Mercenary Attacks on Venezuela, Ahmaud Arbery, Victory Day 75 & more -- The Week in News and Opinion May 3 - 10

This week's roundup of articles, news items, visuals and opinion pieces that I see as a must if you are looking for a roundup that should be of interest to The Left Chapter readers.

This list covers the week of  May 3 - 10.

This week's edition begins again with a very large roundup of news and left opinion about the capitalist coronavirus crisis and its impact on working people globally. There are also roundups about the failed mercenary attacks on Venezuela, the murder of Ahmaud Arbery and the 75th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis.

The Featured Article link at the start is a very powerful piece by Charles Barron, "Coronavirus ravaging the Black community because of capitalism and ‘domestic colonialism’".

We have tried to arrange the coronavirus news thematically and to touch on many different areas of concern.

Featured Article:

Coronavirus ravaging the Black community because of capitalism and ‘domestic colonialism’

But what’s not talked about is the role that this racist, parasitic, predatory capitalistic system plays in economically exploiting our Black communities and turning them into “domestic colonies” of capitalism. Who created the poverty, unemployment, inadequate health care, miseducation, homelessness, mass incarceration, food shortages and unhealthy food (fast foods), and more? The answer is capitalism and domestic colonialism. Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the African Peoples Socialist Party, coined the term “colonial virus.”

Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis:

- Don't let the capitalists fool you...we have the social wealth to properly fight the pandemic

- That This System Would Fail Was Entirely Predictable

- US Blocks UN Global Ceasefire Resolution, Objecting to Indirect Reference to World Health Organization

- “The Discussion Is Basically Over”: Why Scientists Believe the Wuhan-Lab Coronavirus Origin Theory Is Highly Unlikely

- 'No Evidence Coronavirus Was Made in a Chinese Lab' Fauci Says

- Revealed: major anti-lockdown group's links to America's far right

- Trump's fake protest movement: Authoritarian stagecraft meets white privilege

- Canada’s Anti-Lockdown Protests are a Ragtag Coalition of Anti-Vaccine Activists, Conspiracy Theorists and the Far-Right

- PANDEMIC BRINGS OUT FAR-RIGHT RESPONSES

"Reopening" is ALL about business and the well to do and has NOTHING to do with the needs of workers or public health:



- Chris Christie Says People ‘Are Going To Have To’ Accept More Deaths To Reopen Economy

- Texas Governor Admits Dangers of Reopening State on Private Call With Lawmakers

- Ohio urges employers to report workers fearful of returning to work

- Conditions in US Meatpacking Plants Today Aren’t Much Better Than They Were in The Jungle

- Union opposes reopening U.S. meat plants as more workers die

- Meatpacking worker told not to wear face mask on job died of coronavirus: report

- Reopened restaurant told workers: Don't wear face masks — or don't work

- ‘We Are Not Essential. We Are Sacrificial.’

- How the Anglo-American model failed to tackle coronavirus

- Under Trump, American exceptionalism means poverty, misery and death

- The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying

- Epidemiologist Slams U.S. Coronavirus Response: 'Close To Genocide By Default'

- NYPD Under Fire For Starkly Different Responses To Violations Of Social Distancing Orders Over The Weekend

- 81 PERCENT OF NYPD'S SOCIAL DISTANCING SUMMONSES WERE ISSUED TO BLACKS AND LATINOS: 'IT'S THE NEW STOP AND FRISK'

- 35 of the 40 people who were arrested on social distancing violations in Brooklyn were black

- UK: Black People Four Times More Likely to Die From COVID-19

- The ‘Shadow Pandemic’ of Anti-Asian Racism

- Women demand voice in Italy virus response dominated by men

- There's no 'team Australia'. Workers are copping the brunt of the crisis

Ahmaud Arbery Murder:

- Two Men Arrested and Charged With Murder for Killing of Ahmaud Arbery After Video Sparked Nationwide Demands for Justice

- 'They lynched him': Ahmaud Arbery's father on the killing of his son

- Ahmaud Arbery: Atlanta mayor accuses Trump of inciting racist acts

- No burglaries were reported in neighborhood where Ahmaud Arbery was killed, contradicting suspects’ claim: report

Brazil:

