Archive: 10/2024
2024-10-01
- Transportation unions call for strike in Argentina
- Striking Eaton Aerospace worker killed on Michigan picket line in tragic truck accident
- Australian Labor government boasts of cutting social spending to produce record budget surpluses
- Rapper Macklemore dropped from festival lineup for “anti-American” opposition to Gaza genocide
- Australia: Labor government threatens arrests, deportation over protests against Israel’s attacks on Lebanon
- European Left supports escalation of NATO war against Russia
- Israel launches ground operations in Lebanon amid ongoing air bombardment
- Banishment of over 110 protesters by UC Santa Cruz challenged in new legal complaint
- Hurricane Helene: Capitalism turns a natural disaster into a social catastrophe
- Austria’s far-right Freedom Party wins parliamentary election
- Cornell president launches attack on student facing deportation for opposing Gaza genocide
- Jacobin and DSA member Aidan Beatty falsify the so-called “Tate Affair”
- Two new studies on mucosal vaccines and Long COVID underscore the criminality of the “forever COVID” policy
- Julian Assange delivers first speech since release from UK prison: “I pleaded guilty to journalism”
- Pennsylvania professor fired for opposing Gaza genocide
- Food bank usage doubles in Ontario in four years as Canadian corporate profits soar
- Tens of thousands of dockworkers launch strike on US East and Gulf coasts, joining Boeing workers in growing strike wave
2024-10-02
- BioLab factory fire spews chlorine gas cloud near Atlanta, Georgia
- Australian military-intelligence insider calls for war mobilisation powers
- Mexican workers: Refuse to handle redirected freight in support of US and Canadian dock strikes!
- Michigan State University cancels event over pro-Palestinian art
- US, Israeli officials demand major attack on Tehran after Iranian missile strike
- Texas executes Garcia Glen White despite claims of mental deficiencies
- Canada’s media abets government-backed intimidation campaign to suppress anti-war film Russians at War
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Three-day strike at the Port of Montreal poses need for unified struggle by dockers across North America
- UK Prime Minister Starmer declares for war on Iran
- East and Gulf coasts dock strike part of growing rebellion by the working class
- Potential cluster of H5N1 bird flu cases in Missouri poses danger of human-to-human transmission
- “We want fair wages, not automation to put us out of work,” says striking dockworker
- Erdoğan warns of war between Israel and Turkey
- Six factory workers dead or missing in Eastern Tennessee after being kept on the job during Helene’s deluge
- A call to all workers: Press the offensive of the dockworkers’ strike! For a united struggle!
- Arts Faculty cuts at Australia’s Macquarie University underscore Labor’s pro-business restructuring agenda
- Chinese central bank measures boost stock market, but economic problems mount
- As mass layoffs hit Warren Truck and other auto plants, UAW attempts to head off rank-and-file revolt
2024-10-03
- Hurricane Helene death toll rises to 190 as US Southeast digs out from catastrophe driven by climate change
- Fighting against war means fighting capitalism!
- Vice-presidential debate: Political humbug covers up US drive to global war
- Kenya’s Gen Z insurgency, the strike wave and the struggle for Permanent Revolution-Part 1
- Maggie Smith (1934-2024): “I don’t tolerate fools, but then they don’t tolerate me”
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The Political issues in the Fight to Defend Public Education in the US: A new pamphlet from Mehring Books
- Residents divided as judge approves $600 million settlement over East Palestine, Ohio derailment
- “We will not accept business as usual”: Workers across the US support East Coast docks strike
- Peace demonstration in Berlin: A bankrupt perspective
- Washington pressures Vietnam against cable deal with China
- Twisters: Social disaster as empty spectacle
- Boeing machinists must unite with East Coast dockworkers to defend jobs and stop world war!
