The great Yao Ming. The Houston Rockets are the most popular National Basketball Association team in China for one main reason: Yao Ming, the current president of the Chinese Basketball Association and an NBA Hall of Famer, played eight seasons for the Rockets. Basketball is very popular in China, thanks . . .
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Part of an unprecedented demonstration of 6,000 people in the small city of Ibarra, Ecuador, on Oct. 13. Oct. 14 — Eleven days of massive protest, especially by Indigenous communities marching all over Ecuador, forced President Lenín Moreno to repeal his Oct. 1 Decree #883 ending fuel subsidies. Increased fuel . . .
Continue reading Ecuador prez retreats, then arrests political leaders at Workers.org
Workers World Party is in firm solidarity with Indigenous peoples in the struggle to abolish the current “Columbus Day” as a national U.S. holiday and to rename and transform it into “Indigenous Peoples’ Day.” Organizing by Indigenous peoples, who steadfastly refuse to mark genocide as a holiday, has already resulted . . .
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Rank-and-file strikers and supporters picket GM World Headquarters in downtown Detroit Oct. 9. On Oct. 15, close to 50,000 General Motors workers will have been on strike for one month. The last time this many workers struck a single company was in 2007, also a GM strike but lasting only . . .
Continue reading A month on strike, GM workers won’t back down at Workers.org
The conflict within the U.S. ruling class about the Turkish invasion of northern Syria has created some confusion about events there. The latest new development — an alliance of Kurdish-based forces with the Syrian national army to defend the border from the Turkish army — may increase that confusion. To . . .
Continue reading U.S., NATO, Turkey out of Syria! at Workers.org
What’s really behind the difficult trade negotiations between the U.S. and People’s China? Is it — as the administration has claimed — that China wasn’t buying enough U.S. agricultural products? China has become a huge market for Midwestern farmers, who are heavily mortgaged and rely on Beijing buying large quantities . . .
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