Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis, Sanctions and Workers' Rights -- The Week in News and Opinion March 22 - 29

Cuban medical team arrives in Italy, March 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 22 - 29.

Unsurprisingly this week's edition begins again with a very large roundup of news and left opinion about the capitalist coronavirus crisis and its impact on working people globally as well as issues like the continuing criminal American imperialist sanctions against many nations in spite of it. The Featured Article link at the start is a powerful denunciation of them. We have tried to arrange this coronavirus news thematically and to touch on many different areas of concern.

Featured Article:

A Pandemic Is No Time for US Economic Sanctions

"US economic sanctions have caused millions of people to suffer, and soon they could kill tens of thousands, if not far more. Exacerbating civilians’ suffering to try to change their government’s conduct is ethically wrong and prohibited by international law. Pursuing this strategy during the worst health crisis the world has faced in modern times demonstrates reckless disregard for human life and contempt for the norms of civilized behavior."

Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis

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

- The centre did not hold

- Canadians need to demand an immediate end to criminal imperialist sanctions

- Russia Calls to Lift 'Genocidal' Sanctions Against Venezuela

- Solidarity or Disaster

- Exile -- Hellworld #7 (Podcast)

- EVERYONE'S A SOCIALIST IN A CRISIS

- The right are worrying themselves into helping the left cause

- For panicking capitalists, resuming profit flow trumps everything

- Our Leaders are Terrified. Not of the Virus – of Us

- 57 Communist and Workers' parties demand "Immediate measures to protect the health and rights of the peoples"

- For a People’s Recovery, NOT A Corporate Plunder!

- Watch out for this symptom of Corona virus: lazy ecofascism

- THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC HAS BROUGHT OUT SOCIETY’S ALARMING DISREGARD FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

- COVID-19: Fears of Domestic Violence Rise as Millions Confined

Second group of Cuban doctors arrived in Belize to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic March 27:

- Lula: The Cuban people show the world an example of solidarity

- Cuba: FM Denounces US Defamation of Cuban Medical Collaboration

- Cuba to Send Doctors to Four Caribbean Countries and Argentina

- CUBA USES 'WONDER DRUG' TO FIGHT CORONAVIRUS AROUND WORLD DESPITE U.S. SANCTIONS

- Expert: Cuban Health System's Strength Against COVID-19

The moment a delegation of 37 Cuban doctors and 15 nurses arrived in Italy to help battle the coronavirus outbreak and provide expertise and relief to the country's overburdened healthcare system:

- Coronavirus Drives Calls for a General Strike and #NotDying4WallStreet

- It's morally repulsive how corporations are exploiting this crisis. Workers will suffer

- Trump and Wall Street Want to Send Us Back to Work. They Don’t Care If We Die of Coronavirus.

- The coronavirus outbreak is exposing the devastating gaps between the rich and poor at a moment when America is primed for class warfare

- Fauci warns U.S. could see some 100,000 deaths

- Medical Expert Who Corrects Trump Is Now a Target of the Far Right

- Trump Dismissed Intel, Warned in January of COVID-19 Threat

-  Trump's narcissism has taken a new twist. And now he has American blood on his hands

- Trump Rejects New York’s Plea For Ventilators: ‘I Don’t Believe You Need’ That Many

- States Quietly Pass Laws Criminalizing Fossil Fuel Protests Amid Coronavirus Chaos

- The Fed’s Response to COVID-19 Is Impressive — and Alarming

- Harvard, Boasting $40 Billion Endowment, Lays Off Dining Hall Workers Due to Coronavirus

- 'Some may even die, I don't know': Former Wells Fargo CEO wants people to go back to work and 'see what happens'

- Coronavirus: Hobby Lobby billionaire keeps stores open after ‘God spoke to him’ – but won’t pay sick leave

- Murdoch family took serious precautions against coronavirus as Fox News downplayed risk to public

- 'Looting of America by Big Corporations': Progressives Appalled as Senate Unanimously Passes Largest Bailout Bill in US History

- Coronavirus: Teenage boy whose death was linked to COVID-19 turned away from urgent care for not having insurance

