Headlines at the World Socialist Web Site today:
1. FBI arrests NBA coach and player in sprawling sports betting and gambling probe
Whatever the motivations of the FBI, the scandal has highlighted an aspect of life in America that is part of the decay and degeneration of society under capitalism. Since the Supreme Court’s 2018 decision allowing states to regulate sports betting, the gambling industry has exploded into a $150 billion market encompassing online apps, casino partnerships and state lotteries.
Virtually every major sports league now profits directly from gambling sponsorships; television broadcasts feature betting odds, parlay promotions and fantasy plays alongside game coverage.
Far from a harmless pastime, sports betting and the big money associated with it have spread their corrosive influence far and wide.
Millions of Americans, struggling under stagnant wages and rising costs, have turned to betting, looking for a fleeting hope of escape. State governments, facing constant budget crises, eagerly expand casino licenses and lottery programs designed to extract wealth from the most desperate layers of society. Gambling functions as a special kind of “tax” extracted mostly from those who can least afford it.
The working class, lured by promises of sudden riches, faces ruin: lives destroyed by gambling addiction and communities hollowed out by organized fraud and state-sanctioned lotteries.
As the World Socialist Web Site has long warned, this trend signals the transformation of the United States into a “Casino Nation,” where predatory financial speculation permeates every level of society. From Wall Street to Las Vegas, the betting ethos—on stocks, commodities, derivatives, credit default swaps or ball games—expresses the ruthlessness and filth at the top of capitalist society personified by Donald Trump.
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Trump, who as a “businessman” championed the casino industry, incarnates this nexus of gambling, criminality and political power. His Atlantic City casinos were built on debt, tax incentives, theft of wages and broken contracts. Today, Trump and his investment buddies in the “financial sector” are profiting from the gambling businesses that emerged after the deregulation wave that his administration accelerated.
So, when FBI Director Patel claims that “gambling will be kept within the bounds of the law,” one is forced to suppress the urge to laugh out loud. Today, the Department of Justice and the FBI are operated by the imbecile swindler-in-chief, residing in the White House, or what is left of it.
2. Report reveals Taiwanese companies’ complicity in Gaza genocide
Taiwan and Israel have deep ties that go beyond financial support for Benjamin Netanyahu’s regime, according to a September 2025 briefing titled “Taiwanese Companies’ Complicity in Israel’s Ongoing Genocide.”
Several groups helped prepare the report: Humanity Research Consultancy, a British firm, Taiwan International Workers Association, an advocacy group for migrants’ rights, and Taiwan Alliance for a Free Palestine (TWAFP), a coalition consisting of seven groups aiming to show “Taiwan’s role in Israel’s implementation of genocide and apartheid” while “advocating for Palestinian freedom.”
As indicated in the report, Taiwanese companies such as Transcom, Inc., Gloria Material Technology Corp., HIWIN Technologies, ADLINK Technology Inc. and S-Tech Corp. have been closely involved in Israel’s military systems, which include missiles, radar, communication, aerospace satellites, drones, tanks and armored vehicles.
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Despite the well-intended efforts of the authors, numerous contributors and informants, the writers of the briefings continue to promote the lie that Taiwan is, like Palestine, an oppressed nation that must ally with the European powers as fellow advocates for human rights.
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The reality is that the Taiwanese semiconductor industry functions essentially as a component of US imperialism’s military industrial complex and its campaign of military aggression against China. Indeed, the US depends on Taiwan to supply its semiconductors. In February 2025, Alexander Tah-ray Yui, de facto Ambassador of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to the United States, declared that Taiwan’s semiconductor sector was “a reliable partner” that served to “make America great again.”
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Even though Washington is the primary backer, enabler and weapon supplier for the Gaza genocide, the report on Taiwanese corporations’ complicity in the crimes made no reference to [advanced silicon chip maker] Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited's close ties to the US military-industrial complex and the US financial oligarchy. Had the report done so, Washington’s culpability for unleashing its two attack dogs, Israel and Taiwan, would have come to the fore. In its strikes on Gaza, Israel deploys F-35s to drop 2,000-pound bombs.
