Parents denounce federal cover-up in Border Patrol murder of Alex Pretti
Michael and Susan Pretti condemned the Justice Department’s stonewalling and demanded accountability for the federal agents who killed their son in Minneapolis.
•Jacob Crosse
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Anger over actors’ dire conditions erupts in SAG-AFTRA
Actors have gone public about a situation that was once considered embarrassing to acknowledge: not being able to meet the union threshold.
•David Walsh
Rail workers to strike as train crash in Spain’s Toledo province kills at least 68
The accident is bound up with systemic underfunding of infrastructure and security by the entire political establishment, including the Socialist Party (PSOE)-Sumar government.
•Santiago Guillen, Alex Lantier
Carney government announces plans to privatize major Canadian airports
Less than a month before Carney’s announcement, ramp agent Oscar Robayo was crushed to death by the landing gear of a passenger jet at Montreal Trudeau International Airport. Airport privatization will be a massive windfall for international finance capital and increase the likelihood of further workplace fatalities.
•Jake Silver, Roger Jordan
After election debacle, the UAW apparatus moves to break the Bradford White strike
This weekend, 1,200 striking workers at the Bradford White water heater manufacturing plant in Middleville, Michigan, are being told by the United Auto Workers to vote on what management calls its “last, best and final” offer.
•Jerry White
Video: Attend the Socialist Equality Party launch for the Victorian election!
The SEP launch in Melbourne this Sunday will outline a socialist and international perspective against war, austerity and authoritarianism.
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New Zealand: Thousands unable to pay exorbitant water bills
The inability of households to pay their water bills underscores that the provision of basic social rights cannot be left to big business, local councils and the government.
•John Braddock
Under Trump’s protection, Brazil’s defeated candidate Flávio Bolsonaro floats parallel government on US soil
Hours after fleeing Brazil, the defeated fascistic candidate proclaimed himself “the true president-elect” and announced he will lead the opposition from the United States. The move follows more than a year of US economic warfare against Latin America's largest country.
•Andrea Lobo
CIA now hiring: Rubio posts ad for spies in Cuba
The State Department, the CIA and the Pentagon's Southern Command have publicly solicited informants inside Cuba, three months after accusing Havana of running a spy network in the United States.
•Andrea Lobo
Australia: ACT educators join limited stoppages but union prepares a sellout
After a one-day strike in June, the Australian Education Union has cancelled further fortnightly stopworks and is pleading for a deal with the ACT Labor government.
•Kaye Tucker
Cross-border tensions rising on Korean Peninsula
The US and its allies like South Korea have ramped up their military build-up in Asia, creating an increasingly unstable situation throughout the region.
•Ben McGrath
Youth rebellion across Europe frightens ruling elite in Türkiye
Erdoğan’s threat that Türkiye “will not be surrendered to the street” expresses the ruling class’s fear that the rebellion of youth and workers sweeping Europe will spread to Türkiye.
•Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç
“No future without universities”: Student protests in Vienna
Against the backdrop of Europe-wide mass protests, a major demonstration also took place in the Austrian capital, Vienna, last week on October 22.
•Inessa Reed
Healey’s first UK budget: crumbs for workers, billions for war
Chancellor John Healey’s budget offers a paltry one-off £100 for households against soaring energy bills, while another £10 billion is found to fund war in Ukraine.
•Robert Stevens
Israel plunged into deeper turmoil following inconclusive election
The real historic character of this election lies not in any prospect that it could rescue Israel from its mounting crisis. It is in its confirmation of the reactionary essence of the Zionist project.
•Chris Marsden
The Victorian Socialists: A pseudo-left trap for growing anti-capitalist sentiment
The VS program of pressure, protest and parliamentary reform is directed against the fight to build a genuine socialist movement of the working class amid a historic breakdown of capitalism in Australia and globally.
•Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
Australian establishment exploits attack on MP despite no evidence of political motive
Growing evidence points to the attack on Helen Haines being the result of a psychotic episode, but the Labor government is using it to denounce popular political opposition.
•Oscar Grenfell
Trump and Kennedy’s racist tirades against Muslims and Arabs: The fascist degradation of American politics
The open bigotry of the remarks in Michigan by the US president and a top cabinet secretary are a signal of the plans for mass repression and military aggression after the elections.
•Patrick Martin
Homeless woman dies in Montreal-North: A case of social murder
The death of a homeless woman in a fire earlier this month was a social murder committed by a financial oligarchy that enriches itself through real estate speculation, with the complicity of all the establishment parties.
•Hugo Maltais
Dakkota workers denounce Detroit plant closure: “They don’t care about us”
Workers rejected the company’s official explanation and said Dakkota owner Andra Rush wanted to replace the current workforce with cheaper non-union labor.
•Jerry White
Global index provider threatens to cut Indonesia off from international investment
The threat to reduce Indonesia to “standalone” status in the MSCI index resulted in the biggest fall in the Indonesian stock market since the crisis of 1998 as it plunged by 12 percent, triggering a 30-minute trading halt.
•Nick Beams
Trump administration grants visa to fascist Flávio Bolsonaro
By granting a visa to an aspiring dictator under criminal investigation, the US government has exploded whatever “legal” pretense it has used to justify its repressive immigration policies.
•Eric London
New Zealand election: Labour’s fraudulent “non-aligned” posturing in the US-China confrontation
Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins’ statement that “we don’t align” with the US against China is a lie.
•Tom Petterson
5.5 million people, including 2 million children, cut from food stamps in first year of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill
The Congressional Budget Office projected that the OBBBA would remove about 2.4 million people from the program once fully implemented. More than twice that number have been cut in a single year.
•Kate Randall
Freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk!
We are publishing here the fourth of five resolutions adopted unanimously by the Eighth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held September 26–29, 2026.
•Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
Trump administration charges former FBI director Comey for 3rd time in 13 months
The dubious charges are part of the Justice Department’s campaign of political revenge, aimed at intimidating and imprisoning opponents of the fascist president.
•Jacob Crosse
Mass protests again grip Italy as Meloni government steps up repressive measures
Alongside war, the housing crisis and the education crisis, the protests are being driven by supply shortages and rising food prices.
