Starmer’s Labour: The “party of NATO” prepares a UK government of genocide and war
Labour’s manifesto states that every policy the party will pursue in government is subordinate to the primary mission of national security.
•Robert Stevens
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Supreme Court declares America a presidential dictatorship
In what amounts to an American version of the 1933 Enabling Act that gave Hitler dictatorial powers, the Supreme Court announced that the US president must enjoy immunity from prosecution to be able to engage in “bold and unhesitating action.”
•Eric London, Tom Carter
Australian Labor government ferociously attacks its own senator for condemning Gaza genocide
The campaign against Fatima Payman underscores the sham of parliamentary democracy and the Labor government’s ongoing support for the mass murder of Palestinians.
•Oscar Grenfell
Workers Struggles: The Americas
A strike by WestJet mechanics ended after the union accepted a tentative deal while Argentine education workers walked out demanding action to address the wage crisis in academia and elsewhere.
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Australian climate policy debate exposes Labor’s bogus emissions targets
Seizing on the reality that even Labor’s disastrously inadequate 2030 emissions target will not be met, the Liberal-National Coalition has vowed to abandon it.
•Mark Wilson
Deere announces plans to cut over 800 more jobs in Iowa and Illinois
The mass layoffs revealed Monday double the number Deere has announced for the year, now totaling over 1,600, part of an escalating assault on jobs throughout the auto industry and other industrial sectors.
•Marcus Day
BIS report points to mounting economic and financial instability
The Bank for International Settlements annual review said central banks had to be alert to the dangers of inflation and not hesitate to raise interest rates again if necessary.
•Nick Beams
Online public meeting in Sri Lanka: Condemn the police attack on teachers! Defend free public education! Higher salaries for educators!
We call on all educators, parents and students to attend our July 11 meeting and participate in this important discussion.
•Action Committee of Teachers, Students and Parents for the Defence of Education (Sri Lanka)
Families of crash victims outraged over Justice Department sweetheart plea deal with Boeing
Family members of those who died in the 2018 and 2019 crashes of Boeing 737 MAX jets have denounced the new plea agreement being offered to the airline manufacturer by the US Department of Justice.
•Kevin Reed
North Carolina Democrats strike three campaigns from the ballot, including Cornel West and RFK Jr.
In three 3-2 party line votes last week, Democratic members of the North Carolina State Board of Elections upheld complaints brought by a Democratic Party Super PAC and voted to block ballot access for three parties; We the People Party, Justice for All Party and Constitution Party of North Carolina.
•Jacob Crosse
German Publishers and Booksellers Association awards its annual “Peace Prize” to US war hawk Anne Applebaum
Applebaum is closely linked to the US military-intelligence apparatus. She currently plays a leading role in churning out propaganda justifying the escalation of the US-NATO war against Russia.
•Stefan Steinberg
Mother charged after daughter dies in car while she was working at Amazon
Everything is done to paint Stallings as a terrible mother, but absent from the official narrative is any questioning of the social conditions that would deprive a working parent of childcare, forcing them to bring their children to their workplaces.
•Trévon Austin
Argentina’s Milei launches assault on workers after pushing through sweeping legislation
For Milei, the main enemy of Argentine capitalism is the working class, which he aims to isolate and control, divide and defeat.
•Rafael Azul
Details of Molson Coors contract expose sellout of strike by Teamsters union
After isolating Fort Worth brewery workers on the picket line, the unions bureaucrats rammed through a deal creating new tiers with different pay rates, and keeps wage growth below inflation.
•Alex Findijs
Essen, Germany: Tens of thousands demonstrate against far-right Alternative for Germany
Several tens of thousands of people demonstrated against the far-right Alternative for Germany national party conference in Essen on Saturday.
•Our reporters
Deportation after one “like”—German cabinet tightens up deportation rules
The draft law is a serious attack on the basic democratic right to freedom of expression. A single “like" under a post that contradicts German foreign policy is enough for a deportation order.
•Peter Schwarz
Attendees at UK general election rally speak: “The Socialist Equality Party is what I want to dedicate my efforts to building.”
