1. "Hundreds nabbed, hundreds killed, countless injured": Pakistani security forces massacre protesters in Islamabad during a state of siege

2. US President Biden's announcement of a 60-day ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon has little to do with saving lives or establishing peace

3. This year’s COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan demonstrated the impossibility of fighting global warming within the confines of the capitalist system

4. The US FBI announces that Trump presidential nominees and appointees were targeted with bomb threats and prank "swatting" calls just before the Thanksgiving holiday

5. Becoming a part of a broader assault on civil liberties, 173 climate change protesters were arrested during an attempted blockade of the world’s largest coal exporting port in Newcastle, Australia

6. Strike of more than 1,500 determined Woolworths warehouse workers in Australia enters second week

7. Half a million workers across Italy go on a one-day nationwide strike to demonstrate against the austerity policies and deepening social inequality overseen by their fascist Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who is praised by Elon Musk

8. Disregarding the needs of millions of people whose lives will be severely affected, the Alabanese Labor government rams 31 repressive pro-business bills through the Australian parliament 

9. A virtual unknown, Calin Georgescu, an avowed fascist, wins the most votes in a first round of a presidential election in Romania

10.  Iranian elites split over whether or not to "deal" with the incoming US President Donald Trump

11. Keith Locke (1944-2024), New Zealand pseudo-leftist activist and capitalist politician

12. Explained: US Senator Bernie Sanders' "trap" aimed at keeping workers and youth tied to the Democratic Party and bourgeois politics

13. President of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, breaks with protocol to provide an unusual interview to the influential business newspaper, The Financial Times; she describes incoming US President Trump's tariff threats as an "awakening"

14. Vital history, from more than six decades ago: A documentary film, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, tries to tell the story about the assassination of the first president of the newly independent Democratic Republic of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba

15. US Socialist Equality Party Chairman David North asks to participate in an academic seminar featuring Aidan Beatty, the author of a slanderous biography of the British Trotskyist Gerry Healy

16. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

1. Workers and youth must be warned: With France's minority government on the verge of collapse, they should not view Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s New Popular Front as a sensible alternative

2. The Australian Labor government pushes through bills that would allow mass roundups and deportations of immigrants and asylum-seekers

3. UK Starmer government acknowledges the ICC's authority but shrinks from ensuring it can be implemented with regard to Israeli war criminals

4. A foretaste of what’s to come: police raids on a Los Angeles middle school leave students and parents bewildered and angry

5. World Socialist Web Site reporters speak to UPS workers about their company's layoffs and restructuring

6. Tens of thousands of nurses, healthcare assistants, midwives and other workers in public hospitals across New Zealand have voted to hold an eight-hour strike

7. Nurses and midwives employed by Ramsay Health Care, Australia’s largest private hospital operator, go on strike in New South Wales

8. Striking Ramsay nurses and midwives speak to World Socialist Web Site reporters at Tuesday's rally in Sydney, Australia

9. An influential network of climate advocacy groups, PICAN, the Pacific Islands Climate Action Network, claims that vulnerable Pacific islanders were “once again ignored” at the recently concluded COPS29 conference held in Azerbaijan

10. Executives at Australia Post get fat bonuses, while the state-owned mail delivery service is allowed to crumble

11. As the strike by 55,000 postal workers at Canada Post nears the end of its second week, a worker describes the chaotic working conditions they share to the World Socialist Web Site

12. How the "dark" and "honest" 1971 film Wake in Fright paved the way for the Australian New Wave in cinema

13. The student parliament at Berlin's Humboldt University approves a measure condemning the German Federal Ministry of Education's attacks on academic freedom

14. The World Socialist Web Site urges Staten Island, New York Amazon workers to vote “yes” and authorize a strike

15. An essay by Thomas Scripps describes Aidan Beatty’s historical misrepresentation of Gerry Healy’s family background and youth

19. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

1. Thanksgiving in the United States: the bonanza reaped by America’s oligarchs and their political servants under Joe Biden is set to be massively amplified under the incoming Trump administration

2. A clear signal that the ruling class aims to demolish the last remnants of public health still standing after five years of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, President-elect Trump nominates a reactionary opponent of public health to be director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the federal government’s largest research agency

3. A factional war, driven by imperialist plans of the United States, puts the Philippine's ruling class into turmoil

4. In line with Trump's election victory in the US, right-wing extremists and pseudo-leftist opportunists increasingly dominate the European Parliament

5. Calling for an end to poverty wages and better working conditions, workers at Charlotte, North Carolina's important hub airport walked off the job Monday morning

6. Knowing no red lines, Germany’s largest steel company, Thyssenkrupp, shocks workers by announcing that it plans to cut about 40 per cent of its workforce

7. The strike by over 50,000 Canada Post workers, now in its second week, is part of a global fight by postal workers around the world

8. Canadian politicians seize on an anti-NATO/pro-Palestine protest held in Montreal to amplify their efforts to smear all those opposing the Gaza genocide as “antisemites”

9. No justice yet for the Pike River 29, the New Zealand miners who lost their in 2010

10. After the death of a worker, thousands demonstrate in Brisbane, Australia to oppose government attacks on wages, conditions and safety measures in the construction industry

11. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

1. Moments after US President Joe Biden announced a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel carpet bombed Beirut

2. Because war has been the Democratic Party's number one priority, US president-elect Donald Trump will face zero repercussions or jail time for any of the felonies for which he has either been convicted or indicted

3. The French government teeters as a bitter debate unfolds in the ruling class over how to implement austerity policies and pursue imperialist goals in preparation for explosive conflicts with the working class

4. A political distraction that will result in unintended consequences: aiming to keep the far-right politician Marine Le Pen from running in the 2027 French presidential election, the Paris prosecutor’s office recently demanded she serve jail time and more

5. Seeking to extort concessions on trade, investment and access to energy resources, US president-elect Trump adds Mexico and Canada to China as his chief targets in a threatened trade war

6. Does the spreading H5N1 bird flu pose a greater danger to humans as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic? Principled scientists are raising an alarm

7. In a Sydney, Australia suburb, up to 100 people attend a demonstration to defend a high school student who was discriminated against for wearing a keffiyeh scarf; World Socialist Web Site reporters speak with some of the protesters

8. Who exactly are the foes Australian Woolworths distribution workers face in their strike for better pay and working conditions?

