Nov 15, 2024

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!

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