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Taiwan’s function as a strategic ally for US imperialism is epitomized in the widespread use of the term “silicon shield”, coined by Australian journalist Craig Addison who authored a book of the same title in 2001. Since then, all factions of the Taiwanese bourgeoisie and corporate media have insisted that the concentration of global semiconductor production in Taiwan has made the island “an indispensable player” on the world stage and therefore that an alliance with US imperialism is essential because Washington will “shield” the strategically-important island from Chinese invasion.
Far from being an oppressed nation, Taiwan, though not an imperialist power, has been no stranger to aiding and abetting genocide perpetrated by far-right dictatorships backed by the US or directly by US imperialism since the 1970s, half a century before the term “the Axis of genocide” was coined.
The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has reinforced this tradition since it came to power in 2000. The DPP lobbied heavily in the US Congress between 2003 and 2004 to send 35,000 Taiwanese marines to ransack Iraq in support of US imperialism. As noted in an article published on the World Socialist Website:
Like Israel’s “Hasbara” propaganda, the Taiwanese bourgeoisie has depicted the island country as an eternal victim facing annihilation. This analogy is then used to justify Taiwan’s collusion with the Axis of Genocide. In contrast, [Taiwanese] independentists have portrayed Taiwan as Palestine, or an eternal victim of settler colonization and of denial of statehood by its neighbor. This view is then used to justify war drives against China.
It is ludicrous to liken Taiwan to Palestine, a nation oppressed by imperialist powers, bourgeois governments and finance capital. It absolves the Taiwanese ruling elite of its culpability in the Gaza genocide, deflecting attention away from the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s active involvement in Washington’s war efforts in the Middle East and around the world, as well as legitimizing hostility to China which is by the same analogy associated with Israel.
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The claim that Germany and the European powers set “human rights” precedents for Taiwan to follow is no less bankrupt.
Germany is the principal backer of Israel and the Gaza genocide after the United States. Earlier this year, Friedrich Merz—now Germany Chancellor, then candidate for the Christian Democratic Union party—threatened to strip dual citizens who participated in anti-Israel demonstrations of their German citizenship. Following Israel’s illegal military assault on Iran in June 2025, Chancellor Merz told ZDF, “This is the dirty work that Israel is doing for all of us. […] I have the utmost respect for the Israeli army and the Israeli leadership for having had the courage to do this.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, when he delivered a fascistic rant to the imperialist powers at the headquarters of the United Nations on September 26, 2025, responded by boasting:
You know deep down that Israel is fighting your fight. Behind closed doors, many of the leaders who publicly condemn us, privately thank us… This past June, when Israel struck Iran’s nuclear facilities, German Chancellor Merz admitted the truth. He said, ‘Israel is doing the dirty work for all of us.’
Germany’s position is hardly an aberration. Britain is the third-largest backer of the Gaza genocide, after the United States and Germany.
On July 2, 2025, the British House of Commons voted 386–26 to proscribe Palestine Action, a civil disobedience group that staged protests against the genocide and UK arms industry, as a terrorist organization. As of this writing, Keir Starmer’s Labour government has arrested over 2,000 peaceful protesters who defended Palestine Action and is moving to ban pro-Palestinian demonstrations based on claims that they are a public nuisance and on accusations of antisemitism. Despite mounting pressure at home, the UK Ministry of Defence has refused to suspend exports of F-35 components to Israel.
It is at best naïve to expect European perpetrators and enablers of the Genocide to pressure Taiwan’s government and enterprises which firmly align themselves with their bourgeois class interests to change course.
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Leon Trotsky noted in 1939 that it would be naïve to pin any hopes on “a progressive bourgeoisie” and/or “a progressive bourgeois movement” in the imperialist era of capitalism, underlining:
A political superstructure of one kind or another cannot change the reactionary economic foundation of imperialism. On the contrary, it is the foundation that subordinates the superstructure to itself.
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A genuine struggle against the monstrous crimes in Gaza, fascism and war cannot be waged with wishful thinking and half-measures. The fight requires a struggle against our nationalism, our “own” bourgeoisie, all perpetrators and accomplices of the US-Israeli genocide as well as all sections of the ruling classes.
Above all, our fight against the genocide, fascism and war must be part of a broader struggle to overturn the capitalist system that breeds such unremitting and boundless brutality. The slaughter and starvation of the Palestinians, as well as Washington’s plan to create “the New Middle East” by increasingly savage means, have vindicated the revolutionary Marxist position that defeating imperialism requires the abolition of capitalism by the proletariat, guided by an internationalist programme and led by its revolutionary vanguard.