- Brazilian Court Upholds 17-Year Sentence Against Lula Da Silva

- Brazil using coronavirus to cover up assaults on Amazon, warn activists

- Brazil: Bolsonaro Orders Journalists to Shut Their Mouths

- Bolsonaro attends floating barbeque as Brazil's Covid-19 toll tops 10,000

Canada:

- Cargill’s slaughterhouse profits flow through tax havens to keep its billionaire owners wealthy

- Cargill meat-processing plant south of Montreal says 64 workers infected with COVID-19

- Workers at Cargill’s Alberta Meat Plant Were Offered Special ‘Bonus’ Pay For Perfect Attendance During Pandemic

- An impossible choice: at least 540,000 low wage workers risk losing CERB if they refuse unsafe work

- Canadian Labour Congress calls for end to privately owned long-term care facilities after COVID-19 deaths

- Demands grow for national, universal long-term care in response to pandemic

- Province did inspections by phone at Toronto care home where 21 residents died of COVID-19

- Amazon Rolls Back Unpaid Leave As Workers Told of ‘Additional’ COVID-19 Case at Ontario Warehouse

- Alberta's statement on Ottawa's gun ban illustrates how little the rule of law really matters to Conservatives

- NS murders: Two tragedies must be viewed thru a feminist lens

- Canada: DNA discovery lends weight to First Nations ancestral story

- On the passing of Michael Lucas, immigrant organizer and friend of Soviet people

Climate Emergency:

- One billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years – study

- Capitalism: Eco-destruction and Plagues

Cuba:

- Make solidarity global -- Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez

- END THE SANCTIONS! END US AGGRESSION AGAINST CUBA NOW

- Cuba to Begin Mass-Scale COVID-19 Testing

- US Lawmakers Support Cuba in the Purchase of Medical Supplies

Ideas:

- The problem with universal basic income

- The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

India:

- India's chemical plant disaster: another case of history repeating itself

Israel / Palestine:

- Australian government tells ICC it should not investigate alleged war crimes in Palestine

United Kingdom:

- Labour left MPs and activists defy Starmer-led party position on Kashmir

- The Labour Party Machine versus Corbyn

United States:

- Hunger stalks the land: Parents skipping meals to feed their kids

- 1996 court document shows Tara Reade told ex-husband of harassment in Biden's Senate office

- Tara Reade calls on Biden to drop out in rare on-camera interview

- 'What a Rigged Economy Looks Like,' Says Sanders, as Stock Market Enjoys Best Month in 33 Years Despite 20%+ Unemployment

- Nearly One in Five Workers Applied for State Unemployment Insurance Benefits in the Last Seven Weeks

- Iran anti-war bill in tatters after Trump veto and Senate failure to uphold it

- Sanitation workers in New Orleans on strike to demand better conditions and pay

- Sioux tribe rejects South Dakota governor request to remove Covid-19 checkpoints

- INDIANAPOLIS POLICE KILL BLACK MAN, LAUGH ABOUT IT NOT REALIZING IT’S BEING RECORDED ON FACEBOOK LIVE

- The day police bombed a city street: can scars of 1985 Move atrocity be healed?

Uruguay:

- 100,000 Uruguayans Fell Below Poverty Line in April: Study

- Uruguay: Lacalle Calls for Change in Abortion Law

Venezuela:


"Donald Trump thinks he can defeat us. He's wrong."⁠
⁠
A message from the Venezuelan socialist fishermen who helped capture the coup plotting US mercenaries.




- Defeat of a Dirty Military Incursion into Venezuela on a Sunday Morning

- The Failed Invasion of Venezuela, and the American and Canadian Connections

- U.S. Mercenaries Captured in Venezuela After Failed Coup Attempt Compared to a “Bad Rambo Movie”

- Venezuela Denounces New Attack on National Electric System

- Mercenary Confesses Failed Plot Was to Bring President Maduro to US

- Trudeau Rolls out his Trumpian Covid-19 Latin America Policy

- US Mercenaries' Botched Venezuela Raid May be Prelude to Bigger Invasion, Analyst Warns

- US Investigating Ex-Green Beret, Denies ‘Direct’ Involvement in Failed Venezuela Coup

