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

Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis, US Aggression Against Venezuela, India & more -- The Week in News and Opinion March 29 - April 5

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 29 - April 5

Unsurprisingly 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 a number of links related to such topics as the worker fightback in the United States, the unfolding humanitarian crisis in India and the new attacks and aggression by the US imperialists against Venezuela. The Featured Article link at the start looks at how the coronavirus class war has already begun.

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

Featured Article:

- The Coronavirus Class War Has Already Started

"The very collapse of American unions in recent decades means that the stabilizing force of organized labor is gone, making wildcat strikes the weapon of choice in this new class war. America may be heading into a period of working-class militancy unlike anything it has experienced since the 1930s and ’40s."

Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis:

- Not on the Backs of Workers! -- The Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis News on The Left Chapter

- Why coronavirus could spark a capitalist supernova

- "Today capitalism itself is bankrupt"

- The race to find a coronavirus treatment has one major obstacle: big pharma

- Living in climate crisis: the pandemic and the need for revolution

- Chomsky: Ventilator Shortage Exposes the Cruelty of Neoliberal Capitalism

- The coronavirus crisis has exposed the ugly truth about celebrity culture and capitalism

- Britain's communists sign open letter on international response to Covid-19

- Whether in the UK or the developing world, we're not all in coronavirus together

- Pope Francis warns of ‘a viral genocide’ if governments put the economy before people amid coronavirus pandemic 

- Coronavirus embarrassed Trump and Bolsonaro. But the global right will fight back

- BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT BOLSONARO REJECTS CALLS FOR CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN, SAYS 'WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE ONE DAY'

- Trump’s “blame China” campaign is an effort to dodge responsibility

- You Don’t Need to Believe China About China’s Coronavirus Success

- China Refutes US Accusations of Hiding Extent of Virus Deaths

- China delivers 10,000 coronavirus kits to Palestine

- US Blockade Prevents Medical Supplies From Reaching Cuba

- ECLAC Urges the U.S. to Lift Sanctions Against Venezuela, Cuba

- Sanctions are crippling Iran's fight against coronavirus

- Cuba, Venezuela, Iran: U.S. imperialism wants to let them die

- Cuban doctors in South Africa fight against Covid-19

- St. Kitts and Nevis Thanks Cuba for Its Aid Against COVID-19

- Nicaragua and the COVID-19 Pandemic

- Despite pandemic, U.S. government threatens intervention in Venezuela

- Chinese Specialists Arrive in Venezuela to Combat Coronavirus

- IMF ABANDONS VENEZUELANS TO PANDEMIC

- Venezuela Blasts US 'Transition' Plan as 'Tutelage'

- Venezuela Rejects US Attempts to Send Navy Ships Near Its Coast

- CPUSA condemns U.S. criminal charges against Maduro

- Morrison shuts down parliament, hands nation to corporations (Australia)

- Assassination of Communist Party of Philippines official, comrades condemned

- Philippines's Duterte threatens to shoot those causing 'trouble' amid coronavirus




- "It is becoming more and more evident that Socialism is the alternative" - Statements from India

- India’s failed lockdown: devastating the poor, weakening the fight against COVID-19

- For India’s Laborers, Coronavirus Lockdown Is an Order to Starve

- Lockdown crisis in India: a people's perspective of Covid-19

- Outcry as Migrants in India Are Sprayed With Disinfectant

- Primark and Matalan among retailers allegedly cancelling £2.4bn orders in ‘catastrophic’ move for Bangladesh

- Colombia: ELN Announces Ceasefire Over COVID-19

- Bolivians Unable to Quarantine, Protest All Over the Country

- France To "Temporarily" Nationalize Companies Hit by COVID-19

- Spain: Catalonia Wants Cuban Health Workers to Fight COVID-19

- Italy sets aside €400m for food vouchers as social unrest mounts

- THE POOR NEED HELP…measures put to curb COVID-19 crippling the poor – M’membe (Zambia) 

- The rightwing Christian preachers in deep denial over Covid-19's danger

- Leaked Amazon Memo Details Plan to Smear Fired Warehouse Organizer: ‘He’s Not Smart or Articulate’

- NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio orders investigation of Amazon’s firing of strike organizer

- 'A perfect storm': US facing hunger crisis as demand for food banks soars

- Corporate Media Ignores How Privatization of US Hospitals Explains Lack of Beds, Ventilators

- Hospitals Tell Doctors They’ll Be Fired If They Speak Out About Lack of Gear

- NYC nurses, clutching photos of dead colleagues, demand better protective gear on pandemic’s front line

- The 1,000-Bed Comfort Was Supposed to Aid New York. It Has 20 Patients.

