Daily Archives: November 9, 2023

2023-11-09: News Headlines

WSWS (2023-11-08). Workers and young people speak out against Gaza genocide at SEP (Australia) public meeting. wsws.org "Mobilising the international working class is the only way that we can get out of this situation and prevent future wars. The only solution is socialism."

Michael Barker (2023-11-08). Naomi Klein in the Tracks of Her Double. counterpunch.org Marxists understand what it's like to have liberal intellectuals and hostile media pundits distort their ideas as if "refracted through a funhouse mirror". Similarly in Naomi Klein's book, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World (2023), the bestselling writer explains what it has been like to have her progressive ideas fed "into a bonkers blender"

Michael Barker (2023-11-08). Naomi Klein in the Tracks of Her Double. counterpunch.org Marxists understand what it's like to have liberal intellectuals and hostile media pundits distort their ideas as if "refracted through a funhouse mirror". Similarly in Naomi Klein's book, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World (2023), the bestselling writer explains what it has been like to have her progressive ideas fed "into a bonkers blender"

Peoples Dispatch (2023-11-08). Progressive forces condemn right-wing attack on PSOE headquarters in Madrid. peoplesdispatch.org Progressive and left-wing forces have condemned the attack on the headquarters of the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) in Madrid by a right-wing mob on Monday, November 6. | The ongoing protests by the conservative People's Party and far-right groups, including Vox, triggered by the PSOE-led acting government's plan to grant amnesty to the leaders of the Catalan independence protests, turned violent on Monday. | A section of protesters tried to barge into the PSOE office and clashed with the police. The leadership of the PSOE and the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) denounced the attack and termed the…

Juan M. Garcia (2023-11-09). Cuban President visits El Morao community in Havana. plenglish.com The head of State was accompanied by Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), and top Party and Government officials in Havana and the neighborhood, the Presidency of the Republic reported on its X account. | According to source, in El Morao, one of 11 neighborhoods undergoing transformation the Havana municipality of La Lisa, 1,500 people have benefited from the changes, mainly in social works, which consist of paved streets, sports and recreational areas, health care and education. | The transformation pla…

Zo HaDerekh (2023-11-09). Israeli Communists and others take peace protest ban to Supreme Court. peoplesworld.org JERUSALEM—Expect fewer peace demonstrations in Israel, thanks to a decision of the Supreme Court on Wednesday that sided with police who argued protests are a threat to public order. Though many Israelis—Jewish and Arab—have been taking to the streets to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's war against Palestinians over the past month, the size of …

National Homelessness Law Center (2023-11-09). Law Center Statement on UN Report Decrying Ongoing Human Rights Abuses Against Unhoused People. indybay.org WASHINGTON, D.C. — (November 3, 2023) Today, the United Nations Human Rights Committee highlighted serious and ongoing patterns of human rights abuses — including those against people experiencing homelessness and poverty — in the Concluding Observations from its recent convening that investigated the United States' compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

National Homelessness Law Center (2023-11-08). Law Center Statement on UN Report Decrying Ongoing Human Rights Abuses Against Unhoused People. indybay.org WASHINGTON, D.C. — (November 3, 2023) Today, the United Nations Human Rights Committee highlighted serious and ongoing patterns of human rights abuses — including those against people experiencing homelessness and poverty — in the Concluding Observations from its recent convening that investigated the United States' compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Sonali Kolhatkar (2023-11-08). Seeing Through the Economic Bait and Switch. counterpunch.org Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, recently issued a scathing statement about the shameful state of the United States economy. On October 31, 2023, De Schutter called out several top private employers in the U.S., Amazon, Walmart, and DoorDash, for trapping their workers in a cycle of poverty.

Juan M. Garcia (2023-11-09). Cuba states that peace and sustainable development are urgent goals. plenglish.com Paris, Nov 9 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Minister of Education Naima Ariatne Trujillo called at the 42nd UNESCO General Conference on Thursday to maintain efforts tirelessly in pursuit of peace, sustainable development and the eradication of poverty.

Oraily Madruga Rios (2023-11-09). Palestine's poverty ramps up due to ongoing Israeli onslaughts. plenglish.com Geneva, Nov 9 (Prensa Latina) Whether the war in Gaza pursues for another month, the poverty rate in Palestine will ramp up 34% and will push nearly half a million more people into misery, an official study warned on Thursday.

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