- 'I Would Use an Army to Raid Venezuela' Trump Acknowledges

- Guaido Hired Mercenaries for a Terrorist Incursion in Venezuela

- Guaido Behind Failed Operation Against Venezuela: Maduro

- Venezuelan President Maduro: "Mike Pompeo Stop Your Arrogance"

- Venezuelan Attorney General Requests Interpol Arrest Juan Jose Rendon, Sergio Vergara and Jordan Goudreau for Their Involvement in the May 3 Mercenary Raid

- China Rejects Illegal, Violent Actions Against Venezuela, Cuba

- Venezuela Showcases Progress in the Containment of COVID-19

- Guardian Blames Trump’s Murderous US Exceptionalism on Hugo Chávez 

Victory Day 75

- No fascism ever again! -- Statements from Communist and Workers' parties on the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany

- Red Army's contribution in the defeat of fascism remembered on VE Day

- On the frontlines: Red Army veteran Moritz Mebel talks about his battles against fascism

Don't let the capitalists fool you...we have the social wealth to properly fight the pandemic

As socialists and leftists we need to differentiate between two things: the needs of the capitalist economy versus what could be done collectively in countries like Canada and the United States with our social wealth.

It is absolutely true that with the system as designed now people are desperate to get back to work given that they face destitution, homelessness and bankruptcy. It is also true that the capitalists want everything open and want us all back at work tomorrow.

Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead is their mantra and so it would be. They could not care less about the lives of workers and especially about the lives of those workers most likely to die...women, racialized workers, marginalized workers.

That those workers are far more likely to die is a fact. That is already how it is playing out. Calls to rapidly reopen are inherently racist and misogynist, classist and colonialist.

A study in the UK found that "Black people are more than four times more likely to die from COVID-19 than white people". We all know that the situation will be even worse in the US.

We, as a society, absolutely have the amassed social wealth to get through a pandemic without throwing workers, women, people of colour and marginalized communities into the death machine we are throwing them into.

We can absolutely afford to lockdown most industries, services, enterprises and to allow shopping for necessities in a disciplined and socialized way. If there is any doubt about this simply reflect on the fact that, after massive infusions of cash into the "free market" by the government, Wall St. had its best month for stocks in decades. 

Instead we have constructed a society based on the needs of profit, individual consumerism, and vast inequality.

Global military expenditure is estimated to have been $1917 billion in 2019, the highest level since 1988. Of this the United States accounted for $732 billion, more than the next ten largest military spenders combined. Just imagine what a fraction of that could do to alleviate the suffering and economic displacement due to Covid-19.

Under a socialized economy with socialized housing, transit, industry, wages, and "wealth", locking down for the interests of workers and public health would have been not simply much easier but would have been done without question and with the needs of the people placed first as they should be economically.

China and Vietnam, as well as Cuba, have provided glimpses of this kind of collectivist action, especially impressive for Cuba given the devastation of the embargo. So have a handful of other capitalist countries.

But it is essential that we never confuse the interests of the capitalist economy with the interests of the workers. They are never the same. There is a reason that big business and capital want you back on the frontline to die for their money.

Never has the case for a socialized, planned economy been more easy to make.

Instead of pandering to bullshit about fake bailouts or to crumbs tossed to workers or to demented narratives about "reopening" even if this will kill millions of working people, let's make that case instead.

Today. Now. Always.

Solidarity.

Death Cult Capitalism

Despite what the politicians say the "curve" does not seem to be flattening as much as they are saying in places like Ontario and the United States. And yet in spite of serious outbreaks in factories in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Iowa, among others, the push is on to "reopen". This reopening will come directly at the expense of women workers, racialized workers and marginalized workers who are over-represented in the kinds of service and retail businesses that the corporations and wealthy are demanding be allowed to operate.

"Reopening" is ALL about business and the well to do and has NOTHING to do with the needs of workers or public health.

May Day 2020, Bolsonaro, the Bailouts & more -- The Week in News and Opinion April 26 - May 3

May Day, Istanbul

This week's list of articles, news items, visuals and opinion pieces that I see as a must if you are looking for a roundup that should be of interest to The Left Chapter readers.

This list covers the week of  April 26 - May 3.

