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

This week's list of articles, news items, visuals and opinion pieces that I see as a must if you are looking for a roundup that should be of interest to The Left Chapter readers.

This list covers the week of  March 15 - 22.

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

Featured Article:

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

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


Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis and the Worker Fightback:

- Panic buying and hoarding are a function of capitalism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- BioCubaFarma Guarantees Production of Drugs for COVID-19

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




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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Don't Demonize China! A Report from Chongqing

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

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

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

- Game Over for Kenney

- The Other Emergency Is Crashing Oil Prices

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

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

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

- Detroit Bus Drivers Win Protections Against Virus Through Strike

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Israel stops providing cleaning products to Palestine detainees

- Gaza confirms first coronavirus cases as West Bank shuts down

- A coronavirus coup in broad daylight (Israel)

- Guatemala Suspends All US Deportation Flights Over COVID-19

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

- Four senators sold stocks before coronavirus threat crashed market

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

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

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

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

- Coronavirus: Calls to suspend rent in Toronto get louder

- TORONTO: KEEP YOUR RENT (April 1)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Chickens coming home to roost in austerity Ontario

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

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

Bolivia:

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

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

- Morales pick leads in Bolivia opinion polls

Brazil:

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

Canada:

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

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

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

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

India:

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

Israel / Palestine:

- Bibi Boi -- Hellworld #6

- Maiming Palestinians for Sport is a War Crime

United States:

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

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

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

Empty streets midday in Washington DC Friday

This week's list of articles, news items, visuals and opinion pieces that I see as a must if you are looking for a roundup that should be of interest to The Left Chapter readers.

This list covers the week of  March 8 - 15.

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

Featured Article:

America Is a Sham

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

Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis

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

- Panic buying and hoarding are a function of capitalism

- Coronavirus highlights gap between socialist and capitalist responses

- “Flattening the Curve” is a deadly delusion

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

- Coronavirus: 8 demands we should make on the government

- No, the coronavirus is not good for the climate

- Plague Watch USA -- Hellworld #5

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

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

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

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

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

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

- The Dismantled State Takes on a Pandemic

- Trump to Declare National Emergency to Speed Virus Response

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

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

- Republicans Tried to Sneak Abortion Restrictions into the Coronavirus Bill

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

- The Coronavirus Is Jump-Starting Union Organizing at Delta

- Alex Jones accused of selling fake coronavirus cures

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

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

- Mexico Considers Limiting Entries From US To Slow Coronavirus

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

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




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

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

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

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

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

- Spain to declare state of emergency over virus outbreak

- The entire country of Norway is 'shutting down'

- New Coronavirus and Measures That Latin America Govts Have Taken

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Arms show announces intention to proceed despite coronavirus pandemic

Asia:

- Families of missing persons in Sri Lanka demand justice

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

Bolivia:

- Bolivia: Parliament Censors Jeanine Áñez's Allies Minister

- Feminists travel to Bolivia in solidarity against the coup

Brazil:

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

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

- Brazil Requests Impeachment for Jair Bolsonaro

Canada:

- Green Party leadership contender courts 'disgruntled' NDPers

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

- TRUDEAU’S CHOICE TO SUPPORT WAR CRIMES

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

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

- ALBERTA LABOUR PUSHES BACK AGAINST KENNEY CUTS

Chile:

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

- Chile: Police Attack Protesters Demanding Piñera's Resignation

- Chile Denounces Government Repression During Feminist Strike

Climate Emergency:

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

Cuba:

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

Ecuador:

- Ecuador: Citizens Reject Economic Decisions to Please the IMF

- Ecuadorians reject Moreno’s new austerity measures

Europe:

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

- Housing workers explain reality to idiot Boris Johnson

Guyana:

- CARICOM Team to Oversee Recount of Guyana Elections

Feminsim / Women's Issues:

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

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

Israel / Palestine:

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

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

- Israel demolishes Palestinian Bedouin village for 176th time

- Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Teenager in West Bank

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

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

Mexico:

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

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

United States:

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

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

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

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

- How settler colonialism affects Hawaiʻi

- Operation Condor: The CIA is not innocent

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

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

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

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

Venezuela:

- Bachelet is “Morally Incapable” of Talking About Venezuela

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

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

- US, Colombia, Brazil Hold Alliance to Attack Venezuela

Wet'suwet'en:


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

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

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

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

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



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

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

Israeli Election, Democratic Primaries, the Coronavirus & more -- The Week in News and Opinion March 1 - 8

A supporter wearing a Netanyahu mask on election night in Israel

This week's list of articles, news items, visuals and opinion pieces that I see as a must if you are looking for a roundup that should be of interest to The Left Chapter readers.

