Oct 2, 2024

1. The powerful East and Gulf Coast dockworker's strike is a major milestone in a growing offensive by the working class for a better quality of life

2. Socialist Will Lehman calls the US dockworkers' strike a critical turning point for the struggles of the entire international working class

3. Strike by dockworkers in Montreal coincides with and must link up with the ongoing strike US East and Gulf Coast dockworkers

4. Striking dockworkers speak to reporters from the World Socialist Web Site

5. After Iran's retaliatory missile strikes on Israel, US officials clamor for a massive retaliation against Iran, even as Israel bombards and invades Lebanon

6. Tragic stories and pictures continue to emerge from the aftermath of Tropical Storm Helene's rampage across the US Appalachian region

7. Since 2019, food bank usage in the Canadian province of Ontario more than doubles... why?

8. The lethal injection of a Texas prisoner is the United States' sixth execution in a 10-day period

9.  The next pandemic? Missouri cases of human H5N1 ‘avian’ influenza lack a clear source, and suggest human-to-human transmission may have occurred

10. Rupert Murcoch's newspaper, The Australian, publishes a column by a military-intelligence insider that insists Australia must mobilize civil defense to prepare for a nuclear war

11. Thousands of people told to evacuate or shelter in place after an accidental fire at a manufacturing plant gets out of control near Atlanta, Georgia 

12. Arts faculty cuts at Sydney, Australia’s Macquarie University are a part of the Labor government’s pro-business plans to restructure public universities

13. Hack biographer, Aidan Beatty, is caught lying about "the Tate Affair" in a current interview he gives to the pseudo-leftist publication, Jacobin

14. Michigan State University's Broad Art Museum in East Lansing, Michigan suddenly cancels an exhibition for dubious reasons

15. The venal UAW is rattled by a rebellion of independent rank-and-file workers at the Detroit area Stellantis Warren Truck Assembly Plant

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