Aug 6, 2024

1. Wall Street investors demand that the Federal Reserve start cutting interest rates: "Give us more money"

2. Any action could be used by Israel as a pretext to light the fuse on a regional war it and its allies have been provoking for months

3. Jubilant crowds surge through the streets of Dhaka after their hated Bangladeshi leader flees; a right-wing capitalist regime is tasked with restoring order

4. SAG-AFTRA union in the process of betraying video game performers by limiting their strike action to the greatest extent possible

5. New York City's extreme housing crisis follows decades of constructing new “luxury” apartments for the wealthy

6. UAW's Shawn Fain touts Kamala Harris: the integration of the union apparatus with corporate politics

7. A de facto endorsement of torture and lawlessness by the Biden administration: US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin asserts authority over 9/11 defendants being held at Guantanamo

8. Pseudo-leftists in New Zealand, as elsewhere, represent well-off layers of the middle class, in and around the trade unions and the establishment parties, which oppose any real struggle against war

9. Safety subordinated to profit: deadly working conditions continue within Australian mines

10. Precipitous drop in iron ore prices in Australia spell trouble for the world economy

11. Socialists call for the building of a rank-and-file committee after the German national rail service announces its plan to cut 30,000 jobs

12. UK Prime Minister Starmer announces the formation of a national police force to quell out-of-hand fascist riots

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