tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43058889465848666542024-03-18T18:34:00.704-07:00The Left ChapterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1978125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305888946584866654.post-53066872415362543632020-05-14T20:55:00.001-07:002020-05-14T20:55:59.931-07:00 Generals Chuikov & Gurov check the rifle of famed sniper Vassili Zaitsev at Stalingrad -- Daily LIFT #193<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Zaitsev, the most effective sniper of the battle that turned the tide against the Nazis, meets with Soviet generals during the battle.</b></div>
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<b>Vintage Cookbook: Recipes from a Greek Island, Susie Jacobs</b><br />
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<b>Publication Details: Simon & Schuster, 1991</b><br />
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The cookbook we are looking at today is like a love letter to Greece, Greek culture, the Greek islands and, of course, to Greek food. Written by Susie Jacobs, who moved to a Greek island and had been there for 15 years when she put the book together, it has over 100 recipes that reflect the cuisine and its ingredients and techniques that she loved so much.<br />
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There are also many breathtaking photographs of the truly stunning natural beauty of the setting. The book begins by looking at various seasonings and staples, then move to general sections like soups, fish and mains.<br />
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There are tips all along the way and many of the recipes are accompanied by colour photographs of the dishes.<br />
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One of those cookbooks that truly transports you to a place that it would be wonderful to visit...and perhaps even stay at for awhile.<br />
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<b>Fidel Castro and "La Pasionaria", January 1964 -- Daily LIFT #192</b></div>
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<b>Castro in conversation with Dolores Ibárruri, the heroic Spanish Communist leader also known as "La Pasionaria". During the Spanish Civil War she coined the battle cry “No pasarán! ” as well as famously saying during a speech that "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."</b></div>
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Two things are becoming clear at this critical moment in the western capitalist coronavirus crisis. One is that the capitalists and their governments want to "reopen the economy" as quickly as possible. The second is that this is incredibly dangerous for working people and the evidence is overwhelming that doing so is entirely about profits and greed.<br />
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There is no particularly deep analysis required to show that these two things are true.<br />
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Just a few recent examples in this newest front of the class war on workers by capital:<br />
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- On May 11, <a href="https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/covid-19-pandemic-the-gouvernement-du-quebec-highlights-the-reopening-of-all-construction-sites-and-manufacturing-companies-872676277.html" target="_blank">the government of Quebec announced</a> the "complete reopening of all construction sites and manufacturing companies" in the province. According to their triumphant press release, "all construction sites are returning to activity, including residential, institutional, commercial, industrial along with civil engineering, public transit and roads and highways."<br />
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Yet just the day before <a href="https://www.lapresse.ca/covid-19/202005/10/01-5272977-le-quebec-en-septieme-place-au-monde-pour-les-morts-quotidiens.php?fbclid=IwAR0Gzbm3lKPmPw9VF0zw5hQQzlpMv2RRwuGf2r6rjnP358oYQXwBjOYDoC8" target="_blank">La Presse reported</a> (translated from the French):<br />
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The COVID-19 pandemic is not slowing down in Quebec: the province announced Sunday that it had recorded 142 deaths in 24 hours, which places Quebec in seventh place in the world for the number of daily deaths.<br />
Only the United States, Ecuador, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Italy and Spain reported a daily death toll higher than that of Quebec on Sunday. </blockquote>
- "Reopening", where it has been pushed forward in many countries or states, is often being followed by a totally predictable upsurge in coronavirus cases. This has been seen in places as far afield as <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/12/coronavirus-cases-are-on-the-rise-in-texas-and-other-states-that-reopened-early-former-fda-chief-says.html" target="_blank">Texas</a> and <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/13/lebanon-reimposes-lockdown-after-spike-in-covid-19-cases/?fbclid=IwAR1o1HmULZ1VufFfG7ZoCgetcLi9XeFN5J87lceYe0fFaVg-tx0WXlMqNmo" target="_blank">Lebanon</a>. <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1281241/germany-coronavirus-cases-jump-lockdown-lift-tougher-lockdown-rules-angela-merkel" target="_blank">In Germany</a> daily cases nearly tripled after lockdown restrictions were eased forcing some German states to reimpose them. The German outbreaks were especially pronounced in meat packing factories, a disturbing trend internationally and also a reminder that "physical distancing" in factories is very difficult to achieve.<br />
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- Justin Mayhugh in Labor Notes talked about exactly this issue. In an article entitled <a href="https://labornotes.org/blogs/2020/05/viewpoint-when-auto-plants-reopen-some-us-will-die-corporate-profit" target="_blank">"When Auto Plants Reopen, Some of Us Will Die for Corporate Profit"</a> he notes:<br />
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The United States is still confirming roughly 25,000 new cases of the coronavirus every day. At least 1,000 Americans have died from the disease every single day since April 2; there have been nearly 1.4 million reported cases and more than 80,000 deaths.<br />
According to the Centers for Disease Control, racial and ethnic minority groups, the elderly, and people with underlying medical conditions are at higher risk to contract the virus. These underlying conditions include moderate to severe asthma and other respiratory problems, obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, and kidney or liver disease.<br />
How many of our brothers and sisters have at least one of these underlying conditions? The Kaiser Family Foundation estimated that 4 in 10 adults in the U.S. are at elevated risk, including 41 million people under age 65.<br />
If you’ve ever worked on an auto assembly line, you know there is very little the corporations can do to carry out the CDC’s six-foot social distancing guideline. Many of us work side by side with others for at least eight hours a day, at least five days a week.<br />
Every vehicle assembled is touched by hundreds of workers. Breathed on by hundreds of workers. There is no way to avoid this reality in an assembly plant.<br />
For example, in my plant on the door line, many workers do their jobs face to face with co-workers only a couple of feet apart. On the headliner install job, where workers attach a composite material to the inside of the vehicle's roof, at least three workers are within six feet of each other as each worker snaps in a corner of the headliner. Masks are not a fail-safe precaution.</blockquote>
- That this is true could not be made more clear by the outbreaks in Cargill slaughterhouses and meat packing plants in Canada. The plant in Alberta had the largest single cornavirus outbreak yet in the country with over 900 cases. A second plant near Montreal has also had a large outbreak with <a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/05/11/news/second-cargill-plant-closes-after-covid-19-outbreak" target="_blank">at least 64 cases</a>. Yet the Alberta plant<a href="https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/cargill-processing-plant-with-more-than-900-covid-19-cases-reopens-despite-union-opposition-1.4923455" target="_blank"> has reopened over the strenuous objections of its union</a>.<br />
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- What if you don't want to go back to work because you think it is too dangerous? In most jurisdictions that is not going to be an option. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/08/ohio-coronavirus-reopening-workers-unemployment-benefits?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR1kU6XXhXfJiXQ5gs1r0f8nG_xobEP-c0yATUTuTXMzyfrNGzMdIVLy3Qk" target="_blank">For example the</a> "Ohio state government has asked employers to report anyone who refuses to return to work because they are concerned about the coronavirus pandemic. Reported workers may be ineligible for unemployment benefits."<br />
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This is not simply in Ohio. In Canada "<a href="http://behindthenumbers.ca/2020/05/06/an-impossible-choice/" target="_blank">at least 540,000 low wage workers risk losing CERB if they refuse unsafe work</a>" according to David Macdonald in Behind the Numbers. He goes to state:<br />
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Once workplaces are opened, employers will start to call workers back. If a worker doesn’t return because of concerns about workplace safety, an employer could deem that non-return as quitting and issue the employee a Record of Employment to that effect, disqualifying them from receiving the CERB. Hypothetically, if a provincial labour board upholds a work refusal due to unsafe conditions (ie. Coronavirus infection), a worker could keep receiving the CERB. But provinces like Ontario simply aren’t shutting down workplaces due to a clear coronavirus infection risk. Furthermore, there has been little movement by many provinces to investigate unsafe workplace complaints due to COVID-19, and there seems to be no particular drive to ramp up labour protection programs.<br />
The discussion of “worker incentives” has already started, which really means cutting off basic income supports from low wage workers to force them back to work, putting themselves and their families at risk of infection. Conversely, there is almost no discussion of “employer incentives” to create safe workplaces. The narrative is being set: if businesses are allowed to reopen but workers don’t return, the workers—who are prepared to live off the supposed king’s ransom of $2,000 rather than working in potentially unsafe workplaces—are to blame for their greed. On the other hand, the same level of pressure is not being applied to employers to make necessary investments in shields, PPE and policies that will help keep their workers safe when businesses gradually reopen.</blockquote>
We know which class benefits from this situation.<br />
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- As reopening proceeds, any type of temporary "pandemic pay" for "hero workers" will likely be rolled back even in cases where record profits were made. <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kroger-ending-hero-pay-workers-2-dollars-hour/?fbclid=IwAR1aba7eVUNLurpQZwBs47M2w_M1TraVWtRacNBmCLcoKbT7pdOnz_owFCM" target="_blank">A case in point is Kroger</a>, the largest grocery chain in the United States, which is eliminating the extra $2 hourly rate they were paying their workers on May 17. Yet "Kroger said the pandemic "triggered a significantly greater lift in sales across both physical retail stores and digital channels in March," with monthly sales up 30% from a year ago. Kroger added that it anticipates first-quarter sales to top its 2020 guidance." Things have been so good that "Kroger repurchased $355 million of its own shares in the first quarter, and holds about $2.3 billion in cash and temporary cash investments."<br />
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- In an example of the total farce that unfolds when governments and corporations say "back to work" yet still claim to want "social distancing" one need only look at London, UK. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that people who cannot work from home should be starting to physically go back to work even as the coronavirus continues to rage. Of course, workers who cannot work from home are disproportionately lower wage workers. They also have to find some way to get to work and this led immediately to overcrowding on public transit.<br />
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Thus we have a nearly Kafkaesque absurdity such as:<br />
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Johnson said in his address to the nation on Sunday that those unable to work from home should start returning to work from Wednesday, but urged people to avoid public transport and drive, cycle or walk.<br />
Unions say this is not a viable option for many in the capital, who either do not have a car or live to far away from their place of work to cycle or walk. </blockquote>
Telling people to head to work but to "avoid public transport" is something that only a clueless child of privilege like Johnson could do.<br />
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- In Ontario the march to reopen continues on the part of the <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid-19-coronavirus-update-may-12-1.5565770?fbclid=IwAR2IkWovOVqWPVnbvk_J5h4H-11orr5nYMYvDlgsHa5L7bRJOGG7qzIFgMk" target="_blank">big business Doug Ford government</a>. Yet "Ontario's top doctor says he does not feel confident that the province has met the threshold to start on its economic recovery plan" and "the province reported 361 new cases, a second straight day of increasing case numbers" on May 12.<br />
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- Billionaire Elon <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/business/tesla-plant-reopening/index.html" target="_blank">Musk used his power and wealth to force local officials</a> in California to capitulate and allow his Tesla plant to operate despite local health regulations and concerns about workers. "Democracy" in action. When it comes to power never doubt that the billionaire class has far more of it than any government right now.<br />
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There is no more transparent case of in whose interests "reopening" is than this one.<br />
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- In South Dakota <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/team-trump-pushes-cdc-to-dial-down-covid-death-counts?ref=scroll" target="_blank">far right media darling Republican governor Kristi Noem</a> is attempting to force the sovereign Sioux nations to open their borders up to travel and transit through checkpoints that they had established even though these only effected non-essential travel. Far from having any valid economic purpose it appears to be a vanity exercise and an attempt to undermine Indigenous sovereignty rights.<br />
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It is no coincidence that the forces lining up to force a "reopening" agenda are a coalition of billionaires, CEOs, right-wing politicians, extreme right and white supremacist formations and "protesters", and the right wing press and media.<br />
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This also tells you all you need to know about their motives. To the handful of "progressives" and "leftists" who are backing the line of these reactionaries, it is bizarre that anyone who claims to be anti-capitalist or pro-worker cannot see this corporate campaign for what it is based on.<br />
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It is perfectly obvious that the push by capital to "get the economy moving" and to force governments to relax the pandemic lockdowns is all about profit and has nothing to do with the health and safety of workers or the general population. At this critical juncture it is essential that the left and workers' parties and organizations fight back against any attempts to restart capitalist production on the backs and lives of working people.<br />
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<b><a href="https://theleftchapter.blogspot.com/2020/05/dont-let-capitalists-fool-youwe-have.html" target="_blank">Don't let the capitalists fool you...we have the social wealth to properly fight the pandemic</a></b><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305888946584866654.post-5940736568672011202020-05-12T18:43:00.000-07:002020-05-12T18:43:29.342-07:00Capitalism is incurable: Statements from the European Communist Imitative<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On May 10, 2020, the parties of the European Communist Imitative held a teleconference with the theme "The struggle of the communist and workers' parties in the conditions of the pandemic and the new capitalist crisis".<br />
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As the conference was held at the initiative of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) the party's General Secretary gave an important and rousing opening statement.<br />
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After the teleconference a joint statement was issued by all the parties.<br />
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"<a href="http://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Greece-Joint-Statement-of-the-Parties-who-attended-the-Teleconference-of-the-European-Communist-Initiative/" target="_blank">The teleconference was attended</a> by 24 communist and workers' parties from Austria, Bulgaria, France, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Spain, Croatia, Latvia, Belarus, Lithuania, Malta, Norway, Hungary, Ukraine, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Sweden and Turkey."<br />