This list covers the week of  March 1 - 8.

The round-up of international left news is presented in sections related to topic/region listed alphabetically except for the Featured Article post at the start.

Featured Article:

Police union says cops can’t do their job without beating up Black people

The police have shown us who they are, if we ever had any doubts. They are not interested in healing from racial profiling, in working with the Black community, or in changing police culture. And they made sure to leak this email so that the public knows it. If our officials continue to refuse to hold the police accountable while giving them more and more resources to be used in their “job” of unchecked violence against us, then they are also letting us know who they are.


This email lays it all bare. It is past time to do something about it.

Brazil:

- Brazil: Left-Wing Parties Unite Against Bolsonaro's Gov't

- Brazil: Protest in Sao Paulo Against Pension Reform

Canada:

- How the Trudeau government is failing the world's most vulnerable despite its 'feminist' aid policy

- Women, children turned away from shelters in Canada almost 19,000 times a month

- No compensation for parents of First Nations children that died in care, Justice lawyer tells tribunal

- Doug Ford gives reconciliation the shaft

- ‘Bait and Switch’: Doug Ford’s New Numbers On Special Education Staff Funding Are Not Adding Up

- Ontario backs down on increasing class sizes, e-learning in teacher negotiations

- Haligonians protest police brutality on Halifax Regional Police's doorstep

- Sask. RCMP member under investigation after post joking about machine-gunning protesters

- RCMP denied using facial recognition technology - then said it had been using it for months

- Alberta government to close, privatize campgrounds

- Challenging Alberta’s Austerity

- Buffalo Declaration a 'clear display of ignorance,' says Alberta treaty nation

- Foodora couriers are now dependent contractors—that's a problem for Big Tech

Chile:

- 'Our role is central': more than 1m Chilean women to march in huge protest

- Chile: Total Arrests Rise to 283 After Day of Protests

Climate Emergency:

- The Earth System and the capitalist system are incompatible

- Tropical forests losing their ability to absorb carbon, study finds

- 'Devastating': Great Barrier Reef in Danger of Catastrophic Bleaching as Temperatures in Australia Remain High

- FOSSIL CORALS SUGGEST A MASS EXTINCTION IS ON THE WAY: 'IT'S LIKE A SLOW-MOTION CAR CRASH'

Colombia:


Scenes from Colombia where student protesters clashed with the riot police.

Students took to the streets to resist neoliberal education policies and violent police repression of protests by Ivan Duque's right-wing government.



Coronavirus:

- Coronavirus Alarm Blends Yellow Peril and Red Scare

- Exclusive: The Strongest Evidence Yet That America Is Botching Coronavirus Testing

- The Official Coronavirus Numbers Are Wrong, and Everyone Knows It

- America is about to get a godawful lesson in why health care should never be a for-profit business

Democratic Primary:

- 'What More Do You Need to Know?' Health Insurance Stocks Drive Wall Street Rebound on Biden Super Tuesday Wins

- The Case Against Joe Biden: Former VP’s Long Career Shows a Recurring Theme of “Appeasing the Right”

- Elizabeth Warren ends Democratic presidential campaign

- Mike Bloomberg quits 2020 race after spending more than $500m

- Super Tuesday fury as ‘thousands of voters’ in black and Latino neighbourhoods forced to queue for hours in Texas

- #WithTheseHands is Sanders' Super Tuesday, inspiring shot across the bow of American politics

- There Have Been 21 Debate Questions About Paying For Social Programs, Zero About Paying For War

Europe:

- Luxembourg becomes first country in world to provide free public transport

- Ukrainian communists warn Kiev planning a year of glorifying nazis

- VIKTOR ORBAN'S ANTI-ROMA CAMPAIGN IN HUNGARY IS BEING LEGITIMIZED BY TRUMP AND WESTERN LEADERS, ACTIVIST WARNS

Greek-Turkish Refugee Crisis:

- Refugees trapped on Greek-Turkish border attacked from both directions

- EU chief praises Greece as 'shield' of Europe after police attack refugees at border

- Two dead and hundreds more in distress as chaos ensues at Greece-Turkey border

- Refugee boats leaving Turkey for Greece attacked at sea

Guyana:

- No Winner Declared for Guyanese Elections Amid Court Hearing

- Guyana: Electoral Dispute to Continue in Court Amid Discontent

- Guyana: Ruling Party Claims Victory With Contested Data

India:

Delhi riots: Survivors tell their stories


In this ground report, we spoke to families that were displaced due to the mob violence during the anti-Muslim riots in Delhi, India. The families recall their horrifying tales of escaping from their homes as mobs set fire to everything they owned. Nearly 50 people lost their lives and countless people lost their livelihoods during the violence. Neither the Delhi state government or the Indian central government has done much to help these families.




- Inside Delhi: beaten, lynched and burnt alive

- Delhi Violence: India's Communist Party Holds Street March Demanding Top Court-Monitored Probe

International Women's Day / Feminism:

- International Women's Day: events highlighting gender inequality take place around the world

- Why the working-class, socialist history of International Women’s Day matters today

- Photos: Strong Latin American contingents feature at IWD marches across Australia

- 8M: Latin American women prepare for record feminist marches

- Bill Maher Goes Full Sexist, Defends Chris Matthews and Mocks His Sexual Harassment Accuser

- Universal Childcare Would Have Changed My Mom's Life

Israel / Palestine:

- Gazan Girl Fighting Cancer Died After Israel Denied Her Parents' Visit. She Won't Be the Last

- Israel arrests Palestinian man on the day of his release after 18-year sentence

- Israel lobby scores own goal as football charity stands by Ken Loach

- Israel election: Netanyahu begins coalition talks

- Israel Election Results: Netanyahu Reaps the Fruits of a Messianic, Racist and Nationalist Decade

- ‘An Earthquake’: How Israel’s Arabs Achieved Their Historic Election Win

- Celine Dion to perform on ethnically cleansed land

- Anti-Muslim bigots to address AIPAC

Mexico:

- Mexico Vows to End Violence Against Indigenous Women

Poland:

- International Communist and workers' parties rally against rightist persecution in Poland and Europe

- Stop the falsification of history and persecution in Poland!

- Young Communist League protests at Polish embassy over persecution of its comrades

Porn & Prostitution:

- ‘Sex work’: Why we are not buying it

South & Central America:

- Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan Priest, Poet and Revolutionary, Dies at 95

- Remembering the Heroism of Activist Berta Cáceres Four Years After Her Assassination: an Interview With Her Daughter

- Evo Morales: 'We'll Restore the Dignity of the Bolivian People'

- Venezuela: How grassroots solidarity is helping to break the US blockade

United Kingdom:

- Labour leadership: Rebecca Long-Bailey vows to rewrite party’s constitution to enshrine fight against climate emergency

- Sheikh’s daughter called UK police after kidnap, lawyer claims

United States:

- Barricades Go Up In Santa Cruz As UC Wide Wildcat Strike Expands Following Firings

- The 50-year fight by radical evangelicals that could end US abortion rights

- Children as young as eight picked coffee beans on farms supplying Starbucks

- Target raised wages. Then it cut workers' hours and doubled their workload

- Alabama to execute Nathaniel Woods on Thursday despite questions about his culpability in killing of 3 police officers

Wet'suwet'en:

- Solicitor General Mike Farnworth authorized redeploying RCMP resources in response to Coastal GasLink's injunction

- Turns out the BC NDP government authorized the RCMP attack into Wet'suwet'en after all

- Ecosocialists and UBCIC demand Mike Farnworth's resignation for authorizing RCMP's massive show of force

- First Nation deal won’t stop pipeline, Horgan says

- What If We’d Gone Hard for Treaties Instead of Fossil Fuels?

- Groups linked to oil companies funded Facebook ads denouncing the rail blockades

- Mohawks face online threats, hate as protest continues

- The blockades no one talks about devastate Indigenous economies

Zambia:

- Capitalism to blame for chaos in Zambia, says Musumali