INTERNATIONAL
The cyclone affected 272,656 people in Mozambique, with nearly 12,000 people having to be moved to camps and resettlements. Food is scarce and relief aid is not reaching people far from distribution centres. newframe.com/
The rallies have been organized in the wake of simmering discontent in the country against Vladimir Putin’s anti-dissent legislation and controversial pension reforms. peoplesdispatch.org/
There is an emergency; rather, a humanitarian catastrophe at the U.S. Southern Border. It is also a demographic, political and moral catastrophe.Nine months after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reunite thousands of immigrant children taken from their parents at the border, the whereabouts of thousands of children remains unresolved. counterpunch.org/
A caucus of progressive legislators in the U.S. is fighting back against an attempt by centrist Democrats to undercut the push for a $15 federal minimum wage with legislation that would allow lower hourly pay in “rural areas.” commondreams.org/
After years of complaints, understaffing has become the major point of conflict between the nurses union and private hospitals. archive.org/
An interview by the John Bull-British publication Spiked with economic sociologist Professor Wolfgang Streeck on why the EU is a liberal empire that Britain should leave. spiked-online.com/
The intellectual hegemony of mainstream bourgeois economics, by invariably seeing capitalism as a self-contained closed system, serves to obscure the phenomenon of imperialism. peoplesdispatch.org/
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is crushing all dissent within Egypt’s traditionally powerful trade union movements, which have historically fought the British colonial power as well as the Nasser and Sadat regimes, and which played a powerful but tragically disregarded role in the revolution which destroyed the dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak. counterpunch.org/
The government of Bangladesh is using proceedings before the Supreme Court of Bangladesh to prevent the Accord on Fire and Building Safety from operating, thereby putting workers’ safety at risk. laborrights.org/
With an increase of 25 percent in food production reported since 2014, and the aim being to sustain this growth rate for the coming year, it seems the country is not too far off from reaching its ambitious aim. undergroundreporter.org/
For the World Bank, it means that it now faces a suit by members of a fishing community in Mundra, India, who contend that their homes and livelihoods were damaged by pollution from a coal power plant that was financed by the bank’s private sector lending arm, the Washington, D.C.-based International Finance Corporation. icij.org/
A newsletter from the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research in India that commemorates the first anniversary of former Brazilian president Lula’s imprisonment. Without retreading the well-worn, how would anyone stop forgetting? thetricontinental.org/
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