•Marianne Arens
A tale of two Chiles defined by poverty wages and billionaire clans
Twenty-three percent of workers say they spend their entire paycheck the moment it arrives, to pay off debts; another 23 percent say it lasts less than a week. Only six workers in a hundred manage to make their wage stretch to the end of the month.
•Mauricio Saavedra
Netherlands: Jetten’s war cabinet is working with the trade unions to cut social welfare
The cuts planned by the government were not cancelled but transferred, to return through the back door of the “polder” – the class-collaborationist Dutch tradition of settlements negotiated between government, employers and unions.
•Parwini Zora
Support in Greece for freedom for Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk, the Ukrainian socialist jailed for 15 years for opposing the war, has drawn support in Greece from media outlets, left-wing websites and social media users.
•John Vassilopoulos
Macron threatens a state of emergency against mass mobilization in France
Yesterday, during a visit to Marseille, Emmanuel Macron raised the threat of imposing a state of emergency against the mass mobilization of youth and workers against his government.
•Alexandre Lantier
More indications of imminent renewed imperialist assault on Iran
Emergency talks in Tehran, reports of strikes on vessels in the Strait of Hormuz and the increase in US forces in the region point to the renewal of a US-Israeli assault on Iran in the near future.
•Kevin Reed
Serbia: Vučić’s electoral defeat ushers in a new era of class struggle
Two years after the collapse of the railway station canopy in Novi Sad, which triggered a wave of mass protests against corruption and arbitrary rule, the Students’ List won Sunday’s parliamentary election by a clear margin.
•Peter Schwarz
New Zealand election meeting: Vote for the Socialist Equality Group, the socialist alternative to war and austerity!
The Socialist Equality Group’s public election meeting is this Sunday, November 1 at 1:30 p.m. in the Dowse Art Museum, 45 Laings Road, Lower Hutt.
•Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand)
Trump brands El-Sayed a “jihadist” in Michigan, as Obama offers jokes and silence on the threat of dictatorship
While Trump openly appealed to anti-Muslim bigotry, branding Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed a terrorist, Obama offered only jokes and complacency.
•Patrick Martin
Lula’s reelection in Brazil: A vote against fascism sets stage for an eruption of class struggle
Lula’s reelection opens a period of intensified class struggle, in which the aspirations of the workers and young people who voted for him will collide head-on with his government’s capitalist program.
•Tomas Castanheira
Salvadoran man dies in Georgia concentration camp amid ongoing hunger strike
According to ICE, Luis Sandoval, 48, was found with a ligature around his neck at the Folkston Detention Center on October 23.
•Jacob Crosse
IYSSE meeting at Berlin’s Humboldt University against the Ukraine war and the persecution of Bogdan Syrotiuk
On October 21, the IYSSE student group at Humboldt University presented the book “The Ukraine War and the Fight for Socialism: The Case of Bogdan Syrotiuk.”
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality
Ahead of nationwide youth protests in Germany: Government and police prepare repression
Behind this aggressive reaction lies the fear that the mass protests in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Albania and other countries will spread to Germany and merge with the resistance of the working class.
•Johannes Stern
Australia: NTEU promotes Labor at University of Sydney strike amid assault on higher education
Sarah Kaine, who represents the state Labor government, delivered the final speech at a rally of around 400 university staff, students and supporters.
•Stephen Griffiths
New Zealand fire agency proposes real pay cut for striking firefighters
Amid the national election, about 2,000 firefighters and support staff across New Zealand held their 71st one-hour strike last Friday.
•Our reporter
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Some 1,300 workers at Teck Highland Valley Copper have walked out over contract issues, while oil workers in Venezuela began protest strikes last week in a number of cities.
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Australia: Victorian school funding fraud underscores union sellout of teachers
Given the mounting working-class hostility to both the Carroll and Albanese governments, this agreement is not worth the paper it is written on.
•Sue Phillips
Sri Lankan president announces plans to close 34 state institutions
Workers cannot rely on the trade union bureaucracies, the parliamentary opposition or pseudo-left organisations in their struggles to defend SOEs and their working conditions.
•Pani Wijesiriwardena
Calgary Opera fires principal singer for displaying Palestinian flag at opening night of Tosca
Sanchez-Ortega, an emerging artist in his first year of the McPhee Artist Development Program, was replaced in the role of Angelotti, the escaped political prisoner in Giacomo Puccini's popular opera.
•Lee Parsons
Chile’s Carabineros invade school. Workers must come to the defense of youth and students
Governments of both the right and the pseudo-left have introduced a battery of laws directed specifically against minors, while systematically integrating the Carabineros into the school system.
•Mauricio Saavedra
CIA-backed opposition leader María Corina Machado sent back to Venezuela to contain social protests
The far-right opposition leader returned to Venezuela, with Washington’s approval, amid a wave of strikes and protests over blackouts and starvation wages.
•Andrea Lobo
Journalists in Türkiye take to the streets against censorship and arrests
On Saturday, hundreds of journalists and thousands of others protested in at least ten cities across Türkiye, against the escalating attacks on the press by the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
•Can Denizli
Communist Party Marxist–Kenya leader Booker Omole acquitted after eight-month prosecution
The persecution of Omole took place amid the broader repression carried out by President William Ruto’s government.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Socialist Workers Party meeting in Glasgow attacked by fascists
Around 20 masked fascists attacked a Socialist Workers Party public meeting in Glasgow. The Socialist Equality Party demands that police arrest and charge those responsible.
•Laura Tiernan
Defence Secretary Wes Streeting: Britain must be ready for war in “a little over 1,000 days”
Streeting makes clear that the government’s new “Be Ready” guidance is really about war, as tensions with Russia are dialled up. The message is: if war starts, fend for yourself.
•Robert Stevens
Trump prepares new onslaught on Iran in defiance of mass opposition to war
The Trump and Netanyahu administrations are in the final stages of preparing a massive new assault against Iran, in advance of elections in which both leaders are expected to face major electoral setbacks.