- Biden escalates toward disastrous war against Iran
2024-10-04
- Nine-day global seismic wave linked to climate change-induced tsunami
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Fake-left FSP hails election of new Sri Lankan president as an expression of “people’s expectations”
- Kenya’s Gen Z insurgency, the strike wave and the struggle for Permanent Revolution-Part 2
- Prime Minister Trudeau and Canadian political establishment back Israeli attack on Iran
- Why the rank-and-file committee is calling for a “Yes” vote in the CWU Political Fund ballot
- Betrayal on the docks: ILA sells out longshoremen’s strike
- Guardians of the Formula: Yugoslavia’s nuclear ambitions and its dire consequences
- As the death toll from Hurricane Helene climbs past 200, Trump, Harris and Biden campaign among the ruins
- New revelations in January 6 immunity brief confirm Trump and Republican Party criminality
- Deutsche Bahn plans further major cutbacks and redundancies
- “We have to fight these job cuts”: Warren Truck autoworkers speak out on eve of mass layoffs
2024-10-05
- Israel “in discussion” with Washington on attacking Iran’s oilfields amid intensified bombardment of Lebanon
- No to fascism, war and capitalist barbarism! Break with the PT, PSOL and the pseudo-left! Build the ICFI in Brazil!
- Stop the deportation of Momodou Taal!
- Monogram Aerospace Fastener workers determined as strike moves into third month
- Berlin supports Israel’s escalation of war in the Middle East
- German government’s 2025 cultural budget: An attack on the freedom of art
- An open letter to the White House by 99 healthcare workers documenting the crimes of genocide in Gaza
- Promising to continue war with Russia, Kamala Harris welcomes far-right war hawk Liz Cheney to campaign trail
- Mexican troops massacre six migrants, hours after President Sheinbaum’s inauguration
- Mediated talks at defense contractor Boeing set to restart following Biden-led shutdown of dock strike
2024-10-06
2024-10-07
- University Hospital and HPAE union conspiring against nurses in Newark, New Jersey
- Thousands attend funeral for Kamel Jawad, Dearborn resident killed by Israeli airstrike in Lebanon
- Building company owner admonished over building collapse in 2011 New Zealand earthquake
- 300,000 join London protest against the Gaza genocide and Israel’s widening war
- The fabrication of a slander: Aidan Beatty’s forgery of Gerry Healy’s youth—and Irish history
- US rail union bureaucracy denounces opponents of sellout contracts as “bad faith actors”
- As grim recovery efforts continue from Helene, powerful new hurricane threatens west-central Florida
- Australia: Labor’s environment minister approves decades of continued coal mining operations
- Resignation of “Green Youth” leadership signals further shift to the right in German politics
- As Trump threatens to revoke legal status of Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, residents continue to rally in support
- Michigan Medicine hospital workers vote for strike action by 98 percent
- Sri Lanka’s JVP president reassures IMF he will implement savage austerity measures
- UK’s largest teaching union accepts rotten pay deal after NEU leadership sabotages struggle
- This week in history: October 7-13
- “We make all the money, they take it”: Eaton workers discuss sellout of dock strike
- One year of genocide in Gaza
- Multifaceted performer, social critic Kris Kristofferson dies at 88
2024-10-08
- A wave of desertions in Ukraine
- Canada’s political establishment backs Israeli strike on Iran that would provoke region-wide war
- Trump preparations to overturn presidential election far exceed 2020
- Co-editor of conservative German daily denounces opponents of war as “antisemites”
- The role of Iran’s oil and gas in US war plans against China
- Biden administration marks one year of Gaza genocide with Zionist-imperialist propaganda
- Hurricane Milton sets storm intensity records as it moves toward Florida Gulf Coast
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- As CUPE works to block all-out strike at Port of Montreal, Quebec City dockworkers’ lockout enters third year
- Scotland’s pseudo-left groups cover for “just transition” fraud at Grangemouth refinery threatened with closure
- UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting rolls out Labour’s first attacks on NHS
- SGP holds rally in Duisburg, Germany: Stop the war in the Middle East! Stop the genocide!