We urge workers, youth and toiling masses in Taiwan, China, the Middle East, Europe and beyond who aspire to real peace and equality among nations to contact the International Committee of the Fourth International and join the fight for proletarian internationalism—that is, real peace and equality among the toiling masses of the world.
3. Chinese leadership doubles down on high-tech development
China will seek to intensify its technological development and become increasingly “self-sufficient” in this area according to its 15th five-year economic plan the outlines of which were approved at the fourth plenum of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee held this week.
The emphasis placed in the plan on further “high quality” development will bring more countermeasures from the US, which regards the technological advance of China, particularly in new fields such as AI, as an existential threat to its global dominance.
The communiqué from the fourth plenum said China would seek to “upgrade traditional industries as well as foster, strengthen and expand emerging and future industries.”
It said China had to “achieve greater self-reliance and strength in science and technology and steer the development of new quality productive forces” and to seize the “historic opportunity presented by the new round of industrial transformation to boost China’s strength.”
No specific details were released—that will not happen until the next National People’s Congress in March next year. But it is certain to involve further government spending and initiatives.
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China has been hit by the Trump tariffs with exports to the US dropping by 27 percent in September. But exports to the rest of the world are booming as a result of deflation in the Chinese domestic economy. Total Chinese exports in the month of September rose to $328.6 billion at the fastest pace in six months.
China’s surplus in merchandise trade has increased by 12.4 percent in the past three months compared to the same period last year and the trade surplus is expected to reach $1 trillion for the year, setting a new record high.
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China is becoming increasingly reliant on foreign markets to absorb its factory output. Net exports accounted for 6.2 percent of the economy in the third quarter. While this was slightly down from the record 6.4 percent in the second, it was still larger than in any other quarter since 2014.
But the Chinese export surge is leading to other countries, including in Southeast Asia, to consider imposing restrictions.
The latest draft five-year plan approved by the plenum makes some reference to the need to expand domestic demand, improve living standards and increase consumer spending, but there are unlikely to be any major initiatives. Past actions have included limited measures to boost consumption, but they have had little effect as indicated by the latest data.
Figures showed that so-called nominal growth, that is growth without adjusting for price changes, was down to 3.7 percent in the third quarter. This means that overall, prices as measured by the GDP deflator fell for the 10 consecutive quarter—the longest period of deflation in recent history.
The ongoing decline in the property market continues to weigh on the domestic economy. Apartment prices are down by as much as 40 percent from their peak in 2021 and there is a contraction in real estate and construction. In the past, this sector accounted for as much as a quarter in the Chinese economy.
Local government authorities, which are responsible for much of infrastructure spending have been impacted because their growth model has been all but destroyed. In the past they were able to finance themselves by selling land for development and then using the funds for local development projects as well as providing some social services.
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Summing up the economic situation, the plenum communiqué said China faced a “stage where strategic opportunities coexist with risks and challenges, and uncertainties and unpredictable factors are increasing.”
It insisted, as has become mandatory, on the need to “fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.”
This phrase may have more significance than usual in view of the recent purge organized by Xi. In the lead-up to the meeting, the number two general in the People’s Liberation Army He Weidong was sacked along with eight other senior commanders. It was the first time in six decades that such a high-ranking military leader was removed.
The purge went further. According to WSJ calculations, the Central Committee meeting was one of the smallest in decades with nearly one sixth of those on the Central Committee that was elected three years ago absent this week.
4. Chinese Communist Party expels nine top generals
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which came to power in 1949 on the back of predominantly peasant armies, has relied heavily on the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) not only to counter external threats, but to crush internal opposition in times of crisis— in particular during the Mao Zedong’s misnamed Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and the mass protests and strikes in 1989 focused on Beijing’s Tienanmen Square.
The accusations of “disloyalty” and “a total collapse of their beliefs” as party members take on particular significance as the CCP regime confronts the Trump administration’s accelerating preparations for war with China, along with a slowing economy, high unemployment, especially among young people, and rising social tensions.
The announcement that the nine generals would be expelled came on the eve of the fourth plenum of the party’s central committee, which is tasked with discussing the next five-year economic plan as China confronts the US administration’s barrage of tariffs and export restrictions. Xi is due to meet face-to-face with Trump next week in South Korea on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
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Given the opaque character of the CCP’s internal machinations, the precise reasons for the purging of the latest nine are not clear. The expulsions from the party were confirmed at the plenum of the Central Committee held this week and their cases have referred to military prosecutors for review and prosecution.
