Carney Liberal government deepens assault on federal public sector workers
The Carney government has already slashed over 22,000 jobs in the federal public sector and aims to cut tens of thousands more.
•Graham Beverley
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Burnham and Merz agree closer Anglo-German military and economic ties
The meeting saw a further hardening of positions over a war between Russia and NATO-backed Ukraine which is now rapidly piling up civilian casualties.
•Thomas Scripps
Greens’ anti-Zionist policy triggers right-wing firestorm in UK and internationally
Polanski now faces the same type of witch-hunt that greeted Corbyn's mealy-mouthed opposition to Zionism. He will be no less ready to capitulate to his critics, and based on past performance, perhaps more so.
•Laura Tiernan
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Student and youth protests in Europe spread, as secondary school students in Belgium demonstrate against education cuts; 24-hour general strike in Italy over cost-of-living crisis; public administration employees strike in Lebanon over transport allowances; education and public sector workers walk out over pay, conditions and funding in Nigeria
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Build committees of action! Mobilize workers against war, in defense of France’s youth movement!
Nearly half a million youth and workers marched against austerity and militarism in the October 6 day of action in France, as high school protests entered their third week.
•Parti de l’égalité socialiste
“We don’t deserve this treatment”: Immigrants launch hunger strike against torture at Georgia ICE prison
A video appeal and a statement signed by 14 detainees expose medical neglect, sleep deprivation, prolonged imprisonment and abuse at the GEO Group’s Folkston concentration camp.
•Jacob Crosse
Far-right AfD politician elected state parliament president in Saxony-Anhalt, a first since the Nazi era
The election shows how ever larger sections of the ruling class are relying on the AfD to push through the hated policies of war and cuts against the population with the utmost brutality.
•Christoph Vandreier
Mexican healthcare workers storm union headquarters, as nationwide rebellion over sellout contract grows
Mexican Social Security Institute workers are in revolt against a union-imposed below-inflation raise, as the Sheinbaum government increases military and debt spending under pressure from Washington and the IMF.
•Nakai Beltran
US strengthens military ties with Sri Lanka against Iran and China
Recent US military and diplomatic visits are bound up with the transformation of Sri Lanka into a strategic outpost in the build-up to war against China.
•Rohantha De Silva
3 years after October 7, evidence mounts that Israel had advance knowledge of attacks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received repeated, detailed warnings about the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks, according to multiple reports published in Israeli and American media outlets over the past month.
•Andre Damon
Hundreds of AI chip workers strike in Taiwan
Workers in the tech industry on the island face declining wages and conditions while big business experiences a boom.
•Ben McGrath
Australia: Labor accuses schools of fraud to justify disability education cuts
More than 300 independent schools have been forced to repay $12 million in disability funding already, forcing the sacking of teachers and support staff.
•Carolyn Kennett
Striking health workers speak out against Victorian Labor government’s real wage cuts
“It’s not about when the wheels fall off, they’ve already fallen off.”
•Our reporters
Supreme Court opens 2026 term amid deepening crisis of US democracy
The Supreme Court has begun its new term with ceremony and pomp that masks a deepening constitutional crisis and growing disrespect arising from its reactionary rulings and obvious bias in favor of the Trump administration.
•John Burton
Pro-independence PQ to form Quebec’s government after election dominated by right-wing appeals, popular disaffection
Pledged to a program of austerity, corporate tax cuts, deregulation, and a massive reduction in immigration, the incoming PQ government will quickly come into headlong conflict with the working class.
•Keith Jones
India’s voter purge: The Modi government’s drive to disenfranchise the working class
Mass protests have erupted across India after an investigative report in one of India’s major dailies exposed the staggering scale of the illegal deletion of voters from the electoral rolls by the Hindu-supremacist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
•Kranti Kumara
Rank-and-file candidate for UAW president defends Ann Arbor nurse being prosecuted by Trump for protecting patient against Border Patrol
Will Lehman calls on UAW members and all members to demand the dropping of charges against former Trinity Health nurse Chloe Freeman.
•Our reporters
SEP (Canada) Statement of Principles
Delegates to the Socialist Equality Party’s founding congress held in Montreal from August 22 to 24 unanimously adopted the following Statement of Principles.
•Socialist Equality Party (Canada)
US makes bizarre claims of Iranian plot against UK’s RAF Fairford base
Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb used 117 drones, smuggled in on lorries, in coordinated strikes on Russia’s long-range aviation at five airbases. Repeating such an operation with no shared border and no direct military involvement would be impossible.
•Robert Stevens
UK North Sea offshore workers vote to strike against Apache
Unite has yet to announce a strike date after a mandate it described as “emphatic” by its 160 members in a ballot that closed on October 1.
•Tony Robson
8 Alawite workers massacred in armed attack in Syria
Violence against minorities, including the Alawites, has not abated under the regime of Ahmed al-Sharaa.
•Hakan Özal
Germany’s intelligence agencies drum up support for war against Russia
The public hearing of the heads of Germany’s intelligence agencies in the Bundestag on Monday was an undisguised propaganda event for preparations for a direct war against Russia and a massive expansion of the state apparatus of repression at home.
•Johannes Stern
French youth protests grow, as government cancels high school classes
Hundreds of thousands of high school and university students, teachers and workers marched across France on Tuesday in a third national day of action of the high school movement, now in its third week.
•WSWS reporting team
ProPublica documents over 500 US citizens detained by immigration Gestapo in Trump’s mass deportation operation
The findings underscore that the attack on immigrants is an attack on the entire working class regardless of citizenship status.
•Jacob Crosse
UAW official, who issued death threat against Will Lehman, fired from position after months of rank-and-file demands
Raymond L. Jensen Jr., an organizer in the UAW’s Department of Bargaining Strategy, has been fired from his $202,000 a year position.
•Our reporters
Trump approves execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan by US Army firing squad
Hasan’s killing would be the first execution by the US military since April 13, 1961, when Army Pvt. John Bennett was hanged at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
•Kate Randall
At town hall, students, workers denounce University of Michigan–Los Alamos nuclear weapons data center
The IYSSE distributed a statement outlining a socialist strategy to oppose the militarization of AI and harness the revolutionary technology to meet social needs.