- Australia: NSW nurses’ union shuts down strikes against Labor government cuts
- Billionaire Musk declares allegiance to Trump and “dark MAGA” at Butler, Pennsylvania rally
- Mass layoffs hit Stellantis workers at Detroit auto plant: “We have a right to our jobs”
- Berlin’s Little Grosz Museum (Das kleine Grosz Museum) set to close
- German VW Action Committee discuses how to prevent plant closures
2024-10-09
- Australian Labor government doubles down on support for Israeli war crimes
- Hurricane Milton and the case for socialism
- Reject the sellout railroad contracts! Build a rank-and-file rebellion against the sellout union bureaucrats!
- UK’s head of MI5 ramps up demonisation of Russia, Iran and China
- Vote yes and expand the UK local government workers dispute!
- CUPE and MGEU nix Manitoba healthcare support workers strike after announcing last-minute tentative agreement
- Florida braces for Hurricane Milton as the Southeast continues to dig out from Helene
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to discoverers of microRNA
- Israel expands ethnic cleansing and deliberate starvation in northern Gaza
- Autumn COVID wave develops in Germany
- Sri Lankan president orders new inquiry into Easter Sunday terrorist attack
- Jazz saxophonist Benny Golson, known for his remarkable compositions, dies at 95
2024-10-10
- Special General Meeting at Western Sydney University supports a socialist strategy to fight genocide and war
- Sheinbaum continues AMLO’s legacy: subordinating Mexico to US clash with China
- Pakistan uses “anti-terrorism” law to ban Pashtun group protesting military’s manifold crimes
- Fascist antisemitism rears its head in hurricane disinformation campaign
- China stimulus measures fall short of market demands
- Anti-genocide student protesters arrested at Australia’s Western Sydney University
- On the anniversary of the beginning of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, students and workers protest across the US
- Starmer’s filthy Chagos Islands deal preserves Diego Garcia as key US-UK military base
- Boeing’s hard line in contract talks raises need for tripling strike pay
- Hundreds of artists and cultural workers call on Brooklyn Museum to end silence on Gaza genocide
- Momodou Taal wins case against Cornell University
- Multiple fatalities reported as Hurricane Milton makes landfall in west Florida
- Tamil nationalist parties fawn over new Sri Lankan president
- US Department of Justice investigation finds Texas juvenile detention system tortures children
- Confrontation between China and Vietnam in the South China Sea
2024-10-11
- UK Labour’s Employment Rights Bill smooths way for big business/trade union collusion against working class
- Bankrupt perspective of Abandon Harris leads to endorsement of Jill Stein for president
- The preferred face of Wall Street: Harris campaign raises $1 billion in less than three months
- US “debt bomb” ticking louder
- Chicago charter operator Acero to close seven schools heralding future attacks on CPS
- Report shows Australian welfare recipients are struggling to survive
- Acclaimed actor James Earl Jones: 1931-2024
- Hurricane Milton leaves behind a swath of devastation from Tampa Bay to Daytona Beach
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- “Reasonable likelihood” that UK sub postmasters were convicted as a result of faulty predecessor IT system to Horizon
- As New York transit agency seeks more money, big business lobby calls for transit workers and riders to pay
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- After shutdown of strike, port operators determined to implement automation on East Coast and Gulf Coast docks
- Socialism and the fight against war and genocide
- Germany’s Left Party expresses solidarity with Israel's genocide in Gaza
2024-10-12
- New Japanese PM dissolves parliament, calls snap election
- Zelensky tours Europe for arms in Ukraine war as NATO cancels Ramstein summit
- American reporter Jeremy Loffredo detained for 4 days by Israeli military