•Andre Damon
Department of Justice files suit to block certification of Alaska Senate vote—but only if Republican loses
The unprecedented lawsuit, defying the US Constitution, is the first overt action by the Trump administration to challenge the results of the midterm election.
•Patrick Martin
Hundreds of thousands of protesters defy Macron government’s repression in France
Many demonstrations were banned or confronted with massive police deployments. The result was a debacle for the French government.
•WSWS reporting team
The Left Party’s silence on Bogdan Syrotiuk
This silence is no accident. It is an expression of the political role of the Left Party and a warning to all those who regard it as an opposition to war, social cuts and fascism.
•Johannes Stern
SEP candidates for the Victorian election in Northern Metropolitan
The SEP candidates are campaigning to build a socialist movement against war, austerity, attacks on democratic rights and the destruction of working-class living standards.
•Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
New Zealand: SEG candidate advances socialist perspective at Hutt South forum
Tom Petterson put forward the SEG’s socialist program in opposition to the agenda of war and austerity that is shared by National, Labour and their allies.
•our reporter
A socialist perspective to fight against war and austerity! Attend the SEP’s Victorian election campaign launch!
The Socialist Equality Party will launch its Victorian election campaign at a public meeting on November 1, advancing a socialist alternative to war, austerity and the rise of the far right.
•Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
Fourth insolvency in 6 years leaves 12,000 Galeria workers facing store closures in Germany
Galeria’s latest insolvency shows that the concessions and “restructuring contracts” negotiated by the Verdi union have neither saved jobs nor stopped the plundering of the company by investors.
•Marianne Arens
David North opens fall lecture series with meetings at Wayne State and Michigan State universities
Dozens of students and workers in Detroit and East Lansing attended each meeting and took part in serious discussions on war, the Democratic Party, and the fight for socialism.
•our reporters
Postal worker silenced by union official, management for exposing safety hazards
An NLRB ruling found that the USPS had illegally restricted the rights of rank-and-file postal workers to independently organize and solicit grievances over safety issues.
•Alex Findijs
Bradford White strikers reject third sellout deal by nearly 62 percent
This was a vote of no confidence in the conduct of the strike by the UAW, which has worked with management to impose concessions through open threats.
•George Kirby
Opposition leader Luisa González arrested in Ecuador
The jailing of the candidate who twice ran against President Noboa, five weeks before elections from which her party has been barred, marks a new stage in the criminalization of political opposition.
•Andrea Lobo
After the COB’s betrayals, Bolivian workers launch new wave of struggles against fuel hikes and IMF austerity
Twice this year the COB bureaucracy called off general strikes only to be answered by new government attacks.
•César Uco
This week in history: October 26-November 1
Japan authorizes overseas military deployment for the first time since WWII; South Africa’s apartheid regime declares the Bantustan of Transkei “independent”; US Navy aircraft kill more than 500 in a bombing raid in North Korea; Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini survives an assassination attempt in Bologna.
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Mamdani and the Taylor Law: New York’s DSA mayor embraces Wall Street anti-strike weapon
In opposing the school paraprofessionals’ bonus, Mamdani has stepped forward as a champion of the Taylor Law, presenting it as a progressive measure that protects “collective bargaining.” In fact, it is a vicious anti-strike statute that has been used repeatedly to break strikes and impose fines on striking workers.
•Sandy English, Barry Grey
NBC News’ Filmed in Gaza: Images of the Israeli-produced horror, but with “context”
The 51-minute documentary Filmed in Gaza is a modest contribution to the world’s knowledge about the murderous assault.
•Joanne Laurier
Kast’s multipronged security agenda: The bipartisan construction of a police state in Chile
The repressive architecture now being wielded by the far right was designed under Sebastián Piñera, enacted into law under Gabriel Boric, and handed to Kast as a fully operational instrument of state coercion.
•Mauricio Saavedra
Marco Rubio’s visit to Athens integrates Greece deeper into US imperialism’s war strategy
Marco Rubio’s October 6–7 visit to Athens brought a $4 billion arms package and a gas deal, tying Greece more tightly to the US war drive while workers endure austerity.
•John Vassilopoulos
The global rebellion of youth and workers and the war frenzy of the ruling class
The crisis that drives the bourgeoisie to war is drawing ever broader sections of the working class into struggle on a world scale.
•WSWS Editorial Board
Europe’s student protests and the intervention of the working class
Major strikes and national days of protest are planned for November in several of the countries affected, in which millions of workers will take part. A fundamental class conflict is developing, one that directly raises the question of power.
•Peter Schwarz
Israel launches invasion of West Bank amid preparations for renewed onslaught against Iran
Netanyahu sealed off the West Bank and announced a military operation of a kind not carried out since 1967, as the US and Israel prepare new strikes on Iran after the elections.
•Andre Damon
Brazil stages presidential runoff amid global eruption of class struggle
Brazilians return to the polls on October 25 for the presidential runoff amid an eruption of the class struggle on a world scale.
•Tomas Castanheira
US measles cases double last year’s total as Pennsylvania records a sixth death
The United States recorded no measles death at all between 2016 and 2024. Three were reported last year. Pennsylvania by itself has now recorded six in 2026, the latest a 39-year-old unvaccinated woman in Franklin County.
•Benjamin Mateus
Mexican government and VW's “independent” union seek to impose third tentative agreement after six strike deadlines
The Sheinbaum government’s labor authorities have publicly praised Volkswagen and the SITIAVW for overriding two “no” votes.
•Andrea Lobo
Chile’s private pension funds lose billions: Legalized robbery of the working class
The entire purpose of the pension system imposed by the Pinochet dictatorship in 1981 has been to convert the compulsory savings of the working class into a reservoir of capital for the Chilean oligarchy and the global financial markets.
•Mauricio Saavedra
Australia: What the union-Labor sellout of Victorian doctors reveals
The betrayal of doctors is a graphic demonstration of the treacherous role of the trade unions, which are presiding over the further evisceration of a public health system already in an advanced state of crisis.
•Morgan Peach, SEP candidate for Northern Metropolitan
Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
India: Thousands of Punjab state bus workers launch indefinite strike; Bangladesh garment workers defy police attacks to demand living wage; Australia: Victorian allied health workers escalate bans after rejecting Labor’s offer; University of Sydney staff strike for 24 hours.
