(2022-07-21). Right-wing ruling party wins Japanese upper house election. wsws.org The LDP ability to retain control in the National Diet is an indication of the deep distrust the working class has for the Democrats and their allies.
(2022-07-21). Wednesday 7/20: Labor History Online Discussion Group – Regaining Labor's Mojo. indybay.org Zoom (Register: bit.ly/FSFD-Labor)…
(2022-07-20). WW editorial: Beyond Biden. workers.org 
Young people who backed Joe Biden in 2020, because they feared or hated Donald Trump, are now fed up with the Democratic Party. Fed up, disillusioned, disgusted and looking for new solutions. That was the message in a July 14 article in The New York Times interviewing youth from around . . . |
(2022-07-20). UAW Delegates Head to Convention and Prepare for First Direct Elections. popularresistance.org Auto Workers (UAW) members made history last November, winning direct elections of national officers ("one member, one vote") in a membership referendum. Now delegates are headed to a Constitutional Convention where candidates will be nominated for the top slots. | The whole process will put to the test whether reformers can break the iron grip of the Administration Caucus, the one party that has ruled the union for 70 years. | Winning direct elections was the first hurdle. The next, formidable hurdles are: Will a credible slate of challengers form? Will a majority of members vote for change? And can new leaders…
(2022-07-20). Indigenous rights take center stage in Chile's new constitution. peoplesworld.org 
Chile's new constitution will give official recognition to the Indigenous peoples within its borders, making it the third plurinational country in South America, after Ecuador and Bolivia. It is part of the sweeping reforms of President Gabriel Boric Font, whose broad coalition of left-wing parties, including Chile's Communist Party, came to power on Nov. 19, …
(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."
(2022-07-20). Let's Rebrand the Misnamed GOP as the BLP. thiscantbehappening.net We need to start calling the Republican Party by a new nickname that more accurately reflects what it has degenerated into. For well over a century the party of Abraham Lincoln has been referred to as the GOP — especially by the news media, whose editors love appellations that allow for shorter headlines … |
(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.
(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 …