2022-06-09: News Headlines

Poor People's Campaign (2022-06-09). Friday 6/17: National Memorial Service for Lives Lost to COVID, Gun Violence, War and Poverty w/ PPC. indybay.org Online via livestream: www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream/ | In-person at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C…

Workers World Party (2022-06-09). PDF of June 9 issue. workers.org Download the PDF. Profit-hungry company lures youth to guns editorial: LGBTQ+ for socialism: 'We want to live!' PRIDE: Class roots of anti‚Äëtrans laws Events challenge police, corporate control, transphobia Labor fights back: Lockout by war profiteers Seattle museum union Boston baristas strike Tear down the walls: Palestine Freedom Tunnel Stop . . . |

Peoples Dispatch (2022-06-08). South African communist Amos Mbedzi, who fought apartheid, dies a martyr for liberation of Swaziland. peoplesdispatch.org The South African Communist Party and the Communist Party of Swaziland along with several pro-democracy groups have vowed to continue the struggle for Swaziland's liberation from the rule of King Mswati III, the last absolute monarch in Africa, for which Mbedzi paid the ultimate price…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-06-08). Progressives continue to protest Finnish bid for NATO membership. peoplesdispatch.org Progressive and anti-war sections in Finland continue to protest the country's bid for NATO membership. On June 4 and 5, activists from various groups including Stop NATO, Communist Youth Association (Kommunistinuoret), Communist Youth (KTP), Tampere Marxist Study Circle and Pirkanmaa Peace Defenders' Committee participated in demonstrations in Helsinki and Tampere denouncing the government's move to join NATO. The protesters claimed that Finland's accession to the US-led military alliance will make it part of the nexus against the people of the world and will not be in the interest of the Finnish people either.

Minnie Bruce Pratt (2022-06-08). LGBTQ+ for socialism: 'We want to live!'. workers.org We are still grieving for the 10 people of Buffalo, New York's Black community killed there May 14. We are still grieving for the 21 people — children and teachers — killed in Uvalde, Texas, May 24. And for so many others killed by hatred and bigotry in the . . . |

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