2024-03-29: News Headlines

Joe Sims (2024-03-29). Build the Party, Build the Clubs. cpusa.org Editor's Note: Build the Party, Build the Clubs is one of three discussion documents submitted by the CPUSA in preparation for its 32nd National Convention. It was approved for submission by the party's National Board at its March 27th meeting. | As the 2024 election unfolds, the U.S. working class is increasingly taking the fight to the bosses. Last year, strike action was way up, as was involvement in electoral struggles all over the country. Labor is taking greater independent political initiative to set the national agenda. The AFL-CIO, for example, recently demanded a ceasefire in Gaza. | This independen…

Sean Reynolds (2024-03-29). Mountaintop Removal: David Brooks and the Elite Consensus on Gaza. counterpunch.org In his March 24th opinion piece for the Times, David Brooks agrees with a "broad consensus atop the Democratic Party" (is there room for such breadth on the peak of that lofty mountain?) saying that Israel has the right to defend its apartheid regime by killing, banishing or imprisoning not only Gaza's entire military but its entire elected government

WSWS (2024-03-29). New Zealand Labour Party leader feigns concern about inequality. wsws.org Workers and young people should not be taken in by the utterly hypocritical posturing of Labour leader Chris Hipkins, who leads a party of big business and imperialist war, which is responsible for the worsening social crisis.

Zack Linly (2024-03-29). MAGA Republican Who Backed Trump's False Voter Fraud Claims Gets $5K Fine For Voting Illegally 9 Times. newsone.com Georgia Republican Party Official, Brian Pritchard, was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine for voting illegally nine times while a felon.

Eric Brooks (2024-03-29). Strategies for organizational unity and action. cpusa.org The only remedy against a highly organized ruling class is a highly organized Communist Party. The fascist MAGA right is becoming Struggles within the Struggle | The Party Program states, "Grassroots Communist Party clubs are vital to bringing the Party's vision, strategy, and tactics into local work with masses of working people." As a member of a newer, smaller club, however, we are of…

The Independent (2024-03-29). NUP: Kateregga does not speak for our party. independent.co.ug Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | National Unity Platform- NUP President Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine has distanced the party from comments by Ali Kateregga, a NUP Councilor from Masaka who pleaded with President Yoweri Museveni to release the jailed NUP party supporters. At the swearing-in ceremony of new ministers at State House on …

Ana Perdigón (2024-03-29). Diosdado Cabello Comments on Possible Final Presidential Candidate of Unitary Platform. orinocotribune.com Following the far-right Unitary Platform's (PUD) registration of Edmundo González Urrutia as their "cover" candidate for the presidential elections, the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, has commented on who might replace this "provisional" candidate of the far-right opposition. | During the broadcast of his program Con el Mazo Dando, Cabello first talked about what a "cover candidate" means, and how it is defined in the Venezuelan legal system. He explained, reading from Electoral Law, that a "cover" candidate may be replaced by someone who has already been…

newarab (2024-03-29). Morocco's Moudawana reform puts women's rights in ballot box. newarab.com For many Moroccans, SaàØd Saadi embodies the struggle for women's rights. Now a researcher in political economy and a retired professor, Saadi looks back on his upbringing as the spark for his career, one filled with fighting social injustice and misogyny. He recalls his earliest years when he was surrounded by his politically active family, including his sisters. | Saadi soon became involved in the Progress and Socialism Party (PPS) and years later, joined Abdrerrahman Youssoufi's leftist government as Secretary of State for Social Protection, Family and Childhood in 1998. | In office, Saadi pushed for…

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2024-03-27: News Headlines

Muhammed Shabeer (2024-03-27). Austrian social democrat wins Salzburg mayoral runoff, vows to resolve housing crisis. peoplesdispatch.org Bernhard Auinger from the Social Democratic Party of Austria has won the mayorship of the city and the runner-up Kay-Michael Dankl from the Communist Party of Austria will take charge as the deputy mayor.

WSWS (2024-03-27). Australia: SEP electoral members call on workers and youth to help put a socialist anti-war party on the ballot. wsws.org "They're trying to make it harder for minority parties to exist—it's crazy. I'm for our voices being heard, normal people, not the billionaires sponsoring all the other parties."

Peter Boyle (2024-03-27). 'Malaysia needs a strong left front' — PSM leader. greenleft.org.au Socialist Party of Malaysia (Parti Sosialis Malaysia, PSM) Deputy President S Arutchelvan (Arul) recently spoke with Green Left's Peter Boyle about a new hope for reviving left unity in the country.

The Independent (2024-03-27). NUP hits at Among for blocking Mpuuga's removal. independent.co.ug Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform — NUP party has cried foul and slammed Parliament for blocking the removal of Mathias Mpuuga Nsamba, from the Parliamentary Commission to defend ongoing corruption practices in the August House. NUP Secretary-General Lewis Davis Rubongoya, commented after Speaker Anita Annet Among's letter dated 25th March 2024 rejecting the …

WSWS (2024-03-27). Right-wing presidential candidate RFK Jr. picks wealthy Silicon Valley lawyer Nicole Shanahan as running mate. wsws.org Shanahan, 38, is a longtime donor to Democratic Party campaigns and was formerly married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the 10th wealthiest person in the world.

csmonitor.com (2024-03-27). NBC sought a conservative voice. But its employees didn't want Ronna McDanielNBC News cut ties March 26 with former Republican National Committee chief Ronna McDaniel less than a week after hiring her as an on-air political contributor, a decision that followed a furious protest by some of its journalists and commentators.

Comment: This story shows how American MSM that only serves both Dems and Repubs has gotten stupider from year-to-year.

aa.com.tr (2024-03-27). Top UN court likely to issue tough decision against Israel for ongoing attacks on Gaza The world court will rule on the requested additional measures in the coming days, which may include criticism of Israel as well as requests for additional monitoring reports, according to the KAN broadcaster report.

newcoldwar.org (2024-03-27). Hezbollah retaliates against Israeli atrocities in Gaza with strikes on military bases Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement has conducted multiple operations against Israeli military outposts in the northern part of the 1948 occupied territories, expressing its unwavering support for Palestinians in Gaza amid a genocidal war.

ca.news.yahoo.com (2024-03-27). Palestinians drown trying to reach Gaza aid air-dropped by US into seaThe Pentagon confirmed that three of the 18 packages it air-dropped on Monday had parachute malfunctions and fell into the water just off the coast of the Strip. However, US officials did not confirm if any Gazans were killed while trying to reach the aid.

firstpost.com (2024-03-27). Teens in Gaza hoping to be killed to end their "nightmare" : UN – Firstpost A spokesman for the UN children's agency said on Tuesday that the situation in the war-torn Gaza is so bad that teens are increasingly expressing their desire to be quickly murdered in order to end the "nightmare".
  "The unspeakable is regularly said in Gaza," said James Elder, spokesman for the United Nations children's agency UNICEF.

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