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2,300 teachers slated for layoffs in California

Thousands of California educators and support staff are expected to lose their jobs before the start of the 2025-2026 academic year more than 2,300 school employees received pink slips last week.

Dan Conway

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

India: Bank workers plan national strike over pay and conditions; Sri Lankan postal workers strike over workloads; Australia: BAE shipyard workers walkout; Healthscope nurses in New South Wales resume industrial action.

German parliament agrees to €1 trillion for war

Three goals are being pursued with Germany’s massive rearmament offensive: Breaking free from military dependence on the US, the sustained weakening and imperialist subjugation of Russia and German dominance in Europe.

Peter Schwarz

UK: Birmingham refuse workers on indefinite strike against pay cuts

Unite is doing everything to disarm its members, with Birmingham City Council used as a test case to enforce a level of austerity—against its 1.1 million population—outstripping that imposed under successive Tory-led central governments.

Robert Stevens

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Healthcare workers in Athens, Greece walk out over pay and staff shortages as health system operates with half the staff numbers since 2009; protests by retirees and strikes by oil workers and radiology technicians across Iran over cost-of-living crisis; junior doctors and tertiary college staff in Oyo State, Nigeria strike over non-implementation of minimum wage and staff shortages

Trump’s Operation Dictatorship

Two months into the Trump administration, the presidency has become a cockpit and planning center of a dictatorship.

Joseph Kishore

Major reduction in Fed’s US growth forecast

The tariff wars and the sweeping cuts made by the Trump administration have brought about a vast transformation in the economic landscape in which the prospect of recession, considered negligible at the start of the year, is now a real possibility.

Nick Beams

Wabtec target 300 engineering job losses in Doncaster, UK

Wabtec Rail Limited is part of the Fortune 500 Wabtec Corporation headquartered in Pittsburgh, US. The corporation employs around 27,000 people across 50 countries supplying components and services to the rail industry, with an annual $8 billion turnover.

Simon Whelan

Kneecap, the movie—funny, noisy and sympathetic

Kneecap, the movie is part comedy, part fictionalised music biopic, part contribution to Irish language rights and part investigation of the state of mind of a generation in the North of Ireland.

Steve James

On Unit 29: Writing from Parchman Prison

Unit 29, edited by poet and translator Louis Bourgeois, presents the writing and artwork of over 30 inmates at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, Mississippi (also known as Parchman Farm).

James McDonald

America’s “State of Exception”

Drawing conspicuously from the pseudo-legal playbook of the Nazis, the capitalist oligarchy has set in motion an operation aimed at nothing less than the imposition of a police state in the US.

Tom Carter
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