Headlines at the World Socialist Web Site today:
1. Trump denounces actor-director Rob Reiner as “very bad for the country” following tragic killings
Trump has now gone from silence over the violent attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband by a fascist supporter in November 2022 and lies and obfuscation in the case of the Minnesota Democrats murdered in June 2025 to open gloating.
2. Will Lehman: Every worker should be using Socialism AI
Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker who ran for president of the United Auto Workers in 2022, released this video explaining what Socialism AI is and why every worker should be using it.
3. Abuse and exploitation endemic in Australia’s Pacific “guest worker” scheme
Under the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme, workers are recruited from impoverished Pacific countries to fill jobs in agriculture, meat processing and aged care, which provides money to be sent home. Workers must hold a temporary work visa tying them to an approved PALM employer. Short-term contracts are for a maximum of nine months, with long-term contracts up to four years.
Over 30,000 workers are currently employed under the scheme from Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. In 2021, Canberra launched an aggressive campaign to prevent workers from fleeing their jobs after more than 1,000 absconded. The campaign warned they would “bring shame to their families” and risked having their visas cancelled.
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The PALM scheme has long been rife with exploitation. A report in February by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology’s Business and Human Rights Centre exposed severe conditions in the meat industry, with a harsh working environment, restricted freedoms and systemic inequities experienced by Pacific Island workers.
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PALM workers are often paid the bare minimum within industry awards, with “deductibles” made for travel and accommodation. Many report being forced to work unpaid overtime or take on extra responsibilities without additional compensation. Those in isolated rural areas are often forced to live in overcrowded, high-rent accommodation. They describe long hours, excessive production targets and a lack of leisure time.
*****Despite the complaints, exposures and official inquiries over many years, little has changed. An Australian Senate inquiry in 2022, an investigation by the New South Wales Anti-Slavery Commissioner (2024) and a review by the Vanuatu government (2022) all highlighted atrocious conditions experienced by temporary workers, to no avail.
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The exploitation and abuse endemic to the Pacific worker schemes has a long and brutal history. The local imperialist powers, Australia and New Zealand, have for over a century used Pacific peoples as cheap labor and, when it suited, as cannon fodder in times of war.
The practice remains an essential aspect of both governments’ continuing neo-colonial policy toward the island nations.
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New Zealand’s Recognized Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme, introduced by the Helen Clark Labour government in 2007, initially allowed for 16,000 workers annually from Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Fiji to work in the $NZ10 billion horticulture and viticulture industries. The scheme has since expanded into the meat and seafood processing sectors and is now capped at 20,750 workers on visas for seven to nine months. The low pay and miserable conditions are used as a precedent for broader austerity attacks on the entire working class.
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The precursor of Australia’s PALM scheme, the Seasonal Worker Program, began in 2012 after a four-year pilot scheme, under the Labor governments of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, supported by the trade unions. They revived comparisons with the country’s infamous “blackbirding” history. Up to a million workers from Pacific countries, many kidnapped and sold to landowners, were used as indentured or slave labor from the 1860s to the 1940s.
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s official apology to the Pacific community in August 2021, in which she called the dawn raids “a defining moment in New Zealand’s history,” was meaningless. An official review by Immigration New Zealand in 2023 excoriated her Labour-led government, which included the Greens, for effectively continuing the practice.
For their part, the Pacific Island governments do nothing to materially improve the conditions of the workers. They are closely involved in vetting applicants for the migrant labor schemes and even helping supervise their behavior. The schemes have been lauded by all the participating authorities for the purported economic “benefits” to fragile island economies, which depend heavily on remittances paid by overseas workers.
4. Water main break in Waterbury, Connecticut, exposes decrepit state of New England infrastructure
Late Friday night, December 12, a 42-inch high-pressure transmission water main burst with explosive force under a street in Waterbury, Connecticut. Pavement was thrown into the air and windows were shattered. Located about 30 miles southwest of Hartford, the city has a population of 114,000, making it the state’s fifth largest municipality. The break affected schools, businesses, and healthcare facilities, leading to closures and disruptions for several days.
