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 

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