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News 3/14/26 News Anon 3.0 14-03-26 23:42:08 No.2738642

Venezuelan Trade Unions Stage Protests, Spark Renewed Minimum Wage Debate
A coalition of labor organizations staged protests in Caracas and over 25 other cities across the country. In the Venezuelan capital, around 1,000 demonstrators marched from Plaza Morelos and broke through a police cordon to reach the National Assembly in the city center. “Mobilizations like the one we had today will continue and grow until the government changes its salary policies,” José Gregorio Afonso, president of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) professors’ association, stated. “
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-trade-unions-stage-protests-spark-renewed-minimum-wage-debate/

US veteran flees ahead of US trial over failed 2020 Maduro ouster plot
Jordan Goudreau, 49, was charged in 2024 with violating U.S. arms export control laws by conspiring to ship weapons to Colombia without the required U.S. export licenses. He pleaded not guilty and had been scheduled to go on trial in June in Tampa, Florida.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-veteran-flees-ahead-us-trial-over-failed-2020-maduro-ouster-plot-2026-03-13/

Cuban president confirms US talks as island’s energy and economic crises intensify
Díaz-Canel said the talks “were aimed at finding solutions through dialogue to the bilateral differences between our two nations. International factors facilitated these exchanges.” He did not elaborate on those factors, or provide any specifics about the talks, which U.S. President Donald Trump has alluded to in the past.
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-us-talks-68bec1bfee9efe696c8ce357463c7a56

Argentina urged to march with photos of disappeared on 50th anniversary of coup
Human rights groups expect a large mobilisation to Plaza de Mayo on March 24 as Argentina marks 50 years since the 1976 coup d'état that brought the military junta to power; Participants are being asked to wear A4 photographs of victims at rally.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/argentina-urged-to-march-with-photos-of-disappeared-on-50th-anniversary-of-coup.phtml
https://archive.ph/T4aAE

Shelter crisis: Haifa’s Palestinian neighbourhoods deprived of protection during wartime
Palestinian neighbourhoods in Haifa are facing a growing shelter crisis, with residents accusing Israeli authorities of pursuing policies that deepen discrimination and effectively exclude Palestinian communities from basic protection during wartime.
https://www.newarab.com/news/haifas-palestinian-areas-deprived-protection-during-wartime

Israeli strike kills 12 healthcare workers in southern Lebanon
A primary healthcare facility in the town of Burj Qalaouiyah was hit by an Israeli strike late on Friday, setting it ablaze and causing the structure to collapse on top of the staff inside. The strike killed doctors, paramedics and nurses on duty, according to the Lebanese ministry of health, which said it “violated all international humanitarian laws” in a statement.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/14/lebanon-israeli-rockets-kill-healthcare-workers

Trump says ‘many countries’ will send warships to Hormuz amid Iran blockade
Writing on Truth Social on Saturday, Trump said nations, “especially those affected by Iran’s attempted closure” of the strait, would be sending warships “in conjunction with the United States of America, to keep the Strait open and safe,” naming China, France, Japan, South Korea and the United Kingdom among those he hoped would contribute.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/14/trump-says-many-countries-will-send-warships-to-hormuz-amid-iran-blockade
https://archive.ph/PVDyP

‘If I go home, we don’t have enough money’: the low-paid Filipino workers caught up in the war on Iran
The war that has erupted between the US, Israel and Iran, engulfing the region, has already proved deadly to Filipinos workers abroad. On 28 February, 32-year-old Mary Ann De Vera, a Filipino working as a carer, became the first casualty of the conflict in Israel. She was killed in Tel Aviv after being hit by shrapnel while escorting her employer, an older woman, to a shelter. Her employer survived.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/11/iran-war-filipino-workers-israel

India's Punjab state and farmers unions express solidarity with Iran amid government silence
In a recording of the state's budgetary session published by the government of Punjab, Sukhwinder Kumar Sukhi, a member of the Legislative Assembly, decried the attacks that began on 28 February, particularly the strike on a school that killed around 165 children, an act he called "inhuman". A growing body of evidence suggests the school was attacked by the US military. "Many doctors and patients in the hospital were killed and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was also killed," Sukhi noted, according to a translation by Indian news platform The Wire.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/india-punjab-state-farmers-unions-express-solidarity-iran

100,000 join national strike against austerity in Belgium
On Thursday, March 12, 100,000 people joined another national demonstration and strike against the anti-people reforms of the so-called Arizona coalition in Belgium. Trade unions, feminist networks, international solidarity organizations, and many more took to the streets in Brussels to oppose plans to promote and finance militarization at the expense of workers’ salaries and pensions.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/03/12/100000-join-national-strike-against-austerity-in-belgium/