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Attorney’s minute-by-minute account exposes Christa Pike’s torture in Tennessee death chamber
Attorney Randy Spivey’s sworn declaration documents repeated attempts to find a vein, burning pain during the injection and prolonged gasping and choking before Pike was taken to a hospital.
•Kate Randall
IYSSE meeting in Sri Lanka demands freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk
The IYSSE event on Zoom was live-streamed simultaneously on the Socialist Equality Party’s (SEP) Facebook page in Sinhala and Tamil, attracting significant interest.
•Our Reporters
New Zealand election: Workers speak with Socialist Equality Group on war and the social crisis
Workers in Lower Hutt spoke with the SEG’s election campaign team about their experiences with the housing crisis, unemployment, and the expanding global war.
•Our reporters
British Columbia voters go to the polls amid deep disaffection with the political establishment
BC NDP Premier David Eby called the early vote with the aim of strengthening his government’s hand to impose austerity and push through big business and war-related development projects.
•Penny Smith
Libyan parliament ratifies maritime deal with Türkiye, heightening war danger in Eastern Mediterranean
The dispute over maritime boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean is part of a struggle between the imperialist and regional powers over control of energy resources, pipelines, electricity and data cables, and strategic sea lanes.
•Ozan Özgür, Barış Demir
Britain’s Gaza Secrets Exposed: Governments buried war crimes to protect Israel and the arms trade
Channel 4’s Dispatches investigation represents a rare break with the silence and evasions that have characterised the British media’s coverage of Gaza
•Paul Mitchell
Apache offshore workers strike meets media and Unite union wall of silence
The strike by 160 Unite union members was sparked by a bitter pay dispute over an ultimatum to accept a “final offer” of just 4 percent.
•Tony Robson
The mass protests in France are reverberating throughout Europe
Over the month since high school blockades and shutdowns began in France, an outpouring of anti-austerity, anti-repression, anti-war and anti-fascist sentiment has staggered the French government and spread across Europe.
•Alex Lantier
Discovery of security vulnerabilities in PHP programming language triggers global internet shutdowns
Serious security flaws in PHP—the open source programming language that runs on more than two thirds of world’s websites—were discovered on Wednesday leading to major outages across the globe as administrators took down their systems, ran updates and installed patches.
•Kevin Reed
Phillips 66 locks out 385 Linden, New Jersey, refinery workers after rejection of concessions contract
The lockout at the largest refinery on the East Coast follows lockouts at BP's Whiting, Indiana, and Marathon's Martinez, California, refineries.
•Robert Milkowski
IIT Bombay unleashes police on grieving parents and student protesters
One month to the day after the tragic suicide of IIT Bombay student Sahil Wakode, the elite institute's administration used police to violently disperse his grieving parents and student protesters.
•Kranti Kumara
Mexican health workers reject 8 percent deal imposed by SNTSS union and Morena government
The union and the government declared the wage review closed without a new vote. Workers answered with marches and blockades and called an assembly of elected delegates for October 31.
•Nakai Beltran
Ozone worsens other deadly health effects of globally generated wildfires
Recent studies highlight the massive amounts of ozone generated by global warming-driven wildfires that will result in more than 2,000 annual excess deaths in the US alone.
•Philip Guelpa
US and Israel deepen plans to attack Iran after elections
The New York Times reports specific US-Israeli plans for strikes on Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, while the Democrats demand escalation against Russia and complain that Trump is losing the war.
•Andre Damon
California state workers strike against Newsom: “We will strike for as long as it takes”
The fight against Newsom’s attacks confronts workers with the need to break the SEIU bureaucracy’s grip and unite with workers internationally.
•Kimie Saito, Norisa Diaz, Our reporters, Jacob Crosse
As deaths mount in steel mills, United Steelworkers bureaucrats attend “safety” conference at companies’ expense
The meeting was part of a “labor-management” safety and training framework which finances paid union assignments and gives the apparatus a direct role in administering millions of dollars in company-funded programs.
•Samuel Davidson, Tom Hall
USPS workers say: No private armed guards in our postal facilities!
Nearly 1,000 armed private security guards are being rushed into USPS plants in the final weeks before the midterm elections—into the very facilities that will process millions of mail-in ballots, and months before the deepest cuts in USPS history.
•USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee
Australian university union funding report covers up Labor government’s restructuring agenda
The NTEU report is silent on Labor’s underlying agenda—the funnelling of more than $50 billion a year, and rising, into military spending in preparation for war, while gutting social spending.
•Mike Head
Chemical tank leak forces evacuation in Toledo, closure of schools and workplaces
Dozens were sent to the hospital suffering from burning eyes and throats following the release of toxic glycidyl methacrylate following an incident at MC Tank Transport in North Toledo on Tuesday evening.
•Shannon Jones
Trump doubles down on fascist provocations in final stretch of midterm campaign
The US president has encouraged violent attacks on hecklers at campaign rallies and appeals to racism and other forms of bigotry.
•Patrick Martin
Australia: Labor government ends universal free COVID vaccination
Having invoked mass vaccination to justify allowing COVID to spread unchecked, Labor is withdrawing universal free access to vaccination itself.
•Gary Alvernia
8,000 university and polytech workers strike in New Zealand
The union bureaucracy is seeking to block any real struggle against austerity and to encourage illusions in Labour ahead of the November 7 election.
•Tom Petterson
National Steel Car: Why did the USW allow far-right Tory leader Pierre Poilievre to visit our picket line?
However Poilievre’s visit came about, it fits seamlessly into the corporatist, Canadian nationalist politics of the USW bureaucracy. The union’s national director, Marty Warren, and other leading officials are among the most vociferous proponents of the big business-led “Team Canada” in the ongoing trade war.
•National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee
Mamdani hits the campaign trail for Hochul, governor of strikebreaking and police repression
Mamdani’s campaign video for Hochul refutes the Democratic Socialists of America’s claim to be turning the Democratic Party into an organization that defends workers.