Nevertheless, the least that can be said is that the latest purge highlights considerable political tensions within the Chinese regime as it confronts serious economic and political problems, both externally and internally, and is ever more dependent on President Xi to hold the party together.
5. Europe’s defense roadmap 2030 lays the groundwork for dictatorship and global war
The events of the past days mark a new stage in the imperialist military escalation against Russia and the preparations for a third world war. The meetings of the European Council in Brussels on Thursday and the so-called “Coalition of the Willing” in London on Friday were not ordinary diplomatic gatherings but war summits. Together they approved new sanctions, further military aid to Ukraine and a “Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030” that sets out a five-year plan for the militarization of the entire continent.
At the same time, Washington escalated its direct involvement. The Trump administration lifted key restrictions on Ukraine’s use of Western-supplied long-range missiles, enabling Kiev to strike deep inside Russian territory. On Tuesday, Ukraine used a British-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missile to attack a plant in Bryansk that produces explosives and rocket fuel. The Ukrainian general staff celebrated the “successful hit.” Such operations risk triggering an open confrontation between the NATO powers and Russia, which could rapidly spiral into a nuclear exchange.
The United States and its European allies are deliberately escalating the conflict. Both Washington and London announced new sanctions against Russia’s largest oil and gas producers, Rosneft and Lukoil, while the European Union agreed to tighten its own economic war. The Brussels summit resolved to expand export bans on dual-use goods, restrict Russian access to European capital markets, ban 117 ships of the Russian “shadow fleet” from EU ports and impose new travel and financial limits on Russian diplomats. By 2027, the import of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) will be completely prohibited—one year earlier than previously planned.
Even more provocative is the EU’s plan to seize and repurpose the frozen assets of the Russian central bank to fund weapons for Ukraine. Although Belgium raised legal objections, the European Council instructed the Commission to “present a proposal as soon as possible.” This constitutes nothing less than an act of international theft—an imperialist expropriation that signals to every nation on earth that its reserves are not safe if they conflict with Western interests.
The European Council’s declaration on Ukraine boasts that the EU has already provided €177.5 billion since 2022 and “commits to meeting Ukraine’s urgent financial needs for 2026–2027, including for its military and defense efforts.” Hundreds of billions more will follow.
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Tens of thousands of new military and civilian posts are being created and the draft will be reinstated. Billions are flowing into the production of fighter jets, transport helicopters, new tanks, armored vehicles, warships, drones, missile systems and even a dedicated space command. Chancellor Friedrich Merz has openly declared his goal of making Germany the “strongest conventional army in Europe.”
These policies recall the preparations of German imperialism in the 1930s, when the drive to rearmament and world power required the installation of a fascist regime, the destruction of democratic rights and the suppression of the working class. The same logic is asserting itself again. Across Europe, ruling elites are cultivating fascist forces—Farage in Britain, Le Pen in France, Meloni in Italy and the AfD in Germany—to suppress social anger and prepare for war.
The objective tendencies are unmistakable. The integration of the EU, NATO and the arms industry into a unified war apparatus goes hand in hand with the turn toward authoritarian rule. The assault on democratic rights, the criminalization of protests against the Gaza genocide, and the militarization of police forces all reflect the ruling class’s fear of mass opposition.
The same contradictions that drive imperialism to war—above all, the deep crisis of the capitalist system—also produce the conditions for revolutionary upheaval. The vast reallocation of wealth to finance rearmament, the destruction of living standards, and the ever-growing danger of nuclear annihilation will provoke resistance throughout the working class. In the United States, more than 7 million people joined the “No Kings” protests against Trump’s fascistic policies on October 18. In Europe, strikes and demonstrations have erupted among other places in Greece, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands and France against austerity and militarism. These are signs of an explosive global resurgence of class struggle.
But spontaneous opposition is not enough. It must be armed with a conscious political program that connects the fight against war and dictatorship to the struggle against their root cause: the capitalist system itself. The International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) in its 2016 statement “Socialism and the Fight Against War” laid out the principles that now acquire burning urgency:
• The struggle against war must be based on the working class, the great revolutionary force in society, uniting behind it all progressive elements in the population.
