Australian Zionist who planted bomb outside pro-Palestinian household given lenient sentence
Were the shoe on the other foot, the case would have been frontpage news for weeks. Instead, it has been covered up almost entirely.
•Oscar Grenfell
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Australian federal Labor government budget includes paltry student debt “relief”
The HECS-HELP loan indexation adjustment is a tiny fraction of the crippling debt confronting university students amid the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation.
•Eric Ludlow
Biden pledges $1 billion in additional military aid, as new report accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza
As the official death toll since October 7 rises to over 35,200 Palestinians—with well over 40,000 dead when those unaccounted for under the rubble are taken into account, the vast majority being women and children—Washington’s response is to double down on its support for the far-right Zionist regime and to accelerate the shipment of arms.
•Jordan Shilton
A lesson in “lesser-evil” politics: Democrats join forces with Republican Speaker Mike Johnson
A week after House Democrats voted to retain Mike Johnson as Speaker, the Louisiana Republican appeared outside the Trump trial in Manhattan to fervently support the fascist ex-president.
•Patrick Martin
University of California grad students overwhelmingly authorize strike against campus crackdowns
The momentum of the strike must not be lost, especially now that the 48,000 academic workers in the UC system have voted to strike in response to police attacks against peaceful anti-genocide protests.
•Bryan Dyne
Port workers and an academic in Sri Lanka call for the immediate release of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The Colombo Port Workers Action Committee urges all port workers and also youth and who value democratic rights come forward to campaign for the release of comrade Bogdan Syrotiuk.
•WSWS reporters (Sri Lanka)
Australia: Sweeping pro-business restructuring and job cuts at Western Sydney University College
Educators and professional staff at WSU College face the elimination of more than 13 percent of teaching and learning jobs, and a “spill and fill” regime to force them to compete against each other for the remaining posts.
•Our correspondents
Biden oversees jobs bloodbath in public education
With new job cuts being announced every day, analysts are suggesting 384,000 education jobs may be axed this year as federal pandemic aid runs out.
•Nancy Hanover
Former Fijian PM Bainimarama jailed for 12 months
Bainimarama’s imprisonment over an abuse of office is bound up with the divisions within the country’s ruling elites which confront a worsening economic and social crisis.
•John Braddock
Voting continues at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama on UAW unionization
The UAW unionization drive has received the blessings of the Biden administration, which is seeking to use the unions to control and stifle social opposition to war and austerity.
•Shannon Jones
I.S.S.: War in space without—for a change—anti-Russian xenophobia
Directed by American Gabriela Cowperthwaite (Blackfish, 2013) and scripted by Nick Shafir, I.S.S. defies tropes so plentiful in Cold War (and contemporary) fiction and film.
•Cordell Gascoigne
What is behind the turmoil in the New Zealand Green Party?
Tactical differences have emerged in the Green Party, with former co-leader James Shaw declaring that he would have been comfortable joining a right-wing National Party-led government.
•Tom Peters
Professors come to the defense of New Orleans students protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Faculty at Tulane and Loyola Universities in New Orleans issue public letters denouncing the violent police assault and disciplinary measures against a peaceful student encampment protest earlier this month.
•Emma Arceneaux
Canada’s union-backed Liberal government imposes indefinite ban on national rail workers’ strike
The strike ban underscores that as Canadian imperialism backs Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians, and takes on an ever greater role in NATO’s war on Russia and the US strategic offensive against China the Trudeau government will tolerate no opposition from workers at home.
•Carl Bronski, Roger Jordan
Dutch students and faculty members protest against the genocide in Gaza
The University of Amsterdam administration justified the intervention of the Mobile Unit (ME) or the Dutch riot police in the university building, brutally beating and arresting students.
•Daniel Woreck
Nationwide construction strike begins in Germany
The strike is the first in the sector for 17 years and the first nationwide strike for 22 years.
•Marianne Arens
The struggle against imperialist war among students and youth
This is the text of the speech delivered by Dilaxshan Mahalingam, an IYSSE member in Sri Lanka, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
•Dilaxshan Mahalingam
The fight against imperialist war in New Zealand and the Pacific
This is the text of the speech delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
•Tom Peters
Stella Assange: “Julian is just one decision away from being extradited”
WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson told the assembled media, “It is abundantly clear that the process in the courts in the United Kingdom are corrupt. The case is rigged against Julian.”
