Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis and the Worker Fightback -- The Week in News and Opinion March 15 - 22

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  March 15 - 22.

Unsurprisingly this week's edition begins with a very large roundup of news and left opinion about the capitalist coronavirus crisis and the fightback against attempts to confront it on the backs of workers.  We have tried to arrange this coronavirus news thematically and to touch on many areas of concern such as housing, worker's rights, left party demands, the heroic internationalism of socialist Cuba, and many other topics. The Featured Article link at the start is a powerful "Letter from a Retail Worker".

Featured Article:

Letter from a Retail Worker: Gratitude is nice, but dignity and safety start with a strong union

"Things can really only get worse from here for retail workers—if we let it. We are underpaid, micromanaged, and disdained. And when this crisis is over, that won’t change unless we change it ourselves. That has to start with a strong union. Make a fresh one or join one of the better existing ones (no minimum wage, tiered contract bullshit—I’m looking at you, UFCW). We want to support ourselves and our families, we want job security, we want a say in how health and safety policies that literally affect our livelihoods are decided. We want everyone to have their groceries and coffee, but we don’t want to die or kill our immunocompromised or elderly family members doing it. If companies—and capitalist society as a whole—didn’t by nature prioritize profits over us, we wouldn’t have to make that choice."


Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis and the Worker Fightback:

- Panic buying and hoarding are a function of capitalism

- Message to the government: your friends, the super-rich, are the hoarders

- Coronavirus has revealed left wing ideas are nothing more than plain common sense

- "Socialism is imperative for our health!" -- International workers' parties call for socialist solutions to the capitalist coronavirus crisis

- Covid-19 hastens the deepening structural crisis of the capitalist system

- "It is only through our resistance and struggle that we can defend our rights." - WFTU coronavirus statement

- Our politics isn’t designed to protect the public from Covid-19

- Look after people not profit in the COVID-19 crisis

- Lessons from the Spanish flu of 1919: internationalism and people before profit

- EMERGENCY ACTION REQUIRED NOW TO STOP COVID-19 AND DEEP RECESSION

- While Some Wait For COVID-19 Tests, The Wealthy Cut The Line

- Cuba Sends 144 Health Workers to Combat the Covid-19 in Jamaica

- Cuba Sends 53 Doctors and Nurses to Fight Covid-19 in Italy

- Amid coronavirus pandemic, Bolsonaro’s Brazil begs for Cuban doctors – after expelling them

- What coronavirus revealed about national mindsets across the world — and how Cuba came out on top

- Update: British Cruise Ship With COVID-19 Cases to Dock in Cuba

- Cuba's Interferon Alpha 2B, Successful in Treating COVID-19

- BioCubaFarma Guarantees Production of Drugs for COVID-19

- Chile’s Communist Mayor to Import Cuban Meds to Fight COVID-19




- Bolivia: Coup-Born Regime Rejects Medical Cooperation From Cuba

- The UK Only Realised "In The Last Few Days" That Its Coronavirus Strategy Would "Likely Result In Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths"

- 'A generation has died': Italian province struggles to bury its coronavirus dead

- Grim milestone: Italy's coronavirus deaths surpass China's

- Why Italy was hit so hard and so fast by COVID-19

- Australian doctors condemn government response to COVID-19 “disaster”

- Coronavirus: Socialists Call for Urgent Bonus to Health, Welfare Workers (Hungary)

- Workers at Lewisham coronavirus hospital walk out after not being paid

- ‘Terrified’ Package Delivery Employees Are Going to Work Sick (USA)

- Workers Shut Down Mercedes Factory That Called Them In During Coronavirus (Spain)

- Employees in Toronto are being told to work in the face of COVID-19 and they’re angry and scared

- Air Canada failing to inform us of true exposure to Covid-19, employees claim

- Ontario Bill 186 "falls far short" Dias says as Unifor continues to call for 14 point plan for workers

- ‘Blood on their hands:’ Teachers say de Blasio and Carranza helped spread coronavirus

- New York now the center of the US coronavirus crisis – can it cope?