Waterbury—once the heart of the “Brass Valley” from the early 1800s through the early 20th century, with the operation of companies like Scovill Manufacturing, American Brass and Chase Brass & Copper—by the 1970s and 1980s was experiencing economic decline with the shuttering of factories and was ranked as having the worst quality of life of 300 US metropolitan areas by Money Magazine by 1992. The catastrophic failure of the city’s water system is emblematic of this economic decline.
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Water Superintendent Brad Malay noted that the fragility and age of these pipes meant “it doesn’t take a lot for those pipes to ... let go.” Water loss continued for over 12 hours after the rupture because the older isolation valves were too fragile to be closed, preventing the break from being localized. Pernerewski explained that the inability to shut these valves meant the affected area had to “spread to bigger and bigger areas.” Malay noted the reluctance to even touch the ancient valves, stating that the risk of breaking them by “exercising” them was considered greater than the reward, leaving them alone for decades until a crisis forced the issue.
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The crisis carried deep social implications spanning public health, equitable distribution, and public trust for the entire community. The public health response was immediate, requiring a boil water advisory due to the risk of harmful microorganisms contaminating the system. Residents were explicitly instructed to use boiled or bottled water for drinking, cooking, washing food and brushing teeth.
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Waterbury is not unique, much of New England’s wastewater infrastructure dates from the late 19th to mid-20th century. In addition to Waterbury, many New England cities, including Boston, Providence, Hartford and Springfield, still rely on cast-iron or ductile-iron pipes that range from 80 to over 150 years old. They are made from cast iron that corrodes, becomes brittle and fails suddenly. Break rates increase sharply after about 75 years of age, resulting in boil-water advisories, health issues and emergency repairs, especially during cold snaps or heat waves.
The situation in Waterbury is only the latest in a series of crises affecting water systems across the country. The most notorious recent example is the ongoing crisis in Flint, Michigan (2014–present), in which a state‑ordered switch to Flint River water without adequate corrosion control led to massive lead poisoning, an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, and continued economic and health costs for residents.
In recent decades, investigations and reporting have identified elevated lead or industrial chemical contamination across the United States, including in Cleveland and Sebring, Ohio; Jackson, Mississippi; Newark, New Jersey; Baltimore, Maryland; Los Angeles and many other cities. These are not isolated incidents but part of a national pattern of decaying infrastructure and regulatory failure.
Lead service lines remained common for decades due to industry lobbying. A federal ban came only in 1986, and millions of miles of legacy lead pipe remain, creating an ongoing public‑health hazard.
Despite water being essential to human life, New England’s water systems fell into disrepair because the political system under capitalism rewards delay until failure. Only under a planned socialist economy can resources be properly allocated to prevent events like what happened in Waterbury, and the threats posed by similar crises across the US.
5. More Australian workers and youth are using Socialism AI
Christopher, a former accountant and mature-aged student at Macquarie University, said the launch of Socialism AI immediately stood out for its professionalism. Having already used mainstream AI tools in political and social media work, he said he was acutely aware of their conservative limitations.
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“What ChatGPT does is it takes all the information published in the whole world and it marshals the answers from all sources,” he said, “but it always picks the conservative option to be safe.” He said such systems do not disclose what information they discard or why. “It just presents the conservative viewpoint first up. It was developed by the bourgeoisie and they have a vested interest in making sure things do not change.”
While mainstream AI can sometimes be challenged, Christopher said Socialism AI represented a qualitative advance. He cited a demonstration he witnessed at a meeting. “The demonstration I was shown… where Socialism AI answered the question about Cromwell, that was masterful,” he said. “It shows to me that I’ll be able to put hard questions to it.”
Christopher said Socialism AI would be used as a tool to raise political consciousness, which he described as urgently necessary. Reflecting on his own experience coming toward the Socialist Equality Party, he said the depth of historical understanding demanded by the movement was initially a “culture shock,” but a necessary one. “What I want to understand is how the workers’ revolution is going to take place and my place in it,” he said. “There’s a need for the consciousness of the working class to be up for it.”
6. Australian government pledges to keep slashing spending
The Labor government’s Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO), handed down yesterday, foreshadows deeper cuts to social programs, inflicting more financial pain on working-class households while boosting corporate subsidies and military spending to satisfy the financial elite.