•Stephen St. Clair
Western Australian Labor government mounts huge police operation to block protests outside weapons expo
Nearly 2,000 police officers were reportedly mobilised to shield the display of high-tech weaponry at the three-day Land Forces event.
•Mike Head
No to Türkiye’s deployment of troops to Saudi Arabia and the US war against Iran!
The drawing of Türkiye, which has NATO’s second-largest army, and nuclear-armed Pakistan into this war—both share a land border with Iran—opens the door to a conflict that could engulf the entire region.
•Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç
Pennsylvania USPS workers form rank-and-file committee: “We call for a struggle that unifies all postal workers”
The postal service—a product of the American Revolution—has been systematically bled over decades by both Democratic and Republican parties. We have been forced to operate like a profit-making company despite the clear intention by the Founding Fathers to have the mail system as a universal right to all in the name of having an informed society able to fight back against tyranny.
•Southern Pennsylvania Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee
After failed execution last week, Christa Pike is conscious and talking, attorneys say
“Against all odds, Christa Pike is conscious, speaking, and continues to receive critical medical care," reported her attorneys. "Despite the severe damage she endured to her arms, she is still handcuffed and shackled to the bed."
•Kate Randall
France at centre of global bond market storm
Since the start of the US war on Iran, the interest rate on long-term French bonds has risen more than any other G7 country.
•Nick Beams
Outpouring of support for Michigan nurse prosecuted for helping immigrant escape Border Patrol Gestapo
A GoFundMe page has received hundreds of donations and raised over $31,000. Workers have expressed support for nurse Chloe Freeman with messages of solidarity.
•Anthony Callahan
Mussolini: Son of the Century—Benito Mussolini and the rise of Italian fascism
Luca Marinelli’s commanding performance anchors a series whose historical insights are diminished by an overriding fascination with the dictator’s persona.
•Andrea Peters, Marc Wells
Mexican truckers call for national strike to free driver jailed after crash with federal agents
Truckers across Mexico are demanding the release of a driver held without charges after a deadly crash with federal agents accused of running extortion checkpoints. The struggle follows the B-1 border blockade and joins a growing movement of drivers across North America.
•Brandon Gonzales
German government plans to strip Syrian refugees of their protected status
The German Interior Ministry plans to revoke the protected status of Syrian refugees on a large scale—even though the Islamisation of Syria is being driven forward and the humanitarian situation in the country as a whole is catastrophic.
•Lena Sokoll
Growing anger over death sentence for Sri Lankan migrant worker in Saudi Arabia
Sivarasa Anojan, 27, has been sentenced to death over a Facebook post, in a brutal decision by Saudi Arabia’s imperialist-backed monarchical regime.
•Dehin Vasantha
Playing Russian Roulette with nuclear weapons
With staggering recklessness, the NATO governments are preparing an escalation of the war against Russia on the assumption that Moscow’s nuclear warnings over Kaliningrad can be ignored.
•David North
Super El Niño will exacerbate hunger crisis faced by hundreds of millions of children around the world
The convergence of global warming, the exceptionally warm waters in the equatorial Pacific known as El Niño and the war against Iran has created a “perfect storm” of hunger, falling hardest on children and the poorest workers and farmers.
•César Uco
Manchester City financial scandal rocks Burnham government
The scandal has laid bare the reality of the “Manchesterism”, as Burnham’s ethos is revealed as nothing more than slavish fawning after big business.
•Robert Stevens, Paul Bond
Ineos mothballs Hull chemical plants threatening thousands of jobs across UK’s Humber region
Hull workers must take the defence of their jobs out of the hands of the GMB and local politicians and establish an independent rank-and-file committee to organise a fight for the reopening of the plants.
•Barry Mason
12 years since disappearance of Ayotzinapa students: The cover-up continues
A “new report” presented by the Sheinbaum administration on September 28 does little to advance the prosecution of those responsible and continues the cover-up of the military’s role.
•Don Knowland
French students speak out against war, repression of high school protests
A growing radicalization is developing among young people, disillusioned with the bureaucracies and organizations that have long channeled social struggles, and who are increasingly seeking a revolutionary path.
•V. Gnana and Alex Lantier
SEP (Australia) holds 8th National Congress
The congress adopted five resolutions that outline a socialist and internationalist perspective on the key issues facing the working class.
•Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
5 miners killed in Soma, site of Türkiye’s 2014 mining disaster
Five miners were killed and two others were rescued injured on 1 October when a roof collapsed in an underground coal mine in Soma, western Türkiye.
•Barış Demir
Striking Bradford White workers seek to break the isolation imposed by the UAW bureaucracy
The 1,200 workers continue to resist company demands for concessions while pressing for substantial improvements.
•George Kirby
Veteran Sri Lankan director Prasanna Vithanage’s Children of the Sun and Flowers of the Sky now screening on Australian television
Vithanage’s films are distinguished by their sensitivity to the social and class relations in Sri Lanka, past and present.
•Richard Phillips
Sánchez calls snap elections to derail mass opposition as Spanish far right threatens power
Yesterday, faced with mass protests nationwide to demand the right to housing, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced the dissolution of parliament and general elections for November 29.
•Alejandro Lopez
“They just throw us away”: Tyson workers speak out after Joslin, Illinois plant closure
The plant was abruptly shut in August, leaving families who spent decades working at the slaughterhouse seeking food and clothing assistance.
•Andy Thompson
Democratic Party runs more than 60 military-intelligence candidates for Congress
The number of “CIA Democrat” candidates for seats in the House of Representatives has doubled this year, compared to the past four elections.
•Patrick Martin
Insurgent candidate for UAW president holds campaign meeting on eve of vote count
With ballots about to be counted, Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate for UAW president, outlined his program to mobilize autoworkers against job cuts, war and dictatorship.
•Our reporter
Zohran Mamdani’s “Strategy to Combat Antisemitism”: A capitulation to Zionism and the capitalist oligarchy
Mamdani's "Strategy to Combat Antisemitism" embraces the narrative used to slander opponents of the Gaza genocide as antisemites.
•John Conrad
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Employees of Argentina’s university system are calling for a 33.4 percent wage increase while lab technicians at blood testing company Dynacare are the latest target of anti-strike legislation by Canada’s ruling class.