- We’re Struggling With the Coronavirus in Spain—but We’re Vastly More Prepared Than the US

- Spain has nationalized all of its private hospitals as the country goes into coronavirus lockdown

- America has no real public health system – coronavirus has a clear run

- Total Cost of Her COVID-19 Treatment: $34,927.43 (United States)

- Here Are the 51 Republican Senators Who Just Voted Against Expanding Paid Sick Leave to All Workers

- Trump inaccurately claims malaria drug has been ‘approved’ for coronavirus treatment, prompting FDA correction

- Coronavirus – anti-China propaganda brings catastrophe to the West

- White House Pushes U.S. Officials to Criticize China For Coronavirus ‘Cover-Up’

- Photo of Trump remarks shows 'corona' crossed out and replaced with 'Chinese' virus

- Bolsonaro’s son enrages Beijing by blaming China for coronavirus crisis

- Coronavirus and anti-racism: no scapegoating, no excuses

- COVID-19: Korean consulate issues warning after violent attack in Montreal

- Asian Canadian Woman Wearing Face Mask Kicked Out of Toronto Supermarket

- Don't Demonize China! A Report from Chongqing

- China would answer calls for assistance – even when the past isn't pleasant

- Why are we surprised the BC NDP is forcing thousands back to work in unsafe man camps for Big Oil?

- Work Camp in Alberta’s Oil Field Issues Notice That Workers May Have Been Exposed to COVID-19

- Game Over for Kenney

- The Other Emergency Is Crashing Oil Prices

- Ottawa prepares multibillion-dollar bailout of oil and gas sector

- NYC local buses a free ride for all during coronavirus outbreak

- Cities across Canada implement free transit to curb COVID-19

- Detroit Bus Drivers Win Protections Against Virus Through Strike

- 'Literally Weaponizing Coronavirus': Despite One of World's Worst Outbreaks of Deadly Virus, US Hits Iran With 'Brutal' New Sanctions

- US accused of making Iran's coronavirus crisis worse after issuing new sanctions

- 'In This Dark Hour for the Iranian People,' Groups Demand Trump End Inhumane Sanctions Amid COVID-19 Outbreak

- US Should Lift Economic Sanctions to Avoid More Deaths From Pandemic

- Cuba faces squeeze on food production as US oil sanctions bite

- IMF Rejects Venezuela's Request for $5B in Virus Aid

- U.S. prevents Venezuela from buying drugs to treat COVID-19

- China Releases Full Report on US Human Rights 2019 Record – Criticizes US Sanctions on Venezuela and Cuba

- Israel stops providing cleaning products to Palestine detainees

- Gaza confirms first coronavirus cases as West Bank shuts down

- A coronavirus coup in broad daylight (Israel)

- Guatemala Suspends All US Deportation Flights Over COVID-19

- NYSE boss sold his own stock ahead of coronavirus market meltdown

- Four senators sold stocks before coronavirus threat crashed market

- Senator Richard Burr Sold a Fortune in Stocks as G.O.P. Played Down Coronavirus Threat

- Labour demands government suspends rents to stop evictions during coronavirus pandemic (UK)

- Ontario puts brakes on new eviction orders, postpones ones in the works because of COVID-19

- Here's how Toronto renters feel about the new mortgage deferrals in Canada

- Coronavirus: Calls to suspend rent in Toronto get louder

- TORONTO: KEEP YOUR RENT (April 1)

- B.C. union calls for suspension of mortgage and rent payments until COVID-19 crisis ends

- Impact of COVID-19 on Vancouver's DTES could be catastrophic

- If Social Distancing Is Impossible in Prisons, People Should Be Freed

- Canada to turn back asylum seekers, close border at midnight to stop spread of COVID-19

- Community Services abandons most vulnerable in time of crisis (Nova Scotia)

- COVID-19: Quebec teachers in shock after government suspends collective agreements

- Emergency action is necessary to end the health and economic crises in Ontario

- Ontario could run out of ICU beds, ventilators in 37 days even if COVID-19 rates cut in half: study

