May 29, 2024

1. To "win" at all costs: NATO countries recklessly accelerate preparations to directly intervene in Russia-Ukraine war

2. National Security spokesman John Kirby's failing damage control: White House claims of opposing Israeli war crimes against Palestinian civilians is exposed as a total fraud

3. Anti-genocide strike by University of California  (UC) academic workers expands to more campuses

4. The campaign to free Ukrainian political prisoner Bogdan Syrotiuk gains more international support

5. New Zealand Māori radio program broadcasts defense of Ukrainian political prisoner Bogdan Syrotiuk

6. New Zealander vows to continue hunger strike until his government stops supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza

7. Basketball great Bill Walton: "“Protesting is what gets things done. The drive for positive change requires action. The forces of evil don’t just change their ways.”

8. The fraud behind India's Congress Party

9. Review of a British two-part television series' smear of persecuted actor Kevin Spacey

10. Boeing's deepening crisis "is a concentrated expression of the crisis of American capitalism as a whole"

11. Existential crisis: the Biden administration's anti-Chinese tariffs send a shock wave through the international economy

12. Nestlé food workers continue strike in Toronto, Canada but must draw lessons from other workers

13. Louisiana Governor signs bill making Louisiana (48th among states when it comes to maternal and child care) the first state in the US to criminalize two abortion-inducing medications

14. Despite global warming fears, the Australian government promises to increase natural gas extraction

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May 27, 2024

1. Britain's July 4th war election: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wants to conscript 18-year-olds.

2. Anti-Chinese hysteria: Canadian intelligence chief wants to ban Tik-Tok

3. Pixar Animation Studios announces layoffs

4. Looking back 10 years: Spain's pseudo-left Podemos Party

5. 80 years ago: remembering the victims of Hitler's army at Ozarichi, Belarus

6. Israel defies UN International Court of Justice's order and intensifies bombardments and attacks on Rafah

7. Americans know: the Supreme Court has become an "illegitimate institution dominated by political appointees of the extreme right"

8. Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plead for support at the Libertarian National Convention

9. Sri Lankan socialists: "Release Bogdan Syrotiuk!"

10. French President Macron determined to keep a tight grip on New Caledonia

11. Landslide in Papua New Guinea kills at least 670 people

12. Workers in Germany condemn police attacks on non-violent anti-genocide student protesters

13. Report on an online meeting organized to mobilize a defense of University of California academic workers striking against genocide

14. Anti-war Israeli mothers speak to the World Socialist Web Site

15. Investigation of widespread abuses launched against Kentucky’s juvenile justice system

16. An Australian Defense Department briefing holds vast implications for the Australian economy and citizens' rights

17. An agenda for war and austerity: G7 group of imperialist powers concludes in Italy

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May 25, 2024

1. “Changing the subject” at Cannes

2. Growing evidence that "the decision for war with Russia has already been taken" among NATO countries

3. China conducts military drills to punish Taiwan's  inauguration of a pro-separatist president

4. French socialists unequivocally condemn the state of emergency imposed by France on New Caledonia

5. A lesson from France: "The parties that the capitalist media promote as the 'far left' are petty-bourgeois parties that support NATO and imperialism"

6. The bankrupt political perspective of a petty-bourgeois "leftist" leader in Marseille, Samuel Johsua

7. Press conference in Berlin held to defend freedom of speech and the right to demonstrate against genocide in Gaza

8. Citing Genocide Convention of 1948, the highest court of the United Nations orders Israel to halt criminal invasion of Rafah

9. The necessity for expanding the University of California academic workers' strike to successfully oppose the establishment forces it faces

10. Detroit autoworkers speak out on behalf of the UC academic workers' anti-genocide strike

11. Australian universities begin dismantling anti-genocide student encampments

12. CBS News: rise of use of lethal force by sherriff deputies is three times higher than its use by local police

13. Families mourn loss of loved ones and still seek answers a year after the Uvalde, Texas mass shooting

14. Socialists ask teachers in the US to defend imprisoned Ukrainian anti-war activist Bogdan Syrotiuk

15. Following deterioration of service and worsening working conditions, transit workers in Toronto, Canada could walk off the job on June 7

16. Ahead of European elections, German Trotskyists rally in Berlin to help build an international movement against war and its root cause, capitalism

17. Where is justice after three decades of a social murder on a mass scale? Report released on the UK's contaminated blood scandal

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May 23, 2024

1. Defeat the court injunction against the anti-genocide strike at the University of California!

2. University of California academic workers speak out!

3. Public online meeting to be held Saturday, May 25, to organize opposition to attempts to ban California academic workers' strike

4. Escalating conflict: bipartisan group of US congressional representatives press for Ukraine to strike within Russia

5. Escalating conflict: German foreign minister's trip to Ukraine

6. Canada Post workers face suffocating demands from their management, their union bureaucracy, and the Trudeau government

7. The candidates and critical issues: Mexico's June 2nd election

8. After last year's "historic" Teamsters contract, deadly conditions mount at UPS

9. New research describes the relationship of COVID's spread and Long-COVID

10. Philadelphia union official charged for embezzling dues money to fund Democratic Party politicians

11. Losing public confidence, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces a "snap" general election for July 4

