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News 6/8/26 News Anon 3.0 08-06-26 21:57:42 No.2834477

Roberto Sanchez overtakes Keiko Fujimori in Peru presidential race
Leftist Roberto Sanchez took the ‌lead in Peru's presidential race on Monday with 50.01% compared to ⁠Keiko Fujimori's 49.9% with 93.92% of ballots tallied according to the official count. Fujimori had an early ‌lead ⁠after voting concluded on Sunday but Sanchez kept closing ⁠the gap as the count went ⁠on, boosted by votes from ⁠Peru's rural regions.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/roberto-sanchez-overtakes-keiko-fujimori-peru-presidential-race-2026-06-08/

Bolivia’s parliament authorises use of troops against protesters
THE Bolivian legislature passed a law on Sunday to allow President Rodrigo Paz the authority to use troops against protesters. Bolivia has been rocked by weeks of protests led by the Bolivian Workers’ Central (COB) peasant unions and miners, which has seen roads blockaded. Markets have emptied in La Paz and other vital supplies depleted.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bolivias-parliament-authorises-use-troops-against-protesters

Maersk is still shipping weapons parts to Israel despite denial, new report says
The bullet parts Maersk has reportedly helped to deliver are the same kind that killed Hind Rajab in 2024 and also countless other children in Gaza, as shown in a New York Times essay published later that year, the authors of the report said. The bomb bodies provide the casing for the 900-kilogram "bunker buster" MK-84 bombs that Israel has used in Gaza and Lebanon.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/maersk-still-shipping-weapons-parts-israel-despite-denial-last-year-report-says

'Continuing collective punishment': Israel halts Gaza aid, closes land crossings after Iran attack
The restrictions were announced after Iranian missile attacks on Sunday, with Israeli authorities suspending access through Gaza's main entry points for humanitarian goods, including Karam Abu Salem crossing, known in Israel as Kerem Shalom. Israeli media also reported that the Rafah crossing would be closed. Zainah el-Haroun, a representative of the Palestinian rights organisation Al-Haq, told The New Arab that the latest measures threaten to intensify an already desperate situation and come after earlier aid restrictions contributed to famine conditions in parts of the enclave.
https://www.newarab.com/news/countless-more-lives-risk-israel-shuts-gaza-crossings

Yemen’s Houthis declare ‘total ban’ on Israeli ships in Red Sea
“We declare a complete and total ban on Israeli maritime navigation in the Red Sea,” said a statement from the Houthis’ armed forces.“We consider all enemy movements to be legitimate military targets for our armed forces from the moment this statement is issued.”The Houthis, who joined the Middle East war in support of Iran in March, had not announced a missile attack on Israel since a fragile ceasefire began on April 8.
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/yemens-houthis-declare-total-ban-on-israeli-ships-in-red-sea
https://archive.ph/KZmcr

Hundreds of Eastern Visayas delivery riders now regular employees
Normito Ragasa, union president of the Food Panda Riders Region 8, stressed this point after the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) recognized 126 Food Panda riders as regular employees on April 21, 2026. The ruling comes after the legal battle initiated by the union in August 2025. Riders welcomed this decision as they have struggled with worsening working conditions from the COVID 19 pandemic to the current oil crisis. Ragasa, however, said that the ride to justice is just starting.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/06/06/hundreds-of-eastern-visayas-delivery-riders-now-regular-employees/

Pro-Palestinian activists force EU commissioner to move meeting with arms manufacturer
The demonstrators at the Herstal site were protesting the effectiveness of Wallonia’s ban on military equipment transiting to Israel, which has been in place since May 2024, according to Belgian news agency Belga. The measure followed reports that 70 tons of ammunition and explosives had passed through Liège Airport since the start of Israel’s retaliation in Gaza after the Oct. 7 attack, where Hamas killed about 1,200 people in Israel, a large majority of whom were civilians, and took 251 hostages
https://www.politico.eu/article/pro-palestinian-activists-disrupt-andrius-kubilius-visit-arm-manufacturer/
https://archive.ph/sWliJ

GMB votes against Labour disaffiliation survey over Reform popularity fears
Southern region delegates called for the membership to be consulted on keeping the historic affiliation, building a new workers party and funding political candidates outside Labour. The debate, which lasted for more than an hour, came after a poll for the Times suggested trade union members were as likely - 28 per cent — to vote for Reform UK as Labour. Among GMB members, the far-right party had a 9 per cent lead on Labour.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gmb-votes-against-labour-disaffiliation-survey-over-reform-popularity-fears