WSWS reporters spoke to some of those in attendance on their response to the Socialist Equality Party (UK) general election rally held in London on Sunday.
•Our reporters
UK Socialist Equality Party election rally advances socialist and internationalist opposition to war
The meeting’s platform featured many of the principal leaders of the party that the working class needs in the battles ahead—the International Committee of the Fourth International, the world party of socialist revolution founded by Leon Trotsky.
•Our reporters
French snap elections: Macron’s party collapses as New Popular Front, neo-fascists rise
Voters rejected Macron’s campaign, which was based on hypocritical claims to be defending democracy and his plans for troop deployments to Ukraine for war with Russia.
•Alex Lantier
Right-wing Supreme Court majority approves making homelessness a crime
As expected, the extreme right-wing Supreme Court majority on Friday overturned a Ninth-Circuit ruling that prohibited local governments from fining or arresting homeless people for sleeping in public when no public shelters were available.
•John Burton
New York police murder 13-year-old youth
On Friday, police shot and killed 13-year-old Nyah Mway in Utica, New York, with a single shot after tackling him to the ground.
•Sandy English
California Food 4 Less grocery workers must reject UFCW’s sellout agreement!
The union, defying a strike mandating, is carrying out an undemocratic snap vote before workers have seen the full details of the contract.
•Joseph Hillmeyer
Australian political, media establishment buries alleged far-right plan to behead Labor MP
Though no one was injured, the incident, involving a far-right man entering a Labor Party electorate office in Newcastle, could have been catastrophic.
•Oscar Grenfell
Genocide by design: The Gaza massacre is made in Washington
The World Socialist Web Site calls on workers and young people throughout the United States to come to Washington D.C. on July 24 to protest the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza.
•Andre Damon
SEP member calls for release of Bogdan Syrotiuk on Tamil Nadu YouTube channel
The 30-minute interview with “Let’s Talk Everything,” a Tamil Nadu-based program with over 23,000 subscribers and 250,000 viewers, has attracted numerous positive comments from those who watched it.
•Our correspondent
Australia: Opposition Coalition makes nuclear power central to election strategy
Whether or not it wins the next election, the Coalition has squarely placed the question of nuclear power on the political agenda and has the backing of sections of big business as a result.
•Mike Head, Peter Symonds
Australia to train specialized Pacific police intervention force
The Canberra-led, anti-China policing initiative is being launched as a new wave of popular unrest is exploding across the Pacific.
•John Braddock
Corporate America appeals to crisis-ridden Biden White House to block strike on East Coast docks
There can be no doubt that Biden is already deeply involved in the talks, as he has in every industry critical to supply chains, but there is no guarantee he will even be president by the time the contract expires.
•Tom Hall
IMF says growing US debt must be “urgently” dealt with
The IMF’s prescription is for an austerity program extending over “multiple years.”
•Nick Beams
Major media outlets continue campaign to replace fading Biden following public unmasking
While a platoon of Democratic Party politicians publicly backed Biden in media appearances over the weekend, Republican politicians are openly discussing plans to pressure Biden cabinet officials to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove the president.
•Jacob Crosse
Iran’s presidential elections head to a run-off amid escalating Mideast war
The sharp drop in turnout is an indication of mass disaffection with all factions of the political establishment—conservative and “reform”—and mounting social anger.
•Keith Jones
Two Uvalde police officers indicted for failed response to Robb Elementary School mass shooting
On Thursday, a grand jury in Uvalde County, Texas, indicted the former school district police chief and another former school police officer on multiple felony charges for their failure to intervene and stop a mass shooter on May 24, 2022.
•Kevin Reed
After the European elections: EU summit intensifies war against Russia
French President Macron and German Chancellor Scholz, who stand on the brink of the political abyss and have lost all connection to the reality of people’s lives, are responding with war and dictatorship.
•Peter Schwarz
Kenyan President Ruto imposes savage austerity as High Court upholds military deployment
The Kenyan government has deployed heavily armed troops throughout the country in anticipation of continuing mass protests against its drive to impose IMF-dictated austerity measures.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Bheed: The plight of India’s migrant workers during the COVID-19 lockdown
The film exposes the nightmarish difficulties suffered by the Indian masses after the Modi government imposed a COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020.