- The vacant Comfort hospital ship is a symbol of our coronavirus failure

- Las Vegas Hotels Are Empty: The Homeless Are in a “Socially Distant” Parking Lot

- SUPPORT FOR MEDICARE FOR ALL IN U.S. SURGES AMID CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC, NEW POLL SHOWS

- RIKERS ISLAND PRISONERS ARE BEING OFFERED PPE AND $6 AN HOUR TO DIG MASS GRAVES

- CLOSING CALIFORNIA COURTS WON’T PREVENT A COVID-19 CRISIS IN JAILS

- 10 Million Americans Lost Their Jobs In Two Weeks Because of Coronavirus

- TENANTS IN OAKLAND ARE GOING ON A RENT STRIKE TOMORROW

- Hate Crimes Against Asians Surge in US Amid COVID-19: FBI

- The rightwing figures pushing Trump's 'back-to-work' policy despite pandemic

- They’re putting our lives at risk to build stadiums and condos?

- General Electric Workers Walk Off the Job, Demand to Make Ventilators

- Amazon’s Whole Foods Workers to Launch Nationwide Strike

- Gig workers forced to strike over lack of coronavirus protection

- U.S. Communists demand Trump use Defense Production Act, say coronavirus exposes capitalism’s failings

- Victoria grocery workers demand hazard pay amid COVID-19 pandemic

- COVID-19: Union of B.C Indian Chiefs urges halt to Coastal GasLink pipeline work

- Petition: Stop all Construction on Coastal GasLink, Site C and Trans Mountain: risk of COVID 19

- Holes in the safety net: CERB and EI coverage falls short

- COVID-19: A third of unemployed Canadians will receive nothing from either EI or new CERB

- Public testing for COVID-19 crippled by privatization: The case of Alberta

- ‘It is a very dire situation’: At least 600 nursing, retirement homes in Canada have coronavirus cases

- Truck drivers are being denied basic necessities as they deliver essentials in this pandemic

- Implement a rent moratorium now, or face rent strikes across Canada

- ‘We Have Always Been Disposable’: the Structural Violence of Neoliberal Healthcare

Brazil:

- Does Brazil already have a new “acting President”?

- Brazil: Opposition Unites Against President, Demands His Removal

- Brazil's Bolsonaro isolated, weakened by coronavirus denial

- Bolsonaro denounced for crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court

Canada:

- Mel Watkins 1932 - 2020: In Memory

- Ellen Page expresses frustration with 'absolutely horrifying' environmental racism in N.S.

- A man in mental distress died after police used a taser on him

- Alberta government announces billion-dollar pipeline giveaways after mass public-sector worker layoffs

Chile:

- Chile: Young Fighter's Day Protests Begin Despite Curfew

Colombia:

- Colombia: Violence Against Social Leaders Continues

Greece:

- Glezos, the Greek resistance hero who tore swastika from Acropolis

Hungary:

- Hungary approves extra government powers, with no end date

- New school curriculum raises eyebrows in Orban's Hungary

Israel / Palestine:

- With the World Pre-occupied With Coronavirus, Israel Pushes a West Bank Land Grab

United Kingdom:

- U.K.: Keir Starmer Succeeds Corbyn as Leader of the Labor Party

United States:

- “It Shattered My Life”: Former Joe Biden Staffer Tara Reade Says He Sexually Assaulted Her in 1993

- For Elite Democrats, Joe Biden’s Candidacy Means Ditching #MeToo

- AOC breaks with Bernie on how to lead the left

- The stimulus bill includes a tax break for the 1%

- Trump says Republicans would ‘never’ be elected again if it was easier to vote

- US troops vacate K1 base in Iraq’s Kirkuk province

- There’s nothing pro-life about exploiting a pandemic to further a political agenda

Venezuela:

- Venezuelan Leader Pens Open Letter to US Public

- Brazil’s ex-President Lula on Venezuela: Maduro is democratic, Guaidó should be in prison, US blockade kills civilians

- Going After Maduro

- Trump’s Narcoterrorism Indictment of Maduro Already Backfires

- Venezuelan Attorney General Summons Juan Guaido Over Coup Plot

- Former Venezuelan General Hands Himself over to US Authorities

Iowa Fiasco, the Coronavirus, Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba & more -- The Week in News, Opinion and Videos February 2 - 9

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  February 2 - 9.