This week's edition begins again with a very large roundup of news and left opinion about the capitalist coronavirus crisis and its impact on working people globally. There are also a number of links related to International Workers' Day and Bolsonaro in Brazil.

The Featured Article link at the start is an excellent piece by Roger D. Harris about the trouble with buying into "lesser evil" narratives when it comes to Biden vs. Trump.

We have tried to arrange the coronavirus news thematically and to touch on many different areas of concern.

Featured Article:

Trump and Biden Trade Hit Pieces: Distinctions without a Difference

This season’s sequel to the Game of Thrones features reality TV star and current occupant of the Oval Office versus the former Senator from MBNA and two-term VP. It’s time to binge watch dueling hit pieces from the US electoral duopoly going at it.

Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis:

If you were in any doubt who the bailouts are really for Wall St. stocks saw record gains in April even as millions of people lost their jobs, were tossed scraps by our governments and face bankruptcy. Meanwhile billionaires like Elon Musk remind us that they need labour to make all their vast wealth and call for workers to head back to dangerous jobs even if they might face illness or death while Trudeau backs away from making sure offshore companies can't get handouts...still think "we are all in this together"?



- AS AMAZON, WALMART, AND OTHERS PROFIT AMID CORONAVIRUS CRISIS, THEIR ESSENTIAL WORKERS PLAN UNPRECEDENTED STRIKE

- Amazon Reinstates Fired Warehouse Worker After Employees Strike

- Women killed in Spain as coronavirus lockdown sees rise in domestic violence

- Mexico sees almost 1,000 women murdered in three months as domestic abuse concerns rise amid coronavirus

- French NGO Nominates Cuban Medical Brigades For Nobel Peace Prize

- US Prevents Cuba From Acquiring Pharmaceutical Raw Materials

- Cuba Cannot Get Swiss Respirators Due to US Inhuman Blockade

- Another life-saving brigade travels to South Africa

- Cuba Plans National Production of Drug Against COVID-19

- Former Jamaican Prime Minister Applauds Cuba's Generosity

- SOCIALISM VS CAPITALISM IN THE BATTLE AGAINST CORONAVIRUS

- Foodsters United Statement on Foodora Closing its Canadian Operations

- Help Support Foodsters United (petition) 

- Canada's early COVID-19 cases came from the U.S. not China, provincial data shows

- Right-wing political strategies based on anti-Chinese prejudice are growing

- New national group forms to combat racism against Asian Canadians

- Anti-Asian racism during coronavirus: How the language of disease produces hate and violence

- Fifty days into the COVID-19 pandemic, and homeless people are still in a desperate situation (Canada)

- Meet the Strange and Mysterious Group Organizing Anti-Lockdown Protests Across Canada

- Many Ontario workers are trying to refuse work due to COVID-19 fears — but the government isn’t letting them

- U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Is Far Higher Than Reported, C.D.C. Data Suggests

- 'America In the Age of Trump': Armed Gunmen Enter Michigan Capitol Demanding End to Covid-19 Lockdown

- Hundreds of protesters, some carrying guns in the state Capitol, demonstrate against Michigan's emergency measures

- US intelligence agencies under pressure to link coronavirus to Chinese labs

- Anti-Lockdown Rallies Are Providing an Opening for the Proud Boys and Other Far-Right Extremists

- Maryland called in National Guard troops to defend coronavirus tests from South Korea against seizure

- Georgia Went First. And It Screwed Up.

- Progressives Urge Congress to Stop 'Disgraceful' GOP Effort to Grant Corporations Immunity From Covid-19 Lawsuits

- Nearly 900 workers at Tyson meat plant in Indiana test positive for coronavirus

- Meatpackers and Others to Lose Jobless Benefits If They Refuse Return-to-Work Orders

- Lebanon Fights Country's Worst Financial Crisis Amid COVID-19

- Haiti: Food Crisis Persists Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

- Peru: Massive Exodus Continues Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

- Venezuela Leads Region in COVID-19 Tests Per Million People

- Kerala’s Social Policies Are the Best Prevention Against Future Pandemics

In this dispatch, Michael Laxer looks at how -- in contrast to Cuban internationalism and humanitarianism -- the US government has intensified their economic blockades during the capitalist coronavirus crisis despite the humanitarian toll this will take. He also looks at how we need to call out and oppose Canada's hypocritical complicity in this. 




