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

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

This list covers the week of  April 12 - 18.

This week's edition begins again with a very large roundup of news and left opinion about the capitalist coronavirus crisis and its impact on working people globally. There are also a number of links related to Cuba's internationalism and global solidarity with the island nation, Bernie Sanders' capitulation to Biden and the leak of a report showing that right-wing Labour Party insiders actually worked to tank the party in the 2017 election campaign. 

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

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


Featured Post:

Older and Wiser, and Vote-Shaming

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


Otherwise, STFU have a good day.

Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis:

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

- Only socialism saves!

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

- Could Covid-19 vanquish neoliberalism?

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

- I Want My Death to Make You Angry

- Baffled?? Me Too,Friend!

- THE CASE FOR RENT FORGIVENESS

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

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

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

- Is the cruise industry finally out of its depth?

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

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

- Cuba shares what it has

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

- Cuba Is Developing a Vaccine to Activate the Immune System

- Cuban Doctors Arrive in Qatar to Fight COVID-19

- Caribbean Organizations Unite Against US Attacks, Support Caricom

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

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

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

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

- Settler attacks rise by 78 percent amid pandemic

- Israel Shuts Palestinian Coronavirus Testing Clinic in East Jerusalem

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

- Venezuela Has the Lowest Contagion Rate in Latin America

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

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

- Colombia: Red Rags on Windows to Protest Amid Quarantine

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

- Brazil: Chloroquine Studies Suspended After 11 People Die

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Great, the Anti-Vaxxer Coronavirus Protests Are Here

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bolivia:

- Bolivia Indigenous Denounce Añez for Discrimination

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

Brazil:

- Brazil: Indigenous Peoples Go to Court Against Missionaries

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

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

- Bolsonaro Closes Brazil's Embassy and Consulates in Venezuela

Canada:

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Alberta Government Turns Hard to the Right

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

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

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

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

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

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

Climate Emergency:

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

- Planned obsolescence: the outrage of our electronic waste mountain

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

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

Europe:

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

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

- Communist youth in Italy launch campaign to guarantee student rights

Facebook:

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

Ideas:

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

Israel / Palestine:

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

Latin America:

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

- Guatemala: Social Organizations Denounce Massive Layoffs

- Cuba: Institutions Work Together to Protect the Elderly

Mexico:

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

United Kingdom:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

United States:

- Bernie go Bye Bye -- Hellworld #8

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

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

- Bernie’s Political Funeral 

- Not Me, Biden

- ‘THAT MAN CAN’T BREATHE’

- US judge cancels permit for Keystone XL pipeline from Canada

- These Photos Show the Staggering Food Bank Lines Across America

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

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

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

Racism in Canada, the Waffle, Transit Fare Policing & more -- December and January on The Left Chapter in review

December and January saw 113 posts of various kinds on The Left Chapter.

These included new installments of our vintage photography posts like Hero City of Moscow, 1968 -- 14 Postcard Images. We also had a contemporary photography post with The City in a Photograph -- The Urban Photography of Patricia Lochwin.

There were several posts related to socialist history such as The CPSU: Stages of History, December 1980 w. Photos as well as our ongoing Daily LIFT posts like Vasily Zaitsev instructs other Soviet snipers, Stalingrad, 1942 -- Daily LIFT #72

This year there were two of our always popular music roundups, one of which nearly made the top six list. The Top Fifty Songs of the Decade ft. Hurray for the Riff Raff, Janelle Monáe, Arcade Fire, Beyoncé & more and The 20 Best Songs of 2019 ft. Brittany Howard, Kesha, William Prince, The Highwomen & more!. 

Our top food related post (in terms of hits) was: Crispy Pan Roasted Parmesan Chicken.

There were our annual reviews with Fare Evasion Frauds, NDP Debacles, Racism in Canada & more -- 2019 on The Left Chapter in review and Pam's Roti, Hot Italian Sausages, Golden Cook Caribbean & more -- The Top 5 Food Posts of 2019.

We also covered the RCMP blockade in posts like Victoria City Council declares solidarity with Wet’suwet’en People and Trudeau dodges, Horgan and Singh contort on Wet'suwet'en, the RCMP and UNDRIP as well as the open letter on our top six list.

Thanks very much to all our readers and contributors.

Two of the pieces on this top six list came from contributors so remember if you have an article, editorial, analysis, recipe or story you would like to contribute there are details on how to do so on our Submissions page as well as at the end of this post.

