“No cuts!”—Protest at Frankfurt’s Goethe University against the devastation of education
University management plans to axe 60 professorships, merge faculties and destroy numerous fixed-term posts.
•Marianne Arens
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One-day general strike hits Spain in run-up to November 29 elections
On November 11, workers walked out in Spain’s first nationwide strike in 14 years as social and political anger erupts against soaring rents, falling real wages and the rising cost of living.
•WSWS reporters
“It’s about class”: Powerful strike by Harvard academic workers collides with the Democratic Party establishment
The strike by more than 4,000 Harvard graduate student workers and first-ever walkout of non-tenure-track faculty and researchers is a direct conflict with the Democrats who oversee the richest university in the world.
•Jerry White
Build the HABAŞ Workers Rank-and-File Committee in Türkiye! Spread the struggle to Aliağa and beyond!
Statement of the HABAŞ Workers Rank-and-File Committee Initiative after the explosion that killed 19 workers at the HABAŞ steel plant in Aliağa, Türkiye.
•Statement of the HABAŞ Workers Rank-and-File Committee Initiative
Indonesian vice president resigns
Gibran Rakabuming Raka’s resignation marks the breakdown of the de facto alliance between Gibran’s father—former president Joko Widodo—and current president Prabowo Subianto that underpinned the latter’s win in the 2024 election.
•Peter Symonds
Mississippi elects a black senator: A blow to racial politics
The vote is a refutation of all the claims that race, not class, is the primary division in American society.
•Patrick Martin
Australia: Todd Russell, Beaconsfield mine disaster survivor, dies aged 54
Twenty years on, Russell’s death recalls the extraordinary courage of the trapped workers and all those involved in their rescue, but also the unresolved social questions behind the disaster.
•Martin Scott
Build an international socialist movement against war and austerity! Attend the SEP’s final Victorian election meeting!
The meeting in Melbourne on November 22 will address the critical issues of war and austerity suppressed by every other party and outline a socialist perspective for the working class.
•Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
South Korea’s president whips up anti-foreigner chauvinism
While not yet as blatant as US President Trump, Lee is exploiting anti-immigrant sentiment for the same purpose—to try to divert growing anger over declining economic conditions into right-wing, nationalist channels.
•Daniel Averton
Pope Leo XIV’s South American tour: The Vatican rushes to the aid of discredited regimes
Pope Leo XIV’s tour of Uruguay, Argentina and Peru comes as the governments of Washington’s Shield of the Americas face mass opposition. His appeals for “dialogue” serve to contain a rising working class movement.
•Andrea Lobo
Oklahoma and Texas execute 2 men, bringing US total to 5 in 8 days
The executions of James Pavatt in Oklahoma and John Allen Rubio in Texas came exactly one week after Indiana, Alabama and Florida executed three men in a single day.
•Kate Randall
Tennessee’s “Victims of Communism Day” part of campaign against socialism in US schools
Tennessee’s mandated anti-communist lessons are part of a bipartisan campaign to block the movement of young people toward socialism.
•Jane Wise
A political balance sheet of the Canada Post struggle—A corporate and state-led restructuring enforced by CUPW
Postal workers must draw the political lessons of the defeat of their militant nearly three-year long struggle, if they are to fight back against the escalating government-management assault on their jobs and working conditions, and do so as part of a general working-class counter-offensive.
•Daniel Berkley
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: Punjab health mission workers continue statewide strike; Bangladesh: Garment workers renew protests for higher minimum wage; Sri Lankan development officers hold national sick-leave protest; Australia: South32 alumina refinery workers strike.
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Hakim Adi’s “Pan-Africanism and Communism”: A pro-Stalinist attempt to erase the Trotskyist alternative — Part Eleven
This is the eleventh and concluding part of a series reviewing British historian Hakim Adi’s book on the Communist International and Africa. It examines how the book erases Leon Trotsky’s role in founding the International and his theory of Permanent Revolution.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
World Bank's cure for poverty: More jobs, so the poor can produce more wealth for the oligarchy
Globally, one in 10 people live on less than $3.00 a day, while 3.7 billion people, almost half the world's population, are highly insecure, living on less than $8.30 per day.
•Jean Shaoul
COP31 convenes in Türkiye: The climate theater of the capitalist oligarchy
As COP31 opened in Antalya with its president admitting the 1.5°C target will be breached, Turkey’s coal and oil conglomerates are being showcased as “climate partners”, while the imperialist powers escalate war and refuse funding to poorer countries.
•Emine Balkan
Brooklyn building disaster: Capitalist criminality in the heart of world finance
The details of the disaster have been widely publicized, although the corporate media has been largely silent about the underlying social conditions and the political relationships that have been laid bare in this event.
•Patrick Martin
Romania’s new government takes office amid war escalation, austerity and political crisis
The nomination will do nothing to solve the political and institutional crisis that has gripped the Eastern European country in recent years. Fundamentally, the country’s ruling elite is committed to NATO’s war against Russia and a massive rearmament campaign, while imposing sweeping austerity measures on the working class amid a deepening fiscal and economic crisis.
•Andrei Tudora
From youth protests to class struggle! Prepare a European general strike!
If we want to prevent our movement from running into the sand or being strangled, we must work through what perspective is needed to stop the militarisation of society and the social catastrophe.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Germany)
DEM Party deputy Gergerlioğlu raises the case of Bogdan Syrotiuk in Turkish parliament
DEM Party deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu raised the 15 years verdict for Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk at a press conference in Türkiye’s parliament, responding to an appeal by the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi.
•Our reporters
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, face of the AI boom, ousted as scandal fuels drive to cut China off from US technology
Anonymously sourced intelligence leaks to the New York Times have brought down Trump’s closest corporate ally and the most prominent advocate of engagement with Beijing.
•Evan Blake
Liberal–One Nation preference deal advances far right’s integration into Australian politics
The deals marks a further step in the integration of the far right into official Australian politics, raising the prospect of One Nation playing a role in government.
•Oscar Grenfell
SEP/IYSSE public meeting in Sri Lanka discusses socialist strategy against JVP/NPP government
The Socialist Equality Party explained how the JVP/NPP has deepened the attacks on working people since coming to power in 2024, backed by the union bureaucracy and the pseudo-left Frontline Socialist Party.