9. Facebook brazenly censors the Portuguese page of the World Socialist Web Site and has not responded to any appeal to restore it yet

10. On Palawan island in the Philippines, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin meets with American service members participating in A Filipino-American military task force

11. In line with the more recent increasingly troubled Chinese and German economies, the Australian economy takes a "stunning" downturn

12. The presumptive head of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s responsibility for exacerbating the devastating 2019 Samoan measles epidemic

13. With assistance from the outgoing Biden administration, the incoming Trump administration prepares to put maximum US pressure on promoting regime change in Venezuela

14. Proved accurate: a prediction by the World Socialist Web Site that the creation of the the Sahra Wagenknecht political alliance in Thuringia, Germany would not become what it was promoted to be

15. The fascistic AfD political party in Germany condemns the communalilstic Bauhaus art movement as “an aberration” to be eschewed

16. In letters to the World Socialist Web Site, mail delivery workers in the UK provide opinions about efforts being made to privatize the Royal Mail

17. UK auto manufacturing workers informed their plant is closing while meeting with management representatives; although abandoned by their union, there is still a way for them to fight back

18. On December 7, the Sri Lankan chapters of the Socialist Equality Party and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality will hold a public meeting to discuss the the recent elections held in the US and Sri Lanka and to explain what they mean to the working class

19. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

1. With tremendous upheavals in store: No one should hold any illusion that the replacement of the Biden administration with a Trump administration will do other than continue the ruling elite's pursuit of imperialist conquest abroad

2. Defying mass popular opposition to a military escalation threatening total war with Russia, London and Paris are planning a large-scale ground intervention in Ukraine

3. Trump's promised "mass deportation operation": what is it, what does it entail, and how much would it cost?

4. The World Socialist Web Site responds to criticism from a Stanford professor who is presumed to be Trump's pick to head the National Institutes of Health

5. US presidential-elect Trump's pick for Labor Secretary, Republican Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer, will not interfere with the incoming administration’s program of social counterrevolution

6. US Federal Reserve report: current financial markets are volatile and easy to trigger by small events; meanwhile, speculative risk-taking (including bitcoin investment) abounds despite growing worries

7. The decision by Corewell Health nurses in the Detroit area to align with the Teamsters might be described as "one step forward, two steps back"

8. As Sinn Fein's support crumbles ahead of Ireland's election this Friday, it's programs become less distinguishable from those of the coalition government it seeks to replace; Ireland is today home to right wing, anti-immigration parties

9. Savage austerity in store: the International Monetary Fund and the government of Sri Lanka conclude a deal for the country to pay back loans

10. Rail and subway workers in South Korea, risking sabotage by their unions, are planning to strike next week as they seek higher wages and an overall improvement in labor conditions

11. Frank Auerbach (1931-1934), one of the world’s leading modern painters and last survivor of the post-World War II London School of figurative art

12. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin visits Fiji to negotiate stationing troops capable of helping secure the US's unchallenged economic and geostrategic dominance over the Pacific

13. San Francisco Hospitality Workers' Strike expands despite their union's effort to dissipate worker militancy by waging a series of isolated and limited walkouts

14. David North, Tom Mackaman, and Joseph Kishore wrangle with San Francisco Bay Area pseudo-leftist Steven Zeltzer to address Aidan Beatty's slanderous biography of Gerry Healy

15. The Teamsters' worthless defense of striking Canada Post workers includes helping a subsidiary of Canada Post provide scabs

16.  Five unexplained bomb scares in the UK are being used to fuel a hysterical anti-Russian atmosphere

17. A widely publicized online petition calling for a general election in Britain is a right-wing political initiative

18. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

1. Trump's  top picks for his incoming administration confirm the ending of government "of, by, and for the people" in the United States

2. "Anti-Zionism has nothing to do with antisemitism"-- with exceptional courage, the prominent US artist and photographer Nan Goldin condemns both Israel and Germany for their role in the genocide in Gaza and its extension into Lebanon

3. Israel responds to arrest warrants by the ICC against its Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Gallant by intensifying its rampage throughout the Middle East and by increasing domestic repression 

4. COP29, the United Nations Climate Change Conference that just concluded in Baku, Azerbaijan, concludes in failure

5. There should be no reason to share the establishment's optimistic illusions about President-elect Trump's replacement of Pam Bondi for former Congressman Matt Gaetz as his pick for US attorney general

6. To combat a global assault on their jobs, rank-and-file autoworkers must rebel against the corrupt pro-company UAW apparatus: World Socialist Web Site reporters interview workers at the Toledo, Ohio Jeep-making complex

7. Having issues common to workers throughout all economic sectors, striking Canadian mail-delivery workers face a trade union bureaucracy more interested in isolating and strangling their demands than in solving them

8. Now at the mercy of a vindictive management, Indian Samsung workers end their 37-day strike in Tamil Nadu after the intervention of the government and trade unions

9. The strike by over 2,400 Southern California Kaiser Permanente psychologists, social workers and therapists enters its sixth week

10. Trailer manufacturer Great Dane plans to lay off 155 workers at its Danville, Pennsylvania factory after the Christmas holidays

11. Workers at the Stellantis-owned Vauxhall van manufacturing plant in the UK speak about their working conditions and prospects with reporters from the World Socialist Web Site

12. With Teamsters officials saying nothing, UPS plans to close a major facility and lay off hundreds of workers at Commerce City, Colorado

13. An Australian high school in a Sydney suburb disciplines a student for having worn a Keffiyeh scarf to a graduation event

14. Not enough room: in a revealed immigration bill proposed by the Labor government in Australia, more than 80,000 people could be sent to as-yet-unnamed third countries

15. While denouncing the former conservative government's plans to deport migrants to Rwanda, the fresh UK Labour government is nevertheless responsible for a record number of deportations: almost 10,000 people

16. Public transportation in Berlin, Germany to share brutal spending cuts as a part of state-induced austerity measures

17. Striking Australian Woolworths distribution workers speak about their oppressive working conditions to World Socialist Web Site reporters