- Millions of Americans are about to lose their health insurance in a pandemic

- US Gov't Grants Firm Exclusive Status on Promising COVID-19 Drug

- Grocery Stores Are the Coronavirus Tipping Point

- Putting Profits Before Workers’ Safety: Inside Amazon During the COVID-19 Crisis

- Delivery drivers face pandemic without sick pay, insurance, sanitizer

- Nurse dies in New York hospital where workers are reduced to using trash bags as protective medical gear

- Two Georgia Medical Workers Die of COVID-19 Amid Critical Shortage of Protective Gear

- A flight attendant dies, and colleagues are 'very much on edge'

- ‘We’re Fucked’: Aircraft Carrier Outbreak Sends Troops Scrambling

- Memphis Teamsters Wildcat Strike at Kroger’s Crucial Southern Warehouse

- US Urged to Release Detainees at ICE Centers as Virus Spreads

- ‘IS MY LIFE NOT AS VALUABLE AS YOURS?’ IMMIGRATION JUDGES WANT ALL COURTS SHUT DOWN AS CORONAVIRUS CASES SOAR

- Because 'Anne Frank Did Not Die in a Gas Chamber,' Jewish Activists Cite Disease in Nazi Death Camps in Call to Free Detained Immigrants

- 'I won't survive': Iranian scientist in US detention says Ice will let Covid-19 kill many

- CORONAVIRUS HAS COME TO RIKERS, AND THE PEOPLE INSIDE ARE FIGHTING TO SURVIVE

- Federal Judge Bans Bolsonaro's 'Brazil Cannot Stop' Campaign

- Bolsonaro's anti-science response to coronavirus appalls Brazil's governors

- Jair Bolsonaro claims Brazilians 'never catch anything' as Covid-19 cases rise

- Democracy in Brazil Would Not Be Normal, Bolsonaro Threatens

- Spit On, Yelled At, Attacked: Chinese-Americans Fear for Their Safety

- Pompeo pressed G-7 leaders to refer to 'Wuhan virus' in statement: report

- People’s War against coronavirus: Why Washington fears China’s example

- China Gradually Back to Normal After the COVID-19 Pandemic

- China donates medical supplies to Canada amid coronavirus pandemic, Embassy says

- What the West Can Learn From Vietnam’s Response to Covid-19

- Philippines: Duterte responds to COVID-19 with authoritarianism, corruption and neglect

- Portugal to treat migrants as residents during coronavirus crisis

- Italy Calls General Strike: “Our Lives Are Worth More Than Your Profits”

- France to Withdraw Forces From Iraq Due to COVID-19

- Spanish Communist Party praises Chinese solidarity while condemning cruel American sanctions

- Lack of testing raises fears of coronavirus surge in eastern Europe

- Ecuadorian-Colombian Indigenous Alone Against COVID-19

- Chile: Govt Allows Employers Not to Pay Wages During Quarantine

- Chile: Piñera's Gov't Asks Homeless People to 'Stay Home'

- Colombian death squads exploiting coronavirus lockdown to kill activists

- Venezuela’s Coronavirus Response Might Surprise You

- Venezuela Suspends Rent Payments, Protects Wages as Coronavirus Cases Rise to 77

- Venezuela: US Blocks Flights to Repatriate Citizens Amid COVID-19

- Venezuela Dismisses US Justice Department ‘Narco-terrorism’ Accusations

- President Maduro: Thousands of Test Kits will Arrive from China for a Massive Campaign of Coronavirus Screening this Weekend

- Venezuela: Already Arrived – 130 Cuban Doctors to Fight Coronavirus – Medical Supplies From Russia on Their Way

- EU Supports Iran, Venezuela Bids for IMF COVID-19 Funds

- Venezuelan Army Categorically Rejects US Attacks on President Maduro and Other Venezuelan Officials

- Rogue General Admits Plot Against Venezuela From Colombia

- RN says Co-op Refinery scab camp “a disaster waiting to happen”

- Pipeline workers putting locals at risk of COVID-19 infection: Unist’ot’en

- UBCIC, Fort St. John city councillors call for shutdown of Site C project during COVID-19

- BC’s Work Camps Stay Open Despite Pandemic Risks

- B.C. mine workers fear Teck not taking adequate precautions against coronavirus