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Here are excerpts from both statements.<br />
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<b><a href="https://inter.kke.gr/en/articles/INTRODUCTORY-SPEECH-OF-THE-GS-OF-THE-CC-OF-THE-KKE-DIMITRIS-KOUTSOUMBAS-ON-BEHALF-OF-THE-KKE-IN-THE-TELECONFERENCE-OF-THE-PARTIES-OF-THE-EUROPEAN-COMMUNIST-INITIATIVE/" target="_blank">Introductory Speech of the General Secretary of the KKE Dimitris Koutsoumbas (excerpt):</a></b><br />
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Dear comrades,<br />
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IT IS UP TO US TO BREAK THE SILENCE that the government and the big employers want to impose in the name of the slogan "let's overcome this crisis together", which is a reflection of hypocritical bourgeois ethics.<br />
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IT IS UP TO US TO DEMAND MEASURES to support the workers and the self-employed who have been hit by the restrictive measures.<br />
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TO DEMAND the cancellation of thousands of redundancies and the much more damaging changes that preceded them.<br />
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WE WILL NOT LEGITIMIZE measures taken under the pretext of the epidemic, with a view to become permanent, such as those concerning further "flexibility" of work...<br />
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THE MYTH WHICH IS UTTERLY REFUTED during the coronavirus pandemic is the one saying that the public and the private sector can coexist harmoniously and thus contribute to addressing this situation. This myth is refuted by the profiteering of private health centers conducting the coronavirus testing, which is only accessible to those who can afford it, depriving state planning of valuable resources and at the same time increasing the risk of spreading the virus. This was tragically proved in many cases and deaths in Greece that occurred in private clinics and structures that did not fully meet hygiene standards.<br />
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This myth is also refuted by the fact that the state depends on the world market "war" conducted by the big companies, which found the opportunity to run a very lucrative business, for the supply of basic materials and drugs.<br />
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The necessity for an exclusively public and free Health system with the abolition of any business activity has been dramatically demonstrated. Today, it is indisputable that the health of the people, their care, protection, and security are incompatible with capitalist profit, greedy capital and the capitalist mode of production.<br />
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Either a solution will be provided based on the real needs of the people or the people will suffer, they will live in miserable conditions, they will constantly pay out of their own pockets so that the few and chosen ones of capital will make huge profits.<br />
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And as life confirms, the monopolies seek to increase their wealth both in conditions of capitalist development and in conditions of crisis of the capitalist economy.<br />
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Especially in the recent period, the activity and competitions at a European and international level have intensified over how to more effectively support the stricken capitalist economy.<br />
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The consequences of the coronavirus pandemic acted certainly as a catalyst for the worsening of the serious problems that pre-existed in the capitalist economy...<br />
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...The coronavirus will be cured and the pandemic will end, just as others did in the past. Capitalism, however, is incurable and will continue to torture humankind, with poverty, unemployment, wars, the destruction of the environment, until the peoples decide to lead the way in the developments.<br />
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More and more people in the world are realizing and shouting out loud that “capitalism is the real virus”.<br />
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Today’s system can only be overthrown and replaced by a superior social system, socialism – communism, where social ownership of the means of production with workers’ power, scientific central planning for the satisfaction of people’s needs, workers’ control of all the administrative organs and participation in all the organs of power, from the bottom to the top, can lead to prosperity for the people, to peace and the progress of humankind.<br />
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We must be consistently and unwaveringly oriented to this task. Our daily tactics and practice must be subordinated to this task, of course always taking into account the particular conditions, the correlation of forces, but without retreating because of them or altering our strategic goal.<br />
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Internationalism, workers'- communist solidarity and action, are what should accompany us at every step, as we have done so far, but with faster steps that will lead to realistic perhaps small leaps in the present, but which will prepare the big leap in the future, for the peoples of our countries, for the whole Europe, for the whole world.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Greece-Joint-Statement-of-the-Parties-who-attended-the-Teleconference-of-the-European-Communist-Initiative/" target="_blank">Joint Statement of the European Communist Initiative Parties (excerpt):</a></b><br />
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The ECI parties also expressed solidarity with those affected by the CoVID-19 pandemic and wished them a speedy recovery.<br />
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Moreover, they saluted Cuba's solidarity action with the most affected countries.<br />
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The parties agreed to reinforce the struggle for:<br />
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Immediate strengthening of public health systems, recruitment of permanent medical and nursing staff with full rights, the meeting of all needs in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and infrastructure required for the full operation of public health care and research services.<br />
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Immediate provision of all the necessary means of protection (masks, gloves, disinfectants, etc.) to the people by the state free of charge and fight against profiteering. Immediate provision of all protection measures to the healthcare personnel that gives this battle.<br />
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The communist and workers' parties in Europe noted that they will lead the struggle against the attack of capital, which in the face of the new crisis proceeds to widespread layoffs and tries to further crush wages, working hours, leaves, and other labor rights. They expressed their solidarity with the class-oriented trade unions that struggle in order for the workers not to pay the consequences of the capitalist crisis.<br />
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They spoke out against the imperialist plans of the USA, NATO, and the EU, as well as against sanctions and economic exclusion measures that are criminal and make people's lives difficult.<br />
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The parties that attended the teleconference noted that the current situation shows the deep impasses of the capitalist mode of production (crisis, unemployment, the impoverishment of the working class, the commercialization of social needs such as health, imperialist wars, etc.).<br />
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Under these circumstances, the slogan "Socialism or barbarity" is more timely than ever.<br />
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When people think of making a "perfect" melted cheese sandwich they generally look to various grilled cheese techniques and ingredients. Today, however, I want to look at a way of making a melted cheese "croque monsieur" style bit of greatness that is broiled instead of fried.<br />
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There are an enormous number of variations of this that can be done and we will touch on some of them at the end, but here we are using an English muffin, ham and cheddar cheese.<br />
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To begin, lightly toast your English muffin. (If you are using bread, follow all of the same steps).<br />
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On one side -- in the case of English muffins the inside -- coat the bread with a layer of Dijon mustard. On the other, outside side, spread some softened butter.<br />
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Combine the two sides together and place on an ungreased oven pan. Place the pan in the oven set to broil and cook for around 5 minutes. You want, as generally with broiling, the oven rack to be at either the highest or second highest placement depending on the size of your oven<br />
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After around 5 minutes, leaving the broiler on, take the sandwiches out, flip them and top with another layer of grated cheese on the outside. Put them back in the oven and broil for 5 minutes more or until the topping cheese is melted and golden-brown to your liking.<br />
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This is very, very tasty! There are also any number of variations. Below we used a whole wheat bread. Rye bread is terrific for this. Substitute spicy salami or roast beef for ham. You can switch it up all you want.<br />
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<b>On Mother's Day 50 years ago hundreds of women marched in Ottawa to fight for abortion rights and protest Canada's existing abortion laws. The Pedestal, a leftist women's liberation magazine, devoted much of their May issue that year to it.</b></div>
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<b>You can learn more about this at this CBC report on the 50th anniversary of it: <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/chris-hall-the-pandemic-recession-is-placing-a-new-burden-on-women-1.5561435/canada-s-abortion-caravan-looking-back-at-a-historic-reproductive-rights-movement-1.5561456?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar&fbclid=IwAR0IHZnZHmdr_6Swu9lZoi_RE26ncby71YKK99AMBGtLO-ulLhOGfP6xPyI" target="_blank">Canada's Abortion Caravan: Looking back at a historic reproductive rights movement</a></b></div>
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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.<br />
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This list covers the week of May 3 - 10.<br />
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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.<br />
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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’".<br />
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We have tried to arrange the coronavirus news thematically and to touch on many different areas of concern.<br />
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<b><u>Featured Article:</u></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2020/may/07/coronavirus-ravaging-black-community-because-capit/?fbclid=IwAR1-QU15Upe_aV_JGNqyNQHN0pm7EBMkkpNjWUnZG_CHFfCnBHmuTau34eg#.XrbHBIE5iss.facebook" target="_blank">Coronavirus ravaging the Black community because of capitalism and ‘domestic colonialism’</a></b><br />
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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.”<br />
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<b><u>Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis:</u></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://theleftchapter.blogspot.com/2020/05/dont-let-capitalists-fool-youwe-have.html?fbclid=IwAR0pIj6WLJg43YAfl7heHJ5mtb2-YPNy-gmT0zMP-xIpEQ9JK776xqqoXLo" target="_blank">Don't let the capitalists fool you...we have the social wealth to properly fight the pandemic</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/05/08/system-would-fail-was-entirely-predictable?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0tKl76JGAKQdjfhi_EqGCZoPj8I9hHahjEMVNYvW8boj9imM8j9gADTmE" target="_blank">That This System Would Fail Was Entirely Predictable</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/09/us-blocks-un-global-ceasefire-resolution-objecting-indirect-reference-world-health?cd-origin=rss&utm_term=AO&utm_campaign=Weekly+Newsletter&utm_content=email&utm_source=Weekly+Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&fbclid=IwAR3v2hJu6HXvH1UcFe-NVzprktvE9VClJRqOsZTZZ3gyKqOujuswhz0kK5w" target="_blank">US Blocks UN Global Ceasefire Resolution, Objecting to Indirect Reference to World Health Organization</a></b><br />
<b><u><br /></u></b><b>- <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/why-scientists-believe-the-wuhan-lab-coronavirus-origin-theory-is-highly-unlikely" target="_blank">“The Discussion Is Basically Over”: Why Scientists Believe the Wuhan-Lab Coronavirus Origin Theory Is Highly Unlikely</a></b><br />
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<b>- '<a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/No-Evidence-Coronavirus-Was-Made-in-a-Chinese-Lab-Fauci-Says-20200505-0009.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR2aK3LpPbWu0elozRGr1tZxnfgGpnKn56Das4g9n6A8WHumIvJw1Au_KdI" target="_blank">No Evidence Coronavirus Was Made in a Chinese Lab' Fauci Says</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/08/lockdown-groups-far-right-links-coronavirus-protests-american-revolution?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR3kBa7T6XWw0Tyc_cxSddVC-04WBRiOJ5kwLwP5OtpOmOaWJVziLiwHj54" target="_blank">Revealed: major anti-lockdown group's links to America's far right</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/05/07/trumps-fake-protest-movement-authoritarian-stagecraft-meets-white-privilege/?fbclid=IwAR3yl08Jp7Ayprz6ABLgbm39gqVMZl9G9UoXYfdbEbpEPjzIMt6NR284FkQ" target="_blank">Trump's fake protest movement: Authoritarian stagecraft meets white privilege</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://pressprogress.ca/canadas-anti-lockdown-protests-are-a-ragtag-coalition-of-anti-vaccine-activists-conspiracy-theorists-and-the-far-right/?fbclid=IwAR3A7IolRoQ39SSpk-5UHn7d4KSE-p1B5-SwxKQeO37-_5VTXV4yaioSuTQ" target="_blank">Canada’s Anti-Lockdown Protests are a Ragtag Coalition of Anti-Vaccine Activists, Conspiracy Theorists and the Far-Right</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="http://peoplesvoice.ca/2020/05/10/pandemic-brings-out-far-right-responses/?fbclid=IwAR1K42TpEJ6S98ZWI2XXtYX8GnS2WZDtjbfeVskMGlsXyHnH39PS_1L3Ra8" target="_blank">PANDEMIC BRINGS OUT FAR-RIGHT RESPONSES</a></b><br />
<b><br />"Reopening" is ALL about business and the well to do and has NOTHING to do with the needs of workers or public health:</b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/chris-christie-reopen-economy_n_5eb0c4bdc5b62b850f90ea2a?ncid=other_facebook_eucluwzme5k&utm_campaign=share_facebook&fbclid=IwAR3kNAVIbDsQ5z0HBrTv575Tg36Q0MQcJ9_tPiRiYRqpLljzZjMu64fOCO8" target="_blank">Chris Christie Says People ‘Are Going To Have To’ Accept More Deaths To Reopen Economy</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-governor-greg-abbott-admits-dangers-of-reopening-state-on-private-call-with-lawmakers?ref=scroll&fbclid=IwAR3Q3q2e1fCnrY8090ryDOISZVlG82xzm9k5e8jRvfi-9GqyrVBC-Mqcrds" target="_blank">Texas Governor Admits Dangers of Reopening State on Private Call With Lawmakers</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/08/ohio-coronavirus-reopening-workers-unemployment-benefits?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR1YjWFdBkR4p-HBlrl8bZohaHDFBazviOk6t5UzMNKGvuwjWwAnr31LQlg" target="_blank">Ohio urges employers to report workers fearful of returning to work</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2020/5/meatpacking-plants-upton-sinclair-jungle-coronavirus?fbclid=IwAR24McnFmN6qnzHI19haNAiX7E-ol-_mDWUCjhOyAHwTZq3Kx_odRj02dnA" target="_blank">Conditions in US Meatpacking Plants Today Aren’t Much Better Than They Were in The Jungle</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-meat/union-opposes-reopening-u-s-meat-plants-as-more-workers-die-idUSKBN22K2WP?fbclid=IwAR0MkRrd7Z8z8v6hNSNpN48IBFR4LdjxGCTk9WfvxDNs4NdfG0HsVCIyPhU" target="_blank">Union opposes reopening U.S. meat plants as more workers die</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/finance/496595-meatpacking-worker-told-not-to-wear-face-mask-on-job-died-of-coronavirus?fbclid=IwAR3tvdalLa2d2Rk_tozsuDa3ZOK_nq_0sqAeHFcb3kO8Lp9dYRDjm3WW-uk#.XrTrjF3q15A.facebook" target="_blank">Meatpacking worker told not to wear face mask on job died of coronavirus: report</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-masks-coverings-dallas-restaurant-workers-coronavirus/" target="_blank">Reopened restaurant told workers: Don't wear face masks — or don't work</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/opinion/coronavirus-nyc-subway.html?fbclid=IwAR2l7vtCpYnzxFsa4-ZXfR22RqRDy-RcLqCXAc0_f1tCqWfH2rSCUQBiCss" target="_blank">‘We Are Not Essential. We Are Sacrificial.’</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/10/anglo-american-coronavirus-crisis" target="_blank">How the Anglo-American model failed to tackle coronavirus</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/10/donald-trump-covid-19-coronavirus-us-healthcare-unemployment" target="_blank">Under Trump, American exceptionalism means poverty, misery and death</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/americas-racial-contract-showing/611389/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share&fbclid=IwAR2PDN2e-lJCVwCDp9bZC2Pc5F_vyBc4o-sH46gkQhzE_mlx6OtGlYKKiRY" target="_blank">The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/epidemiologist-coronavirus-genocide-by-default_n_5eb2a5ebc5b63e6bd96f5d81?ncid=other_facebook_eucluwzme5k&utm_campaign=share_facebook&fbclid=IwAR310iMR5w5mn2Qxg17ben4E-oxpmJTHazoXf4bdNqdBd32ayNdtf6-Meog" target="_blank">Epidemiologist Slams U.S. Coronavirus Response: 'Close To Genocide By Default'</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://blavity.com/nypd-under-fire-for-starkly-different-responses-to-violations-of-social-distancing-orders-over-the-weekend?category1=news&subCat=Social-Justice" target="_blank">NYPD Under Fire For Starkly Different Responses To Violations Of Social Distancing Orders Over The Weekend</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/81-percent-nypds-social-distancing-summonses-were-issued-blacks-latinos-its-new-stop-frisk-1502841?fbclid=IwAR1sowjnIlUrzZFyu1AMUi4RZbEka_W6a4inpsQfuAtMQ2Gawdpk6vnJexw" target="_blank">81 PERCENT OF NYPD'S SOCIAL DISTANCING SUMMONSES WERE ISSUED TO BLACKS AND LATINOS: 'IT'S THE NEW STOP AND FRISK'</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/35-40-people-who-were-arrested-social-distancing-violations-brooklyn-n1202841?fbclid=IwAR0WYDuyLLZ-Du4YBjzJijxhVD9avcdIHCADMmGNaobLpO4uS1aWZ2jMa9Q" target="_blank">35 of the 40 people who were arrested on social distancing violations in Brooklyn were black</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/UK-Blacks-Four-Times-More-Likely-to-Die-From-COVID-19-Study-20200507-0012.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR2WDfL-4J8zDaFXYPq1tfJliQBPV-2dpkH1mf46dhOKdxN8thsSCuN9Qys" target="_blank">UK: Black People Four Times More Likely to Die From COVID-19</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/05/07/Shadow-Pandemic-Anti-Asian-Racism/?utm_source=daily&fbclid=IwAR2nYIIPmXlRYe8kHsT5prFSIkDn4rEe92tzEFoJiP_ogi8QELpxx3X09nk" target="_blank">The ‘Shadow Pandemic’ of Anti-Asian Racism</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/women-demand-voice-in-italy-virus-response-dominated-by-men-1.4928601#_gus&_gucid=&_gup=Facebook&_gsc=61SosoI" target="_blank">Women demand voice in Italy virus response dominated by men</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://redflag.org.au/node/7171?fbclid=IwAR3c2szJGCkAdnwdmhSL2O4cZQS1yPnAzw9FfGB7PG1jM0WxB5ZPOA9PPAI" target="_blank">There's no 'team Australia'. Workers are copping the brunt of the crisis</a></b><br />