•Yuan Darwin, Kranti Kumara
This week in history: July 1-7
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago
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US Supreme Court attacks federal regulation of corporate interests
The gutting of federal oversight of business and destruction of regulatory restraints on profit-making and the enrichment of the corporate elite are part of an ongoing and accelerating social counterrevolution.
•Barry Grey
Victorian nurses union pushes wage deal as Labor government slashes hospital budgets
The latest offer contains a 28.4 percent (compounded) wage increase over four years, under which base pay rates in most classifications will still be lower in real terms than in 2019, until at least October 2027.
•Margaret Rees, Martin Scott
Supreme Court rules in favor of Trump foot soldier, imperiling hundreds of obstruction charges
The right-wing majority, joined by Ketanji Brown Jackson, ruled that the federal obstruction law was too broadly applied by prosecutors, paving the way for hundreds of charges to be dropped.
•Jacob Crosse
Australia: University of Melbourne threatens about 20 pro-Palestinian students with disciplinary action
The move is the latest in a series of coordinated attacks by university managements, the corporate media and the political establishment in Australia against the rights to protest and freedom of expression of students on campus.
•Eric Ludlow
Zelensky replaces general at the behest of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion
The empowering of neo-Nazi figures such as Krotevych and the open backing of fascism by Western imperialism comes as the Zelensky regime is escalating the persecution of opponents of the war and suppression of democratic rights.
•Jason Melanovski
The Australian Labor Party’s record in the Assange case
The Australian government's involvement in the plea deal arrangements was the result of mass popular pressure. It followed years of Labor actively assisting the persecution of Assange.
•Oscar Grenfell
Philippine ambassador raises spectre of nuclear war with China
While Washington and its allies denounce Chinese “provocations,” US imperialism has been instrumental in transforming the South China Sea into a dangerous flashpoint for war with China.
•Peter Symonds
Oppose Sri Lankan trade unions attempt to subordinate class struggles to upcoming elections! Prepare a general strike against government austerity! Fight for socialist policies!
Without a political fight against the Wickremesinghe regime and the overthrow of the capitalist system, workers cannot defend any of their basic rights.
•Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
The Biden-Trump debate and the crisis of the American political system
Even by the standards of American “political culture,” Thursday night’s presidential debate between US President Joseph Biden and former President Donald Trump was a spectacle of degradation, reaction and stupidity.
•Tom Mackaman
New COVID-19 surge driven by KP.2 and KP.3 variants
The emergence of the new viral variants and the consequent surge of COVID-19 that is currently underway has been enabled by a ruling class indifferent to the suffering caused by the virus.
•Bill Shaw
Threat posed by H5N1 bird flu deepens, as public health authorities delay action
A growing number of scientists have sounded the alarm that immediate action to eliminate bird flu is necessary before it develops into a human pandemic.
•Benjamin Mateus
Pabloite NPA backs pro-war New Popular Front in French snap elections
By supporting the New Popular Front, the NPA is joining in the right-wing restucturing of the political establishment to prepare for war with Russia abroad and class war at home.
•Anthony Torres
US has sent Israel 14,000 2,000-pound bombs since October
These 14,000 2,000-pound bombs have a combined yield of 7.8 kilotons, equivalent to half to the power of the “Little Boy” atomic bomb that the US used to destroy Hiroshima in 1945.
•Andre Damon
Strikers at multi-billion-dollar Cargill’s Guelph plant forced to resort to food banks
Since the strike began, there have been over 100 new clients requiring food support—almost triple the monthly average. Poverty levels in the area, according to the last census, showed that 11 per cent of people living in Guelph were low-income families.
•Carl Bronski
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
South Korea: Hyundai Motor workers vote to strike over failed wage talks; India: Punjab Roadways bus drivers and conductors strike over unpaid wages; Thousands of Sri Lankan public sector workers continue strike action; Australia: Quantem bulk fuel supply strike for pay rise.
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Thyssenkrupp: IG Metall agrees to thousands of job cuts
The fight against job cuts must be combined with the fight against war. This is only possible against IG Metall, not with it.
