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Major shakeup at UAW headquarters as crisis of bureaucracy deepens

Amid seething rank-and-file anger over job cuts and collapsing living standards the UAW apparatus has purged DSA operatives Chris Brooks and Jonah Furman while restoring the duties of Secretary Treasurer Margaret Mock and Vice President Rich Boyer.

Shannon Jones

Doubts mounting over viability of AI boom

The decision by the Blue Owl private equity group to pull out of an AI investment with Oracle reverberated through the market because it was taken as a sign that “they’re not so bullish as [some investors] are.”

Nick Beams

Australia: The political issues behind the Bondi Beach terrorist attack

The Socialist Equality Party calls on workers and youth to take matters into their own hands and come to the aid of Jewish people or any community that comes under racialist attack. Establish independent rank-and-file committees in working-class suburbs to protect basic democratic and social rights!

Socialist Equality Party (Australia)

Ford plant in Cologne: Death by instalments

Ford’s strategic turn away from larger electric vehicles is being used to drive through the destruction of thousands of jobs at the main plant in Cologne, aided by the IG Metall union and the works council, who are helping to enforce a coercive severance scheme.

Andreas Kunstmann, Dietmar Gaisenkersting

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

India: Telangana steel workers halt production over colleague’s death in molten metal accident; Western Australia: Woodside Pluto-2 LNG construction workers ready to strike; Healthscope nurses in Victoria escalate industrial action; Union cancels Air New Zealand cabin crew strike.

Berlin state executive adopts austerity budget and steps up police powers

The two-year budget for 2026–27 continues sweeping cuts to education, health care, social services and culture, while massively expanding the police and security apparatus. The austerity measures expose the role of all the establishment parties and trade unions in enforcing social attacks to finance militarisation and the enrichment of the wealthy.

Markus Salzmann

Postal worker exposes rampant abuse at Illinois post office

After reporting persistent sexual harassment by a supervisor, a female postal worker received thinly veiled death threats and is now being further harassed for continuing to fight to expose the conditions that postal workers face on the job.

Kathleen Martin

What next in the school strike against conscription in Germany?

Tens of thousands of students have launched a powerful strike against the reintroduction of conscription in Germany, expressing mass opposition to militarism and war. This struggle can succeed only if it is extended to the working class and developed into an international socialist movement against war and capitalism.

International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)

Trump’s border Gestapo target striking workers in Chicago

The provocation by Trump’s fascist Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino was a test to see if the police state measures against immigrants could be deployed against broader sections of the working class.

Andy Thompson, Jerry White

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Thousands of health, education and public sector workers in Greece walk out over austerity budget; protests continue across Iran by retirees, gold miners, energy and health sector workers; health sector unions in Nigeria winding down ongoing strike over pay and conditions

Richest 125 Kenyans own more wealth than 42 million people

Today, land in Nairobi is concentrated in the hands of a small number of wealthy individuals, while millions are forced to live in slums such as Mathare, Kangemi, Kibera, Mukuru, Dandora and Kawangware, or remain entirely landless.

Kipchumba Ochieng

For a united global movement against layoffs in the auto industry!

Workers in one country cannot defend their jobs at the expense of the jobs of workers in another. Their class interests transcend national rivalries and the chaos of the market. Workers share a common interest in the use of technology to benefit all of humanity, rather than to enrich a privileged few.

International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees

Trump-backed redistricting effort fails in Indiana

In a 31-19 vote, more than half of the 40 Republicans in the Indiana Senate joined with 10 Democrats to reject a Trump-backed plan to gerrymander the state’s congressional map and eliminate the state’s two Democratic-held districts.

Aaron Jefferson

European powers set course for escalation of war in Ukraine against Russia

The talks on a supposed “peace plan” for Ukraine, which took place in Berlin over the past few days, have made one thing clear above all else: the leading European powers—above all Germany—are doing everything they can to prolong NATO’s war against Russia.

Johannes Stern

Fascist admirer of Pinochet to assume presidency in Chile

Boric’s government, like its “Pink Tide” counterparts in Latin America, paved the way for the right by defending capitalist property relations and failing to alter conditions of poverty and extreme social inequality confronting the masses.

Mauricio Saavedra

Stop David Lammy killing political prisoners! Release all Palestine protesters!

These are the vindictive, lawless actions of a police state. Labour has branded Palestine Action and its supporters “terrorists” to justify swallowing innocent people into the prison system and subjecting them to cruel and unusual punishment.

International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK)

Workers Struggles: The Americas

In the first popular protest against right-wing President Rodrigo Paz, workers demonstrated against increases in flour and bread prices.

Reactionary shooting in Sydney kills 15 people

Jewish people and their children living in Australia bear no responsibility for the ongoing slaughter by the Israeli Zionist regime in Gaza and the occupied West Bank of Palestine.

Mike Head

Two longstanding Sri Lankan Trotskyists die

The SEP sadly announces the death of two working class comrades R. M. Gunathilake (87) and Leela Balasuriya (79). We will publish tributes in the coming days.

Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)

This week in history: December 15-21

Chinese security forces jail strike leader; Algeria expels 350,000 Moroccans; Truman declares national emergency after Korean War defeats; Russian Communist Party adopts “socialism in one country."

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