Without any further ado, here are the top six posts, in terms of hits, from December and January:

1) Canada has a racism problem and the fact so many Canadians think we don't is a part of it

Perhaps after an election where Justin Trudeau was exposed for having worn blackface on several occasions and yet not only was not forced to resign as Liberal leader but was ultimately reelected as Prime Minster (albeit with a minority) it should not come as a surprise that "49 per cent of Canadians don't think racism is a serious problem in the country".

Read more.

2) Fifty years later it is time to acknowledge the Waffle was wrong

As 2019 draws to close so too does the 50th anniversary of the birth of the socialist movement within in the NDP that became known as the Waffle.

Read more.

3) The policing of fare evasion reveals the twisted agenda of our politicians

What do you do in a city that is beset by terrible housing, social and transit issues due to decades of mismanagement and underfunding by politicians on all different levels of government?

Read more.

4) Singh disavows the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, shows NDP's true colours again

In a predictable and totally revealing turn of events, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh seems to have joined the ranks of politicians like Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Justin Trudeau and the leadership of Israel on the issue of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli apartheid.

Read more.

5) Open Letter to Jagmeet Singh regarding Trans Mountain, Site C and Coastal GasLink

By Matt Fodor

Dear Mr. Singh:


The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is calling for a suspension of the Trans Mountain pipeline, Site C and Coastal GasLink pipeline. These projects are going ahead without the free, prior and informed consent of Indigenous peoples. The UN committee has raised concern about the “forced removal, disproportionate use of force, harassment and intimidation” and “escalating use of force” against Indigenous peoples.

Read more.

6) A Holiday Nightmare

By Nathaniel Laxer

Boris Johnson has won.


Despite all of the lies, debased vitriol and stomach turning hypocrisy, despite it being a time in the United Kingdom of declining life expectancy, rising poverty and incredible distress, led by an anemic government of liars and cowards, he won.

Read more.

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See also: NDP Election Disaster, Canadian Foreign Policy Hypocrisy & more -- October and November on The Left Chapter in review

French Strikes, Climate Emergency, Venezuela, Cuba & more -- The Week in News, Opinion and Videos December 22 - 29

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

This list covers the week of  December 22 - 29.


We have changed the format of the round-up so that the links, videos and photos are presented in sections related to topic/region listed alphabetically.

Argentina:

- Argentina Defies the Americas' Crisis of Democracy

- “Water is worth more than gold”: Mendoza, Argentina rejects advance of extractive industry

- Argentina Suspends Amend to Mining Law Allowing Toxic Chemicals

Arts:

- “We’re Not Organizing the Poor, We’re the Poor Organizing”

- The Daily Show’s Rally to Restore Sanity Predicted a Decade of Liberal Futility

- Kelly Fraser, Juno-nominated Inuk singer-songwriter, dead at 26

- Hallmark movies are fascist propaganda

Bolivia:

The sister of Omar Calles, who was gunned down by the Añez regime's security forces, has strong words for her brother's killers as we stood by the shrine to the 11 victims a month after the massacre in Sacaba.



- Bolivian Free Territory of Chapare Ousted the Coup Regime, Braces for Bloody Re-invasion

- ‘I’ll be back’: Ousted leader Morales says his party will win elections, plans return to Bolivia

Canada:

- Accept Zaman's apology and fight the real anti-Semites

- Rana Zaman addresses accusations of antisemitism at rally in downtown Halifax

- 'We're everywhere now': Meet the homeless in Canada's largest city

- Calgarians gather to honour 123 people who died on city streets over past year

- Canada has a racism problem and the fact so many Canadians think we don't is a part of it

- Black man's arrest was unlawful and racially motivated, Quebec's police ethics committee rules

Chile:

- Chile: 6 Military Police Detained for Sexual Abuse in Protests

- Fernandez Questions International Silence Over Chilean Protests

- Chile Needs a Political Revolution

Climate Emergency:

- Moscow resorts to fake snow in warmest December since 1886

- RECORD HIT FOR MOST ICE TO MELT IN ANTARCTICA IN ONE DAY, DATA SUGGESTS: "WE ARE IN A CLIMATE EMERGENCY"

