(2023-03-24). Rep. Ro Khanna on Regulating Banks, TikTok, China, Ukraine & His Vote on the "Horrors of Socialism" democracynow.org 
We speak with Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, regulating the banking sector, and how Federal Reserve interest rate hikes contributed to the banking crisis. Silicon Valley Bank was based in Khanna's district in California, and he has criticized fellow Democrats who supported a 2018 bill that weakened banking oversight for some banks. "We need to regulate large regional banks the same way that we regulate the Big Four banks," says Khanna. He also talks about growing concern from lawmakers about the social video app TikTok, the Biden…
(2023-03-24). Saturday 4/1: What are the Prospects for World Peace? indybay.org The Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705 | Also accessible online…
(2023-03-24). Bankstown: A microcosm of Australia's social crisis. wsws.org The social situation in Bankstown, with soaring rents and mortgages, stagnant or declining incomes and mounting social distress, shows that capitalism offers no future for the working class.
(2023-03-24). The value American capitalism places on workers' lives: BP fined $156,250 for the deaths of two refinery operators in Ohio explosion. wsws.org Ben and Max Morrissey were burned to death in an explosion and fire at the BP Husky oil refinery in Oregon, Ohio, just outside of Toledo. For American capitalism, the life of a worker is very cheap.
(2023-03-23). What is the struggle by workers at Deutsche Post about? wsws.org The struggles in France, Britain, Greece and here in Germany must be linked to the fight against war and its cause, capitalism. No social problem can be solved without breaking the power of the financial oligarchy.
(2023-03-24). Swaziland's anti-monarchy activists face repression ahead of elections. greenleft.org.au Mvuselelo Mkhabela, a 21-year-old activist of the Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS), escaped from a hospital after being shot and tortured by the police, reports Peoples Dispatch.
(2023-03-24). Rep. Ro Khanna on Regulating Banks, TikTok, China, Ukraine & His Vote on the "Horrors of Socialism" democracynow.org We speak with Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, regulating the banking sector, and how Federal Reserve interest rate hikes contributed to the banking crisis. Silicon Valley Bank was based in Khanna's district in California, and he has criticized fellow Democrats who supported a 2018 bill that weakened banking oversight for some banks. "We need to regulate large regional banks the same way that we regulate the Big Four banks," says Khanna. He also talks about growing concern from lawmakers about the social video app TikTok, the Biden…
(2023-03-24). Saturday 4/1: What are the Prospects for World Peace? indybay.org The Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705 | Also accessible online…
(2023-03-24). Bankstown: A microcosm of Australia's social crisis. wsws.org The social situation in Bankstown, with soaring rents and mortgages, stagnant or declining incomes and mounting social distress, shows that capitalism offers no future for the working class.
(2023-03-24). The value American capitalism places on workers' lives: BP fined $156,250 for the deaths of two refinery operators in Ohio explosion. wsws.org Ben and Max Morrissey were burned to death in an explosion and fire at the BP Husky oil refinery in Oregon, Ohio, just outside of Toledo. For American capitalism, the life of a worker is very cheap.
(2023-03-23). What is the struggle by workers at Deutsche Post about? wsws.org The struggles in France, Britain, Greece and here in Germany must be linked to the fight against war and its cause, capitalism. No social problem can be solved without breaking the power of the financial oligarchy.
(2023-03-24). Swaziland's anti-monarchy activists face repression ahead of elections. greenleft.org.au Mvuselelo Mkhabela, a 21-year-old activist of the Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS), escaped from a hospital after being shot and tortured by the police, reports Peoples Dispatch.
(2023-03-23). The Eight-Year-Old's Iraq. strategic-culture.org Twenty years after the Iraq invasion: It was the last period of true optimism, with a sense that somewhere in the unknown unknowns we would meet destiny. | By Jude RUSSO | Iwas an avid supporter of the Iraq invasion in 2003. I believed that Saddam Hussein was a tyrant and a danger to American interests; I believed that, as a civilization, we had a God-given mission to the world, helping those we've subdued and warring down the still-arrogant. We beat Nazism; we beat communism; now it was time to beat radical Islam (although the "radical" got left out as often as not in those heady days), or, as the real connoisse…
(2023-03-23). Belarusians pay tribute to victims of Khatyn massacre on its 80th anniversary. peoplesdispatch.org On Wednesday, March 22, progressive groups in Belarus paid tribute to the victims of World War II's Khatyn massacre on its 80th anniversary. Delegations from political parties including the Communist Party of Belarus (CPB), the Federation of the Trade Unions, youth groups including the Belarusian Republican Youth Union (BRSM) and the League of Communist Youth (LKM), the Belarusian Women's Union, the Belarusian Public Association of Veterans, and others laid flowers at the monument to the Unconquered Man and the Eternal Flame at the Khatyn memorial complex near Minsk to mark the occasion. Several ministers and gov…
(2023-03-24). Insights | Rana Mitter: China's poverty reduction achievement an inspiration to global south countries. ecns.cn The just-concluded "Two Sessions" have chartered the future plan for China's development. Amid mounting economic pressures globally, how will China's economy maintain steady growth with resilience and vitality? Rana Mitter, a professor of modern Chinese history and politics at the University of Oxford, shares his views during an exclusive interview with China News Network.
(2023-03-23). Striking Los Angeles education workers speak out on second day of strike. wsws.org Unable to continue slaving away for poverty wages in one of the most expensive cities in the world, thousands of education workers, including janitors, cafeteria workers, maintenance staff and teachers continued to publicly demonstrate on Wednesday.