- Trump continues fascist agitation against immigrants, while Harris touts endorsements from war criminals, torturers
- Public meeting in Australia: Labor’s takeover of the CFMEU: An attack on the working class
- Biden White House “urges” rail carriers to provide sick leave
- Israel intensifies genocide in Gaza and deepens killings in Lebanon
- Barack Obama’s racialist lecture to black workers in Pittsburgh
- Following Warren Truck layoffs Detroit Stellantis workers demand real fight to defend jobs
- Western Sydney University students and staff protest police crackdown against anti-genocide demonstrators
- In major escalation against strike, Boeing announces plan to cut 10 percent of its workforce
- SEP (Australia) holds successful Seventh National Congress
- SEP to contest general elections in Sri Lanka
- Students speak out against violent police arrests of anti-genocide protesters at Western Sydney University
- Premiere in Berlin of a new documentary–Julian Assange and the Dark Secrets of War
- Social inequality in Germany: Number of billionaires rises to 249
- Tamil Nadu government attempts to violently break up month-long strike by Samsung India workers
2024-10-13
2024-10-14
- Leading SEP candidates contesting the Sri Lankan parliamentary elections
- Three weeks before the US elections: The political issues confronting the working class
- Canada's ruling elite embraces “Fortress Europe”-inspired anti-immigration policy
- US deploys combat troops to Israel as preparations mount for an attack on Iran
- US Supreme Court term opens with the stench of a democracy in shambles
- Pete Rose, all-time hitter banned by baseball for gambling, dies at 83
- Starmer declares “shock and awe” strategy to secure inward investment for UK
- Other artists with principle: Indian writer Arundhati Roy and British actor Andrew Garfield speak out on behalf of the Palestinians
- Speaking for the financial oligarchy, Bloomberg News declares, “Post-Pandemic America Has More Teachers Than It Can Afford”
- Democrats forced out of Tempe, Arizona campaign office after being targeted by gunfire three times in less than a month
- French PM abandons New Caledonia’s contentious voting reform
- This week in history: October 14-20
- Why are Michigan Medicine unions telling workers to cross SEIU picket lines?
- Quebec nurses: Vote No to government-backed mediator’s concessionary contract proposal!
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold first public election meeting in Colombo
- Hospital patients burned alive in Israeli attack as genocidal campaign intensifies in northern Gaza
- China’s finance ministry promises stimulus but gives few details
- Wave of resignations and attacks put indicted Adams administration on life support
- Two deaths and numerous injuries from chemical leaks in Texas and Louisiana
- Boeing strikers denounce “fear tactics” after company announces layoff of 10 percent of global workforce
- Australian doctors support Boeing workers’ strike
2024-10-15
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Erdoğan criticizes NATO allies as Turkey continues to feed Israel’s war machine
- Trump promotes fascist claims of genetic inferiority of migrants
- Extent of destruction from Hurricane Milton comes to light
- One year since the defeat of Australian Labor’s Voice referendum
- US Pacific Fleet commander visits Sri Lanka to cement ties with new president
- Major damage to railroads from Hurricane Helene, as roads open in North Carolina and Tennessee
- Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee denounces arrest of anti-genocide student protesters
- COVID XEC variant “taking charge” and leading to surge of cases and deaths across Europe
- The October conspiracy: Biden administration escalates toward war with Iran
- Australian Labor governments escalate repression of pro-Palestinian protesters
- German Chancellor Scholz announces new arms deliveries for Ukraine and Israel
- On brink of war with Iran, US Labor Secretary heads to Seattle in effort to shut down Boeing strike
2024-10-16
- UK Labour’s support for genocide in Gaza: Build a mass party for socialism!