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Vasily Grossman’s reporting on the Nazi-Soviet war
Although best-known for his major novels, Vasily Grossman's powerful social realism was rooted in his active involvement in the Red Army’s struggle against Nazism. His war-time writings are now presented in the most complete English edition to date.
•Clara Weiss
Who is responsible for the rise of Flávio Bolsonaro and the far right in Brazil?
Flávio Bolsonaro’s first-place finish against Lula is a devastating verdict on the Workers Party and the pseudo-left, whose “Broad Front” with the bankers and the right has strengthened the fascist forces it claimed to fight.
•Tomas Castanheira
California gubernatorial debate exposes 2 factions of the same ruling class
Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton offer competing strategies for imposing the costs of California’s social crisis on the working class.
•Marc Wells
Christa Pike remains intubated and unconscious as Tennessee prison chief resigns after failed execution
Christa Pike remains unconscious and on a ventilator in a Nashville hospital five days after the state of Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her by lethal injection on September 30. She remains hospitalized under guard as doctors try to clear the massive dose of pentobarbital from her system.
•Kate Randall
VW management, IG Metall union and works council escalate attacks on auto workers
The VW management board has terminated 10 of 13 collective agreements at VW. The company’s current all-out assault will go even further than the 2024 contract unless workforces take on the IG Metall and works council apparatus.
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
Flock surveillance camera use explodes across the United States
Flock reports more than 120,000 cameras across 49 states, recording approximately 20 billion license plate scans per month. That amounts to an average of roughly 667 million scans per day, or 7,700 per second, feeding a vast searchable database of vehicle movements to police and federal agents.
•Vivien Ivy
Canadian pilot speaks out on deregulation and speed-up following the death of Montreal airport ramp worker Oscar Robayo
"Rank-and-file committees are probably the best way to outflank the unions, to be completely independent of all the vested interests,” John said. "The fight against the current—we're not going to speed up, that's it. It's bad enough as it is. Pushing back—the shop floor is the place to do it.”
•Felix Gauthier, Jake Silver
Reform of elderly care: German government exacerbates the crisis
It is futile to leave the struggle against these draconian cuts in healthcare to the leaderships of the German Trade Union Federation (DGB) or the unions Verdi and IG Metall.
•Marianne Arens
Workers speak in support of Bogdan Syrotiuk at the 90th anniversary of Battle of Cable Street
A rally and march was held in East London on Sunday to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street.
•Our reporters
Join the IYSSE in the fight for a socialist future against war, dictatorship and social devastation!
Students in Türkiye and around the world are returning to school amid an intensifying wave of war, dictatorship and social devastation. At the same time, social anger and struggles are growing in the working class and among young people.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Türkiye)
UK National Education Union closes down strike ballot, allowing Labour government to impose below inflation deal
The trade union bureaucracy promotes the dangerous illusion that the replacement of Starmer with Burnham represented a step change to the left and provides “hope”, that the Labour Party will listen, and that Burnham is “on our side".
•Tom Pearce, Tania Kent
After Moscow’s nuclear warnings: Merz intensifies Germany’s war offensive in Kiev
Only days after Russia again threatened NATO with the use of nuclear weapons and President Vladimir Putin warned of a “fatal point of no return,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz traveled to Kiev on Sunday to further expand Germany’s involvement in the Ukraine war.
•Johannes Stern
Spanish government falls amid mass nationwide protests over housing costs
More than 50 cities took part in the mobilizations, which were dominated by the call: “Towards a general strike.”
•Santiago Guillen
Encore Boston Harbor strike enters fifth week
More than 1,300 housekeepers, cooks, bartenders, slot attendants, drivers and warehouse workers have been on strike at Wynn Resorts’ Encore Boston Harbor in Everett, Massachusetts since September 4.
•Mike Ingram
With complicity of media and Democrats, Trump prepares major escalation of Iran war
Having failed to achieve its objectives through a massive bombardment and then a blockade of the country, the White House is preparing a new and desperate gambit.
•Andre Damon
Michigan nurse prosecuted for freeing immigration police detainee: Drop the charges against Chloe Freeman!
The Trump administration has brought charges against a Michigan nurse for the “crime” of refusing to hand over a wounded immigrant worker to the deportation Gestapo.
•Anthony Callahan
New poll shows DSA member Nithya Raman surging ahead of Karen Bass in Los Angeles mayoral race
A recent poll shows the DSA’s Nithya Raman with a substantial lead over incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, revealing growing hostility to the Democratic Party establishment and a deepening generational divide that the DSA strives to contain within the capitalist two-party system.
•Isaac de Vries
“We don’t know the power we have”: US trucker discusses October 1 work stoppage, the Iran war and the fight for international unity
Independent actions recently in both the US and Mexico show that truckers in North America are demonstrating their enormous social and economic power.
•Nakai Beltran, Brandon Gonzales
US Supreme Court allows resumption of immigrant deportations to third countries
The day before the ruling, two dozen UN human rights experts warned that the mass deportation of migrants from the US to third countries would set off a “cascade of human rights violations” that could have “deadly” consequences.
•Barry Grey
Boeing engineers, technical workers approve contract after rejecting first offer
Rather than mobilize the membership to carry out the strike authorization once the contracts expired October 6, SPEEA made clear that its aim was to avoid a strike.
•Bryan Dyne, Tom Hall
Japanese defense minister again floats acquiring nuclear weapons
Tokyo is rapidly accelerating military spending and development of arms as the war already taking place in Europe and the Middle East spreads into the Asia-Pacific.
•Ben McGrath
Chile: Strikes erupt in mining and healthcare, as 20,000 march against Kast’s austerity budget
Kast’s government is closely tied to the Trump administration, which has embraced it as a model for its “Shield of the Americas” project of consolidating right-wing, pro-US regimes across the hemisphere.
•Mauricio Saavedra
Mexico arrests alleged leader of migrant caravan
The detention of a Honduran migrant accused of guiding the “Faith and Hope” caravan shows that the Sheinbaum government continues to place the repressive apparatus built by Morena at the service of Trump’s war on migrant workers.
•Andrea Lobo
Paramount-Warner merger: Democrats and union bureaucrats clear the way for a corporate takeover
The merger clears the path for billionaire consolidation, with Democrats, regulators and union bureaucracies working to impose its costs on workers.
