(2022-04-02). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand. wsws.org India: Tamil Nadu mini-clinic doctors protest sackings; Australia: Age care workers strike in North Queensland and Tasmania; New Zealand rail union holds strike ballot…
(2022-04-02). Mohawks on Pope's Apology 'We Will Never Forget or Forgive'. indybay.org Mohawk Nation News said of the Pope's apology: "These 'indian' buddies of the government 'indians' forgave the psychopaths on their own behalf. We will never forget nor forgive them for what they did and continue to do."
(2022-04-02). [World Report] Mixed response to COVID-19 intellectual property waiver. thelancet.com The global health community says the draft outcome—between the EU, the USA, India, and South Africa—falls short of expectations. John Zarocostas reports from Geneva.
(2022-04-02). [Articles] Efficacy, safety, and immunogenicity of the DNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccine (ZyCoV-D): the interim efficacy results of a phase 3, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study in India. thelancet.com In this interim analysis, ZyCoV-D vaccine was found to be efficacious, safe, and immunogenic in a phase 3 trial.
(2022-04-02). Rights or Power: TANC Organizing Committee on SF's 'Right to Organize'. indybay.org 'Right to organize' legislation limits its nominal goal and solidifies conditions unfavorable to mass tenant power.
(2022-04-02). 2 April: Demonstrations in various cities to free Georges Abdallah for international action day. samidoun.net 
April 2: International Day for the Release of Georges Abdallah At the call of the Unitary Campaign for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah and various support committees, let's make April 2 a day of mobilization for the release of the oldest political prisoner in Europe. Saturday April 2 in Lannemezan: Rally for the release of Georges Abdallah Saturday …
(2022-04-02). Competition schedule for Paris 2024 released. ecns.cn The International Olympic Committee's executive board has approved the competition schedule of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Friday.
(2022-04-02). US blacklists 120 organizations from Russia, Belarus. tass.com A document uploaded to the US Federal Register says those organizations were determined to be "acting contrary to the national security interests or foreign policy of the United States"
(2022-04-02). Mayo Clinic researchers develop new antibody test to diagnose MS. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic researchers have validated a new antibody test to diagnose multiple sclerosis (MS), a potentially disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord. Nearly 1 million people in the U.S. are affected by MS, according to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. An antibody typically consists of two immunoglobulin heavy chains and two light chains. There are two types of light chains: kappa and lambda. The validated test measures kappa immunoglobulin free…
(2022-04-02). COVID-19 vaccination bill reaches 120 bln yuan in China. ecns.cn China has spent more than 120 billion yuan (around 18.9 billion U.S. dollars) on COVID-19 vaccination, an expenditure within the limits of the country's medical insurance funds, said the National Healthcare Security Administration.
(2022-04-02). Mayo Clinic Minute: What is chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Roughly 620,000 new cases of lymphoma were diagnosed worldwide, according to the World Cancer Research Fund International's 2020 report. Survival rates have improved as advances develop in treatment, such as chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy (CAR-T cell therapy). Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/PwvoDnhJLU0 Journalists: Broadcast-quality video (1: 02) is available in the downloads at the end of…
(2022-04-02). French Morenoites cover for New Anticapitalist Party's backing of NATO against Russia. wsws.org The arming of Ukrainian nationalist militias by NATO and the calls by Washington for the overthrow of the Russian government have unmasked the middle-class pseudo-left.
(2022-04-02). Global food crisis fuels international class struggle. wsws.org Significant strikes and demonstrations are breaking out across the world in the largest wave of social protest since before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The working class is the social force capable of stopping world war.
(2022-04-02). Workers and students in Australia call for international anti-war movement. wsws.org "A lot of people oppose this war, but others get sucked into anti-Russia and anti-China hate… We need to unite Russian and Ukrainian workers, and workers everywhere, against the war."
(2022-04-02). Sri Lankan president declares state of emergency to suppress mass protests over austerity. wsws.org Workers must recognise that they are facing a political fight not only against the government but the entire political establishment that defends capitalism and supports austerity measures.