- Delivering during COVID-19: Canada Post’s shocking working conditions

- Video game sales are up while testers work in dangerous conditions

- Tim Hortons’ Parent Company Dismisses Calls From Shareholders For Stronger Health and Safety Policies

- We face a public health emergency, and criminalizing the marginalized can worsen the crisis

- Canada’s big banks set to profit off of COVID-19 mortgage deferrals

- BILL C-13: TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE FOR WORKING PEOPLE (Canada)

- Two million Canadians could soon be out of work — and women and low-wage workers will be hit the hardest

- CLASS DANGERS IN PUBLIC EMERGENCIES

- Report: Nearly half of Canadian working renters a month or less away from not being able to pay bills -- Urgent relief for workers needed

- Cancel Rent! Housing for people, not for profit

- Federal pandemic funds for First Nations woefully inadequate

- Manitoba chiefs organization wants Cuban doctor aid on COVID-19

- KENNEY AND COVID-19: ALBERTA’S DOUBLE WHAMMY

- Barrel of Monkeys now worth more than a barrel of Alberta oil

- Canada Should Nationalize Oil Companies, Not Bail Them Out

- HEALTH CUTS AND PRIVATIZATION TO BLAME FOR ONTARIO’S VULNERABILITY

- In Ontario, construction is an essential service, but some workers fear COVID-19 puts them at risk

- Unions oppose Ontario’s decision to keep construction sites operating as essential services

- “We are dropping like flies,” says Ontario home care nurse

- Ontario Used Emergency Powers to Contract Out Unionized Hospital Jobs. Experts Say It Will Compromise Care.

- People all over Toronto say they're not going to pay rent on April 1

- After Years of Hoarding Housing Supply, Toronto Airbnb Hosts Are Panicking

- 44% of Canadian households report lost work amid COVID-19 pandemic: poll

- Montreal declares local state of emergency over fears of COVID-19 outbreak among city's homeless

- 'Not one dollar, not one bar of soap, not one pair of hands': Advocates for homeless grow desperate

- ‘I’m Really Scared’ Scenes from the Downtown Eastside in a time of pandemic.

- Palestine Demands Israel Release Prisoners Amid Virus Outbreak

- Israeli Forces Demolish Emergency Coronavirus Clinic for Palestinians

- During the Coronavirus crisis, Israel confiscates tents designated for clinic in the Northern West Bank

Canada:

- Peter MacKay Had Not One, But Two Train Wreck Interviews on Live Television Last Night

- Supreme Court of Canada agrees to hear Toronto’s appeal of cuts to city council

- Unifor shocked by Co-op rejection of independent mediator’s recommendations

- Siding with First Nation, N.S. judge overturns Alton Gas approval

- Alberta health minister accused of berating Calgary physician, 'intimidating' citizens

Israel / Palestine:

- Benny Gantz elected Israeli speaker, signalling deal with Netanyahu

- Israel Controls 95 Percent of Occupied Jordan Valley: Official

United States:

- TIME’S UP SAID IT COULD NOT FUND A #METOO ALLEGATION AGAINST JOE BIDEN, CITING ITS NONPROFIT STATUS AND HIS PRESIDENTIAL RUN

- A sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden has ignited a firestorm of controversy

- Joe Biden Accused of Sexual Assault, But the Media is Silent

- 'Huge Victory' for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe as Federal Court Rules DAPL Permits Violated Law

- Colorado Abolishes Death Penalty and Commutes Sentences of Death Row Inmates

UK Election, Chilean Protests, Colombian General Strike & more -- The Week in News, Opinion and Videos November 17 - 24

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 November 17 - 24.

If you are looking for this week's news, videos and updates about the ongoing imperialist backed right wing racist coup in Bolivia see: "It’s called a coup" -- News, Videos, Statements and Developments about Bolivia.

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

Chilean Protests:

An impression of the atmosphere at the continuing mass protests against neoliberal policies and the government in Santiago after more than one month of non-stop resistance.