•Marc Wells
Australia: Empty launch of Thriving Kids underscores Labor’s assault on children with disabilities
What the Albanese government actually launched on October 1 was a helpline and a website—no therapies, no allied health professionals, no individualised plans.
•Carolyn Kennett
This week in history: October 5-11
US and Britain launch Operation Enduring Freedom, beginning the bombing of Afghanistan; Thai police and royalist paramilitaries massacre students at Thammasat University as the military seizes power in Bangkok; Truman signs the Mutual Security Act, merging Marshall Plan aid and military assistance to allied regimes; Bulgakov's The Days of the Turbins premieres at the Moscow Art Theatre.
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The IIT Bombay suicide and the crisis facing India’s youth
The suicide of Sahil Wakode, a Dalit student at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, has exposed the brutal institutional atmosphere behind India's most celebrated educational institutions, and sparked militant student protests.
•Kranti Kumara
Democratic Party runs more than 60 military-intelligence candidates for Congress
The number of “CIA Democrat” candidates for seats in the House of Representatives has doubled this year, compared to the past four elections.
•Patrick Martin
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei election result in the Berlin state election
As Marxists, we know that the future of society and the solution to society’s great problems will be decided not in parliament, but in the class struggle.
•Ulrich Rippert, Christoph Vandreier
The Investigation Whose Name Dare Not Be Mentioned
A new book by intelligence historians H. Keith Melton and Nigel West confirms the central findings of the ICFI's investigation into the GPU's penetration of the Trotskyist movement, while concealing the investigation itself and everything it exposed after 1940.
•WSWS Editorial Board
Fighting in Ethiopia threatens renewed civil war, destabilising Horn of Africa
With the Strait of Hormuz already closed, the US Israeli war of aggression against Iran is spreading from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa.
•Jean Shaoul
Kenya’s opposition parties audition for imperialist powers ahead of elections
The Gen-Z uprising demonstrated the enormous potential for a mass movement cutting across the ethnic divisions cultivated by the Kenyan bourgeoisie. But it also exposed the political bankruptcy of the established opposition.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Another interest rate rise intensifies social and political crisis in Australia
The rate rise deepens the cost-of-living crisis for working-class households and intensifies the pressure of the financial markets on the Albanese government to further slash social spending.
•Mike Head
The strategy and program of the SEP in the fight against the JVP government and capitalism
The role of the subjective factor is crucial in the current objective situation. The task of the SEP is to bring socialist consciousness into the working class.
•Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
Christa Pike in critical condition in Nashville hospital after failed execution attempt
Following Tennessee’s gruesome failed attempt to execute her on September 30, Christa Pike remains unconscious, intubated and on a ventilator, with both arms swollen, burned and blistered. It is unclear whether she will regain consciousness.
•Kate Randall
September US jobs data shows stagnant employment and lagging wages, as AI-driven layoffs deepen
The September US Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report, which was greeted as positive by Wall Street, showed that workers face worsening employment opportunities and wages that continue falling behind inflation.
•Kevin Reed
Mobilize the working class to defend French student protests, stop war!
Over the last week, protests at high schools across France against spending cuts and police repression have grown into a confrontation with the state machine.
•Alex Lantier
Trump administration sends aircraft carrier and up to 10,000 troops toward Iran, threatens to resume bombing
The Trump administration is sending the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and three amphibious warships carrying about 2,000 Marines to the Middle East.
•Andre Damon
Former political prisoner Gary Tyler hosts book signing events in Detroit, Cleveland ahead of Grand Rapids gallery show
At the event in Detroit hosted by the Library Street Collective, Tyler spoke about both his art and the broader issues related to the death penalty and the inhuman conditions inside US prisons including his own frame-up.
•Shannon Jones
Democratic Party runs more than 60 military-intelligence candidates for Congress
The number of “CIA Democrat” candidates for seats in the House of Representatives has doubled this year, compared to the past four elections.
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United States blocks UN pandemic preparedness declaration
CDC Director Erica Schwartz cited “divisive ideologies” and the unfinished fight over pathogen sharing and drug patents that has stalled the WHO Pandemic Agreement.
•Bill Shaw
US truckers stop work to protest skyrocketing diesel costs
The spontaneous action, organized by truckers themselves over social media, was organized to protest skyrocketing diesel costs and other grievances.
•Nakai Beltran, Ivan Cardenas, Norisa Diaz
Cleveland-Cliffs: Worker dies at Pennsylvania coke plant, Ontario plant being idled, while USW keeps steelworkers on the job without new contracts
More than a month after the original September 1 expiration date, the United Steelworkers is keeping tens of thousands of workers on the job while negotiating concessions behind closed doors.
•Samuel Davidson
St. Paul USPS workers found Rank-and-File Committee
The future of the Postal Service will not be decided in our favor if workers remain isolated and passive. Our strength lies in our unity.
•St. Paul Processing and Distribution Center Workers Rank-and-File Committee
Union election at Audi and contract vote at Volkswagen in Puebla, Mexico amid mass layoffs
As the Volkswagen union in Puebla calls off a strike to push a sub-par deal and the Audi union leader is reelected, a former Audi worker describes to the WSWS how the “independent” unions have served the company from the start.
•Andrea Lobo
Bolivia jails prosecutor investigating Trump operative Cerimedo on Washington’s orders
Bolivia arrested its attorney general two days after US sanctions, removing the prosecutor whose case against Fernando Cerimedo threatened to expose the criminal connections behind Trump’s “Shield of the Americas.”
•Francis Portocarrero, Andrea Lobo
Brazil’s elections being held under shadow of imperialist intervention and fascist threat
The elections in Brazil are taking place amid an explosive reorganization of the political order across Latin America.
•Statement of the Socialist Equality Group (Brazil)
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: Delhi bus workers continue strike as government bans industrial action; Pakistan: 6,000 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa doctors escalate pay strike; Bangladesh: Chattogram port workers oppose terminal concession; Australia: Nurses take strike action across Tasmania.
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For a joint struggle of National Steel Car strikers with Stelco and US steelworkers against layoffs, dangerous working conditions!
