(2021-04-27). Imperialist countries create global vaccine apartheid, prolonging pandemic. workers.org 
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, the scale of inequality under capitalism has come sharply into focus. Long before the pandemic began, inequality, racism and imperialism had threaded their way through all aspects of society, ensuring that the worst effects of disasters fall onto the most oppressed. . . . |
(2021-04-26). Washington State Lawmakers Approve Capital Gains Tax on Wealthiest to Fund Public Education. commondreams.org Progressive in the state say the passage of a bill imposing a 7% capital gains tax to fund public education represents a victory. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/washington-state-capital-gains-tax-education.jpg …
(2021-04-26). A White Providence Public School Teacher Writing in Tears. counterpunch.org "I am in blood stepped so far, that should I wade no more returning were as tedious as go o'er." — MacBeth As a white school teacher in a high-poverty school district whose student body is primarily Black, Asian, Latin American, and other People of Color, I find myself existing in a strange Purgatory, a
(2021-04-26). Welsh Communists call for power in the workplace. challenge-magazine.org Welsh Communists have issued a statement calling for new powers for the Welsh Parliament to strengthen the rights of trade unionists to organise and to combat poverty pay. The Communist Party is running its biggest electoral campaign this year since the 1980's across Britain, with candidates in every Welsh regional list seat.
(2021-04-26). China approves 156 bln yuan to consolidate poverty alleviation outcomes. ecns.cn China's central government has approved a fiscal budget of 156.1 billion yuan (about 23.75 billion U.S. dollars) to facilitate the synergy of consolidating poverty alleviation outcomes and promoting rural vitalization in 2021.
(2021-04-26). How Lifting Children Out of Poverty Today Will Help Them in the Future. commondreams.org "When families with young children get access to cash welfare, that support has even been linked to higher earnings in adulthood and longer lives." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/children_11.jpeg …
(2021-04-26). California: Unemployed Committee supports fight against police crimes. fightbacknews.org San Jose, CA – On April 24, the Northern California Unemployed Committee, or NCUC, marched in support of the fight against police crimes in the wake of the conviction of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. | David Almeida of the NCUC expressed support for community control of the police, saying, "With community control of the police, we, the community get to defund and demilitarize our police, not the government." He went on to point out that there are still hundreds of the thousands of people here in California who are still waiting to hear about the status of their unemployment benefits. | The NCUC pa…
(2021-04-26). Green Growth Vs Degrowth. popularresistance.org The row about ecological limits to growth is back with a vengeance. On one side are those who are deeply sceptical about the idea of 'infinite growth on a finite planet'. They argue that to be sure of offering a good life for all within planetary boundaries, we need to kick our addiction to consumption growth (in wealthy countries at least). These 'green growth sceptics' include those advocating for 'degrowth', 'prosperity without growth', 'steady state economics', 'doughnut economics' and 'wellbeing economics'. | In the opposite corner are 'green growth' advocates who believe that the historical relationship bet…
(2021-04-26). How the Rich Distort Politics. "Government by the 1% for the 1%" globalresearch.ca "At some level of extreme wealth, money inevitably corrupts… it …
(2021-04-26). Want to Fix the Racial Wealth Gap? Start By Canceling Student Debt. thenation.com Want to Fix the Racial Wealth Gap? Start By Canceling Student Debt.
(2021-04-25). What Pandemics Mean For Robots And Inequality — Analysis. eurasiareview.com From car manufacture to self-service checkouts, we all see how automation can transform the world of work—with lower costs and higher productivity on one hand, and more precarious employment for people on the other. But the COVID-19 pandemic added fuel to the fire. The rise in telework, for example, is hurting low-wage workers and More broadly, if the pandemic accelerates the pace of automation, then we may face a jobless recovery for low-skilled workers. Our recent IMF…
(2021-04-25). Amid Widespread Disease, Death, and Poverty, the Major Powers Increased Their Military Spending in 2020. zcomm.org Last year was a terrible time for vast numbers of people around the globe, who experienced not only a terrible disease pandemic, accompanied by widespread sickness and death, but severe economic hardship. Even so, the disasters of 2020 were not shocking enough to jolt the world's most powerful nations out of their traditional preoccupation with
(2021-04-25). How the Rich Distort Politics. zcomm.org Excessive wealth distorts politics so that it does not represent ordinary people…
(2021-04-25). US Recovery Is Weak, Especially Given Size Of 'Stimulus' — OpEd. eurasiareview.com The United States: Hardly A Recovery: | By Daniel Lacalle* | There is an overly optimistic consensus view about the speed and strength of the United States' recovery that is contradicted by facts. It is true that the United States recovery is stronger than the European or Japanese one, but the macrodata shows that the euphoric messages about aggregate GDP growth are wildly exaggerated. | Of course gross domestic product is going to rise fast, with estimates of 6 percent for 2021. It would be alarming if it did not after a massive chain of stimuli of more than 12 percent of GDP in fiscal spending and $7…