•our reporters
Australia: NSW Teachers Federation launches phoney “release time” campaign before state election
With a NSW election due by March, the “two hours” campaign is the latest effort to divert the anger of teachers, particularly over oppressive workloads, staffing shortages and falling real wages, into claims that the state Labor government can be convinced to change course.
•Erika Zimmer
DSA-aligned Jacobin silent for days after Democrats rescue war criminal Pete Hegseth
While promoting the Democratic Party as a vehicle for advancing the interests of the working class, the unofficial press organ of the DSA has written nothing about the Democrats’ role in blocking Hegseth’s impeachment.
•Jacob Crosse
Costa Rica: Thousands of teachers join national strike as fascistic president declares it illegal
Thousands of teachers struck and marched in San José on Wednesday against cuts to public education. President Laura Fernández called them “vagabonds” and is moving to have the strike declared illegal under a law passed by her supposed opponents.
•Andrea Lobo
NYU tribunal hears testimony on police violence, university reprisals against Gaza genocide protesters
Students and faculty described arrests, surveillance and disciplinary punishment, but the hearing evaded the political conclusions posed by the bipartisan crackdown.
•Tim Avery
Brooklyn building collapse kills 8 next to site that defied city stop-work order
The disaster is the latest and most visceral expression of a housing crisis that is reaching a breaking point.
•Daniel de Vries
Striking Harvard academic workers should demand: What is the UAW’s strategy to win?
After a string of UAW academic strikes that were isolated and ended, from Harvard in 2019 to Columbia this year, Harvard strikers must not let it happen again.
•International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
Pacific Islands Forum admits Israel as a dialogue partner
Israel has for many years sought to build influence among Pacific nations as a means of obtaining votes in the UN and deflecting international criticism.
•John Braddock
SAG-AFTRA bureaucracy purges the rank-and-file
Amid a shrinking industry, mass layoffs and the hollowing out of the health plan, SAG-AFTRA's bureaucracy purges hundreds of members over unpaid dues.
•Marc Wells
Hakim Adi’s “Pan-Africanism and Communism”: A pro-Stalinist attempt to erase the Trotskyist alternative — Part Ten
This is the tenth part of an 11-part series reviewing British historian Hakim Adi’s book on the Communist International and Africa. It examines how the book erases Leon Trotsky’s role in founding the International and his theory of Permanent Revolution.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Meat industry workers in Spain in five-day stoppage joining workers’ struggles and mass youth protests sweeping Europe; protests over social conditions continue across Iran by retirees and bus drivers in Yazd; judicial workers in Ghana continue national strike over pay
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The Demise of Savas Michael’s “New Era”
We are republishing the article by David North, “The Demise of Savas Michael’s ‘New Era’”. The article was originally published on August 11, 1989 and appeared in Volume 16, Nos. 3-4 of the Fourth International magazine. It was republished by the WSWS on June 7, 2018.
•David North
Letter from the International Committee to the Central Committee of the Workers Internationalist League, Greek Section of the ICFI
We are republishing the letter, dated November 9, 1985, from the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) to the Central Committee of the Workers Internationalist League, Greek Section of the ICFI.
•International Committee of the Fourth International
Open letter to DİP and EEK: Defend Ukrainian socialist prisoner Bogdan Syrotiuk!
In an open letter, the Socialist Equality Party (Türkiye) calls on the Revolutionary Workers Party of Türkiye and the Workers Revolutionary Party of Greece to defend Bogdan Syrotiuk, a Ukrainian socialist sentenced to 15 years in prison for his anti-war articles.
•Ulaş Sevinç
Watch David North’s lecture at the University of Michigan: “After the midterms: Results and prospects”
In his concluding remarks in Ann Arbor, North explained why the US election anticipates an eruption of class struggle and posed the task of building a revolutionary movement in the working class.
•Zac Corrigan
Australia: Melbourne council workers speak out against real wage cuts, Labor and war
“It’s due to capitalism, a small percentage of people wanting to make a lot of money at the expense of the rest of us.”
•Our reporters
Berlin names extreme warmonger as head of armed forces: The return of German militarism
Christian Freuding, the new head of the armed forces, stands for a generation of officers who no longer regard war as a state of exception, but as the defining purpose of the whole of society.
•Johannes Stern
Democrats rescue War Secretary Hegseth a week after election repudiates war
One week after an election that repudiated the war against Iran, the Democrats allowed the impeachment of War Secretary Pete Hegseth to die, revealing the terms of the bipartisan arrangement they are seeking with Trump.
•Joseph Kishore
How the German government manipulated the trial of Adolf Eichmann
The fact that the AfD and its supporters can once again spread far-right ideologies and ethno-nationalist ideas unhindered today shows that there has never been a “zero hour” in Germany—nor a thorough eradication of National Socialism and an exposure of its roots in the capitalist system.
•Sybille Fuchs
Death toll in HABAŞ steel plant blast in Türkiye rises to 19, one still missing
Relatives of the HABAŞ victims describe workers trapped in deadly jobs by debt and low wages. Meanwhile, the government has imposed a publication ban, and the Türk Metal union has done nothing.
•Ulaş Sevinç
After midterm debacle, Trump moves to cut 6.3 million people off food stamps
A new USDA rule aims to strip food assistance from 6.3 million people in 3.2 million households—nearly one in five recipients of SNAP, formerly known as food stamps. The new rule comes on top of Trump’s legislation that slashed $187 billion from SNAP and more than $1 trillion from federal health programs.
•Kate Randall
Chicago Democrats vie for mayoralty, pledging historic cuts
The austerity agenda laid out in the election campaigns demands the most serious political assessment and plans for action from the working class.
•Kristina Betinis
Sri Lanka: More than 2,000 jobs threatened in Norwood Fashion liquidation
A Socialist Equality Party member addressed a workers’ protest, calling for the creation of action committees to fight against the destruction of jobs.
•M. Thevarajah, K. Kandeepan
China trade surplus on track for new record as tensions with EU grow
The Chinese trade surplus for the year has already passed the $1 trillion mark, amid a continued slowing of the domestic economy.
•Nick Beams
South Korea to expand naval mission in the Middle East
Seoul intends to approximately double the area of operations of its Cheonghae Unit, based in Djibouti, by deploying additional troops, a P-8 maritime patrol aircraft, an explosive ordnance disposal team, and mine-clearing equipment.