(2022-04-02). US to Work With Allies to Send Soviet-Made Tanks to Ukraine. news.antiwar.com A US official told The New York Times on Friday that the Biden administration will work with allies in Europe The move marks an escalation in Western military aid to Ukraine. Until now, the US and its NATO allies have provided Ukraine with thousands of shoulder-fired anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles but have held off on sending more advanced weapons over concerns of provoking Russia. | The US official wouldn't specify how many tanks will be sent or what countries the…
(2022-04-02). Turkish forces shell northern Syrian city of Ayn Issa, injuires reported – TV. tass.com Artillery and mortar fire was coming from the border security zone, created by the Turkish troops in 2019, Syria's Alikhbaria TV reported…
(2022-04-02). Europe has no robust alternative to paying for Russian gas in rubles – expert. tass.com Leonardo Paz Neves of the Fundacao Getulio Vargas foundation believes, the new payment rules for Russian gas will cause no turmoil on the global energy market…
(2022-04-01). The war in Ukraine and its effects on Latin America and the Caribbean. workers.org 
by Carlos Mauricio Ferolla and Marcelo Depieri March 23, 2022. On Feb. 24, war broke out in Ukraine after the invasion of the Russian army. The war has a global impact on a multipolar international system, hyperconnected and in a critical state, undergoing a process of hegemonic transition from the . . . |
(2022-04-01). Sanctions on Russia boomerang — Biden promises food shortages. workers.org 
March 27 "Food shortages — it's going to be real," President Joe Biden said in Brussels March 25. "The price of the sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia. It's imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country as well." This ominous warning, . . . |
(2022-04-01). Millions Strike In India Against Modi Government's Policies. popularresistance.org The last two years have seen a further deterioration of the living standards of working people in India due to the pandemic and the lack of enough policy interventions by the Modi government. | Around 200 million industrial workers, employees, farmers and agricultural laborers observed a two-day general strike in India on March 28 and 29. The strike is a challenge by working people to the far-right Narendra Modi government as well as a fight to save the people's future and save the country.
(2022-04-01). On the Visit of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to India and Cambodia. journal-neo.org 
On March 19 — 21, 2022, the Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited India and Cambodia. Despite the obvious difference in the "weight classes" of the visited countries, both stages of this trip constitute a single remarkable event at the present stage of the "Big World Game", which focuses on the confrontation between the United …
(2022-04-01). Rusia e India aprueban sistema alternativo de comercio bilateral. telesurtv.net El sistema aprobado se instalará en las sedes del Banco de la Reserva de India y en el Banco estatal de Rusia VEB.
(2022-04-01). Latest U.S. 'war for oil' fuels global warming. iacenter.org By Betsey Piette March 30, 2022 'Bomb train' transporting liquified natural gas rolls through Hudson Valley, New York, community as school bus passes nearby. Is the U.S./NATO-instigated war with Russia, taking place on the battlefield of Ukraine, yet another "war for oil" — or a war over control of global sales of natural gas? At an emergency NATO summit in Brussels March 25, President Joe Biden announced the U.S. will accelerate liquified natural gas (LNG) exports to Europe, sending an additional 15 billion cubic meters (bcm) of LNG shipments on seagoing tankers in 2022, on top of 2021 exports of 22 bcm. B…
(2022-04-01). John Kiriakou: Biden Is Denying CIA Torture Victims Their Day in Court. scheerpost.com Detainees on arrival to Camp X-Ray, the holding facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.[US DoD] | Click to subscribe on: Reports regarding five Guantanamo Bay detainees who were victims of the
(2022-04-01). Weimar Futurities with Engelbert Stockhammer. mronline.org 
Engelbert Stockhammer joins Money on the Left to discuss the political and economic debates that shaped and ultimately devastated Weimar-era Germany. Professor Stockhammer is professor of political economy in the department of European and International Studies at King's College London and has published widely on financial instability and Post-Keynesian economics.
(2022-04-01). La guerra en Ucrania y sus efectos en América Latina y el Caribe. workers.org 
Por Carlos Mauricio Ferolla y Marcelo Depieri (OBSAL — Observatorio de Coyuntura de América Latina y el Caribe del Instituto Tricontinental) Resumen Latinoamericano el 23 de marzo, 2022 La pandemia y la guerra tendrán un efecto negativo para las economías de los países más desiguales El 24 de febrero inició . . . |
(2022-04-01). World wants peace, Biden threatens war. iacenter.org By John Catalinotto March 29, 2022 March 29 — Recent polls show that a majority of people in the U.S. fear that the current crisis might escalate to a war with Russia, a war they want no part of. (cbs42.com, March 28) Despite avalanche of anti-Russia propaganda, revulsion for wider war exists among workers in the U.S. Here, protest in South Bronx, New York, March 26. President Joe Biden's comments made March 26 in Warsaw — threatening regime change in Moscow — certainly did nothing to alleviate those fears. The taste of danger remained even after his cohorts immediately walked back Biden's comme…
