Sunday, April 19, 2020

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


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