- Sri Lankan government rejects UNHRC resolution for inquiry into war crimes
- Embraer workers reject contract proposal in Brazil amid US Boeing workers strike
- Canada-India relations crash, as Ottawa accuses New Delhi of orchestrating campaign of intimidation and murder
- Taiwanese president promotes US war drive against China
- Boeing looks to raise additional $25 billion as company, government and union bureaucrats aim to end strike
- DSA Democrat Ocasio-Cortez campaigns for war criminal Harris, maneuvers on Gaza genocide
- Mexico’s President Sheinbaum gives greater power to military after troops massacre migrants
- Bus drivers in Aspen, Colorado, enduring company housing and harassment, set to strike January 1
- New Jersey train operator killed, 23 passengers injured in rail accident
- Walgreens retail pharmacy announces closure of 1,200 stores over next 3 years
- Russian ruling class set to vastly increase spending on military, domestic repression
- Texas prepares to execute Robert Roberson, an innocent man, for a crime that never took place
- Tornadoes spawned by Hurricane Milton brought deadly destruction to communities in eastern Florida
- David North to speak during Frankfurt Book Fair 2024
- In victory for democratic rights, police rescind citations banning SEP/IYSSE members from University of Michigan campus
- HPAE union pushes Newark, New Jersey nurses into ratifying new contract
- Michigan Medicine workers outraged as SEIU cancels 1-day strike and announces tentative agreement
- Megalopolis: Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola’s weak, terribly confused fable about modern-day America
- US Secretary of State directs fire on China at Asian summit
- Stellantis Kokomo Rank-and-File Committee exposes dangers at Stellantis- Samsung SDI battery plant in city
- Three weeks before the US election: The conspiracy of silence on the war abroad and the war at home
2024-10-17
- Italy’s Stellantis workers prepare for one-day national strike
- Billionaire Betsy DeVos funding the extreme right in the lead-up to the 2024 elections
- Conspiracy of silence shrouds Biden's Ukraine summit in Berlin as NATO holds nuclear exercises
- Gaping holes in banking regulatory system
- Newly constituted far-right party could win British Columbia elections due to New Democrats’ anti-worker record
- “Zionism and Judaism are not the same”: An interview with Muhlenberg College professor Maura Finkelstein, fired for opposing the Gaza genocide
- Poll underscores deepening crisis of Australian Labor government
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US-Israeli attack on Iran looms amid mass starvation and ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza
- Trump threatens military crackdown on the “enemy within”
- Victimised Royal Mail worker speaks out: “More than 30 years of service ended in 20 seconds!”
- Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles denies clemency for Robert Roberson despite an outcry over his impending execution
- Capitalist breakdown, the fight against war and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
- Boeing strike at the crossroads: What workers need to fight intervention by government and Wall Street
2024-10-18
- Escalating funding crisis in New Zealand public health system
- Inquiry into Salisbury poisonings set to repeat official “Russian assassins” narrative
- Militarized schools spearhead attacks on public education in Brazil
- UK journalist Asa Winstanley raided by police over Israel-Palestine reporting
- Biden arrives for Berlin summit, as NATO threatens Iran and Russia
- Kinds of Kindness: People are awful, it seems—Yorgos Lanthimos up to his old tricks, unfortunately
- Roberson’s execution is delayed, but the grim process of US state executions continues
- Global public debt to hit $100 trillion
- Ukrainian president outlines “victory plan” that promises total war
- Ontario mayors propose invoking “notwithstanding clause” to impose involuntary treatment on drug users in homeless encampments
- Interview with Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, organizer of open letters to White House on genocide in Gaza from doctors who have worked there
- Pilots at Frontier Airlines vote to strike, posing need for joint struggle with Boeing workers
- Netanyahu vows to continue Gaza genocide after killing Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar
- Vote for rank-and-file committee slate in Berlin transit BVG staff council elections!
- Biden White House backs UAW bureaucracy’s phony “Keep the Promise” campaign
2024-10-19
- Praising murder of Yahya Sinwar, imperialist powers endorse Netanyahu’s mass extermination plan in Gaza
- Federal mediator intervenes in attempt to shut down strike of Eaton workers
- FIRST Union leader speaks at right-wing, anti-immigrant New Zealand First Party convention
- IAM bureaucrats seek to ram through Textron deal to isolate Boeing strike
- Tens of thousands of Stellantis workers strike in Italy
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- US rail maintenance of way workers reject contract at CSX, while union apparatus rejects direct elections of top officials
- Why is Sri Lanka’s new JVP president campaigning for a “strong government”?