•Ben McGrath
The “socialist” and the former CIA officer: Sanders and Slotkin team up to bolster the Democratic Party
Bernie Sanders’s joint appearance with former CIA officer Elissa Slotkin on Tuesday exposes the political alliance between the Democratic Party’s nominal left and its military-intelligence representatives.
•Jacob Crosse
Australia: Union pressures council workers to lower wage demand
In the lead-up to the Victorian state election, the dispute poses political questions extending well beyond negotiations with individual councils.
•John Wilson, Martin Scott
Announcement of permanent layoffs and a new tier of low-paid workers show real face of UAW sellout contract at Nexteer
Months after the UAW forced through a sellout agreement, workers at Nexteer Automotive in Saginaw, Michigan are facing layoffs and the imposition of a new tier of part-time workers who receive no vacation or benefits.
•Sheila Brehm
Columbia University postdocs narrowly ratify contract with cuts in real wages
The UAW dropped key housing, immigration and job-security demands in its final contract for Columbia’s postdocs.
•Elliott Murtagh
“You could call it a territory”: Democrats remain complicit in Trump’s recolonization of Venezuela after the midterms
Days after the Republican defeat in the midterms, Trump boasted of having “won Venezuela.” The Democrats, who will control Congress in January, have no intention of stopping the plunder.
•Andrea Lobo
The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada): Part 4
Delegates to the Socialist Equality Party’s founding congress held in Montreal from August 22 to 24 unanimously adopted a comprehensive document outlining the party’s Historical and International Foundations.
•Socialist Equality Party (Canada)
Hakim Adi’s “Pan-Africanism and Communism”: A pro-Stalinist attempt to erase the Trotskyist alternative — Part Nine
Part nine of a 11-part series on British historian Hakim Adi’s book on the Communist International and Africa examines how it erases Leon Trotsky’s role in founding the International and his theory of Permanent Revolution.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Patrick Stewart (1940-2026): A classical actor animated by his socialist convictions
Stewart’s identification of himself as an "absolute fundamental, emotional socialist" made him appealing to a younger audience being radicalised by their own experience.
•Paul Bond
Irish union leaders shut down public sector strike with below-inflation deal
Struck hours before around 50 European leaders arrived in Dublin, the deal ties pay rises of barely 4 percent a year to productivity, AI and “changed work practices.”
•Steve James, Robert Stevens
German university calls in police to suppress protests against lifting ban on military research
Management at the University of Kassel has abolished its “civil clause” banning military research and had a peaceful lecture hall occupation against the militarisation of the university violently cleared by police.
•Florian Hasek
November 11 strike in Spain: Build action committees, prepare a European general strike!
On Wednesday, November 11, millions of workers in Spain are holding a 24-hour nationwide strike against soaring housing costs, falling living standards and the social crisis.
•European Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site
David North closes lecture tour in Ann Arbor with Marxist assessment of US midterms
Speaking to nearly 100 students and workers, North stated that the midterm vote anticipates an enormous eruption of class struggle and urged young people to study Marxism, turn to the working class and join the fight for world socialism.
•Evan Blake
Seattle’s “socialist” mayor Katie Wilson’s 2027 budget proposes to cut $65 million from housing programs and boost funding to police by $68 million
The proposed $9.2 billion budget closes a projected $175 million deficit entirely through cuts to social spending, setting the trend for municipalities run by the pseudo-left and the Democratic Party.
•Michael Connolly, Bryan Dyne
Harvard academic workers join graduate strike amid mounting social conflict after US midterms
Hundreds of non-tenure-track faculty and researchers at Harvard University walked off the job Tuesday, joining more than 4,000 graduate students already on strike at the wealthiest university in the world.
•Mike Ingram, Tom Hall
Watch: Melbourne artists rally against Labor government’s arts funding cuts
Hundreds of artists and cultural workers protested against arts funding cuts ahead of Victoria’s state election, while union officials directed opposition towards appeals to the parliamentary parties.
•Our reporters
As Washington-Colombo ties strengthen, China exits Sri Lankan port project
China Merchants Port Holdings’ withdrawal from its Colombo Port investment follows US pressure on Sri Lanka to align with its military-strategic encirclement of China.
•Wilani Peiris and Rohantha De Silva
South Australian police defend fatal shooting of 63-year-old woman amid unanswered questions
Police command rapidly endorsed the shooting, while providing scant information about the circumstances in which it occurred.
•Mitya Moor
French youth, yellow vests march as unions coordinate strikes with Macron
On November 7, for the fourth consecutive Saturday, high school students, university students, workers and Yellow Vests demonstrated across France against the rising cost of living.
•WSWS reporters
House votes to set aside Hegseth impeachment
The vote was in the lame duck session, where Republicans still hold a narrow majority, but absent Democrats accounted for the margin of defeat.
•Patrick Martin
Australian Labor pledges continued collaboration with Trump after midterm debacle
Labor leaders declared that whatever happened in the US, the alliance remained their main preoccupation in the context of preparations for war against China.
•Oscar Grenfell
After Brazil’s election, Lula’s national address pledges austerity and police repression
In his first national address since his reelection, Lula sought to speak at once to two irreconcilable audiences.
•Tomas Castanheira
Florida Republicans narrowly retain power as nearly 4 million vote for “democratic socialist” Nixon
Despite decades of bipartisan anti-communism and Republican financial advantages, Angie Nixon won nearly 4 million votes campaigning for expanded healthcare, higher wages and taxes on billionaires.
•Matthew Taylor
Rail and airline bosses demand Carney government arrogate power to pre-emptively ban strikes under its Bill C-39
With the Liberal government set to codify federal strikebreaking powers, the airline and railway bosses are demanding it go even further in eviscerating the legal right to strike, by arrogating the power to outlaw worker job action pre-emptively.
•Carl Bronski, Pierre Lajeunesse
Paraguay: The Ueno Bank collapse and the deepening crisis of bourgeois rule
The crisis has exposed the rottenness of the entire edifice of bourgeois rule, setting in motion a movement of the working class, pensioners, and youth that the ruling class is desperately trying to contain.
