Daily Archives: 2022-07-20

2022-07-20: News Headlines

Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area (2022-07-20). Wednesday 7/20: Labor History Online Discussion Group – Regaining Labor's Mojo. indybay.org Zoom (Register: bit.ly/FSFD-Labor)…

WSWS (2022-07-20). Sri Lanka's parliament to elect president Wednesday with vast authoritarian powers in fraudulent anti-democratic exercise. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) has denounced Wednesday's vote as "a fraud and a conspiracy against the working class, youth and rural poor."

Staff (2022-07-19). Egyptian alliance calls for Arab unity and action to confront imperialism and liberate Palestine. samidoun.net Egyptian organizations gathered together in a conference for Palestine on Saturday, 16 July, held at the headquarters of the Karama Party in Cairo, Egypt's capital. Jaldia Abubakra of Samidoun España spoke on behalf of the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement (Masar Badil), where she called for an "Arab and international alliance to support the Palestinian …

Peoples Dispatch (2022-07-19). Morocco's Democratic Way blocked from holding national conference, supporters attacked by police. peoplesdispatch.org Morocco's Ministry of Interior has been delaying granting permission for the conference of the marxist Democratic Way (Al-Nahj Al-Democratic) party for several months now…

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-07-19). PSL Editorial — Deadly heat wave sweeping Europe highlights criminal inaction on climate crisis. liberationnews.org The unfolding disaster in Europe has rightfully drawn global attention to the woefully inadequate action taken by the governments of the wealthy capitalist countries to address the climate change crisis.

Staff (2022-07-19). Diosdado Cabello: Washington Sends Mercenaries to Attack Venezuela's Pipelines. orinocotribune.com On Monday, July 18, the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, denounced the US government for sending mercenaries to Venezuela "to attack oil facilities." | During a press conference given by the ruling party, Cabello spoke about the attack perpetrated this Sunday on a pipeline in eastern Venezuela. | "The attacks against the electrical system and against the oil system come from the United States through mercenaries," said Cabello. "All attacks on the electrical system are transversal. In the end, they affect the water as well, but they look for places to do da…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-07-19). Progressives demonstrate in German tourist island of Sylt protesting social inequalities. peoplesdispatch.org The ruling class and the rich in Germany continue partying in resorts while the majority of the population is reeling under an acute cost of living crisis…

_____ (2022-07-19). Imran Khan Rewrites Pakistan's Political History. popularresistance.org It is an unsavory proposition always, be it in India or Pakistan, when political power is usurped by fly-by-night operators who engineer defections from a ruling party, and an established government gets overthrown despite its mandate to govern. | In India — so far, at least — such shenanigans leading to regime change at the federal or state level have not been manipulated by foreign powers — except, perhaps, in the ouster of the first communist government in the southern state of Kerala, way back in 1959. | In South Asian politics, Nepal, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Maldives have been chronic ca…

Peter Lownds (2022-07-19). 'The Slackers and Other Stories': Earnest purpose, useful lessons and enjoyable reading. peoplesworld.org The portrait on the cover of Eric A. Gordon's recently released translation of Manuel Tiago's short story collection The Slackers and Other Stories is of a young, devastatingly handsome soldier who turns out to be none other than the author himself as a young "slacker." The life of àÅlvaro Cunhal, long-time Communist Party functionary and …

WSWS (2022-07-19). Workers speak on Johnson government crisis and the SEP's call for a general election. wsws.org Christopher from Belfast said, "Most people I know think Labour aren't much better so what's the point of voting for them." He added, "I would tell them to support the Socialist Equality Party."

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