(2022-06-06). War in Ukraine causing surge in poverty in Colombia: UN. colombiareports.com Russia's invasion of Ukraine is triggering an increase in poverty in Colombia and the rest of Latin America, according to the United Nations (UN). In a report, the UN's Economic…
(2022-06-06). NYPD and Far-Right Forces Collude in Physical Assault on a Socialist and Anti-Racist Space. orinocotribune.com The People's Forum in New York City attacked by the far-right, enabled by the police | Since our founding in 2018, our space, The People's Forum (TPF) has been the target of multiple attacks by the far-right on both social media and in our location. We have managed to defend our space which operates on values and principles of social justice and people power. Most recently a coalition of anti-vaxxers, Cuban and Venezuelan anti-communists, and other far-right reactionaries have increased their attacks on TPF. Today, over a dozen officers of the New York Police Department (NYPD) entered TPF, uninvited, and acted as…
(2022-06-06). Kroger workers in central Indiana vote down UFCW sellout agreement. wsws.org Workers at Kroger stores in central Indiana voted down a company-friendly tentative agreement negotiated by the UFCW which included poverty wage "increases" that fall far below the rate of inflation.
(2022-06-05). The Myth-Making Around Tiananmen Square. popularresistance.org Most western accounts claim that on the midnight of June 3, 1989, the People's Liberation Army moved with full force to Tiananmen square where students were peacefully protesting for democracy and against the authoritarian regime in China. The students were supposedly inspired by the democracies in the west and were heroes standing up to the illiberal communist rule. According to this narrative, the communist leadership under Deng Xiaoping ordered the army to open fire, killing hundreds or thousands of unarmed students at the square. Thus, the Chinese communist party leadership was responsible for the killing and…
(2022-06-05). GOP Wants to Blame Biden for Inflation. What About COVID and Capitalism? truthout.org Two years ago, I was afraid of going to the grocery store, lest I encounter COVID-19 lurking by the bananas or swirling around some unmasked dunderhead coughing purposefully beneath a MAGA hat. That fear The Republicans, on cue, have fanned out to al…
(2022-06-05). Workers and Communist Parties Greet the FRSO'S 9th Congress. fightbacknews.org 
‚Ä¢ Liberation Party (Argentina) | ‚Ä¢ Workers Party of Belgium (PTB-PVDA) | ‚Ä¢ Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) | ‚Ä¢ New Communist Party of Britain | ‚Ä¢ Communist Party of Greece (KKE) | ‚Ä¢ Fronte Popolare (Italy) | ‚Ä¢ Communist Party of the Philippines | ‚Ä¢ International League of Peoples' Struggles – Jose Maria Sison | ‚Ä¢ Communist Party, Sweden | ‚Ä¢ The Labour Party of Turkey (EMEP) | ‚Ä¢ Socialist Unity Party (U…
(2022-06-05). UK: Workers speak to the World Socialist Web Site at Sheffield Arbourthorne food bank. wsws.org Arbourthorne is a working-class district of a city formerly associated with the steel, engineering and mining industries, where 44 percent of children are officially living in poverty.
(2022-06-05). Tiananmen Protests Reading List. orinocotribune.com By Qiao Collective — Jun 4, 2022 | More than thirty years later, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 remain a touchstone of a Western mythology spun to challenge the fundamental legitimacy of the Communist Party of China. By collapsing the diverse and often contradictory demands of protesters into a simplistic call for Western-style capitalist democracy, the West's selective memory of June 4 continues to inform liberal platitudes to "stand with the Chinese people" against their government, reifying the universality of Western capitalism and U.S. global hegemony in the process. This reading list compile…
(2022-06-05). NYPD hands off People's Forum. iacenter.org June 4, 2022 The following is a press statement from The People's Forum, which was attacked by the far-right, enabled by New York police, on June 3. Go to the Forum's website at tinyurl.com/yckzx5dh. Since our founding in 2018, our space, The People's Forum (TPF), has been the target of multiple attacks by the far-right on both social media and in our location. We have managed to defend our space, which operates on values and principles of social justice and people power. Most recently a coalition of anti-vaxxers, Cuban and Venezuelan anti-communists, and other far-right reactionaries have increased their attacks…
(2022-06-05). Many Europeans to face poverty due to anti-Russian sanctions. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 05 (MNA) — People of Europe face inflation and degradation of quality of life because of the anti-Russian sanctions, and many will face poverty because of these sanctions, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.