Oct 19, 2024

1. The Biden administration's legitimization of Israel's assassination of the Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, exemplifies the repudiation of democratic principles at the highest levels of the American state

2. Cavalier unreality: imperialist summit leaders meet behind closed doors in Berlin to plot next moves amid multiple crises

3. A valuable new film about how Roy Cohn helped mold Donald Trump: The Apprentice

4. Mayors in Canada's Ontario province give up looking for solutions to treat homelessness, addictions, and mental illness by addressing the problems as security concerns

5. Amid an information blackout, a US federal mediator intervenes in a bitter strike of Eaton aerospace workers in Jackson, Michigan

6. In hope of isolating striking Boeing machinists, Textron Aviation delivers a contract proposal that is worse than the one its workers voted no to just last month

7. Dennis Maga, general secretary of the right-wing FIRST Union in New Zealand speaks at a festival of bigotry, nationalism and militarism

8. Brazil's reactionary Civic-Military Schools and the worldwide attack on public education

9. The Australian defense department confirms that its airbases were utilized by US long-range B-2 stealth bombers to attack Houthis in Yemen

10. Underpaid dialysis healthcare workers who regularly work 12-hour days in California go on strike

11. Rank-and-file outrage: tens of thousands of Stellantis autoworkers and auto parts supply workers strike in Italy

12. Australian Labor government Foreign Minister Penny Wong is greeted by student protesters at the University of Tasmania in Australia

13. New Jersey, US school workers stage a sickout to protest education budget cuts and proposed layoffs

14. The "strong government" that Sri Lanka's new president seeks by solidifying with a snap election is a ploy to appease the IMF and solidify his own power

15. Multiple US railworker unions hurry similar sellout contracts to confuse and isolate workers before they have time to understand them

16. An appeal is made by the German Transport Workers Committee to get rank-and-file workers to vote for their rights in an upcoming council election

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