•Juan Martinez
Hakim Adi’s “Pan-Africanism and Communism”: A pro-Stalinist attempt to erase the Trotskyist alternative — Part Eight
Part eight of a 11-part series on British historian Hakim Adi’s book on the Communist International and Africa examines how it erases Leon Trotsky’s role in founding the International and his theory of Permanent Revolution.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
One month at the borders of “Fortress Europe”: at least 85 dead and 61 missing
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) counted 56 refugees dead this past weekend alone.
•Robert Stevens
Thousands of young people protest in Denmark against cuts to student assistance and welfare
The protest was triggered by a government proposal to remove student grants from 81,000 young people currently studying or in training and living with their parents. The measure is part of a broader austerity programme to fund a massive increase in military spending and corporate tax cuts.
•Jordan Shilton
Explosion at Turkish steel plant kills at least 18 workers
The deaths of at least 18 workers in an explosion at the HABAŞ steel plant in Aliağa, İzmir are the result of the drive for profit, state complicity and the silence of the Türk Metal union.
•Barış Demir
Netherlands: Over 200,000 join fourth Red Line demonstration in Amsterdam against Gaza genocide and rearmament
While the official platform confined itself to appeals to the Jetten government to end its military and economic ties with Israel, many of the demonstrators now see the genocide as the outcome of deliberate government policy.
•Johan de Rijp, Daniel Woreck
Deadly rail accident in Essen-Katernberg exposes murderous working conditions at Deutsche Bahn
No photograph of the worker who was killed has been released, nor has there been a public obituary.
•Marianne Arens
Teamsters for a Democratic Union welcomes Sean O’Brien days after he backs far-right Republicans in midterms
O’Brien and top Teamster bodies endorsed several Trump-backed candidates, including Florida senate candidate Ashley Moody and Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
•Tom Hall
AI plunge delivers global shock
Friday’s fall in the Tokyo stock market was described by investors as “complete carnage.”
•Nick Beams
At least 5 killed, including children, as floods swamp Gaza’s tent camps
The deaths are a direct result of US-Israeli policies aimed at killing and driving Palestinians from Gaza through bombardment, starvation and the denial of shelter and medical care.
•Jacob Crosse
Democratic Party turns a popular repudiation of Trump into a call for “moderation” and austerity
The Times editorial portrays the election rout as a demand by voters for “moderation,” when it actually expresses a sharp shift to the left among working people.
•Patrick Martin
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Thousands of teachers and education workers marched over wages in San Juan, Puerto Rico, while copper mining workers in British Columbia began their third week on strike.
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Australia: Victorian Socialists “aren’t a revolutionary party, and they don’t claim to be”
Comments by one of their own candidates have underscored the reality that neither Victorian Socialists nor Socialist Alternative, which spawned them, has anything to do with the fight for revolutionary socialism.
•Oscar Grenfell
Democratic Socialists of America member Janeese Lewis George elected mayor of Washington, DC
Lewis George’s election shows mass hostility to Trump, war and inequality, but also the bankruptcy of attempting to fight it through the Democratic Party.
•Nick Barrickman
Australian Labor government expands deportation and visa ban powers
Under Ministerial Direction 123, the government can more easily deport non-citizens and deny or cancel visas for political reasons.
•Mike Head
Carney’s second budget offers huge tax breaks for big business, tens of billions more for war and austerity for workers
The Liberal government’s partners in the trade union bureaucracy gave tacit approval to the massive increase in military spending by remaining silent on it in their budget responses.
•Roger Jordan
KRANK Berlin (Berlin ER): A realistic hospital drama about profit and staff shortages
Hit television productions in several countries are portraying health systems wrecked by cuts and commercialisation.
•Markus Salzmann, Jan Ritter
Bangladesh union bureaucracy betrays garment workers’ struggles against poverty wages
As the BNP government unleashed police violence against workers, union leaders called on them to end their struggles.
•Wimal Perera
“Form rank-and-file committees”: GM autoworkers back November 9 march by Mexican healthcare workers
As hundreds of Mexican Social Security Institute workers marched on the Zócalo Monday against their union and the Sheinbaum government, autoworkers at GM Silao urged them to build rank-and-file committees and unite their fight with that of the entire working class.
•Andrea Lobo
Workers’ struggles escalate across India amid youth-led protests over Modi government’s purging of electoral rolls
Recent weeks have seen an upsurge in worker struggles across India fueled by price rises, poverty wages, precarious contract-labour employment and the privatization push of the BJP-led central government and state governments of every political stripe.
•Wasantha Rupasinghe, Keith Jones
Strikes continue in Brazil after Lula’s reelection
Bus workers, street cleaners, app and delivery workers and public employees have remained in struggle in Brazil against the companies, governments and trade union bureaucracies.
•Guilherme Ferreira
University of Sheffield International College staff set to strike over falling wages and threatened job losses
The long-running fight at the college demands that workers form a rank-and-file committee independent of the University and College Union.
•our reporters
Two syndicalists gut the 1926 General Strike of its political lessons—Part Three
Airy optimism about “the next surge” is cover for an anti-Marxist perspective, in this case syndicalism, foreclosing a principled and scientific answer to the strategic questions confronting the working class.
•Thomas Scripps
Hakim Adi’s “Pan-Africanism and Communism”: A pro-Stalinist attempt to erase the Trotskyist alternative — Part Seven
Part seven of a 11-part series on British historian Hakim Adi’s book on the Communist International and Africa examines how it erases Leon Trotsky’s role in founding the International and his theory of Permanent Revolution.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
“Women Side by Side Discuss the Future” conference in Türkiye: The bankruptcy of identity politics
An Ankara women’s conference built around the Erdoğan government’s deal with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party revealed the reactionary class role of middle-class feminism.
•Emine Balkan, Ulaş Sevinç
“The workloads are shattering”: Doncaster postie speaks out against DM26 at Royal Mail
A postal worker in Doncaster describes how Royal Mail’s new delivery model has intensified workloads, putting parcels ahead of letters. He holds the Communication Workers Union as responsible as the company.
•By our correspondent
Ukraine: Protests against Azov-controlled detention center shed light on boiling tensions
With hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Ukrainians killed and maimed, anger and fatigue with the war are becoming an ever more dominant feature of social life in Ukraine.