•Erik Schreiber
Rattled by French protests, Latin American governments adopt “Bukele model” to quell social unrest
Bukele’s call on France to adopt his methods, the criminal complaint against Ariel Robles in Costa Rica and Milei’s “shield against socialism” show that the repressive apparatus built across Latin America in the name of fighting crime is aimed at social upheavals from below.
•Andrea Lobo
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Greek teachers, school and university students stage 24-hour walkout to demand adequate funding for education; Lebanese University professors continue stoppage over lack of permanent employment; multiple strikes over pay and conditions by Nigerian healthcare workers
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UK deploys RAF jets to support Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen
The US-led war on Iran has set the entire region ablaze, destabilising the Persian Gulf states and opening a new scramble by the European imperialist and regional powers for control of territory, resources and geo-strategic influence.
•Laura Tiernan
Protests sweep Greece as teachers, public sector workers and youth join Europe-wide upsurge
Students, teachers and other public sector workers marched in more than 50 Greek towns and cities Wednesday, met by 3,000 police in Athens, as the Mitsotakis government vowed Greece would not “become like the streets of Paris.”
•Robert Stevens
NATO deploys additional forces to the Black Sea as war against Russia escalates
NATO’s deployment of additional forces to the Black Sea amid growing attacks on commercial shipping marks a dangerous escalation of the war against Russia.
•Ulaş Sevinç
Australian establishment exploits violent attack on MP to demonise political opposition
The political and media establishment has preempted any investigation of the motivations of Monday’s horrific incident.
•Oscar Grenfell
French unions negotiate with Macron as mass protests explode across Europe
The French union leaderships’ meeting with the Macron government produced a political debacle for all those who argue that workers and youth can leave the leadership of strikes to these bureaucracies.
•Alex Lantier
The Alberta independence referendum and the fight against Trump and the far right
The results of Monday’s referendum on the independence of Alberta—Canada’s oil-rich, fourth most-populous province—are a rebuke to the far right and to the Trump administration.
•Keith Jones
Left Party, Greens and the SPD agree to austerity measures, military build-up in talks for Berlin’s new Senate
The Left Party itself is a proven pillar of the existing order and of the policies of war and austerity and is even actively participating in the campaign against its own members of parliament.
•Christoph Vandreier
Spain’s pseudo-left launches Broad Front as electoral trap for workers and youth
The launch of the Broad Front takes place amid an eruption of mass protests and strikes across Spain and Europe, from France to Italy, Portugal, Belgium and Albania.
•Alejando Lopez
Philippine impeachment prosecutors withdraw some charges against Vice President Duterte
Prosecutors dropped all but one of the charges against Duterte before the defense could answer, in a bid to accelerate her removal amid an escalating struggle over state power and relations with China.
•John Malvar
New Zealand SEG candidate presents socialist and anti-war perspective at election forum
Tom Petterson addressed a candidates’ meeting in Epuni, Lower Hutt, outlining the SEG’s socialist demands and its opposition to all the parties of war and austerity.
•Our reporter
Worker crushed to death at New Jersey foundry which was previously awarded OSHA’s highest safety recognition
Henry Antonio Marmol Martinez, a 52-year-old maintenance mechanic and father of six, was crushed to death at the McWane Ductile Foundry in Phillipsburg, New Jersey—a plant OSHA had certified under its highest "Star" safety designation.
•Robert Milkowski
A major episode of AI market turmoil
Growing debt and financial problems of AI-related firms may well be a harbinger of what is to come.
•Nick Beams
General Motors announces $20 billion share buyback for Wall Street, while closing Brownstown battery plant
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain responded to the buyback with a florid denunciation of “legalized mass looting,” designed to conceal the UAW bureaucracy's concessions that have made this looting possible.
•Tom Hall
Ebola spreads to Nigeria and Kenya as epidemic expands beyond Congo (DRC)
Nigeria has confirmed an imported case of Bundibugyo Ebola and Kenya has nine, while the Congolese epidemic has reached 9,552 cases and 4,602 deaths in eight provinces, with children dying at the highest rates.
•Benjamin Mateus
Mexican health workers gather in second general assembly: Which way forward?
IMSS workers have united their movement in a national front and called a megamarch for a 10 percent raise. The union and the Sheinbaum government are playing for time as they seek to regain control.
•Nakai Beltran
The 2 Elizabeth Gurley Flynns: A new biography of the “Rebel Girl”
Mary Anne Trasciatti’s valuable biography documents Flynn’s passage from IWW militancy to Stalinism but leaves the roots of that transformation unexplained.
•Tom Mackaman
Florida executes William Reaves Jr., 77, a Vietnam veteran with PTSD
Reaves execution encapsulates the barbarism of capital punishment in America: the execution of an elderly man, a combat veteran whose psychological injuries were never put before the jury, sentenced to death by a non-unanimous jury.
•Kate Randall
Volkswagen plans worldwide pay freeze until 2030
With immediate effect, the salaries of roughly 650,000 VW employees worldwide are to be frozen. For the 275,000 employees in Germany, a multi-year pay freeze would mean a loss in real income of far more than ten percent. The works council and the IG Metall union are downplaying the move.
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
Smart Solar fires over 80 after wildcat strike in Türkiye
Workers at Smart Solar’s factory in Aliağa, İzmir, are fighting mass layoffs, unpaid wages and the company’s refusal to recognize the union they chose.
•Can Denizli, Barış Demir
Flood disaster in Istanbul, at least 9 people dead
While the well-to-do waited it out in secure luxury residences or left the city altogether, working people—those living in basement flats and along the streams, and those forced to go to work—bore the real cost of the disaster.
•Ozan Özgür
Postal workers oppose DM26 restructuring at Royal Mail: "We cannot trust anything the CWU says"
Speaking from Glasgow, George told WSWS: “From the ODM 'pilots' to DM26, every stage of this attack has been co-authored by our own union officials, sitting with management to supervise job cuts, workload increases and the two-tier workforce.”
•By our correspondent
Irish union leaders call off second public sector strike to hold talks on government’s terms
Two days after the first national public sector strike in 17 years, Irish union leaders suspended a second stoppage and entered talks on the government’s terms, with nothing offered on pay.