Income Inequality in Russia Approaching Record Highs, Research Group Says
The share of total income going to the richest 20% of Russians rose from 46.9% to 47.6% over the past year, while the share earned by the poorest 20% fell from 5.3% to 5.2%. The average income of the wealthiest 10% of Russians is now 15.8 times higher than that of the poorest 10%, up from 15.5 times a year earlier. This week, Forbes included a record 155 Russians in its annual ranking of the world’s billionaires, marking the fourth straight year that the number of Russians on the list has increased. Their combined net worth was estimated at $695.5 billion.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/03/13/income-inequality-in-russia-approaching-record-highs-research-group-says-a92221
https://archive.ph/CKIlB

Posties call for meeting with Swinney over Royal Mail crisis
Writing to Mr Swinney, Mr Ward — alongside CWU regional official for Northern Ireland and Scotland, Craig Anderson — has outlined the impact chronic understaffing was having across Royal Mail, hitting morale, lifeline services across rural Scotland, and potentially putting postal ballots in jeopardy in May.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/posties-call-meeting-swinney-over-royal-mail-crisis

News Anon 3.0 15-03-26 00:38:49 No.2738705

Eight convicted of terrorism-related charges for attack on Texas ICE facility
A jury convicted nine people on Friday for their involvement in a shooting at a U.S. ‌Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Texas last year, the Justice Department said. Eight of the nine defendants were found guilty of providing material support to terrorists, rioting, conspiring to use and carry explosives, and using explosives during a riot, local media reported.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/eight-convicted-terrorism-related-charges-attack-texas-ice-facility-2026-03-13/

FCC chair threatens to throttle news broadcasts over ‘hoaxes’ about Iran war
In his post, Carr copied a Truth Social post by Trump complaining about “misleading” coverage on Iran. “Yet again, an intentionally misleading headline by the Fake News Media about the five tanker planes that were supposedly struck down at an Airport in Saudi Arabia, and of no further use,” Trump wrote Saturday on Truth Social. Trump singled out the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, saying that they “and other Lowlife ‘Papers’ and Media actually want us to lose the War”, calling the outlets’ reporting “the exact opposite of the actual facts!”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/14/fcc-broadcast-permits-iran-war-news

ICE arrests dozens of Amazon Flex workers in southeast Michigan
One person from the group has told the WSWS that while full‑scale workplace raids are not being carried out inside Amazon facilities, drivers are being pulled over as they arrive for their shifts. On several occasions, cars loaded with packages have been left in the street after workers were seized by ICE.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/03/14/dqxh-m14.html

AIPAC's plan to sink progressives: Slam them from the left
Chicago Progressive Partnership — which shares vendors, donors and a treasurer with other AIPAC-linked PACs — went on the air Thursday against Junaid Ahmed, the Congressional Progressive Caucus-backed candidate in Illinois' 8th district. Rather than going after Ahmed's well-documented criticisms of Israel, the CPP ad highlights the left-leaning tech consultant's personal wealth. … That is on top of $3.2 million that Elect Chicago Women, another AIPAC-linked group, has spent on behalf of former Rep. Melissa Bean in the 8th district. In the 9th district, ECW has spent an eye-popping $4.6 billion in support of state Sen. Laura Fine and attacking Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss.
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/13/aipac-illinois-abughazaleh-ahmed-bean-biss-israel
https://archive.ph/sChAp

Trump administration will reportedly get $10 billion for brokering the TikTok deal
There may have been some extra incentive for the Trump administration to get the TikTok US deal done. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration is set to receive a total of $10 billion in the deal that allowed TikTok to remain in the US. The new investors who acquired stakes in the US entity of TikTok already paid a $2.5 billion fee to the administration when the deal closed in January, but WSJ's latest report noted that the group of investors would continue to make payments until the total hits $10 billion.
https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/trump-administration-will-reportedly-get-10-billion-for-brokering-the-tiktok-deal-180954979.html?guccounter=1
https://archive.ph/lZeMI

A pardon lobbyist, $500,000 demand and alleged ‘enforcer’ lead to extortion charge in New York
Federal authorities in New York have arrested and charged a lobbyist — one who worked on behalf of an ex-nursing home operator pardoned recently by President Donald Trump — with attempting to force a former client and his son to pay him $500,000, according to documents.
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-lobbyist-extortion-charge-2c1ce8e9c85fc0e54418dd5d01c7042b