- Australian students denounce Labor foreign minister for complicity in Gaza genocide
- At Berlin summit, Biden calls to continue Ukraine war, support Israel
- Educators stage sick-out to protest staff cuts in East Orange, New Jersey
- Healthcare workers at dialysis clinics across California wage six-day strike
- US used Australian bases in bombing Houthi facilities in Yemen
- The Apprentice: From the McCarthyism of Roy Cohn to the fascism of Donald Trump
2024-10-20
- Impeached Kenyan deputy president replaced by police-state enforcer Kithure Kindiki
- Greek dockworkers block shipment of 21 tonnes of ammunition to Israel
- US and Canada ban Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, declaring it a “terrorist entity”
- IAM union announces snap vote in bid to shut down Boeing strike
- Report on universities in Turkey reveals disastrous social conditions of students
2024-10-21
- US postal workers outraged after poverty contract announced for city letter carriers
- IAM declares Textron Aviation contract ratified despite widespread rank-and-file opposition
- John Deere lays off another 287 workers as Bernie Sanders seeks to place blame on foreign workers
- The oligarchs’ election
- New York City EMS worker provides update to Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
- This week in history: October 21-27
- Israel escalates bombing of Gaza, Lebanon as NATO covers up war plans against Iran
- IMF runs into deepening debt crisis and contradictions of global capitalism
- Sri Lankan SEP holds general election public meeting
- Public transport strike in Peru challenges Boluarte government
- Starmer government readies brutal UK austerity budget
- Alabama executes Derrick Dearman by lethal injection
- Suharto-era general inaugurated as Indonesia’s next president
- Stalinist CITU shuts down Samsung India workers’ militant strike on orders of DMK government
- Nikole Hannah-Jones promotes racial politics and the “1619 Project” at the University of Michigan
- Trump, Chuck Schumer and the ultra-rich yuk it up at New York “charity dinner”
- Artist sues Vail, Colorado for canceling residency over work drawing parallels between Gaza and genocide of Native Americans
- Australia: Vote “no” to union-government sell out of NSW health workers!
- Vote NO on the sellout contract! Mobilize all sections of workers behind Boeing machinists!
- Eaton aerospace workers in UK continue strike over pay
- Evolution of the human hand shows earlier use of tools than previously documented
2024-10-22
- At latest convention, New York City DSA chapter backs vote for Harris in battleground states
- Australian pseudo-left creates fake rank-and-file group to prevent struggle by construction workers against CFMEU administration
- Queensland state election points to deepening political crisis in Australia
- Under the lying claim of combating antisemitism, California Governor Gavin Newsom enacts further assault on the rights of anti-genocide protesters
- Taiwan’s former President Tsai Ing-wen pays tribute to Václav Havel
- Oppose Sri Lankan government’s suspension of salary increase for 1.4 million state employees!
- Australian university staff denounce arrests of anti-genocide students at Western Sydney University
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Spain’s PSOE-Sumar government steps up support for NATO wars
- Turkey re-opens talks with Kurdish PKK as war in Middle East escalates
- Alex Salmond embodied Scottish nationalism’s political bankruptcy—Part 1
- Sellout contract at Boeing aimed at securing supply chains for world war
- Israel ethnically cleanses Jabalia refugee camp, as UN warns of “destruction of the Palestinian population”
- Oppose the violent threats against Şiar Rişvanoğlu
- Samoan villagers demand compensation over sinking of New Zealand Navy ship
- Cuba in crisis as electrical grid collapses causing island-wide blackout
2024-10-23
- Germany’s Left Party backs pro-war policy
- Blinken discusses mass extermination plan with Netanyahu, pledges “ironclad commitment” to Israel
- Israeli authorities censor Lyd, a film about the massacre of Palestinians in 1948—and the possibility of a different historical outcome
- Sherwood, Season 2: A bad idea expanded
- Two weeks until election day, Trump’s coup plot is far advanced
- Job cutting escalates across New Zealand
- More miners die, others left unpaid, as Russia’s workers pay the price for war economy
- 2,400 mental healthcare workers begin strike at Kaiser Permanente
- Alex Salmond embodied Scottish nationalism’s political bankruptcy—Part 2
- Trump campaign accuses UK Labour Party of “foreign interference” in US election
- Stop Acero’s school closures in Chicago! For a unified struggle of teachers and workers against all budget cuts and school closures!