•Clara Weiss
“Everything is more expensive and life is so hard”: Workers speak out during Victorian election campaign
“I do deliveries and I am busting my back. I can’t stop working and I am in my 60s. Who will pay the mortgage?” — Eddy, delivery driver.
•Our reporters
David Jones collapse threatens thousands of jobs as Australian retail crisis deepens
The high-end department store chain’s fall into administration is part of a deepening economic crisis of soaring prices, rising interest rates and mounting retail closures.
•Martin Scott
Major parties’ support collapses, no clear winner in New Zealand election
Nearly one-third of eligible people did not vote for anyone, pointing to widespread anger towards Labour, National and all the capitalist parties.
•Tom Petterson
Sri Lanka: Workers and youth speak out about worsening conditions under JVP/NPP government
“Our lives have collapsed compared to the situation ten years ago. Although the people took to the streets in 2022, none of those problems have been solved.”
•Our reporters
Staff speak out against block teaching plan at Western Sydney University
Educators described the “crushing” conditions inflicted on both staff and students since the block mode blueprint was forced on them at The College, the WSU feeder school, at the start of last year.
•A WSU Rank-and-File Committee member
Sanders and Warren look for deals with Trump as his attorney general threatens Democrats
Two of the most prominent Senate liberals claimed that Democrats and Trump could agree to raise the minimum wage and expand health care coverage.
•Patrick Martin
The return of measles in the US and the bipartisan dismantling of public health
Eight measles-associated deaths in the United States in 2026, after nine years in which no one died of the disease, are the product of the deliberate dismantling of public health by the capitalist class.
•Benjamin Mateus
Krakow: Far-right extremist shoots six bystanders and murders his own family
On Saturday afternoon, Michał O. drove his car onto the Main Market Square in Krakow and opened fire indiscriminately on civilians from inside the vehicle. According to the latest information, he killed six people, including one British citizen, and injured another 16, some of them critically.
•Martin Nowak
Harvard graduate workers enter second week of strike: University stalls as UAW apparatus isolates struggle
More than 4,000 Harvard graduate student workers are in the second week of a strike that began October 27, their second walkout this year, following an 88 percent vote last month to authorize a walkout.
•Mike Ingram
Schaeffler destroys 3,460 jobs across Europe—IG Metall union submits workforce to the axe
While the company bleeds the workforce dry, the Schaeffler family cashes in, taking in a hefty €224 million in dividends in the 2025 financial year alone.
•K. Nesan
This week in history: November 9-15
US-backed Northern Alliance captures Kabul as Taliban forces collapse; Indian parliament writes Indira Gandhi's emergency dictatorship into law with Stalinist support; the US Army spreads inflated atrocity claims in Korean War; the Communist Party of Indonesia leads uprisings against Dutch colonial rule.
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Obsession: Love turns deadly
The unexpectedly popular film taps into the crisis afflicting young people.
•Carlos Delgado
After limited walkouts, UNITE HERE keeps 7,000 Chicago hotel workers on the job with expired contracts
This suppression of the strike by the union apparatus ahead of the elections is aimed at preventing workers from coming into open conflict with the Democratic Party.
•Andy Thompson
US Attorney expands frame-up of University of Michigan anti-genocide protesters
Federal prosecutors added four defendants to the retaliatory prosecution of students who opposed the Gaza genocide, targeting lead plaintiffs suing the university over their firings.
•Stephen St. Clair
Two syndicalists gut the 1926 General Strike of its political lessons—Part Two
By dismissing the decisive political issues fought out between the Marxist internationalists led by Trotsky and the bureaucratic nationalists led by Stalin, Cant and Lee make it impossible to understand the course of events in Britain.
•Thomas Scripps
Hakim Adi’s “Pan-Africanism and Communism”: A pro-Stalinist attempt to erase the Trotskyist alternative — Part Six
Part six of a 11-part series on British historian Hakim Adi’s book on the Communist International and Africa examines how it erases Leon Trotsky’s role in founding the International and his theory of Permanent Revolution.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Israel starts tortured process to form the next war and genocide government
Whether Eisenkot or some other politician succeeds in forming a government to replace Netanyahu, or Netanyahu retains power, it will not make an iota of difference to workers in Israel, the region and the wider world.
•Jean Shaoul
Debt, energy, war and the fight for socialism
On present trajectories, the world is heading toward roughly $375 trillion in total debt by the end of 2026. For comparison, capitalism—taken globally and using generous arithmetic—generates perhaps $15–25 trillion in profit or surplus each year.
•Gabriel Black
US midterm elections anticipate explosive growth of the class struggle
The midterm elections expressed an immense growth of social anger over the cost of living, war, inequality and the assault on democratic rights that will not be contained within electoral forms and will erupt in the class struggle.
•Joseph Kishore
Australia: Police with military weapons start patrolling NSW streets
This historic turn is designed to create a threatening political climate, normalising the presence of heavily-armed police squads on the streets, with their weapons on visible display.
•Mike Head
Trump holds war planning meeting amid speculation of November 9 attack on Iran
US President Donald Trump met his national security team at the White House Thursday to discuss renewed attacks on Iran, officials told Fox News.
•Andre Damon
Trump names Stephen Miller as White House chief of staff
The selection of the fascist anti-immigrant bigot shows that the midterm election has not resolved the political crisis in Washington, only changed its form.
•Patrick Martin
3 senior police generals arrested in Indonesia over illegal wiretapping
The arrests take place amid a deepening economic and political crisis in the country and an increasingly public rift between Prabowo and former president Joko Widodo.
•Peter Symonds
3 executions in a single day—in Indiana, Alabama and Florida—as Democrats remain silent
The three state killings came just two days after the Democrats’ sweeping victory in the November 3 midterm elections, yet a wide internet search turns up not a single comment from any Democrat on Thursday’s three executions.
•Kate Randall
Sri Lankan government introduces draconian organised-crime bill
The government’s repressive laws are aimed at suppressing growing opposition to the government’s austerity measures and attacks on democratic rights.
•W.A.Sunil
Mass protests over Ueno Bank collapse topple Paraguay’s president
The collapse of a Wall Street–backed bank holding the savings of two-thirds of Paraguay’s adults has brought down the first Shield of the Americas government amid mass protests.
