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Puerto Rico holds hearings on proposed power bill increases as customers fume and outages persist
Residents are balking as private power company officials overseeing the generation, transmission and distribution of power in Puerto Rico insist that additional funding is needed to modernize a crumbling grid that Hurricane Maria razed in 2017. The hearings, which do not include public input, began in mid-November and are scheduled to continue through late December. They are being held by Puerto Rico’s Energy Bureau, which would decide whether to authorize the proposed increases.
https://apnews.com/article/puerto-rico-power-bill-hearings-increases-a9d129013ec9ba7859ffac6f6aad466b

Trump DOJ Sides With Roundup Manufacturer Over Cancer Victims in Supreme Court Case
On Monday, US Solicitor General D. John Sauer recommended that the high court agree to hear a challenge to a Missouri jury’s verdict in 2023 that awarded $1.25 million to a man named John Durnell, who claimed that the product caused him to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-backs-bayer-monsanto-roundup

Trump administration threatens to withhold SNAP management funds from states that don’t share data
President Donald Trump’s administration warned on Tuesday that it will withhold money for administering SNAP food aid in most Democratic-controlled states starting next week unless those states provide information about people receiving the assistance.
https://apnews.com/article/food-aid-snap-rollins-blue-states-edf7a10ab409fe471ae81a13823484ab

As Prices Soar, Trump Denounces ‘Affordability’ as ‘Democrat Scam’
At the start of a Cabinet meeting, Trump falsely claimed that electricity prices are coming down, despite the fact that Americans across the country are struggling with utility bills being driven higher in large part by energy-devouring artificial intelligence data centers.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-affordability-democratic-scam

Nevada governor signs sweeping crime bill as state looks to boost tourism
Known as the Safe Streets and Neighborhoods Act, the law paves the way for the reinstitution of the controversial Resort Corridor Court to penalize crimes such as petty theft, assault, drug offenses and loitering originating on the Las Vegas Strip and coinciding with orders banning people from the tourist area for a year.
https://apnews.com/article/nevada-governor-lombardo-las-vegas-strip-crime-7db720f30a3479e5684104ed74f47d6b

Trump's DOJ files lawsuit against WA state over release of protected voter information
The U.S. Department of Justice, under President Donald Trump, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs of violating federal law by refusing to hand over the state’s full voter registration database, including protected personal information, as part of a federal election-compliance review.
https://komonews.com/news/local/trumps-doj-files-lawsuit-against-wa-state-over-release-of-protected-voter-information-department-of-justice-hobbs-vote-election-ballot-immigration-registration-identification-address-license-social-security-washington

RS-YM (Bangladesh) Condemns The Police Crackdown Against Participants In Environmental Protest In Delhi, India
Revolutionary Student-Youth Movement strongly condemns and protests the sexual harassment, assault, and arrests carried out by the Delhi Police against students of Bhagat Singh Chhatra Ekta Manch (bsCEM), Nazariya Magazine, and other organizations during the environmental protest at Delhi’s India Gate! For a long time, India’s capital, Delhi, has topped the Air Quality Index as the city with the most polluted air in the world. On November 23, 2025, the Delhi Coordination Committee for Clean Air organized a protest rally. The committee included Delhi-based Marxist-Leninist-Maoist student organization Bhagat Singh Chhatra Ekta Manch (bsCEM) and Nazariya Magazine, among others. At the rally, the protesters rejected “garden-style” environmentalism. They pointed instead to the responsibility of the Hindutva fascist BJP, whose Chief Minister Rekha Gupta is an agent of imperialism, and to the so-called “development” projects of the corporate bureaucrat-bourgeoisie. They demanded the formation of people’s committees composed of slum workers, migrant laborers, residents of surrounding villages, and civil society rights activists to take the leading role in planning Delhi’s development for the protection of its environment.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/24682/

