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Investors in long-term care profit as aged and disabled residents and workers bear brunt of COVID-19
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, long-term care facilities were hit particularly hard as both residents and workers suffered high infection and mortality rates. A number of reports indicate that such an outcome is linked to widespread privatization.
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U.S. COVID response: War and profiteering remains the priority
The death toll in the U.S. due to COVID-19 has crossed 1 million. The richest country in the world has stumbled in controlling the pandemic and the poorest have suffered the most.
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Two years since George Floyd’s death, has anything changed in the U.S.?
The gains and setbacks in the movement for Black lives prove how racism is woven deeply into the fabric of capitalism and US society.
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Is this the end of the French project in Africa’s Sahel?
Mali recently announced that it would no longer be part of the G5 Sahel. From the beginning, it was clear that the formation of the G5 Sahel was encouraged by France, and that the real focus was to be security.
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Bonfires mark 77th anniversary of Zagreb’s liberation from fascism
As official EU marks Europe Day, anti-fascist networks in Croatia remember the liberation of Zagreb from Nazi-allied Ustaša rule.
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Janez Jansa’s right-wing govt loses to newly formed Freedom Movement in Slovenia
The outgoing right-wing coalition government led by Janez Jansa had faced widespread protests from civil society for its unpopular anti-worker and authoritarian policies.
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Unionization spreads across Starbucks outlets in U.S. despite efforts to intimidate workers
According to Starbucks Workers United, which is organizing workers to form unions, workers from over 200 outlets have already approached the National Labor Relations Board for a union vote.
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Progressives in Greece reject Zelensky’s address to parliament with neo-Nazis
The testimony of the neo-Nazi Azov soldier in Greek parliament following the address of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been widely condemned.
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Lee Camp on censoring anti-war voices
As the world moves dangerously close to global violent conflict, anti-war journalists have been banned and censored in Europe and the U.S. One of these banned voices, Lee Camp, discusses the development and why it is so dangerous.
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Argentina remembers 46th anniversary of the U.S.-backed civic-military coup
This March 24, on the Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice, after a pause of two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of thousands of Argentines took to the streets across the country to pay homage to the victims of the last military dictatorship.
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Opposition political parties banned in Ukraine and ‘unified information policy’ imposed
Zelensky justified the ban on mostly left and anti-NATO parties in the country by claiming that they had alleged links with Russia, despite the fact that most of these parties have publicly opposed Russian intervention.
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Anti-Russian hysteria in the U.S.: Who does it serve?
The United States has a long history of amplifying existing prejudices under the cover of war hysteria to manufacture consent for its actions.
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Critical race theory: U.S. right-wing wages a culture war, the people fight back
Conservatives are going after a new boogeyman, “critical race theory”, or any attempt at teaching youth about the history of U.S. racism.
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What are the Minsk agreements and what are their role in the Russia-Ukraine crisis?
Under pressure from ultra-nationalists and Russophobes, successive governments in Ukraine have failed to address the grievances of the Russian speaking majority in the Donbass region. Ukraine has also not implemented the provisions of the Minsk agreement signed in 2015 to end the conflict in the region.
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Teachers in Puerto Rico strike for wages, benefits
On Wednesday, February 9, teachers across Puerto Rico called for a national strike to protest the government and the Fiscal Control Board’s (FCB) cutting of wages and pensions.
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Can Israel stop the world from saying ‘apartheid’? Concealing the suffering in Palestine
Israel attempts to improve its public image to counter efforts by human rights organizations that reveal the nature of Israeli apartheid.
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Wikileaks’ invaluable contributions to journalism and people’s movements
The information shared by Wikileaks has strengthened the resistance against repressive governments by exposing the gaps between their actions and their carefully crafted narratives.
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Unions allege petrol bombs, intimidation as strike intensifies at South African Dairy giant
Amid threats and intimidation, the workers’ action at Clover has been strengthened by worker solidarity as well as the increasing support of civil society for its boycott campaign.
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Cuba shows an alternative to Big Pharma hegemony through global solidarity
Cuba puts people before profits – showing the world an alternative to the monopolistic practices of Big Pharma. It promotes a public health system, state-funded research and shows global solidarity through tech transfer and vaccine delivery to developing countries.
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Succumbing to artists’ protest, Belgium suspends restrictions on cultural activity
The artist community and workers in the cultural sector have claimed that the Belgian government’s COVID-19 regulations targeting the cultural sector were not advised by experts.