Brazil:

- Brazil: Moro Testifies Against Bolsonaro Who Calls Him 'Judas'

- Moro Is the US' Candidate for Brazil 2022: Boaventura de Sousa

- Brazilian Court Orders Investigation Against Bolsonaro

- 'So what?': Bolsonaro shrugs off Brazil's rising coronavirus death toll

Canada:

- Trudeau announces ban on 1,500 types of 'assault-style' firearms — effective immediately

- Nova Scotia Shooting Should Be a Turning Point in How We Address Abusive Men

- Wage subsidies for strikebreakers and no premium pay at the LCBO -- Dispatches from the bailouts

- John Ivison’s Attack On CERB Recipients Is Disgraceful

- Trudeau Refuses To Repeat Pledge To Cut Tax-Dodging Companies From COVID-19 Aid

- Some Canadians who received unsolicited copy of Epoch Times upset by claim that China was behind virus

- 8 environmental responsibilities Alberta’s oil and gas companies can skip because of coronavirus

- Jason Kenney’s Media Meltdown

- Disaster Capitalism at Work in Manitoba

Climate Emergency:

- Why Britain’s 2.5 billion paper coffee cups are an eco disaster

- Halt destruction of nature or suffer even worse pandemics, say world’s top scientists

- Insect numbers down 25% since 1990, global study finds

Ideas:

- Rosa Luxemburg warned us against national unity

International Workers' Day

- Proletarian comrades: It is necessary to organize and fight -- May Day statements from around the world

- May Day observed with call for fair wage, end to job cut, lay off (Bangladesh)

- Seriously...fuck capitalism -- A May Day message from The Left Chapter

- MAY DAY 2020: MASS STRUGGLE FOR A PEOPLE’S RECOVERY

- Virus worries haunt workers demanding rights on May Day

- CHANGE MUST COME – M’MEMBE (Zambia) 

Israel / Palestine:

- Trump’s OK on Israeli Annexation Is Like His Clorox Prescription: Toxic and Lethal

- Arab League Defines West Bank Annexation as "War Crime"

- B’Tselem Reports: Amid COVID-19 Emergency, Settler Violence Spikes

Latin America:

- Social Leader Killed in Colombia, 84 so Far in 2020

- Guatemalans Stage a Funeral Procession to Protest

- Chilean Police Violently Repress Protesters in Santiago

- Evo Morales Concerned Over Añez's Lack of Scientific Advisory

United States:

- Joe Biden Has Been Accused of Rape. Now What?

- The Democrats Seem Just Fine With Joe Biden’s Sexual Assault Allegations

- A former neighbor of Joe Biden's accuser Tara Reade has come forward to corroborate her sexual-assault account, saying Reade discussed the allegations in detail in the mid-1990s

- Demand Grows for Biden to Address Tara Reade Allegations as Democrats Wrestle With #MeToo Hypocrisy

- Donald Trump set to fall back on xenophobia with re-election plan in tatters

- US Unemployment Applications Reach 26.4 Million Amid Pandemic

- If a Budding Socialist Movement Can Defeat Amazon, Imagine What Else It Can Do

Venezuela:

- HANDS OFF VENEZUELA

- US to Mobilize Military Reservists in ‘Anti-Drug’ Operation Against Venezuela

- Former US Special Ops Soldier Led Plot to Invade Venezuela: Sources

Vietnam:

- Party, State leaders pay tribute to Uncle Ho on National Reunification Day

- Promoting the spirit of the Great Spring Victory of 1975 in the new period

Coronavirus, Nova Scotia Shootings, Tara Reade, Lenin 150 & more -- The Week in News and Opinion April 19 - 26

This week's list of articles, news items, visuals and opinion pieces that I see as a must if you are looking for a roundup that should be of interest to The Left Chapter readers.

This list covers the week of  April 19 - 26.

This week's edition begins again with a very large roundup of news and left opinion about the capitalist coronavirus crisis and its impact on working people globally. There are also a number of links related to the terrible mass shooting in Nova Scotia, Tara Reade's allegations against Joe Biden and the 150th anniversary of Lenin's birth.