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<b><u>Ahmaud Arbery Murder:</u></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/08/two-men-arrested-and-charged-murder-killing-ahmaud-arbery-after-video-sparked?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2Q7h45rXG5njhZCUX0GSwbD9o_1RWylzrvQ8-IKOT83rMT3Zo_zepsmgM" target="_blank">Two Men Arrested and Charged With Murder for Killing of Ahmaud Arbery After Video Sparked Nationwide Demands for Justice</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>-<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/09/ahmaud-arbery-father-marcus-georgia-running" target="_blank"> 'They lynched him': Ahmaud Arbery's father on the killing of his son</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/10/ahmaud-arbery-keisha-lance-bottoms-atlanta-mayor" target="_blank">Ahmaud Arbery: Atlanta mayor accuses Trump of inciting racist acts</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-no-burglaries-reported-for-weeks-before-ahmaud-arbery-killing-20200508-6pp35kjezbeszckj4hwvf2h4be-story.html?fbclid=IwAR1P4j5EdSjJyfN-fiMvTyftzJVX8_SWBHFERz6wTrS-S5srxNY4SqA2G-o" target="_blank">No burglaries were reported in neighborhood where Ahmaud Arbery was killed, contradicting suspects’ claim: report</a></b><br />
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<b><u>Brazil:</u></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/brazilian-court-upholds-17-year-sentence-against-lula-da-silva-20200507-0001.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR0urVjFFeGLY2WpBYIDMt4sWBgktGd8I0Z0LLMMK55t-vH29hUqDR0jxc4" target="_blank">Brazilian Court Upholds 17-Year Sentence Against Lula Da Silva</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/06/brazil-using-coronavirus-to-cover-up-assaults-on-amazon-warn-activists?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR1nHojhK3RbxGbFKwPNGgyIYfuZ6V17QBHUAi4BB9SwKkRMwLWA6wFEMfc" target="_blank">Brazil using coronavirus to cover up assaults on Amazon, warn activists</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Bolsonaro-Orders-Journalists-to-Shut-Their-Mouths-20200505-0006.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR3AxeIvLBR15xPcSsyHydIeUQC6Twvh8Z4BOKN7EZhKCR_PUwi-lx1oOi0" target="_blank">Brazil: Bolsonaro Orders Journalists to Shut Their Mouths</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/10/bolsonaro-attends-floating-barbeque-as-brazils-covid-19-toll-tops-10000" target="_blank">Bolsonaro attends floating barbeque as Brazil's Covid-19 toll tops 10,000</a></b><br />
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<b><u>Canada:</u></b><br />
<b><u><br /></u></b><b>- <a href="https://www.taxfairness.ca/en/news/cargill%E2%80%99s-slaughterhouse-profits-flow-through-tax-havens-keep-its-billionaire-owners-wealthy?fbclid=IwAR2VF_WFb_JXuNnLwO106hkl0X6shI4S0csnqP0bBgUkTkd8yYytcv2wUKg" target="_blank">Cargill’s slaughterhouse profits flow through tax havens to keep its billionaire owners wealthy</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/cargill-chambly-covid-19-shut-down-1.5563539?fbclid=IwAR0keQX-POealvN-sQ8JdGp2yEhsmtKpyyNhq0ZeOxkqQhCWu2EPhLAnjLA" target="_blank">Cargill meat-processing plant south of Montreal says 64 workers infected with COVID-19</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://pressprogress.ca/workers-at-cargills-alberta-meat-plant-were-offered-special-bonus-pay-for-perfect-attendance-during-pandemic/?fbclid=IwAR3XO_vVt_9MVa1CZshUgcOfbQya95EooT-XVM4eyyEX8LXaPVWtl7o3n_A" target="_blank">Workers at Cargill’s Alberta Meat Plant Were Offered Special ‘Bonus’ Pay For Perfect Attendance During Pandemic</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="http://behindthenumbers.ca/2020/05/06/an-impossible-choice/?fbclid=IwAR2_J4K4Ogg1qqtjs1_Z4UmfHEl-OHR6avD48nwYJkbla_bEJOtzqjY1K1c" target="_blank">An impossible choice: at least 540,000 low wage workers risk losing CERB if they refuse unsafe work</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canadian-labour-congress-calls-for-end-to-privately-owned-long-term/?fbclid=IwAR0mt3DRm_NMb4ze4feJfIK6qM8hr7O5DsOphkQBXaZMWqwy2sAif7u2lD8" target="_blank">Canadian Labour Congress calls for end to privately owned long-term care facilities after COVID-19 deaths</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>- <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/long-term-care-homes-covid19-1.5556041?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar&fbclid=IwAR3gvnW7jM9NzJa0DAHseYfRTyxjV-s8yHYNkvgZHuh7jEo-9yget9mTv1g" target="_blank">Demands grow for national, universal long-term care in response to pandemic</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/province-did-inspections-by-phone-at-toronto-care-home-where-15-residents-died-of-covid-19-1.5558410?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar&fbclid=IwAR0Z32FK_-a9cYEkDuO0SohQTY0UWq7pUGC-vvfY11xgW8yaZe75XJlgtCI" target="_blank">Province did inspections by phone at Toronto care home where 21 residents died of COVID-19</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://pressprogress.ca/amazon-rolls-back-unpaid-leave-as-workers-told-of-additional-covid-19-case-at-ontario-warehouse/?fbclid=IwAR1M0D4LSOlApUUeOMskbPUyoHs7csMwsMpVQPh4sxhMH02iuaQ8Qof1r0M" target="_blank">Amazon Rolls Back Unpaid Leave As Workers Told of ‘Additional’ COVID-19 Case at Ontario Warehouse</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2020/05/albertas-statement-ottawas-gun-ban-illustrates-how-little-rule?fbclid=IwAR2xnpiCTvsDeTblGseY_j_MKNlrVeGuR3iTUUZlw1tOIBaJlZY1u_EvkHY#.XrbBSqGge9R.facebook" target="_blank">Alberta's statement on Ottawa's gun ban illustrates how little the rule of law really matters to Conservatives</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://judyhaiven.ca/2020/05/06/ns-murders-two-tragedies-must-be-viewed-thru-a-feminist-lens/?fbclid=IwAR0gVAdcIESpG06T6CgrEcMAmu--Oh6bp34oS9U8l_YuTWHglJtxMGuPIGQ" target="_blank">NS murders: Two tragedies must be viewed thru a feminist lens</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/10/dna-canada-first-nations-ancestral-story" target="_blank">Canada: DNA discovery lends weight to First Nations ancestral story</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="http://www.fightbacknews.org/2020/5/9/passing-michael-lucas-immigrant-organizer-and-friend-soviet-people?fbclid=IwAR1DCMpL6etpXWhn1fSEIL2NFc8Z28kJvHuF8Xls7FHswxhcTjUAQg_Bv3Y" target="_blank">On the passing of Michael Lucas, immigrant organizer and friend of Soviet people</a></b><br />
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<b><u>Climate Emergency:</u></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/05/one-billion-people-will-live-in-insufferable-heat-within-50-years-study?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR1pI1zS8xK_dV34ig9W13eDJ74nfD1kVaPMd0MmeJ3T9M62QdL3N0YYfdk" target="_blank">One billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years – study</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="http://socialistalternative.ca/canada/capitalism-eco-destruction-and-plagues/?fbclid=IwAR1_M1rlWJyK4KP5nZFBe7fCx15RLZgQR4qYjnIrvQN9pSOKtTkJFrv2-JI" target="_blank">Capitalism: Eco-destruction and Plagues</a></b><br />
<b><u><br /></u></b><b><u>Cuba:</u></b><br />
<b><u><br /></u></b><b>- <a href="https://theleftchapter.blogspot.com/2020/05/make-solidarity-global-miguel-diaz.html?fbclid=IwAR21xd7vCY_Ix_b33pvAjyrVR8lM33IpmXIpt5cwf1Xtus4LBkc9jLqE55Y" target="_blank">Make solidarity global -- Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="http://communist-party.ca/end-the-sanctions-end-us-aggression-against-cuba-now/?fbclid=IwAR2PvSQxx0HGSgd66MzvZbm3wUzQ6bWIUkjJY9qsIH-06LxBXK3dPhMFBBI" target="_blank">END THE SANCTIONS! END US AGGRESSION AGAINST CUBA NOW</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Cuba-to-Begin-Mass-Scale-COVID-19-Testing-20200510-0002.html" target="_blank">Cuba to Begin Mass-Scale COVID-19 Testing</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/US-Lawmakers-Support-Cuba-in-the-Purchase-of-Medical-Supplies-20200506-0012.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR1w_zOq69LSGQ6i48d_IKM9OpsRe428z_5XtSI-HbE0VNM86aRNQemr2fg" target="_blank">US Lawmakers Support Cuba in the Purchase of Medical Supplies</a></b><br />
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<b><u>Ideas:</u></b><br />
<b><u><br /></u></b><b>- <a href="http://www.cpusa.org/article/the-problem-with-universal-basic-income/?fbclid=IwAR0tF4hQ0Q7Fw3id2ey7REy9vAri9xHM8bqitWh4vK6gJ14mKAZpgMuYPoI" target="_blank">The problem with universal basic income</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR0JkvgkuEpb0JGpe7Xuq0NUkkTvbgtUf_eT0uI7zPg7cKoQ-R6s62TikqE" target="_blank">The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months</a></b><br />
<b><u><br /></u></b><b><u>India:</u></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/07/indias-chemical-plant-disaster-another-case-of-history-repeating-itself?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR2Xb9Uv5zyAakch_QmAMDwtv4ZWRQMa5wdG_QJg9aUCtsVMltf4y2JklRw" target="_blank">India's chemical plant disaster: another case of history repeating itself</a></b><br />
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<b><u>Israel / Palestine:</u></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/may/10/australian-government-tells-icc-it-should-not-investigate-alleged-war-crimes-in-palestine?fbclid=IwAR1iRowAQ6uNesTLf2vnXfqow7DqEHVI6uLJwvgtV9eDx3dK0T1RFxxFYsU" target="_blank">Australian government tells ICC it should not investigate alleged war crimes in Palestine</a></b><br />
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<b><u>United Kingdom:</u></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://labourlist.org/2020/05/labour-left-mps-and-activists-defy-starmer-led-party-position-on-kashmir/?fbclid=IwAR1-caROdLFwfjdL-UmAJiFf7JLD1jaTZO480r6WbH9KM1WPRcLsLFecvCg" target="_blank">Labour left MPs and activists defy Starmer-led party position on Kashmir</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://socialistproject.ca/2020/05/labour-party-machine-versus-corbyn/?fbclid=IwAR0hffgBGL0y3IrNy_gsh48kZAghEcOCrjKdp0Zy-6rzjmh38JLToboM2WY" target="_blank">The Labour Party Machine versus Corbyn</a></b><br />
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<b><u>United States:</u></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://peoplesworld.org/article/hunger-stalks-the-land-parents-skipping-meals-to-keep-their-kids-fed/?fbclid=IwAR0WnEaW-qEg_UyzgI_n_EmAhef0fyoNGnYXQI0QqhQPLtlKQuNu-yxc3VY" target="_blank">Hunger stalks the land: Parents skipping meals to feed their kids</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/496742-1996-court-document-shows-tara-reade-told-ex-husband-of-harassment-in?fbclid=IwAR0RML4k_7S9FBJwY-2YgN1vftaynts_fTZRYCx4kSYf_XDpc4jK9hD-fl8#.XrWQUyoGqPs.facebook" target="_blank">1996 court document shows Tara Reade told ex-husband of harassment in Biden's Senate office</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.axios.com/tara-reade-biden-megyn-kelly-interview-9a57c644-de54-47f3-b287-f087f88c76fb.html?fbclid=IwAR3Luj-L3VjpN0u2Vm_Uiu405qgDAV07DTTG9FLuLUsMN0XA-pVTMEh9tU0" target="_blank">Tara Reade calls on Biden to drop out in rare on-camera interview</a></b><br />
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<b>- '<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/08/what-rigged-economy-looks-says-sanders-stock-market-enjoys-best-month-33-years?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR28R5kw4ToS38Jd-pQOmU0jpIJMvbSjCjzsKabDgJQQTVfpR3WOePYD8Jk" target="_blank">What a Rigged Economy Looks Like,' Says Sanders, as Stock Market Enjoys Best Month in 33 Years Despite 20%+ Unemployment</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/05/07/nearly-one-five-workers-applied-state-unemployment-insurance-benefits-last-seven?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1Qyqiu9Utq0HrpURV8Gx_TI-O4cvrWqTGtNc6j_MdKbf9iAJ4tvvjGAcc" target="_blank">Nearly One in Five Workers Applied for State Unemployment Insurance Benefits in the Last Seven Weeks</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/07/iran-anti-war-bill-in-tatters-after-trump-veto-and-senate-failure-to-uphold-it/?fbclid=IwAR2Fc9v7WEhUJrv4duAsXUV3YQNmMINSmFPbhr3MXKmyNqdCS6-6cKFZNyM" target="_blank">Iran anti-war bill in tatters after Trump veto and Senate failure to uphold it</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/08/sanitation-workers-in-new-orleans-on-strike-to-demand-better-conditions-and-pay/?fbclid=IwAR27aKgvmwYFmSHve33L4LvwA2ecIaf0oosK_2fLXalO0jRYZhigb0Ar9nI" target="_blank">Sanitation workers in New Orleans on strike to demand better conditions and pay</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/09/us/south-dakota-sioux-tribes/index.html?fbclid=IwAR2-kBCfNxmq5svyMDtaKcLkBlsg-lcwcGx-L4fExxXlYQu6LHDSv6zNZJo" target="_blank">Sioux tribe rejects South Dakota governor request to remove Covid-19 checkpoints</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.blackenterprise.com/indianapolis-police-kill-black-man-laugh-about-it-not-realizing-its-being-recorded-on-facebook-live/?fbclid=IwAR3RpjdOluWr3QvRS9D0U-o881ozkYuo9w05QHocETvxb9fPkehA11GZPf0" target="_blank">INDIANAPOLIS POLICE KILL BLACK MAN, LAUGH ABOUT IT NOT REALIZING IT’S BEING RECORDED ON FACEBOOK LIVE</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/10/move-1985-bombing-reconciliation-philadelphia?fbclid=IwAR39b3OUjQ0igM-hqEuRWKFeYEPnp4eoAb3t7JLAeI2rQeokMu2ziWigems" target="_blank">The day police bombed a city street: can scars of 1985 Move atrocity be healed?</a></b><br />
<b><u><br /></u></b><b><u>Uruguay:</u></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/100000-Uruguayans-Fell-Below-Poverty-Line-in-April-Study--20200505-0017.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR2UtDNXLEnqNW4pFbK_wmepuy0sTRwQiAC2xp0vjbcJnsFuwz2F66RGMys" target="_blank">100,000 Uruguayans Fell Below Poverty Line in April: Study</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/uruguay-lacalle-calls-for-change-in-legal-abortion-law-20200506-0014.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR3Mf1MB_JLflcQAR6xq54BcDsNVODDa5cU5DXAQtSheMhO7PpYoz30fPCE" target="_blank">Uruguay: Lacalle Calls for Change in Abortion Law</a></b><br />
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<b><u>Venezuela:</u></b><br />
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<b>"Donald Trump thinks he can defeat us. He's wrong."</b><br />
