Nov 6, 2024

1. The ending of the 2024 US presidential election: thanks to the Democratic Party, Donald Trump wins

2. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu fires his defense minister, Yoav Gallant; Israel continues its relentless attacks on Palestinians in Gaza who are starving and have nowhere to flee

3. World Socialist Web Site reporters speak to voters exiting election polling stations in Detroit, Michigan and get informative, sobering answers

4. Middle-class radical groups in the United States coalesce in the US 2024 election to lead the working class into political dead ends

5. American actress Teri Garr (1944-2024)

6. The Socialist Equality Party denounces state attacks on anti-genocide protest and demands Britain free the Filton-10!

7. Sri Lanka's new pro-imperialist government declares in essence that all strikes and worker rights to organize will be abolished

8. Wage cuts and job losses mount as unions call off miners' strike in Australia

9. All belligerents maneuver to take political advantage of the entry of North Korean troops on the side of Russia in the US/NATO-proxy war in Ukraine

10. Declaring war on the working class: the German federal finance minister calls for massive tax cuts for the wealthy, a frontal attack on social services, social rights and environmental regulations, and strict austerity measures

11. New UK Labour government will not increase budget to address crumbling, asbestos-laden schools

12. Citing wage pressures and a tight labor market, the Australian central bank punishes workers by keeping interest rates high

13. The Canadian ruling class fosters far-right vigilantes to suppress all opposition to its imperialist drive to war and Israel’s genocide

14. Train and engine service workers at the North American BNSF railroad reject their union's sellout bargain that would eliminate locomotive conductors

15. To spite the claim that the 2023 Teamsters negotiated contract was a “historic” victory for workers, UPS makes plans to shed thousands of jobs

Nov 5, 2024

1.  Ideologists of class compromise and the glories of capitalist democracy reveal their intellectual and moral bankruptcy on the eve of the US presidential election

2. IAM bureaucracy dodges questions after it betrays Boeing machinists to end their powerful strike on the eve of the US presidential election

3. Strike by technology workers at the New York Times has the potential to disrupt its high-stakes news cycle coverage of the 2024 US elections

4. Is Sri Lanka'a new president a a Marxist, a leftist, a “Lenin-loving President” and “a people’s president?” The answer is a resounding "No."

5. China's ability to withstand US trade restrictions and improve on its technological capabilities portends increasing economic conflict that can lead to war

6. As its killing continues, Israel bans the most important and critical Palestinian relief agency, UNRWA, from operating within the occupied territories

7. Money trail reveals that the Uncommitted Movement in the United States was formed earlier this year by Democratic Party operatives in response to massive anger over the ongoing genocide in Gaza

8. Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris visits Muhlenberg College on her last full day of campaigning for votes. Muhlenberg College is where Professor Maura Finkelstein was terminated this year for speaking out against the genocide taking place in Palestine

9. Protests by students, teachers and staff at art colleges in Chicago and elsewhere "disturb the equilibrium" of institutions that abet war and genocide

10. Unrest at seaports in Quebec and British Columbia irritates business and government leaders across Canada

11. The recent recovery of an Impact Plastics worker's body in Tennessee adds to the deadly toll of victims from Hurricane Helene

12. Among recent strikes in the Americas, San Francisco hotel workers are arrested in a protest over stalled contract talks

13. World-renowned Jewish Israeli historian, lifelong peace activist and anti-Zionist, Haim Bresheeth, is arrested in London during a protest against Israeli’s genocide

14. The union representing public schools teachers in New South Wales, Australia rams through a bargaining contract in a "grossly antidemocratic process"

15.  Widespread anger reaches a boiling point over attacks on the wages of municipal workers in Turkey

16. Vote for Joseph Kishore and Jerry White in 2024!

Nov 4, 2024

1. Director of UNICEF: "the entire Palestinian population in North Gaza is at imminent risk of dying"

2. The recent flooding in Valencia, Spain is not only an ecological catastrophe, it is also a social crime

3. Jerry White: The replacement of striking workers at Eaton Aerospace in Michigan shows how "both corporate parties want to smash the resistance of the working class"

4. A message from the Boeing Workers Rank-and-File Committee to 33,000 striking machinists: Reject Boeing's third sellout deal!

