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NEW COVID-19 WAVE IN TAIWAN EXPOSES GOVERNMENT’S LACK OF After more than a year of being held up as a model for its response to the global pandemic, Taiwan’s medical system is being overrun by a surge in COVID-19 cases. As of Thursday, there were WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE WSWS interviews Jorge O’Leary, leader of 1983–86 Phelps Dodge miners strike. The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke to Jorge O’Leary, a Mexican-born doctor and leader of the 1983–86 MASS GRAVE WITH 215 BODIES FOUND AT CANADIAN “INDIAN The bodies of 215 indigenous children have been found in a mass grave on the grounds of the now closed Kamloops Indian Residential School in AFTER REBELLING AGAINST USW-BACKED DEAL, 2,400 CANADIAN The determined stand taken by the miners, employed by multinational Vale Inco, is the latest example of a growing rebellion of the working class across North America against the trade union US STEELWORKERS UNION NEGOTIATING SELLOUT DEAL TO END The United Steelworkers (USW) continues to isolate 1,300 striking steelworkers at Allegheny Technologies (ATI), who walked out on March 30, and 650 refinery workers in CHICAGO FORD WORKERS FACE HARDSHIP AFTER EIGHT WEEKS ON Workers at Ford Chicago Assembly Plant have faced significant hardship during the eight-week shutdown of the factory due to the globalshortage
NEW COVID-19 WAVE IN TAIWAN EXPOSES GOVERNMENT’S LACK OF After more than a year of being held up as a model for its response to the global pandemic, Taiwan’s medical system is being overrun by a surge in COVID-19 cases. As of Thursday, there were MONARCHIST LINKED TO FRANCE’S FAR-RIGHT ACTION FRANÇAISE 11 hours ago · On Thursday, a Valence court sentenced Damien Tarel to 18 months in prison, 14 of which were suspended, for having slapped French President Emmanuel Macron at AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT STEPS UP KEY ROLE IN US AGGRESSION 10 hours ago · The Australian prime minister aligned himself lockstep behind US President Joe Biden’s demand at the G7 and NATO summits for an alliance of the supposed “free world”—the majorimperialist
CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST COMPANY PUSHING UNSAFE Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent by US schools on electronic air cleaners, or ionizers, whose manufacturers falsely claim they clean indoor air and kill coronavirus particles. AFTER REBELLING AGAINST USW-BACKED DEAL, 2,400 CANADIAN The determined stand taken by the miners, employed by multinational Vale Inco, is the latest example of a growing rebellion of the working class across North America against the trade union SEVEN DAYS OF THE GENERAL MILLS STRIKE IN SYDNEY: WORKERS 1 day ago · Workers, along with UWU officials and Labor MP Ed Husic outside General Mills (Credit: Facebook/Ed Husic) As is the case in all of these disputes, the AUSTRALIAN PM USES POLICE “STING” OPERATION TO DEMAND Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison this week used the unveiling of the results of a secret international police operation, targeting organised crime, to launch an aggressive “law and order AUSTRALIA: THREE INDUSTRIAL WORKPLACE DEATHS IN THREE DAYS A succession of tragic workplace accidents occurred in Australia in May within three days of one another, highlighting the hazardous conditions many workers confront on a JIMMY ALLEN RUTH, 1961 FREEDOM RIDES BUS DRIVER, DEAD AT Jimmy Allen Ruth, the Tennessee Trailways bus driver who, in 1961, braved the Ku Klux Klan and racist lawmen to carry civil rights movement “Freedom Riders” deep into the then-Jim Crow South SHEPPARTON: A CITY THAT TYPIFIES AUSTRALIA’S RURAL SOCIAL 15 hours ago · Shepparton, a city in the Goulburn Valley, a fruit growing and dairy region 180 kilometres north of Melbourne, provides a microcosm of the social SCHOOLS REOPEN IN TURKEY AMID COVID-19 DEATHS 12 hours ago · In Turkey, the country with the fifth-highest number of COVID-19 cases in the world, restrictions