1. An emergency summit on the Ukraine war meets in Berlin today. What will US President Joseph Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron talk about?

2. Assertions that US President Biden is seeking to promote a “measured response” and wants to “turn down the temperature,” is unlikely to stop Israel from attacking Iran

3. Time is running out: what striking machinists at Boeing must do if they are not to be crushed by the US government and Wall Street

4. With utter contempt of public opinion, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles votes unanimously to execute an innocent man

5. A passenger train accident in New Jersey is a consequence of transit infrastructure and operations having been consistently starved of funding for decades

6. Socialist Equality Party (UK): The dead end of the pseudo-left Stop the War Coalition, and the need to build a genuine path to ending war... because capitalism cannot be reformed

7. Will a a newly-formed far-right political party win elections this Saturday in Canadian British Columbia's provincial election?

8. An examination of the big bank failures in 2023 shows that the flaws that caused them have only been allowed to grow

9. Perspective: Trump's seeming unhinged targeting of "an enemy within" is a staple of the fascist wing of the capitalist class

10. A recent poll indicates a deep-going crisis of the Albanese Labor government and the entire political establishment in Australia

11. The true value of New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's left cover for the Democratic Party

12. An investigation into how the billionaire former US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and her husband pour money into fascistic, far-right political organizations and campaigns

13. Mostly unaware of how their unions and Giorgia Meloni's fascistic government are attempting to disarm them, Italian Stellantis autoworkers prepare for a one-day strike

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1. Joseph Kishore explains that with less than three weeks to go, trivialities, personal attacks and demagogic lies dominate the US presidential election--  while issues of war and peace are shoved out of the sight and hearing of the majority of the American population

2. Where is justice? An heartbreaking story about an innocent man in Texas scheduled to die for a crime that was never committed

3. Putting international law and imperialistic objectives to the test, Indo-Canadian diplomatic relations crumble following unspecified, but undoubtedly massive evidence, that the Indian government had sanctioned targeting Canadian citizens for assassination

4. Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis is "a confused, shallow mess."  Why?

5. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum continues her predecessor's policy of utilizing the military as a powerful and unaccountable instrument of repression

6. COVID is not over and is not the flu: new XEC variant of COVID causing great concern as it spreads

7. Amid price gouging and government red tape, Florida hurricane victims try to cope in the aftermaths of Helene and Milton

8. Nurse's union in New Jersey holds a vote on a tentative contract without giving the nurses, who want safe staffing, time to study it

9. Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te delivers a National Day speech tailored to provoke China and side with US war aims

10. In the "public's interest" government officials reserve the right to shut down an impending strike of public transit workers who cite overwork and understaffing concerns in the prohibitively expensive Aspen, Colorado area

11. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken utilizes the ASEAN-organized East Asia Summit held in Laos to needle China and construct alliances and alibis in advance of war preparations

12. Sri Lanka's new "progressive" president rejects UN human rights inquiries into war crimes dating back to the genocidal communal war against the separatist Tamil Tigers (in which an estimated 40,000 Tamil civilians were slaughtered)

13. Michigan Medicine hospital workers offered an opportunity to vote soon on an SEIU "mystery agreement" announced after the workers were told not to strike; workers say they "smell a rat"

14. The CEO of Walgreens pharmaceutical and sundries chain hopes to make the company more profitable by closing 1,200 stores over the next three years

15. Workers on the Rank-and-File Committee at StarPlus Energy battery plant in Kokomo, Indiana reveal grim and hazardous working conditions that exist with the complicity of the UAW

16. Against a backdrop of escalating world conflict, Russia is set to outstrip spending on social needs by hugely increasing its military and security spending

17. Adamant striking machinists have Boeing on the ropes and scrambling for money infusions to crush their rebellion, but how can they win against the corporate giant so long as the US government can intervene?

18. Like their counterparts at Boeing in the United States, aerospace workers at Embraer in Brazil are also rejecting their union's "poisoned" contract

19. The Socialist Equality Party and its youth and student movement win a big victory at the University of Michigan on behalf of students' democratic rights and free speech

20. Europeans are eager to hear David North speak at an international book fair event to be held in Frankfurt, Germany on October 19th

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1. The US Biden administration and the Israeli Netanyahu government conspire to attack Iran and expand war in the Middle East

2. Latest horrifying Israeli attack on Gazans (including patients with IV drips attached to their arms) burns them alive within their tents and without water to put the flames out

3. Britain for sale: Labour government fetes financial tycoons, with King Charles glad-handing and Elton John performing, at St. Paul's Cathedral

4. To the fascist former US president Donald Trump, some immigrants are "not people"

5. Germany delivers new arms to Israel and Ukraine; meanwhile, NATO conducts manoeuvres "to practice" for nuclear war

6. US Navy Pacific Fleet Commander gives new Sri Lankan president a fancy new jet to gauge his willingness to work with Washington as its conflict with China in the region grows

7. Principal nurses’ union in Quebec submits a flawed tentative contract drafted by a pro-government mediator

8. US Biden administration provides paltry relief and pithy sentiments to impacted Floridians after Hurricane Milton; Hurricane Helene relief workers are forced to relocate after being threatened