Like South Africa, the BRICS Suffer From Trump Appeasement Syndrome
The U.S. now assumes leadership of the G20 until the Miami summit ends on December 15, 2026 – but not without having lost some crucial soft power. In the wake of Donald Trump’s farcical attacks on the host of last week’s G20 summit in Johannesburg, might the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (plus Egypt-Ethiopia-Indonesia-Iran-United Arab Emirates) BRICS bloc – maybe alongside some annoyed Europeans – finally stand up straight, and boycott the Florida meeting? After all, a process of shifting power relations – symbolic and real – is supposedly underway. At the University of South Africa in Pretoria on November 20, two days before G20 leaders met, Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs gave a viral speech in which he castigated Trump – as the equivalent of a four-year old throwing tantrums – and proclaimed that U.S. power " is fading. It’s fading in part because of the BRICS. Because the BRICS are saying we don’t need to be under the thumb of a US empire. That’s what President Lula said when he was hosting the BRICS this summer. And Trump put on a tariff on Brazil because he didn’t like a court proceeding against the preceding president who had tried to make a coup. And so he put on a penalty tariff and President Lula said, ‘We don’t need an emperor, and we’re not going to succumb to this kind of pressure.’ So the BRICS, of which you are an esteemed member … have 46% of the world population. Thank you. And 41% of the world GDP. And they can look at the G7 and say, ‘Who are you?’ And that’s what they’re doing. So this is the new phase of geopolitics." Sachs’ rhetoric is certainly pleasing, but in a manner reminiscent of a too-brief sugar high. Looking more closely over the past six months, the (aspiring) multi-polar world has provided many examples of the opposite process, suggesting the BRICS’ threat to U.S. imperialism is in fact, fading. Read on if you are worried that Sachs vastly hypes the BRICS, by not digging deeply enough, dialectically, into the devils in the details. Read on if you are worried that the BRICS’ ruling elites can and do behave in neoliberal subimperialist – not anti-imperialist – ways.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/02/like-south-africa-the-brics-suffer-from-trump-appeasement-syndrome/

Tony Cliff: The working class and the oppressed (September 1987)
WHY DID Karl Marx put the emphasis on the working class? It was not because the working class was large in numbers. When Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto, the only two countries where the industrial revolution was complete were England and Belgium. Internationally the working class was tiny. Today there are more workers in South Korea than there were in the entire world in Marx’s time. Even today the working class does not make up the majority of humanity. The majority of the world’s population are peasants. He chose the working class because the working class is the subject of history, because it is in a collective situation. It is not a collection of people but a collective of people. There is all the difference in the world between these two. In Russia, for example, the people who really suffered most before 1917 were not the workers. The 40,000 workers in the Putilov armaments factory in Petrograd were on top wages, yet they formed the citadel of Bolshevism. The workers were more cultured than the peasants. Nearly 80 percent of them could read and write. The main point then was not suffering or deprivation, but the fact that the working class was a collective. It was for this reason that Marx spoke about the working class as a collective class, as a universal class. It is the class that in emancipating itself emancipates humanity, because where the chains of capitalism are forged, there they have to be broken. When you look to the oppressed there is a problem: there are far more oppressed people in the world than there are workers. There are thousands of millions of oppressed women. There are a massive number of oppressed blacks and Asians, there are millions of oppressed gays, there are millions of oppressed Jews. The numbers are absolutely massive. Are they a collective? No. The oppressed do not join forces automatically. The idea of a rainbow alliance of the oppressed wouldn’t stand the test of five minutes of struggle. It is not true that if you are gay you automatically support blacks, that if you are black you automatically support gays, or if you are gay you automatically support Jews. If anyone is in any doubt, let us look at the reality. For instance it is simply not true that Jews in Nazi Germany were attacked only by heterosexuals. Among the worst anti-semites were the Nazi gays. Why? Because to be a homosexual you were inferior in Nazi terms. But if you had a leather jacket, leather boots and a swastika, compared to a Jew or compared to a woman you didn’t feel inferior at all, you felt superior.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/cliff/works/1987/09/oppressed.html