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
Why is the Socialist Equality Party standing against Andrew Feinstein?
Feinstein wants workers in Britain to repeat, under a rerun of Corbyn’s disastrous leadership of the Labour Party, the bitter experience of creating “broad left” formations such as Syriza in Greece that sabotaged the struggle against International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Union dictated austerity.
•Thomas Scripps, Chris Marsden
Zero Hour environmental campaign group bars SEP candidate Tom Scripps from election hustings
The event was billed as “an important democratic opportunity for voters to understand their local candidates’ views on climate change and the environment.” The SEP was never informed of the hustings and Zero Hour did not openly announce that certain candidates had been excluded.
•Our reporters
Socialist Equality Party Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire candidate Darren Paxton speaks at Radio Skye hustings
Paxton said to applause, “We are here to raise the alarm of the danger of war and capitalist barbarism. Death has become an acceptable policy of the capitalist ruling class.”
•our reporters
Debate debacle triggers panic in Democratic Party
While the Democratic president was visibly doddering, the Republican ex-president engaged in non-stop lying and fascistic demonizing of immigrants.
•Patrick Martin
French section of IMT backs pro-war New Popular Front in snap elections
The main obstacle to mobilizing workers against war and neo-fascism independently of the New Popular Front’s pro-imperialist program are organizations like the IMT, which are petty-bourgeois descendants of renegades from Trotskyism.
•Alex Lantier
Workers and youth in Australia and New Zealand demand the release of Bogdan Syrotiuk
“The clarity of analysis from Bogdan is a direct threat to fascistic regimes and hence he has been fraudulently charged and put in prison”– Albert from Victoria
•Our correspondents
“These layoffs are like a bomb going off in people’s lives”: Stellantis workers denounce plans to cut second shift at Warren Truck
The ending of the second shift, scheduled for July 1, comes as Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares has launched a “cost-cutting" race in the EV transition.
•Shannon Jones
Chicago Teachers Union keeps educators in the dark during talks to impose new sellout contract: “I can’t keep up with inflation”
The union and Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson hope to avoid the possibility of over 25,000 Chicago teachers on strike during the convention.
•Alexander Fangmann
Socialist autoworker Will Lehman wins lawsuit against Biden’s Secretary of Labor over 2022 UAW elections
This victory vindicates the protracted and principled struggle waged by Lehman and thousands of his supporters to uphold the democratic rights of more than 1 million rank-and-file autoworkers, academic workers and retirees.
•Tom Carter
Sri Lankan police brutally attack thousands of protesting teachers
Wednesday’s police assault makes clear that Sri Lankan workers need to prepare for a political general strike, based on a revolutionary socialist program, against the government’s International Monetary Fund austerity measures.
•Our correspondents
Thousands protest in New Zealand against Gaza genocide, as Labour lies about its record
While thousands of people rallied outside parliament, Labour MP Phil Twyford falsely claimed that his party had been calling for a ceasefire for the last eight months.
•Tom Peters
Executions this week in Texas and Oklahoma as Missouri presses forward with plan to execute innocent man
Executions this week in Texas expose the arbitrary character of the death penalty and the abusive life experiences of those who find themselves on death row, while Missouri sets an execution date for an innocent man.
•Kate Randall
Australian inflation statistics highlight cost-of-living crisis
The latest Consumer Price Index figures make a mockery of the Albanese government’s pretence that real wages are finally rising after years of falling, let alone Labor’s 2022 election pledge of “a better future.”
•Mike Head
IATSE announces tentative agreement: film and television workers need to prepare to oppose betrayal
According to IATSE, talks were stalled mainly due to disagreements over wages and artificial Intelligence. Workers have every right to be intensely suspicious of this process and its results.
•Hong Jian
Short-lived military coup fails against Arce in Bolivia
The abortive coup marks a new stage in the turmoil gripping Bolivia ahead of the 2025 elections, where the major drivers are the escalating third world war and deepening crisis of global capitalism.
