UK budget: a pittance for crumbling, asbestos riddled schools

IAM bureaucracy runs roughshod over rank and file to force through sellout contract at Boeing

Hundreds of New York Times technology workers go on strike, disrupting US election coverage

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Israel bans UN Palestine relief agency as part of Gaza mass starvation campaign

American historians issue politically bankrupt and intellectually dishonest appeal for Kamala Harris

DSA-backed “Uncommitted Movement” received nearly half a million dollars from pro-Democratic Party Super PAC

Harris holds rally at Muhlenberg College in wake of firing of professor for speaking out against Palestinian genocide

Amid crackdown on Gaza protests at US art schools, School of the Art Institute of Chicago students stage walkout over genocide

Longshore job actions spread to largest Canadian seaports in BC and Montreal

Body of last missing Impact Plastics worker lost in Helene’s flood water recovered

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Australia: New South Wales teachers’ union rams through sell-out wages and conditions deal

Renowned academic Haim Bresheeth arrested in London under Terrorism Act during protest against Israel’s genocide

Kartal Municipality strike in Turkey exposes CHP, DISK and the pseudo left

UNICEF head warns everyone in Northern Gaza “is at imminent risk of dying”

Social murder in Spain: 217 dead, 1,900 missing in Valencia flood

As Boeing workers vote on third sellout deal, parts supplier Eaton begins replacing striking workers at Michigan factory

Governors in three US states ready National Guard troops in response to threats of election-related violence

Stanford University promotes the anti-public health agenda of the COVID denialists

Far-right commentator Candace Owens barred from entering Australia

Reject the third sellout TA at Boeing! The rank and file must seize control of the strike from the IAM bureaucrats for victory!

Oxfam report: “Inequality is at an all-time high – and rising.”

South Carolina executes Richard Moore despite pleas from trial judge, jurors and former corrections department director

Nearly 150 people killed in Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Trami

Pacific leaders’ fact-finding mission in New Caledonia

SAG-AFTRA leadership continues to betray workers in the entertainment industry

Explosion kills 12 steelworkers in Tlaxcala, central Mexico

Third Peruvian transport strike raises demand for end to Boluarte regime

Stop CUPW’s delaying tactics! Launch a working-class political struggle against Canada Post and the Trudeau government!

Trudeau slashes immigration as part of a lurch still further right

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Israel’s war budget points to a deepening economic, social and military crisis

UK Tories elect Kemi Badenoch as leader in rightward lurch

Australian prime minister fails to stem Qantas upgrades scandal

Australian COVID inquiry promotes “let it rip,” denounces public health measures

War, inequality and dictatorship: The critical issues excluded from the 2024 election

Hundreds of journalists sign letter condemning Israel for targeting and killing Palestinian reporters

Trump says anti-vaccine zealot Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will have  leading health policy role in his administration

Australian university educators send message of support to striking US Boeing workers

Australia: Hospital-acquired COVID infection caused more than 6,000 cases and almost 300 deaths in NSW last year

No Other Land playing in New York for one week but no US distributor—A courageous indictment of Israel’s crimes and its defenders

Despite strong opposition from Quebec’s nurses, the FIQ trade union pushes through concessionary contract

Wartime economy vs. public education: Harris’ platform promotes the school-to-military industry pipeline

The German government’s “security package”: a further step towards a police state

PepsiCo announces closure of four US plants, eliminating 500 jobs 

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

VIDEO: Victimised Royal Mail delivery worker Des Beach exposes anatomy of a management frame-up

Erdogan government arrests Kurdish CHP mayor in Istanbul

The Unequal Pandemic exposes COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on the poor

Oppose threat to close UK Vauxhall plants: for a unified fight against job losses worldwide

Bill Clinton defends mass murder of civilians in Gaza genocide

Sri Lanka’s JVP government drops election promise to abolish terrorism law

Survivors of abuse demand accountability over decades-long cover-up by the New Zealand state

Opposition to job cuts mounts as Ford announces months-long shutdown of EV truck plant in Rouge complex 

Australia: Rail union holds 5-minute “strike” as NSW Labor government seeks to cut real wages

European Union imposes tariffs on Chinese EVs

IAM union announces third sellout deal to end Boeing strike, with vote the day before US presidential election

Trump kickstarts campaign to overturn 2024 election results

Bird flu virus detected in pigs for the first time in US

Ontario NDP doubles down on witch hunt of pro-Palestine legislator Sarah Jama

Bolivia’s former President Evo Morales survives assassination attempt

Volkswagen demands 20 percent wage cut

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Undercover: Exposing the Far Right uncovers the race science conspiracy

Palestinian academic secures legal victory against witch-hunt at Sheffield Hallam University

Israeli strikes on Iran: A dress rehearsal for a wider war

Bernie Sanders calls on workers and youth outraged  over Gaza genocide to vote for Kamala Harris

Parents and teachers protest closure of Acero charter schools in Chicago: “2,000 of our students will be displaced”

Harris’s Washington speech: Coverup and complicity in the face of fascism

Israeli massacre of children in Gaza is “greatest of any conflict in recorded warfare,” UN expert warns

Three US governors issue joint statement demanding end to Boeing strike

All eyes focused on crucial government meeting in China as economy continues to slow

US Supreme Court approves voter purge in Virginia

Western Sydney University IYSSE Annual General Meeting elaborates socialist perspective against war and genocide

Canada Post workers overwhelmingly authorize strike

Samsung India workers speak out after CITU’s betrayal of their 37-day strike

At least 158 dead as flash floods in Spain devastate Valencia

Labour’s first budget a downpayment on its offensive against British working class

Macron visits Morocco as NATO-Russia war spreads across Africa

Workers and young people speak out against CFMEU administration at SEP (Australia) meeting

Sri Lankan president again declares: No increase to public sector salaries

After plant closures announced at VW: For a global rank-and-file campaign against job cuts in the auto industry!

Israel massacres 93 in Northern Gaza airstrike, bans UN humanitarian organization

As billionaires pour millions into second coup, Trump agitates against vote in Pennsylvania

French far-right government threatens to impose militarist austerity budget by decree

2024 Nebraska Senate race: A cesspool of political reaction

Aurora, Ontario arts center censors anti-genocide artists and closes down exhibition as “the best possible business decision”

Following federal “hospital reform” measures, Left Party leads the way in closing hospitals

Sudan’s civil war and “world’s worst” humanitarian crisis unleashed by imperialist scheming

Trump’s fascist rally at Madison Square Garden

Georgian president refuses to recognize election results, appeals for Western backing

Japan’s LDP suffers electoral defeat for only the third time since 1955

SEP meeting in Australia calls for building worker rank-and-file committees to fight CFMEU administration

Labor’s cuts set to destroy over 1,000 jobs at Australian universities

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