- Chickens coming home to roost in austerity Ontario

- Frustrated Canadians looking for mortgage deferrals from big banks facing delays, denials

- AFB2020 as COVID-19 policy response: A plan to protect workers and the public from an unprecedented crisis

Bolivia:

- Bolivia: Electoral Tribunal Suspends Elections Due to COVID-19

- Bolivia: MAS Presents Legal Resource in Support of Evo Morales

- Morales pick leads in Bolivia opinion polls

Brazil:

- Rise in 'forced disappearance' preys on Brazil's young men of colour

Canada:

- January manufacturing sales show Canadian factories were slowing even before COVID-19 hit

- Alberta to sell native grassland despite promises no Crown land would be sold

- Tribunal orders Canada to compensate parents who lost children in care

- Despite Foodora ruling, app-based workers face uphill union battle

India:

- Delhi's Muslims despair of justice after police implicated in riots

Israel / Palestine:

- Bibi Boi -- Hellworld #6

- Maiming Palestinians for Sport is a War Crime

United States:

- Furious at Probe Into US War Crimes Pompeo Threatens ICC Staff

- Sanders Gets Swallowed by the DNC Machine: It’s Time to #DemExit

Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis -- The Week in News and Opinion March 8 - 15

Empty streets midday in Washington DC Friday

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  March 8 - 15.

This week's edition starts with a very large roundup of news and left opinion about the capitalist coronavirus crisis. Otherwise the round-up of international left news is presented in sections related to topic/region listed alphabetically except for the Featured Article post at the start.

Featured Article:

America Is a Sham

"In a time of real anxiety, maybe this optimism is just grasping for something good to come of all of this. But that’s really up to us. Over the next few weeks, we’re going to see more and more absurd, or cruel, or counterproductive practices revealed. Pay attention when they are. Notice the statements the people in charge make when they effortlessly roll back their surcharges and threats, their punishments and impediments. Remember them. And when the time comes that the danger from the virus is no longer as severe, and those people try to quietly reinstate the policies that hurt so many around you, remember that for a lot of Americans, a “return to normal” is a scary prospect. Keep your giant bottle of hand sanitizer. You’re gonna need it to deal with all the bullshit that’s coming back when the pandemic finally passes."

Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis

- Coronavirus facts: is there a cure and what is the mortality rate of the virus?

- Panic buying and hoarding are a function of capitalism

- Coronavirus highlights gap between socialist and capitalist responses

- “Flattening the Curve” is a deadly delusion

- We need disciplined, socialist solutions to the coming capitalist coronavirus crisis

- Coronavirus: 8 demands we should make on the government

- No, the coronavirus is not good for the climate

- Plague Watch USA -- Hellworld #5

- Working communities must not be made to pay for COVID-19 crisis

- These are the NHL owners who have not agreed to pay arena staff for suspended events

- Tim Hortons Workers Need Doctor’s Notes To Take Unpaid Sick Leave During Coronavirus Pandemic

- Fast Food Lobby Group: Workers With ‘Coughs’ and ‘Runny Noses’ Can Still Work During Coronavirus Pandemic

- Whole Foods Suggests That Workers Share Paid Time Off During Coronavirus

- Trump offers 'large sums' for exclusive access to coronavirus vaccine

- The Dismantled State Takes on a Pandemic

- Trump to Declare National Emergency to Speed Virus Response

- Trump struggles to explain why he disbanded his global health team

- Our Worst Crisis Since 2008… and We Have an Idiot at the Helm

- Republicans Tried to Sneak Abortion Restrictions into the Coronavirus Bill

- Senate GOP Blocks Emergency Paid Sick Leave Bill From Moving Forward

- The Coronavirus Is Jump-Starting Union Organizing at Delta

- Alex Jones accused of selling fake coronavirus cures

- New York attorney general sends letter to televangelist Jim Bakker amid coronavirus concerns

- 'Nightmare Waiting to Happen': Advocates Warn US Prison Conditions Risks Intense Coronavirus Outbreak

- Mexico Considers Limiting Entries From US To Slow Coronavirus

Chinese medical workers who have been fighting the coronavirus day and night in Wuhan celebrated the closing of the last temporary hospital in Wuhan.