- Boeing machinists to vote on sellout contract to end five-week strike
- David North addresses meeting at Frankfurt Book Fair
2024-10-24
- Sri Lankan delegation tells IMF and World Bank it will continue austerity onslaught
- 33,000 Boeing machinists vote down latest pro-company contract by 64 percent
- After the migration pact: EU states outdo each other with anti-refugee policies
- Armed attack on Turkey’s critical defence industry facility after calls for dialogue with Öcalan and PKK
- Harris admits Trump seeks dictatorial rule
- Blinken gives US stamp of approval for Netanyahu’s war of extermination in Gaza
- As Harris campaigns with Liz Cheney, Bernie Sanders hails war criminal Joe Biden in New Hampshire
- Australia announces $7 billion missile purchase for war against China
- Train collision in Mid-Wales leaves one passenger dead and 15 requiring hospital treatment
- The Role of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers in sabotaging postal workers’ struggles: 2011-2024–Part 1
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australian construction workers speak out against Labor government attack on CFMEU
- Sri Lankan SEP celebrates 85th birthday of veteran Trotskyist leader Nanda Wickremesinghe
- Widespread opposition to UAW sellout to end strike of Eaton aerospace workers in Michigan
- IMF forecasts low growth and calls for unending government spending cuts
- German parliament’s plan for hospital reform paves the way for closures
2024-10-25
- London Underground strike: No more RMT sellouts, build rank and file committees to unite all Tube workers
- Over 150 casualties in latest Israeli massacre in Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp
- How the British Columbia NDP government’s anti-worker record facilitated the rise of the far-right BC Conservatives
- Sri Lankan SEP demands an end to the illegal state harassment of its election candidates in the North
- Scandal exposes bankruptcy of Turkish healthcare system, killing at least 12 newborns
- In CNN town hall, Harris refuses to place conditions on Israeli military support, pledges to work with Republicans on border wall
- The Role of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers in sabotaging postal workers’ struggles: 2011-2024–Part 2
- BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia discusses de-dollarization amid global war
- After rejection of sellout deal, working class must mobilize behind the Boeing strike
- ONLINE PUBLIC MEETING: Mobilize the working class behind the Boeing strike!
- “The planes would not be built without labor”: Striking Boeing workers speak out after rejecting sellout contract
- Eaton Aerospace workers vote down third sellout agreement
- An interview with a survivor of Hurricane Helene, stranded for nearly a week in western North Carolina
- Pro-EU forces in Moldova claim victory in questionable vote
- UK Labour government prepares for state repression using acquittal of police office over death of Chris Kaba
- Australian IYSSE clubs hold anti-war Annual General Meetings in Melbourne and Newcastle
- New Zealand unions feign opposition to austerity
- The betrayal of AT&T workers by the CWA bureaucracy: A “ratified” contract at the expense of the rank-and-file
- Palestinian illustrator Mahasen Al-Khatib murdered in Israeli airstrike on Jabalia refugee camp
2024-10-26
- Lisbon rocked by a week of anti-police protests after fatal shooting
- Socialist autoworker Will Lehman’s message to Boeing strikers: Build rank-and-file committees to take control of your fight from the IAM bureaucrats!
- SEP (Australia) members menaced while campaigning against CFMEU administration
- Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!