are being lifted and schools are reopening. WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE Perspective The “Wuhan lab” lie and the political witch hunt against science. Over the past week, the US media and the Biden administration have sought to legitimize the conspiracy theory that MASS GRAVE WITH 215 BODIES FOUND AT CANADIAN “INDIAN The bodies of 215 indigenous children have been found in a mass grave on the grounds of the now closed Kamloops Indian Residential School in CHICAGO FORD WORKERS FACE HARDSHIP AFTER EIGHT WEEKS ON Workers at Ford Chicago Assembly Plant have faced significant hardship during the eight-week shutdown of the factory due to the globalshortage
TALKS CONTINUE IN ALLEGHENY TECHNOLOGIES STRIKE AS USW Another round of closed door talks between the United Steelworkers (USW) and Allegheny Technologies Inc. (ATI) management is set forFriday as the
NEW COVID-19 WAVE IN TAIWAN EXPOSES GOVERNMENT’S LACK OF Ben McGrath. After more than a year of being held up as a model for its response to the global pandemic, Taiwan’s medical system isbeing overrun by a
GERMANY’S PREMATURE EASING OF LOCKDOWN MEASURES THREATENS On Monday the German government gave the green light for the opening up of most of the country’s schools, and crowds have gathered in thewarm
AS INDIAN VARIANT SPREADS IN EUROPE, GOVERNMENTS REOPEN The reopening is taking place amid a competition among the European states over which economy can most quickly restart, and particularlyover access to
MORE REPORTS SURFACE OF CHILD DEATHS FROM COVID-19 IN THE A teacher reaches her hand out to Pedro Garcia, 4, as he arrives for the first day of school at the Mosaic Pre-K Center in Queens, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020 in New York. LOCKOUT AT EXXONMOBIL BEAUMONT, TEXAS REFINERY CONTINUES The United Steelworkers (USW) Local 13-243 bargaining committee at the ExxonMobil Beaumont, Texas refinery and lubricant packaging plant rejected a proposed contract offer from management last BOSTON-AREA HOSPITAL TO OFFER “PREFERENTIAL CARE BASED ON Boston-area hospital to offer “preferential care based on race”. Amid a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States and internationally, an explicitly racially-based health WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE Perspective The “Wuhan lab” lie and the political witch hunt against science. Over the past week, the US media and the Biden administration have sought to legitimize the conspiracy theory that MASS GRAVE WITH 215 BODIES FOUND AT CANADIAN “INDIAN The bodies of 215 indigenous children have been found in a mass grave on the grounds of the now closed Kamloops Indian Residential School in CHICAGO FORD WORKERS FACE HARDSHIP AFTER EIGHT WEEKS ON Workers at Ford Chicago Assembly Plant have faced significant hardship during the eight-week shutdown of the factory due to the globalshortage
TALKS CONTINUE IN ALLEGHENY TECHNOLOGIES STRIKE AS USW Another round of closed door talks between the United Steelworkers (USW) and Allegheny Technologies Inc. (ATI) management is set forFriday as the
NEW COVID-19 WAVE IN TAIWAN EXPOSES GOVERNMENT’S LACK OF Ben McGrath. After more than a year of being held up as a model for its response to the global pandemic, Taiwan’s medical system isbeing overrun by a
GERMANY’S PREMATURE EASING OF LOCKDOWN MEASURES THREATENS On Monday the German government gave the green light for the opening up of most of the country’s schools, and crowds have gathered in thewarm
AS INDIAN VARIANT SPREADS IN EUROPE, GOVERNMENTS REOPEN The reopening is taking place amid a competition among the European states over which economy can most quickly restart, and particularlyover access to
