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Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Offshore oil workers in Norway walk out over pay; protests by workers and retirees continue across Iran as ceasefire unravels; Sudanese teachers in Khartoum State walk out over non-payment of wages and poor working conditions

Japanese yen hits 40-year low

The immediate effect of the falling yen is to increase the price of oil and energy as Japan is dependent on the Middle East for more than 90 percent of its supplies, with the hike going across the board as Japan imports much of its food and raw materials.

Nick Beams

Albania’s “Flamingo Revolution” shakes the government

Since late May, Albania has seen its biggest wave of protests since the collapse of the Stalinist regime in the early 1990s. The direct cause of the demonstrations is a tourism development project backed by Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

Markus Salzmann

The 1929–1930 miners’ lockout—a key strategic experience of the Australian working class

The existing accounts of the lockout all put the defeat down to the miners themselves—courageous, but worn down after 16 months of struggle. This article examines the critical role of the Labor Party, the trade unions and the Communist Party in isolating the locked-out miners and finally forcing them back to work on the terms of the coal barons.

John Harris, Peter Symonds

Workers Struggles: The Americas

This week’s roundup includes mass protests against the right-wing Espriella government in Colombia, a threatened July 4 strike by Philadelphia utility workers and the ongoing strike by grocery workers in Montreal.

Europe’s record heatwave: Climate catastrophe or world socialism

This event makes clear the titanic, revolutionary and socialist character of the struggle necessary to move from a rearguard action against the consequences of climate change to an offensive against its source—private production for profit.

Thomas Scripps

This week in history: June 29-July 5

Trimble resigns in Northern Ireland; Israeli commandos raid Entebbe Airport; World Court rules against Iran on oil nationalization; Mexican government restricts Catholic Church.

The earthquake disaster in Venezuela: A crime of US imperialism

The decrepit state of housing stock, the collapse of the healthcare system, and the incapacity of the state to organize any meaningful emergency response are the product of the protracted oppression of Venezuela by US imperialism.

Andrea Lobo

Finland amends laws to allow deployment of nuclear weapons

Overturning decades of official support for non-proliferation and disarmament, Finland is now helping to promote the deployment of nuclear weapons throughout Europe under conditions in which the major imperialist powers are recklessly escalating the war in Ukraine against Russia.

David Brown, Jordan Shilton

Enough is enough: Defend every job at Germany’s Volkswagen

IG Metall and the works councils are not opponents of Volkswagen’s restructuring plans, but accomplices. Workers must take the defence of jobs into their own hands through independent rank-and-file committees.

Ludwig Weller, Peter Schwarz

IYSSE meeting: World War, Imperialism and the Illusion of a Multipolar World

The International Youth and Students for Social Equality in Sri Lanka is holding an online public meeting on Wednesday, July 8, at 7:00 p.m. to discuss the Trotskyist strategy to mobilise the working class against imperialist war.

International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Sri Lanka)

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

India: Community Health Officers strike in Punjab over long-outstanding demands; Cambodia: AJ Textile garment workers walk out over sacking and conditions; Australia: Glencore coalminers in New South Wales vote to strike.

German government launches frontal assault on pensions

The pension reforms seamlessly follow the abolition of Bürgergeld (welfare benefits) and the so-called “health reforms.” Billions are being redistributed from the pockets of the needy, the sick, pensioners, the low-paid and workers into rearmament into the accounts of the super-rich.

Marianne Arens, Peter Schwarz

Alan Greenspan (1926–2026) and the crisis of capitalism

More than any other single individual, Greenspan worked to create an economic system based on speculation, parasitism, and unprecedented social inequality which characterises US and world capitalism today.

Nick Beams

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Transport including rail, metro and buses brought to a halt in four-hour national strike in the Netherlands over austerity attacks on pensions and welfare; legal aid workers strike and protest in South Africa as the right to legal aid is threatened by cuts

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