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Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Romanian health workers in national walkout over cuts; West Bank protest over school demolition; Mozambique health workers extend nationwide strike as health disputes continue in Kenya and DRC

Oppose Labor’s NDIS cuts: Defend disabled people, fight austerity and war!

The working class must come to the defence of one of the most vulnerable layers of the population. If the ruling class can strip essential support from the disabled in order to finance war and corporate profit, it will stop at nothing in imposing its austerity agenda.

Socialist Equality Party (Australia)

James Talarico: The Democrats’ preacher

The Democratic Party is seeking ways to contain popular anger. The man it has found for the job is James Talarico—a Christ-loving “progressive” who promises to bring about universal improvement, condemns wars in the Middle East and cuts down the far-right with Jesus’ words.

Andrea Peters

Burnham plunges UK deeper into war against Russia and Iran

As he took office, Burnham’s bellicose rhetoric against Moscow provoked an incident with a Russian warship in the Channel. Within 24 hours he then agreed to deepen collaboration with the Trump administration in its strikes against Iran.

Robert Stevens

Democrats to Trump on Iran: “Win the war!”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified alongside Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, before the Senate Appropriations Committee Tuesday to demand $67 billion in emergency funding for the Iran war.

Andre Damon

Staff and students oppose sellout union deals at Western Sydney University

The resolution passed at yesterday’s lunchtime meeting was part of the campaign for a No Vote by all WSU staff members on the regressive enterprise agreements that management and the two campus trade unions are trying to rush through.

Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee

Andy Burnham’s cabinet of austerity and war

Incoming UK Prime Minister Burnham’s declaration that his was a “cost-of-living government” amounted to a pledge to scrap VAT sales tax on domestic electricity, saving a typical household just £45 annually, or 86 pence a week. Even this provoked a right-wing media backlash.

Robert Stevens

Questions raised over continuation of AI boom

In an expression of the volatile nature of the high-tech market and concerns over how long the boom can continue, Samsung’s share price fell 10 percent after it announced a record profit earlier this month.

Nick Beams

Former Trump envoy calls for ground invasion of Iran as US losses mount

The United States bombed Iran for the 10th consecutive day on Monday, with Iranian media reporting explosions around the northwestern city of Tabriz, near Bushehr, home of the country's only operating nuclear power plant, and in the port cities of Bandar Abbas, Chabahar and Konarak.

Andre Damon

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Cabin crew at WestJet, Canada’s second largest airline, are poised to strike, while pharmacists are ready to walk out at several of Southern California’s largest grocery chains.

As American deaths mount, Trump escalates war against Iran

US forces have struck the country for nine consecutive nights, extending their targets from military sites to bridges, railways, ports and the power grid, while enforcing a naval blockade with missile fire.

Andre Damon

This week in history: July 20-26

African Union brokers Burundi peace summit; Viking 1 returns first photos from the surface of Mars; Jordan's King Abdullah assassinated; French government collapses in devaluation crisis

US broadens bombardment of Iran to civilian infrastructure

The United States military bombed bridges, a railway station, an airport and the control tower of Iran's only deep-water ocean port on Friday, the seventh consecutive day of strikes, extending its assault from military targets to the infrastructure of civilian life.

Andre Damon

Wages plummet in New Zealand

Wages fell 6.4 percent between 2021 and 2026, the biggest decline among OECD countries, while the banks made tens of billions of dollars and the fortunes of the super-rich hit record levels.

Tom Peters

Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia

India: Manipur government employees continue indefinite statewide strike; Panipat refinery workers demonstrate in Haryana; Sri Lanka: Railway gatekeepers demonstrate over unpaid allowances; Australia: More BHP workers vote to strike in the Pilbara; Peabody locks out Wambo mine workers again in NSW.

Ninety years since the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War

July 17 marked the ninetieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. The coup was a decisive event in the Spanish Revolution (1931-39). The defeat of the revolution was a seminal experience of the 20th century whose lessons are critical for the class struggle in the 21st century.

Alejandro López

Shut down plants and workplaces amidst spreading toxic air!

Wildfire smoke from Canada and Minnesota has given Detroit the worst air quality in the world. The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees calls for workers to take independent action to protect their health and lives.

International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees

Catastrophic Bangladesh floods kill over 50 people

The same failures recur every monsoon: breached embankments, inadequate drainage, delayed relief and infrastructure designed to serve commercial interests rather than human need.

Wasantha Rupasingha

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Airbus workers in Spain walk out over pay and conditions; machine tool workers at factory in Iran strike over unpaid wages; stoppage by health workers fighting Ebola in Democratic Republic of the Congo over lack of pay

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