The reported cases went from a surge in February of 15,000 in one day to only 15 this week:




- China Ready to Assist the World to Fight COVID-19

- Italy criticizes EU for not responding its call for help, 'only China responded bilaterally'

- I’m an epidemiologist. When I heard about Britain’s ‘herd immunity’ coronavirus plan, I thought it was satire

- European leftist parties demand support for workers during the capitalist coronavirus crisis

- Coronavirus: Germany seals its borders as 100m Europeans on lockdown

- Spain to declare state of emergency over virus outbreak

- The entire country of Norway is 'shutting down'

- New Coronavirus and Measures That Latin America Govts Have Taken

- Diaz-Canel calls for intensifying measures to confront Covid-19, and continuing work with the population

- COVID-19 could be 'devastating' for First Nations, says Matawa First Nations CEO

- OPSEU President Thomas calls on businesses to "send workers home for the next two weeks with full pay"

- Canada's $1B Coronavirus Plan Abandons Gig Workers

- How can Canadians quarantine from COVID-19 if they can't afford it?

- Lessons from COVID-19: We are only as strong as our weakest link

- Health Workers Slam Ontario Government For Axing Paid Sick Days As Pandemic Spreads

- VTU CALLS ON PROVINCE & CITY TO ENACT AN EVICTIONS MORATORIUM DURING CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK

- Arms show announces intention to proceed despite coronavirus pandemic

Asia:

- Families of missing persons in Sri Lanka demand justice

- Communist Party of Philippines: ‘Lockdown’ will intensify repression in National Capital Region

Bolivia:

- Bolivia: Parliament Censors Jeanine Áñez's Allies Minister

- Feminists travel to Bolivia in solidarity against the coup

Brazil:

- Brazil: Congress Overturns Bolsonaro's Social Benefit Law Veto

- Climate crisis blamed for rains and floods that have killed 150 in Brazil

- Brazil Requests Impeachment for Jair Bolsonaro

Canada:

- Green Party leadership contender courts 'disgruntled' NDPers

- The Horrible Greta Thunberg Sticker Highlights Alberta's Toxic Oil Culture

- TRUDEAU’S CHOICE TO SUPPORT WAR CRIMES

- Usman Ahmad: Bill 168 and the ONDP’s failure to stand up against antisemitism and zionism

- Class (Size) Struggle: The Ontario Government’s Latest Game

- ALBERTA LABOUR PUSHES BACK AGAINST KENNEY CUTS

Chile:

- Chile: New Wave of Protests to Demand Piñera's Resignation

- Chile: Police Attack Protesters Demanding Piñera's Resignation

- Chile Denounces Government Repression During Feminist Strike

Climate Emergency:

- “The climate crisis is a capitalist crisis” – Zarah Sultana’s full maiden speech

Cuba:

- REPORT FROM CUBA: THE IMPACT OF THE BLOCKADE ON THE US

Ecuador:

- Ecuador: Citizens Reject Economic Decisions to Please the IMF

- Ecuadorians reject Moreno’s new austerity measures

Europe:

- How Denmark's 'ghetto list' is ripping apart migrant communities

- Housing workers explain reality to idiot Boris Johnson

Guyana:

- CARICOM Team to Oversee Recount of Guyana Elections

Feminsim / Women's Issues:

- Latin America's Women's Day: Huge Marches Across the Continent

- Protesters demonstrate in front of Pornhub HQ in Montreal on International Women's Day

Israel / Palestine:

Breaking: Israel's opposition head Benny Gantz wins support to form government

- 'You Want to Kill Me?' Totally, He Said. 'Leftists Are Worse Than the Arabs': Election Day at a Settlement

- Israel demolishes Palestinian Bedouin village for 176th time

- Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Teenager in West Bank

- U.S. State Department Now Calling East Jerusalem Palestinians 'Arab Residents'

