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

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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

Cuban Solidarity, Bernie Sanders, the Leaked Labour Report & more -- The Week in News and Opinion April 12 - 19

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 12 - 18.

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 Cuba's internationalism and global solidarity with the island nation, Bernie Sanders' capitulation to Biden and the leak of a report showing that right-wing Labour Party insiders actually worked to tank the party in the 2017 election campaign. 

The Featured Article link at the start is an excellent piece by Bob Buzzanco on the attempts by some lefties to try to shame those not getting on board with backing Biden.

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


Featured Post:

Older and Wiser, and Vote-Shaming

Liberals are a an offensive and feckless peculiar bunch.  They love liberty and freedom.  They believe in equality and personal space.  They believe that a woman should have the right to choose whether to have a child, and that gays should have the right to get married. So perhaps the right to vote, or not to vote, should be part of their ideology too.  In any event, stop the scolding and hectoring and vote-shaming, and go out and work to get your guy elected.  Or maybe better, get involved in movement politics instead of obsessing over electoralism and waiting for a hero to save you.


Otherwise, STFU have a good day.

Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis:

- No time left. This social order must change! -- Statements from Turkey, Greece and Sweden

- Only socialism saves!

- A Socialist Cry for Civilisational Change: COVID-19 and the Failure of Neo-liberalism

- Could Covid-19 vanquish neoliberalism?

- Could COVID-19 bring down the U.S. empire?

- I Want My Death to Make You Angry

- Baffled?? Me Too,Friend!

- THE CASE FOR RENT FORGIVENESS

- The Coronavirus Strike Wave Could Shift Power to Workers—for Good

- Liberal anti-Chinese propaganda helped create the far-right campaign to blame China for Covid-19

- Truth Tracker: There's no scientific proof that COVID-19 was made in a Chinese lab

- Is the cruise industry finally out of its depth?

- Solidarity Yes -- Blockade No! We Demand the Immediate Lifting of the Criminal US Blockade of Cuba

- Cuba is Willing to Send More Medical Brigades to the World

- Cuba shares what it has

- Cuba Under Media Attack for Sending Doctors, Not Bombs, to Help Covid-19 Victims

- Cuba Is Developing a Vaccine to Activate the Immune System

- Cuban Doctors Arrive in Qatar to Fight COVID-19

- Caribbean Organizations Unite Against US Attacks, Support Caricom

- Vietnam ships 450,000 protective suits for U.S. health care workers

- Kerala is a model state in the Covid-19 fight

- Africa's COVID-19 Death Toll Hits 816, 15,249 Confirmed Cases

- COVID-19 Worsens Struggle of Migrant Workers in Gulf States

- Settler attacks rise by 78 percent amid pandemic

- Israel Shuts Palestinian Coronavirus Testing Clinic in East Jerusalem

- Open Letter to Condemn Trump Admin’s Hypocritical Indictment on Drug Charges of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, High-Ranking Officials

- Venezuela Has the Lowest Contagion Rate in Latin America

- “War Operation”: Communist Party-run Maranhão State imports Chinese ventilators in secret, via Ethiopia

- Trump Accused of 'Actively and Knowingly' Spreading Coronavirus to Central America Through Deportations

- Colombia: Red Rags on Windows to Protest Amid Quarantine

- Virus hit 'like a bomb' as toll rises in Ecuador's business capital

- Brazil: Chloroquine Studies Suspended After 11 People Die

- Brazil, Ecuador Record Highest Death Tolls From COVID-19

- There’s No Reason to Turn Airtime Over to Trump’s Deceptive Coronavirus Campaign Rallies

- Trump suspends funding to WHO pending review over handling of coronavirus

- Unions back U.S. Postal Service’s $75B pandemic appeal, oppose right-wing privatization plans

- Three New York City transit workers dying every day of coronavirus

- Hit Hard by Covid-19, Transit Workers Call for Shutdowns

- US for-profit healthcare sector cuts thousands of jobs as pandemic rages

- The U.S. Opposes the IMF to Create Liquidity to Help Countries

- Coronavirus Outbreak at Virginia Nursing Home Spirals Out of Control as 45 Die

- ‘They’re Death Pits’: Virus Claims at Least 7,000 Lives in U.S. Nursing Homes

- Chicago coronavirus outbreak infects dozens of migrant children in U.S. custody

- “BURIALS ARE CHEAPER THAN DEPORTATIONS”: VIRUS UNLEASHES TERROR IN A TROUBLED ICE DETENTION CENTER

- Congress Should Immediately Pass Legislation Protecting Workers' Safety During the Coronavirus Pandemic

- 'Heartbreaking Statistic': Thanks to Pandemic, Last Month Was First March Since 2002 Without a US School Shooting

- Next Coronavirus Relief Package Must Include Moratorium on Utility Shutoffs, 830+ Justice Groups Say

- Death penalty states urged to release stockpiled drugs for Covid-19 patients

- Great, the Anti-Vaxxer Coronavirus Protests Are Here

- Labour leaders say they’ll push to permanently improve pay, working conditions for essential workers (Canada)

- The hypocrisy of our leaders around social distancing is reckless (Canada)

