Daily Archives: November 8, 2021

2021-11-08: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-11-08). The winter of death: Governments slash COVID-19 restrictions as cases surge. wsws.org Capitalism is carrying out an elimination policy, not of the pandemic, but of human beings.

ecns.cn (2021-11-08). 19th CPC Central Committee holds sixth plenary session. ecns.cn The 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) started its sixth plenary session in Beijing on Monday.

Editor (2021-11-08). Miami's ultra-right and its coercion against Cuban artists. mronline.org Havana, Nov. 4 (Prensa Latina) The Communist Party of Cuba highlighted today the methods of pressure that the extreme right of Miami, U.S., exerts on Cuban artists to take sides against the government of the island.

Annelise Whitley (2021-11-07). A Project for Survival in These United States. tomdispatch.com When President Biden first unveiled the Build Back Better agenda, it appeared that this country was on the path to a new war on poverty. In April, he told Congress that "trickle-down economics have never worked" and that it was time to build the economy "from the bottom-up." This came after the first reconciliation bill of the pandemic included the child tax credit that — combined with an expanded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and unemployment benefits, stimulus checks, and other emergency programs — reduced the poverty rate from 13.9% in 2018 to 7.7% in 2021. (Without such actions, it was…

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