9. Devastation of road and railroad infrastructure has global consequences and isolates the residents who were hit by Hurricane Helene

10. Determined to defend a major defense contractor, the US Biden administration sends its acting Labor Secretary to pressure mediators to bring an end to the strike at Boeing

11. Australian Labor government "Voice" project had exploited widespread public support for ameliorating the appalling living conditions of aborigines to advance a pro-war, pro-business agenda

12. Albanese Labor government deepens repression of anti-war and anti-genocide protest in Australia

13. Rank-and-File Committee of staff and students at Western Sydney University in Australia condemn the arrest of peaceful anti-genocide student protesters

14. After Israel's invasion of Lebanon, Turkish President Erdoğan's criticisms of the UN Security Council and Turkey's NATO allies ring hollow

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1. Principled artists speak out against genocide and oppression. Arundhati Roy on the US: "A party to the genocide cannot be a mediator."

2. With but three weeks to go, the US national election process has been laid bare as a diseased political system, controlled by a corporate financial oligarchy

3. As the threat of a broader Middle East war intensifies, the Biden administration will now put US "boots on the ground" in Israel

4. Determined striking machinists at Boeing resist being intimidated by fear tactics

5. State and federal labor laws in the US assist unions to have their workers crossing picket lines to scab on other workers

6. A presumption of normalcy cannot conceal the deep corruption of the US Supreme Court as it opens its current term after a summer break

7. French government abandons plans for voting reforms in New Caledonia to buy time for building a consensus to support imperialistic goals

8. Australian doctors declare their support for the striking machinists at Boeing after reading about them at the World Socialist Web Site

9. Trump delivers deranged and provocative rants on campaign travels; Democrats close a campaign office in Tempe, Arizona after it is shot at several times

10. Sri Lankan Socialist Equality Party announce its candidates for the November 14 snap election

11. Sri Lankan Socialist Equality Party to discuss its own election strategy in advance of the recently announced November 14 general election

12. A reluctant Chinese government promises economic stimulus to hurting investors but has yet to provide specifics

13. Resignations and disarray surround embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams who was widely thought to symbolize the future of the Democratic Party

14. Deadly industrial accidents are the outcome of bipartisan deregulation, the dismantling of basic safety measures, and the transformation of union bureaucrats into corporate shareholders

15. Taking its cue from cruel and reactionary European immigration policies, the ruling class seeks measures to curtail asylum seekers in Canada 

16. Bloomberg News speaks for the ruling class: "America has too many teachers!"

17. Pete Rose (1941-2024), a go-getting baseball player disgraced by a gambling addiction during an era tainted by steroid enhancements and the normalization of sports-betting

18. UK Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, and alleged reformer, "grovels" before a multinational conglomerate that owns P&O Ferries, responsible for a profitable mass firing of workers

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Why I am voting for Joseph Kishore and Jerry White in this year's US presidential election:

David North, Chairman of the US Socialist Equality Party and Chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site explains....

Transcript of David North from October 9 Socialist Equality Party election rally: 

We are engaged in constant discussion with our readers, with our supporters. And the basic question which comes up in one or another way is: can't you offer a somewhat simpler path? Isn't there some simpler solution?

Well, the question which we would pose in response is, can you think of any serious solution to any of the problems which we confront without a vast transfer of wealth? From the heights of capitalist society, to the broad mass of people?  

Can you conceive of a set of circumstances where the rich, the hyper-rich, the malignantly rich, are going to accept any restriction on the accumulation of their wealth?  Where they will say to us, "you know, we've been thinking it over. You've got a point there. We should be more reasonable. We shouldn't be satisfied with billions. Why don't we accept a more reasonable income?"

No, they won't.

Classes don't make those sorts of decisions. And in any case it's not even a question of their individual desires.

It's a question of the functioning of an economic system.

Capitalism strives for domination.

Marx spoke a long time ago of the capitalist werewolf hunger for surplus value. The imperatives of the system drive the capitalist class toward exploitation. That is the metabolism, the economic metabolism of the system.

And we saw it very graphically expressed when the pandemic began. Here we were, the world was confronted with a global crisis. A deadly virus.

Now, public health knows how you deal with it. You have to stop the transmission of the virus. That requires the putting into place of definite modes of social behavior to cut off transmission.

And of course even the implementation of such measures for a month or six weeks would be immensely effective!

That was not possible because the cutting... that would mean cutting off the transfer of wealth, created by the working class, to the capitalist class.  It would not be possible. So the decision was made to accept mass death, mass illness, and it continues to this day.

So, yes, it would be very nice if we could, in the interest of gaining votes, present to everyone a simple program (something which sounded very reasonable).  

But if you want that, there are all sorts of organizations you can look to. The Greens. They have simple answers. The DSA has the simplest answer of all: "Support the Democratic Party."

We say "No."

You have to recognize that the answers to the great problems of our time depend upon the global organization of the working class (which is the revolutionary force in society).

And if that sounds like a challenge, yes it is!

But in our own history, our country has a history of two great revolutions.
 