5. US state governors in Washington, Oregon and Nevada prepare for election-related violence

6. Prestigious Stanford University in Palo Alto, California hosts a partisan conference of promoters of pandemic misinformation and COVID-19 contrarians

7. Oxfam and Development Finance International jointly issue a report describing the global rise of inequality and austerity

8. The Australian government's banning of the divisive US pundit Candace Owens plays directly into the hands of forces on the extreme-right

9. While death penalty opponents and clergy members, hold a vigil, the US state of South Carolina executes its second prisoner within a month

10. Typhoon Trami (also called Kristine) kills nearly 150 people in the Philippines

11. A long-delayed fact-finding mission of Pacific territory leaders meets in New Caledonia at the request of its pro-independence President Louis Mapou

12. While their SAG-AFTRA union negotiates in secret and thousands of colleagues lose their jobs, US video game performers continue their four-month strike

13. Twelve steelworkers are killed when a Mexican steel mill, known for having faulty equipment, ignites

14. Recent strikes by Peruvian public transportation workers, reacting to extortion rackets, raise significant political questions

15. The Canadian branch of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee propose ways for mail delivery workers to fight against the "Amazonification" of their jobs

16. The Trudeau-led Canadian government, blaming immigrants for taking jobs and adding to homelessness, imposes new rules restricting temporary residents

17. To pay for war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fascist cabinet wants big spending cuts and big tax increases

18. Kemi Badenoch, the new leader of the United Kingdom's pro-austerity, militarist, national chauvinist Conservative Party, presages a farther shift to the right

19. Vote for Joseph Kishore and Jerry White in 2024!

Nov 2, 2024

1. Americans must break free of the Democratic and Republican Parties because choosing between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump means choosing between two paths to catastrophe

2. With young people being groomed to enter the workforce or military ASAP, high-quality public education in the United States is under attack

3. Data acquired by freedom of information laws reveals shocking numbers of patients caught COVID and died while in Australian hospitals last year

4. Australian government releases an 892-page inquiry report that is a crude promotion of the profit-driven “let it rip” policies that persist to this day

5. A new film lays bare the failures that led to high COVID death rates and their unequal impact on the poorest communities in Britain

6. A signal that large sections of the financial oligarchy are prepared to end public vaccination and normalize mass death: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s increasingly prominent role in Trump’s presidential campaign

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Journalists from around the world sign a petition to demand that Israel stop killing their comrades

8. Anticipating explosive class struggles, the German government ratchets up police powers and attacks on refugees

9. No Other Land, an award-winning film directed by a Palestinian-Israeli collective and deserving a wide audience, is suppressed due to pro-Zionist political pressure

10. With the complicity of the Teamsters' complacency, the world’s second-largest food and beverage business, PepsiCo, announces mass worker layoffs

11. Jobs in jeopardy: UK Vauxhall operations are being eyed for closure by the multinational auto manufacturing conglomerate, Stellantis

12. An attack on basic democratic rights: an elected mayor is arrested and replaced with a trustee in Turkey

13. The current Qantas upgrades scandal of Australian Prime Minister Albanese illustrates not only how members of the political establishment have long lived in a very different world from ordinary people, but also how their venalities can be taken advantage of by their establishment rivals

14. Western Sydney University rank-and-file educators in Australia send a message of support to the 33,000 Boeing machinists on strike in the United States

15. A nurse's union in Quebec, Canada ratifies a labor contract that will betray its 88,000 members

16. A Royal Mail delivery worker from County Durham, England describes to a World Socialist Web Site reporter how he was framed and fired

17. Vote for Joseph Kishore and Jerry White in 2024!

Nov 1, 2024

Socialist Equality Party Chairman David North:
 

Please attend an important panel discussion and Socialist Equality Party campaign event this Sunday, November 3, about how to carry forward the fight for socialism after the US presidential election

1. What is the secret former president Donald Trump is sharing with House Speaker Mike Johnson in the final week of the 2024 US presidential campaign?