Wyoming governor signs ban on abortions after about 6 weeks but cites misgivings
The signing makes Wyoming the fifth state to bar abortions at that stage of pregnancy, along with Florida, Georgia, Iowa and South Carolina. Thirteen other states bar abortion at all stages of pregnancy, with some exceptions.
https://apnews.com/article/wyoming-abortion-ban-cardiac-activity-gordon-dc7873edfea37389568434cf781ac9eb

Anonymous 15-03-26 00:40:56 No.2738708

>Income Inequality in Russia Approaching Record Highs, Research Group Says
Wait a minute. leftypol told me Cucktin was a communist sympathizer. Why does he give capitalists everything they want

Anonymous 15-03-26 00:43:19 No.2738711

>>2738708
the moscow times a pro-western rag

OP/ED News Anon 3.0 15-03-26 01:07:10 No.2738732

India: oil refinery strikes – a sign of things to come
On 23 February, 40,000 workers at IOCL (Indian Oil Corporation Limited) at the Panipat refinery expansion project in Haryana went on a strike, which spread across the entire premises. The sudden, radical action was met with a vicious police crackdown and an internet blackout. The government scrambled to erase the protests from the mainstream media. Unsurprisingly, and in full subservience to their capitalist overlords, the Indian corporate media covered the incident as a ‘violent clash’ or ‘security incident’ rather than a powerful, spontaneous struggle for labour rights.
https://marxist.com/india-oil-refinery-strikes-a-sign-of-things-to-come.htm

“History Is Repeating Itself”
The war that the United States and Israel are waging in the Middle East is not solely directed at Iran. In addition to occupying the entirety of Palestine as well as the Golan Heights and other parts of Syria, Israeli troops are currently occupying parts of Lebanon while Israeli airstrikes pummel the country from above. At least 800,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in Lebanon since the beginning of March. Left unchecked, the Israeli government will reduce Lebanon to uninhabitable wreckage, just as it has Gaza. To understand the consequences for people in Lebanon, we reached out to Elia Ayoub, who previously spoke to us about the uprising that took place in Lebanon in October 2019 against the sectarian rule of warlord oligarchs. How should we understand the latest round of hostilities in the context of the last several decades? How does this assault shape the prospects for Lebanese movements for liberation?
https://crimethinc.com/2026/03/11/history-is-repeating-itself-a-lebanese-perspective-on-the-war-on-palestine-lebanon-and-iran

John Reed Ten Days that Shook the World Chapter IX: Victory
People in revolt have a way of defying military precedent. The ragged armies of the French Revolution are not forgotten—Valmy and the Lines of Weissembourg. Massed against the Soviet forces were yunkers, Cossacks, land-owners, nobility, Black Hundreds—the Tsar come again, Okhrana and Siberian chains; and the vast and terrible menace of the Germans…. Victory, in the words of Carlyle, meant “Apotheosis and Millennium without end!” Sunday night, the Commissars of the Military Revolutionary Committee returning desperately from the field, the garrison of Petrograd elected its Committee of Five, its Battle Staff, three soldiers and two officers, all certified free from counter-revolutionary taint. Colonel Muraviov, ex-patriot, was in command—an efficient man, but to be carefully watched. At Colpinno, at Obukhovo, at Pulkovo and Krasnoye Selo were formed provisional detachments, increased in size as the stragglers came in from the surrounding country—mixed soldiers, sailors and Red Guards, parts of regiments, infantry, cavalry and artillery all together, and a few armoured cars. m Day broke, and the pickets of Kerensky’s Cossacks came in touch. Scattered rifle-fire, summons to surrender. Over the bleak plain on the cold quiet air spread the sound of battle, falling upon the ears of roving bands as they gathered about their little fires, waiting…. So it was beginning! They made toward the battle; and the worker hordes pouring out along the straight roads quickened their pace…. Thus upon all the points of attack automatically converged angry human swarms, to be met by Commissars and assigned positions, or work to do. This was their battle, for their world; the officers in command were elected by them. For the moment that incoherent multiple will was one will…. Those who participated in the fighting described to me how the sailors fought until they ran out of cartridges, and then stormed; how the untrained workmen rushed the charging Cossacks and tore them from their horses; how the anonymous hordes of the people, gathering in the darkness around the battle, rose like a tide and poured over the enemy…. Before midnight of Monday the Cossacks broke and were fleeing, leaving their artillery behind them, and the army of the proletariat, on a long ragged front, moved forward and rolled into Tsarskoye, before the enemy had a chance to destroy the great Government wireless station, from which now the Commissars of Smolny were hurling out to the world paeans of triumph….
https://www.marxists.org/archive/reed/1919/10days/10days/ch9.htm

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