 
- Chile Police Continue to Use Pellet Rounds Despite Ban

- After a month in the streets, Chileans continue to resist

- Chile: Human Rights Violations May Lead to Piñera's Impeachment

Latin America / Caribbean:

- Uruguayan Presidential Elections are Under Way

(Update: Too Close to Call It: Uruguay’s Results to Be Announced Thursday, Friday)

- Evangelical Groups Are the New U.S. Tool for Coups in Latin America

- OAS Seeks to Divide Latin American Countries: Zapatero

- Conspiracy and silence from the Organization of American States

- Dominica Rejects OAS Interference in Elections in Washington DC

- Venezuelan students march in defense of democracy, peace and sovereignty

- Another Failed US-Backed Coup Attempt in Venezuela Goes Unnoticed

- Nine reasons why Colombians are going on strike

 - Colombia: Curfew in Bogota On Nationwide Strike's Second Day

- Clashes in Colombia as hundreds of thousands protest against government

- 187 Ex-FARC Members Killed Since Signing of Peace Deal: Gov't

- Media continues its smear campaign against Lula

- Bolsonaro is turning back the clock on Brazil, says Lula

- Bolsonaro Leaves PSL to Create Own Far-Right Political Party

- Ecuador's Assembly Rejects President Moreno's Economic Reforms

Violent clashes broke out in Haiti as police fired live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas at protestors demonstrating against the arrival of the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations:



- Haiti Commemorated 'Victory Day' Demanding Moise's Resignation

British Elections:

- British politics is changing dramatically – and the left sees an opportunity

- The Corbyn effect in Scotland - campaign report

- The manifesto that will change the terms of debate

- 'It's Time For a Real Change', Labour Party Vows To Britain

- Jeremy Corbyn won victory over Boris Johnson among undecided voters in first election debate, poll shows

Europe:

- Prince Andrew showed what true power is: turning a blind eye to abuse

- Ukrainian young Communists lead campaign against Zelensky land sell-off

Canada

- Montreal police have no plans to end street checks, despite concerns

- Teamsters point finger at CN Rail over propane shortage from strike

- Around 3,000 Canadian National Railway Workers Go on Strike

- Metro Vancouver will see bus system shutdown next week if no deal reached for transit workers, union says

- Ontario court strikes down measure allowing students to opt out of fees for 'non-essential services'

- Ontario high school teachers vote in favour of possible strike

- Coach's Corner was a two-man farce for three decades

- More than one-third of people shot to death over a decade by RCMP officers were Indigenous

- Edmonton Monument Glorifies Nazi Collaborator

The United States:

- Why the Hell Did Democrats Just Extend the Patriot Act?

- Not guilty: Jurors acquit border aid volunteer Scott Warren on harboring charges

Middle East:

- Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu charged with bribery, fraud

- Israeli Warplanes Carry Out Airstrikes Over Syria's Damascus

- ‘Orwellian absurdity’: US reversal on settlements draws international outrage

- ‘NY Times’ report on killing of Gaza family is part damage control for Israel’s military

Africa:

- ‘Zone Rouge’: An army of children toils in African mines

Global:

- INTERNATIONAL MEETING CELEBRATES CENTENARY OF COMINTERN, STRESSES DEEPER UNITY OF COMMUNIST MOVEMENT

Ideas:

- Accelerationism: the obscure idea inspiring white supremacist killers around the world

Lula Freed, Chilean Protests, Bolivian Elections, Corbyn & more -- The Week in News, Opinion and Videos November 3 - 10

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 November 3 - 10.

Breaking: President Evo Morales Resigns Amid Right-wing Coup

Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced to resign Sunday after senior army chiefs called on him to do so following weeks of right-wing unrest and violence against his Oct. 20 elections victory, in what his government has called a coup by opposition forces in the country.

Breaking: Bolivian President Evo Morales Calls New Presidential Elections

Telesur

Bolivian President Evo Morales said Sunday that he was calling new presidential elections after a night of major unrest and violence across the country led by right-wing opposition in what the Bolivian government has denounced as an attempted coup.

1) Socialist Kshama Sawant declares victory in Seattle City Council race

Katherine Khashimova Long, Seattle Times

The District 3 race, which Sawant is almost certain to win, attracted national attention in recent weeks as business interests poured money into the contest, coming to signify for some a referendum on the influence of companies like Amazon over the Seattle City Council.