This committee firmly believes that we must break out of the isolation imposed on us by the USW and expand our strike to other sections of the working class if we are to emerge vicgtorious. And we have extremely favourable conditions to do just that.
•National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee
Québec Solidaire: Hollow reformist promises to legitimize austerity and Québécois chauvinism
Since its formation 20 years ago, QS has lurched steadily right and fully integrated itself into the political establishment as the “left” flank of the Quebec independence movement, which articulates the interests of a faction of Quebec’s capitalist elite.
•Hugo Maltais, Richard Dufour
Budget crisis prompts closure of oldest natural history museum in the Western Hemisphere
The 198-year-old Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, which has ceased operations, holds one of the world’s largest collections of scientific specimens and a historic display of dinosaur fossils.
•Philip Guelpa
Glasgow City Council reinstates fire-and-rehire threat against thousands of council workers
Neither Unite nor the GMB has indicated they will break off negotiations with Glasgow City Council in the face of threatened mass dismissal notices to enforce pays cuts against Unison members.
•Stephen Johnstone and Tony Robson
Latest UK COVID-19 Inquiry report documents impact of privatisation, wasted resources and cronyism
Authored by Baroness Heather Hallett, the report documents cost-cutting in pivotal logistics, £10 billion wasted on inadequate or unused PPE, and millions lost to unpursued fraud.
•Lucy Connell
Northern Ireland education union leaders sanction ineffective “work to rule”, reject strike action
Strike ballots must be honoured and used as a springboard for a unified campaign across the public sector against austerity, budget cuts and privatisation.
•Tania Kent
Protests over Palantir involvement in NHS as Burnham and Labour’s links exposed
Health workers, patients and campaigners protested across Britain on Thursday, demanding that the National Health Service cut ties with Palantir. More than 40 protests were held at hospitals and Integrated Care Boards across England as well as in city centres.
•Our reporters
Fourth nationwide school strike in Germany: 45,000 protest against conscription
The school strikes show the continuing opposition among young people to conscription. But the movement can only advance if it bases itself on the international working class and a revolutionary perspective against war.
•Our reporters
Democratic Party runs more than 60 military-intelligence candidates for Congress
The number of “CIA Democrat” candidates for seats in the House of Representatives has doubled this year, compared to the past four elections.
•Patrick Martin
European powers answer Russian nuclear warnings with further military escalation
Barely days after Moscow formally warned NATO that an attempt to blockade or isolate the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad could provoke the use of nuclear weapons, the governments of Europe are responding not with attempts to step back from the brink, but with declarations of increased military support for Ukraine, accelerated rearmament and preparations for a direct confrontation with Russia.
•Johannes Stern
Bonds gripped by a “vicious loop”
Yields have risen to their highest levels in a quarter of a century with little sign of coming down.
•Nick Beams
An American horror story: The failed execution of Christa Pike
There are incidents in contemporary American society so barbaric that they shock the sensibilities of anyone who stands for social equality, justice and human decency. The state of Tennessee’s attempted execution of Christa Gail Pike on Wednesday night is such an event.
•Kate Randall
Wealth of America’s richest 0.1 percent doubles since 2019, as profits hit record share of income
The richest 0.1 percent of American households more than doubled their wealth between the end of 2019 and June 30, Federal Reserve figures released last month show.
•Andre Damon
The strategy and program of the SEP in the fight against the JVP government and capitalism
Against all other political parties, their fake-left hangers on and the trade union bureaucracies, the SEP alone advanced a revolutionary socialist program during the 2022 mass uprising.
•Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
“Music City” without an orchestra as Nashville Symphony suspends its season in face of financial crisis
The highly regarded Nashville Symphony is suspending the rest of its 2026-27 season due to lack of funding.
•Shannon Jones
The pseudo-left and Brazil’s crisis elections
The function of the pseudo-left is to subordinate the working class to the PT, the trade union bureaucracy and, ultimately, the bourgeois nation state.
•Tomas Castanheira
South Korean steel and shipbuilding workers hold partial strikes
The country’s labor unions, regardless of affiliation, are attempting to stifle worker opposition to the growing attacks on their living and economic conditions.
•Ben McGrath
Gary Tyler, former political prisoner in US, endorses campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk: “This young man should be free”
Gary Tyler, the former political prisoner who spent nearly 42 years in Louisiana’s notorious Angola State Penitentiary for a murder he did not commit, has endorsed the international campaign for the freedom of Bogdan Syrotiuk.
•Jerry White
New Census poverty report conceals the social catastrophe facing working people
Official poverty statistics expose a deepening crisis for which Democrats and Republicans bear joint responsibility.
•Marc Wells
Sri Lankan filmmaker supports campaign to free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
“I hope that the struggle to secure Bogdan Syrotiuk's release will become the foundation for an anti-war movement.”—Prasanna Vithanage
•Our reporter
Strikes spread across Brazil on the eve of the elections
A wave of strikes in the public and private sectors exposes the class character of the Lula government and the need for an independent struggle of the working class against austerity, fascism and imperialism.
•Guilherme Ferreira
SEP (Canada) founding congress pledges to fight for the freedom of socialist-internationalist, anti-war prisoner Bogdan Syrotiuk
The founding congress of the SEP, held in Montreal in August, unanimously adopted the following resolution denouncing the Ukrainian state’s persecution of Bodgan Syrotiuk.
•Socialist Equality Party (Canada)
Hunger, homelessness, overwork and debt: Save the Student survey shows crisis facing UK higher education students
Among survey respondents, 63 percent skip meals to save money, 9 percent used a food bank during the last academic year, and 28 percent hold two or more jobs.
•Ioan Petrescu
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
100,000 Irish public sector workers begin industrial action in pay dispute with government; workers and students in five days of protests across Iraq over lack of jobs and social conditions; Tunisian fuel transport workers hold 48-hour strike over pay and conditions
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Australia signs security pact with Ukraine, backs NATO war against Russia
Albanese posed for a grinning selfie with Trump, just hours after the fascistic US president had again threatened to “annihilate” Iran.
•Oscar Grenfell
The strategy and program of the SEP in the fight against the JVP government and capitalism
The Congress was held amid a deepening political and economic crisis of global capitalism, marked by unfolding world war pushed by the imperialist powers and moves by the ruling class to impose austerity and dictatorial forms of rule, as well as the resurgence of class struggle globally.
•Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
Australia: ACT Labor government slashes school budgets across Canberra
At least 58 of the territory’s 94 public schools will see their funding fall, with 37 facing cuts greater than 5 percent.
•Kaye Tucker
Nearly 1,000 private armed guards deployed in USPS plants, as Trump continues offensive against mail-in balloting
The guards are being rushed into USPS facilities five weeks before the midterms, as the Supreme Court has blocked enforcement of Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting.
•Jane Wise
Smithfield workers speak out against deadly conditions after death of Patou Mpinda in Illinois meatpacking plant
Meatpacking workers in the Quad Cities area spoke with the WSWS and detailed the harsh exploitation and dangerous workplace conditions that have lead to worker deaths.
•Andy Thompson
Stand up for the freedom of Bogdan Syrotiuk!
This is the text of an open letter to the leadership of the Left Party. It was sent on September 30 to Ines Schwerdtner and Luigi Pantisano, co-chairs of the Left Party, as well as to Heidi Reichinnek and Sören Pellmann, co-chairs of the Left Party parliamentary group in the Bundestag.
•Johannes Stern
Judge denies bail, continues detention of anti-Zionist Hasidic father in bid to deport him to Israel
Yehonatan Ovadia, a member of the anti-Zionist Satmar Hasidic community and outspoken opponent of the Israeli state and Gaza genocide, has been detained since August 28 and is being threatened with deportation in violation of his First Amendment rights.
•Kevin Reed
Is the world on the brink of nuclear war?
Russia’s warning that it is ready to use nuclear weapons if NATO blockades Kaliningrad shows that the US-NATO war in Ukraine is escalating into an open confrontation between nuclear-armed powers, a danger being concealed from the population.
•WSWS Editorial Board
US government charges ICE victim Garces Perez, refuses medical care
Eight days after shooting Wilber Garces Perez in the back, the US government has charged him with one count of assaulting, resisting, interfering with and impeding a federal officer. The government denied him bond during a hearing on Wednesday.
•Jacob Crosse
Two years of JVP/NPP rule in Sri Lanka
Jettisoning its election promises, the JVP/NPP government has ruthlessly escalated IMF-dictated austerity, aligned itself with US imperialism, and unleashed state repression against workers and students opposing its right-wing agenda.
•Deepal Jayasekera
Congo Ebola epidemic passes 8,000 cases and nears 4,000 deaths as attacks on health workers mount
The Congolese Ebola epidemic has reached 8,116 confirmed cases and 3,924 deaths, amid attacks that have killed a local politician who urged prevention on the radio and a health worker at a screening post, while world leaders quibble over equity and royalties.
•Benjamin Mateus
Canada’s Prime Minister considered US military attack scenario amid trade war, Trump annexation threats
According to the Times, “When pressed on whether he took Mr. Trump’s threats to make Canada a 51st state seriously, Mr. Carney suggested that he had carefully examined the possibility of U.S.-led military action, but declined to discuss in detail what that involved.”
•Pierre Lajeunesse
A girl dies of measles in the Peruvian Amazon
The most disturbing possibility is that mobilizing the available resources to save the life of a 16-year-old Indigenous girl was simply not considered worthwhile.
•César Uco
Mamdani’s counterterrorism chief denounces “far-left terrorism”
The mayor gave his silent assent to an attack that lumped anti-genocide protesters together with the ultra-right.
•John Conrad, Tim Avery
Pacific defence ministers prepare to suppress civil unrest
The imperialist powers, including Australia and New Zealand, anticipate an upsurge of mass struggles against poverty and inequality across the Pacific.
•John Braddock
Democratic Party runs more than 60 military-intelligence candidates for Congress
The national security “caucus” of the House Democrats could double or even triple as a result of the November 3 vote.
•Patrick Martin
Online meeting in Sri Lanka: Free Bogdan Syrotiuk! Build an international movement against imperialist war!
The meeting hosted by the IYSSE (Sri Lanka) on October 13 will be conducted in Sinhala and translated live into Tamil.
•The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Sri Lanka)
UK Prime Minister Burnham claims “strong indications” Iran played role in RAF Fairford incident, as unanswered questions pile up
Events over the days since the five arrests saw revelations throwing a question mark over heavy suggestions of Iranian involvement, and even over whether there was any terror incident to be involved in.
•Chris Marsden
Thousands to protest Palantir's role in NHS, US deportations and Gaza genocide
For all talk of Burnham being prepared to end Palantir’s National Health Service contract—but only through a break clause, leaving its other contracts intact—the first attempt to force the issue was shot down at this week’s annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool.
•NHS FightBack
Birmingham bin workers’ struggle: Behind the media talk of an “imminent” deal lies a sellout — the rank and file must take control
The secrecy surrounding the proposed deal is a warning. Birmingham bin workers must establish a rank-and-file committee to enforce direct oversight of negotiations, agree on non-negotiable demands and mobilise alongside council workers nationally facing the same austerity cuts.
•Tony Robson
Trump condemns regulation in meeting with technology oligarchs
US President Donald Trump hosted the heads of Nvidia, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and other technology companies for lunch at the White House Tuesday, condemning any government oversight or regulation of the technology sector.
•Andre Damon
Germany: Demonstrations against social cuts, workers’ anger met with trade union maneuvers
The union bureaucracy pretends it is fighting the attacks by the federal government and corporations. The opposite is true.
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
Australia: 15-year-old boy killed at Melbourne factory
According to WorkSafe Victoria, the boy “was fixing defects on a precast concrete panel when an adjacent panel weighing more than two tonnes fell onto him.”
•Oscar Grenfell
Australia: Public sector doctors to strike in Victoria
The Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation was forced to call the stoppage after doctors powerfully opposed the union bureaucracy’s last-minute cancellation of a 24-hour strike planned for September 15.
•Martin Scott, Margaret Rees
NZ welfare agency denies aid to thousands, says food is “not essential”
The Ministry of Social Development denied emergency food grants last year to 88,000 people and told thousands that food was “not an essential need”.