- Union says 35 TTC bus operators walked off job due to lack of PPE (Toronto)

- Quebec reopens mines despite the concerns of the Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador

- Years of government austerity to blame for 31 deaths at seniors' residence, Quebec's largest union says

- Kelowna golf courses reopen with new protocols but health officials say it's not a great idea

- Ontario’s lack of diversity data for COVID-19 is an embarrassment

- Ontario needs to spend at least $58 million more a month to fix long-term care staffing crisis: CCPA

- Ontario to stop caregivers from working at multiple long-term care homes as COVID-19 spreads like 'wildfire'

- Ontario scaled back comprehensive, annual inspections of nursing homes to only a handful last year

- Ontario rejects call to take over operations at long-term care homes where 54 residents have died

Bolivia:

- Bolivia Indigenous Denounce Añez for Discrimination

- Evo Morales: Police Put Cochabamba Population's Health at Risk

Brazil:

- Brazil: Indigenous Peoples Go to Court Against Missionaries

- Indigenous People In Brazilian Amazon Face Covid-19 and Loggers

- BRAZIL’S JAIR BOLSONARO, THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL CORONAVIRUS DENIER, JUST FIRED THE HEALTH MINISTER WHO DISAGREED WITH HIM

- Bolsonaro Closes Brazil's Embassy and Consulates in Venezuela

Canada:

- The Business Wage Subsidy: Trickle-Down Economics on Steroids

- Federal Government Won’t Disclose Details of New Contract With Amazon to Manage Canada’s COVID-19 Supplies

- We have the oil lobby’s secret list of COVID demands – if approved, they would set environmental protection back decades

- 11 things you need to know as Trudeau announces $1.7 billion to clean up ‘festering’ orphan and inactive wells

- Dimitri Lascaris wants the Green Party to be the champion of Canada’s left

- ‘A dangerous road’: Coastal GasLink pays to kill wolves in endangered caribou habitat in B.C. interior

- Alberta Government Turns Hard to the Right

- Manitoba seeks to claw back or cancel funding for 'non-essential' service providers during COVID-19 pandemic

- 'Let her soul rise': Supporters pay tribute to Eishia Hudson, 16, shot and killed by Winnipeg police

- Over 300 health-care workers sign open letter demanding more shelter for Toronto's homeless

- Some Landlords Found a Loophole in Doug Ford’s ‘Eviction Ban’. They’re Still Threatening Renters with Eviction.

- Ontario's Front-Line Workers Call For Paid Sick Days

- Governments that borrowed interest-free from Bank of Canada now incur massive debts borrowing from private banks

Climate Emergency:

- Second wave of locusts in east Africa said to be 20 times worse

- Planned obsolescence: the outrage of our electronic waste mountain

- 2020 expected to be Earth's warmest year on record, scientists say

- Wildlife Collapse From Climate Change Is Predicted to Hit Suddenly and Sooner

Europe:

- Workers in France Take Over McDonald’s to Distribute Food

- Greece’s Communist Party: We Join Our Voice with Those of Supermarket Employees

- Communist youth in Italy launch campaign to guarantee student rights

Facebook:

- Facebook arbitrarily limits The Left Chapter with no explanation or appeal

Ideas:

- Facing Reality: The Socialist Left, the Sanders Campaign and Our Future

Israel / Palestine:

- Netanyahu's Son Says He 'Hopes' Leftists Will Die of Coronavirus Following Protest

Latin America:

- Colombia: Not Even the Pandemic Halts Killing of Social Leaders

- Guatemala: Social Organizations Denounce Massive Layoffs

- Cuba: Institutions Work Together to Protect the Elderly

Mexico:

- ‘We’ve been abandoned’: a decade later, Deepwater Horizon still haunts Mexico

United Kingdom:

- Socialists call for transparency over anti-semitism investigation that risks being 'suppressed'

- ‘It’s going to be a long night’ – How Members of Labour’s Senior Management Team Campaigned to Lose

- ‘The Leaked Labour Report Is Shameful – It’s Time for an Urgent Investigation’

- Labour’s explosive report shows how right-wing officials sabotaged the party

- Labour's leaked report: we can't let them get away with it

- Labour leaks have cost the party dearly – but its dismissal of anti-black racism means it’s about to lose a lot more

- McCluskey slams ‘rancid and very cruel’ behaviour exposed in Labour's leaked report

United States:

- Bernie go Bye Bye -- Hellworld #8

- The Cognitive Dissonance of “Democratic Socialists”— Cults Die a Slow Death

- The End of Sanders, and Maybe the Beginning of a Mass Independent Left

- Bernie’s Political Funeral 

- Not Me, Biden

- ‘THAT MAN CAN’T BREATHE’

- US judge cancels permit for Keystone XL pipeline from Canada

- These Photos Show the Staggering Food Bank Lines Across America

- With working Americans' survival at stake, the US is bailing out the richest

- 'A Complete Abomination': Mega-Rich Hedge Funds Swoop Down to Grab Covid-19 Small Business Relief Funds

- Millionaires to reap 80% of benefit from tax change in US coronavirus stimulus