2022-09-02: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-09-01). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Airline and airport workers in Portugal, Spain, Belgium and Germany continue fight to reverse cuts to pay and conditions; educators begin pay and conditions strikes in France, Hungary, Poland and Serbia as new school term begins; refuse workers in Newham, London walk out and further bin strikes planned across Scotland as inflation hits low paid; protests in Soweto, South Africa against energy cut-offs to poverty-stricken workers making illegal connections to electricity grid…

Cecilia Paz (2022-09-01). How Cuba treated me for COVID. liberationnews.org Cuba's socialist healthcare system is able to protect its citizens more effectively than U.S. capitalism's for-profit counterpart…

Diegoramos718 (2022-09-01). With Western Imperialism Decline, Capitalism Is in Crisis—a New Phase Is Emerging. scheerpost.com Foto: Alan Santos / PR | " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/scheerpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Informal_meeting_of_the_BRICS_during_the_2019_G20_Osaka_summit-scaled.jpeg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1″ data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/scheerpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Informal_meeting_of_the_BRICS_during_the_2019_G20_Osaka_summit-scaled.jpeg?fit=780%2C520&ssl=1″ src="https://i0.wp.com/scheerpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Informal_meeting_of_the_BRICS_during_the_2019_G20_Osaka_summit.jpeg?resize=780%2C520&ssl=1″wp-image-23467″ sizes="(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px" data-recalc-dims="1″ />

Fight Back (2022-09-01). Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany celebrates 40th anniversary. fightbacknews.org Gelsenkirchen, Germany – The Marxist Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) celebrated its 40th anniversary with a weekend of celebration from August 25-28. Among the 1500 who attended were party members from across Germany, their families, residents of the local community, and international guests representing revolutionary parties and organizations from 31 countries across five continents. Andy Koch, the National Organizer of Freedom Road Socialist Organization attended the celebration. | The climax of the weekend on Saturday, August 27, was the unveiling of a new statue of German revolutionary thinker Karl Marx, whi…

United Nations (2022-09-01). Video: Afghanistan: Extreme Poverty and Despair: Child Malnutrition, Six Million "at Risk of Famine." U.N. Security Council Meeting. globalresearch.ca

____ (2022-09-01). China issues guideline to further promote national defense education. ecns.cn A guideline on enhancing and improving national defense education for all people has been jointly issued by the Communist Party of China Central Committee, the State Council and the Central Military Commission.

WSWS (2022-09-01). The death of Mikhail Gorbachev and the legacy of Stalinist counterrevolution. wsws.org Gorbachev, who is being hailed in the Western press as a statesman, was responsible for the final act of betrayal carried out by the parasites who raised themselves up above and fed off the Soviet working class—the full-scale restoration of capitalism in the USSR and the dissolution of that country into more than a dozen states.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-31). Prisoners for Profit: From the Kononovich Brothers to U.S. Jails. libya360.wordpress.com John Parker Based on remarks given at "Free the Kononovich Brothers: International Campaign Meeting" on Aug. 25. Mikhail and Alexander Kononovich are leaders of the Leninist Communist Youth Union of Ukraine. They were among hundreds of political opponents of the Ukrainian regime jailed this year, and thousands since the 2014 U.S.-backed coup. On July 18,…

_____ (2022-08-31). Over One Million Bolivians Mobilize To Support President Arce's Government. popularresistance.org On Thursday, August 25, under the banner of 'March in Defense of Democracy and Economic Reconstruction', over one million Bolivians mobilized in support of the government of President Luis Arce and Vice President David Choquehuanca and its socialist economic policies. | Workers from diverse sectors, peasants, students, and members of various Indigenous organizations and social movements from all nine departments of the country arrived in capital La Paz to ratify their support for the national government of the ruling Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party. | The call for the march was given by the Pact of Unity (…

Richard Becker (2022-08-31). Gorbachev: Darling of the West, despised at home & worldwide. liberationnews.org Gorbachev's reign, which lasted from 1985-91, ended with the restoration of capitalism in the USSR, the withdrawal of vital aid to and trade with countries and movements fighting imperialism worldwide, the breakup of the Soviet state into 15 separate countries, and the opening of them to unprecedented exploitation and corruption.

Diegoramos718 (2022-08-31). Craig Murray: Marx Was Right. scheerpost.com By Craig Murray / CraigMurray.org.uk I have never considered myself a Marxist. I came to adulthood at the end of the one, forty year long, period in the history of Western civilisation when there was a reduction in the chasm between the rich and ordinary people. In consequence I believed that a tolerable society might …

Fight Back (2022-08-31). University of Minnesota Teamsters picket, march against poverty wages. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — More than 300 University of Minnesota (UMN) service workers represented by Teamsters Local 320, along with members AFSCME, students, faculty, and others, protested on the school's campus, August 30, to demand an end to poverty wages and abusive employment practices. | Local 320 represents 1500 workers at UMN who clean buildings, service dormitories, maintain grounds, prepare food, maintain HVAC systems, care for research animals, drive trucks, and perform other activities across the university's five campuses. Many of the workers are Black, including immigrants from Somalia, Ethiopia and…

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