Labour:

After 112 years, there’s a permanent, onsite Triangle Shirtwaist Fire memorial^PW

‘They’re making a huge mistake’: Master Lock workers speak out on plant closure^RNN
Reports: Amazon an “industry leader” in workplace injuries, suffering^PW
Four GM plants vote down UAW deal as momentum builds against sellout contract^WSWS
Thousands of US pharmacy workers mount 3-day “pharmageddon” wildcat strike^WSWS
Department of Labor investigates payroll “glitch,” which left tens of thousands of postal workers without paychecks^WSWS
US Artists and Studios Reach Tentative Deal to End Strike^TS

South Australian public school staff strike again for better wages and conditions^WSWS
Australia: Newcastle steelworkers strike over pay and conditions^WSWS

Hundreds of thousands of Quebec public sector workers stage walkouts after CAQ government reiterates demand for real wage cuts^WSWS

Sri Lanka: Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers demand pay rises, oppose austerity measures^WSWS

Left and Right:

New Syriza leader Kasselakis exposed as pro-capitalist, austerity supporting Reagan worshipper^WSWS

Michael Roberts reviews Branco Milanovic's Visions of Inequality, particularly focussing on his treatment of Marx in the book and what he gets wrong (and, sometimes, right). Roberts also updates us on the global debt problem rising, both in developing countries and the United States.[^MR](Debt distress) And finally, reviews a book recapping 50 years of dependency theory.^MR

From Gaza and Cuba, they ask–are you human like us?: The Forty-Fifth Newsletter (2023).^MR
A Democratic Socialist Looks Back on 50 Years in Leftist Activism^CA
The rise of the modern imperial system^GL
Degrowth and the Global South: remarks on the twin problem of structural interdependencies^DE
Book of Xi Jinping's discourses on Chinese modernization published;^CGTN China’s Xi Jinping says Communist Party control too weak in rural areas, new book reveals^SCMP Western Left and the U.S.-China contradiction^MR

Significant segments of the non-Communist Western Left see the developing contradiction between the United States and China in terms of an inter-imperialist rivalry. Such a characterisation fulfils three distinct theoretical functions from their point of view: first, it provides an explanation for the growing contradiction between the U.S. and China; second, it does so by using a Leninist concept and within a Leninist paradigm; and third, it critiques China as an emerging imperialist power, and hence by inference, a capitalist economy, which is in conformity with an ultra-Left critique of China. Such a characterisation ironically makes these segments of the Left implicitly or explicitly complicit in U.S. imperialism’s machinations against China.

LGBTQIA:

Content Warning - this section is not usually good news.

Nearly All LGBTQ+ Youth Exposed to Online Bullying: HRC Report^Advocate
Idaho's Anti-Transgender School Restroom Law Blocked by Court^Advocate

Energy:

Rooftop solar, an emerging solution to Bihar’s land shortage that’s stalling renewable progress^MB

Michigan Poised to Join States Requiring 100 Percent Clean Electricity^ICN

New Study Finds Overwhelming Evidence of Harms From Fracking^DS
Oil and Gas Companies Spill Millions of Gallons of Wastewater in Texas^ICN

Review suggests few oil and gas companies committed to renewable energy^AN

Climate and Biodiversity:

Chinese-led study suggests extreme weather is helping invaders replace native animals globally^SCMP
More funding needed for polar research as ice keeps melting^MP
What the Melting of Antarctic Ice Shelves Means for the Planet^ICN
Forests' 'catastrophic ecosystem collapse'^EC
New Study Warns of an Imminent Spike of Planetary Warming and Deepens Divides Among Climate Scientists^ICN
Drop in deforestation of Brazilian Amazon reported^MP
Planned Fossil Fuel Production Vastly Exceeds the World’s Climate Goals, ‘Throwing Humanity’s Future Into Question’^ICN
Tourism Industry Emissions Are Still Significant Worldwide^TS
Revealed: ‘Greenwashing’ cruise ships burning diesel despite energy pledge^OD

Shapiro Orders New Controls on the Oil and Gas Industry in Pennsylvania, Targeting Methane Emissions and Drilling Chemicals^ICN
Basically nobody in Britain believes world leaders will act on promises made at the most important conference in human history^EC
Deep Rifts at UN Loss and Damage Talks Cast a Shadow on Upcoming Climate Conference^ICN

Similar to Mexico’s Hurricane Otis, Storm Ciarán Took Europe by Surprise^ICN

Miscellaneous Analysis:

How Declining Sperm Counts Have Seeded A Crisis of American Individualism^CA

Boarding Schools Probe Tells US History of Genocide^TS

We Want Them Infected: The integration of pseudoscience into the US pandemic response^WSWS
UK COVID Inquiry reveals how Johnson government planned mass murder^WSWS
Boris Johnson said Covid was ‘nature’s way of dealing with old people’^OD

Dipshittery and Cope:

Blow to Putin as Russia faces UK trial over $60bn Yukos oil battle^Biltarals
DTEK energy company claims $ 267 million victory in The Hague against Russia over Crimea assets^Bilaterals

The walls are closing in.