenleft.org.au (2023-06-29). Socialist Sarah Hathway elected to the City of Greater Geelong Council. greenleft.org.au

reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2023-06-29). Falleció Hugo Blanco, histórico luchador social y ecosocialista peruano. indybay.org

WSWS (2023-06-29). The bankrupt politics of Socialist Alternative's Workers Strike Back campaign in New York: "Frighten the Democrats to respond" wsws.org Earlier this month, Socialist Alternative held a public meeting at the Borough of Manhattan Community College for the "New York City launch" of its Workers Strike Back (WSB) campaign.

Leslie Feinberg (2023-06-29). At Stonewall, many histories converged to fight back, 1969. workers.org Leslie Feinberg, Boston, July 25, 2004. Originally published Aug. 24, 2006, this column was part of Leslie Feinberg's series of articles on the connections between LGBTQ2S+ and socialist history. The 120-part series "Lavender & Red," which appeared in Workers World from 2004 to 2008, is available for free download at . . . |

Palestinian Youth Movement (2023-06-29). We Must Raise Popular Consciousness on Palestinian Resistance. socialistproject.ca

Chris Walker (2023-06-28). Sen. Rick Scott's Travel Warning for Florida Is a Veiled Threat to Socialists. truthout.org In a Twitter video message he posted on Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Florida) advised people who are socialist or communist, or even supportive of left-leaning views, not to consider moving or traveling to the Sunshine State. "‍‍Let me give you a travel warning: if you're socialist, ‍communist, ‍somebody that believes in big government, ‍I would think twice ‍if you're thinking about taking a… |

Peoples Dispatch (2023-06-28). People's movements set to converge in Johannesburg for dialogues on socialism in Dilemmas of Humanity Conference. peoplesdispatch.org The III International Dilemmas of Humanity Conference, organized by the International Peoples' Assembly, is scheduled to be held in October this year, to "confront the crises of humanity" and highlight the solutions that movements, governments, and working people are building together to overcome the system…

Staff (2023-06-28). Reports: US Lifts Flight Ban on Venezuela (+LATAM). orinocotribune.com The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cancelled its flight ban on Venezuela, according to the Air Navigation Services Directorate of the National Institute of Civil Aeronautics (INAC), quoted by the outlet La Tabla. To date, neither the FAA or the INAC have issued official statements on the subject. | In May 2019, the US government imposed a unilateral restriction on commercial flights to and from Venezuela connecting with the United States. The ban was issued as part of the US's failed attempt to oust the socialist government of President Nicolás Maduro. Ironically, those affected the most by the decision…

Chauncey K. Robinson (2023-06-28). Fascist tactics: Rick Scott tells socialists and communists they're not welcome in Florida. peoplesworld.org GOP Sen. Rick Scott wants the world to know that socialists, communists, and anyone who loves "big government" are not welcome in the state of Florida. In a short 30-second video posted on the Twitter social media platform this week, the Sunshine State senator issued a somewhat awkward travel advisory to those belonging to any …

Fight Back (2023-06-28). Philippines: A transwoman in the people's army. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following article from the June 21 issue of Ang Bayan ("The People"), the official publication of the Communist Party of the Philippines. | For more than a year now, Ka Daisy, a transwoman, has served as full-time Red fighter. She joined the New People's Army (NPA) during the pandemic, three years after doing revolutionary work as a member of the Kabataang Makabayan. She recounted how her unit got engaged in an armed encounter on her second day in the unit. | Ka Daisy, also called "Inday" by some comrades, now serves as a squad political guide. As an official, she ensure…

C.J. Atkins (2023-06-28). Trump hints at deportation of Communists if he's re-elected. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Attempting to deflect attention from his criminal indictment on charges of violating the Espionage Act, former President Donald Trump is escalating his use of anti-communist and anti-Semitic red-baiting rhetoric to smear opponents and investigators. For years, Trump has wielded accusations of left-wing radicalism against anyone who challenged him, but over the past week, he slid …

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