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

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