2. Campaigning on behalf of Kamala Harris who is running for president in the US, former president Bill Clinton defends Israel's barbaric genocide of Palestinians in Gaza

3. The abandonment by officials of an expelled pro-Palestinian Ontario legislator in Canada underscores how the pseudo-left supports genocide in Gaza and why protests aimed at appealing to the establishment are a dead end

4. Unprecedented since World War II: Volkswagen provocatively demands a 20% wage cut of its workers as it loses sales to Chinese manufacturer, BYD

5. The recent assassination attempt on its former President Evo Morales marks a sharp intensification of the conflict between factions of the ruling class in resource-rich Bolivia

6. New pseudo-leftist Sri Lankan government reneges on campaign promises to abolish repressive military and police powers

7. The idling of a Ford EV truck manufacturing plant in Dearborn, Michigan is part of an international jobs massacre automakers are pursuing to move inventory and increase profits

8. Officials and lawmakers in New Zealand are determined to avoid punishing those responsible for covering up decades of institutional abuse and neglect of children, young people, and psychiatric patients

9. Passenger rail workers across New South Wales, Australia stage a toothless five-minute work-stoppage strike in a prescribed effort to influence wage bargaining

10. The European Union is set to impose tariffs on importing Chinese electric vehicles despite warnings that tariffs and other protectionist measures are fracturing the global economy

11. The IAM union bureaucracy delivers a third sellout contract agreement for 33,000 striking Boeing machinists to vote on only one day before the US presidential election

12. An autopsy of a pig from an Oregon farm reveals that it was infected with the potentially pandemic-causing H5N1 bird flu virus

13. A worthwhile British documentary (that lost a theatrical release due to safety concerns) exposes the international and financial connections of the global fascist movement

14. A Palestinian academic who was suspended and branded an anti-semite by Sheffield Hallam University in England, Shahd Abusalama, wins a settlement with the help of crowd-funding

15. Vote for Joseph Kishore and Jerry White in 2024! 

Oct 31, 2024

1. Joseph Kishore, the Socialist Equality Party US presidential candidate, observes Kamala Harris’s big event, billed as her “closing argument”

2. UN human rights expert: Israel’s killing and wounding of children in Gaza is the “greatest of any conflict in recorded warfare”

3. Israel's largest-ever strike on Iran: did it pave the way for a de-escalation of conflict? Or was it a dress rehearsal for a wider war?

4. Bernie Sanders, "vote-catcher" for the US Democratic Party, attempts to allay fears of millions of people who might refuse to vote for Kamala Harris due to her central role in the daily campaign of mass murder and ethnic cleansing taking place in Gaza

5. By approving a voter purge in Virginia without providing explanations, the US Supreme Court reveals itself again as being a partisan enforcer for the now openly fascistic Republican Party

6. Governors from Missouri, Montana and Utah issue a joint letter to Boeing and the IAM union bureaucracy demanding an end to the ongoing Boeing workers' strike

7. Largely due to losing pay and benefits because of changes in the character of letter mail and parcel delivery, 50,000 workers at Canada Post vote overwhelmingly to authorize a strike

8. Flash flooding and lax disaster planning in Spain wreak chaos and death in their wake

9. Britain's Labour government claims its first budget signals an end to austerity. This is a lie.

10. The November meeting of China’s National People’s Congress is set to be closely watched because of concerns about China's slowing economy and its impact on global growth

11. "We believed in the CITU, but they have left us by the wayside": Samsung workers in India speak to World Socialist Web Site reporters about their union's betrayal

12. Parents and teachers confront budget austerity measures by protesting the closing of schools and the displacement of students in Chicago

13. Students seeking to replace capitalism with socialism report on an annually held IYSSE meeting at Western Sydney University in Australia

14. Vote for Joseph Kishore and Jerry White in 2024!