•Laura Tiernan
Child homelessness in England reaches a record high
Child homelessness rose last year by 14 percent to 145,800, while 55 child deaths since 2019 were directly attributed to living in temporary accommodation
•Margot Miller
Half a million Palestinians forced to flee latest Israeli military attacks
The UN relief agency for Palestinians reported that around 450,000 people have been driven out of Rafah—a city whose population had been swollen to 1.3 million by a huge influx of people escaping the Israeli military onslaught elsewhere in Gaza.
•Peter Symonds
UPDATE: UAW calls off strike at University of Washington after less than one day
The eruption of a strike by 6,000 UW workers points to the immense potential for the growing movement against war with the massive opposition in the working class to exploitation and inequality.
•Bryan Dyne
Australian whistleblower sent to prison for exposing Afghan war crimes
David McBride is the first person prosecuted over the documented war crimes, including extrajudicial killings—not for perpetrating them but for exposing them.
•Oscar Grenfell
As strike vote against police crackdown continues, students and educators oppose UAW stalling
Only through the mobilization of the working class, which creates all of society’s wealth, can the genocide in Gaza and other criminal wars be stopped. At the same time, the broadening of the struggle will also give grad students the strongest possible position to resist attempts by the UAW bureaucracy to limit or prevent a strike.
•Norisa Diaz
Australian Labor government’s budget benefits the corporate elite behind token “cost-of-living relief”
Facing an election within 12 months, the Labor administration is desperately trying to head off working-class disaffection over the intensifying cost-of-living crisis.
•Mike Head
Biden administration intensifies economic war against China
Under national security powers, the US has raised tariffs on electric vehicles to 100 percent, along with tariff hikes on a range of high-tech and industrial products.
•Nick Beams
Amazon Labor Union hosts Stalinist Communist Party of Greece
The union’s fraternizing with Stalinist parties, like its relations with the anticommunist trade unions, is aimed at building a new labor bureaucracy while ignoring the needs of Amazon workers.
•Erik Schreiber
Australia: Misleading stats used to conceal social causes of “gender-based violence”
Amid the current highly promoted campaign over “violence against women,” the actual situation surrounding the latest tragic deaths is deliberately ignored to conceal the social conditions that produce such deadly events.
•Cheryl Crisp
Oppose imperialist War! SEP/IYSSE public meeting in Sri Lanka
The only social force capable of halting the drive to world war is the international working class which is coming into struggle in Sri Lanka and around the world.
•Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
Fight the Australian Labor government’s program of war and austerity!
This is the text of the speech delivered by Max Boddy, Socialist Equality Party (Australia) assistant national secretary, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
•Max Boddy
“They say we have freedom of speech but when we utilize it, we’re persecuted”: Detroit autoworkers support strike vote by University of California academic workers
Autoworkers in the Detroit area are expressing support for University of California academic workers who are demanding strike action to protect anti-genocide protesters on campus.
•Shannon Jones
University of Michigan lecturers' union imposes sellout contract, isolating student anti-genocide protesters
With far less than half of the membership voting on the contract, the LEO-AFT bureaucracy forced through a sellout contract, isolating pro-Palestinian protesters.
•Luke Galvin, Therese Leclerc
Accomplices in Genocide: Canadian imperialism and fascist barbarism
This is the text of the speech delivered by Keith Jones, National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada), to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
•Keith Jones
Canadian and US imperialism “modernizing” NORAD for global war
NORAD is viewed by both Washington and Ottawa as central to waging “strategic conflict” and all-out war—including nuclear war—against its great-power rivals, above all Russia and China.
•E.P. Milligan
The onslaught on Rafah: German Chancellor Scholz supports Israel's genocide
The German ruling class plays a key role in the genocide of the Palestinians. This cannot be obscured by the hypocritical "warnings" from Scholz and other leading politicians about the attack on Rafah.
•Johannes Stern
Hundreds of lecturers condemn the police terror at Berlin universities
Germany's ruling class is returning to the methods of the Nazis: police terror, the suppression of peaceful protests and the besieging of universities.
•Tamino Wilck
Scientists call for urgent action on the threat posed by H5N1 bird flu
The work being conducted by numerous scientists concludes that the H5N1 HAPI (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza) virus poses a very real threat to human populations.
•Benjamin Mateus
Medical missions in Gaza trapped without access to supplies and basic aid
Two medical missions at the European Hospital in Khan Younis have been trapped in place with limited supplies since the closing of the Rafah border crossing into Egypt.