In delivering the mid-year budget update, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said there were difficult decisions in it, but there would be “more to come.” Anxious to meet the demands of the corporate elite, he framed the document as being “all about delivery, responsibility and restraint.” It was about “ensuring that responsible economic management continues to be a defining feature of this Albanese Labor government.”
By “responsibility,” Chalmers meant that the government had found an extra $20 billion in “savings and reprioritizations” in the update. He boasted that Labor had far outdone the previous Liberal-National government in cutting spending, saying it had taken the Coalition seven mid-year updates to find $20 billion in cuts.
Chalmers avoided the word “austerity,” but foreshadowed cuts for the rest of the decade, pledging to keep beating the Coalition’s record. “We’ve kept average real spending growth to 1.7 percent over the seven years to 2028–29, compared to our predecessors who averaged 4.1 percent,” he said.
That 1.7 percent figure barely matches the rate of population growth, without taking into account the higher costs of an ageing population. So more “difficult” decisions are being prepared.
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Just before the budget update, Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Michele Bullock was more blunt. In an interview with Nine Media newspapers, she warned the next five years could be marked by a slow-moving global economic decay as Trump’s tariffs and other policies to “make America great again” translated into higher costs and slower growth.
Bullock said that while the central bank’s day-to-day focus was on China and the broader Asian region, the economic issues emanating out of the US were a harbinger of tougher times ahead.
Her remarks point to the basic dilemma facing Australian capitalism. China is its largest export market, primarily for iron ore, coal and gas. Yet the Albanese government, in line with previous governments, is fully committed to the US military alliance and preparations for a US-led war against China for global hegemony.
As a result of Trump’s tariff war and China’s slowdown, a downturn is already emerging. Australia’s latest gross domestic product figures showed zero growth of production per person in the September quarter of 2025. This is accompanied by rising inflation and low levels of big business investment, except for AI-related data centers.
Corporate media outlets are demanding that the government go much further in cutting social spending. Today’s Australian editorial declared the MYEFO a failure. “The government is yet to face the fact that taxpayers are not a money tree to fund largess to Labor’s favored constituencies,” it stated, particularly singling out spending on the NDIS, childcare, pensions and mental health programs.
The editorial concluded: “Entrapped in a vortex of big spending, only productivity improvements can deliver the returns and prosperity to create the major financial gains the budget and the nation need.” In plain language, that means driving up the rate of exploitation of the working class, at the expense of jobs and conditions, while gutting already inadequate programs on which millions of working-class people depend to barely survive.
7. European powers set course for escalation of war in Ukraine against Russia
While German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called the German capital a “hub of peace efforts,” in reality it hosted a war summit. Behind closed doors, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump’s negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, and a number of European heads of state and government haggled not over how to end the war, but how to continue it under new conditions.
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The Berlin Declaration speaks of a “legally binding obligation” to “take measures to restore peace and security” in the event of a future attack. The next sentence states that these measures could include military intervention, but also intelligence, logistical, economic or diplomatic support.
The backdoor is deliberately built in to give governments maximum flexibility. Politically, however, the message is clear: an attack on Ukraine—or a provocation that can be interpreted as such—should be considered an attack on Europe and responded to accordingly. Moscow attacked Ukraine, following constant Western provocations, to prevent a further expansion of NATO up to its borders. Berlin, Paris and London are now not only demanding an 800,000-strong Ukrainian army on Russia’s doorstep, but also a European force in Ukraine and alliance guarantees comparable to NATO membership.
The European powers are thus preparing something that is completely unacceptable from Russia’s point of view. The demands are deliberately worded in such a way as to sabotage any peace agreement and create a permanent war front in Eastern Europe.
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The German-European escalation of war is taking place against the backdrop of a deep rift in the transatlantic alliance. Trump’s National Security Strategy attacks the European Union head-on, promoting the rise of right-wing extremist parties and announcing that the US will in the future concentrate its resources primarily in Latin America and the Indo-Pacific region. Russia is no longer designated as the main adversary. Instead, Europe should find “strategic stability” with Moscow while Washington pursues its own interests.
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Today, German imperialism is once again pursuing the goal of removing Ukraine and other states that were once part of the Soviet Union or the Russian Empire from Moscow’s sphere of influence and bringing them under the control of the German-dominated European Union.
