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Workers Struggles: The Americas

Mass protests and strikes continue in Argentina in opposition to cuts in cinema and universities taking place, while 1,300 Airbus machinists in Montreal have voted to reject management’s offer and authorize a strike.

Netanyahu doubles down on planned assault on Rafah

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel would proceed with its plans to assault Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza where over 1.5 million refugees are sheltering.

Andre Damon

This week in history: March 18-24

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.

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

India: Tamil Nadu Primary Cooperative Bank employees demand higher wages: Bangladeshi garment workers violently attacked by police in Gazipur; Qantas pilots in Western Australia strike again for pay rise; New Zealand nurses protest over payment delays.

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Protests and strikes across Europe marking International Women’s Day March 8 denounce discrimination, austerity and genocide in Gaza; nurses and medical staff in Iran protest low wages, overwork and compulsory overtime, following strikes and protests by retirees, oil and sugar workers; municipal workers in eThekwini, South Africa continue wildcat stoppage over pay parity in defiance of court order and union pleas

Australian Labor government helping to starve Gaza

While shedding crocodile tears over mass civilian deaths, Australia continues to march in lockstep with the Biden administration that is funding and overseeing the genocide.

Oscar Grenfell

US House passes bipartisan bill to ban TikTok or force its sale

The US House of Representatives passed a bill banning the short-form video-sharing app TikTok on Wednesday, with Democrats and Republicans coming together in support of a law to promote anti-Chinese propaganda and attacks on First Amendment rights.

Kevin Reed

US financial regulators concerned about another crisis

Fearing that the much vaunted “resilience and stability” of the banking and financial system could be undermined at any point regulators are working to put in place measures to prevent such an occurrence.

Nick Beams

India’s 1983 Nellie communal massacre in historical perspective

The Nellie massacre—in which India’s now governing party, the Hindu supremacist BJP, played a major role—was the outcome of a campaign of communal incitement targeting “illegal foreigners,” that is highly impoverished refugees and migrants from Bangladesh.

Martina Inessa, Yuvan Darwin, Kranti Kumara

The global significance of Germany’s train drivers’ strike

The fight against inflation, cuts in real wages and increasing workloads cannot be conducted under the leadership of the trade unions and is inextricably linked to the fight against war and military rearmament.

Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei

No charges or investigation one week after fatal industrial explosion in Detroit suburb

One week after industrial explosions rocked the Detroit suburb of Clinton Township, Michigan, killing a young bystander and spewing steel gas canisters and shrapnel as far as two miles from the blast site, the police and local authorities have yet to initiate an investigation or lay any charges against the owners of the cannabis business that erupted in flames and multiple detonations.

Valery Tsekov
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