18. Watch a recording of yesterday's special event: a discussion with the chairman of the US Socialist Equality Party and of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site , David North:

19. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

A special event tomorrow, Sunday, November 24th:

 David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will discuss his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide

1. An imperialist-sponsored governing council removes Haiti's unelected prime minister amid violence and social misery that has surged following IMF-imposed austerity measures and the 2010 earthquake

2. To meet the demands of the IMF, Sri Lanka’s newly-elected government, led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, agrees to generate a 2.8 percent primary budgetary surplus in the coming year through a combination of budget cuts and revenue raising measures

3. A warning to the entire working class: the American political establishment unites to condemn the ICC's issuing warrants for the arrests of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity

4. With threats ratcheting up over the US-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, the US makes adjustments to its 2022 Nuclear Posture Review to ensure nuclear superiority and first strike capability

5. Putting "salt in their wounds": the United States Postal Service sends out notices to 30,000 rural carriers to return $600-800 of their "overpaid" wages right before the Christmas holidays

6. A UK postal workers' union's call for "engagement" with privatization interests is a call for mail carriers to surrender their interests

7. Las Vegas, Nevada police kill a father and realtor after they respond to his call for help

8. Newly released statistics confirm that the Australian Labor government and its trade union partners are deepening the greatest reduction in working-class living conditions since the 1950s

9. Molson Coors abruptly closes two Wisconsin breweries, including one where the Teamsters isolated and betrayed striking workers last year

10. The Baltimore political establishment had been largely deaf to safety concerns that might have helped prevent two recent deaths of DPW workers

11. An unprecedented social crime: the impact and death toll from recent floods in Valencia serve as an indictment of Spain’s pseudo-left political parties that did nothing to protect the population

12. Massive autoworker job cuts announced by conglomerates in Germany even before "the ink dries" on recently negotiated worker contracts

13. Federal police in Brazil indict former President Bolsonaro and conspirators who plotted the overthrow of President Lula da Silva on January 8, 2023

14. Among pranks that the serious artist passes by or outgrows, we now have a fictitious work of art bought with fictitious wealth

15. Alabama executes a murderer by asphyxiation even though the victim's daughter believed he deserved leniency because society had failed him

16. New Zealanders protest a racist bill that will scapegoat Māoris in order to divert attention from the worsening social crisis affecting the entire working class

17. Although recent overtures by pro-capitalist Australian Greens to cooperate with the Labor government's flawed plans to address housing and environmental problems have been rebuffed, they signify the extent to which its posturing is simply opportunistic

18. Resisting privatization efforts and union betrayals, Turkish miners take matters into their own hands

19. UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government is dragging Britain to the point of an all-out war with Russia

20.  Largely ignored by the establishment media: a correspondent at the World Socialist Web Site reports how this year's APEC forum held in Lima, Peru sparked huge demonstrations

21. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

1. The latest NATO provocations place it and Russia in a de facto state of war putting humanity on the brink of annihilation

2. The US political establishment reacts with outrage following a ruling by the International Criminal Court that charges Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Secretary Yoav Gallant with war crimes and crimes against humanity

3. The European political establishment is in turmoil as it faces an economic crisis that can surpass the one in 2012

4. The accidental deaths of three workers in South Korea expose a lack of adequate safety measures at Hyundai, the third largest automobile maker in the world

5. Neo-Nazi "Hate Club 1488" shocks spectators by marching in Ohio where “hate” and “bigotry” is being cultivated by the Republican Party

6. Illinois nurses end their four-day strike after their union announces a tentative agreement

7. The two-day strike by nearly 40,000 University of California workers concludes, leaving all of their fundamental political and economic grievances completely unaddressed

8. The union representing Sydney and New South Wales, Australia passenger rail workers calls off a two-day strike after gaining an opportunity to stitch up a sellout contract agreement behind closed doors

9. Amidst a lackadaisical public health response, two viruses, Mpox and H5N1 bird flu, continue to spread in the United States

10. US President-elect Trump quickly finds a replacement for Matt Gaetz, a fascist who withdrew from being considered for becoming Attorney General after saturation media coverage of his alleged sex and drug crimes distracts the public from identifying deeper political considerations

11. The Berlin Senate denounces an award-winning film No Other Land, calling it "antisemitic"

12. A "war frenzy" is taking hold of all the establishment parties and official media in Germany in the lead-up to elections to take place in three months

13. The union representing Brazilian aerospace workers is subordinating their livelihood demands to the rotten politics of economic nationalism and national chauvinism

14. A Mexican autoworker speaks to the World Socialist Web Site to describe how the international conglomerate, General Motors, treats workers at its assembly complex in Silao, Guanajuato

15. With arms-shipments and threats, the Starmer Labour government in the United Kingdom has spent the last weeks deepening its complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza

16. Over 1,500 Woolworths workers face off with the media, the federal Labor government and the whole political establishment as they begin their strike in Australia

17. The Chicago Educators Rank-and-File Committee warns Chicago educators facing school closures and job losses that their union is preparing a sellout contract

18. The odyssey of Wolfgang Weber (1949-2024) a true socialist who dedicated his life and enormous intellect toward freeing the working class from the crippling influence of the Stalinist and social democratic bureaucracies that had helped make Nazi rule in Germany possible

19. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

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America: Of, by, and for the oligarchy. 

What must be done?

 2. Patrick Martin on Trump's program for social counterrevolution: "Trillions will be poured into the military and into the repressive agencies which will initially wage war on immigrants, and then on the democratic rights of the working class as a whole."