• The new antiwar movement must be anti-capitalist and socialist, since there can be no serious struggle against war except in the fight to end the dictatorship of finance capital and to put an end to the economic system that is the fundamental cause of militarism and war.
• The new antiwar movement must therefore, of necessity, be completely and unequivocally independent of, and hostile to, all political parties and organizations of the capitalist class.
• The new antiwar movement must, above all, be international, mobilizing the vast power of the working class in a unified global struggle against imperialism.
6. UK government backed persecution of anti-genocide medic Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan continues
A Tribunal agreed with the General Medical Council to continue investigations into Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan’s entirely legitimate social media activity.
Canada’s federal government under former Goldman Sachs executive and Bank of England governor Mark Carney is pushing forward with two bills containing sweeping attacks on democratic rights and immigrants. Elected on a wave of popular revulsion to the fascist spectacle of Trump’s first three months in office, Carney has repudiated the cynical pose of opposition to Trump he struck for the cameras during the campaign.
Groveling before the aspiring fascist dictator in the Oval Office earlier this month, Carney praised Trump as a “transformative president.” A similar “transformation” of Canadian social relations is underway—from bourgeois democracy to authoritarian police state.
Scores of artists and writers issued a call for museums, galleries, theaters, bookstores and libraries and other institutions and businesses in the arts to sponsor events across the US on November 21 and 22 to oppose the Trump administration’s attack on democratic rights.
The organization, called the Fall of Freedom, was organized by a group of artists and writers including visual artists Robert Longo, Dread Scott, Jenny Polak and Accra Shepp, Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Lynn Nottage, novelist Hari Kunzu and curator and writer Laura Raicovich.
The call has already attracted many supporters from among other artists and writers and musicians, including Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Eagan, songwriter and actor John Legend, actor Jeffrey Wright and filmmakers Ava DuVernay and Laura Poitras.
Prominent cultural institutions have endorsed Fall of Freedom as well, among them New York City’s Public Theater, Apollo Theater and National Black Theater, the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. and the Berkeley Rep in California.
The brief statement published on the Fall of Freedom website explains:
Fall of Freedom is an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation. Our Democracy is under attack. Threats to free expression are rising. Dissent is being criminalized. Institutions and media have been recast as mouthpieces of propaganda. …
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The Fall of Freedom project also continues the struggle that thousands of writers, visual artists, musicians and actors have not only taken up against the Trump administration’s attacks on democratic rights, particularly against immigrant workers, for example, singers Zach Bryan and Neil Young, but also against Trump and Biden’s central role in the Gaza genocide over the last two years.
The Trump administration’s attack on basic rights such as freedom of speech, the freedom of assembly, due process and the right to asylum are closely entwined with its efforts to suppress artistic and intellectual freedom.
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The artists’ Fall of Freedom project and similar actions are positive signs. But, as noted, they do not by any means solve all the political issues. Attempts will be made to firmly subordinate such projects to “left” Democratic Party charlatans like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or the 2026 Democratic Party election campaign as a whole. Moreover, unions like AFSCME, the UAW and others have entered the cultural and educational sphere, with the aim of collecting dues and stifling the movement of museum, university and other workers. The artists need to orient themselves to the working class rank-and-file, the social force capable of driving Trump from power, and, bearing in mind the lessons of the Hollywood Red Scare, to the emergence of a consciously anti-capitalist mass movement.
9. Pakistan and Afghanistan agree to shaky truce after week of clashes
Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to a shaky truce last weekend in talks mediated by Qatar and Turkey after more than a week of military clashes, in which scores and likely hundreds died.
10. In response to Volkswagen’s “final offer” UAW schedules strike vote at Chattanooga plant
Following the massive No Kings protest held in the US and internationally this past Saturday, the official organizers of the event held an online call Tuesday night, titled “What’s Next After No Kings?” At its height, some 40,000 people watched the event live, with over 26,000 still watching at the conclusion.
This high viewership, along with Saturday’s protest, which drew an estimated 7 million people, expresses mass opposition to the fascistic Trump administration and its ongoing attacks on the working class.
Under conditions where Trump is running roughshod over the Constitution and arrogating to himself absolute power to imprison his political opponents and assassinate alleged “narco terrorists,” speakers on the call proposed no concrete action to remove Trump from office.