The round-up of international links, videos and photos are presented in sections related to topic/region listed alphabetically except for the Featured Article post at the start.

For updates and news related to the RCMP's violent attacks on land defenders in Wet’suwet’en territory see: RCMP launches violent raids into Wet’suwet’en territory

Featured Article:

Indigenous people get jails instead of help they need

"Instead of reducing the number of Indigenous children in the child-welfare system, Canada builds and expands jails.
Instead of dealing with the overwhelming amount of poverty in Indigenous communities, Canada builds and expands jails.
Instead of engaging the trauma that leads to murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls, Canada builds and expands jails.
Virtually every part of Canada’s "justice" system — from police to laws to lawyers to judges to politicians — operate in tandem to drive Indigenous people into jails again and again."

Bolivia:

- Evo Morales Calls for National Reconciliation in Bolivia

- Bolivia's Coup-Born Regime Arrests Socialist Lawmaker Torrico

- Bolivia's Right Fails To Create A Unified Coalition Against MAS

Canada:

For updates on the RCMP attack on land defenders in Wet'suwet'en see: RCMP launches violent raids into Wet’suwet’en territory

- Canadian Government Says It’s Concerned That Calling Far-Right Terrorists ‘Far-Right’ Could Seem ‘Biased’

- NDP to ask Elections Ontario to investigate anti-teacher ads linked to lawyer with PC connections

- "Vaughan Working Families" the latest right wing farce in Ontario

- Mysterious Group Uses ‘Made-Up Name’ and Fake Mom to Attack Teachers in Canada’s Biggest Newspapers

- Cost of Trans Mountain expansion soars to $12.6B

- First Nations respond to Trans Mountain appeal decision

- Liberal MPs Urge Trudeau To Reject Massive Alberta Oilsands Mine

- What's it like to be black in Canada? Under policing, it's hell, says Desmond Cole

- Report calls for end to program that involves police officers in public schools

- N.S. teen hockey player angry after probe finds taunts not racial

- Documents suggest Canada paid millions more than admitted to fight Cindy Blackstock

- Nunavut children experience the highest poverty rate in Canada: report

- Lynn Beyak facing accusations of ‘overtly biased views’ during Indigenous racism training

- Sask First Nations call for end to practice of 'birth alerts'

- Canada Has Never Been A Peacekeeping Nation

- NO PICNIC FOR WORKERS UNDER HORGAN NDP GOVERNMENT

- STOPPING THE CAQ ATTACK: BUILDING ON A YEAR OF RESISTANCE IN QUEBEC

- Green Party of Canada: Lower Your Entrance Fee for the Leadership Race! - Petition

Climate Emergency:

- When it comes to climate hypocrisy, Canada's leaders have reached a new low

- Antarctica logs hottest temperature on record with a reading of 18.3C

- 'Ignored and trivialized': Experts warned Australia government before catastrophic blazes

Co-op Refinery Strike:

- Strange new allies for FCL CEO Scott Banda

- Regina police allowing fuel trucks to enter Co-op Refinery

- Regina Police arrest four locked-out workers, side with FCL

Coronavirus:

- China declares “people’s war” against coronavirus; global economic impact spreads

- UN Chief Praises China's Coronavirus Response As Remarkable

- Coronavirus Blues: Hellworld Podcast Episode 1

- The Coronavirus Panic Exposes the Pathology of Nationalism

- When a disease is racialized

- Vietnam successfully isolates new coronavirus

- Chinese Doctors Are Using Cuban Antivirals Against Coronavirus

- A Site Tied To Steve Bannon Is Writing Fake News About The Coronavirus

Cuba:

- "The miracle we are performing...could not be performed in a capitalist society" -- Cuban socialism's remarkable accomplishments despite the criminal, imperialist blockade

- Fifty-eight years later, Cuba continues to resist U.S. blockade

- Vietnam will make all efforts to deepen ties with Cuba: Politburo member

- Cuba’s rivers run clean after decades of sustainable farming

Europe:

- The Communist Mayor of Dersim (Turkey)

- Outrage as German centre-right votes with AfD to oust Thuringia premier

- Farmers protest Socialist Party-Podemos government in Madrid

- Ireland general election: Sinn Féin surges to 22% in exit poll

Iowa Debacle & Bernie Sanders:

- Yesterday’s Gone: Iowa Was Waterloo for Democrats

- 'Because I Got 6,000 More Votes': Bernie Sanders Declares Victory in Iowa Caucus

- Iowa and the Farce of American Democracy

- The Center Cannot Hold

- It’s Time for the Left to Build a Force Outside the Democratic Party

- NEW DETAILS SHOW HOW DEEPLY IOWA CAUCUS APP DEVELOPER WAS EMBEDDED IN DEMOCRATIC ESTABLISHMENT

- Joe Biden flopped in Iowa. And so did the Democratic party's reputation

- Bloomberg Surrogates Have Seats on DNC Rules Committees

- 'My Word Stands': Sanders Co-Chair Nina Turner Offends MSNBC Pundits by Calling Billionaire Bloomberg an 'Oligarch'

- Jews soften on Sanders after his New Hampshire town hall Holocaust remarks

History:

- Rewriting History of World War II Is Ominous Warning

India:

- India rises against Modi

- Left parties in India call for nationwide protests against Modi government's policies

- CPI-M to launch door-to-door campaign against NRC, NPR

Israel / Palestine:

- Buried in Trump’s peace plan, a proposal that could strip thousands of Israeli Arabs of their citizenship

- Bloc of Muslim Nations Warns Trump Israel-Palestine Plan 'Destroys the Foundations of Peace'

- EU rejects Trump Middle East peace plan, annexation

- Palestine Liberation Organisation warns Israel rushing to enforce Trump's 'act of hostility' against Palestinians

South America:

- Brazil: 80% Killed by Police in Rio de Janeiro in 2019 Were Black

- Argentina Will Not Pay IMF Debt Until Recession Has Ended

- Chile: 5 Dead in a Week as Violent Repression Continues

Sports:

- Why Both Super Bowl Team Names Should Be Replaced

- COLIN KAEPERNICK SUPER CHARITY SUNDAY ...Serves Up Meals, Clothes For The Needy

United Kingdom:

- Why I just quit the Labour Party

- Socialist Educational Association nominates Long-Bailey and Burgon

- Richard Burgon announces 'peace pledge' to stop party backing foreign wars if elected deputy leader

- Failing to elect Long-Bailey risks return to 2015, union chief tells Labour

- Black Professor Unleashes Flood of White Tears After On-Air Clash Ensues When Guest Says the British Empire ‘Wasn’t All Bad’

- Poverty rise for young and old since 2015

- In-work poverty rise due to benefit cuts for low-wage earners, says think tank

- £7bn loot for Northern Rail robbers

United States:

- 'America in a State of Denial About the Level of Poverty in This Country,' Says Ocasio-Cortez

- ‘I'm not a robot’: Amazon workers condemn unsafe, grueling conditions at warehouse

- Nearly 700 People In The U.S. Die From Gun Violence Each Week; A Memorial Honors Them

- Hundreds deported from U.S. to El Salvador have been killed or abused, new report says

- Fully Armed Rally-Goers Enter Kentucky’s Capitol Building With Zero Resistance

Venezuela:

- Maduro: 'the US Does Not Appoint President in Venezuela'

- Russia foreign minister slams U.S. sanctions during visit to Venezuela

- 'No Better Distillation of Washington': Democrats and GOP Join Trump in Standing Ovation for Failed Venezuelan Coup Leader Juan Guaidó

- GUAIDO’S FAILED FOREIGN TOUR ENDS WITH A FLOP

- President Maduro Commemorates 21st Anniversary of Hugo Chavez's Inauguration