3. 24 hours after US President Biden permits ATACM offensive missiles for its use, Ukraine fires British-supplied Storm Missiles into Russia

4. The US Senate overwhelmingly affirms its support for the Israeli genocide in Gaza by rejecting toothless resolutions that would limit giving weapons to Israel

5. In Berlin, activists protesting the US-NATO proxy war in Ukraine describe a Ukrainian police state that tortures and murders anti-war dissidents and draft resisters

6. On winter's doorstep, the cutting off of all oil shipments from Russia to Europe by Ukraine threatens to disrupt cooperation among NATO members

7. To counter the growing militancy of mail delivery workers in Canada, elites discuss the elimination of thousands of full-time jobs, the ending of daily delivery, and the selling off of post offices

8. The first major strike in the United States since the presidential election: nearly 40,000 University of California workers go on a "restricted" two-day strike

9. The Workers’ Party of Turkey and the dead-end of all pseudo-left political tendencies

10. Greeks protest their government's brutal austerity measures by going on a one-day general strike

11. The World Socialist Web Site publishes a letter from a reader in the Netherlands that describes current worker struggles there

12. Turbulent 2024 municipal elections in Brazil show how none of the established political parties, including those of the supposed “left,” have answers to the crucial problems facing workers

13. After three weeks of nationwide protests, Mozambique's ruling political party bans demonstrations

14. Lacking the public's confidence, Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba pushes forward measures that would slash jobs by promoting AI and prepare for a war with China

15.  Opposition to attacks on public education is growing among educators in Chicago Public Schools

16. A United Nations' report says that countries are not doing enough to effectively fight global warming

And here is the full report

17. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

1. "Dictatorship from day one": US President-elect Donald Trump threatens to fill key political posts without the Senate's approval

2. The Biden administration implements its latest provocative escalation in the NATO proxy war against Russia despite its having been planned to follow a Kamala Harris victory in the US presidential elections

3. If it is to truly succeed, the strike of 40,000 University of California workers must become part of a broader movement of the working class in defense of good-paying jobs and of the healthcare system

4. The Berlin State government targets social spending to help pay for Germany's massive military buildup

5. Germany inaugurates a new naval base at Rostock, the most important port in former East Germany, to defend imperialist interests in the Baltic Region

6. California State University at Long Beach, upset about revelations of cooperative ties between the university, military, and industry, censures faculty for using a "microphone or megaphone at campus protests against the genocide in Gaza"

7. The highly promoted album by singer Dua Saleh "evokes the heady, insular world of two lovers who are indifferent to what’s going on outside their window"

8. South African police’s “surrender or starve” tactics in dealing with trapped illegal gold miners causes outrage

9. Turkey's government tries to appease public anger by desperately trying to hide its complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza

10.  The Unite union bureaucracy in Britain is hostile to any worker fight which challenges their long-established partnership with the automaker conglomerate, Stellantis

11. A New Zealand bill ostensibly created to address racial disparities only inflames divisions and protests

12. The Albanese Labor government in Australia is determined to scapegoat overseas students, immigrants, and refugees for their country's crumbling living standards

13. What makes Canada's newly-formed pseudo-left Revolutionary Communist Party's plan to mobilize a protest against genocide so short-sighted?

14. Trump's resounding election victory in the US excites Wall Street financial oligarchs who believe he will remove all restraints from them satiating their greed

15. Sri Lanka’s opportunistic new president, Anura Dissanayak, tailors his new cabinet to better implement IMF-imposed austerity measures

16. United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain goes into full damage control mode in an effort to beat back a rising tide of rank-and-file opposition to the automakers' global jobs "bloodbath"

17. An official coverup is underway after police kill a mother and her two-month-old baby in a Kansas City, Missouri suburb

18. Flagrantly ignoring public opinion, European governments overwhelmingly support the US giving provocative long-range missiles to Ukraine capable of bombing deep within Russia

19. The Socialist Equality Party will conduct a special online event this evening to discuss incoming US President Trump's new cabinet, and the restructuring of the American State

20. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

1. G20 summit takes place in Rio de Janeiro even as a global breakdown of the capitalist system unfolds

2. President-elect Trump confirms that he intends to use the US military to deport millions of migrants as soon as he takes office next January 20

3. The US State of Texas clears the way to execute a prisoner for a crime he never committed and recommends exoneration of another prisoner (who is also innocent)

4. Defense ministers of Australia, Japan and the United States meet in Darwin, Australia to prepare for a future military conflict with China

5. German Greens react to Trump's reelection in the US by turning further to the right

6. State of Florida leads the United States in book-banning

7. The bankruptcy of Spirit Airlines is a prelude to  savage cost-cutting throughout the global airline industry

8. A repugnant spectacle: Jake Paul and Mike Tyson, over 30-years apart in age, duke it out in Texas

9. Report exposes how an official euthanasia program in Canada, the MAiD Program, is utilized to divert the public's attention away from solving long-term problems and also targets the most vulnerable in society

10. In the wake of the UAW's betrayal of workers: the global heavy machinery giant, CNH Industrial, announces plans to close its factory in Burlington, Iowa

11. Even as their union prepares to sell them out, more than 1,500 Woolworths workers in Australia begin strikes

12. Democratic Party officials in the state of New York show that they are eager to collaborate with the incoming Trump administration

13. The Democratic Socialists of America political party, in actuality a faction of the Democratic Party, will field a candidate in New York City's mayoral election

14. Investigations are underway after a Bolsonaro supporter bombs Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court building

15. University of Michigan Central Student Government impeaches and bans student anti-genocide leaders

16.   What accounts for Aidan Beatty's obsession with Gerry Healy and today's Socialist Equality Party?

17. A Rank-and-File mail carrier for the Canada Post issues a statement calling for workers to link up across the logistics industry to make their demands effective

18. World Socialist Web Site reporters speak to New South Wales, Australia public school teachers about their worsening work conditions

19. The Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists condemns the racist riots that took place following the murder of a taxi driver in Korkino, Russia this past October

20. A Trotskyist organization operating in the former USSR, the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists, defends the Ukrainian political prisoner, Bogdan Syrotiuk

21. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

1. Joseph Kishore: the re-election of Donald Trump signifies the violent realignment of American politics with its underlying social reality: a society dominated by staggering inequality and ruled by a capitalist oligarchy

2. After the elections, US President Biden tries to create "facts on the ground" by giving Ukraine missiles that can strike deep into Russian territory

3. Medical realities in Gaza: Benjamin Mateus of the World Socialist Web Site interviews Bilal Irfan, who conducted health policy research there

4. WHO reports: world sees a 30-fold increase of measles infections in 2023, up to 1.3 million people

5. Socialists call upon German workers: "Break the dictatorship of the IG Metall apparatus!"

6. German law enforcement agencies and the German judiciary are notoriously “blind in the right eye": The story behind the rise of the neo-Nazi Saxon Separatists

7. Genuine socialists fighting to build a Democratic and Socialist Congress of Workers and Rural Masses in Sri Lanka demand: “Repudiate all foreign debt!”

