Benjamin Norton (2022-07-10). US-backed fascism in Japan: How Shinzo Abe whitewashed genocidal imperial crimes. multipolarista.com Japan's longest serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe tried to rewrite the Japanese empire's genocidal history. After World War II, the US rehabilitated fascist war criminals, like Abe's grandfather Nobusuke Kishi, putting them in power in a right-wing one-party regime.

Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area (2022-07-10). 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). 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.

WSWS (2022-07-09). Sri Lankan Socialist Equality Party rejects appeal to participate in "all-party" talks. wsws.org The Sri Lankan section of the International Committee of the Fourth International has bluntly told the opposition Samara Jana Balavegaya that it will under no circumstances engage in talks with the political parties of the ruling class.

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.