INTERNATIONAL
The World Economic Forum is a lavishly prepared master’s table at which heads of state and government ministers are bribed, bullied and flattered to pursue policies that favour big business, writes Terry Bell. At the same time there is considerable debate about how best to manage and sustain a global economic system that has made the club’s members and their cohorts wealthier — and now possibly more worried — than ever before. fin24.com/
That smile. A grin, really. You can spin it anyway you want to, but it is unmistakable except, of course, to the toxically innocent or ahistorical and willfully obtuse. It is one born of privilege. counterpunch.org/
Officially, the U.S. Department of Defense maintains 514 ‘sites’ in 45 foreign countries. These installations exist somewhere between light and shadow, writes Nick Turse. While acknowledged as foreign military outposts, they are excluded from the official inventory. consortiumnews.com/
The United Teachers of Los Angeles strike was enormously popular, with tens of thousands of parents and students joining already full picketlines. Many intangibles were won. counterpunch.org
The defence civilian employees are striking to protest privatisation, disinvestment in defence PSUs, the National Pension System, among other things. peoplesdispatch.org/
Novelita Palisoc had no choice but to become a domestic worker. Over the years, she experienced mistreatment & abuse. But her inspiring strength allowed her to fight back & take the lead of a prominent union. idwfed.org/
Online petition – Education International invites the global union community to write to President Rodrigo Duterte to express its outrage at the death threats received by the General Secretary of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers and at the unlawful profiling of union members by the Philippine authorities. labourstartcampaigns.net/
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