•Juan Martinez, Andrea Lobo
US military launches new strikes on Venezuelan soil, amid plans for long-term presence
A drone strike in Apure state that killed at least 23 people last Friday was carried out with US intelligence and drones, as the State Department seeks to impose a Status of Forces Agreement that would allow US troops to be stationed in Venezuela.
•Andrea Lobo
The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada): Part 3
Delegates to the Socialist Equality Party’s founding congress held in Montreal from August 22 to 24 unanimously adopted a comprehensive document outlining the party’s Historical and International Foundations
•Socialist Equality Party (Canada)
Berlin: Die Linke congress votes overwhelmingly for right-wing coalition with Greens and SPD
At the same time as tens of thousands of young people took to the streets in Berlin to protest against war and the social catastrophe, Die Linke paved the way for a state government that will push ahead with social cuts and step up the repressive powers of the state.
•Christoph Vandreier
Müller Dairy Products Group to close plants in two German states
It comes as no surprise that the German billionaire Theo Müller openly has sympathies for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).
•Martin Nowak
DSA’s Nithya Raman wins Los Angeles mayoralty amid shift to the left
Raman’s victory gives DSA-affiliated mayors control of the two largest US cities and Washington D.C., reflecting a broader radicalization among workers and youth.
•Jacob Crosse
WSWS editor Johannes Stern discusses imprisoned Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk on Spain’s Canal Red
WSWS editor Johannes Stern talks to Spain’s Canal Red about Bogdan Syrotiuk, the Ukrainian socialist sentenced to 15 years in prison for opposing the war.
•Our reporter
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: 10,000 IDBI Bank workers hold two-day national walkout; Over 200,000 sanitation workers on strike in Madhya Pradesh; Australia: New South Wales private sector nurses strike; New Zealand: IKEA workers escalate strike action.
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Turkish parliament approves Mecca defense pact amid Middle East war
Türkiye’s parliament has ratified the Mecca defense pact with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, a step tied to the Yemen war and the US-Israeli war on Iran.
•Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç
Hakim Adi’s “Pan-Africanism and Communism”: A pro-Stalinist attempt to erase the Trotskyist alternative — Part Five
Part five of a 11-part series on British historian Hakim Adi’s book on the Communist International and Africa examines how it erases Leon Trotsky’s role in founding the International and his theory of Permanent Revolution.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Two syndicalists gut the 1926 General Strike of its political lessons—Part One
The book contains just one mention of the strike’s most significant and farsighted contemporary observer, Leon Trotsky. Joseph Stalin, whose policy destroyed any potential for a revolutionary road forward for the working class, does not appear once.
•Thomas Scripps
Russian government axes social spending
In an effort to fund massive increases in war expenditures and service a rapidly growing public debt, the Russian government is slashing and freezing outlays on programs workers rely on.
•Andrea Peters
10 die in a week of devastating house fires in New York
The blazes in Sunset Park, Brooklyn and Mott Haven, the Bronx expose the deadly housing conditions in the city's working-class neighborhoods
•Daniel de Vries
Amid economic disaster for performers, SAG-AFTRA kicks out hundreds of members over unpaid dues
As of November 1, the union reinstated its regular dues enforcement and membership rules.
•David Walsh
After Republican election debacle, Democrats pledge “bipartisan common ground” with Trump
Following the massive repudiation of US President Donald Trump in the 2026 midterm elections, the Democratic Party has launched a campaign to rescue the Trump administration.
•Andre Damon, Joseph Kishore
Wall Street plunge wipes off $3.2 trillion in market value
Fears of Democrat restrictions on the AI buildout were more the catalyst than the fundamental cause of the selloff.
•Nick Beams
Canada’s political establishment and media rally round military top brass after 4 soldiers killed and 39 injured in devastating fire at CFB Wainwright
Despite the scale of the disaster, the military and government’s narrative of an unforeseeable disaster, triggered by freak high winds, has been widely accepted by the media and political establishment.
•Isabel Roy
MUA keeps Australian dockworkers out of international anti-war strikes
In Australia, dockworkers were kept on the job by the Maritime Union of Australia bureaucracy, as they have been throughout Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians.
•Martin Scott
One-day public sector strike hits France amid mass student, “yellow vest” protests
Yesterday’s one-day nationwide strike was the first held by French trade unions amid the growing wave of social protests across Europe this autumn.
•WSWS reporters
After the Republican defeat in the US, Berlin insists: Rearmament continues
The German government is sticking to the policies of militarism, social cuts and oppression against which millions of young people and workers are taking to the streets in Germany and Europe.
•Peter Schwarz
As the National Steel Car strike approaches 3-month mark, USW’s Crowder champions company, Canadian nationalism at high-level parliamentary committee hearing
Speaking before the Government Operations and Estimates Committee on the government’s Buy Canadian policy, the president of USW Local 7135 spoke like a salesman for National Steel Car owner Greg Aziz. This included directing blame for the strike away from Aziz and touting an NSC/union plan to boost Aziz’s profits.
•Roger Jordan
Inside French unions’ “general assembly” at the Paris North train station
The experience of France’s November 5 one-day nationwide strike shows that workers can only organize continuing strike action and a broader struggle by organizing themselves independently of the union bureaucracies, in rank-and-file committees of action.
•WSWS reporters
Deere announces plans to close two Iowa plants in warning shot ahead of 2027 UAW contract fight
The closures, which threaten hundreds of jobs in Ottumwa and Clarion, are meant to intimidate 10,000 Deere workers, whose contract expires next October.
•Marcus Day
The latest COVID surge, the bird flu death and the fabrication of vaccine injury
As a pre-winter COVID-19 surge passes one million daily infections, and a bird flu death is recorded in Washington state, the Trump administration conceals the diseases killing Americans while building a federal apparatus to manufacture the appearance of vaccine injury.
•Benjamin Mateus
Bernie Monk, father of Pike River disaster victim, supports Socialist Equality Group in the New Zealand election
Monk explained that the SEG was the only political organisation that had consistently supported the fight to uncover the truth about the 2010 mine disaster, which killed 29 workers.
•Tom Petterson, SEG candidate for Hutt South
Warning strikes at over 2,000 workplaces in Germany, but the IG Metall union is trying to prevent an all-out strike
Tens of thousands of metalworkers walked out on Monday, but the IG Metall leadership is working with the corporations to keep the warning strikes within narrow limits and prevent the European youth rebellion from spreading to the working class.
