Daily Archives: 2022-07-09

2022-07-09: News Headlines

Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area (2022-07-09). Wednesday 7/6: Labor History Online Discussion Group – Rise of the Excluded. indybay.org Zoom (Register at http: //bit.ly/FSFD-Labor)…

WSWS (2022-07-09). Biden signs toothless executive order in lieu of serious measures to defend abortion rights. wsws.org The meager scope of the executive order's provisions as well as Biden's speech belied his effort to present himself and the Democratic Party as defenders of the right to abortion and democratic rights in general.

WSWS (2022-07-09). The Democratic party-sanctioned police rampage in Akron, Ohio. wsws.org The savage police murder of Jayland Walker followed by a Democratic-led police-state crackdown in Akron, Ohio has exposed the class role of the police, and the bankruptcy of reforming the capitalist state.

_____ (2022-07-08). Fresh US Sanctions On Iran Despite Wanting To Revive Nuclear Deal. popularresistance.org The current round of sanctions add to the numerous rounds of similar coercive measures imposed by the US on Iran after the Donald Trump administration unilaterally withdrew from the multi-party JCPOA in May 2018. | On Wednesday, July 7, the US Treasury and State Departments announced fresh sanctions on various entities involved in Iranian oil trade with China and other East Asian countries. The fresh sanctions come despite the ongoing efforts to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or the Iran nuclear deal, in Qatar.

Ted Kelly (2022-07-08). 'The future is in the people, and the people can't wait'. workers.org These edited remarks were made at the July 3 Free Mumia rally in Philadelphia. I owe my start in political organizing to Workers World Party and to the movement to free Mumia Abu-Jamal. To Pam Africa and Mike Africa Jr., to Asantewaa Nkrumah Ture and to YahNé Ndgo, to Joe . . . |

G. Dunkel (2022-07-08). Haiti: Masses take to the streets June 26. workers.org At the call of Lavalas, a political party led by former President Jean Bertrand Aristide — who was deposed by U.S.-backed coups twice — thousands of Haitians took to the streets of Port-au-Prince June 26. Tens of thousands of Haitians came out June 26 in Port-au-Prince. According to interviews in . . . |

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-07-08). Sunday 7/10: Voting Blue Won't Do–Build a Movement for Reproductive Justice. indybay.org Please register for zoom event: tinyurl.com/FSP-July10

Anonymous669 (2022-07-08). Northern Iraq Operation Claims Lives Of Five More Turkish Service Memebers. southfront.org FILE PHOTO: Turkish soldiers seen at the border town of Akcakale © Reuters / Murad Sezer | The Turkish military has lost five more service members in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, where it has been conducting a large-scale operation against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). | The operation, codenamed Claw-Lock, was launched on April 17 to neutralize PKK cells in the areas of Metina, Zap and Avashin Basyan. | On July 7, the Turkish Ministry of National Defense announced that three service members were killed and fi…

WSWS (2022-07-08). The July 9 protest in Sri Lanka: A socialist program for workers and youth. wsws.org In opposition to the perspective of the Galle Face protest leaders, who call for the formation of an alternative bourgeois government, the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) advocates for a revolutionary socialist program for the working class.

Staff (2022-07-08). UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Announces his Resignation. orinocotribune.com Faced with an avalanche of resignations from his cabinet ministers and calls for him to step down, Boris Johnson announced this Thursday, July 7, his resignation as prime minister of the United Kingdom. Johnson indicated that he is also resigning from his position as leader of the Conservative Party. | "It is clear that now the will of the parliamentary Conservative Party is that there should be a new leader of the party and, therefore, a new prime minister," he said before the headquarters of the government at 10 Downing Street. However, he specified that he will remain at his post until the Tories elect a new l…

____ (2022-07-08). Former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe collapses after being shot during speech. ecns.cn Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe collapsed during his speech in Nara on Friday and taken to the hospital, NHK cited an official from the Liberal Democratic Party as reported.

_____ (2022-07-07). NYC Teachers Criticize Massive School Budget Cuts. popularresistance.org At the end of the school year, Annie Tan, a special education elementary school teacher in Sunset Park in Brooklyn, New York, said teachers typically have a party. This year, however, that celebration was mired by the loss of 16 teachers from her school who are being excessed (ie, moved to different schools and positions) as a result of massive public education budget cuts that are being enacted by the New York City Board of Education and Mayor Eric Adams' administration. | The loss of those teachers, and the resulting vacancies that will remain unfilled, means that Tan's students will continue to not have an art…

_____ (2022-07-07). UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Set To Step Down. popularresistance.org UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to resign on Thursday, July 7. BBC Political Editor Chris Mason has stated that Johnson plans to remain in office until later this year, pending a leadership race within the Conservative Party. The new PM will be in place ahead of the Tory party conference in October. However, sections within the party are demanding he step down immediately. | The announcement follows major chaos within the government this week, triggered by a record wave of resignations of Cabinet members, junior ministers, and aides. The crisis snowballed following the significant resignations of Secretary…

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