Daily Archives: 2023-03-25

2023-03-25: News Headlines

Janice Rothstein (2023-03-24). Californians tell Speaker McCarthy: Preserve, improve, expand Social Security. peoplesworld.org BAKERSFIELD, Calif.—In between the historic storms directly hitting this area of California, members of the Communist Party's San Joaquin Valley Club drove long distances to attend a March 17 rally for Social Security at Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's local congressional office. Their message of what to do with Social Security: "Preserve — Improve — …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-03-24). Swaziland's anti-monarchy activists face repression ahead of elections. greenleft.org.au Mvuselelo Mkhabela, a 21-year-old activist of the Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS), escaped from a hospital after being shot and tortured by the police, reports Peoples Dispatch.

AS EDITOR (2023-03-25). 19 years after the coup d'état: Statement from Fanmi Lavalas Political Organization. workers.org This Feb. 28 statement from Fanmi Lavalas, a people's party of Haiti, commemorates the February 29, 2004, coup d'état that overthrew Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Fanmi Lavalas honors those who fell during the coup and outlines its call for a Haitian solution to the crisis that has . . . |

Ann Brown (2023-03-24). Viral Video Criticizing Reparations Activists: Just Give All The Black Votes To Democrats, Don't Threaten Party Masters With Staying Home. moguldom.com There's a video that has gone viral on TikTok and Twitter from an influencer who goes by the social media name Lady Whistledown in the Hood in which she is criticizing reparations activists for threatening to withhold their votes from the Democrats until a reparations bill is passed. During the past two presidential elections, there …

Sharon Zhang (2023-03-24). AOC Slams GOP for Banning Children's Book "Life of Rosa Parks" for Being "Woke" truthout.org As the House debated a Republican bill that would unleash a flood of racist, far right abuse on schools and children across the U.S., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) delivered a fiery speech on Thursday condemning Republicans for their clear embrace of fascism. The bill, which passed the House largely on party lines on Friday morning, would force schools to disclose their curriculum and… |

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2023-03-25). AUKUS, the Australian Labor Party, and Growing Dissent. globalresearch.ca

Janice Rothstein (2023-03-24). Californians tell Speaker McCarthy: Preserve, improve, expand Social Security. peoplesworld.org BAKERSFIELD, Calif.—In between the historic storms directly hitting this area of California, members of the Communist Party's San Joaquin Valley Club drove long distances to attend a March 17 rally for Social Security at Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's local congressional office. Their message of what to do with Social Security: "Preserve — Improve — …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-03-24). Swaziland's anti-monarchy activists face repression ahead of elections. greenleft.org.au Mvuselelo Mkhabela, a 21-year-old activist of the Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS), escaped from a hospital after being shot and tortured by the police, reports Peoples Dispatch.

AS EDITOR (2023-03-25). 19 years after the coup d'état: Statement from Fanmi Lavalas Political Organization. workers.org This Feb. 28 statement from Fanmi Lavalas, a people's party of Haiti, commemorates the February 29, 2004, coup d'état that overthrew Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Fanmi Lavalas honors those who fell during the coup and outlines its call for a Haitian solution to the crisis that has . . . |

Ann Brown (2023-03-24). Viral Video Criticizing Reparations Activists: Just Give All The Black Votes To Democrats, Don't Threaten Party Masters With Staying Home. moguldom.com There's a video that has gone viral on TikTok and Twitter from an influencer who goes by the social media name Lady Whistledown in the Hood in which she is criticizing reparations activists for threatening to withhold their votes from the Democrats until a reparations bill is passed. During the past two presidential elections, there …

Sharon Zhang (2023-03-24). AOC Slams GOP for Banning Children's Book "Life of Rosa Parks" for Being "Woke" truthout.org As the House debated a Republican bill that would unleash a flood of racist, far right abuse on schools and children across the U.S., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) delivered a fiery speech on Thursday condemning Republicans for their clear embrace of fascism. The bill, which passed the House largely on party lines on Friday morning, would force schools to disclose their curriculum and… |

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2023-03-25). AUKUS, the Australian Labor Party, and Growing Dissent. globalresearch.ca

Workers World Boston bureau (2023-03-25). Masking for COVID-19 mitigation and safety is anti-capitalist solidarity. workers.org On Feb. 6, the Boston branch of Workers World Party collectively decided and unanimously voted, prompted by young and disabled comrades and candidates, to reaffirm our Party's position of solidarity with our class regarding the pandemic with the resolution below, explaining the branch's masking protocols to the movement. Members and . . . |

scorinoco (2023-03-24). Total Peace in Colombia: President Petro Meets With FARC Leaders. orinocotribune.com The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, met with former leaders of the now defunct armed insurgency organization Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) amid complaints about non-fulfillment of the Peace Agreement signed between the FARC and the government of Colombia in 2016. The meeting, which took place in Casa de Nariño, the seat of the Colombian presidency, on Wednesday, March 22, was attended by the president of the Comunes party Rodrigo Londoño, alias Commander Timochenko of FARC; Pastor Alapé, former member of the FARC secretariat and delegate of Comunes party; and Carlos Lozada, former FARC comma…

Albert Bender (2023-03-24). Indigenous gather to protest birthday party for genocidal U.S. President Andrew Jackson. peoplesworld.org NASHVILLE—Indigenous people and their supporters gathered here on March 15 to protest a celebration for the 256th birthday of the deservedly-maligned seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson. The infamous leader's birthday party was held at the Hermitage, Jackson's historic home in Nashville. The event included children's activities, gallery talks, an annual presidential wreath-laying ceremony …

Morning Star (2023-03-24). No red carpet: Striking French workers force cancelation of British king's visit. peoplesworld.org Strikes and mass protests continue to paralyze France as millions took to the streets to fight the government's plan to raise the retirement age. Jean-Luc Melenchon, leader of the left-wing France Unbowed party (La France Insoumise) praised what he called "the biggest social mobilization since May '68" as demonstrations were held in more than 250 …

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