C. J. Atkins
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Toronto, ON, Canada
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Silicon Valley Bank collapse reveals danger of a wider financial crisis
Finance capital seems poised to once more drag the country into a new banking crisis, dredging up the specter of the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers and the Great Recession that it sparked. Since Friday, the U.S. → Read More
China calls for Ukraine ceasefire and issues 12-point peace plan
China on Friday called for a comprehensive ceasefire and negotiations to end the war in Ukraine and issued a 12-point plan to achieve peace. China rolled out its plan at the United Nations and in the international press over the weekend. → Read More
Peace talks on Ukraine war unlikely any time soon
Most of the corporate media hailed President Joe Biden’s surprise visit to Kiev this past weekend where he met Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky. Russia, whom the administration has said cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons or diplomatic negotiations, was told ahead of time, apparently, and wa... → Read More
LGBTQ people under attack, People’s World stands up and fights back
Drag shows made illegal. The very mention in classrooms that gay people exist outlawed forever. Trans people barred from employment, housing, or even being able to use a public restroom. Parents who seek gender-affirming health care for their kids prosecuted and jailed for child abuse. → Read More
Bolsonaro supporters execute Jan. 6-style fascist coup attempt in Brazil
In a scene reminiscent of the Trump coup attempt of Jan. 6, 2021, supporters of defeated Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro tried to pull off their own overthrow of democracy on Sunday by storming the Congress, the Supreme Court, and the presidential palace. → Read More
Federal agency wants to put $300 billion in workers’ pockets by banning non-competes
ST. PAUL, Minn.—Ten months ago, an upset Emily Olson, a former hair salon executive in the Twin Cities, brought a tearful tale—one that impacts millions of workers nationally—to Minnesota lawmakers. → Read More
Jan. 6 Committee’s final verdict: Prosecute Trump
Donald Trump committed multiple crimes when he attempted to overthrow the government on Jan. 6, 2021, and for that, he must be charged by the Justice Department. That is the recommendation expected Monday when the House Committee investigating the Trump coup finally wraps up its probe. → Read More
Right wing’s anti-LGBTQ hate creates atmosphere for Colorado Springs shooting
At least five dead. More than two dozen others injured. The LGBTQ community again shattered. The mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs late Saturday night has echoes of the June 2016 Pulse nightclub attack in Orlando, where 49 people were murdered. → Read More
China won’t be capitalist world’s low-cost labor hub anymore, Communist Party congress declares
Xi Jinping was elected to a precedent-breaking third term as general secretary of the Communist Party of China at its 20th Congress this past weekend, setting him up to lead the ruling party for the foreseeable future. → Read More
U.S. imperialism targets China in Biden’s new national security strategy
U.S. imperialism is gearing up for years—potentially decades—of confrontation with China and angling to keep Russia in a weakened position. President Joe Biden on Wednesday told the U.S. → Read More
The Fed’s intentional recession: Higher interest rates mean fewer jobs, smaller paychecks
Whenever the Federal Reserve announces interest rate hikes, a lot of working people wonder what it means for them. If you’re buying a home or have an adjustable rate mortgage already, then you can expect the interest offer you get from the bank to be higher. → Read More
Fake Ukraine referendums, pipeline sabotage raise danger of wider war – People's World
Russia now stands ready to annex the parts of eastern Ukraine that its invading troops currently occupy. Following the announcement of vote totals in the referendums held in the territories controlled by his military, President Vladimir Putin is expected to address the Russian parliament Friday and... → Read More
Will peace be given a chance in Ukraine?
News reports this week suggest that seven months after the beginning of the Russian invasion, Ukraine has seized the initiative. We read in the press that neither President Vladimir Putin nor the people around him expected that their “special military operation” would evolve into a war that woul... → Read More
Mussolini’s heirs take over in Italy as neo-fascist revival spreads
Tally another victory for the neo-fascist, anti-immigrant right wing in Europe. Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy party—the successor to the post-World War II Italian Social Movement—is set to be the next prime minister of that country following Sunday’s national election. → Read More
‘Hot autumn’ of resistance as Germans suffer from sanctions on Russia
LEIPZIG, Germany—Around 5,000 in Leipzig and another 1,000 in Berlin last Monday took part in the first rallies of a campaign that’s being called the start of a “hot autumn” of resistance to Ukraine war-imposed hardships on German workers. → Read More
Freeze or starve? Sanctioning Russia leaves Germans a choice this winter
BERLIN—“It’s going to be a choice many of us will have to face when winter comes: freeze or starve.” So says Günter Pohl, a glassworker from the the town of Sprockhövel in Germany’s industrial Ruhr region. → Read More
Shinzo Abe, Japan’s right-wing militarist former prime minister, assassinated
Shinzo Abe, who ruled Japan as prime minister for a year in 2006 and then again from 2012 to 2020, was shot and killed Friday during a campaign rally in the town of Nara. → Read More
Supreme Court guts Clean Air Act, puts every government regulation in jeopardy
Continuing a right-wing rampage that has already seen abortion rights gutted, the open carrying of guns given free rein, eviction moratoriums killed off, and coronavirus controls eviscerated, the Supreme Court on Thursday gave big fossil fuel corporations the freedom to fill our air with more planet... → Read More
Trump wanted to march to Capitol and lead coup attempt directly, aide testifies
WASHINGTON—The violence the nation saw on its television screens on Jan. 6, 2021, was enough to conclude that an attempted coup was underway that day. → Read More
Supreme Court kills abortion rights, sets target on marriage equality, contraception, more
As expected, the Supreme Court of the United States has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that legalized abortion across the nation nearly 50 years ago. → Read More