12. On Kevin Spacey: the #MeToo witch-hunt unravels as more people recall the merits of defending the right of the presumption of innocence

13. How an adolescent stunt by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's sought to turn “An Appeal to Heaven” into "An Appeal for Fascism"

14. Turkey in turmoil: political prisoners go on a hunger strike

15. Collaborative health organization's findings: "Britain is a poor, sick country, getting sicker, with a few rich and healthy people"

16. Sri Lankan magistrate court is taking the case of a violent assault against socialist leafleters

17. Report with video: Police attack peaceful student protesters at Humboldt University of Berlin 

18. Pro-imperialist coup fails in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

19. Was the assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Fico driven by the CIA and other NATO-country intelligence services?

20. More insightful news and analysis at the World Socialist Web Site  

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May 18, 2024

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Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk "is the victim of a monstrous state frame-up" because he is "fighting for the unity of the Ukrainian, Russian and international working class against the ruling capitalist elites of all countries"

2. International Court of Justice: "Institutionalized impunity has led Israel to engage in genocide, shocking the conscience of humanity”

3. A warning to University of California academic workers: The UAW bureaucracy wants to cripple your  strike on behalf of anti-genocide student protesters

4. Biography of labor leader Harry Bridges ignores question: was there an alternative to Stalinism?

5. Turbulent events unfolding in nation of Georgia bear the markings of a another “color revolution"

6. After unrest, riots, and mass demonstrations, France declares a state of emergency in New Caledonia

7. Kurdish politicians sentenced to prison is a part of an escalating state repression in Turkey

8. The continuing devastation of the United States by narcotic overdose deaths

9. Deadly "derecho" wind storm hits Texas 

10. "Quebec nationalist nonsense" exposed by chauvinist declaration

11. Review of the new Harlem Renaissance exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

12. New Zealand doctors strike again against brutal working conditions

13. Australian welfare recipients harmed by government bill-paying program

14. SEP presidential candidate Joseph Kishore denounces NATO's plans to deploy NATO troops against Russia, plans which pseudo-leftists ignore

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May 16, 2024

1. The consequences of Democrats quid pro quo with Republicans to get war funding includes "an unfolding world war"

2. Biden administration sending $1 billion worth of more military equipment to Israel

3. Subordinating public education to war preparation: School districts across the US face devastating school closures

4. 48,000 University of California academic workers have voted to strike and are demanding an end to attacks against students protesting genocide in Gaza

5. Alabama autoworkers have much to learn as they vote to join the United Auto Workers union this week

6. Canadian government attacks rail workers' right to strike 

7. Australia's paltry relief measures for indebted students

8. Politically motivated double standards in Australia: A man who planted a bomb outside a home flying a Palestinian flag gets a mild sentence

9. Journalists barred from hearing; WikiLeaks editor-in-chief: corrupt case is "rigged" against Julian Assange

10. Needless child homelessness increasing in England

11. Tulane University professors defend student protesters who were attacked in New Orleans

12. Discussing politics forbidden: a film about the International Space Station astronauts

13. Port workers in Sri Lanka: Kiev must free political prisoner Bogdan Syrotiuk

14. Dilaxshan Mahalingam: "Reject the reactionary politics of the bourgeois political establishment and its pseudo-left hangers-on"

15.  Tom Peters' view from New Zealand: youth and workers face multiple dangers

16. Why is New Zealand's Green Party seeking to give itself a more “progressive” veneer?

17. Fijians face growing instability and austerity as former prime minister is jailed for corruption

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May 15, 2024

1. Nowhere is safe: Israel drives half a million people out of Rafah

2. Israel deliberately starving people and targeting healthcare infrastructure in Gaza

3. The class content behind US tariffs targeting China

4. A strike at University of California campuses must be expanded to all 400,000 members of the UAW

5. University of California academic workers recognizing their solidarity with anti-genocide student protesters

6. Detroit autoworkers support strike vote by University of California workers

7. Fearing worker solidarity with student protesters, the University of Michigan lecturers' union imposes a sellout contract

8. Amazon Labor Union cultivates a "radical" image by rubbing elbows with phony-leftists

9. Powerfully deadly nitazenes (10 to 40 times stronger than fentanyl) appear in the US as opioid overdose deaths jump in Canada

10. Keith Jones: Canadian frauds perpetuate war and barbarism 

11. Max Boddy: How to overcome the impasse against Australian government's strategy for war and austerity

12.Whistleblower being punished for exposing Australian army war crimes in Afghanistan

13. What is behind the Australian establishment's claims of an "epidemic of domestic violence and 'gender-based' deaths?"

