Oct 17, 2024

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

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