•Benjamin Mateus
Study reveals doubling of opioid deaths across Canada during early stages of COVID-19 pandemic
In 2021 the proportion of deaths related to opioids among people aged 20-29 was 29.3 percent. With 29 percent of deaths occurring among people aged 30-39, this means that those under 40 accounted for close to 60 percent of all opioid deaths.
•Steve Hill
CWU tells Parcelforce workers they must accept company’s “bottom line” and compete with gig-economy
The Communication Workers Union’s message amounted to a demand that Parcelforce workers knuckle down and compete against DPD for improved market share.
•Tony Robson and Daniel O’Flynn
US general confirms UK Special Forces operating in Ukraine
US General Brian Fenton reveals how deeply British imperialism is involved in the NATO-led war against Russia, including the deployment of Special Forces, Royal Air Force pilots and “Royal Navy teammates”.
•Robert Stevens
Four-year witch-hunt continues against Alton Estate workers in Sri Lanka
The ongoing repression of Alton Estate workers by management and the police, supported by the trade unions, is calculated to intimidate all estate workers.
•W.A. Sunil
Australian PM incites attacks on pro-Gaza student encampments
The Labor government is slandering peaceful student protests as antisemitic and dangerous, tacitly greenlighting violence against the encampments by Zionist thugs.
•Oscar Grenfell
US reiterates “ironclad” support for Israel, as hundreds of thousands displaced from Rafah
With Israel expanding its assault on Rafah and launching indiscriminate bombings and assaults throughout the Gaza Strip, 20 percent of Gaza's population has once again been forced to flee over the past week.
•Andre Damon
US to quadruple tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles
With tariffs and other barriers going up almost every day, the global economy is increasingly coming to resemble the madhouse of the 1930s.
•Nick Beams
Michael Cohen testifies in Trump “hush money” fraud trial
The fascist ex-president faces up to four years in prison if convicted of maintaining false business records to cover up the payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
•Patrick Martin
University of California strike vote must be the start of a working class fight against war and assault on democratic rights
The vote by the graduate student workers is a sign of a new stage in which the working class will emerge as the basic social force against war and dictatorship.
•Tom Hall
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Canada’s federal Liberal government has intervened to delay or block a strike by 9,300 railroad workers while unions in Argentina carried out the second national protest strike against the Milei government.
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Child care providers across the US protest deplorable wages and conditions
Thousands of child care providers temporarily shut down facilities or called out sick Monday to take part in the third annual “Day Without Child Care.”
•Kate Randall
“We would have a new iteration of the Stand-up Sellout,” former faculty warn of UAW betrayal as University of California strike vote begins
The strike authorization vote places the rank and file in direct conflict with the UAW leadership, which fully endorsed President Joe Biden’s 2024 candidacy despite his genocidal and warmongering policies.
•Marc Wells
The struggle for international socialism in South Asia
This is the text of the speech delivered by Deepal Jayasekera, General Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
•Deepal Jayasekera
The reshaping of Latin America by the new imperialist war
This is the text of the speech delivered by Tomas Castanheira, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in Brazil, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
•Tomas Castanheira
New Zealand junior doctors hold 25-hour nationwide strike
The strike by junior doctors comes in the face of a deepening crisis of underfunding and understaffing in the country’s public hospitals.
•John Braddock
Proposed school closures, budget cuts provoke massive opposition among Los Angeles educators
The district is planning the cuts even though it has more than $6.3 billion in reserve.
•Dan Conway, Kimie Saito
Alan J. Pakula’s The Parallax View (1974): America “is a country with many dark secrets”
The film expresses the broadly felt suspicion in the population—at that time and even more so today—that there is something sinister and rotten in the American state.
•Clare Hurley, Matthew Brennan
Protests continue in UK towns and cities against Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Ahead of next Saturday’s national rally in London against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, dozens of protests were held over the weekend in towns and cities across Britain.
•Our reporters
UK Prime Minister Sunak warns of nuclear war
Sunak pledged that the Tories were the party to be trusted to wage war at whatever cost. Labour will respond in kind.
•Chris Marsden
Postal workers in Britain demand: Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!
Defending Bogdan means challenging the endless pro-war propaganda by the British media that the NATO-backed conflict against Russia is being waged to defend democracy and human rights.
•Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (UK)
SEP (Australia) public meeting: Free Julian Assange! Oppose imperialist war!
The Socialist Equality Party in Australia is holding a meeting on Sunday, May 26 in Sydney and online to discuss the urgent struggle to free Julian Assange.
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Sri Lankan workers enthusiastically support SEP’s party development campaign
Sri Lankan workers and youth have strongly backed the Socialist Equality Party while denouncing government’s attempts to block independent and socialist candidates from participating in forthcoming elections.
