- — Susan Abulhawa: ‘Palestine is the test’
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at 9/24/20 9:55pm
The following is a lightly edited transcript of a Sept. 19 talk by Palestinian novelist and Workers World Party member Susan Abulhawa during a “Free Palestine! No Normalization with Colonization or Occupation!’ webinar sponsored by WWP. We’ve known for years that the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia and other . . .
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- — Surviving a pandemic under siege
- at 9/24/20 8:54pm
During a Sept. 18 “Free Palestine” webinar, Palestinian writers and activists Susan Abulhawa and Khaled Barakat were asked to comment on the spread of COVID-19 in occupied Palestine, and what it means to have access to healthcare under foreign occupation. The following is an edited version of their replies. Susan . . .
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- — Is Marxism still relevant? – a commentary
- at 9/24/20 8:15pm
With the dire economic circumstances brought on by COVID-19 and the rise in police brutality provoking civil unrest unseen since the 1960s, the Millennial Generation as well as Generation Z are beginning to see the pitfalls of both neoliberalism and U.S. conservatism. The Republicans in office are taking notice and . . .
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- — The ‘populism’ of pandemics
- at 9/24/20 8:01pm
Taken from an Sept. 9 audio column from prisonradio.org. For months now, the nation has been battered by the ravages of COVID-19 — the coronavirus. With millions of people infected and over 190,000 people now dead, it now turns out that from the very start, the U.S. president knew a . . .
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- — Justice for Breonna Taylor means abolishing the police & capitalism – a WW commentary
- at 9/24/20 7:49pm
More than six months after the heinous March 13 murder of Breonna Taylor – a 26-year-old African American emergency medical technician – by three white Louisville, Ky., police officers, a secret grand jury on Sept. 23 charged only one of those officers with three counts of “wanton endangerment.” And this . . .
- — PDF of September 24 issue
- at 9/23/20 9:22pm
Download the 12-page PDF. Whistleblower: ICE abuses detainees ALSO: Migrant caravan for residency; Defend BLM activist lawyers; Trump, Biden, and U.S. decline; ‘Free Palestine’ webinar; U.S. Cold War vs TikTok; Is Marxism still relevant? WORKERS ORGANIZE: Illinois; North Carolina. WORLD: Editorial: Ginsburg & SCOTUS. WORLD: Belarus; Bolivia. TEAR DOWN THE . . .
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- — Workers World Party demands “Stop Censoring Palestinian Resistance!”
- at 9/23/20 5:35pm
Sept. 23 – Today, three media platforms, Facebook, Zoom and YouTube, collaborated to censor a Palestinian program featuring Palestinian revolutionary Leila Khaled and U.S. political prisoners. Workers World Party condemns this censorship and expresses its solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people for self-determination and freedom. The WWP Facebook . . .
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- — Category 5 capitalism
- at 9/23/20 3:12pm
Creek/Muscogee land (Pensacola, Fla., and Gulf Shores, Ala.) — Hurricane Sally made landfall in Gulf Shores on Sept. 16 as a Category 2 storm. But meteorologists admitted its slow speed caused rainfall levels to match those of a Category 5 hurricane. It quickly moved towards Pensacola, collapsing a section of . . .
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- — How class oppression drives climate crises
- at 9/23/20 3:09pm
Climate change refugees, Bangladesh. Climate emergencies and U.S. imperialism have quite a bit of overlap. Both are increasingly displacing the living at home and abroad on an almost unbelievable scale. These conditions are creating migrants and refugees who have to stay on the move to survive. To stave off climate . . .
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- — How class oppression drive climate crises
- at 9/23/20 3:09pm
Climate change refugees, Bangladesh. Climate emergencies and U.S. imperialism have quite a bit of overlap. Both are increasingly displacing the living at home and abroad on an almost unbelievable scale. These conditions are creating migrants and refugees who have to stay on the move to survive. To stave off climate . . .
Continue reading How class oppression drive climate crises at Workers.org
- — A Marxist view from Portugal on U.S. elections and decline of Washington’s power
- at 9/23/20 3:06pm
A Portuguese Marxist analyst looks at the Trump vs. Biden election, assessing its possible impact on U.S. foreign policy. This article was first published Sept. 1 on the jornalmudardevida.net website, which is edited by Raposo. Translation by John Catalinotto. The confrontation between Trump and Biden, regarding the upcoming U.S. presidential . . .