Arsonists Burn Car Outside Prominent Muslim Political Activist’s Home
CCTV footage captured at 1:36am on Wednesday shows one person pouring what appears to be petrol on the vehicle in the driveway of the house and then setting the fire while another looks on. Yaqoob’s brothers, Farrukh and Rashad, rushed outside after seeing light from the flames and used hosepipes and buckets to try to stop the fire from spreading to the fuel tank. No one was injured.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/06/08/arsonists-burn-car-outside-prominent-muslim-political-activists-home/

Kenya police fire tear gas, arrest ex-chief justice at national park protest
Officers moved in and arrested at least nine people, including former Chief Justice David Maraga, outside the main entrance of Nairobi National Park, Reuters reporters said. Protesters - who waved placards ⁠marked ⁠with “Nature is not vacant land” and other slogans - say the ‌plans, including a parking area for more than 1,000 vehicles, ‌will encroach ‌on one of Kenya’s most famous protected ‌areas.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3356418/kenya-police-fire-tear-gas-arrest-ex-chief-justice-national-park-protest?pgtype=live
https://archive.ph/J9MiX

U.S.-Nigerian Strikes Killed Dozens of Civilians, Villagers Say
Villagers in Metele said that the attacks hit residential areas and killed innocent people. “The community experienced a tragic airstrike attack recently which caused heavy casualties and destruction in Metele,” Zannah Abba Aji, the village head of Metele told Drop Site News. He was in Maiduguri, the state capital, when the strikes took place. “Many innocent civilians were affected during the incident,” he said.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/united-states-nigeria-iswap-borno-strikes-civilian-casualties

South Africa’s Ramaphosa acknowledges rising anti-migrant tensions
Anti-migrant protest groups have said they’ve set a June 30 deadline for foreign nationals who are in South Africa illegally to leave and have requested talks with the government. … “Many South Africans are raising difficult but legitimate questions,” President Ramaphosa said. “These concerns are real. They deserve to be heard, and they deserve to be addressed.” But President Ramaphosa added that “only authorised government officials can act against violations of our law,” warning that some groups were “inciting” tensions.
https://www.newarab.com/news/countless-more-lives-risk-israel-shuts-gaza-crossings

News Anon 3.0 08-06-26 22:19:59 No.2834487

Fourth death in 2 years at Palmetto, Georgia, USPS facility: Demarcus Little dies after reporting feeling unwell
Postal worker Demarcus Little collapsed and died at the Palmetto Regional Processing and Distribution Center (RPDC) in Georgia Wednesday night, according to local media reports. According to a coworker’s account reported by CBS News Atlanta, Little told a supervisor he was not feeling well and was dizzy, then collapsed shortly afterward.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/06/dkwc-j06.html

‘Every day the policy changes’: chaos and confusion for Filipino workers over US immigration rules
Jay is one of thousands of Filipinos in vital care-giving roles in America whose lives have become more precarious under the Trump administration’s chaotic crackdown on immigration, forcing some into more vulnerable working conditions. It is an experience he has already lived. Together with his colleague Lei*, Jay was employed in a residential aged care home where he was made to work months without a single day off. Lei slept underneath the stairs; Jay in a storage room.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/08/filipino-workers-us-trump-immigration-rules

ICE facility in Louisiana reports its second detainee death in less than 2 months
Mamuka Artmeladze, a 43-year-old from the country of Georgia, was found unresponsive June 4 at Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, Louisiana, ICE announced in a press release Sunday. ICE said staff began lifesaving measures before he was taken by ambulance to a local hospital, where a doctor pronounced him dead less than an hour later.
https://apnews.com/article/ice-detainee-death-winn-a1ab66753aa4a1effdff0b7abef2240f

The spectacular collapse of a case against ICE protesters: ‘It’s not justice, but it is a win’
The final nail for the prosecution came during a 21 May hearing just days before trial, when the US district judge April M Perry sharply criticized federal prosecutors over misconduct revealed in transcripts from the grand jury proceedings. Perry said that prosecutors improperly tried to influence grand jurors, communicated with them about substantive matters outside the grand jury room, and removed jurors who disagreed with the government’s case from the deliberations.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/08/chicago-broadview-six-trump-administration