8. Mass job layoffs in France trigger protests and strikes

9. Report describes London, England as the epicenter of homelessness in Britain

 And here is a link to the report

10. A homeless University of California astrophysics professor's social media video goes viral

11. A fraudulent Australian bill will help accomplish what it claims it was written to hinder by providing more protection to the political establishment

12. Troubling questions can be asked about the official statements of Victoria, Australian Police about a firebombing of a restaurant last year

13. Breakdown of US East Coast dockworkers' contract negotiations exposes the fraud behind October's supposed “victory” declared by the  International Longshoremen’s Association

14. A pretentious top prize-winning film at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, Dahomey, serves only to mystify and confuse its viewers by ignoring multiple questions

15. Negotiations to resolve a Massachusetts educators' strike hit an impasse

16. Mass resignations hit Greece's pseudo-left Syriza Party after its leader resigns

17. An outstanding fighter for socialism and an expert on the counter-revolutionary role of Stalinism: Wolfgang Weber (1949-2024)

18. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

1.  Trump's Thursday gala, with Elon Musk and Argentinian President Javier Milei attending, was an obscene spectacle

2. 55,000 Canada Post workers walk off the job

3. Canadian Post workers speak to reporters at the World Socialist Web Site

4. Proponents of identity politics spew vitriol against the population following the 2024 US presidential election

5. UN committee report presents a devastating indictment of the Israeli war of extermination in Gaza, waged with weapons and political support from the United States

6. Media characterizations of Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (whose political alliance just won a landslide victory) being a “socialist,” or a “Marxist” are all lies

7. US President-elect Trump names an authentic fascist to head the US Department of Defense

8. Private military and security contractors are put on notice that they can be held accountable after a jury rules in favor of three Abu Ghraib torture victims

9. A Canadian teenager becomes critically ill after catching the H5N1 bird flu virus

10. Part of a global "jobs massacre": General Motors to lay off an additional thousand workers

11. Workers at wealthy auto parts suppliers in Germany slated to lose their jobs to let their companies "utilize synergies" and "increase potential savings"

12. Over 10,000 nurses and midwives strike over low pay in New South Wales, Australia

13. Nurses and midwives in New South Wales, Australia tell World Socialist Web Site reporters why they are striking

14. Striking nurses at the University of Michigan in Chicago speak to the World Socialist Web Site: "Everything is going up except our wages"

15.  Claiming to be responsible for yearly wage gains, federal and state Labor officials and union bureaucrats in Australia are actually cutting the real wages of workers

16. Australian Albanese Labor government's short-sighted plan to ban social media use for children provokes widespread anger

17. A deadly explosion at a hazard-prone food-coloring factory in Kentucky is under investigation

18. Video game workers at a Microsoft subsidiary go on an eight-hour strike to nudge a chance to bargain over remote work and outsourcing

19. Even as the number of hate crimes grow in the US: university students in Maryland are charged for luring and brutally attacking a gay man

20. Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the execution of Jean Charles de Menezes who was innocent of the 7/7 tube bombings, British television will broadcast a two-part documentary to justify a shoot-to-kill policing policy now in place

21. UK to close 115 post office branches and cut thousands of jobs as part of its overall "Transformation Plan"

22. Family physicians and other health workers across Turkey protesting austerity to strike again in December

23. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

1. Human Rights Watch report substantiates description of Israeli retaliation for October 7, 2023 terror attack as deliberate "ethnic cleansing"

Here is a link to the report:  "Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged"

2. Underground journalists report to the World Socialist Web Site how Ukrainian are scrambling to avoid military service

3. Wall Street's speculative binge and an underlying economic reality that is more powerful than any would-be dictator president and his team

4. Striking Eaton Aerospace workers in Michigan accept a rotten UAW-negotiated deal because (as one bureaucrat described it): the workers "lacked leverage for a better offer”

5. Striking Marathon Detroit Refinery workers call for the support of other workers because they are being isolated by the Teamsters bureaucracy and federal mediators

6. Israeli filmmakers detail the impact of fascistic Jewish settlers, backed by the Israeli military, on the Palestinian city of Hebron and its population in their 2022 documentary J2L The Occupation Lab

7. The New Zealand government issues an empty apology to hundreds of thousands of people who were abused while in the care of the state and in church-run facilities

8. "No other individual could be less qualified or more inadvisable for this position": Trump nominates Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to be the head of the US Department of Health and Human Services

9. Enduring violent retaliation from police and security forces, tens of thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh continue to strike for better pay and working conditions

10. Mass layoffs at Boeing after the conclusion of its machinists' strike show the need for workers to adopt new forms of struggle to win their real demands

11. How the far-right government led by Dick Schoof and Geert Wilders has been cooperating with the fascist Israeli Netanyahu government to attack democratic rights in the Netherlands

12. US President Biden and Chinese President Xi to meet at this year's APEC summit in dictator-run Peru

13. A tumultous Asia Pacific Economic Community (APEC) summit will surely rank as one of the strangest international economic gatherings of recent times

14. Flim-flam "socialist" New York Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez distributes blame for the Democratic Party's 2024 election debacle, but takes no personal share of responsibility

15. Australia's School Pathways Program encourages high school students to pursue careers with weapons manufacturers

16. Thousands of residential buildings in the United Kingdom are found to be vulnerable to fire because of construction cost-cutting

17. The German IG Metall trade union promotes a new contract that heralds mass worker layoffs and wage cuts in the metal and electrical industries

18. The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee makes a serious appeal to Canadian mail delivery workers

19. Readers of the World Socialist Web Site from all over the world demand freedom for the Ukrainian political prisoner, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

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1. "Exploring the transformative power of storytelling to foster understanding, empathy, and resilience-- no matter where people stand politically": union officials in the United States downplay the threat the new incoming Trump administration will pose to public education

2. US President Biden welcomes Trump back to the White House and offers to do “everything we can to make sure you’re accommodated, have what you need."

