(2021-11-13). We need our own party, a labor party. themilitant.com Statement by John Studer, Socialist Workers Party national campaign director, Nov. 10. | The only party that told the truth in the 2021 elections about how working people can fight back against mounting attacks we face today was the Socialist Workers Party. | Our candidates explained the root cause of the crisis — the capitalist rulers, who put their profits above all the needs of land and labor — and how workers can chart a course to take political power into our own hands. They set an example by joining union struggles and building solidarity that is crucial to the outcome and to strengthen the enti…
(2021-11-13). China And Solutions To Climate Change. popularresistance.org Last year, President Xi Jinping, pledged that China's CO2 emissions would peak before 2030, and China would become carbon neutral before 2060. | China has a track history of setting ambitious, nearly impossible goals and then achieving them–often before deadline–so this pledge is significant. Under the CPC, China has already created "an economic miracle" in transforming China into the largest economy in the world. It ended extreme poverty while creating the largest middle class in the world. It has virtually eradicated Covid through non-pharmaceutical methods, while vaccinating up to 20 million people daily, an…
(2021-11-13). [Comment] Offline: Decolonisation and the demand for a just memory. thelancet.com According to Kehinde Andrews in The New Age of Empire, the deceit of modern science is its claim to stand for a set of universal values in the service of human progress. Andrews is the UK's first Professor of Black Studies. In his view "Whiteness is at the heart of Enlightenment thinking". The values that science affirms are not based on the universal but, instead, on a purely white particular. Today's western descendants of the Enlightenment "are fundamentally incapable of even naming the racism that is the basis of the global political and economic system".
(2021-11-13). [Correspondence] Just how common is TTS after a second dose of the ChAdOx1 nCov-19 vaccine? — Authors' reply. thelancet.com We agree with Sue Pavord and colleagues about our analysis1 of very rare cases of potential thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) after a second dose of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222)—that is, that most of the 13 cases do not fulfil the criteria to be catagorised as definite or probable vaccine-induced thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (VITT), as defined by the UK Expert Haematology Panel criteria.2 This failure to meet the criteria for definite or probable VITT is because crucial information regarding clinical and laboratory parameters was missing, which remains the key limitation of assessing…
(2021-11-13). [Comment] By any means necessary: why lowering insulin prices is relevant to racial health equity. thelancet.com When young revolutionaries in the 1960s sought to free Black people in the USA from lives of structured racism (ie, the differential access to opportunity, goods, and services by race) "by any means necessary",1 few people imagined this movement might one day include efforts to overcome exorbitant insulin prices. Yet organisations such as the Black Panther Party (BPP) understood long ago how poverty and other structural inequities lead to worse health, and were instrumental in creating a framework for cross-sector collaboration to address health disparities in low-income Black communities.
(2021-11-13). Monday 11/15: We Demand for the People: Economic, Voting & Immigrant Rights! Washington DC Rally w/ PPC. indybay.org Livestream of rally in Washington D.C. and online actions…
(2021-11-13). News on China | No. 75. dissidentvoice.org China is now the world's largest exporter of vaccines. China's earlier smog problems caused the Chinese leadership to aim for high-quality economic growth, thereafter easing particulate emissions.
(2021-11-13). Over 40 killed by floods in South India and Sri Lanka. wsws.org Most affected are working people and the poor, in urban as well as rural areas, who have already been hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and hikes in the prices of essentials.
(2021-11-13). Kellogg's workers strike for 'Equal pay for equal work!'. themilitant.com BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union negotiating committee voted down a Nov. 4 "last, best and final" set of contract demands from Kellogg's bosses. Since Oct. 5, 1,400 union members have been on strike at four plants — in Omaha, Nebraska; Memphis, Tennessee; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and here. | The bosses' offer "does not achieve what our members are asking for; a predictable pathway to fully vested, fully benefitted employment for all employees with no concessions," the union said. | Many signs you see on the picket line say, "Equal p…
(2021-11-13). Vital Medical History Denied–Book Whitewashed Class War as Cause of Workers' Illness from. indybay.org Eliminating the concept of class war, a deliberate attempt to bury the history of the worker's progressive role in fighting for better health and health care under the profit system.
(2021-11-13). Marx on the metabolic rift: How capitalism cuts us off from nature. mronline.org 
Marx and Engels were witnesses to and keen analysts of the environmental problems inherent in nineteenth-century capitalism. They wrote about the depletion of coal reserves, the destruction of forests, and, especially, about diminishing soil fertility, which Foster recognizes was the most pressing issue of the day.