The first revolution, which raised the question of human equality, however limited the conditions of the time allowed that to be truly realized. And the Civil War abolished a system which seemed to be impregnable. The slave system.
 
Very few people who were alive in 1855, 1856, could have imagined that within a decade, slavery would be abolished in the United States.
 
Now it didn't solve all the problems. What emerged then was a fully developed capitalist system with a new set of new forms of exploitation.
 
But we're at a point in history where it is possible to effect the most dramatic change in the history of mankind.
 
And that's why (as in every great period it's sort of "either-or"), either mankind advances, or it faces destruction.
 
If the social revolution is impossible, then it means the survival of mankind is impossible.

That is, the face of that future is already present in what we're observing:  in Ukraine, what we're observing in Gaza.

There are no limits on the capitalist class. They will stop at nothing!

All talk of human rights has suddenly disappeared.

And so, the appeal which we're making to all of you is to think about this perspective seriously. 

Read. Study. Follow the World Socialist Website, and make a decision to really conduct a serious political struggle!

Put aside the search for half measures, false solutions, easy paths (which don't require very much of anyone, except that you hope for the best even while you're expecting the worst).

That's why we appeal to you to become active in our campaign, and remember that our work doesn't stop on November 6th or November 7th.

What is the situation going to be in the aftermath of the election, presuming we even know who the winner is?

Do you see a situation where any of the problems we presently confront will simply dissolve and go away?

No, they won't.

So draw the necessary conclusions.

Become active in the work of the Socialist Equality Party,  the International Youth and Students for Social Equality.

Commit yourself to a serious political struggle to change the world!

That's what we're proposing.  That's the purpose of our election campaign.

And if, to the extent that we're able to make advances along those lines, we will view this election campaign as being an immense success!

1. Boeing puts pressure on striking machinists by laying off 10% of all its workers; workers must beware being betrayed by the Democratic Party

2. Ukrainian president Zelensky makes rounds to beg for money and arms as uncertainty grows over the impact of next month’s US elections on NATO’s war plans

3. No let up: Israel intensifies killing in Gaza and Lebanon

4. As the 2024 US presidential campaigns near their end, the Democratic Party deploys former president Barack Obama in an attempt to shore up waning popular support among black men

5. Recent appearances of Trump and Harris in the final weeks of the US presidential campaign highlight the thoroughly right-wing character of both their political agendas

6. News that Israel detained Grayzone reporter Jeremy Loffredo accusing him of “aiding the enemy during wartime” is met by silence in the mainstream media

7. An exercise in hypocrisy and damage control: the US Biden administration implores railway companies to provide their workers sick leave

8. Australian Socialist Equality Party concludes congress by electing officials and adopting resolutions to confront capitalism's drive to war and to defend the Ukrainian political prisoner Bogdan Syrotiuk

9. The Australian Socialist Equality Party will hold an online meeting on October 27 to discuss the Labor government's attacks on historically militant construction workers

10. Students and academics at Western Sydney University in Australia protest the violent arrest of two anti-genocide student demonstrators

11. World Socialist Web Site reporters speak to protesters at Western Sydney University about the the school's violent intimidation of anti-genocide protesters

12. The Sri Lankan Socialist Equality Party will field candidates in their country's November general elections to educate workers and to intervene against war and austerity

13. Hoping for a “mandate” for his government’s far-right and pro-war agenda, the new Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba calls for a snap general election to be held on October 27

14. The government of India's southernmost state, Tamil Nadu, deploys police to crush a strike by Samsung workers at a manufacturing plant near Chennai

15. Obscene inequality: the wealth of the 500 richest Germans equals almost two-and-a-half times their country's entire yearly federal budget

16. “You wake up not knowing if you’re going to get a robot call telling you not to come to work”-- Detroit area Stellantis workers express their disgust and anger with the failure of the UAW to mount any real defense of their jobs

17. Report suggests that hundreds of postal workers in the UK were falsely jailed or financially ruined due to “glitches” in security software

18. The UK Labour government unveils its politically fraudulent Employment Rights Bill

19. New York City's troubled Metropolitan Transportation Authority turns to its workers and passengers to make up for its economic losses

20. Teachers speak to World Socialist Web Site reporters about the closing of schools in Chicago 

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1. Wall Street's preferred candidate: Kamala Harris

2. The US Green Party's Jill Stein and the dead-end of pseudo-left politics

3. A socialist strategy to stop war and genocide

4. The significance of the rising US budget deficit

5. Actor James Earl Jones (1931-2024)

6. Like Hurricane Helene, Hurricane Milton exposed the reality of social conditions that millions of people confront in the United States

7. After shutting down the East and Gulf Coast dockworkers' strike with a politically-motivated tentative agreement, ports focus on making automation a priority

8. Report: Australians on welfare face lifetimes of deprivation and isolation

9. Germany's Left Party (Die Linke) proves it has nothing to do with left-wing or even socialist politics by demonstrating its solidarity with Israel

10. Newly-inaugurated President Claudia Sheinbaum indicates that she will subordinate the welfare of the Mexican people to support the United States' growing conflicts with China

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