If further proof was needed of the cowardice, duplicity and political bankruptcy of the Democratic Party, this was it.

3. A popular Chicago music festival won't return in 2025 because its sponsors at Pitchfork Magazine say "corporations ruin everything"

4. With Mike Huckabee tagged to be Trump's ambassador to Israel, Israel doubles down on its brutal attacks in Lebanon and Gaza (where survivors are starving)

5. The Canadian government reinterprets law to enforce an end to work stoppages at east and west-coast ports

6. The Socialist Equality Party in Germany provides a foreward to a newly translated collection of speeches by socialist leader David North, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War

7. With a federal election advanced to February, 2025, the establishment political parties in Germany agree on deeply unpopular war and austerity policies

8. Accused of being antisemitic, Australian academics face a lawsuit for their opposition to Israeli genocide

9. In Lee, a valuable film that will inspire further investigation, Kate Winslet plays the role of an extraordinary photojournalist, Lee Miller

10. Public housing residents in Australia speak to World Socialist Web Site reporters about their fight to keep their homes

11. Nearly 40,000 University of California healthcare workers are set to strike

12. Philadelphia transit union bureaucracy defied workers' vote to strike when their contract expired

13.  Thousands in Paris, France, protesting a pro-Israel gala, are confronted by police with tear gas; Also, the mainstream media grudgingly acknowledges lies about recent anti-Israeli violence in Amsterdam, Netherlands

14. The World Socialist Web Site interviews a young and influential social media vlogger, Guy Christensen, about his experiences

 

15. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist Bogdan Syrotiuk!

1. Fascist President-elect Donald Trump assembles his administration

2. US President-elect Trump's enthusiasm for tariffs  signals an end to the post-World War Two order of free trade, which will intensify conflict between nations

3. Huge job cuts at Seattle, Washington-based Boeing to be announced now that its machinists' strike is over; meanwhile Detroit automakers continue to shed jobs

4. Viral videos of children writhing in pain on the courtroom floor pressure the Nigerian government to drop treason charges against 119 defendants who protested the rising costs of living

5. Endorsing genocide: the US State Department determines that Israel is not violating international human rights law by withholding food to Gaza

6. Answers to a poll in Australia provide a glimpse into the gulf that separates popular sentiment from the militarist warmongering of the ruling class

7. The Australian Labor government attempts to pass an Orwellian Misinformation and Disinformation Bill

8. Union officials snuff planned strike of healthcare workers at the University of Michigan's hospital in Ann Arbor

9. Bullied London transport worker, David O'Sullivan, sends a message to his professional comrades in Berlin: "The fight against war and the fight against austerity are one and the same"

10. In Germany, hardly a day goes by without another automaker or supplier announcing massive job cuts

11. A political dead end: the Spanish pseudo-leftist Revolutionary Workers' Current (CRT) tries to tie workers to pro-government union bureaucracies

12. Anger mounts in Spain against the entire political establishment, including the trade union bureaucracies, following the devastating floods in Valencia

13. In Germany: why voting for the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht was not an effective protest against the growing power of the far-right AfD

14. Even as President-elect Trump plans major healthcare changes, more than 1,700 University of Illinois nurses in Chicago are set to strike over wages and staffing levels

15. 2,000 workers walk off the job in Sydney, Australia to protest the Labor government’s takeover of the construction division of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union

16. Rank-and-file public transportation workers in Germany will field candidates to break the stranglehold of the government and its subservient union bureaucracies

17. To clear the way for war plans: the UK Labour government wants to move Indian Ocean migrants to St. Helena, the island where Napoleon was exiled and died

18. Unison, the main public sector trade union in Scotland, proposes a sellout agreement that local government workers should reject

19. Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee in Canada reports on its first public meeting

20. Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!

1. In an open letter, 101 of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s staff accuse it of having a pro-Israel bias in its coverage of the Gaza war

2. Consequences of the nation-state system and the capitalist profit motive mar the latest United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Baku, Azerbaijan

3. Dropping any pretense of pursuing a ceasefire, the Israeli regime intensifies its genocidal attacks on Palestinians while expanding its war within the Middle East 

4. In the United States, the fascist president-elect Donald Trump names loyalists, who are strongly identified with the persecution of immigrants and plans for military confrontation with China, to leading positions

5. With the threat of a government intervention looming, the Maritime Employers Association locks out dockworkers at Montreal, Canada after they overwhelmingly reject their union's sellout contract

6. Striking Massachusetts teachers defy school budget cuts and the imposition of budget shortfalls on their backs

7. Capitalists maneuver as striking auto parts workers begin to have an impact on South Korea's car industry

8. Despised European governments, especially Sir Keir Starmer's Labour government in the UK, are alerted by the election of a fascist president in the United States

9. With the UAW's help, striking Eaton Aerospace workers in Jackson, Michigan are facing defeat

10. Grounded, an especially relevant and timely new opera at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, is about the impact of drone warfare on a female fighter pilot

11. Coinciding with job cuts in the auto industry, PPG Industries, one of the largest paint and coating manufacturers in the world, lays off four per cent of its international workforce

12. Southern California Kaiser Permanente mental health care workers' strike enters its fourth week

13. The Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee fully supports tomorrow's strike of nurses and midwives in New South Wales, Australia, and urges other health workers to join and expand their struggle

14. The Socialist Equality Party's streamed event “The Election Debacle and the Fight Against Dictatorship,” attracts a huge and growing audience

15. Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!

Now that the US presidential election is over, what conclusions can be drawn and what must be done?

