Labour purge: Red Daily newswire June 26

With news from the Black Lives Matter movement, the UK, Canada and elsewhere.

International left news from June 25.

Black Lives Matter Movement:

A month after George Floyd’s death, what has changed?

Breonna Taylor rally: Common, Rapsody join 500-plus in vowing to stand up for Black women

'It’s about the lack of respect': Man sues city of Montreal, arguing racial profiling

A rally to abolish the police to take place in Toronto on Pride Sunday

Seattle: How we won the fight to expel the police guild from our labor council

SHAUN KING: A Private Law Enforcement Group on Facebook is Literally Plotting to Kill Me

Australia:

Bosses prefer casual workers to stay insecure

Australia posts biggest one-day rise in coronavirus cases in two months

Brazil:

A Global Alert on Bolsonaro's Strategy

Canada:

Open Letter: Time to Fundamentally Reassess Canadian Foreign Policy

Kenney speechwriter called residential schools a 'bogus genocide story'

Museum for Human Rights CEO resigns after LGBT censorship, allegations of racism, harrassment

Meng, Huawei and Canadian Law: Soap, Rinse and Dry-Laundered

Bill 61 is a troubling sign of rising authoritarianism in Québec

Group That Ran Anti-Teacher Attack Ads Featuring Fake Mom Violated Ontario Elections Act

Ecuador:

Ecuador Has the Highest Rate of Excess Deaths From COVID-19

India:

Congress, Left to join forces against TMC, BJP in run-up to Bengal polls

Israel / Palestine:

Israeli teens to Netanyahu: ‘Stop annexation as soon as possible’

United Kingdom:

Rebecca Long-Bailey Sacked As Shadow Education Secretary

Starmer faces backlash from leftwing MPs over Long-Bailey sacking

Sacking Long-Bailey is a disgrace: it's proof Starmer is leading a witch-hunt against the left

United States:

'Unfathomable Cruelty': Trump Files Legal Brief Aiming to Kick 20 Million Off Health Insurance in Middle of Pandemic

'Downright Dangerous': Trump Moves to End Federal Support for Testing Sites as US Sees Record Daily Spike in Covid-19 Infections

How the Virus Won

Trump says the coronavirus is 'going away.' His own task force disagrees.

Coronavirus updates: US reports more than 34,000 new cases in single day

Florida governor under fire over claims state is 'cooking the books' on Covid-19

Rashida Tlaib pushes to free US inmates from coronavirus 'death sentence’

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