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<b>A message from the Venezuelan socialist fishermen who helped capture the coup plotting US mercenaries.</b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/defeat-of-a-dirty-military-incursion-into-venezuela-on-a-sunday-morning?fbclid=IwAR1OuzgAK0HlTgwJaFS8qSbPR3rtJn4EuyuoHtwSy_s4NLxorbYmn4jskVQ" target="_blank">Defeat of a Dirty Military Incursion into Venezuela on a Sunday Morning</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://mediacoop.ca/story/failed-invasion-venezuela-and-canadian-connections/36970?fbclid=IwAR1h_4T4LgJ8HYiUyVn2aul-mDz97Hxclpkbqj8-y05hiGcDatzna0Bjp7w" target="_blank">The Failed Invasion of Venezuela, and the American and Canadian Connections</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2020/5/6/venezuela_coup_attempt_miguel_tinker_salas?fbclid=IwAR30JhEfmz8j6nVqCcORUvkZtYEAvSlsVbcbeCCWlQNJVtmdPAgJsw9l22w" target="_blank">U.S. Mercenaries Captured in Venezuela After Failed Coup Attempt Compared to a “Bad Rambo Movie”</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Denounces-New-Attack-on-National-Electric-System--20200505-0021.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR0MK6RWnZJtn4XaeJrPaVQYdtfCNgVmboGqUWDELEVFHXAQ1oO49aUiO-A" target="_blank">Venezuela Denounces New Attack on National Electric System</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Duque-Involved-in-Military-Incursion-President-Maduro-Holds-20200506-0013.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR281T4S_kw_7rZb0jWP-L5Oi5m3-iddI1aBOnIZ6aj5b1G0iD_Q_HB_lng" target="_blank">Mercenary Confesses Failed Plot Was to Bring President Maduro to US</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://orinocotribune.com/trudeau-rolls-out-his-trumpian-covid-19-latin-america-policy/?fbclid=IwAR1efSBVmgn-J0yv8VhOf1-54u-OU0_BgHgRrZjK9qxXXaRiVDZlk74U_EQ" target="_blank">Trudeau Rolls out his Trumpian Covid-19 Latin America Policy</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://sputniknews.com/analysis/202005071079232239-us-mercenaries-botched-venezuela-raid-may-be-prelude-to-bigger-invasion-analyst-warns/?fbclid=IwAR095ms13ROv_C0zzZDSTWlJfzhmGbTTxr-svmpiMXEqOeceAWT97qq180I" target="_blank">US Mercenaries' Botched Venezuela Raid May be Prelude to Bigger Invasion, Analyst Warns</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/14867" target="_blank">US Investigating Ex-Green Beret, Denies ‘Direct’ Involvement in Failed Venezuela Coup</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/I-Would-Use-an-Army-to-Raid-Venezuela-Trump-Acknowledges-20200508-0003.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR3dY08jeodaPeE9kbI5rWaDyNwSdsNI-BL0RbsMYQbYx2asHtwtl4x0GuA" target="_blank">'I Would Use an Army to Raid Venezuela' Trump Acknowledges</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Guaido-Hired-Mercenaries-for-a-Terrorist-Incursion-in-Venezuela-20200505-0014.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR3Vzt_xKrGvUQWHMBId5On1Ysqxvsnn0gH8UHRespHDFeFwx2hwlpD4j28" target="_blank">Guaido Hired Mercenaries for a Terrorist Incursion in Venezuela</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Maduro-Guaido-Behind-the-Failed-Operation-Against-Venezuela-20200509-0012.html" target="_blank">Guaido Behind Failed Operation Against Venezuela: Maduro</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuelan-President-Maduro-Mike-Pompeo-Stop-Your-Arrogance-20200507-0013.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR0K-C0jeeB8PXH1T3ce9EV8gnECbMI4qj-ULcaMWqPPqEzea42nrGozQr4" target="_blank">Venezuelan President Maduro: "Mike Pompeo Stop Your Arrogance"</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://orinocotribune.com/venezuelan-attorney-general-requests-interpol-arrest-juan-jose-rendon-sergio-vergara-and-jordan-goudreau-for-their-involvement-in-the-may-3-mercenary-raid/?fbclid=IwAR26VLGRwOGQ7WrNOyx_CD4EC-CtB8ni-nWueojqneiN6jo3ynlvREL6nFw" target="_blank">Venezuelan Attorney General Requests Interpol Arrest Juan Jose Rendon, Sergio Vergara and Jordan Goudreau for Their Involvement in the May 3 Mercenary Raid</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/China-Rejects-Illegal-Violent-Actions-Against-Venezuela-Cuba-20200506-0001.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR07EzoECh3M5mt4KVMpzWWh0aQ7yP7sQls5LwQp91SVAwjuqn7uMbPUY2Q" target="_blank">China Rejects Illegal, Violent Actions Against Venezuela, Cuba</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Showcases-Progress-in-the-Containment-of-COVID-19-20200507-0016.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR0Q-W-WEE8c4D2IyDv8G8A-WipXBiQRU6wHcT4-xvCpJjD013iMwmmcuB8" target="_blank">Venezuela Showcases Progress in the Containment of COVID-19</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://fair.org/home/guardian-blames-trumps-murderous-us-exceptionalism-on-hugo-chavez/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR0zbyONEsYtNydaO4EL1GATnQCaiQb8VjdpwZBsBrBsLyqz_ei3Nqr4_cM" target="_blank">Guardian Blames Trump’s Murderous US Exceptionalism on Hugo Chávez </a></b><br />
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<b><u>Victory Day 75</u></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://theleftchapter.blogspot.com/2020/05/no-fascism-ever-again-statements-from.html?fbclid=IwAR1ZXmZsWwQ-ThJhenUIS6MArQ6LBJNff8HYuDjB7tYTRcfkky-gQwqwPaU" target="_blank">No fascism ever again! -- Statements from Communist and Workers' parties on the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/red-armys-contribution-defeat-fascism-remembered-ve-day" target="_blank">Red Army's contribution in the defeat of fascism remembered on VE Day</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/09/on-the-frontlines-red-army-veteran-moritz-mebel-talks-about-his-battles-against-fascism/?fbclid=IwAR0VNYs1RqGjIwXRIbwFZWsNSg9EVctu3pZ17zbxDJsMhPYC1AfodnKyQoA" target="_blank">On the frontlines: Red Army veteran Moritz Mebel talks about his battles against fascism</a></b><br />
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<b>At the end of the first Victory Day parade in Moscow in celebration of the defeat of the Nazis, Red Army soldiers threw the banners of Nazi regiments to the ground outside of Lenin's mausoleum in Red Square. The soldiers all wore gloves so that they would not actually have to touch the banners.</b></div>
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<b>Today is the 75th anniversary of the USSR accepting the surrender of Nazi Germany ending the Second World War in Europe.</b></div>
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Written 20 years after the end of the war, this is a thrilling eyewitness account of the battle for the Reichstag in the final days of the Red Army's victory in Berlin. Its author was Vassily Subbotin who was a 24 year old lieutenant. Subbotin's father was killed in action earlier in the war in fighting in Ukraine.<br />
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The account opens with a prose poem, The Road, and then tells of the confused fighting, the terrible deaths with the war just days from ending, negotiations for the surrender of the German troops in the Reichstag, and the story of the raising of the Soviet flag over the building in victory that was preserved in one of the most famous photographs of the war.<br />
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Today is the 75th anniversary of Victory Day in the USSR.<br />
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Republished in 1985 this was an excerpt from a larger book, How Wars End.<br />
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A poet, prose writer and translator, Vassily Subbotin was born in Siberia. His father came from a family of farmers. Both the father and the son went to the front in 1941.<br />
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Subbotin's father was killed in action on the 1st Ukrainian Front, while Vassily, then a twenty-four-year-old lieutenant, fought his way with the army into Berlin and took part in the assault of the Reichstag. It was there, during respites in the fighting, that he wrote the first sketches of his future book, How Wars End. It took him, in fact, twenty years to complete the work.<br />
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<b>May 9th, 1945 was Victory Day in the USSR when the Soviets officially accepted the surrender of Germany after years of devastating war. The world owes the peoples of the Soviet Union an immense debt of gratitude for their extreme sacrifices in the struggle to defeat fascism.</b></div>
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<b>Poster from the dark days of the fall of 1941 as the Red Army rallied in defense of Moscow and the fate of the world hung in the balance. Today is Victory in Europe Day in many countries while tomorrow, May 9, is Victory Day in many countries of the former USSR.</b></div>
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<br />May 8th and 9th (in much of Eastern Europe) are celebrated around the world as the days on which victory was proclaimed against Nazi Germany after the terrible devastation and sacrifices of the Second World War.<br />
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This year marks the 75th anniversary of that triumph and internationally the threat of fascism is rising again. There are also ongoing attempts to whitewash the fascist and collaborationist past by many nationalist groups in Europe.This has been combined with a grotesque effort to equate communism with Nazism. <br />
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75 Communist and Workers' parties signed a joint statement in honour of the anniversary which is shared here in full. There are also excerpts from statements by parties in Ukraine, the Netherlands, Iran and Austria<br />
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<b><a href="https://inter.kke.gr/en/articles/75th-Anniversary-of-the-Victory-over-Nazi-fascismpIn-the-name-of-freedom-peace-and-truth-Against-fascism-and-war/" target="_blank">In the name of freedom, peace and truth — Against fascism and war: Joint statement of over 75 Communist and Workers' Parties</a></b><br />
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The victory over Nazi-fascism in the Second World War is a major event in history, the memory of which must be preserved and defended in the face of repeated attempts at historical falsification aimed at making us forget the decisive role played by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, by the communists and by anti-fascists from around the world.<br />
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Generated by capitalism, Nazi-fascism was the most violent and terroristic manifestation of monopoly capital. It was responsible for the outbreak of this war of aggression and plunder that caused close to 75 million deaths, of which approximately 27 million were Soviet citizens, and for the immeasurable suffering and horror of the Nazi concentration camps. The peoples can also not forget dark pages, such as the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the USA, without any military justification, which represented a display of power and of their world-wide hegemonistic ambitions.<br />
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The Second World War (1939-1945) was the result of increasingly acute inter-imperialist contradictions and, at the same time, of the intention to destroy the first Socialist State, the USSR, which was namely expressed in the support and connivance of the United Kingdom, France and the United States with the rearmament and expansionist ambition of Nazi Germany.<br />
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In commemorating the 75th anniversary of the historic Victory on May 9, 1945, the undersigned communist and workers' parties, certain in the knowledge that they portray the feelings and aspirations of workers and peoples from all over the world:<br />
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- Pay tribute to all those who gave their lives on the battlefields against the Nazi-fascist hordes and in particular to the heroism of the resistance movements and anti-fascist fighters and to the heroic Soviet people and Red Army, led by the Communist Party, whose contribution, written in heroic pages such as the battles of Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad, was decisive for the Victory over barbarism;<br />
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- Consider that the Victory over Nazi Germany and its allies in the Anti-Comintern Pact was achieved thanks to the decisive contribution of the USSR, to the class nature of the Soviet power with the participation of the masses of the people, to the leading role of the Communist Party, to the superiority which was displayed by the Socialist system. That victory is an enormous historical legacy of the revolutionary movement;<br />
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- Value the outstanding advances in the social and national emancipation of the workers and peoples that the Victory and the resulting advancement of the forces of social progress and peace made possible, extending the sphere of socialism within the countries of Europe, Asia and Latin America, creating the conditions for the advance of the labour movement in capitalist countries, the sweeping development of the national liberation movement and the resulting liquidation of colonial empires;<br />
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- Denounce and condemn the campaigns that aim to belittle, distort and even deny, the role of the USSR and of the communists in the defeat of Nazi-fascism and also to unjustly and falsely blame the Soviet Union for starting the Second World War, to expunge the responsibilities of big capital and the governments at its service in the promotion and rise of fascism and in unleashing the war, and whitewash and rehabilitate fascism, while destroying the monuments and memory of the liberating Soviet army, promoting anti-communism and criminalizing communists and other anti-fascists;<br />
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- Denounce and condemn the EU’s anti-communist resolutions and the slanderous historical falsification which attempts to equate socialism with the fascist monster;<br />
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- Warn that the most reactionary and aggressive sectors of imperialism are increasingly viewing fascism and war as a “way out” of the deepening crisis of the capitalist system, whose inhuman character becomes particularly obvious when, even in the face of the very serious epidemic outbreak of Covid-19, imperialism, the USA, NATO, the EU and its allies capitalist powers, continue a criminal policy of blockades and aggressions against countries and peoples;<br />
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- Consider that the struggle for peace, social progress and socialism are inseparable; and make a commitment to seek a stronger common action of the working class, of the workers and peoples of the world, of the political forces engaged in blocking the path to fascism and in the struggle against imperialism, imperialist aggressions and a new war of tragic proportions.<br />
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The situation with which the workers and peoples of the world are confronted underlines the importance of strengthening the struggle against imperialism, for the sovereignty of the peoples and the independence of States, for the rights of the workers and peoples, as leading forward to the revolutionary overcoming of the capitalist system, a system which breeds fascism, war, the injustices, dangers and contradictions of the present. As it was 75 years ago, it is today the struggle of the communists and all those facing capitalist exploitation and oppression that will open the way for the future for Humanity.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.solidnet.org/article/New-CP-of-the-Netherlands-Declaration-from-NCPN-and-CJB-about-75-years-of-the-end-of-Nazi-Germany/" target="_blank">75 years since the liberation - Statement of the New Communist Party of the Netherlands </a>(excerpt)</b><br />
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Communists took the lead in the armed struggle and dangerous missions, such as acts of sabotage and liquidations. For this reason, thousands of CPN-members were executed, or met their ends in concentration camps. The names of members of the CPN, such as HannieSchaft, Jan Bonekamp and many others, became symbols of the resistance through their heroic struggle.<br />
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Communists were at the forefront of the resistance in all of Europe, not just in the Netherlands. The heroic demeanour displayed by communists was the result of communist ideals and praxis, the collective struggle, solidarity, camaraderie and trust in the strength of common working-class people. For this reason, the pre-war dealings of the CPN and its close ties with the working class, established through the class struggle, were of crucial importance for the latter resistance in the Netherlands.<br />
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The Netherlands were liberated by English, American and Canadian troops. We must, however, not forget that, on the other side of Europe, the Soviet Union and the Red Army gave the decisive contribution to the defeat of Nazi-Germany.<br />
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The anticommunist distortion of history propagated by bourgeois political parties and the EU, which hushes up the role of the CPN in the resistance, which attempts to equate fascism and communism, which goes as far as to state that the Soviet Union shares responsibility for the outbreak of World War II, is extremely dangerous. With this narrative, they conceal the causes and true character of fascism and war.<br />
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We pay homage to the members of the CPN and the other resistance fighters<br />
who fought the fascist occupation.<br />
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Not then, not now, no fascism ever again!<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.solidnet.org/article/Tudeh-Party-of-Iran-The-statement-on-The-75th-anniversary-of-VE-Day/" target="_blank">The statement on The 75th anniversary of VE Day! - Tudeh Party of Iran</a> (Excerpt)</b><br />
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On May 9th, amidst the global health crisis emergency caused by the coronavirus pandemic, falls a major anniversary… For it was on this day, 75 years ago, that the Victory over Nazi Germany was secured thus ending World War II in Europe. This Victory was the culmination of combined counter-offensives by the Soviet Red Army and partisan units, who turned around the Nazi war machine in the East and changed the course of the war; the Allies; and the resistance movements across Europe, during the latter part of 1944 and into the spring of 1945.<br />