(2021-11-13). Return of the Dialectics of Nature: Marxian Ecology and the Struggle for Freedom as Necessity —A Discussion of the Deutscher Prize 2020. mronline.org 
This session is a discussion of the Deutscher Prize Winning Book 2020 'The Return of the Dialectics of Nature: Marxian Ecology and the Struggle for Freedom as Necessity' — John Bellamy Foster…
(2021-11-13). Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia. wsws.org Thousands of Indonesian workers demonstrate for higher minimum wage; Bangladeshi private sector transport workers strike; South Australian health workers impose bans; Country Road warehouse workers strike in Melbourne…
(2021-11-13). Deere strikers: End divisive two-tier, raise all our wages. themilitant.com WATERLOO, Iowa — United Auto Workers members on strike at John Deere plants in Iowa, Illinois and Kansas, and distribution centers in Denver and Atlanta, rejected the bosses' second contract proposal Nov. 2. | While it contained a higher wage offer and some other concessions, the bosses made no movement on what workers consider a key issue — divisive two tiers in wages and benefits. The majority of workers felt they could win more by continuing the strike. | This Militant worker-correspondent went along with Mark Severs, a member of Teamsters Local 638 in Minneapolis, and met with Kirk Drape, one of t…
(2021-11-13). The Existential Threat of Global Heating. dissidentvoice.org 
Once again, the hopes of billions have been raised, only to be dashed, this time by the cruel joke of COP26, the reality being that "By 2030, governments are planning to extract 110% more fossil fuels than their Paris Agreement pledge to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 ∞C above pre-industrial levels would permit". Misrepresentations abound: The United Nations upper …
(2021-11-13). Living and Dying on the Factory Floor: An Interview with David Ranney. itsgoingdown.org Interview between David Ranney, author of Living and Dying on the Factor Floor: From the Outside In and the Inside Out, and the Industrial Worker, a publication of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). In his book Living and Dying on the Factory Floor: From the Outside In and the Inside Out, David Ranney…
(2021-11-13). Australian union ends industrial campaign by Victorian mental health workers. wsws.org The mental health workers' dispute has worn the workers down with a long drawn out campaign, driving over-worked traumatised members to the point where they simply caved in.
(2021-11-13). Díaz-Canel: Somos una nación de paz y solidaridad, y defendemos nuestra Revolución socialista (+ Video). cubadebate.cu "En paz hemos logrado las primeras vacunas latinoamericanas, en paz hemos inmunizado casi al ciento por ciento de nuestra población, incluyendo nuestros niños y niñas; en paz las escuelas funcionan, y en paz iniciaremos el día 15 otra etapa del curso escolar; en paz nuestra economía se recuperará; en paz continuaremos avanzando con la estrategia económica y social; tranquilos, atentos y seguros. En paz, en el presente y en el futuro, Cuba vive y vivirá".
(2021-11-12). Poor People's Campaign tells Sen. Feinstein: Hold the line on Build Back Better! peoplesworld.org 
SAN FRANCISCO — Supporters of the Poor People's Campaign: a National Call for Moral Revival gathered at Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office here Nov. 10, joining the Campaign's Moral Witness Wednesday: Economic Investment for the People, held at senate offices around the country to demand the lawmakers fully support the Biden administration's Build Back Better …
(2021-11-12). Edward Curtin: There is a Direct Link between JFK, 9/11, and Covid-19. dissidentvoice.org Edward Curtin returns to discuss deep politics and what links the assassination of JFK, 9/11, and Covid-19. No president since Kennedy has dared to buck the Military-Industrial-Complex, including Trump, who is part of the same system that produced both Obama and Biden. He discusses the 1967 CIA memo which told mainstream media to use the …
(2021-11-12). Strike at Kellogg's in danger as it enters sixth week. wsws.org While the company is pledges to meet its financial targets by running its plants with scab labor, importing cereal from its international operations, the BCTGM union is isolating the strike and promoting poisonous anti-Mexican nationalism.
