Daily Archives: 2022-07-16

2022-07-16: News Headlines

Pavan Kulkarni (2022-07-16). Communist Party of Swaziland organizer is attacked again as regime turns jittery. peoplesdispatch.org The police attempted to arrest CPS member Bongi Nkambule, who was abducted and tortured by the police in March. When they failed to capture him, they took his wife into custody and beat her up in the police station. There has been an upsurge of resistance in Swaziland recently…

____ (2022-07-16). Xi stresses implementing Party's policies on Xinjiang, highlights stability, security. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping has stressed efforts to fully and faithfully implement the policies of the Communist Party of China (CPC) for the governance of Xinjiang in the new era, highlighting social stability and lasting security as the overarching goal.

_____ (2022-07-15). The Push-Pull Of The Abortion Rights Struggle Continues In The US. popularresistance.org In the few weeks that have passed since the United States Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade on June 24, stripping abortion rights from millions of women, the people of the United States have continued to fight back. Despite assurances, the response from the Biden administration to protect the fundamental right has been deemed resoundingly inadequate. | "The mass of the people will have to flood into the streets, and will have to remain in the streets," Monica Illyrich, a young organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, told Peoples Dispatch. "We will have to do everything they can to let the…

Fight Back (2022-07-15). FSU Students for a Democratic Society condemns Patriot Front organizing in South Florida. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the followings statement from FSU Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). | On July 2nd, less than 100 Patriot Front members from across the country convened in Boston for a march through the downtown. Patriot Front is a white nationalist hate group that engages in street protests, offensive attack training, and utilizes American fascist imagery for propaganda and recruitment purposes. Outfitted with steel police shields and flags depicting the fasces, a symbol used by Mussolini's National Fascist Party, the cowardly group marched with their faces covered in an attempted sh…

John Bachtell (2022-07-15). Emerging anti-MAGA majority must be mobilized to win in November. peoplesworld.org The growing alarm over the Republican Party's assault on U.S. constitutional democracy has created a new political framework for the 2022 elections. According to the latest polls, the anti-MAGA majority is "awakening" and reshaping the midterms into a competitive election rather than a Republican wave. The shift is occurring despite the overall drop in support …

____ (2022-07-14). Xi inspects Shihezi City of Xinjiang. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, visited Shihezi City on Wednesday afternoon during an inspection tour in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

____ (2022-07-14). Mainland denounces DPP's sinister aim of damaging cross-Strait relations. ecns.cn A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Thursday criticized Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority for its sinister intention of deliberately obstructing exchanges of compatriots across the Taiwan Strait and damaging cross-Strait relations.

____ (2022-07-14). Xi inspects Urumqi in China's Xinjiang. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visits Xinjiang University in the city of Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 12, 2022.

Howie Hawkins (2022-07-15). The Democrats' Third-Party Massacres. zcomm.org "The hardest thing I've ever seen the Democrats fight for is to keep a disabled Marine combat veteran off the ballot."

WSWS (2022-07-15). New Zealand government refuses to stop mass COVID infection, as doctors warn of catastrophe. wsws.org The Labour Party-led government is refusing to take the necessary public health measures to stop soaring hospitalisations and deaths.

____ (2022-07-14). Party leaders of Pacific Island countries laud exchanges, collaboration with China. ecns.cn Political party leaders from Pacific Island countries have hailed their countries' cooperation with China, saying that the two sides would strengthen exchanges and seek shared development.

____ (2022-07-14). Xi stresses protecting cultural heritage after watching ethnic performance in Xinjiang. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, watched a show of the Kirgiz ethnic minority epic Manas at the Museum of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Wednesday morning.

____ (2022-07-14). Xi says Xinjiang is a hub in Belt and Road cooperation. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said as the Belt and Road cooperation advances, Xinjiang is no longer a remote corner but a core area and a hub.

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-07-14). PSL Editorial — Biden's Middle East trip: Apartheid, war and oil. liberationnews.org Biden is evidently more concerned about the fading fortunes of U.S. empire than addressing the dire problems faced by working people.

Timour Kamran (2022-07-14). PA far right pushes crackdown on abortion, voting rights in a single package. liberationnews.org This agenda of ultra right wing religious fundamentalism is embodied by politicians like Doug Mastriano, who won the state Republican Party's gubernatorial primary race in May.

G. Dunkel (2022-07-14). Humanitarian crisis in England? workers.org Boris Johnson's hypocrisy plus anti-popular policies finally did him in. The resignation of Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party of Great Britain, which means he will be replaced as prime minister, was not just the comeuppance of a slapdash serial liar, forced out of office by 59 cabinet . . . |

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