The entire purpose of the meeting, which did not allow any public comment, was to block the development of an independent movement of the working class against the capitalist system, the source of inequality and fascism, and channel mass social anger back into the political graveyard of the Democratic Party and electoral politics.
This is under conditions where there is no guarantee the 2026 midterm elections or the 2028 presidential election will even take place. Trump is currently surging federal agents, immigration Gestapo and National Guard elements to major cities without the consent of local politicians. In an interview this week with The Economist, Steve Bannon, one of Trump’s leading January 6 co-conspirators, made clear that Trump is planning to violate the Constitution and remain president for a third term.
“Trump is gonna be president in ’28, and people ought to just get accommodated with that,” Bannon said.
Repudiating the American Revolution, waged to destroy the “Divine Right of Kings,” Bannon said, “there is a plan,” and that Trump is “an instrument of divine will.”
In the face of coming dictatorship, the Democratic Party-aligned speakers proposed no actions to actually remove Trump from office. The words “impeachment” or “strike” were never uttered.
12. Target, GM, Ford announce more layoffs, as total US job cuts for 2025 approaches 1 million
The total announced layoffs in 2025 is the fifth highest in the last 36 years, according to outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas.
13. United Kingdom: CWU seeks to shore up rotten pact with Kretinsky at Royal Mail
The October 21 CWU update to members on Royal Mail/EP Group negotiations explodes the fraud of “mutual interests” between postal workers and EP Group the union has promoted.
14. Union helps management block socialist student campaign at Australian university
At an outdoor strike rally, National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) representatives partnered with the university’s security chief to ban members of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality from campaigning at the event.
15. WSWS speaks with workers in New Zealand’s “mega strike” (videos included)
The World Socialist Web Site [WSWS] interviewed several people attending Thursday’s rally in Auckland as part of the so-called “mega strike” involving more than 100,000 public sector workers—New Zealand’s largest strike in more than 40 years.
More than 15,000 people—including teachers, firefighters, nurses, doctors, social workers and other healthcare workers—protested in Auckland’s Aotea Square and marched down Queen Street. They were joined by many young people, students and retired workers supporting the strike.
The workers are opposing the National Party-led government’s attempt to impose historic cuts to their real wages, amid soaring costs for food, housing, electricity and other essential needs. They spoke with WSWS reporters and members of the Socialist Equality Group about rundown and understaffed schools and hospitals, and the broader social crisis that workers confront, including increased homelessness, and the vast inequality created by capitalism.
Many also denounced the New Zealand government’s support for the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza and its alliance with the US, as well as the diversion of billions of dollars to the military to prepare for war, at the expense of public services.
16. Australian Services Union rally organizers promote illusions in Labor
Hundreds of care workers protested around the country against attacks on their wages and conditions, but the ASU leadership ensured the rallies were stage-managed affairs aimed at isolating them from other sections of the working class.
17. Australian care workers speak out against wage-cutting award “reform”
“Labor might appear a little bit more like they care about healthcare and whatnot but at the end of the day, their funding and backing is from the big corporations and banks, and that’s who they prioritize.”
18. Anthony Boyd executed in Alabama by nitrogen gas despite ineffective counsel and doubt of his guilt
19. Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
Bangladesh:
Fashion Forum Garments workers demand outstanding wages
Non-government secondary school teachers continue strike
India:
Strike by Delhi Municipal Corporation workers enters third week
Tamil Nadu: Madurai sanitary workers’ union suspends strike and accepts privatization
Erode General Hospital sanitation workers protest non-payment of Diwali bonus
Jeypore Municipality sanitation workers strike for unpaid wages
Australia:
Australian Catholic University staff strike for pay rise and job security
Armaguard security workers in Victoria and Tasmania strike
Rix’s Creek coal mine strike in New South Wales enters third week
CDC bus drivers in Darwin strike for better pay and safety
ZircoDATA warehouse workers in New South Wales strike for improved pay offer
Coca-Cola factory maintenance workers in Queensland strike
Public school teachers in Tasmania to hold national strike
Workers at Graincorp’s port facilities in Victoria strike for better pay and conditions
Infrabuild steel mill workers in Victoria strike for new work agreement
20. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
The fight for the Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist's freedom is an essential component of the struggle against imperialist war, genocide, dictatorship and fascism.