•Our reporters
On behalf of Biden administration, UAW bureaucracy and DSA struggle to contain anti-war sentiment
In recent weeks, the Democratic Party has come to rely increasingly on the UAW bureaucracy and Democratic Socialists of America to protect Joe Biden, insulate his re-election campaign from growing hostility to the genocide in Gaza, and keep weapons flowing both to Israel and to Ukraine in the US-NATO war against Russia.
•Eric London
Russia launches offensive on Kharkov as NATO threatens escalation in Ukraine
As the military situation of the NATO alliance and its puppet regime in Ukraine becomes ever more desperate, the danger of direct military intervention by the NATO powers is growing.
•Alex Lantier
Democrats and Republicans: US enablers of Israeli onslaught on Rafah
While the two corporate parties pretend to have major policy differences over the Gaza genocide, they have joined forces to provide record US support for the Israeli military.
•Patrick Martin
Auroral display dazzles millions around the globe
Vivid displays of the aurora borealis and aurora australis were visible to millions of people around the world on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.
•Bryan Dyne, Don Barrett
This week in history: May 13-19
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.
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Nordic military operations highlight NATO’s preparations to attack Russia from the north
One major NATO exercise has followed another, with tens of thousands of troops participating, while the US has expanded its bilateral defence agreements with Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden to create what resembles a massive American staging ground for an invasion of Russia from the north.
•Jordan Shilton
South Korea expresses its desire to join the anti-China AUKUS alliance
The expansion of AUKUS to allies like Seoul is part of Washington’s agenda to surround China as it rapidly accelerates its plans for war.
•Ben McGrath
As California academic workers begin strike authorization vote, protests against Gaza genocide continue
Ahead of the vote, Socialist Equality Party candidate for US president Joseph Kishore released a statement calling on UC academic workers to vote “yes” to strike.
•Our reporters
The emerging global war and the international strategy of the working class
This is the text of the speech delivered by Ulaş Ateşçi, a leading member of the Sosyalist Eşitlik (Socialist Equality Group) in Turkey, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
•Ulaş Ateşçi
The struggle for socialism against British imperialism and the Labour Party
This is the text of the speech delivered by Thomas Scripps, the assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
•Thomas Scripps
Canadian anti-genocide protests under attack: Police violently clear Calgary encampment, McGill seeks injunction
The police’s brutal clearing of the University of Calgary encampment, just hours after it began, was meant to intimidate all those workers and youth across Canada who are protesting Israel’s genocidal onslaught on the Gaza Palestinians.
•James Clayton, Eric Marquis
Tenth anniversary of the death of 301 miners in the Soma disaster in Turkey
The last decade has witnessed a deepening of the ruling elite's disregard for the safety of workers for the sake of profit, let alone the necessary occupational safety measures, in Turkey and around the world.
•Barış Demir
Eurovision Song Contest hit by mass protest against Israel’s Gaza genocide
With over 15,000 protesting outside the final Saturday evening, the 68th annual event was held under a regime of censorship, intimidation and police repression.
•Robert Stevens
Stop the US-backed Israeli attack on Rafah!
The assault on Rafah is being funded, armed, and politically directed by US imperialism.
•Andre Damon
Healthcare giant Steward Health Care files for bankruptcy
Steward Health Care filed for bankruptcy in Dallas this week threatening the closure of more than 30 hospitals. This will have a devastating impact on more than 30,000 healthcare workers and more than two million patients.
•Benjamin Mateus
Florida deputy kills airman after entering the wrong apartment
Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, was in his off-base apartment when he was fatally shot by a deputy, who was responding to a disturbance call in a difference apartment.
•Chase Lawrence
Boeing 737-300 catches fire on runway in Senegal, injures 10
It is only a matter of time before more people are killed on Boeing planes, repeating or exceeding the tragedies of the two 737 MAX 8 crashes in 2018 and 2019.
•Bryan Dyne
Sri Lankan university students, academics and workers support US students opposing Israeli genocide in Gaza
“The opposition of students and workers in America and Europe to the war against Palestinians in Gaza is encouraging. We must oppose the world from being dragged into a third nuclear world war for the interests of a handful of imperialists.” – University of Kelaniya student.
•Our correspondents
Australia: Union bureaucracy blocks NSW nurses and midwives’ demand for 30 percent pay rise
Nurses and Midwives Association officials ended the May 3 meeting before members could vote on a motion to double their wage claim and take up a campaign of industrial action.