The Featured Article link at the start is an important piece by Pamela Palmater on the attempts by governments in Canada to use the coronavirus crisis as cover to attack the rights and sovereignty of Indigenous people. 

We have tried to arrange the coronavirus news thematically and to touch on many different areas of concern.

Featured Post:

Under cover of COVID-19, rule of law falters

Just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit Canada, Indigenous peoples and allies were engaged in nationwide solidarity actions in support of the Wet’suwet’en Nation, its traditional leaders and clan members. Their actions were in response to RCMP removing Wet’suwet’en peoples from their homes to allow construction of Coastal Gaslink pipeline on their territory without their consent. Solidarity actions included peaceful occupations of railways, ports, bridges, highways, legislatures and minister’s offices supporting Wet’suwet’en calls for RCMP and Coastal Gaslink off Wet’suwet’en lands.

Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis

- 'Violent Men Are To Blame, Not The Virus’: Lockdown Sees Rise In Women Being Killed

- Women disproportionately 'bearing the brunt' of coronavirus crisis, advocates say

- Sexism on the Covid-19 frontline: 'PPE is made for a 6ft 3in rugby player'

- COVID-19 Lockdowns Harmfully Impacting Millions of Children: UN

- Workers’ health over profit! -- WFTU May Day poster and statement

- So much for entitled millennials – it’s billionaires such as Richard Branson who are begging for loans

- Call for Virgin Atlantic to be nationalised after billionaire Branson asks taxpayers to bail him out

- Disney to stop paying 100,000 workers but is still on track to give shareholders $1.5 billion

- Carnival Executives Knew They Had a Virus Problem, But Kept the Party Going

- Ruth’s Chris Made $468 Million in Revenue but Gobbled Up $20 Million in Small Business Relief

- CDC director warns second wave of coronavirus is likely to be even more devastating

- Coronavirus pandemic 'will cause famine of biblical proportions'

- ‘Instead of Coronavirus, the Hunger Will Kill Us.’ A Global Food Crisis Looms.

- WHO to Receive $30 Million From China to Fight COVID-19

- Palestine Receives Medical Aid from China to Fight COVID-19

- 'We’re in a prison': Singapore's migrant workers suffer as Covid-19 surges back

- As pandemic rages, U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba are getting deadlier

- Cuban doctors are the world’s heroes — their nation needs us now

- U.S. Blockade Prevents Swiss Aid to Cuba

- Cuban Doctors Head to South Africa to Help Fight COVID-19

- Cuban Doctors Arrive in Honduras to Fight COVID-19

- Cuba's Medical Brigade Arrives in Cape Verde to Face COVID-19

- Argentina Welcomes Cuban Medical Aid, Slams US Blockade

- “We Don’t Have the Capacity to Treat”: Palestinian-Canadian Doctor Says Israel Must Lift Gaza Siege

- “The question was whether to die of hunger or coronavirus”: Garment factories reopen in Haiti despite fears

- Hunger Protests Grow in Colombia Amid Coronavirus Lockdown

- Latin America Surpasses 100,000 Infections From COVID-19

- Bolivia: Social Leaders Denounce Gov't for Rights Violations

- Peru: Poor People Undertake Exodus to Their Home Towns

- “Physical Distance, Social Unity”: How India’s Red State Got on Top of Coronavirus

- Domestic Violence Increases 431% in Brazil Amid Lockdown

- Brazil Registers Record of Daily Deaths as Hospitals Collapse

- Brazil becoming virus outbreak centre as hospitals reach breaking point

- Students across Europe fight COVID-19 and the neoliberal state

- Demands of European communists in response to the coronavirus pandemic

- Italy: COVID-19 Plunged One Million People Into Poverty

Social distancing is important...which is why our politicians need to stop being hypocrites about it:




- OPEN LETTER: Indigenous Leaders, Doctors, Nurses And Others Call For Closure Of Construction Camps (Canada) 

- Manitoba universities told to cut costs by up to 30% to help province endure pandemic

- Environmentalists slam Ontario for suspending oversight regulation amid pandemic

- Coronavirus discriminates against Black lives through surveillance, policing and the absence of health data

- Grocery workers talk poverty wages and pandemic profits (Canada)

- RELEASE NON-VIOLENT OFFENDERS FROM CANADIAN PRISONS (Canada)

