Oct 21, 2024

1. Billionaires control the 2024 US presidential election

2. Even as its secret plans to bomb Iran are leaked, Israel delivers unrelieved mayhem upon Gazans and Lebanese

3. A month-long strike by Textron Aviation workers ends after their union ratifies a suspiciously arrived upon agreement

4. In an attempt to scapegoat foreign workers for the massive inequality brought on by capitalism, the pseudo-leftist Senator Bernie Sanders faults the John Deere corporation for exporting jobs to Mexico

5. Expecting retribution, Greek dockworkers nevertheless refuse to help send bullets to Israel

6. As part of their crackdown on opponents of the Gaza genocide, the hypocritical Biden and Trudeau administrations coordinate to eliminate a pro-Palestinian humanitarian organization

7. Clueless of the contradictions of capitalism, an IMF official addresses our "troubled times" by predicting a future of global low growth and high debt and by declaring that the high prices people feel are here to stay

8. The US state of Alabama executes its fifth prisoner this year

9. On the same day that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles agreed to pay $880 million to victims of sexual abuse, capitalist politicians "yuk it up" for money at a traditional Catholic-sponsored dinner in New York City's Manhattan

10. The Kenyan official who spearheaded the violent suppression of anti-austerity protests this past summer takes the post of an impeached deputy president

11. Prabowo Subianto, a general with a long and murderous career, is inaugurated as anti-socialist Indonesia's next president

12. A Stalinist trade union in India, acting at the behest of capitalist interests, forces an end to a Samsung factory workers' strike

13. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic all but absent as an issue in the current US presidential campaigns, the World Socialist Web Site interviews an experienced New York City paramedic about what is going on and what it is like to work in the field

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 G is for Genocide, Danielle SeeWalker

An Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta artist, Danielle SeeWalker, sues Vail, Colorado after it censored her art drawing a parallel between Palestinian and Native-American genocides

15. New South Wales, Australia health workers need to reject a contract that will result in real wage cuts

16. A sellout contract announced by the National Association of Letter Carriers sparks outrage from city postal workers in the US who feel as if it is a "spit in the face"

17. New research indicates that the manufacture and use of tools by humans occurred long before the physical evidence of stone tools so far discovered

18. Peruvian public transport workers strike to demand protection from criminal extortionists

19. Socialist students propose solutions to the disastrous education, housing, and living conditions reported to exist among university students in Turkey

20. Intervening in Sri Lanka's snap general elections to develop the political consciousness of the working class, Sri Lankan Socialist Equality Party members hold a public meeting in Colombo

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