Daily Archives: 2024-05-03

2024-05-03: News Headlines

Labor Video Project (2024-05-03). SF Workers Rally for a General Strike for Palestine & Labor Party on May Day 2024. indybay.org

Pranjal Pandey (2024-05-03). Singapore: Lawrence Wong to Lead Amid Economic and Political Challenge. counterpunch.org Singapore has announced that Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong will take over as the country's next leader on May 15. Wong, 51, has garnered unanimous support from lawmakers within the People's Action Party (PAP). He will succeed Lee Hsien Loong, who has held the top job for 20 years. Wong, who earned praise for his

MEE staff (2024-05-03). UK Labour Party position on Gaza blamed for Oldham election loss. middleeasteye.net

Aram Aharonian (2024-05-03). Milei's scatological politics. pressenza.com The uncalled-for, insulting, and scatological expressions often used by Argentine president Javier Milei to disqualify his opponents, in a permanent tirade unprecedented in a presidential figure, try to hide the massive popular mobilizations that mark the thermometer of the unease of the middle and working classes against the anarcho-capitalist government. | Milei's scatological diatribes run parallel to the commotion provoked by the government's destructive strategy, which destabilized the opposition parties, the friendly opposition, the ruling party, and also the business centers such as the Argentine Industria…

ecns.cn (2024-05-03). 20th CPC Central Committee to hold its third plenary session in July. ecns.cn The third plenary session of the 20th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee will be held in Beijing in July, according to a decision made at a CPC Central Committee Political Bureau meeting on April 30.

bwitanek (2024-05-03). Ben Taylor, Green Party Candidate for NJ's 9th Congressional District Condemns HR 6090. fightbackbetter.com Statement on HR 6090 In 2019, then-president Donald Trump signed Executive Order 13899. The order instructed all federal agencies to consider…

themoscowtimes (2024-05-03). Germany Blames Russia for 'Intolerable' Cyber Attack on SPD Members. themoscowtimes.com Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said a group "steered by the military intelligence service of Russia" was behind a January 2023 attack.

Associated Press (2024-05-03). UK Conservatives suffer big losses in local elections as Labour appears headed for power. scmp.com Britain's governing Conservative Party is suffering heavy losses as local election results pour in Friday, piling pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ahead of a UK general election.

ecns.cn (2024-05-03). Deepening of reform to top plenary agenda. ecns.cn The Communist Party of China Central Committee will hold its third plenary session in July in a significant move to comprehensively deepen reform and advance Chinese modernization, according to a decision made at a key Party meeting on Tuesday.

Michael Roberts (2024-05-03). India: Modi and the rise of the billionaire Raj. cadtm.org A general election in India starts today. 970m Indians, more than 10% of the world's population, will head to the polls in what will be the largest election in history for the Lok Sabha (House of the People) parliamentary elections. The poll will spread across India and take up to 4 June to complete. Opinion polls suggest that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, leader of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and his coalition will win a third successive 5-year term, and win by (…) | – | / |

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