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The Putin regime, which emerged from the restoration of capitalism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, plays a reactionary role. It relies on war, militarism and dictatorship to defend the interests of the Russian oligarchy. Under pressure from imperialism, it vacillates between military threats, including the use of nuclear weapons, and submissive begging for a deal.
Italian artist Costantino Ciervo has made a powerful short video for Instagram and Facebook. In the video, he denounces defamatory accusations of antisemitism that have been used to justify attempts by German politicians and lobby groups to shut down his exhibition “COMUNE – The Paradox of Similarity in the Middle East Conflict” at the Fluxus+ Museum in Potsdam (near Berlin).
The exhibition proposes a vision of Jews and Palestinians living together in a federation based on equal rights, directly contradicting claims that the work is antisemitic.
In the video Ciervo explains that: “After the opening [of the exhibition] a smear campaign was launched in Germany claiming that the exhibition was antisemitic. The smear campaign was initiated by the Commissioner for Antisemitism of the State of Brandenburg, the Israeli Embassy, the Jewish community in Potsdam, and Volker Beck, the president of the German-Israeli Society.”
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In response, Ciervo declared in his video:
I vehemently reject the accusation that I am an antisemite. Throughout my entire life I have always been committed to the struggle against racism and every form of oppression. I have advocated peace and coexistence among peoples. The exhibition is not about confronting one ethnicity against another, but rather a vision that in Palestine Jews and Palestinians could live together with equal rights in peace.
Ciervo’s video, available in German and Italian, has already been seen hundreds of times, accompanied by overwhelmingly positive reactions.
9. Trump-backed redistricting effort fails in Indiana
On December 11, a majority of Republican state senators in Indiana voted with Democrats to defeat a Trump administration-organized scheme to redistrict the state. Republicans control the Indiana Senate with a 40-10 majority.
The state Senate voted 31-19 to reject the mid‑decade congressional redistricting bill, which could have changed Indiana’s current 7–2 Republican advantage in the US House of Representatives to 9–0 by dismantling two Democratic‑held districts, based on Indianapolis and the Gary-Hammond area adjacent to Chicago. Similar undemocratic initiatives have been pushed through in the states of Texas, North Carolina and Missouri.
The defeat of the effort to redraw Indiana’s congressional map has been widely portrayed in the corporate media as a significant stand taken by state Republicans against overreach by President Trump. Headlines have celebrated the “courage” of senators who defied White House pressure, while editorials frame the vote as a victory for democratic norms and local sovereignty.
However, such narratives obscure the real class dynamics at play. The vote in the Indiana legislature was not a moral awakening, but a tactical decision by sections of the ruling class and the Republican establishment to avoid a destabilizing political and legal conflict that could threaten incumbent interests, expose bitter intra-party divisions, and undermine the legitimacy of the 2026 elections and capitalist politics as a whole.
Trump’s nationwide campaign to force Republican-controlled states to redraw congressional maps mid-decade is an unprecedented authoritarian intervention into state politics. Having failed to secure decisive congressional majorities in the 2024 elections, and facing the likely loss of the House, at least, in 2026, Trump and his cabal identified redistricting as a mechanism to maintain Republican control. The anti-democratic campaign is designed to engineer partisan outcomes by dismantling competitive districts and disenfranchising Democratic—particularly minority—voters.
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To force compliance, the Trump administration employed a combination of bribery, coercion, and incitement. Trump personally lobbied lawmakers, while Vice President JD Vance made multiple trips to the state. Behind the scenes, operatives like Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair, along with affiliated organizations such as the Heritage Foundation and Turning Point Action, orchestrated a pressure campaign that blurred the lines between political lobbying and outright intimidation.
Most chilling was Trump’s explicit threat—amplified by Heritage Action—to strip Indiana of all federal funding if the map was not passed. “Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop,” the group warned on social media.
This declaration confirmed that the White House viewed federal infrastructure and security funds not as public resources, but as leverage to blackmail state legislatures into enacting anti-democratic measures. It is an offer they can’t refuse, in the mafia-style thinking of Trump’s inner circle.
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Given the intensity of White House pressure, why did a Republican supermajority in the Indiana Senate ultimately reject the map?