MORE REPORTS SURFACE OF CHILD DEATHS FROM COVID-19 IN THE A teacher reaches her hand out to Pedro Garcia, 4, as he arrives for the first day of school at the Mosaic Pre-K Center in Queens, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020 in New York. LOCKOUT AT EXXONMOBIL BEAUMONT, TEXAS REFINERY CONTINUES The United Steelworkers (USW) Local 13-243 bargaining committee at the ExxonMobil Beaumont, Texas refinery and lubricant packaging plant rejected a proposed contract offer from management last BOSTON-AREA HOSPITAL TO OFFER “PREFERENTIAL CARE BASED ON Boston-area hospital to offer “preferential care based on race”. Amid a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States and internationally, an explicitly racially-based health FOUR MEMBERS OF A MUSLIM FAMILY KILLED IN LONDON, ONTARIO 23 hours ago · The Afzaal family (Credit: @MurtazaViews/Twitter) The victims, whom Veltman struck at high speed with his black pickup truck at 8:40 p.m. Sunday while they were out AUSTRALIA’S MURDOCH MEDIA AND THE WUHAN COVID-19 LAB 23 hours ago · The Murdoch media is working to pave the way for an even greater war crime than the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a US-led assault on China, through the INDIAN MARUTI SUZUKI, TOYOTA, RENAULT-NISSAN WORKERS Workers at plants across India applauded the decision Sunday by 3,000 US Volvo Truck workers at the New River Valley plant in Dublin, Virginia to oppose a CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST COMPANY PUSHING UNSAFE Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent by US schools on electronic air cleaners, or ionizers, whose manufacturers falsely claim they clean indoor air and kill coronavirus particles. AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENTS CONDEMN WORKERS AND YOUNG PEOPLE TO The refusal of the Victorian state Labor administration and the federal Liberal-National Coalition government to provide any but the most minimal financial PROTESTS CONTINUE IN MINNEAPOLIS AFTER US MARSHALS TASK 23 hours ago · The fatal shooting of Winston Smith last week bears a similar resemblance to the assassination of Michael Reinoehl in September of last year when a US Marshals federal task forcesurrounded him
AUSTRALIAN HEALTH WORKERS DEMAND STRIKE ACTION TO ADDRESS The opposition among overworked and underpaid health workers is coming into conflict with the trade union apparatuses, which have shut down strikes and refused to mobilise broader support. US SUPREME COURT BLOCKS GREEN CARDS FOR REFUGEES WITH On Monday, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled in Sanchez v. Mayorkas that immigrants who are living in the US for humanitarian reasons cannot apply to become permanent residents. Justice Elena Kagan CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL TEACHERS BEGIN STRIKE AFTER 23 hours ago · On Monday, 34 teachers at three Urban Prep Academies in Chicago began a strike against the charter schools after three years of negotiations that have failed to produce a contract. UrbanPrep
STATEMENT OF VOLVO WORKERS: WHAT’S NEXT IN OUR TWO-FRONT The following statement was written by the Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee (VWRFC) at the New River Valley Plant in Dublin, Virginia. Volvo workers can contact the VWRFC at volvowrfc@gmail WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE Perspective The “Wuhan lab” lie and the political witch hunt against science. Over the past week, the US media and the Biden administration have sought to legitimize the conspiracy theory that MASS GRAVE WITH 215 BODIES FOUND AT CANADIAN “INDIAN The bodies of 215 indigenous children have been found in a mass grave on the grounds of the now closed Kamloops Indian Residential School in CHICAGO FORD WORKERS FACE HARDSHIP AFTER EIGHT WEEKS ON Workers at Ford Chicago Assembly Plant have faced significant hardship during the eight-week shutdown of the factory due to the globalshortage
TALKS CONTINUE IN ALLEGHENY TECHNOLOGIES STRIKE AS USW Another round of closed door talks between the United Steelworkers (USW) and Allegheny Technologies Inc. (ATI) management is set forFriday as the
NEW COVID-19 WAVE IN TAIWAN EXPOSES GOVERNMENT’S LACK OF Ben McGrath. After more than a year of being held up as a model for its response to the global pandemic, Taiwan’s medical system isbeing overrun by a