•Chris Egan
US Supreme Court clears way for execution of Christa Pike
For the second time in as many days, the US Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for the execution of Christa Gail Pike, overturning a last-minute stay issued by the 6th Circuit US Court of Appeals less than two hours before she was set to die.
•Kate Randall
Turkish government, shaken by fund crisis, attacks freedom of expression
Facing a severe political crisis, the Erdoğan government is seeking to suppress the social powder keg through police state measures.
•Barış Demir
Hundreds of thousands march in French public sector strike against austerity and war
Workers and youth spoke to the WSWS at yesterday’s march in Paris of their growing anger and concern over economic hardship, war, and the fear of far-right dictatorship
•V. Gnana and Alex Lantier
German Morenoites tie workers and young people to the right-wing policies of the Left Party
The pseudo-left RIO admits the Left Party's record is one of cuts, rearmament and paving the way for the far-right AfD—yet its conclusion is that workers should stay inside the party, not break with it.
•Johannes Stern
Where is our contract? Is the UAW still trying to put lipstick on a pig?
Three months after the UAW pushed through its "contract" after four tries, Nexteer workers have still not seen the written agreement.
•Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee
“The only way things are going to change is if we unite”: US truckers discuss proposed October 1 shutdown over soaring fuel costs
Calls for truck drivers across the United States to park their rigs on October 1 are circulating among drivers as soaring diesel prices wipe out already-thin margins for owner-operators.
•Norisa DIaz
Cleveland Orchestra musicians end 3-day strike as crisis deepens for US cultural institutions
Orchestras and other arts organizations are under sustained attack, as all available resources are being funneled to Wall Street and the US war machine.
•Shannon Jones
The AI copyright lawsuits: What happens when machines learn from culture?
The lawsuits against AI companies raise difficult questions about training, reproduction and ownership.
•Marc Wells
Shawn Fain wins Eugene Debs award: Desecrating the memory of America’s great socialist leader
On the centenary of Debs’ death, the foundation bearing his name honors a union official who embodies everything the socialist leader fought against.
•Tom Mackaman
Former Air Canada pilot and whistleblower speaks out on the death of Oscar Robayo and dangerous conditions in the aviation industry
The crushing of ramp worker Oscar Robayo by the nose gear of an Airbus A350-900 while he was performing a routine pushback at Montreal’s Trudeau Airport in August has provoked sympathy and outrage among workers throughout the aviation industry and beyond.
•Felix Gauthier
Milei exploits Malvinas to build up Argentina’s repressive apparatus
Milei’s “National Sovereignty Defense Law” uses a real grievance of an oppressed nation to arm the state against the working class, while the pseudo-left offers a nationalist perspective that excludes the unity of Argentine workers with workers in the US and Britain.
•Andrea Lobo
Burnham’s UK Labour conference speech: cynical promises of reforms after next election, but more pain now
With British imperialism facing debt interest payments at £110 billion a year and plans to ramp war against Russia, along with deeper involvement in Middle East conflicts, Labour today has even less possibility of increasing social spending than under Tony Blair in the 1990s.
•Robert Stevens
B’Tselem’s The Elimination Project: Dismantling Palestinian collective existence in the West Bank is Israeli policy
B’Tselem’s report finds, “The genocide in Gaza and the elimination project in the West Bank are different manifestations of the same regime project, directed against Palestinians’ ability to exist as a people.”
•Jean Shaoul
No to the deployment of French froops to Saudi Arabia and to neo-fascism!
The public sector strike in France is part of an international resurgence of social struggles against the backdrop of war and the rise of the far right.
•Anthony Torres, Alexandre Lantier
New Zealand election: Labour’s phony “principled” foreign policy
Labour’s call for a more “peaceful” orientation, with greater “independence” from the US and Israel, is a calculated fraud.
•Tom Peters, John Braddock
The eviction of Maricarmen in Spain and the global housing crisis
On September 23, police in Madrid evicted 87-year-old María del Carmen Abascal, known as Maricarmen, from the flat in the city’s Retiro district where she had lived since 1956.
•Santiago Guillen, Alex Lantier
Workers Struggles: The Americas
A coalition of 28 unions staged a protest in Asunción to demand pay parity for healthcare administrative workers while up to 7,000 Chicago hotel workers are prepared to launch strike action over poverty wages.
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Harris campaigns with El-Sayed in Detroit: Gaza genocide buried in the name of Democratic “unity”
El-Sayed previously said he was “humbled and grateful” for Harris’s support, which he described as “critical” to his electoral prospects.
•Adam Fahmy, Jacob Crosse
Supreme Court allows expanded Homeland Security database to purge voter rolls ahead of midterm elections
Just five weeks before the November 3 midterm elections, with early voting having already begun, the Supreme Court ruling could enable Republican officials to run multiple checks of voters in Democratic precincts, flagging hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions of suspected “illegal” voters and preventing many of them from casting ballots.
•Barry Grey
Socialist Equality Party (Canada) holds founding congress—a major advance in the building of the world party of socialist revolution
The congress, held August 22-24, represented a milestone in the fight for Trotskyism in the Canadian working class and an historic advance in the ICFI's struggle on a global scale for the program of world socialist revolution.
•Socialist Equality Party (Canada)
“We’re not supposed to be living in terror”: Austin, Texas residents speak out after ICE shooting of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez
More than a week after the shooting, Garcés Pérez remains imprisoned at the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall with a bullet still lodged near his spine.
•Our reporters
Antisemitism campaign against the Berlin Left Party
The campaign against the Berlin Left Party is not about antisemitism. Its aim is to criminalise the widespread opposition to the Gaza genocide and war among voters.
•Peter Schwarz
Frida: The Making of an Icon: Tate Modern’s erasure of Frida Kahlo’s politics
The show claims to interrogate the “Fridamania” surrounding Kahlo, yet it operates as one of its engines—manufacturing, circulating and profiting from the phenomenon it pretends to analyse.
•Paul Mitchell
Mass arrests of 150 Palestine Action protesters at UK Labour Party conference, as total nears 4,000
The Burnham government is backing the genocide in Gaza and criminalising opposition to it at home every bit as brutally as Starmer, despite his crocodile tears.
•Robert Stevens
US midterm elections: Growing opposition to Trump, as both parties support war and austerity
The US midterm elections of November 3, just five weeks away, are taking place under conditions of extreme economic, social and political crisis.