In the first place, the political calculations were shifted by the collapse in Trump’s poll numbers, driven by the mounting economic squeeze on working people and mass hostility to Trump’s attacks on democratic rights.
Trump won Indiana over Kamala Harris last year by a margin of 59 percent to 40 percent. In the congressional delegation, Republicans control seven of nine seats, or 77 percent, and the redistricting plan would raise that to 100 percent.
Dissolving the two heavily Democratic districts would mean lessening the margins for Republicans in all of the state’s districts. Given the decline in poll numbers, Democrats might actually make gains under the new district boundaries, defeating Republican incumbents whose majorities would have been undermined.
Secondly, the new map threatened to set off bitter intra-party conflicts. Redistricting is a ruthless process that often pits sitting lawmakers against each other, disrupts local donor networks, and alienates county-level party bosses.
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Perhaps the overriding concern was that the redistricting conflict, not just in Indiana but nationally, threatens to discredit the US electoral system as a whole. It feeds popular alienation from both parties in the corporate-controlled two-party system, with both the Democrats and Republicans engaged in rival efforts to rig the 2026 electoral boundaries.
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The Indiana struggle cannot be understood in isolation. It is part of a national redistricting offensive spearheaded by the Trump administration, with similar efforts by Republicans in Texas, North Carolina and Missouri, and retaliatory efforts by Democrats in California, Maryland, New York and Illinois.
It is essential to recognize that beneath the theatrics of Indiana conflict, both major parties remain committed to defending the interests of capital against the working class. Indiana’s Democratic legislators, while opposing the gerrymander, have no fundamental disagreement with the Republicans on issues of war, social inequality, or corporate domination.
10. For a united global movement against layoffs in the auto industry!
The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) calls on autoworkers around the world to join a unified counteroffensive against the escalating bloodbath of layoffs sweeping the global auto industry.
The defense of the right to a job requires common action on a world scale against the transnational auto companies. This fight requires the building of new organizational structures: rank-and-file committees, democratically controlled by workers and based on the independent interests of the working class, not on nationalist collaboration with the capitalist elite.
On Friday, over 1,100 workers are expected to have their last day at General Motors’ Factory Zero in Detroit. The name of the plant (Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions, Zero Congestion) reflected GM’s claim that it was the centerpiece of the company’s electric vehicle future. Now the plant is to go down to a single shift and could soon be closed altogether.
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The United Auto Workers bureaucracy has said nothing about any of these job cuts. This guilty silence reflects its own role in helping to eliminate thousands of jobs since the phony 2023 “standup strike.” The UAW has also remained silent on dangerous working conditions, including those that led to the death of skilled tradesman Ronald Adams Sr. this April.
The only sustained and serious coverage of these developments has come from the World Socialist Web Site and from the IWA-RFC, which has exposed conditions that the union bureaucracy seeks to conceal.
11. Richest 125 Kenyans own more wealth than 42 million people
Charity organization Oxfam’s report, “Kenya’s Inequality Crisis: The Great Economic Divide,” is a devastating indictment of the capitalist system, imperialist domination, and the long-standing promises of the Kenyan national bourgeoisie that independence, carried out within borders imposed by colonialism and on the basis of capitalist property relations, would usher in an era of equality and prosperity.
The report shows that nearly half of Kenya’s population lives in extreme poverty, while a minuscule layer at the top has accumulated obscene levels of wealth. The richest 125 individuals now control more wealth than 77 percent of the population, that is, over 42 million people. At the same time, average real wages have fallen by 11 percent since 2020, the cost of food has risen by 50 percent compared to 2020, and public services are collapsing amid International Monetary Fund (IMF) austerity.
The report documents that sustained economic growth has not led to reduced poverty. GDP has grown at an average of around 5 percent per year over the past decade, yet seven million more people have fallen into extreme poverty since 2015. Food insecurity has risen by more than 70 percent, and inflation has hit low-income households far harder than the rich.
This exposes the claim, repeated endlessly by successive Kenyan governments and the IMF, that growth alone will lift people out of poverty. Instead, it has confirmed what Karl Marx explained 150 years ago in Das Kapital, “Accumulation of wealth at one pole is … at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole”.