- Coronavirus: Outbreak in federal women's prison validates worst fears of advocates (Canada)

- Bike couriers in Toronto risking illness to deliver 'junk food to rich people'

- Military and hospital teams won’t stop long-term care nightmare; test, identify and relocate residents’ with COVID-19, union asks (Canada)

- GM Oshawa plant will now produce millions of masks following worker mobilization: CUPE Ontario

Doug Ford does not deserve any praise...and neither do other neo-liberal politicians:



- Trump Says He'll Suspend All Immigration Into The United States Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

- Trump Was Real Time Informed During COVID-19 Outbreak in China

- Trump suggests 'injection' of disinfectant to beat coronavirus and 'clean' the lungs

- The White House Has Erected a Blockade Stopping States and Hospitals From Getting Coronavirus PPE

- Amazon reaps $11,000-a-second coronavirus lockdown bonanza

- Hundreds of Amazon Workers Strike Over Unsafe Working Conditions

- Amazon Will Not Change Without a Union

- Las Vegas workers push back after mayor's call to reopen casinos and hotels

- COVID-19: Lockdowns Pushing Mass Transit to Brink & Low-Income Riders Will Pay the Price

- 'Heroes': Healthcare Workers Stand in Street to Block Right-Wing Protest Against Colorado Stay-at-Home Order

- Hundreds Defy Common Sense, Safety At Infowars Rally To Reopen Businesses

- KENTUCKY REPORTS HIGHEST CORONAVIRUS INFECTION INCREASE AFTER A WEEK OF PROTESTS TO REOPEN STATE

- Give Me Liberty and Also Death

- Right Wing Brain Worms - Hellworld #9 (Podcast)

- The whiteness of anti-lockdown protests

- 'A phantom plague': America's Bible Belt played down the pandemic and even cashed in. Now dozens of pastors are dead

Brazil:

- Brazil's star justice minister Sérgio Moro resigns in blow to Jair Bolsonaro

- Brazil's Attorney General Demands Inquiry Against Bolsonaro

Canada:

- Ecosocialists Demand Immediate Increase in Minimum Wage for Essential Workers (BC)

- TRUDEAU’S PATCHWORK INCOME DEAL IS INSUFFICIENT

- Why Isn’t Canada Treating Climate Change With the Same Urgency as COVID-19?

- University students demand lower tuition, fees as classes move online

- Alberta Pension Manager That Lost Billions Made Big Investments in Conservative Donors’ Companies: Report

Climate Emergency:

- Europe had hottest year on record in 2019, report shows

Feminism:

- Author of book about victim blaming bombarded with misogynist abuse

Israel / Palestine:

- Israeli plans for occupied West Bank would violate international law: EU

Lenin 150:

- The future belongs to socialism -- Statements from around the world on the 150th anniversary of Lenin’s birth

- Capitalism is not the end of history -- More statements from around the world on the 150th anniversary of Lenin’s birth

- Cuban Communist Party sends message on 150th anniversary of Lenin's birth

- Cuban workers honor Lenin and convoke May Day mobilization

- Lenin in Urdu: His Every Word Became Poetry

Nova Scotia Shootings:

- Nova Scotia mass shooting lays bare media's white male bias

- Nova Scotia shootings began after gunman attacked his girlfriend, sources say

- Women’s Shelters Canada Calls on Authorities to Acknowledge Gendered Aspect of Nova Scotia Mass Shooting

- Misogyny is often behind the acts we deem ‘senseless’

- When real life turns surreal

Porn/Prostitution:

- What does pornography reveal about the world we are a part of?

United Kingdom:

- Half of frontline care workers paid less than living wage

- The leaked Labour report should have been an explosive scandal

United States:

- Noam Chomsky Is a Liberal

- The Moral and Strategic Calculus of Voting for Joe Biden to Defeat Trump — or Not

- Do I have to vote for a rapist if I live in a swing state?

- On The Record: A Former Biden Staffer's Sexual Assault Allegation

- Tara Reade says Joe Biden sexually assaulted her. She deserves to be heard

- NEW EVIDENCE SUPPORTING CREDIBILITY OF TARA READE’S ALLEGATION AGAINST JOE BIDEN EMERGES