- Two Refined Racists From Gantz's Party Foil His Chance at Replacing Netanyahu

Mexico:

- Photos: 'One day without us' — Mexican women’s strike makes history

- 'Femicide is the tip of the iceberg': Mexican women hold national strike to protest rising gender violence

United States:

- #DemExit: Time to Launch a New Party Of, By, and For Working People

- Sanders: “I Never Expected in My Life, as an American, to See a Swastika at a Major Political Rally”

- New York woman was shackled to bed during childbirth, lawsuit says

- Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape, sexual assault

- How settler colonialism affects Hawaiʻi

- Operation Condor: The CIA is not innocent

- Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Recruited Spies to Infiltrate Progressive Groups with Project Veritas

- Young Americans say billionaires do more harm than good, study shows

- Pregnant 19-year-old dies trying to climb US border wall

- “A Toothpick in a Tsunami”: US Big Oil Faces Bankruptcy as Prices Plunge 30% on Saudi Expansion

Venezuela:

- Bachelet is “Morally Incapable” of Talking About Venezuela

- Colombia: Duque Closes Border With Venezuela, Thousands at Risk

- GUAIDÓ LEFT OUT IN THE COLD AT GATINEAU LIMA GROUP MEETING

- US, Colombia, Brazil Hold Alliance to Attack Venezuela

Wet'suwet'en:


"The Wet’suwet’en started the preliminary work on the affirmation of our traditional territories, in 1974 - for Delgamuukw & Gisday’wa v the Queen.

23 years later, the Supreme Court of Canada finalized the decision that our kungax (oral history) was valid, and that we had never ceded or surrendered our territories... that the lands that are currently under destruction, have always been ours.

Yet, today, the colonial federal Justin Trudeau & provincial John Horgan governments are continuing to ignore this ruling. They continue to ignore the hereditary chiefs clear demand that CGL stop work, and the BC RCMP remove themselves from the territories.

When we stand and affirm our position, we are faced with mass armed forces - and the forcible removal from our unceded, sovereign territories. This is why it’s important that others continue to stand with us.

The current discussions are not regarding cgl - and are not being done in good faith by the government... or there would be a stoppage of the work while they happen."



- Rail disruptions ‘overblown’ by rail companies, politicians says Parliamentary Budget Officer

- Release order bars woman from voicing support for Wet’suwet’en online

European leftist parties demand support for workers during the capitalist coronavirus crisis

Fighting the virus in Italy

Yesterday we looked at what our governments should be doing to protect workers in the face of the exploding capitalist coronavirus crisis. With several million Canadians and tens of millions of Americans just a couple of paychecks away from being on the verge of bankruptcy and homelessness, or of having to make very hard choices, steps need to be taken immediately so that, unlike in 2008, it is not the people who pay the price of the pandemic while big business gets big bailouts. 

We need rapid, disciplined, socialist solutions to this and we need to pressure our governments to implement them now.

Calls from leftist and workers' parties internationally are mounting for emergency measures to ensure that any actions taken to fight the coronavirus are not at the expense of or on the backs of working people.

Dimitris Koutsoumpas, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece released a statement that -- in addition to demanding the reopening of hospital beds with proper staffing that were shut down due to austerity and for the provision of  "necessary disinfection and precaution supplies" by the state free of charge -- called for the government to ensure full remuneration and insurance to:

- All workers who are sick.

- Workers who are forced to abstain from work because of the emergency preventive measures.

- Those who are required to take care of a patient or an elderly member of their family.

- Those who are required to stay with their children at home because of the preventive closure of schools and day care centers.

He further demanded an end to all home foreclosures, evictions and utility disconnections due to debt. Koutsoumpas stated the "total cost must be borne by the state itself, the various big business groups and not the workers, the employees in the private and public sector or the self-employed in urban centers and the countryside."