1. Following Trump's re-election as president in the United States, European elites go on alert to the possibility of an explosive escalation of the class struggle

2. To create "facts on the ground,” the Biden administration allows the deployment of US military contractors in Ukraine

3. Big Lie: As a political tool to defend fascism and the Gaza genocide, hysterical press accounts of recent Amsterdam clashes with Israeli soccer fans falsely accuse residents of antisemitism

4. The German branch of the internationalist Socialist Equality Party announces that it will stand in the early federal election after the sitting all-party coalition breaks down

5. Socialist Equality Party candidates intervening against war and austerity appeal to voters in Sri Lanka's November 14 snap election

6. The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) abdicates responsibility by downplaying the seriousness of the latest avian bird flu becoming a new pandemic

7. The US Department of Justice reaches a settlement with the owners of the container ship that killed six when it collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore in March

8. “Murderers, murderers!” Angry crowds denounce the failure of the Spanish government to protect them from recent floods that devastated Valencia

9. To augment neglected resources, Governor Newsom requests FEMA assistance to battle stubborn Southern California Mountain Fire

10. 4,500 medical technicians in Ann Arbor, Michigan plan to hold a toothless one-day strike on Tuesday, November 12

11. Union leaders in the United Kingdom sabotage an anticipated strike action by London subway workers

12. Little more than a debt swap: to confront the the threat of Trump-tariffs and the lowest economic growth rates in more than three decades, China provides a hefty fiscal stimulus to provincial governments

13. The Australian Labor government defies courts to reimpose police-state measures against immigrants, such as forcing them to wear ankle bracelets

14. Construction workers in Australia face the task of forming democratic rank-and-file organizations free of government and union bureaucrats' control

15. As a part of a wave of job cuts to boost corporate profits, Sumitomo's huge tire manufacturing plant in Tonawanda,New York surprises its 1,550 workers by abruptly closing

16. Australia's largest supermarket chains caught deceiving their customers with misleading product-pricing

17. A popular fantasy-comedy film, My Old Ass, from Canada, follows a recipe that lacks "soul power"

18. The UK Labour government abandons promises to university students by increasing tuition fees

19. Demand the freedom of political prisoner Bogdan Syrotiuk!

1. Donald Trump's control of Washington will trigger crises and social upheavals

2. The Democrats won't fight Trump, but the working class will: the Socialist Equality Party will hold an emergency online event Sunday, titled “The Election Debacle and the Fight Against Dictatorship”

3. Evidence of a genocide: a United Nations Human Rights Office report shows that nearly 70 percent of verified deaths in Gaza are of women and children

4. The US Biden administration's key role in brokering the sellout deal that ended the Boeing machinists' strike

5. Bundestag's “antisemitism” resolution reveals how the German ruling class supports genocide and has never truly broken with fascism

6. The University of Michigan administration moves to suspend a legacy organization because of its protests against genocide

7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology bans a campus magazine and threatens to expel a student for his anti-genocide article

8. Amsterdam, Netherlands: were attacks on Israeli soccer fans a result of a deliberate provocation arranged between Israeli authorities and the far-right Dutch government? 

9. On Sunday, November 10, the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee in Canada will be hosting its first online public meeting

10. Like its counterparts in western Europe, the Australian ruling class pursues its own self-interests by pledging its government's support for the reelected US president, Donald Trump

11. Reviled Australian Labor government promises student debt relief in a cynical bid to win youth votes in an upcoming federal election

12. Australian government to allow high levels of toxic chemicals in drinking water which can lead to thyroid, kidney, liver and reproductive dysfunction, low birth weight and cancer

13. After Trump's presidential comeback, government officials in the UK call for increased military funding to remain the United States' key ally

14. Governments across South Asia have rushed to congratulate America’s fascist president-elect Donald Trump

15. Agent of Happiness is a documentary film about the kingdom of Bhutan's odd practice of surveying its peoples' satisfaction

1. Democrats grovel before Trump

2. Germany’s Social Democratic Party-led coalition government breaks down after Donald Trump is elected in the United States

3. ICFI Secretary Peter Schwartz delivers a lecture in Nuremberg, Germany on the topic of Leon Trotsky's Marxian internationalism and its contemporary relevance

4. The ultimate hypocrite and loyal servant to the capitalist Democratic Party, US Senator Bernie Sanders, hides his own opportunistic role in contributing to its 2024 election failures

5. New Zealand’s right-wing National Party-led coalition government gets giddy with Donald Trump's re-election in the United States

6. Accusing Israel of “apartheid,” “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide,” thousands of writers and publishing professionals courageously pledge to boycott all complicit Israeli institutions

... and here is their petition letter to sign.

7. After announcing a modest interest rate cut, US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sidesteps questions about why a majority of the American public is feeling economic pain

8. For decades, the United States has underfunded public education to pursue other goals

9. A new scientific study emphasizes the need for genuine international efforts to save the planet from global warming and catastrophic climate change

10. Big business interests, political officials and their mouthpieces in the country’s mainstream press clamor for the Canadian government to intervene in its bi-coastal dockworker strikes

11. Australian supermarket chain, and largest private-sector employer, implements inhumane efficiency benchmarks to satisfy shareholders

12. A World Socialist Web Site reporting team greets workers at the Stellantis-Vauxhall plant facing closure in England

13. Those who voted in favor of the UAW's 2023 "historic" sellout contract refused to see it coming: layoffs of Toledo, Ohio autoworkers is part a wave of global job cuts

1. The World Socialist Web Site perspective on the election of Trump in the United States

2. US Socialist Equality Party Chairman David North: The disastrous consequences of Trump’s victory can be averted only by “a new birth” of genuinely socialist politics, based on the working class and animated by an international strategy that unites global humanity

3. The US Republican Party takes control of the Senate and maybe, the House of Representatives

4. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu replaces his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant with his Foreign Minister Israel Katz who publicly opposes a Palestinian state in any form

5. Contradicting public pronouncements, Turkey has been shipping weapons to Israel, sparking widespread protests

6. Growing police state repression in Turkey: President Erdoğan's government replaces elected city mayors with trustees

7. A Financial Times analyst looks under the hood of the supposedly rosy US economy: the booming US economy is a mirage

8. NATO's use of Ukrainians as cannon fodder to crush Russia is failing. Will anything change after Trump's reelection as US president?