- Israel, with US support, attacks Iran
- Award-winning Iranian-German photographer asked to apologise for saying “Free Palestine”
- As winter COVID wave approaches, CDC recommends lower age for pneumonia vaccine
- Eaton workers in southern Illinois call for globally unified fight with Boeing workers: “We’re small individually, but together we can become huge”
- UAW officials threaten World Socialist Web Site reporters at Eaton picket lines
- 4,500 professional workers authorize strike action against Michigan Medicine
- Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein calls for release of Bogdan Syrotiuk
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sri Lankan education minister fobs off student leaders’ demands
- As Trump promises fascist retribution, Harris and Obama downplay Republican coup plotting at Atlanta, Georgia rally
2024-10-27
2024-10-28
- Protest against removal of pro-Palestinian teacher shuts down Philadelphia school board meeting
- This week in history: October 28-November 3
- Over 75 infected and 1 killed so far by McDonald’s E. coli outbreak
- Growing opposition among US postal workers to sellout contract
- Greek strike wave against brutal austerity attacks
- Sumar official Iñigo Errejón resigns amid nationwide #MeToo witch-hunt in Spain
- Gold price surging to new record highs calling into question role of the dollar
- An interview with Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo, co-directors of Where Olive Trees Weep, filmed on the occupied West Bank: “You cannot imagine the extent of the injustice”
- UN humanitarian chief warns “entire population of North Gaza is at risk of dying”
- Australian Labor’s defeat in Queensland election underscores historic political crisis
- Boeing Workers Rank-and-File Committee hosts public meeting to discuss international strategy to win strike
- North Korean troops deployed to Russia, as US/NATO ramps up Ukraine war
- Washington Post owner Bezos blocks endorsement of Harris
- German government to discontinue wastewater monitoring for COVID-19
- Oppose the pro-genocide purge on US college campuses!
- Workers speak out on war, genocide and the social crisis at Queensland polling booth
- British Commonwealth summit dominated by tensions over climate crisis and war preparations against China
- Yet another fatal accident on German Rail
2024-10-29
- Japan’s LDP suffers electoral defeat for only the third time since 1955
- Volkswagen plans closure of 3 plants in Germany, cutting tens of thousands of jobs
- Frankfurt Historical Museum suspends Gaza protest encampment spokesperson as a guide
- Norfolk Southern conductors reject sellout deal by more than 81 percent
- Ballot boxes lit on fire in 3 states ahead of US election day
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Trump’s fascist rally at Madison Square Garden
- SEP meeting in Australia calls for building worker rank-and-file committees to fight CFMEU administration
- Canadian postal worker calls for unity with Boeing strike: “We are all in this together”
- Sudan’s civil war and “world’s worst” humanitarian crisis unleashed by imperialist scheming
- Georgian president refuses to recognize election results, appeals for Western backing
- Labor’s cuts set to destroy over 1,000 jobs at Australian universities
2024-10-30
- Labour’s first budget a downpayment on its offensive against British working class
- After plant closures announced at VW: For a global rank-and-file campaign against job cuts in the auto industry!
- Israel massacres 93 in Northern Gaza airstrike, bans UN humanitarian organization
- As billionaires pour millions into second coup, Trump agitates against vote in Pennsylvania
- Macron visits Morocco as NATO-Russia war spreads across Africa
- Following federal “hospital reform” measures, Left Party leads the way in closing hospitals
- Workers and young people speak out against CFMEU administration at SEP (Australia) meeting
- Aurora, Ontario arts center censors anti-genocide artists and closes down exhibition as “the best possible business decision”
- Sri Lankan president again declares: No increase to public sector salaries
- French far-right government threatens to impose militarist austerity budget by decree
- At least 158 dead as flash floods in Spain devastate Valencia
- 2024 Nebraska Senate race: A cesspool of political reaction
2024-10-31
- Western Sydney University IYSSE Annual General Meeting elaborates socialist perspective against war and genocide
- Canada Post workers overwhelmingly authorize strike
- Three US governors issue joint statement demanding end to Boeing strike
- Ontario NDP doubles down on witch hunt of pro-Palestine legislator Sarah Jama
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Harris’s Washington speech: Coverup and complicity in the face of fascism
- Bolivia’s former President Evo Morales survives assassination attempt
- Israeli massacre of children in Gaza is “greatest of any conflict in recorded warfare,” UN expert warns
- Volkswagen demands 20 percent wage cut
- US Supreme Court approves voter purge in Virginia
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