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Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Tens of thousands of doctors in Spain walk out over pay and conditions; 25,000 students strike to protest Israeli ban on teachers from the West Bank; Nigerian JOHESU health workers continue stoppage over pay and conditions

Stop the ICE reign of terror in Minnesota!

In the week following the January 7 murder of Renée Nicole Good, Minneapolis has been occupied by thousands of federal paramilitary forces operating under the direction of the president. 

Patrick Martin

Texas A&M censors Plato in massive course purge

The purge follows the passage of Senate Bill 37 and is being used to impose sweeping political control over university curricula as part of a broader campaign of academic repression.

Josh Andrews

Hundreds of Minnesota students march to the Capitol to protest ICE

The walkouts and demonstrations by hundreds of students, combined with the growing protests across Minnesota and the United States, show that the class struggle is entering a new upswing—leading to a direct confrontation with the Trump administration and the American oligarchy.

Leon Fields

After Venezuela, Trump targets Iran—the imperialist rampage escalates

The Trump administration is preparing an imminent military attack on Iran, in the next stage in a regime-change operation aimed at returning the Middle Eastern country of 93 million people to neo-colonial subjugation and placing its vast oil reserves under US imperialist control and domination.

Keith Jones

SEIU cancels 5-day strike at KPC Health facilities in California

The SEIU-UHW West bureaucracy announced a tentative agreement on January 10 and called off the strike—just two days before 15,000 nurses in New York City launched what has become the largest nurses' strike in the city's history.

Joshua Rodriguez

Australian media steps up attack on pro-Palestine workers

The immediate target is opposition to Israel’s imperialist-backed genocide in Gaza, but ultimately this campaign is aimed at stamping out all forms of political dissent by workers and young people.

Martin Scott

Rightward shift rips apart the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance

From the outset, the party's programme, policies and election promises were based on a fundamental lie: It presented itself as an anti-war party and a party of social justice, but defended the capitalist system that produces war and social inequality, and allied itself with the parties defending capitalist rule.

Peter Schwarz

South Africa’s ANC clings to “non-alignment” after US attack on Venezuela

The US attack on Venezuela is exposing the collapse of the African National Congress’ post-apartheid “non-alignment” strategy, intensifying internal divisions within South Africa’s ruling elite as Washington pressures Pretoria to choose either itself or China.

Jean de Jager, Alejandro López

White House threatens “lethal force” against Iran

Nine days after launching an assault on Venezuela that killed over 100 people and kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration is openly threatening strikes against Iran, using as a pretext mass protests that have erupted across the country.

Andre Damon

SEP (Australia) holds well-attended meeting on Bondi terror attack

Speakers Oscar Grenfell, Cheryl Crisp and chair Max Boddy exposed both the reactionary character of the mass shooting and the ruthless exploitation of the tragedy by the political establishment, led by state and federal Labor governments, as a pretext for a deepening assault on democratic rights.

Martin Scott

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Unions in Bolivia have broken off negotiations with the government of Rodrigo Paz, as strikes and protests continue against the elimination of fuel subsidies.

The Iranian protests, imperialist aggression and the fight for workers’ power

The Iranian working class cannot endure imperialist subjugation nor the economic deprivation and political repression of the Islamic Republic. It must intervene as an independent political force in opposition to imperialism, all the institutions of the Islamic Republic and all factions of the Iranian bourgeoisie.

Keith Jones

This week in history: January 12-18

Congo President Kabila assassinated; Strikes rock Spanish monarchy; French inflict heavy defeat on Viet Minh forces; Premiere of Eisenstein’s film Battleship Potemkin

15,000 New York City nurses strike for safe staffing

Nurses at private nonprofit hospitals throughout the city and on Long Island must organize immediately to repel management’s attacks and defeat the New York State Nurses Association’s dogged attempts to sabotage their strike.

Erik Schreiber

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

Industrial Bank of Korea workers to strike over pay cap; India: Tamil Nadu secondary grade teachers demand equal pay; Bangladesh: Hotel and restaurant workers plan national strike action; New Zealand firefighters continue nationwide strike.

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Theatre performers, musicians and technicians across Greece walk out over pay and conditions; civil guard police intervene against striking Amazon pickets in O Porriño, Spain; health workers in Nigeria continue national strike over pay and conditions

Syrian HTS regime clashes with Kurdish SDF forces, makes a deal with Israel

Less than a year after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, US-allied forces in Syria have reached the brink of civil war. This underscores that the so-called “Syrian revolution” was a reactionary regime change operation supported by imperialism.

Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç
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