Hundreds of people marched through Sydney in a loud and colourful show of solidarity with Chilean protesters demanding the resignation of President Sebastian Pinera, on November 2. Up to 1.5 million Chileans mobilised to demand Pinera's resignation on October 25, in what was the largest protest in the nation's history. It came after weeks of protest triggered by a rise in subway fares. Video clip by Peter Boyle for Green Left Weekly.



2) Hundreds of Thousands Gather Against Conservative Govt in Chile

Telesur

As Chile is starting the third week of demonstrations against the government of President Sebastian Pinera, hundreds of thousands gathered on Plaza Italia this Friday amid fierce police repression.

3) Chile: Court to Investigate Piñera for Crimes Against Humanity

Telesur

Santiago's 7th Guarantee Court on Wednesday agreed to process a legal action filed by NGOs Popular Defense, Vergara Toledo Bros Defense Committee and Legal Cooperative, which requested that Chile's President Sebastian Piñera be investigated by his political responsibility for crimes that have taken place over the last weeks amid massive unrest in the country.

4) Conquistadors tumble as indigenous Chileans tear down statues

Laurence Blair, The Guardian 

As peaceful protesters and rioters alike have thronged the streets of the Chilean capital of Santiago to protest against inequality and state repression, a string of no less symbolic blows has also been struck 650km (400 miles) to the south.

5) Chile Prosecutor To Probe 14 Policemen for Alleged Torture

Telesur

A Chilean prosecutor on Wednesday said he would seek court approval to investigate 14 police officers for allegedly torturing protesters during almost three weeks of intense unrest and rioting in the country.

6) Chile protests: Chileans demand new constitution amid unrest

Sandra Cuffe, Al Jazeera 

Although it has undergone reforms over the decades, Chile's constitution was written during the Pinochet dictatorship.

7) Chileans Reject Piñera's Measures to Criminalize Social Protest

Telesur

Chile's President Sebastian Piñera on Thursday announced a package of bills whose purpose would be to halt protests through further criminalization of citizens who barricade streets and hide their faces during demonstrations.

8) Brazil: Thousands Await Lula Da Silva's Speech Outside Union

Telesur

After having spent 580 days as a political prisoner in Curitiba, Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Saturday arrived at the ABC Union of Workers of Metallurgical Industry, which is located at Sao Bernardo do Campo, the city where he began his political life as a worker leader.

9) Brazil: Journalist Glenn Greenwald Assaulted During Live Broadcast

Telesur

The Intercept's co-founder Glenn Greenwald was assaulted during a live broadcast Thursday by far-right Brazilian journalist and pro-Bolsanaro supporter Augusto Nunes after a heated argument regarding baseless accusations against Greenwald’s family.

10) Bolivia: Audios Linking Civic, Ex-Military and US in Coup Plans

Telesur

The Radio Education Network of Bolivia (Erbol) leaked 16 audios involving opposition leaders who are calling for a coup d'etat against the government of President Evo Morales, a political action which would have been coordinated from the U.S. embassy in the Andean country.

11) Bolivian Opposition Protesters Attack Socialist Mayor

Telesur

A mob led by the right-wing opposition Wednesday set fire to the Vinto Town Hall and dragged socialist mayor Patricia Arce down the street, where they humiliated her physically and verbally.

12) US Applies More Than 8,000 “Sanctions” to 39 Countries, Affecting 1/3 of Humanity

 Orinoco Tribune

The imposition of arbitrary measures or “sanctions” by the United States against numerous countries around the world was denounced by the Venezuelan delegation present at the XVIII Summit of Non-Aligned Countries, held in Baku, Azerbaijan. The Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations Organization, Samuel Moncada, denounced the economic terrorism executed by US President Donald Trump, which affects a third of humanity with more than 8,000 measures in 39 countries.

13) UN Overwhelmingly Votes in Favor of Resolution Ending US Blockade Against Cuba

Telesur

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Thursday overwhelming voted in favor of the resolution demanding the ending of the U.S. blockade against Cuba with 187 countries voting in favor, three against while two countries abstained.

14) Cuba lashes Trump, issues rallying cry to fight imperialism

Marc Frank, Reuters 

Cuban Communist Party leader Raul Castro, President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro signaled on Sunday punishing U.S. sanctions would only stiffen their resolve to stick together and support social change in the region.