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
Salvadoran troops launch offensive in Haiti as warnings of civilian bloodbath mount
Bukele poses as the heir of Dessalines while his troops, operating outside any UN mandate, spearhead Washington’s drive to retake control of Haiti.
•Andrea Lobo
Independent truck drivers’ strike paralyzes largest port in Chile
The strike is the sharpest expression to date of a social explosion building across Chile, as the ultra-right government of José Antonio Kast presses ahead with its austerity program.
•Mauricio Saavedra
The defence of public healthcare in New Zealand is inseparable from the fight for socialism
Universal healthcare is incompatible with the capitalist profit system and has been attacked by successive Labour and National governments.
•Chris Egan
New Zealand election foreshadows deep attacks on the working class
The next government, whichever party leads it, will ramp up austerity measures and accelerate the militarisation of the country.
•John Braddock
Hakim Adi’s “Pan-Africanism and Communism”: A pro-Stalinist attempt to erase the Trotskyist alternative — Part Four
Part four of a 11-part series on British historian Hakim Adi’s book on the Communist International and Africa examines how it erases Leon Trotsky’s role in founding the International and his theory of Permanent Revolution.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Metalworkers in Germany stage warning strikes over pay; farmers, retirees and workers protest the cost-of-living crisis and kerosene rationing across Iran; Nigerian electricity workers walk out over pay and conditions, causing widespread blackouts
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North Sea Apache workers stage second walk-out, further strikes divided by Unite
The schedule of action is not an escalation but a carefully staggered series of token stoppages designed to limit the impact on Apache's operations and keep the initiative in the hands of the company and the union bureaucracy.
•Tony Robson
Mass strikes erupt across Spain ahead of November 11 nationwide stoppage
Spain’s main trade union federations are seeking to turn the November 11 action towards the re-election of a Socialist Party-led government.
•Alejandro López
After the US midterms: What next?
There is a vast and unbridgeable chasm between the sentiments animating masses of people and the political party, the Democratic Party, that is the electoral beneficiary of them.
•Joseph Kishore, David North
No to the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement and imperialist war in the Middle East!
The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement is being put to a vote in the Turkish Parliament. The Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi–Dördüncü Enternasyonal opposes this pact unconditionally.
•Ulaş Sevinç
Build committees of action! After the November 5 French strike, prepare a European general strike against war and dictatorship!
The one-day national strike in France on November 5 comes after six weeks of escalating strikes and youth struggles across Europe.
•Parti de l'égalité socialiste (France)
Tightening credit hitting AI boom amid a “bloodbath” for junk bonds
Major companies in AI are looking to raise hundreds of billions of dollars of debt in very different conditions from the era of virtually free money which prevailed for almost a decade and a half after the 2008 crash.
•Nick Beams
Vote for the Socialist Equality Group in the New Zealand election!
We call on workers to vote for the SEG’s Tom Petterson in Hutt South and to join the fight to build a section of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
•Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand)
Australia: Meeting launches SEP’s socialist, anti-war campaign in Victorian election
The Socialist Equality Party is standing to sound the alarm on the issues of war and austerity being suppressed by every other party and fight to build a socialist movement of the working class.
•Our reporters
Ontario government’s slashing of student assistance fuels mounting opposition across university and college campuses
While the student protests across Ontario this Thursday are in the first instance directed against the austerity measures of the Ford Tory government, they are part of a burgeoning movement of youth protests that has shaken governments across Europe and begun to draw in the working class.
•Dylan Lubao
Democrats consolidate control of US Congress, statehouses
The result of the midterm elections is a massive repudiation of the Trump administration, benefiting the Democrats despite their own lack of popular support.
•Patrick Martin
NALC election installs new “reform” officials to oversee USPS contract arbitration and historic cuts
John Henry will become National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) president in December and take responsibility for imposing a new national contract through binding arbitration
•Tom Hall
“There was no lockout/tagout system”: Worker from the floor details conditions behind Bradley Clouse’s death at Astemo Berea plant in Kentucky
It has been more than two months since the death of 33-year-old maintenance worker Bradley Clouse at the Astemo Berea plant
•Milo Stevens
Mexico's President Sheinbaum throws governor a lifeline over Guadalajara water protests
Weeks after police tear-gassed thousands demanding clean water, residents of Guadalajara are still blocking streets. The official response leaves the root causes untouched.
•Andrea Lobo
Germany: IYSSE meeting discusses the perspective of the European movement
Speakers from Germany, France and the United States analysed the character of the protests and placed the question of the political independence of the working class at the centre.
•Our reporters
Attend SEP (UK) online meeting: “Europe in revolt: A new stage of the class struggle”
The Socialist Equality Party (Britain) will host an online meeting on Wednesday, November 18, at 7 p.m. with Alex Lantier and Chris Marsden on the wave of strikes and protests across Europe.
•Socialist Equality Party (UK)
Hakim Adi’s “Pan-Africanism and Communism”: A pro-Stalinist attempt to erase the Trotskyist alternative — Part Three
Part three of a 11-part series on British historian Hakim Adi’s book on the Communist International and Africa examines how it erases Leon Trotsky’s role in founding the International and his theory of Permanent Revolution.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Burnham, King Charles and the dead end of apologies and reparations for slavery
The crimes of slavery and colonialism will not be redressed by apologies drafted in Downing Street and Buckingham Palace, or by negotiations between capitalist governments over a settlement.
•Chris Marsden
US midterm election: A massive repudiation of Trump and the Republicans
The Republican Party was swept out of power in the House of Representatives in a landslide and lost control of the Senate as well.
•Patrick Martin
US strikes Iran on eve of midterms
The US military attacked Qeshm Island on the eve of the midterm elections, while the Journal, MS NOW and the AP reported plans and deployments for a larger attack on Iran immediately after the vote and Trump pointed to even greater attacks to come.
•Andre Damon
RBA hikes interest rates amid clamour from Australian ruling elite for deeper austerity
The rate rise is part of a multi-pronged offensive against the working class, which is being hit with higher mortgage repayments and growing unemployment, as well as price rises and government austerity.
•Oscar Grenfell
Merz government responds to Gen Z protests with repression, militarist offensive
The entire development refutes the claim that the government can be pressured into backing down.
•Johannes Stern
Contract for 90,000 New York City municipal workers expiring, setting stage for fight against Mamdani administration
The city is a major low-wage employer, with the current wage floor set at just one dollar above the city's minimum wage.
•Erik Schreiber, Daniel de Vries
Quebec Premier endorses the French state’s violent crackdown on student-worker protests
Quebec’s government and the Canadian ruling elite are prepared to use the same authoritarian methods against workers and young people.
•Frédéric Charlebois
Pseudo-lefts campaign for Labour, Greens in New Zealand election
The International Socialist Organisation and Socialist Aotearoa are dressing up pro-imperialist parties as anti-war and promoting the fraud that they can be pressured to appease working people.
•Tom Petterson
Teamsters shut down Genesys nurses’ strike after isolating it for more than a year
Genesys nurses held the line for 411 days, stayed out through a winter of court injunctions, scab labor and threats of permanent replacement. While the strikers did not lack courage, they were isolated and betrayed by the Teamsters bureaucracy.
•Joe Lorenz, Katy Kinner
Mexico’s government imposes rejected wage deal on health workers as union moves against protesters
The 8 percent deal IMSS health care workers rejected was registered by the labor authorities without a vote, while the SNTSS union summons protesters for sanctions.
•Nakai Beltran
The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada): Part 2
The Socialist Equality Party’s founding congress, held in Montreal August 22-24, unanimously adopted the following comprehensive document outlining the party’s historical and international foundations.
•Socialist Equality Party (Canada)
Paul Greengrass’ The Uprising: Revolt against intolerable conditions in the past—and present
Pandemic, war, economic crisis, the machinations of the ruling class, revolt—these are timely matters. To find a film echoing them is significant.
•Paul Bond
Hakim Adi’s “Pan-Africanism and Communism”: A pro-Stalinist attempt to erase the Trotskyist alternative — Part Two
Part two of a 11-part series on British historian Hakim Adi’s book on the Communist International and Africa examines how it erases Leon Trotsky’s role in founding the International and his theory of Permanent Revolution.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Reinstate victimised UNISON rep Tom Barker at Ash Field school: Defend the right to organise
Tom Barker, a teaching assistant and UNISON representative, was dismissed by Ash Field Academy special school in Leicester on September 29 after an 11-month suspension. His colleagues in UNISON will walk out on November 4 in their 16th day of strike action to demand the end of his victimisation.
•Tania Kent
Capitalist Crisis, Imperialist War and the World Socialist Revolution
Delivered the night before the midterm elections, this lecture explains why the war against Iran, the AI bubble and the eruption of mass struggle across Europe pose the necessity of socialist revolution.
•David North
Victorian election: One Nation exploits social anger to advance big business agenda
Labor and the union bureaucracy have played the central role in creating the social crisis One Nation exploits and cultivating the reactionary political environment in which it has come to prominence.
•Eric Ludlow
California State University workers rally as 29,000 faculty vote on strike authorization
Workers describe depressed wages, exhausting workloads and years of temporary employment as faculty vote on strike action across the CSU system.
•Kimie Saito, Joshua Rodriguez
Book presentation in Nuremberg: “Where Is America Going? Fascism or Socialism”
We are publishing here the speech delivered by Johannes Stern at the presentation of the book “Where Is America Going? Fascism or Socialism?” at the Left Book Fair in Nuremberg.
•Johannes Stern
New York’s interns and residents face contract struggle amid social crisis
The Committee of Interns and Residents has dragged negotiations out for more than a year as workers grapple with the exorbitant cost of living.
•Erik Schreiber, Robert Milkowski
New Zealand: Socialist Equality Group holds Lower Hutt election meeting
The SEG’s election meeting discussed the drive to world war, the assault on living standards and the necessity of building a revolutionary party of the working class in New Zealand.
•Our reporters
Thousands of Sri Lankan university teachers strike over pay and conditions
We call on academics to take up the struggle for independent action committees and attend the SEP’s public meeting on November 10 at 4 p.m. at the Colombo Public Library Hall.
•Pani Wijesiriwardena
Australia: Oppose union sellout at University of Melbourne
The proposed agreement will impose deeper cuts to wages compared to soaring inflation and intensify the partnership between the NTEU and the management in imposing further restructuring, including the use of AI.
•Our correspondent
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Educators, retirees and other workers demonstrated across Venezuela October 29, while workers at aerospace defense contractor Triumph Engine Control Systems walked out on an unfair labor practice strike Monday.
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From youth protests to international class struggle: What perspective is necessary?
These statements were delivered by representatives of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) in various cities during the Gen Z protests last Saturday.
•Tamino Wilck, Clemens Huber, Florian Hasek, Joshua Seubert
IYSSE speeches at the GenZ protests: “Socialism or Barbarism”
This speech was delivered by IYSSE representatives Florian Hasek in Stuttgart and Clemens Huber in Erfurt at protests organized by Gen Z against the madness of war and social misery.
•Florian Hasek, Clemens Huber
Samsic’s global operations: A lucrative business based on government deregulation and risking workers’ lives
Less than two months before Samsic ramp agent Oscar Robayo was crushed to death at Montreal Airport, another employee of the multinational subcontractor died after being hit by a bus at Paris CDG Airport. Both fatalities underscore the responsibility of government deregulation and corporate profiteering for worker deaths.
•Felix Gauthier
Billionaires pour record sums into US midterm elections
The 2026 midterm elections, which conclude Tuesday, are the most expensive midterms on record, and they are being paid for to an unprecedented degree by a handful of the richest people in the country.
•Our reporter
After union imposes sellout in Puebla, Mexico, VW cuts shift and government grants tax incentives to automakers
Two days after the third contract vote at Volkswagen's Puebla plant, the company and union cut the Taos line to one shift, while the Morena governments in Puebla and Mexico City handed new tax breaks to the automakers.
•Andrea Lobo
The Rabat scandal, the crisis of the Kast government and the Chilean “left”
The Rabat affair has exposed the rottenness of the entire political establishment and, above all, the Chilean “left’s” role as an indispensable prop of bourgeois rule.
•Mauricio Saavedra
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