•Clare Bruderlin
Japanese university encampments established against Gaza genocide
Japanese students have expressed solidarity with protesters on campuses in the US who have faced a wave of vicious police crackdowns.
•Owen Howell
“It’s the working class’s turn to stop business as usual and demand change”: Workers speak out against police crackdowns
Across the United States, workers are speaking out against the Gaza genocide and the police attack on students being conducted by both pro-war parties.
•Our reporters
Australian government hails High Court ruling backing indefinite immigration detention
The Labor government’s determination to proceed with its immigration bill as fast as possible shows that its imprisonment and deportation plans go far beyond the up to 200 detainees directly affected by the verdict.
•Mike Head
Foreign Affairs article lays out path for war against China
According to the author, war planning must be “embedded” within the economic agencies of the US.
•Nick Beams
Nearly 3,000 protesters arrested in US as crackdown on anti-genocide encampments continues internationally
In addition to double-digit arrests at the University of Pennsylvania and MIT, police at the University of Calgary in Canada and the University of Arizona conducted tear gas-filled sweeps of anti-genocide encampments Thursday night.
•Jacob Crosse
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
South Korea: Costco workers demand better pay and conditions; India: Air India Express workers strike over new employment terms; Australia: Wilmar Sugar mill workers walkout for higher wages in Queensland; Submarine maintenance workers in South Australia down tools; Fiji Water bottling plant workers strike.
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Canada Post, announcing major losses, demands massive concessions from workers
The announcement of a $748 million loss last year comes as the Crown corporation is in the midst of negotiations with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers bureaucracy over contracts for 42,000 Urban Postal Operations workers and 8,000 rural and suburban mail carriers.
•Niles Niemuth
Robert Altman’s Thieves Likes Us (1974): “What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank?”
The socially intriguing and historically authentic film was an opportunity for the director to reveal his attitude towards American capitalism during the Great Depression.
•Joanne Laurier
The danger of nuclear escalation: What would be the impact of dropping atom bombs on Germany?
Since the release of the SGP’s TV election spot warning of a nuclear third world war, there have been increasing signs that NATO’s war against Russia is entering a new stage that could actually lead to the use of nuclear weapons.
•Johannes Stern
Hundreds of educators protest pay and job cuts at Ann Arbor, Michigan school board meeting
The Democratic Party-controlled Ann Arbor school board plans to cut $25 million from next year’s budget.
•Our reporters
UK Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke defects to Starmer’s right-wing Labour Party
Elphicke is seeking to salvage her political career by jumping ship to a Labour Party expected to easily win a general election later this year, and she can do so by joining a party whose programme is identical to that of the Tories.
•Robert Stevens
The class struggle in France and the fight against war
This is the text of the speech delivered by Alex Lantier, the national secretary of the Parti de l'Egalité Socialiste (PES) in France, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
•Alex Lantier
University of Michigan lecturers’ union blocks strike in order to isolate anti-genocide protesters
Voting by lecturers at the University of Michigan finishes today on a sellout tentative contract agreement entered into by the Lecturers’ Employee Organization.
•Therese Leclerc
The return of fascism and war in Germany and the fight for socialism
This is the text of the speech delivered by Christoph Vandreier, the national secretary of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Germany), to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
•Christoph Vandreier
After strike vote Warren Stamping workers back broader fight
Workers at Warren Stamping told WSWS reporters that the recent strike vote over health and safety at the plant reflected anger over a range of issues including job cuts.
•Shannon Jones
Australian political, media establishment threatening pro-Palestinian student encampments
Labor government figures and media commentators are increasingly explicit that their denunciations of the small student encampments are only part of a broader campaign to ban all protests against the genocide.
•Oscar Grenfell
Sri Lankan president announces wage rise to dissipate estate workers anger
Wickremesinghe’s so-called pay hike, which is backed by the unions, will do little to overcome the massive increases in the cost of living for plantation workers and their families, let alone lift them out of the desperate social abyss they confront.
•W.A. Sunil
For a UAW-wide strike against the police attack on campuses! Autoworkers must defend the right to protest!
The only way to stop the war and defend our rights is by taking matters into our own hands as the working class, who create all of society’s wealth.
•Will Lehman
Jobs assault deepens, while report says workers’ share of national income has fallen to 55 percent
Weekly unemployment in the US jumped by more than 10 percent, while the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the share labor receives of national income has fallen to an unprecedented 55.8 percent as of the first quarter of 2024.
•Kevin Reed
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