15) 'People Are Rising up Against Neoliberalism': Maduro

Telesur

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro celebrated in his closing statement at the III Anti-Imperialist Congress against Neoliberalism held in Cuba Sunday, that people from across the region are rising against “savage capitalism” especially the neoliberal model pushed by the International Monetary Fund.

(Related: Canadian hypocrisy and double standards in South and Central America on full display)

16) Ecuador: Judge Orders Preventive Prison For Another Leftist Opposition Leader

Telesur

An Ecuadorean judge ordered preventive prison for the former lawmaker and left-wing opposition leader, Virgilio Hernandez, Tuesday following the Attorney General’s Office accusation of alleged participation in acts of violence during the mass anti-government demonstrations in early October.

17) Colombia's Minister of Defense Resigns After Killings

Telesur

Colombian Defense Minister Guillermo Botero resigned his position on Wednesday, amid controversy over an Army bombing where eight minors were killed. The incident was hidden for months and presented as an operation in which FARC-EP dissidents died, who recently returned to arms.

18) Argentina: Fernandez Affirms Non-Interventionist Stance on Venezuela

Telesur 

Argentina’s President-elect Alberto Fernandez on Wednesday reiterated his position in favor of the non-intervention of the United States in Venezuela during a conversation with Mauricio Claver-Carone, Advisor to the U.S. President Donald Trump for Hemispheric Affairs.

19) TEXAS PREPARES TO EXECUTE RODNEY REED AMID A FLOOD OF NEW EVIDENCE POINTING TO HIS INNOCENCE

Jordan Smith, The Intercept 

DEKE PIERCE WAS wearing civilian clothes as he took to the lectern in a narrow press room inside the Texas Capitol in Austin last month, but it was still obvious that he was a cop. He stood with his feet wide and his arms slightly away from his body, a stance molded by years in a uniform encumbered by heavy gear. He was there to make an extraordinary announcement: He and 12 other members of law enforcement with more than 250 years of combined experience had filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of a Texas death row prisoner named Rodney Reed, slated for execution on November 20.

20) Philippines: Stop Trade Union Repression! Unionizing is a Right! Free Our Unionists!

International Action Center 

The Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) on behalf of all its member federations and allied unions in the Philippine labor movement ask the international labor rights community and all human rights advocates to help us in our own efforts to denounce, resist, and fight against the Philippine government’s infamous scheme to outlaw progressive unionism and arrest unionists, workers, and their supporters.

21) Portugal’s Welfare State Is Still in Danger

David Broder, Jacobin

Victory for the Socialists in last month’s Portuguese election rewarded its successes in easing austerity. But for the Left, the fight isn’t over — especially as the European Union tightens the screws on the country’s public spending.

22) The Man Who Couldn’t Save East Germany

Jacobin

Egon Krenz told Jacobin about his time as East Germany’s last Communist leader.

23) What was it like to grow up under communism in the old cold war?

Zsuzsanna Clark, The Morning Star 

VIKTOR ORBAN, the current Hungarian Prime Minister, has described my generation — those whose fate was sealed by the “failure” of the famous 1956 uprising against the communist government as — “the lost generation.”

24) TI's hymen checks are horrific. So is the entire concept of virginity

Jill Filipovic, The Guardian 

The rapper’s revelation about his daughter should remind us of the misogyny inherent in valuing sexual inexperience.

25) Indigenous communities: ‘They used to shoot us. Now they kill us with their policies’

Coral Wynter, Green Left Weekly 

“We have to rely on bottled water to bathe our babies. There is no fresh water to drink,” explained local Aboriginal elder Brendan Adams. “The bore water is heavy and a dark colour. Our skin is dry, our hair is like straw.

26) Ardern says New Zealand on 'right side of history' as MPs pass zero-carbon bill

Eleanor Roy, The Guardian

Jacinda Ardern’s landmark climate legislation has passed in New Zealand parliament, with historic cross-party support, committing the nation to reduce its carbon emissions to zero by 2050 and meet its commitments under the Paris climate accords.

27) Jeffrey Epstein: ABC stopped report 'amid Palace threats'

BBC News

Leaked footage shows a US TV anchor complaining that editors "quashed" a story about paedophile Jeffrey Epstein due to pressure from the Royal Family.