- Mozambique Is Racing To Adapt To Climate Change. The Weather Is Winning

- Nearly 500 million animals killed in Australian bushfires, experts fear

- Nearly four months of intense bush fires, Australian PM offers only an apology

- Cattle have stopped breeding, koalas die of thirst: A vet's hellish diary of climate change

- NSW poised to privatise state forests to raise $1bn for infrastructure projects

Colombia:

- Violence in Colombia Continues As Social Leader Assassinated

- Six social leaders assassinated in past week in Colombia

- Colombia Holds National Strike, Concert & Marches in Medellin

Cuba:

- United we have won! United we will win! -- Excerpts from Díaz-Canel's speech to the people of Cuba, December 21, 2019

- Cuba's New Prime Minister: Manuel Marrero Cruz

- Cuba to spend over half of its budget to social programs in 2020

- Estimates indicate that the Cuban economy did not decline in 2019, another victory over the U.S. blockade

Europe:

- Agreement on US Bases Embroiling Greece in Regional Conflicts, Greek Communist Party Charges

- KKE: The People Will Annul any Bill Attempting to Ban Demonstrations

- Turkish Communists hold gatherings in Istanbul and Izmir

- Child Labor Behind Chocolate Ferrero Rocher: UK Rights Group

French Strikes:

Thousands of Yellow Vest protesters take to the streets of Paris as they join the nation-wide strike against Macron's neoliberal pension reforms.



- French strikes enter 23rd day, beating 1995 record

- Striking French rail workers clash with riot police in Paris

Ideas:

- Sports Teams Should Be Owned by the Public

- When W. E. B. Du Bois Went to the Masses

India:

Recently, the far-right Indian government passed a controversial citizenship law, Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Progressive sections in India have called this law as divisive and fascist. More than 20 people have been killed in past in police violence in past one week, as protests against CAA intensifies across India. Protests against CAA and police brutality were also held in many countries across the world. We take a look at these global protests in solidarity with the struggle in India against attempts by the government to "divide the country on the basis of religion".




- India: Hundreds of Women Camp Against the Citizenship Law

- Left parties announce 7-day nationwide protests from Jan 1 against CAA, NRC, NPR

Israel / Palestine:

- Endorse the call for an international week of action to support the Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege

- Shin Bet Claimed She Was Behind Israeli Teen's Murder. Her Indictment Says Otherwise

Middle East:

- Iraq’s parliament yields to protesters’ demand, approves new electoral law

South America:

- McDonald's Franchise Violated Safety Laws: Peruvian Watchdog

- Lula To Fight Neoliberalism to Restore Democracy in Brazil

United Kingdom:

- Britain First says 5,000 of its members have joined Tories

- The class war election

- Propaganda and the Defeat of Jeremy Corbyn

- Labour's future lies in more radicalism, not less

- Trade unions 'snubbed' in Labour defeat review led by Ed Miliband

At Christmas the scale of injustice and inequality is in plain sight, but so is the generosity and solidarity of our communities.



United States:

- Gov. Cuomo Calls New York Hanukkah Attack 'Act Of Domestic Terrorism'

- NYPD Investigating 9th Anti-Semitic Attack Reported This Week

- JEWISH GROUPS CALL RUDY GUILIANI AN ANTI-SEMITE AFTER FORMER MAYOR CLAIMS HE'S 'MORE OF A JEW' THAN HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR GEORGE SOROS

- In Nearly Every U.S. Metro Area, New Data Show Opportunity Lags For Kids Of Color

- ‘We are sending more foster kids to prison than college’

- Navy Seal pardoned of war crimes by Trump described by colleagues as 'freaking evil'

- The Green Party Is Not the Democrats’ Problem

- US Congress Committee to Investigate Death of Detained Migrants

- The Impeachment's Moral Hypocrisy

- A Man Died After Police Slammed His Head Into His Own Car Because They Thought He'd Stolen it

American Police State: This woman was strapped down and tased by police after being arrested for having her dog off a leash and smoking




Venezuela:

In Commune: The Pancha Vásquez Commune




- Venezuela: Social Program Meets Goal, Delivers 3 Million Homes

- The Vanguard of Chavismo Has a Woman’s Face: A Chronicle of Their Resistance in 2019

- Maduro: Armed Forces, Commitment and Loyalty

- Pro-Coup Venezuelan Soldiers Who Fled to the US Now Locked Up in ICE Detention Center

- Venezuelan Diplomat Demands EU Abandon Regime Change Policy

- The US Approves Bill That May Legislate Hybrid Warfare on Venezuela

Women's Rights:

- Mexico: Zapatista Meeting of Women Who Fight Starts in Chiapas

Indian Protests, RCMP & Wet'suwet'en, Sanders Smeared, Bolivia & more -- The Week in News, Opinion and Videos December 15 - 22

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

This list covers the week of  December 15 - 22.

