2023-05-27: News Headlines

Suds, Snacks, Socialism Forum Committee (2023-05-27). Saturday 6/3: Attack on Trans People: A Page in the Fascist Playbook. indybay.org Starry Plaugh Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705 | also online…

Pablo Dávalos (2023-05-26). Inteligencia artificial, extractivismo digital y socialismo. globalizacion.ca En noviembre del año 2022, la empresa OpenAI, abría al público el acceso al programa de inteligencia artificial ChatGPT (por Generative Pretrained Transformer). A partir de entonces se desató una carrera por la inteligencia artificial entre varias empresas y varias…

CRD (2023-05-27). G7 Protest Against US-led War; Banko Brown's Murder; Turkey's Critical Elections By CRD. indybay.org Pacifica's Capitalism, Race and Democracy on G7 Protest Against US-led War; Banko Brown's Murder & Turkey's Critical Elections By CRD…

Stephan Schulmeister (2023-05-27). Inflation in the Age of Finance Capitalism. indybay.org The shift of profit-striving from the real- to the financial-economy lowered economic growth Unemployment and atypical jobs soared. The welfare state was weakened. At the same time, financial wealth grew exorbitantly (the DAX increased 14-fold since 1988). The development of financial derivatives made possible profiting from short-term changes in stocks, currencies and bonds.

Colin Todhunter (2023-05-26). What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…

Harm Venhuizen (2023-05-26). U.S. capitalism needs more cheap workers; Republicans respond by weakening child labor laws. peoplesworld.org MADISON, Wis. (AP)—Lawmakers in several states are embracing legislation to let children work in more hazardous occupations, for more hours on school nights, and in expanded roles, including serving alcohol in bars and restaurants as young as 14. The efforts to significantly roll back labor rules are largely led by Republican lawmakers to address worker shortages …

Harm Venhuizen (2023-05-26). U.S. capitalism needs more cheap labor; Republicans respond by weakening child labor laws. peoplesworld.org MADISON, Wis. (AP)—Lawmakers in several states are embracing legislation to let children work in more hazardous occupations, for more hours on school nights, and in expanded roles, including serving alcohol in bars and restaurants as young as 14. The efforts to significantly roll back labor rules are largely led by Republican lawmakers to address worker shortages …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-26). On African Liberation Day, there is renewed focus on struggle against capitalism and imperialism. peoplesdispatch.org May 25 is African Liberation Day, marking the founding of the Organization of African Unity in 1963. 60 years later, the struggle against colonialism and neo-colonialism is not complete…

Tanupriya Singh (2023-05-26). Unity is an imperative: reclaiming African Liberation Day, 60 years on. peoplesdispatch.org African Liberation Day marks the founding of the Organization of African Unity in 1963. While the idea of 'liberation' has since been removed in letter, and even in spirit, from official commemorations of the day, radical forces have held onto it in their fight against capitalism…

Eesha Yaqoob, Saad Javed, Shehzad Ali Khan (2023-05-27). Correspondence] Trauma care in the face of climate change in Pakistan. thelancet.com The effect of climate change on society is broad and profound. Studies have shown that low-income countries face the greatest number of deaths due to disasters, with 33% of those deaths occurring in countries with the lowest human development indices.1 Extreme weather events have killed 10‚Äà000 people and caused US$4 billion of damage in Pakistan, which is continuously placed among the top ten most susceptible countries on the Climate Risk Index. The country is especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change due to its high rates of multidimensional poverty.

Joelle Fishman (2023-05-26). 1,700 Connecticut caregivers facing poverty go on strike at six group homes. peoplesworld.org HARTFORD, Conn.—Over 1,700 union group home and day program workers providing care for individuals with disabilities in six Medicaid-funded agencies across the state walked off their jobs on Wednesday, May 24, in an indefinite strike to end poverty. They are members of SEIU District 1199NE. After picketing in the morning, the caregivers moved to the …

Cara Brumfield (2023-05-26). Work Requirements Won't Solve Labor Shortages. progressive.org For decades, Republican lawmakers have sought to deny benefits to people experiencing poverty unless they can prove they are either working or actively looking for work. Now those efforts have been ramped into overdrive.

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