•Andrea Lobo
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (Canada) founding meeting calls for freedom of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee recently held its founding meeting. Organized independently of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) bureaucracy, the PWRFC aims to mobilize postal workers in a political struggle against the corporatist alliance between management, the union apparatus and the government.
•our reporter
Ruto deploys Kenyan army onto the streets with US, European Union support
The US State Department hailed “President Ruto’s commitment to Kenyans’ constitutionally-endowed rights,” while European Union Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell hailed a “reduction of the tensions… conducive to dialogue.” This is a seal of approval for the massacre Ruto committed the day before.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
In Italy, agricultural workers in Latina province walk out after workplace death, while metal workers strike in South Tyrol after explosion leaves one fatality, others injured; 20,000 oil contract workers in national walkout over pay and conditions in Iran join mass protests of retirees over falling living standards; health workers in Oyo State to hold seven-day warning strike July 1 over pay and collapsing healthcare system
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Billions for education not war! Support the Socialist Equality Party (UK) campaign for a unified struggle against capitalism and war!
Teachers in the UK must prepare to take on Labour as it prepares to take office. This requires a break from the trade union bureaucracy whose function, in order to secure their privileged existence, is to block the development of a struggle in defence of educators’ independent interests.
•Statement of the Educators Rank-and-File Committee (UK)
Socialist Equality Party candidate Darren Paxton speaks at Inverness Trades Council general election hustings
Apart from a passing reference by the Scottish National Party to ceasefire calls, Paxton was the only candidate to even mention Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza and the rapidly escalating war in Ukraine against Russia.
•Steve James
Julian Assange arrives in Australia free
In a press conference, Stella Assange hailed a global support movement for creating the conditions for Assange's freedom, while warning of an ongoing assault on press freedom that had to be fought.
•Oscar Grenfell
French New Popular Front issues election program for war and police-state rule
While making empty pledges of minor social reforms, the New Popular Front endorses military escalation against Russia and calls to strengthen the military police and intelligence services.
•Alex Lantier
White House brags that it has given Israel $6.5 billion in weapons since October 7
Doled out over just nine months, this figure is nearly double the US’s typical annual Israel military aid budget of $3.4 billion and will be further supplemented by $14 billion in weapons funding allocated by Congress this year.
•Andre Damon
US Supreme Court draft order would reinstate emergency abortions in Idaho
The Supreme Court posted and then removed a draft order that would reinstate emergency medical abortions in Idaho.
•John Burton
“Will Lehman was telling the truth”: Autoworkers hail court victory against sham union election
Autoworkers across the US are hailing the victory in court this week against the Department of Labor and the United Auto Workers bureaucracy over massive irregularities in the 2022 union elections.
•our reporters
Oppose genocide and war! Demonstrate in Washington on July 24!
The purpose of the July 24 demonstration is to set into motion a new and powerful mass movement of the working class against the Gaza genocide and the global escalation of imperialist militarism by the US ruling class and its NATO collaborators.
•David North
Judges block much of Biden’s limited student loan relief program
Judges in Kansas and Missouri accepted the arguments of Republican-led states and imposed preliminary injunctions on Monday blocking the main provisions of President Biden’s SAVE student debt relief program.
•Kevin Reed
Indian workers demand release of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
"The Zelensky regime put Bogdan behind bars to suppress the idea of the unity of the workers and a socialist perspective."
•Our reporters
Discredited DSA Democrat Jamaal Bowman loses primary to well-funded challenger George Latimer
Bowman exposed himself in the eyes and minds of the working class with his inconsistent opposition to Zionism while at the same time supporting the re-election of “Genocide Joe” Biden.
•Jacob Crosse
German Foreign Minister Baerbock supports Israel’s genocide and war offensive in the Middle East
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock’s trip to the Middle East once again highlighted the devastating role played by German imperialism in the genocide in Gaza and the escalation of war throughout the region.
•Johannes Stern
Chicago watchdog criticizes Mayor Johnson’s failure to remove fascists from the police force
The city is reneging on its earlier pledge not to arrest peaceful protesters as it links up the fascist-ridden Chicago police with federal law enforcement agencies.
