(2021-05-12). Put the Banks Under State Control! dissidentvoice.org In recent years, the ripping off of customers, deceit and even outright fraud practiced by Australian finance sector businesses has gained much attention. Four years ago it was revealed how CommInsure, the insurance arm of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), had refused to make promised life insurance payments to heart attack survivors. They "justified" …
(2021-05-11). Brazil's Landless Workers Movement (MST) condemns Israeli aggression, calls to #SaveSheikhJarrah. samidoun.net 
The Landless Workers' Movement (MST) in Brazil is a mass social movement, formed by rural workers and by all those who want to fight for land reform and against injustice and social inequality in rural areas. With an estimated 1.5 million members, the movement has led more than 2,500 land occupations, with about 370,000 families — families that today settled on 7.5 million hectares of land that they won as a result of the occupations. Through their organizing, these families continue to push for schools, credit for agricultural production and cooperatives, and access to health care. The MST has continuously…
(2021-05-11). Eternal War and Austerity: The Hell that Imperialist Propaganda Demands us to Accept. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — May 8, 2021 | The narrative managers of U.S. imperialism don't want us to think about the mounting evidence that an alternative to our current socio-political system exists. They don't want us to think about how over 800 Chinese million people have been lifted out of poverty in the last generation due due to China's socialist workers democracy, or about the successes that the five Marxist-Leninist countries have had in fighting Covid-19 and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, or how a multi-polar world order is emerging which is diminishing the deadly reach of the U.S. empire, or how a new wa…
(2021-05-11). CEO Pay Skyrocketed at Corporations While Their Low-Wage Workers Suffered in the Pandemic. commondreams.org "It's time for public policy to shift corporate America away from a business model that creates obscene wealth for a few at the top and economic insecurity for so many of the rest of us." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/money_1.png …
(2021-05-11). Space Colonization is a Capitalist Perception Management Op. orinocotribune.com By Caitlin Johnstone — May 7, 2021 | The world's two wealthiest people are fighting over the moon, which just says so much about where our species is at right now. | Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos
(2021-05-11). Andrew Yang [kee]: Champion of Memes, Math and Murder. mintpressnews.com 
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(2021-05-11). Inside the April Jobs Report. counterpunch.org 
The April employment report was considerably weaker than had generally been expected, with the economy adding just 266,000 jobs. Furthermore, the prior two months numbers were revised down by 78,000. The unemployment rate edged up to 6.1 percent, but this was entirely due to more people entering the labor force. The employment-to-population ratio (EPOP) also
(2021-05-11). Colombian Police are Killing Civilians. British Police are Training Them. orinocotribune.com By John McEvoy — May 1, 2021 | Over recent days, the Colombian national police have killed a number of civilians protesting a proposed tax hike on basic goods. Many more civilians have been injured, and Colombia's riot police reportedly sexually assaulted a woman. | Though numbers remain unclear, human rights group Isais Cifuentes de Cali has estimated up to 14 people have died. | Documents obtained by The Canary can reveal that the UK's College of Policing has been training Colombian police over the past three years. This is despite Colombia being one of only 30 countries the Foreign, Commonwealth & Develop…
(2021-05-10). Autoworkers, educators and Amazon workers in US speak on International May Day rally. wsws.org Workers who attended the International May Day Online Rally said they were most struck by the common conditions confronting workers around the world and the call for an international strategy to fight the pandemic, social inequality, and the danger of war.
(2021-05-10). Anti-Democratic Tradition Is So Ubiquitous That Many Don't Even Recognize It. truthout.org 
On April 9, President Joe Biden released a $715 billion military budget, which is more than even former President Donald Trump's proposed budget of $704 billion. Meanwhile, the Biden administration still hasn't delivered concretely on plans to stop the war in Yemen. Despite praise for his first 100 days in office, are Biden's primary loyalties to an oligarchic system that benefits the wealthy few by disproportionately extracting resources from its own citizens based on promises they wanted to…
(2021-05-10). Are Those $300 Weekly Supplements Making It Impossible for Employers to Get Good Help? cepr.net The Republicans' complaint of the day is that the $300 weekly supplements to unemployment insurance benefits, which was included in President Biden's recovery package, are keeping people from working. The argument is, that because many workers in low-paying jobs can get more money from not working than they get on their job, they are choosing …
(2021-05-10). US ruling class moves to slash jobless aid. wsws.org A tightly choreographed media blitz is underway to justify the cutoff of unemployment aid in order to compel workers back into low-wage jobs.
(2021-05-10). Communist Party: 'beware false prophets'. challenge-magazine.org The Communist Party has urged the labour movement not to listen to "the false prophets of the right" in response to the 6 May election results. "The likes of Lords Mandelson and Adonis only have one overriding aim — to defend the power and wealth of monopoly capitalism", CP General Secretary Robert Griffiths told the party's Political Committee on Sunday evening (9 May 2021).
(2021-05-10). 'Sends a Terrible, Terrible Message': Sanders Rejects Top Dems' Push for a Big Tax Break for the Rich. commondreams.org Rejecting top Democrats push for a major tax break for rich households, Sen. Bernie Sanders said, "You can't be on the side of the wealthy and the powerful if you're gonna really fight for working families." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/bernie_sanders_salt_repeal_0.jpg …
