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Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Academic staff at Bradford University, UK walk out for five days over jobs cull; protests against collapse in living standards continue in Iran, including by steelworkers demanding jobs and youth protesting exorbitant price of bread; stoppage by lecturers at University of Zimbabwe begun April over massive pay cut continues

Mobilize the working class to stop the Gaza genocide!

The genocidal war in Gaza, waged by Israel with the full backing of the United States and its imperialist allies, can only be stopped through the unified and revolutionary action of the international working class.

WSWS Editorial Board

Trump’s war against the Fed intensifies

While Trump has said he has “no plans” to remove Powell—he has received legal advice that an attempt to do so would most likely fail if it went to the Supreme Court—he has maintained a virtual daily barrage against the Fed chair over his refusal to lower interest rates.

Nick Beams

EU interior ministers intensify attacks on refugees

The ongoing assault against migrants and refugees serves as a lever for capitalist governments to eliminate democratic rights, suspend basic human rights, and establish dictatorship. This applies to both the United States and the European Union.

Peter Schwarz

Crypto market capitalisation hits $4 trillion

In less than three years, the size of the crypto market has increased five-fold, a rise which has accelerated on the back of Trump’s pledge to make the US the crypto capital of the world.

Nick Beams

F1: The Movie–Hollywood formulas 1, 2 and 3

The technology and skills involved in Formula 1 racing are extraordinary—the vehicles are traveling at 200 miles per hour and more, and sometimes within inches of each other.

David Walsh

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Argentina: Mass protest in defense of public health; Brazilian Government workers protest in Natal; California farm workers to strike against ICE raids;

Taiwan mounts massive anti-China war games

As Washington prepares for war with China, Taiwan holds its longest and most extensive military exercises and civilian drills, based on “whole-of-society defence resilience.”

Peter Symonds

Stop the escalating genocide in Gaza!

The only way to end the genocide and the broader war of which it is a part is through the massive expansion of the class struggle in every country.

WSWS Editorial Board

Trump twists and turns over Epstein investigation

The White House is seeking to block any significant release of information about the sex-trafficking operation by the long-time Trump crony, which implicates a large section of the US ruling elite.

Patrick Martin

This week in history: July 21-27

Concorde crash near Paris; Portuguese military bids for power; Massacre in Korea by US troops; Britain defines Palestinian citizenship

Trump’s tariff threats against Brazil: The necessary socialist response

The GSI calls on the Brazilian working class to respond to the rise of imperialism and war, the threat of fascism and mounting social inequality by fighting alongside its international class brothers and sisters for a global socialist revolution.

Statement of the Socialist Equality Group (Brazil)

Los Angeles’s homeless “decline” report: A political scam

Los Angeles officials, with the enthusiastic backing of the media and the DSA, are using manipulated data, identity politics and privatization to conceal mass displacement and protect the profits of billionaires as homelessness deepens in the county.

Marc Wells

Trump, Republicans maneuver to defuse Epstein crisis

Release of the Epstein files could implicate hundreds of leading political and corporate figures, Democrats and Republicans, documenting the corruption and depravity of the entire ruling class.

Barry Grey

Zohran Mamdani woos Wall Street

The candidate for New York City mayor’s rightward shift reflects the class character of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America.

Daniel de Vries

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

India: 3,000 outsourced Vijayawada municipal sanitation workers strike; Odisha dairy workers strike for permanent jobs; West Bengal child development workers demonstrate; Australia: Helensburgh coal miners walk out again; New Zealand nurses vote for nationwide strike.

Sordid scandal erupts in the UK over cover-up of military leak of Afghan names

Unacknowledged by all is the fact that any harm which might have come from the leak would have been just the latest blood spilled in a war jointly pursued by Labour and Tory governments, at the cost of up to 250,000 lives lost directly as result of the fighting, and countless more indirectly.

Thomas Scripps

What’s behind the Trump-Powell clash

Apart from the boost which an interest rate cut would provide for the speculators in financial markets, one of the factors in Trump’s incessant demands for a rate reduction is the rising interest bill on US government debt.

Nick Beams

Social crisis deepening in New Zealand

Falling real wages, higher living costs, increasing unemployment and homelessness are all intensifying amid growing class inequality.

John Braddock

Milwaukee transit workers vote to authorize strike

On July 9 workers at the Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) voted by 98 percent to 2 percent to authorize a strike, another indication of the growing anger and militancy among workers across the United States, and internationally, where waves of strikes and protests are increasing.

Bill Shaw
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