•Robert Stevens, Steve James
Over 100,000 join protests and strikes in Italy
Youth protests, lorry blockades and strikes are spreading across Italy, while the Meloni government responds with police-state measures, and the trade unions seek to contain the movement.
•Marianne Arens
The bond markets, rearmament and the global assault on social spending
The immediate ruling class agenda is budget cuts amounting to €54 billion which will make major inroads into social spending. But this is only the start.
•Nick Beams
Trump calls French protests a “full-on revolution,” demands mass deportations
Behind the fascist president’s demands for deportations lies the fear that workers will recognize their common struggle against inequality, war and dictatorship.
•Jacob Crosse
Lawful permanent resident dies in ICE concentration camp
Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias is the seventh person to die in ICE custody in Texas this year and the second in Laredo.
•Trévon Austin
9,000 Stellantis workers in Canada vote overwhelmingly for strike against layoffs and threatened plant selloff
None of the issues that motivated Stellantis workers to vote for a strike can be resolved within the framework of a collective bargaining struggle. They require the waging of an industrial and political counteroffensive against the global restructuring of the auto industry.
•Carl Bronski, Roger Jordan
Hegseth secretly meets Netanyahu as US prepares to resume attacks on Iran
The secret meeting at Ovda air base took place eight days before Israel's election and amid US press reports that the Pentagon has been ordered to prepare for major combat operations against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections.
•Andre Damon
National Australia Bank axes 2,500 jobs as unemployment rises
Up to 1,500 workers will be sacked before the end of this year, with the remainder to be thrown on the scrapheap by June 2027.
•Martin Scott
Australia: Western Sydney University students not told about block teaching plan
The “Western Momentum” model, revealed to academic staff last month, has serious implications for students and staff alike.
•A WSU Rank-and-File Committee member
Tensions over US operational control of South Korean military
Seoul’s insistence on regaining wartime operational control over its military is not a repudiation of Washington’s preparations for war against China, but a push for a greater voice in the conflict.
•Ben McGrath
“A severely catastrophic situation”: BNSF uses scheduling tricks to prevent rail crews from using vacation time
BNSF Railway has begun using its proprietary scheduling software to quietly black out entire weeks of vacation for train crews.
•Omri Wolfe
“Fighting Oligarchy” by electing Democrats: Bernie Sanders campaigns for Angie Nixon in Florida
Nixon and Sanders promoted the illusion that the November elections can proceed as an ordinary contest and that oligarchy and fascism can be defeated at the ballot box.
•Matthew Taylor, Jacob Crosse
In rebellion against “independent” union, VW workers in Puebla, Mexico reject second sellout deal
After letting six strike deadlines pass, the SITIAVW union is now wielding the threat of an unprepared strike against the workers who voted down its deal, while VW and the Sheinbaum government move to make workers pay for the crisis.
•Andrea Lobo
The Andes-Atlantic Corridor and the US neocolonial offensive in Argentina
In the anodyne language of diplomacy, the Andes-Atlantic Corridor agreement describes the subjugation of Argentina’s mineral resources to US imperialism.
•Pedro Dias
UK release of Naza: “A marriage between investigative journalism and cinema” exposing Israel’s crimes in Gaza
During a panel discussion at the film’s London launch, Paul Lewis exposed the incoherence of the Netanyahu regime’s response to Naza. On the one hand, the government claims the film is “false”, “misrepresentative”, and full of lies. On the other hand, Netanyahu argues that those appearing in it should be prosecuted for revealing state secrets.
•Paul Mitchell
Israel’s general election: All the Zionist parties committed to war
Israel’s October 27 election offers no alternative: every Zionist party, including the opposition led by former military chiefs, is committed to the genocide in Gaza and war against Iran.
•Jean Shaoul
“We want to get treated like humans!” Chicago hotel workers determined to fight for improvements, as Unite HERE shrinks their strike
Working closely with the Democratic leadership in the city, the Unite HERE strategy is to contain opposition and avoid anything like a citywide hotel shutdown that would draw the mayor and the governor into an open fight.
•Kristina Betinis
UAW announces sellout deal, calls Friday contract ratification vote at Bradford White
The UAW has called for a vote on short notice on a concessionary tentative agreement for 1,200 Bradford White workers that meets none of their demands.
•George Kirby
“With this economy, we can’t survive”: Hundreds of public sector workers strike across Orange County, California
These workers perform several key operations within Orange County, such as landfill and waste disposal, animal shelter care, road, flood and storm preparation, beach and park maintenance, and repairs on county and first responder vehicles.
•Kimie Saito, Joshua Rodriguez
Australian Greens in spiralling crisis
The upheavals reflect a broader breakdown of the parliamentary setup and the failure of the Greens to increase support amid popular hostility to Labor and the Coalition.
•Oscar Grenfell
2 weeks out, Trump steps up threats over mid-term election
In pursuit of its “big lie” about mass illegal voting, the Trump administration has inflated a handful of cases into a national emergency.
•Patrick Martin
After mass October 17 protest, French government prepares dictatorship
The crisis of rule revealed by the mass protests against Macron on October 17 will not be resolved by social concessions granted to workers from above.
•Alex Lantier
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Colombian educators, trade unionists, students and native communities staged a one-day protest strike October 14, while some 9,000 Canadian Stellantis workers have voted in favor of strike authorization.
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Israeli settlers carry out wave of attacks in West Bank, as UN cuts Gaza food aid
Israeli settlers carried out a wave of attacks across the occupied West Bank over the weekend, protected by soldiers who fired tear gas at their victims and encouraged by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
•Andre Damon
American soprano Martina Arroyo has died at the age of 90
The singer came from a Puerto Rican working-class background and was known not only for her beautiful voice but also for the warmth of her personality.
•Fred Mazelis
IYSSE holds meeting on Socialist Equality Group’s New Zealand election campaign
SEG member Tom Petterson is standing in the Hutt South electorate, as part of the fight to build a section of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
•Our reporter
The intensification of the class struggle in Australia and the building of the IWA-RFC
We are publishing here the third of five resolutions adopted unanimously by the Eighth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held September 26–29, 2026.
•Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
Autoworkers on UAW election: “Workers have no faith or trust in the UAW anymore”
There was a mass repudiation of the UAW apparatus in the recent election with 90 percent of eligible members not voting.
•Sheila Brehm, Jerry White
Self-described socialist N’Kiyla Jasmine Thomas wins Oklahoma Democratic Senate primary
Thomas’s Oklahoma primary victory reflects growing interest in socialism, while her program channels that opposition back into the Democratic Party.
•Harry Smith
Class struggle erupts across Latin America: How did such unpopular right-wing governments come to power?
Strikes and mass protests are spreading from Mexico to Chile against austerity, war and governments installed with Washington's backing.
•Andrea Lobo
Nearly 200 arrested as Belgian youth defy crackdown on education protests
Defence Minister Theo Francken is accelerating plans for a military-trained police force with a remit to crush social disorder.
•Robert Stevens
Student protests in Albania rattle government
The protests in Albania and France are part of an international wave of class struggle that has also swept through other countries, such as Spain and Belgium. Everywhere, the anger of young people and workers is directed against the same trends: austerity, social inequality, police repression, militarisation and war.
•Markus Salzmann
Massive Ukrainian drone attack on St. Petersburg escalates US-NATO war against Russia
Ukraine attacked Russia with more than 1,000 drones overnight Saturday, in the largest bombardment of St. Petersburg since the Second World War.
•Andre Damon
“We’ll be so powerful if we could organize worldwide”: New York-New Jersey port trucker speaks about conditions facing drivers
The World Socialist Web Site spoke with Richie Respek, a New York-New Jersey port trucker and founder of the Pier Trucker Facebook group, about the long hours, unpaid labor and deteriorating working conditions drivers face.
•Steve Light, Erik Schreiber, Robert Milkowski
Australian state Labor government decimates drama studies in schools
Labor’s curriculum “de-cluttering” has resulted in a dramatic decline in drama enrolments in New South Wales schools.
•Kaye Tucker
Australia: Silence on Labor’s agenda at University of Melbourne strike rally
Amid rising discontent over deteriorating conditions and continued real pay cuts under the Albanese Labor government, the National Tertiary Education Union is seeking new three-year enterprise agreements with university managements across Australia.
•John Wilson
Sparsely attended “No Kings” rallies promote Democratic Party amid Trump’s drive toward dictatorship
After earlier demonstrations drew millions, organizers narrowed Saturday’s events to electoral appeals, as Trump escalated his attacks on democratic rights.
•Our reporters, Jacob Crosse
AfD and Wagenknecht’s BSW celebrate together after electing Germany’s first far-right state parliament president
After helping elect an AfD state parliament president in Saxony-Anhalt, the far-right AfD and Sahra Wagenknecht’s BSW dined together with the AfD at an event hosted by the far-right Compact magazine, and agreed to collaborate on joint motions.
•Peter Schwarz
Protests against Modi government’s purge of voter rolls continue despite mass repression
Despite massive state repression, India’s far-right BJP government has failed to stamp out a wave of youth-led protests against its purge of millions of rural poor and working-class voters from the electoral rolls.
•Kranti Kumara
This week in history: October 19-25
Two postal workers die from anthrax inhaled at a Washington facility; Arab League summit sanctions Syria’s military occupation of Lebanon; Egypt declares a state of emergency in confrontation with Britain over the Suez Canal Zone; Trotsky and Kamenev removed from the Politburo of the Russian Communist Party
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From the Alberta Prosperity Project to MAGA: The far-right forces behind Alberta separatism
The separatists’ Alberta First appeal is bound up with demands for unrestricted exploitation of the province' tar-sands oil reserves, sweeping reductions in federal authority, attacks on immigrants and a more direct political alignment with the far-right and fascist forces in the United States.
•Pierre Lajeunesse
Sally Rooney’s books withdrawn from UK sale to avoid prosecution over Palestine Action
The UK government is placing culture at the mercy of its criminal policies, which are coming into conflict with an increased determination to speak out against genocide and war. Sally Rooney’s case points to the threats levelled against artists and their livelihoods.
•Paul Bond
French police and state machine overtaken by protests in provincial cities on October 17
The high school student revolt in October has revived the specter of May 68, which the government is trying to suppress with fierce police repression, but which was overwhelmed yesterday by the number of demonstrators.
•Anthony Torres, Kumaran Ira
Mass mobilisation of youth and “Yellow Vests” shakes the French government
Masses of people demonstrated across France yesterday against the crackdown on the high school student movement and the rise in energy prices and the cost of living, with the influx of protesters overwhelming law enforcement in many cities.
•WSWS reporting team
AFT President Weingarten’s AI “safety standard” is a corporatist pact with Microsoft
The AFT’s “iron-clad” AI safety standard was signed with the company that funds the union’s own AI academy, then carried to a platform shared with the fascist strategist Steve Bannon.
•Renae Cassimeda
Faculty and staff at City Colleges of Chicago vote 96 percent to strike; walkout set for October 19
By Monday, workers in two major industries could be on strike simultaneously in the third-largest US city, only weeks before the November elections.
•Alexander Fangmann
2 serious accidents at postal processing facility in Pontiac, Michigan
Several recent incidents involving the activation of machinery during maintenance highlight unsafe conditions at the Michigan Metroplex mail processing center in Pontiac, Michigan.
•Shannon Jones
BHP to cut 300 Pilbara iron ore jobs as unions impose sellout deals
The unions covering BHP workers in the Pilbara issued token denunciations of the job cuts, before immediately pledging their assistance in delivering them.
•Martin Scott
EU summit in Brussels: European powers intensify war drive against Russia
While the Trump administration, amid its conflict with the European powers, is seeking at least for the moment a certain accommodation with Russia, the EU governments, led by Berlin, are pressing for the continuation and expansion of the Ukraine war.
•Johannes Stern
A socialist perspective to fight against war and austerity! Support the Socialist Equality Party in the Victorian election!
