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Hundreds of Portland employees on strike Monday after bargaining falls through
Negotiations between the city and the City of Portland Professional Workers (CPPW) union have been going on for nearly a year. After a more than five-hour bargaining session Sunday evening, the CPPW announced that its 800 members would start an open-ended strike Monday morning.
https://katu.com/news/local/hundreds-of-portland-employees-to-strike-after-sunday-bargaining-falls-through-city-cppw-professional-workers-mayor-session-mediation-contract-negotiation
https://archive.ph/qGcpC

US congressman files resolution to impeach Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth
United States Republican Representative Thomas Massie has introduced a resolution to impeach US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the war on Iran, strikes on purported drug boats and other alleged violations of US laws. Reading from the text of the resolution in the House of Representatives on Monday, the outgoing Kentucky lawmaker accused Hegseth of carrying out unlawful orders and posing a threat to the Constitution.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/9/us-congressman-files-resolution-to-impeach-defence-secretary-pete-hegseth
https://archive.ph/98VOY

Senate advances bipartisan permitting reform bill, teeing up passage
It includes language that seeks to prevent presidential administrations from revoking existing permits — which could be a win for renewables right now and fossil fuels in the future under a Democratic administration. Project developers would also be able to sue the government over “disparate treatment” of certain types of energy sources.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/6208626-bipartisan-permitting-reform-bill-energy-infrastructure/
https://archive.ph/cQ7Uj

Democrat Jon Rosenthal joins GOP-led Texas Railroad Commission with ideas, but faces an uphill fight
Rosenthal’s plans include sweeping changes to the commission, including eliminating the practice of burning excess gas in hopes of encouraging operators to sell it instead. Rosenthal also proposed banning campaign donations from fossil fuel companies, making public the commission’s progress on sealing derelict oil and gas wells, and charging companies for disposing wastewater underground, with the fee funding the commission’s work elsewhere.
https://apnews.com/article/jon-rosenthal-democrat-texas-railroad-commission-090e0e17b45e9927f105c10715006591

John Fetterman to be challenged for Senate seat by democratic socialist born in Gaza
Fetterman has met more often with Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, than with Philadelphia’s mayor, Cherelle Parker, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Moor, by contrast, said he supports withdrawing US aid from Israel and imposing sanctions aimed at securing equal rights for Palestinians. Democrats say Moor is unlikely to be the only challenger to Fetterman, who provoked outrage in his own party in September by sending a video message to the Republicans’ midterm convention in Texas in which he praised Pennsylvania’s Republican senator, Dave McCormick.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/09/john-fetterman-pennsylvania-ahmed-moor

What If Generation Z Were Communists?
The ongoing high school student rebellion has sparked references to revolution everywhere — on posters and in slogans. Everywhere, capitalists seek to discipline the youth, subjugate them, and lock them away in isolation, brutality, and violence. What if Generation Z were the ones to open up the possibility of a break with the past and a new horizon? What if the future to which Gen Z aspires were, quite simply, communism? This article stems from a reflection fueled by (and intended for) the debates organized in the strike classes at the University of Mirail, which has been occupied since the start of the high school students’ blockades and mobilizations.
https://www.leftvoice.org/what-if-generation-z-were-communists/

The role of China and Russia in Myanmar
Amid all the chaos in the world, one development buried under the headlines was the ‘election’ of General Min Aung Hlaing as the 11th president of Myanmar in April. It was he who led the military coup that overthrew the elected civilian government in 2021, and it is he who has brutally governed the country and repressed its masses as military chief ever since. A military strongman naming himself president seems like a trite, obvious step. But behind this particular situation lies the growing influence of China, and to a lesser extent Russia, over the country, while the West is nowhere to be found. Chinese capitalism trumpets the fact that it does not have the same history of imperialist meddling as the West – and that is true. It claims, instead, that it is only interested in business, investment and development. But in Myanmar, in China’s ‘near-abroad’, we see how it has supplanted the West, and has been drawn into playing a nakedly imperialist role, politically, economically and militarily.
https://marxist.com/the-role-of-china-and-russia-in-myanmar

Ralph Miliband: Moving On (1976)
Twenty years after 1956, the main problem for the socialist left in Britain is still that of its own organisation into an effective political formation, able to attract a substantial measure of support and to hold out a genuine promise of further growth. A lot has happened in the labour movement in these twenty years, and much of this has been positive. But in organisational and programmatic terms, there has been no real advance. For different reasons, none of the organisations, old and new, which have occupied the stage in this period – the Labour Party, the Communist Party, the International Socialists, the Workers’ Revolutionary Party, the International Marxist Group, etc. – constitutes an effective socialist formation or is in the least likely to become one. Such an organisation remains to be created. The present article discusses the reasons why existing organisations cannot fill the gap. Inevitably, one must start with the Labour Party. There cannot now be many socialists in the Labour Party (and even fewer outside) who believe that most of its leaders are concerned with the task of effecting the ‘fundamental and irreversible shift in the balance of wealth and power in favour of working people and their families’ of which the Labour Manifesto spoke in 1974. But there are many socialists in the Labour Party who do believe very firmly that they can eventually and by dint of great pressure compel their leaders to adopt left-wing policies and even to translate these policies into practice; or alternatively that they can bring to the leadership of the Labour Party men and women who will want to adopt and put into practice such policies. There is no point in rehearsing here arguments which have been endlessly canvassed as to whether this is a realistic prospect or not. That controversy has gone on for three quarters of a century, that is ever since the Labour Party came into existence; and insofar as it cannot be conclusively proved that the Labour Party will not in any serious sense be turned in socialist directions, the chances are that the controversy will go on for a long time to come, without leading anywhere. My own view, often reiterated, is that the belief in the effective transformation of the Labour Party into an instrument of socialist policies is the most crippling of all illusions to which socialists in Britain have been prone. [1] But this is not what I propose to argue yet again here. It will be more useful to take up some of the more important considerations which are commonly advanced by socialists for working in the Labour Party, whatever the odds, and for not looking farther afield. One such consideration is that the Labour Party is ‘the party of the working class’ and that ‘there is no alternative to it.’
https://www.marxists.org/archive/miliband/1976/xx/moveon.htm