9. 50,000 Canada Post workers want to know why their union has failed to call a strike when 95% of them voted in favor of one

10. Censored by Facebook, a World Socialist Web Site video of a victimized Royal Mail delivery worker in the United Kingdom has drawn widespread interest and responses

11. Rank-and-file Transport Workers Action Committee in Germany rankles Verdi union bureaucracy and the BVG management by attracting support from railroad workers

12. Prestigious Western Sydney University in New South Wales, Australia makes plans to meet the requirements of a big business and war economy

13. Australian political and media establishment rationalizes its crackdowns on anti-genocide protesters; protesters rationalize their belief that they can persuade the establishment to abandon defending a genocidal state

14. A further attack on public education: Milwaukee, Wisconsin targets school facilities to trim expenses

15. Ignored by Trump and Harris during their US presidential campaigns, workers will lose their jobs when a cabinet manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania closes due to housing market speculation

1. The ending of the 2024 US presidential election: thanks to the Democratic Party, Donald Trump wins

2. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu fires his defense minister, Yoav Gallant; Israel continues its relentless attacks on Palestinians in Gaza who are starving and have nowhere to flee

3. World Socialist Web Site reporters speak to voters exiting election polling stations in Detroit, Michigan and get informative, sobering answers

4. Middle-class radical groups in the United States coalesce in the US 2024 election to lead the working class into political dead ends

5. American actress Teri Garr (1944-2024)

6. The Socialist Equality Party denounces state attacks on anti-genocide protest and demands Britain free the Filton-10!

7. Sri Lanka's new pro-imperialist government declares in essence that all strikes and worker rights to organize will be abolished

8. Wage cuts and job losses mount as unions call off miners' strike in Australia

9. All belligerents maneuver to take political advantage of the entry of North Korean troops on the side of Russia in the US/NATO-proxy war in Ukraine

10. Declaring war on the working class: the German federal finance minister calls for massive tax cuts for the wealthy, a frontal attack on social services, social rights and environmental regulations, and strict austerity measures

11. New UK Labour government will not increase budget to address crumbling, asbestos-laden schools

12. Citing wage pressures and a tight labor market, the Australian central bank punishes workers by keeping interest rates high

13. The Canadian ruling class fosters far-right vigilantes to suppress all opposition to its imperialist drive to war and Israel’s genocide

14. Train and engine service workers at the North American BNSF railroad reject their union's sellout bargain that would eliminate locomotive conductors

15. To spite the claim that the 2023 Teamsters negotiated contract was a “historic” victory for workers, UPS makes plans to shed thousands of jobs

1.  Ideologists of class compromise and the glories of capitalist democracy reveal their intellectual and moral bankruptcy on the eve of the US presidential election

2. IAM bureaucracy dodges questions after it betrays Boeing machinists to end their powerful strike on the eve of the US presidential election

3. Strike by technology workers at the New York Times has the potential to disrupt its high-stakes news cycle coverage of the 2024 US elections

4. Is Sri Lanka'a new president a a Marxist, a leftist, a “Lenin-loving President” and “a people’s president?” The answer is a resounding "No."

5. China's ability to withstand US trade restrictions and improve on its technological capabilities portends increasing economic conflict that can lead to war

6. As its killing continues, Israel bans the most important and critical Palestinian relief agency, UNRWA, from operating within the occupied territories

7. Money trail reveals that the Uncommitted Movement in the United States was formed earlier this year by Democratic Party operatives in response to massive anger over the ongoing genocide in Gaza

8. Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris visits Muhlenberg College on her last full day of campaigning for votes. Muhlenberg College is where Professor Maura Finkelstein was terminated this year for speaking out against the genocide taking place in Palestine

9. Protests by students, teachers and staff at art colleges in Chicago and elsewhere "disturb the equilibrium" of institutions that abet war and genocide

10. Unrest at seaports in Quebec and British Columbia irritates business and government leaders across Canada

11. The recent recovery of an Impact Plastics worker's body in Tennessee adds to the deadly toll of victims from Hurricane Helene

12. Among recent strikes in the Americas, San Francisco hotel workers are arrested in a protest over stalled contract talks

13. World-renowned Jewish Israeli historian, lifelong peace activist and anti-Zionist, Haim Bresheeth, is arrested in London during a protest against Israeli’s genocide

14. The union representing public schools teachers in New South Wales, Australia rams through a bargaining contract in a "grossly antidemocratic process"

15.  Widespread anger reaches a boiling point over attacks on the wages of municipal workers in Turkey

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

1. Director of UNICEF: "the entire Palestinian population in North Gaza is at imminent risk of dying"

2. The recent flooding in Valencia, Spain is not only an ecological catastrophe, it is also a social crime

3. Jerry White: The replacement of striking workers at Eaton Aerospace in Michigan shows how "both corporate parties want to smash the resistance of the working class"

4. A message from the Boeing Workers Rank-and-File Committee to 33,000 striking machinists: Reject Boeing's third sellout deal!

5. US state governors in Washington, Oregon and Nevada prepare for election-related violence

6. Prestigious Stanford University in Palo Alto, California hosts a partisan conference of promoters of pandemic misinformation and COVID-19 contrarians

7. Oxfam and Development Finance International jointly issue a report describing the global rise of inequality and austerity

8. The Australian government's banning of the divisive US pundit Candace Owens plays directly into the hands of forces on the extreme-right

9. While death penalty opponents and clergy members, hold a vigil, the US state of South Carolina executes its second prisoner within a month

10. Typhoon Trami (also called Kristine) kills nearly 150 people in the Philippines

11. A long-delayed fact-finding mission of Pacific territory leaders meets in New Caledonia at the request of its pro-independence President Louis Mapou

12. While their SAG-AFTRA union negotiates in secret and thousands of colleagues lose their jobs, US video game performers continue their four-month strike

13. Twelve steelworkers are killed when a Mexican steel mill, known for having faulty equipment, ignites

14. Recent strikes by Peruvian public transportation workers, reacting to extortion rackets, raise significant political questions

15. The Canadian branch of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee propose ways for mail delivery workers to fight against the "Amazonification" of their jobs

16. The Trudeau-led Canadian government, blaming immigrants for taking jobs and adding to homelessness, imposes new rules restricting temporary residents

17. To pay for war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fascist cabinet wants big spending cuts and big tax increases

18. Kemi Badenoch, the new leader of the United Kingdom's pro-austerity, militarist, national chauvinist Conservative Party, presages a farther shift to the right

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