14. Australia's fraudulent budget to benefit the most affluent 4 percent of the population

15. Sri Lankan Trotskyists to hold an online meeting May 23 to discuss the threat of imperialist war

16. Revealed and censored: British special forces operating in Ukraine

16. "Eat cake!" British union official tells workers to accept new gig economy

17. Urgent action needed to address the potential threat to humans posed by new bird flu

18. "Germany’s ruling class is returning to the methods of the Nazis" in crackdown on anti-genocide protesters

19. Johannes Stern: "The German ruling class plays a key role in the genocide of the Palestinians."

20. The aggressive and predatory aims behind modernizing of the joint Canada-US defense command program (NORAD)

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May 14, 2024

1. University of California workers should vote "yes" to authorize strike and reject efforts to stop them

2. California academic workers authorization vote for strike places the rank and file in direct conflict with the UAW leadership

3. Palestinian flesh and blood not as "ironclad" as Biden administration's support for Israel

4. UK Prime Minister Sunak: “The world is closer to a dangerous nuclear escalation than at any point since the Cuban missile crisis”

5. Third annual “Day Without Child Care” highlights needs of working parents and day care providers

6. Factions of the US ruling class battle each other to obscure the larger issues behind Trump's "hush-money" trial

7. Biden administration escalates economic war against China by raising tariffs on electronic vehicles

8. Films of the 1970s-- The Parallax View: "Something deeply foul and violent lies beneath the surface of official political life"

9. British rank and file postal workers: "Free the Zelensky regime's political prisoner Bogdan Syrotiuk

10. Deepal Jayasekera: South Asia needs a revolutionary socialist leadership and perspective

11. Tomas Castanheira: An overview of Latin American countries being pulled into global crises

12. Protesters across Britain continue to demonstrate against support for Israel's ethnic cleansing in Gaza

13. Australian Prime Minister's lies and slanders against peaceful student protesters invite attacks against them

14. Court case drags on as Sri Lankan plantation workers face crippling inflation, austerity, and brutality

15. Turmoil and protest in Southern California as schools and educators face budget cuts 

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May 9, 2024

1. Humanitarian catastrophe: Israel invades Rafah

2. Why the working class must intervene against threats of war and police dictatorship

3. Will Lehman: "The fight against war is a fight against the union bureaucracies"

4. Australian youth and students: "Free Bogdan!"

5. Roger Waters, co-founder and lead singer of the rock band Pink Floyd, calls for jailed Ukrainian dissident Bogdan Syrotiuk’s release

6. YouTube censors viral anti-genocide hip hop hit, "Hind's Hall"

7. Thousands march and rally in Dhaka on behalf of besieged Palestinians

8. US imposing new bans on the sale of semiconductors to competitive Chinese cell phone manufacturer, Huawei

9. Ignoring the will of its members, the Transport Workers Union throws its support behind the crackdown on peaceful anti-genocide protests

10. An attack on living standards: Australian state of Victoria implements ruthless, pro-business, anti-working class, austerity budget

11. Tensions ratchet up after a close call incident between Chinese and Australian armed forces

12. At US congressional hearing, school officials (including the superintendent of the Berkeley school district) follow script to label, isolate, and suppress anti-genocide student protesters

13. Democratic Party's anti-democratic harassment strategy to undermine independent presidential candidates

14. Brazilian pseudo-left's strategy to suppress genuine class struggle on view during May Day celebrations

15. On diplomatic mission, Chinese President Xi aloof but impotent to French, European imperialistic pretensions

16. Anti-genocide students protest across Europe

17. Ukrainian leftist declares: "We do not give up, we keep our heads high!"

18. Berlin police attack peaceful pro-Palestinian protest encampment 

19. Student encampments spread across Britain to protest government's complicity with genocide in Gaza

20. Private police force raids a Gaza solidarity encampment at the University of Chicago

21. Socially critical films of the 1970s: The Last Detail captures period's decay, disillusionment and class anger

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May 8, 2024

1. US President Biden exploits the Holocaust to justify his support for Israel as it invades a beleaguered Rafah 

2. "Putin is not 'protecting Russia,' but the national sovereignty of the bank accounts of Russian billionaires"

3. 100 faculty members at Wayne State University in Detroit denounce the  “McCarthyite repression against students on campuses across the United States”

4. NYPD coordinates with government leaders to crack down on students protesting genocide in Gaza who they claim are being masterminded by outsiders

5. Virginia State Police assault and arrest peaceful student protesters

6. Facing discipline, students protest genocide at Rhode Island School of Design, MIT, and Harvard

7. Over 2,500 people in the United States have been arrested and criminally charged for opposing brutal genocide of Palestinians in Gaza

8. "Canada’s ruling elite is preparing a brutal police crackdown on anti-genocide student encampments"

9. "UAW apparatus faces a rebellious and restive rank-and-file" as Detroit autoworkers authorize strike

10. Hundreds attend funeral of Detroit autoworker who collapsed in an exhausting environment of overwork

11. Refugees becoming more unwelcome in Poland

12. A problem for the wealthiest: working class people are living too long and costing too much

13. Workers' wages are targeted by Australian central bank's plan to lift interest rates

14. As a prelude to armed conflict, regions and countries bicker over electronic vehicle production and sales

15. Torrential rains wreak havoc across East Africa

16. Joseph Kishore explains the background to the international celebration of May Day and its significance to the working class

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May 1, 2024