2021-05-28: News Headlines

Joris Leverink (2021-05-28). From Zapata to the Zapatistas: Mexico's "other" Commune. roarmag.org "What is the Commune, that Sphinx so tantalizing to the bourgeois mind?" Karl Marx asked in The Civil War in France, his manifesto-like analysis written for the International Workers' Association. For the case of the Paris Commune, which lasted for barely 72 days between March 18 and May 28, 1871, Marx seemed to have his answer ready: "Its true secret was this. It was essentially a working-class government, the product of the struggle of the producing against the appropriating class, the political form at last discovered under which to work out the economical emancipation of labor." | What happened, according to…

Mark Gruenberg (2021-05-28). Chicago ordinance bringing laid-off hotel workers back to work stalls. peoplesworld.org CHICAGO—Marie Lourdie Pierre-Jacques, a naturalized Haitian immigrant who was a banquet server in Swissotel in Chicago's Loop, gave her life to her job for 18 years. She almost had her first baby at the hotel. After only six weeks of leave, she returned to work. After that, her first son called her sister "Mommy" and …

A Guest Author (2021-05-28). '1619 Project': Progressive educators oppose reactionary curriculum. workers.org By Andy Terhune Right-wing lawmakers in 15 states are passing legislation that will require public school teachers to teach a nationalist narrative of history, which ignores the genocidal, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant and oppressive history of the United States. Specific legislation differs among the 15 states, but they all include a . . . |

a guest author (2021-05-28). '1619 Project': Progressive educators oppose reactionary legislation. workers.org By Andy Terhune Right-wing lawmakers in 15 states are passing legislation that will require public school teachers to teach a nationalist narrative of history, which ignores the genocidal, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant and oppressive history of the United States. Specific legislation differs among the 15 states, but they all include a . . . |

Latino Rebels (2021-05-28). Undocumented and LGBTQ (Part 8, COVID Edition). latinorebels.com Latino Rebels Radio: May 28, 2021…

Luis Manuel Arce Isaac (2021-05-28). México — Las elecciones intermedias más importantes. globalizacion.ca Podría decirse desde un punto de vista cuantitativo que es así porque van a liza las gobernaciones de 15 estados, los 500 escaños de la Cámara de Diputados, de 30 asambleas legislativas, cientos de presidentes municipales, miles de alcaldías, sindicaturas…

claudia (2021-05-27). Your National Political Committee newsletter — We must struggle together. dsausa.org Enjoy your May National Political Committee (NPC) newsletter! Our NPC is an elected eighteen-person body (including two YDSA members who share a vote) which functions as the board of directors of DSA. Read on for more! From the National Political Committee TONIGHT, Thursday 5/27 — Immigrants' Rights Working Group Farmworkers Act call PRO Act Weekend…

Dick Nichols (2021-05-27). The Ceuta 'invasion': Exploiting young Moroccans desperate for a future. greenleft.org.au When thousands of Moroccan migrants reached Ceuta — a Spanish enclave on the north coast of Africa, bordered by Morocco — exhausted from the swim, they found they had been duped. Moroccan authorities had set in motion a wave of migration, to punish Spain for providing hospital care to the leader of the Polisario Front, which is leading the struggle to end Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara. | The Spanish fairy tale begins…: | The first "invaders" appeared at dawn on May 17. Stealthily swimming ashore at El Tarajal beach in Ceuta, Spain's Moroccan enclave, they quickly overcame the resist…

WSWS (2021-05-27). As over 50 refugees drown, UN condemns EU's Mediterranean migrant policy. wsws.org The UN human rights commission branded the EU as jointly responsible for hundreds of entirely preventable deaths in the Mediterranean since the beginning of the year.

Jon Schwarz (2021-05-27). Emily Wilder's Firing Is No Surprise. zcomm.org From its founding during the Mexican-American War to its reporting on Latin America today, AP's always been quietly conservative…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-05-27). Mexico: 34 Candidates Assassinated Ahead of Parliamentary and Subnational Elections. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch 34 aspiring candidates have been assassinated in Mexico ahead of the parliamentary and subnational elections scheduled for June 6. Photo: Especial According to the consulting firm Etellekt's latest report on political violence, so far, 88 politicians have been assassinated since the beginning of the election campaign in September 2020. 34 of them were…

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