We have changed the format of the round-up so that the links, videos and photos are presented in sections related to topic.




Bolivia:

"The unity of the people will always be the defeat of the empire."


Watch this exclusive interview with ousted and exiled president Evo Morales speaking on the coup, the role of capitalism and imperialism in Latin America and the future of the struggle.



- 'Fascists, Racists Plotted the Lithium Coup in Bolivia' Morales

- Morales Announced Party Candidates Until End of Month

- Coup Leaders in Bolivia Issue Arrest Warrant for Evo Morales

- Argentinian Govt: "We Will Not Hand Over" Evo Morales

Chile:

Tens of thousands of feminists took to the streets of Santiago to protest for women's rights and against gender-based violence.

They marched on the Presidential Palace as well as the Chilean Museum of Memory and Human Rights where they performed the viral "Rapist In Your Way" flashmob.



- 'They Did it on Purpose': Protester Crushed Between Police Jeeps Latest Victim of Months-Long Chilean Crackdown on Dissent

- NO MORE REPRESSION! SOLIDARITY WITH POPULAR STRUGGLES IN CHILE

- Controversy in Chile over use of toxic substances by police officers

- Chilean President's Disapproval Rating Jumps to 79 Percent

Colombia:

- Colombian Gov't Responsible for Crimes Committed by ESMAD

- Colombia: Protests Against Tax Reform and Police Repression

- National protest in Colombia against Duque’s tax reform

South & Central America:

- TIME MAGAZINE WON’T SAY IT, BUT MADURO IS THE MAN OF THE YEAR

- UN Accepts Credentials of Venezuela's Legitimate Government

- Brazil: The Bolsonaro Clan Is Investigated for Money Laundering

- Every McDonald's in Peru closes amid protests at death of two workers

Climate Emergency:

- 'Everything is Burning': Australian Inferno Continues, Choking Off Access to Cities Across Country and

- Australia breaks its own heat record twice in one week as country burns

- As heatwave bakes Australia on land, an unprecedented marine heatwave causes fish kills in the ocean

- B.C.'s clear-cut forests are 'dead zones,' emitting more greenhouse gases than fossil fuels, report finds

- As Alaska permafrost melts, roads sink, bridges tilt and greenhouse gases escape

RCMP & Wet'suwet'en:

- Canada police prepared to shoot Indigenous activists, documents show

- Gidimt'en spokesperson Sleydo', a.k.a. Molly Wickham, accuses RCMP of acting as mercenaries for industry

Canada:

- Higher TTC fares, more fake cops and a cancelled LRT -- Ontario's politicians ring in the holiday with a boot to the face for transit users

- Ontario cancels Hamilton LRT in chaotic announcement; mayor calls it a 'betrayal'

- The case for free public transit in Toronto

- Caring in Crisis: Ontario’s Long-Term Care PSW Shortage

- The Ford Fallout: “You’re seeing innocent people plead guilty to avoid navigating the courts”

- The Ford Fallout: “I was scraping by on $1,406 a month. Now that’s been cut to $823”

- The Ford Fallout: “I have to tell rape victims to come back in 11 months”

- Parents burst into tears as Ford gov't delays new autism program by another year

- Coalition of unions launch challenge to public sector wages cap

- Canadian workers aren't entitled to bathroom breaks, lawyer says

- 'You're not welcome here': Winnipeg couple told they 'look like' thieves, asked to leave Winnipeg craft store

- Bible Hill woman subjected to racist remarks wants businesses to do more

- Most cases of extremist conduct in Canadian military don't end in discipline, says document

- 'This is a tough week': GM to end automotive production in Oshawa

- Nationalize General Motors

- Toronto mass shooting victims sue gun maker Smith & Wesson in $150m lawsuit

- Canada has a secret program that grants visas to war criminals, terrorists, security threats

- Trans Mountain oil pipeline faces latest legal challenge in Canada court

United States:

- Sanders Calls Out 'Deficit Hawks' in Both Parties Who Support $738 Billion Pentagon Budget But Claim US Can't Afford Medicare for All

- Sanders surges ahead of Iowa caucuses

- Barack Obama is going after old men. His real target is Bernie Sanders

- Alan Dershowitz Has Wasted His Life Doing Terrible Things

- Impeachment is a Ruling-Class Spectacle

- ‘It is beyond cruel’: Ice refuses to reunite girl with the only family she has left

- Outraged Response Forces US Border Patrol to Allow 19-Year-Old Mother to Stay With Sick Newborn

- Vigil honors 275 homeless and poor people who died in SF this year

- This Story on Cellphone Tracking 'Is the Most Important Article You Should Read Today. Period.'

- Hundreds of ‘pink slime’ local news outlets are distributing algorithmic stories and conservative talking points

- Report: WA Republican Rep. Matt Shea Participated in Domestic Terrorism

- Ryan Matthews spent 5 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit. He was exonerated and just graduated college

- Black Drivers And Pedestrians Most Likely Traffic Stop Targets In Ohio's Biggest Cities

- New Jersey Governor Signs Bills Restoring Voting Rights To More Than 80,000 People

- Anthony Clark Is a Socialist Running for Congress with the Spirit of Fred Hampton at His Back

- Warren Backs Down on Medicare for All, Now Says It’s a ‘Choice’

- Mainstream media sees a puzzling obstacle to Pete Buttigieg's rise: The voters

- Possible mass grave from 1921 massacre found: "It was hell on earth"

- Extremist cops: how US law enforcement is failing to police itself

- Supreme court won't revive homeless camping ban

Censoring of Palestinian Voices and of Those Opposed to Israeli Apartheid:

- Trump Elevates an Anti-Semitic Slur Into Law

- Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission rescinds Rana Zaman's rights award

- Confronting The Censorship Of The Palestinian Struggle

- SAIA Demands That Herut Canada And The JDL Be Permanently Banned From York University

- Accusing Bernie Sanders of antisemitism? That's a new low

- Of Course They’re Accusing Bernie Sanders Of Anti-Semitism - Because He Supports Palestinians

- Bernie supporters: talk about Palestine, or succumb to the smears

Israel / Palestine:

- Gaza 2020: How easy it is for the world to delete Palestinian pain

- 'I Said, Get Up, Mother. Then I Realized She Was Dead': Survivors of Israel's Gaza Strike Speak Out

- Israel set to be investigated for war crimes in Palestinian Territories, ICC announces

- Canada again votes at UN to back Palestinian self-determination

UK Election Aftermath:

- Letter to Jeremy Corbyn from Ken Loach, Brian Eno and others

- Labour must remember that the ‘traditional working class’ includes minorities too

- Why so surprised? The British electoral process has always been fixed

- Communist Party blames Labour's 'Stop Brexit' stance for election defeat

- Corbyn’s Defeat Has Slain the Left’s Last Illusion

- Media smear cost Labour the election, McDonnell is right to point that out

- 2017 - 2019: what changed?

United Kingdom:

- Racism 'prevalent' in the armed forces, ombudsman warns

France: 

- French Executives Found Responsible for 35 Employees' Deaths by Suicide

- Macron ‘ready to make concessions’ as pension strikes continue to paralyse France

- France on strike: Power cuts, schools shut, no Eiffel Tower

Cuba:

- The Cuban economy has advanced without neoliberal prescriptions

- Cuba Denounces New OAS Attack Against Medical Collaboration

- Diaz-Canel commends Cuba's economic results despite tensions

Indian Protests:

Indian student protesters against the Modi-government singing a Bengali version of the famous anti-fascist song Bella Ciao in the streets of Kolkata.



- India: largest protests in decades signal Modi may have gone too far

- Indian citizenship law: six killed in deadliest day of protests over new bill

- Communist Party of India launches padayatra in Puducherry

- Anti-CAA Protests : Left Parties’ Joint Nationwide Demonstration Today; Protesters Stop Train In Bihar

- Mass Protests Spread in India After Citizenship Law Passes

- 'Night of horrors': Inside the Indian university stormed by police

Middle-East:

- Lebanese communists denounce technocratic stitch-up behind new PM

Africa:

- Algerians continue mass mobilizations, reject offers of talks

- South African Communist Party looks at rebuilding alliance with ANC

- Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths