Australia: Victorian educators speak out at strike rally in Melbourne
“The lack of resources is making staff leave and the wages are not enough. That is the situation for a lot of us. To survive I have a second job.”
•Our reporters
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Job losses deepen in Australia
Beneath the surface of the official unemployment statistics, job cuts are growing as the criminal war on Iran escalates impacts on the global economy.
•Mike Head
Online public meeting: Fight NDIS cuts and Labor’s war on the working class!
The meeting will outline the socialist perspective needed to oppose the Labor government’s assault on disabled people, as part of its broader offensive against the working class.
•Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
Pattern bargaining opens for 23,000 US Steel and Cleveland-Cliffs workers
The USW’s isolation of 800 locked-out BP Whiting oil refinery workers shows why steelworkers must organize independently of the union bureaucracy.
•Samuel Davidson
Australian industrial workers denounce death threat against Will Lehman
“When I saw the picture posted it made me feel sick to my stomach. It shows that the UAW leadership are scared of Will. Why else would you threaten him and try to intimidate him?”
•Industrial Workers Rank-and-File Group (Australia)
Sturgis Hospital closes in rural Michigan
The destruction of rural healthcare is neither an oversight nor ineffective policymaking. It flows from a political and economic system in crisis, where an unprecedented concentration of wealth and power can only be maintained by plundering social resources for private profit and militarism.
•Riley Ward
Mamdani, Netanyahu and the capitalist state
Mamdani’s declaration that he will not arrest Netanyahu is, as a factual matter, a reversal. As a candidate, he pledged to arrest Netanyahu if he came to New York, and as recently as July 18 he said in an interview with the New York Times that he was in “active conversation” with the city’s law department about enforcing the ICC warrant.
•Joseph Kishore
Break the collusion between the union and management at Volkswagen!
At its online meeting July 15, the VW Action Committee launched an intensive campaign to break the control of the IG Metall union apparatus and its plant officials and begin a serious fight in defence of jobs.
•Our reporters
Canadian imperialism complicit in Trump’s regime change operation in Cuba
Canadian capital has traditionally played a major role on the island, whose bourgeois nationalist regime became increasingly dependent on foreign investment from Canada and Europe after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
•James Clayton
Execution in Wisconsin: Only the working class can stop police state terror
The police, immigration Gestapo and military are instruments of capitalist class rule whose escalating violence can be stopped only through the independent political mobilization of the working class.
•Jacob Crosse
US bombards Iran for 13th straight night as White House plans “major” escalation
American warplanes and missiles struck Iran for a 13th consecutive night late Thursday and into Friday morning, hitting sites from the Strait of Hormuz to the Caspian Sea coast.
•Andre Damon
Australian regulator deepens attack on health workers opposing Gaza genocide
AHPRA’s decision to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s false definition of antisemitism will lead a widening persecution of health professionals.
•Clare Bruderlin, Richard Phillips
Southern California grocery pharmacists authorize strike
Hundreds of grocery pharmacists have authorized strike action after months of bargaining over unsafe staffing, mounting workloads and wages at Ralphs, Albertsons, Vons and Pavilions.
•Marc Wells, Tom Hall
5 workers killed in helmet factory fire in Sri Lanka
The inferno in the Katuwana Industrial Zone is a case of industrial murder—the direct and inevitable product of a capitalist system that subordinates human life to the relentless drive for profit.
•Wasantha Wijesiri, Dehin Wasantha
Jacobin falsifies Trotsky and historical record to promote popular front in Argentina
Jacobin’s theoretical case for subordinating the Argentine working class to Peronism rests on a falsification of Leon Trotsky's actual struggle against the Popular Front.
•Andrea Lobo
T. rex fossil sold for $50.1 million
Ever larger amounts on such “trophies” are being spent by members of the wealthy elite while support for basic science is slashed.
•Philip Guelpa
Ebola deaths pass 1,000 in the DRC, faster than any previous outbreak
Countermeasures against the Bundibugyo strain do not exist because US medical funding follows biodefense threat designation rather than the number of dead.
•Benjamin Mateus
Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
Sanitation, electrical and gig-economy delivery workers strike in India; Bangladeshi sugar mill workers demand higher wages and job security; Cambodian casino workers protest years of repression; Australian health, disability and parks workers strike over pay and conditions.
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Trump imposes new tariffs on Brazil: Imperialist intimidation ahead of October’s presidential election
In a sharp escalation of Washington’s imperialist offensive against Latin America, the Trump administration is openly intervening in Brazil’s October presidential election to bring fascist candidate Flávio Bolsonaro to power.
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Lebanon agrees to align with US against Iran, disarm Hezbollah and accept Israeli occupation
US President Donald Trump’s meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the White House forms part of a broader US–Saudi strategy to isolate Iran by eliminating its influence in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.
•Jean Shaoul
Moroccan worker dies after police pin him face-down during arrest in Bologna, sparking protests across Italy
The killing of Abderrahim Fakir is the product of escalating police-state repression as Meloni’s government intensifies authoritarian rule against growing working-class resistance.
•Marc Wells
East Midlands Railway workers to strike over safety concerns connected to the Bedford train crash
Rail, Maritime and Transport union members working at EMR, including staff responsible for onboard train operations and passenger safety, have voted for strike action over safety concerns surrounding the Hitachi-built Class 810 fleet.
•Tony Robson
Australia: Second strike by Victorian teachers deepens crisis for Labor government and unions
As it has done from the outset, the Australian Education Union will do everything possible to prevent any further industrial action by wearing down opposition to its sell-out deal with the government.
•Sue Phillips
Volodymyr Zelensky appoints new Commander-in-Chief amid intensifying drone warfare
Drapatyi is widely seen to be in favor of a military strategy, centered on the use of long-range drones that hit infrastructure and civilian targets deep within Russian territory.
•Clara Weiss
Trump preparing forces for “massive attack” on Iran
The Trump administration is driven to escalation by the logic of the war, which is now in its fifth month.
•Andre Damon
UAW claims ratification of Dana master wage agreement in yet another betrayal of auto parts workers
The UAW rammed through the contract at Dana after extending the negotiations and refusing to call a strike using tactics similar to those employed to impose sellouts at American Axle, Nexteer and Bridgewater Interiors.
•Shannon Jones
Workers in the US, Canada denounce threat against Will Lehman, voice support for fight against UAW bureaucracy
Workers at Stellantis plants in the Detroit area, along with other workers in the US and Canada, have voiced support for Lehman's campaign to abolish the UAW bureaucracy and transfer power to workers on the shop floor.
•Our reporters
Trump administration witch-hunts People’s Forum and BreakThrough News
A House committee has issued subpoenas for financial records in a McCarthy-style anticommunist campaign against alleged Chinese influence.
•Patrick Martin
Swelling student protests rattle India’s far-right government
The protest movement took on heightened significance this week, when tens of thousands defied a government ban on their marching on the parliament buildings. True to its violent and authoritarian instincts, the Modi regime responded with ferocious police repression.
•Yuan Darwin, Saman Gunadasa, Keith Jones
Japanese defense minister calls for end of “taboo” on nuclear weapons
Tokyo’s nuclear ambitions have nothing to do with defense, but are part of its efforts to remilitarize and assert its imperialist interests militarily throughout the region.
•Ben McGrath
Cleveland library, hospital workers authorize strike action against low wages and unsafe conditions
Cleveland library and hospital workers are moving toward strike action as more than 100 Lorain County social service workers continue one of the longest public-sector strikes in Ohio history.
•Alexander Baird
Third Dallas-area postal worker dies in 3 years amid extreme heat
The death of Umeshkumar Thakkar is the latest in a series of fatal incidents exposing the refusal of the US Postal Service to protect workers from extreme heat.
•Tom Hall
Protests erupt in Madison, Wisconsin following police execution of Corey Ruiz
The brutal police killing, carried out in broad daylight and caught on camera, quickly spread online, prompting hurried calls from local officials and police for an “independent” investigation that will no doubt end in the exoneration of the officers.
•Jacob Crosse
New Zealand First campaigns on anti-immigrant chauvinism and militarism
Ahead of the New Zealand election, the right-wing NZ First party has called for recent migrants to be disenfranchised and for unemployed youth to be drafted into the military.
•Tom Peters
German political satire show Die Anstalt bows to censorship in its 100th edition
The censorship by ZDF management of a song by Danger Dan and Igor Levit calling for resistance against the AfD provoked no storm of outrage from the programme's hosts.
•Peter Schwarz
Chile’s “left” enablers of Kast’s counterrevolution
Over the course of four years, the Boric administration implemented policies that paved the way for the far right.
•Mauricio Saavedra
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
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Split in Turkish opposition CHP becomes official: Özgür Özel announces new party
Özgür Özel's announcement of a new party formalises the split produced by the politically motivated judicial removal of the CHP's elected leadership.
•Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç
Burnham government a “firm friend” to a “pleased as punch” military
Pledges to spend hundreds of billions of pounds more on the military in the next few years demolish Burnham’s claims to be running a “cost-of-living government”.
•Thomas Scripps
Opposition mounts to death threat against UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman
Opposition continues to grow among autoworkers to the death threat issued by a high-ranking United Auto Workers official against Will Lehman, the Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate for UAW president.
•Our reporters
Sri Lanka: Families of 12 sentenced to death over killing of MP appeal for financial aid
The SEP and the IYSSE call on workers and youth to demand the unconditional release of 12 people sentenced to death on threadbare circumstantial evidence.
•Pani Wijesiriwardena
Despite severe overcrowding and rising death totals, ICE continues to pack immigrants in holding cells, concentration camps
Recent reports from the Washington Post and Human Rights Watch detail the deliberately inhumane and deadly conditions in detention centers that have produced a skyrocketing death toll among detained immigrants since Trump’s return to the White House.
•Jacob Crosse
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)
The specter of “AI communism”: Chinese open-weight models and the crisis of the American AI bubble
The release of two Chinese open-weight AI models matching the most advanced American systems has provoked panic in Washington and Silicon Valley, exposing the fragility of the speculative bubble on which the entire US stock market rests.
•Evan Blake
“The Fall of the American Orchestra” documented
The performance of some of the greatest music of the past and present is vital to the general cultural, intellectual and moral life of a country.
•David Walsh
Trump cuts end food aid for 1.5 million children
Children are the youngest victims of the war launched by Trump and the Republicans, with the complicity of the Democrats, against the working class.
•Patrick Martin
Build rank-and-file power at National Steel Car in opposition to the nationalist, corporatist USW apparatus!
The conditions we’re fighting against are not unique to our plant. Manufacturing and industrial workers across North America confront the same onslaught on their conditions, pay and jobs.
•A member of the National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee
Kast’s National Reconstruction Plan for Chile: Chicago Boys 2.0
The Kast government's National Reconstruction and Economic and Social Development plan constitutes the most ambitious restructuring of the Chilean state's relationship to capital since the Pinochet dictatorship.
•Mauricio Saavedra
Berlin state election: Christian Democratic Union nominates right-wing hardliner as new lead candidate
As Finance Senator since April 2023, Evers has been the principal architect and enforcer of the Christian Democratic Union/Social Democratic Party Senate’s rigorous austerity course.
•Markus Salzmann
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
15 years since fascist Anders Behring Breivik massacred 77 people in Norway
Fifteen years later, it is no longer a matter of pointing merely to aspects of Breivik’s demented world outlook that correspond with mainstream political discourse. A fascist now sits in the White House.
•Jordan Shilton
The way forward in the struggle of Istanbul’s Çapa Medical Faculty refectory workers
The resistance at Çapa is part of a rising wave of class struggle in Türkiye. In recent months, many sections of the working class, above all the miners, have entered into battle for their unpaid wages and rights.
•Barış Demir
Germany’s armed forces doubles size of homeland security division: War abroad, military state at home
The expansion to well over 10,000 soldiers serves the preparation of a comprehensive NATO war against Russia, whilst simultaneously creating an armed structure for the deployment of the Bundeswehr against domestic opposition.
•Johannes Stern
Federal judge bars strike action, orders SMART-TD union to police CSX railway workers “upon pain of fine, suspension or other sanction”
A federal judge issued a Temporary Restraining Order barring thousands of CSX railway workers represented by SMART-TD from striking over a punitive new attendance policy—and ordering the union to discipline any member who defied the ban.
•Jesse Thomas, Justin Smith
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
How Trump uses Truth Social to manipulate markets and pocket millions
In 2025, Trump made at least 44 stock purchases of 21 different companies within a week of posting a complimentary Truth Social message about the firms, their executives or their products.
•Barry Grey
Australia: Educators form rank-and-file committee in Victoria amid rejection of sellout deal, mass strike tomorrow
The continued attempts by the AEU bureaucracy to force through a sellout, and the mass opposition of educators, underscores the crucial importance of the new rank-and-file committee aimed at organising teachers and staff independently.
•Committee for Public Education
US cyclosporiasis lettuce recall expands to 27 states as Taylor Farms dictates response
With more than 6,000 cases in Michigan alone and no confirmed product test, the government has extracted no penalty from Taylor Farms, which continues to dictate the scope of its own recall.
•Evan Blake
Mexican father killed by tractor-trailer while fleeing ICE operation in Florida
Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran was the third immigrant father to die within eight days during violent operations conducted by the Trump administration’s immigration Gestapo.
•Jacob Crosse
Autoworkers denounce threat by UAW official against rank-and-file presidential candidate Will Lehman
One young worker responded to the threats by saying, “They’re trying to shut you up. And they usually only do that when somebody’s telling the truth.”
•Our reporters
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
LAUSD facing bankruptcy: Nearly 6,000 layoffs, healthcare cuts, furlough days
The impending insolvency of the nation’s second-largest school district, combined with Trump’s dismantling of public education and union sabotage, shows that the right to education cannot be defended within capitalism.
•Kimie Saito, Renae Cassimeda, Marc Wells
Deadly storms strike central Chile: A political and social indictment of capitalism
The irrationality of the market system is laid bare by the fact that many of the areas now submerged under floodwaters have been suffering from a protracted megadrought for over 15 years.
•Mauricio Saavedra
Peru’s president-elect Keiko Fujimori calls for mega-prisons modeled on Bukele's CECOT
The prison plan has won establishment-wide approval spanning the entire spectrum of bourgeois parties.
•César Uco
Petro and De la Espriella use Colombia's Independence Day to promote military
Beneath their apparently opposed postures—Petro's invocation of a “people's army” and de la Espriella's promise of restored “authority”—both pointed to the same institution as the ultimate guarantor of the existing social order.
•Andrea Lobo
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
Kaiser Permanente implementing invasive AI surveillance of advice hotline nurses
Interviews with seven current and former nurses found that staff are questioned about calls lasting more than 15 minutes and receive monthly scores tracking their speed and activity.
•Marc Wells
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
Protests shake Zelensky government after dismissal of Ukrainian defense minister
Zelensky’s dismissal of a popular defense minister has set off a crisis within the Ukrainian ruling class and military.
•Jason Melanovski
Trump loudly booed at World Cup final in New Jersey
The fascistic US president is hated both at home and in all the countries which took part in the World Cup.
•Patrick Martin
Oppose the death threat against UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman!
The IWA-RFC calls on workers and all defenders of democratic rights to denounce this incitement to violence against Will Lehman and demand its unequivocal public repudiation by the UAW.
•International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
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
Mass protests roil Pakistan-controlled Azad Kashmir and the Islamabad-based political and military establishment
The immediate trigger for the current mass agitation was the state’s banning of the AJK Joint Awami (Common People’s) Action Committee under a draconian anti-terrorism law, and the arrest of more than a hundred of its leaders and activists.
•Dr. Zayar
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.
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Hundreds protest ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado as Trump escalates conspiracy against democratic rights
Hundreds of workers, young people and immigrant families rallied Sunday in Houston to demand justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, as witnesses to his killing remain imprisoned and the Trump administration escalates its assault on democratic rights.
•Tom Hall
Australia: Musicals cancelled as inflation and austerity impact ticket sales
Hundreds of cast members, musicians and technical crew are being thrown out of work with little notice and no recourse.
•Kaye Tucker
Refugees expelled from Australia face hunger and violence in Nauru
The Albanese Labor government is enforcing one of the most barbaric refugee detention regimes in the world.
•Mike Head
Former Greek Prime Minister and Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras launches new party ELAS
The founding declaration combines crude nationalist rhetoric with a handful of social phrases about justice and democracy, designed above all to pull the wool over the eyes of young people and workers seeking a political alternative.
•Katerina Selin
Kast’s fiscal austerity: Ruling Chile by Executive Decrees
The Kast government’s cuts were prepared by four years of pseudo-left austerity under Gabriel Boric.
•Mauricio Saavedra
Pentagon draws up plans to attack Cuba amid anti-communist propaganda campaign
The continued threats against Cuba point to the Trump administration’s increasing desperation as it expands its campaign of imperialist plunder abroad and attacks on democratic rights at home.
•Alexander Fangmann
New UK prime minister Andy Burnham will step up Labour’s agenda of austerity and war
The claim that Burnham can change the course of the government is a pale imitation of the claims made earlier about Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.
•Chris Marsden
Legal services workers strike in New York City
The strike of 500 lawyers and support staff at Brooklyn Defender Services began Tuesday, part of a developing strike movement in the sector.
•Our reporters
Immigrant detention center employee shoots protester in Aurora, Colorado
Brandon Booth, an employee of the GEO Group at the Aurora ICE Processing Center, used his personal firearm to shoot at protesters who were blocking his entrance to the facility.
•Alex Findijs
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
Australia: BHP iron ore strike in Pilbara—first in decades
Reports of exactly how many workers walked off the job range from almost 200 to just 63, with the company anxious to downplay the industrial action as an ineffectual fiasco.
•Martin Scott
Australia: Local council authorises seizure of homeless people’s belongings
Melbourne’s Port Phillip Council voted to criminalise homelessness as Labor governments slash housing and expand military spending.
•Raimund Thomas, Eric Ludlow
Australia: Labor’s royal commission intensifies slanders against Gaza genocide protests
Last week’s proceedings at the inquiry were another attempt to conflate anti-genocide protests with antisemitism and blame them for the Bondi Beach atrocity.
•Mike Head
Trump administration threatens to imprison state officials who resist federal takeover of elections
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin declared that states that refused to hand over voter data and use a federal immigration database would be targeted for investigation, fines and criminal prosecution.
•Jacob Crosse
Rally in Detroit for Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed remains silent on Iran war, downplays Trump dictatorship
The rally was part of a concerted effort by Sanders and the DSA to channel mounting outrage over war, austerity and fascism behind the Democratic Party.
•Shannon Jones
Germany abandons its post-war nuclear commitments as Merz and Macron forge atomic alliance
Chancellor Merz and President Macron met at a military airfield near Cologne to prepare the integration of their two national air forces into a joint nuclear command structure.
•Ulrich Rippert
Deepening economic crisis in Chile fuels Kast’s war on the working class
What is unfolding is a class offensive to make working people pay for a crisis they did not create, while the corporate oligarchy and finance capital reap a bonanza.
•Mauricio Saavedra
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
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As grieving widow speaks out, details emerge of ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford, Maine
Joan Durán Guerrero’s death came less than a week after ICE agents killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston under nearly identical circumstances, gunning him down as he drove to a construction job with coworkers.
•Kate Randall
Rail worker calls for independent workers' inquiry into Bedford rail crash that killed driver Shaun Burton
Veteran rail worker Martin stressed, "We are in a race against time to prevent the next disastrous incident.”
•Michael Barnes
AEU-Labor government trying to ram through sell-out of Victorian educators: Vote no! Form rank-and-file committees!
The Committee for Public Education, a rank-and-file educators’ network, calls on teachers and educators to repudiate the government-AEU conspiracy against their rights, including by voting “no” in the union’s rushed ballot.
•Committee for Public Education
“We’re not animals”: Hundreds turn out for viewing for Lorenzo Salgado, as ICE rampage continues nationwide
The line of mourners wrapped around the building, cars continued to pull into the parking lot throughout the evening, and people brought flowers and condolence cards and spoke together in Spanish and English as they waited.
•Tom Hall
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
Trump’s speech on the elections: A ruling class in crisis lurches toward dictatorship
The speech, manic and at times barely coherent, was the expression of an administration and a ruling class in the grip of a staggering crisis.
•Jacob Crosse
As wildfire smoke engulfs factories and workplaces, workers demand lives before profit
As hazardous wildfire smoke filled the air and workers collapsed from the heat and contaminated air, production continued full tilt at factories and worksites across the affected regions with the full support of the all the various trade union bureaucracies.
•Shannon Jones
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