•Kristina Betinis
The filmmaker vanishes: Roman Polanski’s name missing from Paramount’s Blu-ray version of Chinatown (1974)
This new version of McCarthyite blacklisting has come about because official Hollywood has done whatever it can in recent years to erase Polanski’s films and his very artistic existence.
•David Walsh
Canada backing Zelensky regime’s efforts to conscript those who fled war and use them as cannon fodder
In order to maintain a valid Ukrainian passport—a precondition for their maintaining their “temporary resident” status under Canadian immigration law—Ukrainians who fled to Canada must now return to Ukraine and risk being seized and forcibly enlisted in the military.
•James Clayton
Unions shut down federal education strike in Brazil
The unions subordinated the strike to futile negotiations with the Lula government, isolating this powerful movement from the struggles of state teachers and other federal workers.
•Guilherme Ferreira
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signs law requiring display of Ten Commandments in classrooms
The driving force behind the new law is the demand by Christian fundamentalist groups that separation of church and state should be overthrown, and religion made the basis of all public policy.
•Aaron Murch, Patrick Martin
IYSSE listed as an “anti-constitutional organisation”: Stop the persecution of opponents of war by Germany’s secret service!
The latest report by the Verfassungsschutz (Germany's secret service) lays the basis to criminalise every voice critical of the government’s pro-war policy and support for the genocide in Gaza.
•Christoph Vandreier
At least 21 dead in terrorist attacks in Makhachkala and Derbent, Russia
Everything indicates that the imperialist powers were involved in the attack which serves their war aims and strategy in several respects.
•Lev Novitsky
Zionist provocation at Los Angeles synagogue used by Democrats to escalate the assault on democratic rights
Although assaults continued around the synagogue and the nearby neighborhood for several hours, the only arrest reported was a pro-Israeli counter demonstrator for carrying a sharp pole.
•Alan Gilman
Kenya’s Ruto withdraws IMF-Finance Bill in attempt to stem social explosion after massacre of anti-austerity protestors
The opposition is led by millionaire Raila Odinga and has no fundamental differences with the Ruto government’s economic programme. Odinga’s concern is that the current government is incapable of implementing the required austerity measures in the face of rising opposition.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Workers and youth in Turkey demand release of Bogdan Syrotiuk
The campaign for the freedom of Bogdan Syrotiuk, the anti-war socialist imprisoned by the Zelenskiy regime, has seen many workers and youth from Turkey post messages calling for his immediate release.
•Ulaş Ateşçi
How the French New Popular Front strengthens the far right
Mélenchon could not make it clearer that he sees his task as promoting the completely discredited politicians of the Socialist Party.
•Peter Schwarz
Julian Assange is free, but the struggle to defend democratic rights continues
On Monday, Julian Assange walked out of the UK’s Belmarsh Prison a free man, following five years of imprisonment and nearly 15 years of persecution by a cabal of imperialist governments led by the United States which hounded him for exposing their crimes.
•Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board
High levels of toxic PFAS chemicals found in Australia’s drinking water
The so-called “forever chemicals” pose a considerable health threat, causing thyroid cancer and liver damage. High exposure can lead to decreased fertility, developmental delays in children, as well as increased risk of prostate, kidney and testicular cancer.
•Frank Gaglioti
“The EV race has become a cost-cutting race”: Global auto execs declare war on workers
In comments to an investors meeting in Milan, Italy, Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares pledged to shift the company’s supplier base “from the Western world to the best-cost countries.”
•Jerry White
South Korean lithium battery fire kills 23 workers
In a country with a history of industrial disasters, the tragedy raises further questions about unsafe and exploitative conditions in the facilities feeding corporate global supply chains.
•Mike Head
What’s at stake in the contract for US rural letter carriers
The next contract covering nearly 130,000 workers, is an opportunity for rural carriers to mobilize a rank-and-file rebellion to fight the destruction of the post office, which is being carried out with the support of both big-business parties and the postal union bureaucracy.
•Omri Wolfe
New Caledonia independence activists deported to prisons in France
The deportations, in an operation clearly planned at the top levels of the French state, further exposes Macron’s shift towards dictatorial rule.
•John Braddock
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