•Patrick Martin
Outpouring of sympathy for Moet McCullum, New York City transit worker killed on subway tracks
Hundreds of transit workers packed a Brooklyn funeral home to honor MTA conductor Moet McCullum, killed on the tracks while working as a construction flagger.
•Jesse Thomas
Philippine Senate rewrites impeachment rules to clear path for Duterte’s removal
The Marcos faction is wielding the impeachment to eliminate its rivals, subordinate every branch of the state and clear the 2028 presidential field for a candidate acceptable to Washington.
•John Malvar
Mamdani’s Business Advisory Council: Billionaires advise the “Democratic Socialist” mayor
The “socialism” of Mamdani and the DSA is being exposed for the fraud that it is.
•Elliott Murtagh
As Trump rejects Iranian cease-fire proposal, Wall Street Journal reports plans to resume bombing after midterms
US President Donald Trump rejected an Iranian proposal for a seven-day cease-fire Saturday, after the Wall Street Journal reported he told aides he expected to resume bombing after the November 3 midterm elections.
•Andre Damon
Rank-and-file candidate for UAW president calls for cross-border action to defend Canadian workers against Stellantis job cuts
Last month, the automaker reneged on its repeated pledges that the Brampton plant would reopen for production of the next-generation Jeep Compass.
•Jerry White
My Brilliant Career: Netflix’s caricature of a classic Australian novel
The new series bears only a limited resemblance to Miles Franklin’s portrait of the harsh realities facing small farmers and their families in the late nineteenth century.
•Kaye Tucker, Richard Phillips
US military makes preparations for assault on Cuba within “90-120 days”
An internal Army message reported by CBS News shows the Pentagon preparing logistics, military police and surgical units for an operation aimed at Cuba, days after Trump told the UN that the Cuban government “will fall.”
•Andrea Lobo
This week in history: September 28-October 4
Jaish-e-Mohammad militants storm Kashmir legislature in Srinagar, killing 38; Callaghan Labour government applies to the IMF for a record $3.9 billion bailout for the UK; last British oil staff evacuated from Abadan, Iran; Cristero rebellion in Mexico turns to armed uprising against the Calles government.
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With Pennsylvania hardest hit, worst US measles outbreak since 1991 accelerates
The United States is in its worst measles year since 1991, and Pennsylvania is the epicenter, adding 129 infections in a single week to a toll that already includes four deaths.
•Benjamin Mateus
Trump administration purges 760,000 from ACA Marketplace health plans, claiming fraud
The mass disenrollment of 760,000 people from Affordable Care Act plans is the latest bipartisan assault on healthcare that aims to drive millions of workers and their families deeper into poverty.
•Kate Randall
German dockworkers reject contract for a fourth time
Workers at German seaports have rejected the fourth wage offer presented to them by the Verdi trade union working in conjunction with the Central Association of German Seaport Operators.
•Marianne Arens
Campus police report sheds new light on suicide of University of Michigan researcher Danhao Wang
Wang’s death came amid the Trump administration’s prosecution of five Chinese researchers at the University of Michigan.
•Stephen St. Clair
Mamdani’s cops arrest anti-Netanyahu protesters at United Nations General Assembly
The NYPD’s arrest of over 100 anti-genocide protesters at the UN on Thursday marks the culmination of a week of collaboration by the DSA with the fascist Trump administration.
•Sandy English
Bradford White strike entering decisive stage as workers fight decades of UAW-enforced concessions
As the strike by 1,200 Braford White workers in western Michigan enters its second week workers must take stock of the fact that UAW President Shawn Fain and the UAW bureaucracy has left their fight isolated while stringing them out on $550 weekly strike pay.
•George Kirby
Democrats accuse Trump of “appeasing” China in state visit by Xi
The Democratic Party congressional leadership responded to a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping with accusations that the fascist president, who had just threatened to “annihilate” Iran, was “appeasing” China.
•Andre Damon
Freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk! Stop political persecutions!
This statement calling for the release of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk was submitted to the WSWS by Maxim Goldarb, who has himself been persecuted by the Ukrainian state under Volodymyr Zelensky.
•Statement by the party Union of Left Forces - For a New Socialism!
While Trump and Netanyahu threaten the world at UN, class struggle grows on every continent
While the representatives of the capitalist nation-states gathered at the United Nations this week amid escalating war, trade conflict and threats of repression, another international force was making itself felt in a growing movement of the working class.
•Tom Hall
Stop conscription in Germany! Stop the Ukraine war! Freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk!
As Berlin escalates its confrontation with Russia, school students across the country are striking for the fourth time against the reintroduction of conscription.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality
Australia: University of Melbourne meeting demands freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk
“We have a responsibility to support the release of Bogdan. What he has done cannot constitute a crime.”
•Our reporters
Indonesian fires expose millions in South East Asia to toxic smoke
The fires are occurring during a super El Niño year, increased surface temperatures due to global warming and are exacerbated by government funding cuts.
•Robert Campion
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Bus drivers stop work in India’s capital, medical officers strike in Pakistan and garment workers demand unpaid wages in Bangladesh, while airline workers strike in Australia.
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The virtual unwrapping of Herculaneum papyri scrolls
The use of scanning and AI algorithms has made it possible to extract meaning from scrolls dating back to Greco-Roman civilization, which were previously indecipherable.
•Frank Gaglioti
Why did Ukrainian President Zelensky visit North Bay, Ontario, home to the Waffen SS veteran Yaroslav Hunka?
Amid a massive escalation of the US/NATO war on Russia, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky visited Canada for three days earlier this month to drum up more financial support and military equipment for his dictatorial regime.
•James Clayton
Unite Community members in Greater Manchester demand Bogdan Syrotiuk’s immediate release from Ukrainian jail
The Unite community branch noted with horror that, after 2 years of pre-trial incarceration, Bogdan has been sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment.
•our reporters
Prize-winning film NAZA provokes a vitriolic response from Netanyahu and Israeli officials
The official campaign was accompanied by threats from far-right groups, calling for violence against the directors and their families and the demolition of their homes, chanting “Death penalty for traitors.”
•Jean Shaoul
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