(2022-04-01). Assata Shakur is a modern-day Harriet Tubman. iacenter.org By Monica Moorehead March 31, 2022 I had the distinct honor of meeting Assata Shakur in person at the 1997 World Youth Festival in Havana, Cuba. I was all the more surprised when she recognized me as the 1996 presidential candidate for Workers World Party. A year later, in 1998, during a New York City memorial for Workers World Party Chairperson Sam Marcy, Assata sent a moving message of condolence to our organization. Assata has been living in political exile in Cuba since 1979. Assata Shakur and Monica Moorehead at World Youth Festival, Havana, Cuba, 1997. So when the FBI posted a $2 million bounty May 2 for th…
(2022-04-01). Western imperialism faces its weaknesses. workers.org 
By Manuel Raposo March 28 The author is editor of the Portuguese web magazine, jornalmudardevida.net. Translation: John Catalinotto. The G7 is united. The rest of the world is trying to avoid being towed behind them. A key element of the West's propaganda war against Russia is the argument that what . . . |
(2022-04-01). Russia, Ukraine & the Law of War: Crime of Aggression. scheerpost.com 
Nuremberg Trials. 1st row: Hermann Gà∂ring, Rudolf Heàü, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel. 2nd row: Karl Dà∂nitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel. (Office of the U.S. Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality/Still Picture Records LICON, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S) | By Scott Ritter / When it comes to the legal use of force between states, it is considered unimpeachable fact that in accordance with the intent of the U…
(2022-04-01). L.A.'s Dodger Stadium should not exist! peoplesworld.org 
"The story of Dodger Stadium has been condensed and mythologized. It has become—with good reason—like a fable. The real history is less like a fable and more like the story of a crime that Los Angeles perpetuated on itself." As a junior in high school in Culver City, Calif., Eric Nusbaum heard Frank Wilkinson speak …
(2022-04-01). Ukraine VS Red Cross: Kiev's Hysteria Endangers Its Own Civilians. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | It is difficult to imagine combat operations without the activities of humanitarian organizations. In this case, the conflict in Ukraine is not an exception. The international organization Red Cross is active on the territory of hostilities. The International Committee of the Red Cross is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose goals and objectives are exclusively humanitarian and are to protect and assist the lives and dignity of people affected by armed conflict…
(2022-04-01). Webinar on Alex Saab Case Next Tuesday with Top Panelists. orinocotribune.com 
Alex Saab's trial starts April 6 in Miami. This webinar includes the latest updates on the case. Protests demanding his freedom will take place in Miami, Boston, New York City, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Diego, Vancouver and Chicago. | The webinar is going to be held next Tuesday April 5, 7 pm ET, 6 pm Central Time. | Panelists: | ‚Ä¢ Alfred de Zayas, former rapporteur on Venezuela for United Nations Human Rights Council | ‚Ä¢ Suzanne Adely, President of the Nation…
(2022-04-01). Despite US Empire's Stranglehold on Information, Most of the World has Little Trouble Spotting the Villain. orinocotribune.com By Daniel Patrick Welch — Mar 19, 2022 | Biden is a killer. Here's why | Joe Biden's vitriol against Vladimir Putin is so shocking to the ear that it calls your sanity into question when you listen. Did I hear this right? Is this true? He's calling Putin a 'thug' and a 'war criminal'? | ‚Ä¢ Not only is Biden directly implicated in bringing this war to fruition—this great plan of the CIA for years: to bait and bleed, to goad Russia into war with Ukraine. His administration fostered the coup that led to this. His administration funded the Nazis knowingly—openly paid for the destructio…
(2022-04-01). Steps laid out to achieve carbon goals. ecns.cn The second strategy is safeguarding energy security by ensuring fossil fuel supplies, and preventing risks arising from dependence on imported oil, gas and key minerals.
(2022-04-01). Homogenize various post-Soviet conflicts: new Azerbaijani war in Karabakh aims to weaken Russia, complete ethnic cleansing. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Panorama.amApril 1, 2022 Artsakh president: Our goal is to withdraw Azerbaijani troops to their initial positions A regular sitting of the Security Council chaired by President of the Artsakh Republic Arayik Harutyunyan was held in an expanded format on Friday, the presidential office reported. *** "We understand that their goal was to capture the whole …
(2022-04-01). Health care workers denounce scapegoating of Nashville nurse RaDonda Vaught. wsws.org The WSWS is organizing the working class to defend RaDonda Vaught and all health care workers against victimization for the crisis of the for-profit health care system.
