(2022-04-18). 'It Can Get Very Creepy Very Fast:' John Oliver Exposes Multimillion-Dollar Data Brokering Industry. transcend.org 11 Apr 2022 – Data brokering is the multi million-dollar industry of collecting personal information and then reselling or sharing it with marketers and others. Data brokers are "the middlemen of surveillance capitalism." "They know significantly more about you than you might like and do significantly more with it than you might think," Oliver said.
(2022-04-18). Revolutionary bases' growth to get a boost. ecns.cn As China set in motion an agenda to narrow social inequalities and regional growth gaps, the nation's top policymakers have given priority to a special type of regions－areas where the Communist Party of China built up its revolutionary cause before founding the New China.
(2022-04-18). University of Illinois at Chicago grad student workers strike against poverty wages. wsws.org UIC graduate student workers are opposing the university's efforts to use them as a cheap labor force.
(2022-04-17). Georges Abdallah joins one-day hunger strike for political prisoners in Turkey. samidoun.net 
On Saturday, 16 April, Georges Abdallah, the Lebanese Arab Communist struggler for Palestine imprisoned in France for over 37 years despite being eligible for release since 1999, announced a one-day hunger strike in support of Sibel Balaàß and Gà∂khan Yildirim, two political prisoners in Turkish jails. Both have been on an open-ended hunger strike — …
(2022-04-17). The Parapolitical Hypothesis. libya360.wordpress.com Apparatchik Smashing the whole system, "striking at hidden nests, connections, connivances, and plans," requires actionable knowledge of the mechanisms with which resistance is destroyed. Whereas communist revolution is the product of proletarian class consciousness, conspiracy is the product of bourgeois class consciousness. Understanding the latter makes possible the former. In 1972 Walter Rodney, describing the…