28) Haiti Enters Eighth Consecutive Week of Anti-Government Protest

Telesur

Haiti on Monday entered the eighth consecutive week of anti-government protests, with a curfew decreed yesterday by opposition sectors, who are asking people to stay home.

29) Iraqi Communists condemn repression, say “moment of real change” has arrived

Steve Sweeney, People's World 

Iraq’s Communist Party called for a new type of government and for the momentum of the current uprising to continue until its demands are realized as roads were blocked in Baghdad on Sunday.

30) Iraqi Forces Kill 10 Protesters in Baghdad and Basra

Telesur

Iraqi security forces shot dead at least six anti-government protesters in Baghdad on Thursday and killed four others as they broke up a sit-in in the southern city of Basra, police and medical sources said.

31) People seek to build a new Iraq

Green Left Weekly

Huge protests have erupted on the streets of Iraq. Green Left Weekly’s Sam Wainwright spoke to Khalil Albawy. Albawy is a member of the Iraqi Communist Party and Secretary of the Iraqi and Australian Friendship Society in Western Australia.

32) Communists will work for election of left-led Labour government

The Morning Star

THE Communist Party reaffirms its commitment of September 23 to work for the election of a left-led Labour government in the forthcoming general election.

33) The wheels are coming off the Tory election vehicle

The Morning Star

IN Jacob Rees-Mogg the Tories have a figure who effortlessly drives reasonable people to insurrectionary thoughts.

34) Windsor Halloween display opens generational wounds of racist violence

El Jones, Halifax Examiner 

African Nova Scotian community members in Windsor, Nova Scotia say they are facing harassment after speaking out about Halloween decorations displayed by a local family.

35) The Massacre That Spawned the Alt-Right

Shaun Assael and Peter Keating, Politico 

Forty years ago, a gang of Klansmen and Nazis murdered five communists in broad daylight. America has never been the same.

36) Remembering the Greensboro Massacre of 1979, When KKK & Nazis Killed 5 People in Broad Daylight

Democracy Now

Hundreds gathered this weekend to mark the 40th anniversary of the Greensboro massacre, when 40 Ku Klux Klansmen and American Nazis opened fire on an anti-Klan demonstration in Greensboro, North Carolina, killing five anti-racist activists in a span of 88 seconds. Those killed were members of the Communist Workers’ Party. Ten other activists were injured. No one was convicted in the massacre, but a jury did find the Greensboro police liable for cooperating with the Ku Klux Klan in a wrongful death. Local pastors in Greensboro are now calling on the City Council to issue an apology for the events that led to the 1979 killing. We speak with Dr. Marty Nathan, the widow of Dr. Mike Nathan, who was killed in the 1979 Greensboro Massacre.

38) Outrage after leaked video shows Israeli officer shoot Palestinian in the back

Yumna Patel, Mondoweiss 

Palestinian social media erupted over the weekend as people expressed their outrage over a leaked video showing and Israeli border police officer shooting a Palestinian in the back as the man walked away from the officers, his hands raised in the air.

39) Pushed Out, Attacked & Criminalized: San Francisco’s Unhoused People Speak Out Amid Housing Crisis

Democracy Now

Amid skyrocketing housing prices and rising inequality, the number of unhoused people across California is booming. Homelessness in San Francisco has spiked at least 30% since 2017. In Oakland, it’s grown by nearly 50%. As more people have been forced onto the streets, encampments have popped up from Los Angeles to the Bay Area and in other city centers. But while advocates push for more affordable housing solutions, instead city governments have been cracking down on unhoused people with increasingly punitive measures that criminalize homelessness. In a special report, Democracy Now! traveled to San Francisco to speak with unhoused people and their advocates about conditions there.

40) ETFO triggers countdown to potential strike saying it's 'tired of waiting' for government

Desmond Brown, CBC News

The Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO) announced on Monday a countdown to strike action as its latest move in its labour dispute with the government of Premier Doug Ford.

41) Elizabeth May steps down as leader of Green Party

Maham Abedi, Global News

Elizabeth May has stepped down as the leader of the Green Party of Canada, effective immediately.