Debt plays a decisive role. In 2024, 68 percent of all tax revenue in Kenya was used to service debt. That is double the share of just seven years earlier. Debt repayment is now twice as much as the total budget for education and nearly 15 times more than the national health budget.
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This mechanism is common to all former colonies and semi-colonies, from South America to sub-Saharan Africa. In every case, the IMF and World Bank operate as instruments of imperialist domination, imposing policies that subordinate social needs to debt repayment and “investor confidence.”
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The Oxfam report traces Kenya’s extreme inequality to the unresolved legacy of colonial land dispossession. Under colonial rule, land, the most important source of wealth in Kenya, was violently expropriated from the indigenous tribes and concentrated in the hands of a tiny settler population. By the 1930s, white settlers, who made up just 0.25 percent of the population, owned roughly a third of the most fertile land in the Kenyan highlands.
This created a racially stratified economy in which Africans were pushed onto overcrowded, less productive land or forced into low-paid wage labour, while being taxed to finance public services they were largely excluded from.
It was these conditions that gave rise to the peasant-based Mau Mau uprising against British imperialism in the 1950s, led mostly by Kikuyu, Embu and Meru tribes. While the movement was brutally suppressed, including the execution of its leader Dedan Kimathi in 1957, its existence underscored the impossibility of London maintaining colonial capitalist relations without draining its resources in constant counter-insurgency campaigns, prompting a negotiated settlement with the aspiring Kenyan elites.
The colonial system gave way to a post-independence system “repurposed by the local elite”, states Oxfam, who seized vast resources formerly controlled by white settlers. Land redistribution schemes after independence were shaped by patronage, political loyalty, and the ability to pay, rather than social need or restitution. Prominent politicians and politically connected individuals, including the first family, the Kenyatta’s, acquired land intended for landless and displaced populations, creating a new African bourgeoisie. Over time, land and inequality has worsened.
Today, land in Nairobi is concentrated in the hands of a small number of wealthy individuals, while millions are forced to live in slums such as Mathare, Kangemi, Kibera, Mukuru, Dandora and Kawangware, or remain entirely landless.
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Oxfam itself ultimately falls into a bankrupt reformist perspective. While its data are devastating, its usual prescriptions of progressive taxation, increased social spending, and debt restructuring remain confined within the framework of capitalism. They rest on the illusion that the ruling class can be persuaded to act against its own material interests.
Global experience, including Kenya’s, demonstrates the opposite. Capitalism responds not with reform but with austerity, repression, and war. Ending social misery requires an all-out assault on the ill-accumulated wealth of the financial aristocracy and the reorganization of economic life on socialist foundations.
12. Videos and statements: Striking resident doctors speak out from picket lines across England
Resident doctors in the National Health Service (NHS) spoke with World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) reporters on the picket lines at hospitals around England on Wednesday at the start of their latest strike.
WSWS reporters distributed the article “Resident doctors strike goes ahead in England defying Labour Health Secretary ultimatum”, describing the government’s latest empty “offer” as a ploy to either secure strikers’ surrender or brand their action “self-indulgent, irresponsible and dangerous”, as health secretary Wes Streeting said Monday.
The offer’s overwhelming rejection was an indictment of the British Medical Association (BMA) Resident Doctors Committee (RDC) decision to even put it to members in the first place.
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The WSWS urges all resident doctors to contact NHS FightBack, which called for the rejection of Streeting’s insulting offer and outlined a strategy to end the isolation of their struggle through the formation of rank-and-file committees fighting for unity among the 1.4 million-strong NHS workforce.
13. Workers Struggles: Africa, Europe, & Middle East
Africa
Egypt:
Nigeria:
Europe
Belgium:
Francophone workers in general strike against community government austerity
France:
Staff at the Louvre museum in Paris strike for improvements in pay and conditions
Greece:
Thousands of workers strike in protest at austerity budget
United Kingdom:
Hospital operating theater staff at Leeds hospitals, England to walk out over back pay claim
UK microbiology staff at Airedale hospital in Yorkshire, to walk out over pay grade and imposed extra dutiesTeaching assistants at London school walk out in pay grading dispute
Middle East
Iran:
Continuing cost-of-living protests sweep Iran
14. 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.