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The Second World War was instigated for the purpose of world domination by the Axis powers - an alliance of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan, and their collaborators. Aggression by the Nazi-Fascist Axis was driven by a cold economic reasoning; a need to re-divide the world and redraw the lines laid down by the other imperialist powers - namely Britain, France, and the emerging United States - and thus resolve the drive for profit by big business in Germany, Italy, and Japan. Of course, the defeat and bringing down of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was the other main objective, one from which all of the imperialist powers would have benefited. However, after over 50-million deaths - more than 20 million of which accounted for Soviet citizens alone - and utter devastation wrought to countries around the world, the Axis powers were defeated and the Soviet Union gloriously prevailed thanks to the heroic resistance and steadfastness of its people and armed forces.<br />
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The Tudeh Party of Iran was actually established as an anti-fascist party in the midst of the WWII, on 2nd October 1941, by communist prisoners released after the removal of Reza Shah by the Allies that September, owing to the preponderance and orientation of him and his administration towards Nazi Germany. Indeed, at that time, the state and its apparatus were awash with pro-Nazi collaborators and those advocating for Iran’s alignment with the Axis powers. Thus, in the early years after its formation, our Party’s driving focus was the fight against any vestige of fascism and Nazism in Iran. The Party began publishing the “Anti-Fascist Mardom (People)” newspaper to educate and organise the masses in fight against the Nazi hordes that, within a year, were pushing towards the Caucasus adjacent to the country’s borders with the Soviet Union. This activity continued until the end of the war and laid the ground for a shift towards progressive policies in Iran over the years that followed.<br />
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The Victory over Fascism heralded a new era in the establishment and spread of socialism around the world. A wave of national liberation movements against the empires of Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands - as well as that of the newly-emerged and emboldened power; the US - began, and was strongly supported by the Soviet Union and the newly-formed socialist states in Eastern Europe.<br />
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On the momentous occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Victory over Fascism in Europe, the Tudeh Party of Iran applauds and salutes the memory of all those who stood and fell in the struggle against the Axis powers and their collaborators.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.solidnet.org/article/Party-of-Labour-of-Austria-75-years-since-liberation-from-fascism-and-foreign-rule/" target="_blank">75 years since liberation from fascism and foreign rule - Party of Labour of Austria</a> (Excerpt)</b><br />
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May 8 and 9 are the anniversaries of the unconditional surrender of Germany in the Second World War. These days meant 1945, 75 years ago, the end of historical German fascism, of its war of extermination and its crimes. At the same time, they marked the Great Antifascist Victory of the Peoples. The Party of Labour of Austria highlights the following points on the 75th anniversary:<br />
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- May 8 and 9, 1945 were days of liberation. We oppose any view which seeks to reinterpret the end of the Second World War as a defeat for the Austrian people, whether on the basis of historical revisionist, revanchist, anti-communist, German nationalist, pan-Germanist or even fascist attitudes.<br />
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- May 8 and 9 brought down the fascist system of rule - and with it, terror and persecution, mass murder and genocide. The victims of these crimes will never be forgotten. We remember the murdered Jews, Roma, religious and ethnic minorities, homosexuals, war opponents and pacifists, politically persecuted and opponents of German fascism. We oppose racism and anti-Semitism, nationalism and chauvinism, xenophobia, discrimination and intolerance.<br />
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<a href="http://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Ukraine-Victory-Day-9th-of-May/" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Victory Day 9th of May - Communist Party of Ukraine </a><b> (Excerpt)</b><br />
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Dear comrades!<br />
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Please accept congratulations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine with the 75th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, which saved the USSR, Europe and the whole world from the threat of fascist slavery and genocide.<br />
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The tragedy of that terrible war is the main lesson of the twentieth century. It serves as a reminder to everyone about what leads to indifference and compromise with the Nazis. But it also demonstrated the unique example of the military fraternity of the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition.<br />
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Accept our tribute to the courage of the soldiers of the allied armies, who together with the Red Army fought against fascism and broke the back of the Nazi beast. Let us bow before the strength of spirit of the generation of Victors, who won the the greatest military battle for peace, for the prosperity of the peoples and countries of the world community.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305888946584866654.post-61789273354324612632020-05-08T05:39:00.000-07:002020-05-08T05:40:51.916-07:00Don't let the capitalists fool you...we have the social wealth to properly fight the pandemic<br />
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As socialists and leftists we need to differentiate between two things: the needs of the capitalist economy versus what could be done collectively in countries like Canada and the United States with our social wealth.<br />
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It is absolutely true that with the system as designed now people are desperate to get back to work given that they face destitution, homelessness and bankruptcy. It is also true that the capitalists want everything open and want us all back at work tomorrow.<br />
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Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead is their mantra and so it would be. They could not care less about the lives of workers and especially about the lives of those workers most likely to die...women, racialized workers, marginalized workers.<br />
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That those workers are far more likely to die is a fact. That is already how it is playing out. Calls to rapidly reopen are inherently racist and misogynist, classist and colonialist.<br />
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A study in the UK found that "Black people are more than four times more likely to die from COVID-19 than white people". We all know that the situation will be even worse in the US.<br />
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We, as a society, absolutely have the amassed social wealth to get through a pandemic without throwing workers, women, people of colour and marginalized communities into the death machine we are throwing them into.<br />
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We can absolutely afford to lockdown most industries, services, enterprises and to allow shopping for necessities in a disciplined and socialized way. If there is any doubt about this simply reflect on the fact that, after massive infusions of cash into the "free market" by the government, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnN_7hKkdlY&t=3s" target="_blank">Wall St. had its best month for stocks in decades. </a><br />
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Instead we have constructed a society based on the needs of profit, individual consumerism, and vast inequality.<br />
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<a href="https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2020-04/fs_2020_04_milex_0_0.pdf" target="_blank">Global military expenditure</a> is estimated to have been $1917 billion in 2019, the highest level since 1988. Of this the United States accounted for $732 billion, more than the next ten largest military spenders combined. Just imagine what a fraction of that could do to alleviate the suffering and economic displacement due to Covid-19.<br />
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Under a socialized economy with socialized housing, transit, industry, wages, and "wealth", locking down for the interests of workers and public health would have been not simply much easier but would have been done without question and with the needs of the people placed first as they should be economically.<br />
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China and Vietnam, as well as Cuba, have provided glimpses of this kind of collectivist action, especially impressive for Cuba given the devastation of the embargo. So have a handful of other capitalist countries.<br />
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But it is essential that we never confuse the interests of the capitalist economy with the interests of the workers. They are never the same. There is a reason that big business and capital want you back on the frontline to die for their money.<br />
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Never has the case for a socialized, planned economy been more easy to make.<br />
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Instead of pandering to bullshit about fake bailouts or to crumbs tossed to workers or to demented narratives about "reopening" even if this will kill millions of working people, let's make that case instead.<br />
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Today. Now. Always.<br />
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Solidarity.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305888946584866654.post-45051053740003525852020-05-07T15:28:00.000-07:002020-05-07T15:28:49.863-07:00Victory at Dien Bien Phu, May 7, 1954<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Victory at Dien Bien Phu, May 7, 1954</b></div>
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<b>On May 7, 1954 General Giáp ordered the final assault on the French imperial troops at Dien Bien Phu. The day ended in total victory over the French forces after nearly 2 months of siege and battle. It was a decisive victory for the Vietnamese freedom fighters and such a crushing blow for the French that it ultimately led to the final departure of all French troops from Vietnam in 1956.</b></div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305888946584866654.post-88112609898976055152020-05-06T17:38:00.000-07:002020-05-06T17:38:08.339-07:00Death Cult Capitalism<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Despite what the politicians say the "curve" does not seem to be flattening as much as they are saying in places like Ontario and the United States. And yet in spite of serious outbreaks in factories in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Iowa, among others, the push is on to "reopen". This reopening will come directly at the expense of women workers, racialized workers and marginalized workers who are over-represented in the kinds of service and retail businesses that the corporations and wealthy are demanding be allowed to operate.<br />
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"Reopening" is ALL about business and the well to do and has NOTHING to do with the needs of workers or public health.<br />
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<b>Neoliberalism, plunder and unemployment -- Cuban Poster Daily LIFT #187</b></div>
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<b>Neoliberalism, plunder and unemployment is the agenda of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.</b></div>
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<b><i>By Natalie</i></b><br />
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<b><i>Inspired and adapted from recipes in the Cooking With Style cookbook as well as Jacques Pepin. </i></b><br />
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This terrific method of preparing potato latkes for cast iron pan frying discards the laborious task of shredding or grating potato in favour of using a blender. You then ladle the batter into a hot cast iron pan to be fried to crispy, delicious perfection.<br />
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<b>1 medium onion quartered</b><br />
<b>3 potatoes diced</b><br />
<b>2 eggs</b><br />
<b>2 cloves garlic</b><br />
<b>1/2 tsp. dry dill</b><br />
<b>1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper</b><br />
<b>1/2 tsp baking powder</b><br />
<b>1/2 tsp salt</b><br />
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In a blender combine all the ingredients and blend them thoroughly for about 30 seconds. You may have to periodically stop the blender and push potato chunks down with a wooden spoon to get the process going.<br />
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Blend to the point where it has become a somewhat grainy not completely smooth batter.<br />
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When nice and golden remove to a platter and let sit for a minute or two then serve with bacon, sour cream, apple sauce, hot sauce or whatever else you like your latkes with!<br />
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<b>Famed Soviet poet, writers and artist Mayakovsky did this sketch as a scene design for his revolutionary play <i>Mystery Bouffe</i>. In the end the "unclean" proletariat triumphs over the "clean" bourgeoisie.</b></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305888946584866654.post-38063057586975526172020-05-04T14:59:00.000-07:002020-05-05T09:51:08.423-07:00Make solidarity global -- Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez at a Sao Paulo Forum meeting, 2019</td></tr>
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<i><b><a href="http://en.granma.cu/mundo/2020-05-04/diaz-canel-if-we-had-globalized-solidarity-as-the-market-was-globalized-the-story-would-be-different?fbclid=IwAR2oACFdgEdsC68P_aqju_6zcCYqtukdO0LdbG6wo19rnbTwjIICaRsYmLc" target="_blank">Excerpt from a statement by </a></b></i><b><i><a href="http://en.granma.cu/mundo/2020-05-04/diaz-canel-if-we-had-globalized-solidarity-as-the-market-was-globalized-the-story-would-be-different?fbclid=IwAR2oACFdgEdsC68P_aqju_6zcCYqtukdO0LdbG6wo19rnbTwjIICaRsYmLc" target="_blank">Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez</a>, President of the Republic of Cuba to the “United against COVID-19” Non-Aligned Movement Online Summit, May 4, 2020</i></b><br />
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COVID-19 has proven to be a global challenge. It goes beyond borders, ideologies or levels of development. Therefore, the answer to it must also be global and joint and it should put political differences aside.<br />
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It is not possible to predict exactly the extent of its consequences. The high figures of infected persons and many human deaths are showing its devastating impact in an increasingly interconnected world which, still, has not been able to make use of such interconnection for the sake of solidarity and is paying today the price for its inability to correct serious social imbalances. It should be stated openly: Had we made solidarity global, as it was done with the market, the story would have been different.<br />
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There is a lack of solidarity and cooperation. Those values cannot be replaced with profit-making, which is almost the only incentive for those who worship the market while forgetting about the value of human life.<br />
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An analysis of the events that have disturbed humanity in the last four months must include the costly mistakes of neoliberal policies, which led to a downsizing of state management and capabilities, excessive privatizations and a neglect of the majorities.<br />
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This pandemic has evidenced the fragility of a fractured and excluding world. Not even those who are most fortunate and powerful would survive in the absence of those whose work creates and sustains wealth.<br />
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The multiple crises it is bringing about foretell ravaging and lasting effects for the economy and all spheres of society.<br />
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The pandemic is worsening the pressing problems in a planet riddled with deep inequalities and where 600 million people are living in dire poverty and nearly half of the population have no access to basic health services, whose management is defined by the market and not by the noble goal of saving lives.<br />
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In the meantime, global military expenditures are over 1.9 trillion dollars, of which more than 38%, or 732 billion, were appropriated in the United States in 2020.<br />