- — Stop forced sterilizations! Shut down all detention centers!
- at 9/23/20 3:02pm
The Prisoner Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party commends the heroic action of Dawn Wooten, a licensed practical nurse, for exposing forced sterilizations at the Irwin County, Georgia ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement) Detention Center operated by LaSalle Corrections, a private for-profit prison. Project South, one of the advocacy groups . . .
Continue reading Stop forced sterilizations! Shut down all detention centers! at Workers.org
- — Defend BLM activist lawyers!
- at 9/23/20 2:58pm
Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman By Noor Jehan Bano A surveillance camera outside this city’s 88th Precinct in New York captured footage on May 30 of a Molotov cocktail setting an abandoned, badly damaged, and heavily spray-painted police car on fire. That same night, police kidnapped and caged Urooj Rahman . . .
Continue reading Defend BLM activist lawyers! at Workers.org
- — Defend BLM lawyers!
- at 9/23/20 2:58pm
Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman By Noor Jehan Bano A surveillance camera outside this city’s 88th Precinct in New York captured footage on May 30 of a Molotov cocktail setting an abandoned, badly damaged, and heavily spray-painted police car on fire. That same night, police kidnapped and caged Urooj Rahman . . .
Continue reading Defend BLM lawyers! at Workers.org
- — Whistleblower exposes: ICE abuses detainees
- at 9/22/20 6:04pm
EDITOR’S NOTES: As we go to press, a Sept. 21 press release from Georgia Detention Watch announced that Cipriano Chavez-Alvarez, 61, is the third detainee at the Stewart Detention Center located in Lumpkin, Georgia to die of COVID-19. Press conference on ICE abuse, Ocilla, Ga., Sept. 15. Whistleblower Dawn Wooten . . .
Continue reading Whistleblower exposes: ICE abuses detainees at Workers.org
- — Permanent residency for TPS holders won’t come from the courts
- at 9/22/20 5:53pm
Lechat is active with Boston FIRE, Harvard TPS Coalition and AFSCME Local 3650. Coordinated, coast-to-coast press conferences were staged by Temporary Protected Status activists on Sept. 15 after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Trump’s 2018 termination of TPS. In several cities, im/migrant families with decades of legal residency . . .
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- — Illinois: Striking health workers say: ‘We want R-E-S-P-E-C-T and a contract!’
- at 9/22/20 5:30pm
Solidarity was on display when striking nurses and service workers rallied together outside the Thompson Center in Chicago on Sept. 18 to demand Gov. J.B. Pritzker support them in contract talks with the University of Illinois-Chicago and UI Hospital, Health and Sciences System. Labor union and community supporters turned out . . .
- — Healthcare workers for all workers
- at 9/22/20 5:24pm
National Nurses United (NNU) called it the “largest hospital union victory in the South since 1975.” On Sept. 16, in a National Labor Relations Board election, RNs voted by more than 70% to unionize Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C. — one of the most anti-worker states in the U.S. Asheville, . . .
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- — Russia vows to defend Belarus’s sovereignty
- at 9/22/20 5:11pm
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sept. 14 in Sochi, Russia, expecting mutual support to respond to NATO threats and ongoing protests against Lukashenko’s reelection. According to the Belarusian government website, “The leaders of the countries discussed the state and prospects of development of bilateral . . .
Continue reading Russia vows to defend Belarus’s sovereignty at Workers.org
- — At Irwin Detention Center, Ga., Dawn Wooten is a hero – A statement from FIRE on migrant abuse
- at 9/21/20 5:44pm
This statement was released by FIRE on Sept. 18. For more information about FIRE and the fight for migrants around the world, go to fightformigrants.org or email info@fightformigrants.org. FIRE (Fight for Im/migrants & Refugees Everywhere) commends the heroic action of Dawn Wooten, a licensed practical nurse who worked at the . . .
- — COVID cases, deaths double in prisons
- at 9/21/20 5:05pm
Since Workers World last reported on COVID behind bars in June, case numbers and deaths have more than doubled. Current numbers show at least 125,730 cases of COVID-19 have been reported among prisoners in the U.S. The data suggest that these numbers are most likely underreported. Philadelphia, March 30. WW . . .
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