(2021-11-12). Belaboring the self-evident: Russian DM warns of deteriorating military situation in Europe. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The truth is that there is war in Europe and there has been war since the U.S. and its EU and NATO allies conspired to violently overthrow the government of Ukraine in 2014 and plunge that nation into armed conflict in its east. But Europe has in fact been at war for almost thirty years, …
(2021-11-12). Mainstream Economists Reject Economic Science. dissidentvoice.org 
The "invisible hand" gives rise to a situation where it becomes natural and normal to conclude that no one knows how things work or what to expect. It renders the future unpredictable and unmanageable. Uncertainty and unpredictability become the norm because the economy as a whole is not under conscious human control. Different sectors and …
(2021-11-12). Activists Hold 'People's Plenary' In COP26 Hall As Protests Expected. popularresistance.org The COP26 Coalition has released its declaration for climate justice. It states that: | Climate change already impacts and threatens billions of lives, with billions more on the line: it is those that have done the least to cause climate change that are most impacted, especially women, Black, Indigenous Peoples, and people of colour, peasants and rural people, youth, people with disabilities, local communities and frontline communities.The climate crisis also amplifies the structural inequalities and injustices that have been hardwired into our economic and political systems that have resulted in a spiralling deb…
(2021-11-12). Debunking Myths About Nicaragua's 2021 Election. popularresistance.org Millions of Nicaraguans went to the polls on November 7, 2021, re-electing the leftist Sandinista Front and President Daniel Ortega by a large margin. The Joe Biden administration refused to recognize the results, however. The United States and its allies in the European Union and the Organization of American States (OAS) have instead launched what essentially amounts to a new coup attempt against Nicaragua's Sandinista government. On November 10, President Biden signed the RENACER Act, which will impose more crushing sanctions on Nicaragua. Washington's escalating campaign of economic war was supplemented by the…
(2021-11-12). Now The Organized Takedown of Global Fertilizer Supply? journal-neo.org 
The global energy shortages which have driven prices for coal, oil and natural gas to explosive highs in the last months are a predictable consequence of the mad pursuit of "Zero Carbon" economic policies that have seen foolish governments subsidize a growing share of electricity from unreliable solar and wind generation. One consequence has been …
(2021-11-12). Pakistan's Economic Woes Could Worsen If It Does Not Impose The EU's Liberal World View. southfront.org 
Arif Alvi. Illustrative ImagePakistan under pressure from the EU to deal with human rights situation. | Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst | Citing Pakistan's worsening human rights situation, particularly relating to the safety of minorities, women, and journalists, the European Union has raised concerns and put the country's preferred trade status in question. Luis Garicano, a Spanish member of the European Parliament, recently visited Pakistan and met with top leaders and members of civil s…
(2021-11-12). Argentina: Economic Issues at The Center of Campaign Closures. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Argentine political parties closed their campaigns amid citizen discontent due to the increase in the inflation rate and the deterioration of the exchange rate. | RELATED: | President Alberto Fernandez's party Front of All (FT) and the right-wing opposition alliance "Together for Change" (JC) carried out mass events in Buenos Aires province, an electoral district that concentrates 37 percent of re…
(2021-11-12). Inflation surge to intensify financial turmoil. wsws.org The surge in inflation is pushing up yields on government bonds, especially at the short end of the markets, and adding pressure on central banks to start tightening their monetary policies.
(2021-11-12). BLM could 'unleash the people' in New York — co-founder to RT. rt.com 
Black Lives Matter co-founder Chivona Newsome has warned that she has the power to "snap our fingers and unleash the people," should New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams resurrect controversial NYPD anti-crime units. | "Eric Adams is a man without a plan, so all he can conceive of is brute force," Newsome told RT America on Thursday. "That's how he wants to and plans to unleash law enforcement, NYPD, on black and brown people who live in … dire, dire poverty." | Read more | | Created to sto…
(2021-11-12). Ending Late Fees Restores the Principle of 'Public' Libraries—NYC Shows the Way for Big Cities. independentmediainstitute.org For more than 100 years, public library systems throughout the U.S. have charged late fees for books and other materials returned past their due dates. This policy primarily impacts the disenfranchised, low-income communities that the modern public library system is intended to serve in the first place—and most often affects people of color, according to …
(2021-11-12). Setting the Record Straight About What Biden's Proposed Social Programs Would Do. zcomm.org What's being proposed here is what most countries with national income comparable to the U.S. already have. Are Americans so different from everyone else?>
(2021-11-12). Public health experts warn of a winter surge in the pandemic. wsws.org The United States and Europe are facing a renewed surge in COVID-19 cases. Winter and the pro-market policies pursued by governments of high-income nations will have severe consequences for the population.
(2021-11-12). Student Strike Enters Second Week At Columbia University. popularresistance.org Over 3,000 Columbia graduate student workers have been on strike since November 3. This is the latest in a series of actions by graduate students workers in universities across the US, many of which are extremely wealthy.
(2021-11-12). How Wealth Inequality Fuels the Climate Emergency. zcomm.org "Everything we've been hearing here and at the previous 25 summits is basically distraction," says Monbiot, adding that global leaders could "fix" the worst impacts of the climate crisis "in no time at all if they wanted to."