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I wish to share with you this quotation from the Commander-in-Chief of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz: “Instead of spending so much in the development of increasingly sophisticiated weapons, those having resources for that should promote medical research and put the results of science at the service of humanity, thus creating tools for health and life and not for death.”<br />
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Let us call, together with the Secretary General of the United Nations, for the end of wars, including non-conventional ones, so as to safeguard the right to peace.<br />
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We reject the recent and serious military threats by the government of the United States against the sisterly Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.<br />
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We reaffirm our solidarity with the government and the people of Nicaragua and reject measures against their right to well being, security and peace.<br />
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The attempts at re-imposing the neocolonial past to Our America by publicly declaring the validity of the Monroe Doctrine are running counter the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace.<br />
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In this complex situation, the United States is attacking multilateralism and it disqualifies unjustly the role of international organizations, particularly the World Health Organization....<br />
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...For Cuba, the challenge has been a mammoth one. In the months prior to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, we were already facing a ruthless tightening of the US economic, commercial and financial blockade policy aimed at bringing our trade and access to fuels and foreign currency to a full standstill.<br />
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Through tremendous effort and sacrifice, we have been able under such conditions to keep in place our universal and free public health system that has dedicated and highly-qualified professionals who enjoy world prestige in spite of the crude and slanderous campaigns by powerful adversaries.<br />
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The early warning signs on the possibility that COVID-19 would become a pandemic came in the midst of this suffocating context of an economic war, and that made challenges bigger. <br />
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Right away, we drew a plan including measures based on our main strengths: A well-structured State that has the responsibility to protect the health of its citizens and a society with mass involvement as to decision-making and giving solutions to its problems.<br />
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The work resulting from years of resource appropriations to develop and strengthen health services and sciences has been put to a test and the evolution of the epidemic in Cuba in the last two months is showing the good impact social investment policies may have when facing the biggest and most unexpected challenges.<br />
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In spite of the huge constraints being imposed on us by the protracted US economic, commercial and financial blockade, that are posing a big daily challenge to keeping our public health system in place and facing this pandemic in particular, we have ensured the right to health of the Cuban people with the involvement of society as a whole.<br />
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Scientific development has allowed us to treat different communicable diseases successfully both in Cuba and in other nations. This time, the pharmaceutical industry has expanded the manufacturing of drugs of proven efficacy to prevent and deal with COVID-19 that we have shared with other countries.<br />
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In response to requests that were made, in the last month 25 new medical brigades of Cuban health professionals have joined the efforts in 23 countries to fight the pandemic. They have joined those who have been providing services already in 59 States, many of which are NAM members.<br />
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Cuba shall not give up its solidarity vocation even when, out of political reasons, the US government continues attacking and obstructing the international cooperation being provided by our country, which jeopardizes access to health services for tens of millions of people.<br />
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<b><i><a href="http://en.granma.cu/mundo/2020-05-04/diaz-canel-if-we-had-globalized-solidarity-as-the-market-was-globalized-the-story-would-be-different?fbclid=IwAR2oACFdgEdsC68P_aqju_6zcCYqtukdO0LdbG6wo19rnbTwjIICaRsYmLc" target="_blank">Read the full statement. </a></i></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305888946584866654.post-8384527578238325952020-05-03T06:02:00.002-07:002020-05-03T06:02:57.951-07:00May Day 2020, Bolsonaro, the Bailouts & more -- The Week in News and Opinion April 26 - May 3<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May Day, Istanbul</td></tr>
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<br />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.<br />
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This list covers the week of April 26 - May 3.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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We have tried to arrange the coronavirus news thematically and to touch on many different areas of concern.<br />
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<b><u>Featured Article:</u></b><br />
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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.<br />
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<b>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"?</b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/04/28/coronavirus-may-1-strike-sickout-amazon-target-whole-foods/?fbclid=IwAR2MVoMzDu2scso1gtHHpu4OjqLyDl75EwueZcKhV1XuhqYSlYqNFeiLtyQ" target="_blank">AS AMAZON, WALMART, AND OTHERS PROFIT AMID CORONAVIRUS CRISIS, THEIR ESSENTIAL WORKERS PLAN UNPRECEDENTED STRIKE</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>- <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7jaaq/amazon-reinstates-fired-warehouse-worker-after-employees-strike?utm_campaign=sharebutton&fbclid=IwAR3cKOAjo_8Ei_4qHLhldIt4ggG0w9BcjLBREYXeWYa2aQna17zEtHC649U" target="_blank">Amazon Reinstates Fired Warehouse Worker After Employees Strike</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/apr/28/three-women-killed-in-spain-as-coronavirus-lockdown-sees-rise-in-domestic-violence?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR372BMv_hFfdvmks94m1UbgqvCIHTI1Clv4xzCZzEb58bzxsDV5AHd95Eo" target="_blank">Women killed in Spain as coronavirus lockdown sees rise in domestic violence</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mexico-coronavirus-domestic-violence-women-murder-femicide-lockdown-a9488321.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2l1B83-jKew4Lg7hX8r6uvr9fgUgW8i4-mil76nY_ifBv1pmODbNtEIP0#Echobox" target="_blank">Mexico sees almost 1,000 women murdered in three months as domestic abuse concerns rise amid coronavirus</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/French-NGO-Nominates-Cuban-Doctors-For-Nobel-Peace-Prize-20200428-0018.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR2bFhbmj_AigrGh254si4NtTZo2r3PyAJKwgizBKXjgNZAk1UkEBYYH1So" target="_blank">French NGO Nominates Cuban Medical Brigades For Nobel Peace Prize</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/US-Prevents-Cuba-From-Acquiring-Pharmaceutical-Raw-Materials-20200429-0007.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR3uuqhFDWsUXWZ4I-YjpDEm4wAX1NN9rmgAmn7NeOcUEMAWPsWu2dYy-2k" target="_blank">US Prevents Cuba From Acquiring Pharmaceutical Raw Materials</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Cuba-Cannot-Get-Swiss-Respirators-Due-to-US-Inhuman-Blockade-20200429-0013.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR3meGvsx8ZRXrucvIX_GlnXGzTzypZHxspg-v9EYla4FwmUzHHURSqWLFA" target="_blank">Cuba Cannot Get Swiss Respirators Due to US Inhuman Blockade</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>- <a href="http://en.granma.cu/mundo/2020-04-27/another-life-saving-brigade-travels-to-south-africa?fbclid=IwAR34VJmqlz_gknc1nm1cbfblj21irl8klYV7ML3OWwmG_bGhT15aeTKUqPc" target="_blank">Another life-saving brigade travels to South Africa</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/cuba-plans-national-production-of-effective-drug--against-covid19-20200427-0002.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR2jVfIIYD_NVymGtH7x6vOoE_d1qSGuBv-3191TkVgsF7rrEJj4ZBkVzxk" target="_blank">Cuba Plans National Production of Drug Against COVID-19</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Former-Jamaican-Prime-Minister-Applauds-Cubas-Generosity--20200426-0004.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR1b5GGFlWY8zvwvG3Z6QVuhg3mht7fzs8IApJNsxw7e1XW6SlyPaq-ndLo" target="_blank">Former Jamaican Prime Minister Applauds Cuba's Generosity</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="http://peoplesvoice.ca/2020/04/30/socialism-vs-capitalism-in-the-battle-against-coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR28yJ8xaxLmdpvFDnZuCqhryuDjUuqy30cbA1TwpP8f5TZ5cExd61bHq3A" target="_blank">SOCIALISM VS CAPITALISM IN THE BATTLE AGAINST CORONAVIRUS</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.foodstersunited.ca/foodsters-statement-april27.html?fbclid=IwAR3T0aBbgerS2J-Qv29fvvuzV7lgJxvEWDTZiQ7pJj6Fd8mB2tLA6BZn14k#.Xqd8nl80n3k.facebook" target="_blank">Foodsters United Statement on Foodora Closing its Canadian Operations</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://foodstersunited.ca/take-action.html?fbclid=IwAR0tUP_7IAaE_D1zi8qJ9wxRkTbfOhEi0ooysMb-r1QHZ4ALa-_TKfTILW0#.XqhnyEeBOSI.facebook" target="_blank">Help Support Foodsters United</a> (petition) </b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/canadas-early-covid-19-cases-came-from-the-u-s-not-china-provincial-data-shows?fbclid=IwAR2-OvkRbWJfz2Q-8Jlxgb1wPMmCReinE_cgYbNem0QQ25KbvyzfZAbHoFA" target="_blank">Canada's early COVID-19 cases came from the U.S. not China, provincial data shows</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://ricochet.media/en/3068/right-wing-political-strategies-based-on-anti-chinese-prejudice-are-growing?fbclid=IwAR0ma8gZfy62x_YBpLI9dcyR4ztYD6ViLD0EMokeBCLY9NwVihRSFsuYBRI" target="_blank">Right-wing political strategies based on anti-Chinese prejudice are growing</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/new-national-group-forms-to-combat-racism-against-asian-canadians/wcm/c5e76d88-8c0e-4967-8927-44790d441080/" target="_blank">New national group forms to combat racism against Asian Canadians</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://theconversation.com/anti-asian-racism-during-coronavirus-how-the-language-of-disease-produces-hate-and-violence-134496?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=bylinefacebookbutton&fbclid=IwAR1t3suUbEvQ9WkH1g9N2cQI0ANy1OS5vEqWkK1IEjJ5WzGFwYWT5IyGGqI" target="_blank">Anti-Asian racism during coronavirus: How the language of disease produces hate and violence</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>- <a href="https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/cathy-crowes-blog/2020/04/fifty-days-covid-19-pandemic-and-homeless-people-are-still?fbclid=IwAR0tpHABoxP9peWhgQcfiO4ZvHo0US9u_JGmF71TMhfU7HE1PP6jtymFaHc#.XqncQYrwbsM.facebook" target="_blank">Fifty days into the COVID-19 pandemic, and homeless people are still in a desperate situation</a> (Canada)</b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://pressprogress.ca/meet-the-strange-and-mysterious-group-organizing-anti-lockdown-protests-across-canada/?fbclid=IwAR3IliW2oyQw7dR6pdyuwBwmyoahe35CI_DtET1___mvMNu-Zh5oZ_7j6KU" target="_blank">Meet the Strange and Mysterious Group Organizing Anti-Lockdown Protests Across Canada</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>- <a href="https://www.thestar.com/business/2020/04/27/many-ontario-workers-are-trying-to-refuse-work-due-to-covid-19-fears-but-the-government-isnt-letting-them.html?fbclid=IwAR2mnR7zZdeMPMgM_Rvq8K86rLdC3UWF_-HbefEpkR-pB51FY8UwHpwDpjI" target="_blank">Many Ontario workers are trying to refuse work due to COVID-19 fears — but the government isn’t letting them</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/28/us/coronavirus-death-toll-total.html?fbclid=IwAR3wRuzB9cV1ba48kH7nxzdOcEtPom8DijocN5R1qOlaFS30spHtFDDRszQ" target="_blank">U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Is Far Higher Than Reported, C.D.C. Data Suggests</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/30/america-age-trump-armed-gunmen-enter-michigan-capitol-demanding-end-covid-19?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2-FNqNTXuNmYPsD3XOQPZM2m-a5muWzjCeVgaTbThrNkDveTgOrnPNFQo" target="_blank">'America In the Age of Trump': Armed Gunmen Enter Michigan Capitol Demanding End to Covid-19 Lockdown</a></b><br />
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<b>-<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/hundreds-protest-michigan-lawmakers-consider-extending-governors-emergency-powers-n1196886?fbclid=IwAR2JKOMQSvDOaBAgltuuEExqsF4YsAuTGHQi1cmjaZLKK5FYtE_nv81J8ws" target="_blank"> Hundreds of protesters, some carrying guns in the state Capitol, demonstrate against Michigan's emergency measures</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/30/cia-pushes-back-at-trump-efforts-to-link-coronavirus-to-chinese-laboratories?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR0XYcGCJ2oUU7_Y0U8Keb7MCRkhZa4pLMEPQqOli3Ve5RozAg6lQD0r6F0" target="_blank">US intelligence agencies under pressure to link coronavirus to Chinese labs</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>- <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/27/anti-lockdown-rallies-are-providing-opening-proud-boys-and-other-far-right-extremists?fbclid=IwAR2asn5vKpuH39SpI8J2_YvB0i2YThlIyXR7jQ7HlQ4xrD7sHuMrDsww3ck#.Xqiu-C7UuB9.facebook" target="_blank">Anti-Lockdown Rallies Are Providing an Opening for the Proud Boys and Other Far-Right Extremists</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/maryland-national-guard-police-guard-coronavirus-tests-at-secret-location-2020-4?fbclid=IwAR20PDT57xd_d67BNnrH-R3noGcSz8xLxQkKL7zm2LsCitFLgCiEUA3f3xo" target="_blank">Maryland called in National Guard troops to defend coronavirus tests from South Korea against seizure</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>- <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/opinion/georgia-coronavirus-reopening.html?fbclid=IwAR2wcYutEPCCH5D1Id13hUSArHQ15pMtzeMBIX4sgXeC3HCKtmzUqfPwzYQ" target="_blank">Georgia Went First. And It Screwed Up.</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/30/progressives-urge-congress-stop-disgraceful-gop-effort-grant-corporations-immunity?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3MDqOkpKK4Rj7jRAsJO-laYowM2vXAcvb9rBBbUccDBXLArfAJ7C0eU5I" target="_blank">Progressives Urge Congress to Stop 'Disgraceful' GOP Effort to Grant Corporations Immunity From Covid-19 Lawsuits</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/news/495564-nearly-900-workers-at-tyson-meat-plant-in-indiana-test-positive-for-coronavirus?fbclid=IwAR0odHiwxA0_EEs8Tx5LfZQhz6hU0KWHDkXU4jhbeM7Mh8pXcWSzpYeeqTw#.XqwNB0W_G_E.facebook" target="_blank">Nearly 900 workers at Tyson meat plant in Indiana test positive for coronavirus</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2020/4/30/headlines/meatpackers_and_others_to_lose_jobless_benefits_if_they_refuse_return_to_work_orders?fbclid=IwAR0dJE84rjUNgS1UB_j2CE2a9r5TgpsldNK_qDsyZ6H1cxdM_ofbUSCQ9So" target="_blank">Meatpackers and Others to Lose Jobless Benefits If They Refuse Return-to-Work Orders</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/lebanon-fights-countrys-worst-financial-crisis-amid-covid19-20200427-0005.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR3i5hM4lnz11ZJzt0rKNLZWZHcwKdsS7TFG69KR1X3onbYQCCovbVZr9pQ" target="_blank">Lebanon Fights Country's Worst Financial Crisis Amid COVID-19</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/haiti-food-crisis-persists-amidst-pandemic-20200428-0014.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR07JG9v65ItVxDZmzhSvXFM8FYPxA3tUQWYU4JLcb_F6p1aOrnkSeoo690" target="_blank">Haiti: Food Crisis Persists Amid COVID-19 Pandemic</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/peru-massive-exodus-continues-amidst-pandemic-20200427-0004.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR1C-QEwSRGKP0CL842s6m98jQwm_V3SoYWBh2kRP7mtd8kiObU2HbccU4w" target="_blank">Peru: Massive Exodus Continues Amid COVID-19 Pandemic</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Leads-Region-in-COVID-19-Tests-Per-Million-People-20200428-0021.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR04dYoMh8wuML7WduRyfu_yry09hrV9HhMcMKkKzwDhfrIUKUX4nb2DKt8" target="_blank">Venezuela Leads Region in COVID-19 Tests Per Million People</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/keralas-social-policies-are-the-best-prevention-against-future-pandemics?fbclid=IwAR0kpJHArZ-U7t9LEUkxXHGIZlc6lA7KsA6aKf6VHl2EdD2oyZRGdvrSfzs" target="_blank">Kerala’s Social Policies Are the Best Prevention Against Future Pandemics</a></b><br />
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<b>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. </b><br />