(2022-04-01). Japan (with West) adds Kurils to growing list of Russian "occupied territories" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Along with Abkhazia, Crimea, the Donbass, Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Transnistria and in future Kaliningrad and East Karelia if needed Also see: Two-front offensive: U.S. ambassador Emanuel insists Russian islands belong to Japan Kyodo NewsMarch 31, 2022 Japan to again designate Russian-held isles as illegally occupied Japan will once again describe Russia's decades-long hold over a …
(2022-04-01). Nationalist Forces Divided In Mariupol. Assault Of Azovstal Approaching. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | The large Russian/DPR mop up operation in Mariupol against the armed formations of Ukrainian nationalists continues. The advance is slowed by fierce street fighting. | On April 1, representative of the DPR People's Militia Eduard Basurin confirmed that the AFU grouping deployed in the city of Mariupol was cut into three small parts. Mop-up operations continue in the Kalmius and Left Bank districts of the city. | There are three main centers of resistance left in Mariupol: the…
(2022-04-01). Staten Island Amazon Workers Pull Into The Lead. popularresistance.org In initial vote tallies today, Amazon warehouse workers in New York are ahead by hundreds of votes in favor of forming a union, while in Alabama the election is too close to call, pending a court hearing. | The vote at Amazon's mammoth warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, was a rerun of the election last April that the union lost by more than 2 to 1. The results of that election were thrown out after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that Amazon had illegally interfered with the vote. | This time, out of 2,375 valid ballots, 993 workers at the fulfillment center voted against joining the Retail, Wholesal…
(2022-04-01). Venezuela and International Criminal Court Strengthen Cooperation. orinocotribune.com 
This Thursday, March 31, a series of meetings were concluded between Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro and the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, yielding advances in cooperation between the two entities. | In statements offered at the end of the meeting, the Venezuelan head of state confirmed that among the new mechanisms agreed upon was the installation of an ICC office in Venezuelan territory. | The office "will allow a more effective, real dialogue," President Maduro said, "a dialogue that permits the memorandum of understanding that we signed to continue its development."
(2022-04-01). National Endowment For The Arts Report On The Devastation Of The Arts. popularresistance.org On March 15, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the US government agency that funds arts projects, released a report revealing a portion of the financial and job losses sustained by artists and arts organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic so far. | The NEA study points out that between 2019 and 2020 the US "arts economy" contracted at almost twice the rate of the economy as a whole. "Arts and cultural production fell by 6.4 percent when adjusted for inflation, compared with a 3.4 [percent] decline in the overall economy." While the arts and culture sector remained "a major contributor to the economy,"
(2022-04-01). National Endowment for the Arts report lifts the lid on the devastation of the US arts economy. wsws.org Between 2019 and 2020, the arts economy, according to the NEA study, "shed more than half a million jobs (604,000 workers)—not counting self-employed artists and other cultural workers."
(2022-04-01). Striking Chevron workers denounce unpaid "standby" policy and other oppressive conditions at California oil refinery. wsws.org As industry analysts say they are "terrified" about slowing diesel and jet fuel production, Richmond oil workers are receiving an outpouring of support from other oil workers and workers in many industries in the US and internationally.
(2022-04-01). UN Announces Breakthrough Ceasefire In Yemen That Will See Ports, Airports Reopened. southfront.org 
FILE PHOTO: A look at the Red Sea port of Hodeidah, Yemen May 10, 2017. REUTERS/Abduljabbar Zeyad/File Photo | Yemen's warring parties have agreed to a two-month ceasefire that will allow fuel ships to enter Houthi-held al-Hudaydah port and select flights from Sanaa International Airport, the UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Gruenberg, announced on April 1. | In a statement, Gruenberg said that the nationwide ceasefire, which will go into effect on April 2, could be renewed with the consent of the parties."The parties acc…
(2022-04-01). 'Gods of War': How the US Weaponized Ukraine against Russia. libya360.wordpress.com TJ Coles US Maj. John Alan Gavrilov (right) trains commanders of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion as part of a November 2017 foreign delegation Since the US-engineered 2013-14 coup in Ukraine, American forces have taught Ukrainians, including neo-Nazi units, how to fight in urban and other civilian areas. Weaponizing Ukraine is part of Washington's quest for…
(2022-04-01). Ukraine, Poland discuss NATO "peacekeeping" force in Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Polish RadioApril 1, 2022 Polish peacekeeping plan for NATO allies to discuss: Ukrainian FM Poland's proposal to send international peacekeepers into war-torn Ukraine is for Poland to discuss with its NATO partners because Ukraine is not a member of the alliance, the Ukrainian foreign minister said in Warsaw on Friday. Dmytro Kuleba said that, during …
(2022-04-01). Mehrpadin Castle in central Iran. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 01 (MNA) — Located in downtown Mehriz, Yazd province in central Iran, Mehrpadin Castle is a magnificent adobe castle that dates back to the 8th-century AH on the lunar calendar. It was registered as one of Iran's national heritage sites.
(2022-04-01). Chinese lawmakers' suggestions move toward implementation. ecns.cn A total of 9,203 suggestions made by national lawmakers have been distributed to 208 organizations to be processed, part of China's efforts to transform people's voices into concrete actions.