The Socialist Equality Party is standing candidates in the November 28 Victorian election to provide workers with a socialist and internationalist perspective against every other party.
•Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
Interest rise starts to hit AI boom
The major American AI firm CoreWeave was hit by a “tornado” this week, as its shares plunged at one point by around 28 percent.
•Nick Beams
A warning sign: Australian government unlawfully held citizen for 945 days in immigration detention
The Labor government’s rising number of wrongful immigration detentions is another warning of the anti-immigrant bidding war underway in the political establishment.
•Mike Head
Trump calls off livestream of Fort Hood shooter’s firing squad execution
President Trump announced October 16 that the firing squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, set for December 3 at Fort Hood, Texas, will not be livestreamed, reversing the plan by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to broadcast the killing.
•Kate Randall
Sri Lankan government assures IMF it will present 2027 austerity budget
The latest IMF staff-level agreement means another round of austerity to guarantee debt repayment and protect the interests of international capital.
•Saman Gunadasa
Oppose the Trump administration’s drive to strip Ilhan Omar of citizenship!
Citizenship is being made vulnerable to a government determined to punish opposition.
•Jacob Crosse
After the UAW election debacle: We must build rank-and-file committees and take power on the shop floor!
This statement was issued by Will Lehman, a rank-and-file worker at Mack Trucks in Macungie, Pennsylvania who ran for president of the UAW in the recently-concluded elections.
•Will Lehman
Police Commissioner Tisch mocks Mamdani, DSA at New York banquet
Tisch used the occasion of the Al Smith banquet to taunt her nominal boss, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, for rejecting the call of the Democratic Socialists of America that he fire her for assaulting anti-ICE protesters and pro-Palestinian demonstrators.
•Barry Grey
Hundreds of Chicago hotel workers enter second week on strike, as union confines walkout to six out of 46 hotels
The hotel workers’ agreements expired August 31, when 85 percent of members at 46 hotel properties authorized a strike. But just six hotels have walked out.
•Kristina Betinis
Mexican health workers vote down wage deal as rebellion grows against the union and the government
IMSS workers rejected the SNTSS wage deal after a national march called over the union’s head. The union and the Sheinbaum government are now moving to suppress the struggle.
•Nakai Beltran
Carney’s investment summit: More profits for oligarchs, more exploitation for the workers
Carney demonstrated during the two-day summit what his government really stands for: enhanced profits for the oligarchy, intensified worker exploitation and a full-throttle drive to expand Canadian imperialism’s ability to wage war against its rivals in pursuit of resources, markets, and strategic influence.
•Steven Fields, Roger Jordan
Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
India: 50,000 Uttar Pradesh health workers protest for permanent jobs; Bangladesh garment workers block Dhaka roads for higher wages; Australia: Qantas engineers hold first strike in 16 years.
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Royal Mail workers must take charge: scrap DM26, end the two-tier workforce!
The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee calls for the scrapping the DM26 delivery model, ending the two-tier workforce and a defence of the universal mail service as a social right.
•Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee UK
University and College Union members at Manchester Metropolitan University back campaign for release of Bogdan Syrotiuk
Branch members discussed how Bogdan's case punctures the dominant media narrative on Ukraine, with the term ‘meat grinder’ used to describe the grim reality of the conflict
•our reporters
Turkish government takes over pro-opposition Halk TV
Halk TV, one of Türkiye’s most-watched news channels, has been taken over by the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a police raid on the morning of October 14.
•Barış Demir
Democrats plot major escalation of Ukraine war after midterm election
The Democrats are making clear behind the scenes that their central priority, should they win a majority in one or both houses of Congress, will be the escalation of the war against Russia
•Andre Damon
French youth protests grow as political radicalization spreads
Ahead of the October 17 day of action, which grew out of calls on social media for a revival of the “yellow vest” protest over purchasing power and social inequality, blockades are intensifying.
• V. Gnana and Alexandre Lantier
Saginaw and Detroit autoworkers discuss outcome of UAW election: “Every dictator claims the people are behind them”
Michigan autoworkers discussed the massive boycott of the UAW elections, which reinstalled Shawn Fain with the backing of only 6 percent of eligible voters.
•Jerry White
Bowing to Washington’s pressure, Sri Lanka and India refuse to provide aid to Iranian ships
Behind its bogus claim of "neutrality," the JVP/NPP has thoroughly tied itself to US imperialism, shedding its pretence of anti-imperialism in the past.
•Rohantha De Silva
Australian Labor government stages phoney climate gathering in South Pacific
The Albanese government is using the pretence of climate talks to further seek to dominate the South Pacific, directed primarily against China.
•Mark Wilson
Morenoites act to keep Brazilian workers and youth trapped in Lula’s “Broad Front”
The Morenoites of the PSTU and MRT are calling for a vote for Lula in the October 25 runoff. Their “critical” addenda serve only to reinforce illusions in the Broad Front.
•Tomas Castanheira
Chronic understaffing and overcrowding in New Zealand hospitals
Hundreds of preventable deaths have been linked to understaffing, while the Labour and National parties promise more cuts.
•Chris Egan
Trump targets Omar for deportation in escalating drive toward dictatorship
The administration is using unproven allegations about decades-old paperwork to threaten an opposition congresswoman with expulsion and make citizenship contingent on political submission.
•Jacob Crosse
Spate of workplace fatalities exposes the disastrous consequences of airline deregulation in the US and Canada
Nearly fifty years after Jimmy Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act, a series of aviation industry fatalities demonstrates the viciousness of the onslaught by the ruling class on working conditions it unleashed. These include the death of Oscar Robayo in Montreal and five workers after a cargo plane overshot the runway in Miami.
•Claude Delphian
Failed mass shooting at Illinois Hindu temple latest in growing wave of fascist political violence
A 19-year-old neo-Nazi has been arrested and charged with making a terrorist threat and weapons offenses after an alleged attempt to massacre worshippers at an Illinois Hindu temple.
•Andy Thompson
Manhunt: A dark tale of violence that provides little illumination
The film focuses on two teenagers without presenting the social context that could explain why they are drawn to the far right.
•Erik Schreiber
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