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<b><u><br /></u></b><b>-<a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Moro-Testifies-Against-Bolsonaro-While-He-Calls-Him-Judas-20200502-0007.html" target="_blank"> Brazil: Moro Testifies Against Bolsonaro Who Calls Him 'Judas'</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Moro-is-Brazils-US-candidate-for-2022-Boaventura-de-Sousa-20200426-0008.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR1CK3f6uPCNkT3k5D9RHsTIMt48jUb_tonz9JCYVErTU5VMp095Athh26k" target="_blank">Moro Is the US' Candidate for Brazil 2022: Boaventura de Sousa</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/brazil-court-orders-investigation-against-bolsonaro---20200428-0001.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR3Sv-BVV4jKrQjLeeVXczNKCahWiwo2K4u36ZZKLRdo8_c4TLL6u4vod8Q" target="_blank">Brazilian Court Orders Investigation Against Bolsonaro</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/29/so-what-bolsonaro-shrugs-off-brazil-rising-coronavirus-death-toll?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR0oMK1IA_RW6UKERSv11UHdxR39qYARrW13Bl-BeiF_E8G6uVDgA-oUAj0" target="_blank">'So what?': Bolsonaro shrugs off Brazil's rising coronavirus death toll</a></b><br />
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<b><u><br /></u></b><b>- <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-gun-control-measures-ban-1.5552131?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar&fbclid=IwAR3bFhO0Sgov-18C7dIi9yvbWOCYaeHNE7NXT4KG1h7k3pZ2FUN70PIufx4" target="_blank">Trudeau announces ban on 1,500 types of 'assault-style' firearms — effective immediately</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/xgqedj/nova-scotia-shooting-should-be-a-turning-point-in-how-we-address-abusive-men?utm_campaign=sharebutton&fbclid=IwAR3k8oX78B7euCyTdhxc4DrGRN6jdbaK6hWMd60cIO1nc3LlFLREktKhWo8" target="_blank">Nova Scotia Shooting Should Be a Turning Point in How We Address Abusive Men</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://theleftchapter.blogspot.com/2020/04/wage-subsidies-for-strikebreakers-and.html?fbclid=IwAR3tjZGtKfLIDGCGzS6iYU8CFFF4Ue4QmvOBxACW38eqI4nf_5f0fMUnyPs" target="_blank">Wage subsidies for strikebreakers and no premium pay at the LCBO -- Dispatches from the bailouts</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://readpassage.com/john-ivisons-attack-on-cerb-recipients-is-disgraceful/?fbclid=IwAR0BMWW2ZZVqAV42WmGxYZACorvOKw7SuiABPEBAcBs-WBSPHiV1nrH086U" target="_blank">John Ivison’s Attack On CERB Recipients Is Disgraceful</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/coronavirus-tax-evasion_ca_5ea9f874c5b6cacc85509520?ncid=other_facebook_eucluwzme5k&utm_campaign=share_facebook&fbclid=IwAR2VWJfmRMmS9_0aZk3thUQ4QczkIcXoN8eNT8mQq9DLUIr_qNIiQLISpV0" target="_blank">Trudeau Refuses To Repeat Pledge To Cut Tax-Dodging Companies From COVID-19 Aid</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/epoch-times-coronavirus-bioweapon-1.5548217?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar&fbclid=IwAR3LoudBkiFAWxpi8CfBJZJgY0FGd0LbdCNBk3s-cs2SLwnHlr8IwJ0niAU" target="_blank">Some Canadians who received unsolicited copy of Epoch Times upset by claim that China was behind virus</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://thenarwhal.ca/8-environmental-responsibilities-albertas-oil-and-gas-companies-skip-covid-coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR3YgxuKH9wOk6RKZwW513eT_q0oL-Tx2n0dbOJ7vr9vDuXi4JAA_7Z_jP4" target="_blank">8 environmental responsibilities Alberta’s oil and gas companies can skip because of coronavirus</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/04/29/Jason-Kenney-Media-Meltdown/?fbclid=IwAR1_uc9LQHNG4s8lRy7tLK2YKk3G8hwmOCjVL8mxNpzQMC9PqbwscMKcBnQ" target="_blank">Jason Kenney’s Media Meltdown</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/disaster-capitalism-at-work-in-manitoba?fbclid=IwAR1YiKkYzY1W5p_U_xomk_IUJbxTCQ4hTQ4k1ELmtefR963OKbdnsVxC9b8" target="_blank">Disaster Capitalism at Work in Manitoba</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/26/why-britains-25-billion-paper-coffee-cups-are-an-eco-disaster?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR0cIYVi921L47gBZH-h3u0tM9l1-jm22FQjb6VzR7_nYza7nL8agWUWGmQ" target="_blank">Why Britain’s 2.5 billion paper coffee cups are an eco disaster</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/27/halt-destruction-nature-worse-pandemics-top-scientists?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR1clledcaO9857YetD8cly-gx7La2His3F6JNc9Wb9Pce3JQxSjPDQlieI" target="_blank">Halt destruction of nature or suffer even worse pandemics, say world’s top scientists</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/23/insect-numbers-down-25-since-1990-global-study-finds?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR28xFr2yLr3EF-kkpb7axwSm1prDBuxqLKlP0OU_WPXm52AqmPA9yP2WnM" target="_blank">Insect numbers down 25% since 1990, global study finds</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://redflag.org.au/node/7163?fbclid=IwAR1TSCssyv-1-IGlCibCH85GQ7U7OF_AylsddMKINg3_HM7D3CH7SBr-5ew" target="_blank">Rosa Luxemburg warned us against national unity</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://theleftchapter.blogspot.com/2020/05/proletarian-comrades-it-is-necessary-to.html?fbclid=IwAR1d9or07vXxUQrSiVJIvUaJ4yBRc_DBfNuhk5VCOmbw5sClynUPaC9v-vk" target="_blank">Proletarian comrades: It is necessary to organize and fight -- May Day statements from around the world</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>- <a href="https://www.newagebd.net/article/105523/may-day-observed-with-call-for-fair-wage-end-to-job-cut-lay-off" target="_blank">May Day observed with call for fair wage, end to job cut, lay off </a>(Bangladesh)</b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://theleftchapter.blogspot.com/2020/04/seriouslyfuck-capitalism-may-day.html?fbclid=IwAR1nt1WYPTteKhpq4N5r_NRhLJ4stYgwx1zHRs8JTqdGU8FYwJU2zeuNgMo" target="_blank">Seriously...fuck capitalism -- A May Day message from The Left Chapter</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="http://communist-party.ca/may-day-2020-mass-struggle-for-a-peoples-recovery/?fbclid=IwAR3MbiFefzgclIzBHKdZXXckWWKVCkbck0CjBO57fDXnSPCwW5M6KFbuswQ" target="_blank">MAY DAY 2020: MASS STRUGGLE FOR A PEOPLE’S RECOVERY</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://local12.com/news/nation-world/virus-worries-haunt-workers-demanding-rights-on-may-day?fbclid=IwAR0rthMrizsk53JrabDovc83c3hSbzRuIUkiV41w4u7cPgTAWQnK2I92_iE" target="_blank">Virus worries haunt workers demanding rights on May Day</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.themastonline.com/2020/05/01/change-must-come-mmembe/?fbclid=IwAR0zyq66V4vasLSwp4WmqLGQmfV1IJrygjk7fTLQNAppPgoDmZv2aZ4qFd8" target="_blank">CHANGE MUST COME – M’MEMBE</a> (Zambia) </b><br />
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<b><u>Israel / Palestine:</u></b><br />
<b><u><br /></u></b><b>- <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-trump-s-ok-on-israeli-annexation-is-like-his-clorox-prescription-toxic-and-lethal-1.8807705?fbclid=IwAR3zicWxRPDo8WMiMG7l1uXf8nu27FA-Ixe0IeK0QXZU_3VwsPS2qaaEDqY" target="_blank">Trump’s OK on Israeli Annexation Is Like His Clorox Prescription: Toxic and Lethal</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/arab-league-defines-west-bank-annexation-as-war-crime-20200430-0010.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR2obmaaNNS9q7fB1CUhjv8fL92ysoiugxa9o3UucqwEwgM6sqFKI0L4yb4" target="_blank">Arab League Defines West Bank Annexation as "War Crime"</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="http://maki.org.il/en/?p=22815&fbclid=IwAR2dMJc1sUp__u1f6H99lupYYBOWMrdCajCbJJwcAw2fQmV5SZfnl1clAg0" target="_blank">B’Tselem Reports: Amid COVID-19 Emergency, Settler Violence Spikes</a></b><br />
<b><u><br /></u></b><b><u>Latin America:</u></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Social-Leader-Killed-in-Colombia-84-so-Far-in-2020-20200502-0006.html" target="_blank">Social Leader Killed in Colombia, 84 so Far in 2020</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Guatemalans-Stage-a-Funeral-Procession-to-Protest-20200429-0001.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR3pS9daUm3LPP4dR4_TiwCxBx7N7pVEsMDYjktJw6bT-UwQ4ALCkRzIjlw" target="_blank">Guatemalans Stage a Funeral Procession to Protest</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Chilean-Police-Violently-Repress-Protesters-in-Santiago-20200427-0016.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR1mYUnl9vf_o2izBuHk22xgeR4AnnLAN8QDl6oX8mp_IrNjQRFHvyejLzg" target="_blank">Chilean Police Violently Repress Protesters in Santiago</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/bolivia-evo-morales--concerns-over-anezs-lack-of-scientific-advice--20200427-0009.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR2pFenNKXD9-qketWnEoro3HcTlTq9wQhey68b-VCk8JyXzjQ2pD2Z1cI8" target="_blank">Evo Morales Concerned Over Añez's Lack of Scientific Advisory</a></b><br />
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<b><u>United States:</u></b><br />
<b><u><br /></u></b><b>- <a href="https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/joe-biden-rape-culture-on-the-left?utm_content=buffer61efe&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwAR3F8WqYoJL2NR7Spm7NGVi3K6426Y9NF4zfMGCIUQWc-ILbwSYTNWuSxi4" target="_blank">Joe Biden Has Been Accused of Rape. Now What?</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2020/4/donald-trump-joe-biden-sexual-assault-allegations?fbclid=IwAR1tDV9ZLlWtDWbjcSICKgavqEL-6mC3poT-Upb4aZXTBUtsm_QlHpwio_M" target="_blank">The Democrats Seem Just Fine With Joe Biden’s Sexual Assault Allegations</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/former-neighbor-corroborates-joe-bidens-accuser-2020-4?fbclid=IwAR2mMkGzKlRJJtFFUjGbC0OGSn4Ef99fDPBip3L6wUObqnqThpDLIS6wqtg" target="_blank">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</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/28/demand-grows-biden-address-tara-reade-allegations-democrats-wrestle-metoo-hypocrisy?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1LzfaY94sIIx-D0RaGRleV8rlkKRNAPzsxY6UJpcmee7meqVjdAmuAxwk" target="_blank">Demand Grows for Biden to Address Tara Reade Allegations as Democrats Wrestle With #MeToo Hypocrisy</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/26/donald-trump-xenophobia-re-election-campaign-2020?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR32t0VHqtYae6BMcnhd4v7AjKQ0W-z8iYeZKwZ21Ll_9-d7igDLfWkUzVI" target="_blank">Donald Trump set to fall back on xenophobia with re-election plan in tatters</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/US-Unemployment-Applications-Reach-26.4-Million-Amid-Pandemic-20200423-0011.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR3h8WDrs14LaNuDThGcuyap8uZE2LRYPhjL81AJeXsTf20EUgacmmPbf7M" target="_blank">US Unemployment Applications Reach 26.4 Million Amid Pandemic</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/if-a-budding-socialist-movement-can-defeat-amazon-imagine-what-else-it-can-do/?utm_campaign=Truthout+Share+Buttons&fbclid=IwAR1At19jdPxr5kzvfKqb5vYu1yC_vUHtIjVsD6dYeb7IgvvDBsMUk7PEad4" target="_blank">If a Budding Socialist Movement Can Defeat Amazon, Imagine What Else It Can Do</a></b><br />
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<b><u>Venezuela:</u></b><br />
<b><u><br /></u></b><b>- <a href="http://communist-party.ca/hands-off-venezuela/?fbclid=IwAR2mGtfUhv5_YHIq7uiUPWQcQiTq4sJ0lf0RmX2-Xn469RqQeZLW2NnWLZ8" target="_blank">HANDS OFF VENEZUELA</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/14857" target="_blank">US to Mobilize Military Reservists in ‘Anti-Drug’ Operation Against Venezuela</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/14859?fbclid=IwAR0vtbskqhjK4tTSjRO6PBADLHGlw4yjjWF7SFwMcT5CqqiUT2bALM5g4TU" target="_blank">Former US Special Ops Soldier Led Plot to Invade Venezuela: Sources</a></b><br />
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<b><u>Vietnam:</u></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://en.nhandan.com.vn/politics/domestic/item/8622802-party-state-leaders-pay-tribute-to-uncle-ho-on-national-reunification-day.html?fbclid=IwAR1wJ2pBWsky0OGHD1CG5Bg8meq_mZP_F0u-i-h1LJNdgc8iQJcbGDKmxTM" target="_blank">Party, State leaders pay tribute to Uncle Ho on National Reunification Day</a></b><br />
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<b>- <a href="https://en.nhandan.com.vn/politics/editorial/item/8622702-promoting-the-spirit-of-the-great-spring-victory-of-1975-in-the-new-period.html?fbclid=IwAR3HSiNto64gybh-zgqfaCEUyycXmzIvJkOVFrRqDhsRMJ6sI5PW42z58mo" target="_blank">Promoting the spirit of the Great Spring Victory of 1975 in the new period</a></b><br />
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On International Workers' Day, May 1st, we look at excerpts from statements of Communist and Workers' parties from around the world.<br />
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From Mexico, Ireland, Austria, Canada, Greece, India, Spain and a joint statement by 39 parties let working class internationalism and solidarity be reflected and strengthened. <br />
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Workers of All Countries Unite!<br />
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<b>Socialism or Barbarism: <a href="http://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Mexico-Saludo-del-Partido-Comunista-de-Mexico-a-la-clase-obrera-por-el-Primero-de-Mayo/" target="_blank">Salute of the Communist Party of Mexico to the working class for May Day</a></b><br />
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The owners of capital say they support workers: Bullshit! And those parasites know it. Your money alone, saved, does not make a profit. Salaried work is essential to increase profits.<br />
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Essential is the oil worker, the electrician, the industrial worker, the construction worker, the stevedore or the courier. Essential is the miner, the education and health worker, the dispatcher. Essential are migrant workers, working women, young workers. Essential is the proletariat, and the bourgeoisie is superfluous: while nothing moves without the strength of the worker, while profit is not created without the exploitation of wage labor, the bourgeoisie is superfluous, because factories, industry can function without it.<br />
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And on top of that they ask us for more sacrifices, to bow our heads to the measures that the bourgeoisie and its administrative board take against us. With the fiction of national unity they want to subdue us, so that we tighten our belts more, that we do not protest, that we do not rebel.<br />
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Proletarian comrades:<br />
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It is necessary to organize and fight. The Communist Party of Mexico, a party of the working class, ready to fight in all conditions, calls on you to raise your fist, keep it up for the new battles that are coming, to face the aggressive measures that the capitalists are preparing against us. Capitalism is in the process of a new and deep economic crisis of overproduction and over-accumulation, the coming times will be of more struggle. We call for strengthening with a class orientation the unions and accentuating the worker-employer conflict, the class against class clash, to face the wave of dismissals that is already underway, the rising cost of living, etc. Above all we call on you to conquer the new world of workers' power and socialism-communism.<br />
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Proletarians of all countries, unite!<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Ireland-May-Day-message-Ireland/" target="_blank">May Day message, Eugene McCartan, General Secretary, Communist Party of Ireland</a></b><br />
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The capitalist system is in crisis and is headed into a global depression as hundreds of millions of workers have been sacked, leaving many without any means to support themselves and their families, while at the same time a handful of individuals own more wealth than half the world’s population. This injustice can no longer be tolerated.<br />
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As never before, workers must organise to defend and advance our own interests. We cannot go on with “business as usual.” There must be no going back to “normal.” The political establishment, their ideas and institutions are bankrupt. We also know from experience that the ruling classes here in Ireland and around the world will attempt to make us pay a heavy price for the growing and deepening structural crisis of this failing capitalist system. We need to resist them at every stage and at every opportunity.<br />
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The time has long past for patching up this inhuman and decaying system. It is time for real. radical change—time to end the destruction of our planet and the impoverishment of itspeople, time to end the capitalists’ booms and busts, time to end global imperialist wars. It is now time for the interests of workers, peasants, the poor and oppressed to come first and a time for unity between women, men and youth, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, or sexual orientation. It’s time for workers’ interests to be first and foremost in economic and political decision-making and to end once and for all the exploitation of man by man.<br />
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Workers of all countries, unite!<br />
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We have nothing to lose but our chains, and a world to win!<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.solidnet.org/article/Party-of-Labour-of-Austria-Labour-Day-2020/" target="_blank">Party of Labour of Austria, Labour Day 2020</a></b><br />