GERMANY’S PREMATURE EASING OF LOCKDOWN MEASURES THREATENS On Monday the German government gave the green light for the opening up of most of the country’s schools, and crowds have gathered in thewarm
AS INDIAN VARIANT SPREADS IN EUROPE, GOVERNMENTS REOPEN The reopening is taking place amid a competition among the European states over which economy can most quickly restart, and particularlyover access to
MORE REPORTS SURFACE OF CHILD DEATHS FROM COVID-19 IN THE A teacher reaches her hand out to Pedro Garcia, 4, as he arrives for the first day of school at the Mosaic Pre-K Center in Queens, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020 in New York. LOCKOUT AT EXXONMOBIL BEAUMONT, TEXAS REFINERY CONTINUES The United Steelworkers (USW) Local 13-243 bargaining committee at the ExxonMobil Beaumont, Texas refinery and lubricant packaging plant rejected a proposed contract offer from management last BOSTON-AREA HOSPITAL TO OFFER “PREFERENTIAL CARE BASED ON Boston-area hospital to offer “preferential care based on race”. Amid a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States and internationally, an explicitly racially-based health WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE Perspective The “Wuhan lab” lie and the political witch hunt against science. Over the past week, the US media and the Biden administration have sought to legitimize the conspiracy theory that MASS GRAVE WITH 215 BODIES FOUND AT CANADIAN “INDIAN The bodies of 215 indigenous children have been found in a mass grave on the grounds of the now closed Kamloops Indian Residential School in CHICAGO FORD WORKERS FACE HARDSHIP AFTER EIGHT WEEKS ON Workers at Ford Chicago Assembly Plant have faced significant hardship during the eight-week shutdown of the factory due to the globalshortage
TALKS CONTINUE IN ALLEGHENY TECHNOLOGIES STRIKE AS USW Another round of closed door talks between the United Steelworkers (USW) and Allegheny Technologies Inc. (ATI) management is set forFriday as the
NEW COVID-19 WAVE IN TAIWAN EXPOSES GOVERNMENT’S LACK OF Ben McGrath. After more than a year of being held up as a model for its response to the global pandemic, Taiwan’s medical system isbeing overrun by a
GERMANY’S PREMATURE EASING OF LOCKDOWN MEASURES THREATENS On Monday the German government gave the green light for the opening up of most of the country’s schools, and crowds have gathered in thewarm
AS INDIAN VARIANT SPREADS IN EUROPE, GOVERNMENTS REOPEN The reopening is taking place amid a competition among the European states over which economy can most quickly restart, and particularlyover access to
MORE REPORTS SURFACE OF CHILD DEATHS FROM COVID-19 IN THE A teacher reaches her hand out to Pedro Garcia, 4, as he arrives for the first day of school at the Mosaic Pre-K Center in Queens, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020 in New York. LOCKOUT AT EXXONMOBIL BEAUMONT, TEXAS REFINERY CONTINUES The United Steelworkers (USW) Local 13-243 bargaining committee at the ExxonMobil Beaumont, Texas refinery and lubricant packaging plant rejected a proposed contract offer from management last BOSTON-AREA HOSPITAL TO OFFER “PREFERENTIAL CARE BASED ON Boston-area hospital to offer “preferential care based on race”. Amid a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States and internationally, an explicitly racially-based health FOUR MEMBERS OF A MUSLIM FAMILY KILLED IN LONDON, ONTARIO 15 hours ago · The Afzaal family (Credit: @MurtazaViews/Twitter) The victims, whom Veltman struck at high speed with his black pickup truck at 8:40 p.m. Sunday while they were out AUSTRALIA’S MURDOCH MEDIA AND THE WUHAN COVID-19 LAB 15 hours ago · The Murdoch media is working to pave the way for an even greater war crime than the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a US-led assault on China, through the INDIAN MARUTI SUZUKI, TOYOTA, RENAULT-NISSAN WORKERS Workers at plants across India applauded the decision Sunday by 3,000 US Volvo Truck workers at the New River Valley plant in Dublin, Virginia to oppose a CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST COMPANY PUSHING UNSAFE Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent by US schools on electronic air cleaners, or ionizers, whose manufacturers falsely claim they clean indoor air and kill coronavirus particles. AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENTS CONDEMN WORKERS AND YOUNG PEOPLE TO The refusal of the Victorian state Labor administration and the federal Liberal-National Coalition government to provide any but the most minimal financial PROTESTS CONTINUE IN MINNEAPOLIS AFTER US MARSHALS TASK 15 hours ago · The fatal shooting of Winston Smith last week bears a similar resemblance to the assassination of Michael Reinoehl in September of last year when a US Marshals federal task forcesurrounded him
AUSTRALIAN HEALTH WORKERS DEMAND STRIKE ACTION TO ADDRESS The opposition among overworked and underpaid health workers is coming into conflict with the trade union apparatuses, which have shut down strikes and refused to mobilise broader support. US SUPREME COURT BLOCKS GREEN CARDS FOR REFUGEES WITH On Monday, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled in Sanchez v. Mayorkas that immigrants who are living in the US for humanitarian reasons cannot apply to become permanent residents. Justice Elena Kagan CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL TEACHERS BEGIN STRIKE AFTER 15 hours ago · On Monday, 34 teachers at three Urban Prep Academies in Chicago began a strike against the charter schools after three years of negotiations that have failed to produce a contract. UrbanPrep
STATEMENT OF VOLVO WORKERS: WHAT’S NEXT IN OUR TWO-FRONT The following statement was written by the Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee (VWRFC) at the New River Valley Plant in Dublin, Virginia. Volvo workers can contact the VWRFC at volvowrfc@gmail WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE WSWS interviews Jorge O’Leary, leader of 1983–86 Phelps Dodge miners strike. The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke to Jorge O’Leary, a Mexican-born doctor and leader of the 1983–86 FOUR MEMBERS OF A MUSLIM FAMILY KILLED IN LONDON, ONTARIO 6 hours ago · The Afzaal family (Credit: @MurtazaViews/Twitter) The victims, whom Veltman struck at high speed with his black pickup truck at 8:40 p.m. Sunday while they were out “THIS WAS A CRIME”—READERS SUPPORT FAMILIES’ FIGHT TO 5 hours ago · The World Socialist Web Site is publishing statements in support of the Pike River Families Group, which represents 22 of the 29 families of the men who died in New Zealand’s 2010 Pike River WHEN SMOKE RISES: CANADIAN SINGER, POET MUSTAFA’S ELEGIES 5 hours ago · Mustafa, When Smoke Rises. Mustafa Ahmed was born to Sudanese parents who emigrated to Canada in 1995. He grew up in aToronto housing
INDIAN MARUTI SUZUKI, TOYOTA, RENAULT-NISSAN WORKERS Workers at plants across India applauded the decision Sunday by 3,000 US Volvo Truck workers at the New River Valley plant in Dublin, Virginia to oppose a CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL TEACHERS BEGIN STRIKE AFTER 6 hours ago · On Monday, 34 teachers at three Urban Prep Academies in Chicago began a strike against the charter schools after three years of negotiations that have failed to produce a contract. UrbanPrep
UK: MANCHESTER BUS DRIVERS DISPUTE UNITE UNION’S “VICTORY Manchester bus drivers have called into question the “victory” pronounced by Unite the union after the deal it struck at Go North West ending the 11 week strike at the Queens Road depot STATEMENT OF VOLVO WORKERS: WHAT’S NEXT IN OUR TWO-FRONT The following statement was written by the Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee (VWRFC) at the New River Valley Plant in Dublin, Virginia. Volvo workers can contact the VWRFC at volvowrfc@gmail AUSTRALIA: DIRE CONDITIONS TO CONTINUE IN VICTORIAN MENTAL 6 hours ago · With much media fanfare, the Labor Party government in the Australian state of Victoria tabled the final report of its Royal