(2021-11-12). Peter Maybarduk on Moderna Patent, Tracy Rosenberg on Aaron Swartz Day. fair.org 
New York Times ( This week on CounterSpin: We've talked on this show about how drugs and medicines are researched and developed by the government (on the public dime, if you will), and then pharmaceutical companies get patents on them and sell them back to the public at literally life-altering, or life-ending, prices. If you think, "But surely everything is different in a pandemic that's killed 800,000 people in this country, one of every 400 people, and more than 5 million worldwide"—sadly, that means you don't unde…
(2021-11-12). Public-Private Partnerships Are Quietly Hollowing Out Our Public Libraries. popularresistance.org Library Systems and Services (LS&S) is a for-profit, private company that has been quietly infiltrating public libraries since 1997 when it successfully negotiated a contract to privatize the county library system in Riverside County, California. In the '90s and through the first decade of the 2000s, LS&S operated using a business model that will be familiar to anyone who follows local government issues in the U.S.: a private company descends on a municipal or county government that is in financially poor shape, and offers to take over (or "outsource") management of a public service, like a library, for…
(2021-11-12). Arizona School Board President 'Busted' for Collecting 1984-Style Dossier on Dissident Parents. sputniknews.com The document tracked the Social Security numbers, financial info, and even divorce records of those who opposed school board policies.
(2021-11-12). UN-backed banker alliance announces "green" plan to transform the global financial system. mronline.org 
The most powerful private financial interests in the world, under the cover of COP26, have developed a plan to transform the global financial system by fusing with institutions like the World Bank and using them to further erode national sovereignty in the developing world.
(2021-11-12). Kellogg's Workers Still On 'Str-R-R-Ike!' In Strikevember. popularresistance.org The members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM) in Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Tennessee are now in their second month on strike. On Nov. 4, union negotiators announced they had turned down the company's latest offer, stating: "The company's last, best and final offer does not achieve what our members are asking for: a predictable pathway to fully vested, fully benefitted employment for all employees with no concessions." Kellogg's has threatened to cut hundreds of jobs and move work to Mexico.
(2021-11-12). Macron calls for policies of austerity, mass infection in France. wsws.org As the 2022 presidential campaign begins, President Emmanuel Macron aimed to assure the banks he is the best candidate to boost profits at the expense of workers' lives and living standards.
(2021-11-12). Interview with Hampton Stall, an expert on the far right, on fascist activity in school reopening campaign and January 6 aftermath. wsws.org Eric London recently spoke to Hampton Stall about the impact of the January 6 coup attempt and the coronavirus pandemic on the far right. Stall is a researcher with MilitiaWatch, a nonprofit organization that monitors the online activity of the far right.
(2021-11-12). AstraZeneca Abandons Pledge Not to Profit From Publicly Funded Vaccine. truthout.org 
The multinational pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca drew immediate backlash Friday for announcing an end to its Developed in partners…
(2021-11-12). The Media Discover Real Wages. cepr.net 
At the start of the pandemic, many of the lower paid workers lost their jobs, which raised the average wage for people who were still working. This year we are seeing this composition effect in reverse.
(2021-11-12). Over 100,000 Sri Lankan workers walk out to demand higher wages and better conditions. wsws.org This week's union-controlled protests were timed to coincide with Finance Minister Rajapakse's austerity budget proposals, which will be presented to parliament today.
(2021-11-12). Over 100,000 Sri Lankan workers walkout to demand higher wages and better conditions. wsws.org This week's union-controlled protests were timed to coincide with Finance Minister Rajapakse's austerity budget proposals, which will be presented to parliament today.
(2021-11-12). COP 26, soluciones tibias para problemas candentes. globalizacion.ca El planeta está en peligro y, por tanto, todos los seres vivos (animales y vegetales) que allí vivimos. Desde el inicio de la revolución industrial hace dos siglos, hoy ya extendida por todo el mundo, el capitalismo ha cambiado la…
(2021-11-12). Miami Will Give Residents Bitcoin As Part Of A New Program, Mayor Announces. moguldom.com Miami Mayor Francis Suarez announced on Twitter that city residents will soon be getting a Bitcoin "yield" as part of a new program that the city has staked in its own cryptocurrency, MiamiCoin. In an interview with CoinDesk, Suarez said he was planning to convert the millions of dollars in proceeds produced by MiamiCoin into …
(2021-11-12). Why Traders Believe Bitcoin Has 'Double Topped' And Is Going Lower. moguldom.com Three weeks ago, investor Jeffrey Gundlach said he believed the price movement of the world's No. 1 cryptocurrency was forming a "double top." That's a bearish technical reversal pattern that happens when an asset price hits two consecutive peaks with a modest decline in between and then goes off a cliff after the second peak. …
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