Children's wellbeing slips across the U.S.
Five of the seven top-ranked states were in the Northeast. Child and teen deaths rose 8% from 2019 to 2024. Boissiere says the increase underscores a mental health crisis among children and young people, though she notes "some positive trends in terms of states that are investing in providing mental health professionals in school systems." The share of children in cost-burdened households rose from 30% to 31%, affecting 22.4 million kids. It was the first increase since 2010.
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/08/us-kids-count-data-book-child-well-being
https://archive.ph/q3StY

OP/ED News Anon 3.0 08-06-26 22:44:04 No.2834497

History is Calling us: Let’s Follow Kaypakkaya’s Path! — TKP-ML/MKP
History, within its own cycle, has vindicated Comrade Leader; before long, workers and peasants flocked to the revolutionary struggle in droves. This was what could not be seen in the pitch-black darkness of March 12, and Comrade Leader İbrahim Kaypakkaya has slammed this reality in the face of every form of liquidationism. Today, however, the historical cycle has created a new dilemma. Either a free world will be created through the power of necessity to create the new; or, swept into the vortex of reformism, pacifism, and every current that rejects the revolutionary option, we will become mere pillars of this decaying, obsolete order of the past. This is precisely the dilemma being imposed on the international communist movement and the international proletariat today. The pillars of the imperialist capitalist system have eroded. The imperialist capitalist system is floundering in a crisis vortex. The widening and deepening of the rift between imperialist blocs has intensified the struggle for dominance over market areas and trade routes. Shrinking markets and losses of hegemony are pushing the imperialist bloc led by the U.S. and Britain into a more aggressive and belligerent stance against China and Russia. At this stage, the doors to a new imperialist war of partition are being forced wide open. Conflicts and wars have become widespread, particularly in the Middle East and Africa, in line with imperialist competition. Precisely for this reason, a comprehensive campaign of liquidation has been launched against the communist and resistance movements engaged in armed struggle, aimed at preventing the oppressed peoples of the world from turning to the revolutionary option in the face of this crisis. The concept of annihilation and destruction has been put into action through various means.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/33607/

Sovintern and WAP: False Anti-Imperialism in Red Disguise
In Moscow, the so-called new international socialist network, Sovintern, has been launched under the leadership of the Russian capital's own “left patriots.” The initiative is presented with grand rhetoric about socialism, anti-imperialism, anti-colonial struggle, and international solidarity. Yet behind the red symbols, a different reality emerges: not proletarian internationalism, but bourgeois campism. Sovintern was created by the party A Just Russia, a party that does not represent any independent revolutionary workers’ movement, but rather forms part of the political landscape of the Russian bourgeois state apparatus. The very fact that such a party is attempting to build a “socialist international” is revealing in itself. The aim is not to unite the working class in struggle against capitalism, but to provide a geopolitical agenda with a left-wing political vocabulary.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/06/sovintern-and-wap-false-antiimperialism-in-red-disguise.html

Reforming Capitalism Is Not Enough by Bhaskar Sunkara
The following is a transcript of remarks delivered by Jacobin founding editor Bhaskar Sunkara at Victorian Trades Hall in Melbourne, Australia, on June 1, sponsored by the SEARCH Foundation.
Victorian Trades Hall is the oldest continuously operating trades hall in the world. And even before it was constructed, in 1856, the stonemasons and building workers of Melbourne downed their tools and marched for the eight-hour day — eight hours of labor, eight hours of recreation, and eight hours of rest. For a while, this city was the closest thing the nineteenth century had to a model of what an organized working class could wring out of capital. I mention it not to flatter you but because that slogan — eight, eight, and eight — is still relevant today. It wasn’t a basic reformist demand; it was a revolutionary claim about what a human life is for. And I want to argue that the whole socialist project is, in the end, a fight over that question. Historically, our socialist movement could be said to have done three things within a broader workers’ movement. First, it gave an agitational account of the crimes of capitalism and imperialism, to remind people about the daily realities of the system we were confronting. Second, it gave us a vision of a world after capitalism. And third — the part that set the socialist movement apart from our anarchist comrades — it provided a compelling account of how to get from here to there.
https://jacobin.com/2026/06/socialism-social-democracy-class-rupture

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