Commission into the Mental Health System in AUSTRALIAN PSEUDO-LEFT GROUPS TRY TO SHORE UP UNIVERSITY 5 hours ago · Under conditions in which university workers and students face historic and intensifying cuts to jobs and conditions, two pseudo-left groups are trying to help the trade unions to divert WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE WSWS interviews Jorge O’Leary, leader of 1983–86 Phelps Dodge miners strike. The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke to Jorge O’Leary, a Mexican-born doctor and leader of the 1983–86 FOUR MEMBERS OF A MUSLIM FAMILY KILLED IN LONDON, ONTARIO 6 hours ago · The Afzaal family (Credit: @MurtazaViews/Twitter) The victims, whom Veltman struck at high speed with his black pickup truck at 8:40 p.m. Sunday while they were out “THIS WAS A CRIME”—READERS SUPPORT FAMILIES’ FIGHT TO 5 hours ago · The World Socialist Web Site is publishing statements in support of the Pike River Families Group, which represents 22 of the 29 families of the men who died in New Zealand’s 2010 Pike River WHEN SMOKE RISES: CANADIAN SINGER, POET MUSTAFA’S ELEGIES 5 hours ago · Mustafa, When Smoke Rises. Mustafa Ahmed was born to Sudanese parents who emigrated to Canada in 1995. He grew up in aToronto housing
INDIAN MARUTI SUZUKI, TOYOTA, RENAULT-NISSAN WORKERS Workers at plants across India applauded the decision Sunday by 3,000 US Volvo Truck workers at the New River Valley plant in Dublin, Virginia to oppose a CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL TEACHERS BEGIN STRIKE AFTER 6 hours ago · On Monday, 34 teachers at three Urban Prep Academies in Chicago began a strike against the charter schools after three years of negotiations that have failed to produce a contract. UrbanPrep
UK: MANCHESTER BUS DRIVERS DISPUTE UNITE UNION’S “VICTORY Manchester bus drivers have called into question the “victory” pronounced by Unite the union after the deal it struck at Go North West ending the 11 week strike at the Queens Road depot STATEMENT OF VOLVO WORKERS: WHAT’S NEXT IN OUR TWO-FRONT The following statement was written by the Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee (VWRFC) at the New River Valley Plant in Dublin, Virginia. Volvo workers can contact the VWRFC at volvowrfc@gmail AUSTRALIA: DIRE CONDITIONS TO CONTINUE IN VICTORIAN MENTAL 6 hours ago · With much media fanfare, the Labor Party government in the Australian state of Victoria tabled the final report of its Royal Commission into the Mental Health System in AUSTRALIAN PSEUDO-LEFT GROUPS TRY TO SHORE UP UNIVERSITY 5 hours ago · Under conditions in which university workers and students face historic and intensifying cuts to jobs and conditions, two pseudo-left groups are trying to help the trade unions to divert “THIS WAS A CRIME”—READERS SUPPORT FAMILIES’ FIGHT TO 5 hours ago · The World Socialist Web Site is publishing statements in support of the Pike River Families Group, which represents 22 of the 29 families of the men who died in New Zealand’s 2010 Pike River FOUR MEMBERS OF A MUSLIM FAMILY KILLED IN LONDON, ONTARIO 6 hours ago · The Afzaal family (Credit: @MurtazaViews/Twitter) The victims, whom Veltman struck at high speed with his black pickup truck at 8:40 p.m. Sunday while they were out PROTESTS CONTINUE IN MINNEAPOLIS AFTER US MARSHALS TASK 6 hours ago · The fatal shooting of Winston Smith last week bears a similar resemblance to the assassination of Michael Reinoehl in September of last year when a US Marshals federal task forcesurrounded him
TENET HEALTHCARE BEGINS REPLACING STRIKING NURSES AT SAINT The strike by 700 nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, is now in its 12th week. After facing years of reduced staffing and horrific conditions during the pandemic, the WHEN SMOKE RISES: CANADIAN SINGER, POET MUSTAFA’S ELEGIES 5 hours ago · Mustafa, When Smoke Rises. Mustafa Ahmed was born to Sudanese parents who emigrated to Canada in 1995. He grew up in aToronto housing
CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL TEACHERS BEGIN STRIKE AFTER 6 hours ago · On Monday, 34 teachers at three Urban Prep Academies in Chicago began a strike against the charter schools after three years of negotiations that have failed to produce a contract. INDIAN MARUTI SUZUKI, TOYOTA, RENAULT-NISSAN WORKERS Renault Nissan Automotive India workers (Credit: global.nissannews.com) Leaders of the Provisional Working Committee formed in 2012, when leaders of UK: MANCHESTER BUS DRIVERS DISPUTE UNITE UNION’S “VICTORY Manchester bus drivers have called into question the “victory” pronounced by Unite the union after the deal it struck at Go North West ending the 11 week strike at the Queens Road depot. AUSTRALIA: DIRE CONDITIONS TO CONTINUE IN VICTORIAN MENTAL 6 hours ago · With much media fanfare, the Labor Party government in the Australian state of Victoria tabled the final report of its Royal Commission into the Mental Health System in AUSTRALIAN PSEUDO-LEFT GROUPS TRY TO SHORE UP UNIVERSITY 5 hours ago · University of Melbourne (Image credit: Flickr/Travis) This is the opposite of what is required. The need for a unified industrial and political struggle throughout the entire universitysector
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BY KEVIN REED
21 FEBRUARY 2020
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the world’s wealthiest individual, announced on Monday that he is creating a $10 billion charitable fund with his own money to address climate change which will start issuing grants as soon as this summer. In an Instagram post that included a photo of the Earth, the Amazon founder wrote that he was creating the Bezos Earth Fund “to work alongside others both to amplify known ways and to explore new ways of fighting the devastating impact of climate change on this planet weall share.”
Bezos also said that the fund would be a “global initiative” that would provide resources to “scientists, activists, NGOs—any effort that offers a real possibility to help preserve and protect the natural world.” He concluded, “We can save Earth. It’s going to take collective action from big companies, small companies, nation states, global organizations, and individuals.” Jeff Bezos (right) and his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez The $10 billion in philanthropy represents less than eight percent of Bezos’s estimated $130 billion net worth. In the world of billionaire charitable giving, the Amazon CEO would jump to third place behind Warren Buffet, who gave $36 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2006, and Helen R. Walton, who provided $16.4 billion to the Walton Family Foundation in 2007. While there are many questions about the Bezos Earth Fund and how it will operate, one thing is abundantly clear: a significant portion of the $10 billion fund, if not all of it, will be subsidized by the US tax code. Therefore, Bezos’s charitable “global initiative” is in reality a massive American tax shelter that will drain criticalgovernment funding.
The launching of the fund is at least in part a response by the Amazon founder to growing protests by employees at the multinational technology company who have publicly criticized Bezos for his lack of response to climate change. According to its own sustainability report in 2018, Amazon is a massive polluter with a total annual carbon footprint of 44.40 million metric tons (mmt) of carbon dioxideequivalent.
This carbon volume—from fossil fuel-burning fleets of vehicles delivering packages around the world, immense amounts of electricity consumption at its Amazon Web Services data centers and many other sources, including its cardboard boxes and infamously wasteful bubble wrap packaging—is greater than that of Norway, Hong Kong, Ecuadorand Sweden.
As reported
on the
_World Socialist Web Site__,_ the conflict between Amazon staff and company ownership came to a head on January 26 when more than 350 employees defied a corporate communications directive and spoke out publicly against its climate policy as well as other social andpolitical issues.