Similarly the Communist Party of the Workers of Spain noted the necessity of protecting workers who need to "care for children and young people affected by the closure of schools". In addition they called for steps like the immediate takeover of private health centers by public services, regularizing and protecting those working in Spain illegally, establishing a central transportation plan "which guarantees the daily disinfection of...transport and the adoption of measures for the protection of personnel",  "mandatory rules, under the supervision of public personnel, for nursing homes and the like" and laws and regulations against speculation.

In Italy, which has been hit especially hard,  Francesca Fornario of the Communist Refoundation Party said that the  "effort of the government and of all of us to prevent the virus from spreading should be matched by an identical effort to prevent the weakest from paying the consequences of the extraordinary measures required by the health emergency."

She also demanded that the "government guarantee all workers the opportunity to stop working without losing their jobs." She called for workers to be allowed to work from home where possible, for worker salaries and incomes to be guaranteed and for protections for precarious workers.

Fornario ends stating that there must be a moratorium on mortgages, rents and taxes as well as a massive investment plan for recovery after the outbreak.

Fortunately the Italian government has, at least temporarily, heeded calls for people to be protected from defaulting on mortgages or being cut off from utilities.

As the Spanish statement warned, "Once again, the business class seeks to socialize the losses that come in times of difficulty after years of privatizing profits."

We cannot allow this to happen anywhere.

Massive Communist Party rally around and on the Colosseum, Rome, 1945 -- Daily LIFT #132

Massive Communist Party rally around and on the Colosseum, Rome, 1945 -- Daily LIFT #132

Colombian Strikes, Developments in Bolivia and Chile, Corbyn Smeared & more -- The Week in News, Opinion and Videos November 24 - December 1

This week's list of articles, news items, opinion pieces and videos 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 November 24 - December 1.

We have changed the format of the round-up so that the links, videos and photos are presented in sections related to topic.


Bolivia Coup Updates:

- OAS Admits Absence of Final Report on Elections in Bolivia

- Crimes Against Humanity Reported in Bolivia: Int'l Delegation

- Bolivia Repeals Controversial Immunity Decree for Armed Forces

- Bolivia: Evo Morales Rejects Interpol Notice Issued Against Him

- 'The Struggle Doesn't End Here': President Evo Morales

- Reversing Pro-Palestinian Stance of Evo Morales, Bolivia's Coup Government Moves to Restore Ties With Israel

- What comes after the coup?

- The people will not allow the coup in Bolivia, says Venezuelan ambassador

- Bolivia: Police Demand to be Paid for Their Support for Coup

Caribbean: 

- Caribbean Leaders Reject OAS Attempts to Interfere in Dominica

- Cuba found to be the most sustainably developed country in the world, new research finds

- Díaz-Canel: Cuba will not renounce its sovereignty or independence

Colombia Protests: 

Footage of Colombian riot police repressing a peaceful demonstration by throwing tear gas into a crowd of protesters:



- One Dead, More Than 700 Injured in the 1st Week of Protests in Colombia

- Colombian national strike continues

- Colombia: Workers' Union Calls to Carry On Nationwide Strike Into Its 5th Day

Chilean Protests:

- Chile: People With Eye Injuries To File Lawsuit Against Piñera

- Chile’s Lawmakers Approve Impeachment of Interior Minister

- Chilean President Rejected by 84% of the Population

- Chilean Communists Reject Sebastian Piñera's Proposal

- Over 2,800 People Wounded in Chile Since Start of Protests

- Chilean Photojournalist Albertina Martínez Burgos Killed in Santiago

South and Central America:

- Martinez Concedes Uruguayan Presidency to Right-Wing Candidate

Europe: 

- Merkel government in peril as leftwing duo take charge of SPD

- Black Friday Protests Across Europe Demand Amazon 'Start Treating Workers Like Humans—Not Robots'

- Italian Authorities Uncover Plot to Create New Nazi Party

- Austrian communists make significant gains in Styrian state elections

- Protests grow in Ukraine against government’s decision to lift moratorium on land sales

UK Election:

- General election: Boris Johnson’s lead halved, putting UK in ‘hung parliament territory’, latest poll reveals

