Betrayal on the docks: ILA sells out longshoremen’s strike

“We have to fight these job cuts”: Warren Truck autoworkers speak out on eve of mass layoffs 

Fake-left FSP hails election of new Sri Lankan president as an expression of “people’s expectations”

As the death toll from Hurricane Helene climbs past 200, Trump, Harris and Biden campaign among the ruins

Prime Minister Trudeau and Canadian political establishment back Israeli attack on Iran

New revelations in January 6 immunity briefing confirm Trump and Republican Party criminality

Peace demonstration in Berlin: A bankrupt perspective

The Political issues in the Fight to Defend Public Education in the US: A new pamphlet from Mehring Books

Washington pressures Vietnam against cable deal with China

Boeing machinists must unite with East Coast dockworkers to defend jobs and stop world war!

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

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”

Biden escalates toward disastrous war against Iran

“We will not accept business as usual”: Workers across the US support East Coast docks strike

Residents divided as judge approves $600 million settlement over East Palestine, Ohio derailment

Fighting against war means fighting capitalism!

Vice-presidential debate: Political humbug covers up US drive to global war

Hurricane Helene death toll rises to 190 as US Southeast digs out from catastrophe driven by climate change

Twisters: Social disaster as empty spectacle

Mexican workers: Refuse to handle redirected freight in support of US and Canadian dock strikes!

Chinese central bank measures boost stock market, but economic problems mount

Canada’s media abets government-backed intimidation campaign to suppress anti-war film Russians at War

UK Prime Minister Starmer declares for war on Iran

Erdoğan warns of war between Israel and Turkey

US, Israeli officials demand major attack on Tehran after Iranian missile strike

“We want fair wages, not automation to put us out of work,” says striking dockworker

As mass layoffs hit Warren Truck and other auto plants, UAW attempts to head off rank-and-file revolt

East and Gulf coasts dock strike part of growing rebellion by the working class

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Arts Faculty cuts at Australia’s Macquarie University underscore Labor’s pro-business restructuring agenda

BioLab factory fire spews chlorine gas cloud near Atlanta, Georgia

A call to all workers: Press the offensive of the dockworkers’ strike! For a united struggle!

Australian military-intelligence insider calls for war mobilisation powers

Potential cluster of H5N1 bird flu cases in Missouri poses danger of human-to-human transmission

Six factory workers dead or missing in Eastern Tennessee after being kept on the job during Helene’s deluge

Texas executes Garcia Glen White despite claims of mental deficiencies

Michigan State University cancels event over pro-Palestinian art

Three-day strike at the Port of Montreal poses need for unified struggle by dockers across North America

Jacobin and DSA member Aidan Beatty falsify the so-called “Tate Affair”

Food bank usage doubles in Ontario in four years as Canadian corporate profits soar

Julian Assange delivers first speech since release from UK prison: “I pleaded guilty to journalism”

Tens of thousands of dockworkers launch strike on US East and Gulf coasts, joining Boeing workers in growing strike wave

Australia: Labor government threatens arrests, deportation over protests against Israel’s attacks on Lebanon

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

Israel launches ground operations in Lebanon amid ongoing air bombardment

Two new studies on mucosal vaccines and Long COVID underscore the criminality of the “forever COVID” policy

Cornell president launches attack on student facing deportation for opposing Gaza genocide

Transportation unions call for strike in Argentina

Pennsylvania professor fired for opposing Gaza genocide

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

Austria’s far-right Freedom Party wins parliamentary election

Rapper Macklemore dropped from festival lineup for “anti-American” opposition to Gaza genocide

European Left supports escalation of NATO war against Russia

15-year-old in Mississippi sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing her mother

Rival factions of MAS ruling party clash in Bolivia

House of Lords lays out plans to make UK fully war ready

“They want a fair share the same as us”: Boeing, Textron and Eaton strikes continue as clash looms on East Coast docks

Biden congratulates Sri Lanka’s new president

The murder of Hassan Nasrallah: Imperialism abandons all restraint on global war

Japan’s ruling party selects  far right leader as prime minister

1,000 missing, at least 66 dead, as Hurricane Helene devastates southern Appalachia

“We run everything”: East Coast dockworkers defiant on eve of contract expiration

Mass school closures revealed as Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson works with CTU to suppress opposition

The first-ever outbreak of Marburg virus disease in Rwanda

This week in history: September 30-October 6

National Symphony Orchestra musicians back to work after brief strike in Washington DC

Royal Mail worker speaks on CWU-Labour government collusion with EP group takeover of Royal Mail: “They are partners in crime”

Sri Lankan big business rushes to congratulate new president

Despite Putin’s nuclear warning, NATO escalates campaign to allow strikes deep inside Russia

With only days to go before the deadline, US corporations prepare to deal with potential East Coast dock strike

Netanyahu declares all-out war at UN, then Israel slaughters hundreds in Beirut

IYSSE at Western Sydney University initiates Special General Meeting against genocide and war

Japan stages provocative naval transit through Taiwan Strait

Hurricane Helene devastates a wide swath of southeastern United States

Campaigning in Arizona, Kamala Harris  pledges to “work across the aisle” to expand border police

Artists with principle: Novelist Sally Rooney, actor Javier Bardem and author Jhumpa Lahiri protest Israeli mass murder in Gaza

Reject sellout of Wellington, New Zealand rail workers!

Oppose the persecution of Momodou Taal! Mobilize the working class to defend democratic rights!

Thousands in New York City protest Netanyahu and the bombing of Lebanon

Week of executions in America ends with a nitrogen gas asphyxiation in Alabama

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

Berlin-Tegel refugee camp: Inhuman conditions, a climate of fear—and huge profits for the operators

Grangemouth refinery in Scotland to close, with hundreds of jobs lost

Starmer secures his sought-after meeting with Trump

President Dissanayake’s address to the nation—a commitment to global capital and Sri Lankan big business

Toxic PFAS chemicals detected at high levels in Blue Mountains, Sydney drinking water

Plan to use long-range NATO missiles against Russia threatens uncontrolled escalation of global war

IAM leaders work with Boeing and federal mediator to shut down strike as official “talks” resume

As working class upsurge grows, Michigan Medicine workers vote on strike action

New York City Mayor Eric Adams charged with bribery

Trump fascists continue terror campaign against Haitian immigrants with racist X post

Stellantis Warren Truck worker: “If we don’t fight now, they are going to take our jobs”

SMART union endorses fascist Republican Senator Josh Hawley

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