A group called Amazon Employees for Climate Justice organized a worldwide walkout of 5,000 on September 20 of last year as part of the Global Climate Strike in which four million people participated internationally. In response to this event, Jeff Bezos issued a Climate Manifesto that aligned Amazon’s emission reduction goals with a Washington, D.C. initiative called the “Climate Pledge” that would make the company carbon neutral by 2040. Large numbers of Amazon employees rejected this insufficient schedule and demanded a more aggressive plan that would make the company carbon neutral by 2030. They also pointed out Bezos’s hypocrisy on climate questions since he was contributing financially to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a think-tank that engages in climate denial on behalf of the fossil fuel industry. As activist employees continued to speak out and expose Amazon’s two-faced climate policies, the company mobilized its human resources department, which threatened to fire workers for violating itspolicies.
In response to the Bezos Earth Fund, the Amazon Employees for Climate Justice published a statement on Twitter that states, “As history has taught us, true visionaries stand up against entrenched systems, often at great cost to themselves. We applaud Jeff Bezos’ philanthropy, but one hand cannot give what the other is taking away. The people of Earth need to know: When is Amazon going to stop helping oil & gas companies ravage Earth with still more oil and gas wells? When is Amazon going to stop funding climate-denying think tanks like the Competitive Enterprise Institute and climate-delaying policy? When will Amazon take responsibility for the lungs of children near its warehouses by moving from diesel to all-electric trucking? “Why did Amazon threaten to fire employees who were sounding the alarm about Amazon’s role in the climate crisis and our oil and gas business? What this shows it that employees speaking out works—we need more of that right now. Will Jeff Bezos show us true leadership or will he continue to be complicit in the acceleration of the climate crisis, while supposedly trying to help?” There is no doubt that Bezos’s climate initiative is also aimed at trying to dull the growing bitterness and anger of the broader public over the exploding wealth of a tiny number of billionaires while the rest of the world’s people are struggling to make ends meet. According to an Oxfam report published on January 20, the world’s 2,153 billionaires have more wealth than a combined 4.6 billion peopleon Earth.
The corporate media has been mobilized to polish up the otherwise tarnished public perception of Bezos. _Forbes_, the enthusiastic publisher of an annual list of the world’s billionaires, has chimed in with unsolicited advice on how Bezos should spend his $10 billion, adding, “Jeff Bezos has a tremendous opportunity to become a trueclimate leader.”
On the other hand, the public commentary on Twitter is dominated by bluntly honest statements. In one tweet, a poster said, “Jeff Bezos didn’t ‘donate’ $10B to ‘fight climate change’ he’s setting up a $10B venture called the ‘Bezos Earth Fund.’ In other words, he’s founding a bank and using it to invest in ‘the green sector,’ thereby profiting from & influencing how transitionhappens.”
Another wrote, “If he honestly cared enough about an issue to sacrifice a significant amount of his wealth to it and significantly impact his life for the cause he would never have become a billionaire. ... They're horrifically flawed shells of people with no compassion for any cause.” Under capitalism, the financial resources being applied to the “climate change industry,” such as the Bezos Earth Fund, are, above all, concerned with returns on investment. Groups of investors are competing with each other in research and development to find ways to earn a profit from green energy alternatives and methods for dealing with rising sea levels, record-breaking heat waves and uncontrollable wild fires. The unfolding environmental catastrophe, along with the existential threats of nuclear war and deadly viral pandemics, are rooted in the capitalist system. Alongside these, the growth of extreme wealth inequality and the existence of super-billionaires such as Jeff Bezos are incompatible with the needs of billions of people on the planet. These crises cannot be solved by wealthy individuals and their drop-in-the-bucket philanthropy. Solving the climate change crisis requires the dramatic and revolutionary reorganization of the productive forces of our global society carried out by the international working class on the basis of socialist economicplanning.
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