- Why he's voting Labour: Alan Moore, author Watchmen and V for Vendetta

- The Contract on Corbyn

- Chief Rabbi's ‘vote Tory’ call condemned by Jewish groups

- Rabbi Mirvis is overplaying his hand

- Lies, lies and more lies 

- Boris Johnson said children of single mothers were 'ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate' in newly unearthed column

- Boris Johnson said that Islamophobia is a 'natural reaction' to Islam and that 'Islam is the problem'

- BBC admits it made ‘mistake’ by editing Boris Johnson footage to remove audience laughing at him

India:

- Protests in India after woman gang raped and burned to death

Climate Emergency:

- Rivers in crisis: Amid drought, corporations are buying up Australia’s water

- Governments Need to Face Reality — the Fossil Fuel Industry Is Collapsing

- Firefighters union leader: ‘There are no climate sceptics on the end of a fire hose’

- 'Maybe It Will Destroy Everything': Pakistan's Melting Glaciers Cause Alarm

- Earth set to warm 3.2 C by 2100 unless efforts to cut emissions are tripled, new UN report finds

- Climate change: Greenhouse gas concentrations again break records

Canada:

- B.C. subsidizes fossil fuels to tune of hundreds of millions annually, according to study

- Activist says RCMP profile about her is 'kind of creepy and unsettling'

- Unions told thousands more job cuts coming to Alberta public service

- Jason Kenney’s UCP Under Fire For Accusing High School Teachers of Being Disloyal to Oil Industry

- Tent City Under Attack

- 'We are just going to take it away': City of Kelowna tells people not to donate supplies to homeless camp

- Federal Court strikes down request from Canada to have human rights tribunal ruling put on hold

- Supreme Court awards $20K to woman fined for refusing to hold escalator handrail

- Public high school teachers to hold 1-day province-wide strike on Dec. 4

- Ford Government Says It Spends ‘More on Education’ Than Any Government in Ontario’s History. That Claim is False.

- Energy minister cites climate change denial blog in defence of scrapping green energy projects

- ORGANIZING AGAINST PRECARITY: FOODORA COURIERS DELIVER BOLD VISION FOR LABOUR

York University Palestinian Solidarity Protests:

- Debunking Politicians’ Falsities About The York University Protest

- Israeli Soldier Who Accused PalSol Activists of Anti-Semitic Chants Specialized in Targeted Killings And Kidnapping of Palestinians

- Jerusalem Post admits to printing false info about York University protest

- Media Complicity in Demonizing Palestinians

- IJV Supports Palestine Solidarity Protestors at York and Denounces Smear Tactics From Government Leaders

- Justin Trudeau Sides With Pro-Israel Thuggery At York University

United States:

- Ohio bill orders doctors to ‘reimplant ectopic pregnancy’ or face 'abortion murder' charges

- Kshama Sawant Passes the Amazon Stress Test in Seattle

- America has an infant mortality crisis. Meet the black doulas trying to change that

Israel/Palestine:



- 16-year-old Palestinian Teen Said Killed by Live Israeli Fire in Gaza Protest

- Palestinians protest US recognition of illegal Israeli settlements on occupied land

- Israel Starts Building Largest Settlement in East Jerusalem

- The Israeli Army's Excuses Won't Help. Only War Criminals Kill Nine Innocent Civilians in Their Sleep

Middle East:

- Iraq PM resignation would only be 'first step', protesters say

- New sexed-up dossier furore: Explosive leaked email claims that UN watchdog's report into alleged poison gas attack by Assad was doctored - so was it to justify British and American missile strikes on Syria?

Asia:

- Health workers in Pakistan challenge government’s privatization drive

International:

- In pictures: Global protests denounce violence against women

Ideas:

- The Impunity Doctrine: The Meek Shall be Buried Beneath the Earth

- A letter to intellectuals who deride revolutions in the name of purity

- Let’s get off our knees and abolish the monarchy

Porn & Prostitution:

- Decriminalizing the Sex Trade Isn't the Answer—The Equality Model Is

- Trade unions that never fight the sex industry bosses

- Violence during consensual sex has become normalised, campaigners have warned.