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The government, instead of funding the public health system, is taking billions to subsidise capitalist companies and corporations - in fact, on a particularly large scale at present. The working class -whether in employment, part time or unemployed - must continue, and even more so, to live on alms. Those who remain working all the time despite the crisis - in supermarkets, for example - are massively strained and notoriously badly paid. Ridiculous "bonus payments", hypocritical expressions of gratitude by politicians and public applause will not change this. Even the health protection of working people is obviously of no value to the government and capital, because in many industrial companies or in the construction industry work must continue as usual. Disease is a class issue under capitalism. The fact that unemployment figures are exploding and reaching an all-time high cannot be prevented given precarious work model - nor should it: it exists to support the capitalist entrepreneurs, not the workers.<br />
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The government knows very well why it must support capital. Because with and after the epidemic comes the economic crisis - on a scale never seen before. As a regularity of the fundamentally flawed capitalist economic cycle, the crisis would have been inevitable anyway, but the epidemic and its accompanying conditions are accelerating and exacerbating the development. Of course, the government and capital will try to shift the burden of the crisis back onto the working class. There will be new "austerity agendas", which will once again affect the social system, pensions, education and - of course - health care. There will be wage losses and the destruction of jobs. For capital, this is just a purification process. For the working class, it means increased insecurity of existence, unemployment, the risk of poverty. The government will lie to us again, it will argue that it was about general necessities and that we must now stick together. In reality, the capitalist losses will be socialised again - on the back of the working class - just as all profits are privatised in times of favourable economic conditions.<br />
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Capitalists and workers have no common interests, either in or outside the crisis. The workers can always work, even without a capitalist owner, but the capitalist cannot exist without exploiting human labour. Therefore, it is obvious what would actually save expenses: economizing the capitalist, because he does not work, but consumes and rakes in most of the wealth produced by the workers; he is useless, unproductive and parasitic in society. The workers do not need him. They may just as well - and better - be themselves joint social owners of the means of production, of factories and plants, of machines and tools, of land. With the difference that they would then be free from exploitation and would no longer have to feed the capitalists and unproductive rich. The money for their profits and luxury life would be available for better things. The workers as owners would have the financial and material resources and the political decision-making power to achieve prosperity for all through fair wages, adequate housing, secure pensions, sufficient leisure time and a comprehensive health system. And they would be able to eliminate future crises from economic life through planned production and distribution based on actual needs. Such a system is called socialism.<br />
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<b><a href="https://inter.kke.gr/en/articles/Message-of-the-CC-of-the-KKE-on-Workers-May-Day/" target="_blank">Message of the CC of the KKE (Greece) on Workers’ May Day</a></b><br />
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The only path for the working people to not pay for the crisis is the road of struggle and workers’ power.<br />
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The coronavirus will be cured and the pandemic will end, just as others did in the past. Capitalism, however, is incurable and will continue to torture humankind, with poverty, unemployment, wars, the destruction of the environment, until the peoples decide to lead the way in the developments.<br />
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Today’s system can only be overthrown and replaced by a superior social system, socialism – communism, where social ownership of the means of production with workers’ power, scientific central planning for the satisfaction of people’s needs, workers’ control of all the administrative organs and participation in all the organs of power, from the bottom to the top, can lead to prosperity for the people, to peace and the progress of humankind.<br />
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Workers’ May Day symbolizes the invincible battle against the class enemy. This is the precious legacy of our time. With this weapon in our hands and in our thoughts, we honor Workers’ May Day, the dead workers of Chicago in 1886, the tobacco workers of Thessaloniki in ‘36, the 200 executed communists in Kaisariani May 1st 1944, all those who remain unflinching in the class struggle, all those who were sacrificed for a society without exploitation of man by man.<br />
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We continue on this path, for the satisfaction of all of the modern social – popular needs.<br />
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PROLETARIAT OF THE WORLD UNITE!<br />
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<b><a href="http://communist-party.ca/may-day-2020-mass-struggle-for-a-peoples-recovery/?fbclid=IwAR3oef7J54_R1q3yQ6pJ7Ie8zKJBsZ9pPa5W8de3bBPqKulBiH75Z_kwels" target="_blank">MAY DAY 2020: MASS STRUGGLE FOR A PEOPLE’S RECOVERY- Communist Party of Canada</a></b><br />
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The labour and people’s movements must not accept the corporate prescription for recovery, which will include permanent mass unemployment, falling wages and living standards and more austerity to pay for the corporate bailouts today. The corporate prescription could also very well include militarism and war as a way for corporations to recover their profits. This was how the capitalist countries pulled themselves out previous depressions – and the Great Depression, with massive profits in war production. We are seeing a further rise of ultra-right and fascist ideologies, nationalism, and chauvinism, which were on the march even before this crisis. This has happened before, when capitalist countries pulled themselves out of the Great Depression with massive profits in war production.<br />
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The labour and people’s movements must build a powerful united struggle for a people’s recovery based on full employment policies, rising wages and living standards, and expanded social programs and public services. Spending on NATO and militarism should be redirected to civilian spending, to fight the pandemic with all of the resources we can muster, and to build a strong and expanded healthcare system that includes long-term care, pharmacare, dental, vision and mental health care. These funds should be used for free quality post-secondary education, for free quality public childcare, for good jobs and higher wages, pension and living standards for all. We need to build an economy based on sustainable manufacturing and renewable energy, action on climate change and environmental justice. We need peace and an end to racism, exploitation, and oppression. We need to unite for fundamental social change. For socialism.<br />
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The coming depression, and the pandemic that triggered it, changes everything. Seven million unemployed and counting changes everything. <br />
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The labour and peoples’ movements are at a crossroads: people before profit. Or profit before people. <br />
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We’re all in this together, but we won’t all get through this, without a mass struggle led by labour and its allies for a people’s recovery. <br />
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This May Day, it’s the unity of the labour movement in the fight to defend workers’ jobs and living standards, and oppose imperialist wars and catastrophic climate change, that will make all the difference.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-the-Workers-of-Spain-PCTE-Manifest-on-1st-of-May/" target="_blank">Communist Party of the Workers of Spain, 1st of May Manifesto</a></b><br />
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The Government, the capitalist parties and the employers wants us behind the interests of the Spanish bourgeoisie with discipline for the future to come. They want us to defend the interests of the employers instead of fighting for our own interests.<br />
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Our answer is absolutely NO. Our answer is that a country where the primary interests are the ones of those who produce all the social wealth with their job – and not their exploiters’ – can and must be built.<br />
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Therefore, in this 1st of May, we openly say that the PCTE wants to build a country for the working class.<br />
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This new country will not be built by itself. This new country will not be born if there is no organized and rising struggle against capitalists and their governments. This new country will not be born if there are not millions of workers who want to put an end to the exploitation and who, recognizing themselves as the only essential class, want to take over their own future.<br />
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The struggles that the class will wage in the immediate future will be decisive.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-India-CPI-General-Secretary-D-Raja-Writes-to-Party-Cadres-on-the-Occasion-of-May-Day/" target="_blank">Communist Party of Iindia General Secretary D, Raja Writes to Party Cadres on the Occasion of May Day</a></b><br />
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Marx and Engels in Communist Manifesto pointed out that “…the history of hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles…”. They also pointed out that “…every class struggle is political struggle”.<br />
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The world capitalism is sick and sinking into further deep crisis. Instead of spending on public health, education and social infrastructure, there is competitive spending on military and war equipment. The report released by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute reveals that India is third biggest military spender, first and second being the US and China. This raises the question of alternative in the interest of peace and development of the world. Socialism is the only alternative. But there is lure for fascism and neo-fascism. This trend is encouraged by the corporate capitalists.<br />
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This situation demands that working people will have to emerge as a force which can bring a real change. As the Manifesto makes the clarion call that “let the ruling classes tremble at a communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win”.<br />
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On this May Day, while saluting the working people for their revolutionary historic role, the CPI hails this May Day to renew our pledge to fight for Socialism, a society free from exploitation, injustice and all forms of discriminations.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.solidnet.org/article/Kurdistan-Communist-Party-Iraq-Statement-of-Communist-and-Workers-Parties-On-the-occasion-of-the-first-of-May-the-International-Labor-Day/" target="_blank">Statement of Communist and Workers' Parties On the occasion of the first of May the International Labor Day - Signed by 39 parties</a></b><br />
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Millions of workers have lost their jobs, and labor rights are abolished, thousands of workers, especially the elderly are at risk of losing their lives, and health systems are powerless in the face of this epidemic, the world economy is in big crisis, while the capitalist governments helps the large monopolistic capitalist firms by giving trillions dollars to their companies to protect Capitalism systems, and leaves millions who are suffering from poverty, unemployment and marginalization<br />
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The new global crisis is not a result of Covid19 epidemic. We as the Communist and Workers' parties estimate that this crisis is the result of the insurmountable contradictions of the exploitative system, while the emergence of Covid19 epidemic emphasizes the class character of the anti-popular policy of bourgeois governments and Capitalist market economy which neglected policies that serve health and the environment and scientific research.<br />
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In this new situation we fight as communist and labor parties in our countries against dictatorships, the extreme right, the new fascism and in general capitalist regimes that exploit the working class and other popular strata. We are fighting against the imperialist plans and interventions of the USA, NATO, the EU and their allies. At the same time, we are fighting together for socialism which will establish real development, which will serve the people's needs and the cause of peace, will abolish the exploitation of man by man.<br />
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Capitalism is not the end of history, and the communist and workers' parties seek to coordinate the international struggle to overthrow it.<br />
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The struggle for peace, workers' rights, saving the environment, public health protection, ending of poverty and unemployment needs workers' power, Socialism, and the joint struggle of the Communist and Workers' parties, of the working class and the peoples.<br />
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The first day of May the International Labor Day remains to motive our fight for socialism which is the bright future of humanity.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305888946584866654.post-8386367417983885052020-05-01T08:04:00.000-07:002020-05-01T08:04:26.619-07:00May Day Words of Ernesto Che Guevara, 1963<br />
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<b>Cuban May Day Poster, 1973</b></div>
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Our path is not simple; it is full of danger and difficulties. Imperialism is lying in wait at every bend of the road, hoping for a moment of weakness in order to launch itself against us; the reactionaries of all America are waiting to publish with joy even our own official acknowledgements of our errors.<br />
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Fundamentally they are trying to show America and the whole world that if a small country such as ours, without industries, without technological development, tries to make a revolution, it is bound to fail. And they use information and tricks, and also saboteurs and divisionists, to hold back our development.<br />
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We cannot allow ourselves one moment of weakness. Not now, when we are directly under the visual inspection of our guests, nor at any time; for in each minute of our country's life we are under the eager inspection of all the peoples of America, who see in us a new hope of salvation, a new hope of redeeming themselves from their chains.<br />
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Let us show them the realities of the road we have taken, compañeros! Let us show them that not only are we capable of the dangerous task of confronting, almost unarmed at one time, the armed force of the oligarchy; of developing our popular armies by capturing arms from the enemy, of confronting them on the field of battle, and of catalysing the consciousness of the entire people of Cuba so as to convert them into a great vanguard army to destroy the dictatorship! Let us show that we are not only capable of preparing our whole people to stand as one, to launch our war cry, our defiant shout, which we all know; let us show also, compañeros, that we are capable of triumphing in this long, tiring, terrible struggle, in which we are being obstructed in the building of socialism by an imperialist blockade.<br />
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In the face of all the dangers, the threats and aggressions, the blockades, the sabotage, all the divisionists, all those powers who try to restrain us, we must show once more our people's capacity to make their own history.<br />
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We must all be united, compañeros, firm in our faith, firmer than ever today, though perhaps not so firm as we shall be tomorrow, to go forward always with our eyes on the future, with our feet on the ground, building each step, and making sure of each step we take, so that we will never give up one inch of what we have won, of what we have built, of what is ours: socialism!<br />
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Our Country or Death! We Shall Win! - Ernesto Che Guevara, Excerpt from his May Day Speech, April 30, 1963<br />
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For more on the ongoing criminal imperialist blockade of Cuba and other countries see:<br />
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<b><a href="http://theleftchapter.blogspot.com/2020/04/blockade-no-solidarity-yes-us.html" target="_blank">Blockade No, Solidarity Yes! US imperialist sanctions need to end</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://theleftchapter.blogspot.com/2020/03/canadians-need-to-demand-immediate-end.html" target="_blank">Canadians need to demand an immediate end to criminal imperialist sanctions</a></b><br />
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